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Redistricting may alter recall voters GAB hearing shows voting populations could differ from original elections Sean Kirkby State Reporter Legislators heard testimony and addressed how recently passed legislation could affect recall elections, as well as Wisconsin voters at the polls at a public hearing

Wednesday.

At an open hearing for the Senate Committee on Transportation and Elections, Kevin Kennedy, director and general counsel of the Government Accountability Board, said the date of a possible recall election against Gov. Scott Walker and other members of the state Legislature could influence who may vote in that election because of redistricting.

Since the Legislature passed a bill changing

the districts legislators represent that goes into effect for any election held after Nov. 6, 2012, any recall election for a senator that occurs after Nov. 6 could have different citizens voting in it than the people who first elected the senator, Kennedy said.

The bill changing district lines went into effect as soon as it was passed Aug. 24, so legislators currently represent the newly drawn

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Director and General Counsel of the Government Accountability Board Kevin Kennedy said the date of any future recall elections in the state for either the governor or state senators could impact the eligible voting population because of recent redistricting.

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Health groups say earlier alcohol sales dangerous Bill allowing stores to sell liquor at 6 a.m. could increase OWI Michael Kujack State Reporter The State Assembly passed a bill Tuesday to legalize alcohol sales earlier in the day, expanding the number of hours Wisconsinites can purchase alcohol each day.

Under current law, a Class A liquor license allows establishments such as liquor or grocery

stores to begin selling alcohol at 8 a.m.. The new Republican-authored Assembly bill would change that time to 6 a.m.

The bill will now go to the Senate for approval.

Rep. Evan Wynn, R-Whitewater, said he decided to author the bill because Wisconsin residents complained they were not able to buy alcohol at an earlier hour. Wynn said latenight shift workers and people shopping early for a holiday were not able to buy alcohol during current hours.

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spoke out against the Assembly’s passage of the bill at a floor meeting Monday. Paul Krupski, policy and grassroots specialist for Health First Wisconsin, explained why Health First opposed the bill.

“This bill gives consumers extra convenience, but Wisconsin is the number one state when it comes to binge drinking,” Krupski said. “We are in the top states for DUIs. All these things combined are examples of the price we pay for this convenience.

We know that increased

availability for alcohol leads to increased drinking.”

Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention spokesperson Francie Peardon said there are several different factors to take into consideration with respect to the bill.

She also said increasing the hours of alcohol sales may have unintended consequences to the public health of Wisconsin.

Wynn addressed concerns about the increase of access to alcohol.

He argued that cases like drunken

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University of Wisconsin senior Kristen Chetrick gazes into the mirror at Ragstock on State Street Wednesday as she tries out different possibilities for a Halloween costume. Chetrick said she and her friends are dressing up this weekend to represent various nursery songs through costumes, and she is going as a representation of the childhood favorite “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.”

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by Class B licensed locations such as bars, not Class A locations like grocery stores or gas stations.

Krupski responded by saying drunken driving incidences do not result solely from sale by Class B locations.

“While that may be the case, definitely not every [Operating While Intoxicated citation] comes from a Class B license,” Krupski said.

“A vast number of DUIs come from Class B licenses, where people are purchasing alcohol,

taking it to their home ... and then driving from there.”

Wynn said Wisconsin’s high OWI offenses did not necessarily correlate with alcohol sale hours.

According to Wynn, both California and New York have 24-hour alcohol sales, but neither have high numbers of OWI incidents.

Krupski also said OWIs are not the only issue at hand with the bill. He said violence, sexual violence and risky behavior also increase

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Obama: Student debt must decline

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Administration lays out new plan to lower interest rates Ally Boutelle City Editor The White House laid out plans Wednesday for the steps it is taking to improve college affordability by making debt from student loans more manageable and contingent on post-grad earnings.

The current generation of college students has an all-time high amount of student loans, said Education Secretary Arne Duncan during a conference call hosted by the White House.

He added the current outstanding total of federal student loans is $610 billion.

Duncan said the administration has introduced its new “Pay as You Earn” proposal in an attempt to combat rising debts. The proposal will lower more than 1.5 million college students’

monthly payments to 10 percent of their income that is left over after necessary expenses.

President Barack Obama has also put a more immediate action plan in place. Beginning this January, approximately six million college students and recent graduates will be able to consolidate their student loans and significantly lower their interest rates, Duncan said.

In addition, the President’s new plan will forgive all outstanding debts after 20 years, said Duncan.

Melody Barnes, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said ensuring college students’ financial security is a priority for the Obama administration.

“Tuitions costs, costs of room and board — they’ve all been going up,” she said. “This president made a commitment to start moving forward with these intiatives. We’re

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Previous UW professor outlines university challenges Samuel Schmitt City Reporter Former University of Wisconsin history professor Jeremi Suri shared his thoughts on the obstacles he foresees UW facing in upcoming years and how they should be dealt with in the second part of an edited

interview with The Badger Herald.

What problems do you see Madison facing today?

First of all, there’s insufficient funding for the important work the university does. Second, there is too little risk taking at the university.

People are very conservative in the sense that they are concerned there isn’t enough money to preserve certain things, and [they do] not take risks that are needed for new discoveries and new creativity.

And I think the university is not always pushing itself to do its very best work. I don’t blame the university

per se; I think that’s the environment the university is operating in.

How would you fix these problems?

I think the university needs, first of all, to develop a much better set of connections around the state. It needs the state of

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Wisconsin to really stand behind the university.

The university needs support from the political leadership of the state.

Second, the university needs to remake itself, it needs to reorganize itself, it needs to focus and encourage creativity more and it needs to allocate its resources, not just more efficiently, but

toward the things that are going to have the biggest and most important impact.

The structure of the university — and this is true for many universities — reflects a different time period. It doesn’t reflect the contemporary opportunities and challenges of today.

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The student government voted down a piece of legislation intended to retain two student representatives who had been removed from their positions.

The Associated Students of Madison student council rejected a piece of legislation in a vote of 6-14-2 designed to allow former Vice Chair Beth Huang and former Nominations Board Chair Niko Magallon to return to their positions during a meeting Wednesday night.

The Student Judiciary removed both representatives from their positions earlier in the semester, alleging they had not fulfilled mandated community service orders on time for violating ASM election rules.

The legislation asserted the Student Judiciary’s order to remove Magallon and Huang was invalid because the judicial

branch of the student government does not have the power to remove elected student council representatives, Representative Nneka Akubeze, co-sponsor of the legislation, and Magallon said the power to remove representatives lies within the student council as defined by ASM bylaws.

Akubeze added the Student Judiciary undermined the power of the student council and the decision could pose serious consequences to the balance of power within ASM. Chief Justice Kathryn Fifield said the bylaws Akubeze cited pertain to the impeachment process.

The decision to remove Magallon and Huang from office had nothing to do with their performance as representatives, Fifield said. They did not meet the requirements to hold a position on the council.

Fifield said the representatives were active participants in constructing the remedy to their violation and were aware of the consequences if they did not fulfill those demands.

“The agreement was

made months ago, and I don’t understand what all the shock and awe is about,” Fifield said.

Fifield added nothing about the situation was ideal, and the Student Judiciary did the best it could with the information it was presented with.

Magallon said he had been hopeful but knew the result would not end in his favor.

“When confronted with basically trying to overturn the will of another branch of ASM, (the council) gets a little bit scared of that process even if that branch is incorrect,” Magallon said.

Huang said she understood the arguments brought up by Magallon and Akubeza, but she thought the student council was the wrong arena to discuss the issue in.

Huang added although she did not agree with Student Judiciary’s decision, she did not entirely support the legislation even though she would have benefited from it had it passed.

Both Magallon and Huang have applied for positions on

Taylor Frenchette The Badger Herald

ASM Representative Tom Templeton takes an early look at the ASM internal budget, which no longer includes a textbook swap, at Wednesday’s meeting. student council through Nominations Board.

The ASM internal budget was also presented during the meeting.

University Affairs Chair Sade Johnson informed the council she removed the ASM book swap from the internal budget.

Johnson said the responsibility of the textbook swap is not something the University Affairs chair should not

bear.

Johnson added if the council wanted to continue the event, it would have to explore a different avenue for coordinating it.

“All together, we should just get rid of the ASM textbook swap,” Johnson said.

Johnson said working on a campaign to reduce textbook prices overall would get to the core of the issue.

Full disclosure: Go Big Read author tells all Selby Rodriguez Campus Editor It came to her in an ordinary conversation, just like any other, Wall Street Journal veteran and current Los Angeles Times writer Sonia Nazario said in an

interview with the Herald.

The conversation occurred between Nazario and her maid, Carmen, who after being asked if she was having any more children, broke down and told Nazario of the four she left behind in Guatemala.

“She said, ‘I’m a single mom, my husband has left for another woman and most days I can feed my children once, maybe twice, but most nights they cry with hunger,’” Nazario said.

This sparked Nazario’s interest in what soon became an LA Times newspaper series garnering two Pulitzer Prize awards and was ultimately manifested into the novel Enrique’s Journey.

Chosen as this year’s Go Big Read at the University of Wisconsin, Enrique’s Journey tells the story of a 17-year-old Honduran boy throughout his journey across 15,000 miles to the U.S. in search of his mother.

“It just struck me that this is an amazing story to tell of the millions of women

who have come [to the U.S.] and the what are now about 100,000 children entering the U.S. alone each year,” Nazario said.

Nazario said after the conversation with Carmen she knew she wanted to write about the phenomenon of millions of women coming to the U.S. and the children who followed them.

She then set out to find a boy in Central America to follow. Realizing this was an unrealistic expectation because of the dangers a 15-year-old boy would face, Nazario decided to find someone in Mexico to discuss his experiences and then to recreate the child’s journey.

A nun pointed her to

Enrique while he stayed at a church in northern Mexico. Nazario described Enrique as honest, on the road for two months on his eighth attempt with a typical story and willing to have his story told.

After spending time with Enrique, the two parted ways: Enrique went north to reconnect with his mother, and Nazario went south to Honduras to recreate his journey.

“I was trying to write the story through these narrative highs and lows which allowed me to add that level of detail I hope allows [readers] to sit there on the train and be with [Enrique],” Nazario said.

Nazario made the trek twice before finishing the novel.

Along the way, she encountered several dangerous events including almost being swept off a freight train by a branch and being grabbed by a gangster – the latter of which resulted in a slight case of posttraumatic stress syndrome resulting in six months of therapy. All of this, she said, was just another part of the research process.

“I took the journey twice, three months each time,” Nazario said. “I had also done months of reporting first and a huge amount of research after.

I was trying to convey 12-years of this boy’s life, thousands of miles and the eight attempts he made – so it was a lot of territory.”

Nazario is speaking tonight at 7 p.m. in Varsity Hall in Union South. Check out badgerherald.com for more interview details.

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SSFC eligibility process upheld in federal court CFACT case dismissed after judge rules fund hearings are viewpointneutral, no violations Pam Selman News Content Editor A federal court ruled in favor of the Student Services Finance Committee Wednesday evening in a 2009 case involving the committee’s refusal to allocate funds to a conservative student group on campus.

Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow filed the case against the sector of the University of Wisconsin student government after SSFC

ruled the group ineligible for funds because it did not meet the 50 percent plus one direct service criteria, SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said. The criteria is used to determine whether student organizations devote enough of their resources toward UW students to make funding appropriate.

According to the court’s ruling, CFACT brought the decision on the grounds of a First Amendment violation.

CFACT argued neutrality was violated because of the committee’s allocation of funds to the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group — an organization

CFACT alleged paralleled its own composition and purpose too closely to not give both organizations equal consideration. “[CFACT] alleges that its members have been deprived of their rights under the First Amendment by the university’s system for distributing campus student-activity fees,” the ruling said. “ …

In the present case, CFACT alleges that the defendants have violated the viewpoint-neutrality requirement by denying it eligibility for fees from the General Student Services Fund … while at the same time granting eligibility to WISPIRG, another student group

at UW-Madison that engages in the same types of activities as CFACT but from a different viewpoint.”

Still, Neibart said the comparisons to WISPIRG were irrelevant and could not be considered in order to maintain responsible and legal eligibility processes.

“As an SSFC member, you cannot take that [comparison] into account because it is violating viewpoint neutrality,” Neibart said.

“You cannot compare groups to one another.”

The group was denied eligibility because it committed an intentional violation of SSFC bylaws, Neibart said in an email

and that sets a very significant precedent,” Neibart said. “It is very significant that we win this case because it shows we have been going through our processes properly and that even UW Legal is confident in students in allocating student money — it shows we are economists and we are responsible.”

Neibart said the court’s ruling will not have an impact on CFACT’s eligibility for this year, but said the group was on probation for two years because of the intentional violation — standard ASM protocol.

The group is in the midst of its current eligibility hearing.

to the committee Oct. 9.

She said the group failed to return equipment owned by the Associated Students of Madison after its eligibility for the year had expired.

While Neibart said the decision will not have much impact on her session, she said the ruling highlights SSFC’s importance to UW as an entity.

The decision, Neibart said, not only upholds all of SSFC’s decisions since the case went to court, but also sends a strong message to the UW community and for future eligibility hearings.

“The court today found that our practices are indeed viewpoint-neutral

Beltin’ the blues

I think you could see the anti-university attitude from the governor and the “No, we won’t try anything new” head-in-the-sand attitude from [UW System President] Kevin Reilly last year. It’s not just about them, but they are manifestations of these two dynamics — what’s become reinforcing and are basically like mutual suicides.

SURI, from 1 How is the University of Texas different from Madison?

A member of the Madison Mellophonium Jazz Orchestra performs during a free public concert at the Monona Terrace Wednesday night. The concert represents the beginning of the 2011 Wisconsin State Music Conference and was sponsored in part by the Wisconsin Music Educators Association and Monona Terrace.

The University of Texas has put together resources, despite all the other pressures, for the kinds of work that I do and in particular resources for cooperative work between public policy and history.

So the opportunities for collaboration and creativity and the resources for that are much greater right now in Austin than they are in Madison.

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How does the UW System limit Madison?

I’m not anti-system, but I definitely believe that Madison needs to be a more flexible reformed institution. You cannot have the Legislature micromanaging Madison, and you cannot have Madison excessively bureaucratic. The system was always an incumbent.

For example, it creates duplications that aren’t necessary. There are all sorts of people who have authority over the campus at UW who never teach a class, never meet a student and don’t understand what goes on at campus.

What problem do you have with the political climate in Madison?

I have a double problem with it. One, I find it offensive that people around the state of Wisconsin — Democrats and Republicans — who have benefited enormously from the university, now don’t want to support it and now use the university as a punching bag.

I find that deeply offensive.There’s a little more of that on the Republican side, but there’s plenty of that on the Democrat side as well.

That’s the external part. Internally, I find it depressing that in response to that, members of the university committee [have] become less willing to try new things because they are more frightened about whether it will affect them or not.

Alcohol Sales in Wisconsin The Assembly passed a bill Tuesday night that would allow individuals in Wisconsin to purchase alcohol from places like grocery markets and liquor stores within a broader time frame than previously allowed. Customers can now make purchases between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. instead of between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m.

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districts. However, the law is being challenged in court, so Kennedy said the representatives who hold the voice for different districts depends on the outcomes of lawsuits that may challenge the new district lines, Kennedy said.

Still, the new districts would first vote in the Nov. 6, 2012, election.

Any election held prior to Nov. 6 will have citizens voting in the previous district lines, Kennedy said.

Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, offered himself as an example while questioning Kennedy.

He was elected when his district included Monroe in 2010.

However, under the new districts just passed by the Legislature, he no longer represents Monroe. So, for a recall election held before Nov. 6, citizens of Monroe could circulate petitions and vote in the election.

For an election held after Nov. 6, citizens of Monroe would not be allowed to host a voice.

However, the district lines are subject to court challenges as are the recall petitions, which could influence whether an election is held after Nov. 6, adding even more complications to the picture, Kennedy said.

“It is a quagmire,” said Committee Chair Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin. “It is an administrative quagmire for [the GAB] and the clerks of the state.”

The committee also heard testimony from

county clerks from throughout Wisconsin who expressed a number of concerns with the new laws.

Dane County Clerk Karen Peters said she needs to know the date of the August primary in order for her to train her election workers.

Diane HermannBrown, city clerk of Sun Prairie and president of the Wisconsin Municipal Clerk Association, said her ideal request for funding for each election in her municipality would be $50,000, and for having four elections with high voting turnout, she would need $200,000.

She only received $95,000 and lacks funding to enforce parts of the voter ID bill.

“As clerks we will do what is needed to get the job done, but we are at the point where we are beginning to think we are not going to be able to meet all the challenges [the Legislature is] placing on us,” Hermann-Brown said. “When we cannot meet those challenges because of fiscal and time constraints, the accuracy of the election process is jeopardized.”

Hannah Somers, Legislative Affairs Committee Chair for the Associated Students of Madison, said United Council asked for a decision on the regulations concerning voting laws to clear up any inconsistencies.

ASM needs a decision as soon as possible on voter laws so they can start voter education seminars on campus, Somers said.

I’m not anti-system, but I definitely believe that Madison needs to be a more flexible reformed institution.

You cannot have the Legislature micromanaging Madison, and you cannot have Madison excessively bureaucratic. The system was always an incumbent.

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OBAMA, from 1 looking to do all we can to make college a little more affordable.”

Raj Date, special adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury, said one of the highlights of the new proposal is the initiative to consolidate subsidized and direct loans. Rather than work with banks, he said, the government will “cut out the middleman” and give students direct loans.

Cutting out subsidies will generate such savings that nationwide pell grants will increase by $40 billion without the use of taxpayer dollars, Duncan

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Wisconsin plans to fight the bill in the Senate with other associated groups.

According to Wynn, the bill would allow each

said.

“We’ve decided we want to invest in our nation’s future and young

“We’re competing in a global marketplace, and the only way we can win is by increasing college graduation rates.”

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people instead of banks,” he said. “For us, this was a simple moral, economic

municipality to decide its own alcohol sale hours.

“If Whitewater wants to make the hours 10 a.m. they can,” Wynn said. “If

and educational choice.”

The Obama administration also emphasized the importance of fostering a well-educated and highly skilled work force.

Duncan said high rates of college graduation are the way for the U.S. to remain atop the global economy.

“Companies can go anywhere to find skilled workers,” he said. “We’re competing in a global marketplace, and the only way we can win is by increasing college graduation rates.”

Barnes said Obama has challenged the nation to have the highest rate of

Madison doesn’t want to sell alcohol on Sunday, they can do that, because it gives each community their own liquor hours.”

college graduates in the world by 2020. Currently, the U.S. is in sixteenth place.

Obama said he will take all necessary action to make college a possibility for more youth and thus help turn around the current economy.

“Steps like [this proposal] won’t take the place of the bold action we need from Congress to boost our economy and create jobs, but they will make a difference,” Obama said in a statement. “Until Congress does act, I will do everything in my power to act on behalf of the American people.”

Editorial Page Editor Allegra Dimperio oped@badgerherald.com

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New double-dipping bill Offensive language still economic, ethically OK used by our generation Shawn Rajanayagam Columnist I’m not Gov. Scott Walker’s biggest fan.

While a balanced budget is important, some of his budget cuts have been simply ridiculous. It appears that Walker fails to appreciate the merits of a differentiated fiscal policy that makes adroit use of both tax cuts and stimulus spending.

Walker recently announced his support for the so-called “doubledipping bill,” introduced

by Rep. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville. The bill aims to ban the practice of double-dipping, whereby state employees can retire and later return to their jobs — in the process, collecting both statefunded retirement benefits and a salary.

The practice has come to the attention of Wisconsin legislators after University of Wisconsin-Green Bay rehired Timothy Sewall.

Sewall, the university’s associate provost, earns $110,000 a year — on top of his $44,000 pension.

Stroebel’s proposal to ban double-dipping makes good sense. State workers, whether they are high earners like Sewall or not, should not be able to exploit this legal loophole for financial gain.

Retirement and employment are mutually exclusive categories — you cannot be both retired and employed. With that in mind, how is it fair for employees of the state to collect retirement benefits while maintaining employment for the state?

Stroebel believes some 6,000 public workers are currently double dipping, including some 447 employees of UWMadison who have retired and then been re-hired since 1990. A full one-third of these 447 employees began double-dipping

after Walker’s budget repair bill came into effect.

Walker is absolutely right to support the proposal. While some of his other cuts have verged on the draconian, double dipping is an exploitative practice that must be stopped.

Barry Burden, a professor of political science at UW-Madison, argues that the doubledipping practice is in fact financially beneficial to the state. “The practice often saves money in the short-term because the university is not paying fringe benefits on those employees,” said Burden, before questioning whether or not the practice is unethical at all.

While double dipping may not be as financially burdensome as it appears on the surface, to claim that it isn’t unethical is patently ridiculous.

Workers should not be able to “retire” for just one month and then regain their employment with the added perks of retirement benefits. Professor Burden’s suggestion that it’s not all that bad is morally abhorrent.

The fact that one-third of these instances of double dipping at UWMadison have happened since the budget repair bill is another cause for concern. Far be it from me to condone the bill’s substantive components — as I have said earlier, a lot of the cuts were overly severe — but the response of many UW-Madison employees is highly questionable.

The UW-Madison staff known to have double dipped range from lowpaid custodial staff to Walter Dickey, the senior associate athletic director whose salary comfortably exceeds $100,000.

While one can understand the temptation for low-paid staff to double dip in order to deal with the budget cuts that would put severe strain on their no doubt already stressful fiscal situation, that is no excuse for their actions. And for Dickey and others, there is simply

nothing to be said — they have done the wrong thing.

Technically, what these employees have done is legal, but it is certainly not ethical, and they should not be prosecuted. After all, they were only doing what the budget cuts had, to some degree, forced them into — but it is still a morally ambiguous practice, to say the least.

Darrell Bazzell, UWMadison’s vice chancellor for administration, has also stepped in to defend the practice, arguing that rehiring recent retirees provides the university with a short-term fix while they look for employees to fill the breach left by the mass exodus of employees in the wake of the budget repair bill.

Furthermore, university officials have also noted that 49 percent of the 447 “double dippers” were funded with nonstate dollars. This is an important fact to note; the fiscal argument against double dipping is based on the fact that these people are embezzling taxpayer dollars for their own benefit.

That still doesn’t change the fact that what these workers have done is immoral and unethical.

They have claimed retirement benefits when they are not actually retired — no matter which way you slice it, that just isn’t right.

Walker has done a lot of stupid and unpopular things during his tenure as governor, but supporting the double-dipping bill isn’t one of them.

Banning double dipping is common sense. It isn’t another attempt by the Republicans to cut the social safety net — it’s about stopping unethical practices that are eating up taxpayer dollars that could be spent more effectively.

I just hope all the flagrant liberals see that.

Shawn Rajanayagam (rajanayagam@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in political science and American studies.

Spencer Lindsay Staff Writer While I was eating breakfast at my dining commons last week, I heard something that offended me — I noticed people at the table in front of me were trying to sound funny by impersonating a “black” manner of speaking.

No one at the table was anywhere close to black. As I listened to more and more of their conversation, I grew more and more outraged. They began to say things like “You shouldn’t take that shit from no bitch, backhand her ass” and “you don’t want to mess with me, ‘cause I will fuck you up.” I am not a man that is easily offended, but this offended me deeply.

Pundits have predicted that our generation will be less racially divided than generations past, but when I hear some things my peers say, I am not so certain. Some white people will spew this kind of offensive crap while impersonating black people, yet will often use the line “you’re playing the race card” in political debates. Some will use the N-word, but shrug off any debate over the implications of the word as “reverse racism.” Some even base their political and social opinions on gross stereotypes of entire

races, classes or sects of people.

Our generation is incapable of solving complex political problems without addressing the racial implications and causes of the issues. Race plays a role in issues ranging from the death penalty to welfare policy, both of which have deep-seeded racial issues within them.

Serious conversations about these issues cannot take place without addressing the incredible oppression that was a part of our society and the consequences of it that live to this day. To dismiss serious and relevant points as “playing the race card” eliminates necessary discussion and diminishes good ideas in exchange for a cheap and hollow debate tactic.

Our generation also has a perverted use of racial humor. Although some will make offensive and unbearably bad jokes about race behind a member of that race’s back, few have the courage to make the lighthearted remarks about our differences to someone of another race.

The non-offensive jokes about race are not even uttered, but the vilest, most offensive jokes that have no place in our society often are.

Growing up in a region of California with a very large Hispanic minority, I learned a lot about the issue.

One of my best friends throughout high school was Hispanic, and often friends of ours would make jokes about his heritage. Some of them were offensive, some

were not, but there is a very definitive line and that line should not be crossed. Although there was a question of whether or not he was a legal citizen amongst our group of friends, it was not until my senior year that someone finally asked him about it. It was appropriate because we were curious, and by that time it was clear the answer would not have changed his relationship with anyone (he was, but that is beside the point). The point is there is an innate sense about what is appropriate and inappropriate, and sticking to this sense is best.

Although our generation seems to ignore race when it comes to serious questions with racial implications, that does not stop many whites from saying offensive things. There is no excuse for some of the language I have heard coming from the white youth, and as a white person, I refuse to engage in it.

Our generation’s sensitivity to race is not allocated correctly.

We focus too much on saying the right thing rather than doing the right thing. The right thing is to not treat people differently because of their race and not to walk around it.

All in all, just be a decent human being and don’t immediately say the most offensive shit you can think of.

Spencer Lindsay (sclindsay@wisc.edu) is a freshman majoring in political science.

Wage freeze is a power grab by Walker, cronies can play footsie with their favorites without knowing whether someone deserves merit pay or not.”

I understand the administration holding the line on spending John Waters — that has been their Columnist mantra from day one.

But no business can function at a high Gov. Scott Walker’s level when it does not plan to freeze state reward the best and the workers’ pay for two brightest. The idea that years is just another government employees partisan power grab. need to be treated more The governor’s plan is like private-sector to freeze wage increases employees has been across the board for central to the ongoing all state employees labor conversation in over the next two Wisconsin. Because of years. Following the this, the centralized controversial bill earlier nature of the merit-pay this year that removed raises a big red flag in union bargaining rights, this bill. With all raises this law is aimed at operating from the Office removing protections of State Employment unions had negotiated Relations, Wisconsin for in the past. loses the flexibility to Merit-based pay reward the best people. increases will be the One of the best only form of raises in the politicians we have next two years — one working at the Capitol of a few subtle moves today, Assembly to consolidate power Minority Leader Peter within Walker’s ranks.

Barca, D-Kenosha, All the raises will be cut through the BS handed out by the Office when asked about the of State Employment bill. “The governor’s Relations, taking continuing initiatives authority away from to centralize power and local administrators cut the people out of who work with these involvement in their employees on a daily government will do basis. Marty Beil, nothing to bring our director of the Wisconsin state back together, nor State Employees Union, expressed his misgivings does it create any jobs,” he said. in the Wisconsin State Increasing the Journal: “What does effectiveness of Greg Gracz (OSER government — or any director) know about the business for that matter guy who works second — is about delegating shift in a prison? They

responsibility. If a meritbased pay increase is the only option, allow the officials who are working with these people on a daily basis to hand out the appropriate raises. If state government wants to be more competitive and more like the private sector, it must have the ability to reward the right employees for excellent work. Taking away that authority from local leaders doesn’t make sense.

It looks like Walker is more interested in being able to reward his lackeys than actually improving the viability and effectiveness of Wisconsin government.

For a guy who promised so much, you would think the fact that Wisconsin lost jobs in September would be a catalyst for action.

Instead, it seems Wisconsin will get more of the same as the Walker administration squeezes public employees and makes our government’s power structure even more top-heavy.

In the wake of losing 11,000 government jobs, something needed to be done. But I guess it was naïve to expect a solution from this administration not to have some ulterior motives. Nov. 15 can’t get here soon enough.

John Waters (jkwaters2@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in journalism.

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SC to my baking buddy.

When you are in Spain next semester be sure to steal all of their delicious secrets.

Sorry I’m too shy to ask you out, apple pie is sexy.

SC to the guy with the navy Toms in College Library.

You and a friend came over to talk to a table of friends about midterms. I tried my best to keep studying, but you made for a nice break for my eyes. Curious though: Are you single and

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SC to Phil from Chandler.

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Carribean parable to headline Hemsley Theater Devil in details for ‘Ti Jean,’ but set, costuming impress just as much Amanda Connors ArtsEtc. Reporter The UW department of theater and drama has taken a journey into a land of myth and fable with its latest production, “Ti-Jean and His Brothers,” which opens Friday in Hemsley Theater.

“Ti-Jean and his Brothers,” by Caribbean playwright David Walcott, is a West Indian fable about a group of three brothers who have to trick the devil into feeling human emotion

in order to prevent the devil from eating them. Although it sounds like a children’s story, the play deals with concepts of oppressive governments and uprisings.

“The story itself is a metaphor for colonialism and imperialism,” said Patrick Reed, the actor who plays one of the brothers, named Mi-Jean.

The production should prove to be unique in several ways. The University of Wisconsin theater department produces many of its shows based in realism — a world apart from the mythical quality of TiJean. The 13 cast members have worked a lot on their physicality and voices in order to portray characters like devils, crickets and

fireflies. Chris Walker, an assistant professor for the UW dance department, was instrumental in this, along with the play’s director, David Furumoto.

Furumoto, UW’s director of theatre productions, specializes in Asian theatre.

According to cast members, his background with Japanese dance and kabuki has helped the actors leave the constraints of their human personas and truly portray the essence of the folk tale. “[Furumoto] brings kind of a really fun view to it.

Since the show is about mythical things and very fantastical, he wants us to be really energetic and encourages us to break from realism,” said Mia Impearl, who plays the Snake Demon

in the show.

In rehearsals, Reed added, the goal was to be “large,” “iconic” and “beyond belief.”

The production is not a musical, but there are a few folk songs and choreographed scenes woven into the storyline. This adds a sense of flow and rhythm to a fable already laden with a powerful sense of tradition and community.

Along with a very different style of acting, Impearl and Reed said they were blown away with the effort put into making the production’s set and costumes.

“Come to it for the beautiful, striking set, and the costumes are fantastic,” Reed said. “They focus on recycled materials.”

“The set is very much larger than life,” Impearl added. And true enough, it contains many vibrant colors and impressive whimsical structures.

According to Reed, “TiJean and his Brothers” is truly a story of which the likes have not been seen in Madison in a long time and probably will not be performed again soon.

“It’s a folk story. It’s a community story. You don’t really experience it as often as you would in the past, people gathering around and hearing an allegory.

You come to a sense of community,” he said.

Both Reed and Impearl encourage everybody — UW students and Madison community members alike — to view the show. Each

audience member will relate to the story in a unique way.

As a fable, “Ti-Jean and His Brothers” has a message for all audience members, but everyone in attendance will come away from the performance with his or her own idea of what that message is.

“I just think it’s a really great story. It’s very simple, but it has something special,” Impearl said.

“Ti-Jean and His Brothers” runs Oct. 28 through Nov. 12. Tickets are $22 for adults and $15 for students. Children (under 18) are $15, and seniors (62+) are $20. To order tickets, go online at www.utmadison. com, visit either one of the box offices located at the Memorial Union or Vilas Hall or call (608) 265-2787.

Arts Corner hangs with Gang Gang Sarah Witman ArtsEtc. Editor I first heard about Gang Gang Dance on a Greyhound bus, headed to Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival. One of the many people I met along the way recommended the band, and although I didn’t get to see them in Chicago, I trusted this semi-stranger’s judgment enough to give it a try last week in Madison — It’s a Greyhound thing.

What I discovered was not what I expected, but with a group like Gang Gang, how could it have been?

The music you can find online or on their albums is utterly ethereal with composite works of varying sounds and rhythms.

It’s hippie-reminiscent, but takes that ideology and inverts it for a more futuristic experience.

The first thing that caught me by surprise was one member coming onstage, giving the distinct impression that he just woke up. He reminded me of the oddball younger brother in a large family who’s just along for the ride, and seemed to be assigned the job of backup dancer and publicist (he had a handheld video recorder he’d pull out every now and then). To say the least, he detracted some energy from a show that otherwise had good pacing.

However, his two main “props” — a large drum and crown-shaped tumbleweed he would hold up in quasiworship of captivating lead singer Lizzi Bougatsos — kept my interest and attention the whole show. I really wanted to know the backstory behind those, especially the tumbleweed, which must surely have been metaphoric for the band’s nomadic lifestyle, if nothing else.

I mentioned the pacing before; its inconsistence gave off a predestined feeling — like the ebb and flow of life.

With the genre that Gang Gang Dance has created for itself, it was almost better the audience couldn’t tell where the artists’ music was going next. Both string players, especially the mustachioed one, were visibly into the performance.

And, yes, that opinion was held even before they initiated an impromptu PBR beer giveaway mid-encore.

Clearly, the Majestic’s tagline — “beer tastes better in the front row” — holds true, because audiencemembers went wild.

Overall, Gang Gang Dance was an invigorating experience, but the energy wasn’t all there. I like when a band leaves it all onstage, which didn’t happen that night. Maybe the problem was that the group didn’t see it as a “big performance,” which is a shame because the Madison audiences I know deserve better.

I’m going to close here with some thoughts on the concert’s opener, Prince Rama. People in

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The ‘utterly ethereal’ sounds of Gang Gang Dance were on full display at last week’s show at the Majestic, but opener Prince Rama nearly stole the show with its meditative song ‘Trust.’ the audience seemed to connect with the two female members of Prince Rama and their quirky, awkwardly funny quips. I appreciated the lead singer smiling at individual people. I was glad when she finally picked up a guitar, and she also impressed me with her vocals; it would have been easy to often go off key with the wild, elongated notes in their songs, but she didn’t, even sustaining her perfect pitch at one point when a guitar tipped over.

The group’s act seemed overchoreographed in places, and the handmade David Bowie meets H&M outfits were a little out there. If I were styling the band, I might recommend a more organic look, or as a standby that it try out the styles achieved by Gang Gang Dance’s Bougatsos: a jauntily ripped, off-theshoulder Ghostface Killa t-shirt and bubble print leggings.

By far the best song of the opening act “Trust.”

By just giving it a listen on your own you’ll know why, but even then the live performance was incomparable. The duo began with a whispered chant of “trust, trust, trust” — perhaps akin to the sisters’ Hare Krishna commune upbringings — and then the lead singer started to walk slowly up stage. Thank goodness other people caught onto the idea that she’d be doing a “trust fall” because I certainly couldn’t have held her

up myself if it had come down to that. The song was good enough on its own that it didn’t really need a gimmick, but, regardless, it was pretty entertaining.

Prince Rama is still in its opener-band stage, but it’s a really good opener, especially by the end — the two women really built up their performance constructively as time went on. And even if Gang Gang Dance didn’t quite give it all they had, it was still a good, unpredictable time.

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Sushi-come-lately Osaka House uneven, disappointing Sam Stepp Chew on This Columnist A curious thing happened in Madison this past January. The restaurant Sushi Hut (505 State St.) closed, only to be replaced almost immediately by a new sushi restaurant called Osaka House. Could the new group of owners have simply opened up the same basic restaurant under a new name?

“First off, I’m really unsure as to whether this is actually a new business, or if the people who named their restaurant ‘Sushi Hut’ are trying to escape the low-rent connotations (and history of bad publicity),” yelped one skeptic on yelp. com.

An Urbanspooner

corroborated, “same owners reinventing themselves perhaps?”

In reality, it seems as though the restaurant that gave me my first sushi experience does, indeed, have new owners. But new owners do not necessarily translate to good quality, as I soon found out.

Before my assessment of Osaka House’s food, here’s a rundown of some of the terms to be familiar with on your average sushi menu.

Nori: Seaweed pressed into paper-thin sheets.

Roll: Basic sushi — Nori seaweed wrapped around a layer of rice and a core of raw tuna, salmon, avocado, crab or other fillings.

Sashimi: Plain slices of raw fish.

Tempura: Battered and deep fried seafood or vegetables.

Udon: Thick, wide wheat noodles.

Soba: Buckwheat noodles.

Wasabi: Very hot, green Japanese horseradish ground into a paste and

used as sushi flavoring The atmosphere on the first floor of Osaka House is not the most welcoming environment — more that of an unpretentious, run-down lunch counter.

Fluorescent lighting reigns over square tables, and church basement chairs dot the meager floor space.

Upstairs, however, the ambiance considerably improves with softer lighting, nice hardwood tables, a bar and a small stage at the back with pillows (in case you fancy eating on the floor). First word of advice: Request to sit in the bar.

The soy sauce is served in tiny teapots, which I thought was a cute touch.

The sushi itself came nicely laid out on a square dish.

Everyone got individual rectangle dishes and a tiny circular dish for soy sauce.

But before I continue, let me be clear: I don’t claim any expertise or experience with regards to how sushi should taste. What follows is only my personal

observations as a first-time sushi eater.

For first time sushieaters, an order of sashimi gets at the crux of most people’s chief point of contention with sushi: raw fish. It really is just six slices of raw fish served on a plate with some shaved jicama (or other crunchy root vegetable), pickled ginger (for cleansing the pallette) and a dollop of wasabi.

At Osaka House, the sashimi itself was mostly tasteless, with an undercurrent of fishy flavor. The attraction for me was the texture; it was pillowy and soft, like eating a pad of melty butter. Once dipped in soy sauce and combined with a few crumbles of wasabi, the sashimi was downright enjoyable.

The rolls, unfortunately, were not as texturally satisfying as the sashimi.

We tried a Maki Combo, which is a California roll, a tuna roll and a salmon roll.

The order started with miso

soup and a salad. The soup was interesting; it’s flavor — which I’ve been told is another source of pure umami — was empty yet full and warm at the same time, and the tiny chunks of tofu in it weren’t entirely unpleasant. The salad was almost nothing to speak of — bright peach-colored tangy dressing drizzled over a few iceberg leaves.

The seaweed on the outside of the rolls was stringy and tough, while the insides were sticky and, again, nearly tasteless. We made up for it by dipping them in exorbitant amounts of soy sauce and crumbling yet more wasabi over them.

Second piece of advice: Don’t go crazy with the wasabi unless you want a flamethrower up your nose.

Finally, we tried ordering salmon roe, but our server thought we had said “salmon roll,” and we ended up with double the salmon rolls and way more food than we could eat.

Good thing we had a lot

of friends there! Third and fourth pieces of advice: Enunciate your words and bring a group so you can try a wide variety of dishes.

In the end, as mediocre as my first sushi experience was, it’s a good idea to keep in mind Anthony Bourdain’s assessment of sushi (as told to Playboy Magazine): “ The difference between high-end sushi — really good sushi — and just good sushi is interplanetary.”

In other words, if you have a bad sushi experience like I did, don’t give up, just shoot for a little more quality. There are plenty of other sushi restaurants in Madison — Sushi Muramoto, Sushi Box, Wasabi, Edo, Takara and Red Sushi — just waiting for you to dig your chopsticks in.

Samantha Stepp is a junior majoring in journalism.

Email suggestions, recipes or comments to ssstepp@wisc. edu.

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THIS WEEK'S TOP GAMES No. 9 Oklahoma at No. 8 Kansas State

No. 11 Michigan State at No. 14 Nebraska

Sat., Oct. 29 • 2:30 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 29 • 11 a.m.

After Sparty’s miracle heave to beat the Badgers on Saturday, Michigan State travels to Lincoln for a game that puts the winner in the driver’s seat to win the Big Ten Legends Division and grab a berth in the Big Ten title game.

Oklahoma’s loss to Texas Tech Saturday probably was not good for Kansas State. The Sooners will have an extra chip on their shoulder heading in to take on the Wildcats. Kansas State will have all it can handle to remain undefeated.

No. 5 Clemson at Georgia Tech Sat., Oct. 29 • 7 p.m.

If Georgia Tech wants a chance to get into the ACC Championship game, this matchup is a must-win. Not an easy task for the Yellow Jackets, who have lost two straight and face a Clemson team scoring at will.

NUMBER OF THE WEEK

446

The number of rushing yards by Stanford against Washington Saturday. Seven different Cardinal players carried the ball, and the team still managed to average over 10 yards per carry on 44 attempts.

NATIONAL RANKINGS BCS Standings 1. LSU 2. Alabama 3. Oklahoma St. 4. Boise State 5. Clemson 6. Stanford 7. Oregon 8. Kansas State 9. Oklahoma 10. Arkansas 11. Michigan St. 12. Virginia Tech 13. S. Carolina

14. Nebraska 15. Wisconsin 16. Texas A&M 17. Houston 18. Michigan 19. Penn State 20. Texas Tech 21. Arizona State 22. Georgia 23. Auburn 24. Texas 25. W. Virginia

PLAYER TO WATCH

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HEISMAN HOPEFULS 1. Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford ‘11: 1,888 yards, 21 Total TDs 2. Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State ‘11: 2,010 yards, 24 TDs 3. Trent Richardson, RB, Ala. ‘11: 989 yards, 18 Total TDs 4. Russell Wilson, QB, Wisconsin ‘11: 1,780 yards, 20 Total TDs 5. Robert Griffin III, QB, Baylor ‘11 1,950 yards, 24 Total TDs

CONFERENCE POWER RANKINGS

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SEC — Does it get any better than a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup to determine which is the best team in the best conference in the country? Probably not. Too bad the nation has to wait for Alabama and LSU’s bye week first.

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Big XII — ESPN has the Big 12 as the top conference in the country, but it is difficult to take away the top spot in this poll from the SEC. The Big 12 has more teams with two or fewer losses, but how many would last in the SEC? Big Ten — Wow, to even determine the best team in the Big Ten right now, one needs a crystal ball. Without a Leader looking to become a “legend” or a Legend good enough to “lead,” this conference can’t improve.

Pac-12 — Stanford and Oregon are looking really good right now, and if USC could actually be included in a bowl game, the Pac-12 would appear to have three legit powers.

Arizona State and Washington aren’t too bad (record-wise) either.

ACC — One word summarizes the whole entire conference at this point: Clemson. Everybody else in the conference has had serious struggles at some point during the season. Somebody else needs to step up.

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Overall 8-0 5-2 4-3 4-3 2-5 1-6

Team Va. Tech Ga. Tech Miami Virginia Duke UNC

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Overall 7-1 6-2 4-3 4-3 3-4 5-3

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Fall of OU and UW leave doors open for Clemson, Boise, others Brett Sommers Statistics Editor The first eight weeks of the 2011 college football season had remained status quo for the most part. Teams that were supposed to win week after week were meeting expectations by dispatching opponents deemed weaker, according to media and coaches’ polls.

The top 10 ranked teams in the country had been holding such a tight rank-and-file order for so many weeks that a lot of good teams were probably finding the prospect of climbing into position for a BCS title shot rather difficult.

Until Saturday, teams like Boise State, Clemson, Stanford, Kansas State and even a one-loss Oregon team were like cats at Coastal Carolina coach David Bennett’s screen door, trying to claw their way through.

But all hell broke loose with Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins’ heave at the last second to beat No. 4 Wisconsin. A couple of hours later, unranked Texas Tech held on to defeat No. 3 Oklahoma, snapping the Sooners’ 39-game home winning streak.

Before that point, only two top-10 teams had been beaten by a lowerranked team all season.

Suddenly, two AP top-five teams had gone down and eased the pressure on a team like Boise State, who always faces the prospect of being leapfrogged because it plays in a weak conference and faces other undefeated teams who finally had some space to move up.

The excitement is only going to grow with the guarantee that LSU or Alabama will lose in eight days’ time, creating another chance for upward momentum.

A lot of games remain to be played, and a lot could happen before a slew of bowl berths are handed out like candy on Halloween, but the few select teams at the top are looking for

something a little sweeter than an apple in their candy bag.

Working up the BCS rankings ladder is what each team ranked from No. 1 to No. 8 have to handle in their search for eternal glory. For all practical purposes, LSU and Alabama are 1 and 1A respectively. Both have a bye week before the inevitable matchup on Nov. 5 in Tuscaloosa.

Alabama hasn’t lost at home since falling to Auburn 28-27 last November and LSU last won at Bryant-Denny Stadium in 2007.

Mix in Alabama’s No. 1 ranked defense in terms of points allowed per game and put them in a raucous home environment, and No. 1 LSU appears to be walking right into a buzz saw.

A loss at this point in the season would be pretty tough for LSU to recover from, especially without a conference title game to play in, and neither Alabama nor LSU has an extremely difficult schedule from that point forward. The winner is on the fast track and the loser looks headed for a secondrate bowl game (at least compared to the BCS Championship game).

No. 3 Oklahoma State: There has probably never been another third-ranked team sitting in as sweet a position as the Cowboys.

Now resting on the outside looking in, Oklahoma State almost knows for certain that winning out its remaining schedule makes them a lock for the BCS title game.

Of the six computers that collaborate to determine the overall BCS computer rankings, five have the Cowboys ranked No. 1 in the country and the sixth has them at No. 2. As screwed up as many think the BCS system is, OK State has to absolutely love it right now.

Unfortunately for Oklahoma State, it probably has the toughest remaining schedule of any topeight team — home vs. Baylor, home vs. No. 8 Kansas State, at No. 20 Texas Tech who just beat Oklahoma and home vs. the No. 9 Sooners are four of the last five games on the Cowboys’ schedule.

Running the table could not be much more difficult.

No. 4 Boise State: Apart from an intriguing game against TCU, the Broncos have a cakewalk for a schedule. Probably moving into the top-three after the LSU/

Alabama showdown, Boise will almost surely go undefeated and still have to rely on the loss of a couple more teams to finally make their long-awaited chance to raise the glass football.

No. 5 Clemson: Here is an upstart team. Not even ranked until week four, the Tigers are rapidly proving themselves to be a powerhouse to be reckoned with, showcasing an explosive offense led by sophomore quarterback Tajh Boyd and freshman receiver Sammy Watkins.

Three of its final four games are on the road, including a regular season finale at No. 13 South Carolina. It will be interesting to see if the youthful core of this team can hold up against the rigors of three road games and a possible ACC Championship game. If it can, Clemson could jump Boise State and find itself in top-three, just needing one team to stumble to make a name for the ACC. No. 6 Stanford: As the season transpires, Stanford is looking better and better. Just look at the shellacking it put on Washington, running for 446 yards while allowing Andrew Luck to sit back and relax. A lot of things have to go right, including winning the Pac-12, but Stanford has the talent.

No. 7 Oregon: The opening week loss to LSU hurts, but winning the Pac-12 over Stanford and some good fortune from other teams losing at the end mean it’s not over ‘til it’s over for the Ducks.

No. 8 Kansas State: It might seem unlikely to move from No 8. to No. 1 over the remainder of the season, but K-State has four consecutive games against ranked opponents to show what it is made of. Knocking off Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the next two games certainly will be a challenge, but if the Wildcats prevail they will receive a huge boost in all three polls that determine the BCS average.

The nation should be prepared for a scintillating finish to the college football season, and the best part of the race to come is no one knows how the rankings will finish or which team will come down with the next landscapealtering Hail Mary.

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What is $2,000?

According to an Associated Press report, NCAA President Mark Emmert supported a proposal to allow conferences to increase grants to student athletes by $2,000 “to more closely approach” the full cost of attending college. Further aiding student athletes has been a question for quite some time now, but is $2,000 really a serious amount of money to fix student athletes’ problems?

A lot more talk and a little less action Heading into the week of preparation for Wisconsin’s visit to East Lansing, various players and coaches made comments referencing injuring UW quarterback Russell Wilson and playing 60 minutes of unnecessary roughness. Interestingly, Michigan State did not commit a single penalty the entire game. Did the refs miss some calls, or was the talk all for show?

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Overall 6-1 5-2 5-2 5-2 3-4 3-4 3-4 4-3

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Associated Press

Oklahoma Quarterback Landry Jones and the rest of the third-ranked Sooners had the hopes of an undefeated season dashed by unranked Texas Tech. 38.

COACH OF THE WEEK Marrone has now developed a winning gameplan against a ranked West Virginia team two years in a row. This time, unranked Syracuse beat No. 15 West Virginia in a blowout 49-23.

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Team Cinci.

Rutgers Syracuse WVU UCONN Louisville Pitt S. Florida

Doege had the monumental task of out-dueling Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones last week. Doege threw for 441 yards, five touchdowns and stayed INT-free in 52 attempts.

TTU upset then No. 3 OU.

Doug Marrone Syracuse

Team Clemson WF FSU NC State Maryland BC

BIG EAST

Seth Doege Quarterback, Texas Tech

It’s tough to find the field when the Ducks already have LaMichael James, but when Thomas has made it on he has made it count. He has only rushed 36 times but averages 8.7 yards per attempt and has scored three rushing touchdowns.

14. S. Carolina 15. Va. Tech 16. Texas A&M 17. Michigan 18. Houston 19. Penn State 20. Arizona State 21. Georgia 22. Texas Tech 23. Cincinnati 24. W. Virginia 25. Southern Miss

Atlantic

With the undefeated Tigers ranked No. 5 in the BCS, Boyd is flourishing in only his sophomore season. In eight games this season, Boyd has thrown for 2,379 yards, 24 touchdowns (five on Saturday) and just three interceptions.

De’Anthony Thomas Running Back, Oregon

1. LSU (41) 2. Alabama (18) 3. Stanford 4. Oklahoma St. 5. Boise State 6. Clemson 7. Oregon 8. Arkansas 9. Oklahoma 10. Michigan St. 11. Wisconsin 12. Kansas State 13. Nebraska

STANDINGS

Tajh Boyd Quarterback, Clemson

FRESHMAN FOCUS

USA Today Coaches’ Top 25

Leaders

Team Penn St. Wisconsin Purdue Illinois Ohio State Indiana

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Overall 7-1 6-1 4-3 6-2 4-3 1-7

Legends Team Mich. St. Michigan Nebraska Iowa Minn.

NU

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Overall 6-1 6-1 6-1 5-2 1-6 2-5

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Team Stanford Oregon Wash.

Oregon St. California

Wash. St.

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Overall 7-0 6-1 5-2 2-5 4-3 3-4

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Overall 5-2 6-1 3-4 2-5 3-4 1-7

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Team AZ St. USC UCLA Arizona Utah Colorado

BIG XII Team Kansas St. Ok. St. Oklahoma A&M TTU Baylor Texas Missouri Iowa State Kansas

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Team S Carolina Georgia Florida Vandy Kentucky Tennessee

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Team Alabama LSU Arkansas Auburn Miss St. Ole Miss

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Overall 6-1 5-2 4-3 4-3 3-4 3-4

West Overall 8-0 8-0 6-1 5-3 3-4 2-5

2011 STAT LEADERS Quarterback Rating 1. Robert Griffin III, Baylor 2. Russell Wilson, Wisc.

3. Case Keenum, Houston 4. Kellen Moore, Boise State 5. Andrew Luck, Stanford

205.7 204.9 184.8 180.7 180.0

Rushing Yards 1,037 1. David Wilson, Va. Tech 2. Trent Richardson, Ala. 989 3. Robbie Rouse, Fresno St. 979 951 4. Bernard Pierce, Temple 5. Ray Graham, Pittsburgh 939

Receiving Yards 1. A.J. Jenkins, Illinois 2. Keenan Allen, California 3. Robert Woods, USC 4. Ryan Broyles, Oklahoma 5. Chris Givens, WF

987 906 902 899 886

Sacks 1. Whitney Mercilus, Illinois 10.0 2. Vinny Curry, Marshall 9.5 3. Nordly Capi, Colo. St. 8.0 4. Sean Porter, Texas A&M 7.5 5. Sammy Brown, Houston 7.5

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Succa’s intensity powers Badgers Knack for leadership making sophomore one of UW’s top leaders as season progresses Ian McCue Associate Sports Editor Every team has a player who treats every practice like a game, who is picked out by teammates and coaches as someone who brings a higher level of intensity to the drills and friendly scrimmages.

Usually that player doesn’t fill up box scores with impressive stats, and for the Wisconsin men’s soccer team, sophomore midfielder/defender Blake Succa fits that role perfectly.

Well-spoken and friendly off the turf, his mentality transforms once he steps onto the field, whether it be

against his own teammates or another team.

With a sturdy build at 5-foot-11, 175 pounds, Succa brings the physical presence to match his work ethic. Whether playing as a central midfielder, where he has spent the majority of his minutes this year, or a defender, his playing time and role on the field have expanded in his sophomore season.

“It could be a pick-up game in the park, Blake only knows how to play one way, and that’s hard,” head coach John Trask said.

“And he brings it all the time — he’s a competitive, competitive kid. Any ball that’s there to be won, his mentality is ‘I’m going to win it,’ it’s not, ‘Well, it’s Tuesday and we’ve got a game tomorrow.’”

After playing in 16 games last season with 14 starts, Succa — like many

Wisconsin sophomores on this team — has no shortage of experience on the field. But last year, he played almost entirely as a defender, a position he has since conceded to join the midfield.

As the central midfielder, Succa is often responsible for both breaking up the opponents’ drives and sparking the Badgers’ momentum on the offensive side of the field. One of the more challenging spots on this field, it seems like the perfect spot for one of UW’s most active motivators on the field.

“Every game, if we’re down, he’s the one that’s trying to pick us up and trying to get us that next goal,” freshman defender AJ Cochran said. “He just brings a different level of attitude, and it just makes the team perform that much harder and that much

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to see the entire crowd chanting the same exact cheer in one unified voice.

At hockey games, it’s rare for it not to happen.

Phil never meant to gain the fame he currently has — he just wanted to continue to rouse the crowd in support of one of his favorite Badger teams.

“There was a long time that nobody knew [who I was], but I didn’t care,” Dzick said. “I wasn’t doing it to be recognized. I was doing it cause it worked.”

But the one constant: I never gave up. I always kept fighting even if I questioned myself. I always kept fighting. …

I’m a football player. I knew in my heart that I was meant to play football.”

Despite being forced to sit out for over an entire season, Kelly used his time off the field to watch film and familiarize himself with more schemes and defensive looks.

KORGER, from 12 Faced with the largest amount of adversity they had seen all season, Russell Wilson led the offense back from the jaws of defeat. Down 14 in the fourth quarter, Wilson showed his true character, poise and heart in responding from an earlier interception to tie the game. If the Badgers had gotten the ball back, the momentum seemingly would’ve pointed to a Wisconsin win.

But that didn’t happen, and the Badgers had to deal with that same sinking, crushing feeling that I had felt so long ago.

What still rings true in my mind is the idea that in those kind of moments — moments that you are seemingly at your lowest and all may seem lost — that the true caliber of a player and a team is revealed.

Will the team and its players shake off that feeling? Will the Badgers slip again on the road?

Will they respond with renewed focus and energy to finish the season strong and make a run at the Rose Bowl like they did just a year ago? Who will step up to drag the Badgers away from that disappointed feeling of losing a chance at the BCS title?

Only time can tell, but

how the Badgers respond this Saturday will serve as the largest indication to date of what kind of team Wisconsin is this year.

One of my favorite speeches in sports history is Tim Tebow’s promise to the Florida faithful after his team lost to Ole Miss 30-31 in 2008, destroying the Gators quest at an undefeated season and seemingly diminishing their chances at a BCS title.

“To the fans and everybody in Gator Nation, I’m sorry,” Tebow said. “I’m extremely sorry.

We were hoping for an undefeated season. That was my goal, something Florida has never done here. I promise you one thing, a lot of good will come out of this. You will never see another player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of the season. You will never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of the season. You will never see a team play harder than we will the rest of the season. God bless.”

Tebow ended up leading Florida to the national championship that year, forever immortalizing his speech and his legacy as a winner. And that’s why I’m so interested to see what will happen to the

tougher.”

A peek at the defensiveminded players’ stat line shows plenty of zeros, except for in one critical stat — minutes. Thus far, the converted defender currently leads the team with 1,372 minutes this year.

Succa has only four shots in 2011, one of them on goal, but the fact that he has seen more playing time than anyone reveals just how valuable he is to Wisconsin.

Although he notes that putting a ball in the back of the net is a goal for the season — he scored his first career goal Wednesday night against Milwaukee — his presence as both a defender and a team motivator allow him to make a formidable impact.

As if anything could be more fitting for the quintessential team ‘tough guy,’ Trask credits Succa with creating the oft-

Instead of spending hours in practice, he not only rehabbed and made himself stronger; he gained a higher intelligence of the game, making him an all-around stronger player.

“He really had two years off from football because of his injuries,” defensive line coach Charlie Partridge said.

“But he studied film through that whole injury process, and I’m excited about the improvement in his technique, and he’s starting to make some

Badgers come Saturday night. Do the Badgers have the leadership and the heart to rebound from disappointment like Tebow and the Gators did?

All I know is when it comes to sports, it’s never about the fall. It’s about how you get back up. Sure, people will remember Saturday’s Hail Mary finish for a long time. But the Badgers have the chance to make people remember something else — potentially how they came back from the shock of a

plays because of it.”

“I think it helped greatly,” Kelly said. “Just to recognize different formations, different plays and definitely staying in tune with the defense and what they’re doing. A lot of guys get hurt and they go off by themselves and try to tackle that injury by themselves, but I said, ‘You know, I want to be a part of the team, whatever team we’re playing.’ If we’re playing TCU in the Rose Bowl, I’m going to prepare like I’m going to be starting in the Rose

last-second miracle play to finish the rest of the season undefeated and capture their first Rose Bowl win since 2000.

The fact still remains that the Badgers has its fate resting in their hands.

Wisconsin needs no outside help to win the Big Ten title.

It just needs to win.

I hope Michigan State does the same thing. I want to see them in Indianapolis come December. Bielema and his squad may preach taking it one game at a time, but for fans, everyone

overlooked plays that allow other players to collect assists and goals.

“He doesn’t like to get beat, and he’s willing to do a lot of dirty work,” Trask said. “Most of the time sophomores can’t play that role, usually it’s their junior year that they kind of step into that type of role as a dominating defensive midfielder.”

A native of Lewisberry, Pa., Succa said he originally planned on staying close to home and when he heard Wisconsin was looking at him, he told his coach he was interested solely to keep his options open. But after traveling to Madison and spending time with coaches, the sophomore knew he wanted to spend his college career in a Badgers uniform.

Upon his arrival, Succa quickly developed a camaraderie with the other

Bowl, and I’m going to watch that much film.’”

So far, it has paid off.

In Wisconsin’s first seven games, Kelly has 22 tackles, three sacks for 25 yards, two forced fumbles and one pass deflected.

He has only started three games, but he has already made an undeniable impact on the field. And it all comes as no surprise to Partridge.

“I think the things I got were some of the things that, quite honestly, I expected,” Partridge said.

“His work ethic really is

is already hungry for revenge.

Nick is a senior majoring in history and english. Know who’s

UW players he shares the field with. According to the second-year player, building close relationships with teammates helped ease the transition to the new and unfamiliar environment of Madison.

It could be just those close ties to teammates and their genuine respect for intensity that elevates him to a captain next season.

Succa notes the decision for captains isn’t up to him, but welcomes the notion of donning the title next year.

“I would like to [take on a formal leadership role], and that’s kind of why I try and bring as much intensity as I can to every practice,” Succa said. “That would be a goal of mine, to maybe move into more of a leadership position next year or towards the end of this year, but that’s kind of up to the coaches, so we’ll see how that goes.”

second to none. He’s a student of the game.”

But last year, Kelly thought for a time he would never get the chance to don a Wisconsin jersey again. To him, this year is simply a blessing.

“It’s definitely a blessing,” Kelly said. “The only person I can credit that with is God. There was a period there when I thought my game, my career as a football player was over. … I stepped in as a starter and it’s just a blessing. I just can’t be any happier about it.”

going to step up for Wisconsin against Ohio State? Give him your opinion at nkorger@ badgerherald.com.

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After injury nearly ended his career, defensive end helping anchor UW ‘D’ in full-time role Kelly Erickson Associate Sports Editor If Brendan Kelly could trade in his two fourth quarter sacks of Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins for a win, he would.

In Wisconsin’s heartbreaking 37-31 loss Saturday in East Lansing, Mich., the redshirt junior defensive end was in Cousins’ face all game, sacking him twice for 19 yards and forcing a fumble on the second.

But despite his outstanding game, luck just swung toward the opposite sideline as Cousin’s lastsecond Hail Mary reached Megan McCormick The Badger Herald the end zone and was deflected into the hands of Wisconsin defensive end Brendan Kelly has three sacks — two of which came Keith Nichol for a gameSaturday at Michigan State — and two forced fumbles in seven games this year. clinching touchdown.

transition from Gilbert to Kelly.

“He’s that type of guy that’s always waiting for his opportunity,” Nzegwu said. “The second that David got hurt, he was there, prepared to take his spot. … Everybody gets hurt; you don’t know when your last play is, and BK just filled in that role like he was there, starting the whole entire year.

“BK is one of those guys that’s always prepared.

He’s always working, always willing to get better.

I was excited when he finally got his chance to play, and he’s really filling that role in for David.”

While Kelly had the opportunity to fill in for a injured teammate this season, he knows what it is like to be on the other side

“I would trade the game in right to give up those statistics and get a ‘W’,” Kelly said. “I can’t say it feels that great. I wish I could walk away and say that I picked a pass off and ran it back for a touchdown and won the game for us.

Winning is what we want to do; that’s what I love doing.”

Ever since he stepped in for the injured David Gilbert, Kelly has been winning — albeit on a personal level.

In the week leading up to the intensely anticipated Big Ten conference opener against Nebraska, Gilbert broke his foot during practice, opening the door for Kelly to get the start.

Fellow starting defensive end Louis Nzegwu has noticed the seamless

of the situation.

Last season, Kelly was forced to redshirt due to a groin injury he suffered in 2009. For most of that year, no one was able to identify the cause of the injury — much less figure out how to fix it.

Three surgeries later, Kelly was finally on the road to rehab and a chance at getting on the field again.

But for a period of time, he thought his career was over.

“Realistically, I was mad,” Kelly said. “I was frustrated with myself, I was frustrated with my body. I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t healing the way it should have been, why it wasn’t being fixed, why people didn’t know, couldn’t get answers.

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‘Phil’ carries on traditions Leading hockey cheers since 1981, UW legend never meant to become Wisconsin folklore Kelly Erickson Associate Sports Editor He normally sports a white sweater with a small motion “W” emblem on the left of his chest over a red turtleneck. To any Wisconsin hockey fan, he’s instantly recognizable.

He is Phil Dzick. Mostly known simply as “Phil,” he’s been leading cheers at Wisconsin men’s hockey games since 1981.

As a long-term student at UW from 1962 to 1969, Dzick was on campus during one of its most notorious times. Between protests against the Vietnam War, the Sterling Hall explosion and, according to Dzick, the unavoidable smell of tear gas hanging in the air, athletics were a nice escape.

Phil was admittedly was not a huge hockey follower as a student. During those years, Wisconsin hockey was in an abysmal rut.

“The first series [I went to], incidentally was North Dakota playing Wisconsin,” Dzick said, noting the irony

in that the Badgers just swept the Fighting Sioux this past weekend. “I had no clue what the students were yelling. I was like, ‘Sieve? What is this?’”

“Wisconsin won both games. Next to the victory over Minnesota previously, I take it that was pretty much when Wisconsin stepped into the big time.”

In 1966, “Badger” Bob Johnson took over the program and initiated the rebirth of Wisconsin hockey.

In the 1969-70 season, its first as a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, UW made its way into the NCAA tournament.

Phil remembers the evolution of the no-name team into the legendary power it’s known as today.

“I drove out to Boston to watch the Badgers play against Denver in the consolation game in ’72,” Dzick said. “There were 1,000 Badger fans, probably give-or-take, and one person with a trumpet who had to persuade the security people to let him

go out on the ice and play ‘Varsity.’ The Badgers lost, but Badger Bob came back out of the locker room and he said, ‘Next year, we’re coming back and we’re going to win.’ And they did.”

As a student, Phil was not the cheerleader fans know him to be today. He was just learning the game and coming to appreciate a program in the middle of its own renaissance.

The cheers didn’t come until a road trip to Potsdam, New York, in 1981.

“It was the year of the ‘back-door Badgers’ with Badger Bob and Wisconsin was playing Clarkson in a two-game, total goal series,” Dzick said. “There were probably 25 to 50 Badger fans among the several thousand Clarkson folks. I thought, our guys don’t even know we’re here, and all I could think of was an old cheer from my college days: a ‘Badgers’ spelling out. It worked.”

Dzick wasn’t the first to lead the crowd in cheers at hockey games, but after

riling the few Badger fans in New York, he felt he needed to try it in Madison.

“I thought, well, it worked here, how would it work in our building?

But there have been a lot of people over the years who have had roles like that.

There was the score count — a guy at the Coliseum used to do that — there were a couple of guys who in the mean time had a winning net/losing net cheer.”

Thirty years later, Dzick can be found in the southeast corner of the Kohl Center, waiting to lead the entire arena in a multitude of cheers from “Let’s go red,” to a simple goal count.

Rarely — if ever — does he miss a game.

Wisconsin athletics have a multitude of traditions, and Phil inadvertently has become one of them.

“We picked up a program in the early season,” Dzick said. “I was looking through it and there was a line in there talking about Badger traditions and it said, sieve chant, Phil,

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Phil Dzick attended UW from 1962 to 1969 and began leading his beloved cheers at men’s hockey games in 1981. Now, he is a Wisconsin hockey legend. the 15 minutes of student dancing in the intermission.

I thought that’s about as good of recognition as you can get because most people would say, ‘Who’s that?’”

Dzick never had any intention of becoming a part of Wisconsin lore. In fact, he’s even listed underneath Wisconsin traditions and folklore in game programs, right next to the sieve chant.

He’s the guy everyone in the Kohl Center calls for once UW nets another goal.

“I don’t do it because the camera is going to be on me,” Dzick said. “When the students call me out during the game, it’s like,

well now we’re going to do something and there isn’t going to be a guy blathering on about some game we don’t care about or the family of the game — that’s all good stuff — but it doesn’t have anything to do with getting the crowd roused.”

As a link between the students and the rest of the Kohl Center, Phil’s cheers help bring the entire arena together, unifying them in a way not apparent in other sports.

At football games and basketball games, it is rare

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Best measure of UW comes this weekend Nick Korger Korger’s Korner Sometimes in sports, you find yourself on the wrong end of a play, cheated by chance or on the wrong end of amazing.

Saturday night’s final play flashed me back to a similar scene I had witnessed years ago in my past, during my senior year of basketball in high school. When Michigan State hauled down the unthinkable win last weekend, like some sort of post-traumatic flashback, I suddenly found myself no longer standing up in utter shock in my living room.

I was sitting on the bench of a basketball game in Oshkosh.

We were up three with two seconds left against our bitter cross-town rivals (ironically, they were also named the Spartans). In my three previous years, our varsity team had never lost to them once on the court. It looked like, in front of a sell-out crowd, we were going to continue the trend. Up three with two seconds left, we had

one of our guys shooting a double bonus with three seconds left.

Clank went the first one.

A collective groan from our fans. Clank went the second. With no timeouts remaining, one of the Spartan players seized the rebound and passed it to a guard, who heaved up a desperation shot from far beyond half court.

Swish.

Our bench deflated and the gym exploded.

I remember watching that shot from the bench (where I spent the majority of my illustrious basketball career) and thinking there was no way the ball would find a way in.

But somehow, the worst possible situation came true and that shot proved to be the turning point in the game, as we lost in double-overtime.

That game and that shot created one of the lowest feelings I had and still have ever felt following any game. How could this game we were supposed to have won turned on us in such an unbelievable manner?

I mean, what were the chances of some miracle shot like that going in?

Losing was hard enough, but being on the wrong end of some desperation heave like that? The game of basketball had played

a fast one on me. Which is how I came to my conviction. There’s no loss that’s harder to recover or rebound from than one that occurs in the last second.

The locker room was dead silent. But words found their way to someone’s mouth. We couldn’t give up. We shouldn’t feel sorry for ourselves. We had fought our way back from being down throughout the game, we had shown what we were made of and we got bested by chance.

We also understood that we had made mistakes as a team throughout the game that allowed that chance of a miracle defeat to even exist. Missed free throws, allowing secondchance points — there were many things that had to be done to never allow our opponents a chance to win like that again. We went on to beat our rival on a last second shot that same year in the playoffs to go to state. Looking back at the loss this past Saturday night, the Badgers had the Spartans by the throat with a 14-0 lead. Then some mistakes were made and the wheels fell off in the second quarter. The Badgers had to battle back.

KORGER, page 11