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Home for ethnic studies up for debate Due to a lack of resources in the College of Letters and Science, several programs could be consolidated as result of 10-year campus review Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor A lack of resources in the University of Wisconsin’s College of Letters and Sciences has led the Afro-American studies department to consider consolidating several departments and programs into a larger ethnic studies department.

Every 10 years, departments across campus undergo a review process. This year, the Afro-American studies

department is undergoing its review, department Chair Craig Werner said.

During a department’s 10-year review, internal and external committees conduct an official analysis that includes meetings with staff members, observing progress in the curriculum and examining what resources are available, Director of Chican@/ Latin@ studies Ben Marquez said.

Werner said they were told resources in the college were

limited.

“We could discuss reform, but the definitive form was not specified,” he said.

The department consulted with program administrators in Asian American studies, American Indian studies and Chican@/Latin@ Studies to explore a new “relationship or reorganization” between these programs and Afro-American studies, Werner said.

Discussion of a new “ethnic studies” department have been ongoing, but no formal process

or action is being taken at this time, Werner said.

The three programs involved are already understaffed, Marquez said.

Asian American Studies and American Indian Studies only have 2.5 full-time faculty members and Chican@/Latin@ Students has none, meaning all of their faculty are tenured through other departments, he said.

Additionally, full-time AfroAmerican faculty decreased from 12.5 to 6.5 since the

last review, Karma Chávez, a communication arts professor, said in an email to The Badger Herald.

Marquez said his department and others are already fiscally strained and working with limited staff. A new department could mean that certain staff members might have to move part of their tenure, which can be a difficult process with few advantages, he said.

L&S does not have the resources to hire full-time

faculty members for these programs, Marquez said. The program is unique because faculty members are chosen to teach the courses because of they are invested in the subject matter, not because they are paid to, he said.

Chávez said UW should be investing in programs that promote diversity.

“UW has put very few resources to studies of race, ethnicity and indigneity in the time I have been here and

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Rec Sports Master Plan passed by wide margin Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor Raking in the second highest voter turnout in school history, the University of Wisconsin’s student government elections Wednesday saw the approval of the $223 million Recreational Sports Master Plan.

Some 14,098 of the 40,971 enrolled students at UW completed the Associated Students of Madison spring ballots. The 34.4 percent total voter turnout fell just short of ASM’s record high

turnout of 34.5 percent, which happened in 2010 when the Natatorium renovation and naming of Union South were on the

renovations of the Natatorium, the Southeast Recreational Facility and the Near East and Near West Fields.

Students will fund a maximum of 57 percent of the project. Fortythree percent of the funding for the plan has already been secured through alternative funding measures from the UW Foundation, UW Athletics, private donors and the state.

Construction will begin in 2015 and is expected to be

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The Master Plan was passed with 12,070 students voting to support the proposal and 1,914 voting against the plan.

The plan includes

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Four finalists announced for UW provost position Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor A sociologist, a pharmacist and a Badger are among the four finalists for University of Wisconsin provost, which were announced Wednesday.

The finalists are Robert Blouin, dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy; Sarah Mangelsdorf, dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University; Katherine Newman, dean of sociology at Johns Hopkins University; and Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education at UW, according to a UW statement.

The provost is the chief academic officer responsible for supervising curricular, student and faculty life on campus. The provost works

closely with the chancellor on reinforcing excellence in research, education and outreach and assumes the role of chief executive for the university in the chancellor’s absence.

The finalists were selected by a 17-member committee chaired by Joan Schmit, a professor in the UW School of Business. The committee is composed of faculty, staff and two students.

The committee began meeting last fall, Andrea Poehling, secretary of the faculty at UW, said.

During the preliminary stages of committee meetings, they reviewed applications, interviewed the contacts and contacted references, Poehling said.

Their search criteria encouraged applications and

nominations of women and underrepresented groups, according to the UW provost search website.

Oher qualifications for the committee searched for, included experience at large public universities, a vision of progress for the future of these institutions, values that align with the Wisconsin Idea and leadership abilities The four finalists will give open presentations on campus beginning next week and ending March 28. The presentations will be recorded and posted to UW’s search site, the statement said.

The final candidate will succeed Provost Paul DeLuca, who has served in the position since 2009. DeLuca announced he would step down and return to the faculty after this academic year.

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Lawmaker looks to make the state a destination for beer enthusiasts and promote job creation with new bill.

Breweries focus of bill Brenda McIntire Herald Contributor Wisconsin craft beer and state breweries are the focus of a new piece of legislation which aims to make the state the “Napa Valley” of the brew industry.

A bill from Rep. Gary

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In 2012 alone, Wisconsin residents consumed $4,160,398 in beer, ranking the state fifth in beer consumption per capita in the

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Beer production in Wisconsin generates $8.6 billion in revenues and has created more than 60,600 jobs in the state, according to the Beer Institute. According to The New York Times, Wisconsin was one of two

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Cheryl Strayed, a New York Times best seller and author of “Wild,” spoke about losing loved ones and self-discovery in a talk on campus Wednesday.

During Strayed’s childhood in Minnesota, she said she grew up with a love for reading and wrote her fi rst poem when she was 6 years old. She was on campus as a part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

Strayed’s father was abusive, and she said she and her mother went through many difficulties, including financial hardships, but were always happy.

She described her mother as a vibrant person.

“We are not poor. We are rich in love,” Strayed said, quoting her mother.

One of the benefits of attending the University of St. Thomas, Strayed said, was parents could take classes for free.

Strayed paid for her own education until she could not afford the private tuition and then transferred to the University of Minnesota.

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“Beer is a part of our heritage and it’s something that we all enjoy,” Tauchen said. “We want to continue to grow the industry and create jobs in the state and to provide for tourism. It should be a priority.”

Guy Rehorst, founder of the Milwaukee-based Great Lakes Distillery, said the bill would help bolster the growing beer industry, which he says plays an important role in the culture and revenue of Wisconsin. Rehorst said Wisconsin’s brewing industry has grown hugely since the repeal of prohibition in 1933.

Despite ranking 20th in population,Wisconsin has consistently ranked in the top five state for beer consumption and, as of 2012, is home to 87 breweries, according to the Beer Institute, an organization representing the $246.5 billion American beer industry.

“People are always looking for unique and local things. Wisconsin

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Strayed left Minnesota to travel the Mojave Desert, experiences she later collected to write her memoir, “Wild.”

A single novel changed Strayed’s life as she went from drug addict to published author in “record time.”

While waiting in line to buy a shovel in the store to dig her truck out of the snow, Strayed said she saw a book, “Pacifi c Crest Trail California” and decided to take a long hike and become a backpacker.

“I shut down my life in Minnesota and found myself in the Mojave Desert,” Strayed said. “It was the first time I was alone sitting in a motel room surrounded by people I didn’t know.”

After her travels, Strayed said she was ready to begin again. She kept a journal about her travels, but did not think to write

a book until 2008 when she said she decided, “I have a life worth a memoir.”

Strayed said she slowly began to figure out a way to live in a world with herself and the mistakes and decisions she had made. She said her memoir is about a woman moving forward and finding her way back home when she was lost.

City agency raises Revelry concerns Daniel McKay Herald Contributor A City of Madison commission voiced concerns about controlling the entrances to this year’s Revelry Arts and Music Festival in a meeting Wednesday.

Madison Police Department Lt. Dave McCaw raised concerns about enforcing the no glass policy, a city ordinance, during a Street Use Staff Commission meeting. He

said university police cannot write citations for violating the policy on city streets, including Langdon Street, where the event will be held.

McCaw said he is also concerned about enforcing the ticketed entrance to the event.

He said proper fencing around the proposed area needs to be secure and monitored to contain attendees.

Tom Mohr, a city traffic engineer, said closing parts of Park and

Lake Street would cause problems for Madison Metro routes.

Katie Sellner, a Metro Transit representative, said the street closure will affect multiple bus routes, and that even limiting the closure to Langdon Street would cause problems for transportation.

The lineup for Revelry will be announced Friday.

Plans for the festival include two stages located directly on

the Memorial Union Terrace and in front of Science Hall, facing toward Langdon Street.

The committee hopes to double attendance from last year’s festival and increase the lineup from 11 artists to between 12 and 15 local and national acts, which will be announced Friday. The event will run from noon to 10 p.m on May 3.

In addition to Revelry, several other campus events were presented to the committee.

Catherine Ruekert, Pi Beta Phi vice president of philanthropy, proposed two fundraisers for the sorority. Ruekert presented “Pie a Pie Phi,” an event on Library Mall where passersby can throw a pie in the sorority members’ faces to donate money to First Book, a charity dedicated to providing books to children in need.

The commission will take up the street permits again in their March 19 meeting.

UW increases gluten-free food availability Following drastic rise in demand, dining halls evolve to cater to students, create more options Morgan Krause

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to a different school as well.

In 1991, Strayed’s mother passed away from lung cancer. After her death, Strayed said she thought about dropping out of school and tried to figure out a way to live without her mother. Strayed said she felt like the world was over and there would never be a person who loved her as much as her mother.

“After losing significant ones in life, people either bond in the sorrow then move forward, or they fall apart,” she said. “I fell apart. I started to selfdistract. I met a guy in Portland and started to use heroin.”

While she was using drugs, Strayed said she felt she could live without her mother, but after time she realized drugs only made her life worse.

Strayed said she began to realize she was not paying tribute to her mother’s memory and was only ruining her life, not making it better.

“After three years, I started to think about how profoundly I failed,” Strayed said. “How could I bear the way I was living? I realized that I was ruining her life.”

Herald Contributor The University of Wisconsin has seen a drastic increase in the number of students eating gluten-free, and campus dining halls are trying to keep up with the increasing demand for gluten-free options.

Part of the demand for gluten-free options is tied to celiac disease, which is

used to have a couple major breweries, and that was it, then craft breweries came along,” Rehorst said.

To make Wisconsin a destination akin to the Napa and Sonoma Valleys for wine connoisseurs, Tauchen hopes the committee can follow similar steps that California took through the development of state committees and programs to support Wisconsin’s growing beer industry.

Tauchen said the state’s beer industry already creates many jobs and the bill and would further boost the economy.

“There are a lot of jobs provided by the industry and we have an opportunity to expand it and grow it,” he said. “We can make it one of those items that people think of when they think of Wisconsin.”

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., who represents the Napa and Sonoma Valleys in Congress, has worked closely with other congressmen to establish and maintain California’s dominance in wine and wine tourism, according to his office’s website.

an autoimmune digestive disease that interferes with the absorption of nutrients from food. The only way to treat the disease is a diet without gluten, which is a protein found in specific grains and all forms of wheat.

Barbara Kautz, faculty advisor for the GlutenFree Badgers student organization, said she attributes the increase in cases of celiac and gluten

To encourage more wineries to open, Thompson worked to pass legislation such as the Market Access Program, which allows smaller wineries to gain a share of the market.

Thompson has also lobbied to promote tax cuts for California’s wine industry.

“The wine industry generates an estimated $162 billion for the U.S. economy every year and supports the equivalent of 1.1 million fulltime jobs,” Thompson said in a statement. “The cultural and economic impact of [California’s] wine industry cannot be overstated.”

Although the Wisconsin beer industry is significantly smaller than California’s wine industry, Wisconsin currently ranks 11th in the nation in breweries per capita and Tauchen believes that it can continue to grow.

Tauchen said he was confident the bill would eventually pass, although he said he does not expect the bill to pass before the end of this session. He added it was important to start the conversation now so the legislation can be taken up in the next legislative session.

sensitivity to advances in the medical community.

“Now they test people more commonly and consider the possibility of not only celiac disease, but a gluten intolerance if a gluten-free diet makes you feel better,” she said.

According to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, one in 133 Americans has celiac disease, and six in 133 Americans have non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

Kautz said the number of glutenfree UW students has dramatically increased.

The Gluten-Free Badgers have worked with the Wisconsin Union and university housing after raising concerns that the campus lacked glutenfree options and has been pleased with the changes that have been made thus far, she said.

The most important factor in making gluten-free options available on campus is self-advocacy, Kautz said.

She said she is pushing to have gluten-tolerance included in the paperwork UW collects upon admittance.

Campus Dining dietitian Denise Bolduc said UW purchased a program called Net Nutrition three years ago to enable students with food allergies to

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald UW Dining halls offer gluten-free pizza, pasta, deserts and baked goods.

more easily navigate the cafeteria.

The program allows people to screen for allergens and food intolerance, Bolduc said. It is an easy way to subtract menu items a person cannot have, she said.

Bolduc said UW’s dining halls have incorporated glutenfree items such as pizza, pasta, deserts and various baked goods.

Union South has also incorporated gluten-free options at its restaurants, Kautz said.

“It is important for students to know what resources they have and that they do have options on campus,” she said.

Kautz said students should call ahead if they plan to attend UW-hosted events that are serving

food. If food services are aware of a gluten allergy in advance, they will be sure to provide a glutenfree option, she said.

She also said UW food services would order food tailored to a student’s allergy if it is requested.

While gluten-free options on campus and in the Madison area have become more common, there is still progress to be made before the incorporation of glutenfree options can be considered universal, Kautz said.

“We do have a campus that is very supportive and really wants to meet the needs of students,” Kautz said. “If you are a gluten-free student on campus, do not be afraid to make your needs known.”

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Tobacco sales to minors decline Following a 4 percent decrease in past year, preventative groups continue fight Olivia Main Herald Contributor While rates of youth tobacco sales have seen a slight decline in the county, preventative groups continue to fight to extinguish cigarette and tobacco use.

Although a 4 percent decrease in tobacco sales to minors occurred from 2012 to 2013, the numbers are not yet as low as they should be, a City of Madison statement said.

Ryan Sheahan, coordinator for the Tobacco Free Columbia-Dane County Coalition, said the issue with tobacco consumption does not primarily lie with cigarettes. Cigarette use has declined within the past decade in the city, he said, dropping from 33 percent in 2003 to 13 percent among high school students, and 13 percent to 2.7 percent among middle school students.

Sheahan said the department has employed a combination of smoke-free air policies, higher cigarette

taxes, tobacco compliance and community education to yield this all-time low in cigarette use among youth.

Lyle Burmeister, Wisconsin Wins Tobacco Compliance Program manager, said the biggest issue behind youth access is vendors in individual stores not taking the time to look at IDs. The Compliance Program hires youth between the ages 16 and 17 to go into stores to try to purchase tobacco.

If they succeed, citations are given to both the clerk and the store owner.

“We try to get each tobacco store about twice a year. We park in a safe place to protect their safety,” Burmeister said. “Tickets can be up to $500. If they don’t sell, then I go back in and give them a thank you card for their support in fighting youth access to tobacco.”

Burmeister said the program also works to increase the amount of smoke-free housing. Part of the program is working with landlords to make

their buildings smoke-free, creating more choices for non-smokers and less for smokers, he said.

The emerging threat lies with other tobacco products, such as chewing tobacco, little cigars, Snus and blunt wraps, Sheahan said. He said Wisconsin has seen sales in other tobacco products double in the past decade.

The main concern with these products is that they are packaged and flavored like candy and do not have to be behind the counter, Burmeister said. Other tobacco products will lead to bigger problems in the future, he said.

“We’re going to see a lot deeper lung cancers, which are harder to treat. We’re seeing a rise in chewing tobacco,” Burmeister said.

“This can lead to a rise in stomach, esophagus and mouth cancer. The effects of chewing tobacco appear after as little as a few years.”

Ending tobacco use by youth is critical because of the lasting effects of consumption at such a young

age, Sheahan said. Ninety percent of all adult smokers start before they turn 18, and he said if they eliminate the use of tobacco by users younger than 18, they can help eliminate tobacco rates for adults and reduce health care costs associated with smoking.

The Public Health Department of Dane County and Madison plans to tackle other tobacco product and general tobacco use through working with, and educating, youth groups on the harmful effects of tobacco.

Sheahan said his goal is to drive the smoking rate down and to stay on top of other products that are coming out.

“Smoking and tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States and Wisconsin,” Sheahan said.

“By preventing the initiation of tobacco use by youth, we can save lives and healthcare costs. We should continue to invest in tobacco prevention and control because we know it works.”

EPA tightens emission limits Report says 149 million Americans are exposed to unhealthy amounts of air pollution Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor Newly-approved car standards from the Environmental Protection Agency could prevent thousands of premature deaths and respiratory ailments through major reductions in emissions nationwide and in Wisconsin.

Public health advocates, environmentalists and the auto industry have come together to support “Tier 3” standards, which would require petroleum refineries to meet tight new requirements for sulfur content in gasoline and diesel fuels. The petroleum industry has spoken out against the newly established measures, calling them an “overstepping of bounds” by the EPA. The final fuel standards will reduce gasoline sulfur levels by more than 60 percent and smog-forming pollutants such as nitrous oxides by 80 percent, according to the EPA report.

By the time the standards

are fully implemented, 2,000 premature deaths and 50,000 respiratory health issues among children will be prevented, according to the report.

Today, 149 million Americans are exposed to unhealthy amounts of air pollution, a large percentage of which comes from motor vehicle emissions, especially in urban areas, according to the EPA. “These standards are a win for public health, a win for our environment, and a win for our pocketbooks,” EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement.

“By working with the auto industry, health groups, and other stakeholders, we’re continuing to build on [President Barack] Obama Administration’s broader clean fuels and vehicles efforts that cut carbon pollution, clean the air we breathe and save families money at the pump.”

Erin Roth, executive director of Wisconsin Petroleum Council, has spoken out against the

new standards, saying that gasoline sulfur levels are already low.

According to the EPA, the economic effects of the new proposals are negligible, with an average increase of 1 cent per gallon at the pump, but Roth said the those estimates are vastly understated.

“We don’t believe the EPA’s estimates on the costs to the consumer are accurate,” Roth said. “They don’t look at the economic impacts. We believe the cost of implementing far outweighs the environmental benefits that the EPA touts.

We already have low sulfur gasoline. The U.S. EPA has just decided to take it a step further.”

Chris Snyder, general counsel for the Wisconsin Automobile and Truck Dealers Association, said the economic impact of the standards are still unclear and could not say how much the standards would raise prices for consumers, but there would be “no economic benefits.”

Generally, the auto industry has also showed

its support for the new standards, Snyder said.

Currently, because of varying emissions standards for different states, auto manufacturers have to make different cars for different states, an issue that will no longer hinder the industry under the standards, Snyder said.

“The price of the vehicles will probably be slightly more expensive … but if cleaner cars are what the people want, that’s what [dealers] want to sell,” Snyder said.

Keith Reopelle, senior policy director at Clean Wisconsin, said the health effects in Wisconsin would be predominantly seen in urban areas such as Milwaukee. “[Sulfur pollution from vehicle emissions] disproportionately impacts low income neighborhoods, inner cities and people that live close to highways and congested areas,” he said.

“There are a lot of winners here—the auto industry, people with respiratory issues and the environment.”

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Maria Giannopoulos was elected senior class president, and said she hopes to consult students about changes being made to commencement. She said she hopes to gather feedback about the speaker, format, venue and issue of names being read during the ceremony.

Concerns about ASM’s disconnect with the general student body

were raised during a press conference with the new representatives.

Jessica Franco-Morales, an elected representative for the College of Letters and Science, said she believes this disconnect can be resolved through increased transparency between ASM and the student body.

“We shouldn’t be giving feedback, we should be getting it,” Franco-Morales said.

Andre Hunter, ASM

secretary and elected representative for L&S, suggested using ASM’s resources to connect with the student body. He said he would like to reinstate ASM town hall meetings to increase student involvement.

Andy Stoiber, another newly-elected L&S rep, said he wants to start livetweeting ASM meetings or writing editorials for student newspapers.

The new representatives

said they would like to increase campus outreach.

Citing concerns about a possible increase in outof-state tuition, elected representatives said they would use their power to its full extent to represent students affected by this issue.

Returning ASM member Megan Phillips said the university was becoming too dependent on tuition and officials need to understand these

responsibilities cannot fall on the backs of the students.

The elected members had mixed reactions regarding the high voter turnout.

“I am so happy for the voter turnout. I think it’s sad that we can only get this large of a turnout when a referendum is being passed,” Franco-Morales said, “Some of them may not even care about the ASM election. We need to let students know that we are the voice of the students.”

*Write-in candidates

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/School of Veterinary Medicine

Madison realtor wins writing contest

1) Caroline Zellmer 539 2) Ryan Prestil 504

Jessica Eanes awarded 3rd place internationally for her short story ‘These Walls of Despair’

School of Business

Alex Arriaga

1. Ousmane Kabre 355

School of Education *1. Matthew Walczak 9

College of Engineering 1. Sidney Smith 1823 2. Yuqi Gu 683

School of Human Ecology, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy 1. Emily Sokn 600 2. Jeremy O’Brien 414

College of Letters and Science 1. Megan Phillips 2488 2. Qi Xi 2388 3. Genevieve Carter 2093 4. Niko Argeroplos 1517 5. John “JP” Paetsch 1412 6. Nicole Luczynski 1374 7. Andre Hunter 1354 8. Derek Field 1213 9. Andy Stoiber 1207 10. Alexander Charles Schultz 1179 11. Jessica Franco-Morales 1058 12. Faye Ding 1028

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Print City Editor Madison realtor and writer Jessica Eanes said her work cannot be contained to a specific genre.

Also known by her pen name Anaea Lay, she will be flown to Los Angeles for a week in April after winning a prize in an international writing competition.

Eanes won third place at the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest for the submission of her short story, “These Walls of Despair.” Her story will be published in a book containing stories and illustrations from all the contest winners.

Eanes said she would describe her story as “fantasy doing a good impression of science fiction.”

While most of her publications right now are short fiction pieces, she said she prefers writing novels.

“When I write a story, it’s a rant.

When I write a novel, it’s a way of figuring something out,” she said.

Working professionally as a realtor, Eanes said she also considers herself a professional writer because she sells her pieces at a professional rate.

Eanes said she

reads a lot and follows politics closely as a way of finding inspiration for her work. She was involved in the 2011 protests against Gov. Scott Walker ’s budget bill, which inspired some of her work.

“There was definitely some postrecall coping fiction that got written,” she said.

The third place prize Eanes won includes a $500 cash prize as well as a week of writers’ workshops in California. She said she looks forward to having the opportunity to spend time with other writers.

Carmen Bartolo, Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest spokesperson, said the competition is global, taking writers and illustrators for what will now be its 30th year.

This year, Bartolo said winners come from all over the world, coming from countries such as Canada, Portugal, Scotland, Australia, Germany and Finland.

Bartolo said the competition tries to maintain a level of amateur status in its winners, although it receives submissions from writers with a wide variety of experience.

“We’re flying all of these people

1. Alexandra Rezazadeh 212

School of Law 1. Steven Hughes 127

Graduate School 1. Abigail Lindemann 1912 2. Joe Pasquarella 950 3. John Donnelly 771 *4. Sean Owczarek 50 *5. James Ng 16 *6. Todd Garon 12 *6. Carl Christiansen 12 *6. Laurie Stephey 12

Special Students 1. Robert Odoi 61

Student Services Finance Committee 1. Ousmane Kabre 2580 2. Devon Maier 2352 3. Andre Hunter 2270

Senior Class President 1. Maria Giannopoulos 1964

Senior Class Vice President 1. Annie Paul 2190

Senior Class Secretary 1. Dougie Moss 1843

Senior Class Treasurer 2. Brady Beck 1169

ETHNIC STUDIES, page 1 talks of consolidation have been on the table several times before,” Chávez said.

Marquez said he believes a combined department has been denied in the past because faculty serve their students better in more individual programs. He also said he is concerned about the effects a new department might have on teaching staff.

It is too early in the discussion to predict how this could affect students in these certificate programs, Marquez said.

“Right now, I don’t see many advantages to a change this big,” he said.

Each of the individual programs arrived on campus in unique ways, and their students have pride in that history, which is why Chican@/Latin@ Studies decided to inform its students about the discussion of this potential rebuilding tactic, Marquez said.

A group of Chican@/Latin@ major students are holding an event Thursday night to raise awareness for students enrolled in American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies and L&S certificate programs and to encourage them to seek more information from the heads of their departments, Arturo

Diaz, a Chican@/Latin@ student and event coordinator, said.

“I am on the fence about

“UW has put very few resources to studies of race, ethnicity and indigneity in the time I have been here and talks of consolidation have been on the table several times before.”

Karma Chávez UW professor of communication arts it because even though the departments are short on resources, generalizing all four of them under the term ‘ethnic’ defines each program under a broad definition,” Diaz said. “We want to gauge the feelings of other students and bring it to their attention.”

in, on our dime. It’s to help launch your professional career as a writer and illustrator,” he said.

Judges are premiere writers and illustrators in the field who blindly judge the works and then host workshops for the winners, Bartolo said.

Judges are not aware of gender, age, country of origin or any other information other than merit when judging the pieces, he said.

Bartolo said from his experience in meeting writers, the workshops and the opportunity to work with other writers is often met with enthusiasm.

“It’s almost as if the contest is secondary at this point because the information they get from these top people in the field is like the prize, it’s not stuff you would learn in a college course,” Bartolo said.

Bartolo said a paperback book is published at the end of each competition to feature the writings of the winners and a published calendar that fully displays the illustration winning pieces.

Eanes will depart for Los Angeles on April 7.

Photo courtesy of Jessica Eanes Eanes will travel to Los Angeles on April 7 to participate in writers’ workshops.

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

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ASM’s broken bureaucracy mismanages seg fees Briana Reilly Editorial Page Editor On Feb. 13, the Associated Student of Madison voted to endorse legislation that would bring the allocation of all student fees under its control. Currently, the student government handles only the allocable fees, due to a devious move by the Board of Regents back in 2007, in which the distinction between allocable and non-allocable thwarted ASM’s plan to oversee and regulate how all these segregated fees are put to use. Frustrated that their attempts to gain total dominance over these funds were foiled, ASM sued; however, the lawsuit luckily did not come to fruition. While students should have complete knowledge over exactly what their seg fees pay for (and the amount each provided service is receiving), the control over allocable and non-allocable seg fee regulation should not be concentrated in an organization that experiences regular turnover.

ASM already has quite a bit of power. The allocable portion of segregated fees, the portion it is responsible for divvying out, canvases activities such as covering staff positions in

student government, supporting student organizations and funding concerts and lectures.

Non-allocables, on the other hand, cover health services for students, student centers and unions, intramural and recreational sports and intercollegiate athletics.

They reportedly make up approximately 80 percent of the segregated fee budget. Therefore, student representatives have control of about 20 percent of this budget, and the utilization of this small portion has come under repeated criticism.

The Student Services Finance Committee (the committee that makes recommendations to ASM regarding the allocation of over $32 million in seg fees), has made questionable decisions in the past with regards to the General Student Services Fund (money distributed to student organizations that provide student services).

Last year, for example, the 18 GSSF groups received $1.4 million, while the hundreds of remaining organizations split only $500,000. One of the GSSF groups, the Medieval Warriorcraft League, a group dedicated to promoting the understanding, instruction and

practice of human combative behavior and performance, received more than $95,000 in student funds.

Furthermore, SSFC has been looking into further expanding the GSSF, which would be done by redefining the eligibility criteria, perhaps allowing for a greater number of organizations to gain access to more funds.

This would, in turn, lead to an increase in seg fees. Unless this is rethought and the broken GSSF system is repaired, perhaps starting at the upcoming SSFC meeting today, this power struggle should come to an end.

Although increases are inevitable, another reason ASM is undoubtedly trying to gain control of the non-allocable fees is to help make college affordability a long-term reality.

Until ASM proves that it can apportion the allocable funds it does have control over in the best and most efficient way possible (while proving its relevance to the student body through this allotment), it should not be granted oversight over non-allocable fees, too.

The numbers are undoubtedly daunting. In the last 10 years alone, segregated fees at UW have increased by 90 percent

overall, and the non-allocables have increased by 103 percent during that time period (the allocables, under full student government control, have gone up 45 percent). While it’s relatively easy to point to ASM mismanagement of funds as a reason to condemn the whole institution, it’s impossible and incorrect to say that student government was solely responsible for the general seg fee increase.

Segregated fees would have increased regardless of whether ASM had any control over either or neither of the portions.

Nonetheless, UW is better off with the separation of allocables and nonallocables, in which ASM has only limited say.

Under the current system, SSFC is usually not given input in the determination of the amount students will be charged or how the fees are spent on building projects, but the alternative of having complete student control over this and more is daunting

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fees was given to a body that is short-sighted and most concerned with lowering fees for students now, many necessary projects could be underfunded; the unions may not receive proper maintenance, building enterprises could be deferred and other organizations (including University Health Services) that students have come to rely on may no longer be able to provide the services students expect.

Already, ASM is rather disenfranchised with the student body, a claim made apparent by how it appropriates funding for student organizations. Would a nearsighted, astigmatic student government be capable of making crucial decisions regarding funding that would not only affect the current Badgers, but generations of UW students in the future?

Briana Reilly (breilly@ Will Haynes badgerherald.com) is a freshman majoring to the university overall. If in international studies and control over non-allocable journalism.

WTFarmers: industry calls global warming into question Abigail Zemach Columnist Global warming is not a hoax. I firmly believe that humans are making choices that are negatively changing the environment.

Yet, according to a recent study done by a group of professors from around the country, two-thirds of farmers in Wisconsin believe that climate change is just a natural change in weather.

The results amaze me because of the obvious impact that climate change has on plants and nature. The people who make their living off of nature, the farmers, are the ones that doubt that the recent droughts, heat waves, freezes and other phenomena are natural changes that have only just begun to exponentially increase.

Farmers are caretakers for 61 percent of the nation’s land. Yet

in Wisconsin only 42 percent believe humans are affecting climate. In the study, researchers concluded that many farmers do not see slight temperature increases as evidence for global warming, but accept large events of weather that decimate crops as evidence. However, a single one of those events can completely revolutionize the agricultural production of those farmers.

Before 1990, the southwest corner of Australia was one of the top producers of rice in the world until the drought that year. This drought ravaged the local farmers’ crops so badly over the last 20 years that growers had to convert their farms and equipment to growing a friendlier crop, grapes, which is why Yellow Tail Wine has appeared.

Even though the drought is over in that region, the farmers have no incentive

to return to the previous crop. Thus, the world has lost a huge percentage of its rice production.

The global temperature has increased 1.5 degrees since 1900 and is on track to increase anywhere from 3 to 9 degrees by 2050.

While that might not seem like it will have a huge environmental impact, crops are temperature sensitive. A temperature change has direct effects on the rate of evaporation and the amount of water that is evaporated.

Heavier rains mean more nutrient depletion in the soil, requiring more crop rotation and resulting in lower yields from the depleted soil. While warmer average temperatures also mean that farmers can plant summer crops earlier, resulting in a longer growing season due to the high temperatures that persist longer, they also mean more frequent

watering is required to keep the plants healthy. Overall, this may seem like a benefit until temperatures rise too

“ Farmers are caretakers for 61 percent of the nation’s land. Yet in Wisconsin only 42 percent believe humans are affecting climate.” much, and at the peak of summer crops die on the vine. Or until temperatures never get low enough in the winter to encourage germination, and no plants grow at all.

UW agriculture and applied economics professor Paul Mitchell said while diverse populations often hold a wide array of beliefs, farmers in Wisconsin, Mississippi, Texas and North Carolina

all held similar beliefs on the credibility of global warming. These states are all also currently strong Republican strongholds.

The denial of climate change seems more of a political denial than something rooted in an observance of nature. That is silly considering we all live on Earth regardless of political preference.

Sustainability is crucial to protect our planet. Oil will run out, wooded areas will vanish as we push city boundaries into forests, biodiversity will decrease as habitats shrink and animals disappear. Protecting our planet is an urgent concern, and those that have the strongest connection to the Earth, in addition to many in power, don’t believe it needs defending.

Sustainable farming goes beyond just caring for the land; it also means taking measures to protecting the land.

We consumers can also participate in the effort to combat global warming by trying to eat local, which cuts down on transportation and refrigeration energy. Eating local is something that could easily be done in an agriculturally rich state like Wisconsin. The Dane Country Farmers’ Market is one of the best in the country and a wonderful example of eating local.

Accountability is crucial.

We need to be making more environmentally conscious choices of what products we buy, what we take from the Earth and what we don’t return.

Mother nature has taken care of us thus far, but one day she might give out and we will be alone and never have developed the selfsustainability to survive.

Abigail Zemach (zemach@ wisc.edu) is a freshman majoring in food science.

Every college-aged female should be on the pill Madeline Sweitzer Columnist I started the birth control pill when I was 14, not because I was having sex with all my fellow high school freshmen, but because my dermatologist prescribed it as a way to combat adolescent acne. To this day, my birth control prescription comes from my dermatologist. Sound strange? It’s not.

There seems to be some myth that if you are taking the pill, you must be having sex. The truth of the matter is that the pill provides so many health benefits and protections in addition to preventing pregnancy that there is no reason that any healthy woman over 18 should not be on the pill, regardless of whether or not she is sexually active.

However, according to the Spring 2013 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment, only 61.6 percent of undergraduate females were reported as taking the pill.

First off, the pill has two general types — progestin-only and the “combined pill,” which contains progestin and estrogen.

Both offer health benefits in addition

to preventing pregnancy.

According to Planned Parenthood, both types of pills reduce menstrual cramping, lighten the flow of periods and offer some protection against Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, which can lead to infertility.

All of that comes from the little pill you take once a day.

However, like any medication, the pill comes with risks. This being said, the negative side effects brought on by the pill, which include breast tenderness, nausea, vomiting and spotting between periods, are minor and usually go away within a few months as your body adjusts to the hormone increase.

There has also been widespread, fearmongering reports of the more serious side effects of the pill, particularly the development of potentially fatal blood clots and links to breast cancer. These reports have heightened the misconception that taking the pill will inevitably lead to a fatal blood clot.

In reality, complications from the pill are very rare and there are usually warning signs. Yes, there is a slight increase in the risk for developing fatal

blood clots when taking the pill. Vestura, a generic form of the birth control pill Yaz, estimates that 3 to 9 women in 10,000 will develop a blood clot.

Increased hormone levels may aggravate breast cancer if it is already present so those who have had breast cancer in the past should not take it.

However, there is also no conclusive evidence that the pill causes breast cancer.

Claims the pill causes severe complications are either grossly exaggerated or unscientific and should not prevent healthy women from going on the pill.

Of course, if you are currently sexually active or anticipate becoming sexually active, it is better to be safe rather than sorry and the pill is the safest option there is. It is commonly known that the pill is 99 percent effective at preventing pregnancy when taken every day as directed. According to the Center for Disease Control, the pill maintains a 91 percent effectiveness with typical use (typical use assumes that a form of birth control is not properly used every time). This is much more effective than condoms, which have a failure rate

of nearly 20 percent with typical use.

Furthermore, birth control has recently become more accessible than ever before.

While under current federal law women still need a medical prescription to get the pill, this prescription is not difficult to get — a quick visit to UHS, a gynecologist or a local Planned Parenthood will provide you with the chance to get the necessary prescription for the specific birth control pill that is best for your personal needs. The same law requires parental permission for girls under 18. This is why college is the time to take charge of your sexual and overall well-being — once you turn 18 going on the pill is your decision and your decision alone.

In addition, the recentlyimplemented Affordable Care Act made most forms of contraceptives, including the pill, significantly cheaper

or in some situations (like mine) completely free.

There is no reason for college-aged women not to be on the pill. Once you turn 18, going on the pill becomes your decision and seriously, this decision is a no-brainer.

The pill provides a plethora of health benefits and protections with minimal negative side effects and minimal risk of serious complications.

Now is the time to see a doctor and explore your personal options for

oral contraceptives — there has never been a time when the pill has been more accessible and the benefits are abundant regardless of if you are sexually active or abstinent.

Madeline Sweitzer (mcsweitzer@wisc.edu) is a freshman majoring in political science and intending to major in journalism.

“There is no reason for collegeaged women not to be on the pill.

Once you turn 18, going on the pill becomes your decision.”

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Pharrell continues hot streak with sextastic ‘G I R L’ Jack Gloss ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Since appearing on charttopping hits “Blurred Lines” and “Get Lucky” in 2013, Pharrell Williams continues to bask in the spotlight.

And with the release of his sophomore album G I R L, it’s safe to say he won’t be fading away anytime soon.

With hand drums, vocal harmonies and an upbeat style reminiscent of 1970s soul, the album’s lead single “Happy”—released on the “Despicable Me 2” soundtrack—already introduced listeners to the feel-good sound Williams has fallen in love with. G I R L expands on this retro theme, featuring everything from strings to guitar riffs and brass. These sounds combine in a way that harks back to the days of Earth, Wind & Fire, all while including contemporary electronic soundscapes and Williams’s distinct vocal rhythms. As if his exceptional musicianship and creativity isn’t enough, the album features a strong list of guest artists, including Daft Punk, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys and

Miley Cyrus.

Williams’s album is highly listenable not only because of his organic instrumentation and bigname features, but also as a result of its light-hearted lyrics—all of which are, as expected, about girls aside from the previously-released single “Happy.” The ladies’ man sings of his love for women in each song with pickup lines and metaphors of admiration. Despite his sexual and suggestive suggestive lyrics, Williams employs a subtleness and delicate delivery to ensure that the listener is never overwhelmed.

The general creativity Williams brings to each of his songs—be it in his lyrics or instrumentation—make the album very pleasurable.

Williams’s unique musical choices begin to reach their full potential on the second track, “Brand New,” featuring Timberlake.

The song begins with a catchy vocal melody in the background—classic Williams—then adds guitar and horns before slowly building to a falsetto hook.

Next comes “Hunter.”

Williams chooses to use simple instrumental backing, which places more focus on the song’s witty lyrics, such as “Just because it’s the middle of night / that don’t mean I won’t hunt you down” and “This is an animal singin’.” From there, Williams takes a break from the throwback template, returning to his more traditional R&B sound in the album’s most suggestive track “Gush.” This is one of the two breaks from the album’s upbeat tempo. The other takes place in the track “Lost Queen,” on which he sings of a woman who is out of this world, so to speak, and must be a different peoples’ lost queen. The most interesting part of the track comes from the very beginning. Williams seems

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Photo courtesy of flickr user Karl Hab Nearly every song on Pharrell’s G I R L mentions sex and girls, but the way each approaches these subjects is genius.

to have borrowed a vocal sample from Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al,” slowed it down and put his own spin on it. Here Williams’s unique musicianship is not exemplified through bright instrumentation but simple and unexpected vocal

grooves.

Williams recently joined a category shared only with the Beatles when the singersongwriter appeared on three different singles each selling at least one million copies in the length of a year with “Blurred Lines,”

“Get Lucky” and “Happy.”

His newly-released album consists of 10 songs and of those 10, nine sound as though they could also be chart-topping singles.

This is an album that would make even Michael Jackson jealous.

Moda Fashion Week brings hottest looks to Madison Mekea Larson The Showroom Columnist Following weeks of stalking images from fashion weeks all around the world and wishing that Fresh Market would turn into the Chanel Fall RTW supermarket, Madison’s fashion week is finally upon us. Moda Magazine is hosting the University of Wisconsin’s Fashion Week for the third straight year, bringing the fast-paced glitz of Paris, New York and Milan to the Midwest. Moda Magazine

is a part of Pubcom and the go-to campus magazine for fashion, lifestyle, beauty and social life at UW. Moda Magazine’s third year has been revolutionary for the publication.

The magazine is still young, and the staff has been working on growing a following both on campus and in the Madison community through online and print work. For their third year hosting the UW Fashion Week, Editor-in-Chief Chloe

Karaskiewicz, Fashion Director Marlee Katz and the Moda Fashion Week team have been working hard to make this year a celebration of this expansion.

This year has been even more meaningful for those who have been with Moda Magazine from the beginning.

“When the current editorial staff, myself included, joined Moda two years ago, we were a small online publication with a few hundred views a month and maybe five consistent

writers,” Karaskiewicz said. “Over the course of our involvement, we watched Moda grow to produce UW Fashion week and biannual print issues, expanding more each year.”

The UW Fashion Show is the grand finale that will wrap up a week of style.

It includes a blogger panel, a guest speaker and a fashionable event highlighting the work of UW students. The show will take place on March 7 at 8 p.m. at Union South. Katz and her

team have put together what looks to be an amazing show, featuring looks from Twigs, Bop, Francesca’s Collection and local designers, as well as hair and makeup looks created by the Paul Mitchell School.

Katz is excited to share the fabulous final product.

“Last year we had over 400 in attendance and we expect an even better turn-out this year,” she said. “It gives something to Madison that is missing: a fashion outlet for students and the

community.”

That “something” is a little bit of much-needed mid-March glamour.

“The finale show has always been the icing on this week, and this year’s show will be no exception,” Karaskiewicz said.

Sounds like a good excuse to whip out the stilettos (or suit coats) on a Friday night.

For a full list of the dates, times and locations of the events happening during UW Fashion Week head to Moda’s Facebook page.

Vulgar ‘South Park’ game does justice to TV show Christian Moberg Herald Arcade Columnist Since the early ’90s, video game companies have seen the benefit of releasing video games based on popular movies and television series.

The earliest movie game I can remember is Disney partnering with Nintendo and Sega to create “Pinocchio” based on the movie. These games usually have varying levels of success.

DreamWorks racing games have had little success and are generally derivative of other games like Nintendo’s “Mario Kart” franchise.

Movie and televisionbased games take three paths, generally. One path follows the main characters around in the world of the movie or series and takes the player through the source material’s story

from beginning to end.

The second path takes the player into the world of the movie as a custom character who is supposed to help the main characters progress through the movie’s story.

The third and final type is the fighting game option, in which there is dialogue between characters as players fight through individual storyline battles. This type is prevalent with TV seriesbased games.

The only reason I bring up these kinds of games is because on Tuesday of this week, Ubisoft, known most recently for “Watchdogs” and “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag,” finally released the new “South Park” game, “South Park: The Stick of Truth,” after many delays. This game is unique in that instead of using vocallysimilar actors to voice the characters, the real

cast of “South Park” came together to create this game.

On top of having the same vocal cast, the game also has the same animation style.

The entire game plays like watching an actual episode of “South Park,” complete with raunchy jokes and slapstick comedy. A large number of “South Park” characters make cameos, including Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo. The game has other cameos, but I won’t spoil them here.

This game comes with a small disclaimer: It is strikingly similar to the show. For those who have never seen “South Park,” watch a few episodes to understand the humor before picking up this game. The crass humor is part of the charm and will draw long-time South Park fans in. It will, however, completely deter anyone who cannot

tolerate the humor.

“South Park: The Stick of Truth” begins with the player creating a character to fight in the war between humans of Kupa Keep and the Drow Elves of Larnion. The story bases itself loosely around recent “South Park” episodes. The game allows for customization of skin tone, clothing, hair, facial features and glasses. It doesn’t have a gender option, but it does have plenty of stereotypical female hair styles and armor designed to look like girls’ clothing. Again, the humor is a factor, plus there is a vague reason the character is male.

Once the creation of the character is complete, you move into “South Park” as the New Kid. You eventually get an option to name yourself, but, trust me, it doesn’t even matter. As the New Kid, Cartman requests

your aid in fighting against the Drow Elves, whose leader is Kyle. The player’s character never speaks and fulfills the requests of Grand Wizard Cartman and Princess Kenny. The game comes with an offensive but interesting class system where players can choose from warrior, thief, mage or Jew. The warrior is the basic fighter type; the thief is quick and can attack swiftly; the mage uses heavy damage abilities to fight but has very weak attacks; and, finally, the Jew begins with the Sling of David and is more of an offensive joke character than anything else.

The game’s running joke is that in the medieval time everyone takes their turns attacking. Yes, the battle system is turn-based.

For a turn-based game, the mechanics are pretty interesting. Each

turn, you can heal, then attack. You’re able to swap partners who can have a complete turn.

In addition to the nonaction heal and partner swap, the fighting comes complete with timed hits. The timed hits can decrease damage taken and increase damage given. This takes a lot of the boredom out of the standard turn-based game.

The game is exactly what is expected of a powerhouse like Ubisoft coming together with “South Park:” crass humor and a turnbased adventure with a unique battle system.

Its mature rating and crass humor will make this game appeal to a more niche audience, but hardcore fans won’t be disappointed. The game is random and difficult but outshines all of the other games based on television series.

Rick Ross proves he’s no ‘Mastermind’ on latest Josh Villanueva ArtsEtc. Staff Writer This week, Maybach Music Group mogul Rick Ross graced the airwaves with his newest album, Mastermind.

The Florida native has already received backlash for controversial lyrics in one of his songs, where some have accused him of making a distasteful lyric mentioning Trayvon Martin (“BLK & WHT”).

Although the Teflon Don has proactively released a statement clarifying what he meant by the lyric, the

hip-hop community is still unnerved about it.

Following a flop in sales with an MMG-label compilation album SelfMade Volume 3, which featured some of the label’s heavy-hitting signees like Meek Mill and Wale, Rozay has released his sixth studio album littered with all-star features, lyrical monotony and some sonic exploration.

Ross has definitely fallen off the map in recent years after his explosive introduction to mainstream hip-hop a few years back. Although

he has faced a variety of controversy–in a previous lyrical scandal that led to his loss of sponsorship from Reebok, as well as the uncovering of his past gig as a corrections officer– Ross has still managed to stay relevant in the game.

Brief lyrical controversy aside, Mastermind has been a long-awaited work, and it seems to be his answer to his haters.

Mastermind encapsulates and continues Rozay’s reputation that elevated him to the top as a drugslinging, money-spending, no-bull persona that his

foreboding bass-filled voice emphasizes on each track.

Ross has always been able to paint a picture that many artists can’t: a gritty take on the harsh realities of the drug-filled and violent hoods of Miami.

Admittedly, many of the songs here sound like something recycled from one of his older albums, just given new titles. The themes and clever lyricism– while still a captivating aspect of Ross’s music–can get repetitive after time.

However, these songs are not the focal point of the album. Ross enlists the

help of a slew of artists to help him construct Mastermind. What results is a melting pot of lyrical delivery, genius content and a unique set of beats that allows the at-times repetitive nature of Ross’ rap talent to become a second thought. The pure variety of the album is what draws in and demands the attention of its audience.

It’s difficult to recommend this album, but a few key tracks are definitely worth a listen, including “Sanctified,” “The Devil Is A Lie,” “In Vein” and “Mafia Music III.” Each

has a set of unique features with the guests going just as hard as Rozay. It’s problematic when features are what makes an album worth listening to, but when they’re this good, who really cares?

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Rocky the Herald Comics Raccoon™ Say what you will about U.S. race relations and the success of the great melting pot, we’re light years ahead of every other country.

While they’re subdividing and staging military interventions and genocides, we’re having parades and dumping green dye in the Chicago River.

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I’ve come to the conclusion that hell would not be a fiery pit, but rather an eternal winter.

Why play beer pong when there’s wine pong?

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@katmeier14

HMFASO to freshman who show up to parties with their entire floor. It’s second semester for god’s sake.

@lauren_rolo

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` SO to the girl that just walked into the men’s bathroom on the second floor of College Library just now as I was washing my hands. Thanks for the laughs:)

Fun fact: For 26 days this winter, the regular temps were below 0. In the previous 5 winters combined, there were only 17 days w/ below 0!

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SO to #382 how do you jump rope for over two hours?

ASO to missing Madison so much. Truly had the best time of my life there and would do almost anything to be able to do undergrad all over again. Make the most of your time at the greatest school in the world...it goes way too fast!

` ASO to BYOB parties.That’s a room, not a party.

Am I allowed to give up midterms for lent?

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SO to porn. I’m a lady and I love that shit Well done #Ogg, well done.

“some of them are hallucinogenic, which may seem tempting, but there’s weed and that’s almost legal, so do that!” -my botany prof on shrooms

HASO to my professor for rescheduling a midterm to the day before Spring Break.

Haley Bernas @HaleyBernas

Well I’ve decided I’m meeting my future wife at the KK Bryce Agg

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I need to work out. not so that I look good for spring break or anything. just so I can walk up Bascom without passing out.

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HMFSO to the Master Plan Passing!!!!! SO to BRR and all the other hardworking individuals who helped with the process Breaking: All time high turnout in ASM election as 8 vote for RecSports Amendment and 3 vote against Max Bernklau @clawfence

There were 1200 people at the aphi crush party last night... #crushedit HMFASO to friends who try to swoop in on girls who are obviously not interested in them. Now she’s not interested in either of us.

GONNA CELEBRATE THE #RECSPORTS REFERENDUM BY SINGING A DOO-WOP BALLAD IN THE CARDIO ROOM AT THE SERF. WHAT RHYMES WITH “ELLIPTICAL”?

The Daily Cardinals @dailycardinals

Not sure why someone would think it’s remotely okay to brush their teeth over a water fountain in Humanities Leah MacCarthy @leahmaccarthy

“I can get hot as you very well know”- kid at serf who you definitely don’t want on your team Matthew

@hattmaldiman

Hanna Walsh @hanna_walsh

ASO to my ex. You’re an asshole and I’m fabulous.

FML SO to the guy I’ve been hooking up with for 1 year telling me he loved me during sex. It’s been the best year of sex and no worries and then you had to go and do that????

ASO to crushing on a guy my little sister’s age... woops! Senior slide, ladies and gentlemen.

11:11... I wish this party is gonna be turnt lol Mr. Nice Guy

@HebelGoesHard

UW Rec Sports Plan passes referendum. Time to bring in Miley.

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Walker: ‘Your weed’s bad’ With support for legalization increasing on a statewide and nationwide level, many advocates point to the popular idea that smoking marijuana is no more dangerous than consuming alcohol. Walker, however, said he believes that people who cannot tell the difference between the two are probably getting ripped off.

“You have to make sure you’re not getting skimped with that schwag shit,” Walker said. “Like Snoop says, ‘If it ain’t chronic, don’t blaze it up!’

Seriously, though, nothing less than primo herb for Scotty-Dubs.”

Walker continued, “I just don’t think alcohol can provide the same kind of spiritual experience as some kind bud. This one time at Marquette, my roommate and I made a bong out of a Pringles can and spent a Saturday getting ripped and reading passages from the Old Testament out loud. I think we learned a lot about

This Day In Badgers History 1885: To the excitement of students throughout campus, State Steet opens its newest restaurant Schlendy’s, a popular fast food chain serving made-to-order cabbage heads and tall glasses of frosty opium.

#Thingsthat looklikevulvas Gov. Scott Walker enjoying some dank leafy green, Ayn Rand style. Walker says his stuff is “bitching.”

ourselves that day, and beer never could have given us that experience.”

In addition, Walker questioned whether the naysayers in question are “even getting high.”

“It’s totally common for novice smokers to not inhale properly.

Or sometimes you’re just too psyched up to

notice that it’s effecting you. The first time I hit the ganj, I didn’t even think I was high until I realized that I had been having a staring contest with a photograph of Ronald Reagan for 15 minutes,” Walker said.

Walker closed with some words of advice for those who were still unconvinced that beer

and marijuana provide for substantially different experiences.

“I know this guy who can hook you up with some of that sticky-icky, purple-urple, dank-ass kush. I’m talking about medical grade, Alaska Thunder shit. One hit and you’ll be straight goonin’, for real. I’m talking, ‘forget what This thing looks like a vulva, kind of. Send us your vulva pictures today!

Rich, white students sweep ASM elections University of Wisconsin students voted this week for their representation to be exclusively white and moneyed.

The results have not garnered any attention and most students do not remember voting for anything besides the Recreational Sports referendum.

Regardless, the 33

students elected to Student Council have made a point to emphasize their diversity outside of socioeconomic background.

“All 33 of us are very different,” junior Chase McGruff, a College of Letters and Science representative, said. “We have different eye and hair colors, and some of us aren’t from the Midwest.

Also, it’s important to note there are five or six atheists and agnostics who don’t practice a Western religion like the rest of us.”

Among McGruff’s campaign strategies, his most effective may be his use of a pseudonym instead of his real name, Allen Johnson.

“Of course, I don’t know any of the people who are

running, and when I meet someone who is, I’m just annoyed they ask me to vote for them. So I divvy up my votes for the kids with the coolest names,” sophomore Naomi Lashner said.

Student apathy toward the election is fairly common.

“Do I care who wins?

Ha, yeah right,” senior

Mel Simmons said. “Aren’t these elections, like a game for bored political science majors and sad, lonely rich kids? It’s not like this council actually does anything, does it? I figured it was just a way the university made white students feel special.”

Katherine Meyer, a sophomore elected to represent the business

school, said she believes the council’s homogeneous make-up will not be problematic.

She said is positive she can imagine what it is like to be virtually anybody.

“People always tell me how personable I am.

They’re startled at how easily I relate with their issues,” Meyer said. “And I know like three people

Engineers fear estrogen leak Last Thursday afternoon, students at Engineering Hall were forced to evacuate the premises after a report of a mysterious chemical leak, later identified as estrogen, in the building.

Marc Selig, a sophomore studying mechanical engineering, first smelled the mysterious odor while hanging out with his fellow engineering students in the building’s first floor lobby.

“My friends Brian, Keith, Brad, Other Brian and I were just about to crack open our calculus books for some light reading when we smelled something awful,” Marc said. “To be honest, it kind of smelled like my little sister, but she knows not to approach me while I’m doing calculus problems.”

Chemical engineering professor Edward Pike, who had been eating a clementine in the area at the time of the leak, carefully attempted to detect the odor’s source.

“I used a brisk wafting motion to gently push the aroma into my nostrils, just as the lab manual instructs,” Pike remarked.

“But alas, I could not figure out what it was. So I

grabbed my briefcase and got the fuck out of there.”

Engineering Hall was immediately evacuated after numerous lab workers determined there was a hazardous chemical leak on the premises. A WiscAlert was sent out around 12:35 p.m., warning non-engineering students to avoid the area, as they usually do. The Madison Fire Department and University of Wisconsin Police Department arrived on the scene within minutes to handle the leak and keep students calm.

“Those engineering students were inconsolable,” UWPD Officer Tom Harrison said.

“I’d never seen anything like it—they were clutching their TI-89s to their chests and wiping their tears with graph paper. It was pretty weird.”

After an hour, MFD Hazardous Leak specialists determined the source of the mysterious leak as a group of females studying for a statics exam on the building’s third floor.

Students were able to reenter the building after the girls packed up their belongings and decided to become interior design

Communication Arts 355 showed “School of Rock” for the fifth time this semester, thanks to substitute TA Marcus Person’s love of the teaching aid.

TA plays ‘School of Rock’ again Marcus Pearson, a substitute teaching assistant for Communication Arts 355, recently screened Jack Black’s classic comedy “School of Rock” for the fifth time this semester.

“After John Flowers [the original TA] took a leave of absence due to art film-related injuries, I decided to give the students of my Comm Arts 355 lab sections what they wanted: ‘School of Rock’ again,” Pearson

said.

The Communication Arts students, to whom Black’s on-screen antics brought transcendent joy, were absolutely thrilled by seeing the movie for the fifth time.

In fact, the students lobbied lecturer Gary Granite to show clips of the transformational film in lecture for a shot-by-shot analysis.

“When the students approached me, I was at first hesitant to stop showing clips of

‘Drive,’ but when I saw the film for the 24th time, I was enthralled,” Granite said. “[Black] is just so funny, and hey, the movie has a great message: kidnap kids without consequences!”

“Pearson really opened our eyes!

Having only seen it four times before this semester, I was unsure of its place in the filmic canon,” student Angelica Fredericks said. “But on the fifth viewing, I understood

its complicated moral critique of late capitalism and its effects on authentic cultural production.”

Students, challenged

by Pearson, have taken to re-watching the movie outside of class to analyze its complex mise-en-scene and high-key lighting.

“Can’t you see?”

Fredericks said, furiously typing a paper on the subject.

“The van represents the persistent alienation of non-

Source of odor in dorm stairwell is still a mystery On Tuesday, Feb. 25, from approximately 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the stairwell of Lakeshore’s Sullivan Hall had a smell of near fatal proportion.

The smell reportedly prevented nine students from going to class and even made two people faint, one of whom was a residence hall janitor. The source of the smell has not yet been found, but there are many speculations.

The janitor who fainted was interviewed soon after he woke up. In his 40 years of life, Charles Tunic said he never smelled anything so noxious.

“When I entered the building, I was worried it had become some kind of nuclear war zone,” Tunic said. “I was hoping to God that I wouldn’t find any bodies, and when I realized I had to clean the steps, I became

lightheaded and fainted.”

One of the students, Joseph Gobbleskin, actually did not mind the awful smell because he said it reminded him of the breath of his fun and loving Uncle Joey.

“As soon as I walked into the building, I thought of Thanksgiving dinner!” Gobbleskin said.

After sitting on the steps for about 10 minutes, he left to go back to his

room, but could not come within five feet of another person without seeing them choke and gag, so he rushed to the shower immediately.

The University of Wisconsin Police Department were called to inspect the “zone of death,” as it came to be called. They discovered that the rank odor could actually cause skin discoloration if exposed to

for more than a half hour and could cause facial pains from excessive coughing and nose scrunching.

UWPD Officer Hal Thundersmith described the smell as more of an acidic air that reeked of vinegar mixed with blue cheese, and said that it could impair anyone within a 30-foot radius.

After hours of inspection, the source was still

not located, so the FBI was called to further investigate the case.

After multiple days of investigation, the FBI declared the case void because the smell had dissipated enough that the officers could stop wearing their oxygen masks. They concluded that they probably should not have wasted so much time searching for a bad smell because there are

INFO@MADISONMISNOMER.COM. THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY THE MADISON MISNOMER DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE HERALD.

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Badgers’ season a roller coaster thus far Chris Bumbaca Women’s Basketball Writer There is an attraction at the Six Flags Great Adventure theme park in New Jersey called “Kingda Ka.” It’s the tallest rollercoaster in the world, standing 456 feet tall.

The ride accelerates from ground level and must first ascend those 45 stories.

When there’s not enough weight between the riders in the carriage, they will fail to make it over the hump, fall backwards and have to restart the entire process.

This is a fitting metaphor for the Wisconsin women’s basketball team’s season.

They have scratched, clawed and fought their way back into games against teams much better than them statistically. And then they get to the top of the rollercoaster. They simply lack the extra push to put a notch in the win column.

“For whatever reason, we can’t get that one little push back, and we just have to keep trying,” head coach Bobbie Kelsey said.

Glancing at the statistics shows just how slim the margins are for the Badgers this season. Wisconsin’s scoring margin is -2.2, with UW averaging 65.4 points per game while allowing

their opponents to score 67.6 per contest. Wisconsin shoots 41.2 percent from the floor, and other teams just edge that with a 41.4 shooting percentage against the Badgers. Wisconsin averages one more threepointer per game than its opponents while averaging 0.7 less free throws made per game than their opponents.

Perhaps the losses result in their -3 turnover margin or their -0.5 rebounding margin.

Kelsey has consistently preached the team’s focus on boxing out but has expressed concern about properly executing rebounds come game time.

Opposing teams also average 7.3 steals per game against the Badgers, while Wisconsin has come with only 4.5 steals a game.

But that is merely analyzing stat lines.

Watching the Badgers play, they typically enter halftime down about 8-12 points, then go on a run in the second half to cut the lead to around only one or two possessions, but never regain the edge. Then their opponent proceeds to get insurance points from fouling at the end of games, which is why some of Wisconsin’s games are blowouts, even though

that is rarely the case.

Oftentimes, the Badgers are within breathing room until the final minutes before the game finally stretches out of reach.

The Badgers are convinced they can play with any team in the conference. They are aware of how close they are to righting the ship, which says a lot about the team.

UW has lost seven games in a row and 11 of their last 12, but they still have the confidence to go out on any given night.

“I think we can play with any team in this conference,” senior captain Taylor Wurtz said. “We just have to figure out a way to close it.”

The ability of teams like Wisconsin exemplifies the depth of the Big Ten, which will only get stronger when powerhouse programs Maryland and Rutgers enter the conference next season.

“There were a lot of close games that could have gone either way for us, the same for Wisconsin, they were in every game pretty much,” Northwestern head coach Joe McKeown said after the Wildcats’ win Sunday afternoon at the Kohl Center. “It just goes to show you the depth and the balance of the league.”

Chris Lotten The Badger Herald Despite losing 11 out of their last 12 games, the Badgers have the key ingredients for postseason success.

The Badgers have faced five teams currently ranked in the AP Top 25 poll and lost to all of them, but displayed grit against some of the top teams in the nation. They suffered a fourpoint loss to No. 19 Michigan State on the road and played the Spartans well at home, losing by eight. They also played No.11 Penn State tough on the road, losing by 10, and led the Nittany Lions until about seven minutes to play. Perhaps their most complete games of the season came against No. 16 Nebraska, when they lost a one-point heartbreaker in overtime about a month ago

on Feb. 5.

“I haven’t seen anybody moping around and having a pity party,” Kelsey said.

“I’ve been in many different situations at many different schools and some of those teams would have given up by now. They’d just pack it in, be fussing at each other, bickering and snapping at one another. These kids just don’t do that.”

The “never give up” mentality has the Badgers poised to stir the pot come conference tournament time, which starts Thursday.

Wisconsin is the 11-seed and will take on six-seed Minnesota, a team that

has beat the Badgers twice this season. However, the Badgers outscored the Gophers in the first half during their first meeting of the season and nearly outscored them in the second half during the second meeting. If the Badgers could combine those two halves and pull out a victory, they would advance to play Nebraska in the quarterfinals, a team they are more than capable of beating.

The stage is set for the Badgers to cause some trouble this week. All they have to do is get over the hump.

Senior class creating a unique legacy for UW Christian Karcher Women’s Hockey Writer

Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald File Photo Senior goaltender and captain Alex Rigsby leads Wisconsin into the playoffs looking for her 100th career win.

Women’s hockey heads to WCHA Final Face-off Meghan Eustice Women’s Hockey Writer It’s goodbye and good luck to the Wisconsin women’s hockey team this weekend as it starts its long journey up north to Bemidji, Minn. for the WCHA Final Faceoff. The Badgers will match up against North Dakota Friday, with the winner moving on to the championship game Saturday.

As always, though, the team is dedicating most of its time and attention to the game at hand, despite the fact that multiple games could be in store over the weekend.

“You can’t look too far ahead,” junior forward Brittany Ammerman said.

“You don’t know what’s going to happen. There are a lot of ifs, so we just take it one game at a time and that’s the easiest way to do it.”

But focusing on only Friday’s game isn’t just about taking safety precautions. The Badgers (27-6-2, 21-5-2 WCHA) know they can’t overlook UND (19-11-4, 14-10-4 WCHA) and expect to move on. The two teams have proved to be evenly matched, finishing just one spot apart in the WCHA standings—Wisconsin at No. 2 and North Dakota at No. 3. Wisconsin is 2-1-1 against North Dakota this season, with UND being one of only two teams to see a victory against Wisconsin.

What’s more, the two teams faced off against each other this time last year for the first night of the WCHA Final Face-off, when North Dakota ended Wisconsin’s season with a 2-1 victory.

Senior forward Madison Packer said many Badgers, especially the senior class, still have a bad taste in their mouths from this game, adding an extra incentive to come ready

Friday and prevent a repeat from happening.

“There might be a little extra incentive or motivation, it’s kind of a last hurrah,” Packer said.

“Last year we didn’t have the greatest run up there.

We played North Dakota, they beat us and our season was over. So the senior class still has that in the back of their minds.”

But Ammerman said this year’s UW team is different from last year’s team, and the level of chemistry between teammates throughout this season could make all the difference in a playoff atmosphere.

“Everyone this year has accepted their role and they do it well, and I think that’s the difference,” she said. “We haven’t had any off-ice problems and everyone gets along.

There’s great chemistry on everything—powerplay, penalty kill, even strength, goaltenders, defense, forwards, balanced scoring.

It’s just the whole package, and I think that’s what you want when you’re going into the playoffs.”

But one thing is certain— no one is certain of how the game will end. UW and UND almost always rank just one spot apart for conference statistics, like offensive scoring, defensive scoring or goals allowed by period. Furthermore, Wisconsin might have the better record from this past year, but North Dakota has seen some huge season highlights, like ending the Minnesota Gophers’ 62-game winning streak, displaying a knack for performing well in highpressure situations.

Last weekend the Badgers played three games in three days against Minnesota State-Mankato, losing Saturday night to push the series into a tie-breaker on Sunday, showing a bit of staying power themselves.

This is something head

coach Mark Johnson has attributed to his team’s attitude all season long.

“The reason we had a good season, part of it’s the chemistry and part of it’s their work habits,” Johnson said. “They’ve been consistent with that all year, and if you’re able to do that you get better. Every weekend you get a little bit better, and over the course of the five months that we’re playing and training the team’s gotten better. It’ll be interesting to see how we respond this weekend.”

Even if a team had the best work ethic in the world, with all these games being played in a row, it’s easy to see how players might get tired and struggle to constantly keep their energy up throughout playoffs. Johnson and his players realized the last time any of them had played more than two games in one weekend was back in high school, and even then not with the same intensity present at the collegiate level.

Ammerman said in a playoff atmosphere, it just comes naturally.

“You don’t want to be that team that dies,” Ammerman said. “You wake up every morning and the adrenaline is there … I think the playoffs just have that do or die mentality, and that just keeps you going.”

UW knows it’s going to need every last ounce of that energy Friday against North Dakota, which will come prepared and just as hungry for a win, and Johnson knows his team has to attack from the second the puck is dropped.

“The game Friday is going to be high-paced, it’s going to be high-intensity,” Johnson said. “It’s going to be a good game for both teams, and whoever gets out of it gets to play for a championship, so we’ll see what happens.”

In 2010, head coach Mark Johnson brought in a small recruiting class, but the influence of this class would be felt for its remaining time at Wisconsin.

In the end, the class would boast Wisconsin’s all-time winningest goaltender, a Patty Kazmaier finalist and multiple center pieces to one of the better power play and penalty kill units collegiate women’s hockey has seen this season. Although its talents on the ice will be missed come next season, the 2014 senior class on the Wisconsin women’s hockey team has left a lasting legacy with the current players and the university.

The class, which consists of Alex Rigsby, Madison Packer, Brittany Ammerman, Kelly Jaminski and Natalie Berg, started making an impact from the moment they stepped on campus.

During their freshman year, the Badgers fi nished 37-2-2 including a 4-1 win over Boston University in the NCAA championship.

“I think if you look back to our freshman year, with that class we came in with, we had a great year with great leaders and we were able to win a title,” Ammerman said. “It’s an amazing feeling that not many people get to experience, and I want everyone on this [year’s] team to have that experience and that’s the end goal [for this season].”

Rigsby started all but 10 games her freshman year, finishing with an impressive record of 27-1-2. Meanwhile, Packer and Ammerman tallied 26 and 25 points respectively their freshman year. Jaminski recorded 10 assists over the course of the season, including an assist on the opening goal in the

National Championship game.

The next year, in 20112012, the class was older and once again made a huge impact on the team.

Ammerman was the fifthleading point scorer on the team while Jaminski, Packer and Berg all helped create opportunities, recording a combined 27 assists. Once again, the Badgers made it to the National Championship game. However, they fell 4-2 to rival Minnesota.

In their junior year, injury and the loss of a few key players put their season to an early end, as they were unable to make the NCAA tournament.

Ammerman redshirted after a concussion early in the season, while Packer took the lead in the classes scoring, notching 18 goals and 19 assists, behind only the team’s leading scorer, then-senior Brianna Decker.

This season, the senior class took on more of a leadership role as well as their physical role on the ice.

Ammerman is leading the team in points with 41, while Packer is third in points with 22. Meanwhile, Rigsby set the all-time record for wins for a goaltender, which now stands one short of 100, a win total only two other goaltenders in NCAA history have accomplished. “[Rigsby would probably be more concerned] that we won the game than with the numbers,” Johnson said.

“Then you get to play for a championship on Saturday.

I think for a lot of players, those individual awards, especially at this time of the year, take a backseat to the most important thing, which is, ‘What can I do to help the team win?’”

Aside from the records, the senior class will also leave a lasting legacy with the younger players on the team. The leadership of the team has been instrumental throughout the season.

The class helped the team overcome adversity after tough losses to Minnesota both early and late in the year and aided the comeback after a disappointing loss to Minnesota State in the first round of the WCHA tournament last weekend.

“I think any time you spend a given amount of time with a group of people you want to be remembered for something,” Packer said.

“Obviously, we want to leave on a winning note. To win a national championship with this group would be a good thing. But as far as a legacy, hopefully we’ve taught them a few things about being a leader and working hard.”

As the year winds down and the Badgers sit at No. 2 in the nation, the seniors are looking to finish how they started, with a National Championship.

“My freshman and sophomore year we made it all the way to the national championship game, so that’s always the goal, but that starts this weekend,” Packer said. “We played North Dakota, they beat us and our season was over. So the senior class still has that in the back of their minds.”

A tough road lies ahead for the seniors and the team as they attempt to win their second National Championship. Even if the Badgers do fall short of their fifth NCAA title, the senior class will have a continuing legacy with the program, the fans and the current players.

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The Badger Herald | Sports |Thursday, March 6, 2014

Wisconsin starts 2nd season with new hope

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Badgers’ Big Ten Tournament at 8 p.m. Thursday against Gophers Eric Kohlbeck Women’s Basketball Writer The Wisconsin women’s basketball team has had a tough season to say the least. Finishing the regular season 10-18 overall and 3-13 in the Big Ten, the Badgers will look to make a surprise run in the Big Ten tournament, which kicks off Thursday in Indianapolis.

Wisconsin enters the tournament having lost 11 of their last 12 games and riding a seven-game losing streak. The Badgers earned the No. 11 seed in the Big Ten Tournament and will face border rival and sixthseeded Minnesota (19-11, 8-8 Big Ten) in the first round of the tournament Thursday.

Despite their struggles in Big Ten play this season, the Badgers have held their own in those losses. Five of their conference losses have been by single digits, and in 10 of their losses, the Badgers have been within three possessions with less than four minutes to play.

The Badgers’ most recent loss came last Sunday on Senior Day when they fell to Northwestern 77-73 in overtime.

UW head coach Bobbie Kelsey is looking at Thursday’s game against Minnesota as another chance for the seniors on the team to show what they are capable of after a tough loss.

“We have another opportunity to play, especially for our seniors, going out the way we did in overtime,” Kelsey said in a pretournament conference call. “It was a very tough loss, no question, it was disappointing. But again, you have another opportunity.

So we’re

SENIORS, page 14 and following it up with a pair of free throws to give UW its then-highest lead of the game at 15 points.

A layup and turnover by the Badgers in the final seconds of the first half allowed the Boilermakers

just going to focus on Minnesota. We’re very familiar with them as they are with us. We’re just going to play and not worry about it. Because after this, it’s win or go home at this point.”

Minnesota is a very familiar opponent to the Badgers—the teams have already squared off twice this season. Wisconsin lost both games, which included a 53-64 loss in Minnesota on Jan. 23 and a 50-63 loss at the Kohl Center on Feb. 12.

The familiarity with Minnesota means Kelsey and her team are very much aware of the Gophers’ duo of 5-foot-9 guard Rachel Banham and 6-foot-5 forward Amanda Zahui. Both players were All-Big Ten first team selections this season, with Zahui earning freshman of the year honors. Banham leads the Big Ten in scoring, averaging 22.4 points per game, while Zahui leads the Big Ten in rebounding with an average of 11.3 boards per game. In addition to Banham’s adept scoring, Zahui also averages 15.1 points per game.

“She’s tough,” Kelsey said about Zahui. “You have to try to box her out and keep her off the boards. Because she averages a doubledouble, she wants the ball.

Kids that kind of want it, they’re going to pursue it with everything they have.

She’s a smart player. She’s very good as a freshman, so we’ll have our hands full with her.”

Wisconsin will combat Zahui with an All-Big Ten first team selection of their own. In her first season playing for the Badgers, redshirt junior transfer Michala Johnson was selected for the first AllBig Ten honor earlier this week.

In Big Ten play this season, Johnson led the conference in shooting with a 56.8 mark from the field. The 6-foot-3 forward averaged 17.1 points as

well, which was good for fifth best in the conference. “[Johnson’s] done quite well this year,” Kelsey said. “For us, she’s been awesome and I’m pleased with her play. She gives us so much out there and we can hardly have her out of the game. And she commands a double-team.

When players command a double-team, that tells you a lot about their ability to affect the game.”

As Johnson forced opposing teams into using a double-team against her throughout the season, seniors Taylor Wurtz and Morgan Paige have reaped the benefits, respectively averaging 12.8 and 12 points per game this season. Wurtz and Paige hope to extend their collegiate basketball careers past Thursday with a victory over the Gophers.

In their most recent meeting with Minnesota, Wurtz paced the Badgers with 15 points and nine rebounds. In their first meeting of the season, Paige led the Badgers in scoring with 13 points.

Last season, the Badgers were the No. 11 seed and upset sixth-seeded Illinois.

Wisconsin owns a 7-7 record in first-round games in the Big Ten tournament and a 10-19 overall record in 19 total appearances.

Tip-off is slated for approximately 8 p.m. from Banker’s Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis with the winner advancing to take on third-seeded Nebraska.

If the Badgers advance past the game against Nebraska they would most likely take on Michigan State in the semifinal game.

Wisconsin is in the lower half of the tournament bracket with the No. 2 and 3 seeds, Michigan State and Nebraska, respectively, while the top portion of the bracket is highlighted by the first and fourth seeds, Penn State and Purdue.

The semifinals will take place Saturday with the final game Sunday at 1 p.m.

to begin to close in on UW, ending the first 20 minutes down 11.

Jackson quieted down in the second half, adding just three additional points for UW on the night. But junior guard Frank Kaminski got hot, hitting a three to open scoring for UW in the second half of play.

“Frank has it in him.

He’s already proven that,” Ryan said. “He was opportunistic.

Guys got him the ball in some good spots and he finished…This isn’t unusual.”

Kaminski extended Wisconsin’s lead to a game-high 18 points off a three with 10 minutes and 15 seconds remaining in the game, but the Boilermakers refused to back down.

Following Kaminiski’s score Purdue shut down UW’s offense, finding itself on a 13-4 run and keeping Wisconsin without a score from the floor for nearly six minutes and dwindling the Badgers’ lead down to just seven points.

It was an ice cold Sam Dekker who finally hit a jumper less than five minutes remaining that rebooted the Wisconsin offense.

The only bucket from the floor all night for Dekker, the sophomore finished the game 1-of-7 with just five points.

Despite the unusually low-scoring performance from Dekker, Wisconsin was able to to rely on its other key starters including Kaminski is what makes Wisconsin.

Kaminski finished the night with a game-high 22 points going 8-from11 from the field and 4-of-5 from beyond the arc.

“They have good balance,” Purdue head coach Matt Painter said.

“They have five guys out there that can pass it and shoot it and they really put you in a bind.”

A fitting end to senior night, Badger veterans Zach Bohannon and Evan Anderson took the floor with less than a minute remaining following a standing ovation as senior guard Ben Brust—who finished the night with nine points and four rebounds—left the game.

Bohannon tallied the last two points for Wisconsin in the Kohl Center this season off a pair of free throws, sealing in the victory.

A buzzer beating three

by Purdue’s freshman Kendall Stephens was a push too late as the Badgers walked away with a six-point victory.

“It was nice to have everyone smiling in the locker room and smiling after the game,” Brust said. “It’s much better to get a win on your last time on the home floor.

I’ve had some amazing experiences here at the Kohl Center and I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do the rest of the way.”

Remembering the Senior Day upset at the Kohl Center last season at the hands of the Boilermakers, sending these three Badgers out on a high note was a must-do for the rest of their teammates.

With the victory, Wisconsin improved to 12-5 in the Big Ten putting them No. 2 in the Big Ten behind Michigan. The Badgers will head to Nebraska for their final Big Ten regular season game Sunday night.

The Badgers also set a school record in beating Purdue, recording their eighth straight Big Ten victory, a streak which started with its win at Illinois back in the beginning of February.

The win also marked the ninth time under Bo Ryan in which Wisconsin has recorded 12 or more Big Ten wins.

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Juniors send out seniors on positive note On Senior Night at Kohl Center, UW’s junior class goes for 49 of 76 points Spencer Smith Sports Editor Purdue is no stranger to the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s senior night.

A year ago, the Boilermakers came to Madison and spoiled the celebration, handing five Wisconsin seniors a loss in their final game on the Kohl Center hardwood.

This season, the juniors took it upon themselves to make sure the seniors would leave their home court on top. “[It’s] very important for us,” Junior center Frank Kaminsky said of sending out seniors with a win. “We love them.

I’ve been with them for three years now and have developed great relationships with all of them. Last year was kind of tough sending the seniors out on a sour note, and we didn’t want that to happen again. We wanted to do it for them.”

With only one senior on the Wisconsin roster that would see significant minutes— Ben Brust—the juniors took it upon themselves to make sure Wednesday night ended in a win.

Wisconsin (25-5, 12-5 Big Ten) came out with the hot hand shooting 48.3 percent (14-29) from the field and 57 percent from threepoint range in the first half. Of the 14 field goals the Badgers made in the first 20 minutes, 10 came from juniors Kaminsky, Traevon Jackson and Josh Gasser and three more came from Brust.

Jackson didn’t miss a shot he took in the first half, sinking all four shots from the floor—

two from beyond the arc—and both of his free throw attempts. “[Jackson] is a good player and he picks his spots too,” Purdue head coach Matt Painter said. “He gets that ball moving and he understands that everybody needs to get their crack at it and if doesn’t work he’s going to get it back at the end of the shot clock.”

Kaminsky and Gasser would continue to keep up the pace that Jackson set in the first half as the two juniors would combine for 22 of Wisconsin’s 41 secondhalf points.

Kaminsky’s back-toback 11-point halves would earn him a gamehigh scoring total of 22 points.

“Frank has it in him.

He’s already proven that. He was opportunistic,” Ryan said. “Guys got him the ball in some good spots

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I’ve had some amazing experiences here at the Kohl Center and I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do the rest of the way.

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Ben Brust Badger senior guard and he finished.”

Free throws became a major factor in the game as the Boilermakers picked up their seventh foul with just under 10 minutes left in the game, putting the Badgers in the bonus.

From that point on, Wisconsin took 27 free throws and made 20 of its attempts ,after taking only four freebies in the first half.

Of the Badgers’ 31 total trips to the free throw line, Jackson, Gasser and Kaminsky accounted for 18 of them while Brust pitched in three more tries.

“You have to keep them off the free throw line,” Painter said. “If you’re going to let them get to the free throw line, they went 23-for31 tonight, and that’s probably struggling for them. But you have to keep them off the free throw line.”

Purdue crept back into the game midway through the second half pulling within seven with just more than six minutes to go, although it never felt like the game was out of control for Wisconsin.

The final score showed just a six-point win for Wisconsin over the Big Ten’s last-place team, but Jackson and his teammates were always confident in their position in the game.

“I thought the score was a little misrepresentative of the game just because I thought we did a good job throughout the entire game keeping control of it,” Jackson said.

For Brust, the senior guard did his best to treat Wednesday’s game like any other Big Ten matchup, but he still let nostalgia creep in just a little.

“It was definitely cool going out there for your last time with your parents and your family,” Brust said.

“I think we were all focused on getting the job done because we know how much better that makes it for the seniors and then everyone collectively as a whole.”

Brust finished his final home game with the Badgers with nine points, four rebounds and one assist.

After the win Wisconsin’s three seniors, Brust, Zach Bohannon and Evan Anderson, got a special tribute from the program with a video montage and thank you

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Wisconsin junior point guard Traevon Jackson drives the lane in Wednesday night’s win over Purdue. He scored 14 points.

message from each senior.

All three have enjoyed their careers at Wisconsin and one game wasn’t going to change that, but it didn’t t hurt to leave home court on a positive note.

“It was nice to have everyone smiling in the locker room and smiling after the game,” Brust said.

“It makes it much better for everyone, the seniors especially. It’s much better to get a win in your last time on the home floor.

I’ve had some amazing experiences here at the Kohl Center and I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do the rest of the way.”

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Wisconsin freshman wrestler Isaac Jordan (right) grapples with a teammate during a practice Wednesday morning at the Talbot Wrestling Room.

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Jordan’s brother, Ben, was an All-American for the Badgers his senior year in 2012.

With a laundry list of achievements from his family and being around high-level wrestling his whole life, Jordan’s strength is his intuitive knowledge of the sport, head coach Barry Davis said. “[He] understands the sport, the dynamics of it, the way it works, the angles and the [body] pressures,” Davis said. “That’s what separates him from everybody else.”

Growing up in a household of wrestlers, Jordan said by the ripe old age of 5, he had already found a love for the sport.

Jordan said he has always felt a passion for wrestling and never believed it was an unspoken obligation

from his family.

Even with his son at Wisconsin, Jim Jordan doesn’t impose any will on Isaac regarding wrestling.

Davis said by giving his son enough space, Isaac has been allowed to grow and learn mistakes on his own, without the ominous shadow of his father following him during his years of wrestling.

But Jordan said he sees his father in the stands at every match.

“He’s kind of hands off,” Jordan said. “He lets the coaches do the coaching.

But he sits in the stands and cheers and supports me.”

Jordan has received some coaching from his older brother. As his coach for one season, Ben gave Isaac some off-the-mat advice, like how to manage a busy schedule of school and wrestling.

Davis said that Jordan’s wrestling IQ is off the

charts—Jordan rarely makes mental errors and never makes the same mistake twice.

Davis said in his wins over the nation’s top-ranked wrestler from Nebraska, and defending national champion from Iowa last month, Jordan only made one mistake in 18 minutes.

“He’s consistent in what he does,” he said. “He’s able to hold position and be disciplined throughout the match. Some people cannot do that, but he can.”

Three-time All-American Tyler Graff said when it comes to practice and competition, Jordan is all business. He also said Jordan has been strengthened by the lifelong wrestling experience gained from his family, and expects him to be more than prepared for the Big Ten tournament this weekend. “[He’s a] hardworking

guy, he’s a good role model for kids, very patient in his positions,” Graff said. “I think he’s confident and is just getting progressively better each time.”

If you walk in the doors of the Jordan household in Urbana, you won’t see trophies acknowledging the glory of the Jordan wrestlers. You won’t find any banners celebrating any of the family championships. And you won’t find a framed picture of Isaac suited up in a fierce wrestling position.

The Jordan family has no need to boast about the incredible Wisconsin wrestling feats it has achieved for 41 years. Isaac Jordan is modestly making his way through the Badger wrestling program, overcoming historic family pressure, and is on pace to follow in his family’s footsteps and become a Wisconsin wrestling legend.

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Mersch hard at work Wisconsin senior forward has logged extra hours, now reaping rewards Dan Corcoran Sports Content Editor Growth is a process.

Whether it’s height, the honing of physical skills or a mindset, development isn’t something that happens all in one night.

Some waiting is necessary, and in the case of the latter two, hard work is the key component. Just ask Michael Mersch.

The senior on the Wisconsin men’s hockey team came in a wide-eyed freshman who was young in hockey terms. Not spending any time at the junior level, where most players spend a few years, left his abilities still quite raw.

“I remember his freshman year, he was 17 or 18 coming in, and we always called him Bambi,” senior teammate Mark Zengerle said. “Somebody would bump into him and he would just fall over. He looked like a young deer out there.”

But since the day Mersch first walked into the Badger hockey program, he has been hard at work to gain a firm footing, refining his skating ability and other skills.

As the leading scorer in Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves’ coaching tenure with 64 career goals and counting, it’s clear that work has certainly paid dividends for Mersch, who has never missed a single game in his career.

“It’s been a work in

progress.

I’ve developed each year and gotten a little bitw better, so it’s been a great experience.

I think that’s the best way to describe my game. It’s developing and it keeps on getting better,” Mersch said.

Mersch’s start in hockey and inspiration for the sport came from another Michael, his late father.

The elder Michael Mersch also played Division I hockey, spending his time with the University of Illinois-Chicago before the school disbanded the sport in favor of basketball.

After his playing days were over, the older Michael lit a fire of passion under the younger Michael for the game. Although he passed away when Mersch was in second grade, a bond still exists, connecting the two

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by way of the game they shared.

“I’ve been passing it on to my little brother and he’s growing up right now playing. [My dad is] probably the biggest role model for me, so it’s something that I’ll always be appreciative of. I’ll always have that special bond of hockey with him,” Mersch said.

Growing up, Mersch played a myriad of sports, including basketball, baseball and football, but when he began playing with the U.S. National Development Program in 2008, his focus turned solely to hockey.

With playing for a toptier program, Mersch, despite some weakness with skating, was still a high recruit when he came to Wisconsin for his first year at 18.

In his first season as a Badger, Mersch blazed the way for all freshmen with his eight goals, contributing 11 assists along the way as well.

It was a good start but not something he was content with. To go from leading scorer of a class to the leading scorer on the team and in the league, he would have to keep pushing his level of play, which is exactly what he has done,

something that has left an impression on his teammates, senior winger Tyler Barnes included.

“He’s an everyday guy that’s there putting in the work,” Barnes said.

Over the course of almost four seasons, Mersch has earned a reputation as a hard worker along with the reputation of a less

“

Somebody would bump into him and he would just fall over.

He looked like a young

deer out there.

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Mark Zengerle Badger forward

glamorous endeavor: the garbage goal scorer.

Not only did he earn the Bambi nomenclature, but he was also recognized by his teammates as the “dump truck,” the nickname of a former NHL player who had a knack for the garbage goals.

This season Mersch has proven he can score the pretty goal, too, which has included the NCAA play of the week with his highlight reel goal at Michigan Feb. 1.

As Zengerle noted, it takes a certain skill set to score the gritty goals, although it may get Mersch ribbed now and again.

“They’re all

probably going to be pretty ugly but I don’t mind it,” Mersch said.

But his growth hasn’t been limited to what has taken place on the ice. As one of nine seniors, Mersch has found a leadership role for the Badgers by setting an example for the

younger players.

Although he may not wear one of the captain emblems on his jersey, that’s not stopping Mersch from contributing with his voice, his play or even a joke, a process that’s taken just as much learning on his part.

“It’s something I took a lot of time to figure out is just how to bring energy to the rink every day, whether it’s putting a smile on one of your teammate’s faces or telling them that they had a good practice—even sometimes if you weren’t watching them the entire practice but you saw something little that they did they you liked. Just bringing energy to every guy and learning how to come to practice every day and work hard but have fun with it,” Mersch said.

With all the hard work Mersch has put in, the numbers have been there to back up his play. He led the WCHA in goals last year with his 23 and he leads the Big Ten in goals right now with 19. In the past three years he has led the team in power play goals as well, something no one has ever done in Badger history and a testament to his hardnosed style in front of the net.

Keeping those statistics in mind and his status as the 114th pick in 2011 entry draft, Mersch has made himself a qualified candidate to make it in the pro ranks.

But for now, he’s focusing on what the all his hard work and development has been geared toward: success with the Badgers.

“I’m focused on this team. I have been the past four years and this is my priority along with every other guy on this team. Obviously the NHL is everybody’s ultimate goal but right now we have to focus on this team. We got a whole summer to figure it out, so there’s no rush for right now,” Mersch

said, while his head coach added about his remaining time with the program.

“He wants to win here,” Eaves said of Mersch. “He realizes that winning here is going to help him lily pad to the next level.

“Because of that focus and dedication and all that those words that we like to use, he’s earned the improvement. It’s come through hard work.”

straight seasons Mersch had led or tied for the team lead in power-play goals. He has eight to lead the team this season.

Goals Mersch has scored in his career — the most by any player in Mike Eaves’ coaching era.

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games Mersch has played in during his four seasons. He has yet to miss a game in his career.

Players during Mike Eaves’ tenure who have scored 20 or more goals in a season. Mersch scored 23 last season and has 19 with four regular season games left this season.

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UW wins on Senior Night Three members of departing class get honored with win in final game Caroline Sage Senior Sports Writer Looking to extend its winning streak to eight games and send its three senior players out with one final home win, the Wisconsin men’s basketball pushed past Purdue in a 7670 victory at the Kohl Center Wednesday.

Although it may have been Senior Night, it was business as usual for head coach Bo Ryan and his Badgers (25-5, 12-5 Big Ten), who set out looking for their 12th conference win of the season.

“I try not to talk about it too much other than just show respect for teammates and try your best.

But basically that’s what we’re saying every game. You just reiterate all the points that you’ve made from the first day they’ve

been on campus,” Ryan said. “To me, Senior Night is just like any other night.

It’s 40 minutes of basketball.”

The Boilermakers (15-15, 5-12 Big Ten) got on the board first with a jumper from senior guard Terone Johnson, but the 2-0 lead would be the only one of the night for Purdue. The Badgers began to heat things up starting with a bucket from junior guard Traevon Jackson and never looked back after taking an early 8-2 lead.

Jackson led the way for Wisconsin in the first half, going 4-of-4 from the floor including a pair of threes for a team-high 12 points heading into the locker room.

With less than three minutes to go in the half, Jackson took over, nailing a three

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Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Senior guard Ben Brust bids his final farewell to the Kohl Center fans.

Wrestling all in the family Badger freshman wrestler follows long line of successful UW heritage Lee Gordon Senior Sports Writer All families put pressure on their children to succeed, especially when the son or daughter is following in the family’s footsteps and pursuing the same sport. But not all kids are continually reminded of their family’s accomplishments in the form of six wrestling All-American honors and two national championships on the history books.

Redshirt freshman Isaac Jordan may have a legendary family history, but he is shaping his own destiny as part of the latest generation of Jordans to thrive as Badger wrestlers.

In his first season competing for Wisconsin, he has notched a perfect 17-0 dual record, a 7-0 Big Ten conference record and has taken out five ranked opponents, including the top two wrestlers in his 157-pound weight class.

Now, Jordan is ranked as the No. 2 wrestler in the country and is established as the top seed in the Big Ten

Tournament, which will be held at the Kohl Center this Saturday and Sunday.

Jordan doesn’t face the pressure to immediately succeed in the Big Ten Tournament as a freshman and has all four years of postseason endeavors ahead of him.

He said, however, he feels a combination of inspiration and pressure from his family’s wrestling achievements.

“People expect a lot out of me,” Jordan said.

“In the same way, I’m still motivated to do well.”

His father, Jim Jordan, was a two-time national champion and threetime All-American at Wisconsin in the 1980s, and is currently a U.S. Representative for an Ohio congressional district that includes Jordan’s hometown of Urbana.

Isaac’s uncle, Jeff Jordan, was a twotime All-American for the Badgers and is the head wrestling coach at Graham High School, where he, Jim and Isaac combined for 11

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