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Gov. Scott Walker will run for a second term in the November 2014 gubernatorial elections.

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Mary Burke is currently the only Democratic gubernatorial candidate declared for the election.

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State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, might announce her gubernatorial candidacy in January.

Looking ahead to state affairs in 2014

By Eoin Cottrell THE DAILY CARDINAL

In the new year, Wisconsin residents will likely see a decision from Gov. Scott Walker on the Menominee Nation’s proposal for a casino to be built in Kenosha, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of Act 10 and the gubernatorial election scheduled for November.

Casino in Kenosha The Menominee tribe and supporters of the proposal argue a casino with such proximity to the Chicago area could tap into a potentially profitable market, bringing millions of dollars to the state.

The Potawatomi tribe in Milwaukee, the plan’s biggest critic, says a casino in

Kenosha would hurt revenue for Milwaukee casinos that the tribe owns, as gamblers from Illinois would be diverted to Kenosha. A casino opened in Kenosha could result in 3,000 lost jobs and $140 million lost wages for the city of Milwaukee, according to a statement from the Potawatomi.

Walker released a statement in November updating Wisconsin citizens on the casino decision. Walker said job creation is his highest priority, but he does not want to create jobs in some counties at the expense of other counties.

It is still unclear when Walker will make his decision.

Constitutionality of Act 10 In 2011, the Wisconsin Legislature passed one of the

most recent controversial pieces of legislation in the state. Act 10 effectively prohibited unionized workers from collective bargaining with their employers on issues of wages, sick leave and vacation time. The law sparked massive protests and sit-ins in the Capitol from teachers and their students.

Madison Teachers Inc. challenged Act 10 in court and the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard the first round of oral arguments Nov. 11.

Ultimately the state’s high court must decide if collective bargaining is an inherent right guaranteed by the state constitution. Collective bargaining rights are not explicitly mentioned in the state constitution and with a conservative majority, the justices are expected to uphold Act 10.

Wisconsin will turn into a political battleground as Mary Burke and future Democratic gubernatorial candidates attempt to unseat Gov. Scott Walker in November.

Mary Burke is the only Democratic challenger right now, but state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, has said she will announce her final decision to run or not after the new year. It is looking more likely Vinehout will announce her candidacy after she told the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram she hired a campaign staffer.

“Every day I seem to be getting closer and closer to making the decision to run for governor because of the positive support I’ve found,” Vinehout told the Leader-Telegram.

Mary Burke is a former Trek

Bicycle executive and state commerce secretary who has promised she can create jobs in Wisconsin, which currently ranks 34th in private sector job creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

To complicate matters, Walker’s name is on a short list of Republican presidential candidates. Although the governor has not revealed his potential presidential ambitions, his name has been floating around conservative think tanks.

Before the governor sets his sights on the presidency, he must first secure a second term as Wisconsin’s governor.

Above all, there is much speculation on a host of different issues, but be sure to look ahead to the new year for decisions that could set important precedents for the Badger state.

Students to survey sexual assault notions

Water utility bills expected to increase by end of 2014

By Tamar Myers THE DAILY CARDINAL

A sexual assault survey students will receive in their inboxes over winter break will launch the next step in a campaign aiming to improve how the campus perceives and prevents sexual violence.

A focus group through the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Campaign created the survey. The group is composed of representatives from Associated Student of Madison University Affairs Committee, Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment and the School of Public Health.

By Irene Burski THE DAILY CARDINAL

Pending state approval, Madison residents should expect to see a 20 to 22 percent hike in their water bills next year. The city approved the proposal in November as a part of the 2014 budget.

The proposal, which will raise the water rate from $2.81 to $3.40 per 1,000 gallons, is expected to help cover the costs of replacing water mains, upgrading wells and improving general water quality, according to Madison Water Utility general manager Tom Heikkinen.

“We have to replace 400 miles of main over the next 40 years,” Heikkinen said of the long-term water utility infrastructure reconstruction. “We have a very old system in parts of the city.”

At this point, the exact proportioned numbers and percentage formula regarding how the bill increases will be attributed are not yet known.

The four designated water classes that receive separate calculations include industri-

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“It’s more just a general unknown, general silence around sexual assaults that needs to be delved into.”

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Individual water consumption has decreased over the past decade, causing MWU to seek alternate sources of funding. al, commercial, governmental and residential consumers.

The MWU estimates that the average residential household’s water bill will rise from about $336 to $410 annually.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the increase is necessary because the MWU has

struggled bolstering up its funds in years previous.

“In the past we simply just didn’t do a good job of asking the state for rate increases,” Verveer said.

He added rainy seasons have

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Kayla Van Cleave committee chair University Affairs

The survey will ask questions ranging from how students identify concepts such as rape culture to assess their familiarity with policies surrounding sexual assault, said outgoing University Affairs Committee Chair Kayla Van

Cleave. The final goal, she said, is to “identify the perception of what students have experienced on campus as well as the perception of what services are available.”

Van Cleave said the campaign’s response to the data will likely be education to target knowledge deficits, which might include artwork to tackle emotions surrounding sexual assault. In addition, the campaign may push for prevention measures such as selfdefense classes.

Four University of WisconsinMadison students spearheaded SAPAR in response to what they perceived as injustices in treatment of students both in the Wisconsin system and nationwide.

“When we started to realize there was something wrong, we said to ourselves, we could do something,” group member Catie Rutledge said.

The students took the idea to ASM, where representatives voted to pursue the campaign.

UW-Madison’s campaign overlaps with the work of the UW System student organization United Council, which targets Wisconsin Chapter 17, a policy that dictates disciplinary

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The well-being of a Badger: Mental health at UW Story by Meghan Chua

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ach semester, a number of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison visit the Dean of Students Office to talk about withdrawing from the term for reasons related to mental health or substance abuse.

When The Daily Cardinal spoke to Assistant Dean of Students Tonya Schmidt in November, two students had decided that day to withdraw, putting their health above academics.

Schmidt said students come to her office unsure of how to seek help for mental health issues.

“I would say it’s probably, aside from alcohol, the biggest issue we help students deal with,” she said.

For the past few years, University Health Services Counseling and Consultation Services has dealt with anxiety and depression as the students’ biggest issues, according to UHS annual reports.

“In college mental health, it’s been a little bit of like running to keep up with the demand.”

Sarah Van Orman executive director University Health Services

Almost 4,000 students visited UHS Counseling Services throughout the 2012-’13 academic year, a drop from the previous year’s 4,631 but near consistent with numbers from two years prior, according to the reports.

Counseling and Consultation Services director Danielle Oakley said though no one definitively knows why anxiety has overtaken depression as students’ number one mental affliction, experts cite a prediction unique to today’s college-age generation: Children may not automatically fare better than past generations.

Oakley also said students’ concerns over jobs or having to move back in with their parents after graduation are at play.

Additionally, college can be a tough transition period.

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Responding to increasing demand for counseling services over the past few years, UHS has hired four mental health professionals since 2010. have a lot of support in place and a lot of structure in place,” Oakley said.

A number of students also visit UHS with addiction disorders, including dependence on prescription drugs and painkillers or marijuana, according to UHS Executive Director Sarah Van Orman. Every day smokers can experience symptoms of depression or a lack of motivation.

Schmidt has also seen more students with eating disorders this semester, a problem she says is not necessarily a new one, but one that has garnered more attention at the Dean of Students office.

In 2012-’13, UHS allocated a quarter of its budget toward

mental health, according to UHS reports. Each student pays $173.12 in segregated fees toward health services per semester.

A total of four licensed mental health professionals joined clinical services since 2010 when 10 percent of students were dissatisfied with wait time to counseling appointments. Fees increased in 2012 by less than $3 per student to hire three additional mental health providers.

But last year only 7 percent of students who visited UHS mental health clinics felt they did not access initial services in a reasonable time, according to the 2012’13 UHS Annual Reports.

According to Oakley, wait times can reach three or four

weeks but are ideally under two weeks.

“In college mental health, it’s been a little bit of like running to keep up with the demand,” Van Orman said.

Each year students can privately see a counselor up to 10 times, with a four-year cap of 20 visits per student.

In the meantime, UHS offers unlimited group counseling sessions to students. Attendance at group services grew 17 percent in 2012-’13 after a 39 percent increase the year before.

Though UHS cannot provide long-term services, Oakley said it has three case managers who help students find mental health resources in the commu-

nity and periodically check on the students.

Case managers assisted 406 students in 2012-’13, according to UHS reports.

Oakley said expansions in the past three years have provided non-traditional services in effective ways. The Let’s Talk and Behavioral Health programs have served groups of students who traditionally do not utilize UHS counseling services, including men, students of color and international students.

Alex Faris, Behavioral Health Services coordinator, said these types of students are more likely to use mental health services when they are offered in a medical setting.

Through the Behavioral Health Program, physicians refer students who exhibit symptoms of mental illness to mental health consultants. Faris said the physician also confers the trust of the student.

“Students are most likely to cite their medical provider as being the most credible source of information,” Farris said.

Since its January 2012 launch, the Behavioral Health program has expanded from 20 to 28 hours per week, and seeks further expansion, by partnering with New York University’s National College Depression Partnership.

Other universities such as Michigan State and Cornell University have called Faris to ask about the program, Faris said.

“People are looking to us in terms of how do you design a program, how do you implement a program [and] what are the impacts of the program,” he said.

In October, UHS launched a computerized training program for faculty and staff to learn about the symptoms of mental illness and how to constructively approach students about whom they are worried.

Oakley said many faculty have already responded.

Moving forward, Oakley and Van Orman said UHS hopes to offer more services to stabilize students who have recently experienced acute stress, trauma or thoughts of suicide.

“There’s a lot of pleasure in a student who comes back and says, ‘Thank you, you saved my life,’” Oakley said.

UHS to end sexual health services for non-students

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Members of the Badger hockey team skate and sign autographs for UW-Madison and community members at the Kohl Center Sunday. + Photo by Jane Thompson

University Health Services will stop offering its sexual health clinic services to non-students beginning January 2014.

The change comes in response to a decrease in nonstudents visiting the campusbased sexual health clinic, according to UHS Executive Director Sarah Van Orman.

“It wasn’t really a decision based on a problem,” Van Orman said. “It’s something that the community no longer needed.”

She said UHS began offering services such as screening and treatment for sexu-

ally transmitted infections in the 1970s, a time when most health care establishments did not address sexual health needs.

The responsibility fell to UHS after Madison’s Blue Bus Clinic, a free community clinic, closed.

Now that STI testing has become mainstream, only a couple hundred non-students are utilizing the clinic, Van Orman said.

Van Orman added non-students who are the partner of a student can arrange to visit the UHS sexual health clinic.

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Interactive final projects go beyond traditional exams Story by Elise Schimke

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nippets of songs and suggestions filled the warm air of the top floors in Lathrop Hall as the First Wave students rehearsed interpretations of their Physics in the Arts material using movement and sound to morph academics into contemporary art. While one may be able to glance away from dull physics notes on lenses, it is impossible to ignore a gigantic camera composed of people who each explain their principal purposes.

With an onslaught of research papers, a cramped back from too much crouching over textbooks now more highlighter yellow than black and white and mind-numbing hours spent studying in Memorial Library, preparing for finals can often be a grueling, isolating and boring process. But it doesn’t have to be.

Several classes at the University of WisconsinMadison are replacing traditional end-of-semester tasks with immersive out-of-classroom experiences meant to teach both student participants and audiences within the university community.

“This is a devising process.

There are no precedents,” said Chris Walker, a professor in the dance department and artistic director of the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and First Wave, a multicultural artistic program.

“Create a work of art that I can experience,” Walker tells

his students. “[I should leave] the room feeling more informed about the subject matter.”

The transformation of information into a visible, experiential product helps synthesize student learning with community participation. And according to Walker, working together is key.

Tina Brown and Trevor Rees, graduate students seeking Master of Fine Arts degrees in acting and directing, agree.

While helping develop a stage production of Edgar Allan Poe’s works, they said they are learning collaboratively as they embark upon a theatrical adventure of unprecedented originality.

“We’re trying to keep the heart of the story, but put it in a theatrical space so that no one feels like they’re just reading it, but actually experiencing Poe,” Brown said.

Cooperative participation can also expand upon the traditional laboratory settings of campus. The Tropical Ecology and Conservation First-Year Interest Group, whose courses center on discussion of threats to Earth’s rainforests and coral reefs, will journey via plane, bus and canoe to the depths of the Ecuadorian rainforest this winter break.

At the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, FIG members like UW-Madison freshman Joel Cryer will collect data for experiments they are currently developing. Cryer’s group is considering conducting research on variance in the insect population from the center of the forest outward.

Though the trip marks the

end of the road for most students, Cryer said some groups have had their research published.

Another group, the Science History Detective FIG, combines scientific interpretation with art in a series of museum displays.

“We unearth some of the objects on campus, the museums that not everyone knows about,” UW-Madison freshman Robin Sandner said. “[It’s] something behind the scenes of campus.”

Throughout the semester, Sandner and her classmates scoured campus archives for the class’s upcoming exhibition, “Capturing Nature: Instruments, Specimens, Art.” Comprised of everything from taxidermy and jarred snakes to a phonograph Thomas Edison gifted to the university himself, Sandner said the exhibition is a paradigm shift in how people relate to nature scientifically and artistically.

“We were all kind of entranced with these things,” Sandner said of the objects she and her classmates personally selected to research including hers, an antique inkwell.

Whether it be an inkwell, an Ecuadorian adventure, a theatrical production or interpretive choreography, there are numerous ways UW-Madison students are learning and sharing their knowledge and talents with the rest of campus to close out their semesters. These methods might not be conventional, but as Walker said, learning is all about “throwing the brain into a tizzy.”

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Jewish a capella group Jewop performs at their annual winter showcase at the Humanities Building Sunday evening. + Photo by Will Chizek

UW to offer Flexible Option course in drug counseling

By Adelina Yankova THE DAILY CARDINAL

University of WisconsinMadison will soon offer programs consistent with the format of UW Flexible Option, UW-Extension Chancellor Ray Cross said Friday.

“We’re looking forward to working with our new partners.”

Aaron Brower interim provost and vice chancellor UW-Extension

UW Flexible Option is a competency-based program striving to make obtaining degrees and certificates through the UW System more accessible for adults, part-time and other nontraditional students who may be trying to balance families, work and other responsibilities.

Instead of spending a set amount of time in the classroom, UW Flexible Option students earn their credentials by completing tests, projects and papers using prior knowledge.

UW-Madison is in the develop-

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Some have criticized it for creating an overly complicated process of convicting students of sexual assault.

Although the campaign orig-

inally considered addressing the policy, Van Cleave said there is a chance Chapter 17 may change in the near future. At the moment, she said, SAPAR plans to focus on creating less intensive changes, which may include looking at other university policies.

As a whole, Van Cleave

said SAPAR is not created in response to a specific issue, but an uncertainty about how students perceive sexual assault.

“It’s more just a general unknown, general silence around sexual assaults that needs to be delved into,” Van Cleave said.

driven down water consumption, lessening the amount of money MWU collects. However, he said MWU continues to provide a good product with increasing reliability.

The proposed increase will raise the Madison minimum water cost to about $16.20 per yearly quarter, or every three months.

According to a report issued by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, the Madison mini-

mental phases of an Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Counseling certificate, though a commencement date for the program has not been announced, according to a UW System statement.

The program’s main goal will be to assist professionals in the field of human services who want to become certified AODA counselors, a position expected to give rise to 29,000 new jobs through 2016, according to the release.

The AODA certificate will not offer any credits and will be managed by the university’s Division of Continuing Studies in conjunction with the School of Social Work.

Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor at UW-Extension Aaron Brower said the addition of new participating universities is evidence of the program’s success.

“We’re looking forward to working with our new partners as we broaden our ability to meet the needs of Wisconsin and the nation,” Brower said in the release.

UW-Parkside, UW-Stevens Point and UW-Stout have also committed to developing and implementing UW Flexible Option courses. mum water quarter bill for residential consumers’ utilities as of February 2013 was $13.50.

The new Madison water bill brings the minimum cost higher than the rates of surrounding cities including Milwaukee’s rate of $14.70, Green Bay’s rate of $15.00 and Kenosha’s of $14.46.

Verveer said the PSC has authority to either decrease the rate proposal or deny it outright.

It could be mid-2014 before the PSC makes a decision.

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Tasty treats to try out during the holiday season

By Courtney Pelot The Daily Cardinal

“It’s the most wonderful time of year!”

Besides the sad but true fact that we are currently overwhelmed with end of semester projects while gearing up for endless hours of treacherous studying for finals, it is the holiday season. Everywhere you turn, there is a little bit of festivity and holiday spirit. The stores and streets are immaculately decorated for the season.

Coffeehouses are offering special holiday flavored concoctions. Why shouldn’t you cook up a bit of holiday spirit? Just for you, I have compiled a list of creative ways to add some holiday cheer to your menu.

Snowman Breakfast

Who says fun shaped pancakes are just for kids? Try these festive snowman pancakes as a special treat the morning of your

final. Once you’ve made your pancakes, arrange them on your plate above each other like a snowman’s body. Use chocolate chips to make the eyes, nose, mouth and buttons. Fry up some bacon and use it to create a scarf for your snowman. Finally, grab a handful of mini marshmallows and place them under the snowman’s body so it looks like he’s standing in a bed of fresh fallen snow.

This is a very easy breakfast that would be perfect to toss in the oven for your family on Christmas morning. Place your favorite cinnamon rolls in the oven. Pillsbury cinnamon rolls are an easy option, but you can always make your own from scratch. Once out of the oven, arrange them on a platter in the shape of a Christmas tree. Ice the warm cinnamon rolls and add holiday sprinkles.

Candy Cane Pizza

Candy Cane Cake Pops

What’s better than homemade pizza?

Pizza shaped like a candy cane of course!

On a baking pan, roll out your pizza dough into the shape of a candy cane. Add on your sauce and mozzarella cheese. To create the red lines of a candy cane, simply place pepperoni slices on your pizza to mimic the iconic red lines.

Cinnamon Roll Christmas Treat

One simple way to make your cake pops festive is to swap out the stick for a mini candy cane! You can also get creative while decorating your delicious cake pops.

Crush candy canes into small pieces and sprinkle on your cake pops after you dip them into melted chocolate. Red and green sprinkles are also a great option to toss onto your cake pops.

Snowman Cupcakes

This tasty dessert is sure to be a hit at any holiday party, especially one with kids.

Bake white cupcakes and frost them with a layer of white icing. To create the body of the snowman, stack two large marshmallows on top of each other. Use extra frosting to get them to stick together. Using a toothpick, dab black and orange food coloring onto the top marshmallow to create the eyes and carrot nose. Break a mini pretzel stick in half and using frosting, stick one piece on each side of the marshmallow snowman to be the arms.

I hope you enjoy these tasty treats! Try a recipe for a study break or impress your family at home by cooking up something divine.

Happy holidays!

Need more recipes for holidy treats to make for your friends and family? Ask Courtney at cpelot@wisc.edu for a few more ideas!

Things guys have said to me (and my late comebacks): A Single Girl Column “I just want to be friends.”

Lexi a single girl

Who said it: My friend with benefits.

What I wish I said: “Ok, then I’ll be sure to remove the benefits stat.”

“Why won’t you dance with me?”

Have you ever been talking to a guy and thought to yourself “oh my god did that ACTUALLY just come out of your mouth?”

If you are like me, this thought is entirely too common. I really don’t understand how guys expect us to respond to some of their dreadful remarks, but usually I’m in too much shock to say anything at all. In this column, I’d like to redeem myself and share what I should have said at the time.

Who said it: A relentless guy at a party.

What I wish I said: “Thanks for asking rather than sneak-attacking me from behind, but I’d rather not have sex-with-clothes-on with some sweaty, less than attractive guy I have never seen before in my life, so I’m gonna have to take a rain check.”

“Sorry, I’m afraid of commitment.”

Who said it: My friend with benefits.

What I wish I said: “No really, I’M SORRY, I didn’t realize I was down on one knee with an engagement ring asking for your hand in marriage. Last I checked going on a date isn’t much of a ‘commitment’ but I can see how I made you uncomfortable…”

“Oh yeah, I’m a really big Taylor Swift fan too, she’s awesome.”

Who said it: Random guy at a party who would not stop agreeing with everything I said.

What I wish I said: “Oh my god we have so much in common! Except for the fact that I have a backbone and you don’t.”

“You better not gain weight, otherwise I’ll stop talking to you.”

Who said it: This line has been said to me by not one, but TWO guys. I didn’t realize that this was a common joke among guys… or maybe it’s not and I’m just lucky enough to have found the two guys willing to say this out loud.

What I wish I said: “I didn’t realize that my physical attractiveness was the only thing keeping this relationship alive! I mean if size was all that mattered I certainly wouldn’t be with you.” xoxo, A Single Girl Need some love life advice? Email Lexi at life&style@dailycardinal.com and ask away!

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By Suma Samudrala The Daily Cardinal

Artificial Intelligence is defined as the ability for a machine such as a computer to perform functions analogous to learning and decision making. This past summer undergraduates Anjali Narayan-Chen and Liqi Xu taught the computer how to play Angry Birds.

Angry birds is a popular game where using a slingshot, the player shoots wingless birds to kill pigs. And like other games, there are several levels of difficulty, different sizes and colors of birds, and different obstacles.

With each game, new birds and special abilities can be activated by the player.

Narayan-Chen and Xu originally met each other in Computer Science 540 (an introductory course about artificial intelligence). Their passion drove them to find opportunities to delve further into the field. Computer sciences and biostatistics & medical informatics professor Jude Shavlik directed them to the Angry Birds Artificial Intelligence Competition. The competition itself was newly introduced and was in its second year running.

The task of the competition was to autonomously and without human intervention successfully play Angry Birds.

All participants of the competition were given a basic game playing software with which to work. The competition had three rounds where new Angry Bird levels of increasing difficulty were given to programs created by competitors. For the qualification round, all agents had 40 minutes to solve about ten levels. 20 teams submitted their programs for the qualification round, but only eight were chosen to compete in the international competition. In the quarter finals, semi-finals and finals, all agents were given 30 minutes to play eight levels.

The last round contained levels that even humans would have a hard time solving.

The Universiy of WisconsinMadison team was the only U.S. team and was also the only team with undergraduates. The competition itself took place at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Beijing, China this past August.

Xu attended the competition in person while Narayan-Chen visually attended via Skype as remote participation was acceptable. The team won third place, earning $500. “We all bought angry bird plush toys with part of that money,” said Narayan-Chen.

Leading up the competition, Narayan-Chen, Xu and Shavlik worked on improving the base code. They fed games into approximately a dozen computers. In order to let the computer autonomously play the game, they collected data over a month by letting the computers make shots at the pigs. By the end, they collected over 3,000,000 shots. They used this data to improve the code so that it could judge the trajectories of the shots. “We marked each shot that killed a pig as a

‘good’ shot and all other shots as ‘bad,’” said Narayan-Chen.

From there, they also had to account for all the different circumstances such as the different birds and the colors of the birds, the location of the pigs, and the method to activate the shot. They also had to define a win and a loss and how to play different levels for the computer.

“Every time the computer slung a bird and made a shot, the screen took a picture of the screen and at each grid point, it recognized different objects such as the presence of sky or the presence of a pig,” said Narayan-Chen. “[The most exciting aspect of working toward the competition] was seeing all the excitement of the undergraduates.

Plus it is fun working on video games since one can directly and quickly see the performance of the learning algorithm

and relatively easily figure out what smart and stupid things it is doing.” said Shavlik.

Narayan-Chen, Xu and Shavlik used Bayesian networks software for their program. BN software is a probabilistic graphical method that relates all variables of interest. Using a simple algorithm model, they created a program that could play Angry Birds from the array of data it was given.

The algorithms used for this program were “everyday practice of professor Beth Burnside of the UW Medical School, who is a practicing radiologist as well as a biomedical-informatics researcher,” commented Shavlik.

Narayan-Chen and Xu stated they were interested in going for another round and want to compete in the 2014 Angry Birds Artificial Intelligence competition.

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Ask Mr. Scientist: Names of Vitamins Dear Mr. Scientist, Why are vitamins named with letters and numbers? Like for B12, what does B mean and what does 12 mean?

—Mitchell L. Vitamins can be quite confusing. Most vitamins are often not one specific compound but a class of chemicals with the same biological activity.

Vitamin A, for example, actually refers to the compounds retinol, retinal and four carotenoids. Letters were assigned to vitamins according to the order in which they were discovered, so the very first vitamin isolated given the designation “Vitamin A”. Other vitamins include B, C, D, E and K. What happened to vitamins F-J? There used to be vitamins with these names, but they were either renamed or no longer considered vitamins.

One of the most confusing vitamins is Vitamin B. There are vitamins B1-B3, B5-B7, B9 and B12. Originally these were all thought to have the same function, which is why they were grouped together as Vitamin B. Further research has shown that they are each distinct vitamins, which is why they get their own number.

After four years of filling our pages with science, our “Mr. Scientist,” Michael Leitch is off to new science-filled adventures. Stay tuned next semester for our “Ask Ms. Scientist” column. Meanwhile, tweet @DC_Science or email science@dailycardinal.com with your burning science questions.

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String of armed robberies put campus on high alert for majority of fall semester Almost immediately after students returned to campus this semester, WiscAlerts of armed robberies in the area filled university inboxes. For several weeks, it seemed safety was on everyone’s mind and the libraries were desolate soon after the sun went down.

That is, until Oct. 24, when police arrested 21-year-old Kendredge Dillard in Illinois for his alleged role in an armed robbery on the 500 block of West Mifflin Street.

Police suspect Dillard played a role in an estimated 20-30 armed rob-

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Compromise left the U.S. Capitol as September drew to a close and a federal budget agreement failed to come to fruition.

The resulting government shutdown, waged over party lines that blurred as the 16-day affair played out, soured politicians and the general public to Congress’s ability to make legislative progress.

The Democratic Senate and the Republican House of Representatives, were caught in a stalemate after the far right members of the House refused to pass a budget without a significant unraveling of the Affordable Care Act. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., refused the House Republicans’ requests and both legislative houses spun their wheels up to and past the Oct. 1 deadline.

The shutdown put approximately 800,000 federal employees out of work and cost the nation’s capitol approximately $200 million a day.

After 16 days and a drop in Republican popularity, legislators voted to end the shutdown and push major fiscal decisions to Feb. 7.

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beries prior and that he had accomplices. His arrest brought an end to the nearly two-month-long armed robbery spree.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said on Oct. 24 “the news today is not only welcome, but I think a huge relief.”

Dillard’s jury trial will begin Jan. 23.

Still, Associated Students of Madison Secretary Carissa Szlosek said Nov. 4 “I hope that everyone is still engaged in this, regardless of whether the crime rate is up or down.”

This semester brought about multiple changes to the future of State Street. Madison’s Common Council approved a downtown development Aug. 6 and the Comedy Club on State owner bought The Orpheum Theatre Oct 25.

The Hub project, a 329-unit mixed apartment and retail complex will replace the University Inn on the 500 block of State Street and displaced several restaurants. They include Husnu’s, Kabul, Buraka, Roast, Jimmy John’s and Campus Candy, which all vacated their buildings Oct. 31.

The 2013-’15 state biennial budget, which passed this summer despite heavy Democratic lambasting, saw both sides of the aisle join together to support a provision to freeze University of Wisconsin System tuition through the 2014-’15 school year.

The tuition freeze developed from a much-debated discovery of approximately $648 million in unrestricted UW System funds. Legislators saw the large reserve as an affront to students, who had faced a 5.5 percent increase in tuition for the past six years. The initial freeze applied

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced July 2013 he will step down from his position at the end of this year.

Reilly became president of the 26 UW campuses in 2004. During his tenure, Reilly appointed over 31 chancellors, increased enrollment by 8.9 percent and established himself as the second-longest

president of the system.

At Reilly’s last Board of Regents meeting Friday, multiple regent members commended the outgoing president on his nine years of service, highlighting his continuous integrity.

“I just feel very privileged to have played a role for nine years in helping to advance the university and the quality of

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Core Campus, the Chicago developers, began demolition in November and hope to complete the project by fall 2015. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, likened the housing complex to that of Lucky Apartments.

New Orpheum owner Gus Paras said he intends to restore the theater’s historic marquee. He is also allowing Frank Productions, which managed the Orpheum under the authority of Monona State Bank after the bank foreclosed on the property in fall 2012, to produce booked shows through February.

only to in-state students, but the UW System eventually extended it to all UW students.

Walker signed the budget June 29, saying it would lower taxes to benefit citizens. However, his decisions to change state Medicaid coverage in the face of Affordable Care Act implementation and to expand the statewide voucher school system have been controversial with Democratic legislators.

The state is scheduled to continue implementing the budget provisions as the year progresses.

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were getting kicked from their insurance plans.

In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker declined federal funds to expand the state’s medicaid program, BadgerCare.

After the federal government extended deadlines for people to sign up for insurance, Walker called Wisconsin’s Legislature back for a special session to align the state’s deadline with the federal deadline.

The Assembly approved a bill extending the deadline, but leaving a coverage gap for 83,000 childless adults.

life for all,” Reilly said.

Board of Regents Chair Michael Falbo said the search for a new system president has been overseen by a search and screen committee comprised of both regents and notable UW figures.

The committee will narrow down the applicant pool and will potentially make a recommendation to the board Jan. 10.

Commencement moves back to Camp Randall for spring 2014 Since 1991, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has held spring commencement away from Camp Randall, but this May, the graduation ceremonies that attract nearly 6,000 graduates and 40,000 guests, will once again be consolidated into one ceremony at Camp Randall.

Traditionally, there are four ceremonies over the course of the three-day weekend. The switch was made by Chancellor Rebecca Blank and representatives for the class of 2014.

Part of the reasoning behind the change was likely to attract a larger commencement speak-

er, because often times, speakers are unable to commit to all four ceremonies Following the announcement in October, concerns about weather and length of the ceremony arose from different groups. However, campus leaders have insisted the ceremony is still expected to run approximately two hours and will be held rain or shine.

Dean of Students Lori Berquam said students will have a chance to hear their names and receive diplomas at smaller ceremonies held by individual departments and colleges.

Madison Police Chief Noble Wray retires after nine years Madison’s chief public safety official stepped down Sept. 27 after nearly nine years at the head of the Madison Police Department.

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Faulty Affordable Care Act rollout causes deadline extensions in Wisconsin, US President Barack Obama pushed through an unprecedented health care reform bill that would allow children to stay on their parents’ health care longer, make premiums cheaper and stop insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

Millions of optimistic Americans logged onto healthcare.gov Oct. 1, hopeful they could sign up for health care through the federal exchange.

Not only was the website unusable, but citizens who had been promised by Obama they could keep their health care coverage if they so wished,

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The Hub apartment complex, sale of the Orpheum stand to change State Street

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while keeping the public safe during the 2011 protests.

The most important thing Wray said he learned during his 28 years at the MPD was to “take a moment to recommit” to the unconditional pledge of public service.

“It’s unconditional because you know that at some point in time you may be put in a situa-

tion life or death and you can’t run away from it, you’ve got to run to it,” Wray said. “And we tend to lose that along the way.”

Assistant Police Chief Randy Gaber is serving in the interim chief until the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners appoints a new chief, hopefully in early 2014.

Regents expand shared governance to include more employees Classified staff officially became part of campus governance in September.

The Board of Regents approved the UW-Madison Classified Staff Executive Committee Sept. 6, following in the footsteps of other UW institutions. The advisory committee will be part of shared governance, a system of faculty, academic staff and student groups that give input on campus governance and policy development.

Classified staff make up 30 percent of campus employees.

Classified positions are those that have similar descriptions

as other jobs in the Wisconsin government and include custodians, accountants and administrative assistants.

Committee Vice Chair Gary Mitchell told The Daily Cardinal in November the formation of the committee was a response to Wisconsin Act 10, which reduced the staff’s collective bargaining rights.

Classified staff elected the executive committee in October, and it met several times over the course of the semester. The committee’s work was largely focused on creating bylaws and solidifying the structure of the organization.

Lions center Raiola apologizes to UW Marching Band for verbal insults

Following the Packers-Lions football game at Lambeau Field Oct. 6, rumors surfaced that Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola verbally assaulted members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Marching Band during their annual trip to Lambeau Field.

In a Facebook post, band member Zachary York accused Raiola of making several verbal

insults, some sexual in nature at members of the marching band before they played the National Anthem and during halftime of the game.

Raiola later apologized to the band in a phone call to long-time director Mike Leckrone and offered to make a “significant” financial donation to the band.

A statement released by the team said his

behavior was “extremely inconsistent with the standard of behavior we expect from our players.”

The Lions’ team president Tom Lewand and Raiola also both apologized in statements after the incident. Lewand also said Raiola would not be punished any further, because he was overall satisfied Raiola had taken responsibility and apologized for his remarks.

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2. Vampire Weekend— Modern Vampires of the City

3. Chance The Rapper— Acid Rap

The cover to Modern Vampires of the City says it all. Gone is the bright chandelier of their vaguely Instagram filtered picture on Contra—here New York City (Vampire Weekend’s real home, outside the collegiate corona that enveloped their first albums) rises from smog—stately, monochrome; exuding elegance, grace and just a bit of terror.

The same can be said of the music. Ezra Koenig and co. stepped it up with their third release, largely shedding the afropop stylings that defined their earlier output—a loss, perhaps, were it not for the fact the music they replaced it with is just as singular.

Everything about the album is consummate: the production, the instrumentation, the sound, the lyrics, the vocals, the atmosphere. There is nothing misplaced, no misses whatsoever. At the same time, Modern Vampires isn’t wholly new. Lead single “Step,” alongside songs like “Unbelievers,” “Don’t Lie” and “Everlasting Arms,” recall songs like “M79” and “Taxi Cab”—in other words, recall the older, younger Vampire Weekend.

So no, Modern Vampires isn’t a complete reinvention. It’s better. It’s a recapitulation, a refinement of their collective skills into an album that shines across 12 brilliant tracks, pulled off with polish, panache and dignity.

In a hip-hop world where your typical rapper talks about drugs and women, Chance the Rapper made his name on Acid Rap by viewing this project from a brighter perspective. From his admittance of being a “Chain Smoker” to missing the days of his mother’s “Cocoa Butter Kisses,” Chancelor Bennett reveals himself to listeners and creates a likeable aura around him.

The features Bennett compiled for Acid Rap are impressive for an artist’s second mixtape, as he was a virtual unknown to the general public until this release. His talents were well-noted amongst the rap community after 10 Day, giving him the ability to create relationships with artists such as Ab-Soul, Childish Gambino and Action Bronson.

Bennett’s ability to blend the genres of hip-hop and jazz show his versatility and justifies Acid Rap being placed third on our list. He shows off his musicality through singing and rapping, putting him in the same league as other dual-threat artists such as Hoodie Allen and, his frequent collaborator, Childish Gambino.

Here’s to the future of a new musician who has the talent to top the hip-hop charts.

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here aren’t a lot of epithets left unturned for Kanye West at this point: genius, savant, idiot, madman, black American psycho (one West came up with himself ). Whatever you think about the man, it’s hard to deny that he had 2013 wrapped around his finger. Despite sixth LP Yeezus’s inaccessibility and minimalist marketing strategy (though I suppose it now actually has singles and two terribly hilarious music videos,) the record shot straight to the forefront of the cultural conscience and carved out a comfortable little hovel for itself there.

The album isn’t just West’s strangest release yet—edging out the preposterously gigantic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and the remarkably icy 808s and Heartbreak—but it’s also his most egotistical, a raucous gothic horror spin on the messiah myth. West lumbers over the album like Frankenstein over his monster, spouting all kinds of nonsense about being God and eating sweet and sour sauce over thundering industrial beats, proving that in even the most absurd situations, West’s musical sensibilities shine true. The record may be a breeding ground for anti-Kanye sentiment, but at the end of the day, even West’s worst idiosyncrasies can’t drag down one of the most powerful and inventive albums from one of the most forward-thinking demiurges in pop culture today.

4. Queens of the Stone Age—...Like Clockwork There’s no getting around it: Queens Of The Stone Age are a heavy band.

Generally known as a psychedelic alt-rock group, QTSA have lived up to that reputation admirably. However, between 2007’s Era Vulgaris and 2013’s …

Like Clockwork, the band has diversified their sound. While …Like Clockwork still features classic QTSA-like jams such as “Keep Your Eyes Peeled” and “If I Had A Tail,” some of the songs on the album are a little lighter on their feet.

The upbeat tempo and quick guitar solos on “I Sat By The Ocean” sounds like something Led Zeppelin wishes they wrote for Houses of the Holy and “Smooth Sailing” is probably the funkiest song Josh Homme has ever written. The real jewel here, though, is “I Appear Missing,” the album’s second-to-last track. It’s everything there is to love about QTSA, all wrapped in a six minute package. The layered guitar, heavy chorus and Homme’s trembling vocals combine the greatness of the band’s older work with a dash of the album’s vibrant energy mixed in. In …Like Clockwork, Queens of The Stone Age has managed to go in a new direction while not abandoning their musical roots, a commendable achievement that has resulted in what is easily one of the year’s best albums.

5. Deafheaven—Sunbather 2013 as a whole has shown us it is possible to write an album that blends multiple, seemingly contradictary genres. Deafheaven’s Sunbather is the most shockingly beautiful example of this phenomenon. Incorporating elements of metal, hardcore, screamo and post-rock, among others, Sunbather proves partitioning certain artists and albums into strict categories is a nonsensical tradition perpetuated by the close-minded.

Clocking in at just seconds under an hour in length, the seven-track album, which features three tracks over 10 minutes long, meanders along perfectly orchestrated instumental parts before building into powerfully emotional heavy sections. It’s a method of stark juxtaposition most shy away from due to its inherent difficulty, but Deafheaven executes it with brilliance.

It’s also worh mentioning Sunbather features some of the year’s most striking, yet simple, album art.

There’s a reason this band has generated so much buzz since Sunbather’s release.

6. Los Campesinos!— No Blues

In the wake of 2011’s Hello Sadness, No Blues’ title seems like a triumphant statement of intention—until you actually listen to the album. Despite the continuous culling of their lineup, Los Campesinos! fifth album is still very much in line with their original blueprint: sugary, hyperliterate songs mostly about devastating heartbreak, full of inescapable hooks and the obligatory smattering of high-brow soccer jokes. The really amazing thing is that No Blues isn’t just another notch on the stick—funny, noisy, heartfelt and infectious, it might just be the group’s best album yet.

7. Waxahatchee— Cerulean Salt If Cerulean Salt isn’t the most technically accomplished album of the year (most of the songs are devoid of sonic spin-shine at all,) it might just be the most affecting. Katie Crutchfield navigates the twisting rapids of youth and young adulthood with finesse and brilliant lyricism, tackling despair, alcoholism and suicidal loves with the poignancy of a million sepia-tinted photos. It’s a record for late boozy nights with people you’ve known for years, just don’t let them see your tear trails.

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8. Foxygen—We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic Foxygen’s latest release, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic is an impeccably crafted album. If you don’t have enough time to get through this nine-song masterpiece, start with “No Destruction,” a song that would find a perfect home on the Velvet Underground’s Loaded or The Rolling Stones’ Some Girls. In an era where bands often either find themselves as great live bands or great studio bands, but rarely both, Foxygen perfectly bridges the gap, as they convey the power of their live show on this fantastic record.

9. Death Grips— Government Plates If we’re calling Yeezus experimental hip-hop, then Death Grips’ Government Plates might not even qualify as hip-hop at all. It’s just as aggressive and psychosexual and terrifying as anything the group’s put out before, but this time the songs are shorter and more abstract, a whirlpool of influences that blend together into something equal parts hideous and transcendent. Death Grips pushed the patience of their fanbase this year with a series of exponentially frustrating punkerthan-thou stunts, but if it yielded an album like Government Plates then, hey, we really don’t have that much to complain about, do we?

12. Boards of Canada— Tomorrow’s Harvest

10. Haim— Days Are Gone

11. A$AP Rocky— Long.Live.A$AP

In late September, an indie-pop tsunami landed in California and promptly swept the rest of us off our feet. Since the release of their debut album, the Haim sisters have quickly been stealing hearts across the music scene. Their charming sister act of impeccable ’80s-inspired pop songs was a big hit this festival season and with good reason. Days Are Gone stands unquestionably as the best pop album of the year with top hit single “The Wire” and the croony “Honey & I” as solid proof.

A$AP Rocky delivered a helluva debut album in January.

Although, this was not a surprise, as Rocky’s Live.Love.A$AP mixtape from Oct.. 2011 showed critics this Harlem native is capable of changing the genre of rap for a long time to come.

From hit singles like “F**kin’ Problems” and “Goldie” to lesserknown tracks “Fashion Killa” and “Angels,” Long.Live.A$AP does not contain a skipable song. A$AP worked with production legends such as Clams Casino, Drake’s producer, in order to provide us with one of the most ear-pleasing albums of 2013.

Long.Live.A$AP is an exceptional experience for your mind, and leaves you wanting more.

14. Arctic Monkeys— AM It was a great year for British Music, and whom else would you expect to be leading the way but Arctic Monkeys? AM is the Sheffield-turned-LA boys’ first record in two years, if the nearly unanimous ranting and raving from critics upon its September release is any indication, it’s one of their strongest efforts yet. Typical suave tracks like “Do I Wanna Know?” and “R U Mine?” are backed up by new sounds on songs like “Arabella,” which the group has attributed to R&B influences. Alex Turner’s superb writing paired with the band’s phenomenal composition skills are a combination that always finds a way to work.

15. Savages— Silence Yourself After a watery, murmuring introduction, the bass comes in on “Shut Up” in ominous, throbbing tones, and you realize you’ve just wandered into a storm.

Silence Yourself‘s greatness can be explained meteorologically. The guitars crash like thunder and come down like sheets of rain—all to the monotonous patter of the drums and pulsing bass. And in the center of it all is lead singer Jehnny Beth, howling in gales of doom and unrest.

Remarkably consummate for a debut album, Savages’ first is a fiercely enjoyable squall, and sees Beth and co. putting their best foot forward—they let it rain.

16. Atoms for Peace— Amok Putting Thom Yorke and Flea in the same band was bound to be interesting. However, with the release of Amok, Atoms for Peace established themselves as a superbly talented, regimented band with a devotion to structure. From the opening strains of “Before Your Very Eyes…,” Amok evokes the industrial precision of its producer/creators, but also incorporates Flea’s freewheeling bass style and the creativity Yorke brought to Kid A. The resulting product is one of the year’s most unique albums.

Overall, Amok stands as a testament to the powers of its creators and modern musical engineering.

17. Tyler, the Creator— Wolf Through reminiscing about his family on “Answer” and a bipolar relationship with a crush, he gives us much more insight into his life on Wolf than the attention-seeking Goblin LP released in 2011. By handling production almost entirely by himself, Tyler, the Creator shows his multi-faceted ability in music and the very creative side of his mind. By tackling such issues as love, homosexuality and negativity of the press in cleverly-written verses delivered over his unique production, Tyler, the Creator sets himself apart from the crowded scene of 2013 hip-hop releases.

21. Daft Punk— Random Access Memories When Random Access Memories came out in May, I was positive I was listening to the album of the year. From the “Get Lucky” to the hypnotic “Lose Yourself to Dance,” this album seemed to be headed to the top of every year-end list. Alas, the album doesn’t have the shelf life one might hope and pales in comparison to Homework or Discovery.

If for nothing else, the bizarre series of events surrounding the release of Tomorrow’s Harvest— stemming from an obscure, passwordsecured website—qualifies it as one of the top albums of 2013.

But beyond their creative antics, Boards of Canada’s first full-length release since 2005 was not only a continuation of the duo’s past mind-numbingly enjoyable esoteric electronic compositions, but it also introduced the group to a whole new audience (evident in Tomorrow’s Harvest peaking at 13 on the U.S. music charts).

13. Speedy Ortiz— Major Arcana That’s a mite unfair.

Adoration isn’t easy when you’re a musician or a band, which makes it all the more remarkable that Speedy Ortiz, of Northampton, Mass., manage to emit such patent adoration of ‘90s indie rock while simultaneously reinvigorating it. On Major Arcana, their debut album, they outstrip their torchbearer comparisons, with a suite of great tunes like “Pioneer Spine” and “No Below.”

18. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds— Push the Sky Away

Nick Cave’s spent the last seven or so years as a sex-crazed reptile (first in slimy garage outfit Grinderman and then on the Bad Seeds’ excellent 2008 Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!), so Push the Sky Away’s regression into gentle tape loops and ghostly compositions isn’t that surprising. Unlike 1997’s The Boatman’s Call though, Cave’s other minimalist concession, Push the Sky Away preserves Cave’s most sinister undertones, and the result is a record that’s wide eyed and wired, quietly bearing its fangs at a desolated world. And, of course, Cave is still one of the best living songwriters we have. It takes a real gift to spin Hannah Montana references into something bordering on the sublime.

19. David Bowie— The Next Day After 10 years of silence probably spent floating in space, David Bowie made his return to Earth in 2013 with his 24th studio album. It would be hard for any artist with a catalogue as large and flamboyant as Bowie’s to top past accomplishments, but The Next Day doesn’t disappoint. Nominated for the United Kingdom’s prestigious Mercury Prize, the album boasts many new Bowie gems including the title track and “Dancing Out in Space.” Ziggy, it’s so good to have you back.

24. Janelle Monáe— The Electric Lady

20. Danny Brown— Old

It’s been a wild year for Danny Brown, but nothing tops the sheer bravado and ambition of sophomore album Old. Much like 2011’s XXX, the record is inundated with sex, drugs, partying, drugs and—most of all—drugs, all peppered over psychedelia-tinged beats that reportedly drew inspiration from Kid A. Brown isn’t as shallow as his cartoon antics belay, though.

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22. The National— Trouble Will Find Me Tom Berninger and co. aren’t exactly known for being upbeat, and Trouble Will Find Me, the band’s sixth studio album, doesn’t deviate from that tradition. The album starts off with “Should I Live In Salt,” a mournful tune with a chorus that’s way catchier than it has any right to be. This sets the tone for the album, which may grate on some listeners after a while. However, “Sea of Love” and “Fireproof” are straight outta High Violet and the record is a worthy addition to The National’s discography.

23. The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die— Whenever, If Ever By this time we’ve probably heard enough about emo revival, but that doesn’t mean Whenever, If Ever should be shunned from any best-of list. With its ability to evoke feelings of all kinds through strong lyricism and songwriting, this album is a must-listen for all.

Don’t dare discount them because of their long name

With the release of her second album, The Electric Lady, R&B artist Janelle Monáe proved she is immune to the sophomore slump. The album rides the line between being serious and totally danceable, exploring maturity and empowerment in a utopian universe. In this strange futuristic world, Monae poses as her alter-ego Cindi Mayweather, an android who has fallen in love with a human.

On the 19 tracks, Monae proves herself as an innovative producer as well as a dynamic vocalist.

25. Fuck Buttons— Slow Focus Fuck Buttons’ third album, Slow Focus, is loud. It’s grating. It drones. But there’s a method to the madness.

Wading through long swaths of noise—across suites like “Brainfreeze” and “Stalker”—you realize that the music isn’t random and chaotic. It’s noise and drone, sure, but it’s a combination that contemplates.

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Administration must work in tandem with students to create a positive campus climate This is the final installment of a three-part series detailing how The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board feels about the state of diversity on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus and the current status and planning environment for the next campus diveristy plan.

This Editorial Board has spoken twice about diversity on campus in the past week,

focusing first on the prioritization of funding for diversity programs and secondly as a call

for Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s increased involvement in the support for those programs.

As the university is moving toward creating a new Diversity Plan, we support its endeavors to focus on cultural change instead of institutional or programming changes alone.

Changing the culture in a community of over 40,000 people is a complex goal, but is necessary for the long-term health of our university.

The “sifting and winnowing” referred to on Bascom Hill should not be limited to the classroom.

Leaders on the Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee gave us some insight to the longterm goals of the coming plan.

They informed us that goals for diversity in higher education are moving toward an era of “inclusive excellence.” For policy makers, that means that the

university will be working not only toward helping students from underrepresented groups gain admission, but toward instituting programs that will help to retain them and ensure that their experiences on campus are beneficial for them as individuals and the campus as a whole.

It has become evident over the last several years that the campus culture has a long way to go before it is fully functional in fostering safe space and a living-learning environment that allows all students to thrive. Although there are always more ways to improve upon the culture in institutional ways, the university’s new policies will not create lasting change unless students are willing to create change in their own lives.

The Diversity Plan’s success will hinge upon the conscious decisions of students and faculty to question the way that they see the world and their role in it. The “sifting and winnowing” referred to on Bascom Hill should not be limited to the classroom—it should be a continual search for truth in the

spaces of our everyday lives, and the pursuit of a greater, more inclusive future.

As the university is moving toward creating a new Diversity Plan, we support its endeavors to focus on cultural change instead of institutional or programming changes alone.

As the committee moves forward with crafting the plan, it is holding “engagement and listening sessions” for students, staff and other campus partners to participate in conversations about their experiences. They will be an invaluable chance for students to engage in dialogues around important subjects and express their desires for the future campus climate.

We urge students and staff to take advantage of these opportunities—shaping a healthier campus culture is the responsibility of individuals as well as organizations.

Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Nelson Mandela’s legacy continues to impact South Africa Ryan bullen opinion columnist

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he world lost one of its truly inspiring leaders and visionaries December 5 in South African President Nelson Mandela, at the age of 95. Mandela’s story is, by no exaggeration, an amazing one. The white South African government’s policy of apartheid was a hideous example of racial discrimination and segregation. Because of his fight against apartheid, Mandela served a 27-year prison sentence. Mandela was able to overcome all of this and bring about the end of apartheid and in 1994 became South Africa’s first truly democratically elected president. But as we say goodbye to this legendary man, South Africa is far from racially equal “rainbow nation” that Mandela dreamed it would be.

South Africa has made positive strides economi-

cally since UN sanctions and international pressure to end apartheid essentially crippled the South African economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

However, while South Africa has been able to host lavish events like the 2010 World Cup it remains very economically depressed for the majority of South African citizens. South Africa currently ranks second behind the country that lies within its borders, Lesotho, for the largest income-inequality gap in the world. Despite the intense debate and outrage over income inequality in the United States, America ranks 41st.

While apartheid might have been officially ended politically in 1993, this enormous wealth disparity is in a sense social apartheid. What has essentially happened is that the white minority population that was able to prosper under the policies of apartheid, has continued to prosper with the economy’s reemergence, helped greatly by previous educational advantag-

es and possessing the majority of employer positions. All while the economic turnaround has caused mass urbanization of black South Africans and has led enormous outbreaks of slums or “townships.”

Additionally, while in the past whites tended to live within the country’s large cities like Cape Town and Johannesburg because of the economic opportunity and the exclusion of the black population, the mass urbanization of blacks has led to large populations of whites moving to wealthy gated communities outside of the city.

This continued separation of the races is a policy of neoapartheid with the only difference being the lack of political outrage toward it.

It is also no secret that the continent of Africa as a whole is widely affected by HIV and AIDS. South Africa as of 2009 ranked fourth-highest in the world of percentage of adults infected with HIV. While white South Africans are by no means

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not affected by the disease, the vast majority of infected South Africans are black. An important factor in these high rates is the lack of sexual and medical education. As knowledge about the dangers of HIV crashed into western society during the 1980s, the vast majority of the black South African population remained ignorant to the disease and even passed it off as “white man’s propaganda.”

The South African government failed miserably in educating its citizens about the disease as well. Thabo Mbeki, who served as president of South Africa from 1999 to 2008, even went as far as to publicly suggest that beetroot and garlic could help prevent HIV infection. The lack of sexual education in heavily populated black regions will turn the already extremely high level of HIV infection to catastrophic levels if something is not done.

South Africa is a land known throughout the world for its stunning beauty and fierce wil-

derness. Unfortunately, for most of its recent history it has been mainly know for racial oppression and inequality. Nelson Mandela was not only seen as a savior for the black South African community, but also served as a beacon of hope for the entire nation. His courage, humility, vision and perseverance fostered an intense love for the man that many South Africans referred to as “Tata,” which is the tribal word for father. South Africa faces enormous challenges ahead and if it is to overcome these challenges, it need only look to the wisdom of Nelson Mandela.

“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”

—Nelson Mandela

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Roses, buds and thorns

The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board weighs in on all things fall semester.

We’re smelling the roses, hoping for new buds and trimming all the thorns.

Roses Dane County budget

Dane County included over $242 million in its adopted 2013 budget, which amounts to nearly half of the county’s total operating budget costs.

Included in the budget is $1,528.96 to provide short-term emergency shelter for homeless families and individuals, in addition to help families secure permanent housing. The county budget also allocates funding for mental health services, community development and youth services.

LGBTQ rights

Sixteen states and Washington, D.C., guarantee the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. Of these, seven were decided or enacted in 2013—an unprecedented wave of legislation that points to greener pastures for civil rights. Additionally, in June the Supreme Court ruled that defenders of California’s anti-gay marriage initiative, Proposition 8, was unconstitutional, setting a precedent for further protection of gay civil rights in the future. It was a good year for the movement: If only Wisconsin would get on board.

Iran

The nuclear deal that the United States and five other world powers signed with Iran this November is not the sort of agreement idealists have dreamed of, but to deny its significance is both ignorant and tasteless.

Ignorant because even though the deal did not achieve a permanent and complete halt to Iran’s nuclear program, it undeniably makes the world a safer place and sets a precedent for further negotiations and, hopefully, a permanent deal. Tasteless because any argument Republicans have made against it is simply for political gain, putting the nation’s interests on the back burner. The United States, and President Barack Obama in particular, needed this piece of good news, or 2013 would have gone down in history as one to forget.

Technological growth

If you manage to sort through all of the politicized, generalized muck that is economic data, there shines an undeniable bright spot that could improve Wisconsin’s economic future for years to come. For a variety of reasons, young, high-growth technology companies have began to sprout up around the state. The Madison area is home to Epic Systems, one of the country’s most influential companies in the health care industry. Milwaukee is nurturing a booming water technology industry that shows huge potential for growth. Business incubators are popping up across the state, helping bright young Wisconsinites realize their own potential and contribute to the state’s. These are just a few examples of the technology trend sweeping across Wisconsin, a trend that has many people hopeful and, unfortunately, many politicians excited to take credit for it.

Buds Diversity Plan

After a sluggish start last fall it appears hard and honest work is finally beginning to be put forth in making the university’s next strategic diversity plan. While we are uncertain about the university’s commitment to funding and upholding the plan, we believe in the capability of the students, faculty, staff and community members who sit on the committee currently drafting the plan. With a projected completion date sometime next spring, we are excited to see and discuss with this campus what is put forth.

Technology in Madison

The city of Madison is working toward improving digital technology within the city.

This year the city created the Digital Technology Committee, which seeks to assist the technological needs of local residents and businesses, focusing on low-income areas. This is an advisory committee composed of alders and community members who will make studies and recommendations on how to make Internet more accessible. As a Board, we are glad the city of Madison is dedicating resources to improving digital technology and we are excited to see what this committee will accomplish.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank

In the past few years the University of Wisconsin-Madison administration has been hit hard by budget cuts, growing tension with the state government and occasional uproar among students, staff and faculty over various policies. This campus can be an intimidating environment. We would like to applaud Chancellor Rebecca Blank for her work in continuing to smooth some of these remaining worries. While we respect that she may still be adjusting to the new position, we encourage Blank to be more vocal and engaged with the campus community next semester. We urge her to state her support for the Diversity Plan and want to hear more about how she plans to improve the financial state of the university.

Wendy’s on State Street!

Let’s be real: We are a little bit excited for Wendy’s to go in on State Street. While we definitely believe that State Street should at its core be a place for smaller, local, unique businesses to flourish, there are some times when there is nothing better than some french fries and a Frosty. And for that, we look forward to that cute little red-headed, freckle-faced Wendy joining our UW-Madison community.

Women’s rights

Last June, Wisconsin passed legislation requiring women seeking abortions to have invasive ultrasounds in an effort to scare them into going through with the process. The state’s actions in regard to womens’ health care choices is a disgrace. Additionally, it is discouraging to see legislation such as this passing across the nation. Still, Wisconsin’s own U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, was among a number of federal legislators to propose the Women’s Health Protection Act last November, which would make it illegal for states to hinder women’s reproductive rights. While it is unlikely that this bill will pass, it is refreshing to see politicians at the federal level taking actions that empower and value womens’ choice. In the future, this Editorial Board hopes Wisconsin will serve a positive model for reproductive autonomy. It’s refreshing to know that at least one Wisconsin politician sees how grave this situation is and is working to change it.

Thorns Affordable Care Act’s website

Nothing is more disappointing than a long and hard fight that ends in a loss. We were rooting for the Obama administration in its battle to bring the benefits of the Affordable Care Act to Americans, but the ACA website’s failures—and furthermore the incompetency it exposed—are unacceptable. Unfortunately the fluke only added fuel to the flame of the Republican opposition. We support President Obama’s efforts with the ACA and hope his administration will treat the rest of the policy’s implementation with greater care.

Tenant-landlord bill

The Wisconsin legislature’s passage of the tenant-landlord bill last October is a huge thorn for tenant rights in Madison, especially for student renters. The bill, which aims to standardize renting practices across the state, allows landlords to dispose evicted tenants’ belongings and exempts landlords from including an itemized list of deductions to a tenant’s security deposit. Not only does this bill encourage an uneven relationship between renters and landlords, but it also unfairly assumes that renters are the bad guys. On UW-Madison’s campus in particular, student renters are frequently taken advantage of by landlords. To see state legislators supporting landlords’ shady actions is an embarrassment and grave disappointment for this Editorial Board. As student renters ourselves, we would hope the Wisconsin legislature to be on our side. However, the implementation of this law demonstrates that this is not the case. It is bad for students in Madison and allows an uneven relationship between tenants and landlords.

Intolerant faculty

This Editorial Board has taken significant interest in trying to make sense of ways UW-Madison could improve efforts to make the campus a more enriching, safe and helpful community for students from diverse backgrounds. So when a teaching assistant from the history department claimed he “fell victim” to a diversity training intended to make him a more effective and socially responsible instructor and was eventually allowed to opt out of it, we were quite disheartened. We are too well aware that certain individuals feel white privilege does not, in fact, exist. But to know these individuals are entrusted with the duty of educating students—our students—from all backgrounds and can get out of important trainings to ensure students feel safe in their classrooms because they whine about the trainings is, to be blunt, repulsive.

Government shutdown

For a group of conservative congressmen to shut down the federal government because they disagree with the implementation of a liberal social policy is embarrassing. Regardless of one’s opinion of the Affordable Care Act, it is simply deplorable for Congress to deem a shutdown appropriate due to legislation that was passed three years ago. Millions of government workers were furloughed without promise of a definite payday, proceedings at the International Revenue Service were slowed (including an expected tax return delay of at least a week), and the whole affair cost the U.S. over $10 billion. All so Ted Cruz could read “Green Eggs and Ham.”

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Top athletes of the semester (cont.)

AJ Cochran anchors a UW team with a perfect home record It was a special season all around for the Wisconsin men’s soccer team, but junior defender AJ Cochran had perhaps the most memorable one.

Starting in every game of the season, the preseason AllAmerican selection led a defensive unit that had seven shutouts, and allowed just seven goals in Big Ten play. The Saint Louis, Mo., native also added three goals, a career high, including two game-winners.

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For his efforts, the junior was the first Badger to be named the Big Ten conference‘s Defensive Player of the Year. Teammate redshirt senior midfielder Tomislav Zadro won Big Ten Conference Offensive Player of the Year, making the Badgers just the second school in Big Ten history to receive both awards in the same season.

The First-Team All-Big Ten selection is also currently one of the semifinalists for the MAC Hermann Trophy, awarded annually

to the top collegiate soccer player in the nation.

Guiding the Badgers to one of their most successful seasons to date, Cochran anchored a defense that led the way for Wisconsin to make its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 18 years.

Cochran is the only Big Ten athlete among the 15 semifinalists for the Hermann Trophy.

Should he win, Cochran would be the first Wisconsin soccer player ever to receive the prestigious award.

The field gets trimmed down to the final three candidates Dec. 12, and the ultimate winner is announced in January.

—Jason Braverman

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Redshirt freshman extraordinare Malachy Schrobilgen

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Schrobilgen (left) was the Big Ten Cross-Country Athlete of the Year.

Honorable mention athletes Josh Gasser, Men’s Basketball

The redshirt junior guard has been a defensive force, highlighted by holding Virginia senior guard Joe Harris to two points in a UW win.

Mark Zengerle, Men’s Hockey

Zengerle has been a force for the Badgers’ offense for a while now, and recorded his 100th career assist Nov. 30 against Minnesota.

Lauren Carlini, Volleyball

After being named 2012 National Gatorade High School Player of the Year, Carlini took over the Badgers’ offense, recording over 75 percent of Wisconsin’s assists while marching her team to the Sweet Sixteen.

Rose Lavelle, Women’s Soccer

The freshman forward was the first Badger to be named Big Ten Freshman of the Year, while also being named First-Team All-Big Ten.

Nic Kerdiles, Men’s Hockey

With seven goals and seven assists so far this season, the sophomore standout was able to extend his point streak to 18 before Wisconsin was shut out Nov. 15 against Miami (Ohio).

Jared Abbrederis, Football

A consensus First-Team All-Big Ten selection, the redshirt senior has one more game to play and currently sits at second in both receiving yards and receptions in the Badger record books.

Chris Borland, Football

Another consensus First-Team All-Big Ten selection, the redshirt senior has spent years anchoring the Badgers’ defense and ranks sixth all time in tackles and first in forced fumbles at Wisconsin.

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For the first time in 20 years the men’s Big Ten Cross-Country Athlete of the Year and Rookie of the Year were one in the same.

Badger redshirt freshman Malachy Schrobilgen took home both awards this season. The only other runners to accomplish this feat were Michigan’s Kevin Sullivan in 1993 and Indiana’s Bob Kennedy in 1988.

Head coach Mick Byrne had been aware of Schrobilgen since the summer of his junior year of high school, when he came with his friend and future Badger cross country runner Jack Stapleton to Madison for a summer cross country camp.

Once Byrne was able to start

recruiting Schrobilgen before his senior year, the choice became easy.

“I think I knew that I wanted to come to Wisconsin the minute I stepped on campus. I loved how the guys on the team held a high standard of themselves,” Schrobilgen said.

He followed up a strong performance in the Big Ten Championship race with a ninth place finish in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championship and 33rd place finish at the NCAA

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Schrobilgen had the highest finish for all Badger runners in the National Championship, helping guide UW to ninth place and earn himself All-American honors to cap off a tremendous season.

Schrobilgen has three years of eligibility left, and leads a young group of men who have proven themselves this season.

The future of the Badgers’ cross country team looks like it is in good hands for years to come.

—Samuel Karp

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Wisconsin volleyball’s ongoing NCAA Tournament run

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Head coach Bo Ryan reaches 300 career wins for Wisconsin In what has already been one of the best starts in history for Wisconsin men’s basketball, head coach Bo Ryan tallied his 300th win at UW. The game took place Dec. 4 when the Badgers recorded a 48-38 victory over the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The victory was part of the Big TenACC Challenge and marked Wisconsin’s ninth straight victory to start the season.

In many ways the gritty defensive win embodied the exact type of basketball that Ryan has brought to Madison over the course of his 300 wins. It was a lowpossession game that featured solid team defense and a balanced offensive attack.

This disciplined style of play is the reason why Ryan has never finished outside of the top four in Big Ten standings since becoming the coach at UW. Ryan is only the ninth coach in Big Ten basketball history to reach the 300-win milestone. He has been the coach at Wisconsin since 2001 and he has made the NCAA Tournament every season since his arrival, making it to the Sweet Sixteen on four occasions and the Elite Eight once.

Ryan currently holds a 0.727 winning percentage at Wisconsin and is amidst the second best start in school history, as the Badgers stand at 10-0.

—Blake Duffin

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Often, with a new coach, things can be rough the first few seasons, but not for the Badgers this year.

First-year head coach Kelly Sheffield brought new life to a team that had been stagnant compared to the previous decade of dominance UW had in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

The Badgers, who are in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007, beat Milwaukee and California Dec. 6 and 7 to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.

Key to the team’s on-court success was another newcomer: freshman setter Lauren Carlini. She has been named First Team All-Big Ten, as well as Big Ten Freshman of the Year for her skills in adeptly running the team’s offense.

In a season full of new triumphs, one thing stayed constant: Senior libero Annemarie Hickey was solid in leading the defense.

This season, Hickey cemented her place in Badger history by moving up to third on Wisconsin’s list of career dig leaders.

The Badgers played extremely well in the tough Big Ten conference, including back-to-back top-10 wins for the first time in program history. Playing in such a competitive conference prepared the team for a grind of a postseason. Sheffield has often referred to the Big Ten as a “gauntlet” that whipped his team into shape.

The Badgers are still alive in the NCAA Tournament, and travel to Champaign, Ill., to play Florida State in the Sweet Sixteen Dec. 13.

—Andrew Tucker

Semester’s top athletes Melvin Gordon and James White, the engines powering UW football One of the few certain things in this world, the success of the Badgers’ run game year in and year out, is nothing short of extraordinary. Alan Ameche, Ron Dayne, Montee Ball and now the dynamic duo of senior James White and redshirt sophomore Melvin Gordon have all left their mark on Wisconsin.

White and Gordon, Wisconsin’s signature backs this season, recorded 2,880 combined rushing yards in the regular season, propelling UW to second in total rushing yardage in the Big Ten, behind only Ohio State.

The duo has also found the end zone 25 times, giving the backs plenty of opportunity to perfect their touchdown dance, which was even mimicked by James Starks and Eddie Lacy of the Green Bay Packers.

White and Gordon have truly been the driving force behind the Badgers’ success, at times complementing the play of an up-and-down quarterback in redshirt sophomore Joel Stave, and other times picking up his slack.

Possibly the most telling statistic of how important the pair was to the Badgers’ success this year is that except for Arizona State, Wisconsin has won every game this season when at least one running back has recorded over 100 yards, and UW has lost every game in which they haven’t struck triple digits.

The strength of UW’s ground game is born from its shared burden—whenever one running back is having a bad game, there are others that can step up and share the

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Alex Rigsby breaks the UW wins record for a goaltender Senior goaltender Alex Rigsby has had unprecedented success with the Wisconsin Badgers, managing to break several school records throughout the course of her remarkable career.

Heading into her final season with the Badgers, Rigsby was within striking distance of two school records, and she managed to break them both in a Thanksgiving weekend series against Minnesota-Duluth.

In the first game of the series, the UW captain passed Jackie MacMillan for the most minutes played in program history, becoming the first player to log 7,000 minutes in the net for the Badgers.

The very next night, Rigsby reached another huge milestone by picking up her 92nd career win, surpassing Jessie Vetter for the most wins in school history.

All this success didn’t come without personal adversity.

Being a goaltender for a Division I hockey program is stressful enough as it is, but Rigsby’s life was turned upside down when her mom, Nancy, was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly before her junior year.

While such adversity could understandably cause a negative effect on a player’s performance, Rigsby wouldn’t allow it to be an excuse. She put together a spectacular campaign during her junior year, and her mom was able to beat cancer.

Her commitment, humility and ability to overcome any obstacle has allowed her to reach unprecedented levels of success and made her a great choice to be team captain.

When all is said and done, there’s no doubt Alex Rigsby will certainly go down as one of the greatest players to ever take the ice for the Wisconsin Badgers.

—Zach Rastall

Honorable mention moments of fall 2013 Men’s soccer NCAA Tournament run

For the first time since 1995 the men’s soccer team made the NCAA Tournament and won its opener against Milwaukee 1-0.

Ten straight years with Paul Bunyan’s axe

Wisconsin beat Minnesota 20-7 on a cold November afternoon in Minneapolis, marking a full decade since the Badgers last lost to the Gophers.

A perfect 10-0 start to the men’s basketball season

With Bo Ryan at the helm and sophomore forward Sam Dekker scoring 14.4 points per game, Wisconsin started its season in high fashion, standing at 10-0 after winning games against quality teams like Florida, Virginia and Marquette.

Frank Kaminsky’s school-record 43 points

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—Brett Bachman

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The 7-foot junior forward came with his A game Nov. 19, scoring a single-game school-record 43 points against North Dakota.

Golf hosts first home tournament since 2003

University Ridge has been home to the Badger golf program since 1991, though this year Wisconsin was able to compete there for the first time in 10 years.