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GROWN HOME HOMEGROWN Leaving behind a worldrenowned New York City restaurant, chef Tory Miller planted his roots in Madison to nurture the city’s connection with local ingredients.

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Madison recommends $4.5 million for affordable housing initiatves

With grants, four new developments are set to go up in Madison to serve veterans, homeless, residents below poverty line

by Mary Magnuson State Editor

Beginning in 2015, the city of Madison proposed attributing more than $7 million in affordable housing projects as part of the city’s Affordable Housing Initiative.

Recently, the city of Madison issued a request for affordable housing proposals.

Four of the received proposals were granted funding Tuesday, Oct. 30.

According to the first proposal’s application, the Bayview Foundation and Horizon Development Group are contributing $29.3 million to 120 affordable housing units, 10 regular housing units and a new community center. These projects aim to replace 102 units and community center near South Park Street, Regent Street and West Washington Avenue. The city recommended $1.9 million in funding, as well as $990,000 in federal grants.

Their proposal highlights the cultural diversity of their community and is motivated by their desire to connect the tenants to affordable housing with more resources, Bayview’s Executive Director Alexis Larson said.

The application indicated its goals were to increase the supply of safe, quality, affordable rental housing throughout the city, as well as reserve existing income and rent-restricted rental housing to ensure long-term affordability and sustainability.

According to the application, Bayview already connects the community it serves with many resources.

“All 102 of Bayview’s current households are supported through a variety of services and programs, such as after school and summer camp programs for youth ages 7-18, computer and financial literacy for adults, ESL classes, health and wellness programs, and food access initiatives,” according to the application.

The next proposed development is called Schroeder Road, which includes 96 units as well as a restaurant. 81 of these units will be affordable housing, 20 of which specifically geared towards veteran households and previously homeless households, with support services available. Schroeder Road requested $2 million from the city of Madison, according to their application, and they were recommended $1.85 million.

According to project advisor and president of Stone House Development Helen Bradbury, the location off of Schroeder Road, on Madison’s Southwest side is ideal because of the access to community services it can provide.

“We chose this site as it is located in a Preferred Area of the Affordable Housing Targeted Area Map and will bring a mixed range of affordable and marketrate housing to a location in the city that is near many established neighborhoods with close access to transportation and daily living resources like full service grocery, schools, parks and community service centers, such as the YMCA,” Bradbury said.

The third development proposed is called Valor on Washington. It is intended specifically for veterans and their families and will include 59 apartments. The bottom floor, however, is intended as an area for recreation and peer support. It will include a fitness room, coffee shop, and other spaces for veterans to connect with their peers. 50 of the units will be made affordable to families at or below 60 percent the median income. The city is recommending them $950,000.

The support spaces on the first floor will be developed by a nonprofit called Dryhootch. Gorman USA, Valor on Washington’s developer, commented on the value of service proximity for residents. “[Dryhootch’s] mission is to create safe, comfortable places where Veterans can gather informally in a drugand alcohol-free environment,” Gorman USA stated in their application. “The affordable apartments located above the Dryhootch space will be targeted to Veterans and their families, offering a unique opportunity for Veterans to live and have a peer support network within the same building. Dryhootch services will be available to Valor residents as well as other Veterans within the community.”

The other housing development is called Ace Apartments, whose proposal included a 70 unit mixedincome apartment complex, located east of downtown Madison.

Sixteen of the units will be available to tenants below 30 percent of the area median income level, and 11 will be restricted to tenants below 80 percent of the median income.

Two organizations, Movin’ Out and Mirus Partners are working together to develop Ace Apartments, and they plan to offer services to veterans and low-income families. They were recommended by the city $1.4 million in city funds and $1.29 million in

federal funds. They requested $2 million.

Community Development and Grants Supervisor for the city of Madison Linette Rhodes said the city sets aside funds every year for low-income housing. They also distribute Low Income Housing Tax Credits to eligible developments and have committed up to $4.5 million annually to support low-income housing projects.

“Our goal is to use those funds to leverage other funding resources, such as LIHTC, to support these developments,” Rhodes said.

The LIHTC credit will be awarded in spring 2019 with construction likely beginning within the next year, Rhodes said. If everything goes as scheduled, the units should finish by 2021.

For tenants to have success and access to community resources in the developing units, the city must pay attention to the proposed location of each development, Rhodes said.

“We request information on the distance to schools, child care, libraries, community

centers, medical clinics, etc. One site preference is the proximity to a full-service grocery store,” Rhodes said. “Our goal is to ensure that new housing developments are in areas where renters have close access to these resources.”

Though the specific demographic served in each of these developments may vary by factors like DCMI, Rhodes said it will be up to the developers to restrict rent in accordance with their proposals. It will also be up to developers to follow through when providing support services.

Overall, the developments will likely stand in contrast to increasing rent prices across the city. As Madison’s population has begun to outpace its housing surplus, Rhodes said housing demand has risen and vacancy has fallen.

“The goal of these developments is to increase the supply of safe, quality, affordable rental housing in the city of Madison,” Rhodes said.

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A closer look at Madison’s first ever sustainability coordinator

Emphasis will be placed on community outreach, incentives for businesses, adding more renewable energy to grid

by Lena Simon Reporter

A recent press release from the city of Madison formally announced Mayor Paul Soglin’s appointment of Stacie Reece, the city’s first Sustainability Coordinator.

The position entails developing Madison’s sustainability programs and promoting initiatives that increase the use of renewable resources, according to the press release.

One example is Madison’s 100 percent Renewable Energy Zero Net Carbon Plan, which involves sourcing more renewable energy for the city’s grid, as well as evaluating the city’s transportation footprint and converting to electric vehicles.

The City of Madison recently applied for and received a grant from the Office of Energy Innovation, Wisconsin’s state energy office.

The grant will fund the purchase of 20 plug-in electric vehicles to replace aging city fleet sedans, according to the OEI. Madison Gas and Electric will also partially support the electrification of the city fleet by volunteering funds to cover the cost of chargers.

Currently, the city gets the majority of its energy from MGE. Though the company gets only 12 percent of its energy from renewable sources as of 2016, it has been making progress in solar and wind departments.

According to MGE’s website, the company bought a wind farm — with operations slated to begin in 2019 — and brought a Shared Solar Pilot Project for Middleton online in early 2017.

Tom Eggert, senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, believes Madison has done a lot of work over the years on making city operations more sustainable.

“The city has a long history of using sustainability to change things,” Eggert said. “Over the last ten years the focus has been on city operations — buildings, operation of those buildings, purchasing decisions, city decisions. Not so much what’s happening in the rest of the city.”

Part of Reece’s job involves not only working with energy companies in Madison but also working with community members.

The city has more than 70 committees that citizens volunteer to be members of,

one of which is the Sustainability Madison committee, Reece said.

Sustainability Madison is currently drafting the city’s energy plan, a response to a resolution passed in 2017 for the city to achieve net zero carbon emissions, Reece said.

Reece is also looking to ramp up the city’s MadiSUN Solar Energy Program, a program that allows Madison residents to make group purchases of rooftop solar panels in order to lower the cost for each individual, while also offers loans and financing situations like tax credits.

Reece also plans to work toward providing solar incentives for Madison businesses.

“It’s a much broader stakeholder group that we will be engaging with,” said Reece.

“The commercial sector, the central sector, nonprofits, houses of worship — we did set out to include the entire Madison community.”

Other projects on Reece’s list include fast-tracking solar permits, reviewing Madison city policies and practices, establishing a revolving fund for green projects and electric vehicle infrastructure.

Reece cited “mileage anxiety” as a reason that many individuals are wary

of purchasing electric cars: If someone doesn’t know whether or not they have enough battery to drive to the closest charging port, it can make owning an electric vehicle difficult.

Through her position, Reece wants to look into how Madison can better support those with electric vehicles and reduce mileage anxiety.

Reece was previously in the private sector for more than ten years, and her most recent position was with Sustain Dane, helping businesses to reduce their carbon footprints.

Reece cited “An Inconvenient Truth,” a 2006 film featuring Al Gore and his urgent warning about climate change, as a “big eye-opener” in regard to her mindset about sustainability practices. It inspired her to go back to school for sustainability management.

When she was still working in the private sector, a conversation with a coworker about fluorescent light bulbs snowballed into a grander sustainable vision.

“I realized that I had an opportunity to really get out there,” Reece said.

UW partnership with cheesemaker creates award-winning cheese UW and Roelli Cheese Haus’ Little Mountain wins against 1,842 other cheeses in the American Cheese Society Contest

by Veronica Kuffel Reporter

After winning the 2016 American Cheese Society Contest in partnership with Wisconsin’s Center for Dairy Research, Roelli Cheese Haus strives to keep up with the overwhelming demand of their awardwinning cheese.

The cheese, named Little Mountain, won against 1,842 different cheeses in the competition.

CDR is a research center and dairy plant housed at UW. According to their website, 30 researchers and scientists conduct research that explores the functional and physical properties of cheese and other dairy products. CDR researchers assist the state’s dairy industry in developing products that maintain Wisconsin’s reputation as the dairy state.

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industry and applications coordinator John Jaeggi about his vision for a cheese similar to one he tasted in Switzerland — but with his own unique spin on it. They discussed parameters and type of cheese to create a blueprint and plan to develop it.

“They helped me basically from the start, taking an idea and transforming it into a finished product,” Roelli said.

Together, they worked through the microbiology of flavor and design by using timing and different equipment to achieve Little Mountain’s signature taste, according to a University of Wisconsin press release.

Through trial and error, the two were able to adapt the vision to the machinery Roelli had access to, and the awardwinning cheese was born.

According to the Roelli Cheese Haus website, Little Mountain is an Appenzellerstyle Alpine cheese made with raw cow’s milk with a traditional washed rind — meaning it’s smooth and nutty.

It is then aged for six to seven months in a cellar above ground with cooling pipes.

These pipes do not force air in an effort to stop microbes from spoiling the cheese.

After it’s finished, Little Mountain is sold for around $22 per pound.

Little Mountain became so successful — it almost immediately sells out after production.

“The cheese still commands a waiting list,” Roelli said. “We aren’t able to make a lot of it, but what we do make is generally sold on the day that we make it.”

According to the press release, Roelli was unable to compete in cheese competitions until 2005 due to the closing of the family factory. He opened a cheese plant on an 18-wheeler he called “Cheese on Wheels.” One year later, he began crafting artisanal cheeses.

Roelli told UW he has a long history of cheesemaking in his family. His great-grandfather, Adolph Roelli was a

cheesemaker ’s apprentice in the Swiss Alps before he immigrated to Green County. He became a farmer and sold milk until he took a job as a cheesemaker. From then on, cheese became the family business.

Roelli said he wanted to craft a cheese that went back to his family roots, something that reminded him of the Swiss mountains where his great-grandfather learned the cheesemaking trade.

He began experimenting with Parmesan before choosing an Appenzeller. From there, he contacted the CDR to fine tune the cheese.

Through CDR, UW spokesperson Meredith McGlone said the university is committed to creating and maintaining such partnerships.

“UW-Madison is proud to partner with Wisconsin cheesemakers to produce delicious and innovative new cheese like Little Mountain,” McGlone said.

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State Street Ramp shooting raises concern over Madison gun violence

Shooting marks fifth homicide in Madison this year, officials say shootings, homicides continue to increase over years

by Gretchen Gerlach City Editor

The shooting on the State Street Campus Ramp Oct. 28 marked the fifth homicide in Madison this year, and while this number is comparatively low to homicides in the past, such offenses continue to be a concern for city officials.

According to the Madison Police Department’s Annual Reports, homicides rates over the years have been on the rise. Last year alone, 11 homicides were reported, surpassing the previous record of 10, set in 2008. In years prior, Madison has seen anywhere from two to eight murders per year.

While two months still remain until the new year, five homicides is relatively low for a city of Madison’s size, MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain said of the current 2018 statistics.

“There is never a good number,” DeSpain said. “But if the number of homicides reaches seven or eight, and especially double digits, then it is considered to be high for Madison.”

In many instances, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said, a shooting will take place because of a dispute over old relationships, or because of personal vendettas. On occasions, the violence is gang-related, but recently, most homicides occur because of personal issues, he said.

Of the five homicides this year, two of the three were domestic violence related, resulting in a murder-suicide. According to the MPD incident report, the first murder-suicide occurred this year April 1, in which a man shot and killed his son before killing himself with a firearm. The second murder-suicide incident happened Sept. 2, when a man with a history of domestic abuse shot and killed the woman he had been dating at the time in her home, before killing himself. As reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, the woman was a mother of five and was killed while two of her children were home.

Both Soglin and DeSpain conceded the difficulty in preventing murder-suicides but pointed to the number of efforts being made to prevent typical homicide scenarios. Soglin specifically highlighted the Peer Support program, an effort by the city to reduce violent crime through certified staff that have lived through and been involved with such crimes. “[Peer Support staff] have done a wonderful job in terms of diffusing situations,” Soglin said. “When there is a shooting, the team goes into a mode where they work with the victims, and their family and associates, and with the perpetrator and witnesses. If there is trouble brewing, we get in there and make sure it doesn’t end up with a horrible outcome.”

Soglin stressed the value of the certified staff members to youth, specifically. Young people

need a responsible adult role model in their life, and not just a month-long mentor or tutor, he said.

With that in mind, the Peer Support staff work intensively with youth to build relationships and set them on a better path.

Soglin said $400,000 went into the program this year, and an additional $300,000 is being recommended to expand the program and get ahead of violence in the city.

MPD also focuses their efforts on community building, with programs such as Community Outreach and Resource Education programming that works to break down barriers between youth and police, Amigos en Azul which dissolves cultural barriers between police and the Latino community, and education resource officers stationed at local high schools as a source of contact for students.

“We are doing what we can to intervene,” DeSpain said. “We are doing what we can to put

young people on a better path, and to encourage them to find a way forward that is away from crime.”

Preventing violence, and thus homicides, starts with changing behavior at an early age, both Soglin and DeSpain said.

Many of those involved in violent crimes either witness domestic violence or were raised in an environment of violence as a child, Soglin said.

“This is an area of frustration because as a city government, we don’t have statutory access to the records and to these juveniles, as those are subject to state and county regulations,” Soglin said. “A group of us have been meeting latterly from the city, county, non-profits and school districts and we are attempting to deal with these young people who range in age from toddlers experiencing their first trauma to teenagers. That’s the future, and that’s what we have to do.”

“We are doing what we can to put young people on a better path, and to encourage them to find a way forward that is away from crime.”

Joel DeSpain MPD Spokesperson

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Universities across Wisconsin tackle campus sustainability

Through use of campus ‘green funds,’ Wisconsin universities promote sustainability initiatives, environmental awareness

by Mackenzie Christman Campus Editor

Across the state of Wisconsin, universities have been taking on campus-wide environmental sustainability initiatives.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall, reusable coffee cups and to-go containers became available in all dining halls and are now the only option for carry-out food containers.

One of the groups behind such initiatives is UW-Madison’s campus “green fund.”

Green Fund Program Manager Ian Aley said the Green Fund supports student-led projects that help reduce environmental impact and the operating costs of facilities on campus.

“I help students translate their ideas into a reality by connecting with staff, researching solutions and calculating impacts,” Aley said.

The Green Fund has been responsible for many environmental initiatives taken on campus following its start in the spring of 2017.

One past project involved creating a more efficient greenhouse in Leopold Hall. Known as the Greenhouse Cooling Project, students of the Green Fund worked alongside residents of the dorm to figure out ways to reduce energy output and help the greenhouse run at a more environmentally-friendly level, according to UW-Madison’s office of sustainability.

A current project in development is based on the success of the toilet retrofit done in Tripp Residence Hall in 2017, Aley said.

Aley said a student group visited bathrooms in residence halls across campus to determine which ones used the most water. Students are now analyzing the data and writing a proposal to replace the problematic toilets with highefficiency ones.

“Sometimes students come to us with ideas,” Aley said. “Other times our campus partners come to us looking to connect with students.”

Aley said that UW-Madison’s recreational sports department wants to partner with a group of students to determine if energy

generated from stationary exercise equipment could be captured and used.

Other projects in the work for UWMadison’s Green Fund include measures related to energy efficient lighting and investigating new recycling systems, Aley said. One recycling system project focuses on better ways to recycle cardboard, and the other investigates the use of plastic gloves in labs.

But UW-Madison is not the only school in the UW System to have a fund dedicated solely to environmental initiatives. And despite having the same goal, the green funds of other UW System schools are applied differently.

UW-La Crosse bought a vermicomposter using its campus Green Fund, which utilizes thousands of worms to break down food scraps from UW-La Crosse’s dining hall and turn them into nutrient-rich fertilizer, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

According to the article, more than 3,439 pounds of food waste was turned into fertilizer by the vermicomposter.

Similar to UW-Madison, UW-Stevens Point

purchased “Green on the Go” containers and gave them to students living in residence halls.

Meanwhile, some Wisconsin universities have taken a more academic approach.

Lawrence University, for example, has sustainability peer-educators come to residence halls and participate in programming with students, as well as help them with energy-saving goals and proper sorting of waste, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Leah Horowitz, an environmental professor at UW-Madison, said reducing one’s environmental footprint is important.

“I am proud that UW-Madison is rolling out initiatives to reduce waste, like the reusable containers and straws,” Horowitz said.

But she believes that individuals need to be taking a political approach as well.

The most powerful thing someone can do is help drive change at a policy level, Horowitz said. This can be done by voting for candidates who take environmental issues seriously, she said.

New report praises economic benefits of mining in Wisconsin Hypothetical mine in Oneida County would provide more jobs, labor income totaling $243 million output per year

by Nuha Dolby Reporter

In early October, a University of Wisconsin professor released a report touting the economic benefits of mining in the state of Wisconsin by looking at a hypothetical mine in Oneida County.

Juli Plant Grainer professor of economics Noah Williams released the report right before the midterm elections when Oneida County was set to vote on a non-binding referendum allowing “the lease of county lands ... for the purposes of metallic mineral exploration, prospecting, bulk sampling and mining.”

Williams said he was prompted to begin the project and focus on Oneida County specifically, after being “given a gift,” and asked to weigh in on the topic by the Oneida County Economic Development Corporation.

The underlying research model for this report was the IMPLAN model, Williams said. This model is an economic impact assessment software: For impact analysis, IMPLAN identifies expenditures based on a particular aggregation of the spending data given. It uses these factors, along with a set of multipliers, to calculate direct, indirect and induced economic impacts.

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mining sector in neighboring states — particularly Minnesota and Michigan.”

Most of the numbers from the report came directly from the model, Williams said. His inputs were initial employment and capital expenditure.

The mine in question for his model was estimated to have an initial workforce of 350 people and capital expenditure of $250 million.

According to his research, the initial salary of those 350 jobs would be $72,568 — 85 percent higher than the average pay in Oneida County.

The report also claims the mine, in total, would create 700 jobs, lead to $44 million in additional labor income and $243 million in output each year. The activity would additionally generate $6.8 million in state and local taxes per year.

But Williams said potential environmental impacts are an effect to be taken under consideration. “[Environmental impacts] are an important component in the overall decision [on the referendum], but this research was focused purely on economic impact,” Williams said.

But he’s unaware if the state had ever spent money on cleaning up after old metallic mines, and said that cleanup costs would take away from the economic benefits of mining in the county.

Because of a lack of local data, he wasn’t entirely aware of what an initial employment market would look like for Oneida County,

Williams said. But he claimed his model “scales,” meaning per-worker data can be easily recalculated by simply scaling the model.

“Something that I wasn’t aware of before getting into this study is how that the mining industry is actually a very high paying industry,” Williams said. “I was surprised when I looked at the numbers for comparable mines in neighboring states. However, that does have to be balanced with other concerns.”

Those other concerns are close to Ald. Zach Wood, District 8. He serves as a representative on the Madison Committee on the Environment, who collectively evaluate environmental policy and its impact.

Wood said an understanding of Wisconsin’s mining history is imperative in understanding the legislation surrounding it. A big step Wisconsin took was the “Prove it First” law.

Enacted in 1997, it requires a sulfide mining applicant to show there is a mine in the U.S. or Canada that has operated for 10 years and a mine that has been closed for 10 years without causing environmental pollution. Passed with a 91-6 margin in the Assembly and a 29-3 margin in the Senate, it had overwhelming bipartisan support.

This law essentially created a moratorium in which no companies were able to prove they met this requirement.

A supporter of the law was Gov. Scott Walker,

Wood said. Walker, a former State Assemblyman, had voted to pass the law when it was introduced.

But after becoming governor, he signed into law a repeal of “Prove it First.”

Wood said he thought the repeal was “a horrible mistake for the state of Wisconsin,” and that there were clear negative impacts of mining, both economically and environmentally.

He cited an event regarding a Trempealeau County sand mine, where in June, material spilled during a rescue operation resulted in water tests showing lead concentrations of more than 10 times allowable levels, and aluminum levels measured at more than 1,000 times the limit.

Additionally, the Trempealeau River turned bright orange for days after, as material from the spill made its way through.

These tests, conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, cost both government time and money, Wood said.

While Williams praised the possible economic benefits of mining, Wood said those benefits could be the result of other sectors suffering.

“Beyond the amount of money needed to be spent on cleanup ... the Three Lakes area, along with others, would be devastated if their water sources became toxic,” Wood said. “It’s not just health — their tourism and fishing industries would be decimated.”

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Experts say UW System future in question amid financial struggles Despite UW-Madison’s success in increased enrollment, funding, other UW System schools face challenges with retention rates, lack of funds

by James Strebe Campus Editor

At UW-Madison, the future is brighter than ever.

In the fall, the campus welcomed in the largest class in school history. Though state funding has decreased significantly for decades, UW-Madison still took in $890 million from the federal government and $512 million in gifts and private grants for the 2016-17 fiscal year according to the school’s budget brief. Additionally, the university spent around $1.1 billion on research during the 2015 fiscal year.

But the UW System schools surrounding Wisconsin’s flagship university have struggled in recent years to balance budgets in the face of withering revenue sources.

A combination of declining state funds, reduced enrollment and frozen tuition rates have many UW schools across Wisconsin with structural deficits, Noel Radomski, the managing director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education said.

Lacking the alternative sources of revenue that UW-Madison possesses and with additional challenges of student retention, schools across Wisconsin have been forced to cut courses, degrees and reduce staff.

Kristine Hendrickson, the Chief Financial Officer for UW-Stevens Point said anticipating the school’s future economic outlook is “crystal ball gazing.”

But the university has run a number of predictive models with different builtin assumptions. If enrollment continues to decline at the same rate it has for the past five years, the campus would run an $8 million dollar deficit under current spending patterns, Hendrickson said.

John Torinus, former business editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and CEO of Seregraph Inc. recently wrote a post on the funding difficulties of UW schools.

John Torinus, former business editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and CEO of Seregraph Inc. said there are no simple answers to the challenges facing the UW System.

Any solution would require strategic planning, which Torinus said has been largely absent. Aside from the merger of the two-year and four-year UW schools, Torinus said that strategic moves have been piecemeal and have been made only when the UW System is presented with a crisis.

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look at the whole system and say, ‘ok, what everything below it. previously found success in, for UW-Stout, do we need?’”

Frequently, majors that draw in that would be the hospitality industry, for Radomski said under both Republican substantially fewer students are low-cost UW-Milwaukee, film school. and Democrat governors of the past, the and can be used to subsidize more costly Hendrickson said UW-Stevens Point Board of Regents has identified the regional programs, Radomski said. An objective has sought out the voices of the schools, assets of UW System schools and proposed analysis may also fail to include a subjective businesses and cities surrounding the strategies that are then implemented into perspective of the benefits that a program school with the goal of better understanding the respective university’s budget requests. might provide to the community and the needs of the region. The challenge now, This strategy has been absent in recent culture of a campus. Oftentimes, liberal arts Hendrickson said, is responding to these years, Radomski said. classes serve as general education classes. needs.

“We have a Board of Regents who are It can then be difficult to retain professors This is a marked change from the way perhaps not being provided guidance by at a university to teach these requirements that UW-Stevens Point had conducted itself the governor and they are dealing largely if the college offers no degree, Radomski before the crisis. with brush fires,” Radomski said. “I would said.

“We were largely absent in these go one step further: They’ve kicked the can Difficult decisions need to be made when communities where these campuses are,” down the road.” the cost outweighs the benefit, Torinus said.

Hendrickson said. “It’s been great for us The University of Wisconsin System Moving forward, Torinus said, UW to start building some of those connections responded in an email, highlighting the system schools are going to have to put and I think it’s a benefit for the state.”

Board of Regents’ approval in 2016 of the a sharper definition on who they are and Despite the difficulty of the situation, 2020 FWD initiative, which it describes draw from the needs of the communities Hendrickson said it presents an opportunity as a long-term framework with targeted around them. to build a university that provides for the initiatives in four areas: The education While it would be nice to have an needs of the future. pipeline, business and community engineering department on every campus, Like any organization going through a mobilization, university experience and Torinus said, it simply isn’t viable. Instead, restructuring, there is an opportunity to operational excellence. schools have to focus on what they have make it better in the end, Hendrickson said.

Restructuring two-year campuses was a big first step, Hendrickson said.

Ultimately, it is important to let the impact of the move settle before determining if more needs to be done.

Torinus said he’s advocating for a regional reorganization of the UW System.

Under this type of organization, he said schools would focus on the needs of the region and specializing in the fields that the campus is already known to excel in.

Like a business, Torinus said the UW System schools have to reorganize to meet the available revenues.

There’s a lot of threads to the web, Photo · UW System finance expert John Torinus advocates for specialization and regional focus, while smaller UW System schools struggle Radomski said. for funds and enrollment.

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Trash becomes treasure for Visiting Artist Colloquium at Birge Hall

Textile artist Christy Matson explains how Jacquard loom, Los Angeles environment are incorporated into her contribution to UW campus exhibition

by Hannah Brandt ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

With all the fast fashion that comes out of Los Angeles comes an increasing amount of excess fabrics and other materials being thrown away.

Many see this as waste or garbage, but for textile artist Christy Matson, it’s material she can utilize in her work. Matson visited Birge Hall as a contributor to the Visiting Artist Colloquium series that the art department hosts.

Matson began her lecture by giving a brief history of the Jacquard loom — the tool she uses in her work — and how integral it was to the Industrial Revolution.

“It had a role of transforming textile production into a fully automated industrialized process,” Matson said.

She also touched on the amount of work and time that went into creating with looms — not only the time spent weaving, but also the time spent making the thread. Thread making is a more unfamiliar process in today’s world, especially with machines completing the work instead of humans.

To get where it is today, the loom has transitioned from being a labor-intensive practice to a more technological process with the development of punch cards and then computers. It is, however, still a binary process with the Jacquard loom for Matson, as it takes both her hands and computer to create her work.

Her relationship with weaving has spanned more than 20 years, starting at the University of Washington-Seattle, where she acquired a degree in fibers, and then her MFA in textiles from California College of the Arts. She has been a full-time studio artist living in Los Angeles for about six years now, but before moving there, Matson spent some time in the Midwest as an associate professor of fiber and material studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

“Since then, my studio output has increased dramatically, to say the least,” Matson said.

“It’s really fun to just focus on the work that I’m making right now, or in the last two years, as opposed to looking at some of the longer threads.”

Living on what she calls “a unique piece of property for LA,” Matson has three separate

studio spaces that she works out of behind her home.

Matson is also a parent, which makes having the extra space more important. Even more important to Matson is keeping a balance to bounce between the worlds of being a parent and that of a full-time working artist.

“For me to have this studio space that is separate, but very close to my home has worked beautifully,” Matson said.

“It’s really fun to just focus on

the work that I’m making right now, as opposed to looking at some of the longer threads.”

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In creating her work, she first draws or paints her ideas and then uses the loom as a tool through which she can make what

she describes as pictures. She also often incorporates paint as a way to add a different texture and vibrancy to the colors.

This particularly refers to Los Angeles and how unique it is for the California city to border the Pacific Ocean on one side, having the desert on the other, and the polluted metropolis in the middle. A few of the pieces shown in the lecture were inspired by the various “scraggly” drought-tolerant plants of Los Angeles.

Matson finds beauty in their adaptation and survival.

“So much of my work in the last few years has really become in response to the natural environment, and particularly the way the urban environment collides with the natural environment,” Matson said.

She spent a week this past summer using the TC-2 loom at the University of Wisconsin in the School of Human Ecology, as the third person to participate in their recently implemented digital weaving lab residency.

Matson currently has an exhibition at the Volume Gallery in Chicago. The collection is titled “The Sun and the Moon” and it will be on display until Dec. 29.

Campdogzz looks to prove why they are hidden gem of Midwest

Oklahoma sound mixes with Chicago influence to create talented band led by rising star Jessica Price performing at High Noon Saloon

by Ashley Evers ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Plan on getting to the Cursive show early Nov. 16 to see the impressive group Campdogzz, who have recently gained attention across the Midwest. Fronted by their powerful lead vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Jessica Price, they are definitely ones to watch.

Though the group has been around for a few years, they are recently gaining attention after their Audiotree Live session, which is available for streaming.

Many have been enticed by Price’s powerful chords and long tones that flow perfectly over each of the songs.

The talent this ensemble brings to the table is limitless, and together they have created unique textures that blend into a clean, twangy sound.

Drummer Matt Evert, bass guitarist Andrew Rolfsen, guitarist and keyboardist Nick Enderle, and guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist Mikey Russell all are overflowing with talent and style.

They capture the industrial essence of the Midwest exceptionally well through their haunting, dueling guitar riffs, driving rhythms and interesting arrangements. Price’s raspy tones pair effortlessly with the humid folk vibes given off by every other instrumentalist in the group.

Price shared how she became interested in live music and performing for others.

The fearless frontwoman grew up in Oklahoma and drove to shows in Tulsa with her friends to discover her love for live music. Traveling for shows makes them that much more enjoyable.

“It makes it more exciting and more magical,” Price added.

Her hometown didn’t have much to offer — except her award-winning high school jazz band — but Price had a passion for music and did what she could to fulfill it.

Price moved to Chicago in the spring 2008 to pursue filmmaking. She used the process of trial and error on her own to try her best to succeed. When she decided to make the final push and strive for a path in music, she found this method incredibly helpful. This is Price’s first time playing in a band, and she looking at every experience with an open mind and embracing each opportunity she and her fellow bandmates have been given.

Price deliberated before describing her band’s sound to those who haven’t had a chance to listen to them yet.

“Somewhere in the realm of Jason Molina and Cat Power,” Price said.

Both of these artists have folk, country and alternative influences, which adds to the various sounds that Campdoggz bring to the table.

Since every member of Campdogzz comes from a different part of the country, each of them brings a sense of musical identity to the group,

which has been a rewarding experience for all of The last track, Price’s favorite, titled them.

“Sorceress,” is a prime example of the group’s “We all have such different backgrounds, light rhythms and melodic vocals. musically and otherwise,” Price said.

Campdogzz is set to play a stellar set before Even though setting aside time together can Cursive takes the stage Friday. Tickets are still be challenging due to working multiple jobs, available to purchase on High Noon Saloon’s the time they do share is always significantly website, or at the door. productive. They are all incredibly passionate about their music and always look Photo · Drummer Matt Evert, bass guitarist Andrew Rolfsen, guitarist and forward to working together. keyboardist Nick Enderle, and guitarist, keyboardist “We are all very committed and vocalist Mikey Russell all are overflowing with talent and style. to doing that, so we make it work,” Price said.

Courtesy of Chromatic Publicity This kind of diversity is what makes a band stand out, and their ability to come together while maintaining a crisp sound is beyond special.

Their latest work, In Rounds, came out in August, and every song truly has something different to offer.

The band looked at this album with new eyes and fresh expectations in hopes to create something richer. Price said she had a blast getting to experiment with her organ on this album.

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Minnesota delivers galactic vibes for packed crowd at Majestic Theatre Accompanied by Star Monster, Pigeon Hole, Minnesota’s ‘Adventures Through Time and Space’ tour was heavily filled with intense, bass-heavy beats

by Tolu Igun ArtsEtc. Editor

Upon arriving at Majestic Theater Friday to experience an evening of the “Adventures Through Time and Space” tour, audience members situated themselves scattered around the premise — not ready to reach the stage floor just yet. Though the theater was starting to get fairly packed, nobody wanted to be the first to make a move to the front.

That quickly changed as soon as Star Monster took his place behind the DJ table, and the music began.

Star Monster started off his set strong, setting the tone for what would be an intense, bass-heavy night. The dance floor began to fill up fast as listeners banged their heads along to the beat and moved their bodies anyway that allowed them to feel free.

Next up was Pigeon Hole, a hip-hop, bass duo from Vancouver Island, Canada.

Thanks to their clever rapping capabilities, they were able to perform their vocals live on top of several tracks — providing a set that deviated well from the standard DJ performance.

Since the debut of Minnesota’s music label, Outer Realms, Pigeon Hole is the only group they’ve done a release with thus far.

Friday night was the duos first time performing in front of a Madison audience, and they weren’t the only ones. Australian native Zeke Beats followed for what would be his first exposure to the Wisconsin music scene.

Each of these sets seemed connected somehow, but some might have solely felt this connection while others in the audience could literally see it.

Many of the visuals on the “Adventures Through Time and Space” tour share a common aesthetic which relates to its name.

Imagery of galactic stars and astronauts floating through space are just a couple examples of the atmosphere the audience was pulled into.

“Doing this tour I was really focused on the visual side of things,” Minnesota said.

“Probably since June or July, I’ve just been working on the visuals for the tour so I haven’t had a chance to work on music in a while. Once December is done and the tour is completely finished, I’ll finally get to sit

back in the studio and work on music which I’m very excited for.”

New and old fans alike came out to watch Minnesota’s set, forming a packed house by the time he came on stage after midnight.

Keeping up with the intensity that preceded his set, audience members truly felt good vibes pulsate through the Majestic all night long — and the bass hit even harder.

The beats and visuals were accompanied by mesmerizing lights that brightened the theater and audience members alike. A set of revolving lights outlined the visual screen, making an outstanding addition to each set.

Minnesota played a mix of songs from the past and present, and kicked off his set with the well-known hit “HiLow.” But the producer wasn’t always on a pathway that would lead him to dropping the bass as well as he does now.

“I was trying to play in bands while living in Santa Cruz, Calif.,” Minnesota said. “It was so hard to find four or five like-minded people that really wanted to do music professionally, so I got on my computer, downloaded some software to produce and realized I could kind of do it all by myself.”

He was introduced to the wonders of the electronic music scene around 2009 when people in Santa Cruz would throw parties in the woods called renegades. At these parties, people would bring generators and DJ equipment into the woods and party until about 6 a.m. — similar to the essence of any extensive EDM festival.

It’s encouraging to think about the experiences that brought acclaimed name Minnesota to notoriety, because even his journey to the career he has now was not a straightforward path.

“Usually when I sit down, the best music comes from just letting it flow naturally and not forcing anything,” Minnesota said of finding his inspiration to sound. “So I let whatever I can come out and see what happens.”

Following the end of “Adventures Through Time and Space,” Minnesota plans to get back to what he knows how to do best — making music.

For any further questions regarding Minnesota, he’s created a Reddit page, giving fans all the answers to anything tour, label or life-related.

Photo · In anticipation of Minnesota’s upcoming set, Zeke Beats helps amp up the crowd.

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Exhibit gives women overdue recognition for scientific contributions ‘Unidentified’ gallery finally recognizes some of history’s most important players in science community without bias, limitations of past

by Melissa Simon ArtsEtc. Associate Editor

Throughout history, there has been a tendency to exclude and forget certain groups of people.

This influenced the Wisconsin Union Art Committee to curate the Unidentified exhibit, located in Union South in Gallery 1308.

The exhibit examines Wisconsin’s Digital Collections, history of scientific contributions and the people who made them. The archive tends to identify a disproportionate number of male discoverers and scientists yet fails to give credit to most of the women, especially those belonging to minority groups, Lily Miller, development assistant director of the WUD Art Committee, said “We noticed Mr. so and so and colleague – unidentified. If she’s his colleague, why didn’t the photographer take the time to jot her name on the back of the photograph? Even if it was just a single feminine identity, she was unidentified,” Miller said.

WUD Art Committee allows students to replicate gallery owners, Miller said. In this case, the committee had the power to select which images were presented and the entire scope of the exhibition. WUD Art works closely with artists one-on-one, fostering a welcoming community.

The students have the opportunity to participate in multiple aspects of the gallery opening process, including writing the labels, positioning the photos, choosing the lighting and determining the overall layout.

Miller, along with others involved in WUD Art, collaborated with UW archives and gathered photos across all UW schools in order to curate the exhibit.

“ Each and every one of the

women photographed contributed something significant. In comparison to their colleagues, they weren’t given credit.”

Lily Miller Development assistant director of WUD It was necessary to extend their research to various areas of Wisconsin because it’s a wider issue that’s pertinent on every campus, according to Miller.

The Unidentified exhibit focuses on all of the women who have been forgotten and undercredited in the historical archives. The Art Committee analyzed the nature of archiving to

determine who records information, how they record it and which people are considered important enough to be documented.

“Each and every one of the women photographed contributed something significant. In comparison to their colleagues, they weren’t given credit,” Miller said.

Specific photos were chosen for the gallery to reflect the way some people were deemed more worthy of being remembered and documented than others. Miller had a difficult time choosing the most prominent and powerful photos because she believes the issue is so pervasive.

The purpose of the gallery was to recognize the minority groups that aren’t typically given the admiration they deserve throughout history.

It’s important to highlight the significant people who may have been concealed and unobtrusive.

“This exhibition is endemic of a bigger issue, just general erasure of marginalized identities, whether it be people of color, which really are underrepresented even more so than women in the archives,” Miller said. “But just in daily life, trying to recognize what’s being erased, or challenge what you’re predominantly being fed because there’s more to it; it’s not just one identity, it’s not just one group.”

Miller said it’s a shame they’re not being given their due credit and their due process.

The problem falls on the culture that doesn’t give credit or want to acknowledge the efforts.

To make sure this issue doesn’t continue moving forward, Miller encouraged recordkeepers and historians to capture as much of the truth as possible. Miller emphasized the importance of incorporating and accepting multiple perspectives and opinions to ensure every aspect of historical records is intersectional.

“A big challenge is most likely a lot of these photographers were white men, so maybe they just culturally weren’t raised with the lens to even pay any mind to other identities,” Miller said.

While it’s essential for those who dedicate their lives to recording history to reveal the full story, each and every citizen also plays a role, Miller said.

The Wisconsin Union Art Committee has received positive feedback from those who have already visited the gallery. Most of the guests have been people who coincidentally passed by the exhibit, but Miller said many are left with a different vision and different perspective.

There is a guest book in the gallery where visitors are encouraged to write down their thoughts and comments about the exhibit, which will be open until Nov. 16 at 10 p.m.

“Being a voice and a champion to prevent yourself from being erased, but also to prevent others from being erased,” Miller said. “I think everyone is tasked with that. Everyone’s voice is pertinent in the discussion.”

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Creative and collaborative: Tory Miller inspires diners and budding chefs to reimagine local ingredients

From his grandfather’s Racine diner to his four Madison restaurants, Miller remains loyal to his hands-on approach to food

by Lucas Johnson Managing Editor

Chef Tory Miller sat comfortably in the dining room of Estrellon, one of four Madison restaurants he owns and operates. His t-shirt read “Sujeo,” the name of another of Miller’s establishments. His drink of choice rested not in a cup, but in a small storage container meant for sauces and stocks.

Among upturned chairs in a restaurant that would later be filled with diners, Miller recounted how as a child he always had a job waiting for him among the burners and pans of his grandfather’s Racine diner. Miller’s siblings were offered the same opportunity, but they didn’t appreciate the romance of the kitchen the way their brother did.

Everything about the kitchen captivated him — the call and response between a chef and their staff, the creative process which takes a cook from concept to cuisine, the gratification from serving a handmade meal to an eager customer and the sight of warm food filling as many souls as it did stomachs.

Miller’s connection with food would teach him patience and grant him a daily creative outlet. But most of all, it would become his life’s calling, infiltrating every pocket of his existence.

Growing up as a utility cook in his grandfather’s kitchen led Miller not only to one of the finest cooking institutions in the country, but also to high-pressure environments where he worked with some of the greatest food minds of a generation.

He’s spent time at Eleven Madison Park, a New York City restaurant with three Michelin stars (a restaurant can’t earn a higher number) and ranked as the top restaurant on the planet in 2017. In 2012, a James Beard Award recognized Miller as the best chef in the

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Midwest. In the spring of this year, he competed against superstar chef Bobby Flay on Food Network’s “Iron Chef Showdown” — he won.

A chef of Miller’s caliber could succeed anywhere. He could open restaurants in the New York Citys and Chicagos of the world — cities known as food meccas. Yet here he was with a worn Green Bay Packers jacket draped over the back of his seat with a matching snapback hat turned backwards.

“Every opportunity I have now is to help put Madison on the map,” Miller said. “It’s in my nature to be as humble as I can … but all I want to do is work hard so people come to Madison.”

An unshakeable connection Before he would write his first menu or audition for Food Network’s prolific cooking competition, Miller spent his days taking friends to his grandfather’s diner, where they’d order the burgers and shakes the restaurant was known for.

But unlike his friends, Miller saw the diner as more than a place to score a quick bite. The restaurant was a haven for him, somewhere that became as familiar as home. He took on every kitchen job he could, from flipping burgers to prepping vegetables.

Cooking television, the “‘OG’ food shows” as Miller called them, would always play in the background. Personalities like Julia Child and Emeril Lagasse were formative in his childhood. Their shows never consisted of drama-laden plots; there were no secret ingredients and no countdown clocks in sight. They were simply about the chefs maximizing an ingredient’s potential.

Miller didn’t need to be captivated by high-pace food media designed to retain viewers with a short attention span. The food held his attention without any outside stimulus.

Knowing cooking would serve a purpose in his life greater than

a weekend hobby, Miller ditched Racine and enrolled in the French Culinary Institute in New York City, one of the nation’s most prestigious programs and the alma mater of his future opponent Bobby Flay. Miller said he had no qualms about his ability as a chef upon enrollment — he knew his talent deserved him a spot at the table.

“I want this to be my life, I’m here to work harder than everyone else. I was driven,” Miller said. “If you weren’t at my level, I’m gonna step over you and move up.”

Culinary school in many ways emulated the atmosphere of the professional kitchens in which Miller would eventually work. The program boasted a technique-driven curriculum and fostered within Miller a stringent respect for authorities who were unafraid to harshly criticize his dishes.

“I learned very early that you are to say, ‘Yes chef,’” Miller said.

His opportunity to create would come later. But while in school, his sole job was to take the recipes he was presented and execute them. Within the confines of that rigid model, his only opportunity to outshine fellow classmates stemmed simply from better cooking.

Amid the intensity of such a demanding model, Miller stood firm and confident, and his instructors took notice.

“My desire to learn more was always there, and that always set people apart,” Miller said. “If you want to learn, that’s step one through 10 [to succeed].”

While still in the middle of his academic career, an instructor recommended Miller for a job at the now-closed Judson Grill — a two-star, 180-seat establishment home to one of New York’s most revered meat stations. Miller, ever the proactive cook, accepted the position even as he juggled school, bills and any semblance of a sleep schedule.

By day, Miller worked at Judson in a low-level prep position — but his drive hadn’t changed a bit, even behind his “Midwest nice” temperament.

“I’d say, ‘Oh I’m just here to learn and work hard,’” Miller said. “But secretly I’m thinking, ‘I’m going to get to the top of this kitchen.’”

By night, Miller was still attending class. And on his days off from school, he was back at Judson. He didn’t sleep much, and working for $7.25 an hour, conversations with his landlord about why rent was short were no rarity.

But even on such a physically taxing regiment, Miller moved from the bottom of the totem pole to running the seven-protein meat station, an astronomical amount of ingredients by Miller’s measure.

Each protein required a different preparation, which Miller executed well enough to earn him name recognition in the country’s most talent-rich cooking city.

After his time at Judson, Miller was hired by Eleven Madison Park, which made for the most cutthroat workplace he’d ever experienced.

Miller said sabotage plagued him often — fellow cooks would dump scraps on his freshly prepped ingredients, forcing him to start anew while they pleaded ignorance.

Miller recounted a particularly harrowing occasion where his head chef approached him with a bottle of basil oil Miller had made.

“I could tell it was discolored, I’d fucked it up, I’d rushed,” Miller said.

The chef poured the botched oil over Miller’s work surface — another chore added to his to-do list without question.

Instances like these were not uncommon, but they did not tarnish his reputation. Before long, he was promoted to banquet and special events sous chef, a position where creativity was finally encouraged.

The trajectory of his career had seemingly reached a pinnacle: There he was, a small-town Wisconsin cook who’d grown up on burgers and fries making executive decisions in one of the most celebrated kitchens in the world. But Miller felt the name Eleven Madison Park overshadowed the ingredients that brought it fame.

Diners came to the Manhattan restaurant expecting spectacular

meals, which Miller thought took focus away from the ingredients.

He felt that customers appreciated the food not for its culinary content but because it had come from the kitchen of an elite restaurant.

Miller knew it was time to move on.

Considering the financial struggle of living in one of the country’s most expensive cities on a cook’s wage, Miller moved back to Wisconsin and sent out resumes across Madison, hoping to regain some of the proximity to food he’d lost in the buzz of the big city.

His phone lay dormant even after contacting many of the city’s elite establishment — until Odessa Piper, chef at L’etoile and a name he’d been encouraged to seek out, offered him an odds-and-ends job in her french-inspired kitchen.

Piper couldn’t afford to pay him full time, but knew her current chef de cuisine was expressing some ambivalence about the position and that Miller’s talent could not be squandered. Within three months, Miller was L’etoile’s new chef de cuisine.

“I think really good restaurants understand the reality that when you have a real treasure of a person, you do what you have to do to bring that person into your organization,” Piper said. “It took money, it took time. But it was worth it.”

Dual sustainability Miller learned from Piper the importance of maintaining a healthy relationship with the people from whom his ingredients would originate. L’etoile had been, from the beginning, a farm-to-table restaurant. For many chefs, that means serving local ingredients which reflect the season.

But Piper’s relationship with her ingredients went a step further.

She made sure she maintained a face-to-face relationship with the farmers who provided for her. This meant constant trips to the iconic Dane County farmers’ market.

Early in the mornings, Piper and Miller would set out to the market to decide the day’s menu, and before long, their creative energy would completely take over.

“Sometimes we would go to the farmer’s market together and talk about [ingredients]. And even before we pulled up our little wagon to the door [of L’etoile], we were just so excited we would go racing up the stairs and straight to the kitchen,” Piper said. “We had a creative short hand back and forth. We were so open to each other’s ideas.”

The collaborative effort and consistent communication with Wisconsin farmers is a philosophy Miller still embraces, and it expanded its reach with each new restaurant he opened.

In 2005, Miller took over for Piper as head chef at L’etoile. He expanded his business five years later, opening Graze, L’etoile’s gastropub neighbor. Sujeo, Miller’s casual, pan-Asian restaurant, opened in 2014 followed by Estrellon in 2015, an elegant, Spanishstyle fixture serving tapas.

While each restaurant is distinct in its identity, the core culinary value among them is universal: respect the ingredient.

If Miller finds a particularly appealing, in-season batch of squash at the farmer’s market, the ingredient is sure to make an appearance in every restaurant. While the food at each restaurant reflects the culture that inspired them, the ingredients themselves are rooted in Wisconsin. “[Cooking is] a community to me, it’s connecting you with the people you work with,” Miller said. “It starts with buying the ingredient from someone I can see and help — knowing that every food dollar I spend impacts that person.”

With four restaurants to his name, interactions with suppliers are frequent. But for Miller, his expansive staff comprise the backbone of his operation. While each of Miller’s four restaurants maintain their own full-time staff, he remains engaged in each kitchen.

Miller is a chef, not a restaurant executive. He said cooking is all he wants to do in life, and he does so without the pursuit of personal glory. That means he’s in the kitchen every night — whether it be in

one of his four restaurants, or at home making a delicious meal for his three kids.

“I tend to see this mark among truly great chefs — they’re great because they’re not full of ego,” Piper said. “No work was beneath him. He washed dishes, pots and pans, he prepped — he understood the importance of all of it.”

Miller still cleans, and while the gesture may be small in immediate impact, it’s representative of a man who isn’t interested in continuing the brutal environment he’d been subjected to in kitchens past. There would be no sabotage, no authoritarian regime and certainly no dumping of basil oil in his kitchens.

While the nature of his title necessitates a certain level of authority, his staff and mentor said his leadership style is never defined by stubbornness.

“He has a lot of heart, and he understands that the best food comes out of a place that recognizes an interdependence with its farmers as well as its wait staff and dishwashers,” Piper said. “He’s an extremely collaborative chef.”

Itaru Nagano, his chef de cuisine at L’etoile, said he’s worked for some truly talented chefs, but none run their kitchens the way Miller does.

No idea is worth ridiculing at face value, Miller said. The trust he has in his staff gives way to a space where creativity is not defined with an asterisk — the privilege of creative expression is not reserved only for the head chef.

“The reason I love my job is because I get to be creative. If I didn’t have that I don’t know what I would do,” Nagano said. “[Miller] believes in equality for everyone, which isn’t always seen in a kitchen.”

All of this — the welcoming environment, the unique opportunity for chefs to push boundaries, and a head chef who still ends the night wiping down the stovetop — serves a wider purpose.

Miller understands the work he does will not begin and end with him. He knows his staff will change over time, and the chefs who relocate will forge their own paths with his impact in tow.

“People have to want this job and to learn from you. You have to be the person they want to be like,” Miller said. “If you aren’t giving them that … you’re failing yourself as a chef, you’re failing your industry, you’re failing your team.”

Madison’s time Thinking back to when he relocated to Madison, Miller said he thought his time here would only be a stepping stone to more fruitful opportunities. Like the majority of the country, he did not think of Madison as a city with a rich culinary tradition.

But Miller is dedicated to reversing that perspective.

When Food Network asked Miller if he’d be interested in appearing on “Iron Chef Showdown,” in which a challenger competes against a mystery celebrity chef to create the best fivecourse meal in an hour, he was skeptical of pursuing the opportunity because he assumed a chef from Wisconsin would never be chosen.

Much to Miller’s surprise, he soon stood face-to-face with Iron Chef Bobby Flay.

Nagano, his sous chef, whispered to Miller before the competition began that Flay wins around 88 percent of the time. But Miller and his team won the episode, defeating Flay in a battle of bison.

Still, Miller’s assessment of the television appearance focused not on his victory but on elevating Madison’s reputation.

“I think about what it says about Madison and what it says about Wisconsin,” Miller said. “We have a lot going on here that should be recognized.”

Even after traveling and eating globally in her soft retirement, Piper maintains that Miller’s cooking is pushing Madison into the national spotlight.

“I think Madison is right up there with little boroughs of New York and San Francisco,” Piper said. “My life now takes me to

restaurants all around [the world] so I know of what I speak, and the service at L’etoile is jaw-droppingly warm and gracious … It’s like the food.”

Miller’s impact is twofold: He has not only brought attention to Madison as a culinary haven by pioneering four exceptional kitchens, he has also introduced to a new wave of chefs the idea that success comes not only from tradition.

Desiree Nudd, who worked as Miller’s executive sous chef at Estrellón, is now at Somerset, a Chicago restaurant that employs multiple award-winning chefs. She said witnessing Miller’s dedication to local ingredients has impacted how dishes at Somerset are designed. The restaurant now seeks ingredients from origins in close proximity to Chicago.

“His love for local food and local farmers opened up my eyes to see how much he loves to support the food that’s in Wisconsin,” Nudd said. “I’m more comfortable being myself because I’ve worked with Tory.”

When it’s time for Miller to hang up his apron for the final time — and that day may never come — he hopes his legacy extends beyond the number of successful restaurants he opened. For Miller, television appearances, prestigious awards and heaps of industry praise feel nice only for a moment.

What fuels his seemingly unstoppable engine comes down to the plate in front of him. No dish is any more important than the next, and that’s because Miller believes they each hold equal value. When a meal is placed before a customer at any one of Miller’s restaurants, that dish exemplifies a culmination of his values — and that, unlike his menus, will never change.

“I always want people to leave full,” Miller said. “… full of the knowledge that they ate at a restaurant that cares about their food and the ingredients around them.”

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Economic pressures force universities into betraying their mission While universities focus heavily on employability, advocates for decommodified education should not give up hope

by Sam Palmer Associate Opinion Editor

Reality is somber these days for those who view secondary education as a place for intellectual growth and the achievement of higher understanding.

College students complain of “useless”, i.e. non-STEM, classes, while universities like University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point trim entire disciplines wholesale from their curriculum. UW-Madison is a bit of a hold-out, but even they are now attempting to couch required classes in terms of employability and integrate the humanities into the money-making majors. Just three years ago, Gov. Scott Walker tried and failed to get phrases like “the search for truth” and “improve the human condition” removed from the university’s mission statement.

It’s a sorry state of affairs, but one can’t fix anything with laments. Why is university education trending this way?

To find the answer, we must look beyond Madison and even beyond the state.

Though college still retains, to some extent, the image of an institution dedicated to intellectual inquiry, students who actually experience it know the purpose of their attendance. A vast majority report that they primarily went to college to improve their job prospects.

Although learning about interesting things comes in at second, the order suggests that students are attending school for economic reasons with intellectual development as a bonus, not the other way round. If we were to put on our cynic’s glasses for a second, we might see it doesn’t really matter to students what they learn during college, because the whole point is what happens once they tuck that degree safely into their resumes.

Learning interesting things and developing a deeper understanding of the world are almost incidental — just things that are done when they have some time off from career-prepping.

And that’s just the students, it doesn’t mention at all the posture of the university.

Take David Krakauer, former director of the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, for instance. He once claimed that in the 21st century “undergraduate education ... is no longer a source of revenue.” That is to say, the university’s already limited ability to support itself with student or public funding, which would allow it to remain a nominally independent institution run for the public good, is becoming essentially non-existent. All this, despite constantlyincreasing tuition!

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Courtesy of Jeff Miller UW Communications Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation help shuttle research directly from the public laboratory into private production.

Collaborations like the Foxconn Institute deal showcase the role the University of Wisconsin envisions for itself — as another step in the production line, manufacturing working professionals.

And really, how else could they view themselves if they want to survive? They are under tremendous pressure from all sides to justify the form of their existence — from politicians who abhor the idea of a public anything because it affronts their cruel egoism, to students who can’t pay off their student debt with worldliness. They are like a river rock made smooth by the pounding waters around them. All that is vestigial has been or will be washed away.

This process is also self-reinforcing —

because the university is just a connecting pipe that cannot survive on its own, it can only train its students to fit into place at businesses or within industry. When schools graduate students that question the institutions around them or don’t fit neatly into their economic places, they are quite literally producing products with no buyer. On the other hand, those who fit the mold excel and reinforce the system that delivered them.

The path toward an austere, commodified and commodifying education system is only an inexorable one within our present conditions. Universities could be places where students didn’t have their every action dictated by the debt they will incur or how they will answer for something on a resume. The critical issue is building a society where one can have

a good life without going to college and, on the flip side, eliminating the student debt which sometimes makes it impossible to live a good life because one went to college. If universities are no longer forced to hold the keys to a comfortable future, they are freed to become what they were intended to be. They can live up to the words they have inscribed in bronze and marble around their campuses. For those who dream of that world, don’t despair.

Examine the situation with clear-eyed honesty. Look beyond the university and work to build a better future for the students who have yet to come.

Sam Palmer (spalmer4@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in biology.

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How Wisconsinites should view results of midterm election College Republicans: Progress for Wisconsin is a bipartisan effort

College Democrats: Blue Wave has finally washed over Wisconsin

After this eventful and emotional midterm, it is important to take a step back and understand what the results of this election mean. They do not simply show us who our new legislators are and who will be representing us in both national and state level government offices. They paint a more complicated picture.

Our country is extremely divided. The margins by which candidates in both parties won their elections are extremely close.

Winning an election by sometimes tenths of a percentage means a candidate barely won the support of their district. Legislators on both sides of the aisle need to recognize that and make sure they are properly representing their citizens.

Because legislators are now representing such divided constituencies, it is in their best interest to work with those people with whom they do not necessarily agree. Bipartisanship is a lost art form. Though it is true that bipartisanship does occur more often than the media cares to show, more can still be done to improve bipartisanship. More teamwork needs to happen on the issues that divide us the most.

This advice does not just apply to legislators. It’s amazing how much there is to learn about a person by simply listening to what they believe and more importantly, why they believe it. As a human being, we are each blessed with only one life and therefore only one perspective. It is crucial to listen to people that live different lives, to learn how their perspective is different and to understand why they believe what they believe. Understanding how a person’s circumstances influence the way they view the world and different policies is so eye-opening, and it gives more of a wellrounded mind.

Talk to friends. Discuss beliefs calmly and respectfully. Ask them questions. Make it a conversation — not an argument. Even if no one’s mind is changed, the discussion is still worth having. Having these conversations will make us more educated and more respectful people. It’s surprising how much can be learned just by having them.

College Democrats are extremely pleased with the midterm results. In total, six Democrats were elected to Wisconsin statewide offices. 92.9 percent of preregistered voters — 145,510 Madisonsians — turned out to cast a ballot on or before Tuesday. We could not be more proud and grateful for all those who volunteered by knocking doors, making phone calls and texting countless people to remind them to vote.

In one of the closest races in recent memory, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers and his running mate Mandela Barnes were elected to the office of the governor and lieutenant governor, respectively. As a lifelong educator, Evers has pledged to restore funding for public education as well as post-secondary education. He has also promised to restore adequate compensation and professionalism for public school teachers in Wisconsin. It’s no surprise many college students and those who support education and our state’s future were excited to turn out for Evers Nov. 6. As Democrats, we are extremely enthusiastic to reclaim the office of governor for the next four years.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, easily clinched her re-election Tuesday.

Baldwin has shown a steadfast commitment to Wisconsin’s progressive values, particularly in working to make post-secondary education and healthcare more affordable for working families. She has admirably served as a legislator at all levels of government, clearly demonstrating her experience and effectiveness. She has also made history by being Wisconsin’s first female senator and the first openly gay person to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Tammy’s reelection was not a given and we feel extremely accomplished for helping her in the fight against powerful out-of-state special interests.

Doug La Follette has dutifully served as Wisconsin’s Secretary of State since

These midterm elections have taught us the value of a single vote. It is a common misconception that a single person’s vote does not matter. Though it may seem like a single vote gets drowned in a sea of millions of votes cast on election day, Tuesday night we saw the power of every single vote that was cast.

At certain points during election night, the margin of votes between Walker and Evers was in the hundreds. During polarized times such as these, every vote counts.

To Gov. Scott Walker, Republicans say thank you. Thank you for all you have done for our state in the last eight years as governor of Wisconsin. Through freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin, you have eased the burden on college students and families across the state by making their education more affordable. By lowering taxes, you have allowed Wisconsinites to keep more of their hard earned money and re-infuse it back into our economy. You have brought industry and thousands of jobs back to Wisconsin by working with business owners both here and abroad. You have brought our unemployment to historic lows, you’ve not only balanced the state budget, but you also managed to create a $579 million surplus, with which you reinvested in Wisconsin families through the sales tax holiday and the child tax credit. The list goes on and on. Thank you for all you have done to ensure a prosperous future for our state.

We wholeheartedly wish Tony Evers the best of luck as governor. To not wish him well would be to not wish Wisconsin well. To want Evers to fail would be to want Wisconsin to fail. We oftentimes forget that in politics we all want the same thing, we all just have different ways of getting there. I urge legislators and citizens alike to focus on those goals we have in common, to try hard to find common ground and to listen to each other. That is how things will get done — that is how Wisconsin will thrive.

Sara Sedgwick (ssedgwick@wisc.edu.) is a junior majoring in political science. She is also the Deputy Communications Director for College Republicans.

1983 and has once again secured reelection. We believe La Follette will continue to serve as a progressive voice for Wisconsinites.

College Democrats are ecstatic that Josh Kaul successfully defeated the Republican incumbent Brad Schimel and will become Wisconsin’s next attorney general. The office of attorney general is crucially important, as they have the power to use the courts and stand up to President Donald Trump and his deplorable policies. Kaul is the right individual to check and challenge a deranged federal government on behalf of Wisconsin.

Additionally, Kaul has made it clear as attorney general, he will deliver justice to the backlog of sexual assault victims that Schimel has neglected.

Lastly, we are pleased to announce the victory of Sarah Godlewski for state treasurer. Godlewski has made a career as a businesswoman — making socially responsible investments that not only make a return but also make society better. In 2018, Godlewski successfully led the fight against Scott Walker ’s referendum to eliminate the office of the treasurer — a power grab that would have given himself direct discretion over billions of dollars in taxpayer money.

Godlewski will fight alongside our other elected officials to ensure the refinancing and affordability of student loans in a time of student debt crisis.

College Democrats are proud to say we swept the 2018 midterm elections. We are pleased to present you with Gov. Tony Evers, Lieutenant Gov. Mandela Barnes, Attorney General Josh Kaul, Treasurer Sarah Godlewski and Secretary of State Doug La Follette. Here’s to Wisconsin’s progressive values and moving Wisconsin forward.

Sam Schwab (sschwab2@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in political science and English. He is also the Press Secretary of the UW College Democrats. badgerherald.com • November 13, 2018 • 15

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Corporate responsibility does not absolve consumers of obligations

Though companies should strive to be socially responsible in their practices, consumers cannot ignore their own responsibility

by Abigail Steinberg Opinion Editor

In situations as odd and stressful as the ones we encounter in college, students are apt to find shortcuts to make life a little less difficult. Whether it’s taking the 80 to avoid a walk up Bascom Hill or realizing how easy it is to spend mom and dad’s money on beer by using a WisCard at Der Rathskeller, Badgers have a knack for finding little things that make college life easier.

Naturally, eating — everyone’s favorite pastime — is no exception. In 2010, in an unassuming dorm room here on campus, EatStreet was born. Though it came from humble beginnings, Madison’s homegrown food ordering and delivery app has become a significant figure in food delivery services. Though many University of Wisconsin students know it to be a quick and easy way to grab dinner, EatStreet connects diners in more than 250 cities to more than 15,000 restaurants.

Because of their success, one of EatStreet’s founders, Matt Howard, was a recipient of Madison Magazine’s 2017 Best of Madison Business Award.

Due to its overwhelming success, EatStreet recently announced it’s expanding across Wisconsin, to Green Bay, Appleton, Eau Claire, La Crosse and several Milwaukee suburbs, creating around 300 new jobs statewide. To celebrate, EatStreet launched its “Haulin’ Ass for Hunger Tour” Oct. 29. EatStreet workers loaded a custom double-decker bus and will traverse the state, dropping off $20,000 worth of donations to Wisconsin food pantries. For the 609,306 Wisconsinites struggling with hunger, the aid is invaluable.

Those who frequently use EatStreet’s services can feel good knowing they’re supporting a company with such charitable, wholesome values. EatStreet is popular among UW students not just for its convenience, but because people in our age group favor companies that are socially responsible.

EatStreet is lauded for its social responsibility by those who understand it most. The kickoff of the tour started at the Fritz Food Pantry located in Madison’s Goodman Community Center. Jon Lica, the corporate giving manager of the center, said, “An ideal corporate partnership is when a company contributes financially, employees get involved as volunteers and they advocate for our cause in the community. EatStreet hits all three on the head.”

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Photo · As consumers, we should show companies that we’re socially responsible by refusing to support businesses with unethical practices.

The Badger Herald Archives of responsibility towards the community and environment (both ecological and social) in which it operates,” was originally popularized in the 1960s, but is now the accepted and encouraged business model of today. Several retail brands, like TOMS, Pura Vida and Warby Parker give to causes or uplift struggling communities through their business model and are quite popular among students.

When companies adhere to CSR, their reputation improves. Profitability, growth and sustainability increase as well. But what’s most beneficial about CSR is the culture shift it prompts. CSR leads to greater avoidance of the exploitation of labor, bribery and corruption, all of which are common in large corporations. Countries prone to this negative behavior would find it difficult to compete when their standards are lower, while under-served communities are finally given the aid they so desperately need.

At least, that’s the ideal. We still pay for services from corporations that are significantly less ethical and responsible than Madison’s beloved EatStreet. Take Amazon, for example. Though the corporation has become known for its toxic corporate environment, horrendous working conditions and poor practices overall, it’s a go-to option for students to buy textbooks, clothes or anything else they might need. The city of Madison briefly fought for the chance to be Amazon’s second new headquarters. In a market with increasingly more socially responsible business models from which we can patron, why do we choose to patron socially responsible businesses for some needs and unethical companies for others? Because it’s easy. But just because something is easy doesn’t mean it’s right.

Choosing the easiest, most accessible option is a nice default. But we cannot expect all companies to be socially

responsible until we are all socially responsible consumers. If the customer is always right, we should show companies what is right by refusing to support businesses with reprehensible behavior and supporting socially responsible businesses instead. It might not be the easiest for customers, especially students like us, but it’s the right thing to do. And although it’s not the easiest for businesses to adhere to a CSR model, it’s definitely possible and creates great success. EatStreet is proof a company can be socially responsible and successful, not just in Wisconsin, but across America.

Most importantly, both consumers and corporations are obligated to be socially responsible — the presence of one does not excuse the absence of another.

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

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Legislature cannot be expected to be public, efficient and transparent ‘Rider’ legislation is a necessary consequence of a representative government that values public opinion and avoids gridlock

by Lianna Schwalenberg Columnist

A recent report from the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism highlights the lack of transparency from the Wisconsin State Assembly and the legal lengths they go to deter public input on important legislation. Often, unpopular legislation, like limiting access to public records, will be added to — and essentially hidden in — a large budget bill. Or amendments will be added immediately before a vote, such as the Manufacturing and Agriculture tax credit, not allowing time for debate or public input.

While it may seem like these practices are unethical or undermine the fundamental principles of democracy, a closer look at Wisconsin’s procedure for passing the budget bill will reveal that the process is fair. Furthermore, these “opaque” practices should be allowed in government — under necessary constraints and if the legislators so decide — without additional public awareness. This is completely consistent with having a regard for public opinion.

First, it is important to understand Wisconsin’s process for passing the state’s biennial budget — which determines precisely how the state will raise and spend money. The process starts in the Governor ’s office in the fall of every even-numbered year. The Governor writes a letter to the agencies and makes a list of budget targets which he or she gives to the Joint Finance Committee, comprised of legislators from both the Senate and Assembly. The JFC takes the proposals around the state to be heard and discussed by citizens in public hearings after which they compile their own version of the budget to be introduced into either the Senate or the Assembly as a bill for debating and revising. The bill is then passed to the other house for debate and revision. It is this house’s version of the bill that ends up back at the Governor ’s office. The Governor has the power to make line-item vetoes, which the Legislature can override with a twothirds majority in both houses. Finally, the budget is signed into law, ideally by July 1 of every odd-numbered year.

Since the legislature’s state budget is the only bill required to pass — and it must be passed in a timely fashion — it is convenient to sneak in some of the more controversial, harder-to-pass pieces of legislation, sometimes befittingly referred to as “riders.” While this action does

Photo · Structure of Wisconsin state Legislature makes it impossible to allow public input and transparency without leading to perpetual inaction.

Hayley Sperling The Badger Herald sound devious, it is neither deceptive nor a product of poor design when it comes to the budget bill passage, because everyone gets a fair shot at reading, debating and revising the bill.

The conundrum with the budget bill process might best be understood in terms of an inconsistent triad between things we want from the government: transparency, speed and regard for public opinion. If the process had speed and transparency, the legislature would make their own decisions, skip the public hearings, but be sure to let everyone know exactly what they are doing. If the process had transparency and regard for public opinion, everything would be slow because they would constantly be holding public hearings and referendums on their decisions. The current system as it stands has speed and regard for public opinion,

and in doing so, has to sometimes keep things behind closed doors.

Because the bulk of the state’s revenue — about 45 percent — comes from taxes and the bulk of spending — about 35 percent — is in K-12 education, the hottestdebated items are tax cuts and education spending. These particular issues affect every individual citizen in a unique way, and in a direct democracy, where citizens deserve transparency and public hearings on every budget item, there would be indefinite gridlock. Ideally, legislators are elected into public office because they know their constituents’ interests best, and they will do their best to bargain for them.

The necessary constraint held on each legislator during this process, of course, is their ability to be voted out of office.

There may be worries that the system as it currently stands still lacks regard for

public opinion as more and more pieces of legislation are passed without public knowledge. But to take a step back, public opinion is the reason for the existence and continuation of a representative democracy. It is in the legislature’s best interest to value the public opinion. To put it in perspective, Walker and the GOP legislature ended up repealing the unpopular provision about the state’s open records law, and there is some evidence that the Manufacturing and Agriculture tax credit has contributed to growth in manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin.

Sometimes policymakers know a thing or two about their constituents, and it is up to us to trust them.

Lianna Schwalenberg (lschwalenber@ wisc.edu) is a fifth-year senior majoring in communication arts and philosophy. badgerherald.com • November 13, 2018 • 17

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Men’s hockey: Freshmen making waves in wake of roster changes Badger freshmen have pulled more than their fair share in recent games, particularly thanks to goalie Daniel Lebedeff

by Ben Kenney Sports Writer

The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team has provided mixed results thus far this season, starting 2-0 with two wins against Boston College, splitting a two-game series against Michigan Tech and recently dropping two in a row on the road against North Dakota.

But in the midst of their inconsistency, there has been a massive bright spot for this team: the play of the freshman class.

The Badgers fell 6–2 at home against Michigan Tech Oct. 27. Michigan Tech dominated power play opportunities and shots on goal and played a far cleaner game than the Badgers from horn to horn. With a rematch imminent for the next night, Head Coach Tony Granato decided to make a significant change to his rotation — a starting lineup of all freshmen, something unheard of within the confines of the four-year structure of college hockey.

Starting game two of the series for Coach Granato were defensemen K’Andre Miller and Ty Emberson, forwards Dominick Mersch,

Roman Ahcan and Brock Caufield, and goaltender Daniel Lebedeff.

The game marked only the third time since 2000 that the Badgers deployed a line of all freshmen, let alone a starting lineup. As soon as the puck dropped, Granato’s decision paid off, and the Badgers looked like a different team.

“ They left it all on the ice, they

play hard, they block shots, they compete.”

Coach Tony Granato Wisconsin won the game 6–2 behind a 24save, 94 percent save percentage performance from Lebedeff, and a crucial shorthanded goal from Ahcan.

While it was mainly upperclassmen who contributed on the scoreboard, it was the freshmen who set the tone for the game and

gave way for the upperclassmen to capitalize on opportunities.

“We played more as a team tonight,” Granato said to UW Athletics when asked about the team’s newfound energy. “It was good to see everyone working together and supporting one another. Everyone found their place.”

While the talent of the freshmen class was on full display during the Michigan Tech victory, it has not been the only showcase of their ability.

Since the season began, the freshmen class has produced a plus/minus of plus 20, the highest of any class on the team, far greater than the sophomores’ plus five, juniors’ plus zero and seniors’ plus two. Of the five players with the highest plus/minus on the team, three of them are freshmen, headlined by Miller with a teamleading plus nine.

In total, there are nine freshmen on the roster, eight of whom are included in the regular rotation. Together the nine have accounted for six goals, 16 assists and 34 blocked shots to pair with their phenomenal plus/minus.

This not including the statistics of the freshman Lebedeff, who leads the team in save

percentage at 92 percent and goals allowed per game at 2.02.

Notable individual performances from the freshmen class thus far include Miller ’s plus three, one goal performance and plus three, one goal, two assist, five shot performance in victories against Boston College and St. Lawrence respectively; Caufield’s gamewinning goal in a 7–5 victory against Boston College; and Lebedeff’s 94 percent and 92 percent save percentages in games against Michigan Tech and North Dakota respectively.

Granato has not been shy when it comes to praising this freshman class, especially after the team’s 3–0 win against Boston College.

“I would assume for the people in the building that have never seen the freshmen, they liked what they saw,” Granato said. “They left it all on the ice, they play hard, they block shots, they compete.”

The Badgers come off of a weekend series against Minnesota in which Lebedeff helped win the latter game by stopping 32 of 33 shots on goal.

They will face Ohio State this weekend.

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Football: Takeaways from Saturday’s coffin-nailer against Penn State In the wake of the Badgers fourth loss of the season, the realization of a disappointing year seems redundant and no longer novel

by Will Stern Sports Editor

During their preseason poll, the AP placed the University of Wisconsin football team fourth in the nation. That’s why it was so baffling when they went on to lost to Brigham Young, University of Michigan and Northwestern.

Now, after a loss to Penn State University, the AP’s mistake has become clear: They simply misplaced the four. It should have been in the loss column as the Badgers limp to season’s end with a 6-4, 4-3 Big Ten record.

Saturday, the Badgers traveled to Beaver Stadium for a pre-supposed matchup of conference stalwarts, that instead has turned to a far less compelling display by game time, as both teams had already garnered three losses and plenty of disappointment.

Though the Badgers particularly still had a tangible goal to play for, as they were still in contention for the Big Ten West Title despite trailing Northwestern in the standings by a game.

Second-string for a reason Thanks to Badgers quarterback Alex Hornibrook’s struggle with a nagging head injury, his backup sophomore Jack Coan received the call for his second start and third game of the season.

The original plan for Coan was a redshirt season, as freshman Danny Vanden Boom was called on for mop-up duties, now Coan has reached the three-game threshold and it is up in the air if he will exhaust his eligibility with any play throughout the rest of the year.

In the previous two games, despite the

“ ...the young gun looked like if Hornibrook tried to play righty.”

deafening cries all season from Hornibrook haters who claimed omnipotent knowledge of Coan’s prowess, we didn’t see much in Coan’s game that could lead to a strong interpretation either way.

In his start against Northwestern, he looked adept at points, only to be exposed down the line as the Badgers failed to find any success whatsoever through the air in the final minutes.

In limited time against Rutgers he put up a nice 5-7, 64 yard stat line, but still didn’t really yield a judgment.

Saturday’s game shifted the Coan-O-Meter

into “Uh-oh” mode, as the young gun looked like if Hornibrook tried to play righty.

His 9–20, 0 TD-2 INT game looks bad on paper. But it felt worse. He also got sacked six times, which isn’t his fault, but at least on those plays we knew where the ball was going.

When Coan threw Saturday we didn’t know if it was going 10 yards wide of his receiver, into the hands of a PSU defensive back or, in the case of a fourth quarter drop by tight end Jake Ferguson, directly through the hands of the receiver.

Suffice to say, Coan is not prepared to be a starting quarterback, and will likely quiet the Hornibrook haters for at least a few games.

Even Taylor can’t help It must be frustrating for sophomore running back Jonathan Taylor when he breaks off a 71yard touchdown in the first quarter, finishes with 185 yards and a 9.3 yards per game average, yet isn’t able to give his offense even a fighting chance.

We often praise the single-faceted nature of the Badger offense, because there is truly something incredible about a team that announces to the whole world its game plan every week for the last thirty years and is still able to execute at a pretty nice clip.

But this season has shown that it would be really nice to — I don’t know — have a reliable

passing game to take pressure off of the run?

Just a thought.

Taylor now has 1,548 yards on the season — his second straight year eclipsing the 1,500 yard mark — and moves into eighth place on the Badgers all-time rushing list.

ILBs continue to dominate At times this season, it seems like senior linebacker T.J. Edwards is pouring water into a big bucket with a hole in the bottom. Despite the glaringly apparent short-comings in the Badgers defense, particularly their lack-lusters pass rush and ineffectual secondary play, Edwards — along with fellow inside linebacker staple Ryan Connelly who recorded his perfunctory 10 tackles — has remained excellent.

Saturday’s performance was no different, as the senior notched the second highest tackle total of his career and best of the season with 14.

He’s had a double-digit tackle game in three of the Badgers last five games.

Though perhaps Edwards had the better game, it was Ryan Connelly who earned my personal envy. He had the luxury — dare I say the privilege (!) — of sacking Penn State quarterback and cover model for smug POS magazine Trace McSorley.

Four losses is bad. Four losses is sad. Four losses makes nobody glad.

Yet here we are.

Football: Forced optimism in midst of myriad sorrows for UW Despite the overwhelming feeling of failure surrounding fourth loss of the season, there is still plenty of positivity on the individual level

by Matt Ernst Associate Sports Editor

The Badgers began this season with skyhigh expectations that come with a No. 4 ranking in the preseason poll, but 10 weeks into the season, they are nowhere near contention for the College Football Playoff.

Inexperience and injuries have taken a toll on the season as the Badges have failed to rise to just about any challenge they have been faced with this season.

But the Badgers are still 6-4 and in a great position to finish with a winning record for the 17th season in a row.

So, let’s think about some silver linings from this season.

Jonathan Taylor is still awesome After finishing third in the nation last season with almost 2,000 rushing yards as a freshman, the expectations for Jonathan Taylor were sky high for 2018.

Taylor has lived up to all of that hype.

He is currently leading the NCAA with

1,548 yards and doing so on an impressive 6.8 yards per carry.

Given that he has gotten more carries than anyone else in the country, the fact that he is able to remain so productive is remarkable.

The injury to quarterback Alex Hornibrook has made defenses focus even more exclusively on Taylor than before, and he has remained extremely effective regardless.

Taylor is also likely to surpass his 2017 total of 13 touchdowns, given that he already has 12 with two games to play.

Many things have gone wrong for the Badgers this season, but Taylor has not been one of them.

The exciting storyline often required for a Heisman has not been there for Taylor this season, but the production has. If Taylor gets the right team around him during his time in Wisconsin, he will surely be a top contender for the award for the nation’s most outstanding player.

Jake Ferguson stepping up The Badgers lost one of the best tight ends in college football to the 2018 NFL Draft, when the Broncos took Troy Fumagalli in the 5th round.

Fumagalli led last year ’s Badgers with 46 catches for 547 yards and four touchdowns and was Hornibrook’s go-to target all season long.

As far as Wisconsin receiving targets go, this was a massive hole to replace and Jake Ferguson has done as good of a job as anyone could have expected in this role.

Despite being just a freshman, he has tallied 27 catches for 379 yards and three touchdowns in his first ten games as a Badger. Ferguson came ready to produce from the moment he stepped on the field.

He leads the team in catches and is tied for the lead in receiving touchdowns.

Ferguson has done everything asked out of him this season and will almost certainly play a key role in the Badgers offense for the next few years.

UW beat Iowa Most Wisconsin fans can agree on our dislike for University of Iowa’s football team, so it’s always very satisfying to be able to go into their house and break their hearts in a comeback victory.

Hornibrook proved his doubters wrong and pulled off an impressive 88-yard drive to go up by four points with under a minute remaining. This came off a very disappointing home loss to Brigham Young University and was a much-needed victory and morale boost for the team.

Though this win won’t amount to an appearance in the Big Ten Championship, it will give Wisconsin the tie-breaker over Iowa in the Big Ten standings, which is a silver lining I can live with.

The Badgers may not have risen to the occasion in any other road game this season, but at least they showed up to ruin a Saturday for Iowa.

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Wisconsin men’s water polo team finishes third in Big Ten Tournament Despite an early season loss against top-seeded Michigan State, the team was able to finish in the top ranks of the conference

by Danny Farber Sports Editor

The University of Wisconsin men’s club water polo team wrapped up their fall season two weekends ago in Ann Arbor after placing third in the Big Ten Tournament. But since water polo isn’t an especially common sport in the Badger State, many students haven’t yet heard of the team.

Brian Portland, a wing player for the water polo team, agreed that there can be

“‘What is water polo, how would you describe it?’ And I say, ‘Picture team handball in the water and that’s kind of what water polo is, but a little bit more physical.’”

Brian Portland Wing player

a dearth of k nowledge surrounding the sport.

“I’ve had so many people ask me, ‘What is water polo, how would you describe it?’

And I say picture team handball in the water and that’s kind of what water polo is but a little more physical,” Portland said.

The fall water polo season is typically when the Wisconsin team plays their most high intensity games and tournaments, traveling across the Midwest to compete.

Before playing in their final game at the University of Michigan, the Badgers traveled to Purdue and Iowa’s campuses for both of their regular season tournaments to determine seeding for the conference bracket.

Usually Wisconsin would host their own tournament as well, but with last year’s Southeast Recreational Facility demolition, the Badgers will have to wait until the Nicholas Recreation Center opens in 2019. Though the team currently practices in the UW Natatorium, the pool is too shallow on its sides for water polo competitions, making Wisconsin the only school in the Big Ten without a regulation water polo pool.

“I’m definitely looking forward to [The

Nick opening] for the team,” Portland said. “I think it’ll allow us to have better practice and get more used to playing in a regulation size pool as opposed to kind of

“‘I would say a lot of the guys

on the team came to go to school first and then wanted to keep playing water polo.

Definitley there’s a lot of them that could have made it playing around the country DI” Brian Portland

getting cramped in the Nat.” Portland is especially excited to see Wisconsin start hosting water polo tournaments as they haven’t played in a home tournament since 2016.

With away tournaments usually being at least a several-hour drive from Madison, it can often be difficult for those not on the team to make the trip.

“It’s always a different experience playing in front of your friends and family at a home tournament compared to away in front of a bunch of strangers,” Portland said. “I think it’ll be really cool to be able to host tournaments and have the Big Ten in our house rather than going away to them.”

Wisconsin, like most Midwestern schools, lacks a varsity level for water polo — making the club team the school’s most competitive option for students looking to play.

Despite their non-varsity categorization, Portland contended that many of his teammates have the skills to compete in Division I programs.

“I would say a lot of the guys on the team came to go to school first and then wanted to keep playing water polo,” Portland said. “Definitely there’s a lot

Photo · The Wisconsin men’s water polo team at one of their tournaments in Iowa City Courtesy of the Wisconsin Men’s Water Polo Team

of them that could have made it playing around the country DI.” The most skilled player on the team and perhaps in all of the Big Ten is Will Derden. In the Iowa tournament preceding the Big Ten Tournament, Derden led the Badgers in goals with 11, assists with eight and steals with nine. Derden was also incredibly efficient even with this high volume, recording just five missed shots and two turnovers on the weekend.

Other notable scoring performances in Iowa came from Austin Erban who had eight goals, David Komjathy with seven and Steve Leserman with six. Erban and Komjathy are both new to the team with Erban transferring and Komjathy entering as a freshman. Portland also showcased his unmatched speed in the opening period swim-offs, of which he won ten of eleven.

The Badgers split their four games in Iowa to earn the five seed in the Big Ten Tournament, though they lost their two most challenging contests versus Michigan State and Indiana.

While statistics haven’t been published for the Big Ten Tournament, Wisconsin performed well. In the first round, the Badgers defeated Illinois 7–4 before falling 15 –8 in their rematch against No. 1 seed Michigan State. Wisconsin ended the day with a hard fought 11–8 win against Purdue, giving them a third place finish behind tournament winner Michigan and runner up Michigan State.

Portland credited the Badgers early scoring surge against the Boilermakers as a key factor in the victory.

“What we really focused on [in the match against Purdue] was getting out early,” Portland said. “We focused up before the game and wanted to come in with intensity and get out to an early lead.

In that game we did a really good job of that and we came out strong.”

At the same time, Portland felt the team succeeded in the tournament as a whole by focusing on defense primarily and countering with their attack afterwards.

Though their season is over, the club water polo team continues to practice regularly. The team is currently considering joining the Big 12 to compete in the spring while remaining in the Big Ten for the fall season.

For more information regarding scheduling, match scores, statistics or any live streams of games feel free to consult the water polo team’s official Facebook page.

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Cold weather fills students with despair, big sad as snow engulfs town Students, faculty alike note cruel intentions of snow and wind, seek change to increase mental health during the cold

by Angela Peterson Banter Editor

There’s a disgruntled air in the air. Recently, students began to notice the outside is getting colder. While few have seen this coming for weeks, many only caught on the trend when they awoke to snow this past Friday morning.

The white blanket of precipitated matter dulled the hopes of Badgers looking for a bright spot after their failed midterm. At least the snow provided a cool camouflage for the tears these students shed, as the freezing bits of the cries easily swirled into the pre-frozen snow.

Students took to the streets in varied apparel to conceal their newfound seasonal depression.

“I just really like this coat,” Jenna Benson, a University of Wisconsin engineering freshman said. “I thought it would be warm enough for

the cold since it cost me hella and has this fuzzy lining. Wait, I guess it actually cost my mom hella. Regardless, I’m sad and cold.”

Benson’s attire, while fashionable, is not puffy enough to sustain the treacherous, blowing winter winds Shakespeare spoke of.

She mentioned she neglected to read any of the poetry for her literature class and went to her dorm kitchen to partake in group singalongs most evenings, which explains why she was uninformed.

Even for experienced students, the new cold brought sad boy vibes which could not be rectified with a parka. David Palmer, a UW junior majoring in Spanish, felt the fire within him perish.

“Typically,” Palmer began, “I feel a literal fire within me. Like, a legit fire. I’m always concerned I’m going to accidentally burst into flame. It’s pretty chill that the fire isn’t going to consume me at the moment, but I’m still cold. I hate it.”

The “weather” is a rather interesting field to study, as there are whole departments dedicated to it despite it seemingly being a cruel, unpredictable phenomenon not even the likes of Broadway star Al Roker can reign in. Well, part of a department at least, it has to share its space with oceans.

Atmospheric and oceanic sciences professor Stanley Temples, an expert on predicting the weather and why it makes students sad, noted the specific feature which continues to make this cold weather a desolate factor in our environmental wasteland.

“Well, for one, the temperature is dropping,” Temples explained, “So that’s why a lot of students feel cold. Also, it snows sometimes. Just seeing snow makes students realize it is pretty cold outside and they should stop wearing cargo shorts. Personally, I wear a parka even in August so I can avoid the cruel shocks of weather.”

Inspired by a sense of civic duty, many

in the campus community are creating initiatives to end the cold weather. At the next Associated Students of Madison session, one representative is rumored to be proposing a resolution to recommend the weather get a little warmer once it reaches below 20 degrees.

This recommendation is expected to pass a vote on the floor with at least 20 minutes of debate.

ASM could not be reached for comment.

Another student organization, Students Against Desolate Blowing Outside Influences is working on building a protective layer for the campus. SADBOI is currently accepting yarn donations in order to help build a miles long scarf for the campus. George Tucker, SADBOI president, acknowledged those willing to help.

“SADBOI appreciates all the help we can get to create real change,” Tucker said.

Until these efforts are complete, most on campus will still feel pretty darn cold.

Many distracted by enrollment, miss class, important life events Hypnotizing Bucky and promise of exciting schedules prevent students from carrying out their normal lives and duties

by Angela Peterson Banter Editor

Reports indicate some students last week failed to attend a single class. While honestly, this factoid isn’t news, most students missed for the same peculiar reason this week — they needed to plan their schedules for the spring semester.

Enraptured by the MyUW course search and enroll feature, students recounted spending days staring at their carts of courses, wondering if this next schedule would fill them with less dread than their fall one. This addiction persisted for many and prevented any other activities to occur.

Sally Thurman was one such student. She became so addicted to schedule planning, she could only be reached from the cuddly confines of her couch.

“I haven’t been able to leave this spot since the course guide dropped,” Thurman said, “There’s just too many options, I get lost in the different departments and lose my way.”

Thurman noted she’s made at least 100,000 unique schedules in that time period, though she is still restless at the thought she may be able to improve her spring schedule. This addiction has put tremendous stress on Thurman’s grades as she noted she exceeded the number of times she could miss a lecture before she would receive a half-letter grade

reduction.

For others, the enrollment process has put an emotional strain on their personal relationships. Thomas Gonzaga felt no pain during his break-up with his girlfriend of five years due to Bucky’s caring gaze.

“I think I would’ve expected the split to feel a lot harder on me,” Gonzaga said, “But I am assured every time Bucky told tells me the world is my oyster while the potential classes load. It’s therapeutic.”

One can wonder why this Bucky has such addictive effects on students. Perhaps it is his alluring red outline, amazing way with words or some combination of the two. Of course, being the gatekeeper to the countless classes available for the spring semester probably keeps his appeal high among those addicted to course planning.

Friends of the afflicted noticed the tremendous toll course planning took on their pals and planned interventions to ease them off of the platform and into their term papers. Tess Jordan, a friend of Thurman, tried to lure her outside with the promise of mac n’ cheese pizza.

“I don’t understand, she used to always love carbs,” Jordan said, “Now she mainly subsists on filter feeding in her room. I’m so worried for her and the impact her addiction will have on her grades this semester. In fact, I don’t know if she can pass and make it to the next semester without missing a few

prerequisites for the courses she’s planned so thoroughly.

That’s the saddest part of all.”

Despite these efforts, Thurman remains glued to her laptop, adding courses to her cart for next semester as if she had 26 credits to play around with.

Resources are available for those who need help combating this addiction, but the most important thing is to recognize that those suffering are not alone. Support groups which do not allow screen-based devices meet weekly to discuss ways to cope without constantly accessing the enrollment tool.

While sometimes helpful, this group still only has a success rate of 6 percent, as many relapse back into the search once they leave the group.

Luckily, with enrollment appointment times beginning this week, Thurman believes her addiction will end and she will return to her life in the fourth row of all of her lectures.

“It shouldn’t be too bad, all the slides are available online anyway,” Thurman said.

Photo · A student contemplates multiple one credit options for the spring semester.

Angela Peterson The Badger Herald

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