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Rally for the police draws opposition

‘Justice for Tony’ protests police violence and disparity

By Irene Burski THE DAILY CARDINAL

Protesters’ emotional and powerful demonstration Wednesday, which began in Worthington Park and ended in Maple Bluff, underscored what they saw as systematic failures of the justice system against the backdrop of Tony Robinson’s death last week.

Protesters peacefully marched for approximately two miles, halting at the Department of Corrections. They later blocked traffic as they proceeded down and across East Washington Avenue on their way to the Governor’s Mansion, chanting Robinson’s name intermittently with a background of drums.

But the protest, in addition to honoring Robinson, drove a con-

versation about racial disparities apparent in all walks of life, from police violence to income inequality to existing flawed legislation, all disproportionately impacting minority communities.

“If we don’t fight for the the least of us, the most marginalized, the most disenfranchised, the people whose backs are pushed to the wall, then what are we fighting for?” said Young, Gifted and Black Coalition leader Brandi Grayson. “We are here today to connect the dots, and we have a lot of dots to connect.”

Each destination and the covered distance of the demonstration made the march about the “bigger picture,” according to State Rep. David Bowen, D-Milwaukee. He said linked institutional systems

By Michael Frett THE DAILY CARDINAL

Gathering at the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Memorial Wednesday, members of the Madison community met to show appreciation for the Madison Police Department following the death of Tony Robinson last week.

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Protesters of all ages march from the Department of Corrections to the Governor’s Mansion, calling for justice. are failing to ensure minority communities have access to opportunity, correlating with a perpetuation of disparity.

“The only service that [people of color] get is when they are accused of committing crimes and being a burden to society,” Bowen said. “The next step is to continue to make sure that [Gov. Scott Walker] will actually do something

on this issue — not just paying lip service … He needs to focus on his own state.”

Clashes with law enforcement did not occur, with police officers keeping a respectful distance.

“We tried to get a plan together to make sure they had safe movement through the city on the

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President Barack Obama unveiled Tuesday what he called the Student Aid Bill of Rights, a memorandum that explains a vision for higher education he said would help students manage the cost of college.

“Michelle and I have gone through this ourselves,” Obama said in a national teleconference

Wednesday. “We wouldn’t be here, where were are, if it weren’t for the fact that we got grants, loans and work study.”

The memo outlines broad goals for handling student debt presented in four key points, including the right to a quality education and the right to an affordable payment plan.

In a portion of the bill called “America’s College Promise,”

Obama lays out a plan to make community college free for all Americans, allowing students to transfer to four-year institutions with half of their requirements already completed.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan added in the teleconference that community colleges are not only useful to recent high school graduates, but also to those

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individuals who are looking to switch careers and retool their skillsets for jobs in fields such as information technology.

“Education is not an expense, it’s the best investment we can make, and we all need to work to make college more affordable,” Duncan said.

“If we care about increasing

“[We wanted to] grow the support and show the support for the Madison Police Department,” said Brandon, an event organizer who declined to give a last name. “It was time to stand up and just let them know that there are people who stand behind them and what they do.”

Crowd members gathered with last Friday’s shooting still on their minds, recognizing the impressions it left on the community.

“It’s unfortunate what happened. I have a 19-year old daughter myself … and that could have been [her],” said Mansfield Neblett, a black man who came to Madison from France 14 years

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“We’re a city that’s hurting. I don’t want an officer-involved shooting to be the narrative that defines us.”

Wisconsin Republicans find beef with new dietary recommendations

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Wisconsin Republicans sent a letter to two federal agencies Monday voicing their frustration with the relegated role of beef in the agencies’ new recommendations to accompany the food pyramid.

The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture release new dietary guidelines for Americans every five years and recently published the “Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee” earlier this spring.

The letter to the agencies, written by U.S. Reps. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., and Reid Ribble, R-Wis., described lean meats as a “staple of the American diet.”

“The new food pyramid downplays, to the point of making it merely a footnote, the role of lean

meats and processed meats in its recommendations for a healthy and balanced diet,” Duffy and Ribble said in the letter.

In a separate press release, titled “Where’s the beef?,” Ribble spoke out against the dietary recommendation as potentially dangerous to the entire farming industry.

“Politically or ideologicallymotivated changes not only negatively affects families, but can also throw whole industries into chaos, irresponsibly harming the farmers and processors who feed America,” Ribble said in the release.

Duffy, who called the report “misguided,” accused the Obama administration of “overstepping their bounds,” and voiced concern for American consumers.

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Madison Police Department Officer Carren Cororan and canine Slim attend the police support rally, where a small counterprotest forms chanting Tony Robinson’s name to rally attendees.

police from page 1 ago. “But at the same time … I’d rather live in Madison than any other city. So I have to support Madison police.”

Toward the end of the demonstration, a counterprotest formed, chanting Robinson’s name and addressing the crowd.

“What are you fellow officers going to do?” said 26-year resident Shakia Turner to the rally. “I have

boys and I’m afraid for their lives.”

As a chant of Robinson’s name resumed, the audience of police rally-goers turned their backs to the counterprotesters and drowned out the chants with their singing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” before ending the demonstration.

Though Wednesday’s rally coincided with a separate march organized in honor of Robinson by the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, the rally’s organizers

insist they were unaware of the other event when they scheduled their rally supporting the police.

According to Madison Police Chief Mike Koval, who arrived at the police rally late after spending time at the nearby march, these recent events have created issues of trust in a wounded city.

“We’re a city that’s hurting,” Koval said. “I don’t want an officer-involved shooting to be the narrative that defines us.”

Faculty proposes changes to code of conduct

By Jake Skubish and Ellie Herman THE DAILY CARDINAL

Faculty from the Division of Student Life proposed changes to how UW-Madison addresses sexual assault to Associated Students of Madison members Wednesday.

The faculty met with ASM Coordinating Council to explain the addition of a subsection to the student code of conduct.

The university is proposing numerous changes to Chapter 17, which states UW-Madison’s protocol for both academic and nonacademic misconduct. Students brought up three missing categories of Chapter 17 to the faculty, including dating violence, domestic violence and sexual assault.

Currently, respondents can appeal decisions made by the misconduct panel, but complainants cannot. The Division of Student Life proposed a change so both the complainant and respondent have equal rights when challenging or appealing to the misconduct panel.

The proposed addition to Chapter 17 would also ensure that both the complainant and respondent have the choice to

protests from page 1 city streets,” said Madison Police Department Officer Lester Moore.

“The school-to-prison pipeline is important [and] something we need to address. I think this is history in the making.”

However, outside the gates of the Governor’s Mansion, the context of fear and pain surrounding

discuss the offense with either the misconduct panel or to keep it between the police department.

Additionally, both students and Division of Student Life faculty propose keeping at least one student on the misconduct panel, as other universities in the UW System want to remove student participation altogether, ASM Chair Gen Carter said.

“Currently the sexual misconduct panels are made up of three people, and one of them is a student,” Carter said. “I think what our administration has been advocating for, and certainly what students have been advocating for, is to keep it so that there would be a student on these misconduct panels.”

The Division of Student Life representatives recognized the potential backlash to some of

these potential changes.

“There’s been consistency with one person in their sanctioning. When we go to the panels, even though [the students] are trained, they are average people from our campus community, and they could make decisions all over the board,” Associate Dean of Students Tonya Schmidt said.

Council members raised potential issues of privacy, as students involved in sexual misconduct cases may worry about details of the incident spreading if students sit on the panel.

However, Schmidt said the required annual training for panel members could negate this problem.

Passing these changes is a challenge at UW-Madison because Wisconsin’s student conduct code is backed by state law.

“Being codified by law adds an element of gravitas to it, but it also makes changing it an act of the legislature,” Associate Dean of Students Kevin Helmkamp said. “So, changes that are proposed have a complex process to go through.”

Robinson’s death at the hands of policing efforts was too prevalent to ignore.

“He did not deserve how he died,” said Mariah Stevens, who was close to Robinson, considering him family. “He meant so much to us. We all grew up on Willy Street.

And just because of what happened to Tony, we don’t even feel safe.”

Others echoed Stevens’ words,

emphasizing how this type of violence is not a new narrative.

“People are tired. People want their government to work with them,” said Maria Hamilton, the mother of the late Dontre Hamilton, who was killed by Milwaukee police in 2014. “We keep asking, and now it’s time to show up and get the job done. Because they’re not going to do it.”

“Changes that are proposed have a complex process to go through.”

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A state Senate committee heard public testimony Wednesday on a proposed bill to eliminate the 48-hour waiting period for handgun purchases in the state.

Wisconsin is one of only eight states that requires background checks to be followed by a 48-hour waiting period before the purchaser can possess the new handgun. Purchases of long guns, like shotguns and rifles, do not currently require any waiting period after a background check approval.

Opponents of the bill lauded the state’s 1976 law which requires a 48-hour wait as a crucial “cooling off” period to prevent impulsive acts of violence.

State Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, condemned the bill for “making the process quicker without addressing gun violence,” while speaking at the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety hearing.

Co-author of the bill and former police officer state Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, belittled the 48-hour law as an antiquated remnant of a time when background checks were not instantaneous. He said databases can now check for arrests, mental health record and restraining orders in an average of four hours. He compared the extra wait to a burdensome time tax.

“There is no correlation between waiting periods and a reduction in homicide and suicide rates,” Wanggaard said, echoing statements made by the National Rifle Association.

State Rep. Mary Czaja, R-Irma, also a co-author of the bill, touted the elimination of the waiting period as a way to empower women experiencing domestic abuse.

“Allow women an avenue of self defense without a time tax,” Czaja said.

—Lucas Sczygelski

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rowers can report difficulties and communicate both with the government and government loan contractors. This system would be integrated with a loan database that would allow borrowers to look at the balances of their loans and make decisions about which payment plans work for them.

“Higher education remains one of the best investments you can make in your future, but also one of the best investments you can make in your country’s future,” Obama said.

social mobility … the only way I know how to do that is to have a great education.”

Obama also proposed a “pay-as-you-earn” plan for student loans, which caps loan payments to 10 percent of the borrower’s income after graduation. For those who enter careers in the public sector, these loans may be forgiven entirely after several years.

The plan includes an online complaint system where bor-

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ike most everything else, television is all about relationships. From “The Sopranos” to “Community,” all great shows use personal relationships as a fulcrum to lift up the rest of the plot around them.

However, when shows (especially dramas) forgot about the world outside of a marriage or a friendship, when things turn inward just a little bit too much, your show starts to suck.

In a vacuum, there isn’t that much writers can do with relationships that hasn’t already been done or isn’t an inherent part of the human experience.

You can write a marriage well, and you can make it seem real, but nobody can transform it well enough that it’s all anybody wants to see. That, in a nutshell, is what ruins “House of Cards.”

Now, just to warn you, I haven’t really liked anything “House of Cards” has thrown at me this side of the season two premiere. I thought the second season was too easy, President Walker couldn’t even manage a Jamba Juice and certainly wasn’t a convincing president.

The third season suffered from an opposite problem; it just seemed too hard, and much of that had to do with the changing dynamics in Frank and Claire Underwood’s marriage.

Instead of moving the two strong characters we knew from previous seasons into the Oval Office, we get two weak, distilled versions of them. All of the sudden, Frank is indecisive and ineffectual; he can’t even keep control of his own party, much less the stereotypical Russian president he’s set up against. Yet, Claire is now a puppet to this weak husband’s will, a completely hollowed out woman that can’t even be pitied.

This is the innate tragedy of the new season. Claire Underwood was once a platform for the exploration of volatile social issues; there was the abortion arc in season one, and the frank discussion of sexual assault both at the university and military levels was easily one of the show’s most brilliant moments.

Now, with her as the First Lady, the writers had the chance to use Claire as an even more powerful advocate for change.

She would never have as much individual power as she does as First Lady, and the anticipation for season three was such that the show had never been

so popular. Instead, she fails in spectacular fashion as a UN ambassador, and we get Jackie Sharp using women’s rights as a weapon against the bland Heather Dunbar. It’s confusing that a show normally so vocal about current American issues would use something as important as women’s rights in such a crass manner.

Yet, at its heart, this is a show about Frank Underwood, and most of the problems stem from him. Frank was a shark; maybe not the biggest fish in the pond, but definitely the most dangerous. Well, this shark lost all of his teeth. Frank grows a heart and loses the ability to instill fear, and the two things that made him fun were his complete lack of morals and his ability to instill fear.

So…. not great. This is also the season where we see Frank Underwood cry, which is about as awkward as last year’s Meachum threesome. By the end of the season, he makes the aforementioned President Walker look like Emperor Palpatine. I thought “House of Cards” was boring last year because it was too easy on the Underwoods. Well, it’s even worse when it’s too hard.

Are you mad because you still love “House of Cards?” Let Jake know at smasal@wisc.edu.

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By Michael Frett the daily cardinal

While scouring the internet for background on Pearson Sound’s self-titled debut, something stuck out to me.

Reviewers had an interesting habit of dividing the record into two categories: club music and experimental music. It was as though one couldn’t be the other; “Glass Eye” was clearly the minimalist grind for the club, while “Headless’s” warbled echo swirls with the kind of antipathy that wouldn’t be caught dead on a dancefloor.

That notion makes sense in a way–the previously mentioned “Headless” isn’t exactly

a song for vigorous movin’ or groovin’. It’s mellow and dissonantly melodic, with a nonexistent beat that only bursts out of silence for a second or so. Yet, to draw a line down the middle of Pearson Sound betrays what Pearson Sound is: a remolding of techno’s traditional drabble that folds and warps those static beats into something more.

Take “Russet,” a minimalist breakdown that stumbles across a changing beat warped by the subtle calls of synthesizers. There’s the devoted reliance on electronic percussion rumbling through it, but it’s muted and twisted into something a little more engaging. It’s steady, but playfully changes shape as it continues. Or take “Rubber Tree,” a rattling fit of electronics that fades in and out as its club beat crackles against an assembly line before stretching into a finale of warbled drones.

Where Pearson Sound goes wrong is simply in its monochromatic length. Songs that pulsate beyond the five-minute mark

don’t really carry the dynamics warranting that timeframe. 40 hypnotic minutes go past, and little’s changed since Pearson Sound kicked things off with “Asphalt Sparkle.” Yet, to a trained ear, the dissonant calls scattered throughout might be just gripping enough to keep you spellbound.

There’s moments the album would rather warm up than breakdown, like opener “Asphalt Sparkle.” There’s also moments where electronica’s perceived club adherence is lost altogether, like “Headless.” But Pearson Sound largely morphs club tropes into a minimalist frolic, one that changes shape with every mumbled and rumbled beat. To semantically divide it with titles like “club music” and “experimental” is a joke. Through sometimes too homogenous distortion and tempered beats, Pearson Sound proves that those untouchable club beats can easily be reconciled with that exploration so many writers tried to hide it from.

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The first question you might have about a memoir from Sonic Youth frontwoman/bass guitarist Kim Gordon is: “What is she gonna say about ex-husband Thurston Moore?” Gordon anticipated this.

Fittingly, “Girl in a Band” starts in media res, with a chapter called “The End.” Gordon takes us through the last days of Sonic Youth, limning but not dwelling on the marital agony between her and Moore. She is not uncritical of Moore, especially when she describes the band’s last concert in Brazil. There, Moore bounds onstage, shoulder-slapping and beaming while Gordon keeps her distance behind.“I found that gesture so phony, so childish, such a fantasy,” Gordon writes.

She admits to being angry, and her wounds show in the prose. But rather than descend into biliousness, Gordon leavens her irritation with candid observations about the history of a marriage, the vicissitudes of festival touring, the retroactive continuity instigated by a divorce, Courtney Love, picking out a final Sonic Youth setlist and herself. This goes for the rest of the memoir as well, stuffed as it is with friends, specters, apparitions and after images.There is something so innately sound and composed about “Girl in a Band.” It’s as if all the elements going into it (reminiscences, experiences, observations, inspirations) had been accreting into the shape of this memoir all Gordon’s life. Or, it accreted in the gravitational pull of Gordon and Moore’s separation, written as a means of survival. However you look at it—as a long-mulled project or the product of personal calamity—it is a consummate, textured work and in a way important.

From the start, Gordon acknowledges the impact Sonic Youth has had on successive generations, be they musicians or critics or consumers. Much of “Girl in a Band” posits Gordon balancing between what people believe she is—a cool, stylish, imposing, reticent artist— and who she believes she is—just a girl in a band, whose father, mother and brother were all remarkable

developers.“After thirty years of playing in a band,” Gordon writes, “it sounds sort of stupid to say, ‘I’m not a musician.’ But for most of my life I’ve never seen myself as one and I never formally trained as one.” Indeed, Gordon does not credit the development of her persona to being in Sonic Youth; the persona developed beforehand, from her relationship with her older brother Keller Gordon, who (like any older brother) was quick to push his younger sibling’s buttons.

Nonetheless, Gordon loves him.

Loving him made the emergence of his schizophrenia and his eventual institutionalization heartbreaking.

Indeed, Gordon voices the grief she feels for the family that nurtured her, having lost both her parents to debilitating conditions and only seeing her brother once or twice a year.

As with any good memoir, there are things you’ll learn. You may learn (as this reviewer learned) that Gordon dated Danny Elfman in high school, during his big student politics and surrealist film phase. You may learn her father taught sociology at UCLA. You may learn what Kurt Cobain was like in Gordon’s presence. There are also lovely pockets of humor in “Girl in a Band.” For instance: sometime when her daughter Coco was a baby, Gordon and Moore (along with Michael Stipe, naturally) went to Lawrence, Kansas to visit prominent Beat writer William S. Burroughs, in his knife-laden home; they brought Coco, who was crying, to Burroughs’ eminent delight. “’Oohhh—she likes me,’” Gordon remembers Burroughs saying. “My guess is he wasn’t somebody who spent much time around kids,” Gordon adds.

I said earlier that “Girl in a Band” is (in a way) important. What makes “Girl in a Band” important, besides its subject and author, is its timeliness. Throughout the book, Gordon draws on her experiences (growing up through the ’50s, ’60s, being on the music scene since 1981) to analyze herself and her situation in this day and age. She peppers the book with sagacity. At one point, she asks in all seriousness: “Did the 1990s ever exist?” Gordon would like to know. And she wants us to prove it.

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A recent study from the American Lung Cancer Association reveals 87 percent of lung cancer patients are smokers and, consequently, also badasses.

Stage three lung cancer patient Craig Davidson, 62, dons this title proudly.

“I have no regrets,” Davidson proclaimed. “I was the coolest kid in my grade when I started smoking at 16, and all the radiation and chemotherapy treatments in the world wouldn’t make me take that back.”

Davidson recognizes that peo-

ple’s attitudes toward smoking have changed in recent decades.

“People just don’t look at me with the same admiration anymore,” Davidson said. “Smoking is taboo now, and it’s just not enough to warrant respect anymore. But still, no regrets.”

Davidson says he wishes smoking was illegal so he could relive his rebellious days of high school.

“Sometimes I hand roll cigarettes so it looks like I’m smoking a joint,” Davidson said. “But now even that’s not enough to give me a thrill, since I have a medical marijuana license for the cancer.”

Norma James, 71-year-old can-

cer patient also says smoking cigarettes elevated her social status in high school, which she believes mitigates any lasting negative health effects from the carcinogens in cigarettes.

“I remember I saw an ad when I was in high school about how smoking gives a woman sex appeal,” James said. “I started smoking, and suddenly every boy wanted me. They called me ‘Good Time Norma.’ All the other girls were jealous.”

James does not believe smoking is frowned upon in today’s society. She has encouraged all four of her grandchil-

dren to start smoking, despite their apprehension.

“Grandma Norma is always trying to get us to smoke,” said her nine-year-old granddaughter Grace Olsen. “I didn’t really consider it until she threatened to stop baking us her famous cranberry muffins unless we tried a few puffs.”

“I just want my grandchildren to be as cool as I was,” James said.

James recently joined a lung cancer support group but was asked to leave after she ostracized non-smoking members and pressured them to ‘light up’ at meetings.

Friend ‘studying abroad’ spotted in local wooded area with large stick, no pants

By Brett Klinkner the daily cardinal

In an unsettling revelation for friends, family, classmates and administration alike, UW-Madison junior Lane Laiman, 21, who was thought to be studying abroad for the semester in Spain, was spotted Monday afternoon—bearded and pant-less—rooting around a local wooded area with a large stick in hand.

The misplaced individual was

discovered, coincidentally, by former friend Bart Kinnick, 23, who told Cardinal reporters that he was unable to approach and interact with Laiman due to the unsafe nature of the situation, and also the fact that the newly exposed forest-dweller “chucked a pine cone at [Kinnick] and scurried away as soon as he caught a glimpse.”

Alleged to have been wearing tattered boots, deteriorating underwear and a ‘Cedarburg

High Volleyball’ cut-off shirt, in addition to wielding a beard down to his nipples and a wooden scepter, the search to relocate Laiman has had no luck in the foreboding ‘first 48’ hours.

Kinnick had traveled to the far-west side of Madison to collect insects for an Entomology school project at the time of discovery, and has claimed that he is neither mad nor disappointed, but rather just scared and wor-

ried for his old acquaintance.

“When you stumble upon someone you kn-... thought you knew with what seems to be a handmade alpenstock, as well as blood and feathers around their mouth, you’re going to feel a bit frightened,” Kinnick told The Daily Cardinal. “I want Lane to be found and saved, but I simply don’t know how he could readapt to society in a way that is safe for everyone around him.”

Despite university administration claiming to have absolutely no record of Laiman applying to study abroad, his parents and close friends have fully assumed for the past two months that he had been living safely in Spain, learning a ton and having the time of his life.

“Yeah, we were concerned when we weren’t seeing the standard hundreds of thousands of social media posts that accompany a friend studying abroad, ranging from touristy photos and artsy Facebook albums to blatantly jealousy-imposing Vine posts and borderline-sexual tweets regarding how incredible and life-changing the experience has been,” former colleague and UW sophomore Devin Henderson, 20, told the Cardinal. “You resent that tsunami of pretentious social media activity until it’s gone, and then you realize how much you needed it, and how much you took it for granted… Oh, but yeah, anyway, we had no idea that he had transformed into some landlocked version of Tom Hanks from ‘Castaway.’ No idea.”

The search party for Laiman is far from defeated, though, and the collective has recently launched an online campaign to #FindLane, additionally requesting any and all thoughts, prayers, love and good vibes.

At press time there were still no other confirmed sightings of Laiman, but a nest made from makeshift bandanas, as well as the grisly remains of numerous foxes and a ‘Cedarburg High’ shirt were located along the Northeastern shoreline of Picnic Point.

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adison—whose unofficial label is “77 square miles surrounded by reality”—is hailed as a progressive haven.

It is a “college town where students actively support the community;” a “vibrant cultural hub of art, music, food and beer,” one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the nation and a must-visit for young professionals, according

to Business Insider.

Throughout the fall, we watched the debate over our country’s criminal justice system come to a head through television screens and Twitter feeds. When Michael Brown was killed after an altercation with Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, we followed Ferguson’s spiral into calamity.

“We’ve been warning Madison that [an officer-

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Protesters marched through Madison Wednesday to voice concerns over structural injustices in the community.

involved shooting] could happen, and we were laughed at by certain community members,” Matthew Braunginn, a member of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, told The Guardian in a phone interview Sunday.

The blood-stained porch at 1125 Williamson St. is a stunning reminder for many that Madison, ranked as the No. 1 Best Place to Live by Livability, is not a haven for people of color.

Tony Robinson, a 19-yearold black man, was shot and killed by Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny during an altercation within the residence Friday night. Lorien Carter, Robinson’s aunt, spoke to police and a crowd of protesters who gathered at the scene shortly after the shooting.

“Here in our little bubble of Madison … I want y’all to know, that for minorities, we are [in one of ] the top five worst places to live. But we are [also in one of the] three happiest cities to be in,” Carter said Friday. “So who is it happy for?”

Willfully or not, many have failed to confront the true nature of Madison’s and Wisconsin’s racial disparities.

For years, laundry lists of alarming statistics have amassed in stacks. The “Race to Equity” report compiled by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families in October 2013 analyzed 40 indicators of wellbeing between 2007 and 2011.

Black adults were eight times more likely to be arrested than white adults in Dane County and black juveniles were six times more likely to be arrested than their white counterparts in the

county, according to the report.

The report also showed that black men make up only 4.8 percent of the total adult male population in the county, but constitute 43 percent of all new adult prison placements.

The statistics should be hard to swallow. They should make you livid.

Willfully or not, many have failed to confront the true nature of Madison’s and Wisconsin’s racial disparities.

We need to change the course of how the public reacts to tragedies like the shooting of Tony Robinson. These patterns don’t show that people of color need to “pull their pants up” and “talk proper”—factors many have attributed as the root of these issues. These statistics illuminate widespread inconsistencies.

It’s disappointing, disturbing and disgusting that a 19-year-old had to die for many Madisonians to realize their seemingly ideal city’s deep, innate, systemic flaws.

We need to channel our emotions into positive, constructive change to morph Madison, Dane County and the entire state of Wisconsin into a healthier, more welcoming environment for people of all races.

“It’s not about whether or not the shooter is racist. It’s about how poor black boys are treated as problems, well before we’re treated as people,” said Javon

Johnson, an assistant professor of communication studies at San Francisco State University, in a 2013 National Poetry Slam piece, “cuz he’s black,” that addressed the country’s institutionalized racism. “Black boys, in this country, cannot afford to play cops and robbers if we’re always considered the latter. Don’t have the luxuries of playing war if we’re already in one.”

Danez Smith, a UW-Madison graduate and First Wave Urban Arts Scholar, performed a poem in 2014 entitled “Dear White America,” where he expressed his frustration with the illusion of progress.

“Because it’s taken my father’s time. My mother’s time.

My aunt’s and my uncle’s time.

My sister and my brother’s time.

How much time do you want for your ‘progress?’” Smith said.

We can try to scrub bloodstains off the porch of 1125 Williamson St. as hard as we can, but the incident will linger as a scar upon the city’s seemingly pristine reputation.

The Wisconsin Idea challenges UW System students “to educate people and improve the human condition.” In order to live according to this essential mission of the System, we must make Madison a place where people of color don’t have to be reminded regularly that they deserve to live and that they are free to pursue happiness.

What do you think of our perspective? Has this tragedy pointed out flaws in Madison’s criminal justice system? We want to know your thoughts. Please send all comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Students should not be blamed for low exam averages Marisa Bernstein Opinion Columnist

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s it just me or do midterms seem to be endless? It’s like the first three weeks of a semester is the grace period: the time when college is the rowdy, sparkling adventure we always thought it would be. After that, fun’s over, and exams pointlessly given the prefix “mid” seem to consume every minute of our lives until the end of the semester. Some exams are less dreadful than others, of course, but for my friends and I nothing is more daunting and horrifying than calculus.

No disrespect to the people that like calculus. In fact, I have a lot of respect for them.

But to me, I would rather wear wet socks for a week than suffer through a calculus exam.

Math is not really my shtick.

Fortunately, my exam went pretty well, but this was not the case for everyone.

My roommate came home and announced the class average on her exam was a 37 percent. She and I are in different classes, but this news made me want to bury my face into a bag of Swedish Fish and cry into my pillow while watching “Dirty Dancing.” She had spent hours preparing for this test, as I’m sure many of her classmates had as well, and she had

felt as though she had a sufficient understanding of the course and review materials.

Low test averages do not reflect a neglectful, unintelligent class of students. Rather, they represent a widespread lack of understanding that stems from either the professor or exam itself. College students, particularly at UW-Madison, are motivated.

However, there is an occasional detachment between students and professor.

When the students’ learning styles do not harmonize with a professor’s teaching style or examination style, or more simply, when the average class grade is very low, the blame should not necessarily be placed completely on the students.

Some exams are less dreadful than others, of course, but for my friends and I nothing is more daunting and horryifing than calculus.

We all know what its like to get an unsatisfying grade, but there is a difference between receiving a 70 percent and

receiving a 30 percent. A 70 percent may show that there may have been a disconnect in understanding or a couple of mistakes made. A 30 percent, on the other hand, particularly when it is an average score of the whole class, is more likely to reflect the teaching or the exam, rather than the learning or preparing done by students.

There is a difference between one student in the class scoring below a 50 percent and an average score of below a 50 percent.

Some exams are simply too difficult. Often students are forced to take exams that test beyond what has been covered in the class. For example, the exam my roommate just took asked about a topic that will not be mentioned in the book or the class for several chapters. Why would a student work or read ahead right before an exam? Exams should test what has been covered in class or elsewhere in homework. After all, what is to gain by administering an exam in which the projected average score is so low? I understand that professors would like to stretch their students, but an exam where the average is below 50 percent does not motivate students to study more; it demoralizes and discourages them. Students should not be tested on material

that they have not previously been given the tools to answer.

Stretching students is meant for discussions, lectures, or even labs—certainly not for exams.

Students at UW-Madison are hard working, intelligent

and dedicated. Exams should be a time for them to demonstrate these qualities, not have them disproved.

What do you think of Marisa’s take? Send comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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3 Having the deed to 4 Senor’s coin 5 Gnome’s kin 6 “West Side Story” role 7 Perfume from roses 8 Former German chancellor 9 Wind dir., sometimes 10 Casual comment 11 Legume popular in Asian cuisine 12 Futile 13 Mayflower verb 18 Poem of praise 19 Lennon’s lady 24 On-campus lodging 25 Place for instruments 27 Subject matter?

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cess. While Rumpel has had rough patches, his play has kept Wisconsin in games that would’ve been blowouts if not for the way he carried the team.

Ohio State is a team with good

speed, and Wittchow believes that pressuring them with the forecheck will even the playing field.

“When we’re on our forecheck, we’ve got to make sure we aren’t flying into our

zone too fast before we recognize what the situation is,” Wittchow said.

For those who don’t know hockey jargon, the forecheck is pressure applied when one team is in their own offensive zone, but their opponent has the puck, generally after a turnover or missed shot. In other words, the key to a Badger victory is to make sure to get the puck near the Buckeyes’ net, and not let OSU fly past them if they get the puck.

The departing senior class has seen a great deal of success on the ice, winning 67 games and two conference tournament titles over their four years, with this season’s performance being an outlier. However, head coach Mike Eaves thinks there is more to them than just winning games.

“A big part of the legacy will be the fact that they have held this group together through some really tough stuff; stuff that would have torn other groups apart and has in the past in different sports,” Eaves said.

The senior class was the glue that held together the struggling Badgers this year, and as they take the ice at the Kohl Center one last time, they will fight to add another win to their tally.

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pion Virginia also probable. No. 2 Duke and No. 4 Villanova would likely sew up the remaining top seeds if they win their respective conference tournaments, so UW will need to win its tournament

and have one of those two lose in order to have a real shot.

That’s looking ahead though.

All eyes on the Badgers will be focused on winning their first tournament trophy in seven years.

By Andrew Tucker the daily cardinal

Despite not having a season worth remembering, Wisconsin’s seniors will take the ice looking to come away with a win in their final home games.

“It’ll be a fun weekend for our seniors, it’ll be a memorable weekend for them, and that just gives us extra incentive to win for them to send them off on their last games at the Kohl on a positive note,” said junior defenseman Eddie Wittchow.

“A big part of the legacy will be the fact that they have held this group together through some really tough stuff; stuff that would have torn other groups apart.”

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The Badgers (2-14-2 Big Ten, 4-24-4 overall) will play host to Ohio State (7-11-0, 12-18-2) in Madison this weekend. Last month, Wisconsin split the series with the Buckeyes in Columbus, and with the home crowd behind them, the Badgers certainly have

Joel Rumpel has been inconsistent, but he’s helped prevent some games from becoming blowouts. a chance to compete.

In the previous series, UW senior goaltender Joel Rumpel was lights out. He allowed two goals in each game, which was crucial for the team’s suc-

Softball

Wisconsin heads to North Carolina for final tourney before conference play

By Jacob Hams the daily cardinal

In the last tournament before the conference schedule begins, the Wisconsin Badgers (9-12 overall) will look to continue their momentum following last weekend’s success with five games in the College of Charleston Invitational in Charleston, N.C., starting Friday.

The Badgers won three games last weekend in the USF Under Armour Invitational in Tampa, Fla. Freshman pitcher Mariah Watts picked up two of the three wins for the team last weekend. She and the other pitchers will have their hands full in this tournament with teams like College of Charleston (11-10) and New Mexico (12-9).

Both these teams are scoring more runs per game than Wisconsin’s 4.19, as College of Charleston scores 4.81 per game and New Mexico scores 5.14 per game. College of Charleston also bats just under .300 as a team. Meanwhile, New Mexico has three batters with a batting average of over .400—senior infielder Gabrielle Stacey, junior outfielder Mariah Rimmer and pitcher Lisa Rodrigues.

The Badgers’ best hitters, senior outfielder Maria Van Abel and junior infielder Ashley Van Zeeland, will

also have plenty of challenges this weekend against a strong Furman (12-5) pitching staff.

The Paladins’ have a team ERA of 2.82 and will look to take advantage of a sporadic Badger offense. Their strongest pitcher has been freshman Lindsey Bert, who has eight of the team’s 12 wins and an impressive ERA of 2.10.

The other two matchups that Wisconsin has are against struggling teams Marist (4-5) and Memphis (6-8). Both teams are not as productive on offense as the Badgers, averaging approximately 0.5 fewer runs per game. Additionally, the Red Foxes and Tigers both have poor ERAs, each more than one full run higher than Wisconsin’s 3.62, with Marist posting a 4.88 ERA and Memphis a 5.07 ERA. With the Badgers’ mediocre record, this weekend’s tournament could be a crucial turning point on the season. A few wins could give them additional momentum heading into the Big Ten conference schedule. But a poor showing that comes with a handful of losses could put Wisconsin in a difficult position to climb back into NCAA Tournament contention.

The Badgers will begin the College of Charleston Invitational Friday at 4:30 p.m. against Furman.

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Badgers begin Big Ten tourney with Selection Sunday on horizon

By Jack Baer the daily cardinal

Working to become the top dog in the Big Ten is a tiring task, but it carries a reward UW will be grateful to have as it embarks upon the next step of becoming one of this program’s great teams.

The No. 6 Badgers (16-2 Big Ten, 28-3 overall) enter the Big Ten Tournament as the odds-on favorite to win their first conference tourney since 2008 and will begin their run Friday against the winner of Thursday’s game between Michigan and Illinois. Not only will a banner to raise be on the line, but so will a shot at a valuable 1-seed in the NCAA Tournament.

There are plenty of reasons to think Wisconsin should march

through the tournament, given its 16-2 conference record, where the only two losses occurred on the road and one without Big Ten Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky.

Advanced rankings love the Badgers, with Jeff Sagarin’s ratings placing UW at No. 3 in the country and Ken Pomeroy’s having them at fourth. Las Vegas odds also agree, as betting site Bovada.lv has set the Badgers’ odds to win the Big Ten Tournament at 5/7 (curiously, the team with the second best odds is 6-seed Ohio State; Vegas must really love D’Angelo Russell).

However, to play devil’s advocate, it’s easy to see a scenario in which the Badgers’ odds are in question, as the tournament is

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Since Traevon Jackson is “unlikely” to return this weekend, Zak Showalter will once again be the only healthy reserve guard.

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#8 Illinois #9 Michigan #12 Nebraska

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#13 Penn St. #5 Iowa

#4 Purdue

#7 Indiana #10 Northwestern

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structured to exacerbate the team’s biggest weakness: depth. In seven of UW’s last eight games, every starter has played more than 30 minutes thanks to an extremely short bench. While that’s acceptable in conference play when the team sees two games a week, it could spell trouble when it has to play three games in three days.

UW athletic trainer Henry Perez-Guerra told the Wisconsin State Journal that senior guard Traevon Jackson is “unlikely” to play in the conference tournament, leaving redshirt sophomore Zak Showalter as the only backup guard on the squad who has seen real rotation minutes.

Simultaneous cold streaks from senior forward Duje Dukan and sophomore forward Vitto Brown have also forced Bo Ryan to lean on his starting frontcourt more than any team in the conference.

That said, the Badgers also see as favorable a path to the finals as one could expect for a 1-seed in a major conference tournament. Wisconsin didn’t lose to a single team on its half of the bracket in the regular season, and won all games against them by an average of 14 points.

Meanwhile, 2-seed Maryland will face the winner of Northwestern-Indiana Friday and the likely victor in that matchup, Indiana, beat the Terrapins by 19 in a Jan. 22 game.

After that, the Terrapins would play the winner of Ohio State (assuming the Buckeyes win Thursday) and Michigan State, who have combined to win the last five Big Ten Tournaments.

As rough as the starters have had to work, as fatigued as they must be after every game, it is likely worth it to not have to deal with the two-step minefield Maryland will have to navigate to reach the finals.

If the Badgers do win, they will certainly be one of the teams in consideration for one of four No. 1

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Annie Pankowski has had a stellar freshman season and will face another great freshman, Victoria Bach, Saturday.

UW takes on Boston University in first round

By Lorin Cox the daily cardinal

It’s not often that two conference rookies of the year face each other in the same game. That’s what’s happening Saturday as Annie Pankowski and Wisconsin take on Victoria Bach and Boston University in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.

Bach has scored one more goal than Pankowski this season, 19 to 18, but Pankowski’s 21 assists gives her the clear point advantage over Bach, who set up her teammates only 14 times. But points don’t tell the whole story about these forwards’ impacts on their respective teams.

Pankowski leads her team with 166 shots this season, compared to Bach’s 108. As a result, Bach has been the much more efficient scorer. However, there are two other forwards on the ice with these two, and their teammates have affected their outputs.

The rookie Badger is her team’s leading goal scorer and she carried her team to a number of victories this season. Bach is third on her team in goals scored and fourth in total points, and she has the fifth leading goal scorer in the nation, senior captain Marie-Philip Poulin, to take the pressure off her.

That does not make Bach’s accomplishments any less impressive, but as more of a secondary scoring option, she may not receive as much of the defensive focus as Pankowski does.

Poulin is the one who usually makes the headlines for the Terriers and for good reason.

She scored five goals in BU’s final two Hockey East tournament victories and has really carried her team down the stretch.

“She is a special player,” said Wisconsin head coach Mark

Johnson. “[She’s] leading her team and scoring a lot of goals here the last couple of weekends has put her group in the position to play in the national tournament.

“It’s their senior class that seems to be excelling and those seniors, similar to what we’re seeing on our team, the finish line is there,” Johnson added.

“They see the end of their careers, and they don’t want it to stop.”

Badger seniors have scored 60 of the team’s 128 goals this season, including two in Wisconsin’s 4-0 win over Bemidji State in the WCHA Tournament final. The leadership of senior captains Blayre Turnbull, Karley Sylvester and Katarina Zgraja has been invaluable for the team this season, and they will be relied on for their tournament experience. They kept the team together through adversity and their hard work is paying off.

“If I put one thing that makes this team special is the chemistry that they have among each other and how they get along, how they go about their business on a daily basis,” Johnson said. “If you play as a team and you’re united, you have a chance to do something special, and this group up to this point has been able to do that.”

As the seniors play in their final tournament, the freshmen begin their first. It’s been a heck of a season for both Pankowski and Bach and this should mark the beginning of very successful collegiate careers for both.

Wisconsin and Boston University have met in the NCAA tournament before, a Badger win in 2011, and it’s likely this won’t be the last time. The puck drops Saturday at 2 p.m. at LaBahn Arena.