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UW System asks state for smaller budget cut

By Andrew Bahl and Eric Cummings THE DAILY CARDINAL

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The proposed state budget includes a $300 million cut to the UW System, a number President Raymond Cross said is too high.

Representatives from five state agencies, including the University of Wisconsin System, testified before the state’s budget committee Tuesday.

UW System President Raymond Cross supported Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to grant the system more autonomy under a public authority model but said a $300 million cut is “too much and too fast.”

“The proposed cut is serious,” Cross said. “We are committed to working with you to find an appropriate level of funding, now and for the future.”

Cross said the UW System is one of the most regulated in the country and that the proposed autonomy measures would “give us the means for a stable, sustainable future.”

State Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, asked how Cross planned on keeping college affordable for students.

“We are working to find an appropriate level of funding now and for the future.”

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“What are your ideas to control the rising cost of tuition and make sure that our families in Wisconsin are not … going on with student debt that is crushing?” Kooyenga asked.

In his response, Cross emphasized the funding source desig-

Alders speak out on guns, gangs after West Towne Mall shooting

By Irene Burski THE DAILY CARDINAL

Three days after shots were fired at Madison’s West Towne Mall, Ald. Maurice Cheeks, District 10, and Ald. Matt Phair, District 20, announced plans to combat gang violence Tuesday, according to a city of Madison press release.

Echoing a previous call to action from Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval, Cheeks and Phair stressed the necessity of acting now rather than later.

“We are really fortunate that no one was killed in the shooting at West Towne Mall.”

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While there were no reported injuries in the West Towne Mall incident, police believe the suspected perpetrators of the shooting knew each other and were involved in an ongoing conflict, MPD Lt. Kelly Donahue wrote in an MPD incident report. According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, many of the recent shootings over the past year have been classified as gangon-gang violence.

“We were really fortunate that no one was killed in the shooting at West Towne Mall,” Cheeks said.

“Had that gone a different way, I think our community would have reacted in outcry and sympathy and demanded results.”

In the press release, Cheeks and Phair cited in particular reaffirming commitments to the police department’s gang task force, youth mentorship initiatives and the possibility of initiating a gun buyback program.

“Gang violence is a real issue in Madison that has been persistent for years,” Phair said. “Events like this weekend bring it to light, but I think it’s time we … acknowledge it, and try to get the system to solve some of these issues.”

The nation’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention May 2008 report estimated 32.4 percent of boys and 29.4 percent of girls from highcrime neighborhoods claimed to belong to a gang.

“We need to be bringing partners together to address the roots of gang violence here [and making sure] youth have opportunities in our city,” Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said, citing a need to give local adolescents options other than gangs.

Gang violence in the campus area is less visible but still present,

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nated for the System in the governor’s budget would keep tuition stable and allow System officials to plan small tuition increases with more prudence.

“We would be putting all of these flexibilities at risk if we simply took the step to aggressively increase tuition,” he said.

The committee also heard testimony from Cathy Stepp, secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, who spoke to members about a number of DNR initiatives and reforms in the proposed 2015’16 budget.

Stepp stressed the importance of the DNR to economic growth in the state, while legislators questioned changing the National Resources Board, currently staffed by gubernatorial appointees that set DNR

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Walker promises signature to bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks

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Many have wondered whether former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., would run for his former seat in 2016.

Feingold announces tour of state amid rumors of candidacy for Senate seat Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., announced Tuesday his plans to tour Wisconsin weeks after his departure from the U.S. Department of State.

The announcement came amidst circulating rumors speculating the former Democratic senator is considering a run for his former seat in the 2016 Election. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., unseated Feingold in 2010.

In a Facebook post Feingold demonstrated his

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interest and concern for Wisconsin residents.

“For most of the rest of the year, I will be living at my home in Middleton, Wisconsin, from where I will travel the state extensively,” Feingold wrote.

“I will listen carefully to my fellow Wisconsinites talk about their concerns, especially those involving their economic well-being.”

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Gov. Scott Walker vowed to sign legislation prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy if such a bill passes through the state Legislature, according to an open letter sent to The Weekly Standard Tuesday.

In the letter, Walker touted his administration’s accomplishments in ratcheting up restrictions on abortions and defunding Planned Parenthood.

“Life is a value I learned from my parents, and it’s a value I have cherished every day, predating my time in politics,” Walker said in the letter.

In 2011, Walker’s state budget proposal slashed state funding to Planned Parenthood, eventually leading to a number of office closures across the state.

The last time Wisconsin’s abortion laws were updated was in 2013, when the state enacted a law requiring those seeking an abortion to receive an ultrasound within 24 hours of the abortion. The physician performing the ultrasound must show the resulting pictures to the patient and “provide a means for the pregnant woman to visualize any fetal heartbeat.”

So far no legislators have introduced a law banning abortions after 20 weeks, but The Wisconsin State Journal reported Tuesday that Republicans in the state Assembly are working on a bill.

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Terry ‘T.A.’ Olivier: Private Eye: No. 6: Visions and daydreams

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ollege Court was not at the top of my go-to destinations list. I had a lot of enemies there. Or maybe I hoped I had a lot of enemies there. The line gets sort of blurry.

You have to remember: I wasn’t always the private eye you see before you. In the time before I dedicated myself to the noble pursuit of investigation, I was a teaching assistant in the English department. My life was in a bit of an upheaval.

I was training Schlep to take over for me, fragile as he was after being pulled from his newspaper cocoon. He didn’t have a steady grasp of the finer points of paper grading.

Suffice it to say: There are a lot of earnest, smart people who hate my guts. Because some roustabout gave them Cs and Ds on their “Paradise Lost” essays in my name. And by this point, they must all be sophomores.

I didn’t feel like walking all the way to College Court, having already tromped up and down Mills Street. I caught a bus near Five Guys. Something

about buses disconcerts me. I’d heard enough stories to curl a fly’s toenails: drunken brawls, strange manifestations of garden implements just left willynilly on the seats. I heard a rumor that someone was organizing dog fights on a free bus, cock fights on another.

Is this all untrue? Is it all too much? Do I have anything to fear? I have everything to fear.

But I rode the bus anyway.

My feet were sore. I was getting very sleepy, and stayed sleepy as I boarded the 6 heading down State.

As we rode, I took the picture out of my pocket, holding the bull crane at all possible angles, under the lights. What did it all mean? Why had my old professor been holding this damn thing in his dead hand?

Scraps did not sate the enigma; it cried out for more.

It was then and there I realized old Graham B.D. Rice was dead. Really dead. Irreversibly dead. And my imagination was so taken with the reality that I almost cried.

I never imagined this would happen. Sure, we had had our disagreements, but they were never truly serious. Even when I was investigating full-time, letting Schlep cover my teaching work, even as he glared at

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me from that hammock of his, I never detected a note of real contempt. Just notes of unforgivably paternal concern.

I needed to speak to him again, knowing I couldn’t. It was like trying to teach concrete Aramaic. But I was so taken with the idea that I did, in fact, speak with him…

Suffice it to say: There are a lot of earnest, smart people who hate my guts.

Because some roustabout gave them Cs and Ds on their “Paradise Lost” essays in my name. And by this point, they must all be sophomores.

When the bus stopped, and I descended to the street, I heard a phone ringing. It was a payphone. I, who had never answered a payphone, answered this payphone.

“I’ll warn you in advance, this is a collect call,” Rice said.

“Goddamnit.”

“Well, death isn’t cheap, Terry.”

“Well, on with it.”

“On with it? No need to be curt. Lest I show up in an

ashen suit of armor to drive the point home.”

“Your tone is slipping, Herr Prof.”

“Well, death is loose.”

“Death is loose. Death isn’t cheap. Next you’ll tell me death is kind. Death is patient. Death is a purple kangaroo.”

“Yes.” “Smartass.”

“Damnit boy, I’m projecting my voice from the afterlife, the least you can do is drop the sardonicism.”

“Right, right.”

“Are you ready to hear what I have to say?”

“Say it.”

“You’re in too deep.”

“Too deep in what? The bull crane business or the Tenny Bros. case? Or are they one in the same?”

“You’re too deep in shit. Now wake up!” …I woke up. I had fallen asleep and ridden for over an hour. Someone must have mistaken me for a lost soul, because they left a Bible in the seat next to me, with a very nice note asking if my soul was saved. I kept the Bible and left the bus. I didn’t have anything to lose.

Look out for the next Terry Olivier installment, which hits newsstands in two weeks.

On this day in history...

51—Nero, future emperor of Rome, is given the title of “Head of the Youth,” which explains how he got into politics.

1493—Christopher Columbus returns to Lisbon, Portugal after voyaging to what’s now known as the Bahamas. In 2015, we’re still telling school children he discovered the area that’s now the United States.

1675—John Flamsteed is appointed England’s Astronomer Royal for discovering the moon.

1681—Charles II grants William Penn the land that eventually becomes Pennsylvania, which all seems reasonable.

1865—The Confederate States adopt their third official flag. This was all part of their elaborate strategy to lose.

1945—Finland declares war on Nazi Gemany, just in time to take all the credit.

1974—People magazine is first published in the United States, ushering in a new area of completely useless information pandering to the lowest common denomintator.

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Proposed budget puts diversity programs in limbo

By Ellie Herman THE DAILY CARDINAL

Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget could have dramatic effects for international students and jeopardize the future of diversity programs.

If UW-Madison falls under Public Authority status as a part of the budget, certain provisions would be under control by the Board of Regents and no longer backed by state law, Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee Chair Dolly Wang said during a meeting Tuesday.

“There’s going to be no requirement for diversity programs on campus,” Wang said. “There used to be a requirement for retention and recruitment programs for students of minority.”

Starting next fall, residence halls will no longer have diversity squads, groups of students and staff that work with the Center for Cultural Enrichment to increase residents’ cultural knowledge.

“The cuts can have a very big impact on minority groups across campus, for sure,” said ASM Finance Committee Chair Madison Laning.

It is still unknown what direct effects the budget could have on the Diversity

Framework, a campus-wide initiative introduced this fall, however, international students will face additional fees starting next fall, Wang said.

The International Student Services, a UW-Madison program that provides information to international students about campus life, will require an international student fee to all incoming freshmen, Wang said.

“Besides [the fees], they might pay more tuition compared to outof-state students,” Wang said.

Students across campus could see less job outreach, as Laning said attracting companies to the university for job recruitment is difficult due to its poor diversity compared to other schools across the nation.

“We’re not preparing people to go out into the global world,” Laning said. “Companies are shying away from UW-Madison, and with these cuts, they could shy away more because we’re going to lose the diversity we do have right now.”

ASM created a new budget committee to encourage student involvement while the Joint Committee for Finance holds hearings surrounding the effects the budget could have on state agencies.

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Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee Chair Dolly Wang updates members on the effects the proposed state budget could have for international students and diversity programs.

UW to hear research on Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s UW-Madison will celebrate Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Research Day at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Thursday, beginning with a keynote address at 2 p.m, according to a UW-Madison press release.

The keynote address, given

by Dr. Thomas J. Montine, will focus on the exploration of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other diseases affecting cognition. The release said the address will highlight the breadth of Montine’s research across universities and encourage collaboration across multiple disciplines.

Montine is a professor and chair of pathology at the University of Washington and is also director of the Pacific Northwest Udall Center and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Montine’s research has focused on the structural and molecular bases of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, according to the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

The address will be followed by a community discussion at 5 p.m. with Marina Emborg, a UW associate professor and director of the Preclinical Parkinson’s Research Program. The discussion will also include a panel of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease experts to discuss the advances in neurodegeneration research and its treatment implications.

Common Council passes downtown area planning process unanimously

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The approved downtown area planning process will examine commercial, transportation and landmark preservation issues.

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policy, to an “advisory council.”

Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Tony Evers also testified on behalf of his agency, calling the proposed budget “unsustainable” and said it would hurt education quality.

“I have deep concerns over the impact of the proposed budget on the quality of education for our 870,000 public school students,” Evers said.

Tomorrow the committee will hear testimony from seven more agencies as part of a three-day series of hearings on Walker’s proposed $68.4 billion budget.

conducted in October revealed Feingold slightly ahead of Johnson in favorability.

“I will listen carefully to my fellow Wisconsinites talk about their concerns.”

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The poll numbers show Feingold up 6 percentage points against Johnson. Total numbers show Feingold was the favorite at

Madison’s Common Council unanimously approved a planning process for implementing recommendations and examining issues associated with the ongoing changes on State Street and Capitol Square without debate during its brief meeting Tuesday.

“Hopefully it bodes well for a successful process that there was no controversy,” Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said.

The process, which will continue over the next two years, will look at a myriad of aspects related to the downtown area, according to Verveer.

“It’s everything from the debated issue of a healthy retail mix versus bars and restaurants, to the issue of the future of Madison Metro buses on State Street … to the issue of should State Street be made a historic district.”

Verveer said. “Obviously, it 36 percent and Johnson at 30 percent. The poll indicated 33 percent of voters were still undecided.

Between 1993 and 2011, Russ Feingold represented Wisconsin in the United States Senate. Most recently, he worked as a Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In addition to working at the State Department, Feingold has been a visiting professor at Marquette University Law School since losing his re-election campaign in 2010.

Feingold said in the statement he plans to teach international relations at Stanford University for part of the upcoming year.

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will be a laborious process.”

Verveer also cited the need for public input throughout the process.

“The plan will only be as good as the public input we receive,” Verveer said. “And it will be critical to try and encourage UW students to participate in this process.”

A similar study was conducted in 1999, Verveer said.

This proposed study in many ways will update the original.

In a separate decision, Council members unanimously granted a liquor license for The Double U on the 600 block of University Avenue.

The new sports bar will be coming to the venue previously occupied by Johnny O’s Sports Lounge. “[The owners of The Double U] hope to open by May, at the latest, in time for commencement,” Verveer said.

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“Over the years, we certainly have not been immune to gang violence,” Verveer said, citing many instances of student muggings that were found to actually be a part of gang rituals, following police investigation.

“I would say the downtown area of campus is certainly affected by the presence of criminal gangs in Madison and their activity,” Verveer said. “However, nowhere near to the extent as many other neighborhoods in Madison are.”

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By Brita Larson The Daily Cardinal

Shiela Reaves’ office is exactly what you’d imagine a professor’s office to look like: cozily collegiate with books everywhere. There is an entire wall made up of bookshelves and there are stacks of books on the two desks in the office. When I mentioned to Reaves that I was interested in neuroaesthetics, the science of the visual brain, she began to whirl about her office, plucking books from piles and from the shelves.

Reaves is a professor in the Life Sciences Communication department. The beauty of the Life Sciences Communication faculty is that they dabble in many fields; in academic terms, they’re highly interdisciplinary. Reaves is no exception. Her academic research lies in a field called “neuroaesthetics.” Neuroaesthetics studies how our visual brain processes images, specifically art and photography.

But she certainly didn’t start there. Reaves began her career as a photojournalist after she discovered her passion for photography at the age of eighteen. When she was job-hunting after graduation, she had a fateful interview with Chuck Scott, the former director of photography at the Chicago Tribune. After their interview, he asked Reaves if she had any questions.

“I had won some awards and I knew what I was doing. But when I asked Chuck Scott, ‘What makes a good picture?’ he muttered for a

while and then said, ‘Action and emotion.’ It was the best answer I’ve found. That really guided my career. It all boils down to action and emotion,” said Reaves.

Reaves eventually ended up at The Capital Times. “Ten years of photojournalism full time, but it was a wonderful way to spend your twenties. It’s very demanding, always looking for a parking spot under deadline and you can never plan your day because there might be a hostage shoot-out,” Reaves said.

She saw the look of shock on my face. “No, that really happened.”

In those 10 years, Reaves proved her abilities as a strong photographer.

The photograph she took at the hostage shoot-out won her photo essay of the year. “I knew how to think about photos. Like, what makes a good picture, what kind of picture puts the reader in the situation?”

“I would’ve gone to another newspaper, because I was ambitious, but the problem was, I fell in love with Madison,” said Reaves. She attended graduate school and kept falling into university appointments.

However, Reaves never stopped trying to answer the ques-

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tion “What makes a good photograph?” “I never got tired of the question. Frankly, there wasn’t a better answer than Chuck Scott’s.

There were theories, but never answers,” said Reaves.

Then came the decade of the brain, otherwise known as the 1990s. “[Antonio] Damasio came

believed that neuroscience had much to learn from master artists because these artists had intuited visual brain principles.

According to Anjan Chatterjee in an article titled “Neuroaesthetics: A Coming of Age Story,” “[Zeki] suggested that the goals of the nervous system and of artists are similar. Both are driven to understand essential visual attributes of the world. The nervous system decomposes visual information into such attributes as color, luminance and motion.

Similarly, many artists, particularly within the last century, isolate and enhance different visual attributes.”

In a paper from Science magazine in 2001, Zeki explained two laws that master artists followed. The first was the “law of constancy.” Because the graphic by Cameron Graff visual brain attempts to see form and function, artists, such as out with books. He gave the rea- the Cubists and Picasso, tease son for why the body responds; this out with lines, shapes and it’s because the emotional brain bold forms. The second law is the responds before the thinking “law of abstraction.” Artists play brain. I know what that means to the brains natural tendency to because when I’m moving to take abstract. The surrealist paintings a picture, you don’t have time to of the early 20th century are a think, you just move,” said Reaves. prime example: they allowed viewIn 2001, Semir Zeki coined ers to absorb the abstraction and the term “neuroaesthetics.” Zeki then interpret it in whichever way

they desired.

The fledgling field of neuroaesthetics seemed to have proven the best answer to Reaves’ question “What makes a good photo?”

When Scott responded “action and emotion” in his office in Chicago so many years before, neither he nor Reaves could have known that neuroscientists would find the answer.

“When [you move] to take a picture, you don’t have time to think, you just move.”

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Reaves has rephrased her question a bit. “Instead of asking what makes a good picture, I now ask what attracts the visual brain.

There are major core principles, like lines, contrast, color, motion and depth,” said Reaves.

Today, Reaves continues to study photography and the brain, but she “humbly” keeps to the first two seconds. She studies how humans react to images we see in the media, such as the photoshopped female body. She looks at the ethics of the digital age. She researches how we view science images in the media.

In short, her work transcends the journalism realm and falls squarely into “interdisciplinary.”

UW professors honored with NAE nominations

By Julie Spitzer The Daily Cardinal

Conducting great research and making exceptional advancements in the field of engineering has earned two UW-Madison professors recognition by membership into an elite institution known as the National Academy of Engineering. Raymond J. Fonck and Thomas M. Jahns were announced as two of the 67 newly nominated members to the 2015 Class of the NAE, a profound professional distinction and high honor in the field.

The NAE specifically honors engineers whose contributions in research, practice or education have exceeded expectations. For Fonck, the academy noted his developments in fusion plasma spectroscopy and diagnostics and his work in leading the U.S. fusion program into the burning plasma era, while they celebrated Jahns’ advancements of permanent magnet machines and power electronics with drives for transportation and industrial application.

Fonck, a Badger alumnus, joined the Department of Engineering Physics in 1989 as a professor. Through his career here he has impacted both research at the university and in the community, he began the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment, which utilizes fusion research with the ultimate goal of creating an environmentally friendly energy source.

“Over the years, [I’ve done] mainly experimental research in the high temperature plasma sci-

ence,” said Fonck.

“Most of the matter, over 99 percent of the matter in the universe, is in the plasma state and we need the plasma state for thermonuclear fusion energy,” said Fonck. “Our goal is to create an energy source using fusion energy.

“Besides the research, I’ve been very involved with the national politics on fusion and that’s probably what the NAE reflected on as much as my research,” Fonck said.

As for his work in the community, he chaired the National Research Council study on whether the U.S. should get involved in a research study, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, which involves seven national entities and represents over half of the world’s population.

He also started the United States Burning Plasma Organization, the U.S.’s research arm for ITER, for which he took a year and a half leave from UW-Madison to work for the federal government as an associate director for the program.

“Assuming the U.S. stays committed to fusion energy development, I’d be delighted to continue. We’ve got great students.

Students are really excited to get involved in this kind of work.

They see it as a hopeful thing to do for mankind,” said Fonck.

This isn’t Fonck’s first encounter with the NAE either.

For six years, he was a member on the Board on Physics and Astronomy for the NAE where he provided scientific advice to

the government.

Jahns, the second nominee, continues to contribute greatly to the department of electrical and computer engineering as well as conducting research through the Wisconsin Energy Institute, while also serving as the co-director of the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium.

His studies focus on developing permanent magnet machines that are used in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles. Jahns’s advancements have made him a pioneer in emerging alternative energy technologies, especially in dynamic grid systems.

After completing his studies at MIT, he worked at the General Electric corporate and development center in upstate New York, getting his feet wet in the industry side before joining the research half of power electronics at UW-Madison in 1998.

“Power electronics is what’s referred to as an embedded technology. In other words, not many people really know what it is. It’s becoming increasingly important for a whole range of applications,” Jahns said.

Power electronics are especially important in hybrid vehicles, which require them to operate their specialized machines, according to Jahns.

As for permanent magnets, Jahns has been working with them for years. Early on, not much was known about such magnets, however, as time progressed, so did the technology

and, in 1998, a breakthrough of sorts occurred in the development of hybrid and electric vehicles; the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight. These permanent magnet machines can be made into small and efficient batteries that successfully work in vehicles from small cars to large vehicles, such as earth moving equipment and trains.

“I’m a big believer that more of our transportation is going to be electrified,” Jahns said. “Its going to be influenced in indirect ways by electricity ... What’s less well known is that electricity is being introduced in ships and aircrafts.”

Jahns is further involved with “integration of renewable energy into the grid” as power electronics plays a crucial role in the building of grid systems for things like solar panels.

“Batteries’ cells produce a low voltage known as DC, direct current, whereas our electric system is built around AC, alternating current. In order to make that conversion from the raw form of the power that comes from a solar cell or from batteries or fuel cells, it has to get processed and converted into a form that can be connected to the utility system. Power electronics plays a critical role [in this organization],” said Jahns.

Not only has Jahns’ work help make such advancements, he is also co-director of WEMPEC, a partnership between industry and academia which is approaching its 35th anniversary. WEMPEC teams up with

85 to 90 companies to help link them to research as well as students, as UW-Madison is one of the only of its type with a program on power electronics with an emphasis electric machines.

“Its a win-win-win all around. We’re able to help our students find top-notch jobs, we’re able to do new research ourselves, so that’s exciting for us as faculty members, but then we help the companies we work for, both in terms of the research supply as well as supplying them with their future workforce,” said Jahns.

He has also been active in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,, a large international organization where he was the president of the Power Electronics Society and served on the board of directors.

Jahns, after spending half his career in industry and the other half in academia, utilizes his experience to guide the 70 or so graduate students in the department.

“I’m very grateful that over the course of my career that I’ve worked with some really excellent people every step along the way, starting from the time working at GE,” said Jahns. “Since coming here to the university I feel very fortunate, working with such a world class group of faculty colleagues as well as really bright students who are all very dedicated to accomplishing some of the things that we’re working on here.”

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Moonshine highlights UW diversity

By Denzel Taylor The Daily Cardinal

UW-Madison got to experience a community celebration in the Jamaican tradition called Moonshine, thanks to professor Chris Walker. For the past seven years, students have shared a piece of themselves in response to the world around them. This year, with a full moon simulated onto the stage backdrop, students offered the same powerful energy.

Before suspense could sweep through the space, drums rolled over and surrounded the audience in a fit of passionate rhythm.

The percussionists Mandjou Mara, an expert of traditional and contemporary Guinea, West African Music, and Juan Martinez prepared an atmosphere for the African Dance Classes to stomp onto the stage. The first piece comprised of sixteen dancers following the beat onto the stage in two lines. With each performer dancing gleefully, the audience began a journey to Guinea. Then, as the drums rushed them out, we moved to the Caribbean Islands as performers of an African Caribbean masquerade group took the stage.

Professor Walker explained that we were exposed to movements that show us 22 steps of “Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Barbados and Guyana.” In reflection of black culture during the month of February, Moonshine was given a strong opening with the African and Caribbean dance pieces.

“I come from a space where we really believe in the African contribution that is very much an important part of the North American cultural quilt,” Walker shared, and he went on to say that the dancers are presenting, “[the] black experience through performance”.

The drums continued their

rhythmic flurry, and we received a surprise performance from Walker himself and special guests Ali Sylvester, Keil Alibocas and Najja Codrington of the KowTeff African Dance Company. Walker was covered in silver feathers when he entered, and if that were not striking enough, Alibocas and Codrington entered from the sides of the space on stilts.

Alibocas and Codrington embodied the Jumbie spiritual creatures of Caribbean folklore.

These creatures are said to be able to bridge the gap between the land of the living and the dead. From this legend, we received our story on the stage. Walker articulated as one of an old man who wants to know, “how close can I get with the ancestors,” through these giants, the Jumbies.

With the atmosphere fully set, the dancers exited, and the room became dark. The silhouette of our next performer centered on the stage. Riley Faison featured an excerpt of his Masters of Fine Arts thesis performance of “Mambo Mouth” by John Leguizamo.

Faison selected Angel Garcia as his feature character, a Latino man arrested for domestic abuse against his cheating wife. The sighing signaled that the audience responded with an identical sympathy for the character as in last week’s production. Fasion used the reaction to fuel his performance further, and filled the theatre with his voice without the need of a microphone. He deserved the applause bestowed.

Again, we were presented with a monologue, with more hardto-swallow depth. When the silhouette was revealed, we knew our performer to be Zhalarina Sanders, a First Wave scholar of the fifth cohort. But the charac-

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Keil Alibocas, Chris Walker and Najja Codrington perform as part of Moonshine last Friday. ter, a sickly-toned black woman, had already made a disturbing entrance in the dark, repeating the word “abortion” several times.

Shivering from the way Sanders’ body cringed and hunched every time she repeated the word was expected. The story of a mother who commits abortion so as to not give her husband another victim to abuse was not easy to swallow. We all held our breath, until she said the line, “24 years of unclaimed babies,” and our lungs seemed to drop in unison.

Next was the Touring Ensemble, a group of First Wave scholars who have auditioned to form a traveling performance group. This year, the Touring Ensemble includes juniors Melana Bass and Sean Medlin and sophomores Joseph Verge, Deshawn McKinney and Eric Newble Jr. These individuals presented a joint work that forced the audience to face the issue of violence without justice against black men in the U.S. and asked us to think deeper about the frivolously-used concept of “safe space”.

The presentation began with Bass, who brought the full impact

of a strong black woman. She used her brother as an example of her fear for his life, because of the violence he’s likely to face. The other four followed Bass’ piece with three different presentations. They first spoke about the pressures minority students experience as a part of UW-Madison. They lifted tipped over chairs to illustrate their supposed “equal” welcome to the school as other students. The chairs were then rearranged for a final presentation that challenged the concept of safe space. Similar to the previous piece, they posed the questions: “Who is safe space really for?” and “What does it really mean?”

“Safe space has to come from us and them, for us and them,” Newble Jr. said during the performance.

James Gavins, another First Wave scholar of the second cohort, was the fifth performer and changed the tone of the show, returning our attention to dance. He electrified the space with expertly controlled joint-ticks, waves and isolated robotic movement. After Gavins, Taylor Scott, of the First Wave’s

fifth cohort, lead The BellHops in a smooth jazz/doo-wop performance, followed by rapper Michael Penn II, known as CRASHprez, who popped hard with his rhymes of survival against the odds.

CRASHprez called everyone to their feet and turned Moonshine into a lively rap concert. He exited with the crowd in mid-chant, allowing singer/rapper Myriha Burton, of the Fourth Cohort of First Wave, to take full advantage of the energy for a jazz and hip-hop session.

McKinney’s voice then rang from the top of the theatre. He used recent success of black performers in pop culture to bring to our attention the violence that is still present. He wants us to stop ignoring the facts, and understand our individual duty to end violence. All the performers joined McKinney for his final words then bowed in gratitude of the audience.

Moonshine was a success for its way of exposing a variety cultural traditions to the campus. Just as those in Jamaica who gather in celebration, UW-Madison students had the same demonstration of passionate artistry.

BØRNS talks inspiration behind Candy EP in interview

By Owen Desai The Daily Cardinal

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BØRNS, the stage name for Garrett Borns, will take the stage Wednesday at High Noon Saloon on East Washington Avenue.

This Wednesday, MisterWives will perform at the High Noon Saloon with openers BØRNS and Handsome Ghost. Most well known for their hit “Reflections,” MisterWives has sold out the upcoming show in Madison. Last Friday I had the pleasure to chat with the talented Garrett Borns, better known as BØRNS. The interview was really enlightening and he came across as a very genuine musician.

Garrett Borns hails from the state of Michigan, bringing with him his ethereal voice, talented guitar skills and alternative pop style. At the age of 23, he was very honored to be partnered with MisterWives on their Our Own House tour.

Madison will be the sixth stop on their tour and Garrett’s first time performing here.

“It’s really cool. They’re super cool. It should be pretty fun to share an audience with them,” Garrett states in regards to performing with MisterWives and Handsome Ghost.

For being in his early 20s and going on a pretty big tour around the United States, Garrett has been receiving a lot of recognition.

“It’s really cool. They’re

super cool. It should be pretty fun to share an audience with them,” Garrett states in regards to performing with MisterWives and Handsome Ghost.

For being in his early 20s and going on a pretty big tour around the United States, Garrett has been receiving a lot of recognition.

“It feels fantastic, I recorded this EP with some really good friends of mine and it’s something that I’m really excited to share with the world so it’s cool to see people responding to it in the way that they are. I didn’t do it for a particular audience, you know, I just had fun making it.”

Candy consists of four songs: “Electric Love,” “10,000 Emerald Pools,” “Seeing Stars” and “Past Lives.” But it was a process to get it down to just those.

“I had a lot of songs and a lot of half-written songs,” Borns said. He wanted most of the songs on Candy to have elemental qualities and feelings of electricity, water, stardust and air.

He stated over and over that he wanted this EP to be fun.

I asked Garrett about how he came to the decision to naming his EP Candy.

“Candy is the first lyric in the first song [Electric Love]. And it’s just fun to look at; a little dessert

before the meal, you know the main course before the full LP is out.”

Borns’ favorite part about performing is feeding off the crowd energy because he loves interacting with them, and he gets a different energy from each audience. He doesn’t have a set process when writing his songs; he just lets his words flow out his mouth, writing different bits and pieces at a time.

“A lot of times I’ll just have certain words, or phrases, or melodies. I rarely write a song from start to finish […] and then we sort of put it all together in the studio,” Borns says. “I listen to what people say. I guess you could say I’m a sucker for words.”

When he is writing, he gets a lot of inspiration from other music.

“I listen to a lot of different type of music, a lot of doo-wop 50’s style music,” Borns said. “I like Leslie Gore, who sang, ‘It’s My Party,’ and has another one, ‘You Don’t Own Me.’ Really anything that strikes me. I listen to a lot of old stuff and a lot of new stuff.”

Even five years ago as Garrett was just graduating high school he always knew that he wanted to be touring and performing, and now he is doing just that. Hopefully at some point you will be able to catch up and coming artists like BØRNS living their dream.

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Samantha gottstein Opinion Columnist

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hen I registered for Panhellenic sorority recruitment last summer I did not know the process would lead me to meet 50 girls who would forever change my college experience. You are likely thinking, “Great… another sappy, overpeppy sorority girl article,” but I can assure you this is not the case.

Instead, I would like to bring your attention to something that goes unnoticed within UW-Madison’s Greek recruitment process: the lack of representation from the neighboring Madison Area Technical College community.

The Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council serve as the governing councils for the sororities and fraternities on campus. Each body is autonomous in that it abides by its own bylaws and related constitution. However, both work multilaterally to make our Greek community grow and prosper. I will not get into the technicalities of how the recruitment process, or “rush”, works for each system, but basically the ability to participate comes down to gender if you are a student at MATC: Guys can rush, but girls cannot.

When I first heard of this unequal treatment, I will admit that my feminist alter ego did not take over and do something about the issue. Instead, I formally participated in the rush process as a UW-Madison student and was eager to join one of the 14 chapters on campus. As a second semester freshman, I cannot express how integral being in a house has been in my transition to college. While Greek life is by no means for everyone, it has provided me with an organization that is closely aligned with many of my personal values.

Ultimately, I believe that both the PHA and the IFC should have a united front in interaction with the MATC system: either both girls and guys can rush, or MATC students should be excluded from the process entirely.

A freshman at MATC, Olivia Schachtel, explained some of her problems with not being eligible to join a sorority.

“I think it is at times difficult not being in Greek life,” Schachtel said. “Some people need Greek life to have a social experience, and we [girls] should be allowed to rush because many of us intend on being UW students and hopefully will be, so why not.”

As Olivia said, the social structure Greek life provides can be seen as beneficial to many first-year students. However, Schachtel’s story is also one that epitomizes success outside the Greek life system. She is actively focused on her academ-

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ics and is currently involved in various pursuits to enhance her knowledge in the field of interior architecture. But at the end of the day, I ask, why should PHC deprive MATC students, like Schachtel, with the opportunity to

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participate in a process that produces life-long friends, sisterhood and leadership roles?

Jonathan Nieder—a freshman member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity—is a student at MATC who was allowed to formally participate in IFC recruitment. He described the benefits of being in a fraternity despite not being enrolled at UW–Madison.

“Being able to join the UW Greek community was one of the deciding factors for committing to MATC,” Nieder said. “It has definitely made the transition to college a lot more comfortable and having a group of close friends that I got to know in my first semester was great as well.”

Unfortunately, the UW-Madison Greek community is not alone.

Fellow Big Ten schools, Indiana University and the University of Illinois, do not allow female students at nearby community colleges to participate in Greek life.

With this in mind, I call upon the UW-Madison Panhellenic Association to set an inclusive precedent for others to follow.

Do you agree with Samantha’s view on allowing sororities to recruit at MATC? Send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Reselling your Badger tickets? Keep prices reasonable Marisa Bernstein Opinion Columnist

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love my WisCard. It makes me feel like I live in a monopoly land. “That will be $3.27,” says the cashier at the dining hall as I whimsically

hand them my magical card that somehow holds the key to the imaginary land full of money and sugar and access to the SERF. My WisCard doesn’t care what my GPA is, and my WisCard is always there when I need a work-

out or an omelet.

As college students, we are all broke. Personally, I’m in the business of unemployment, and business has never been better. Meaning I have never been less employed, and therefore have never had less

of a steady income. Fortunately, as a freshman, I don’t often have to stray away from my quaint WisCard to make purchases.

One occasion when I do have to spend a pretty penny without my WisCard is when purchasing season tickets to Badger athletics. I understand the season ticket price is almost always a smoking deal, but spending all that money at once leaves an empty feeling in my stomach (literally and figuratively). Despite the financial commitment, it is worth becoming part of one of the most invigorating attractions of this university.

Last summer, I was one of the lucky students who was able to purchase season tickets for Badger football. I attended a majority of the games and even attempted to purchase an extra ticket for the Nebraska game. In order to do so, I had to participate in the Wall Street of this university: The UW Ticket Exchange Facebook group. Set in a scene much like “The Wolf of Wall Street,” this group moves at NASCAR speeds and if you ain’t first, you’re last. A student will announce they have a ticket for sale, and within seconds the ticket will be gone.

I did not have much luck in purchasing a ticket. It was rare that I saw the Facebook posts before the disappointing “sold” comment appeared underneath them, and the few people I did message were not responsive. But on one fateful afternoon, I logged onto Facebook at nearly the exact moment that a student had offered her Nebraska ticket for sale. I messaged her immediately, and inquired how much she was asking for the coveted Nebraska football ticket. She replied “$75.”

I am going to use the following paragraph to write a message to this particular seller. Hey, man.

Friend. Tease. We could play this cute little game where you tell me

that this ticket is actually worth $75 to you, but we both know that you truly want to get rid of it. You’ve got midterms to study for and other events to attend. I understand this extra money you attempt to squeeze out of an innocent buyer may be the key to your night out at Tutto’s, and trust me, I love a nice steaming bowl of carbs just as much as the next guy. But the bottom line is, you and I both know very well that you did not pay $75 for that ticket.

Here’s my point: We are all Badgers here. We are all, for the most part, on fairly tight budgets, but we all want to support Badger athletics when we are able. I do not think it is justified for a seller to jackup the price of a ticket, simply for his or her own personal gain. The student ticket prices are originally set at affordable levels so students are able to experience the university’s athletic atmosphere without much sacrifice, and this becomes moot when ticket resales are $20 to $30, if not more, above face value.

I have previously sold a couple of tickets to both football and hockey games. I generally negotiate a fair price with the buyer that is no more than five dollars above or below face value.

Wisconsin athletics are so powerful because they unite the student body. We are lucky to attend a university where the athletic culture is unmatched.

Nothing beats the post-score cheers and chants, or the feeling of school-wide unity after a win.

It is wrong to deteriorate these experiences, or worse, make them less accessible to other students simply because of personal greed.

So, Badger to Badger, play fair.

Do you agree or disagree with Marisa’s view on selling Badger tickets? Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Fact of the day The United States and Canada share the longest undefended border in the world.

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS 1 Baby food 4 Baseball team less one 9 Oversentimental 14 “Flags of ___ Fathers” 15 Coen brothers film of 1996 16 Blender setting 17 Check text for errors 19 Accessorize, maybe 20 California ballplayer 21 Bathtub swirl 23 Storklike bird 24 Give an OK 26 “Fiddler on the Roof” character 28 American dogwood 31 A fairy may leave money for it 33 Ballplayer’s headgear 36 About to snap 37 Three-note chord 39 Baby-feeding finale 41 Alpine echo 44 “... golden days of ___” 45 “Bottoms up!”

47 Dashing style 49 ___ and improved 50 Carpenter’s fastener 52 Coated with hoarfrost 54 Downspout site 56 Desk chair feature 60 Ends’ counterparts 62 Things you can connect 65 Easily taken advantage of

66 Common still-life subject 68 Manipulated, say 70 Strong suit 71 Fertile soil ingredient 72 Unit of work 73 Blender variable 74 Prognosticators 75 “Does she or doesn’t she?” item DOWN 1 “Where’s ___?” (George Segal film) 2 Indefinable somethings 3 Cattle zappers 4 Football side 5 One thing to travel by 6 Lemur’s hangout 7 “Bejabbers!”

8 Hot winter drink 9 Hydrotherapy facility 10 Acoustic 11 Trial period 12 “Scope” prefix, in subs 13 Cravings 18 Filled cookie 22 “The best is ___ to come” 25 Well-ordered 27 “Death Be ___ Proud” 29 “Me, me, me” attitude 30 Winona of “Edward Scissorhands”

32 “The Tortoise and the ___” 33 Semi professionals use them 34 Arctic seabirds 35 Particular course of action 38 Glistening grass stuff 40 Leech or tapeworm, e.g.

42 Wallach of film 43 Beats it 46 “My Name Is Asher ___” 48 State of novelty 51 Commit matrimony 53 “Buenos ___!”

55 Second-year coeds 57 Gripped on a bench 58 Partner of each 59 It may be just outside your window 60 “Tip” or “rip” finish 61 Bit of medicine for the eye 63 “I can’t deny that” 64 Unspecific amount 67 Kennedy or Danson 69 Certainly not a purebred

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Men’s Basketball

Numbers say Jackson the choice at PG

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin the daily cardinal

When Traevon Jackson went down early in the second half against Rutgers, Wisconsin looked lost. They were outscored by 17 in the half while blowing a 12-point halftime lead, prompting rumors they may not be the top dog in the conference.

In the 12 games since sophomore Bronson Koenig took over the starting spot, however, the Badgers have continued to look like a Big Ten favorite. During that span they have gone 11-1 and are now a single win away from clinching an outright conference title.

Koenig’s play during that stretch has turned some heads — averaging 11.3 points, 2.5 assists and just 1.0 (!) turnover in 36.3 minutes per game.

His numbers as a starter in Big Ten play are eerily similar to Jackson’s: 12.3 points, 3 assists and 1.7 turnovers in 31 minutes per game. So similar, in fact, that many are arguing that Koenig should retain the starting role even with Jackson fully healthy.

Those numbers don’t tell the whole story though.

The Wisconsin offense has been phenomenally efficient this season, even without their veteran point guard. They’re scoring 122.1 points per 100 possessions in conference games, the most efficient Big Ten offense in over 10 years. You’d think that Koenig, an offensively minded player, would drive that efficiency more than Jackson, right? Wrong.

With Jackson starting at point guard, the Badgers were scoring a surreal 124.2 points per 100 possessions, while the Koenigled Badgers score “just” 121.3.

of the game. And when it comes to defense, there’s really no contest.

Koenig simply hasn’t shown the ability to corral athletic guards, and the Big Ten has quite a few.

In Big Ten play with Jackson, the Badgers gave up just 98.2 points per 100 possessions.

During Koenig’s tenure as a starter, however, they’ve given up 104.1.

Against Maryland last Tuesday, they really could have used an extra perimeter defender, as Dez Wells lit them up to the tune of 26 points, four assists and zero turnovers.

With Josh Gasser stuck on freshman sensation Melo Trimble for most of the night, Bo Ryan knew he couldn’t assign Koenig to Wells, so the Terrapin star got a lot of isolation looks against bigger, slower defenders. Jackson likely would have had the speed and agility to keep up with a guy like Wells, and not having him availwil gibb/cardinal file photo able hurt the Badgers.

There is strong evidence suggesting that Traevon Jackson’s return will improve the Badgers, Koenig has been stellar for and it all stems from his ability to drive to the basket and athleticism on defense.

Wisconsin with Jackson sidelined, but he’s most effective That’s still wonderful efficiency, uninspiring numbers from deep, field. That’s astonishingly low when he’s on the second team. but it delegitimizes the argument he’s shooting a cool 52.2% from for a player as wellThe Badger bench used that Koenig provides a better 2-point range this year. regarded on offense to be a big advantage, offensive spark.

Koenig has a hard time get- as Koenig. averaging 10 points per By most standard metrics (and ting by defenders, and it shows: That being said, game. Since Koenig was the eye-test), Koenig is the more he shoots just 43.4% on 2-point- most of those games thrust into a starting UW average scoring per efficient offensive player. He’s got ers, lowest of any of the Badgers have come since role, however, they score 100 the edge in career field-goal per- who play meaningful minutes. Jackson’s injury. only 5.33. possessions centage (42.5% to 40.4%), 3-point This implies Koenig either Without a legitimate For the Badgers to with Jackson percentage (36.9% to 33.3%) and works more as shooter in the backup at point guard have any type of sucfree-throw percentage (83.3% mid-range, a shot selection rou- (with all due respect cess in the NCAA to 78.1%). So why is the Badger tinely shown to be inefficient, or to Zak Showalter), Tournament, they need UW FG rate offense posting better numbers is simply worse at getting to the Koenig has played Jackson back, whether with Jackson, with Jackson starting? rim than Jackson. more minutes than or not he’s starting. He a 2.5 increase It starts with getting to the The sophomore has also anyone else. It is, quite provides solid defense, hoop. For three years now, Jackson struggled offensively against frankly, a miracle his great athleticism and has showcased his athleticism better teams. In games against numbers are where they are veteran leadership. With him by blowing past defenders and teams ranked in the Top 50 of given his immense usage. on the court, this team could be attacking the basket. Despite his BPI, Koenig shot 32.1% from the Of course, offense is only half unstoppable in March Madness.

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Women’s Basketball

Badgers hold some promise entering Big Ten Tournament

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin the daily cardinal

Wisconsin (5-13 Big Ten, 9-19 overall) opens up the Big Ten Tournament Tuesday at 7:20 p.m. against the struggling Purdue Boilermakers (3-15, 10-19).

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The Badgers closed out the season with a much-needed win Sunday, finishing what was a strong second half of conference play.

In the final nine games of the Big Ten season, the Badgers

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#9 Michigan St. #8 Michigan #13 Penn St.

#1 Maryland

#12 Indiana #5 Rutgers

#4 Northwestern

#10 Illinois #7 Nebraska #14 Purdue

#2 Iowa

#11 Wisconsin #6 Minnesota #3 Ohio St.

upped their scoring average from 61.9 points per game to 72.8.

If they had put up that many points all season, they would be the 38th highest-scoring offense in the nation.

They’ve struggled recently on

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the other side of the ball, though, giving up 77.6 points per game.

Over a full season, that would rank among the bottom five in the country.

That being said, they stepped up their defense in the season finale against Penn State, conceding just 56 points and holding their opponent to 37.5 percent from the field.

The Boilermakers, on the other hand, average a meager 62.9 points per game, a mark the Badger defense will try to match: They’re 8-2 when they hold their opponents to 63 points or fewer.

Purdue comes into the game on a 10-game losing streak and have lost 14 of 15 overall.

They haven’t scored more than 60 points in a regulation game since early January, and the Badgers will need to capitalize on that weakness.

Despite Wisconsin’s poor record, they have played some good basketball recently. Their last three losses have been against Iowa, Northwestern and Maryland, ranked No. 14, No. 24 and No. 5 in the country, respectively. In those games, they’ve fallen by an average margin of just six points.

The last time these two teams squared off, the Badgers walked away with a 65-56 win in spite of a poor shooting night from three-point range. They made just two of their 10 attempts from deep, including 1-of-4 from junior guard Nicole Bauman.

However, the Badgers do lead the Big Ten in shooting from beyond the arc, making 37.4 percent of their threes. If they can find open looks from beyond the arc and keep Purdue’s leading scorer, redshirt senior forward Whitney Bays (15.3 points per game), in check, they have a good shot at advancing to the next round.

Should they win, the Badgers will face the rival Minnesota Golden Gophers (11-7, 22-8) in the second round. From there, assuming a very favorable Wednesday and Thursday for UW, it will be Ohio State.

The Maryland Terrapins (180, 27-2) are the heavy favorites to win the tournament, but Iowa (14-4, 24-6) may look to play spoiler in the championship. They came within five points of a victory when the two met back in February and could be out for revenge.