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From Bangladesh to Bucky UW weighing push for workers’ safety regulations in licensed factories abroad Rachel Jones Print Campus Editor After a factory collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,134 workers last year, the University of Wisconsin is in the process of reviewing workers’ safety in factories around the world that produce clothing emblazoned with Bucky and the Motion W. UW has 447 licensees producing university

branded clothing around the world, and revenue from the items sold brings $3.3 million in to the university annually, according to a UW statement.

While UW did not have anything produced at the factory that collapsed, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a recent blog post the university has 21 other licensees that produce clothing in Bangladesh.

According to the statement from the

chancellor’s office, UW requires the 21 licensees in

Bangladesh to adhere to a code of conduct maintained

2006: Pilot program requires all licensees to make effort to comply with free union regulations 2009: Russel Athletic contract terminated 2010: Nike Contract terminated 2012: Bangladesh factory collapse 2014: Bangladesh licensees requested to sign building or worker safety agreements

by the Collegiate Licensing Committee.

Everett Mitchell, director of community relations, said UW’s current code of conduct does not do enough to define the parameters of workers’ safety. UW has recently requested licensees in Bangladesh sign on to either the Accord on Fire and Building Safety or the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, he said.

Both policies include standards for building

inspections, repairs and identifying workplace hazards.

According to a statement from the Chancellor’s office, these two policies are currently not mandated by UW. Survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse requested the university’s Labor Codes Licensing Compliance Committee provide increased support for the policies last Thursday.

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Supreme Court hears Voter ID arguments Professors point to conservative justices as skeptics that may strike down statute Dan Kinderman Herald Contributor The Supreme Court held oral arguments in two separate cases over the state’s voter ID law Wednesday, with two

conservative judges questioning the law.

The law requires a current state driver’s license, military ID or Wisconsin state ID card to be able to vote, but it was not in place during the 2012 recall and general elections because two Dane County judges issued injunctions to block the law.

Although an appeals court overturned one of those decisions, one judge’s

block on the law remains.

The Supreme Court decided to bypass the appeals court process on the other decision and take up both cases at the same time.

Justice Patience Roggensack said during oral arguments she was concerned people need birth certificates to obtain the free IDs. Because some people may not have a birth certificate, they would have to pay $20 to get one.

“I’m troubled by having to pay the state to vote,” she said.

Roggensack’s comment could point to the likelihood that the high court will strike down the law, David Canon, a University of Wisconsin political science professor, said.

“One of the conservative justices, who normally would be more politically on the side of upholding

a law like this, expressed some real skepticism about the financial burden placed on voters who had to buy the documentation necessary to get an ID,” Canon said.

UW political science professor Barry Burden said he could see the Supreme Court ruling either way, although he agreed that some of the skepticism from two conservatives, Roggensack

and Justice David Prosser, could lead to the court striking down the law.

One lawsuit comes from the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin and the other from the Milwaukee branch of the NAACP and immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera.

While the two lawsuits were brought forward to argue against voter ID

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State follows US trends with lower firearm sales 65 percent decline could be linked to concealed carry, gun show loophole Emma Van Dyke Herald Contributor

Courtesy of Mike Walsh Mike Walsh uses social media to connect with people as he experiences new cultures across the world.

Flight4Sight increases blindness awareness Madisonian looks to bring attention to sight disability in global travels Alex Arriaga Print City Editor Diagnosed with a genetic condition that causes the loss of vision, Mike Walsh decided to take the opportunity of a lifetime to

travel the world and raise awareness about blindness through his project Flight4Sight.

Walsh’s condition, Usher syndrome, causes both hearing and vision impairment. Walsh said he has had hearing aids his entire life but just recently has been losing more of his vision, now having to use a cane and give up driving.

Flight4Sight is Walsh’s way of raising awareness about vision disabilities. He

connects to people all over using social media to get input from the community about what his next adventure should be. His original plan to travel for 40 days and 40 nights has now been extended, and he plans on being abroad until April.

“I’ve always wanted to do something unique for a good cause,” he said. “That was really it, having the opportunity to fly, and then I

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Several events in the past three years have triggered distinct spikes in handgun purchases in Wisconsin and across the country, but now the rates of handgun purchases are beginning to drop in the state.

In January 2013, 22,214 handguns were registered in Wisconsin.

This January, however, 7,702 handguns were registered, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.

This 65 percent drop in sales has several potential contributing factors.

Jeff Nass, legislative affairs liaison for Wisconsin Firearm Owners, Ranges, Clubs and Educators, Inc., said the decline in gun purchases can be attributed to the concealed carry law, which was passed in 2012.

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Nass said directly after the concealed carry law passed in Wisconsin, the number of handgun purchases spiked but then proceeded to decline as people acquired the guns they had previously wanted to buy.

“A lot of people went out and purchased handguns to use initially after the bill passed,” he said. “Concealed carry permits have dropped off also because that percentage of the population that does get a handgun permit are already in the system.”

In January 2013, there were 2.5 million background checks for weapon purchases, while in January 2014 there were 1.66 million nationally, according to CNN. In the month following President Barack Obama’s reelection in November 2012, gun purchases spiked by about 25 percent nationally.

The following month, when a gunman attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., saw gun

purchase rates increase by 40 percent, as people feared increased gun control from the federal government, CNN reported.

In Wisconsin, Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, cited a loophole in the system regarding gun background checks at gun shows as a possible reason for the decline.

As a result, a person is able to buy a gun at a gun show without undergoing a background check or obtaining a permit, Risser said.

“There may be a decline in the gun shops, but I wonder about the gun shows,” Risser said.

“There may be a decline in the reporting...I think people are doing their shopping at gun shows.”

Guns purchased at gun stores require permits and are reported to the state, but guns purchased at gun shows in Wisconsin are exempt from requiring a permit for a customer to purchase a gun.

Risser said he is currently in the

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Madison schools face overcrowding Seven city schools operating at more than 100 percent capacity, several options considered to curb capacity Daniel McKay Herald Contributor

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While overcrowding in the Madison Metropolitan School District has been a concern for the past few years, district officials say it is time to move past “Band-Aid” solutions and address these issues head on.

MMSD is looking at immediate and longterm solutions to fix overcrowding in classrooms and increasing class sizes that are potentially affecting students’ education, according to a district report to the Board of Education.

The report states while most MMSD schools are not overcrowded, seven schools are operating at more than 100 percent capacity, and the ideal

capacity is around 90 percent.

District spokesperson Marcia Standiford said MMSD’s primary focus is to provide stability for the students.

Dean Loumos, a MMSD Board of Education member, said it is common sense to know that overcrowding affects the students’ ability to learn. Class size as well as school space matters and cramming students into ill-suited rooms causes problems for everyone, he said.

The Board of Education considers overcrowding a serious issue that could not be ignored, Loumos said.

“Overcrowding is not conducive to good education policy, good implementation of a curriculum and it causes

problems in behavior, which then impacts what goes on in the classroom,” he said.

Loumos pointed to housing policy and housing development as clear issues that lead to overcrowding and said the demographics of where people live and which school district they are in is not easy to control.

“We have some schools that are under capacity and some that are at or over, or nearly at capacity, and it has a lot to do with the districts that are bound that send kids to that particular school and housing policies and housing development,” Loumos said. “It’s a really complicated situation, and a lot of it is not under our direct control.”

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Walsh said the opportunity came to him through a major airline that made it financially feasible for him to do this project.

Since he initiated the project, Walsh has gained more than 1,000 likes on his Facebook page and readers on his blog. He incorporates the community into his project by asking for requests on how he should plan out his travels. Some of the more interesting requests he has gotten include zip trekking and paragliding, he said.

“I was like, what should I do? The most likes wins. I woke up and was like, cliff diving,” Walsh said.

Social media has been a way for Walsh to make

increases that Madison has seen, notably in the downtown area.

“It’s my hope that some day the school district will seriously consider opening the long ago shuttered downtown schools now that there is an increase of families living downtown,” Verveer said.

Loumos said the board is considering several options to curb the capacity issues, such as facility upgrades in areas with population increases or even simply increasing the size of schools.

According to Loumos, the one option that is not being discussed is redistricting.

The MMSD report cited a larger effort to build a long-term facilities plan and said they will review options for addressing the capacity issue.

Rec Sports vows no more seg fees ASM told if referendum passes and budget is exceeded, students will not foot the bill Rachel Jones Print Campus Editor

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Elementary and Hamilton Middle School, both of which are over ideal capacity and are predicted to increase in the future.

He said both schools had a lot of land but were crammed with students in the actual classrooms.

The report said the ideal capacity for classrooms is calculated based on the number of available classrooms and the number of students that can sit in a room.

According to the report, the capacity formula was designed to be conservative and allow for a bit of overflow, and schools that are full may still have open seats in classrooms.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the overcrowding is not a big surprise due to the consistent population

Writer in residence visits UW campus Williams spends week in classes, talks about her future projects Grace Alexander Herald Contributor Freelance writer and award-winning journalist Florence Williams wrote her first book about breasts because she was fascinated by how and why modern life changed them.

Williams was named the University of Wisconsin’s science writer in residence this semester.

As the program enters its 29th year, Williams spent this week on campus.

Williams freelances for outlets such as The New York Times Magazine, Slate, High Country News, Mother Jones and O, The Oprah Magazine, in addition to being a contributing editor at Outside Magazine, according to a UW statement.

Williams focuses on science, the environment and health-related topics.

Williams said she plans to spend her

connections with people during his travels, some of whom have helped him plan out his traveling and make accommodations.

Walsh said he has met many interesting people along the way, including an opportunity he had to interview a dancer with the same condition. He said he wants to send a message to people in his situation that they can gain a lot from staying positive and going out to see the world and that it is possible even with visual impairment.

“Every day is a new country, new continent, new accent. I take pictures, try to take it all in, try to sleep.

Maybe every once in a while I shave,” Walsh said.

Different countries have a significant difference in the kinds of accommodations they have for visuallydisabled people, Walsh said. In other countries,

week at UW guest lecturing in classes, holding office hours for students, speaking with the local Society of Professional Journalists and talking with researchers for her upcoming projects.

William’s first book is titled, “Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History,” which received two awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology and the 2013 Audie in general nonfiction.

“Breasts are a dynamic organ and sensitive to changes in the environment,” Williams said. “I am fascinated with how and why modern life changes breasts. I hope to go beyond just the visual changes in the breast and understand how miraculous and complex the breast really is.”

Williams found her love of writing while she was still in high school, but said she dislikes the fact that writing requires a lot of desk time and isolation.

She also said she wishes someone would invent a technology that would allow her to walk and write at the

same time.

Williams said she loves that writing forces the writer to collect and organize personal thoughts in a unique way to create new insights on different topics. She said she has a lovehate relationship with the deadlines the come with writing, which are painful but force the writer to get things done.

She also appreciates the support of individuals both in real life and on the Internet.

People from all walks of life are interested in her books and in her as a writer, she said.

Williams said being named the science writer in residence was an honor and a great privilege. As a writer, she said she spends most of her time in isolation so she likes being here at UW, interacting with the students and faculty.

“It’s nice to be out of my own office and in the community,” Williams said. “I am excited to spend this week with the students and faculty talking about my books, science and writing in general.”

ramps and accessibility accommodations are often more of a suggestion, while they are a serious requirement in the United States, he said.

Walsh said one part of Thailand lacked sidewalks, and he was “literally just waiting to get hit by a car.”

Usher syndrome is genetic, and both Walsh and his brother have the condition.

He said his brother works as a comedian and often jokes about his condition.

“Me and my brother have as much fun with it as we can, we laugh about it,” Walsh said. “There’s no complaining here, we have a great life.”

Walsh already has more travel plans in the works. He will be in Madrid on Friday to go out dancing while blindfolded and to visit the Madrid Blind Museum. After that, he plans to travel to Italy on Sunday.

If the Recreational Sports Master Plan referendum is passed and the project overshoots its budget, students will not be called upon to provide additional funding, Rec Sports Director John Horn told the student government at its meeting Wednesday.

The Associated Students of Madison also heard an outline of the selection process for finding a new provost.

Recreational Sports presentation In his 67th presentation on the Master Plan, Horn said the most important aspect of the Master Plan is to increase the amount of fitness space to meet standards. Rec Sports facilities currently cater to more than 100,000 eligible individuals, he said.

The current standard is 1.5 square feet of fitness space for every one eligible individual, and the University of Wisconsin currently has 15,000 square feet of fitness space total, he said.

Horn said even if the project “overflows” its budget, the students will not be called upon again to provide the needed funding.

He emphasized the importance of student votes in the Rec Sports referendum March 3 through March 5.

“For individuals concerned about the segregated fee increase, if the Rec Sports referendum is not passed, student segregated fees are expected to jump $20 to $30 next year in order to fund the necessary repairs for the fitness spaces,” he said.

Provost search and screen process Search and screen committee representatives outlined the selection process for a new UW provost. The provost position oversees curricular, instructional and research related affairs on

VOTER ID, page 1 laws, the two groups challenged the law on separate grounds. The league argued in court the Legislature did not have the power to require voter ID, while the NAACP and Voces de la Frontera argued that the law itself was unconstitutional.

“There is no evidence of any voter fraud that has occurred that would have been prevented with Photo ID,” Voces de la Frontera Executive Director Christine Neumann-Ortiz said in a statement. “Yet there is clear evidence — not abstract, but clear — in the lives of the many people who have experienced the burden and costs of trying to meet this impossible new standard, which is

amongst the strictest in the country.”

Milwaukee NAACP President James Hall said the voter ID law is a form of voter suppression and the right to vote ios the most fundamental right in a democracy.

“Now, in the 21st century, the ugly tactic of voter suppression has been again put forth in an effort to undermine the voting rights of hundreds of thousands of minority and low-income workers who would be disproportionately impacted by the law,” Hall said.

But Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen defended the law in a statement, saying it ensures election integrity.

“Wisconsin’s photo identification law is a common-sense law that helps voters prove

campus and also serves as the vice chancellor of academic affairs.

Laura Dunek, a graduate representative of the committee, said it is important to the committee that the student voice be heard throughout the process.

It is important that the finalists understand the unique shared governance system UW has, Dunek said. The system of shared governance is unique in the country, and it is important that the finalist show a strong commitment of the upholding of this system, she said.

Myla Rosenbloom, undergraduate representative of the search and screening committee, said the committee has not looked directly at the positions of the various candidates on higher education affordability and tuition, but it would be a good point to bring up at the upcoming public forums.

Rep. Sarah Neibart said previous public forums like this have been inaccessible in the past due to location and timing. Neibart said finalists should visit classrooms, lecture halls and student housing to better grasp the experience of a UW student on a regular day.

‘Worst House in Madison’ contest Launches The Legislative Affairs Committee announced the launch of the “Worst House in Madison” contest to promote tenant rights. The project was designed to highlight the deteriorating conditions of off-campus housing as well as tenant rights.

The Legislative Affairs committee is currently accepting applications for this project and the criteria for judging will be released publicly upon the completion of the project judgement period.

The winner will be announced April 7.

their identity at the ballot box,” Van Hollen said. “Wisconsin’s law protects the integrity of our elections and promotes confidence in electoral outcomes. It is constitutional, and I am hopeful that the law will be in place for the 2014 elections.”

The law also has the backing of Gov. Scott Walker, who said in a statement when he signed the law in 2011 that he was “thrilled to sign legislation [that] will go a long way to protecting the integrity of elections in Wisconsin.”

A federal court held a trial in November on two other challenges to the law.

The Assembly also approved a new voter ID bill last year, although the Senate has not yet signed off on that legislation.

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Bill to revisit Common Core headed to Senate Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor The Senate is set to take up legislation that would create a board with mostly appointees from the governor’s office and legislative leaders to review the state’s implementation of Common Core education standards.

The bill recently received a public hearing in the Assembly Education Committee, although the committee chair pulled the bill from a vote in an executive session, saying there were some unanswered questions he wanted to clear up.

Republicans, including Gov. Scott Walker, have said they support higher

Wisconsin-specific education standards, while Democrats and the state superintendent say the standards are rigorous and school districts have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars implementing them.

The bill’s author, Sen. Leah Vukmir, R-Wauwatosa, said in an interview with The Badger Herald that state Superintendent Tony Evers adopted the standards unilaterally in 2010 and the public did not have enough say in the implementation.

“A common complaint was that there was really now public involvement in the adoption of Common Core and there was no legislative oversight,” she said. “We have heard from standards experts at public hearings

across the state that the Core standards aren’t rigorous enough and that Wisconsin could do better, and that’s what the whole goal is.”

The Common Core standards in Wisconsin, which Evers adopted in 2010, has cost school districts across the state hundreds of millions of dollars to prepare for the standards, supporters say. But those standards could now be reworked if the bill passes and the board agrees on a new set of standards.

Evers, as well as Democrats and the state business lobby group Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, have said the standards should remain in place. In a statement, Evers called the bill a “power grab

[that would] establish a politicized board.”

“Why does the Legislature insist on going against the wishes of the local school districts, editorial boards across the state, the Wisconsin business community, the U.S. military and families, and educators, parents and students that overwhelmingly agree is the right way forward for Wisconsin?” Evers said.

The public school Common Core standards, developed by the National Governors Association and private testing companies in 2010, focus on math and language arts, and 45 states have implemented the standards, according to the Common Core website.

Proponents of the bill

revisiting the standards argue the Common Core standards allow the federal government too much control over Wisconsin’s education system, infringing on local and state control.

Under the bill, school districts would have the option to implement the standards from the board, but districts would still be accountable for meeting the requirements set by the board, Vukmir said.

John Rudolph, a University of Wisconsin education policy professor, said the bill focuses on pushing political goals rather than sound policy. He said the desire to to push for more rigorous standards could be a political move from conservatives to cause public schools to

have a harder time meeting standards, strengthening the case for the privatization of Wisconsin schools.

Rudolph said although it has issues, Common Core is valuable because its standards incorporate what colleges and employers are looking for.

Walker, whose office originally drafted the bill, said at the State Education Convention in Milwaukee that he believes Wisconsin should have higher educational standards, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“We embrace high standards in the state of Wisconsin,” Walker said.

“The standards that we have in the state should be driven by people in Wisconsin.”

Professor upholds roots, advocates for state tribes Law school teacher concerned on state decision making on tribe’s assimilation Morgan Krause Herald Contributor University of Wisconsin law professor Richard Monette carries the values instilled in him as a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, saying his tribe of 30,000 members in North Dakota is what gives him strength.

Monette said he credits much of his success to his educational journey. His collegiate experience began at his tribe’s community college in North Dakota and then continued at Mayville College, also located in North Dakota. Monette earned his graduate degree from the University of North Dakota and his law degree at the University of Oregon.

“I studied in a Catholic school, designed to convert us all,” Monette said. “Then I studied under a school funded by the federal government, designed to civilize us all. And finally I studied under my own elders, designed to save us all.”

After law school, the Senate Committee on Indian

Affairs hired Monette to serve as a staff attorney until he left to earn an advanced law degree at UW. Monette said he was invited to head the administration’s mission for Native American legislation when former President Bill Clinton was elected.

Monette then returned to UW to work as a professor, teaching tort, state and federal constitutional law.

At one point, he said he took leave and went home to North Dakota to start an alternative school on the reservation.

“We had almost a 70 percent drop out rate in the high school on the reservation in North Dakota,” Monette said.

Monette’s past experiences have made him the voice to reference in terms of tribal law and relative issues. In addition to teaching, he works as a legal consultant for the Great Lakes Indian Law Center.

“I do whatever else I can do,” Monette said.

“My unique ties to the Native American community means that Native American students come to my office all of the time, sometimes even undergrads.”

Recently, the state has proposed the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin reach

a level where they can be deemed “entirely assimilated into society,” Monette said. This complete assimilation means the tribe would no longer receive the compensation formally provided by the government.

There is much discrepancy over the standards by which such decisions are made, Monette said.

“The only standard that seems to apply is if the state feels the tribe has enough money and resources to survive already,” Monette said.

Such “forced assimilation” is something that happens to a tribe every 40 years or so, Monette said. While no decision has been made regarding the Menominee tribe, it is certainly up for deliberation, he said.

Monette said a gradual implementation of laws pick tribes apart without much acknowledgement until it is impossible for tribes to sustain their languages and their cultures.

“A good deal of the relationships between the U.S. government and Indian tribes has been for the U.S. government to figure out how to separate the Indians tribes from their wealth,” he said.

check to purchase a gun at gun shows, he said.

“Because there are no requirement for background checks in gun shows, there is no way of knowing how many [have] handguns,” Risser said.

According to USACarry,

a concealed carry advocacy group, 44.4 percent of Wisconsin’s population owned guns as of 2007, compared to Wyoming at 69.7 percent.

Wisconsin has the 12th highest rate of gun ownership in the country.

Bangladeshi government, he said.

These new additions are just another step in UW’s efforts to improve working conditions at its garment manufacturing locations, Cindy VanMatre, UW director of trademark licensing, said.

UW began a pilot program requiring all UW licensees to make a “good faith” effort to comply with free union regulations in 2006.

In 2009, under former Chancellor Biddy Martin, UW ended its licensing contract with Russell Athletics after it was alleged a Russell Athletics factory was closed in an effort to suppress unionization.

In 2010, UW severed its contract with Nike after the closure of several factories in Honduras. In a letter to UW’s Labor Licensing Policy Committee, Martin said Nike had not developed any meaningful ways to address the plight of displaced workers and their families in Honduras. “[Nike] has not presented clear long-range plans to prevent or respond to similar problems in the future,” Martin said.

The factory collapse in Bangladesh in April 2013 caused UW to realize how bad the worker conditions

were in countries like Bangladesh, VanMatre said.

It made UW realize that workers’ safety cannot be ignored anymore, she said.

Mitchell said most factories in Bangladesh and developing countries are not the “typical” factories that are present in the United States. Buildings such as houses, apartment complexes or shopping malls can be repurposed and used for factories, he said.

“Most of the buildings that are being used a garment factories are not buildings that are built with safety in mind,” Mitchell said.

“The prime minister of Bangladesh said that over 90 percent of the factories are categorized as unsafe. The labor and wage conditions are just terrible.”

In the past, UW has captured the attention of other big retail companies, Mitchell said.

These corporations realize that if nothing is done, the court of public opinion will find them guilty of neglect, he said.

“I think these policies in Bangladesh are only the beginning,” Mitchell said.

“We, not only as UW, but as a nation need to open up the applications of these policies to other nations such as China. This is only the beginning.”

Courtesy of Madison Curling Club The Madison Curling Club had five members compete in the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympic games.

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Madison Curling Club sees uptick in interest Jessica Hamilton Herald Contributor Riding on the momentum of the Winter Owlympics, the Madison Curling Club has seen an increase in interest from city residents.

The Curling Club held a post-Olympic open house last weekend.

Within a six-hour time period, Garrett Perry, the club’s president, said 470 people attended. Perry said curling became more visible during the Olympics and more people want to try it out.

During typical open houses, Perry said the club will get between 30 and 40 people passing through. The club has had a steady increase in members during the last 10 years, he said.

Perry said the club had three curlers, Erika Brown, Debbie McCormick and Craig Brown, competing in Sochi during the Olympics. All three have been involved in the club for a long time, he said.

Steve Brown and Patrick McDonald, also members of the club, are currently in Sochi preparing for the

Paralympics, Perry said.

The curling club has approximately 570 members, Perry said.

Ages of the members range widely, ranging from 10-year-olds all the way up to 91-year-olds, he said. The club also has a junior program for younger curlers and younger members are typically children of members who encourage them to start the sport, he said.

Anyone that is interested can pay dues and join the club, Perry said. He said after paying dues, some people curl once or twice a week while others curl as many as four nights a week.

Perry said the curling teams are based on skill level because the sport involves a lot of strategy. The average time it takes for one to get to skip, or captain, is approximately eight years, although Perry said he has seen athletically talented members become skips in less time.

Every curler in the club is pointed, or rated, Perry said, outlining how a new member will receive a rating of one, while a skip will

receive a 20. The club hosts leagues with no point limit as well as men’s and women’s leagues, mixed leagues, doubles leagues, lower point leagues and open leagues and there is also open ice for practicing, he said.

Perry said members with bad backs or bad legs can also curl at the club, and older members can use sticks to curl with.

Diana Gettinger, treasurer of the club, said she considers herself an average curler and usually participates in shifts two days a week.

She said the curling club is open to casual curlers such as herself, who only go in for a couple hours to stretch and practice curling.

Additionally, the club also has opportunities to participate in tournaments, called bonspiels, all over the country.

Perry was recently in Las Vegas at a higher-level bonspiel and will be participating in multiple bonspiels in the coming weeks around the state.

“Tournaments are a great way to curl with people you have never met,” Perry said.

process of drafting a bill that would require a background check for buying handguns at gun shows in Wisconsin.

Only seven other states have a law in place that requires a background

BANGLADESH, page 1 However, one survivor, Kalpona Akter, said in a meeting last meeting although the Alliance claims it included workers in their inspections, they have been coached to say certain responses. The workers and their safety are the top concerns of the Accord, but under the Alliance, the workers’ voices were never heard, Akter said.

Seven of the Bangladeshi licensees have already signed the Accord and another has signed the Alliance, the statement said.

Pending upcoming information on effectiveness, these two programs may or may not be mandated in the future, the statement said.

“To be only reactive is to allow tragedies, such as the Rana Plaza building collapse, which killed over 1,100 Bangladeshi workers, to occur,” Everett said. “UW needs to be proactive in preventing such tragedies from occurring.”

He said the two new policies allow UW to not only improve worker safety conditions in UW garment factories, but also to define what workers’ safety means.

In the past, UW has defined workers’ safety based on the standards set up by the

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Long-awaited shift in j-school education is here Garth Beyer

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Walker’s 2016 election chances fall amidst investigation Aaron Loudenslager Columnist

Matt Hintz The Badger Herald File Photo The Republican Party should seek out new candidates for the 2016 election amid Gov. Chris Christie’s and Gov. Scott Walker’s ongoing investigations.

Binge drinking part of UW culture University students should focus less on binge drinking, more on everything else Allie Ebben Columnist After heading home for the weekend, I was bombarded with questions about how my second semester was going. But even more, I was poked and prodded about how kids at the university spend their free time on the weekend, and the first thing that came to my mind was getting drunk. However, that was not the first thing that came out of my mouth, assuming that my relatives would be mortified knowing that’s how we all spent our time here, so instead I replied with “relax.” I should have realized that such an inquiry would come up. So it got me thinking: Why is Madison so closely affiliated with drinking?

As my freshman year started, I received numerous emails about underage drinking and detox, and I was even required to complete a drinking program before I could enroll for spring classes. It was the first year AlcoholEdu was required, and at the time I took it, I doubted it would really help anything. I figured if college students want to drink, they are going to drink.

By the time the end of welcome week rolled around, 10 students had already been taken to detox with blood alcohol concentrations ranging from 0.3 to 0.37.

In the past, people have even died at UW due to

alcohol-related incidents.

But why? Is it because they were naïve students who didn’t know exactly what they were getting themselves into?

Let me first clarify that binge drinking is defined as five or more drinks in two hours for men, and four or more for women.

The most important thing here is to look at the big picture. As a state, Wisconsin rates number one for binge drinking.

Along with that, research done by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute shows that the annual economic cost of excessive alcohol use in Dane County cost the county $654.8 billion in the past years. Binge drinking is responsible for 76 percent of the economic cost of excessive alcohol consumption in Dane County.

Here in the Midwest, we consume a lot of beer and alcohol, eat a lot of brats and cheese and go nuts for

Sunday night football. It is part of our culture and has been for as long as many people can remember, and I don’t see that changing anytime in the near future. It has become a standard that many people feel they need to uphold. Binge drinking, and drinking in general, is part of our culture.

Take for instance the Mifflin Street Block Party or even Freakfest. Did you ever count how many sober people you had seen at either event?

Didn’t think so. Even game days have become a large drinking event, especially when it’s a night game.

Some students go out Friday night, get drunk and are still drunk when they wake up the next morning.

Yet students continue to drink until the start of the game. People are often influenced by local norms and by what they see modeled around them, especially collegeaged students since college is a place people work hard to fit in and identify with

their peers, causing them to do anything.

Take for instance the fact that it’s not completely absurd to drink with your family; in any case, I know it’s a lot more prevalent than people think. It’s a learned behavior and for some a custom handed down. On game days, it’s the norm to see a kid and his parents having a beer together. If you’re lucky, you will see one of his parents doing a beer bong.

It may sound absurd, but be sure to hit up West Breeze before the next game, and I promise it won’t disappoint.

So, how much is too much? Are these statistics alarming or are they simply the norm? When does this norm become a problem for the state’s youth or is it already? How far will things go before significant changes come?

The real problem here is how to stop this, because I honestly don’t believe there is a way we can. When something is so expected, it becomes a reality. I can fully understand the perception that Wisconsin is a party school, but then again what college kids don’t enjoy a little fun on the weekends?

UW may be a large party school, but we are pretty kickass at some other things too, things that should definitely be more focused on.

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

The Republican Party currently finds itself at an impasse. Two of the party’s arguably most viable 2016 presidential candidates have found themselves wrapped up in political scandals.

Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., finds himself in a scandal involving the closure of a bridge, which has colloquially become known as “Bridgegate,” while Gov. Scott Walker, R-WI, is implicitly embroiled in a scandal involving two John Doe investigations, one of which resulted in the release of 27,000 emails containing revealing information, although much of the information from the emails wasn’t particularly new.

Walker still has a chance of being reelected governor, even with his current scandals (unless of course he were convicted or impeached), although it looks like he will have a tough re-election campaign against Mary Burke. Even so, he no longer has any outside shot of winning the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.

Walker is not a newcomer when it comes to controversy.

In fact, not long after he took office he pushed Act 10, a controversial anti-union law, through the state legislature.

This legislation was so controversial that thousands of protesters arrived at the state capitol to protest. One day there were almost 100,000 people at the capitol protesting, making it the largest protest at the capitol since the Vietnam War. Then, of course, there was the “first” John Doe investigation. Three of Walker’s former aides from when he served as executive of Milwaukee County were charged with crimes for doing political work on government time.

Walker was not prosecuted or charged with any crimes, though.

However, 27,000 emails from the first John Doe investigation have been released to the public.

These emails are politically damaging. In one of these messages, it appears that Walker wanted an employee at Milwaukee County’s Behavioral Health Division fired because the employee, a doctor, had been a former thong model. From other emails it appears that Walker aides lacked empathy for

those who are dealing with mental illness, as one aide wrote in an email, “No one cares about crazy people.”

The released emails also show that Walker’s aides set up a secret email system in order to try to campaign on government time.

Although Walker wasn’t charged in the first John Doe investigation, it appears he knew about the secret email system.

As Walker wrote in an email after one of his staff members was forced to resign, “We cannot afford another story like this one. No one can give them any reason to do another story. That means no laptops, no web sites, no time away during the workday, et cetera.”

The release of these emails ends any realistic outside shot Walker had at winning the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. He had the potential to unify a fracturing political party on the national level that needs both its Tea Party wing and more moderate business wing. The fact of the matter, though, is that Walker can’t survive a national campaign for president given the content of these released emails.

The scrutiny a candidate receives when running for governor is nothing compared to the scrutiny one receives when running for the country’s highest office.

Just ask Newt Gingrich.

During the GOP’s last presidential primaries, Gingrich was heavily criticized for his role in shutting down the government in 1996 and for his support of the death penalty for people who illegally smuggled marijuana into the United States.

These past transgressions were part of the reason why Gingrich had no chance of winning the GOP nomination in 2012.

Currently, the Republican Party finds itself looking for new viable presidential candidates for the 2016 election because of the political scandals surrounding both Christie and Walker, but it may already be too late for the GOP. Walker looks like he may still have a fair chance of keeping his governorship, but his ambitious presidential goals have slipped out of his hands.

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

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Will Win: “12 Years a Slave” Should Win: “Nebraska” In the past couple months, the Best Picture race has narrowed down to two contenders: Alfonso Cuarón’s real-time space odyssey “Gravity” vs. Steve McQueen’s historical epic “12 Years a Slave.” In the past, the Academy has generally ignored sci-fi films outside of technical categories. “Slave,” however, is the perfect balance between art film and accessible historical epic, the latter of which the Academy drools over. While the film doesn’t shy away from the horrors of slavery as previous screen depictions have, it still has just enough sentimentality to woo Oscar voters. In my book, “Nebraska” deserves the golden statue for its beautiful portrait of small town America.

Will Win: Alfonso Cuarón Should Win: Steve McQueen Come Sunday, the Academy will likely award Alfonso Cuarón 2014’s title of Best Director. Not only does the man have a great track record (“Y Tu Mamá También,” “Children of Men”), but “Gravity” is a film that forces its audience to ask, “How did they do that?” With mind-boggling long takes, the film requires a skillful director to ensure superb acting and technical flawlessness throughout. But Steve McQueen, director of the superb “Hunger and “Shame,” should win the prize for his fearless depiction of slavery and his direction of actors playing humans living amid chaos.

Will Win: Matthew McConaughey Should Win: Matthew McConaughey Matthew McConaughey is simply one of the best actors currently working in film. From “Bernie” to “Killer Joe” to “Mud” to a moviestealing scene in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” McConaughey has produced some of the most awe-inspiring performances of the past two years. This is pretty impressive for a guy who was once known as “that hot guy in romantic comedies who doesn’t wear a shirt a lot.” “Dallas Buyers Club” is just one film in a string of recent acting successes, and it boasts one of McConaughey’s best performances yet as a sleazy hustler who helps AIDS patients get access to unapproved drugs. He takes on a delicacy unlike anything we’ve seen from him before.

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Will Win: Cate Blanchett Should Win: Cate Blanchett Amid the web of allegations that Woody Allen sexually assaulted his child, we have “Blue Jasmine.” Allen can draw undeniably memorable performances from the actors he directs. This is true as ever with his latest, which stars Cate Blanchett in the titular role. Blanchett gives a terrifying performance as an affluent woman who loses it all when her husband is arrested for fraud. She’s a woman who suffers it all at once: depression, bipolar disorder, alcoholism and prescription drug abuse.

She walks through the film a ball of sweat-drenched volatility, capable of exploding at any moment. The terrifying glint in Blanchett’s bloodshot eyes are enough for an Oscar in themselves.

Will Win: Jared Leto Should Win: Michael Fassbender In “Dallas Buyers Club,” Jared Leto plays Rayon, a snarky, transgender woman who acts as the foil to Matthew McConaughey’s initially bigoted character. He plays the role with a fierceness close to Beyoncé levels, and the Academy is a sucker for inspirational performances from LGBTQ characters. Leto is a sure lock for the Oscar. Also deserving is Michael Fassbender, who plays a sociopathic slave owner in “12 Years a Slave.” He steals every scene he steps into encapsulates all the horrors of slavery with his deadening stares, his constant suspicion and his insistence that Solomon Northup—the titular slave—whip a fellow slave for having a bar of soap.

Will Win: Lupita Nyong’o Should Win: June Squibb Lupita Nyong’o’s American feature film debut in “12 Years a Slave” is an understated performance in a film of abrasive horrors.

She suffers more than most of the other onscreen characters in the film. She’s subjected to rape at the hands of a sadistic slave owner.

She’s whipped by a fellow slave until her back is a bloody pulp, all because she’s been given a bar of soap. The Academy will no doubt honor her brave performance. June Squibb is similarly deserving of the prize for her tremendous performance in “Nebraska” as a feisty old lady frustrated with her husband’s mounting dementia.

It’s a lovely, little performance in a lovely, little film.

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Will Win: “American Hustle” Should Win: “Her” This one’s a tight race, effectively a 50/50 toss-up. But it’s likely the Best Original Screenplay Oscar will go to Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell for “American Hustle.” Like all Russell-directed films, it features characters yelling, screaming and whispering loudly at each other. The screenplay has the frenetic pacing of a Scorsese film, and it’s a film that has its action stemming primarily from its dialogue. Its screenplay and performances are its crutch. But ultimately, Spike Jonze’s “Her” is the most poetic and memorable script of the bunch, a beautiful meditation on modern love.

Will Win: “12 Years a Slave’” Should Win: “12 Years a Slave” Written by Wisconsin native John Ridley, “12 Years a Slave” is arguably the finest film depiction of slavery ever. It’s a script that rarely draws attention to itself, often allowing Steven McQueen’s poetic camera to do the speaking. But when dialogue is employed, we see that even in the most oppressive, dehumanizing conditions, humans can act compassionately towards one another. Brad Pitt’s dialogue toward the end of the film—despite the actor’s stilted appearance—effectively acts as a philosophical argument on the morals of slavery. If a screenplay could be taught in a philosophy course, it’s doing something right. This one’s a lock.

Will Win: “Frozen” Should Win: “Frozen” “Frozen” will not only go in history as one of the finest Disney films but also as the first Disney film that stresses that women don’t need no man. The film has proven itself to be a critical and commercial favorite in a year that was, on the whole, pretty weak for animated films. The only other film with a hint of a chance of winning is Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, “The Wind Rises.” But ultimately, with its delightful soundtrack, clever writing and great performances, “Frozen” will crush this category like a landslide--or more fittingly, an avalanche.

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Will Win: “The Great Beauty” Should Win: “The Great Beauty” After winning the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film this year, “The Great Beauty” is a near-lock for the same award at the Academy Awards and deservedly so. As its title suggests, the film is one of the most beautiful of 2013. It follows Jep Gambardella, an aging socialite who once wrote a great book that has awarded him with wealth, fame and a general feeling of emptiness. Gambardella, who spends his nights reveling in the hoopla of Rome’s nightlife, searches for a “great beauty” beneath the superficiality of his life.

What this beauty constitutes is unclear, but Gambardella’s quest to find it is just as beautiful as anything he could hope to discover.

Will Win: “20 Feet from Stardom” Should Win: “The Act of Killing” “20 Feet from Stardom,” an ode to backing vocalists, is exactly what the Academy likes: an inspirational story about talented, black musicians; a beautiful soundtrack; and appearances from classic pop culture icons such as Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Mick Jagger. But the award should go to “The Act of Killing,” Joshua Oppenheimer’s bone-chilling epic that allows Indonesian gangsters to reenact the murders they committed during an anti-Communist purge in the 1960s. It’s a stunning film that revels in its reflexivity, a true testament to the potentials of the documentary form. But, most importantly, it will leave a large void where your heart once was.

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St. Vincent’s latest affirms weird genius status Lexy Brodt ArtsEtc. Staff Writer St. Vincent has never been conventional, but with her new self-named album St. Vincent, she has jumped off the edge of indie pop standards.

The voice of Annie Clark, the girl behind the stage name, is elegant and haunting, grazing over odd lyrics with comfort and pleasure.

Quasisurrealist and complex, if St. Vincent’s new album was a human, he or she would be sociopathic and probably in the midst of a morphine trip. Clark herself is incredibly lovable, with a mass of curly hair hovering over her symmetrical, pale and delicate features. Her image heavily clashes with that of St. Vincent, who has become a daring, wicked darling of the idiosyncratic — illustrated by her eccentric album cover.

The album is a leap away from St. Vincent’s past work. Many might know her by the track “Cruel,” which, despite clever experimentalism and strong emotional reverberations, has a relatively tame sound and melody. Her relatively recent album, Love This Giant, produced with Talking Heads founder David Byrne, has its fair share of out-of-the-box theatrics and innovative, startling noises.

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it lacks the musical gumption that makes St. Vincent such an exciting modern masterpiece. I will tentatively say that this album may be her best work yet.

“Regret” is distinguished by the muted grumblings of a cheering, catchy guitar solo and the quiet lyrics of the bridge: “I’m afraid of heaven because I can’t stand the height / I’m afraid of you because I can’t be left behind.”

Yet she doesn’t mope in silence for too long; the bridge collapses into a pause before spitting out the satisfying pounding of guitar chords and her pithy exclamation of “Oh well!” It’s hard not to keep listening to that one part just to catch the smile in her voice.

Yet she returns to a more visceral sound with “Severed Cross Fingers,” a shout-out to 1970s rock. In many ways it recalls her cover of Nico’s “These Days.” The chorus is sweet, soothing and honest; it reveals maturity through sentiment sans consideration of the macabre lyrics: “Spitting out guts from their gears / Draining our spleen over years.” She touches on the soul and ingenuity of classical rock without losing the awesome weirdness that makes her the artist that she is.

As an eccentric songwriter and singer,

it’s no surprise that the stories behind her songs are equally strange.

The synth paradise “Rattlesnake” is based on a true story of her stripping naked for a spiritual experience in the desert only to be confronted by a rattlesnake (predictable enough). But tripping on Ambien only to bond with Huey Newton, inspiring the song of the same name? Hard to say how the experience could in any way coincide with the troubling anatomy of the song, but I guess that’s all part of the trip.

Whether it’s “Birth in Reverse” or “Every Tear Disappears,” St. Vincent dares to take the leap into the absurd. Every song carries on like a narrative.

Even though it’s nearly impossible to understand what she’s trying to say through her words, Clark leads us in the direction of not needing to get the point. She urges us to just let it sink in. It’s enough to enjoy the world that she creates: of fantasy, fear and a mind-boggling, satisfying strangeness.

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Photo courtesy of Republic Records/YouTube St. Vincent’s fourth LP sees her at her idiosyncratic best, blending accessible pop with experimental art-rock sounds.

Schoolboy Q’s ‘Oxymoron’ cements rap god status Louis Johnson ArtsEtc. Staff Writer With the first highly anticipated hip-hop album of 2014 being rapper Schoolboy Q’s Oxymoron, listeners jilted by the Grammys’ Kendrick Lamar snub at the Grammys last month can finally get their fix of non-radio-playable, platinum-worthy material through the California rapper’s provocative and matter-of-fact third LP. Schoolboy was born Quincy Matthew Hanley in 1986 near Wiesbaden, Germany. While moving around multiple times as an adolescent, Hanley developed a love for football and would work to maintain his grades in school to stay eligible. While attending Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles, he was known for wearing glasses and keeping

reputable grades among his peers, earning him the name “Schoolboy.” Growing up on 51st Street in South Central, he would eventually become a member of the Hoover Crips, which introduced him to the drug-dealing lifestyle that embeds itself in so many of Schoolboy’s lyrics.

Known for his controversial drunk-driving ballad “Hands on the Wheel” and for reminding us that the bucket hat is incredibly awesome, Schoolboy has made a career off of his quirky and incendiary nature.

On his new LP, Oxymoron, Schoolboy commands features from fellow Top Dawg Entertainment rappers Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar along with power features from 2 Chainz, Raekwon, Kurupt and Tyler, The Creator.

From top to bottom,

the album’s hardbody instrumentals will keep heads bobbing at every drop. Production from Mike WiLL Made It, Alchemist and Pharrell Williams give the album a “cough syrupy,” Southern rap sound that merges with sounds similar to what you might hear on an Eminem album. What the album lacks in platinum singles, it makes up for in sheer content. With the exception of “Collard Greens,” these aren’t tracks you would play at a party, but rather songs you can enjoy working out, studying or just kicking it to.

Much of Oxymoron is based off of the struggle Schoolboy Q had providing for his daughter, who graces the album’s artwork wearing Schoolboy’s signature bucket hat and a solid gold Cuban link chain. She has several

spoken cameos on the album during which she speaks about or to her dad. To provide for her, Schoolboy often had to sell drugs, events he details on “Gangsta,” “Prescription/Oxymoron,” “Break the Bank” and “Yay Yay.” All of these tracks mask the seriousness and emotion of Schoolboy’s lyrics with their heavy-hitting beats, but if you listen you can hear the struggle in Schoolboy’s voice.

As many of his fellow L.A. rappers before him have done, Schoolboy also documents the gang lifestyle of Los Angeles so ingrained in the culture of inner-city citizens. With references to drive-bys, his neighborhood and the trouble that comes with it, Schoolboy adds to the genre of gangsta rap with as much tenacity as a young Ice Cube. The repeated onomatopoeia of guns

cracking conveys an almost PTSD-level of familiarity with battles in the streets.

Despite the raw, dark nature of Oxymoron, the album still has pieces of love, hope and accomplishment.

While “What They Want” speaks on Schoolboy’s love for his fans, songs like “Studio,” “Hell of a Night,” “Man of the Year,” “His & Her Friend” and “Grooveline Pt. 2” delve into Schoolboy’s difficult understanding of romantic relationships, love and hate relationship with narcotics and triumph over the dark places he knew as a hustler.

From the first line of the album to the last, the listener is taken through a journey of pain, confusion, darkness, struggle, drug culture, triumph, success, sex and relationships, making Oxymoron a complete album in a hip-hop context.

Oxymoron can be so personal and so impersonal at the same time, making it the perfect listen for a college student fighting between the party culture, hopes for the future, love interests and doubts compounded by successes.

Oxymoron takes Schoolboy Q from “Kendrick Lamar’s sidekick” to a serious player in the hierarchy of hip-hop.

If this album isn’t nominated for a Grammy, it will be a testament to the award show’s flaws in regards to rap music.

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Taylor Swift’s personal lyrics restrict artistic growth Emily Kingman ArtsEtc. Columnist Bubbly, pretty and ohso-humble: seemingly faster than any of her infectious hits have climbed to the top of the Billboard charts, Taylor Swift has secured a place atop the shortening list of America’s sweethearts.

After watching the music video for “Our Song” or entertaining the evercatchy promise of “We Are Never Getting Back Together,” it’s easy to understand both how and why Swift has secured a loyal following. Her songs are a re-telling of popular Ovidian myth, except — filtered through Seneca Falls and the ERA — what was once “Apollo and Daphne” is now “Daphne Tells All.” Still, the vast majority of Swift’s fans (“Swifties”) are not wannabe Romeos but teenage girls. It is they, after all, who take to her diary-style lyricism like ducks to water.

For them, listening is fantasy play: in “Forever & Always,” Joe Jonas carbon-copies their ears to that infamous 27-second phone call; in “Dear John,” John Mayer is, to them, being ... John Mayer; and in “I Knew You Were Trouble,” Harry Styles causes them the so-called shame of being proven right. Hidden in each song is an invitation to pull up a seat at the

glorified popular table of high school myth alongside a modern-day Venus and the Gods of Olympus-Hollywood.

Because other idols (“townies”) are more likely to promote chugging cheap beer in Pick ‘n Save parking lots, Moms and Pops across the heartland can’t help but be pleased by their daughters’ choice of exemplar. Although tabloid reporters have been harsh in their coverage of her personal life, most readers recognize how their accounts are more myths than realities and how, in other words, their “castles in the sky” are built high above the foundation of one wellknown fact: Swift writes songs nearly exclusively about her own love life.

Recently, Swift addressed the burden of her mythic public image by saying to Vanity Fair, “For a female to write about her feelings and then be portrayed as some […] desperate girlfriend […] [takes] something that potentially should be celebrated — a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way — [...] [and] twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.” The argument is nothing new.

When Kathie Lee Gifford ruled on Swift’s use of her own experiences as basis

for her art on TODAY, she casually said, “Well, Jane Austen did the same.”

But did she? Not really.

Not even a little bit, really.

The connection, though, is telling. If the myth of Taylor Swift has gotten out of hand, then the myth of Jane Austen has reached nearcriminal proportions.

Forget the fact that she was one of her time’s most unforgiving, selfconfident social critics.

To consider Austen today is to imagine a sweet old maid who, after having found forbidden love in her youth, settled into a quiet life of secretive novel writing. This image is woefully mismatched with the playful malice that Austen evidences in private letters. Not even miscarriages were off limits there: “Mrs. Hall […] was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child, […] owing to a fright. I suppose she happened unawares to look at her husband.”

In the modern age, Austen’s grave has been upturned so that she might become a brand of demure femininity and romanticized historicity.

This development was fully realized when an independent studio released Becoming Jane, a biopic about Austen’s romance with Tom LeFroy, a barrister. The picture (marketed under

the tagline, “Her Own Life Was Her Greatest Inspiration”) implies that Austen’s “happy” romance novels were intended to “settle the score” for her real-life romance, which ended sadly.

Their presumption is false. Austen’s novels are not meant to “make up for” reality, but to critique an existing social order from the vantage point of a single white female (even that movie comparison is more accurate than the Bonnet-and-Curls on covers). It is an insult to assume that “old maid” writers like Austen were limited to their already “limited” experiences — that masterpieces such as “Pride and Prejudice” could not have been creations of imagination, but must have been dependent on actual experiences in reality — a reality, moreover, that was created largely by men.

Imagination is limitless, and it exists outside experience.

Experience is a mere springboard for imagination: a place from which to jump — to be propelled into higher spheres of creative space.

To stand solely on the base of experience is to create in limited space.

Brontë said it best when she wrote, “You advise me [...] not to stray far from

the ground of experience, as I become weak when I enter the region of fiction; and you say, ‘real experience is perennially interesting, and to all men.’ [...] [But] is not the real experience of each individual very limited?

And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist?”

Brontë’s questions should be forwarded to Swift for her consideration.

Although her songs seem to be “perennially interesting,” they are frankly a little limited in creative space. Because each is based nearly exclusively on experience, each is made atop that metaphorical springboard without much movement.

If Swift is indeed a distinct musical talent (as your teenage sister/niece/etc. contends), she should heed the following advice: stop standing, start jumping.

Don’t be party to existing myths; imagine ones beyond yourself.

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Comics Editor Stephen Tyler Conrad comics@badgerherald.com

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Holy shit I just noticed the girth of the trees on bascom Randal Mills @randouflage

ASO to the asshole who found my wisc card and used it ... Left me with 80 cents Jas @jasmmiinnn

how do you delete posts on Learn@UW discussions?!?! realized i posted something stupid when i was under the influence the other night..

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Making new friends everywhere we go #KK #monteeball

Just finished up a nice Q&A with my comp sci TA who may or may not be able to speak English. All he did was laugh, sigh, and say “yes, yes” Lucas Capistrant

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Student hosting party in Statesider worried Witte friends will eat her napkins...Red Gym denounces Kohl Center for lack of fundamentals...Bucky can’t stop crying....

‘Stop bullying us,’ decry popular athletic studs The University’s most admired, celebrated, and physically powerful students feel like they are being persecuted by their peers.

Reports of angry tweets, scowls from strangers, and hostile notes left on scholarshipfunded mopeds have blighted the athletic community.

“Whatever happened to the good old days, when nerdy kids who were into reading and video games were the ones

who got bullied?” UW footballer Jeremy Coogan said.

Coogan, and others like him, have devoted their lives to being the strongest, fastest, and most intimidating members of their student bodies.

With social media platforms becoming more pervasive than ever, though, even those with substandard muscle mass can express contempt towards other students.

“People just don’t respect

student athletes. Sometimes it’s like we’re not even here,” Coogan said while a group of onlookers ogled his bulging biceps and rippling abdomen glinting with sweat after a long, hard workout.

Most student athletes agree that responding to criticism in a healthy manner is key to maintaining composure in the face of bullying.

Hockey player Bret O’Hanrahan said, “Back in

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Misnomer secures paper funds by donating plasma After getting published in The Badger Herald, staff members of the Madison Misnomer have begun to pay its growing financial obligations by selling their collective precious bodily fluids.

“After we began being published in the Herald, our expenses increased dramatically,” Misnomer Editor-In-Chief Kathleen Mallett said. “We had no idea how to pay for the rents that the oligarchs at the Herald were charging us. Then, we had an idea.”

Two times a week, each member of The Madison Misnomer is required to donate plasma at Interstate Blood and Plasma on West Gorham Street, bringing in

roughly $1,000 a week for the paper.

“We believe in transparency of our finances,” Mallett continued. “Without us selling our precious bodily fluids, we wouldn’t be able to afford our luxurious meeting room, our gourmet Zebra Cakes snacks, and our great, wonderful, not overpriced page in The Badger Herald.”

Responding to the dramatic increase in business this year, Vampire Lord and Head of Interstate Blood and Plasma Viktor Copenhagen corpulently said “My, oh my! Do they give me the most precious plasma! Never before have I felt this youthful and full

of energy! Keep it coming, you delicious, delicious sacks of meat.”

The Misnomer staff is not limited to just selling plasma, but rather has begun frequenting sperm banks, egg donation centers and organ clinics on the weekends.

Mallett is hopeful for the future of the Misnomer, saying “after we sell a few more kidneys, we can go back to publishing our own paper once a semester.”

Misnomer Managing Editor Matt Huppert added “We may be selling all of our precious bodily fluids for cash, but at least we don’t owe those selfrighteous squares at ASM a dime.”

Freshman still asserts BWW good date locale University of Wisconsin freshmen Cole Darby still thinks Buffalo Wild Wings, at its 789 University Avenue location, is an affordable, delicious restaurant perfect for hot dates.

“Last Friday I took a girl to B-dubs and was amazed at the quality and affordability of the wings,” Cole said, his face covered with honey barbeque sauce. “Allison [his date] just loved the wide range of sauces, the great Pepsi sodas and the pleasant number of television screens.”

“We just love seeing happy students come in, their pockets jingling with their parents’ money, to spend on our affordable, real chicken meat,” Buffalo Wild Wings General

Manager Theresa Jackson said. “Where else can you get a bargain like $14.49 for at least 15 boneless wings?

That’s a steal! A downright steal!”

“When Cole took me to B-dubs for the first time, I was overwhelmed,” Allison, a history major, said. “So filled with life and whimsy!

The servers happily flitted about the tables efficiently while dozens of jerseyed college students watched the panoply of television screens catering to every sports taste. It was like Paris or Berlin in the 1920s, a land of artistic expression and cheap-ass chicken!”

A Reuter’s poll conducted in December 2013 showed that 78 percent of Madison freshmen had visited Buffalo Wild Wings at least

once in the previous six months, and that 56 percent said they would visit again, most likely with a date or a dozen other friends.

Responding to the poll, Jackson said “This poll validates our strategy: offering the cheapest chicken wings and specializing in a variety of tantalizing sauces. We believe ours is the greatest restaurant in Madison, and the one you’ll take your friends to when they visit from UW-Whitewater.”

When confronted with the fact that yes, each boneless wing does cost a dollar on the menu for something that probably costs a few cents to produce because it’s fucking chicken, Jackson had no comment.

tenth-grade, Kyle Fitzsimmons ‘accidentally’ stepped on my foot, so I put him in a trash can and pissed in his locker. I think I taught him a valuable lesson in the dangers of bullying that day.

He hasn’t bullied me since.”

Coaches and other athletic staff are particularly concerned about the effects of bullying on student athletes.

“These boys go through a lot when it comes to criticism,” men’s rowing coach Tony

Clemente said.

“They’ve spent their entire lives being showered with praise. Now that they’re in college, they still mostly get showered with praise. But every once in a while someone says something kind of mean to them.”

Above all, the athletic community would like critics to think twice about their choice of words before saying something that could be hurtful to a student athlete,

especially online, where relative anonymity reduces the risk of backlash.

“I find the use of social media these days really disturbing,” O’Hanrahan said. “Someone called me a fag on Facebook the other day, and I really don’t appreciate that word being used to describe someone like myself who’s totally not faggy, like, at all. Look at a guy like Kyle Fitzimmons, though. Now there’s a fag.”

Professor plans computer errors into weekly lectures Lois Weisner, University of Wisconsin religious studies professor, has admitted to designating portions of her Monday and Wednesday 9:55 lectures to seemingly spontaneous computer errors.

These errors began last semester as occasional fillers for unpreparedness, but have quickly escalated to a regular part of the class.

“I held my lectures to a higher standard in the fall, but this semester, I made sure to request a room with technology accommodations just old enough to be realistically on the fritz one time per lecture, usually for 15 to 20 minutes of the total 50,” Weisner said.

A certain level of theatrics has been implemented to pull off the frequency of these false computer problems.

“I try to pick my moment at a different time every lecture, which are, of course, entirely reliant on PowerPoint slides.

I start off with a puzzled face

and furrowed brow, mutter some ‘oh no...oh...hmms,’ and finish off the performance by hitting random buttons until something actually does go wrong with the screen,” Weisner said. “I then give my TAs a glance that says ‘not this again,’ and convey my disappointment to the class with a defeated shrug, sometimes throwing my hands in the air.”

Stan Burke, a UW computer technician, weighed in on the issue.

“Our systems are in tip top shape until professors lapse into these habits. This time of year we’re constantly running around to various podiums trying to undo their damage,” Burke said.

DoIT Tech is looking to get permission for a temporary shut down of all lecture hall technology in order to teach the professors a lesson.

The professors that invent these fake computer

breakdowns are said to be found only within humanities fields.

“Teaching a class that requires no math or science knowledge allows me to make these technology fumbles without destroying the students’ trust in my expertise,” Weisner said.

Weisner admits to being a part of a group of teachers that gathers briefly every week to strategize computer error ideas as well as relate to each other.

“We meet in random nooks of Vilas and Humanities to confide in one another and relieve the guilt,” she said. “It’s hard knowing that I’ve duped my students on a daily basis, but no where near as hard as preparing a full lecture.”

When religious studies student Chris Franz was asked about these frequent computer errors he replied, “Oh really?

I never noticed. I’m usually on Facebook or something anyway.”

Survey: use of phone in class

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This day in Badger history 1931: Refusing to be dismayed by the current depression, UW students cheer the Badger basketball team to victory as they beat Michigan State by having fewer players contract polio.

Entire campus watches UW student make walk of shame University of Wisconsin sophomore Angela Dosseldorf trekked to her apartment on Lathrop Street from a work party as the entire city of Madison watched Sunday morning at 7:00 a.m., Dosseldorf had spent Saturday night at an unknown student’s apartment on East Johnson Street after a night of binge drinking.

Upon waking up, she found her clothes, dressed and scampered through the living room as her hookup’s sleeping roommates stared at her

intently.

While Dosseldorf wobbled down State Street in her stiletto heels, residents, shopkeepers and bus drivers alike cast their judging eyes on her. Though a scarf covered her face, every citizen of Madison knew exactly who she was.

“It’s inescapable,” she said.

“It’s like they all know that I grinded on my supervisor on the countertop and they’re not going to let me get away with it. I wonder what else they know.”

All the students from every single one of Dosseldorf ’s

classes saw her tramping home, including that one cute guy from Economics 101.

“She can’t hide from us,” cackled Econ 101 TA Igor Trippledom. “Oh boy, this is going to affect her grades for sure.”

Dosseldorf ’s boss at her internship at the psychology lab, Hans Schnizzlefree, witnessed her embarrassing march to her abode. He glared disapprovingly the entire way.

“I thought Angela was better than that,” Schnizzlefree said. “I really did.”

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Wisconsin roars back in 2nd half, beats Indiana After scoring only 19 1st half points, the UW tallies 50 during 2nd session Spencer Smith Sports Editor The phrase “a tale of two halves” is often over-used in sports and can come off as cliché, but it couldn’t be anymore applicable than to the Wisconsin men’s basketball team Tuesday night.

Wisconsin (23-5, 10-5 Big Ten) was well aware of what they were getting in a game with Indiana (15-12, 5-9) after suffering its first loss of the season in Bloomington, Ind. in January. It was going to be a tough, grind-it-out game and the Badgers would have to play as well as they had in the couple of weeks if they were to extend their winning streak to six games. They didn’t make it easy on themselves in the first half.

Wisconsin couldn’t have started the game any slower, making just seven shots on a 25.9 percent shooting clip from the field in the first half.

It was a different story for Indiana who got off to a quick start with the hot hand of Will Sheehey who recorded the first seven points of the game in less than three minutes for the Hoosiers. Then it was freshman forward Noah Vonleh who kept the offense going, scoring 10 first-half points.

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ten minutes of the first half, the Badgers would manage just 19 points — a season low in the first half — and went into the locker room with a 29-19 deficit on their hands.

For Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan and his team, it wasn’t a time to panic.

“He just said relax, we’ll figure this out,” sophomore guard Sam Dekker said of Ryan’s halftime talk to the team. “It’s 40 minutes of basketball, not 20, so our best 20 minutes is ahead of us. It’s our turn to do it.

And we were able to calm down and go out there and do it.”

Ryan’s calm approach during halftime worked as Wisconsin came out in the second half looking like a completely different team on the offensive end of the floor.

UW hit six of its first eight shots from the floor including two-straight three pointers by senior guard Ben Brust who was 0-for-5 in the first half.

“I think it kind of ignited this team,” Brust said of his three-point makes early in the second half. “It just kind of trickled down to everyone else. So, it just kind of got us going and opened things up.”

It wasn’t just Brust who woke up in the second half for the Badgers, Dekker came alive in the second stanza scoring 13 of his team-high 16 points in the final 20 minutes.

Ryan asked his star forward to play with more aggressiveness in the final half.

“I kept asking him to make sure the people who bought their seats knew that he was in the gym,” Ryan said. “I thought it was a good suggestion, ‘Make your presence felt a little bit.’ He’s easy to talk to.”

The offensive outburst in the second half would translate to a 62 percent (13-21) shooting average from the field and 50 points after scoring less than 20 in the first.

“Shots went down, that’s all you can really say for that second half,” Sam Dekker said. “Sometimes you are not always going to get the rolls, but in the second half we were able to get that, get some good looks and put it up with confidence.”

As good as the offense was for Wisconsin in the second half, its defense held up the other end of the court, neutralizing Indiana’s attack.

The Hoosiers’ threeheaded attack of Sheeyhey, Vonleh and Yogi Ferrell that combined for 27 points in the first half was held to just 13 points in the second half with two minutes to go in the game. Ferrell would hit three buckets from long range in the final two minutes to give him a game-high 24 points, but by then Wisconsin had the game well in hand.

Vonleh went 4-of-10 from the field in the second half after missing only one attempt in the first. Ryan made sure that if the freshman was going to score on Wisconsin in the second half, he was going to have to earn

every point.

“Basically, if he’s going to score in there is going to have to be off a great move, not just an average move,” Ryan said. “He made a couple. He’s pretty good. But, I thought we had enough help in there to keep him from getting a lot of easy baskets.”

With Ferrell, Sheehey and Vonleh all struggling

to score for the majority of the final half, Wisconsin was able to build its lead to as much as 15 to put the game too far out of reach for Indiana.

With the win, the Badgers are now guaranteed their 14th consecutive winning season conference play and improve their homewinning streak over the

Hoosiers to 12 games.

Wisconsin has three games remaining in its regular season schedule with the next test coming Sunday on the road at Penn State. The Badgers will return home next Wednesday to take on Purdue and then will round out the regular season at Nebraska March 9.

“I knew it was only a matter of time. I knew it was going to start, so I was like, ‘Can it just start now?’ Looking at 3-for10, I know I can do better than that. It’s definitely

good to get a couple to go down, and I think it kind of ignited this team.”

But, whether the shots are falling for him or not, Brust has earned the trust and confidence

of his team by playing four years of basketball the Wisconsin way. And chances are if Wisconsin starts to go on an offensive run, Brust had a hand in it.

“If you look at how a lot of our runs started this year, it starts with a Ben Brust three or one of those little turn-arounds in the paint,” Dekker said.

“So, we still see Ben as

our best shooter on the team.

I think he’s up there as one of the best threepoint shooters in the nation. He can spark an offense at any time.”

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Redshirt junior guard Josh Gasser had 11 points Tuesday night and was one of five players in double figures.

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Badgers look to build on success in postseason Wisconsin will face off against familiar opponent Mankota in 1st round series Meghan Eustice Women’s Hockey Writer The time has come that everyone has been anticipating. Throughout each season of every sport, players, coaches and fans alike have thoughts of playoffs in the back of their minds. For the Wisconsin women’s hockey team, the exciting home stretch is about to begin.

The No. 2 Badgers (25-5-2, 21-5-2 WCHA) have seen a good amount of success this year, with records broken and series swept, and they aren’t planning on going down without a fight.

“If they don’t beat us this weekend, their season’s over, and it’s the same for us,” junior forward Blayre Turnbull, who is second on the Badgers with 34 points, said. “We have to win. It’s going to be a competitive series.”

The team that Turnbull referred to is Minnesota State-Mankato, which Wisconsin just swept last Friday and Saturday with final scores of 5-1 and 3-1. There had been talk beforehand about Minnesota State running a tight defense. However,

MAGIC, page 14 of rebuilding over the past four years.

After a tough two years following the departure of 10 athletes after the 2010 season and a miserable start to the 2012-2013 season last year, Wisconsin has finally looked like it has recovered and returned to the hockey program’s usual levels of success.

Turnbull scored not one but two shorthanded goals on the Mavericks Friday, proving the Minnesota defense is no match for a Wisconsin offense.

“We learned that they have five forwards on their power play, so they like to do the switch near the [blue line],” junior forward Brittany Ammerman said.

“After we went over it in practice, we kind of looked at each other and were like, they’re going to do that switch we can jump on it and beat five forwards down the ice.”

The Badgers hope for more of the same results this coming weekend, but the postseason atmosphere is always a bit different than regular season. Teams are more intense, knowing one wrong move could mean the end of the season.

Players become desperately aggressive as they attempt to fight their way to the next round. Even the fans are louder and prouder, wanting to see their teams advance in the brackets.

If Minnesota State is going to give Wisconsin a run for its money, it will happen this weekend, when the first playoff puck is dropped. Head coach Mark Johnson knows of the many perils and miracles of postseason play and has been telling his team to not lose focus.

“The meanings of the

With the NHL always lurking in the shadows waiting to steal players, it’s an even tougher task to put together a winning squad in college hockey than it is in many other college sports.

The stars don’t align very often, but when they do, the opportunity has to be seized.

Wisconsin is in that situation right now and, for many reasons, the team resembles the 2010 national

game are totally different,” Johnson said. “Everyone is playing for a livelihood.

If you beat somebody and eliminate somebody, that means the seniors are finished with their careers.

In those environments you usually get the other team’s best effort.”

Minnesota State’s best effort has never been enough in its postseasons, however. The Mavericks’ last time advancing past the first round of playoffs was back in 2008-2009 and never has the team brought home a championship in the history of the WCHA. On the other side of things, since 2000, the Badgers have made it past the first round nearly every year, winning their last championship back in 20102011 and taking second the following season.

Given these two teams’ runs of luck in postseasons past or lack thereof in the Mavericks’ case, combined with the Wisconsin’s longstanding winning streak versus the Mavericks, it probably wouldn’t surprise anyone of this first round matchup resulted in a lopsided scoreboard.

Wisconsin has actually only lost one game all-time against Mankato, and has a 60-3-1 all-time record against the Mavericks. But as always, the Badgers are determined to step on the ice expecting to have to

The Badger Herald File Photo A part of Wisconsin’s top forward line, junior Katy Josephs has tallied 19 points so far this season, including 9 goals.

put forward their absolute best in order to walk away victorious.

“We know they’re going to come out even harder than last weekend,” Turnbull said. “This is do or die for them.”

This doesn’t mean the Badgers don’t have confidence in themselves.

They know they’ve had a successful season, a successful run of series against Minnesota State

runner-up and the 2006 national champion Badger teams. For starters, the Badgers have the biggest senior class they’ve ever had under Eaves with nine seniors on this year’s roster.

Although they have plenty of talent in that group, the Badgers have several key players that will not graduate after this season.

One of Wisconsin’s key strengths right now is junior

and successful playoff tournaments in the past.

UW knows what it has been doing right and plans on continuing with its good habits. Just last weekend against the Mavericks, seven different Wisconsin players scored the eight total goals, displaying a depth to its lines that few teams can boast.

Ammerman knows that this will be crucial to continue during playoffs.

goaltender Joel Rumpel who, according to Eaves, has had a quantum leap in his play this season.

After recording the second best season statistically in Wisconsin hockey history last season with his .929 save percentage and 1.96 goals-against-average, Rumpel is back and better than ever this year, leading the Big Ten in GAA (1.83), save percentage (.936) and win percentage (.786).

The defense pairs that have played in front of Rumpel have also been exceedingly strong this season, especially the play of junior Jake McCabe and senior captain Frankie Simonelli. At one point the two were a defensive pair together, but even after the pairs got switched up — Simonelli and Kevin Schulze and McCabe and Joe Faust are now paired — the two have continued their standout play. Not only are McCabe and Simonelli defensively sound, but they both have a knack for scoring, harkening back to Wisconsin’s tradition of offensively

minded defensemen such as McDonagh and Smith and more recently Justin Schultz, all of whom are now in the NHL. But Wisconsin is hardly limited in scoring to its defenseman, as four forwards have more than 20 points this season and four players have more than 10 goals. Michael Mersch leads Wisconsin in scoring and also leads the Big Ten with his 19 goals this season. But outside of Mersch, Wisconsin still has reliable sources of offense in Mark Zengerle (30 points), Nic Kerdiles (24 points) and Tyler Barnes (22 points), among others.

But Wisconsin is more than just a one trick pony.

Wisconsin is in its best form since going to the National Championship in 2010 and a glaring weakness doesn’t seem to exist. Maybe the one knock this year has been the inconsistency of the Badgers, who have struggled on the road with a 2-7-1 record away from the Kohl Center. But after a tough start to the season, Wisconsin has improved a

“[Last weekend] was a committee of scoring,” Ammerman said. “Different people scored each night and obviously we got a few people rolling. We got Syd [McKibbon] to finally get a goal and Packer got her 100th point. I think that’s always good going into the postseason, having more people scoring, because in the postseason people have to step up. We see that in every sport.”

great deal on the road and in its inconsistent ways.

The final two series of the regular season will come on the road and will bring tough tests, as both Penn State and Michigan State pose threats despite their records.

Those two series will provide insight as to how much mettle the Badgers have away from home. Regardless of the outcomes, No. 6 Wisconsin will almost certainly find its way into the NCAA tournament, and the Badgers have a good chance of bringing home some hardware as well. If they don’t, it’s going to be a few years before they have another realistic shot.

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RUMPEL, page 14 cited the team’s defense as a whole as the reason for the Badgers’ success.

The strong team defense has been aided by a strong chemistry between the players, who can be serious when they need to be and also joke around, as evidenced by the Canada-United States men’s hockey Olympic game from last Friday.

“There’s only three of us Canadians on the team. We watched the [Olympics] with the Americans, and there was some chirping going on, but the better team won in the end,” Rumpel said.

This camaraderie among teammates will help propel the Badgers into their final games before playoffs begin. As a team that has struggled

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while away, Rumpel seemed excited and ready for the next two away series.

“It will be a huge help for us. It will be good going into the playoffs and the Frozen Four, they’re all road games, so these games will hopefully give us a little more confidence and wins going into St. Paul,” he said.

Rumpel was humble, but confident about the team’s preparation for its upcoming series with Penn State.

“They’re a good team, they’ve played some unbelievable teams and done well against them,” he said of Penn State, who swept Michigan on the road this past weekend. “Big thing is: Can’t take them lightly – they can score and they have good defense and goaltending. This week we are working

on our own things, but next week we will begin focusing on how to shut them down.”

Rumpel has proven a valuable teammate both on and off the ice, and he has started to come into his own this season between the pipes for the Badgers.

In addition to leading the Big Ten goaltenders in save percentages, goals-against averages and winning percentages, his hard work and effort have earned him the status of Star of the Week three times this season for the Big Ten. His nine career shutouts have earned him a three-way tie for second place in program history.

With the Big Ten Tournament and Frozen Four looming ahead, Rumpel will be a notable presence on the ice for Wisconsin.

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Turning point: Turnbull having breakout year After slow start to her UW career, junior foward has found a new role Dan Corcoran Sports Content Editor While having a star player might be the wish of every team, it doesn’t always come to fruition.

But when a team is lucky enough to have a star or even multiple stars, the spotlight shining on these players may keep potential key players hiding in the shadows.

That was the case of Wisconsin women’s hockey junior forward Blayre Turnbull for the first two years of her career. Turnbull, a native of Stellerton, Nova Scotia, came into the Badgers’ program after attending one of the most elite hockey prep schools in the country in ShattuckSt. Mary’s—the same school NHL star Sidney Crosby played at before his professional career began. In her junior year with Shattuck, Turnbull tallied 60 points on 30 goals and 30 assists in just 52 games, evidence of the type of offensive prowess she is capable of.

But in her first two seasons with Wisconsin, Turnbull played behind some of best players to ever come through the Wisconsin hockey program, Hilary Knight and Brianna Decker, who are first and second alltime for scoring in a UW career respectively.

So after a stellar high school career as one of the stars, Turnbull found herself in a role with the stars soaking up the majority of the playing minutes and offensive contributions.

During her freshman year, Turnbull had a respectable 14 points on seven goals and seven assists but that was nothing compared to the 82 points from Decker that season. The following year, Turnbull’s production dropped by nearly half as she only recorded eight points on the season and only three goals.

But with Knight graduating two years ago and Decker graduating last season, Turnbull and the Badgers have found themselves in an unfamiliar situation with no go-to star, which they have had in seasons past, creating a great chance for new players who were

once in the shadows to emerge.

“Last year, you’re playing behind Decker and maybe some other players over the first two years, whereas this year it’s more of a leadership role. She’s grabbed that and done very well with that,” head coach Mark Johnson said.

As Johnson said, Turnbull has broken out this season, not just in terms of her offensive numbers, but the role she possesses on the team, which includes assistant captain duties.

Johnson admitted he didn’t really know who would step up this season with the health of junior forward, and Turnbull’s linemate, Brittany Ammerman in question after sitting out almost all of last year with a concussion.

Not only has Ammerman returned strong from injury, but Turnbull too has roared on to a key role and hasn’t looked back since the beginning of the season.

“She’s just stepped right in there,” Ammerman said of Turnbull, the first line center. “She had it in her in high school and when you come into a program like this that has a lot of

superstars your freshman, sophomore year you have to find a different role.

“And so when you get to be an upperclassmen again, you can bring out your scoring and you get put on power play and penalty kill and it gives you more minutes to do that.”

But how has a player like Turnbull made such a drastic shift on the way to scoring more points this season (31) than she did in her first two years combined (22)?

As she explained, the elevation of Turnbull’s play might be attributed to something as small as a change in mindset.

“My mental game is just elevated a lot,” she said. “I have a lot more confidence in myself and I know my teammates have confidence in me too. It makes me feel prepared so when I step on the ice I’m ready to go.

“Last year I was really focused on setting goals each game and I think that affected me negatively because if I didn’t reach those goals then I would just stress out and be down on myself. I wouldn’t feel confident in myself and my abilities.

“This year I scratched

that idea and [I] just go on the ice and play every shift that’s given to me.”

That change in mindset for Turnbull was a work in progress that took two years to bring about through all the ups and downs of her first two seasons that helped her to prepare for her newfound role this year.

Turnbull’s development into one of Wisconsin’s key players this season— she is currently second on the team in goals (16), assists (18) and points (34)—has been a process, and certainly not something that happened overnight.

“I think with any player it’s a process. It’s a journey,” Johnson said.

“For a flower, it takes a while and sometimes you don’t get enough sun or enough water—it takes a little bit longer. If you stay true to what you want to do and eventually you’re going to get rewarded.

The thing for her…is to get off to a good start.

By doing that, it puts confidence in you that ‘I can do these things.’ ” Last weekend was one of her biggest series yet, as Turnbull almost singlehandedly won the Badgers’ game with her two shorthanded goals

against Minnesota StateMankato last Friday.

Those two goals came in the first period and was the first time any Badger has done that in a season, and also gave Turnbull five shorthanders on the year, a UW single season record. That single game feat earned her the WCHA Offensive Player of the Week award, the second time she has been honored this season.

With a fairly young team and without the presence of a superstar, it’s hard to say where the No. 2 Badgers would be without the production of Turnbull. Thankfully, Johnson doesn’t have to ponder that question for now.

“One of the reasons we’re in our position is players like Blayre, who has been working hard since she came as a freshman in the summer to go to summer school.

It’s nice to see her not only get off to a good start but have a really good season,” Johnson said.

If the Badgers are going to continue their success in the postseason, they’ll need big time contributions from all the players they can get, and Turnbull will be at the forefront.

Paige to leave legacy of hard work, leadership Badgers’ senior guard has excelled in multiple facets of game during career Eric Kohlbeck Women’s Basketball Writer The Badgers will welcome Northwestern to the Kohl Center Sunday for their final home game of the season and honor their three seniors. In that group is the team’s leader, who leads by her actions on and off the court, was selected as a thirdteam All-Big Ten member last season and who her teammates refer to as “Mo.” She is 5-foot-9 senior guard Morgan Paige.

Paige grew up in a basketball-centered family in Marion, Iowa. Her parents, Ellis and Sherryl, met while playing college basketball at Mount Mercy University, a division three school in Iowa, so it’s no surprise that both Morgan and her brother Marcus, have made it to the upperlevels of college basketball.

Both parents have coached basketball, with Morgan’s mother coaching her in high school.

Morgan is 15 months older than her brother Marcus, who is currently a sophomore playing for men’s basketball powerhouse, North Carolina.

Morgan is quick to mention that her relationship with her brother has been instrumental in her getting the chance to play at Wisconsin and has made her into the prolific player she is today.

“We’ve been playing basketball for forever,” Paige said about her brother. “Always growing up, we’ve had basically a shooting partner or a workout buddy through the whole process. Now that I’m older, I can shed some light on pace of game, how things pan out and keeping at it with the work ethic. He can chime in with critique or skills.

It’s a nice little one-two combination and we get on each other a lot.”

As injuries plagued the Badgers last season, Paige stepped up and had the best season of her career.

As a junior, she led UW in scoring at 15.9 points per game, which was good for sixth best in the Big Ten and earned third-team allconference honors. Her best game came against the toughest competition, when she knocked home a career-high 33 points in an upset win over No. 7 Penn State Jan. 31 of last year. Badger head coach

Bobbie Kelsey feels Paige has really developed into a scorer in the last few years, after not see much playing time her freshman season.

“She wasn’t starting that much or playing that much her first year in the program,” Kelsey said.

“But she has developed into a great scorer, and there were times where she — I mean, she could get 30 points like that.

She struggled here as of late, but we do depend on Morgan to create some offense for us off the dribble and with her 3-point shot.”

Paige has been active in getting her teammates open and creating offense.

With her ability to attack the basket, players such as fellow senior Taylor Wurtz are found wide open on the perimeter and makes their job of scoring that much easier.

“Morgan draws a lot of attention from other teams,” Wurtz said. “So just by that I’m going to get more open looks and more clean shots. I think we play well with each other. I can hit her for an open three. She can find me because we look for each other, so it has really helped us.”

This season Paige isn’t scoring quite as much, averaging 12.2 points per game, but that’s likely been due to a revamped backcourt that saw the return of Wurtz from an injury, and the addition of redshirt junior forward Michala Johnson.

Wurtz and Johnson are second and first on the team in scoring this season.

But despite the minor drop off in points, Paige’s leadership qualities are what has made her one of the most important players on the Badger’s team.

Wurtz, who arrived in Madison a year before Paige, took Morgan under her wing in her freshman season.

The two have now played together the past four seasons and Wurtz see’s Paige’s ability to be a leader, on and off the court, as one of her defining characteristics.

“The biggest quality Morgan brings to this team is leadership,” Wurtz said.

“She contributes in multiple ways in scoring, defending, all of that.

But just outside the court, she brings leadership. She just sets a really good, strong example for us.”

On the court, Paige

Chris Lotten The Badger Herald Morgan Paige, a native of Marion, Iowa, hails from a line of basketball lineage that includes her younger brother Marcus, who plays for North Carolina.

never seems to take a play off. If she commits a turnover or loses the ball, it’s apparent that she has a strong determination to get back on defense and never give up on the play.

This attitude is one Paige attributes to not wanting to let her teammates down and makes this an emphasis of her leadership on the court.

“I’ve always been taught to play both sides of the ball and that every possession is important,” Paige said. “If you take [a possession] off, it’s a discredit to your team.

You’re not helping them out and giving them your best effort. I just try to bring that energy every single time, whether we’re on offense or defense.”

As Paige wraps up her Badger career with just one more regular season game and the Big Ten tournament on the horizon, she is already looking to her future, a future that hopefully has her playing professionally overseas. But for her career at Wisconsin, Paige simply hopes that people remember her by

the example she set for herself, her teammates and the hard work that she put in during her four years at UW. “I hope I set an example on and off the court,” she said. “When it comes to hard work, when you put your time in as an athlete, it will pay off. And I hope that I’ve done the best I can to lead by example.”

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Brust filling bigger shoes Badgers’ senior guard has found his way following shooting slump Spencer Smith Sports Editor When looking for the prototypical player in a Bo Ryan-coached system, you need someone who is willing to put the team above individual statistics, willing to work tirelessly on his defense and, most of all, plays as hard as he can every minute he is on the floor.

When searching for that player, look no further than Ben Brust.

At first glance, Brust doesn’t strike you as a Big Ten basketball player with his wiry 6-foot1 frame, but it quickly becomes apparent that he fits into Ryan’s system perfectly.

The Hawthorn Woods, Ill. native plays with a tenacity that makes up for whatever he might lack in height, flying around the court and always making his presence felt. He is third on Wisconsin’s roster in

rebounds — behind only 7-footer Frank Kaminsky and 6-foot-8 forward Sam Dekker — has played less than 30 minutes in a game only once this season, and though Ryan can ride him for his defense from time to time, there is never doubt about his effort. Oh, and he shoot the lights out of the gym on any given night.

All of the hard work came to fruition for the lone senior on the Badgers squad as he became just the 38th player in Wisconsin history to reach the 1,000-point mark.

Fittingly enough, Brust broke the 1,000-point ceiling with a timely three-pointer in a win over Indiana Tuesday night.

Obviously, Brust was proud of his accomplishment but, in typical fashion, was quick to credit players past and present for his success.

“I know there have been some great players at this program and I was lucky to have good players when I got here to set an example for me, how to get the job

done here,” he said. “I’m happy to get to that and I also have to thank my teammates for helping me get there along the way.”

A majority of those 1,000 points have come from behind the threepoint line and often times those long range shots are so far behind the line, he is “shooting

“

I think he’s up there as one of the best three-point shooters in the nation. He can spark an offense at any time.

”

Sam Dekker Badgers’ forward

from Janesville” as the Wisconsin coaching staff likes to say.

Brust is fifth in the UW record books for threepointers made in a career with 206 and has a fair chance to break the alltime record of 227 set by Tim Locum, who played at Wisconsin until 1991.

The senior is efficient from long range, almost always making half of his three-point tries, so when

the shots aren’t falling it’s easy to notice.

Brust has hit a rough patch lately. In his last 12 games, Brust has made more than two threepointers in a game only three times and has shot better than 33 percent from deep just twice — his season average from the three-point range is 37.2 percent.

The good thing about having a strong of track record is his coach and teammates will always have confidence in him, no matter how much he is struggling.

“Ben always thinks the next one’s going in,” Ryan said after Wisconsin’s win over Indiana Tuesday. “As long as he keeps playing defense and doing what he does and taking care of the ball, the shot will fall. You can trust me on that one.”

Brust said the basis of that confidence comes from his teammates’ support of him when he is going through a slump.

“Having teammates that come up to you all the time telling you, ‘just keep taking them – we trust you,’ just gives you confidence,” Brust said.

“No matter what’s happening, you keep going based off having your

teammates’ confidence in you.”

The struggles continued for Brust Tuesday night at home against Indiana.

The guard was regularly getting open looks on the perimeter, but just couldn’t get anything to go down. By the end of the first half his stat line looked like this: 0-5 from the field, 0-4 from three, no free throws, no points and one rebound.

Not a typical Brust line.

But that all changed in the second half.

With his team down one and with just

more than 16 minutes left in the game, Brust knocked down a three-point shot and the Kohl Center erupted.

On the next

Wisconsin possession, he gave it another go.

Swish.

Brust would end up nailing three shots from beyond

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Magic run in cards for UW Dan Corcoran Corcoran’s Clubhouse

Chris Lotten The Badger Herald Wisconsin goaltender Joel Rumpel has had a “quantum leap” in net this year on the way to a 16-4-1 record, the best winning percentage in the Big Ten.

Rumpel stoning opponents cold A season after coming close to several records, junior goaltender back at it again Lexus Schroeder Sportswriter The Wisconsin men’s hockey team has a week to rest after a sweep against Michigan State this past weekend. A notable performance from Badger goaltender Joel Rumpel ended the series against the Spartans with a shutout, his ninth this season. The Big Ten’s Second Star of the Week behind teammate Michael Mersch, who was named First Star, Rumpel has proven himself to be a key player for the Badgers.

“We all play with a little more confidence, especially when you have that backstop back there,” defenseman and captain Frankie Simonelli said, regarding the team’s play due to Rumpel’s performance.

“We

emphasize team defense and having a strong goalie back there is really the foundation for a good team defense.”

The junior from Swift Current, Saskatchewan started as a freshman for the Badgers in 2011, winning his first career start in a 3-2 victory over Northern Michigan.

Rumpel went on to set the UW freshman record and lead all freshmen goaltenders in the country with three shutouts during his freshman season. But that was just part of a solid debut year.

Rumpel earned the WCHA Rookie of the Week honor three times and ended the season save percentage by eclipsing the .900 mark, something Rumpel has accomplished all three seasons he’s played with the Badgers.

Although Rumpel had two very solid seasons to start his career, he has capitalized on his strengths this season and improved his game across the board.

“What he brings to the table naturally is he’s a tall goaltender and he’s very athletic – he moves well. What he’s done coming into his junior year, he’s taken a quantum leap.

He’s worked hard in accordance to the details of his position,” Badgers head coach Mike Eaves said.

After battling for the starting position early in the season against Landon Peterson, Rumpel has taken over as starting goaltender since coming back from an ankle injury that sidelined him for five games in the early part of

the season.

Despite a slow start because of the injury, Rumpel has been strong as of late and leads the Big Ten in save percentage (.936), goalsagainst average (1.83) and winning percentage (.786). With a shutout in the second game against Michigan State, his nine career shutouts have earned him a three-way tie for second place in program history alongside Terry Kleisinger and Graham Melanson.

But despite the healthy statistics and accolades this season, the Canadian native didn’t address his status as leading goaltender in the Big Ten or his shutout against Michigan State. Instead, the team-oriented junior

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As the college hockey world bears down on the playoffs, mystery and excitement fill the air as the 59 teams in the collegiate ranks fight to become the No. 1 team in the land. Although not nearly as much hype surrounds college hockey compared to the craze that envelops the country when March Madness rolls around, the NCAA hockey tournament and Frozen Four is no less magical than its basketball equivalent. This year, expect to see the Wisconsin men’s hockey team right in the thick of the magic and hockey hubbub as the game heats up in the coming weeks.

And yes, if you feel like you have heard this before, you’re right.

I did, in fact, write a similar column right around this time last year, claiming that the Badgers had what it took to go the distance.

Maybe it’s the Cubs fan in me that compels me to make a bold, yearly claim about Wisconsin winning the national title. But, unlike the Cubs, Wisconsin has fielded competitive teams in the Mike Eaves era, and these last two seasons have been among his best.

The notion that Wisconsin could go to the National Championship last season wasn’t far off the mark. While the Badgers lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament last season, they had to make an impressive run in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs to even get into the NCAA tournament.

UW had all the elements of a championship contender, evidenced

by the fact that it won every single game in the WCHA playoffs on the way to the tournament championship in the Badgers’ final year in the league. But the idea that Wisconsin could string together such a long winning streak bridging the conference tournament to the NCAA tournament was asking a lot, and after a week off from playing, it fell flat on its face on the way to a 5-0 defeat to UMass-Lowell in the regional semifinal game.

The game was certainly a disappointment after the Badgers had the magic about them that comes with a title run — they just couldn’t put the pieces together, or as Eaves is apt to say, the Badgers couldn’t find the solution to the riddle.

Luckily for Wisconsin, unlike what usually happens in the offseason in college hockey, it kept most of its roster intact heading into this year. Many times in the offseason, as has happened multiple times with Eaves as coach, the depth chart thins upon graduation, compounded when the NHL comes calling, scooping up the best remaining players on the roster and leaving the coaching staff scrambling to piece the disaster back together.

That’s exactly what happened after the Badgers made the run to the national title game in 2010. Upon the season’s conclusion, Wisconsin lost seven seniors and key parts of what had made it so successful that year. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the three best remaining players on the roster — Ryan McDonagh, Derek Stepan and Brendan Smith — all decided to forgo their remaining eligibility to pursue their professional aspirations in the NHL. That mass exodus left Wisconsin’s roster a bare bones enterprise, which Eaves has had the task

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