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the underestimated equals Though treated equally by most professors, women in STEM feel devalued by male peers who question their competence.

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Madtown Crier Madtown refuses to slow down. Here are some upcoming events The Badger Herald recommends to keep you up to speed.

Tuesday 3/6 JID + EarthGang with Chaz French, Lute and Lucien Parker at High Noon, 7 p.m., $16

Tuesday 3/6 Candlelight Vigil #WeAreTR hosted by Police The Police Wisconsin at The Social Justice Center, 6-8 p.m.

Wednesday 3/7 2018 World Championship Cheese Contest at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, 9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m., FREE

Thursday 3/8 UW International Women’s Day Rally & Speak Out at Union South

Friday 3/9

Sunday 3/11

Friday 3/9 Gotham Bagel Sandwich Contest at Gotham Bagels on E. Mifflin from 7 a.m. - 3 p.m., $11 per sandwich

Saturday 3/10 Bike-O-Rama at the Alliant Energy Center

Sunday 3/11 Declan McKenna at the Majestic Theatre, 7-10 p.m., tickets $30 Fight Like a Girl: Fundraiser for Rape Crisis Center at Canvas Club Boxing, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., $25, women only 2 • badgerherald.com • March 6, 2018

Madison Comic Con at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, 10:00 a.m. - 5 p.m., $5 day pass

Monday 3/12 Whale Bones with Colourblind, at The Frequency, 8 p.m., tickets $5

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Bill would increase compensation for wrongfully convicted individuals Instead of receiving $5,000 per year with cap at five years, exonerees would get $50,000 per year with $1 million limit

by Brooke Hollingsworth State Editor

In an effort to improve the way Wisconsin compensates individuals who were wrongfully convicted, state legislators introduced a bill that would increase monetary compensation and provide transition services.

As the law currently stands, wrongfully convicted persons receive $5,000 for a year of their life being locked away or $25,000 for five years. The new legislation would increase and fixed at $50,000 per year with a $1 million limit, according to the bill. It would also allow for the surviving spouse or domestic partner, child, parent or sibling of a person who is entitled to claim the compensation if the exonerated has passed away.

Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, who was a former law enforcement officer, introduced the legislation. Wanggaard said he recognizes mistakes can happen in the justice system and that an innocent person can be convicted.

Wanggaard knows lost time cannot be given back.

“Law enforcement workers work hard to find the right person that committed the crime, but sometimes they get the wrong person,” Wanggaard said. “Then through DNA, we find out that that person has been locked up for 20 years for a crime they didn’t do.”

Cristina Borde, supervising attorney for the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which operates out of the University of Wisconsin Law School, said the changes to the law will streamline the process exonerees have to go through.

The Wisconsin Innocence Project is a clinical program that provides legal representation for people who claim to be wrongfully convicted and looks to exonerate those who claim to be.

“It is very difficult to get people exonerated let alone compensated for the time that they have spent in jail,” Borde said.

The Innocence Project has helped 30 individuals get exonerated since it began operations in the 1990s, according to its website.

In addition to upping the compensation price per year, the bill would also provide transition services, like better healthcare, to those just coming out of the system for up to five years. Under the bill, individuals would pay the same health insurance premium as state employees, with the state paying the premium balance.

Borde believes the bill will help in a number of different ways especially since it is retroactive. People who are looking for compensation at this time will be able to ask for the higher compensation if the bill gets passed, Borde said.

“This would allow for exonerees to have some concrete financial stability,” Borde said. “Not to mention, there are many exonerees are struggling with mental health issues and this bill would provide that

service to them.”

In terms of employment, exonerees have a difficult time finding jobs after being released due to the fact their records are open to the public. But this bill would seal their files and would give exonerated people a chance to gain employment, Borde said.

Borde and other members of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, along with wrongfully convicted exonerees, testified in front of legislators about how this bill could help those who have been wronged.

“People think that once they get exonerated they are able to sue and get thousands of dollars, but that doesn’t happen often,” Borde said.

The bill was referred to the Joint Finance Committee and Wanggaard said he’s confident it will get a hearing.

Wanggaard said if the bill makes it to the floor, he believes it will pass due to its bipartisan support.

Dane County tests technology used to determine bail for defendants Data-driven tool takes variety of factors into account when generating report, does not act as alternative to human judgement

by Grady Gibson Reporter

A new data-driven tool made to determine bail is currently being tested in Dane County courts.

The Public Safety Assessment, which was developed in conjunction with Harvard University and The Arnold Foundation, uses solely objective information and takes into account a variety of factors to generate a report for a court to consider when setting bail for defendants.

Data collection for the study began in April 2017 and individuals will continue to enter the study until April 2019, Chris Griffin, Harvard law professor and co-director of the study, said.

The study focuses on long-term evaluation of defendant behavior, so final conclusions will not be extrapolated until a two-year follow-up period for analysis is observed, Griffin said.

“What the study is attempting to do is very simple: We are trying to evaluate whether this tool from the Arnold Foundation is a useful piece of information for judges to have at their disposal,” Griffin said.

Griffin said the PSA is not an alternative to human judgment. The PSA operates as recommendation only, which is not binding or mandatory to the judge in any way, Griffin added.

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The tool is meant to act as an additional source of information to help one make informed decisions, Griffin said.

Griffin hypothesized the tool will help “cut through some of the noise,” such as something a judge may perceive about a defendant in court or the fact that the charges may not reflect the actual risk of failure after release. The PSA hopes to provide a more objective basis for decisions in the bail-setting process. “[Once the study is complete,] we can hopefully tell the world something about the causal effects of providing that additional information to the judge,” Griffin said.

Carlo Esqueda, Dane County clerk of courts, helped weigh in on how this would affect Madison and Dane County.

Esqueda said he hopes the study will lead to a better understanding of the true level of risk within Dane County’s population of defendants and how well the judges’ decisions align with what the PSA recommends.

“Other jurisdictions adopting the tool found that their pre-trial jail population decreased,” Esqueda said. “We hope this will ultimately be our experience, as well.”

Esqueda is optimistic about the data tool’s ability to make objective decisions and hopes

to see an end to low-risk defendants in jail on bail amounts they perhaps cannot pay, putting their employment and housing at risk.

Further explaining its objective capabilities, Esqueda explained the PSA is race and gender neutral. Esqueda is hopeful the tool will serve as a positive force to reduce disproportionate minority incarceration in the pre-trial period.

“Other jurisdictions adopting

the tool found that their pretrial jail population decreased.

We hope this will ultimately be our experience, as well.”

Carlo Esqueda Dane County Clerk of Courts Jason Hanson, Dane County court commissioner, has also been integral to the risk assessment study.

Hanson said in Dane County, the PSA is only being used on even-numbered cases, while the odd-numbered cases are handled

as usual. This provides an effective control and experimental group. The commissioner only has access to the PSA report in half of cases as a result and Dane County both has played and continues to play a vital role to the study’s findings.

“In the criminal justice system, we sometimes do new things because they ‘feel right,’ or based on who yells the loudest regardless of whether their facts are factual or just because someone read the latest New Yorker article on ‘best practices’ for bail,” Hanson said. “[The PSA] is better because it is evidence-based and because we are actually going to be able to measure its effectiveness.”

Hanson said the PSA has helped in that it has provided a more concrete and evidencebased means of decision making in the bailsetting process.

Hanson said he is unsure whether this tool will raise or lower the jail population of Dane County. Rather, he said he is more oriented toward how it will affect the decision-making process as a whole.

“From my perspective, I am less focused on whether it increases or reduces the jail population,” Hanson said. “My hope and belief is it will help us do the best job we can of having the right people in the jail based on an accurate assessment of risk.”

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One-credit cryptocurrency class expected to launch at UW this fall Cryptocurrency-focused student organization Badger Blockchain pushing for more opportunities to help students understand technology

by Parker Schorr Campus Editor

Along with universities like New York University and Princeton, the University of Wisconsin will launch classes on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology to train students in the nascent but potentially transformative industry.

This upcoming fall, Brad Chandler, the director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking in the business school, will teach the one-credit course on cryptocurrencies in collaboration with board members of Badger Blockchain, Sid Ramesh, UW junior and Badger Blockchain advisor, said. Badger Blockchain is a cryptocurrency-focused student organization Chandler currently gives seminars to MBA students using slides, some of which Badger Blockchain members have drafted.

But Ramesh said he and other students of the organization are pushing for the formation of more classes to help students climb the steep learning curve of this new technology, especially because the industry is currently ripe with careers for young, educated people. “[Badger Blockchain’s] mission is to be able to provide the educational resources so a person can go out and do good things for the blockchain ecosystem,” Ramesh said. “There’s a lot of talent in this space right now both from a technical and nontechnical side, but the industry, in order for it to scale and provide all these applications, they need more talent to work on it.”

The first kickoff meeting of Badger Blockchain in spring 2017 was a “terrible” experience when only two people showed up, Ramesh said. But after a relaunch of the organization in the summer, their kickoff meeting in the fall attracted 55 students.

Brennan Fife, a board member of Badger Blockchain who handles outreach to blockchain companies, said it is easy to get students interested in blockchain because of the popularity of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

“The majority of the people who come here start out just with an interest in Bitcoin,” Fife said. “But as you find out, and as time goes along, you generally find out this is a much bigger field in what it has the potential to do.

It’s obviously still young, but what it can offer is promising.”

The underlying infrastructure of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is blockchain, a digital ledger that tracks the history of peerto-peer interactions. Each block in the chain stores a list of transactions that peers exchange and every peer can view every interaction, Ramesh said.

Because everyone has access to the same information, blockchain dissolves any need for a third party intermediary, Ramesh added.

For instance, people put money into a bank and trust them to transact their money fairly.

But since the ledgers of blockchain are transparent, decentralized and peer-to-peer, and can only be added to and not altered, they make cryptocurrencies trustable and banks obsolete, Ramesh said.

Correll Lashbrook, having run several blockchain companies, said the high-risk trading of cryptocurrencies, where a coin can lose or double over half its value overnight, is fun, but is only the surface layer of what the underlying technology can offer.

“I think the much more fun part of it is when we think, ‘now that we have thousands of homes that have the ability to process data in a way that didn’t exist, what else can we do with that?’” Lashbrook said.

Other industries are refashioning existing systems with blockchain technology.

When Ramesh interned at IBM in 2016 as one of the first interns working on blockchain, he said he helped to integrate the technology into their supply chain. Fife said he did similar work as an intern in Walmart’s supply chain.

Lashbrook said he is partly running his most recent blockchain company, which leases computational power to companies and research institutions out of 100state, a coworking space in Madison.

100crpyto, an incubator space for blockchain companies within 100state, opened in December 2017 and currently houses several Madison-based blockchain companies, according to the incubator’s website.

Lashbrook said in his time in the corporate world of Madison, he has found the city to be more accessible than other tech cities like San Francisco and a good place to launch a startup since the city is more forgiving when things don’t go well — a reality common to startups and cryptocurrencies alike.

“I think we’re seeing a lot of people make some really interesting attempts to create real value in [the blockchain] space,” Lashbrook said.

“100state is doing a good job creating process and structure to make it even more accessible.”

Ramesh consults members of 100crypto as he takes time off from being a student at UW, leading casework workshops with entrepreneurs to explore whether their company can utilize blockchain or if it’s unnecessary.

Ramesh said the hardest part of educating people on this technology is navigating through the noise.

“There are many problems that blockchain cannot

solve and many other places where other technologies would be more appropriate,” Ramesh said. “But in the right circumstances, it can radically improve transparency, efficiency and security of how businesses transact today.”

Fife said blockchain is like any new technology in that it’s easy for it to become overhyped. Companies can obscure the field with applications not properly using the technology or not utilizing it to its full potential.

Fife likened the sudden, dramatic rise in interest in blockchain to when the first iPhone was released and developers were rapidly making apps regardless of whether they were good or had bugs.

“People were just putting stuff out regardless,” Fife said. “So that’s kind of the stage that I see is happening here. I think a lot of the stuff will over the next couple of years start to smoothen out and become much more refined and polished.”

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The Lab Report: Prairie management strategies during climate change UW junior working in Ellen Damschen’s lab seeks to aid conservationists, identify beneficial practices to maintain species diversity

by Jacob Otto Science Reporter

Every week, The Lab Report will feature a different undergraduate-research assistant on campus and their experience in the lab.

Ellen Damschen Lab, Department of Integrative Biology Human-induced changes and normal environmental processes are disrupting the cohesion of Wisconsin’s tallgrass prairies at an increasingly fast pace.

To protect the organisms that depend on tallgrass prairies, it’s important to restore and maintain these ecosystems, University of Wisconsin junior biology student Genevieve Anderegg said.

“Prairies are becoming rare in Wisconsin, even though they used to cover this region,” Anderegg said. “It’s important to have prairies because it’s what is supposed to be there.”

Wisconsin’s tallgrass prairies are a source of plant diversity, which is the foundation supporting a wide range of animals through a complex, interconnected system.

Primary consumers like insects feed on the vegetation and in turn, large predators feed on them. Other predators consume these predators and this self-regulating cycle continues. “[The system is] like a puzzle,” Anderegg said. “If you take out one part, it’s going to mess everything up.”

Anderegg is conducting undergraduate research in professor Ellen Damschen’s lab. Her research seeks to aid prairie conservationists and identifies the practices that are most beneficial to promote and maintain species diversity in these grasslands.

Anderegg’s project specifically investigates how dead plant material and snow cover in prairies affect small mammals, who use both to avoid becoming prey while foraging for seeds.

These seed predators are important members of the community because they influence plant community development and structure, she said.

“Small mammals can restrict growth of some species by feeding on their seeds, but they can help disperse other species by collecting their seeds and storing them,” Anderegg said.

Understanding how seed foragers’ activities change in the presence of varying levels of snow cover and plant litter, which is dead plant material, is important to inform prairie conservation efforts, especially approaches to controlled burning, she said.

Controlled burning is an important strategy to maintain plant diversity, Anderegg said.

It restores nutrients that will lead to more desirable plant growth in the future.

The time of the season when prairies are

burned affects the amount of plant litter present in the winter, she said. The earlier in the season the prairie is burned, the more dead plant matter accumulates and covers the ground in the winter months.

As snow cover decreases in response to climate change, the ideal amount of cover from dead plant matter may change and management strategies might need to be modified to accommodate this, Anderegg said.

Anderegg uses several plots of land to replicate conditions with different levels of snowfall and plant litter for her study. Each of these plots will contain a number of “seed containers.”

The seed containers protect their seeds from the elements while allowing small mammals to freely access them. Each container holds several seeds mixed into sand to mimic their natural occurrence.

Anderegg will record the amount and weight of seeds in each seed container before and after the study.

Anderegg hopes to learn how levels of seed predation change under different litter and snow conditions, which will affect future plant prairie communities and restoration trajectories.

Anderegg’s research is being conducted alongside a larger prairie climate change experiment her mentor Jon Henn, a UW graduate student in the department of integrative biology, conducts.

Henn uses the same treatment plots as Anderegg to investigate the effect of winter climate change on prairie plant communities. He examines the effect of variable soil temperature resulting from an absence of insulating snow cover on seed establishment.

“Genevieve’s question is interesting on its own but is also helpful to the overall project goal,” Henn said. “We want to be able to quantify the effect of small animals eating the seeds we’re putting out. Then we can account for that when looking at our climate manipulations.”

Anderegg is passionate about her research and loves that it gives her the opportunity to make a positive impact on the world outside of the university.

She hopes her findings can help those who are trying to sustain our environment.

“We know climate is changing” Anderegg said. “The way conservationists manage their land could really impact the way things change going forward. Our goal is to make concrete recommendations about how to maintain the prairie that you want while the climate continues to change.”

Photo · Anderegg’s project investigates how dead plant material and snow cover in prairies affect small mammals who forage for seeds.

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Photo · The seed containers protect seeds from the elements while allowing small mammals to freely access them.

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To grow workforce, bill proposes removing THC from employer drug tests Employees who consume marijuana months before drug test in states where it’s legal shouldn’t be punished, state representative says

by Gretchen Gerlach State Editor

A bill in the Wisconsin Legislature would remove THC — the main chemical in marijuana — from employer drug tests in an effort to get more people into Wisconsin’s workforce.

The bill’s author, Rep. David Bowen, D-Milwaukee, said people who have participated in the legal consumption of THC in other states should not be discriminated against when applying for a job in Wisconsin.

“There are so many folks who want access to the workforce but know they will not pass a drug test because of something they did months ago,” Bowen said.

Bowen said drug tests are becoming incredibly sensitive. Many of the tests employers use are able to pick up trace amounts of THC left in a prospective employee’s body from months before, Bowen said.

It is, for this reason, Bowen believes employees should not face repercussions for consuming THC months prior to a drug test.

“A harmless substance like marijuana should

not disqualify anyone from employment any more than consuming a few beers should,” Bowen said.

The bill is getting a lot of attention because it affects so many people, Bowen said. While research into how much of the population THC drug testing directly affects is still being conducted, Bowen believes acutely sensitive drug testing impacts a significant number of people.

Bowen said people around the state are having trouble with employment because of drug testing.

“I hear all the time from people who have either not gotten a job because of their drug test results, lost their job because of random drug testing or who have not even bothered to apply for certain jobs because they know they will be drug tested,” Bowen said.

The bill has seen support from marijuana advocacy groups, including the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Jay Selthofner, founder of the Northern

Wisconsin NORML chapter, said he sees a problem with employers too.

“It seems to me that some employers would rather judge their employees on the results of a drug test rather than the quality of their work,” Selthofner said. “Especially if the employee’s consumption of THC was in a state where marijuana is legal to consume.”

NORML has lobbied for marijuana reform over the years with the help of volunteers and politicians and works to educate the public on marijuana use and its effects.

Bowen said under this bill, employees of certain institutions would not be exempt from THC-free drug test. Under federal law, people operating heavy equipment and machinery, those contracted with the federal government or law enforcement would still be subject to drug tests that apply to all substances, including THC from marijuana and harder drugs.

Bowen has been in favor of marijuana reform and legalization in Wisconsin for a long time

but recognizes the process toward legal use of the drug will take time, especially in the current political climate.

With Republicans generally in opposition to any pro-marijuana legislation, seeing a bill like this come to fruition will take a while, Selthofner said.

“Any reform that passes with bipartisan support is a step in the right direction,” Selthofner said. “And even in states where marijuana is legal, drug testing is still an issue.”

Bowen also sees this bill as a step in the right direction for legalizing marijuana in Wisconsin but said before legalization happens, employees should not be penalized in the workplace.

Bowen, though a strong support of marijuana legalization, is more focused on the current issue at hand.

“For me, this is more of a jobs issue,” Bowen said. “I am more concerned with how to protect families, their jobs and their incomes.”

Wisconsin legislators clash over best gun violence prevention method

Madison East High School students stress safety of citizens shouldn’t be partisan issue, urged lawmakers to pass stricter firearm laws

by Molly Liebergall City Editor

Following last month’s fatal shooting in Parkland, Florida, Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin clashed in the legislature over how best to address gun violence prevention in the state.

Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, introduced a bill that would allow individuals licensed to carry concealed weapons to do so in Wisconsin private schools. It did not obtain co-sponsorship by its Feb. 23 deadline.

Following Kremer’s proposal, Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, R-New Berlin, and Rep. Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc, proposed amendments to the bill, which Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, and other Democratic representatives originally introduced.

The legislature voted mostly on party lines, with the majority rejecting a proposal for universal background checks. Instead, lawmakers passed both amendments, banning straw gun purchases — a move recognized as a positive step on both sides of the aisle — and offering funds for armed guards at Wisconsin schools — the more controversial piece of legislation.

In justifying Kleefisch’s amendment regarding additional armed personnel, Sanfelippo posed the question of why schools remain relatively unguarded when every other

public venue retains armed security.

“Everything that we consider important or valuable is guarded except schools,” Sanfelippo said. “What we need to do is provide the option for local school districts to hire armed individuals to offer protection because that is the single best line of defense.”

The amendments passed 75-24, with support from all Republicans and 11 Democrats.

Berceau challenged the logistics of the armed guard amendment and said she doubts security personnel presumably armed with a handgun would be able to adequately fend off an intruder wielding an assault or automatic weapon.

Berceau, whose background checks bill had been out for six years, restated her disapproval of the Republican Party’s actions in the state Assembly, which she voiced during the floor session.

“They wanted to be able to say they did something, they just didn’t want to support background checks or any restrictions,” Berceau said. “I said they were acting like blockheads because they won’t budge.”

On the morning of the Assembly floor session, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel told WTMJ Radio he believed elected officials should discuss the possibility of allowing guns in schools. In response to

this, Madison East High School juniors who attended a press conference alongside Democratic officials urged lawmakers to implement stricter gun laws in ensuring their safety and the safety of other students across the state.

Madison East student Annabel StattelmanScanlan felt especially discouraged watching as the legislature voted in opposition to the change she and her classmates wished to see.

“I felt hopeful in those moments when we were standing in front and giving our opinions and then afterward when it actually went to the Assembly it was like all hope was gone,” Stattelman-Scanlan said. “At this point, it just feels like a broken system.”

Teenage activism has risen to the forefront of the gun control debate since the Parkland shooting, with survivors like Emma González and Cameron Kasky emerging as prominent voices leading the Never Again movement.

Intent on reforming gun laws, ensuring Marjory Stoneman Douglas is the last mass shooting in America and minimizing the National Rifle Association’s control over politics, the movement has spread across the country, with national school walkouts planned for March 14.

Berceau lauded efforts among the teens taking action in the wake of the Parkland shooting but expressed concern over whether

current activism will continue in the future.

“Every time we have something like this, I think it’s going to be different,” Berceau said.

“I hope it really is. I hope they don’t get worn down and I hope they don’t get discouraged.”

Madison East High School student Anne Motoviloff, who spoke at the press conference, pondered how the Founding Fathers would react if they were able to see how the Second Amendment has been used to protect a person’s ability to buy a military-grade firearm. In her opinion, they would be disappointed in the government’s prioritization of “political and monetary interests” over the safety of American citizens — which should not be a partisan issue, Motoviloff said.

Despite frustration with how the Legislature, mainly the GOP, has chosen to respond to the Parkland shooting, Motoviloff and her classmates expressed no intention of abandoning their objective of improving gun control.

“It’s kind of just an unacceptable reality and it hits you hardest when people who are in a situation that’s really similar to your own are able to explain what happened to them, and still aren’t being protected by their government,” Motoviloff said. “It’s almost like you have an obligation to act when you realize ... that it could’ve been us.”

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Fishing for best Baja fish taco spans several restaurants in Madison From locations within students reach, our seafood expert shares her results traveling throughout isthmus for superior attempt on delicacy

by Talen Elizabeth ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Full disclosure — I’m from San Diego, California and I take Mexican food very seriously. Now that I am in Wisconsin, I’m fishing for the perfect Baja fish taco.

The traditional fish taco originated in Baja, California. Many agree on how to assemble one — lightly battered deep-fried white fish, corn tortilla (sometimes two), shredded cabbage and the sauce. This stuff is usually the perfect blend of sour cream, mayo, lime, garlic, cilantro and chili powder.

So here began my quest for the best fish tacos in Madison. Surely a place that does fish fry so well can throw together a proper fish taco?

Stop number one — Canteen. Located on the south side of Capital Square at 111 S Hamilton St., hop on a plethora of buses outside Sellery Residence Hall, and you’ll be there in 10 minutes.

This place devotes just as much space to seating as it does to its tequila bar. All of their tacos are between no more than $4, except for one. The one for which I came. Topping the price list at $5 a pop is their “Tecate” fish taco (Tecate is a city in Baja… my hopes are high).

Whitefish? Check. Corn tortillas? Check.

Cabbage? Check. Sauce? Delicious. They

pickle their peppers before they make their crema, but I’m not sure my pallet could pick up on the difference. They also top it with lovely cilantro and a citrus salsa that I personally could’ve done without. Solid fish taco, but it didn’t quite hit the spot like one from home.

Next on the agenda — La Hacienda.

Located at 515 S. Park Street, the restaurant is a 16-minute walk from Sellery.

Behind the hostess stand was a fridge of salsa in ketchup bottles, an ode to San Diego. Bottomless chips and salsa? Check.

Fish tacos on the menu? Check. I get two.

The first thing I notice is the lettuce. Not a deal-breaker, but until you’ve tried cabbage on a taco, you really haven’t explored your finest possibilities. The sauce? No kick. They did come with a hefty serving of beans and rice, but overall, the taco underwhelmed me.

My next stop — Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace.

Located at 2009 Atwood Avenue, this was a hike to get to. Unless you have a car, it’s going to take you about 30 minutes by bus to get to the Atwood neighborhood.

It may be a hike, but this place is a party on the inside with its bright walls, colorful artwork and substantial margarita menu.

Another highlight — the salsa bar that includes mild, medium, verde and hot salsas.

I tried them all (because science) and they’re

Photo · Although a distance from campus, Text Tubb’s Taco Palace provides arguably the best Baja fish taco in the city.

Talen Elizabeth The Badger Herald bomb. These tacos were beautiful. I went with a couple of friends and we sampled half the taco menu. My fish tacos? Amazing. Fish was seasoned, tortillas on point, cabbage and the sauce — oh my lord the sauce. This was the fish taco for which I was waiting. Topped with pico de gallo, this was my favorite Madison fish taco so far. I know it’s a journey from campus, but this place is 100 percent worth it.

So here began my quest for the “best fish tacos in Madison. Surely a place that does fish fry so well can throw toether a proper fish taco?

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Enjoy burritos with beer — State Street Taco Bell Cantina approved to serve alcohol Next on the tour de taco — Madison’s.

Located at 119 King St., Madison’s is at the eastern corner of the capitol square. Most buses can get you from campus to your seat in 15 minutes, otherwise, it’s a 24-minute walk from campus.

Madison’s is not a Mexican food place, but in all fairness, I wanted to give anywhere that advertised fish tacos a chance. “Diamonds in the rough,” and all that jazz. This was a diamond.

Whitefish? Check. Cabbage? Check. Their sauce? A spicy remoulade (a cold sauce made with mayonnaise and various condiments and herbs, as chopped pickles, capers, mustard, parsley, chervil and tarragon) that deviates from traditional but was super dang tasty.

Another pleasant surprise? Pickled onion. Put me on the petition to get these on everything.

Madison’s fish tacos are a win for me even though they remix the original recipe. Not the traditional Baja taco, but I’m still going back for more. You can tell they were paying attention to flavors, and my lord these are delicious.

Lastly — Eldorado Grill. Located at the very beginning of Willie Street at 744 Williamson. Jump on a bus (like the 03, 04 or 38) and you’ll be there in 15 minutes or less.

Right smack dab on the menu — Baja Fish Tacos. Coming off the back of the winning Madison’s experience, I’m ready for some conventional fish tacos. At Eldorado, you can get your fish grilled, but I went with fried. I noted three things right away: The pieces of fish were huge, the sauce was green and the pickled onions were back. The tacos were amazing, including the very green “cilantrolime” aioli. Though strange to hear, there was so much fish the flavors were drowned out. I felt like my whole bite was fish.

So for a traditional Baja taco, I’d say head to Tex Tubb’s. If you want something closer, and equally delicious, Madison’s is your best bet.

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Former Bon Iver band member on personal journey through music Once drummer, backup vocalist behind Eau Claire native Justin Vernon, performing in Madison for solo tour, making own name

by Melissa Simon ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Raised by musically talented parents, S. Carey’s career was inevitable from day one.

After attending his sister ’s jazz band performance and watching the drummer in awe, Carey knew that was his calling.

Carey started playing the drums at age 10. Years later, in high school, he began to play gigs, performing at local house parties and coffee shops. Carey then attended the University of WisconsinEau Claire, where he studied percussion and had the opportunity to meet Justin Vernon, now the primary songwriter and front man of American indie folk band Bon Iver. Through mutual friends, he was an acquaintance that would soon change his music career forever.

When Vernon was originally writing the debut studio album, For Emma, Forever Ago, a band was needed. Carey intensely studied Vernon’s record, making sure to learn the harmony and vocal lines to the

back from that tour “andI came just wanted to do my own thing, so that’s when that writing process started .

that theme, Carey said.

“The record’s really simple, you know, that’s sort of the message I want to communicate — trying to live a simple life,” Carey said. “I think it’s my most mature music that I’ve done. It’s very honest, and I think I’m in a different place than I was 10 years ago, as far as my own maturity as a person and as a musician. I’m a father now, and that’s definitely changed me, so I’m writing a lot about my family, relationships and friends and just this philosophy to live a simple life and figure out what makes you happy.”

Some of Carey’s songs reference specific events and feelings that have occurred throughout his personal life. Others, however, are more imaginative.

Opening up his most recent record, Carey wrote the song, “Rose Petals,” through his emotions that emerged while watching the Netflix original series, “Flaked.” Carey describes as he watched an episode, he felt an immediate attachment to one of the characters. The track captures what the character was going through and experiencing.

“I imagine writing a novel — you make it

up, but it’s based on things that you know about and based on things in your life, but you make it up and embellish it in certain ways,” Carey said.

To successfully evolve in the exceptionally competitive music industry, Carey understands the necessity for self-promoting through social media.

Nonetheless, he is particularly hesitant and cautious about doing so.

Promoting his music on social media through photos and videos while striving to be genuine prevents himself from coming off as self-indulgent or fake, Carey said.

“I am pretty torn on social media,” Carey said. “There are parts of it that are kind of terrible but at the same time you have to play the game — you have to promote yourself. For me, that means doing it in a very tactful way and just sort of trying to promote the music first and foremost and have it reach as many people as possible.”

Carey advised younger students and teenagers to find their niches and do what makes them happy, while also standing out from those around them at the same time.

The rising artist described the additional nerves that come along with performing in front of a familiar crowd in his hometown. While it’s sometimes more I’m writing a lot about my family, daunting to perform for people you know than in a random place where you can be relationships and friends and just more carefree and unrestrained, Carey the nerves will help by providing this philosophy to live a simple believes adrenaline. life and figure out what makes Carey’s upcoming tour will kick start in Eau Claire on March 15. His third you happy. performance will be in Madison at the High Noon Saloon on March 20, so make S. Carey sure to buy tickets, and maybe his old band will get back together.

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best of his abilities. After Bon Iver ’s first official show, Carey approached Vernon and suggested that he play for his band.

Little did Carey know that he would soon be on the road touring the U.S., Canada and Europe with Bon Iver for nearly two years as the drummer and supporting vocalist.

After Carey’s first tour with Bon Iver, the tour motivated him to begin writing solo and soon came out with his first album, All We Grow, in 2010.

“It was a very exciting time and inspiring,” Carey said. “I came back from that tour and just wanted to do my own thing, so that’s when that writing process started.”

Carey’s most recent album, Hundred Acres, just came out on Feb. 23. The album encompasses a theme of living simply and contentedly.

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Dane County TimeBank documentary sheds light on restorative justice

Time to forgive: Upcoming film screening champions forgiveness while providing Madison with inside look of relevance

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The Dane County TimeBank will share its far-reaching relevance in an upcoming screening of “Circle Up,” which details how restorative justice establishes forgiveness, accountability and growth.

An award-winning documentary directed

by Julie Mallozzi, “Circle Up” follows a group of mothers as they engage in restorative justice for their sons who were victims of violent murder. Together, they weave their stories to forge a narrative of forgiveness, Lorrie Hurckes Dwyer, executive director of the Dane County TimeBank, said.

“It’s difficult sometimes for people to understand the benefits and the power of restorative justice,” Dwyer said. “[It] is the power of the connections, the power of hearing everybody’s story and looking at a whole situation.”

The film centers on Janet Connors, a mother seeking restorative justice for her young son. After the murder trial, Connors sought

[It] is the power of the connections, “the power of hearing everybody’s story and looking at a whole situation.

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Lorrie Hurckes Dwyer out two of the accused men and offered them a chance to be forgiven. Afterwards, she succeeded in leading victim-offender conversations around Massachusetts.

Dane County TimeBank, a community service organization, who advocates for similar restorative justice initiatives in Madison, is presenting the upcoming screening and panel discussion for “Circle Up.” Straying from the traditional pursuit of punitive justice, restorative justice helps facilitate constructive dialogue between perpetrators and victims of crime, Dwyer said.

The organization has coordinated Youth

Court projects, which discipline juvenile crime through a peer-held trial. Instead of receiving a mark on their record, these teenagers and young adults have the opportunity to be held accountable and relate to a past mistake with the potential for growth.

“Our big goals were associated with just shifting some of the power dynamics around youth and adult authority figures, law enforcement or school staff,” Dwyer said.

“Youth could work with youth and hold youth accountable — we [recognized] the value of having everyone’s voice be heard in a situation and looking at a situation more holistically than punitively.”

The Dane County TimeBank offers an accessible version of restorative justice for Madison’s high school youth. It has initiated Youth Courts in four of the city’s public schools as well as in Verona High School.

For violations that would result in a police citation, the TimeBank collaborates on citywide initiatives to offer restorative justice proceedings for youth between the ages of 12 to 16 versus through the traditional system.

For an older demographic, Dane County offers community restorative court systems, which refer youth between the ages of 17 and 25 to restorative justice circles, a practice that Connors upholds in “Circle Up.” Despite the resources available in Dane County, not everyone has access to them, Dwyer said. She believes dialogue surrounding restorative justice is important to have in the community. For the TimeBank, bringing “Circle Up” to Madison is an engaging initiative to raise more local awareness.

“I think it’s so great we’re doing this film — I think there’s a lot of hesitation to use a restorative justice process for a situation like in this film,” Dwyer said. “I’m really happy to be able to talk about it in a way that it can be much more than what it is.”

The Dane County TimeBank will screen the“Circle Up” documentary and panel discussion at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on March 10. Doors will open at 1:30 p.m. for general admission and the event will run until 5 p.m.

MFA student depicts environmental crisis in current printmaking display West coast native Adriana Barrios revisits relationship with her coastal home through latest work showcased in Madison art gallery

by Morgan Grunow ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Adriana Barrios, a graduate student, is currently working towards her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin, with an emphasis in printmaking and an environmental message embedded in her work.

Born and raised in San Diego, the artist has been around the coast much of her life and is now revisiting the environment in her latest work.

Her experience has not been limited to one area of the world. Barrios earned her undergraduate degree at the University of TexasSan Antonio in 2009 and in 2015, she spent seven months abroad participating in a residency program in Florence, Italy.

Now at UW, Barrios is excited to have the opportunity to not only work with other artists and professors but to also explore various mediums outside of printmaking.

“There’s an opportunity to take advantage of all these other resources,” Barrios said. “The department doesn’t necessarily push interdisciplinary work, but it’s definitely invited.”

Barrios has become more exposed to photography, video, glass, screen printing and papermaking to name a few — all skills she acquired since she started her education here in the fall of 2016.

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close to her upbringing but also on her radar.

“I’ve always been interested in environmental spaces,” Barrios said.

“Growing up near the ocean was always a place to escape or to get away.”

Her time in graduate school thus far has given her the opportunity to investigate and think about these ideas and concerns. Being able to connect with professionals outside of the art department has also been a valuable resource for her and her work.

“It started with a collection of sand I took from San Diego and brought here,” Barrios said.

With the guidance of a geology professor she met early on in her time at UW, she was able to photograph the sand under a microscope, gaining insight into what has been happening to the coast. Unsurprisingly, humans have not been treating the environment with care, something Barrios looked further into.

She says southern California beaches are in a period of change. A lot of that change has to do with the human impact of damming up a lot of the rivers in California, she said.

The artist describes that rivers tend to bring sand to the beaches. Thus, the damming of the rivers creates a disappearance of the coastlines. Then “drudging” of the sand occurs — a process that involves taking sand from the ocean, replacing it on the beach only to have it disappear back into the ocean within 10 years or so.

Barrios was amazed by the ridiculousness of the cycle humans are putting the environment

Photo · Barrios revisits her California coast upbringings in her work.

Gradual Destruction/Adriana Barrios through and decided to bring awareness in the way she knows best — art.

In doing so, she has chosen printmaking, photography and video to capture the immensity of this problem as she enjoys the uncertainty and experimentation that result from the techniques.

“There’s a lot of opportunity for experimentation and surprise with

printmaking,” Barrios said. “It’s built on a foundation of experimentation.”

While these mediums deliver this certain benefit to her specifically, the artist also emphasizes the mediums’ benefits on her final project. Stating that science can typically be represented or received in a “cold” manner, Barrios hopes her representation of the environment through art can be more poetic.

Barrios is interested in how a photograph or video can change how we see, or how we know a specific location.

With this, she has portrayed the coastline in both close-ups and from afar. There is a certain intimacy and proximity value in close-ups, yet the wider shots can deliver the grand scheme of the problem.

The main goal of her project is to begin a conversation around a problem that desperately needs attention.

“My goal for my work is to [start] a conversation, to have some dialogue to call attention to [and] to just take notice of what’s currently happening,” Barrios said.

Perhaps this project will also call attention to her idea that we’re not in control at all — at least not when it comes to our relationship with nature.

The artist is also participating in a group exhibition in March at the School of Education Gallery. In “Twice Alive: a convergence of art, science and poetry,” Barrios is excited to portray her view of the environment in her desired medium.

For more information about Adriana Barrios, visit adrianabarrios.weebly.com.

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Live Undiscovered Music: Platform promotes undiscovered talent David versus Goliath, local company takes on mainstream industry, ingenius platform gaining prominence in Madison Within a few decades, technology completely revamped the face of the music industry, specifically the distribution of music to fans.

The radio and vinyl records spinning on turntables were replaced by tightly pressed CDs capable of being carried around with you and put in your car — maybe even a CD walkman if you were lucky. CDs were slowly phased out, with streaming services proving themselves to be more capable and easier to navigate, and once Apple opened their online music store in conjunction with the iPod, the writing on the wall became clear.

Listeners have become accustomed to a few main streaming services in the past decade — Apple Music, Spotify and Soundcloud pushing their way to the forefront of the streaming services competition. Specifically, Soundcloud’s free uploading platform allowed for the proliferation of hip-hop and EDM, creating new genre variations seemingly overnight.

Along with these new services, a new crop of entrepreneurs and innovators emerged, attempting to break down the walls of entrenched corporate America within music.

One local innovative company, Live Undiscovered Music, is attempting to correct the industry and make it easier for up-andcoming artists to gain traction within the community to get their names established.

Co-founded by Luke Logan and Max Fergus, both seniors at the University of Wisconsin, LUM’s (pronounced loom) main goal is

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to create a social network that is centered around optimizing organic music growth for up and coming artists, by allowing promotion of the songs on their charts through users ranking and sharing their new discoveries.

There has long been a disconnect between how much an artist could make off of streaming songs and the number of streams the song receives. Nipsey Hussle, a rapper who has dominated the Los Angeles mixtape scene for the past decade, revealed that getting a million streams on one of the mainstreaming services like Apple Music would give the artist a maximum of $12,500.

Many established artists such as Beyonce or Taylor Swift, are the ones who are receiving the actual benefits from streaming because they’re actually receiving enough streams to monetize on it.

Fergus said 99 percent of the music streamed belongs to 10 percent of the labels and artists. This means the remaining 1 percent has to be divvied up and distributed to the hundreds of thousands of other talented artists that are out there simply not receiving exposure.

LUM recognized streaming music is not a way for artists to make a lot of money, which is why they view their role as being a means to an end for an artist to tour and get signed, not to be their sole source of income.

There is no barrier to entry on the LUM platform, one simply has to sign up to post music, meaning artists aren’t having to pay, like they do through Spotify, to get their

music heard. In this regard, it is similar to the original goals of Soundcloud, which emerged as the go-to spot for up-and-coming artists to begin posting music for free and potentially gain national attention.

Where LUM differentiates itself, is their social media. The application allows for users to post rankings of theirs or immediately share their new artist finds directly with friends, instead of having to scroll through a feed mostly dominated by major label artists who pay for promotion within the app.

LUM’s format attempts to guarantee that it is not simply money paying for the song to be up at the top, or just the amount of streams it has.

“No one really knows what a stream counts for or how engaged the person actually is with the song, it could have been barely played but it counts,” Fergus said.

This means that the stream count on a song doesn’t really tell the full story, something the LUM social feed wants to change.

If someone tells you to listen to a song, then you are more likely to listen to them, the same way if a song is at the top of the charts you’ll probably give it a listen. By eliminating the ability of labels to dominate the top of the charts by promoting tons of streams through their own corporate finances, LUM gives fans the ability to see who is actually gaining traction locally and then see them live.

When it comes to live music, the two are already planning for the future.

A big part of their focus is to change

the way that fans view the relationship between streaming and circulating music while finding how it correlates to live music shows. In this arena of trying to promote live music, LUM has already partnered with Strange Music Oasis to host a show featuring local talent on March 14, at the Frequency in Madison.

The new company has already signed up almost 150 local artists for the beta version of the platform, showing that artists have been looking for an opportunity like this to be able to grow locally, and not have to give up all their money or time battling for views on a national platform.

By focusing locally, LUM stands apart from larger apps, with a base in a city that allows for specific focus on local artists, and also giving those artists the ability to perform in their own city.

Logan and Fergus have a deep passion for their project, and they truly believe it can change the industry as we know it. The growth potential for this platform is large, and if it can get into cities by partnering with local artists at a smaller level, it will give them deeper credibility and open even more doors.

“Everyone wants to cheer for an underdog, and our platform is full of them,” Logan said.

Fergus and Logan are working on launching their product this summer. If you want more information on the platform and what it might entail, you can go check out their Facebook Page, Live Undiscovered Music.

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in male-dominated majors WOMEN EXPERIENCE extra pressure to prove themselves In many STEM classes, female students make up less than 20 percent of classroom, contend with microaggressions

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For University of Wisconsin freshman Angela Houghtaling, being one of few girls in her engineering classes is nothing out of the ordinary.

During her engineering class last semester, students worked on a 30-foot manual water pump and were supposed to test it at the end of the semester over a stairwell.

“It was pretty heavy when we were testing it out, it took a lot of force to operate, but we spent the entire semester planning this and designing and building it,” Houghtaling said.

When it came time to test the pump, the professor called each of the male students up but repeatedly overlooked Houghtaling and the only other female student in the class. The professor told the other female student that she was “too small” to operate her pump.

When she’d had enough, Houghtaling told her professor she was going to test the pump next because she had worked just as hard all semester as her male classmates. She ended up beating her professor’s time operating the pump.

“I had to advocate for myself to be able to test my product,” Houghtaling said.

As a biomedical engineering major, Houghtaling is part of a field men currently dominate.

At UW, women make up 25 percent of the College of Engineering, 17 percent of computer science majors and 40 percent of chemistry majors, according to the Office of the Registrar. In some engineering majors, women make up even fewer percentages, such as computer engineering, where women make up just 13 percent of students.

Still, there are some STEM majors where women make up the majority, such as 64 percent of biology and 61 percent of kinesiology.

Though some of the sciences are seeing an increase in women, female students still feel the pressure to prove themselves in fields that men have historically dominated. As different campus groups push for inclusivity and more female representation in STEM fields, the women in these majors each have different outlooks on what it means to be in the minority.

Microaggressions in the classroom

UW senior and biomedical engineering major Tianna Garcia said she has noticed more microaggressions than outright sexual discrimination in her classes.

Women are often put in positions in which they have to prove themselves to their male colleagues, Garcia said. “[Male colleagues] don’t right away see me as an equal, whether it’s regarding knowledge or just flat out ability,” Garcia said.

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UW sophomore Olivia Li agreed with Garcia’s sentiments regarding the need to prove herself to her male colleagues. As an electrical engineering major, Li is part of just 14 percent of undergraduate women in that major, according to the Office of the Registrar.

Li feels there is a stigma that women in these male-dominated majors are not as capable as men.

While doing a class exercise, a male classmate kept asking Li if she knew how to do the problems and said she was working slow. When their scores came back, she had outperformed him.

During that encounter, Li felt there was more pressure on her as a female to succeed to prove herself — a pressure she feels her male colleagues have not had to encounter.

“It makes me kind of feel like I’m afraid of making mistakes because people could use that as an example that women aren’t capable,” Li said.

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In group projects, male students will disregard what their female classmates are saying, UW junior and genetics major Katlyn Frane said. Though Frane cannot be completely sure this happens because they are women, she still feels her male classmates undermine her. The thoughts and inputs female students give during a group discussion are often disregarded, or even ignored.

Young women’s educational experiences can discourage them from being in a male-dominated field, UW graduate student in computer sciences Ancy Philip said.

Philip noticed there is difficulty in retaining women in graduate computer science programs. As a teaching assistant in the undergraduate program, she noticed there are not enough women in her classes and that number is even lower in her graduate classes.

While professors often encourage women in their field, Philip has

found that whether intentional or not, microaggressions from male classmates are what discourage women.

“I feel like women have to work twice as hard as men just to prove themselves,” Philip said.

But not all women in these fields feel this way. Emily Tomashek, a chemical engineering major, feels completely comfortable in her male-dominated classes. She attributes this to the fact that she has never been personally discriminated against, but knows many girls who have been.

While Tomashek generally prefers to work with other women in class because they seem to be more accepting of mistakes, she rarely feels underestimated while working with male classmates. They treat her as they would treat their other male friends in a classroom setting.

Still, Tomashek thinks it would be beneficial to have more women in STEM majors and careers.

“If more girls are successful in STEM fields, then the next generation will be able to envision themselves as scientist or engineers and more and more girls will be willing to go into more male-dominated fields,” Tomashek said.

Pressure continues in careers

These experiences with microaggression and discrimination can continue into a woman’s career.

According to the Pew Research Center, 42 percent of women have said they experienced discrimination in the workforce because of their gender.

Director of the Masters of Engineering program Sandra Anderson has had a multitude of experiences in male-dominated fields both inside the classroom and in the professional world.

Anderson began her educational career at the University of Oklahoma where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering. At UW, 14 percent of undergraduate mechanical engineering majors are women.

During Anderson’s education, she didn’t experience microaggressions from male colleagues or professors, but that changed when she started her career.

While in the professional world, Anderson noticed men are “smart” about what they say and do not outright discriminate or harass their female colleagues. Anderson credits this to the increase in sexual discrimination training many workplaces require of their employees.

Anderson said while gender discrimination against females in these fields may not be as direct, it still happens subtly.

In one situation, Anderson accused a boss of discrimination based on her gender, to which he said he had never said anything directly.

“I said, ‘You are correct. You have never said anything. You have

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In another situation, Anderson said a boss was angry with her for not being “subordinative enough.”

Women who want to go into engineering or other maledominated fields should choose something they enjoy, Anderson said. Because then when someone says something, it won’t really matter.

“If you’re doing what you enjoy doing, then it won’t bother you so much if somebody said something,” Anderson said. “If you’ve got one person here or there that says something, you’re still going to get to do what you want.”

Working against history

The challenges of getting more women into science-related fields stems from a history of women being overlooked and undervalued in the workforce.

Historically, women in STEM fields have not had an easy time, UW history of women in technology professor Marie Hicks said.

Women began working in technology when computing and programming first began in the 1940’s, Hicks said. It was seen as “just using machines” and not very important, so women should do it.

That changed in the 1960’s when computers began to be recognized as “powerful,” Hicks said. There was a gender labor flip in the U.S. “[The flip] pushes women out of the field and pushes young men, who actually don’t have any technical skills, into those jobs,” Hicks said.

While people may believe women have gradually worked their way into STEM fields, that’s not exactly how it is in reality, Hicks said.

Women receiving degrees in computer science peaked in the mid 1980’s and declined until about 2008, Hicks said. The trend then came back up a little bit in the following years and is now starting to decline slightly again.

“In a way that’s good because we can look back on history and say, ‘how did we get into this mess?’ and come up with better answers to get out of this mess,” Hicks said.

While women have made progress since the ‘60s, there are still structural problems within the STEM field, Hicks said.

A common statistic regarding the gender pay gap is that women make 79 cents to a man’s dollar, according to a 2016 report from Senate Joint Economic Committee Democratic Staff. But UW economics professor Timothy Smeeding said there is a lot more behind this statistic than meets the eye.

The report said women earn 79 percent of what men earn, but this statistic is simply a ratio of women’s median earnings to men’s median earnings, UW economics professor Barbara Wolfe said in an email to The Badger Herald. It doesn’t directly compare earnings of a man and woman in the same position, doing the same work, Smeeding said. There are more nuanced issues at play than simply raising women’s wages.

This statistic does not take into account the fact that women are often the ones who take time off work for children, Wolfe said. The gap tends to be bigger for those in prime childbearing years.

Gender and women’s studies and psychology professor Janet Hyde said women also often go into fields like teaching and social work because they want to make a difference and feel welcome, but these fields also tend to be underpaid and undervalued.

While Hyde said women should go into these types of fields if they want to, parents and teachers tend to socialize women to push them into these fields — something Hyde said can discourage women from going into STEM fields.

“Adults contribute to gender socialization,” Hyde said. “They shunt girls and women into areas they’ve traditionally been in.”

But women should not think they are not smart enough or focus on what they cannot do, Hicks said. Instead, they should band together.

Women in the workforce can create unions to pool their power, Hicks said. Students can also get together to create things like educational initiatives to better fit their needs.

“Power is only real if exercised,” Hicks said.

Given the fact that women were behind in the job force for so

long because they were not allowed to be as highly educated as men, women are making up ground in the economy fairly quickly, Smeeding said.

While there is still room for improvement, women are better now economically than they have ever been, Smeeding added.

“The future for women is bright,” Smeeding said.

Efforts to expand women involvement

Professors, students and campus leaders are taking a variety of approaches to encourage more women to join STEM fields and to ensure women feel confident in them.

Engineering physics professor Todd Allen, who has also taught nuclear engineering classes, believes the low number of women in the field is keeping it from being as creative as it can be because many different views are missing. The engineering department is actively trying to recruit women.

Allen also said he makes sure he doesn’t treat his female students any differently and has notices they tend to be quite confident.

One way female students in these male-dominated fields at UW find community and strength is through Women in Science and Engineering. WISE is a worldwide campaign that began in 1984.

Frane is the vice president of the WISE out of house organization majoring in genetics. While genetics is a female-dominated field, Frane works closely with many female students who are in maledominated fields.

WISE gives girls the opportunity to find other women in their specific major, Frane said. Computer science, for example, is an undergraduate major with 230 women compared to 1085 men.

“WISE helps make a smaller campus for everyone, even smaller for the women in STEM on campus,” Frane said. “It can be really hard, especially for those girls in engineering, to connect with other women on campus.”

Houghtaling, also in WISE, agreed with Frane. The program holds

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seminars to connect students with women in STEM. The program provides female role models for students in their specific fields as well as contacts for things like internships, Houghtaling said. Houghtaling made a contact at a seminar and was able to maintain a research position because of that connection.

“I feel like I don’t know what I would do without WISE because there are so many people that think like you and are going into the same the same field as you,” Houghtaling said. “You just instantly have a bond.”

In addition to the classroom, men dominate shop areas as well.

To get women more involved with the hands-on processes of design and fabrication, biological system engineering professor Rebecca Larson and shop instrumentation specialist Kody Habeck started the Biological Systems Engineering Women’s Shop Night.

Larson said it is sometimes difficult for women to be in a shop surrounded by males along with the added pressure of learning a new task.

“I think the women who have participated have grown in many different ways,” Larson said. “Some are more confident in their abilities which is reflected in other parts of their work.”

The female students who participate in the BSE women’s shop night are also able to meet and form relationships with women in their fields with similar interests, Larson said.

While a lot of work still needs to be done to encourage women to go into STEM fields, one great step is providing young women with role models who encourage their passion in their fields, Larson said.

“Sometimes it can be discouraging when I hear [women] are backsliding in some ways,” Larson said. “But programs like this and the female students I see in the department comfort me as I remember there are so many wonderful females who will absolutely continue to help the STEM fields evolved to be a more inclusive environment.”

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Relaxed firearm documentation detrimental to Wisconsin’s safety

Unorganized gun registration throughout state encourages violence, while making investigation into crimes more difficult

by Abigail Steinberg Opinion Editor

Nearly three weeks after the Marjory Stoneman-Douglas shooting in Parkland, Florida, America’s gun control debate has only grown more volatile.

As politicians grapple with the task of making our country safer, two of America’s top gun retailers, Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods, took precautions to severely limit sales of firearms, particularly the semiautomatic rifles that are commonly used in mass shootings. In a strange turn of events, America’s corporations took the moral high road even though it may slash profits.

If large conglomerates can look within themselves and take steps to solve significant societal issues, there is no reason smaller entities cannot. Change starts at home. So where does Wisconsin sit when it comes to assault rifles?

No one is entirely sure. Determining the number of assault rifles in the state and

who owns them is virtually impossible.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the federal agency responsible for overseeing the sale of firearms, does not keep a record of every purchase or owner. The records that do exist are spread across the hundreds of licensed gun dealers across the state. Semiautomatics, weapons of choice in several mass-shootings, are in wide circulation across Wisconsin — but no one is sure where.

Records do exist, albeit inconveniently decentralized, but they only apply to licensed distributors. If one wants to buy a gun second hand, the ATF encourages the two parties to follow applicable laws and be in the presence of a licensed seller. But since it’s not required, secondhand gun sales is where the paper trail of gun ownership goes cold. This makes searching for guns involved in crimes extremely difficult, making their large,

yet unorganized presence in Wisconsin all the more troubling. Therefore, Wisconsin needs a systemic, statewide registry of all firearms, particularly assault rifles and long guns.

Canada adopted a similar nationwide registry in 1995. A Statistics Canada study showed from 1995 to 2010, there was a 41 percent decrease in long gun homicides. Law enforcement used registry information over 17,000 times per day.

A system like this in Wisconsin would significantly minimize the number of homicides in the state and make it easier for police to investigate the crimes that do happen. Overall, a statewide registry would make Wisconsin safer.

Sadly, Canada ended the long gun registry requirement in 2012 because of push from conservative lawmakers. This move led to an immediate spike in firearmrelated homicides. Given that Wisconsin is a state rather than a country, one can assume

that the effects of a statewide registry may not be the same. But if Wisconsin’s hypothetical registry has even a fraction of the amount of success that Canada’s did, every citizen of the state would be safer.

Furthermore, a new policy such as this can be seen as a satiating compromise to the gun control debate, albeit only at a state level for now. Violence will be curtailed and justice will be easier for law enforcement to pursue, while not infringing on anyone’s right to bear arms.

It may not be a perfect solution, but it’s a start. If current events have shown anything, is that things need to change for the safety of ourselves, our children and our future. Let a statewide registry for firearms be the start of a shift towards a safer Wisconsin.

Abigail Steinberg (asteinberg@badgerherald. com) is a freshman majoring political science and intending to major in journalism.

Chat tool designed to ease privacy concerns could have adverse effects App has chance to revolutionize understanding of complex documents, but may negatively impact dependence on technology

by Eric Hilkert Columnist

Kassem Fawaz, an associate professor of computer and electrical engineering here at the University of Wisconsin, is one member of a consortium of researchers that worked to design a new chat tool aimed at helping users understand what rights they are giving up when they click on the omnipresent “I’ve read and understand the terms and conditions” button.

Typically drafted by lawyers, “these documents tell you, ‘This is

the information we’re collecting, this is how we’re processing it...

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to.

Fawaz articulated this in a recent interview. He said, “Typically drafted by lawyers, these documents tell you, ‘This the information we’re collecting, this is how we’re processing it, this is who we’re sharing it with, this is how we’re storing it and these are your options regarding the collection and processing of it’.”

This sounds like information the public should be interested in. The collection of data is important, and the privacy concerns that often come with it are things that bother us. How many people have been bothered by incessant ads for products they looked at once and decided not to purchase. Well, guess what? They probably agreed to that when they said they understood the privacy policy.

Fawaz and his colleagues think they have a unique answer to help this issue.

They developed an automated chat bot, accessible at pribot.org, that you can ask questions about privacy policy. The user inputs the site it is curious about, and then can ask questions about that site’s privacy policy. An example question could be, “How does this site use my browsing history?” prompting the bot to scour until it finds the answer to your question.

The group also created an accompanying tool called Polisis, that shows the data companies collect in colorful and easy-todigest graphs.

“ Overall, this technology has the chance to revolutionize the way we understand complex documents like legal contracts and congressional bills.

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While this tool will have immediate applications in improving the privacy of web users, what’s more interesting is the underlying technological applications.

Consider all the documents that get overlooked because they are too long and wordy to read. As students, we all have had to sign leases. Would it not have been great if there was a tool that answers specific questions about a lease?

How about an employment contract? All things that would be amazingly easier to comprehend with tools like this.

Even beyond contracts, tools like this

can change the way we examine politics.

Bills that pass through Congress are most of the time obnoxiously wordy and longer than a Monday morning walk up Bascom.

We end up relying on biased news outlets to summarize the bills for us.

With tools like Pribot and Polisis, these bills could become much more accessible to the average citizen. We could finally figure out what a bill accomplishes without needing to rely on news sources and biased individual analysts.

Of course, technology like this does still raise issues. Society is becoming increasingly reliant on technology and this would take that a step further. Do we want to live in a future where critical reading is no longer a human skill, but machine?

Unfortunately, the opportunity to question the role of technological dependence in our society may have passed already.

Overall, this technology has the chance to revolutionize the way we understand complex documents like legal contracts and congressional bills. But its effects on humanity’s dependence on technology remains to be seen.

Eric Hilkert (ehilkert@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in finance.

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Recognizing economic disparities essential for equity in education Interactions between gender, wage inequality may be responsible for lack of women STEM workers in countries promoting gender equality

by Cait Gibbons Columnist

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, in 1970, women made up 36 percent of the U.S. workforce, but a mere 7 percent of the U.S. STEM workforce. By 2011, the total workforce was 48 percent female and the percentage of women who made up the STEM workforce had risen to 26. Now more than ever, American women are pursuing STEM-related fields in their academic and professional careers.

But a new study published in Psychological Science found in countries that heavily promote women’s rights and have significant support for gender equality movements, like the U.S., the percentage of women pursuing STEMrelated fields is significantly lower than that in countries rife with gender inequality, such as Turkey, Algeria and Tunisia. For example, the study found that in Algeria, more than 40 percent of STEM college graduates were women—a full 15 percent higher than here in the U.S. The reason for the disparity is not completely clear. In an interview with The Atlantic, University of Wisconsin Gender Studies professor Janet Shibley Hyde said, “In wealthy nations, they believe that they have the freedom to pursue those alternatives and not worry so much that they pay less.” In other words, the disparity could be because countries with greater gender inequality, in turn, have greater wage inequality, as well as less extensive welfare programs, meaning that poverty rates for women are higher.

As such, women in these countries may pursue STEM-related fields because they offer a more certain economic future.

Similarly, within the U.S., a recent study at Cornell University found that students’ choice of college major bears a significant correlation to their parents’ income.

Specifically, students who come from higher-income families are more likely to select a major in the humanities, such as English, history, visual/performing arts and sociology. Alternatively, students from lower-income families, tend to select majors in more reliably lucrative fields, such as computer science, medicine and mathematics. Cornell sociologist Kim Weeden, head of the study, suggested, “Kids from higher-earning families can afford to choose less vocational or instrumental majors because they have

Photo · Gender inequality in STEM fields may be consequences of economic, cultural differences between countries.

Riley Steinbrenner The Badger Herald more of a buffer against the risk of un- or under-employment.” Basically, students with a financial cushion from their parents have the flexibility to be able to choose a career with a less certainly lucrative financial future. Pursuing a STEM-related field bores significantly

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less financial risk, as careers in such fields tend to have higher salaries, almost entirely across the board. Those with a less stable financial background or a politically less certain financial future likely choose these fields in order to ensure the ability to establish financial

independence.

Strictly speaking, being able to choose a financially riskier major is a privilege.

This is not to say that fields such as history, English and performing arts are unimportant. These disciplines are rigorous, intellectually challenging and vital to society. A society could not exist without experts in these areas and moreover, even students studying STEM fields should be well versed in humanities disciplines in order to have a more holistic view of the world.

With that said, focusing in humanities courses is not as easy for some. With less financial flexibility, careers have to be about making enough money to live.

With greater financial freedom comes the ability to choose a career based on not only earning potential but also based on passion. Students from higher-income backgrounds and more supportive communities have more freedom to pursue passions without fear of failure leading to insolvency.

Just as with any type of privilege —

whether racial, sexual orientation-based, gender-based or otherwise — the first step to addressing it is to acknowledge it. Having enough privilege to pursue higher education in the first place is one thing, but it’s important to recognize that the buck doesn’t stop there. Within institutions of higher education, there are many, many tiers of privilege that we often don’t see when thinking about ourselves as one community of badgers.

Attending college boasts the opportunity to do what you love and pursue your passions, but that isn’t necessarily realistic for everyone.

Recognizing how your experience at UW may be different from that of your peers can go a long way toward equalizing higher education and allowing more students at UW and around the world to pursue their passions, as opposed to merely seeking financial security.

Cait Gibbons (cgibbons3@wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in Chinese with a certificate in statistics.

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Education historians’ actions mark shift towards inclusiveness New employees have taken exceptional initiative in diversification, representation of minority groups throughout Wisconsin history

by Courtney Degen Columnist

It’s no secret Wisconsin has somewhat of a racist background. The University of Wisconsin itself is built on Native American land and there are often complaints from both students and faculty that the university should do more to encourage diversity and stray away from its racist past Thankfully, the Wisconsin Historical Society has taken a step in the right direction by hiring Tanika Apaloo as adult education coordinator and Vaunce Ashby as director of education in fall 2016. These two women were hired as part of Wisconsin Historical Society’s outreach to underrepresented communities, in this case for women of color.

One of the first things Apaloo was asked to do was plan an event for 2017’s Black History Month. She decided to skip the traditional guest-speaker type of events during Black History Month and her openhouse style event was a success, with the most recent 2018 celebration including a

Baptist choir, traditional soul food, and spoken word poetry.

The hirings of both Apaloo and Ashby are extremely significant to diversifying not only the Wisconsin Historical Society but also Wisconsin itself. Apaloo and Ashby have worked to find more historical artifacts pertaining to black history and have both contributed to adding more people of color on the WHS website and in other marketing work.

To help bring a new item to WHS, Ashby drove to Milwaukee to meet with the owner of the item several times and discussed extensively how it would be displayed and described in the museum. This was a new concept as most museum employees would collect new items within one trip.

What Ashby was effectively able to achieve through these actions, however, was build a relationship with the owner of the item and get as much as information as possible about the item, which led to a more effective and informative display.

In addition to discovering new items, Apaloo and Ashby have been instrumental

in bringing attention to several artifacts already presenting African-American history in the museum’s archives.

Ashby said, “We get excited because we’re like, we knew it was here! We knew it was here!”

Ashby actually has a special artifact hanging in her office a museum curator gifted to her when WHS first hired her. The copy of the 1901 picture depicts an AfricanAmerican family on its homestead in Pleasant Ridge.

Besides their valuable contributions to Wisconsin Historical Society’s events and artifacts, Apaloo and Ashby have also served as friendly faces for other African-Americans to strike up a conversation with and have helped make people of color feel more comfortable asking questions about certain artifacts. Since they have both education backgrounds, if neither women can answer a historically-related question, they are sure to find someone who can.

Ashby, specifically, aims to educate more

children about African-American history, especially those that are of African-American descent. Ashby said, “Kids want to know, just like adults, Where am I in the history of our state? Was everybody who came here a slave? When did we come? What did we do when we were here?”.

Overall, the hirings of Apaloo and Ashby signal a shift in mindset for the Wisconsin Historical Society, proving they are willing to make diversity a top priority in today’s somewhat hostile climate. This is not only valuable to people of color but to all Wisconsinites and students and faculty of the university, helping to spread the idea that diversity should be a priority and we as a school, state, and community can do better to make all people, regardless of race, feel valued.

Courtney Degen (cdegen@wisc.edu) is a freshman majoring in political science and intending to major in journalism.

New app makes healthcare more accessible, deserves greater funding Advanced technology tears down barriers for recovering addicts regardless of socioeconomic status, making recovery easier

by Juliet Dupont Columnist

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health researchers studied the effects of a mobile health app intended to integrate treatments for substance abuse and addiction into primary care. The app, called Seva, features a discussion board and modules to instruct the user on problem-solving techniques, ways to cope with cravings and how to respond to high-risk situations.

Study participants had 44 percent fewer riskydrinking days, 34 percent fewer illicit drug-use days, 32 percent fewer hospitalizations and 49 percent fewer emergency department visits.

Despite clear benefits to patients, the app’s use is only possible so long as funding for the program is maintained. A National Institute on Drug Abuse grant paid for the phones and data, but the application’s use ceased when funding stopped coming in. The study hopes to find more longterm sources of funding to keep systems running for patients.

But there are legitimate concerns about sustaining such a program. Mobile health apps, as effective as they may be, do not replace doctors with a trained eye, careful expertise and human concern. After all, the internet is famous for producing the names of deadly infections upon a simple search of “headache and fever.” Despite 18 • badgerherald.com • March 6, 2018

these extremities, medically-sound, structured health apps can serve as useful tools for ongoing treatment following a doctor’s diagnosis and advisement.

Seva could be a step in the right direction for providing continuous care for patients with substance use disorders, with the tools for rehabilitation in their pockets at all times. Mobile health apps are not alternatives to in-person treatment, but tools healthcare professionals should be used to personalize their patients’ experiences of rehabilitation.

Increased use and additional funding of the apps does not mean in-person consultations with doctors are any less important, but give those struggling with substance use disorders access to constant care and support. This especially holds true in low-income communities that face barriers when obtaining treatment, such as transportation, scheduling conflicts, work and the sheer cost of paying for a few minutes with a doctor. If Seva’s funding is renewed, the universal access to assistance for substance abuse survivors would relieve some of these barriers and ease the burden of low-income patients.

Access to a mobile health app would provide patients suffering from substance use disorders with around-the-clock support that best suits their personal needs, without the necessity for numerous time-consuming consultations with

Photo · An app University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health researched reduces rates of risky-drinking, illicit drug-use and hospitalizations for patients recovering from substance abuse disorders.

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The topic of healthcare has been hotly debated over the last few months and has somewhat lost steam in legislative stalemates. Even so, Americans should reserve some optimism for technological advances to aid in age-old struggles. Mobile health apps are a significant step in the right direction

for easy-access, personalized healthcare for all Americans and serve to help medical professionals treat their patients rather than hinder their progress and importance.

Juliet Dupont (jdupont@wisc.edu) is a freshman intending to major in political science and journalism.

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Legislation poised to undermine gay rights history has few benefits Bill that would complicate process of granting local landmark status suspiciously feels like effort to block recognition of gay rights

by Lucas Johnson Opinion Edior, Editorial Board Chair

Imagine accomplishing so much in your lifetime that the locales in which you paved the way for change were immortalized.

Untouchable to construction or demolition, the memory of your philosophies, guiding principles and all you stood for not only stand the test of time, but serve as a constant, public reminder to passer’s by.

Instead of your life’s work meaning something to only those active enough to pursue its contents, it becomes identifiable to anyone fortuitous enough to cross paths with your monument. In essence, historical monuments and local landmarks serve two main purposes. First, they protect the established location from future alterations and secondly, serve as an educational tool and consistent reminder of the history they serve to preserve.

Rep. David Clarenbach, who served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1975 to 1993, alongside gay activist Leon Reuse, are widely credited as the main proprietors of the 1982 Gay Rights Bill, which established Wisconsin as the first state in the country to protect gay men and lesbians from discrimination in the workplace, housing and public accommodations. Additionally, a year later, the state legislature legalized any and all sexual relations between consenting adults, including those of same-sex partners.

Logically, this 1982 landmark legislation was a historic step towards a more progressive and tolerant state. Hidden behind the bill’s eventual approval is a common story of institutionalized resistance and conservative intolerance.

During the 1982 campaign, fundamentalist Christian radio stations compiled a lastditch effort to garner support for an eventual veto of the bill through a caustic radio ad campaign. Heroically, Madison’s LGBTQ+ community countered with an equally fierce radio campaign on progressive station WORT encouraging widespread support of the bill. In a storybook ending, the governor ’s office telephone lines struggle to keep up with the hundreds of calls surrounding the controversial bill. On Feb. 25, 1982, Gov. Lee Dreyfus would sign the bill into law, signally a major victory for Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ community.

Clarenbach, a Madison resident himself, owned a W Gilman St. property during his push to pass this monumental bill, while the house later served as an office space for local gay rights leaders. As such, the house is under consideration to be recognized as a local landmark, effectively cementing his legacy in state history.

Unfortunately, a new bill introduced to the legislative floor relatively at the last minute would immensely complicate the requirements to designate any location as a local landmark, requiring building owners to provide their consent before granting such a designation, also necessitating a consensus agreement from the surrounding community to designate the neighborhood as a historic district. As justification for the bill, the only two co-sponsors, Sen. David Craig, R-Town of Vernon, and Rep. Tyler August, R-Lake Geneva, assert the bill aims to bolster protections of private property ownership.

Now after this whirlwind of context, a troublingly clear picture arises. The bill was introduced at the last moment, suggesting its review was brief, the bill has only two sponsors, suggesting support is lacking and

the justification is flimsy at best — has the designation of local landmark genuinely ever impeded a community or property owner so harshly so as to necessitate legal action against the title? It’s not unreasonable to suggest this bill’s introduction is a disguised effort to prohibit recognition of a gay rights landmark.

As further evidence, the city of Madison has spoken out in opposition to the bill, citing concerns on how any landmark can be designated if it all revolves around consent.

An entire municipality’s opposition to the effort suggests that its benefits are either too minuscule to justify approval, or that the drawbacks are too substantial to ignore.

Even more concerning, Steve Brown Apartments CEO Margaret Watson is reportedly in support of the bill, after filing to

move the Clarenbach house in 2013 to make way for a three new apartment complexes.

Watson voiced her support of recognizing the significance of the home, saying “We support recognizing and memorializing that activity.”

But if Watson cares about preserving that history, why support a bill that would make designating it a local landmark that much more difficult? The contradiction is hard to miss.

Ultimately, this tired tale of legislation which subtly undermines marginalized identities under the guise of, in this case, property rights has no place in the city of Madison. The combination of close to zero political support, adamant city disapproval and weak justification for the bill’s benefits should be enough to bury this unproductive and nearly useless bill.

Photo · New legistlation complicating requirements to designate location as historical landmark unnecessarily discrimnatory against LGBTQ+ individuals, unproductive and useless.

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International Women’s Day: Badger women that paved way While by no means exhaustive, we put together few highlights of notable Badger history to share this week

by Will Stern Sports Editor

In honor of International Women’s Day, The Badger Herald Sports Section would like to pay tribute to the many incredible female athletes over the years that have made our university a better place and paved the way for women yet to come.

According to a “UW Women’s Sports History,” which University of Wisconsin Athletics published in 2004, the university approved an athletics program for women in 1974 — two years after Title IX made discrimination based on sex illegal in public schools.

The Badger women didn’t take long to begin their now customary winning ways. In 1975 the Women’s Rowing Team took home the first ever national title for female athletes at the university.

In 1976, Gilda Hudson-Winfield won the Big Ten 100-yard race, becoming the first African American Big Ten Champion, as well as scholarship athlete at the university.

In 1981, the Badgers recorded one of the most remarkable games in Wisconsin sports history.

The newly formed women’s soccer team found their first varsity win in a match-up against Beloit College. Certainly monumental, but what stood out about this particular milestone? The first win in team history came in an 18-0 smackdown. Still the most goals Badgers scored in history and the largest margin of victory. Not a bad way to get the program off and running.

In 2008, the university bid goodbye to a true legend. Jolene Anderson left the university after four years of prolific scoring. After winning Big Ten Player of the Year in her senior season and graduating, Anderson had set the school record for scoring in men’s and women’s basketball.

Rower Carie Graves became Wisconsin’s first Olympic Gold Medal winner in 1984. This would be the start of a proud tradition of Wisconsin Women competing on the world’s stage. In this year’s Winter Olympics, former Badgers Meghan Duggan, Hillary Knight, Brianna Decker and Alex Rigsby were members of the Team USA Women’s Ice Hockey Team that won an exciting gold medal match against Canada.

Arguably one of the most consistently dominant of any Wisconsin sport, Women’s Ice Hockey has had an incredible run over the last

15 years. It is rarer to find a week in which the team was ranked outside the top five in a poll since they won the NCAA championship in the 2006 season. The Badgers were also National Champions in 2007, 2009 and 2011.

Another dominant sport on campus is Women’s Volleyball. Badgers have had the good fortune to pack into the Field House and be treated to a top 15 nationally ranked program for each of the last five years, though they are still searching for that first National Championship.

The university has plenty of history as the home to top-notch female athletes and today that is no different. Ice Hockey Goalie Kristen Campbell is finishing up one of the greatest seasons in Wisconsin History. Volleyball superstar Dana Rettke was just named the AVCA Freshman of the Year, First Team AllAmerican and a member of the All-Big Ten Team in 2017. Track and Field heptathlon and pentathlon senior Georgia Ellenwood is a six-time All-American and the 2017 Big Ten Champion in pentathlon.

Thanks to Badger women of past and present, from volleyball to hockey and rowing,

for competing at the highest level and inspiring generations of Badgers to come.

Photo ·Badgers Volleyball has been ranked in the top 15 nationally for each of the last five years.

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As eSports scene continues to grow, collegiate teams, leagues are next

Madison eSports Club was founded in 2009, promotes love of gaming, fierce skilled competition around community

by Patrick Gallant Writer

You may have heard of eSports. Sweaty teens pounding away at keyboards playing computer games for next week’s lunch money. Or at least, that’s what eSports used to be in its infancy.

The literal definition of eSports is simply “a multiplayer video game played competitively for spectators.” The first organized eSports event was in 1972 at Stanford University. Students competed playing the Star Wars-inspired game “Spacewar.”

It was eight years later that Atari organized over 10,000 players to participate in their Space Invaders Championship. The eSports scene has only grown since then. Companies in charge of titles like “Overwatch” and “League of Legends” started up franchised leagues this year with players earning salaries rumored to be up to one million dollars. As competitive video games gain legitimacy and take notes from established sports leagues like the NBA, the next step seems to be supporting the growth of collegiate competition to create leagues and tournaments where players can develop and get scouted.

Enter the Madison eSports Club. Originally founded to organize and field the best gaming talent this school has to offer for national competition in “Hearthstone,” “Heroes of the Storm” and other games, the club is also now focusing on making eSports accessible to anyone interested.

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Benjamin Starfeldt, the club’s social chair, spoke with us about where he sees eSports going in the future and his hopes for Madison’s eSports club.

While he notices an increasing number of people saying “wait a second, this is for real,” when looking at eSports leagues and prize pools, Starfeldt still “would like to see a future where eSports are not questioned as far as legitimacy and I think we’re getting closer to that.”

In the past Starfeldt competed with club organized teams in “Heroes of the Dorm,” a tournament Blizzard organized for their game Heroes of the Storm where the winning team gets their tuition paid in full, placing in the top 32 teams, as well as placing in the top 64 for Hearthstone’s largest collegiate tournament.

Other successful teams from the club include the League of Legends team which participates in the uLoL series, a league for college teams from across the country. uLoL games between Big Ten teams can be seen on BTN and the players receive scholarships from the network as well. UW’s uLoL team is currently third in their division and only one game behind the first and second teams. As a competitive gamer, Starfeldt was happy to tell us about the club’s League of Legends, “CS:GO,” “DOTA,” “Rocket League” and other teams but was maybe even more excited to share with us the club’s goals for growing their social side.

While some complicated games like League of Legends may seem intimidating to newcomers, Starfeldt assured us there is space

in the club for people who want to play more casual games like Mario Kart and just unwind.

Starfeldt sees the club as one of the only places gamers can go on campus to find community and said “We, as a club, want to provide a space for gamers on campus to find other people to play

their games and learn new games with.”

The club regularly organizes events for gamers on campus to meet and participate in some friendly competition. Their next event is March 18 and features a March Madness themed Fortnite tournament.

Photo · Madison eSports Club is meant to be one of the few places on campus gamers can meet and bond over their shared hobby.

Courtesy of Benjamin Starfeldt

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Ticket to Colorado goal for Badgers Rugby Sevens for Nationals Team competes in Big Ten against other Division 1 schools, UW campus to host Big Ten Sevens Championship in spring

by Adam Blackwell Writer

It’s 10 p.m. on a Wednesday night and around 60 young men of all shapes and sizes flood into the McClain Center, an indoor training turf that neighbors Camp Randall Football stadium.

But there are no footballs, helmets or shoulder pads in sight. The University of Wisconsin Men’s Rugby Club is warming up for their first practice of the season.

Warm-ups and stretches progress into passing drills — backwards passes only, of course. These passing drills then morph into some game plan practice. The first practice of the season won’t stop the players from warming up their shoulders and getting into some tackling drills.

The rugby club consists of players with a range of experience, some who have played since high school, others found the game when they arrived at UW, and even a handful who were picking up a rugby ball for the first time.

Introducing people to rugby is a big part of the club policy, Head Coach Scott Adlington explains.

“We’re a club who brings in all quality

of players, so we need our existing players to start inviting their mates along and really push that side of it too,” Adlington said.

But no matter their ability level or playing experience, the players all shared one in thing in common — an intense passion for the game

We’re a club who brings in all quality of “players, so we need our existing players to start inviting their mates along and really push that side of it too

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Scott Adlington Head Coach

of rugby. It may be a minor sport here in the United States but those on the UW practice field show as much enthusiasm for the sport as you would see elsewhere.

The UW Men’s Rugby Club was formed in 1977 when it split from the Wisconsin Rugby

Club and became a team comprised of UW undergraduate students.

The club has since enjoyed its fair share of success in the traditional 15 a side format of the game. They originally played in the Wisconsin University Union championships and now play their trade in the Big Ten 15’s Championship, a championship they have won twice since its inception in 2012.

Rugby is traditionally played in the peak of winter and this is the case for college teams in places such as California and the mid-south.

But because of the Midwest’s harsh winters, the Badger ’s schedule is a bit different as Adlington explains.

“We shut down over the winter period, and then have to look at doing some indoor training in early March,” Adlington said.

This means the spring semester is predominantly sevens season for the Badgers Rugby Club. Sevens is a faster paced and more open version of rugby in which teams only have seven players per side as opposed to the traditional 15. Games are still played on a full sized field but are shorter, only lasting 14 minutes.

The Badgers’ sevens schedule comprises a number of tournaments, the first of which are in April and will be played at Illinois

and Michigan. Following these tournaments, they will compete in the Big Ten Sevens Championship, which will be held on UW’s campus.

Winning the Big Ten Sevens Championship means qualification to the USA National Sevens tournament, which will be held in Glendale, Colorado this year. After suffering a defeat to Ohio State in last years’ final the Badgers will be looking to go better this year and make it to the big game in Colorado.

In his fifth season as Badgers coach and with over 20 years of coaching experience the Australian-born Adlington has seen his fair share of rugby both here and abroad. In Australia, he played for GPS club in Brisbane

“ When I first came over most of the guys

I was coaching had never played rugby before and so what I was doing was taking them from being a footballer or a soccer player and teaching them to play rugby.

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Scott Adlington

Photo · The UW Rugby Club team mixes players of all skill levels to spread the sport of Rugby on campus and compete at a high level.

Courtesy of Scott Adlington

and the Sydney University club.

Since coming to the United State, he has had coaching roles with Baltimore Chesapeake, a first division club in Baltimore Maryland, the Chicago Lions rugby side and now the UW Rugby Club.

So how does rugby in the United States stack up with rugby in other parts of the globe?

Since arriving in the country, 20 years ago Adlington has seen a great deal of improvement.

“When I first came over most of the guys I was coaching had never played rugby before and so what I was doing was taking them from being a footballer or soccer player and teaching them how to play rugby,” Adlington said.

Comparing this to present times he said “there are more and more players who are coming out who have played rugby in middle school or high school which makes a huge difference.”

Along with players getting involved in rugby earlier, an increase in exposure is also leading to great benefits for the club, having played in National tournaments that are televised on NBC and ESPN. While being competitive, trying to win tournaments, and gaining national exposure is important for the club, Adlington adds “we also want to be a club that is a lot of fun to play at as well.”

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by Danny Farber Sports Editor

University of Wisconsin’s men’s basketball team’s streak of 19 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances ended last Friday with their elimination from the Big Ten Tournament against the No. 1 seed Michigan State Spartans.

Though for many fans and players, this was an unsatisfactory result, for much of the season, no one would have believed the Badgers could compete with top competition like Michigan State.

Entering the year, the main storyline for Wisconsin was how Ethan Happ would play with an unproven roster following the departure of several key seniors on the team.

Nigel Hayes, Bronson Koenig, Zak Showalter and Vitto Brown all graduated in 2017 after receiving heavy minutes through the Badgers Sweet 16 run.

There was still a sense of optimism at the beginning of the year. The Badgers strung together some impressive victories against subpar competition with a rotation of players like Khalil Iverson, D’Mitrik Trice and even Andy Van Vliet looking like they could become reliable second scoring options behind Happ.

But soon after the Badgers started playing major conference opponents, they were unable to finish games. Close losses against teams like Xavier, Baylor and UCLA seemed to wear on the Badgers psyche until the team began a downward spiral following a 25 point defeat to Ohio State to begin Big Ten play.

Soon after the crushing loss, the Badgers learned that starting point guard D’Mitrik Trice and freshman guard Kobe King had suffered serious injuries that sidelined the two players for the remainder of the season.

With a depleted roster, an especially shallow backcourt and a young lineup that struggled with turnovers and inconsistency, there was little hope for Wisconsin to have any success this season. Brad Davison, who had played well as an off-ball guard before the injuries, struggled taking over Trice’s role as the primary ball handler. At his lowest point, Davison had seven turnovers against Purdue in the middle of a stretch where the Badgers lost eight of nine games.

But then Wisconsin reminded the college basketball world that they would not take the rest of this season lying down, beating Purdue in a rematch game in the Kohl Center where students stormed the court of the Kohl Center for the first time since beating No. 1 Ohio State in 2011. Wisconsin pulled off the upset on the same night they celebrated former Badger Frank Kaminsky — a fitting way to honor the Wisconsin basketball legend.

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at the end of the regular season in a loss to Michigan State.

The Badgers were finally seeing their hard work come to fruition, turning the ball over at a much lower rate and using their possessions much more efficiently. This didn’t terribly surprise Coach Greg Gard as he saw the team’s discipline progressing all season and commented on these improvements at practice before the Big Ten tournament: “It’s trending. If you look at what we average early in the year it was thirteen [turnovers] early in the Big Ten season.

Then it dropped to ten. Now in the last four games it’s been about eight and a quarter so it’s trended. It hasn’t just been one or two games it’s been a consistent trend downward which is good even though we started too high,” Gard said.

After beating eight seed Maryland and nearly upsetting the one seed Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament, the Badgers ended the year on a competitive level with the rest of the conference.

Unfortunately, because of their early season obstacles, Wisconsin was not able to prove enough to receive their 20th straight NCAA Tournament bid.

Now many questions still loom for the Badgers. Happ announced he will declare for the NBA Draft to gain information on where front office members view his stock, similar to what Hayes did two years ago. That being said, Happ would likely not be projected to go in the first round and can rescind his declaration before June 11th so long as he doesn’t sign an agent, making a return to Madison for his senior season probable.

Also, some uncertainty remains surrounding Davison’s shoulder injury.

During several games Davison’s shoulder had to be popped back in after getting dislocated, prompting surgery that the freshman will have in the coming days.

While Davison is confident that he will be healthy for opening day, setbacks can happen and the medical staff may have to overrule Davison if he has not recovered fully.

Despite these unknowns, if everything goes as expected and the team returns fully healthy, the Badgers should be a force to reckon with next season in Happ’s final year at Wisconsin. If their late season play was any indication, the team has developed significantly shooting the ball well with few mental mistakes or turnovers. And that was without key contributors Trice and King, who should also be back fully healthy for next year.

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Born to a pair of loving parents in Winfield Illinois, it was clear there was something different about Frank “the tank” Kaminsky from a young age.

"it was like he wasn't made to be a student"= “He grew up much faster than the other children, basically reaching full size by seven years of age.” recalls real person and elementary school gym teacher, Mark Yanis. “His treads made it difficult for him to get up the stairs around school, and none of the elevators could hold all six tons of him. Don’t even get me started about his dietary needs, keeping him fed cost the school two million dollars of military grade diesel, which he drank by the gallon.”

Not only did Frank struggle with mobility and ability, he struggled with grades. Teachers often complained that his engine was too loud and filled the room with smog. Upon entering High School, Frank fell into a bad crowd. He began to stay up past curfew, do marijuana, go to parties and not even ask his parent’s permission before going online.

However, when all seemed lost for Frank’s future, the high school basketball team lost their best player to a freak training injury, a week before they entered the state finals. Suddenly without a full team, open tryouts were held in the school gym for anyone interested. Not 24 • badgerherald.com • March 6, 2018

expecting much, Frank gave it a go. “He was physically dominant, not one kid in school ever mustered up even the 110,624,643 joules of physical energy required to punch through his weak side armor and get the ball from his 120 mm L/44 M256A1 smoothbore gun’s loading chamber” recalls Hank Needham, Frank’s basketball coach and parttime real person. “When he shot or passed, it was like someone had fired a cannon, the ball came flying at nearly inconceivable speed with unerring accuracy.”

"Nobody messed with frank when he had the ball, we stayed out of the way"” Frank was immediately put on the team, and led them to state glory in an unexpected and plucky run, learning heartwarming lessons about humility and family throughout the way. Soon Frank put down the Marijuana and internet, because winners don’t use drugs.

From this point on, Frank became his High School teams greatest ever player, leading the team in both scoring and defending, oftentimes crushing opposing teams single handedly. By sophomore year he was varsity captain and school heartthrob. He graduated with honors in 2012, rolling from the obscure halls of high school history to the glorious gilded stage of the college game, and straight into our hearts and memories.

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