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WISCONSIN RALLIES

Entry barred for protesters

Following limited access during day, Capitol shuts doors to public at 6 p.m.; people camp on Square Katherine Krueger Campus Editor After entrance to the Capitol was restricted for much of the day Monday, no members of the public were permitted to enter the building after 6 p.m. and officials said conditions for reentry to the building would not be released until this morning.

According to a statement from Department of Administration spokesperson Jodi Jensen, officers had been searching for an agreement with union officials.

“Since the building opened at 8 a.m. [Monday], law enforcement officers have been engaging in a dialogue with union representatives about a designated area in which the protestors can remain and about rules they should abide by while in the building,” Jensen

said in the statement. “No additional protestors will be allowed into the building until these discussions have reached a resolution. At that time, law enforcement will continue to implement the procedures that were announced this morning regarding the admittance of protestors to the Capitol building.”

Although the statement from the DOA said entrance would be limited to the King Street entrance and “crowd size [would] be adjusted to accommodate the cleaning crews,” Rep. Kelda Roys, D-Madison, said she was denied access to the building multiple times during the day. She said she was not granted access to the Capitol while attempting to bring food and medical supplies to protesters stationed inside the building, even after showing her Capitol identification card.

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A police officer stands in front of a door to the Capitol while protesters look on. Entry was blocked to the general public Monday.

Roys said Democrats decided to hold a public hearing in hopes of allowing more members of the public to gain access to the Capitol in order to testify, though individuals entering were still asked to wait in a line to enter one at a time, sign in and wear a sticker for entrance.

“I think it showed

they’re terrified of the citizens and willing to do anything to crush the people’s rights to gather peacefully and express themselves,” she said.

She added the enforcement of access to the building was inconsistent and continued to change “minute by minute.”

Capitol Police spokesperson Ken Donovan said visitors were no longer allowed to enter the building after 6 p.m. Monday night and entrance policies would continue to change as the situation required.

He also said a number of incidents affected the changing plans

for accessibility to the building, but would not comment on whether arrests were made or provide further details on the disturbances.

Some members of the public remained in the building after 6 p.m.

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BUDGET REPAIR BILL

Walker will announce biennium budget, hopes to refinance debt After being postponed, governor will introduce state’s economic future Andrew Averill State Editor As he gears up to introduce his biennium budget this afternoon, Gov. Scott Walker said debt needs to be refinanced by today in order to curb the current state budget shortfall.

Walker’s budget repair proposal contains a number

of cost-saving measures, including refinancing one-time debts owed to the Minnesota reciprocity tax fund and the Patient’s Compensation Fund.

However, the bill must pass by today to allow time for refinancing to take place, an action complicated by the absence of 14 Democratic senators, Walker said in a statement Monday.

“Now [the Senate Democrats] have one day to return to work before the state loses out on the

chance to refinance debt, saving taxpayers $165 million this fiscal year,” Walker said. “Failure to return to work and cast their votes will lead to more painful and aggressive spending cuts in the very near future.”

Last week, Walker said in a press conference 1,500 workers would be laid off

by July if the state does not refinance its debt.

Democrats have provided the governor with alternatives to refinancing

the debt — such as utilizing funds in the statutory balance and returning $79 million to the general fund — and criticized the plan to refinance debt as a means of “kicking the can down the road.”

“Pushing off that $165 million payment costs taxpayers an extra $29,570,000 in the next two years,” Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said in a statement, citing a report by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.

Released last Tuesday, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau’s report detailed the repayment of debt after refinancing as a 10year process. The debt would accrue more than $42 million of interest and cost Wisconsin nearly $207 million.

However, Cullen Werwie, Walker’s spokesperson, said the Bureau’s memo failed to compare the interest from refinancing with the interest accruing currently.

Interest on the state’s debt to Minnesota, for example, grows by more than $4,000 daily, he said.

Andrew Reschovsky, University of Wisconsin economics professor, said though Walker promised not to use one-time fixes — which refinancing arguably is — pushing the payment into the future could make sense, judging the state’s economy.

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CITY POLITICS

Council airs diversity concerns, emphasizes public participation Redistricting input will impact size, number of districts, alder salaries Lucas Molina City Reporter Small salaries, diversity and a possible decline in Madison’s City Council membership were some of the issues aired out during Monday’s special City Council meeting.

City Council provided input Monday for potential plans to change the salaries of alders and the size and number of districts within the city in an effort to better represent the results of the 2010 census and ensure a stronger focus on district and citywide problems.

The council’s recommendations will be passed along to a special committee composed George Levine The Badger Herald half of alders and half of Jeff Russell, above, was hired by the city as a third-party facilitator to the special City community members who Council session on redistricting in Madison and the council’s future membership size. will consider the council’s

main concerns while making decisions on the debated issues within the coming months.

Every 10 years, the council goes through the process of making changes in the size of the governing body, the wages its members make and the diversity of council membership paired with the possible need to redistrict as a result of census findings.

Jeff Russell, a private consultant who moderated the meeting, asked each of the city alders to come up with sets of principles that would need to be taken into account while debating redistricting.

The guiding principles included a focus on “communities of interest,” increasing public participation in the process, minimizing aldermanic boundary confusion and condensing

committee meetings to promote more efficiency and less banter.

Ald. Satya RhodesConway, District 12, said communities of interest are yet to be defined but they might include areas populated by students or minority populations. She said the communities of interest must be taken into account for redistricting and added the City Council must also promote diversity in its own membership.

“We don’t do that good of a job electing people to the council who are women or of color,” Rhodes-Conway said.

Since the City Council is dependent on its parttime alders, members also raised issues about the roles and responsibilities of an alder.

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UW SYSTEM

Governor willing to give System similar flexibilites as flagship campus Legislature, which has final say, has no concrete plans to grant powers currently Andrew Averill State Editor Gov. Scott Walker would support increasing flexibility for all University of Wisconsin System schools but the means to

do so now lies with the state Legislature, according to a UW System official.

Walker has already indicated the biennium budget to be released today will provide the University of Wisconsin with greater autonomy to deal with coming budget cuts. Other UW System schools have asked for similar changes

for themselves, and UW System spokesperson David Giroux said Walker has expressed a willingness to grant these requests.

Cullen Werwie, spokesperson for Walker, said more information will be available on UW funding and flexibility when the governor

introduces his budget today.

“All UW campuses are going to face serious financial challenges and all UW campuses need tools to face those challenges,” Giroux said.

He added Walker’s budget was printed weeks ago, and though it is too late to insert provisions

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that extend flexibilities to all the system’s schools, it was heartening to hear Walker advocating for those changes publicly in an interview Sunday with “Upfront with Mike Gousha.”

“Hopefully it sends the right signal to the Legislature so that we can get the tools we need,”

Giroux said.

Since the budget bill is already drafted and slated for public release today, the Joint Finance Committee and the Legislature would be responsible for amending the budget bill to give each UW System

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SSFC suggests free Union membership for UW grads WSUM budget approved; RecSports believes gyms to be in dire need of repair Melissa Hanson Senior News Reporter The student government asked the Wisconsin Union to consider giving lifetime memberships to every student who graduates from the University of Wisconsin during a meeting Monday.

The Student Services Finance Committee began holding small group meetings with campus institutions to discuss and make suggestions for their non-allocable budgets last week.

The committee continued with the meetings this week, speaking with leaders from the Wisconsin Union and Recreational Sports.

During the discussion, SSFC Chair Matt Manes proposed the Wisconsin Union consider providing free membership to the Union to all UW graduates.

Considering the amount students contribute to both of the Union buildings on cam-

pus — approximately $1,600 per student during a four-year career at UW — and any member of the community only has to pay $250 for a lifetime membership, Manes said students deserve a free lifetime membership.

Currently, UW alumni have to pay $55 for a lifetime membership at the Union.

Hank Walter, associate director of Wisconsin Union, said the idea was interesting, but students tend to use Wisconsin Union facilities more than the typical community member who buys a lifetime membership. They also receive additional benefits, like discounted tickets to certain shows and movies, through the Union.

However, Manes said considering the exceptional required contribution students make during their time at UW, they are almost entitled to free membership.

“SSFC is going to pursue lifetime membership for every student who graduates from this university,” Manes said.

The committee and the

Union will continue to hold discussions on the proposal at a later date.

The committees also met with RecSports officials to consider the longterm viability of the facilities Rec Sports operates.

Dale Carruthers, director of RecSports, said the gyms and other Rec Sports facilities are in dire need of repair and, in the long run, the campus is going to require new facilities.

Carruthers said the capacity for almost all RecSports facilities on campus has been met and exceeded.

However, UW does not have campus-wide support for a largescale project and students are not willing to support such a project with their segregated fees, Carruthers said.

“Whenever the students and the campus are ready to go, we’re ready to go,” Carruthers said.

Campus radio station WSUM will also continue to broadcast after the committee approved its budget.

The committee approved WSUM’s budget for the fiscal year of 2011-

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Dave Black, WSUM general manager, speaks during Monday’s SSFC meeting.

2012 at $319,523, increasing the amount initially requested by the organization by more than $6,000.

When drafting the budget, WSUM General Manager Dave Black said he assumed WSUM would have several workstudy employees, who are paid less than regular employees because of the precedent set during previous semesters.

SSFC Representative Peter Lorenz said the

committee’s practice has been to assume organizations will not have workstudy in its fiscal needs.

Lorenz said considering any extra money left over at the end of the fiscal year will be returned to the Associated Students of Madison, the increase in wages for those employees is inconsequential.

“This isn’t that big of a hassle now,” Lorenz said. “[It might] prevent one in the future, though.”

Bill would crack down on prank phone callers Sponsors say legislation has no relation to Walker’s conversation with blogger Sean Kirkby State Reporter Although representatives deny any connection to the recent prank call on the governor, two legislators began circulating a bill Monday that would ban making trick calls masking the caller’s true identity.

Sen. Mary Lazich, R-Waukesha, and Rep. Mark Honadel, R-Milwaukee, authored

PROTESTERS, from 1 and protesters brought sleeping bags to spend the night on the Capitol grounds to continue the demonstration.

After protesters’ two week occupation of the building, Jensen said in a statement normal business hours for the Capitol will resume in order for cleaning crews to continue cleaning.

While Jensen said Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget announcement scheduled for Tuesday

a bill that would prohibit tricking the call’s recipient into believing the caller is someone they are not for malicious purposes.

“While use of spoofing is said to have some legitimate uses, it can also be used to frighten, harass and potentially defraud,” Lazich and Honadel said in an e-mail to legislators.

The bill language forbids a caller from intentionally providing a false phone number and convincing the person receiving the call that it comes from someone other than the actual caller.

The bill would make it

illegal to defraud, cause harm or wrongfully obtain any information of value from using a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information.

It would also prohibit individuals from masking their voices or providing a fake phone number to the call recipient, said Jason Vick, spokesperson for Honadel.

A district attorney would enforce the prohibition on call spoofing. A person in violation of the law would be subject to a fine

of between $1,000 and $10,000 for each call made, according to the bill.

However, law enforcement and government regulatory agents who use phone spoofing to fight crime would be exempt from the law.

Although the authors of the bill denied any relationship, the bill’s circulation comes shortly after blogger Ian Murphy’s prank call to Gov. Scott Walker last week. Murphy impersonated billionaire Republican donor David Koch in the call.

Lawmakers introduced the bill at the end of the last session but ran out of time to pass it, Vick said.

The bill has already garnered some outside support.

“Transparency and honesty are always better than secrecy and deception. If this bill will help protect consumers, it deserves a hearing and deserves to be passed,” said Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause in Wisconsin.

The bill is not yet scheduled for a committee hearing.

was an immediate reason for renewed cleaning efforts, state officials and protesters have raised legal concerns about closing a state building to the public.

Tensions among protesters remained high during the day as rumors circulated that building windows were being modified to restrict entrance.

Madison Fire Department spokesperson Lori Wirth said in a statement no Megan McCormick The Badger Herald modifications were being A man dressed in unusual attire, who was later arrested, steps lightly on a Capitol ledge. made to windows.

BUDGET, from 1 “We are in a period where the economy is in very weak shape and the unemployment rate is high,” Reschovsky said.

“You could make the argument that doing less cutting now and moving things forward until the economy is stronger may be good economic policy.”

He added whether refinancing makes sense depends on the interest rate on Wisconsin’s debts.

If it is a high interest rate, it might benefit the state to refinance instead of cutting spending to repay the debt.

Meanwhile, Walker is set to introduce his budget this afternoon for the next fiscal biennium, which begins July 1.

Walker will introduce his budget in a joint session of the Legislature at 4 p.m. today.

The budget will include cutting state education funding by $900 million. A $500 per pupil reduction in property tax authority is expected, which would decrease aid to districts by roughly $600 million, according to a survey conducted by Reschovsky.

Reductions in aid to schools and other state and local agencies as a result of the governor’s new budget would not exceed savings provided in the budget repair bill, Walker said in a press conference.

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Leg Affairs ready to tackle voter ID bill in Assembly Lobbying will continue to insurestudent ID is valid at polling places Ryan Rainey Deputy News Editor With lawmakers at the Capitol inching closer to adopting a voter identification law, the student government’s Legislative Affairs committee said at a meeting Monday night they will attempt to continue lobbying legislators for amendments to allow student IDs as proper credentials.

Last week, the Senate voted to bar any further amendments to the legislative proposal that would introduce stricter identification requirements at the polls to help prevent voter fraud.

Since 14 Democratic senators are currently in Illinois to prevent quorum for a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill, voter ID has not yet

moved from the Senate to the Assembly.

Because students cannot lobby for any additional amendments on the Senate version of the bill, the Associated Students of Madison will try convincing freshman Assembly members and important Republicans to add amendments friendly to University of Wisconsin students, Legislative Affairs Chair Sam Polstein said.

Polstein said he plans to lobby new Republican representatives and one of UW’s harshest critics, Rep. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, who leads the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities. “[The situation in the Senate] allows us a little bit of delay, which is good for us,” Polstein said. “The Assembly is really going to be our target for the bill’s commission; it’s where we really want to get our amendments passed.”

Members of ASM will lobby most strongly for an amendment allowing students to use Wiscards as adequate identification at Madisonarea polling places, Polstein said. Currently, the most student-friendly amendments would allow voters to present their passports before voting.

However, passports may not be enough leeway for out-of-state students who keep sensitive documents with their parents, Polstein said.

“Our IDs are safe enough to keep money on and purchase things,” Polstein said. “You should be able to vote as well with that ID.” The bill would also increase the amount of time a voter would need to live at one address to vote to 28 days, Polstein said. He added he believes the student interest in the bill is non-partisan despite opposition coming from left-wing politicians.

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ASM Legislative Affairs Chair Sam Polstein addresses the committee during Monday’s meeting.

Many lawmakers at the Capitol have said the legislation is not nonpartisan, however. Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, said in a statement the bill is a “voter suppression measure.”

“Supporters of this measure argue it is necessary to stop voter fraud, which has proven to be partially nonexistent in Wisconsin,” Risser said in the statement.

However, Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, recently applauded the voter ID bill’s progress, saying it would prevent voter fraud in Wisconsin.

She also said the bill will not lead to an inability to vote for some Wisconsinites.

“When this bill is finally signed into law, it will provide Wisconsin voters more confidence in the integrity of their elections

and will not disenfranchise legitimate voters,” Lazich said in a statement.

Legislative Affairs committee members also said they will attempt to spread unofficial news that the Mifflin Street Block Party will be held April 30 because of the spring 2011 finals schedule. Polstein said ASM cannot make an official announcement or endorsement for legal liability reasons.

Falk endorses Parisi for county executive State rep. heads into March election against Madison district supervisor with successor’s blessing Pam Selman City Editor As the race for one of Dane County’s most prominent political seats heats up, one candidate secured current County Executive Kathleen Falk’s endorsement to succeed her 14-year tenure in the position.

Former Dane County Clerk and state Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, said Falk’s endorsement is a sign he shares several of Falk’s attributes that kept her in office longer than any other county executive in history. “[Falk] and I share Megan McCormick The Badger Herald many of the same values, Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk speaks at Vilas Zoo last month. such as environmental

COUNCIL, from 1 Rhodes-Conway said the number of constituents an alder represents is important because each alder has certain stressors related to addressing citizens’ concerns. She said the council needed to reevaluate how it can best serve the city by addressing how many constituents is a reasonable number for one alder to represent.

Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, said an alder should not have to suffer financially from their

UW SYSTEM, from 1 school similar flexibilities.

Judith Burstyn, UW chemistry professor and chair of the University Committee, said she has heard estimates of state funding reductions of 10 to 15 percent.

Although critics claim Walker’s decision to include only the Madison campus in the budget shows preferential treatment, Giroux said Walker approached other

position on the council, which she said was an important issue for most members who have full and part-time jobs aside from representing their constituents.

“How do you maintain a part-time job and parttime council job and make it work financially?”

Maniaci said. “A single person needs $1,500 to $2,000 a month for rent or bills at a base minimum — we’re paid poorly.”

She also said the council should scale down the number of alders from 20, a relatively high

number in comparison with national standards.

During an informal polling, only Maniaci and Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, opposed maintaining the current number.

“I would really like us to pay some attention to what the County Board is doing in terms of the time line [for redistricting],” Verveer said. “It could make a difference on the number of districts plus one or minus one.”

According to state law, the process needs to be completed by the beginning of the summer.

UW institutions to discuss their needs as well.

“I know he had a couple conversations with UW System President [Kevin] Reilly and representatives of the UW System,” Giroux said. “He visited many campuses and spoke with their chancellors.”

The Madison campus and other UW System schools seek flexibility to deal with state-mandated approval procedures that make campus institutions “Byzantine

mazes,” Martin said in a presentation to the Board of Regents last Friday.

She said it is difficult to pursue responsible operation while allowing time to go through some 25 steps required to get approval for one new purchase or to hire one person.

Beyond Martin and Provost Paul DeLuca, no one has seen excerpts of the governor’s budget bill and details remain speculative, Giroux said.

protection and caring for the most vulnerable people among us,” Parisi said. “[She] is someone who knows the job and has been supported by citizens of our county over and over again, so this is a very important contribution.”

Falk said in a statement Parisi’s first place standing in the primary elections could partially be attributed to their shared values and vision for the county’s future.

She also said Parisi stands out as the best candidate for the position given the current economic and social situations her office has had to combat throughout

the past several months.

“In a crowded field with several outstanding candidates, Joe Parisi came in first in the primary because he shares our values and has the vision for what it takes to keep our county great,” Falk said. “He’s the right person at the right time to grow our economy, protect our most vulnerable citizens, clean up our lakes and ensure Dane County families continue to have the highest quality of life.”

Eileen Bruskewitz, Parisi’s opponent and current District 25 supervisor, said she was not surprised to see Falk’s endorsement go to her

challenger because of their paralleled views, but said it highlights some key differences between the county’s current status and future.

Bruskewitz said she would expect Parisi to follow in Falk’s footsteps if elected to office, which she said presents a “stark contrast” between her campaign and Parisi’s ideas.

“If [Parisi] gets elected, I think it would be more of the same, whereas if I am elected, there would be some considerable changes in how the county budget would be written and a stronger emphasis on job creation,” Bruskewitz said.

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UW med students’ appeal to Walker

Herald Editorial Brave new partnership As University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin watched this state’s government face deeper and deeper financial woes with the approach of the 2011-2013 budget, she could have sat back and asked the Legislature to consider the university’s own difficult financial situation.

She could have asked for less cuts, for provisions that would keep tuition low and financial aid flowing. She could have asked for the now-modest framework laid out in the original New Badger Partnership last fall.

But as budget details began to emerge and the state’s costcutting measures spurred a crisis of national importance, something became clear: Now is the time to ask for everything UW needs, and to package that request in a way the state cannot ignore.

The result, tentatively laid out in draft documents, letters and conversations, is a proposal that would give UW public authority status and significantly greater freedom from state oversight.

The details currently backed

by Martin would separate the university from the UW System, allocate most state funding in a single block grant and allow an independent governing board to set university policy and tuition rates.

Martin’s plan would allow UW to escape costly administrative fees, accelerate building projects and recycle non-state funding surpluses into meaningful investments. It would also allow the university to govern itself with its own interests in mind and maintain valuable access to financial aid for students.

Martin’s proposal for greater autonomy echoes similar requests from a long line of

chancellors. In fact, the sentiment has been very common across the entirety of the UW System for the past few decades.

Martin is, however, the first to present the idea when there is an especially difficult economic landscape and a governor who feels little pressure to conform to state tradition. And, for that reason, she may just succeed.

The 2011-13 state budget, to be released today, should be read as a blueprint for UW-Madison’s future. This board hopes it maintains the clairvoyant proposals laid out by Martin, both in the initial draft and in successive versions as the bill works its way through the Legislature.

Martin has taken commendable preemptive action in the face of real adversity. We applaud her for her prudence in envisioning this new future for UW.

Open our doors, Walker Until Monday, it seemed the administration of Gov. Scott Walker was not cracking under the pressure.

Then, in an unprecedented move, the doors of the Wisconsin State Capitol were closed. Locked.

On a Monday morning. On the day before the state’s biggest budget announcement of the century.

Shut out were thousands who came to Madison to speak to their representatives, attend legislative hearings or simply have their voices heard.

It was not immediately clear where the decision came from.

Our staff tried to find out why people were not being allowed in, when they would be allowed in and who was responsible for keeping them out. Several officers stationed in and around the Capitol would not tell a series of Badger Herald reporters what was going on.

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Spokespeople offered contradictory reports and ignored media requests from multiple organizations.

The Department of Administration, which oversees the Capitol Police and is headed

by Walker-appointed Secretary Mike Huebsch, seems to have been the organization that made the call to close the doors to the public.

DOA spokesperson Carla Vigue told The New York Times Monday protesters who remained in the Capitol Sunday night were not cooperating with police orders, and that additional protesters would not be allowed in on Monday until that happened. She went on to explain that she was “not at liberty” to discuss exactly how the protesters inside the Capitol disobeyed orders.

If someone in Huebsch’s office had any just reason to keep protesters out, they should

have been screaming from the mountaintops.

So, in summation: Republicans close doors to opposition by locking down the Capitol.

Nobody gives a good reason why. Meanwhile, thousands of protesters stand idly by, trying to figure out how to stay organized when their main rallying point — the rotunda of the Capitol — is no longer accessible to them.

Despite the fact that a small number of people were being allowed into the building late Monday, the decision was, at best, a revolting attempt to slow the protests, and at worst, a violation of the Wisconsin Constitution, which prohibits the Legislature from denying anyone access to the Capitol when meetings are going on.

We call on Walker to reopen the Capitol to a group of people he talks about a lot: the taxpayers of Wisconsin.

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Open Letter Dear Gov. Scott Walker, We are students at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and are writing to ask you to change your stance with regard to the budget repair bill. We are opposed to this legislation because it will negatively impact both the University of Wisconsin Hospital and 1.2 million Wisconsin citizens who depend on BadgerCare.

Many of the nurses and other staff who keep the UW Hospital running and provide direct care to our patients are unionized workers. They are not paid by taxpayer money, yet under this legislation their unions would be barred from bargaining collectively.

The presence of strong and active unions helps guarantee that workers at our institution receive competitive pay and benefits. This allows us to attract the very best nurses, therapists and other health care professionals. The influence of unionized bargaining also helps keep working conditions and patient ratios safe for the staff. This translates into a better working environment, better care for our patients and a better education for us as students.

The people of Wisconsin are this state’s most valuable resource, and we are concerned about the impact this legislation will have on the 1.2 million of them who depend on BadgerCare.

During our training years, we have the opportunity to care for Wisconsinites in hospitals and clinics around the state. We witness daily the consequences of preventable illnesses when they are unprevented and treatable illnesses untreated because Wisconsinites were unable to afford the insurance or medications to keep them healthy.

During a recession in which many people have lost jobs or wages, more and more of our patients find themselves in this position. We cannot turn our backs on these people.

It is estimated that the change in eligibility criteria mandated by this

bill would result in 65,000 Wisconsinites losing their health insurance. These patients and their needs will not disappear; the cost of their care will just be passed on to hospitals and ultimately to those taxpayers who do carry private health insurance.

It is also worrisome that the legislation grants unprecedented rule-making authority to the secretary of health services. He would be allowed to change eligibility criteria further and to change reimbursement levels with very little legislative oversight and minimal input from the public or health care professionals.

Many of the nurses and other staff who keep the UW Hospital running and provide direct care to our patients are unionized workers.

We recognize that some cuts to BadgerCare services and eligibility may be necessary in order to maintain the long-term viability of the program.

Those decisions, however, should be made only after extensive public discussion and debate.

Patients, as well as the doctors and nurses who care for them, have unique insight into what kinds of changes will be least harmful and most efficient. They must have a say in the process.

Governor Walker, please do not sign this bill into law. It will harm the hardworking men and women who make the UW Hospital a worldclass medical facility, and it will do so without saving the state any money. It will devastate the tens of thousands of Wisconsinites who depend on medical assistance and cost Wisconsin more in the long run. Please, refocus your attention on the great and deserving citizens of Wisconsin.

Sincerely, 72 University of Wisconsin Medical students.

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Biddy a true champion of transparency compared to Walker John Waters Columnist Chancellor Biddy Martin has shown an unwavering commitment to transparency and discussion that is currently unrivaled in the city of Madison.

Where Gov. Scott Walker flippantly referred to the budget repair bill as “just another bill” in his letter to Wisconsin, Martin recognizes the incredible significance surrounding these proceedings.

The New Badger Partnership is a concerted effort to adapt to the realities facing a public institution with dwindling public funds, without a comparable increase in autonomy.

The future relationship between the University

of Wisconsin, the state and the rest of our outstanding collegiate system is just as complex as the details within the budget repair bill. Yet where Walker attempted to push through a vote in five days, has given more time to people pretending to be David Koch than reporters and cut off all debate because “we are broke,” Martin has been exemplary in her attempts to bring clarity to the “noise in the public domain.”

Martin has been all over the place in the last few weeks, whether you are following her on Twitter, checking your e-mail or reading the greatest newspaper ever created by man, Biddy is there, leading the conversation.

For the sake of this article, the outcomes of either the budget repair bill or the New Badger Partnership don’t concern me — what does is the difference between giving lip service to caring about public discussion,

and actually having that discussion.

Walker has been quick to point to the budget shortfalls and even quicker to point to the 14 missing Democrats as people aiming to “prevent democracy

In the budget discussion, all I have seen is namecalling and threats — nowhere have I found Walker answering specific questions about specific fiscal realities. from working [and] stifle debate.” Unfortunately, what has not been heard is an explanation for language in the bill that would allow for no-bid sales of power plants. Also lacking is a concrete explanation

for the fiscal necessity of busting unions. Where explanation has been lacking, threats of layoffs, attacks on union leaders and the blocking of union websites around the Capitol have been all too common.

On the opposite end of the spectrum has been Martin. She has spent hours on Twitter responding directly to the concerns raised by students who are trying to understand the implications of this new direction. When a memo between Martin and Walker showed the chancellor supporting Madison spinning off from the entire system, she was quick to provide details to the student body about her position.

In a recent e-mail, Martin provided her presentation to the Board of Regents.

In the e-mail, she made it clear the question of whether or not Madison should separate from the entire system “is not the question that

has guided our work.”

Instead Martin made it clear that she and the university are doing the best they can to “create innovative possibilities” to “deal with the extreme challenges” that face all of us — students, faculty and staff.

During the next two weeks, Martin will be holding two forums on the details and developments involving the New Badger Partnership, with everyone invited to attend. This is the kind of leadership we could use more of: more involvement in public discussion, not as a means to pit one group against another, but as recognition of tough decisions being made collectively.

In the budget discussion, all I have seen is name-calling and threats — nowhere have I found Walker answering specific questions about specific fiscal realities.

What I have heard is there

is a budget to be balanced, and if we spend any time at all understanding the fine print, thousands of people will lose their jobs and life as we know it may cease to exist.

So thank you, Biddy.

Thank you for caring enough about the people you serve to involve them in the conversation. Thank you for recognizing there was a drip of information that was confusing and worrying us and thank you for rushing to rectify the situation with facts from the proverbial horse’s mouth.

That’s all we want — just an opportunity to see what changes are going to be made and understand how they are going to protect and improve upon an institution that means so much. It’s downright reasonable of you, and that’s a lot in these unreasonable times.

John Waters (jkwaters@ wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in journalism.

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Album less ‘Blessed’ than previous glory Blues-rock artist Lucinda Williams makes slight fall from grace in latest through off-point vocals, uninspired lyrics briefly begin to resemble Williams’ former glory, but ArtsEtc. Writer the brief respite ends and It is the dull thud of a the illusion is shattered by kick drum and a sharp the return of her strained rap across the snare voice.

For instance, in the title (instead of the typical thunder clap and flash of track, “Blessed,” the band lightning) that brings to manages to take Williams’ life the monster Lucinda repetitive lyrics (almost Williams calls her 10th one third of the words album Blessed. Williams’ spoken in this song are latest starts off with the “we were blessed”) and thoroughly unimaginative infuse some energy into single “Buttercup,” and it as the song gracefully strives to get progressively crescendos with rattling keys, crashing worse with every passing piano drums and guitar. minute.

The high point of the The most offensive part of the album, however, album is without a doubt is not Williams’ apparent “Seeing Black,” the only lack of creativity — it’s song in which Williams’ voice seems the garbled to work well singing that and the band accompanies [Some] moments is given the all 12 tracks chance to of the hour- briefly begin to shine along long fiasco. resemble Williams’ with it. This In previous former glory, but can largely albums, ... the illusion be attributed Williams to the rapid boasted a is shattered by pace of the charming the return of her song, which and strained voice. prevents passionate Williams from southern producing the rock twang, but the undulating throaty prolonged tones slurring that blurts forth she seems to favor in her in this album can only other tracks, especially be compared to a cougar “Born to be Loved.”

One admirable aspect of singing karaoke at bar the album is the message time.

Blessed contains a slew and central theme. Blessed the things of uninspiring tracks that suggests all seem to contain the we have experienced same slow, lilting guitar. “I throughout our lives have Don’t Know How You’re shaped us in unique ways.

Living,” “Copenhagen,” Williams seems to believe “Soldier ’s Song,” “Ugly all of us have been blessed Truth” and “Convince Me” in some way, even if some all seem to be waiting in of our experiences were anticipation to begin, but painful.

But while the messages instead just drag on in the exact same way they of Blessed soar and Williams is able to started.

Rarely does Williams showcase brief glimpses improvise or change the of her former knack for original guitar riff she gracefully melding folk, began with as the music country and southern rock, takes a back seat and the album still falls far Williams’ lyrics begin to short of expectations. resemble bad slam poetry.

Blessed is a dull blur of lackluster lyrics, including Williams’ embarrassingly obvious pun,“You have disappeared, you have been released/ You are flecks of light, you are mist,” and the simply confusing “You talk about the junk you do like you talk about climbing trees.”

Musically, the only redeeming qualities Blessed can boast of are the few tracks where Williams allows the band to take over. These moments

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UW journalism student Matty Neikrug duels with dominantly athletic-themed campus rap and welcomes audiences to his “spaceship” of alt hip-hop culture.

New rap artist is anything but Stereotype UW junior Matty Neikrug hopes to dispel parallels to Eminem, Asher Roth some onlookers have drawn with his music Stephen Dixon ArtsEtc. Staff Writer If you’re into derivative Wisconsin football-meetsrap parodies, then you’ve had a good year: “Teach Me How to Bucky,” “We’re Smellin’ Roses,” and “Feelin’ So Fly Like a Cheesehead” have, for better or worse, all staked their claims on newsfeeds across the Wisconsin Facebook network.

Some championed these outbursts of creativity and production value, while others decried them as hasty attempts to create the next gimmicky viral video, piggybacking off a campus’ love for all things Bucky in the name of a couple thousand hits on YouTube.

Is there any student rap at the University of Wisconsin that doesn’t involve cheese or gratuitous football analogies?

Stereotype, the pseudonym for UW junior Matty Neikrug, would say there is, and that there are a lot. Having just released his second mixtape Feb. 22, titled Welcome to My Spaceship, Neikrug is a reminder there is more to hip-hop on this campus than the cringe-inducing, Badger-cheering, Top 40 samples from which we’ve heard so much.

In fact, there are no samples on Spaceship.

Everything was written and recorded from scratch with friends Oliver

Hunt and Charlie Kim. Spaceship is 10 tracks of refreshingly refined and glossy work, with the restraint to prevent too much lyrical chestpounding or delusions of hip-hop grandeur.

Spaceship definitely doesn’t suffer from a lack of confidence (“No matter what I gotta see how far this mic can go/ I gotta see how far the name Stereotype can go”), and it’s balanced out with a healthy amount of self-awareness. No Chet Haze megalomania here, as Neikrug gives off an authentic sound without drifting too far afield into poseur territory.

Although Spaceship is technically his second release, Neikrug considers it to be his first complete, start-to-finish production.

And rightly so: No production stones were left unturned and the quality and originality of the mixing ought to earn the respect of his peers.

“I really wasn’t sure what [the mixtape] was going to turn into,” said Neikrug, who grew up in California and did not start recording until he came to UW. “I just wanted something that was really well done, that I could be proud of and not have a weak song on there.”

But Spaceship succeeds most in being a mixtape with hip-hop stylings that a broader student audience can relate to.

“I’m just a Cali rapper; Madtown student,” Neikrug says on the tape’s eponymous first track, without making that dynamic bigger than it really is.

Neikrug has performed at the expected local spots: Der Rathskeller, Orpheum Stage Door and some other small venues around campus.

And while he’s been appearing regularly at the Rath’s Thursday open mics, he feels a lot more recognition is owed to other members of UW’s hip-hop scene.

“A lot of people probably know one or two rappers [on campus], but they don’t realize how many of them are working very hard and pursuing this very seriously,” Neikrug said, crediting what he believes is an underrated hip-hop community on campus.

“I didn’t realize it at first, either. It’s something I didn’t see until my sophomore year.”

A major catalyst for undergraduate hip-hop artists is the First Wave community at UW, a fouryear academic program structured around an artistic and multicultural curriculum.

Though Neikrug is not enrolled in the program, many of its members comprise an expressive and collaborative community of UW students with an interest in hip-hop, spoken word and slam

poetry.

“Everyone knows each other,” Neikrug said.

“We’re all working really hard and it’s going to pay off. Someone’s going to get a chance.”

But Neikrug isn’t necessarily banking on being the one to get that chance. A journalism major, he’s not set on making performing and recording hip-hop music his primary means of support once he graduates. It’s something he enjoys; it gives him a chance to write and create, and it opens doors into a broader group of students with which he otherwise wouldn’t have collaborated.

Neikrug’s point of view is an attitude that likely echoes throughout the rest of campus rappers and slam poets, but not for lack of dedication.

Instead of going for fame, the goal instead is authenticity of expression and collaboration with peers.

“Whenever somebody compares me to Eminem or Asher Roth, I just laugh,” Neikrug said. “If you hear the music first, you’ll realize that.”

And that’s what Welcome to My Spaceship ought to make an audience do: listen to the music. There’s no reaching for the stars, no forced attention grabbing, no pining for a viral video. And no “Black and Yellow” remixes.

ArtsEtc.’s protest wisdom continues with heightened radicality

Jonah Bromwich Paper Radio Columnist The sudden onslaught of political energy in Madison has brought forth something that’s not often so visible in the city of eternal gray winter, at least not outdoors: passion.

People are excited, angry, shouting, smiling and congratulating each other on identical politics. It’s a cool thing to be a part of — so much so that it seems some students are forgetting to be angry because they’re so taken with the idea of political involvement.

There’s room for a musical viewpoint amid all the rallies, rancor and hyperbolic comparisons to countries that are in far greater disarray than the majority of us comfortable college students can even imagine. But it’s hard to know how to use music to protest.

After all, this isn’t the ‘60s. Musical taste is fragmented now, compartmentalized to the nth degree; there’s no

great musical uniter, no Bob Dylan or Beatles. It would be so easy if there existed a Pandora station that was solely dedicated to protesting Gov. Scott Walker’s existence, but all I could find (thanks to AV Club Madison) was a station dedicated to soundalikes of the musician who bears the same name as the bile-inspiring governor.

The counter-culture anthems of yore are obsolete; if the times do change it will be for the worse, and overcoming doesn’t seem like an option when protesters cheerfully adhere to every rule and regulation of civil disobedience. But as I mentioned before, there is something raw in our city these days, a primal Promethean flame, which, if fueled, could at least result in something slightly more interesting than a visit from The Daily Show.

So let’s agree to forget the folksy acoustic ballads and all the tried, true and utterly tired tropes of yesteryear.

Let’s look for something more aggressive, maybe even a little scary — a head-turning reason to remember these February days as something other than a miniature retread of something our parents

have romanticized since we were old enough to pretend to understand.

Let’s turn on some songs that are getting some attention, maybe cause a little fear (and loathing).

After all, chanting will only get you so far, but as Jimi Hendrix reminded us, “If there is something to be changed in this world, it can only happen through music.”

Odd Future — “Sandwiches” To attempt to make a difference, you first have to make people notice you.

And that’s exactly what Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All did when they performed this song on the otherwise overwhelmingly docile Late Show with Jimmy Fallon last week.

Most impressively, they turned a bunch of heads with most of these lyrics censored.

I can’t imagine what would have happened if people had heard what they actually say in this song, the most innocent of which involves leprechauns with leprosy, killing any kids who are lucky enough to be happy and all manner of nauseating references to genitalia that you’d be better off without. The thing is, this is what it

takes to get noticed today.

And any attention is good attention. Right?

Gemmy — “Bass Transmitter” Dubstep is still a relatively new musical genre, and as such it has the potential to upset a lot of people who are unfamiliar with the dark, shifting electronic chaos that confronts a firsttime listener. However, this is probably the most harmless song on the playlist.

Gemmy is one of the genre’s original prophets, and the circling synths of this song precede the gigantic bursts of bass that power most of his music. It’s the sound of positive change, and thus a perfect litmus test to figure out who’s interested in something innovative and who’s willing to put up with the same old crap under a different name.

Danny Brown — “Dick Suck” If you couldn’t figure it out from the title, this song is pretty offensive.

It’s masochistic, stupid and very reminiscent of another Detroit rapper who used to be this funny and dangerous before he recovered.

It’s a song that

recaptures the subversive edge rap has been missing since someone who’s only about five-foot-five and raps about lollipops declared himself the best rapper alive. So sure, it’s offensive. And that’s exactly what we need right now.

LCD Soundsystem — “Dance Yrself Clean” James Murphy starts this standout track from This is Happening being polite as all get out. Every statement he makes is negated immediately when he sings, “Present company excepted.” And then suddenly, about three minutes in, things change — the synths start blaring, the drums get administered a beating and Murphy starts shouting earnestly about what needs to be done in order to get clean. It’s a case of necessity overcoming civility, a simple (and relevant) transformation that makes an enormous difference.

Nirvana — “Radio Friendly Unit Shifter” The story of In Utero is told pretty frequently, but it’s a story worth telling.

The no-frills version goes a little something like this: Kurt Cobain was pissed about the co-optation

of the group’s previous album, Nevermind, by the obnoxious jerks that make up a significant amount of the population of the world.

So with the next album, he tried to make something that would alienate all of his previous fans, à la Dylan’s shift to electric.

Unfortunately for Cobain (and fortunately for the rest of us), the guy was talented enough to botch an attempt at botching a record, and produced something that’s arguably better than anything he did before. Yeah, the name’s ironic. But that doesn’t stop this jam from being loud, raucous and compulsively listenable.

Tyvek — “Future Junk” Guitar solos are often described as blistering, but you might want to invest in some salve for your eardrums before you throw on this hair-raising track by brave new punk act Tyvek. First comes the guitar, then come some half-mumbled, halfshouted lyrics. I have to confess, I have absolutely no idea what’s being said in this song, but I do know that it’s fast, loud and short — a companion for revolutionaries and anarchists who are willing to make a little noise.

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40-yard dash; 31-inch arms; 8.75-inch hands; 29inch vertical leap At UW: Clay entered the 2010 season as a Heisman candidate, but ultimately took a backseat to Montee Ball and James White. For the year, he finished second behind White with 1,012 rushing yards (5.4 per carry) and also contributed 14 rushing touchdowns. In the vaunted history of the Wisconsin running game, Clay will leave Madison with the seventh-most rushing yards (3,413) in school history.

At the Combine: Clay showed up in Indianapolis 30 pounds lighter than he was at the end of the season. Yet, his 40 time was very disappointing,

PLAYOFFS, from 8 Playing at a high level all season, Wisconsin has had arguably the strongest season in women’s hockey. Still, Johnson just wants his team to remain consistent and play Wisconsin hockey at it’s best.

“It’s that ability to go out and play the way we’ve played all season,” Johnson said. “We’ve been very consistent since we first started in September. We’ve had a few bumps along the way, but, for the most part, the team’s played very consistent all year, and that’s what we’re looking for right now.

You can’t change things.

We are what we are.”

Knight closes in on 50 goals Scoring three goals this past weekend against SCSU, junior forward Hilary Knight leads UW with a total of 46 goals on the season.

With at least one

STRUGGLES, from 8 to the Huskies in game two. After a phenomenal start to the season, Gudmandson’s play has dipped.

“Goody — like the rest of the team — his issue is just confidence,” Eaves said. “It’s mechanics, it’s about getting back to basics.”

Eaves is hopeful his entire team will get back to basics and show some life after such a demoralizing weekend in St. Cloud.

Following Saturday

TOURNEY, from 8 winning this weekend’s tournament might be just as impressive as winning the NCAA’s two weeks later.

“I think the Big Ten Tournament is actually tougher than the NCAA’s,” Davis said.

“Most of the matchups you see in the Big Ten

as many experts were expecting a time in the 4.6 range, at least.

Consequently, some NFL scouts believe Clay may be forced to switch to fullback in the NFL. His size does work in his favor, as he’s always been known as a power back with impressive power and vision.

Estimated draft pick: Without knowing how he will perform at the pro day, Clay’s stock has fallen significantly. He also projects to be a third-day pick.

Offensive guard John Moffitt Measureables: 6-foot-4, 319 pounds; 5.55-second 40-yard dash; 33-inch arms; 9.5-inch hands; 23 bench press reps; 7.79-second 3 cone drill; more game left on the schedule, reaching 50 goals doesn’t seem so far out of reach for Knight, who averages 1.3 goals per game off an average 7.4 shots per game.

“Hilary, since we brought her here and she

“We’re going up there to win. That’s how you have to play this time of year, because if you don’t play well, you’re not going to move on. ... We know we’re up against some good competition.”

Mark Johnson Head Coach UW Women’s Hockey started as a freshman, she has that canny ability to score goals and score big goals,” Johnson said. “I night’s 7-3 loss to the Huskies, the players held a team meeting before reconvening with the

4.53-second 20-yard shuttle At UW: Along with left tackle Gabe Carimi (see his profile Wednesday), Moffitt formed perhaps the best left half of any offensive line in the nation. Moffitt is a strong blocker who rarely gets beat, and his ability to pull and reach the next level displays his impressive versatility. He finished last season as an AP first-team All-American and was a consensus first-team AllBig Ten selection.

At the Combine: Moffitt’s 40 time and bench press reps were less than impressive, but his character and proven toughness should combine with his solid size to maintain his draft stock.

Estimated draft pick: Prior to the combine, many can still remember the slap shot goal she scored against Dartmouth in our quarterfinal game here at the Kohl Center.

Everybody on the bench was like, ‘Wow,’ as she stepped over the blue line and let a slap shot go. I think the goalie started to move as the puck was coming out of the net.”

“I’d like to see her make 50 goals,” Johnson said. “You talk about the NHL, and I remember Gretzky scoring 50 in 39 games. I was playing back then, and that was like, ‘Wow.’ That was sort of a plateau in the ’80s.”

Clearly, Knight is one of Wisconsin’s top offensive powers and possesses one of the strongest shots on the team.

“Hilary is a presence on the ice, has got a fantastic shot, can protect the puck with her body very well, is a good skater,” Johnson said.

“She is what you’d call a classic power forward, if you watch NHL games.”

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discussed potential issues with the staff and made a list of things that need to be corrected.

“We hope to see benefits of that as quickly as this weekend,” Eaves said.

Eaves was asked Monday if one of the items on the checklist was simply overall effort.

“Part of it was that,” Eaves said. “In everything that we do, that is our baseline. That is where we start. The guys aren’t fooling themselves. They recognize that, and that is a good thing.”

finals, you will see in the NCAA Finals. It will be a battle all the way through.”

The Penn State Nittany Lions, the fourth-ranked team in the nation, have the most No. 1 preseeds in the Big Ten Tournament this year, with five. Along with Wisconsin’s three No. 1’s, the Iowa Hawkeyes

and the Michigan Wolverines each have one top-seeded wrestler in the tournament. The Hawkeyes, undefeated as a team this season, won the Big Ten regular season dual-meet title for the fourth consecutive year.

Iowa and Penn State pose the biggest challenges for the Badgers in the tournament.

“The confidence level isn’t what it has been at other times during the year.”

Mike Eaves Head Coach UW Men’s Hockey coaching staff.

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experts projected Moffitt as a second or third round pick. While his Combine wasn’t as rough as Clay’s, he may fall to the middle rounds, and potentially to the third day. Still, more than one scout has said Moffitt’s size and toughness will continue to buoy his draft stock.

Remember to check out Elliot’s column Wednesday, as he’ll have profiles on Carimi, Watt and tight end Lance Kendricks.

Mike is a junior majoring in journalism and communication arts. How do you think the Badgers have fared in the Combine? Where will they be drafted? Let him know at mfiammetta@ badgerherald.com and follow him on Twitter @ mikefiammetta.

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With confidence low, UW struggling Winless in last 6 games, Badgers need answers in regular season finale Max Henson Sports Editor Losing is never easy to talk about.

But in talking to his team — which is winless in its last six outings — Wisconsin men’s hockey head coach Mike Eaves used a real-life example to communicate a message to his group.

“This may make no sense to our young players at all, but we we’re making an analogy and we said, ‘The value of your marriage in real life goes up when you go through hard times,’” Eaves said at his weekly press conference Monday.

“And the value of the team concept becomes more real when you go through hard times.”

These are certainly hard times for Eaves’ young team.

The Badgers were outplayed in every facet over the weekend in St. Cloud, and the Huskies came away with the sweep.

As a result, UW finished winless in the month of February. That horrid month followed a tremendously successful stretch where the Badgers won 12 out of 13 games.

To no one’s surprise, the downward spiral has been

difficult to handle.

“The confidence level isn’t what it has been at other times during the year,” Eaves said bluntly.

But Eaves is confident his team has the talent and wherewithal to resurrect its season before it’s too late.

He believes the adversity will ultimately make his team stronger.

“This young group has played very well at times and they know that they can beat anybody,” Eaves said. “It’s just been a tough stretch here. … We have to gather ourselves and see if we can get ourselves going on a roll.”

For UW, the attention now turns to the final regular season series, where the Badgers and Colorado College Tigers will square off at the Kohl Center. The Tigers sit one point ahead of the Badgers for sixth place in the WCHA after taking three points from Minnesota Duluth last weekend.

Eaves was not ready to state who will start in the net for the Badgers Friday, but he did reveal both Scott Gudmandson and Brett Bennett will see action over the weekend.

Bennett allowed four goals in the loss last Friday, but it was Gudmandson who allowed seven goals

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Zhao Lim The Badger Herald

After putting up some of the best numbers in the nation earlier this season, Scott Gudmandson hasn’t earned a win in his last 4 tries.

Combine proving tough for Badgers

Wrestling brings full squad to tourney Reigning Division I national champion fully recovered; Davis expects stacked field Max Perkins Sports Reporter Photo courtesey of UW Athletics In the mind of Wisconsin wrestling Andrew Howe is fully healthy for the Big Ten tournament after tearing his hamstring in mid-January. head coach Barry Davis, “Last week in practice, Brandvold also missed the Big Ten conference and come back the way tournament is jam- he has,” Davis said. “But he wrestled Travis Rutt, time due to injury earlier packed with talent this if you knew Andrew, he’s who’s the second-best this year, forcing Davis in the into some interesting year, including six a very unique individual, 184-pounder universities in the top 15 and he’s doing great. country,” Davis said. “He roster-juggling.

“This will be the His body looks as good said, ‘I need to wrestle him of the coaches’ poll.

However, Davis and right now as it did at the to make sure in my own first time since the first mind that I’m ready to competition that we will the rest of the Badgers beginning of the season.” have our full lineup back, Howe has not been on go.’” have an ace up their The Badgers’ success all in one,” Davis said. sleeves, as 2010 NCAA the mat since the middle Division I champion of January, so Davis hopes this weekend will also “It’s been a makeshift Andrew Howe returns the past few weeks have hinge on other wrestlers year.”

The Badgers also have from a torn hamstring helped him return to the besides Howe stepping just in time to receive form that produced a 19-2 up. Two other Badgers six other wrestlers on the the No. 1 pre-seed record this season. He will earned the top pre-seed for Big Ten Tournament prein the 165-pound need to be in top shape if their weight division, with seed list, including Tyler class. Wisconsin will he wants to three-peat as Howe’s practice opponent Graff, who is second in the travel to Evanston, Big Ten champion at 165 Rutt in the 184-pound class 133-pound class.

Wisconsin faces stiff and Trevor Brandvold in Ill., this weekend lbs.

Davis detailed Howe’s the 197-pound class. Rutt competition within the Big for the conference recent practice habits, has only one loss so far Ten, and Davis admits that championship. just how this year, and the redshirt “I cannot understand explaining how [Howe] could tear healthy and motivated the senior Brandvold comes TOURNEY, page 7 in undefeated at 11-0. his hamstring that way junior is.

Wisconsin looks to stay hot through playoffs Johnson confident squad can stay consistent for Final Face-Off despite tough WCHA competition Kelly Erickson Associate Sports Editor With his team favored to win the WCHA Final Face-Off this weekend, head coach Mark Johnson of the Wisconsin women’s hockey team doesn’t plan on letting anyone down.

After ending St. Cloud’s season last weekend 9-3 and 5-1 respectively, Wisconsin will head to Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, Minn., to face North Dakota in the semi-final round of the WCHA conference tournament.

“Well, I mean, we’re going up there to win,” Johnson said in his Monday press conference.

“That’s how you have to play this time of year, because if you don’t play well, you’re not going to move on. So it’s a situation where as we practice this week, our expectations are

to be successful. We know we’re up against some good competition.”

Despite still fighting for the conference tournament title, which would ultimately cement the Badgers’ WCHA domination this season, Johnson is already starting to prepare for the NCAA tournament.

“Whether you’re playing North Dakota, or you’re playing Minnesota or Minnesota-Duluth this weekend, it’s just a great opportunity to compete at a high level,” Johnson said. “The teams that have moved on from this particular playoff weekend have been very successful in the NCAA tournament. It’s a great opportunity for all our teams to prepare and compete at a high level.”

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Alex Rigsby allowed four goals in her playoff series debut against St. Cloud State, but she still finished the Huskies’ year.

Quarterback Scott Tolzien Measureables: 6-foot-2, 212 pounds; 4.93-second 40-yard dash; 30.5-inch arms, 10-inch hands; 6.84-second 3 cone drill; 4.12-second 20-yard shuttle At UW: As a two-year Mike Fiammetta starter, Tolzien started all Mike’d Up of Wisconsin’s 26 games in 2009 and 2010. Last season, Tolzien was one of You’d figure 11 wins, a the nation’s most accurate Big Ten championship and and efficient quarterbacks, a Rose Bowl berth would finishing with the secondfare well for the seven best completion percentage Wisconsin Badgers invited (72.9) and sixth-best to the 2011 NFL Scouting quarterback rating (165.9).

Combine.

He also passed for 2,459 But alas, the weeklong yards and 16 touchdowns, preview/investigation/ while throwing just six interrogation of the draft’s interceptions. Tolzien was top prospects is where also named the Johnny football — the most teamUnitas Golden Arm Award centric of American sports — boils down to individual winner in 2010, given to the nation’s top senior performance. quarterback.

So while John Moffitt’s At the endearing Combine: personality Tolzien’s 40 off the field The weeklong time tied for and J.J. Watt’s preview/ 13th among mastery of quarterbacks, Twitter to investigation/ but his interact with interrogation of mobility was the community the draft’s top never going and energize UW’s fan prospects is where to convince teams to draft base played football — the him. Rather, significant roles in most team-centric the accuracy Tolzien Wisconsin’s of American exhibited success this sports — boils in passing past season, they won’t down to individual drills and his interview mean much skills to NFL scouts performance. impressed and evaluators. teams at the Combine.

Rather, it’s all about According to Bob McGinn workout numbers and of the Milwaukee Journal interviews in Indianapolis.

Sentinel, teams were very It’s commonly asserted impressed by Tolzien’s that game tape remains the practice and game time most important tool for preparation, as well as his evaluating prospects, but interviewing skills. One the remarkably extensive AFC personnel man told physical exams and McGinn Tolzien’s ability interviews are especially to break down his game, valuable for teams. as well as his sincerity, Drills such as the 40made him “probably [that yard dash, bench press team’s] best interview.” and shuttle run have Estimated draft pick: consistently come under definitely a third-day fire in recent years — why (rounds 4-7) pick. Tolzien start the 40 in a track could go undrafted, in position? — but teams which case he almost still rely on them for comparison to recent years’ certainly would be given an opportunity to make a prospects. roster in training camp. If Without further ado, he continues to impress, he here’s how the Badgers’ could move up as high as seven prospects have fared the fifth round. at the Combine thus far (it ends today) and where Running back John Clay they figure to be drafted.

Measureables: 6-foot-1, Below are three profiles, 230 pounds; 4.77-second and fellow Herald Sports editor Elliot Hughes will have the remaining four FIAMMETTA, page 7 Wednesday.