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Dane County schools brace for continued funding cuts

By Negassi Tesfamichael THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Department of Public Instruction announced Monday that 98 private schools in Wisconsin applied to be a part of the state’s voucher school system.

Three of the 98 schools that applied are located in Dane County.

But the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program, also known as School Choice, is one of multiple educational reforms supported in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget that has drawn criticism from public education supporters.

School Choice is a program that allows parents to use public funding to send their children to a private school instead of having to

attend a local public school. “[Giving] public funding to private schools represents continued attacks on public education,” Madison school board member Thomas “TJ” Mertz said.

School Choice has primarily focused on public school systems in Milwaukee, where it started in 1990, and Racine, which adopted the program in 2011. Milwaukee runs the nation’s oldest urban School Choice program.

“You can look at the programs in Milwaukee and Racine, and they have not shrunk. They have only grown,” Mertz said.

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Ald. Scott Resnick (right) and Mayor Paul Soglin (left) debated at the Concourse Hotel Wednesday.

Madison mayoral hopefuls Soglin, Resnick debate affordable housing

By Dana Kampa THE DAILY CARDINAL

Incumbent Paul Soglin and Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, stressed their progressive values in the fourth Madison mayoral debate since the primary election. Wednesday’s event was hosted by the Democratic Party of Dane County.

The panel opened by asking what the candidates would do to address Madison’s lack of affordable housing.

“No one in this city has done more to create affordable housing than I have,” Soglin said.

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The U.S. Department of Education added UW-Madison to a list of more than 100 schools under investigation for potential Title IX violations regarding the handling of sexual assault on campus, according to a Wednesday Washington Post article.

“Sexual assault is unacceptable on our campus and we acknowledge the impact of these crimes on our students,” UW-Madison said in a statement to the Washington Post.

“This is an important issue and the

university has worked diligently to ensure its policies comply with federal law and regulations.”

The investigation began Feb. 24, according to the News 3 website. Investigations can result from an individual complaint filed with the government or when the government decides to look into a school’s compliance record on its own accord.

Being investigated does not allege or confirm any Title IX violations at UW-Madison.

By Bri Maas Camille Guérin-Gonzales, a former UW-Madison professor who focused her teaching and research on Chicano and Latino history and social movements, passed away at age 70 Feb. 24 after more than a year-long battle with cancer.

Colleague Karma Chávez said Guérin-Gonzales’ love for Chicano culture and her passions for history and labor brought the two co-workers together.

“She was very passionate about getting other Chicanos and Latinos opportunities to succeed in this institution,”

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The panel then asked about the rise in homelessness and specifically about support for a comprehensive, accessible day center. The city currently has a Salvation Army temporary nighttime shelter for single homeless women, a center for homeless families called The Road Home and emergency shelter called Porchlight, but not many viable daytime options.

Resnick said the city needs a collaborative approach to working with philanthropic partners

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The current mayor said he added housing options to double the vacancy rate in Madison, which previously had the lowest in the country. He added that a recently implemented five-year commitment to creating new, affordable housing covers the homeless and working families.

Resnick questioned how to pay for affordable housing in the long term and suggested incentivising developers. However, Soglin said the city cannot impose those requirements on a private building without providing financial support, which the city already does.

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Chávez said. “She was always someone who really brought scholarship together with a mind for social justice.”

In 2003, Guérin-Gonzales became the director of what is now the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies program. She spearheaded its redesign, helping to recruit new faculty and increase the number of students in the program by 250 percent.

UW-Madison student Sergio Gonzalez said GuérinGonzales’ courses were the perfect way to finish an undergraduate career. He added that the professor

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helped convince him to return to school for a graduate program, where she served as his advisor until her retirement.

“She pushed really strong to solidify that program and give students of color a voice on campus, to show that their history and their culture was preserved and celebrated here,” Gonzalez said. “I know that the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies program on campus right now is what it is because of the work that she did in the last 10 years.”

Chávez said Guérin-

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State agencies argue for budgetary tax cuts, transportation financing

By Will Hoverman and Jason Snyder THE DAILY CARDINAL

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The Office of Student Financial Aid Director Susan Fischer addresses ASM Student Council.

Need-based aid may decrease under proposed state budget UW-Madison’s director of financial aid said Wednesday need-based aid could be in trouble if the biennial budget passes.

Susan Fischer, the Office of Student Financial Aid director, thanked the council for its advocacy on behalf of student aid with the recent announcement of the proposed budget cuts.

Constituent involvement is what really makes a difference, Fischer said, and added it is crucial to continually connect with legislators and remind them how important financial aid is to UW System students.

Fischer also described the potential effects of the cuts on the Office of Student Financial Aid in particular.

She said the office is known for a history of frugality, and added that her employees have already per-

formed “heroically” in times when the budget was lean.

However, due to the size of the proposed cuts, Fischer hypothesized there would have to be further reductions in the office.

Finance Committee Chair Madison Laning asked Fischer how the possible tuition increase, along with the office’s hypothetical reductions, could impact overall financial aid offered to students.

Fischer said the result could be more an increase in need, but not aid, and that students would potentially have to rely on financial aid from their respective colleges and departments.

Getting funds for need-based aid, Fischer added, is typically hard to do.

“People do not want to give money to need-based aid, they want to give money to the smartest kid, regardless of need,” Fischer said.

If the proposed cuts become a reality, Fischer said her office would not be able to run at the same level of service as she, as well as all UW System students, would like.

After hearing Fischer’s thoughts on the budget, the council briefly discussed future outreach methods.

ASM Vice Chair Derek Field introduced his plan to contact chambers of commerce throughout the state, hoping to possibly get responses about the value of a UW-Madison degree and concern over the cuts.

Additionally, Chair Genevieve Carter discussed the successful call-in day held Monday, where students contacted their legislators and expressed concern over the budget cuts.

Carter said there was a “fantastic” turnout at the event, and there are hopes of holding another soon.

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and Dane County executives to find realistic solutions.

Soglin said deinstitutionalization at the state and federal levels has contributed to the issue. He said he supports developing more community pride and creating a policy where no one is discharged from a prison or treatment center without having housing accommodations.

When panelist Ald. Shiva Bider-Sielaff, District 5, pushed for a firm answer on the day center, Soglin added he would not force taxpayers to pay double to support the center when he considers it a Dane County issue. Resnick offered support for the center and said the city can no longer make excuses.

“If we don’t treat our partners as true partners, we’re never going to see the kind of collaboration that we dream of,” Resnick said.

The candidates continued to debate racial disparity, infrastructure development and crime prevention, especially in youth.

The general election will be held April 7.

Gonzales was known nationally as a mentor for Chicano and Latino studies students and for contributing to the success of

many cultural organizations across the country.

“It’s not just a loss for UW-Madison,” Chávez said.

“It’s really a loss in a much broader sense.”

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Camille Guérin-Gonzales died Feb. 24, leaving a legacy of positive changes to UW-Madison’s Chican@ and Latin@ Studies program.

State agency representatives argued for transportation and tax revenue portions of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget Wednesday.

Mark Gottlieb, secretary of the Department of Transportation, defended the $1.3 billion in bonds to finance roads in front of the state’s Joint Committee on Finance.

He admitted roads will continue to deteriorate under Walker’s proposed plan, but said if legislators reduce the federal government bonds, the deterioration will happen even faster and lead to higher costs for taxpayers in the future.

State Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, pointed out that Walker’s budget calls for borrowing more money while loans for buying state land for conservation are frozen.

“I just don’t know how we can continue to justify bonding,” Taylor said. “What are we supposed to say to people who ask us why we continue to borrow and

put this problem off for our kids to deal with?”

The Wisconsin Department of Revenue also gave testimony, addressing key issues in balancing economic reforms.

Richard Chandler, the revenue department secretary, spoke on behalf of the agency. He said the proposed budget would allow property taxes to drop to the point of saving an average homeowner $500 by December 2016.

In addition to previous measures adopted to reconcile Wisconsin’s tax code with the federal code, Chandler recommended further considerations for tax simplification.

The most controversial proposal, however, was property assessment reform. This reform would relieve municipalities of their current duty and replace it with a county-based system. The main purpose of doing so is to allow equalization of property assessments to create a more fair and balanced sample.

Chandler said the reform would reduce government size and make it more efficient, effective and accountable.

Madison police investigate Allied Drive bus stop armed robbery A 53-year-old Madison man was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday morning while waiting at a bus stop on Allied Drive, according to a city of Madison Police Department incident report.

The robbery took place at 11:04 a.m. near the intersection of Allied Drive and Lovell Lane on Madison’s west side. The assailant stole the victim’s cell phone and wallet, according to the report.

MPD Officer-in-Charge Jamar Gary described the sus-

pect in a phone interview as a black male in his 20s, 5 feet 7 inches tall, wearing a black and white checkered jacket, saggy jeans, a gray skullcap and black shoes.

Gary said students have no reason to be on high alert at campus bus stops based on this isolated incident.

MPD brought in a police dog in an attempt to track the perpetrator’s scent, but was not able to locate the suspect.

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instruction for the Verona Area School District.

“Without additional aid, we will need to find other ways to cover those costs from our existing budget,” Franke said. “This will force us to make cuts in programming and staff.”

Evers also criticized the budget’s school accountability proposal. While the superintendent said he believes transparency and public trust are important, he maintains proposed practices such as grading schools’ performances do not achieve that goal.

“The analogy from student grading to the school report cards just doesn’t work,” Evers said.

State Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, co-chair of the Joint Finance committee, supports the school accountability plan as one that gives access to educational opportunities. “[School accountability] will help make sure Wisconsin school-aged children have access to the best educational opportunities for them-whether that is in a district run school, a public charter school, or a private school participating in a school choice program ,” Darling said in a statement after Senate Republicans unveiled the school accountability measure in January.

impacts may be felt around the state, communications director for Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District Perry Hibner said the program will have little impact on his district because only three of the 98 schools who registered for the program Monday are in Dane County.

Beyond School Choice, other aspects of the budget have elicited concerns from school officials.

State Superintendent Tony Evers testified before the Joint Committee on Finance Tuesday, saying the recent budget’s expected cuts to K-12 education make it “unrealistic to expect schools to continue to provide the same quality of service with the same or less funding while costs continue to rise.”

In 2013, the state Legislature created new per pupil aid levels for Wisconsin schools, which Evers said has not been sustained adequately because the budget proposes to lower them.

“In fact, there is a cut to schools in the first year with the elimination of the per pupil categorical aid,” Evers said.

Per pupil spending levels pose major challenges for school districts, according to Ann Franke, director of curriculum and

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Catch Kid hopes to make the crowd smile

By Abbie Ruckdashel The Daily Cardinal

Remember when Aaron Carter shared the stage with Hilary Duff ? Thirteen years later, Aaron is back and ready to bring the party to Madison; only instead of Hilary Duff, a local trio gets to make an appearance. Catch Kid is a band based here in Madison made up of front man Nate Rusch, guitarist Jeremy Van Mill and drummer Luke Osiecki. If that name sounds familiar it’s because they were rocking the WSUM stage at Freakfest this past November.

I had the pleasure of catching up with these super awesome guys to see what their plans include for 2015—of course covering the upcoming show with Aaron Carter Thursday.

The real question is: Who are these guys?

When I asked the guys how they would describe their sound, the response was not what I anticipated; none of them really had a solid description. The words “indie,” “pop,” “alternative,” “chill” and “rock” were thrown around. After spending several hours listening to their music on SoundCloud I think I’ve come up with the words to describe them. They’re like a super chilled-out version of Evanescence. Nate has a killer range and power-vocal sound much like Amy Lee as well as pretty awesome piano skills. Jeremy can shred much like Ben Moody used to, and Luke’s drumming rivals that of Will Hunt’s. Evanescence are known for their hard, emotionally straining rock songs; Catch Kid have captured the emotion, rock beats and crazy guitar solos but somehow chilled it out in a way that somehow resembles

Coldplay or U2. Their unique sound is hard to explain, but do yourself a favor and listen to their songs at soundcloud.com/catchkid.

My personal favorites are one of their newest songs called “By My Side” and the song they shot a music video for at the UW-Madison Arboretum called “Land Mines.”

How did they form? At first it was just Nate and Luke who met in Madison.

Nate had won All-Campus Idol and was rewarded 100 free burritos from Chipotle.

You would think he would be sick of Chipotle after that, but Nate assured me he still enjoys Chipotle to this day.

Jeremy joined the duo after Nate reached out to him on Facebook. The trio currently doesn’t have a bass player, but if the opportunity presented itself they would happily add one. An interesting fact is that Luke is the only member of the band who can read sheet music. Nate and Jeremy both taught themselves how to play by ear, and they still continue to write parts by ear only.

Catch Kid also produces their own tracks and shows, which is pretty neat if you ask me.

The question I was dying to know the answer to was what inspires their music. This question was mostly answered

by Nate. The band informed me he writes most of the lyrics and melodies and they fill in around it. Nate said he writes from previous experiences mostly. A lot of Catch Kid’s songs are about break ups and life lessons learned. Their song “Jump” is especially neat because it talks about taking a leap of faith which is sometimes what everyone needs.

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Catch Kid, a local band, will open for Aaron Carter Thursday night at the Majestic. good,” Nate said, “We like to have a good time and we hope our audience does too. There isn’t a feeling better than connecting with our audience on a deep level. We hope to give that to them.” I also asked what they are going to do after they become rich and famous and win many Grammys. They decided they would quit their day jobs then buy a T-shirt cannon that they could attach to the neck of Jeremy’s guitar so they could give their audience some free merch. I thought that was pretty awesome. It shows just how much they love their fans.

The final questions I bothered them with were about what we could expect out of them during the rest of the year. They mentioned they were working on a bunch of new music. Maybe we will be lucky enough to get to hear this new music at the Majestic March 5. If you can’t make it that day, never fear: Catch Kid will be at Memorial Union Friday, June 26 as well. They look forward to seeing you all at a future show! I’ll be there, will you?

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Snufkin relies on training wheels in first EP ALBUM REVIEW

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By Michael Frett The daily cardinal

Where does the modern musician stake her claim?

Sometimes, the kickoff is swift and explosive. Other times, it’s as humble as a “dirt poor but enthused 20-year-old from Madison” and a collection of self-made indie spunk tinged with a psychedelic swirl.

Snufkin’s first EP, “Snufkin EP,” follows those humble roots with its few songs recorded in a basement with the DIY sensibility that so many rock bands ascribe to.

Musically, Snufkin seems to pull from psychedelia’s idolized version of the Beatles. “Pell”

rumbles with an enthusiastic recreation of the acid trip of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” while “You Don’t Need Me Now” has the kind of R&B groove that Please Please Me’s marathon recording was addicted to. Basslines follow gentle pop leads, and those ever-familiar organs hum their Hammond tunes. The drums even crack with Ringo simplicity. Similarly, don’t be surprised to find yourself singing “It’s getting better all the time” during the downstrokes of “Summer.”

“Snufkin EP” isn’t just a rehashing of Beatles clones, though. While it’ll remind you of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour hits and deep cuts alike, there’s a little more to it. It’s more like Snufkin is channeling those influences with exaltation, and then slowly lets that give way, either into guitar rock destruction (“Peace of Mind”) or pop-rock exuberance (“Carefree”).

Further pulling away is

“About a Homeless Man,” which trades in the clean pop structures for a lonely crawl through the mind of a man torn between physical homelessness and something more internal.

It’s stripped bare of the poprock from before, culminating in a more Radiohead-bound psychedelic rumination.

Snufkin’s debut EP sees a man embodying the stylings of influences either intentional or implicit, channeling a Liverpoolian sound and tempered to the DIY standards of Madison. For a debut EP, it’s very good—we can see where Snufkin is coming from and where Snufkin is going. With any luck, though, we’ll see if the artist can set aside these training wheels and take a stronger stand with his own voice.

When these influences step aside—deconstructed with a guitar crash or stripped to bare meditation—something really special is born.

Grade: B+

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ast week, “Parks and Recreation” capped off a glorious seven-season run with about as much pure joy and happiness as you can fit into an hour of network television. Storylines wrapped, Pawnee changed (once again) for the better and Mark Brendanawicz was once again nowhere to be found. In an era where TV comedies increasingly focus on the consequences of our screwups, “Parks and Recreation” coupled this with a love of the consequences of our good decisions, too. And in a world where many comedies center around the little engine that couldn’t, Leslie Knope and company were the little engine that did three times and had waffles after. From its inception as a sort of spin-off of “The Office,” “Parks and Recreation” immediately became one of the best sitcoms on TV (I even liked season one). It will be sorely missed.

For me, however, the end of “Parks and Recreation” signaled the end of something a little bit bigger. When I started at UW-Madison four years ago, NBC’s Thursday night lineup (starting at seven) was “Community,” “Parks and Recreation,” “The Office” and, finally, “30 Rock” at nine. That’s about as good as it gets. Each one of those shows had its own style of comedy, from the quirky pop culture awareness of “Community” to the zippy joke-slinging of “30 Rock.” If you wanted to have an argument about

the best exclusively 2000s sitcoms, each one of them would have a legitimate case for the top spot.

Now, “30 Rock,” “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation” are off the air, and “Community” has been relegated to Yahoo Screen, which nobody even knew was a thing until it picked up “Community”— so expectations are not quite as high as they were last year. Do you know what NBC airs on Thursday nights now? “The Blacklist” and their knockoff of “The Americans.” On a related note, can you name any comedy that now currently airs on NBC? I cannot. I did not have any idea what “The Mysteries of Laura” or “The Night Shift” were before I looked them up for this column (which was kind of the point).

It’s actually become kind of depressing to watch NBC shift further and further away from its great comedic legacy year after year.

Not that the other networks have been fantastic over that span, but at least they’re trying. NBC’s last great hyped comedy was “The Michael J. Fox Show,” which was mostly about a guy that has Parkinson’s, a distinctly unfunny malady. NBC seems to have put all of its eggs in the drama basket. For a cable network like AMC, that’s fine. But the networks have both the broad viewership and cash base to at least dare to be better. When they trot out the same tired tropes and retreads year after year, it gets a little harder to see how bright the past was; NBC’s departed Thursday’s are just one example. Thank god for HBO. Do you really like “The Mysteries of Laura?” Tell Jake off at smasal@wisc.edu.

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Injured Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose informs the press of his upcoming groudbreaking surgery.

Derrick Rose to have both knees removed

By Liam Hutchinson The daily cardinal

Following yet another major knee injury, Chicago Bulls star guard Derrick Rose has elected to undergo an experimental procedure in which both of his knees will be completely removed.

This announcement comes after reports of another tear to his already-shredded right meniscus.

Rose’s official statement reads, “After speaking with my medical staff, my teammates, my family and Jesus, I’ve reached the conclusion that my knees simply can’t take the beating of the NBA. Rather than struggling through more rehabilitation and further injury, we’ve decided that it’s best to have both of my knees removed.”

“No knees, no knee injuries.”

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The experimental procedure—known as femoral-tibial fusion—is scheduled to take place March 12 in Poltava, Ukraine under the supervision of Dr. Dmitry Ekblad, the only known surgeon to have successfully completed the procedure on humans. The eight-month recovery process puts Rose on pace to return near the start of the 2015-’16 NBA season.

His choice to undergo such a major surgery has been met with rampant media speculation about how removal of the crucial joints will affect his play. Many are concerned with how this will affect his agility and height, seeing as the procedure leaves patients 2-3 inches shorter on account of having no knees whatsoever. Comments have also been made about a potential decline in his overall speed, suggesting the idea that he would have to adopt the infa-

mous “Forrest Gump with leg braces” running style.

Rose responded definitively to these doubts.

“I’m really just sick of missing games because of knee injuries. That’s the bottom line— no knees, no knee injuries. I believe I’ll be able to succeed as long as I’m able to get on the court,” Rose said. “When you’re the best guard in the league, you don’t need knees.”

When asked what he would do if complications from the surgery disallowed him to return to basketball or even walk, Rose said he was determined to continue in professional sports, namely swimming or wheelchair table tennis.

With his newly acquired hindsight, and sight altogether, 27-year-old Madisonian Harrison Montag is relatively satisfied with his decision to keep his right eyelids open for the duration of a sneeze Monday.

The sneeze, which was allegedly not extreme in magnitude, was forceful enough to project Montag’s eye all the way out of its socket, but lacked the strength to detach it from the optic nerve. His eyeball remains fully intact and now hangs, facing downward, approximately three inches below the socket, which is now void of matter other than the stretched optic nerve.

“If I flick my head around I can achieve well over 180 degrees of vision. Not as good as an owl, but still pretty rad I say.”

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“I had the sniffles all day and felt a big one coming on.

I had always heard it was impossible to keep your eyes open during a sneeze so I gave it a shot,” Montag said. “I failed on the first try, but was successful with just one eye on one of the smaller aftershocks.

It still stings like a bitch, but it’s really provided me with a new perspective.”

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members completed the feat, some even doing so with both eyes, but Montag’s case is the first in recorded medical history. All conventional biological knowledge suggests that Montag’s newly acquired condition was both unattainable and highly dangerous.

Despite unrelenting warnings from his physician and the global medical community, Montag has elected to continue in this state.

“I’ll be honest, my depth perception is way off,” Montag confessed to giddy and grossed out Cardinal reporters. “But I’m learning how to make the most of this. If I flick my head around I can achieve well over 180 degrees of vision. Not as good as an owl, but still pretty rad I say.”

At press time, sources close to Montag reported that he is growing agitated by the several hundred insects which are now residing inside of his skull.

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It is time to solve our obesity crisis Sergey Fedossov Opinion Columnist

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t is a well-known fact that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. and much of the developed world. Our bodies have not yet evolved to accommodate our new sugar, salt and cholesterol-rich diets, seeing as these things were all but delicacies in the Paleolithic Age. Now, rates of obesityrelated illness are through the roof in both adults and children. It seems no matter how much Americans are told by the government they should go and live healthier lives, obesity won’t go away.

This is enough to leave many people content to fling their arms to the sky and admit that the top-down approach to tackling the issue of obesity has failed and that no amount of regulation will save the slowly fattening American people. I for one believe the system simply has done too little in terms of intervention, and refuse to be cowed into thinking there is nothing the government can do to help.

The familiar pattern of conservatives digging their heels in against the threat to what-

ever “traditional way of life” is at stake repeats itself when it comes to thinking about what could be done against the quiet threat of obesity. Ever since the McGovern Report, agriculture and livestock businesses have fought the idea there is anything wrong with the American diet, citing emotionalist responses against farms and ranches who are simply giving America what it wants— more food.

To what lengths will we as Americans fetishize personal responsibility and try to refer to obese people as lazy?

Time and time again, health professionals and nutritional scientists have been eschewed by the Department of Agriculture for an opinion friendly to their backers in agribusiness. I never really wondered why a bureaucratic agency responsible for looking over the agricultural sector of the economy was also

tasked with coming up with dietary advice and planning for America as well, but when I put some thought into the issue, I discovered I was far from the only one who cocked their head at this quandary.

Even if legislating against the influence of farms and agribusiness that profit from America growing obese would ever happen, it is far from enough to change the issue in the long run. It has to start with how children are socialized and placed into society once they begin leaving the home. School lunches and television do a poor job of showing children what should be put in their bodies. Children form an association between the happy state they’re in from watching children’s shows and the similarly jovial advertisements for fast food, breakfast cereal and other foods packed with fat and high fructose corn syrup, among other processed goods. The issue of unhealthy school lunches can be equally as harmful to children. In lower income areas where school could be the only place guaranteed to serve them food, it might even be more harmful. Since President

Reagan, school budgets for lunches have been axed, and schools have gone to interesting measures to compensate.

Personally, I don’t know how pizza can be defined as a vegetable, or how an MSG-basted, plastic-wrapped school lunch qualifies as a healthy meal for kids, but apparently it’s been good enough to the point where parents now simply accept this as their child’s dietary reality.

School lunches and television do a poor job of showing children what should be put in their bodies.

Before people begin envisioning a horrifying future where vegan communists and the health Gestapo demand everyone eat a rigorous diet of solely potatoes and clutch desperately to their two-liter soda bottles, I want to clear the air on why I feel meaningful reform needs to be made. Health-based legislation should act as a rud-

der to steer America away from health risks associated with poor diets and sedentary lifestyles. I look toward the skyrocketing rates of obesity and wonder where our heroes in law enforcement, the military, firefighting and medicine will come from in the next century. I have concerns as to just how much money could be saved in medical entitlements if we look to our children and put them in environments with decent food.

To what lengths will we as Americans fetishize personal responsibility and try to refer to obese people as lazy?

Unless we remove the stigma associated with wanting a government that can promote a healthier environment for all citizens, children and adults alike, the answer to that question is never.

Sergey is a freshman majoring in economics. What do you think of his arguments? Are policy makers in the nation’s legislature doing enough to rectify the problem of obesity? If not, would you propose any specific solutions? We would like to know what you think. Please send all thoughts and comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

During tough times, lean on those who care about you Marisa Bernstein Opinion Columnist

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o you ever have one of those days where it feels as though all of your mistakes have caught up to you? You know those mornings when you wake up wishing you could take back that stupid thing you did last weekend, or thinking you should call your mom more often or contemplating an attempt to finish that calculus assignment that was due last week? Those mornings where it feels as though you wake up to a

mountain of thoughts all disorderly jumbled inside your head?

About two weeks ago, I had one of those mornings.

Now, if this were a face-toface conversation, I probably would not be quite this honest. If, on said day, you asked me how I was, I would have smiled and replied “I’m good, just gotta get through the day,” because those small talk conversations are generally more about routine than research.

However, because you are reading this by choice, I will speak

fairly candidly with you. I’m sure you’ve had mornings, or even entire days, similar to this as well.

While some things may seem like the end of the world, they may not even cross your mind in a year.

There are many ways to cope with this feeling. I prefer to eat a lot of ice cream and bang on the innocent keyboard of my laptop, because I’ve found that writing heals me in a way nothing else can. And via this medium, I am able to work through my issues without interrupting others. But this is exactly where I find the trouble: my silence and isolation.

But this is where I find the trouble: my silence and isolation.

It is human to hurt. We all feel pain, at times more intensely than others. But as I have gotten older, I have found that it is the times when I hurt the most that I notice the abundance of love around me. I live in an environment where I am sur-

rounded by kind, caring people.

However, every day is a new adventure, and sometimes life does not go according to plan.

It is so easy to get caught up in what is difficult and miss all of the warmth around you.

When I was having a rough time, I shut down. I was immune to the loving smiles from my neighbors, I was less thoughtful, less careful and worst of all, less observant of all the good in my life. My friends told jokes, pulled pranks, watched movies and shared memories while I was too lost in my sadness over things I did not have the power to change.

My point is this: Time moves way too quickly to forget about what a privilege it is to live.

Times get rough. People can be difficult. School can be hard.

Money can be tight. All of this can be difficult to deal with. A system I have adopted is the 24 Hour Rule. If I am ever down about something, I give myself 24 hours to feel upset, and then I figure out how to fix it.

Once you have given yourself the time to let your emotions consume you, it is imperative that you pick yourself back up.

There is too much to be missed, and we have to be ready to accept both the good and the bad as it comes.

So, accept the love around you and allow it to help you through the rough spots. There is simply no point in barricading yourself from the world in the pursuit of protection from hurt or in an attempt at self-recovery. Feeling numb or alone is not better than feeling hurt, and ridding yourself of

the numbness is much more difficult than healing a wound.

Negative feelings are not worth your time. If your best friend finds someone they like better, if the kids across the hall ignore your existence, if your ex-boyfriend treats you like hell, do not carry that with you. There is simply no time in this impermanent, fleeting life we are given to waste on people who do not make us feel loved.

It is so easy to get caught up in what is difficult and miss all of the warmth around you.

Above all else, have perspective. While some things may seem like the end of the world, they may not even cross your mind in a year. So appreciate what is good, and do not dwell on what is bad.

Marisa is a freshman and is currently undecided on her major. What do you think of her perspective? Have you ever had one of those days that she describes? Do you find that, in those deeply troubling times, you escape into a cocoon of loneliness and despair? In your experience, is it beneficial to lean on those that care about you most as a mechanism to break out of your funk? What approach do you take when you are feeling down? We want to know what you think. Please send comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com

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Let’s all just ease off on the hatred for Kentucky Jack Baer baer with me Kentucky basketball makes for an easy villain.

John Calipari looks like a mafia capo. Wildcat fans turn Twitter into a wasteland. The coach the team’s stadium is named after, Adolph Rupp, was the racist antagonist in Glory Road, a movie about the first team with an allblack starting lineup in college basketball history.

Most of all though, people hate the one-and-done system. People hate athletes privileged enough to spurn years of free college and go straight to the NBA. People hate Calipari for pitching to recruits what basically amounts to an NBA prep school that happens to be built on Kentucky’s campus, undermining the “spirit” of college basketball and student-athletes.

That hatred needs to stop.

There is nothing morally wrong with a player holding NBA aspirations planning to play only one season in college. It is merely an evolution of basketball and carries real risk to all parties involved.

We have this image of basketball players sauntering through classes without a care, knowing their GPA won’t eventually come back to haunt them. The refrains were particularly malicious after Aaron Harrison shot a dagger through Wisconsin’s heart, when fans attempted to rationalize a moral superiority over the one-and-done-system. This was despite Kentucky’s basketball team having a higher Academic Progress Rate score than Wisconsin’s in the 2013-’14 season.

It comes down to fans viewing a player as an athlete, not a person.

They don’t see the player’s struggles or background. They don’t see the stupidity of the NCAA rules imposed on the player’s life. They just see him as a guy in a jersey who can dunk all over someone’s face.

If I came up to you during your freshman year and said “Hey sparky, I’ll give you a $3 million contract in your dream job, you just have to drop out of college,” what would you choose? If your

title from page 8 at the helm, the Gophers haven’t been able to replicate that success this season. Even though its record is underwhelming, Minnesota has remained competitive in nearly all of its games, with seven of its 10 losses in Big Ten play coming by six points or less.

“I think that Minnesota team is every bit as good as the one they had last year,” UW head coach Bo Ryan said. “Sometimes the ball goes in here and doesn’t go in there. This game can be crazy at times.”

The Gophers are coming off a dramatic 96-90 overtime victory against Michigan State last Thursday, which snapped a 15-game losing streak in East Lansing that dated back to 1997.

Now, after having a week to prepare for the Badgers, they’ll look to prevent their rival from coming into Minneapolis and capturing the outright Big Ten title. For that to

easy answer is “stay in school,” congratulations, you likely have wealthy parents.

Let’s also talk about how Calipari is apparently cheating the system by bringing in a legion of five-star recruits. In case you didn’t know, it is very, very hard to convince a collective group of high school stars that your system is the best for them, especially when they wouldn’t get the playing time they would if they signed with a less stacked program.

If it’s so easy to sell a bunch of elite recruits on playing for one year, then move onto the NBA, why can’t any other coaches do it?

Oh wait, some other schools kind of did it last year, with Kansas relying on Andrew Wiggins, Joel Embiid and Wayne Selden Jr. while Duke ran everything through Jabari Parker. Neither team made it to the Sweet Sixteen. Meanwhile, Kentucky did, well… you know.

Sure, Calipari has a history of NCAA violations, but he’s been clean since reaching Lexington (as far as we know). If something comes out of the woodwork, I’m sure it’s not going to be too hard for us all to pass judgement.

Recruiting five-stars at this scale is a skill and succeeding year after year (obvious Robert Morris exception, but with a Nerlens Noel injury caveat) with only freshmen is impressive.

It seemed like this year would be different for Kentucky, relying instead on junior Willie CauleyStein and sophomores like the Harrison twins and Dakari Johnson. Then Karl-Anthony Towns turned out to be a Top 3 NBA Draft prospect while Devin Booker turned out to be the best shooter in the SEC and we all get to have this fun conversation again.

Staying in school is a difficult choice, and good players choosing to stay in school is great for college basketball and usually elates a fanbase that will get to root for an NBA-level player for another year.

Players who choose to move on and begin making money their family could need should not be treated as greedy or with contempt, because given that choice, a lot of people would make the same decision in their shoes. happen, Minnesota will almost certainly need leading scorer Andre Hollins to play much better than he did in Madison a couple weeks ago.

The senior guard scored just two points on 1-of-8 shooting in the Gophers’ 63-53 loss. Minnesota can’t afford another performance that dismal from Hollins, especially if senior forward Frank Kaminsky continues his torrid pace.

Kaminsky dropped 21 points on 9-of-13 shooting in the previous meeting between these two teams, and is coming off a sensational showing against Michigan State in which he scored a season-high 31 points to help bolster his already strong case for National Player of the Year.

With a hostile environment and hungry rival waiting for them Thursday night, the Badgers know they can ill afford a slip-up with seeding for both the Big Ten and NCAA tournament still hanging in the balance.

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This weekend’s series against Michigan State will be Joel Rumpel’s last road series of his career.

Season nears end for Badgers

By Devin Lowe the daily cardinal

Wisconsin has five more games to determine if this season will end with a bang or a whimper.

The Badgers (2-12-4 Big Ten, 4-22-4 overall) will face Michigan State (8-6-2, 14-14-2) in their last away series of the year this weekend. After that, they’ll play a finale in front of their home crowd at the Kohl Center against Ohio State.

When they enter the postseason, they’ll have a chance to make the NCAA tournament by stringing together three wins in the Big Ten Tournament. However, UW hasn’t strung together more than two wins in a row all season or beaten either Michigan or Minnesota, the current Top 2 Big Ten teams, in regulation.

“We’re just focusing on these next five games, trying to play our best hockey over that period of time,” sophomore forward Grant Besse said.

Wisconsin heads to East Lansing having suffered a sweep at the hands of the Michigan Wolverines last weekend. The Badgers were shut out Friday and fell 5-2 Saturday thanks in part to a hat trick from Michigan’s J.T. Compher.

The last time the teams met, they split the series. Wisconsin won Friday’s game by a 2-1 margin and was shut out Saturday in a game that left head coach Mike Eaves scratching his head.

“They won more race, more battles,” Eaves said after that game. “Our defensive coverage broke down the first period. They scored a couple goals. Give kudos to them because they came back tonight with a fire in their belly and they took it to us.”

The Badgers’ last two series will be played for pride more than anything. They sit dead last in the Big Ten standings and would have to win all four of their remaining

regular season games to leapfrog Ohio State, and even that wouldn’t nab them a bye in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.

Michigan State sits in the middle of the pack, just two points behind Minnesota in the standings. The Spartans faced the Gophers last weekend and came away with a 4-2 road win on Saturday.

However trying this season has been, the Badgers are still looking forward. For the senior class, the milestones are fewer and fewer as the postseason approaches.

“You’re always thinking about how many games you have left here,” senior goaltender Joel Rumpel said. “It’s kind of sad. But we’re still looking forward to the Big Ten Tournament and trying to make some noise there.”

Wisconsin and Michigan State face off at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Munn Ice Arena in East Lansing, Mich.

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UW squares away with UND in Final Face-Off

By Lorin Cox The Daily Cardinal

Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson may or may not believe in déjà vu, but as his team advances to the WCHA Final Face-Off for the fifth straight season, it may be time to start believing. For the third consecutive year, the Badgers will face North Dakota in the semifinals.

Johnson will certainly be hoping for a better result this time around. Wisconsin lost the two previous matchups in this round of the tournament by one-goal margins, as they failed to surpass 35 shots on goal in either contest.

That shouldn’t be too much of an issue for the 2014-’15 Badgers, who averaged 40 shots on goal per game over their four matchups with North Dakota this season. A barrage of pucks sent to the net haven’t always resulted in an abundance of goals for UW, though, and they face one of the nation’s best goaltenders this weekend.

North Dakota junior Shelby Amsley-Benzie, named the WCHA Outstanding Student-

Athlete of the Year, leads the conference in save percentage at 95.4 percent, and she is the only goaltender to be named a Top-Ten finalist for the the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award this year.

Her stellar netminding is a big reason for UND’s success.

Amsley-Benzie allowed only 32 goals this season, the fewest among regular starters in the WCHA. She was backed up by the conference’s third highestscoring offense, and this combination will have the Badgers on upset alert.

North Dakota has won six games in a row and have only lost twice in 2015 so far. During this winning streak, they’re averaging nearly four goals and 37 shots on net per game while allowing only three total goals.

UND faces a Wisconsin team on a tear of their own. The Badgers have allowed only nine goals over their last 11 games while averaging over three goals a game themselves. This collision of two hot teams should provide an excellent playoff matchup that will test both squads.

“Some of our upperclassmen have been through it for a couple of years,” Johnson said.

“I’m sure they will prepare themselves as we get closer to Saturday to come out and play a real solid hockey game.”

Only one Badger scored against North Dakota in either of the previous two postseason matchups. Back in 2013, thenfreshman Erika Sowchuk gave Wisconsin some late-game hope with four minutes left to bring the team within one, but it was too-little too-late, as the Badgers fell short 2-1.

If Wisconsin can reverse its fortunes of previous seasons, they will face the winner of Minnesota-Bemidji State Sunday. Minnesota is heavily favored as they dominated the WCHA all season, but the Beavers did upset the Gophers early in the season.

If the Badgers do play Minnesota, it would be déjà vu again as these two teams have faced each other in two of the last three Final Face-Offs and could very well meet there again in the NCAA tournament this year.

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Still filling in for the injured Traevon Jackson, Bronson Koenig had a career-high 17 points in his last game against Minnesota.

Outright Big Ten title for the taking in Minnesota road trip

By Zach Rastall the daily cardinal

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WCHA Rookie of the Year Annie Pankowski enters her first Face-Off as the Badgers’ leading scorer.

One trophy down, two to go.

That’s at least the mindset of the No. 6 Wisconsin Badgers, who fulfilled one of their preseason goals by capturing a share of the Big Ten regular-season title on Senior Day last Sunday, the program’s first conference crown in seven years.

The players celebrated the accomplishment immediately after their win over Michigan State Sunday afternoon, but with the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments quickly approaching, they now have their sights set on the road ahead.

“Anyone on the team, not just the four seniors, we all had the same goal of winning the Big Ten Championship,” redshirt senior guard Josh Gasser said. “We were hungry and worked really hard at it. It’s definitely fulfilling, but we have a few more goals.”

That road starts with a trip to Minneapolis, where the Badgers (14-2 Big Ten, 26-3 overall) will square off against rival Minnesota (6-10, 17-12) Thursday night at 6 p.m.

There’s still plenty at stake for Wisconsin, who could clinch the outright Big Ten title and the No. 1 seed in next week’s conference tournament with a win over the Gophers.

In addition, the Badgers will be looking for a measure of redemption after getting embarrassed by their rival during last season’s trip to Williams Arena.

Wisconsin visited The Barn last year in late January having dropped two straight after a school-record 16-0 start to the season. Things didn’t get any better for the Badgers in that game, as Minnesota cruised to a convincing 81-68 victory and handed UW its third consecutive loss.

The defeat was one of the low points of a stretch that saw Wisconsin lose five of six, and the players haven’t forgotten about it.

“We played in Minnesota last year. They kicked our butt,” Gasser said. “We’ve got to go down there and get some revenge.”

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Pankowski wins WCHA Rookie of the Year, others make All-WCHA team

By Bobby Ehrlich the daily cardinal

In the midst of preparations for a huge weekend of hockey in North Dakota, several Badgers were honored by the WCHA for their performances this season.

Freshman phenom Annie Pankowski was named the WCHA Rookie of the Year, the third Badger to be chosen for this award. Pankowski was a dynamic offensive threat throughout the campaign, notching 18 goals and 21 assists. Her points per game

average of 1.11 was second in the country. In addition to the Rookie of the Year award, she was named to the All-WCHA Second Team and, obviously, the All-WCHA Rookie Team.

Senior captain Blayre Turnbull was the only Badger named to the All-WCHA First Team, an honor that is certainly well deserved. After a late offensive surge, Turnbull’s current mark of 15 goals puts her just behind Pankowski for second on the team. She also

added 18 assists for an impressive 33 points, all while being the leader of the third best team in the country.

Redshirt senior forward Brittany Ammerman, Turnbull’s linemate, was selected for the All-WCHA Second Team with Pankowski. Ammerman sits at third on the team in points with 34, thanks to 13 goals and a whopping 23 assists.

Three Badgers were chosen for the All-WCHA Third Team: senior forward Karley Sylvester,

junior defenseman Courtney Burke and sophomore goalie Ann-Renée Desbiens.

Sylvester, who plays on the same line as Turnbull and Ammerman, led the squad in assists with 24 and plus/minus rating, with a +30 mark. Burke, arguably the team’s best defenseman, leads all Badger defenders in assists with 18 and points with 22. Desbiens has been stellar in goal all season, earning 13 shutouts, good for second best in the nation, and a 1.14 goals against

average, which is third best in the country.

Freshman forward Emily Clark was named to the AllRookie team with her linemate Pankowski. In her first collegiate year, she lit the lamp 11 times, while accumulating 14 assists.

She is fifth on the team with 25 total points.

The now decorated Badgers travel to North Dakota for the WCHA Final Face-Off, which begins with a tilt against North Dakota Saturday at 5 p.m.