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Badger Partnership spurs student activism Detractors of plan gather at Bascom Hill, have informal talk with chancellor as others simultaneously garner legislative support at Capitol Katherine Krueger Campus Editor Students organized on opposing ends of State Street, in Bascom Hall and the Capitol to advocate for equally polarized viewpoints of the New Badger Partnership on Tuesday.

Nearly 100 University of Wisconsin students hosted a rally against the proposal — which would make UW independent

from the UW System — at the main administration building, Bascom Hall.

The rally culminated in an impromptu meeting with Chancellor Biddy Martin, while members of a student organization advocated in favor of the plan by meeting with legislators at the Capitol.

The rally on Bascom, which centered around a mock “auction” of the university to corporate interests, aimed to voice

Liberty Tree Foundation, said Martin’s proposal is the first of its kind in the history of the university to align itself with the interests of big business.

He also said if Martin will not back down from the plan, she is unfit to continue serving as the leader of the university.

UW professor Sara Goldrick-Rab also addressed

discontent with the model for public authority status and the proposed separation from the UW System to members of the administration.

Members of Student Labor Action Coalition, Teaching Assistants’ Association and UW faculty and staff joined student speakers on the top of the hill before marching to Chancellor Biddy Martin’s office with a list of demands.

Ben Manski, a local activist and executive director of the

CITATIONS FALL MPD attributes to shift in policy; Chaser’s garners most tickets David Brazy

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Chancellor Martin joins a discussion with student groups outside her office.

at downtown bars

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Last year Monday’s led the pack of bars for citations. This school year Chaser’s is the new hot spot for violations.

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Senior News Reporter Students see it every weekend. A few Madison Police Department uniforms come into a bar, begin carding people, and write ticket after ticket after ticket.

But it appears that it’s happening less and less.

City cops are on track to hand out significantly fewer tickets to nine popular campus bars this academic year, a trend officials attribute to a change in priorities.

MPD issued 94 citations at Brothers, Chasers, Church Key, Johnny O’s, Logan’s, Madhatters, Monday’s, Wando’s and Whiskey River Saloon from September 2010 through February 2011, according to records obtained by the Herald. From September 2009 through May 2010, they issued 243 at the same watering holes.

Chaser ’s, with 20 tickets issued, leads the above establishments so far this year.

Whiskey River follows closely with 17.

Over the course of the two years, the most common citations issued were for disorderly conduct (30), underage persons inside a licensed tavern (16) and possession of false identification (7).

MPD Lt. Dave McCaw said the reason for the decline is a shift in policy for the Community Policing Team, which traditionally conducts tavern inspections.

McCaw attributed this to Capt. Carl Gloede, recently chosen to head MPD’s central district, who he said chose to diversify their role.

“They have been doing a lot of drug investigations, working with neighborhood groups, more traffic control … and preventing burglaries,” McCaw said.

McCaw said this kind of change is not unusual and happens as a new captain takes over the central district. He added when he was a member of CPT a few years ago, the team spent most of their time controlling underage drinking parties on campus.

Sgt. Tony Fiore, the CPT supervisor, said the department’s work to improve security and safety at bars has allowed CPT to move into other areas.

“We have never had a better working relationship with the taverns and bars as we do now,” Fiore said. “We don’t expect them to do all those goals without us, and we cannot get it down by ourselves.”

Jay Wanserski, the owner of Wando’s on University Avenue, said he has

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After touring across the state to hear lengthy and impassioned testimony from the public, the state’s budget-writing committee sat down Wednesday to scour over provisions within the biennium budget proposed by the governor.

The Joint Finance Committee began its budget vetting process Tuesday.

The process will likely end in May to allow enough time for the Legislature to pass the budget before the start of the fiscal year on June 1.

Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal contains dramatic cuts to state services, including $834 million to schools, $100 million in aid to counties and municipalities and $64 million of state support for local recycling programs.

The JFC discussed the less controversial items in the governor’s budget proposal Wednesday, including child support, health care facilities and elimination of agency vacancies by the governor. Items that have been a lightning rod of debate, like splitting the University of Wisconsin from the rest of the UW System and changes to the popular SeniorCare program, will be brought up in later meetings.

Rep. Robin Vos, R-Burlington, outlined three core principles he said the committee and the Legislature would adhere to while they scour over the budget proposal. They included realizing the government cannot spend itself to prosperity, refusing to increase taxes and ensuring the continuation of core services while letting unsustainable ones “fall to the wayside.”

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Petition to recall Republican Sen. Cowles to be handed in Thursday Meanwhile, campaigns against 4 Dems unable to get signatures needed before 60-day deadline Andrew Averill State Editor Petitions to recall yet another Republican senator are expected to be handed in Thursday, while the campaigns collecting signatures against three Democrats have been

unable to reach the required amount before the 60-day deadline.

Sen. Robert Cowles, R-Green Bay, could face a special recall election in his district this summer if the petitions pass a review by the Government Accountability Board.

Volunteers are still collecting signatures and will turn up at the GAB office with a total signature

count well above the required count of 15,960.

Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Graeme Zielinski said he estimated the total to be at least 10,000 signatures more than the necessary amount, which continues the trend in recalls against Republicans.

“Typically, every effort has been more than 140 percent of the required total,” Zielinski said.

The recall elections against Republicans come largely because of their votes in favor of the Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill, currently stuck in court, that would limit the collective bargaining authority of and require increased pension and health care contributions from public employees.

Still, Cowles said he remains sure of his vote

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for the bill and, while he does not take the chance of a recall election lightly, is confident he will remain a senator.

“I’m optimistic I have a majority [in my district],” Cowles said, adding that he ran unopposed in the 2008 election.

Cowles is the sixth Republican to potentially face a recall election.

Campaigns against three

Democrats have also handed in their petitions, all of which collected more than 130 percent of the number of signatures required.

A 60-day deadline for a few of the recall campaigns has passed, ensuring the continued term of four Democratic senators.

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B-Cycle program to proceed with new city funding plan Soglin negotiates with Trek for only minutes; Madison will pay only $1 per year, reap no profits Pam Selman City Editor Following scares that a proposal for a city-wide bike sharing program would be squelched because of Mayor Paul Soglin’s budgetary concerns, the new mayor negotiated an agreement Wednesday to allow for an on-schedule implantation of the program.

Soglin said he came to a fiscally responsible agreement with Trek Bicycle to bring the B-Cycle bike sharing program to Madison following only one initial briefing meeting and a quick negotiation Wednesday.

If the City Council approves the new terms, the city would pay only $1 per year for the program as opposed to the originally proposed $100,000 per year.

However, the city will no longer be a profiting party, and the contract

was extended from three years to five with the option for mutual renewal in 2016.

“We reached the agreement in about three minutes,” Soglin said. “We reached the agreement because Trek was incredibly sensitive to the financial situation and financial problems of the city.”

Soglin said there was never a question of whether or not both parties wanted to make the program work, especially within the originally planned timeline, but rather a concern of whether the program was a necessity given the city’s tight budget caps.

The program, which would begin implementation next month if approved by the council, would provide convenience to Madison residents and the city’s guests, Soglin said.

“It provides an efficient cost effective transportation system for close to eight months of the year,” Soglin said.

“We consider it to be a

low-risk decision because we are guaranteed to now be saving $300,000 and the probability of profitability was minimal.”

A statement from the mayor ’s office said there were still concerns about changes in the city’s signuse ordinance. Trek and the city agreed to work throughout the contract period to see that issues about signage and use of the public right-of-way are minimalized.

Trek spokesperson Eric Bjorling said Trek was very excited to be able to reach the agreement with Soglin and the city.

He said the company knew Soglin and his administration would want to take a closer look at the proposal but was happy to see the obstacles could be overcome.

“Much like cities across the country, the city of Madison is watching [its] budget very, very closely,” Bjorling said.

“Mayor Soglin took a look at many things and still wanted this to happen very much, so we

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The city will pay less for B-Cycle, a program which allows users to rent bikes for a day, after Mayor Paul Soglin’s negotiations. were willing to take on a bit more of the financial burden in order to make this happen.”

Trek will operate under the assumption the original three-year contract for $100,000 will be executed with the understanding that the terms will be brought before the City Council for approval to meet critical

time deadlines.

Waiting for the council to approve the new terms would delay the project’s implementation by two months.

“I am confident that as we team up to make this program work, getting the second contract approved can be done expeditiously,” Soglin said in a statement.

Student org claims SSFC violated viewpoint neutrality After being denied GSSF money by SSFC 2 times, WISPIRG says finance group not fit to give fair ruling, process must go before full Student Council Melissa Hanson Senior News Reporter The Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group’s funding eligibility saga continued Tuesday night while the Student Judiciary considered the future of its eligibility and reviewed changes it made to funding eligibility criteria earlier this year.

The Student Judiciary heard two appeals about issues involving the Student Services Finance Committee and the WISPIRG. SSFC denied WISPIRG General Student Service Fund eligibility twice this year. WISPIRG appealed both SSFC decisions to the Student Judiciary, and its case was remanded back to SSFC both times.

In its last appeal, WISPIRG alleged SSFC

CITATIONS, from 1 definitely noticed a drop in the number of tavern inspections. This year ’s data indicates 15 citations have been issued at Wando’s, one higher than last year’s total.

“They know we are pretty responsible and taking care of problems in the bar and if there are any problems we don’t hesitate to call the cops,” he said.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said he has also noted a distinct drop

had made a viewpoint neutral violation in its General Student Services Fund eligibility.

The Student Judiciary did not find SSFC guilty of committing any non-viewpoint neutral violation but did find the committee had made a procedural violation in using unreasonable interpretation of some of its eligibility criteria.

The first appeal on Tuesday was brought forth by the WISPIRG. Members again alleged SSFC had made nonviewpoint neutral decisions in the group’s GSSF eligibility through the inconsistent application of its General Student Services Fund eligibility criteria.

Rashi Mangalick, the current WISPIRG chair, said the unreasonable interpretation and

application of the eligibility criteria in WISPIRG’s case led to the group receiving unfair GSSF funding consideration.

“SSFC has shown further evidence that they would not give us a fair meeting if we were to go back to them,” Mangalick said. “So a third hearing with SSFC would only bring us back (in front of the Student Judiciary).”

She added because she believes WISPIRG would not receive a fair hearing in front of SSFC, the group’s eligibility decision should be handled by the Associated Students of Madison Student Council.

SSFC Chair Matt Manes said the core of the issue is the interpretation of WISPIRG’s direct service adding the group’s campaigns are not considered direct

services. WISPIRG not meet the eligibility as the committee reasonably interpreted it, Manes said.

“SSFC interpreted our bylaw,” Manes said.

“That’s our job.”

SSFC also brought forth an appeal as well, asking the court to reexamine some of the revisions it made to GSSF eligibility criteria earlier this year.

Specifically, Tyler Junger, SSFC’s legal counsel, identified the panel’s interpretation of the GSSF eligibility criterion involving the the ability to request, tailor and access direct services as disconcerting.

Junger said it is unreasonable for the panel and WISPIRG to expect that the criteria will be interpreted in the exact same way as it has been in the past.

“There isn’t just one

plain reading of any of these criteria,” Junger said.

He added the GSSF eligibility criteria are all subject to the reasonable interpretation of the members of the committee who are elected officials.

Incoming WISPIRG Chair Matt Kozlowski said GSSF eligibility decisions need to be based on the criteria itself.

“Allowing SSFC to make decisions that are not rational and not consistent with the criteria is essentially equivalent to throwing out the criteria,” Kozlowski said.

He added he agreed with the decision made by the panel to provide criterion revisions because SSFC has interpreted the criteria inconsistently.

A final decision on both cases will be made in two weeks.

in the number of tavern inspections this year.

Verveer, a member of the city’s alcohol licensing committee, said while he supports the police and fire departments inspecting bars to ensure they are in compliance with city ordinances, he does not agree with using police resources to check for underage drinkers.

“I’ve never been a fan in the past of overzealous use of scarce police resources to enforce the drinking age,” Verveer

said. “It’s the reality that my constituency … would rather have scarce police resources devoted to more pressing public safety issues.”

Verveer added dangerous crimes that happen downtown generally do not occur in licensed establishments, but rather the residential and community areas in surrounding neighborhoods.

However, Fiore said the perception of what officers are doing during tavern inspections might

be misguided, as the most visible part of their inspection is finding and citing underage individuals. Police also make sure the bar hasn’t exceeded capacity, there is adequate staffing to meet demand and fire exits are clear and staffed to make sure no one sneaks in, he added.

Fiore said CPT will continue to perform tavern inspections about two nights per week for two hours. But this makes up less than 10 percent of their working week.

The shift in resources comes as a city law limiting the number of bars in Downtown Madison is set to expire.

This will allow for a debate over whether the law has been successful in reducing crime — but as Verveer states, it probably has a negligible affect on how many citations have been issued.

A city committee will review most liquor licenses later this spring.

Verveer said he doesn’t think any bar is at risk of losing its license.

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New district plans to reflect student voice Alders say proposal 9’s new alterations give UW community ample representatives while still keeping strong student areas Pam Selman City Editor

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Madison Metro scheduler Colin Conn says while there were good reasons to change routes, they may have to take some time to better accommodate the campus.

New Metro bus routes may be re-drawn Students, members of campus community tell bus company officials current new plan reduces safety for Lakeshore, Langdon residents Katherine Krueger Campus Editor Members of the campus community came out against proposed changes to campus-area bus service, saying they were concerned the modifications could be a disservice to students and could introduce safety concerns for some residents.

At a Tuesday night forum, University of Wisconsin students provided Madison Metro representatives with feedback on the plan, which would effectively alter Saferide routes 81 and 82, which currently service much of the Lakeshore and Langdon Street neighborhood.

Under the proposed changes, route 80 buses would become the only transportation for Lakeshore residents after 9 p.m. Buses would also only operate every 40 minutes, a change from the current 15-minute cycles for route 81 buses.

Colin Conn, a scheduler for Madison Metro, said

the changes were initiated partly because drivers voiced grievances about currently only receiving about an eight to nineminute break for every hour of driving.

Madison Metro also began considering redrawing the routes in an attempt to serve a greater volume of students in response to shifting trends in areas of residence, Dar Ward, a solutions manager with UW Transportation Services, said.

Director of Housing Paul Evans said a 40-minute wait for students would be unacceptable and raised concerns about convenience and safety for individuals that rely on Saferide services.

He also said he was concerned about the university’s current $60 million investment in the construction of a new Lakeshore dormitory and dining facility near Bradley Hall, an area which would be affected by the proposed changes in service.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the

changes to Langdon and Observatory Drive would limit students “to the 80 or nothing.”

He also urged Metro representatives to consider alternatives that did not eliminate the community element of students having safe and reliable transportation.

Hope Tyson, a UW junior, said Saferide services were particularly vital in serving freshmen who are not yet well versed in navigating the campus and provide a valuable resource to allow students to leave social situations that may be uncomfortable or unsafe.

“It’s important to serve freshmen unfamiliar with the campus, and, dare I say it, the alcohol culture of the city,” Tyson said.

UWPD Capt.

Steve Rogers said changes to Saferide routes would not service younger students living on campus.

He also said changing the frequency of busing could encourage Lakeshore residents to traverse the dimly lit path late at night.

“With this plan, you’re losing the younger students,” he said. “The services are not going to be used because students won’t wait 40 minutes for a bus.”

Students in attendance at the event said groups on campus should have been invited to engage in the proposed changes earlier on the process, instead of confining discussions between Madison Metro and the Associated Students of Madison Bus Pass Committee.

Evans added nearly 2,200 students would be affected by the changes in late-night service.

In response to largely negative feedback on the plan, Conn said officials would likely have to reschedule a public meeting on the plan in order to consider different alternatives to the redrawing efforts.

He added based on the comments received, the plan could end up taking up to another year to evolve in order to best accommodate the campus.

City officials are one step closer to creating a stronger student voice for representation after a city commission agreed to adopt a proposal to keep certain segments of the student population together during a hefty redistricting process.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said a number of proposals he had brought to the attention of the city’s planning staff would be reviewed at Wednesday’s Reapportionment and Redistricting Ad Hoc Committee meeting under the Plan 9 proposition, which is his plan for redistricting.

Three of Resnick’s four suggestions were incorporated into city drafts. Primarily, Plan 9 brings the entire Spring Street neighborhood, the Lakeshore dorms and Ogg Hall into District 8.

District 8 would maintain Eagle Heights, and a large portion of the Langdon Greek community would be represented by District 2.

Resnick said keeping the Spring Street area in District 8 and bringing all of the Lakeshore dorms into the same district were the most important changes made in Plan 9.

“The Spring Street area really is a student-centric area — 90 percent of that area is students, and it’s a very different feel than on the other side of Regent Street,” Resnick said. “To keep that collective voice really ensures the student voice is going to be heard and not be fractured by another alder coming in.”

Although Resnick said the updates in Plan 9 were a huge improvement and an acceptable alternative, he said the plan still splits Stateside and Towers into two separate districts, which he said could cause confusion. He said he would argue to change the separation, but said census data was the original deciding factor.

Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, said she was a large supporter of the newly additions to plan 9 because they bring in a number of alders to represent students while still keeping student blocks together. The plan proposes maintaining most of the western area of campus, University Houses, The Cove and Eagle Heights in District 5.

“I really pushed for a plan that would leave part of campus in District 5 because I thought it was really important to make sure there is student representation amongst a number of alders so that students have more of a voice on the council than just one alder,” BidarSielaff said. “I think it does a good job of addressing the concerns I had about keeping the balance of student representation in Districts 4, 5 and 8.”

At Thursday’s Ad Hoc meeting, the committee will most likely choose about three proposals to take forward to the public for community input, she said. Following the community input portion, the final selection will be taken to the City Council, which will take a vote on the redistricting map in June.

Soglin: 2012 budget may offer fewer services Mayor says cuts on state level lead to less capital for local projects; alders say community must decide which programs most important Pam Selman City Editor After completing his first week in office, Mayor Paul Soglin said he fears the state of the city’s budgets through 2012 could be even grimmer than previously anticipated following a number of official briefings.

Soglin said local governments are typically concerned as the budgetary process begins to transition from one year to the next but said he is more pessimistic about the concern associated with the escalating costs of operating a government.

“We’re confronting about a $2-3 million problem beyond the normal escalating costs of operating government — it’s a difficult challenge,

but it’s manageable,” Soglin said.

“We’re facing a dilemma that’s probably in the range of $20 million — maybe more. It’s a dilemma of the gap between what we lose in revenues and what we’re constrained from spending.”

Gov. Scott Walker ’s proposed budget outlines strict cuts for municipal government spending — a move Soglin said makes it difficult for the city to continue providing all of its current services.

He argues that Walker ’s proposal does not allow Madison to raise taxes to bring the 2012 budget to a level where inflation and growth in the city have been accounted for.

Soglin said he was particularly concerned about energy costs as the city’s largest cost aside

from labor — while fuel is expensive, it is critical to the operation of buses, police, fire, snow removal and public transit.

“If [the gap in spending versus intake] is not resolved, that represents cuts that will have to be made next year — as for what those are, we are not even speculating at this point,” Soglin said.

“We are first looking at strategies to contend with the problem and strategies for changing what will happen in the Legislature this summer.”

City Comptroller Dean Brasser said the state budget proposal has forced the city to look at the 2012 budget much earlier than previously anticipated by Madison city officials, despite the lack of solid information about things like costs of fuel and other important

city expenses.

Brasser said Walker ’s proposal takes about $8.4 million in state aid away from the city, representing about 20 percent of the state aid Madison received this year.

He said while revenue is taking a sharp hit, spending is also anticipated to rise as health insurance, pension costs and fuel prices shoot up.

Based on the current price of fuel, Braser said the city could expect expenses for the commodity to rise a couple of million dollars above what has been budgeted for the 2011 budget, causing roll over concerns for 2012.

Newly elected City Council President Ald. Lauren Cnare, District 3, said Madisonians should prepare for all

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Mayor Paul Soglin stands with family on election night. Almost a month later, Soglin says the city’s budget process may be grimmer than predicted. of the normal courses of revenue the city receives for services to be lessened.

Cnare, who represents the far east side, said the community needed to engage in a discussion to decide what services currently offered are most important to Madison’s quality of life.

“We live in an economy

where the economy is not going to go up, but prices will, so while we have so many vehicles to fuel, for example, we face the cost of fuel with no big windfall anywhere on the horizon,” she said.

“We haven’t had a lot of development to add to the tax roll, so it’s sort of a perfect storm.”

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MIU board begins advising overhaul Working group to take proposals from departments to find how best to spend Madison Initiative money for academic counseling Katherine Krueger Campus Editor With nearly $1.5 million available to overhaul the advising system for undergraduates, University of Wisconsin students and staff still have to decide how to spend the funds.

After Chancellor Biddy Martin made her final decisions on the third and final round of Madison Initiative of Undergraduates awards, an MIU Advising Working Group will consider methods to better train advisers and work for coordination between advising units across campus.

Annette McDaniel, chair of the Working Group, said officials will look to hire 24 new advisory staff members, which will be assigned to different schools and colleges through a competitive proposal process.

She cited the a need for more support for students in early career exploration, services geared toward transfer students and prehealth and pre-professional advising as possible areas for new advisers.

The group will consider ways to increase efficiency in cross-unit collaboration, improved access to quality

BADGER PARTNERSHIP, from 1 the crowd, saying New Badger Partnership is not a means of enhancing affordability for students on campus.

She characterized the Partnership as a plan for institutional efficiency and a business model for education, a proposal that is at odds with the goals of the university.

After about 15 minutes of demanding a meeting with the chancellor and the appearance of six UWPD officers, Martin appeared in the corridor outside her office to address the students’ concerns.

In response to a student questioning whether Martin has the authority to take a stand in opposing any cuts to higher education at the state level, she said the current proposal offers an unprecedented opportunity for more responsible autonomy for UW. After students charged that Martin had not fought cuts before the budget announcement, Martin also said she has advocated tirelessly for higher

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advising and reducing the load for individual advisers as guiding principles in evaluating proposals, McDaniel added. McDaniel said funds would also be used to hire a director for undergraduate advising to provide a hub for the coordination of all services.

“We currently have a complex system with a lack of coordination, in need of centralized leadership,” she said.

Members would also pursue an advising notes system to keep common records of past advising, along with an online early warning system for academic concerns and an advising web portal, which McDaniel said would meet needs voiced by students and advisers for nearly 20 years.

Gary Sandefur, dean of the College of Letters and Science, said members would also pursue initiatives to allow for collaboration between a student, adviser and faculty member to plan a possible career path or other research or internship opportunities.

He added faculty members have already offered their support to the proposal.

Aaron Brower, vice provost for teaching and education over the course of the last 18 months.

“To say I haven’t used my platform to make the case for why there should be support for this university and other public universities is simply wrong,” she said.

“We can simply absorb more cuts and do nothing but get demoralized by them, or we can seize an opportunity which is probably once in a lifetime.”

Demonstrators continued to occupy the building until around 7 p.m., when Dean of Students Lori Berquam told students the building was closing and they would need to vacate the building.

UW Police guarded every entrance of the building, and approximately 20 officers stood outside at Bascom Hall’s main entrance.

UW Police officers told the protesters they had 60 seconds to decide whether to leave or remain in the facility and face the possibility of arrest.

Sophomore Beth Huang said the students made the decision to leave together in a peaceful manner.

One mile away from Martin’s office, members of and Minority Leader Mark Miller, D-Monona, did not collect the required amount of signatures, which were due to the GAB this week.

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Advising Working Group Chair Annette McDaniel says they will look to hire 24 new full-time advising staff members. learning, said another idea up for evaluation included a “wiki” system to make advising records a form of communal, searchable knowledge as students move between different entities on campus.

“A centralized system could increase visibility for students,” he said. “We will have to consider how to coordinate advising without a one size fits mentality because all students have

different needs.”

After the call for proposals goes out, Brower said multiple departments could submit a plan making the case for more advising as a unit, though there will certainly remain needs on campus that the group will not have the money to fill.

Providing additional support and training for incoming advisers, he said, would also be an objection as members consider

George LeVines The Badger Herald

Student groups gather at the top of Bascom Hill to demonstrate their unhappiness with Chancellor Martin’s New Badger Partnership. the Students for the New Badger Partnership spent the day visiting the offices of legislators at the Capitol to provide more information about public authority status and advocating access and affordability under the proposal.

Jon Alfuth, co-founder of the group, said around a dozen members were able to visit the offices of all 132 lawmakers and speak directly with six legislators who he said were very inquisitive about deadline issue are against Sens. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, and Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin. The petitioners have until May 2 to collect 20,061 and 20,973 signatures, respectively.

how policies could allow for increased access and affordability.

“You can stand and shout on Bascom Hill, but decision makers need to hear what the plan really means for UW,” he said.

He added legislators had requested to hear directly from concerned students about issues of possible tuition increases and financial aid.

— Ryan Rainey contributed to this report.

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proposals.

Brower added funding would target centralization of advising for incoming freshmen attending Student Orientation, Advising and Registration, an effort that would receive support from the Center for Leadership and Involvement.

Student Board Chair Adam Sheka said the MIU funding could also go toward bolstering the current peer advising

system, much of which he said takes place informally.

With minimal controversy generated by the working group’s objectives, Brower said the plan for allocating funds will go to the oversight committee later this week.

He said the call for proposals could go out as early as May, with decisions made in June in order to allow new advisers to begin work in fall 2011.

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Joint Finance Committee Co-Chair Rep. Robin Vos, R-Burlington, responds to criticisms that Republicans have been in lockstep with Walker, saying the executive branch should not diminish the power of the Legislature.

JFC, from 1 Vos said he was sure there would be instances where the JFC and the Legislature would find themselves at odds with Gov. Scott Walker’s priorities.

Republicans have been criticized by their colleagues across the aisle for marching lockstep with the governor, especially during the first two months of his term that saw a host of tax breaks to small businesses and a bill limiting collective bargaining rights for public employees.

Vos told committee members he hoped the executive branch would not be able to impinge upon the power of the Legislature.

“One area I hope

we can find bipartisan agreement is to ensure the prerogative of the Legislature as a coequal branch is maintained in every way possible,” Vos said.

Before the committee was able to begin with its agenda for the day, some members on the committee moved to modify the budget proposal by removing items they said did not belong.

Democrats on the committee were unhappy the JFC co-chairs only chose to take less than half — 21 — of the non-fiscal policy issues identified by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau out of the governor’s budget proposal. The bureau listed 46 items.

Sen. Lena Taylor,

D-Milwaukee, said all the policy issues should be removed from the budget and not just what are “politically convenient” items for the co-chairs.

“There’s a disappointing point here, because I believe [the co-chairs] had an opportunity to not rubber stamp what the governor has done in the budget,” Taylor said.

However, Vos told his Democratic colleagues that the budget bill he passed under former Gov. Jim Doyle contained many non-fiscal policy items.

The motion to modify and remove items did receive two Republican votes from Sens. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, and Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, but ultimately failed to reach a majority consensus.

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Piggybacking serious threat with new voting day legislation Taylor Nye Columnist When I was just a young girl and the Florida recount ended up costing Al Gore the presidency, my father thought it was time to take me on his knee and teach me about important types of government dishonesty.

A main lesson I remember was about piggybacking legislation, or the process of introducing controversial measures into an uncontroversial bill in the hopes that lawmakers won’t have time to read the whole brief and end up passing on a law that never would have been supported.

As I read the April 25 Associated Press article on the Capital Times website titled, “Proposal would move date of Wisconsin primary,” I almost couldn’t believe

the piggybacking that could potentially go down unnoticed as Rep. Jeff Stone, R-Greendale, and Rep. Don Pridemore, R-Hartford, try to introduce a new bill that would move the primary election to the second Tuesday in August instead of its traditional midSeptember date.

The point of contention in the bill, however, is that it will abolish the option for voters to vote a straight-party ticket and also require photo ID for voters. While rescheduling is a nonissue, the straight-party ticket and voter ID registration are much more important and shouldn’t be attached.

As reported by the AP, “Wisconsin must change the [date of the]… primary to comply with a recent federal law requiring states to mail ballots for federal elections to military and overseas voters 45 days before the general election.” Wisconsin has been late getting in its absentee ballots and had to apply for a special waiver in 2010

to make the deadline.

The government denied this request and told us to change our primary date next election, so the Government Accountability Board gave the legislation a number of dates to pick from that would still comply with national criteria.

Nothing really to worry over — dates need to be shuffled around.

No wrongs committed here. On the other hand, the two other measures trying to ride in on the harmless measure’s coattails are not as simple or straightforward.

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca says, “The myriad of different items [Pridemore is] trying to weave together, of which some are completely unrelated, is a bad idea… It seems to me they should be separated and we should take up the thing that’s necessary without those things that might be desirable to those looking to further restrict people’s ability to vote.” Both clauses are seriously sticky issues and need to be unraveled in order to examine their

implications.

In a Badger Herald column last fall, writer Sam Stevenson pointed out that the straight party ticket robs independents on both side of what may be deserved votes by allowing uninformed voters not to make an active choice about candidates. This may be so, and eliminating the straight party ticket could help combat the “rather uninspired scope of Democratic successes.”

Only 14 other states besides Wisconsin still allow straight party voting, which marginalizes smaller parties and allows unqualified or unlikely candidates to ride on the coattails of their party. It’s not immediately clear to me why two Republican legislators would try to do away with something that has previously allowed strong partisans and hard-liners to support the GOP. The point is, it’s not a measure that should be included in clerical legislation, and it should be examined and debated far more rigorously.

The more concerning

measure is the requirement of photo ID at time of voting.

As reported by the AP, “Currently, registered Wisconsin voters are not required to provide any form of identification before voting. Both bills would require voters to provide either a driver’s license, state IDs, military IDs, passports, naturalization papers or tribal IDs at the polls.

Student IDs would not be allowed.”

Currently, only nine other states require a photo ID, and Republican legislators are pushing for the measure as a way to combat voter fraud. They tried to push it through in February, but couldn’t vote on it because no democrats were present.

Democrats ascertain that this measure, “would cut off access to minorities, students and senior citizens,” according to the AP. In fact, using electoral techniques to discriminate against minorities has been well-documented throughout history.

Grandfather clauses, literacy tests, intimidation and poll taxes have

prevented blacks, immigrants and the poor from participating in elections well into the 20th century. This, which borders on a civil rights violation, should be thoroughly looked into and evaluated.

These three measures now trying to be passed

by Republicans in the legislature demonstrate one of the oldest forms of political dishonesty: piggybacking. One of the bills I think should be passed, and the other I absolutely don’t think should be passed at any cost. The point is, they are three very separate and barely related issues and should be treated that way. Unfortunately, the measure is expected to pass easily. Is there any way the Democrats can take another vacation?

If not, the people of Wisconsin themselves need to engage in the debate that the Legislature is going to skip over.

Taylor Nye (tenye@ wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in biological anthropology and Latin American studies.

Cuts to service on bus route compromise student safety student-populated areas.

Among them are the Lakeshore area, which will be served only by route 80. Langdon Street, on which many student apartments are located, will have late Albert Budhipramono night services removed Columnist altogether.

What gave rise to the proposal was Metro’s A recent proposal limited budget, which

by Madison Metro, has forced some routes announced last week, to be reconsidered. It is intends to modify a important to note that number of late-night the decision is not related campus bus services. The to the budget-repair bill changes, set to take effect or the Wisconsin state starting next semester, budget. Although the will impact at least three committee has attempted Saferide routes, namely to maintain services for the 80, 81 and 82, which UW students, staying are used mostly by UW within the available students. budget has forced some The proposal will sacrifices to be made. result in fewer services Still, there is reason to to a number of heavily

believe that the choice to make service cuts was not the ideal decision.

According to the current proposal, route 80, which will be the only route serving the Lakeshore area at night, will run only every 40 minutes. This will cause fewer students to use the bus, as the longer waiting time for the bus might cause some to walk instead, especially during winter when the weather is less bearable.

What follows will be a decrease in ridership, and a less efficient service for students.

This clearly defeats the purpose of the Saferide service — to provide a safe way for students to commute at night, especially in less well-

lit areas on campus which are more prone to crime. The Lakeshore area at night is one of those areas, and to reduce service there will compromise students’ safety. In addition, the service reduction will affect more than just current students, as more new residence halls are being built in the Lakeshore area.

Of course, considering the limited budget, there are not many options available. But as this is an issue that goes beyond an inconvenience for students and into a safety issue, the reduction is not a good decision on the part of the planners.

Possible alternatives, then, include lowering the frequency of services

during the day to continue the frequency at night. While it will be inconvenient for students who use the bus during the day, a longer waiting time in the afternoon might be a better compromise than one at night. This is evident when it is considered that waiting at bus stops late at night is not a safe option.

It is also important to realize that students who need the services late at night do not have many options, as both walking and waiting for extended periods for the bus are unsafe.

Another alternative would be to improve lighting and increase police presence in the Lakeshore area. However,

these alternatives would be beyond the authority of the transportation planners, in addition to the possibility of them costing more.

The bottom line is that student safety shouldn’t be compromised, and the fact that the proposal has done exactly what should not be done is unacceptable. Fortunately, the proposal is not yet final and is still subject to review. Hopefully the board will reconsider their options, and come up with the solution that, while minimizing student inconvenience, does not compromise their safety.

Albert Budhipramono (budhipramono@wisc. edu) is a freshman majoring in biology.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “The government has attempted to do something that has never been accomplished in the history of humanity, and that is to spend our way to prosperity.”

- Karl Rove

George W. Bush’s former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff spoke to a crowd of 500 at UW-Milwaukee on Monday, blasting President Obama and lauding Gov. Scott Walker and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Janesville). The above quote is Rove’s criticism of the Obama administration’s proposed budget, something Democrats and Republicans have been deeply embroiled in a battle over for months.

The federal budget had a due date of March 1 but has been extended seemingly indefinitely. Rove and other political speakers have only fueled the partisan flames by praising one plan and bashing the other. “Compromise,” it seems, is a dirty word. However, for those exasperated by Rove’s rhetoric, Donald Trump has your back. On Monday, the celebrity business tycoon and potential Republican presidential candidate called Rove “a loser” for trying to end the birther discussion. Isn’t politics grand?

Amanda Cheung The Badger Herald

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SO to the guy with the Jesus backpack. It must be relieving to know the big JC has got your back..........pack.

ASO to the persistence of winter. You’re like the stage 5 clinger that never takes a hint. Newsflash:: NO ONE WANTS YOU HERE. TAKE A HIKE. Sincerely, every single person in the Midwest.

SO to my dad asking me where he can buy Mifflin t-shrits. ASO to possibly seeing my dad at Mifflin.

ASO to my roommate. I have a twitter too. #Bitch!

ASO to beard burn. DASO to the guys who think its funny, acceptable or cool. would you like it if i taped sandpaper to my face next time we made out? k cool

ASO to winter. Your turn ended a month ago.

Kindly fuck off and let spring finally happen.

SO to the summerfest lineup. DSO to allowing us badgers to party like badgers throughout the summer. TSO to the ensuing shitshow that will inevitably come along with the combination of summerfest and badgers ASO to being interested in a girl I work with, but not being sure if I can ask her out because her Facebook relationship status is married ASO to being on the toilet and feeling like my butthole is getting ripped open. Girls, i’m sorry. Never again will i ask...

SO to Dyson hand dryers. Best blow job I’ve ever gotten. DSO to Dyson also being good at sucking.

SO to facebook for knowing me too well and for always posting albums and statuses of my current fuck buddies side by side. You make me re-evaluate my life.

SO/ASO to my family visiting this weekend.

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Apologetic SO to the two girls I chased with my black umbrella last night screaming, “I’m going to rape you” I’m sorry my rum got the best of me.

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SO to waking up to this text: “ there is a warrant out for our arrest for stealing ian’s pizza. we are hiding in the club bucky tent. please help. i am serious” ASO to getting my dad drunk only to have him tell me that I’d make a good prostitute. No more double shots for you, dad...

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SO to God, from all of us badgers, please don’t let it rain on Mifflin. Please.

ASO to the girl on her phone on bascom who loudly just said “You think we’re dating?

If we’ve been together for the last month then I’ve cheated on you.”

You’re really classy.

HSO to rain on Mifflin.

Can you say wet t-shirt contests and mud wrestling?

SO to our roommate.

Remember when we bought Moose (our hamster) in August? We have been waiting to tell you but...within the first 24 hours of having the hamster, we lost him while we were drunk, bought a new hamster, found the original hamster, switched them back, and returned the new hamster. All without you knowing... we thought it was about time to tell you.

SO to having 10 cops show up at my house at 430am because someone called in an eyewhitness stabbing report to my address. Nope.

We didn’t stab anyone, that was really just blood from the cut on my hand all over my doorstep, but good to know if I ever do get stabbed at my place that 10 cops will show up.

SO/ASO? to always being tempted to fake a limp whenever I get out of an elevator on a floor less than 4.

ASO to boys who abruptly stop texting in the middle of a conversation. When you do it

on a consistent basis, you’re totally winning me over. NOT ASO to have been playing “words with friends” with who I thought was my bf.... turns out it wasn’t....

ASO to people who have huge ass umbrellas.

Save some sidewalk for the rest of us.

H(hopeful)SO that Emma Watson chooses Madison as her next school. ASO to Brown.

SO to rain revealing the guys who think they’re too masculine for an umbrella. DSO to laughing quietly at their drenched misery.

SO to using easter money from my grandma to buy a week’s supply of adderall. thanks g-ma!

ASO to the grad students in the SSC lab talking about using it for Skype speed dating.

SO to being social and meeting chicks at the bar instead.

ASO to my mom for disappointedly telling me that she heard the Badgers lost the spring football game this weekend SO to the UHS safe sex pamphlet that wrote the word cum in parentheses after the word semen. I was a little lost, but it all makes sense now!

SO to my calc TA emailing us that we should skip the “muffilin” party and use that time to study instead. Ok, I’ll skip the “muffilin” party. Mifflin, however, that’s a different story.

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THE BADGER HERALD PRESENTS ‘HUMP DAY’

Final farewell: A nostalgic look at college romance Rachel Dickens

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Famed in pop culture for providing the ‘Friday Night Lights’ theme song, Explosions in the Sky continues to explore the technique of layering their sounds without the added distraction of lyrics on their latest, ‘Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. ‘

Explosions in the Sky returns from hiatus with new emotion Absent since their 2007 release, Texas quartet is back with sixth studio album, non-lyrical sound Jenny Bauer

ArtsEtc. Writer Instrumental music is rare in today’s lyrically driven music world, but Explosions in the Sky has figured out how to tell stories without words.

With Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, the four-piece instrumental rock band from Texas delivers its signature sound with a few new elements.

It’s easy to forget there are no words because of the musical techniques the band employs to layer sounds and emotions.

Explosions in the Sky uses dynamics to its advantage and has perfected the buildup. The songs generally begin softly, slowly adding more sound until they really do sonically explode before dropping off into near silence. The best example of this technique on Take Care is “Postcard from 1952,” where you can almost feel the anticipation leading up to the climax of the song.

Emotion is present in every note of this album, and these emotions are amplified by a new element to Explosions in the Sky’s usual repertoire.

“Trembling Hands” starts with “ohs” that carry throughout the song, adding to the track’s high-energy feel. “Let me

Back In” also uses vocal elements, but in a much different way. The song starts and ends with creepy, wordless voices that seem to be trying to communicate something, but no one can understand them.

The almost ghost-like quality of these voices is made even stranger with the effect-laden guitars and sometimes-sparse instrumentals. This is the most unique song on the album and adds a completely different dynamic to the overall feel of Take Care, Take Care, Take Care.

There is a rollercoaster of emotions, sounds and themes on this album, which allows each of the six tracks to stand on their own. However, with an average of eight minutes per song, they can drag on.

They flow from one to the next, so it can be hard to keep track of which song is playing.

This is not necessarily a negative thing, but differentiation is important when a song doesn’t have words, and it is almost impossible to pick out a song by name on this album. There isn’t really a “stand-out” track.

Despite the lengthy songs, the band takes listeners on a musical journey. There is a clear progression of sound from one song to the next, and it is easy to imagine someone preparing to leave, saying goodbye, leaving and then

desperately wanting to return.

The guitars truly sing.

There are clear melodies and harmonies and a raw, free form quality to the music that adds personality.

A more melancholy sound with hauntingly beautiful guitars, “Be Comfortable, Creature” shows the scope of emotions the band portrays with one song and is the epitome of this album.

Take Care, Take Care, Take Care is a cohesive, expertly crafted album of notes that have been compiled into a scrapbook of sound.

Explosions in the Sky has figured out how to layer and piece together sounds so they convey emotions and stories without relying on traditional lyric convention. While trying out vocal elements that stray away from the band’s usual sound, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care delivers the inventiveness and consistency Explosions in the Sky is known for.

TAKE CARE, TAKE CARE, TAKE CARE

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Raise your hand if you’re about to graduate.

Okay, now raise your hand if you’re scared. And yeah, even a little scared counts.

If you’re a soon-to-be grad, chances are you’ve experienced Sinking Feeling #1: “Wait, it’s over?” But while leaving Madison comes as a relief for some people and a nightmare for others, there’s one thing we can’t deny: Two weeks from now we won’t be students here anymore, and as much as we come back to visit, or decorate our first “real” apartments with floor-toceiling Wisconsin gear, there’s nothing we can do to stop the clock.

Since I’m technically a sex columnist, it seems fitting to tie some of that subject matter into my final article. But this time, I don’t want to pose any hypotheticals, or bombard you with advice or wrap things up by telling you to do whatever makes you happy. Instead, I want to recap the stories that define Madison hookup culture and give some insight into how we can apply our college experiences to our postcollege lives. Here goes.

Maybe you’ve hooked up with a complete random. You knew their name and where they were from — and oh yeah, you had a few mutual friends — or maybe you didn’t.

Maybe it happened once and you felt weird about it, or maybe it’s something you do frequently and without much thought because that’s just how college seems to work.

You’ve thought to yourself, “My parents would disown me if they knew this is what my weekends were like,” yet you’ve still approached people at bars knowing whatever conversation you have is secondary to

the fact that you could go home with them. And that’s fine, because let’s face it — you weren’t looking for anything serious at the time.

Maybe you’ve been in a relationship. You’ve found stability in the form of a boyfriend, girlfriend or something less defined.

At the beginning, you realized how strange it felt for a person who wasn’t your mom to really, really like you.

Whether you’re someone who finds comfort in the unconditional support of a relationship, or even if commitment seriously freaks you out, you still took the leap and did foreign things like go on dates, have weeknight sleepovers and (yikes) hold hands in public. It was rocky at times — it might’ve ended less than ideally — and who knows, maybe you’re still great friends. But no matter how things turned out, it helped you learn a ton about yourself.

Maybe you’ve never been in a relationship.

You’re worried about entering real life with less experience than some of your friends. My advice?

Never be too hard on yourself. There’s no set age for a first date, a first hookup or a first boyfriend/girlfriend.

Honestly, I’m sure plenty of people who’ve been in relationships are less cool, interesting and mature than you. Also, don’t think “it’ll never happen,” because you’re just incorrect. Freshman year, I told my friends I’d never have a boyfriend because I was “too weird.” And while I’m no more normal now than I was back then, I’ve since proven that statement false, so I think it’s safe to say there’s hope for everyone out there.

Or maybe you’ve had a friend with benefits.

“We don’t like each other; we just like hooking up,” is what you thought.

You tried keeping things casual, but one of you started having those terrifying things experts call “emotions,” and that’s when things got awkward.

Maybe you confronted the situation and the two

of you didn’t speak for a while, maybe you just kept going with the way things were or maybe you ended your non-relationship right then and there.

Whatever the outcome, you probably felt confused at the time, but hopefully you’ve taken something positive away from the situation since then.

We all have ways of describing the people we’ve encountered in college: older, younger, boyfriend, girlfriend, asshole, flake, visitor, kid you ignore on the street, person in your Comm Arts discussion, etc. But while we might label these individuals, it’s safe to say they’ve brought us outside our comfort zones and challenged the people we were four years ago.

Deciding to come to Madison has given all of us more incredible opportunities than we could’ve imagined, be they academic, extracurricular or social. But while sex and relationships might take a backseat to everything this place entails, we can’t forget how strongly they’ve influenced our growth.

We’re becoming real people, and that’s honestly exciting.

Oh, and for anyone who’s thinking, “I have no clue what she’s talking about because I’m not graduating, and also, why did she just write ‘maybe’ so many times?” I have just one piece of advice.

People tell you to “cherish every moment,” but they forget to tell you what that actually means. According to this girl, it’s all about learning what makes you happy, romantically and otherwise; taking every experience, mishaps and regrets included, as something that brings you closer to the person you’ll eventually become; and most of all, never forgetting how lucky you are to spend four years in the most unbelievable place in the world.

Rachel Dickens is a senior majoring in journalism and communication arts.

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An ‘affair’ to remember: MMoCA gears up for parade of hair artistry Bi-annual ‘Hair Affair’ gala fundraiser set to show off whimsical hair sculptures Zachary Arostegui ArtsEtc. Writer

The mohawk, the mullet, the tonsure and the Jheri curl — these are the dos that come to mind when envisioning the wild and wacky in the world of hair, but on April 28 the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art seeks to push hair as well as artistic expression to its limit with another edition of Hair Affair: The Art of Hair. Color, style and clothing all come together to turn models into walking, talking creations straight from the minds of Madison hair stylists.

The event was last hosted in 2009 and is one of MMoCA’s largest fundraisers for the year, but this year they’re taking on even more salon participants, have a longer runway and are even offering a VIP ticket option.

Designs from 2009 ranged from chic and classy to awe-inspiring and gravity defying, causing one to wonder how salons will one-up themselves from 2009’s incredible designs.

Chacha Salon, one of the participants from last year, presented a design complete with red feathers, cascading curls, a black veil and whole lot of attitude called Rockabilly Momma.

This year however they plan to take their design in a different direction.

Amy Lambright,

Marketing Manager for Cha Cha, said they received inspiration from a fairytale character that is practically perfect in every way. While another design team and newcomer to the event, Retro Hair Studio, a neighborhood salon with a lot of funk, piques curiosity with a design titled Unipeg.

Professionals aren’t the only ones invited to participate in the creative process, though. According to Public Information Director, Katie Kazan, the fun extends to the audience with guests coming to the event with wigs, hair adornments and wildly colored hair. In this way Hair Affair challenges how the public consumes artwork in a variety of ways, inviting guests to literally participate in the event as well as interact at close quarters with the living designs.

However, there is a lot more to Hair Affair than just straightening, curling, coloring and extensions. It’s about costume, make-up and nails as well.

“The outfits are designed by the salons and are integral to the hair designs,” Kazan said.

Up to six hours or more can go into crafting the look for the event which doesn’t even last half that long.

Furthermore, the skills involved in the creation of hair art require, according to Lambright, a lifetime of preparation to hone and develop.

Hair Affair promises to transcend and transform

reality in a whimsical night of fantasy and fairytale-themed hairstyles.

Needless to say, Rapunzel’s long hair would hardly raise an eyebrow at the event.

In analyzing the event from an artistic perspective, one can note the concept is quite avant-garde in the way it pushes the boundary between the human form and artwork. Furthermore, utilizing hair as a medium for art seems to align hair sculpture with elements of collage, and extend it to the human form. Taking something as bland as the hair on your head and converting it into the ornate, elaborate designs of Hair Affair says something about the triumph of creativity as well as the prevalence of beauty in that which may appear ordinary.

However, perhaps it’s important not to try to derive too much meaning from the artwork. Stylist Alice Ezrow of Cha Cha Beauty and Barber said she enjoys the creative challenge as a diversion from the day-to-day styling she usually does, while patrons get their fair share of ooh’s and aah’s from the breathtaking sculptures.

Creation for creation’s sake can sometimes be a refreshing change, and a dedication to aestheticism is something that Hair Affair can certainly boast of.

Hair Affair can be best summed up in the attitude Jennifer Swiggum from

Photo by Tom McInvaille

A preview of the 2011 Hair Affair, this 2009 design by Cinema Hair Studio provides a glimpse into this year’s theme of ‘Fantasy and Fairytales,’ an inspiration point for the 18 participating Madison area salons creating the hair sculptures.

Retro Hair Studio takes with her everyday clients.

“We love it when people feel great about themselves when they leave,” Swiggum said.

After all the preparations

and the pomp and circumstance Hair Affair is really about getting a little crazy, having a good time and raising some money for Madison’s beloved Museum of Contemporary

Art. Hair Affair 2011 will take place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 28. All proceeds will support the museum’s free exhibitions and education programs.

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ArtsEtc. Content Editor A native Chicagoan, Danielle Willerman says she has “mad Chicago pride,” yet many students nationwide have seen her face before — singing and dancing in the “Teach Me How to Bucky” video that went viral earlier this year. The unsigned singer is a sophomore majoring in political science and radio, television and film at UW-Madison and goes by the name “Danielle Robay” when recording music on her own and as part of the group “Jump Smokers.”

“I’ve been singing my whole life,” she said. “I used to sing all the time and my parents were always really nice, but it was not so good. But, I always loved it so I took lessons; I was in choir in middle school and high school. I think it really helped, so ever since my senior year of high school I started recording.”

The beginning of Robay’s studio experience came serendipitously, thanks to her some nudging from her mother.

“It was luck. I don’t know if I believe in fate, but I think it was fate. My mom had won a trip to a radio station to go check it out.

I was really tired and I didn’t want to go, but I went. While we were there, we met the radio DJ, J. Roman. My mom is kind of pushy and was like, ‘She sings!’ We started talking and he put me in contact with one of his producers.

It ended up that [J. Roman and I] really clicked, and he started writing songs for me and I cowrote with him; it was really cool.

I’ve been doing that ever since. We have a group called Jump Smokers that he started — it’s dance, techno and pop music,” she said. “This summer I did a song with him for their first album called ‘Love of Electro.’ That was on iTunes, so it was so cool for me. He helps me out all the time; he’s amazing.”

Like much of her career has been thus far, Robay’s involvement with hip hop artists Quincy Harrison and Clifton Grefe of Zooniversity was unplanned and spontaneous.

“I had called Quincy for a favor because I know he’s great at recording; he’s a great producer,” she said. “The people from Chicago sent me something to do for Jump Smokers, and so I went over there and recorded it. After, he’s like ‘I have this idea, you can’t tell anyone about it.’ He told me about the whole idea, and I thought it was brilliant.

Singer Danielle Robay propels forward after winning campus-wide stardom from ‘Teach Me How To Bucky’

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He asked me to record a part right there and told me what to do. It took me like five minutes, and I was like, ‘Tell me what ends up happening with this’ because I kind of thought it would be him and his friends watching it in some basement. But it blew up; it was so cool.”

The “Teach Me How to Bucky” YouTube video had an explosive student reaction. Its current status of 1,582,528 views was something Robay had never expected.

“It was the weirdest thing that ever happened to me; I never thought it would get big like that.

I saw Halloween costumes, there were shirts, we performed it live. It was an incredible experience, and I don’t know if I’ll have another like it; I can hope. It was all about college pride and it was cool the football team did so well, so it kept going,” she said. “[Quincy] is like a marketing brand genius, and I think that had a lot to do with the video’s success; he worked really hard on it.”

Some of Robay’s earlier songs — which are not currently on an album but can be found on her MySpace — capture the musical sound more typical of a ‘tween audience. However, she describes the music she currently produces with J. Roman and Jump Smokers as more of an electro pop, club scene genre.

Either way, pop music is what she said she truly enjoys

creating.

“I think I finally learned the sound I’m going for. It’s R&B pop; like soulful pop. I’m recording with [JT Roach] right now, and he’s making some beats for me and

[“Teach Me How to Bucky”] was the weirdest thing that ever happened to me; I never thought it would get big like that. I saw Halloween costumes, there were shirts, we performed it live. It was an incredible experience, and I don’t know if I’ll have another like it; I can hope.

Danielle Robay

writing. It’s exactly what I want to be doing. He just graduated too, but he has his own music too; he’s really talented and a cool guy,” she said. ““There’s two things I absolutely love [about recording].

The first is that it’s a release for me. I feel like I’ve always been ‘a good girl’ without sounding dorky… Then, on the other end… every emotion is tied to music, so my goal is to hopefully do that for someone else. Have some

13-yearold girl on her bed be upset and want to turn my music on.”

Because of the array of opportunities she already had back home with her singing, Robay wasn’t sure at first what the new city would be like when she left for school.

“I never knew I would end up at Madison; it was never in my head,” she said. “I was scared what would happen with my music when I got here because everything I was doing was in Chicago, where I’m from. My mom was like, ‘Everything happens for a reason; have faith.’”

The transition from Chicago to a life at UW-Madison has proven to be an enjoyable one for the aspiring musician. This has been true for her recording endeavors and beyond.

“People in Madison are so creative; there are a lot of artists.

There’s kind of a big music scene here that I didn’t even know about. It’s been really cool,” she said. “I’m in love with Chicago; it’s my favorite city in the world.

I have mad Chicago pride, [but] what’s cool about Madison is I’ve been working with kids, people my own age. So it’s it s a lot different than working with somebody who’s so established.

[J. Roman] knows what he’s doing and has taught me incredible amounts, but it’s just different.”

The rewards from the work she’s done, even without a record label attached to her name, has been very rewarding for Robay.

She believes everything she records ties back to the values expressed in the lyrics of her very first song, titled “Real Girl.”

“Every time people comment on ‘Teach Me How to Bucky’ or say something about ‘Love of Electro’ that means a lot,” she said. “The first song I ever did was called ‘Real Girl;’ I co-wrote it with J. Roman. It means so much to me because the song lyrics are everything I’m about. I feel like when people say things to me about it I can’t believe people want to listen to my music, because it’s something that makes me so happy.”

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THIS WEEK’S TOP SERIES Florida at Cincinnati

One of the most surprising teams early on this season has been the Marlins. Powered by a lethal pitching staff and anchored by Cy Young candidate Josh Johnson, Florida has held tough behind the Phillies.

NUMBER OF THE WEEK

Milwaukee at Atlanta

Los Angeles at Boston

Fri., April 29 • Sun., May 1

2011 POWER RANKINGS

Mon., May 2 • Thu., May 5

Mon., May 2 • Thu., May 5

Two of the National League’s The Angels will look to exact best starting staffs clash next some revenge in this four-game series as the once-awful Red Sox week as the Brewers, who have played much better baseball of have finally figured out how to play baseball and swept Los late, invade Atlanta. The Braves, however, have struggled out of Angeles in four games at their the gates so far this season. place last week.

23

The number of games in a row that Los Angeles Dodger Andre Ethier has hit safely in a game.

23 games is the record for the longest hitting streak in April, breaking Joe Torre’s record of 22 back in 1972 for the Cardinals.

1. Philadelphia Phillies 2. New York Yankees 3. Texas Rangers 4. Florida Marlins 5. Colorado Rockies 6. Cleveland Indians 7. St. Louis Cardinals 8. Cincinnati Reds 9. Kansas City Royals 10. Los Angeles Angels 11. Milwaukee Brewers 12. Detroit Tigers 13. Tampa Bay Rays 14. Los Angeles Dodgers 15. Washington Nationals

BEST TEAM

16. Boston Red Sox 17. Atlanta Braves 18. Oakland Athletics 19. San Francisco Giants 20. Chicago Cubs 21. Minnesota Twins 22. Toronto Blue Jays 23. Pittsburgh Pirates 24. New York Mets 25. Baltimore Orioles 26. Arizona Diamondbacks 27. Chicago White Sox 28. Houston Astros 29. Seattle Mariners 30. San Diego Padres

2011 STANDINGS

Boston Red Sox

AL EAST Team Yankees Rays Blue Jays Red Sox Orioles

It was only a matter of time before the team with one of the highest payrolls in the league caught fire and strung together some wins.

In their last seven games, the Red Sox have won six, including a fourgame sweep of the Los Angeles Angels.

AL CENTRAL

Jose Bautista Toronto Blue Jays

AL MOST VALUABLE PLAYER RACE 1. Miguel Cabrera, Detroit .333 BA, 5 HR, 15 RBI, 1.043 OPS

2. Adrian Beltre, Boston .261 BA, 7 HR, 20 RBI, .847 OPS

3. Nelson Cruz, Texas .244 BA, 6 HR, 14 RBI, .833 OPS

4. Jose Bautista, TOR .362 BA, 8 HR, 11 RBI, 1.305 OPS

5. Alex Rodriguez, New York .321 BA, 5 HR, 17 RBI, 1.048 OPS

AL CY YOUNG AWARD RACE 1. Jered Weaver, Angels 6-0, 0.99 ERA, 49 K, 0.79 WHIP

2. C.C. Sabathia, New York 1-1, 2.73 ERA, 30 K, 1.24 WHIP 3. Dan Haren, Angels 4-1, 1.46 ERA, 33 K, 0.76 WHIP

4. Felix Hernandez, Seattle 3-2, 3.32 ERA, 35 K, 1.20 WHIP

5. David Price, Tampa Bay 3-2, 3.19 ERA, 26 K, 1.06 WHIP

NL MOST VALUABLE PLAYER RACE 1. Matt Kemp, Dodgers .379 BA, 5 HR, 18 RBI, 1.075 OPS

2. Joey Votto, Cincinnati .373 BA, 4 HR, 12 RBI, 1.127 OPS

3. Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado .373 BA, 7 HR, 17 RBI, 1.090 OPS

4. Ryan Howard, Philadelphia .295 BA, 3 HR, 20 RBI, .850 OPS

4. Prince Fielder, Milwaukee .341 BA, 4 HR, 23 RBI, 1.015 OPS

Win-Loss 14-9 14-10 11-13 9-15

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NL EAST

Whether your team contends for a pennant or dwells in the cellar for the season, there’s still nothing like baseball.

In Johnson’s last two starts, he went 14.0 innings, scattering five hits, one run and 15 punch-outs.

Johnson has also posted a 0.64 ERA, rounding his season average to 1.06, which is best in the National League.

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AL WEST Team Rangers Angels Athletics Mariners

In his last seven games, Bautista has hit .474 with four homeruns and four RBI. Bautista now leads the major leagues in average and is beginning to look as formidable as he did last season when he led the majors in home runs with 54.

Josh Johnson Florida Marlins

GB -2 2.5 3 3.5

Team Win-Loss Indians 14-8 Royals 12-11 Tigers 12-11 Twins 9-12 White Sox 10-14

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Win -Loss 12-8 11-11 11-12 10-12 9-12

Regular season worth your attention Despite what naysayers may say, Major League Baseball still must-watch television during summer Tom Sakash Extra Innings Editor Recently, my poor colleague and resident Yankees fan Max Henson and I talked about the meaning of the MLB regular season.

We discussed the notion that fans become estranged from the game because, as Yankee fans, it’s easy to feel as though nothing can be accomplished in the regular season.

Regular season success for the Yankees is the bare minimum.

And thanks to an astronomical payroll, a playoff berth is viewed as a given or requirement.

So in effect, there’s no reason to watch until October when, as always, his Yankees will beat the Twins in the ALDS, then most likely face either the Red Sox or Angels the ALCS. Maybe he’s on to something. Maybe he’s right that the Yankees, even in one of the toughest divisions in the league, are always expected to make a deep playoff run. Maybe baseball lacks true competitive balance.

But there’s so much more to the game regardless of who’s playing that’s worth your time.

It starts on the mound.

There is no other sport where on any given night someone can make history like one can in baseball.

A pitcher takes the mound at about 7 p.m. local time. It’s their sixth start of the season, and they’ve gone 2-2 with about a 4.25 ERA. Even though most people have scarcely heard of him before, about

two hours later, ESPN has switched all of its coverage to the final outs of his game to show the guy throw a perfect game and insert his name in the record books for the rest of time.

You just don’t get anything like that in other sports.

Think about the simple artistry of

There is no other sport where on any given night someone can make history like one can in baeballl.

pitching in general.

Pitchers with stuff that garner adjectives like ‘nasty’ or ‘filthy’ or ‘disgusting.’ If a hurler is throwing pitches that evoke those types of descriptions, I want to see it.

But wait, there’s more.

Let’s talk the home run ball. The sound sanded-down ash makes when a slugger hits one on the screws and drives it 450 feet is pure ecstasy. The pitcher doesn’t need to turn around because he already knows what stratosphere the ball is headed to, simply by the crack of the bat.

The left fielder doesn’t even move an inch from where he’s standing as the ball sails over his head.

And the best part is the guy who hit the home run gets to run around the mound, almost in mockery of the pitcher he just torched.

And that’s just a regular home run.

There are hardly many other plays in

sports that are more exciting than the inside-the-park home run variety (maybe a kickoff return for a touchdown, overtime in the NHL or the Kentucky Derby rivals it, but that’s about it).

Then, there’s the walk-off. It is the buzzer beater, the 50yard field goal as time expires, the sudden death overtime winner of baseball. What a feeling it must be to collect the game winning hit, then watch your entire team crowd around the plate ready to mob you as you trot home.

But for as great as the home run is, for as great as hitting in general is in baseball, the most exciting part of the game is actually

Then, there’s the walk-off. It is the buzzer beater, the 50-yard field goal as time expires, the sudden death overtime winner of baeball.

the defense.

The majority of highlights produced by the game don’t come from the batter’s box. They come from the field. It’s why the “Web Gems” segment culminates every episode of Baseball Tonight.

Think about leaping catches over the wall to rob home runs, diving catches in the outfield to snatch away base hits, Derek Jeter going deep in the hole, plucking the ball from the dirt then leaping while turning and firing one back to first in a play that defies physics.

Some believe the 6-4-3 double play is the most beautiful play in all of sports. And when the short-stop ranges to a ball up the middle, flips it behind his back to the second baseman who bare-hands it and guns it down to first to roll ‘em up, that’s really hard to refute.

Then there are the players themselves, the men who day-in and day-out man the same positions for your favorite baseball team all summer.

When you’re a kid, you feel like you grow up with these guys.

When you’re older, you’re wise enough to grasp what a grind the regular season is for these players and how respectable it is that most of them (Manny Ramirez excluded) bust their butts every game, no matter the score, no matter the standings.

Some of the saddest days in a baseball fan’s life are when a favorite player retires. It’s as if they are losing a part of them, a part of their life that they have lived with for so long.

I’d literally trade my healthy dog for another summer watching the Big Hurt mash on the South side.

Finally, you have simple attendance of the live game. Sure, baseball is probably last of the four major sports in the U.S. in terms of wire-to-wire excitement, but there’s nothing like going to a baseball game on a hot summer day in July and taking in the alchemic sights and sounds.

Catch a foul ball, eat a hot dog (with mustard and grilled onions, no ketchup obviously) and enjoy the very best part of summer.

Team Win-Loss Marlins 15-7 Phillies 15-8 Braves 12-13 Nationals 10-12 Mets 10-13

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NL CENTRAL Team Win-Loss Brewers 12-11 Cardinals 12-11 Reds 12-12 Pirates 10-13 Cubs 10-13 Astros 9-14

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NL WEST Team Rockies Giants Dodgers D’Backs Padres

Win-Loss 16-7 11-11 12-13 10-12 9-15

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MLB BATTING LEADERS BATTING AVERAGE 1. Matt Holliday, STL 2. Andre Ethier, LAD Matt Kemp, LAD 4. Lance Berkman, STL 5. Joey Votto, CIN

.407 .379 .379 .378 .373

HOME RUNS 1. Ryan Braun, MIL Jose Bautista 3. Adrian Beltre, TEX Albert Pujols, STL Curtis Granderson, NYY

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RUNS BATTED IN 1. Prince Fielder, MIL 2. Ryan Braun, MIL 3. Adrian Beltre, TEX 4. Ryan Howard, PHI 5. Paul Konerko, CWS

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ON-BASE PCT 1. Jose Bautista, TOR 2. Matt Holliday, STL 3. Joey Votto, CIN 4. Ryan Braun, MIL 5. Andre Ethier, LAD

.522 .521 .500 .466 .454

SLUGGING PCT 1. Jose Bautista, TOR 2. Ryan Braun, MIL 3. Lance Berkman, STL 4. Alex Rodriguez, NYY 5. Troy Tulowitzki, COL

.783 .721 .716 .696 .674

MLB PITCHING LEADERS WINS 1. Jered Weaver, LAA 2. Justin Masterson, CLE 3. Dan Haren, LAA Aaron Harang, SD Max Scherzer, DET

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SAVES 1. Huston Street, COL 2. Mariano Rivera, NYY Leo Nunez, FLA 4. Brian Fuentes, OAK Chris Perez, CLE

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NL CY YOUNG AWARD RACE

TRIPLE PLAY Tommy can you hear me? — After Bud Selig and Major League Baseball seized the Los

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Angeles Dodgers from incompetent owner, Frank McCourt, former Texas Rangers president, Tom Schieffer was appointed by the league to oversee business and financial operations of the team. Rachel Phelps, apparently, wasn’t available to take over team operations.

3-1, 2.41 ERA, 39 K, 1.02 WHIP

2. Tim Lincecum, San Francisco 2-2, 2.70 ERA, 38 K, 1.08 WHIP

Greinke Ho! — Former Kansas City Royal Zack Greinke, who suffered a freak injury while

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3. Josh Johnson, Florida

playing basketball in the off-season after signing a large contract with the Milwaukee Brewers, pitched his first 2 2/3 innings earlier this week, giving up three hits and two runs for Triple-A Nashville. Perhaps this summer he will stick to baseball.

3-0, 1.06 ERA, 33 K, 0.65 WHIP

4. Matt Cain, San Francisco 2-1, 3.34 ERA, 22 K, 1.15 WHIP

5. Cliff Lee, Philadelphia 2-2, 4.18 ERA, 39 K, 1.05 WHIP

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Sabermetric of the Week — Weighted on-base average, or wOBA. wOBA measures a player’s overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. The formula gives values for all possible offensive events and divides them all by the number of the player’s plate appearances. wOBA is on the same scale as OBP, meaning .400 is incredible and .300 is very bad.

1. Jered Weaver, LAA 2. Josh Johnson, FLA 3. Dan Haren, LAA 5. Brett Anderson, OAK 5. Michael Pineda, SEA

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STRIKEOUTS 1. Jered Weaver, LAA 2. Matt Garza, CHC Clayton Kershaw, LAD 4. Roy Halladay, PHI Cliff Lee, PHI

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WHIP 1. Josh Johnson, FLA 2. Kyle Lohse, STL 3. Dan Haren, LAA 4. Josh Beckett, BOS Jered Weaver, LAA

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Healy has had no qualms about immediately inserting Massei back into the meat of the batting order, and Massei proved why. Since her return, Massei has recorded six hits in 12 atbats, showing little signs of rust.

“I feel completely back,” Massei said.

“Nothing on my face can hold me back. My mask doesn’t interfere with anything.”

Massei will have to be at the top of her

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The Badgers may be struggling on the road in conference play this season, but with an ace in the circle and a dangerous hitting lineup, this team has an abundance of confidence heading into Iowa.

“We’ve looked really good the past few games,” Darrah said. “I think we’ll do well.”

HUGHES, from 16 to ride past. 3) You’re basically restricted to back roads so, mapping your route manually is both liberating (no thanks, GPS) and fun (encourages improvisation). 4) When you stop at small diners along the way, people are interested in your trip if you’re traveling by bike; it’s a great way to meet some interesting folk.

5) It’s a great exercise and a great challenge.

6) If you split it into a two-day trip, go to the local watering hole of whatever small town you’re in and enjoy a few frosty brews over dinner.

They will taste amazing.

7) Reasons five and six will equal the best sleep of your life.

3. Learn the game of racquetball People don’t play this game enough. The trickiest part about it is finding a court for it — and luckily you can find one at the SERF and the Nielsen Tennis Stadium here in Madison.

It’s an energetic sport

packed into a small and enclosed 20x40-foot court, where the sounds of the game reverberate off the walls and further pump up the intensity of the game.

It’s rules are intuitive, and don’t worry about being a beginner — this game is 100-times easier than tennis. Because guess what? The walls — and the ceiling for that matter — are a part of the environment! As long as you can hit the ball, you’re fine! Beginners need not worry about aiming; hitting the ball “out-of-bounds” is impossible.

All you have to do is hit the wall in front of you. It doesn’t matter if you hit the other three walls first or not; just don’t whiff, and don’t let the ball touch the ground before it hits the wall in front.

4. Become a temporary baseball roadie One of the biggest drawbacks of going on a road trip when you’re under 21 years of age is that the nightlife is taped off, leaving you

to wonder what in the hell you’re going to do in downtown Baltimore, since you don’t know anybody else in town.

This is where baseball comes in, especially for you youngsters.

Watching an away series of your favorite team is a great excuse to hit the road in the first place, and if the games are at night, you won’t be bored.

There’s plenty of great venues right in Madison’s backyard.

Brand spankin’ new Target Field is five hours away, while the timeless Wrigley Field is an easy three. Try going farther than Miller Park.

Otherwise, you hit either coast after a day of driving. There’s no better way to see America than by car, and there’s no other American pastime like baseball. Be a patriot and kick those tires.

Elliot is a junior majoring in journalism.

What are your plans to fill in the sports void of summer? Tell him your plans at ehughes@ badgerherald.com.

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Freshman Stracar fights injuries, inexperience First-year player makes it clear she belongs in top half of Wisconsin lineup Kelly Erickson

Associate Sports Editor Freshman Nicky Stracar doesn’t want to get off the court.

As one of the standout freshman on the Wisconsin women’s tennis team, Stracar would rather stay out on the court as long as possible than take a nice break after a hard day’s workout.

“She’s a really hard worker,” redshirt junior Alaina Trgovich said.

“She probably spends the most time on the court than anybody else.

She always comes early, always stays later, is always doing extra.”

Battling through injury and getting used to college life, Stracar has already started to make her mark on the tennis team.

Despite her 9-10 overall singles record, Stracar has made a solid showing in the top of the lineup for the Badgers. With the fourth best record on the team — behind upperclassmen and fellow freshman standout Jenny

JUMP from 16 getting those, I think it would be a big mistake,” Schultz said. “I know and coach knows I’m not physically ready yet for that next level.”

That next level: The National Hockey League.

The NHL can pluck its young prospects from the college ranks more easily than any other major professional league, for one main reason.

They’re already drafted.

The NFL requires a player to be two full years removed from high school to be drafteligible.

NBA draft eligibility is contingent on the prospect being one full year removed from high school. If a player drafted by an MLB player decides to go to school, the team does not retain his rights and the player re-enters the draft pool the following year.

But for North American players, there is a small window of NHL draft eligibility. The player must be 18 years old by Sep. 15 of the draft year and no older than 20

by Dec. 31 of that year.

As a result, the majority of the most talented North American players intent on playing NCAA hockey have been drafted before they even sit down for their first class. This also means they’re more or less free to leave at any time they want, knowing that they already have a pro franchise committed to them and a contract waiting.

“It just comes down to the organization that you sign with, whether they’re ready for you to make that transition, [if] they feel you’re ready,” McBain said in a phone interview. “Then also on a personal level, how you feel about where you’re at, both in your personal life and also with your hockey. You’ve got to weigh both options.”

The problem There’s a balancing act in college hockey between attracting top talent and being able to use it to its fullest potential. Teams that want to compete consistently need the right mix of talent, timing and execution.

“It almost seems that if you’re going to be in that type of rotation where you’re able to attract topend kids, this is what’s going to happen if you have a good team,” UW head coach Mike Eaves said. “The blessing of it is, you probably wouldn’t have a chance to get in that championship game unless you had those topend kids. The downside is, they’re going to leave early.”

Since 2003 (and

Hois — and a 7-4 record at the No. 1 spot and a 2-4 record at the No. 3 spot, Stracar hasn’t shown her youth.

“She’s a kid that wants to be the star. She’s going to strive to be the star, and eventually it’s going to happen because she has that desire and determination,” head coach Brian Fleishman said. “She hasn’t played like a freshman yet. She’s been playing the last two months hurt. She’s taking it for the team, and she wants to get out there; she does not want to sit on the sideline and watch.”

In light of Fleishman’s praise, Stracar felt her match last Sunday finally showed her age.

Up 3-0 in the first set Stracar couldn’t hold onto the lead, losing the first set, forcing her to fight for a third set to win the match. Forcing the third set Stracar was one of the last Badgers still playing.

The only other match still in play was junior Aleksandra Markovic, who won, sealing the win for the Badgers.

Being concerned about her teammate, Stracar felt she lost focus initially in the third set and couldn’t hold on for the win. excluding the NHL lockout year of 2004-2005), 185 college hockey players have left school with eligibility remaining to sign with an NHL or AHL team.

A small number of players left early to sign with a European team — UW’s Jordy Murray announced this week he is likely foregoing his senior season to play professionally in Switzerland — but those players are not counted for this story. In 2010, 36 underclassmen signed, the most since 2007.

Since Eaves became head coach at Wisconsin for the 2002-2003 season, he’s seen 12 underclassmen leave for the pros (13 if Murray goes), second in Division I only to Minnesota’s 19 in that time span. The WCHA, which includes traditional powerhouses like the aforementioned Badgers and Gophers, as well as Denver and North Dakota, was hit hardest in that span among Division I conferences. Eighty-one WCHA players left school early in those years, with the CCHA clocking in at a distant second with 43

“I knew the match was coming down to me and [Markovich] and I kept constantly looking over and by the time I knew it I was down four-love on my court in the third set,” Stracar said. “I came back to five all but I think that was a big freshman moment, just looking over and seeing her score and getting a little tight and nervous if it was to come down to me.”

Already making an impression on her coaches in the top half of the lineup, Stracar has made it clear she plans to continue playing there.

“She doesn’t want to play anywhere but high in the lineup,” Fleishman said. “She’s already made that statement known…I think she proved herself in the fall that she was worthy of playing at the top of the lineup, in the top one, two or three position. Now it’s just a daily thing, going out there and proving yourself on a daily basis.”

Continuing to prove herself, Stracar ’s style of play sets her apart from the rest of the boys. In fact based on her style, she should be playing with the guys.

Stracar can hit the ball early departures. Four of the five teams with the most defections in that span hail from the WCHA. With all that talent, the WCHA would be expected to fare well in the national tournament.

And while the conference has succeeded in that setting, it has been a mixed bag.

Since the NCAA tournament went to its current 16-team format in 2003, the WCHA has led all conferences in total bids in seven of nine years. Fourteen WCHA teams have made it to the Frozen Four in that span, but until Minnesota Duluth’s win in 2011, the conference hadn’t seen a national champion since 2005.

That year featured an all-WCHA Frozen Four, with Denver defeating North Dakota for the title. WCHA teams won four straight titles from 2002-2005.

So what happened to change that?

The likely culprit is the NHL’s new collective

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Head coach Brian Fleishman says Nicky Stracar has the potential to become a star later in her career. just as hard as the next guy with just as much velocity and strength behind it. If that wasn’t enough, she has one of the best serves on the team.

“She is that type of player that plays similar to a guy — an aggressive style,” Fleishman said.

“She’s got a big serve.

She’s got the ability to hit a heavy spin ball, she can come to the net — which a lot of the girls don’t do — that’s why she plays similar to a guy, which is a good thing. It’s going to pay off in dividends, maybe not this year, but in the next three years it’s going to really come along.”

Freshman year hasn’t gone exactly as Stracar had hoped, especially in light of the tendonitis she’s been fighting for several months now.

For awhile Stracar felt she was just holding a spot for her team, fighting to give her team a chance to win. Now that it’s a little better she’s more confident she can compete at a high level and win.

“A few weeks ago I was just holding my spot, slicing forehands out there so the girls can get a win at their spot,” Stracar said. “Now I can actually hit forehand; it’s not that painful. I’m not going out there to play, to hold a

spot, I’m going out there to win.”

Facing some adversity Stracar hasn’t been able to reach her ultimate goal this year: All-American status. With three more years left, Stracar isn’t ready to give up just yet.

“She’s never going to quit out there,” Fleishman said. “She’s not going to settle for anything else but to be an AllAmerican. That was her goal this year, it’s going to be the same thing next year and the year after.

She wants this team to do well, and she knows if she can become an All-American, this team is going to become that much better too.”

bargaining agreement, put in place after the 2005 lockout. The CBA’s prominent feature was a salary cap.

“With the salary cap, the game has changed because of that,” Eaves said. “You look at most NHL teams now, if you take a look at their fourth-line players, those are kids they can afford to have up. They’re going to spend their money on their top-end guys.

“A lot of teams now are three-line teams and five defensemen. And they kind of fill in around the

edges with these guys they can afford.”

In 2003, 10 players left early; in 2004, 18 players did so. In the post-NHL lockout years, the numbers of players to leave have looked like this: 25, 31, 27, 17, 36, 21.

Organizations are eager to call up young, cheap prospects to do the same things a much more expensive veteran could do.

Eaves realizes his top players are likely to leave early and understands sometimes they indeed need to move on in order

to become better hockey players. But NHL teams are becoming more aggressive in encouraging picks to sign sooner. Eaves just wants to get three years out of them.

“Really, that’s our main concern; if we can get them to stay for three years, if they can be committed to college for three years — it used to be four years, but realistically, three years for us — we can live with that,” he said.

Check back tomorrow for the second part of this fivepart series.

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here is a trend brewing in the Wisconsin men’s hockey program that recently stalled thanks to what could be seen as a curious decision by Justin Schultz.

Schultz, who just completed his sophomore season, became the third Badger defenseman in three years to collect an impressive array of awards. Starting with Jamie McBain in 2009 and continuing with Brendan

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A college hockey player has more control over when to begin his professional career than his counterparts on the gridiron or hardwood. But it’s not an easy decision, and the ramifications can have far-reaching effects.

Smith and Schultz in the following two seasons, all three players have done the following: Win a top individual award in the WCHA, be named a firstteam All-American and firstteam all-conference, rank first or second in the nation in scoring from the blueline and be named a top-10 finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, given annually to the top player in college hockey.

All three had their own

individual wrinkles too.

McBain was WCHA Player of the Year, while Schultz and Smith were named Defensive Player of the Year. Smith had the most points of the three in his big season, putting up 15 goals and 37 assists for 52 points and helping UW to the national title game.

Schultz’s 18 goals were the most for a college defenseman since 2002. And there was his curious decision.

All that hardware and

fanfare and Schultz decided this: He would stay for his junior season.

McBain, a second-round draft pick of the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, left after his junior season, saying he’d accomplished everything he wanted to at the NCAA level.

Smith, a first-round choice of the Detroit Red Wings, did the same. A second-round draft pick of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks, Schultz’s numbers and awards would have seemed

to indicate he would make the jump to the professional ranks at season’s end. Plus, he accomplished his feats as a sophomore, while McBain and Schultz were juniors.

It would seem to look like Schultz is on a faster track to professional stardom.

“Those awards, they’re great, I’m happy with them.

If I were to leave based on

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Summer bucket list for you sports fans Elliot Hughes Hughe’s Your Daddy Semester ’s end is near, and while the living is easy in the summertime, there’s still no escaping the vacuum of sports that are the summer months.

Sure, there’s still baseball and golf, but summer is without doubt a slower period in the world of sports than other times in the calendar. The NBA and NHL playoffs will be done by mid-June, there won’t be a World Cup and you’ll be doing everything you can to shield your ears from NFL CBA talk.

On campus, there’s also no college football or basketball games being played just down the block, and all intramural leagues enter the offseason.

What’s a sports enthusiast to do if baseball and golf aren’t enough to give you a fix?

Stopped mimicking a beached whale on your couch and keep these tidbits in mind: 1. Check out Devil’s Lake State Park It’s a nice and easy one-hour drive from Madison, and any outdoor enthusiast could easily spend days there. Amidst its beautifully glaciercarved mounds, one can indulge in hiking, biking, boating, swimming, rock climbing, hunting and fishing while a campsite for as many as 20 people requires just $40.

Fourteen hiking trails of varying difficulty and

distance snake through the park. Some are layered in asphalt, some are grassy and some involve steep climbing.

One promenade through one of those trails and you’ll notice all the opportunities for rock climbing as well.

But if you’re too afraid of plunging to your death or if “127 Hours” is too fresh in your mind, I guess you can always hit up Union South for the climbing thrill.

2. Hit the road on an aluminum steed Don’t skip over this part; it’s easier than you think. Pick out a spot on a map, anywhere from 30-200 miles away, grab a bike and start pedaling with a friend or two.

A road trip via-bicycle is a lot more fun than it sounds. First of all, I can say first hand that this is not something you need to do an enormous amount of training for. I did two 100-mile bicycle rides in high school and did another 100 miles over a two-day span last summer.

The two rides in high school came during my high school football season, but I never did any extra training. The ride I did last summer — I haven’t subscribed to a weekly exercise regimen for two years and it went fine. As long as you’re relatively in shape, you’re solid.

You don’t even need a tip-top bike, as long as it’s relatively light and can change gears.

And here’s where it’s fun. 1) It’s a great bonding experience with whomever you’re with. 2) Wisconsin is actually home to some charming landscapes

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Back in the lineup after sitting out 14 games due to facial fractures, freshman Mary Massei has improved her batting average to .353.

Badgers looking for success on road Wisconsin set to clash with Iowa as UW enjoys recent strong play from Darrah’s pitching, Massei at plate Justin Mertes-Mistretta Softball Writer With over half the Big Ten season in the books, the Wisconsin softball team has shown a lot promise for the future.

Head coach Yvette Healy and the rest of the new coaching staff have turned around the program and instilled a winning attitude, evident of its 24-19 overall record.

However, this success has not been met on the road in conference play, where the Badgers are 1-6. This is cause for concern as Wisconsin travels to Iowa, where the Hawkeyes are undefeated, on Wednesday for a doubleheader. However, none of this worries freshman pitcher Cassandra Darrah.

“We just have to work hard like we have been and play with heart,” Darrah said.

It will be a last 28 innings. In her homecoming for Darrah, last two starts, Darrah an Iowa native, who will pitched complete games, be making her first start striking out five batters in her home state since and only gave up one run in each. On leaving for the season, college.

Darrah has Pearl Field 13 wins, may be the which is home of the second Hawkeyes, most by a but on freshman Wednesday in school it may be history. equally “It would Darrah’s. be nice [to “There break the will be a lot record],” of people Darrah there, Cassandra Darrah said. “But, but I’m just excited,” UW freshman pitcher I’m looking out Darrah said. for the team “It’ll be as a whole.” like a home The game.” freshman’s After has been giving up six runs in success 1.1 innings against impressive, but even admits that Northwestern on April 9, Darrah Darrah has turned things her job is made easier around giving up only when she is getting run seven earned runs in her support. In the Badgers

We just have to work hard like we have been and play with heart.

past four wins, they have scored a combined 18 runs.

“It takes a lot of pressure off of me so I can focus on what I’m doing,” Darrah said.

Infielder Mary Massei has done her part in contributing to the run support lately, including a 5-for-7 performance over the weekend in a doubleheader against Illinois, where she hit a game-tying home run in the seventh inning.

“I was just trying to keep my mind on the game the entire time and just drive through the ball,” Massei said. “I’m just trying to get the most out of my at-bats since I was out for 14 games.”

Since returning from the three facial fractures that forced her to sit out 14 games dating back to late March, infielder

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