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Legislation to protect natural hair introduced in Wisconsin

The bill would update state statutes to recognize ethnic hair as racial trait, preventing employers from discriminating based on hair

by Azul Kothari Reporter

images showing a model’s skin becoming lighter as she used ‘Dove Visible Care’ body wash. In 2017, Dove came under fire again for an ad which appeared to show a black woman turning into a white woman.

For Ruby Bafu, a second-year sociology PhD student, Dove’s endorsement of the CROWN Act does not erase past controversies.

“Yeah, they’re apologizing, and they might have endorsed the act, but that ad also sent a message,” Bafu said.

Bafu, who is black, said that growing up, she did not know how to wear her natural hair.

Her mom would just perm it a majority of the time. When she began her undergrad at Cornell University, she met other black women who directed her to online resources and taught her how to take care of her natural hair.

Her journey with her hair motivated her to pursue an honors thesis project studying the gendered, political and racial nature of black natural hairstyles in the U.S. and the Dominican Republic.

“Reflecting on my own experiences as a black woman on my relationship with my hair, and how that relationship grew over the years because I had more experience in dealing with it and style it, I learned to appreciate it more,”

Bafu said. “And that’s how I think I got my motivation for the [honors thesis] project.”

While black natural hairstyles have been studied and written about before within the black community, Bafu felt it had not been given academic appreciation.

Bafu’s research found that while black women in the U.S. felt strong pressure to chemically straighten their hair, and the issue was more pronounced in the Dominican Republic, where it creates an economic barrier.

Repeatedly straightening hair is expensive, but for many black women, adopting natural hairstyles meant jeopardizing employment prospects.

“In Santo Domingo, in the neighborhood where I was living, there are hair salons on every corner to straighten your hair,” Bafu said.

When Bafu returned in 2017, she said she suddenly noticed more women wearing natural hairstyles.

Bafu credits part of the change to a hair blog that became popular in the Dominican Republic. The blog’s author, Carolina Contreras, known as Miss Rizos, started the blog in 2011 and later opened one of the Dominican Republic’s first natural hair salons.

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Representative LaKeshia Myers, D-Milwaukee, introduced the Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair Act to the Wisconsin Legislature August 1, aiming to protect natural hairstyles from discrimination in the workplace.

“I think by looking at hair as a racial trait, [this bill] would alleviate the negative response that African Americans have in the workplace for carrying natural hairstyles,” Myers said. “It is the way our hair grows from our scalp, so one should not be punished for that or asked to change that to follow a Eurocentric standard.”

California enacted its own CROWN legislation last July, which inspired Myers.

The bill would update the state statutes to recognize ethnic hair as a racial trait, preventing employers from using ‘race-neutral’ grooming standards. Such grooming standards often bar natural hairstyles worn predominantly by African Americans, Myers said.

Employers would still be allowed to have dress codes and grooming standards as long as they do not discriminate against natural hair textures such as locks, braids and other protective styles, Myers said.

The bill has bipartisan support. Myers pointed to Rep. Scott Allen (R-Waukesha), who is listed as one of the bill’s authors.

“I think there are people on both sides of the aisle who are intelligent individuals,” Myers said. “They understand what’s wrong with our current federal statute and that we need to make changes.”

New York became the second state to adopt the bill this year, and New Jersey may soon follow.

Myers credits California Senator Holly J. Mitchell with starting the movement.

“It is a slow drumbeat to go state by state to have this change take place but I think it is is something that is necessary,” Myers said. “If it hadn’t been for Senator Mitchell, we would not be in this place.”

Myers noted that despite the Civil Rights Act being passed in 1964, natural hair discrimination is an ongoing issue for African Americans today. In 2016, an Alabama woman lost a court case whose job offer was rescinded after she refused to cut her locks. And just last December, a New Jersey high school wrestler was forced to cut his dreadlocks moments before a match.

Support for CROWN legislation extends beyond legislators. The beauty corporation Dove has partnered with the National Urban League, Color Of Change and the Wester Center on Law and Poverty to form the CROWN Coalition, which aims to introduce CROWN legislation across the Photo LaKeshia Myers, D-Milwaukee, said that “no one should be punished” for their natural hair. country.

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women was not having guidance and support when it came to wearing natural hair, Bafu said.

When Contreras started her blog, she became a mentor to many.

“I think that over time, with social media, people were understanding that they had options,” Bafu said.

Although its possible for non-black individuals to wear what are typically African American hairstyles, those hairstyles are worn

by African Americans as their natural hairstyles.

Not hiring someone because of their natural hairstyle is essentially the same as not hiring someone because they are black, Bafu said.

Due to lack of representation in media, black women have to constantly confront hairstyles different from their own, whereas non-black individuals rarely have to encounter black hairstyles, Bafu said.

Myers believes the passage of the bill will shift how people think about appropriate hairstyles in the workplace away from a Eurocentric view.

“We have to widen our scope and understand that America is not just one thing, one type of person,” Myers said. “We have to be inclusive of all people and we have to understand that hair is a part of who we are.”

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Dane County continues efforts to make workforce more inclusive The Office of Equity and Inclusion partnered with variety of businesses in Dane County to work on inclusivity as well

by Ben Baker Reporter

Dane County’s Office for Equity and Inclusion began launching efforts to increase workplace diversity and provide equal opportunity for its constituents.

According to the United States Census Bureau, people of color account for 21.6% of Dane County’s population, but own less than 10% of the county’s businesses and firms.

According to Data USA, Caucasians who hold various managerial positions make up 80.8% of the field. In contrast, 7.77% of management occupations are held by people who identify as black.

The site specifies that black “is the second most common race or ethnicity in this occupation.” The difference between the first and second slot is 73.7%.

Data USA also found that while the mean salary of men in Dane County is $63,633, the average female makes roughly $15,403 less than her male counterparts.

In response to the inequities, Director of the Office For Equity and Inclusion Wesley Sparkman discussed his office’s goals for improving equity and diversity throughout the county and the process of advancing their objectives.

“We’re all about working together to bring about equity where we can,” Sparkman said. “We want to positively impact as many areas as possible. [To do this] we gather information from the county, from our own history … and share different important resources for municipalities to use and consider.”

Sparkman’s office has not worked alone to achieve their goals of equal opportunity in the workforce. The Office For Equity and Inclusion actively works in collaboration with a plethora of other organizations throughout Dane County.

Sparkman described the importance of Photo People of color account for over one-fifth of Dane County’s population but less than ten percent of businesses and firms. enlisting the help of additional offices and elaborated on those the Office of Equity and Inclusion works with.

Good Free Photos “Working with others is essential … we have important collaborations with the Office for Equity and Educational Advancement at UW-Madison, the Urban somewhat skeptical of Dane County’s ability to League, Centro Hispano, and the NAACP,” unequal social outcomes out there,” Campbell many aren’t evaluated at all.” said.

Regardless, as the Office for Equity and improve socioeconomic equity if officials don’t Sparkman said.

Campbell feels that while steps toward Inclusion proceeds with its efforts to enhance change the current structure in place designed Reshaping the socioeconomic fabric of Dane County remains a daunting task for the diversifying the workforce are being taken, workplace equality, it is evident that the Office to combat racial and gender disparities.

Campbell stated that while the people of Office of Equity and Inclusion, particularly in these measures have yet to produce concrete has its eyes towards the future; a future which a region that, according to the Wisconsin State results and believes that there must be a Sparkman believes will bring Dane County Dane County are eager and ready for change, closer to equal opportunity. the current system may inhibit such progress Journal, experienced the largest population change to the process currently in place.

But, Campbell also claimed that there has Sparkman discussed road-blocks that people unless altered. growth of any county in the state.

“It really depends,” Campbell said. “We One catalyst for change, however, may been a definitive shift in the mentality of the of color are forced to encounter, but asserted be young residents of Dane County, such county about equity, describing a newfound his conclusion that as his office and the people have the energy but … if the enthusiasm is of Dane County work together, opportunities channeled into existing solutions with no track as Mitchell Campbell, a University of emphasis on equal opportunity.

“Based on my impression, there is growing for marginalized demographics will continue record nothing will change … but if we come Wisconsin graduate student. Campbell up with new solutions based on empirical expressed frustration regarding the scale of enthusiasm about addressing diversity and to improve. inequity,” Campbell said. “Unfortunately “There can be challenges because data and measure their impact we can make a inequality he perceived throughout the county.

“We’re a county that is overwhelmingly there aren’t a lot of new solutions. There is a unfortunately certain stereotypes exist … but difference.” white, but is more diverse than other places general sense that current solutions aren’t up I see things heading in the right direction,” in Wisconsin, and we have amongst the most to the task of addressing the issue … most of Sparkman said. the programs that exist haven’t been effective, Some such as Campbell, however, remain September 17, 2019 • badgerherald.com • 5

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UW experiences delay in receiving Foxconn gift of $100 million

Rep. Chris Taylor unsurprised, scalls it a “scam,” says he would be “shocked if the amount was ever actually realized”

by Lauren Henning State News Editor

Despite being 25% through the University of Wisconsin’s partnership with Foxconn, UW has received 0.7% of a $100 million gift.

The partnership was proposed and initiated to support interdisciplinary research on the Madison campus, establish Foxconn Institute for Research in Science and Technology, as well as pursue further collaboration. Foxconn Technology Group and its chairman and founder Terry Gou, announced plans to invest the $100 million in engineering and innovation research at UW on August 27 of last year.

FIRST is to be located at the Wisconsin Valley Science & Technology Park near Racine as well as having an off-campus presence in Madison.

UW spokesman John Lucas points to Foxconn’s executive changes as a reason for this delay.

“However, as a result of changes in Foxconn’s executive leadership and business priorities, there has been no significant progress in discussions related to the $100 million investment that was announced in August 2018,” Lucas said.

These changes include former Chairman Gou

leaving Foxconn and eyeing a run for presidency as well as executive Louis Woo, who represented the Taiwanese company in Wisconsin, stepping down. Lucas stated UW continues discussion with other Foxconn business groups and hopes discussions will progress in the coming months.

UW was to match Foxconn’s gift with plans to fundraise an additional $100 million as part of a $200 million fundraising sub-campaign of the $3.2 billion All Ways Forward, a campaign to support research. A majority of the gift from Foxconn was to go toward a new interdisciplinary facility for the College of Engineering, which would replace 1410 Engineering Dr..

State Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, was unsurprised by the news and cited several blunderous Foxconn promises, including the Pleasant Prairie project. Since the original $3 billion deal approved by Scott Walker, Foxconn has failed to meet job quotas set in their contract to receive state credits and changed its plans.

According to Governor Tony Evers, the Foxconn factory will only produce 1,500 jobs upon starting production next May, making this the second time Foxconn will have failed to meet job targets.

“I’m not surprised that there were a lot of promises made and little delivery,” Taylor said in regards to the UW partnership.

Taylor explained that the Foxconn deal came out of a very political context — former Gov. Scott Walker was up for reelection.

Taylor suspects that Walker was concerned due to his failure to meet his promise of creating 250,000 jobs and that the deal was pushed through in an attempt by Walker to get reelected.

Taylor said the deal was pushed through very quickly and was not investigated as closely as a deal of its size should be. There was no thorough cost-benefit analysis to compare to other possible investments. Taylor called the project an agreement between Gou and Walker.

“There was so little oversight at the state level on this Foxconn scam,” Taylor said.

In Brazil, Foxconn made similar promises — they would invest billions, build a large manufacturing hub and produce 100,000 jobs.

In 2017, six years later, Foxconn employed about 2,800 workers in Brazil. Foxconn shouldered the blame for their scaled-down operations on Brazil’s market conditions changing along with

the changing needs of their customers. According to Wisconsin Public Radio, Foxconn had similar statements in regards to the Pleasant Prairie project.

“Foxconn’s plans have changed several times since announcing its intent to build flat screens in Wisconsin in 2017 with a 22 million-square-foot Gen 10 plant,” a WPR article reads. “Foxconn officials said market changes prompted the company to shift to a smaller Gen 6 facility where smaller screens for cell phones and iPads could be manufactured.”

Taylor said as a supporter of UW, she wants UW to be a part of the research bringing a product to market and emphasized her understanding of UW’s decision to partner with Foxconn. Taylor feels UW deserves such a large investment, but worries that Foxconn makes a lot of “pie in the sky” promises and fails to deliver, such as a $100 million gift.

“I don’t want to be a naysayer here, but I would be shocked if that amount was ever actually realized,” Taylor said. governments.

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Madison City Council debating ordinance to limit plastic straws

The ordinance would only allow establishments to provide plastic straws to patrons if they are explicitly requested

by Veronica Kuffel Reporter

The Madison City Council is debating a new ordinance that would limit plastic straw distribution in restaurants.

Ald. Syed Abbas, a representative from District 12, proposed the law which would prohibit establishments from providing plastic straws unless customers ask for them.

According to NBC News, the movement to reverse the negative effects that humans have had on the planet has been gradual at best. The article suggests that the effects of climate change could be irreversible.

This law works to combat said evergrowing issue.

The Wisconsin Restaurant Association recently influenced a bill to restrict prohibitions on takeout containers. The law, however, does not include straws, giving Madison a proper loophole to make necessary changes.

The WRA stated this bill “is the first attempt by a municipality in Wisconsin to restrict plastic straws. ”The ordinance will be regulated through a fine of $200, climbing to $500 and even $750 with every offense. With such intense fines, the ordinance will be evaluated by several committees before a final vote.

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have enacted their own policies for straw distribution.

“Some people have gotten very used to plastic straws . . . and I’m sure this will take an adjustment period.”

- Reilly Pond, Collectivo Coffee barista The University of Wisconsin has supported an eco-friendly culture. The dining halls have opted for “sippy-cup” lids for both hot and cold drinks in their cafes, and they only use paper straws for smoothies, frappes and other thick drinks.

While they’ve made changes to cafes, the dining stations still provide grab and go straws and tops by their drinks section.

Short Stack Eatery, a restaurant on State Street, has advocated throughout its coordination. Co-owners Alex Lindenmeyer and Sinéad McHugh attended the first city council meeting to give input and learn more about the ordinance.

The restaurant has taken a proactive approach in eliminating plastic straws altogether by replacing them with paper and only when a customer asks for one.

The practice has saved Short Stack Eatery money and increased its conservation

awareness. As a community-minded establishment, they feel they are known for their continuous efforts toward environmental stability, whether through a heavily plant-based menu or focus on recyclable waste products, according to the co-owners.

The restaurant gave a positive reaction to the government’s efforts, but said the ordinance is still not enough.

“Straws are a great start, but we need to focus on Styrofoam and other singleuse plastics,” Lindenmeyer said. “Not to mention a city-wide composting program.”

Both local and chain establishments are stepping up to comply with the ordinance, even before its initiation. Starbucks has already announced that it will pull plastic straws in 2020 and switch to the “sippycup” lids. Some establishments have already started to hand out these lids upon request.

Adrian Perez, a barista at Starbucks, added that this may turn a profit for the company, opting customers to purchase reusable straws and cups from the cafe.

Collectivo Coffee has gotten rid of their plastic straws in favor of paper ones. Collectivo has also placed signs on dispensers asking customers to skip the straws.

Collective Coffee barista Reily Pond said that, if enacted, the Madison straw ordinance will cause a shift in dining culture.

“Some people have gotten very used to plastic straws … and I’m sure this will take an adjustment period,” Pond said.

Both Perez and the co-owners of Short Stack Eatery agree that while the transition may be difficult at first, eventually, they hope people will become more open to the idea.

Madison is not the only city to have considered the move.

Plastic straws and utensils were banned from Seattle restaurants beginning June 2018, when an ordinance first passed in 2010 took effect. The measure made Seattle the first U.S. city recognized for enacting a ban on plastic straws.

If the ordinance makes it through the committees, the Madison City Council will meet, discuss and vote accordingly.

“Straws are a great start, but we need to focus on Styrofoam and other single-use plastics . . . Not to mention a city-wide composting program.”

- Alex Lyndenmeyer, co-owner, Short Stack Eatery

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UW, experts release review on UW fraternity and sorority life The review involved the UW vice chancellor, experts from other schools, alumni and current Greek life students

by Nuha Dolby Print News Editor

The external review conducted on UW fraternity and sorority life was released recently, after being submitted mid-May. The review, according to the Fraternity and Sorority Life website, was conducted with a goal for “students to be healthy and safe and for fraternities and sororities to contribute positively to the campus community through their shared values of scholarship, leadership, service and sisterhood/brotherhood.”

The review was conducted by five professionals from other universities, each holding membership in an organization that is part of the four governing Greek councils (Interfraternity Council, Multicultural Greek Council, National Panhellenic Council and Panhellenic Association).

The report discussed accountability and relationships with UW-Madison.

The report stated that concerns about behaviors and how to manage accountability for them varied by Council.

While accountability were not brought up as critical issues during conversations with members of the NPHC and MGC, that did not hold true for all councils.

IFC and Panhellenic council members, according to the report, didn’t address using their own judicial or standards boards to resolve infractions committed by their members.

While IFC has a Judicial Board, the report stated that “its function was unclear.” A Panhellenic Council Judicial Board was brought up, but the report stated that no conversation was directed in verifying whether this was an operational or effective tool or deterrent.

The Committee on Student Organizations, according to the report, brought on almost universal negative connotations. Chapter members, student officers and alumnus advisors complained that CSO had a lack of transparency, a process that appeared to apply differently to Greek life organizations versus other student organizations, sanctions that were not deemed fitting to the violation and confusion over what role different staff members played in the process.

The report stated that “students feel that they cannot ask clarifying questions about policy because in doing so they might raise suspicion of a staff member and will then be scrutinized in the future.” It went on to state that students, would thrive best in environments that promoted open dialogues about different situations and their consequences if that becomes relevant.

The report added that University Police have a “poor, almost non-existent relationship with housed IFC/PHA chapters,” but stated that Madison Police fared better.

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Damion Figueroa as having worked with students and Greek organizations in a positive way.

MPD Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain appeared unsurprised to hear that Officer Figueroa was popular with students. ”Officer Figueroa really enjoys the work: he loves talking to students and meeting new people,” DeSpain said. “We feel he has done a good job and we’re happy to hear students feel the same. The benchmarks of our department are community-based and trustbased, and to establish relationships with the students is really important.”

DeSpain said the purpose of having officers who take on certain areas or streets is to help facilitate relationship building.

He added that these good relationships promote good communication, which he said is key in MPD doing their jobs. ”We can’t do it on our own,” DeSpain said.

“All those good people who live on Langdon [Street], they need to communicate quickly with us so we can take care of things if the need arises.”

Students from certain councils also stated that they felt marginalized: some explained

a perceived pattern that when IFC/PHA Greek students did “something bad,” all Greeks faced blame or potential consequence.

However, when MGC/NPHC Greek students “[did] good,” it didn’t receive any recognition.

The students added that this treatment discrepancy heightened the marginalization they already felt: a student of color said that generally, students of color can be left “feeling that they are not being supported.”

The report detailed that some NPHC Chapter Advisors stated, and was corroborated by staff members that “students of color figuring things out on their own” was a commonplace occurrence in the community.

Regarding drinking, the report said that while UW has a well-researched aggregate of data on “alcohol issues” in the community, that data didn’t appear to be being used in creating effective intervention strategies.

The report was also very firm about UW’s involvement in curbing sexual assault issues in Greek life. ”. . . The institution must do more to create a safer environments for students,” the report

said. “The institution cannot put its head in the sand concerning proactive, prevention risk management issues, and then hold students accountable when things go wrong.”

The report added alumni and students suggested they wanted help from the institution, so collaboration would likely be effective.

The report said that across all councils, students said they were grateful for their Greek experience.Thomas Gillis, a sophomore at UW who was a member of Delta Chi Fraternity’s Fall 2018 rush class, said being in a fraternity has been positive for him. It has given him a sense of community and helped him look for ways to do more.

“Being in a [fraternity] has changed me in a way I didn’t expect,” Gillis said. “It’s not that I’m more outgoing, but it’s made me seek out opportunities and go for them.

I act on things now, and before I was more of a spectator. It really does give you a feeling that you belong to something, that what you do is important, that what you do can affect a group as a whole, a group that you care about.”

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UW works on building additional gender inclusive restrooms

Under the new policy, all new and renovated buildings should have at least one gender neutral restroom on ground floor

by Caroline Li Campus News Editor

Under a newly-approved policy in August, the University of Wisconsin will add more single-stall, gender inclusive restrooms on campus over the next several years as buildings undergo renovation and construction.

According to UW news website, under this policy, each new and renovated building should have at least one genderinclusive restroom on the first floor, and to the extent possible, at least one on every other floor.

According to the UW Knowledgebase, the creation of single-stall, genderinclusive restrooms serves as an alternative to multi-stall, gender specific restrooms, and is meant to make all students, staff, faculty and visitors on campus feel safe and comfortable using the restroom they want to use.

According to Meredith Mcglone, of UW University Communications, the policy came into formation thanks to the Gender Inclusive Restroom Facilities Task Force, a shared governance group on campus founded in 2017. The task force was charged by then-Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf and Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Laurent Heller, in response to feedback received from students, faculty and staff.

According to the UW news website, the task force is made up of representatives from University Housing, Facilities Planning & Management, the Committee for LGBTQ People in the University, the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, as well as students, faculty, university staff and academic staff.

Mcglone also added the Chancellor ’s office was not part of the task force but was supportive of what the task force was pushing for.

Mcglone said one of the main goals the policy aims to achieve is to ensure transgender and gender nonconforming people feel safe to use campus facilities without fear of harassment. These facilities also support individuals with disabilities, individuals who have personal care assistants and people with kids.

UW sophomore Arden He was supportive of the policy. He suggested the installation of more gender-inclusive restrooms might benefit a larger sect of the LGBTQ larger community.

“Not even just for non-binary people, it can also help binary trans people as well, who maybe aren’t as far along in their transition because they can have a safe space to go to the bathroom,” He said.

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several years, for generations to come, more incoming students could benefit from the policy.

According to UW news website, currently there are about 145 single-stall, gender inclusive restrooms on campus. There is an online map helping students, faculty, staff and visitors locate these facilities.

While acknowledging the efforts the university had put in to make such facilities accessible to students, He said sometimes it could still be a hassle having to travel to another building between classes just to use the restroom there.

He added going to the bathroom is a daily occurrence for everyone, and the process should not be complicated or inconvenient.

“Everyone has to go to the bathroom probably multiple times a day, and it should

be a short trip. You shouldn’t have to pull up your phone, pull up the spreadsheet and locate the exact floor [for the restroom],” He said.

Regarding other campus services and facilities, Gomez commended University Housing on accommodating students’ needs to make their living experiences safe and comfortable.

Looking in the future, Gomez said the university should keep working on making the campus an inclusive and safe place for everyone.

“We definitely have a space for LGBT identifying people, but I do think it could be bigger. I don’t think we have that big of a voice student-wise,” Gomez said.

Mcglone said the policy took effect immediately after being approved in

August, and more gender-inclusive restrooms will be in place over the next several years.

He said for the first few years after its approval, it is important for the university to keep promoting the policy to increase people’s awareness.

Along with the implementation of this policy, He further added the university could implement “a more robust LGBT training program” for faculty members so that students’ needs could be better met.

“It’s a bit hard to address because faculty members are all different ages and have different backgrounds,” He said.

Mcglone also added over the past summer, 36 new signs had been put up

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UW, state legislators look to assist struggling Wisconsin farmers Price changes, disease and climate change are issues affecting farmers, as UW and state legislators work to assist them

by Courtney Erdman City News Editor

The University of Wisconsin and state legislators have been developing new technology, addressing profit losses and encouraging agricultural diversity to combat issues faced by farmers.

Agricultural educator Jamie Pfaff of UW Extension Jackson County said farmers are leveraging their farm to get loans, selling off or renting parts of their farm, diversifying crops and investing their time in multiple enterprises such as livestock.

Wisconsin’s dairy prices have been declining for the past few years. Issues caused by dropping prices have only been exacerbated by China no longer purchasing certain crops such as cranberries, ginseng and whey.

According to Reuters, China also placed tariffs on agricultural goods in response to President Trump’s imposed tariffs on Chinese goods. Chinese tariffs on U.S. soybeans caused the Trump administration to compensate farmers for two years with a combined spending of as much as $28 billion.

Pfaff said farmers can survive the trade war as there will always be a need for agriculture because people need to eat.

“It’s just a matter of coming out on the other side and how they will be staged to take on the market once prices do rise,” Pfaff said.

Another is climate change. Climate change is affecting farmers ability to maintain fields. Increasingly warmer weather and precipitation erodes soils, creates favorable conditions for pests and pathogens, and degrades the quality of stored grain. In some cases, heavy rain causes crops to be planted late, which happened this year.

Tar spot, a disease that affects corn, has spread across 24 counties in the Midwest as well. This includes five counties in Wisconsin.

The name refers to the black dots that appear on leaves, imitating tar spots.

This disease can spread quickly in wet environments, and the window of time to treat it can pass quickly. This results in crop losses.

Despite all of this, solutions are being constructed and implemented.

Smartphone apps are helping farmers improve farming techniques. App uses range from detecting white mold in soybeans, tracking manure application, calculating crop price adjustments and more.

“The UW Extension is constantly working on new apps and decision making tools,” Pfaff said.

The UW Cooperative Extension offers spreadsheets outlining enterprise budgets to help farmers track incomes

and losses. Budgets are drawn out for a variety of crops, dairy and livestock options. This gives farmers a better idea of where to invest or pull back money, Pfaff said.

The future of farming is hard to determine, Pfaff said. The effects on farmers will need to be looked at on a case by case basis. Not all farmers will have debt to pay or experienced as much loss as others.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture provides farmers financial assistance through the market facilitation program.

The farmers aren’t being paid for their profit losses, but rather to help them get back on their feet, Pfaff said.

State legislators are working on “Our Farms, Our Future,” a bipartisan legislative package that is composed of three bills. LRB 1388 will provide student loan assistance to beginning farmers, LRB-1123/2 will create two new positions in the UW System to help farmers create

succession plans and LRB-0149/4 provides a grant to help farmers diversify.

State Rep. LaKeshia Myers, D-Milwaukee, who is co-sponsoring LRB1123/2 and LRB-0149/4, said anyone can submit a proposal and the best ideas will receive the Small Farm Diversity Grant provided by the legislation. It aims to help farmers on less than 50 acres diversify either through starting a new operation or adding a new agricultural product.

Grants will be a maximum of $50,000 each and the total appropriation is $500,000. Receivers will be required to pay back if they don’t comply with the terms of the grant, according to an email from Myers’ office.

Myers offered a suggestion for farmers looking to diversify.

“As far as creating new opportunities and jobs, we have to look to the hemp industry,” Myers said. “There are several different products you can take from hemp.”

LRB-1123/2 will provide the UW System with two new full-time staff positions. One will be in the Center for Dairy Profitability and the other will be in the Extension Farm Management Program. There are complexities that exist around passing a family farm down to successors, and these new staff will help families with succession planning, according to an email from Myers’ office.

There is a need for a collaborative partnership between rural and urban workers because fewer people are living in rural areas than before, Myers said. The representative suggested bringing aspects of farming to the city, such as processing plants, to sustain the business.

“Farming and agriculture is one of the greatest endeavors one could undertake,” Pfaff said. “I know that these are really challenging times but I hope farmers remain proud.”

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Earthgang delivers unorthodox styles, lyrics on new album “Mirrorland” Still flying under radar but well on their way, rap group Earthgang builds upon their unconventional style with diverse debut album

by William Lundquist ArtsEtc. Associate

Among the current wave of popular rap saturated with emo autotune, hard hitting 808s and recycled subject matter, it can be hard to stand out from the masses of hip-hop artists that constantly get played at parties and on the radio.

While the Atlanta duo Earthgang is still flying under the radar, they have been rising in popularity, recently signing to J. Cole’s label Dreamville Records. Earthgang released a slew of EPs following their signing which increased their popularity in the underground rap game.

They collaborated frequently with other underground rap artists like JID and Mick Jenkins, which undoubtedly grew Earthgang’s fan base leading up to their debut album, “Mirrorland.”

The group also appeared on five different songs on Dreamville’s “Revenge of the Dreamers III,” which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

“Mirrorland” delivers on the gritty and unorthodox lyricism, as well as the beautifully funky and soulful melodies the group is known for. The production on the album is more complex and hits even harder than their past projects, with trap beats on songs like “Bank,” more soulful cuts

like “Trippin,” beat switch-ups and pretty much everything else in genre-bending heaven.

On my first listen I could tell the album had a lot to offer as far as subject matter, but it took me a few times through to get accustomed to the group’s sound which is something different and easy to distinguish from pretty much any other musical group. The duo consists of Johnny Venus, who has the arguably more distinct, energetic voice and does a lot of the singing for the group, and Doctur Dot, who has a smoother, more flowing voice, but still sings quite a bit.

The album begins with “LaLa Challenge,” quickly introducing the listener to the eccentric style of the group with the lines “Place your head on the mat/ Place your feet to the sky.” The group is saying to throw your expectations out the window because this album is not going to be anything conventional.

Johnny Venus also expresses the lack of authenticity in popular hip-hop culture, rapping, “Everybody trappin’/ Everybody hard/ Everybody fuckin’/ Everybody broad.” The song serves to introduce the listener to the world that the group is trying to create within the album, which Johnny Venus said in a Pitchfork interview, they wanted to sonically rival The Wizard of Oz. “Atlanta is the

land of Oz,” Johnny Venus said. “It’s black people being unafraid and unapologetically creative.”

The second track on the album, “UP,” sticks with the theme of a bizarre world filled with creativity and eccentricity. The track features spooky vocals from Johnny Venus, who sings “I make all your dreams and nightmares come true/ I’ve got all that I want now I want you,” along with references to zoo animals, and a exudes a feel of triumphantly parading through the streets while not taking anything at face value.

Speaking of parading through the streets, “Top Down” delivers an upbeat, celebratory vibe. The group raps with confidence about their position in life, all the fakers around them and not letting anything deter them. The song also features a gospel-inspired hook with ad-libs over it to drive the song forward and keep the energy up. ”Proud of U” is a track that many will probably gravitate toward because of Young Thug’s appearance. The song is an ode to significant others, and features a very heartfelt and unfiltered verse from Thugger that is a far cry from his usual trap banger style of music. ”Trippin’” puts Johnny Venus’s vocal talent on full display in what is an incredibly smooth ballad.

Having such a clear-cut R&B song on the album

is pretty much uncharted territory for Earthgang, but the group delivered one of my favorite cuts from the album with this song. The song addresses a failed relationship that still holds sentimental value for the ex lovers, and even has a verse from Oakland native singer Kehlani whose style fit the track perfectly.

If you’re looking for a more trap vibe with braggadocious lyricism, then “Bank” is the song for you. If you want a song to celebrate and dance the salsa to, go ahead and throw “Tequila” on. If you like conscious lyricism, then the group has “Swivel.” Pretty much wherever you turn on “Mirrorland” there is a new vibe, chock-full with lyricism, wordplay and 90s references for true hiphop heads that are tired of mumble rap.

Earthgang will invariably be compared to Outkast, and they do share many similarities.

Both groups are duos from Atlanta with energetic upbeat melodies, unorthodox subject matter and psychedelic album covers. However, as the album title “Mirrorland” suggests, Earthgang has their own self-reflective, skeptical outlook on life but they don’t fail to recognize and celebrate all of the artists who have influenced them and laid the groundwork for their success.

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Underrated, cozy, delicious, and near you, check out Grampa’s Pizza It’s easy to become familiar with pizza places such as Ian’s, Strada, but if you are looking for another pizza place to try, look no further Grampa’s

by Emma Winans Staff Writer

While Madison has plenty of restaurants — enough to earn numerous coveted “foodie” awards — plenty of the hottest spots remain relatively unknown to students. Whether it’s because we are busy running to and from classes on campus or because we never make the trek over to Willy street, plenty of restaurant-lined avenues in the city filled with culinary gems remain majorly hidden from students. My first trip to one of these “underrated” spots, Grampa’s Pizza, was my first of many endeavors to bring awareness to these less-traveled restaurants to students on campus.

Being a passionate foodie who loves to write about my culinary adventures (with a flare of personality always thrown in), I sat down and really mulled over what a meaningful goal for myself would look like in my last year of undergrad. As I thought more about what goal would bring me joy in the ups and downs of my senior year, I kept gravitating to thinking of all the things I have yet to do or see in Madison.

I keep a running list in my iPhone notes app of restaurants in Madison I HAVE to try before I graduate, so it was only natural that my goal had to encapsulate this culinary bucket list.

After a few brainstorming sessions, lots of google searching “Underrated Madison Restaurants” (more to come on that later), and pouring over too many online menus than I would like to admit, I outlined my ambitious goal to try a new restaurant in Madison each week. My roommates, team players and supportive to a fault, wasted no time helping me get started on accomplishing this goal and we decided to start with the well-reviewed Grampa’s Pizzeria.

I think if I were to go out on a limb and say that pizza is one of the most universally loved food by all Americans, I don’t think that’d be far off from the truth. My roommates span from being extremely adventurous with food and cuisine to intensely reserved (and that’s putting it nicely), so after throwing out a few suggestions that we ultimately deemed “too foodie” for everyone, we decided on a fool-proof crowd favorite: pizza.

Grampa’s Pizzeria on Willy Street (Williamson Street, if you want to be official about it) is a whimsical, quaint little spot known for their homemade thin crust pizzas, inviting atmosphere, and an iconic, hard-to-beat Tuesday Date Night special.

Filled with antique, vintage-looking furniture, the homespun character fills up the atmosphere of the small space.

The restaurant itself boasts nothing fancy or fussy — tables to fit small groups are comfortably arranged in close proximity

Photo · One of the many colorful and delicious pizzas you can find at Grampa’s photo courtesy of Emma Winans

to each other overlook the quaint backyard herb garden. The closeness of the tabletops makes it nearly impossible not to chit chat with your neighbor, and also to not steal glimpses and wafts of the beautiful plates being dished out family-style around you. Dark hardwood floors and accents comfortably fill the space in a worn-in, homegrown fashion.

Small plates on the menu showcase fresh ingredients like the dreamy mozzarella made daily, as well as a locally-sourced favorite Madison sourdough bread, which elevates their already-impressive cheese board small plate.

The menu highlights some seasonal

features, but the overarching theme that makes this spot unique was how each dish had a traditional concept at heart but was peppered with elevated yet accessible twists. The risotto had subtle hint of vanilla bean to balance the tangy richness of the parmesan; the crispness of the watercress and calabrian chiles on the Barnerini pizza are an unexpected, perfect complement to the creamy ricotta and velvety drizzle of honey on top of the neutralizing arugula.

The warm and inviting staff radiate a subtle made-from-scratch prideful glow as they serve the generous plates family-style to you, and the tasteful decorative addition of edible flowers and artisanal presentation

make for a cozy, heartwarming dining experience you’re not going to want to end.

With a solid no-negatives review from this experience, I’m all ears for suggestions of other under-appreciated Madison places I must add to my list. So far, my list spans supper clubs, dive bars, carry-out only spots and all things in between; the featured cuisines vary from Peruvian to Taiwanese to Mediterranean to fingerlicking-greasy American.

Here’s to a not one-size-fits-all goal, and for the memories these meals have to bring in the coming months.

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Behind the buzz: The science around vaping is Slowly Understood As more cases of vaping-related lung disease surface, health consequences are being realized

by Nuha Dolby Print News Editor

“Last Wednesday, he was doing 25 to 30 pull ups a day. And on Friday, there’s talk of him being intubated,” the father of an unnamed former Wisconsin high school athlete said to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His son had recently been hospitalized in Florida.

The man, admitted to the intensive care unit, told MJS that his doctors said his lungs looked like “a 70-yearolds” and that he felt like he “was going to die.” He was admitted with a fever, chills and symptoms that were originally diagnosed by a private doctor as pneumonia.

As time passed, however, his family found out differently. Doctors at the hospital suggested that his illness was related to vaping with his electronic cigarette.

In early August, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services confirmed 11 state cases of teenagers and young adults with severe lung disease. Patients were noted to have shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain, cough and weight loss, with some needing assistance to breathe.

The key takeaway, however, was sobering. Dr. Barbara Calkins, a pediatrician with Westbrook Pediatrics of the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, summarized the hospital’s initial warnings.

“On July 25th, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin warned the public of the potential danger of vaping for those who are underage after we reported eight cases of hospitalized teenagers with seriously damaged lungs to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services,” Calkins said. “Vaping was the only commonality among all of the patients.”

Early beginnings Vaping, according to the Center for Disease Control, is the use of an e-cigarette. The vapor is produced by the device heating a liquid that usually contains nicotine, flavorings and other chemicals that help to make the aerosol.

The vapor is then inhaled, both by users into their lungs, and by bystanders who can breathe it in when the user exhales into the air.

Niru Achanta, a junior at the University of Wisconsin, said he vapes “almost daily.” He talked about how he first became interested in vaping in high school.

“In high school, I thought the [vaporous] clouds were cool,” he said. “As time went on, I mainly used it for semistressful situations like [homework] and family parties.”

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 9.5% of students have tried an e-cigarette by the eighth grade.

That number rises to 16.5% in the twelfth grade.

Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration states 1.5 million more middle and high school aged students used e-cigarettes in 2018 as compared to 2017. This correlated to a 78% increase in high school students’ use, and a 48% increase in middle school students’ use.

According to a statement from Marlena Holden, Director of Marketing & Health Communications at University Health Services, the use of e-cigarettes has quadrupled among incoming UW students since 2016.

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name only, said he started vaping in college. He cited “party culture” as an introduction to vaping. “When you go to parties, a lot of people have [e-cigarettes] and they pass them around or offer them [to you], especially the first couple times when I said I had never tried it or that I didn’t have one,” he said. “Eventually, I was sort of like ‘well, it’s annoying to have to hit someone else’s’ because I started wanting it during the day ... so I went and got one and hit it way more after that.”

Doug Jorenby, Director of Clinical Services for UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and a professor of medicine, cited a Badger Herald article where UW staff accessed statistics from AlcoholEDU and discovered that 20.9% of incoming students reported past usage of e-cigarettes.

“When you go to parties, a lot of people have [e-cigarettes] and they pass them around or offer them [to you], especially the first couple times when I said I had never tried it or that I didn’t have one ... Eventually, I was sort of like ‘well, it’s annoying to have to hit someone else’s’ because I started wanting it during the day ... so I went and got one and hit it way more after that.”

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Sophomore at UW, requested to go by first name only

Jorenby said that the 20.9% rate couldn’t necessarily be extrapolated to define all undergraduate usage, but that he wouldn’t be surprised if it was around that benchmark.

An (un)healthy alternative Max said he felt that many UW students, and people in general, thought that e-cigarettes were “healthier” than cigarettes. This, he said, makes them more inclined to try an e-cigarette when offered one as opposed to a cigarette.

According to Jorenby, e-cigarettes, to some extent, can involve different risks than cigarettes.

“E-cigarettes definitely don’t involve the same risks as cigarettes,” Jorenby said. “To put that into context, we look at what we’ve learned from the mid-1950s and onwards, where we’re looking at health effects of smoking globally

... Generally, [a large percentage of] longtime cigarette users will face very serious health consequences that can and often do result in death. It’s very sobering when you think about that, and the legality of cigarettes. Compared to that, vaping is almost certainly lower risk.”

According to the CDC, cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year.

The web page also adds that, in longtime users, quitting smoking before the age of 40 reduces risk of dying from smoking-related diseases by approximately 90%.

Jorenby added, however, that the negative effects of cigarettes do not eliminate the negative effects vaping can have.

“This doesn’t mean that [e-cigarettes are] risk free. In terms of the science of things, we’re badly playing catchup — e-cigarettes came out of nowhere for the public health community,” Jorenby said. “We’ve already got some solid scientific data about specific risks to pulmonary health that are unique to vaping. It’s not on the magnitude of inhaling tobacco smoke, but those risks are there.”

The Chicago Tribune reported on Adam Hergenreder, an 18-year-old from Gurnee, Illinois. He was hospitalized in a case similar to the Wisconsin athlete.

Hergenreder told the Tribune he and his friends didn’t believe “how dangerous [vaping] is.” He continued to vape regularly, up to one and a half pods a day — and wound up in the hospital, where he was taken after days of vomiting.

From his hospital bed, he told the Tribune that he was glad to be an example. “[Vaping products] aren’t good at all,” Hergenreder said. “They will mess up your lungs.”

Harmful effects Dr. Bill Kinsey, UW’s chief health officer and medical director of UHS, specified that the effects of vaping can be difficult to gauge. “[E-cigarettes] emit a vapor that contains harmful chemicals and the effects on the health of the user, and those around them, are largely unknown,” Kinsey said.

Secondhand tobacco smoke has been well-known to cause harmful health effects to bystanders. According to the CDC, secondhand smoke causes over 7 thousand deaths annually from lung cancer and over 30 thousand deaths annually from heart disease.

Darcie Warren, Coordinator of the Partnership for Tobacco Free Wisconsin with the American Lung Association, went into detail on e-cigarette long-term effects.

“The inhalation of harmful chemicals found in e-cigarettes can cause irreversible lung damage and lung disease. Questions about long-term and lasting damage to patients will need to be studied,” Warren said. “We know the brain isn’t fully developed until around age 25, and the addictive nicotine found in flavored tobacco products and e-cigarettes slows brain development. Nicotine use can cause problems with attention, learning and memory.”

Achanta said the debate surrounding cigarettes and e-cigarettes can be “complicated.”

“On one end, vaping can help overcome nicotine

addiction,” he said, adding that he did think vaping publicly was still “obnoxious.”

A Trade off The CDC lays out an abundance of suggestions for overcoming a vaping addiction. One page on their website states that e-cigarettes “have the potential to benefit adult smokers ... if used as a complete substitute for regular cigarettes and other smoked tobacco products.”

On a different page, the CDC states in all capital letters that “E-CIGARETTES ARE NOT CURRENTLY APPROVED

BY THE FDA AS A QUIT SMOKING AID.” On the same page, it’s stated that evidence from two randomized, controlled trials “found that e-cigarettes with nicotine can help smokers stop smoking in the long term compared with placebo (non-nicotine) e-cigarettes.”

That page adds that many people who choose to vape as a method of fighting addiction wind up not quitting, and instead use both methods.

In addition to the CDC, Jorenby added that when people use e-cigarettes to stop smoking, many people will end up losing at both.

“They’re vaping some of the time, and then they’re also smoking some of the time,” Jorenby said. “We don’t have a good handle on how dynamic that is. Do they in fact give up the smoking? Do they give up vaping?”

“This doesn’t mean that [e-cigarettes are] risk free. In terms of the science of things, we’re badly playing catchup — e-cigarettes came out of nowhere for the public health community. We’ve already got some solid scientific data about specific risks to pulmonary health that are unique to vaping. It’s not on the magnitude of inhaling tobacco smoke, but those risks are there.”

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Jorenby cited research he conducted with Megan Piper, an associate professor and a lead researcher at UW-CTRI. According to the work, a cohort of both smokers — defined as using at least five cigarettes per day for six months and no e-cigarette use in three months — and dual

users — defined as having smoked daily for three months and using e-cigarettes at least once per week for the past three months — completed baseline assessments. These assessments included demographics, tobacco use and dependence. The participants also provided breath and urine samples.

“We followed these people for two years,” Jorenby said.

“We weren’t making suggestions on their behavior, they just did what they did and we collected that information.

We met them once every few months in person, and called them in between that.”

The study notes that when they recruited, they deliberately oversampled dual users. Details of the cohort population include that slightly more than half were men and 32.2% lived with a partner who smokes.

The study also noted that there were “significant differences between exclusive smokers and dual users on race, education, and self-reported psychiatric history measures.” Overall, dual users were found to be more likely to be white, younger, have more than a high school education, report a psychiatric history and live with someone who used e-cigarettes.

“We just finished our two year follow-up, but we’ve taken a deeper look into the first year data,” Jorenby said.

“About 30% [of people] who came in as dual users actually stopped vaping the first year and went back to smoking full time. Very few people progressed to not vaping or quitting all nicotine.”

The study noted that the results indicated that smokers and dual users took in approximately the same amount of nicotine per day. This suggests that dual users may compensate for smoking fewer cigarettes by obtaining additional nicotine from e-cigarettes.

Jorenby added that there are risks involving cigarette smoking even if you start vaping with the intention of never smoking.

“Something we’ve known for a couple of years now is that among adolescents — people younger than typical undergrad — who had never tried tobacco but started vaping, were between three to four times more likely to go on and start smoking,” Jorenby said. “There’s a really strong signal that if you pick up e-cigarettes because they’re not tobacco or not combustible, you still have greater risk later on to switching over to cigarettes.”

According to a 2017 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, use of e-cigarettes with higher nicotine concentrations at the baseline was associated with greater levels of combustible cigarette and e-cigarette use at follow-ups, along with a greater intensity of daily use.

At a campus level According to Holden, UW updated its campus smokefree policy in 2016 to include e-cigarettes.

The policy states that smoking is prohibited in all buildings, facilities and vehicles owned, operated or leased by UW. The policy specifies that “smoking” not only includes the burning of any type of lit device, but also “any other smoking equipment or the use of electronic smoking device including, but not limited to, an electronic cigarette, cigar, cigarillo, or pipe.”

Kinsey said by reducing and potentially eliminating the use of nicotine products on campus, UW can continue “efforts to provide a safe and healthy environment for students and employees.”

“Unfortunately, nicotine is hard to quit ... However, we know that having a supportive environment helps smokers quit. That’s why it’s important to have strong 100% tobacco-free college campus policies in place to deter young adults from starting and to support people ready to quit.”

Darcie Warren

Coordinator of the Partnership for Tobacco Free Wisconsin with the American Lung Association

Holden said UHS offers help to students who are interested in strategies for quitting smoking or e-cigarettes, including free individual counseling.

Warren added that campus policy can impact those trying to quit as well.

“Unfortunately, nicotine is hard to quit ... However, we know that having a supportive environment helps smokers quit,” Warren said. “That’s why it’s important to have strong 100% tobacco-free college campus policies in place to deter young adults from starting and to support people ready to quit.”

Along that line, Warren said several colleges throughout Wisconsin have already implemented policies that target protecting their campuses from secondhand smoke and secondhand aerosol.

Regarding recent hospitalizations, Warren said the trends thus far have been concerning.

“While much remains to be determined about the reported cases of severe lung disease as well as the lasting health consequences of vaping, CDC and FDA have made clear that vaping and e-cigarette use is not safe,” Warren said. “The American Lung Association has been raising the alarm about e-cigarettes and their use for more than a decade.”

Warren called the recent cluster of pulmonary illness “deeply worrisome,” and reiterated her concerns about all tobacco products, not just vaping or smoking.

Calkins had a jarring note for anyone who thinks they won’t be affected.

“It can happen to anyone,” she said.

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Silent but deadly: Food insecurity quietly permeates UW campus

Increasing awareness, tackling stigma surrounding food insecurity, expanding resources on campus vital to supporting UW students

by Yogev Ben-Yitschak Columnist

One in five students in the U.S. identifies as food insecure every year. That number triples for students of color and first generation students.

Local studies by University Health Services confirm that the University of Wisconsin is no different — we have a huge food insecurity problem and not enough people are talking about it. Every day, students in our classes struggle to focus during lecture, are distracted by growling stomachs during exams and are faced with low energy, haunted by the effects of food insecurity.

When I was a freshman at UW, it never occurred to me that food insecurity could be an issue on this campus. I knew money was tight for many, but that seemed typical for college students. I, too, often chose the cheaper pizza or ramen options over the more expensive, healthier options, but I

assumed everybody went through that.

Ramen and pizza — part of the normal college experience.

Soon after arriving to campus, I got involved in the Associated Students of Madison student government and was granted the opportunity to work on a wide range of issues such as mental health, public transportation, alcohol safety and textbook affordability. I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of student issues to pick from and each issue felt like the biggest, most important one. How do you pick just one problem to try and solve? Mental health, affordability, safety on campus — each one affects so many students in such different ways on a daily basis.

But it wasn’t until my junior year, when I got involved with The Open Seat, ASM’s food pantry, that I learned about an issue that rarely seems to be talked about outside of the pantry’s walls: food insecurity.

My passion around the issue of food

insecurity and my concern about its lack of attention stems from the fact that food insecurity has been proven time and again to be a key intersection issue. Food insecurity has been linked to mental health issues, low academic performance, chronic diseases and increased poverty rates in post-graduation.

Think about it — when was the last time you were able to study, be with friends or work at a job when you were hungry?

Through my work at The Open Seat I’ve seen the extent of this issue firsthand.

Hundreds of students and community members come to The Open Seat every week for food, personal care products and fresh produce. More often than expected, they come with spouses, family members and even children.

I’ve also seen the power of UW students and the university to address nationally systemic issues as they manifest on our campus.

Through funding from ASM, we’ve been able to support dozens of students and children, and through collaboration with other student

Photo · Breaking the stigma surrounding food insecurity on campus is the first step toward supporting UW students.

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organizations like Slow Food and the Food Shed, we’ve been able to raise more awareness and provide additional opportunities for students to receive food.

But with such a deeply ingrained issue across the country that affects every aspect of a student’s life, there is always more we can do.

The Food Recovery Network, a UW student organization, receives leftover food from dining halls and donates them to The Open Seat. The Campus Food Shed brings leftover food from Fresh Market and gives it to students at the Student Activity Center.

While this effort is great, more volunteers and increased funding could be the difference of a few leftover items from Gordon Dining Hall and dozens of leftover options from dining halls across campus.

Allowing student and community leaders to speak about The Open Seat and other food options at required programming such as SOAR or Our Wisconsin could ensure every single first-year student knows the options available to them. Training house fellows on accessible food options and teaching them to spot signs of food insecurity could make the difference between a few students finding support and hundreds.

Creating university policies that dining halls, unions and Badger Markets must donate leftover food can help not only reduce food insecurity but also reduce food waste on campus.

The biggest and hardest method to address this issue is to break the stigma and normalize the fact that there are still food insecure students on this campus and that as long as there are, there will be resources for them.

Statistically, you probably know a few.

Making sure students feel comfortable talking about struggles like these is the only way we can ensure they get the support they need. Talking about this issue at dorm floor meetings, classes, org events and anywhere else can help reduce the stigma students feel about food insecurity. Someone once said at The Open Seat, “I know food insecurity is not something to be embarrassed about, but I just am.”

Recognize the signs of food insecurity, create welcoming spaces for students to share their struggles, volunteer your time to support food pantries if you can and make sure the issue is being heard.

Yogev Ben-Yitschak (ybenyitschak@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in marketing. He is also the Open Seat External Director. For Open Seat locations and hours, and for ways to support the Open Seat, visit https://www.asm.wisc.edu/theopenseat/ or email openseat@asm.wisc.edu.

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When we’re the problem: On news consumption and accountability We live in an era where news is rapid-fire, don’t let that stop you from playing an active role in your media consumption

by Cait Gibbons Editorial Board Chair, Opinion Editor

Toward the end of August, Twitter exploded with viral posts about wildfires devastating the Amazon rainforest.

“Why isn’t anyone talking about this?” people questioned. Tweeters lamented the impact of climate change on our ecosystems and the perceived lack of media coverage surrounding such a disaster. For a few days, #PrayforAmazonas was the top-trending hashtag on Twitter.

Once the story of Amazon’s fires broke into the Twittersphere, it was unavoidable, as every major American news outlet began running story after story about the rainforest in Brazil. Finally, someone was talking about this.

But was this really the first time someone was talking about it? When we’re limited to 280 characters, misinformation proliferates, while voices with the right information are suppressed.

And the impact of relying on Twitter for news is that the only audible voices are those with the most followers and retweets.

The truth is, people have been talking about deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest for months — years even.

And yes, while the fires do have a direct impact on climate change, they were in fact not caused by climate change — they were a part of active deforestation efforts, set by farmers preparing Amazon-adjacent farmland for next year’s crops and pasture. What’s more, The New York Times found evidence that Brazil’s newly-elected far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s deforestation campaigns have emboldened farmers to burn increasingly more land.

In July, about a month before Twitter learned about the fires in the Amazon, the Times released a feature on the nation’s new president and his motions to slash protections for the rainforest. And, believe it or not, the Times was late to the game.

Even before that, news outlets and activist groups around the world had been reporting on the destruction of the Amazon. In April, Amazon Watch, an Amazon rainforest and indigenous peoples’ advocacy group, published “Complicity in Destruction: How northern consumers and financiers enable Bolsonaro’s assault on the Brazilian Amazon.”

And for months, Brazil’s indigenous women have been protesting Bolsonaro’s policy, deforestation of the land they live on and agribusiness industrialization — work that has been reported on by the BBC, DW News, Civil Eats, The Guardian and the BBC (again), just to name a few. So, yes, in fact, people have been talking about this for a while — pretty much since Bolsonaro was sworn in January 1 of this year.

There’s a conversation here about why there wasn’t even more coverage about this in American news media, or maybe about why this didn’t receive the international attention that the burning of Notre Dame did.

There might also be a conversation here about the danger of social-media-generated news turning into an unproductive echo chamber.

And certainly, some of that conversation falls on media organizations. But much of that conversation falls to us as media consumers.

To say that no one was talking about the destruction of the Amazon — to say that as American Twitter-users, we are the first to start talking about this — when in reality, indigenous people of Brazil and international media organizations have been yelling about it for months, is an American-centric view of news media and politics.

It’s dilemmas like this which beg for us to take a critical look at our interactions with media and remind us to play an active role in our news consumption. We cannot wait for important stories to simply make their way into our Twittersphere and hope that the most important stories are getting through the noise.

Developing a holistic understanding of global current events necessitates that we actively seek out a diverse array of news outlets — not just the most popular American news outlets.

According to a 2018 study by the Pew Research Center, social media is the number one source of news for Americans aged 18-29 — 36% said it’s how they get most of their news — and its popularity is on the rise for all age groups — 68% of adults said they get at least some of their news from social media. Print newspapers and news websites, on the other hand are on the decline for all age groups.

This is not meant to be an indictment of the use of social media as a means of information dispersal. To say Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like are shallow or short-sighted or ineffective communicators is an outdated and uncritical point of view.

This is meant to be an indictment of the way we perceive and interact with the journalism industry.

It’s journalists’ jobs to track down important stories, do the research and make the stories public. Everywhere you look, journalists are working to uplift stories that matter and hold people accountable.

Now, it’s certainly true that the industry is far from perfect. Newsrooms around the world desperately lack diversity and space for historically politically marginalized voices, and the industry is inundated with the fallacy of both sides-ism, where those who promote views which are racist, sexist and every other -ist you can think of deserve an equal seat at the table as those protesting such bigotry.

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Cait Gibbons The Badger Herald All of this is true. But it’s also true that many, many, many journalists work each day to tell better, more truthful and more important stories. They work to fix mistakes they’ve made. They issue corrections and they add information. They un-learn and they re-learn.

All of this means we must be actively engaged in this process. This process of improving the journalistic enterprise and learning more about the world around us means that we all have to participate in news media. It is journalists’ job to tell stories that matter, but their job only works if we do our job, which is to read the stories they tell. That requires effort from us to play an active part in our roles as news consumers.

Every piece of media we consume — from news articles to broadcasts to Facebook posts — plays a role in our perceptions and redirects our national narratives, probably in more influential ways than we might like to think. As we read, listen and retweet, these ideas proliferate and change the course of history, sometimes before we even realize what’s happening.

This means we can’t be passive here. We can’t let those narratives be dictated by whichever stories happen to float onto our timelines and

we can’t stop after sending one tweet about raising awareness. Instead of wondering why no one is talking about this, go deeper. The fact that you heard about it necessarily means people are talking about it. If it’s an issue that matters to you, redirect your outrage from “Why is no one talking about this?” to “Who is talking about this and how can I get involved?”

And instead of waiting until stories make their way to you, go out and find them. Read stories that seem like they might not be relevant to you — I promise, if it’s happening now, it’s relevant to you. In the era of “fake news” and the spread of misinformation, improvement of the journalism industry necessitates engagement from readers, and productive construction of narratives necessitates active effort by consumers. It requires that we put in work to build up important narratives.

If we don’t put in the work, it doesn’t matter how much work journalists do. These stories will be buried beyond saving.

And there’s simply too much at stake to let that happen.

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Gov. Evers takes first step to create carbon-neutral Wisconsin

Despite opposition from Republicans on state, federal levels, Evers sets high goals to reduce Wisconsin’s carbon footprint

by Abigail Steinberg Columnist

For the second year in a row, University of Wisconsin students were welcomed back to campus with flash flooding. Granted, for Madison, flooding may seem like a natural evil due to the city’s unfortunate placement between two lakes. But when one zooms out of their map and takes a look at the greater picture — mainly, the whole of southern Wisconsin — the story our weather tells is enough to make anyone nervous.

At the same time Madison battened down the hatches and prepared for the recent floods, our neighboring counties to the west — Adams, Juneau, Richland, Crawford and Grant counties, specifically — were under a tornado watch. Fortunately, no tornado reared its ugly face. But sadly, this large amalgam of severe weather may be indicative of a greater trend.

Although precipitation does vary across the state, with south-central Wisconsin facing generally wetter conditions than our northern counterparts, the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts reported a 15% increase in precipitation from 1950 through 2006. Annual precipitation in south-central and western Wisconsin increased as much as seven inches.

Temperature-wise, Wisconsin has gotten considerably warmer in the past 60 years.

The WICCI’s work suggests Wisconsin’s warming trend will not only continue but also increase considerably in the near future. By the middle of the current century, WICCI predicts statewide annual average temperatures are likely to warm by six to seven degrees Fahrenheit.

Long story short, Wisconsin’s climate is changing rapidly, bringing dangerous and destructive effects to natural habitats, agriculture, water resources and public health.

Climate change is everywhere — both natural and built environments are subject to its influence.

Before this column progresses any further, let me be perfectly frank: I refuse to argue that these environmental changes have no anthropogenic sources. Most of the world’s leading scientific institutions have released public statements affirming the position that the climate changes in the last century are extremely likely due to human behavior.

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and drags us backward.

The center of the conversation should not be about if the problem exists — it should be about solutions.

Climate change, including the increase in average global temperature, is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. These gases trap heat inside Earth’s atmosphere, raising the global temperature. Unfortunately, Wisconsin’s dependence on fossil fuels is partly to blame.

As of 2018, Wisconsin generates 49% of its electricity from burning coal and 26% from natural gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Sadly, only 9% of Wisconsin’s utility-scale net electricity generation came from renewable resources such as wind, biomass, hydroelectric and solar power. These energy sources are the most environmentally friendly, yet they are criminally underutilized.

Last month, Gov. Tony Evers signed an

executive order which aims to wipe out the use of carbon-based fuel in Wisconsin by 2050. The order also established the Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy in the state Department of Administration, which will lead the effort toward Wisconsin’s dependence on 100% renewable energy. The office will also be responsible for creating new energy efficiency and renewable energy standards for state buildings, developing coordinated efforts among state agencies to mitigate the effects of climate change and make sure Wisconsin fulfills the carbon reduction goals set by the Paris Climate Accord.

Evers’ fight for renewable energy has been thwarted at every level of government. He originally proposed the carbon-free goal and new state agency in his last budget proposal, but the Republican legislature removed the language before passing the spending agreement. When the U.S. wanted to join nearly every nation in the world in the fight against global climate change by joining the

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Paris climate change agreement, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement.

In a country led by an administration that appoints a former coal lobbyist as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the onus seems to fall on the states to make comprehensive changes meant to combat climate change. Though Wisconsin’s Republican legislature makes it difficult, Evers’ recent executive order is a monumental step in the right direction. The journey to a green future will be long and difficult — weighing the fate of the global climate with the success of industry, economic prosperity and worldwide diplomacy efforts is easier said than done. But without Evers’ incredible first step, it is a journey Wisconsin, and to an extent, the U.S., would never get to partake in.

Abigail Steinberg (asteinberg@badgerherald. com) is a junior majoring in political science and journalism.

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Common cents: Back-to-school budget tips for new and old Badgers SOHE’s Badger$ense Financial Life Skills program offers practical personal finance pointers to start your year off right

by Mckayla Johnson Letter to the Editor

Hey Badgers! Your time as an undergraduate presents a great opportunity for you to take control of your financial planning and develop habits that will benefit you throughout college and beyond. Whether you’ve been tracking your spending for years or are just starting to learn the basics of budgeting, the tips below will help you and your bank account get a great start to the fall semester.

Minimize borrowing If you are looking for help paying tuition, this is a very important part of your financial planning strategy. Be aware of the size and type of the student loans you agree to take on, as you are going to be held accountable for paying them back. If awarded a student loan, try to agree to borrow only an amount that will cover tuition, room, and board. Overborrowing could not only increase your monthly payments after college, but also affect your interest costs over the loan’s lifetime. If you have questions, contact the University of Wisconsin’s Office of Student Financial Aid. Apart from loans, scholarships, grants and part-time work can earn you extra money without incurring debt. UW students should take advantage of the Wisconsin Scholarship Hub, which offers various scholarships for both new and returning students. Additionally, you can find part-time work just about anywhere on or off campus. To get started, use UW’s Student Jobs hub, where employers post hundreds of openings.

Create a realistic budget When creating weekly or monthly budgets for yourself, you have to take into account every type of expense you may incur. That daily coffee purchase may seem insignificant in the moment, but it adds up over time. Try to anticipate how much money you are going to need for food, utilities, and social outings throughout the semester so you can plan accordingly. You can even make a spreadsheet or use an app like Mint or DeepPockets to view how you are performing against your target budget.

Triple-check your academic plan Unless necessary, students should complete their undergraduate degree within four years to avoid the costs of an extra year of schooling.

Check in with your advisor to ensure you are on track as you expect. Staying organized and following an academic plan will also help you stay away from the extra high tuition costs of taking summer courses. If you’re on the

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Ella Guo The Badger Herald waitlist for a required course, reach out to the professor via email and request permission to enroll.

Build a great credit score Building good credit is an important process that takes time, so the earlier you can start, the better! A strong credit record enables you to make more important purchases later in life, such as a house or car, often at better rates.

To build credit, use a credit card to make smaller purchases, such as groceries or books, to incrementally build trust with your bank over time. More importantly, though, try not to fall behind on paying your credit card bills, as this will hurt your credit score and create debt with varying interest rates. Before making credit card purchases, be sure you have the

cash to back up your transactions.

Establish an emergency fund Often forgotten, emergency funds are key to a student’s financial health. Unexpected expenses can throw off your budget and result in debt and borrowing. The size of the emergency fund will vary from person to person but ideally should cover basic needs for three to six months. That may sound like a lot, but if you contribute small amounts each month to set it up, it becomes more manageable.

Treat yourself Even the best diets include a cheat day, and so should your budget! When outlining your personal budget, designate a small portion of

money to go towards any impulsive buys you make. Preparing for your spending cheats will result in a more accurate budget and keep you motivated while sticking to it. And if you have a couple of weeks in which you spend more than you expected (e.g., upfront costs for books and supplies), try to adjust your budget for following weeks to compensate.

Other splurges can be learning opportunities to improve your skills as a master budgeter throughout college.

Mckayla Johnson is a junior majoring in personal finance and economics. She is a peer educator with the Badger$ense Financial Life Skills program in the School of Human Ecology. Learn about Badger$ense courses, workshops, and other opportunities at sohe.wisc.edu/badgersense. badgerherald.com • September 17, 2019 • 17

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Women’s Soccer: Early season success offers chance at redemption

After hard-fought yet ultimately disappointing end to 2018 season, Badgers return with renewed talent, experience

by John Spengler Sports Editor

After a 2018 fall defined by regular season promise that ultimately failed to play out in the postseason, the Badgers (41-1) are off to a characteristically hot start in 2019.

In 2018, the Badgers failed to advance past the first round of the Big Ten postseason tournament following a heartbreaking overtime penalty kick loss to Illinois.

But despite the disappointment felt towards their loss to the Illini, a team they previously beat in the regular season, the Badgers soldered on to the NCAA tournament where they handily defeated their first two opponents.

Only the No.1 ranked team at the time — the Stanford Cardinals — managed to stop the Badgers in the middle of their lateseason heater.

Defeated by a score of 0–1, the Badgers put up a formidable fight to the Cardinals who, in turn, advanced all the way to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament before falling to Florida State 0–2.

The Badgers showed promise in the end of their season even as they ultimately failed to advance past the sweet sixteen of the NCAA tournament.

Perhaps most crucial to the hope that the Badgers can build upon this feat is the fact that they returned four of their top five goal scorers from their previous season’s squad.

Lauren Rice, Cameron Murtha, Maia Cella and leading-scorer Dani Rhodes all return for either their junior or senior seasons with the team.

These four players constituted the core of offensive production for the Badgers in 2018, and the majority of them certainly did not let their foot off the gas pedal coming into 2019.

Rhodes and Murtha are tied for a teamleading two goals through just six games of the season. Rice also scored a goal this season, one of only five players on the team to have done so up to this point.

The Badgers’ offensive prowess most clearly demonstrated itself in their two wins at the end of the season versus Memphis and Hofstra University who they defeated 3–0 and 6–0, respectively.

Luckily for the Badgers, the players who both drove this stunning performance to cap the season returned and are back in business for 2019.

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Photo · Returning talent and increased experience after last season’s defeats currently driving Badgers to early season success that bodes well for postseason hopes Daniel Yun The Badger Herald season is junior goalkeeper Jordyn Bloomer.

Despite her lack of experience coming into the 2018 season, Bloomer performed impressively as she attempted to follow in the footsteps of the previous goalkeeper Caitlyn Clem.Head coach Paula Wilkins spoke of Bloomer after the 2018 season.

“She stepped up to the task,” Wilkins said. “She did everything we could have asked her to do.”

Bloomer is once again filling the shoes of her predecessors in 2019. Off to a blazing start, she has allowed just three goals in the first six games of the season.

Furthermore, Bloomer ’s save percentage is 81.3% — already higher than the total she managed to acquire at the end of 2018.

The Badgers, led by Bloomer, also tallied a highly impressive three shutouts in just their first six games of the year. All the pieces are in place for a Badger squad ready to build upon the success it reached for in the 2018 season.

From a set of returning offensive threats who power their offensive to a stalwart keeper who shows no signs of weakness, the Badgers are set to make another postseason run in 2019.

The season is still in its early stages, but the Badgers already improved their performances against top ranked opponents.

In just their second game of the season, the Badgers faced Florida State, the team that defeated Stanford in the 2018 NCAA

tournament and ultimately went on to win the national title.

In 2018, Florida State defeated the Badgers 3–0 early in the season. The scoreline this season? Just 1–0 in favor of the No. 1 ranked Seminoles.

The Badgers, currently ranked No. 15 in the nation, still fell to FSU, but their loss came after a hard fought game that ended in the first half of overtime play.

It’s possible this game was an anomaly.

Yet with such a strong set of experienced players, it doesn’t seem likely.

The Badgers certainly proved they have the talent and experience needed to compete with the best teams in the nation.

Now, they must go out and execute down the stretch as they failed to do in 2018.

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Bucky Badger: History behind one of NCAA’s greatest mascots

Dating back to mid-20th century, Bucky has remained integral part of UW sports culture, outreach over many decades

by Harrison Freuck Sports Editor

Buckingham Ulysses Badger — more commonly known as Bucky Badger or just Bucky to University of Wisconsin students and alumni — has been a part of Wisconsin culture since the early to mid-20th century.

According to author Gwen Schultz in her book “The Bucky Badger Story,” Bucky’s first known appearance was in a cartoon in 1930, followed by the first portrayal of Bucky in a Wisconsin sweater we all know today in a 1940 cartoon.

Since 1940, Bucky’s legacy has grown to represent UW more than anyone could have imagined.

Today, you can find Bucky on just about any piece of UW merchandise, ranging from clothing to stickers and everything in between.

Despite the fact that Bucky has only had minor changes in appearance over the last 80 years, the faces behind the mask change on a rolling basis, with roughly seven people performing as Bucky at any given time.

The majority of the performers inside the Bucky costume are students at UW — chosen based upon their performance in tests of dancing, ability to work with props and the number of push-ups a candidate can do.

Candidates also take part in an interview and are tested on their ability to write and perform skits.

Each year, about seven candidates are chosen through this process. “The Bucky

Team” attends mascot training camp each August before they are able to participate as Bucky at professional events.

In a 2015 interview with former Bucky Badger Al Krizek, Krizek explained what made him want to be Bucky and what it’s like to train to be “the man behind the mask.”

“It’s very intense,” Krizek said. “Let’s just say it involves everything from maxing out in push-ups to performing improv with random props to getting interviewed by the Athletic Department.”

In the same interview, Krizek also described how intense the Bucky training regimen is, including Mascot Camp in August.

“Our training begins with Mascot Camp, where you learn everything from how to stay hydrated in a suit that is 20-30 degrees above the outdoor temperature to strategies for managing challenging children.

Once you’re trained, you put in about 15-20 hours per week, year-round, because when you’re a Bucky, you’re a Bucky for all sports.”

While the Herald was unable to get access to an interview with a current Bucky,

this interview with Krizek shines light on not only how intense being Bucky is, but also how rewarding it can be.

Krizek described his experience at being able to attend not just sporting events, but also community events where Bucky would hang out with young children and play Bucky Bingo.

He even kept a journal with every card he received from these kids to remind him why he did it.

While it is truly inspiring to see how much Bucky means to those who get to perform as him on a regular basis, it is also interesting to see what Bucky means to those in the UW community. Jay, a UW sophomore, elaborated.

“Bucky is the hype man, wherever he goes he’s hyping people up,” Jay said. “He’s a symbol of pride and energy at the university.

Bucky may be a Badger, but really he’s my

dawg.”

Another sophomore named Henry added on.

“Bucky is the ultimate identity of the university,” Henry said. “He is a leader that the university can stand behind, and he provides so much energy.”

These quotes provide a sense of what Bucky Badger means to UW, and it is safe to say these opinions are representative of the student body, both past and present.

Don’t believe the students? If you look at just about any NCAA mascots rankings, Bucky is almost always in the top five, if not the top three.

Bucky is original, goofy, inspiring and so much more. Bucky embodies the greatness of Wisconsin, both academically and athletically.

Bucky is UW, and UW is Bucky.

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Men’s Hockey: NHL draftees set to take off in freshman season Four Badgers were drafted in NHL Draft this past summer, come to Wisconsin looking to make mark on Badger hockey

by Jake Gross Associate Sports Editor

Following an NHL Draft that featured four Badgers, the University of Wisconsin squad is loaded with young talent. Alex Turcotte, Cole Caufield, Ryder Donovan and Owen Lindmark will all play an integral role in the Wisconsin offense next season.

Let’s take a look into their return to Madison and the expectations that come with their freshman season.

Alex Turcotte Turcotte, an incoming freshman, was drafted with the fifth overall pick in the NHL Draft by the Los Angeles Kings and stands as the third-highest picked Badger in the NHL Draft in school history behind second overall pick Dany Heatley in 2000 and third overall pick Kyle Turris in 2007.

Turcotte is a brilliant playmaker with breakaway speed and finishing ability. He is very skilled with the puck on his stick, has a great shot and his speed makes him a threat in transition.

Turcotte is an elite 200-foot player who backchecks hard and sacrifices his body. He is a force on the defensive end, as he creates plenty of turnovers and is incredibly strong on the puck.

As a potential NHL franchise-changing talent, Turcotte will see the ice a lot this year and will be

a top-six forward for Wisconsin for the next few seasons.LA Kings General Manager Rob Blake discussed Turcotte’s development at UW in an interview at the NHL Draft.

“I know I’ve had a relationship with Coach Granato for a long time, so we understand we put him there and let him develop. He is going to teach him how to be a pro on and off the ice and that’s going to benefit us,” Blake said in the interview.

As Turcotte is just 18 years old and is not entirely developed, it was clear that he would not be entering his rookie NHL season, but rather his first season in college.

Turcotte will definitely have the chance to live up to the hype of being the fifth overall pick, but it will take some time. Wisconsin would be lucky to have Turcotte for his upperclassmen seasons.

Cole Caufield Caufield, another incoming freshman, was drafted with the 15th pick in the NHL Draft by the Montreal Canadiens. Projected as a top 10 pick by NHL.com, Caufield’s draft night slide was one of the biggest surprises of the draft, classifying him as a potential steal.

Caufield is an elite goal scorer who is terrific at reading the ice to find open space. His best attribute is his shot, which is extremely accurate and quick.

“He is a guy that you can count on to do the right things, to be a 200-foot player, but I personally think there’s more offensively in his game, but in order for Wisconsin to win a championship, this is the type of player exactly that’s going to shine through for them” Brian Lawton NHL Network Analyst With a dangerous offensive arsenal, Caufield can find the back of the net in a multitude of spots on the ice. Caufield also has good hands and is elusive on the ice. His tremendous work ethic gives him the edge in many battles for the puck, as well as a defensive presence.

Caufield is a great match with Wisconsin and head coach Tony Granato’s offense. The Badgers averaged 3.1 goals per game last season, and the addition of Caufield should enhance and suffice the goal-scoring necessity in order to climb to the top of the Big Ten standings.

Montreal Canadiens General Manager Marc Bergevin spoke on Caufield’s development situation in an interview at the NHL Draft.

“Just keep producing like he has been at the U.S. program and make him ready as an NHL player. Only, like I said, he needs to get NHL experience and it’s a good place to play hockey,” Bergevin said in the interview.Caufield’s window to playing in the NHL will ope n shortly, but will also take time, as he is only 18 years old and has a smaller frame at 5’7’’ and 163 pounds. Caufield could remain as a Badger for two to three seasons.

Ryder Donovan

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Freshman Ryder Donovan was drafted with the 110th overall pick in the fourth round by the Vegas Golden Knights. Being drafted to a franchise entering just its third season, Donovan will have a chance to compete with a very talented prospect pool.

Donovan brings more depth and speed down the middle for UW, and his tremendous vision and

hockey IQ allow him to be a great playmaker.

Donovan is a 200-foot center whose size at 6’4’’ and 185 pounds compliments his skill and makes him an extremely effective player in every part of the ice. His work ethic — combined with his willingness to win — displays the leadership qualities that he will take to Wisconsin.

Teammate and fellow freshman Mike Vorlicky will join Donovan in at the Golden Knights camp.

Donovan described his experience at the Knights’ development camp in his blog.

“They found a handful of areas that they want me to work on this week that I’ve never even considered before. I’m going to work those things into my game this week and eventually into next season at Wisconsin to see where the small details can help me improve overall.”

With a large frame and a strong all-around game, Donovan has one of the more interesting, yet unpredictable futures for Wisconsin. Donovan’s likelihood of staying in Madison will genuinely depend on his development progress in the next few years.

Owen Lindmark The fourth Badger freshman to get drafted, Lindmark was drafted with the 137th overall pick in the fifth round by the Florida Panthers.

With a surplus of talented young centers, it will take Lindmark at least a few seasons before he truly gets the opportunity to make his mark on a professional level.

Lindmark is a very strong skater who provides depth at the center position for any team. He has a strong hockey IQ and is a reliable two-way center.

With great hands and finishing ability, Lindmark can make his impact on a game in a variety of ways.

He has experience playing with many current Badgers, including both Turcotte and Caufield.

This experience should give Lindmark an advantage in adapting to the Wisconsin offense.

Lindmark joins current Badgers’ junior defenseman Tyler Inamoto in the Florida organization.

NHL Network Analyst Brian Lawton gave high praise to Wisconsin and Lindmark’s game in an interview at the NHL Draft.

“He is a guy that you can count on to do the right things, to be a 200-foot player, but I personally think there’s more offensively in his game, but in order for Wisconsin to win a championship, this is the type of player exactly that’s going to shine through for them,” Lawton said in the interview.

The Florida Panthers currently have a crowded and center-filled prospect pool, which means Lindmark could spend the next two to four years as a Badger.

These four will be an addition to a Wisconsin team that now has 12 NHL draftees on its roster and should make an immediate impact on a squad that stacks up well in the Big Ten.

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Men’s Soccer: Sluggish start to season dampens post season hopes Strong finish in 2018 left Badgers ready to improve in 2019, yet consistent success has eluded them up to this point in season

by John Spengler Sports Editor

Marquette and Michigan State.

The Badgers would then go on to achieve a final regular season record of 9-5-2, with a 5-2 record in the Big Ten to match.

This hard-fought season came on the backs of raw talent that worked its way through the early season woes of inexperience.

The two top scorers for the Badgers in 2018 were Andrew Akindele and Noah Melick, both freshman at the time.

Out of the top five scorers, only one, then senior Isaac Schlenker, departed from the team at the conclusion of last season.

Furthermore, team star and now captain Noah Leibold returned following a landmark season as a midfield leader for the Badgers.

Despite his impressive statistical performance last season, head coach John

Trask had even more praise for the skills that weren’t quite as easy to point to on a The University of Wisconsin men’s stat sheet. The Badger Herald interviewed soccer team came into this regular season Trask last year. with what were certainly high expectations “[Most fans] don’t realize how good he following a surprisingly successful end to is, because he makes tactical decisions and their 2018 season. is a proven winner who is comfortable in With a team full of youth in 2018, the the spotlight,” said Trask. opening games of the regular season saw All signs pointed to a clearly improving some definite growing pains come to the Badger team. A slow start to the season surface. turned into rampant success late in the The Badgers began the year by losing year, young talent led the team in scoring four of their opening seven games. In three and key players were returning to fulfill a of those games they failed to score a single leadership role in the coming season. goal.

Despite all these positive indicators, Despite this slow start through seven the Badgers seem to have gotten off to games, the Badgers quickly got to work yet another slow start this year. Despite turning things around as they won the whatever returning talent and leadership following three games in a row. These wins they may have, the Badgers haven’t included two shutout wins against both performed to their potential yet.

In the four games played so far this season, the Badgers are only 2-2. This record includes a shutout loss to UC Davis at home.

Senior captain Leibold is certainly holding up his end of the deal as he has both played nearly every minute of every game at midfield.

Leibold is also one of only four players to have scored a goal for the Badgers this season.

With Leibold doing his job leading the team in the midfield, what gives?

Primarily, the problem seems to be with the Badgers’ attack. Up to this point in the season, their two top scorers of 2018, Akindele and Melick, have attributed little to the team’s score line.

Photo · Hopes were presumably high that Badgers would get off to fast start in 2018, now they must fight to get back in Neither of playoff contention. the two players managed to record Daniel Yun a goal in the first

four games and only Akindele assisted in the scoring of a goal.

“[Most fans] don’t realize how good he is, because he makes tactical decisions and is a proven winner who is comfortable in the spotlight” John Trask UW Men’s Soccer Head Coach

With their two star sophomores failing to produce, the Badgers’ attack slowed to a halt.

If the Badgers are to avoid the pitfalls of last season, namely failing to make the NCAA tournament due to their slow start to the season, they must turn things around offensively.

A fully successful regular season allows for some slip ups late in the season against a strong Big Ten conference its post-season tournament.

Turning their season around now, much as they did last season, still provides the Badgers with the opportunity to make the NCAA tournament if they are able to perform well against Big Ten teams in the regular season and ultimately make an appearance in the Big Ten championship.

Big Ten regular season play does not start until Sept. 27. If the Badgers are to build upon their newly found success from last season, that is the deadline they must meet to re-vamp their attack that has struggled up to this point.

Akindele and Melick, if the team is to improve its current standing, will have to play more influential roles offensively if the Badgers are to break their current pattern of shutout losses in between wins.

Only after that will they be able to return their program to the success it found seemingly out of the blue at the end of 2018.

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Sports: Three takeaways from this week’s game of Badger football

Ghosts on field. overall lack of information surrounding game makes for informative take-away column on this page

by Angela Peterson Director of Public Relations

We played a really good football game this week, but sadly no one, not even Bucky’s 5th Quarter, has yet to write about it.

This is very sad because the Badgers are a good team and they haven’t lost yet.

Because of this, all of their games should be reported on. The lack of reports this week is frightening and downright wrong.

Luckily, I’m trying my hat at being a football writer again to bring readers the full take away’s from this week’s Badger game.

I don’t know who we played, must’ve been ghosts So yeah I couldn’t find any opposing team in my research which can only mean one thing; the Badgers played a bunch of ghosts.

Ok everyone, ghosts are spooky.

I’ve covered this through investigative journalism several times. I really tried to think of good schools that could have teams named after ghosts. At first I thought Georgia would be a natural fit, then I remembered they chose to go for the menacing Bulldog look. I thought maybe a

team from Greenwich Village would make sense before I recalled how NYU does not have a football team. Sigh.

With my lack of insight into the team, I am just guess-and-checking and calling them the Ghostville Ghosts. If I am wrong, feel free to send in a correction for next week’s column.

Nevertheless, ghosts can still conjure up a mighty strong team on the gridiron. The Badgers line truly faced a deep threat with this ghosty team. Due to the lack of stats available on the team prior to the game, it was impossible to tell if it would be an easy time for the Badgers to come out on top.

Even so, I remained pretty confident the team would end up alright.

Speaking of gridirons, who came up with that term? It sounds way too close to waffle irons and that just makes me hungry. Think of it, fluffy waffles in the shape of footballs doused with a healthy helping of crisp maple syrup. Mmmm.

Jonathan Taylor didn’t get 4 touchdowns, can he still get the Heisman?

Jonathan Taylor was so consistent with his four touchdowns per game

Photo ·Bucky cheers on his team while they play against a whole bunch of ghosts.

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in the first two weeks that it is absolutely barnacles that he didn’t repeat it this week.

True, I do not have the box score from the game, but since I did not see any reports I must assume it didn’t happen.

This really throws a wrench in JT’s Heisman campaign. How is he supposed to be considered elite when he can’t score four touchdowns against Ghosts????

These are the real questions that will need to be answered before we can even preview the Michigan game. With so much uncertainty in the air, it’s really not possible for any Badger to breathe properly.

I would like to request a humidifier.

This is the first football game in awhile where no one scored I couldn’t find any points scored in my research either, meaning this indeed was a scoreless tie game. The last time this happened was in 1983 when Oregon and Oregon State collectively managed to turn the ball over 11 times and miss four field goal attempts. This prompted some to call

it “The Toilet Bowl.”

Yikes.

Again, I do not have a box score, but I can only assume with spectral opponents, other factors were at play here. For one, when playing ghosts in any sport, the opposing coach can never tell what the play call will be. This is because ghosts are invisible.

When the play call cannot be seen, this gives the ghosts a supreme advantage because of the sneaky factor. One might try to block a ghost, but since they cannot be seen most attempts are futile.

Despite this, it appears the Ghosts weren’t too up to par on their basic athletic skills, as one would think this advantage would lead to mass amounts of scoring.

It’s certainly a disappointment for their team, but the Badgers can take this draw in stride. ... Oh, it was a bye week? This early?

Huh, good to know.

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