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Housing, Dean’s office look into hateful graffiti University resident finds aggressively homophobic speech on Sellery dorm door Adelaide Blanchard News Editor

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The Overture Center for the Arts divided the City Council on Wednesday night. The council voted to give the State Street art center additional funding in the 2012 capital budget despite staunch opposition from the mayor.

Council passes Madison budget Mayor threatens to veto financial plan; alders approve Overture funds Ally Boutelle Campus Editor The Madison City Council voted Wednesday night to help the Overture Center for the Arts stay afloat by granting it $500,000 of additional city funding, a controversial move that contributed to the mayor ’s threat to veto the entire budget.

The decision will raise the total Overture funding being provided by the city to $1.85 million.

The city’s 2012 budget totaled $186,312,361, City Finance Director David

Schmiedicke said.

The Overture figure was a compromise, Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, said. The Overture originally requested $2 million in funding, while Mayor Paul Soglin originally advocated for $1.35 million.

Although the motion was expected to pass, it was nevertheless met with strong opposition from several City Council members.

“I’m very concerned about taxpayers,” Ald. Jill Johnson, District 16, said. “It’s the same reason I didn’t support Edgewater. In general, I’m looking for ways to tighten up the budget.

It’s very easy to spend someone else’s money.”

The majority of the council, however, felt additional Overture funding was necessary

for the city’s cultural and economic health.

“I voted in support of Overture,” Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said. “With any luck, Overture will be able perform admirably for the city and meet all of its fundraising goals.”

City Council President Ald. Lauren Cnare, District 3, seconded Resnick’s sentiment. She offered to write a check in support of the Overture right there, saying she was willing to “put [her] money where [her] mouth is” in a time of economic downturn.

Soglin, however, opposed the additional funding. He threatened a veto following the council’s decision to support the project and revoke funding

Hateful homophobic graffiti left on Sellery Hall residents’ doors this week has spurred an investigation from the University of Wisconsin Police Department, University Housing and the Division of Student Life.

The graffiti — which the resident found around 1 a.m. Monday — was aggressively targeted at gay people. “Fuck gay people;” “Gays can go die;” “Die all you gay people” and “Retards can go die,” among other similar messages, were scribbled on a dry-erase board on a resident’s door.

In an interview with The Badger Herald, the resident who had her door vandalized with hateful graffiti related the night of the incident and the aftermath reporting it.

Last Sunday evening, the resident said she got into an argument with a fellow resident over the offensive use of the word “gay.” She said “gay” is not synomous with “stupid.”

A few hours later,

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she said she heard a loud knocking on her door, which she and her roommate at first ignored.

When the knocking continued, she got out of bed to check.

She said she saw the resident she had the argument with earlier standing near the drinking fountain on the floor. She said she then found the graffiti on her door.

She said she told the other resident she knew he had written the graffiti, but he denied it.

She then went back to bed, but the knocking on her door continued, she said.

“Me and my roommate were freaked out at this point, because those are kind of crazy comments,” she said. “[We thought], ‘Is this kid a psycho? What the hell is going on right now?’”

She said she and her roommate were “shaken up” and went to wake up their house fellow.

Their house fellow told them to erase the graffiti and said she would file a report in the morning,

Though University of Wisconsin Housing has a system in place for reporting discriminatory and hateful incidents, one campus leader in the LGBT community says many incidents in the campus community still go unreported.

Homophobic graffiti found in Sellery Hall earlier this week currently being investigated by several departments on campus is an example of one such incident.

Gabe Javier, director of the LGBT Campus Center, said the center is aware of the incident involving a Sellery resident receiving hateful messages on her door including messages such as “Gay people can die” and “I hate homos, they can burn in hell.”

Javier said the center

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Response to hate crimes in UW Housing Hate crime occurs Reported to house fellow House fellow files report to residence life coordinators with documentation, photos One RLC provides support for victim

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Dismissal from housing | Probation | Reprimand Contract in jeopardy | Referral to Division of Student Life All can be appealed

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UW to restructure administrative office with new flexibility With help of third party group, campus to revamp human resources department Danielle Miller News Reporter The University of Wisconsin will attempt to streamline the Human Resources department on campus — a move that not only uses recently granted flexibilities, but also may cut

unnecessary spending.

As part of the flexibility granted to the university through the 2011-13 state budget, the project aims to restructure the current pay system and create a more economically competitive department, according to the project’s website.

Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for administration, said although the project came about as part of the state budget, the project is not monetarily-based.

“This is not a cost-saving

project,” he said. “It’s based on the flexibility which allows us to create a whole new system with appropriate pay structures and employee opportunities to engage in learning.”

Huron Consulting Group will be assisting the HR department on the redesign, but the project will be led by university staff, according to the project’s website. Huron Group has also worked with UW faculty recently on a project streamlining the campus budget to reduce unnecessary spending.

This group will be assisting committee members in setting benchmarks for the project as well as identifying opportunities for improvement, Bazzell said.

Bazzell said a large hope for the new design is that it would alleviate the current inability of the HR department to reward staff with appropriate compensation and recognition. He added that there are no specific changes planned to fulfill this hope, but other institutional goals

have been set.

“The purpose of the current project is to better meet the needs of a research institution,” Bazzell said.

“We are hoping to reshape policies; specifics will be worked on in coming months.”

Bazzell also said while all current HR structures are subject to change, any major changes pertaining to faculty are not expected.

According to the website, employees should not expect a decrease in salaries, wages or benefits as the

project aims to keep the university competitive.

While the HR redesign does not directly affect students, Bazzell said their input is desirable as many students are university employees as well.

Bazzell said the project stresses transparency as a way to include students in the process.

The project will also implement a communication team to identify other methods to keep the campus

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UW System report highlights state funds’ benefits to research In testimony to Wis. Legislature, public higher ed leaders urge for fewer cuts Sean Kirkby Campus Editor Following testimony at the Capitol earlier this week against further budget cuts, the University of Wisconsin System issued a report Wednesday to

a legislative committee requesting the continuation of a program it said will provide more grant money for research projects.

The report asks the Joint Finance Committee to continue to support the Industrial and Economic Development Research Fund, a part of the system’s Growth Agenda for Wisconsin plan.

The IEDRF was established by the UW System to combine research with industrial

practices and promote economic growth, the report said. The report continued to say the IEDRF has helped fund 30 research projects from improving Internet access in rural Wisconsin areas to designing more efficient wind turbines.

“The Growth Agenda for Wisconsin … will produce more graduates, stimulate job creation and strengthen our communities,” UW System President Kevin Reilly said in the report.

“[It] is an integral component of our state’s economic recovery and future development.”

According to the report, these projects have allowed professors to apply for grants amounting to four times as much money as the program gave during its 2009-11 biennial budget.

They also received $1.4 million in corporate partnering and $1.4 million from the state.

“As these projects demonstrate, it is

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crucial that the state’s investments in the UW and the Growth Agenda continue, so that we can build on these, and develop additional success,” Reilly said in the report.

While Wisconsin statutes require the UW System to report biennially to the JFC on projects involved with the IEDRF, the report follows testimony system representatives gave the Senate Agriculture, Forestry and Higher

Education Committee about proposed budget cuts.

The UW System is facing a grand total of $316 million in budget cuts. Of that, $250 million comes from the original biennial budget passed this spring, and an additional $65.7 million comes out with a plan proposed by the Legislature to address a $174 million budget lapse, Reilly said in a statement

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Magpie Martinez, director of Diversity Programs in housing, said it is protocol for a house fellow to ask permission to remove particularly offensive written material after taking pictures for proof.

The resident said while she took pictures, her house fellow did not.

On Monday, the resident and her house fellow

went to talk to one of the residence life coordinators, who said the other resident who allegedly wrote the graffiti would be talked to. Later, she said she had heard there was one other resident who had seen the incident take place.

On Tuesday, she went to another residence life coordinator to say there was a witness to the incident in the morning.

She said she had told her mother about the incident, and her mother called the

residence life coordinators.

Following the call, the resident was called to meet with a coordinator, who asked her if she wanted UWPD to be involved.

The resident said she is confident she knows who wrote the messages.

She said while she is now assured the incident will be taken seriously and looked into, it took some time to get there.

“I do feel like they were pushed to take it seriously,” the resident said.

The resident said she wanted the campus to know hateful and bigoted speech exist and said she still had good relationships with members of housing staff who were involved.

Associate Dean of Students Kevin Helmkamp said the Division of Student Life has partnered with University Housing to investigate the incident.

“The graffiti was very hateful and directed at somebody, or a group of folks,” Helmkamp said. “I

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has been in contact with individuals involved in or affected by the incident.

He emphasized that not everything discriminatory or hurtful is reported.

“There’s lots of incidents we don’t hear about,” Javier said.

“We’re fortunate to have someone who is brave enough to come forward and talk about their experience.”

Magpie Martinez, director of Diversity Programs in UW Housing, explained the general process complaints must go through in Housing.

House fellows are asked to document and photograph situations involving either discrimination, bias or hateful actions.

Next, the report is sent to residence life coordinators.

One coordinator acts as a support system for a victim, and another sets up a conduct hearing with the alleged perpetrator, Martinez said.

Housing staff do a considerable amount of outreach when a portion of housing has been affected by an incident, Martinez said, and sometimes counseling services are called as a resource for those involved. The residence life coordinators split outreach responsibilities to avoid any conflict of interest, she said.

The alleged perpetrator may receive an allegation letter from housing, notifying them of the possible outcomes of a conduct

would say we are taking a strong interest because of the nature of what was written on the door.”

Lt. Mark Silbernagel confirmed the UWPD is conducting an open investigation but could not comment on the nature of the investigation or whether there were any suspects.

Martinez said she could not speak to any specifics of the incident. She said other housing staff members would not be able to comment.

hearing.

These potential outcomes, Martinez said, include dismissal from housing, university probation, university reprimand or the resident’s housing contract being placed in jeopardy.

These consequences can affect both the student’s status with the university as well as with housing, she said.

Anything harsher would have to be heard by the Division of Student Life, she added.

Associate Dean of Students Kevin Helmkamp said his office is working with the Division of Student Life on the investigation into the homophobic graffiti, and he said the two divisions of campus life generally work together on instances of such magnitude.

Any of the consequences can be appealed, Martinez said.

Martinez said she tracks all incidents which come through her office and compiles them into a report for the Division of Student Life. She said she looks for behavior patterns in residents and takes these patterns into account when house fellows are trained for the next year.

Javier said students affected by the incident can also use the LGBTCC as a resource for support.

“The community in Sellery Hall … knows the campus center is a support system for them, and we want to work with people to insure that LGBTQ people feel safe on campus,” Javier said.

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Due to a 5.5 percent tuition increase that has raised $107 million and staff who are making higher payments for retirement and health care, saving $50 million, a total of $157 million in new revenue exists for the system, Reilly said in the statement.

This means the UW System faces a $93 million budget cut from the original biennial budget, Reilly said in the statement. However, if the Legislature approves the cuts to meet the budget lapses, the system will face about a $159 million gap.

“Our main focus is on educating our students and putting the UW to work as an economic engine for Wisconsin,” Reilly said.

“We’re concerned about draining the fuel from that engine right at the time when citizens of Wisconsin need it most.”

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said the gap will be a major issue for the December UW System Board of Regents meeting.

“The Regents will almost certainly have many questions about these potential new cuts, their impacts on the UW campuses and our ongoing discussions with state leaders,” Giroux said in an email to The Badger Herald.

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Reps. still out of council Student government seats remain vacant after ousted officials vouch again for spots Katherine Krueger Deputy News Editor Two vacant Student Council seats, which have been embroiled by controversy and internal debate for weeks, will continue to stand vacant as of a meeting Wednesday.

In the Associated Students of Madison meeting, members took up legislation to appoint Beth Huang and Niko Magallon to council, in which both fell short of the 20-vote majority required to gain seats.

The vote comes one week after ASM Chair Allie Gardner ruled the previous vote to affirm Huang and Magallon was null and void according to the interpretation of the constitution, which requires a two-thirds majority of the entire sitting council vote in favor of the appointment.

The two previously removed elected officials were selected for consideration by council as the result of Nominations Board’s processes of evaluating applicants.

In open forum, Beth Huang spoke in support of the Nominations Board process, saying she and Magallon have been held to the strictest interpretation of ASM election policies, constitutional provisions and Student Judiciary precedents.

“We have been selectively held to the strictest implementations … where people have generally gotten off the hook,” she said. “[It’s put] us through an immense personal struggle.”

Student Council then debated the proper voting procedure in the event the vote would be for both nominees taken together, which some representatives, including

RESTRUCTURE, from 1 informed, Bazzell said.

The HR redesign does not currently have a timeline as to when the restructuring will be concluded due to there being aspects of the project that must be completed before further progress is made.

“There are several pieces to the project, and the part we are working on now needs the approval of the Legislature before we can proceed,” Bazzell said.

Approval by the Legislature is hoped to be granted before the end of the academic year, he said.

Students can access information about the redesign on the project’s website and through open forums.

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Rep. Maria Giannopoulous ran for secretary for Student Council but lost during Wednesday night’s meeting. Giannopoulous said she had plans to reform the post, including changing how minutes are presented during council meetings.

Dan Posca, said would not allow members to fully express their opinions on the matter.

Nneka Akubeze, a member of council, also questioned Gardner ’s decision not to recognize Magallon as a voting member of the body, saying that while the decision to appoint the two officials was nullified last week, interpretation of the constitution is not a matter for Student Council and the interpretation on filling vacancies should go to Student Judiciary.

A vote to overrule the chair ’s decision failed among representatives.

Rep. Andrew Bulovsky, who spoke in support of only Huang’s appointment, said his motion to divide the vote was simply a request to vote exactly the way he wanted to vote.

“I’m literally being shackled onto my votes,” he said.

After a vote to divide the question on Huang and Magallon’s appointments carried, Gardner prefaced the vote by encouraging representatives to vote either in favor or against the legislation, saying that abstentions

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would be equivalent to a negative vote.

Gardner also said during the two months the ordeal has lingered in council, the politics of the situation have not gone unnoticed outside of ASM and secret ballots would be used.

“We have focused a lot of debate on the merits of individuals, rather than the process of Nominations Board,” she said. “The personal tensions [are] mounting here.”

Officials voted 17 in favor with eight abstentions on Huang’s appointment, while Magallon received 17 votes in favor, with seven abstentions and one illegal vote, both falling three votes short of the majority of the sitting members required. For the time being, the seats will remain vacant until Nominations Board fills them.

Members also voted on appointing a secretary for the body, drawing on nominees Maria Giannopoulos, a freshman representative, and Rep. Clay Thomas.

With a vote of 12 in favor of Thomas and six in Giannopoulos’s favor, Thomas will fill the vacant office.

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Recall cost may work to Walker’s favor, expert says Senator fighting to keep office says campaign only distracts from issues Matt Huppert State Editor The state of Wisconsin has once again become the stage for political drama as efforts to recall the governor and four Republican legislators start moving, and members from both parties say they are confident they can get the momentum needed for victory.

On Tuesday, Democrats in the state began handing out petitions as a part of a 60-day process to gain the more than the 500,000 signatures necessary to

recall Gov. Scott Walker.

Walker said Wednesday he will fundraise as much as needed to keep his position at the Capitol.

Walker maintained the legislation he pushed for earlier this year on collective bargaining was consistent with his campaign platform.

Walker’s capacity to fundraise unlimited amounts does give him an advantage over challengers, Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate said to the Associated Press. But Tate said ultimately what the state thinks of Walker’s performance will prevail.

University of Wisconsin political science professor Donald Downs said a majority of Wisconsinites are in favor of a recall against the governor.

He said the big question

looming over all the recall efforts is how many Wisconsinites will actually sign petitions and vote against Walker and the senators in a potential elections. While it is still too early to tell, he said, Walker appears worse off now than he did several months ago.

However, Downs, an adviser for The Badger Herald, said a statewide recall of a governor is unprecedented, and more moderate voters may be hesitant to participate in a vote before the next regular gubernatorial election.

Another growing concern for the recall effort will be the cost to the state.

Downs said recalls could cost Wisconsin as much as $12 million. The more expensive the recall becomes, he said, the more hesitant voters may be

to the concept of a recall in general, which would provide a cushion for Republicans in office.

Additionally, recall efforts against four senators — Sen. Pam Galloway, R-Wausau, Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, Sen. Terry Moulton, R-Chippewa Falls and Majority Leader Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau — seek to reach approximately 15,000 petition signatures each in the same 60-day period.

In a recent statement by Wanggaard, the senator said the recall effort against him and his fellow senators is an attempt to derail the positive changes the Republican-led Capitol has created.

“I am disappointed that the Democrats, outof-state union bosses and professional protestors

have decided to launch a recall effort against me,” Wanggaard said in the statement. “They have been trying to overturn the 2010 elections for almost a year now, and it’s clear they will stop at nothing to return to the days of high taxes, runaway spending and job killing policies.”

Wanggaard said he will continue to focus on passing legislation instilling job creation and economic growth despite the potential distraction of a recall.

Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Graeme Zielinski said the recall effort is so far exceeding expectations.

He said the claim these efforts are merely a distraction is inconsistent with the large amount of Wisconsinites in opposition to the policies of Walker and

Republicans, specifically in relation to the limitations on collective bargaining created last spring.

“If Scott Walker is such a popular governor and his plans to destroy our state are so right, why not put it to a vote? Why not have the people of Wisconsin have their voices heard?”

Zielinski said.

A recall of the senators, he said, may be easier to obtain than a recall against the governor because those petitions require fewer signatures and the state already experienced senatorial recall elections this summer. However, he said the desire to recall the governor is statewide, making signatures easier to find.

—The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Inside the artist’s studio Jeff Brockhoven, a Master of Fine Arts Candidate at UW, showed off his work on Wednesday as part of Studio Days. Depictions of the human form in shades of neon is one characteristic of his portfolio.

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CITY COUNCIL, from 1 for a $125,000 study concerning performing arts in Madison.

He said he would have accepted the Overture decision to continue without threat of a veto had the council voted to approve the study.

“This was not a question of a hollow threat,” he said. “I have been prepared to accept the half a million for Overture. What prompted my decision was the combination of the half a million and the absence of the study.”

The study, Soglin said, would allow the city to get crucial information

about the state of the arts in Madison that would have led to a positive change.

“I’m not saying $125,000 is chump change, but we have a problem here,” Ald. Brian Solomon, District 10, said. “At worst, we confirm our investment in the arts is a good one. At best, we learn what we can do better and understand the importance of other Madison arts venues.”

Soglin’s commitment to the study led the council to reconsider.

Members decided to vote again in response to the mayor’s threat.

The second vote passed, with only one

vote of opposition, and funding for the study was confirmed.

Despite their reconsideration of the study, several members told Soglin they objected to the way he had conducted the meeting.

“We’ve been told by the mayor to prioritize what’s necessary,” Ald. Matthew Phair, District 20, said. “But after 11 of us voted that it wasn’t necessary now, he threatens a veto because of this?”

The council went on the pass the final amended versions of the capital and operating budgets together, solidifying the city’s 2012 budget.

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Recall movement: Yes Walker, it is your fault John Waters Columnist The “Recall Walker” movement got underway Tuesday, and apparently Gov. Scott Walker does not think he had anything to do with it. Walker said in a news conference Tuesday that “the bottom line is we did what we said we were going to do when we were campaigning.” The truth, however, is rather different.

The central issue has always been removing collective bargaining rights from state employees, something Walker never mentioned during his campaign. While the governor wants to stick to his talking points about limiting public employee layoffs and balancing the budget, the way he went about it remains the problem.

The last year has not been what the people of Wisconsin expected, nor what they voted for.

We have grown accustomed to a level of communication between our political parties that set us apart. The divisive nature of Washington politics has no place here, and that is why Wisconsin has responded by using the recall option. Where Wisconsin has traditionally found middle ground

between our two parties, only partisan rhetoric now has a place. I have heard from aides in the Capitol that Democrats are bored, as they come into work every day knowing that a real discussion of the issues is unlikely.

What Walker needs to understand is this recall is about more than balancing the budget. Every move he has made to push this state farther to the right has been made under the threat of economic peril, but the Wisconsin voter is not so easily fooled. Whether it was the attack on unions, the cutting of education or the cutting of Medicaid, the people of Wisconsin want Walker to know that they are not merely a negligible statistic in an accounting equation.

What I mean is that over the past year, Walker has repeatedly couched controversial decisions in the language that Wisconsin did not have any choice, that failing to take away collective bargaining would ruin the state. Those claims have been proven false, an over-the-top reaction to a manageable problem.

The goal was never to save Wisconsin from destruction, but to advance a variety of partisan objectives, and after the success of the collective bargaining move, Walker has not looked back.

Just look at the nature of the “special jobs session” that left Wisconsin without new jobs but with several interesting new laws, such as a law allowing “abstinence-only”

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Gov. Scott Walker urges the Democratic senators to return to Wisconsin at a press conference in February. The senators fled during the battle over collective bargaining, the passage of which sparked the movement to recall Republican senators, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and Walker himself. language in high school health classes. The 250,000 jobs Walker promised, on the other hand, are conspicuously absent. In fact, the unemployment rate has gone up during the Walker administration, from 7.4 percent when he took office to 7.8 percent now.

This recall is about you, Scott, whether you want to admit or not. Your actions led to the gathering of a hundred thousand people on the Capitol in February, and your actions led to the recall elections of state

senators this summer. So we should not pretend that anyone else is responsible for the recall movement: You are the one who has consistently ignored anything the other side of the aisle has to say.

In fact, in several instances last February, you attempted to push through legislation without even giving the other side time to understand it. Certainly you wanted the budget repair bill passed before the citizens of Wisconsin had a chance to understand it. That is why the Fab 14

counterparts. That appears to be his definition of fulfilling campaign promises. Unfortunately for Walker, the people of Wisconsin do not necessarily agree.

This one is on you, Scott.

The jobs have not appeared as promised. Instead, it has been one divisive decision after another, and for the friendly people of Wisconsin, it appears to be too much.

had to leave the state. They had no other alternative to slowing down a bill that unraveled 50 years of labor relations in this state. That is what this recall is about — the people of Wisconsin needed an official opportunity to speak to the events of last February.

Walker has not been subtle about how he has operated as governor of Wisconsin. He took advantage of a complete majority and pushed farright agenda items through without a second glance toward his Democratic

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Giving thanks for unwarranted American exceptionalism Shawn Rajanayagam Columnist “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

That was what Barack Obama said when asked by a journalist whether he believes in American exceptionalism — that is, whether America is unique and therefore the best country in the world.

As we approach Thanksgiving, expressions of American exceptionalism are becoming more conspicuous. Across the country, families will gather to celebrate this most American of holidays.

Nominally, they are giving thanks to God for the safe

passage of the pilgrims in 1607, but nowadays the holiday is more about celebrating the beauty of living in the best country in the world.

America is definitely sui generis — no other country comes close to rivaling the United States in global influence. Since World War II, America has been at the forefront of the creation and propagation of the liberal world order. This has led to wealth creation both at home and abroad, most notably in Asia, where a number of nations, including Japan, Singapore and South Korea, have benefited vastly.

America is also the land of opportunity for immigrants — each year, nearly one million immigrants become naturalized U.S. citizens.

These immigrants include some of America’s most famous businessmen, including the founders of Hotmail and YouTube and the CEO of Citigroup.

However, there a number of

fields where America is way behind.

First of all, income inequality in this country is spiraling out of control.

Of the 34 member states to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, America ranks 31st in income equality. Its Gini coefficient of 0.38 is on par with Russia’s.

Even more worrying is the fact that over the long term, income inequality has been getting steadily worse. In the past quarter century, income inequality has been increasing at a rate of nearly 0.5 percent per year. Much of this can be chalked up to taxation policy that grants significant concessions to elites without redistributing wealth to the underprivileged.

The health care system in America is also woefully inefficient. The level of spending on health care per capita in America is almost twice the OECD average.

Much of this comes down to the fact that America’s

public health care system is mismanaged, to say the least. While Obamacare may go some way to remedying that, it is far too early to tell whether this will result in a significant improvement in the standard of care.

On a related note, life expectancy in the U.S. also lags behind the OECD average, this time by nearly two years.

Again, the trend is even more troublesome: From 1983 to 2008, the world average improvement in life expectancy was six years. Countries like South Korea, reaping the benefits of economic liberalization, improved by as much as 12 years. America, meanwhile, improved by just 3.3 years in the same period.

Gender inequality is also another issue that has reared its head in America.

The UN’s Gender Inequality Index ranks America 47th in the world, below Malaysia and China. As of October this year, women earned 20 percent less than men.

Nowhere is this disparity

more apparent than at the very highest echelons of industry, where just 14 percent of Fortune 500 executives are women.

Most worrying of all is the level of education in America. Despite impressive high school graduation rates, America’s public education system once again pales in comparison to those of its OECD peers. The most recent OECD report, compiled in 2010, ranks American students 14th of 34 in reading skills, 17th in science and a well belowaverage 25th in math. The signs for America’s future, based on this evidence, are bleak.

Then again, people have been predicting America’s decline for decades, and somehow America manages to maintain its role as the world’s undisputed superpower.

To quote Cullen Murphy in his book “Are We Rome?,” “The basic social dynamism of the country will continue to wash

us forward in the messy, roiling way it always has.”

This does not excuse the fact that America, despite all its greatness, has a lot to improve on. I have no doubt that America has the ability to do it. Time and again, declinists ranging from Paul Krugman to Fareed Zakaria have presaged the fall of America, or in Zakaria’s case, the rise of the rest.

First, it was the Soviet Union. Then, when their political system proved untenable, it became Japan.

After Japan’s lost decade of the ‘90s, it is now China that presents the biggest threat to America’s position atop the world. But somehow, America has persevered. I have no doubt, faced with the myriad challenges that are now assailing it, that America will prevail once more. And for that, Americans have something to be thankful for.

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

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Touring Madison’s sensational Asian destinations Allegra Dimperio Chew On This Columnist Contrary to popular belief, Asian Kitchen is not the best option for Asian food in Madison.

Yes, their lip-smacking, MSG-ridden General Tso’s chicken is the perfect drunk food, and yes, the location is ideal for stumbling into, but if you are looking for more than Americanized question mark meats, Madison has much more to offer.

I will admit I have spent no time in Asian countries, and I love a good lo mein as much as the next college student,

but throughout my perusing of Madison restaurants I have found campus Asian restaurants do no justice to what the rest of Madison has to offer. Outside our little bubble, restaurants are hand-making their noodles, slaving over curries and crafting inventive dumplings.

While resisting the siren song of Asian Kitchen may be difficult at first, give these restaurants a try and you will not want to go back.

First up is Willy Street’s Wah Kee Wonton Noodle Restaurant. While the décor is underwhelming and the strip mall location slightly off-putting, the restaurant boasts rave reviews and delicious homemade noodles. The menu is extensive but lacks descriptions of the dishes, so if you are like me and want to know

what is in “Buddha’s Delight” or have no idea what pomfrit is, I recommend asking your server for more details.

Although there are dozens of options for more traditional offerings like fried rice, lo mein and sweet and sour dishes, deviating from house noodles at Wah Kee is like going to The Tornado Room and ordering a salad — foolish. Luckily, there are 21 special noodle dishes ranging from rice noodles to udon noodles to basic white noodles, all coming in between $9 and $10. For the less daring, the shiitake and chicken noodle soup is a winner, but noodles marked in red denote spice and excitement.

Service is rather spotty, but for those of us who cannot bear to wait, the restaurant does offer

takeout.

If Wah Kee is packed and you are not feeling like takeout, Lao-Laan Xang is just a hop, skip and a jump away with locations on both Willy Street and Atwood Avenue. The Laotian restaurant won the silver award in Madison Magazine’s Thai/ Indonesian category, but in my opinion, their curry blows gold winner Sa-Bai Thong out of the water.

The mango curry is my hands-down favorite, but the curry squash is up there too, both delivering much more flavor than their names suggest. LaoLaan Xang’s eight curries can come with chicken, tofu, mock dock, catfish, shrimp or “meat,” but if ordering the last option I would get clarification on just what “animal” you are ordering. Curries run around $12, but you can

expect to get two meals at the very least out of the large portions. And who does not love leftover curry for breakfast?

Where Lao-Laan Xang drifts into the Pacific, Hilldale Mall’s Dumpling Haus pulls you back to the continent, in name anyway. The order-atthe-counter restaurant took over the vacant Ben and Jerry’s, creating a small dining area with an exposed kitchen beyond the bar where you can watch the staff wrap up your dumplings.

As the name would suggest, dumplings are the go-to item, though steamed bao zi buns, wontons and noodles are also available.

Dumpling Haus still seems to be playing with its menu, and I am crossing my fingers that the vegetarian wontons I had the last time make

the final version — I could actually distinguish vegetables among the fried taste. If you do not like pork or vegetarian items, skip the trip to Hilldale, but if you are looking for authentic, hand-crafted Beijing dumplings, eight to 10 of them can be yours for less than $10.

Those willing to stray slightly from campus will find countless opportunities to experience Asian food as authentic as it gets in Wisconsin. So while these options may be a smidge pricier than campus offerings, your taste buds and digestive system will thank you a hundred times over.

Allegra Dimperio (adimperio@ badgerherald.com) is a junior majoring in journalism.

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The Badger Herald | Arts | Thursday, November 17, 2011

AM Taxi to play at Madison’s The Loft Friday PM Alt-rock, punk band member speaks to benefits of unsigned status in prep for show Jacob Fricke ArtsEtc. Writer There is always something to be said for controlling your own destiny. Rather than let others control their fate, members of Chicago punk band AM Taxi took a step in early February

that would have brought most to their knees: They walked out on their major label contract with Virgin Records.

Front man Adam Krier explained the move in an interview with The Badger Herald, in preparation for AM Taxi’s show at The Loft Friday night in Madison.

“We got together in 2007 over the summer — starting playing gigs,” he said. “We signed in early 2009 with Virgin. It was all pretty quick.”

Things took a turn

for the worse, however, shortly after.

“We went out and recorded the record,” Krier said. “But they didn’t put it out for about a year after that. They had to set it up right, or whatever it is.”

The album, We Don’t Stand a Chance, is classic punk mixed with a slight reggae flavor — the band supported the record by spending the summer on Warped Tour. According to Krier, however, “things started to get a little strange with EMI [Virgin’s parent company] and

Virgin” shortly after.

“People started thinking they were losing their jobs, and things came to a standstill,” Krier said. “We were just sitting around and were probably going to get dropped in a few months. We chose to get out on our own terms while we could.”

After months of legal wrangling, the band departed, on no one’s terms but its own.

“We ended up leaving with owning all our masters, artwork and video. We left with

everything we wanted to, and it worked out OK,” Krier said.

With its newfound freedom, the band began to operate as it had in the past: placing an emphasis on connecting with fans.

“The first thing we did that we previously weren’t allowed to do was give away free music,” Krier said.

The band’s first free release was a cover of the Sex Pistols’ classic, labeltrashing song, “EMI.” Since then, they have put up regular free content

on their website, www. amtaximusic.com.

Sans label, Krier and the others are doing things their own way, and plan to play new material on their current tour with punk-rockers the Architects. Krier is excited about playing a venue as unique as The Loft.

“It’s a different environment than we’re used to,” he said, “but it’s good to change things up now and then.”

AM Taxi will play at The Loft in Madison Friday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10.

ARTSETC. FEATURE

Madison-based Rainbird gives voice to child abuse victims Advocacy foundation provides awareness, financial support for underfunded groups Joe Nistler ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Hanna Roth knows child abuse and hopes to end it through her nonprofit organization based in Madison, the Rainbird Foundation. She wants to put an end to stories like that of one 2-year-old Kenosha girl.

The toddler arrived at an Intensive Care Unit covered in so many bruises doctors stopped counting at 68 — there were simply too many, Roth said.

The girl’s mother, the mother ’s boyfriend and the mother ’s sister — all three with her during the beating — had varying stories regarding the bruises’ origins.

When the case finally went to court, a judge removed the girl from her mother ’s custody to live with her father. But what the district attorney did not do was prosecute the mother.

“Those three adults walked away scot-free because there was no ‘evidence,’” Roth said.

“I don’t know how many bruises it takes to prosecute.”

The verdict was all too familiar for Roth, who comes from a severe background of abuse herself. She sees cases like this all the time, and the painful frustration is twofold. Not only is a child being beaten, but

Photo courtesy of Hanna Roth

Hanna Roth founded the Rainbird Foundation in response to underfunded or otherwise inadequate child abuse prevention resources. the child’s abusers are not being punished. In many cases, the child does not make it out alive, Roth said.

In cases where the child does live, the consequences of being abused can last a lifetime. Child Welfare Information Gateway, a resource created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has compiled findings from research regarding these consequences.

According to the service, effects include impaired brain development, reduced learning capacity and antisocial traits.

While 80 percent of abused children can be diagnosed with at least one psychiatric disorder by the time they are 21, they are also 11 times more likely than nonabused children to be arrested as a juvenile.

Perhaps most disturbingly, University of Minnesota social work professor Jeffrey Edleson, who has worked with male abusers for more than 30 years, estimates that 75 to 95 percent of the men in his “batterer intervention” groups were abused as children.

Child abuse is often a generational cycle, but sometimes the child comes out relatively unscathed, motivated not to repeat the harmful actions of their parents, Edleson said.

Roth exemplifies that exception.

Edleson and Roth both indicated insufficient funding is the bane of the entire child welfare system. Edleson primarily researches children’s exposure to domestic violence.

Even being exposed to domestic violence, without actually being beaten, can produce consequences for the child, according to Edleson.

To combat this, Minnesota’s Legislature added exposure to family violence to its definition of child abuse and neglect in 1999.

Edleson said the state’s child welfare system saw a 50 percent rise in reported cases because of the law. But without

any additional funding, the caseload completely overwhelmed a system already struggling to serve the cases of direct abuse being reported.

The state repealed the law nine months later.

Wisconsin’s definition, according to Child Welfare Information Gateway, also does not currently include exposure to domestic violence in its definition of abuse, even though studies have shown it to be harmful to a similar degree.

“The sad part is that all those children are out there, and people knew about them,” he said.

“But then they repealed it, so now people don’t even have to report

The painful frustration [in child abuse cases] is twofold.

Not only is a child being beaten, but the child’s abusers are not being punished.

In many cases, the child does not make it out alive.

those kids. But they’re out there, and they’re not getting services they need.”

Since creating the Rainbird Foundation in Madison two years ago with co-founder Elisabeth Norton, Roth devotes most of her time to preventing and putting a stop to child abuse. Rainbird focuses on raising public awareness of child abuse and generates money for underfunded organizations operating under the same goal.

Rainbird fills a niche in the fight against child abuse by raising the money necessary for organizations to function. It does not provide services directly to victims, Roth said, because there are already other well-functioning local and national entities doing that — some just do not have the business know-how to effectively manage their financial programs.

“We don’t need to

be doing what other organizations in this city are doing well,” Roth said. “We need to … support these organizations that are already doing great services.”

A business coach by day, Roth is able to rally her organization in successful fundraising schemes.

In its newest project, Rainbird will strive to generate grassroots support through lowcommitment campaigns that can reach large numbers of people.

She calls it the MOB project, an acronym for “mobilization of birds,” to match the foundation’s avian theme.

Roth modeled the initiative after organizations like MoveOn and Change. org, which circulate petitions online, enabling people worldwide to contribute easily. Like birds in a flock, Roth hopes to see small donations from many people add up to something huge.

“It’s easy, doable, with a small amount of time commitment,” Roth said.

“The sort of actions that get lots of people active or aware about an issue.

That’s what the MOB unit is being built to do.”

According to Roth, the support and awareness Rainbird generates also aims to hold officials accountable for their actions relating to child abuse cases. She said the daily reality is many victims and perpetrators slip through the cracks of a “broken system,” as in the Kenosha girl’s story.

It is a global problem that Roth experiences on an individual level every day, and her frustration manifested itself in a pile of shredded napkins left on the table in front of her after an interview with The Badger Herald.

She recalled an incident while she was working in an elementary school.

A third grader drew a picture for Roth depicting the child’s parents’ abuse. “Please help” was scrawled in crayon.

“It didn’t surprise me,” she said. “But it broke my heart.”

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The Badger Herald | Sports | Thursday, November 17, 2011

THIS WEEK'S TOP GAMES No. 16 Nebraska at No. 18 Michigan Thurs., Nov. 10 • 7 p.m.

No. 17 Wisconsin at Illinois Sat., Nov. 12 • 11 a.m.

USC at No. 4 Oregon Sat., Nov. 12 • 7 p.m.

With such a log jam atop the Big Ten Legends division, any hope of a title game appearance will almost certainly be dashed by a loss throughout the rest of the season.

Nebraska won Saturday at Beaver Stadium. Can they march into the Big House and do the same?

The Badgers finally got their first real road win of the season at Minnesota Saturday. Though Illinois has lost four straight, it will not be an easy feat for Wisconsin as they try to set up a winner-take-all matchup with Penn State.

The Ducks legitimized themselves with a dominant win on the road at Stanford. If there is any hope for Oregon to make a bid for the national championship game, they will have to fight off the ineligible and pesky Trojans of USC.

NUMBER OF THE WEEK

7:0

The ration of touchdowns to interceptions that Western Michigan quarterback Alex Carder threw for on the road at Toledo this week, along with 548 passing yards. Unfortunately for Carder and the Broncos, they still lost 66-63.

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

14. Georgia 15. Michigan St. 16. Nebraska 17. Wisconsin 18. Michigan 19. TCU 20. Southern Miss 21. Penn State 22. Baylor 23. Texas 24. Auburn 25. Florida State

PLAYER TO WATCH

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1. Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford ‘11: 2,695 yards, 31 Total TDs 2. Trent Richardson, RB, Ala. ‘11: 1,205 yards, 19 Total TDs 3. Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State ‘11: 2,549 yards, 31 Passing TDs 4. Brandon Weeden, QB, OK St. ‘11: 3,635 yards, 31 Passing TDs 5. Case Keenum, QB, Houston ‘11: 3,951 yards, 39 Total TDs

CONFERENCE POWER RANKINGS

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SEC — As the season goes on and more wannabes falter at the finish line, the SEC continues to look stronger. Three SEC teams are in the top six in the BCS standings. The Big 12 has two in the top 10, and the Big Ten has none.

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Big XII — The way the BCS standings are shaping up, it looks like the only thing that will prevent an LSU vs. Alabama rematch is if OK State wins out.

Good luck Big 12; it appears one of the conference’s best rivalries could ruin its only shot.

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Pac-12 — One team worthy of a shot at the national title, three teams all good enough to play in the Rose Bowl; the bottom of the conference might be dismal, but Oregon, Stanford and USC still produce.

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Big Ten — The Big Ten remains the only conference in these rankings without a top 10 BCS team. Every other conference has at least two. As a whole though, the Big Ten still edges out the ACC as there are a few more quality teams.

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ACC — Clemson and Virginia Tech are gaining praise for their conference, but the ACC has a long way to go before it contends for a title or has any quality of depth outside the Tigers and Hokies.

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Heisman Trophy candidate and catalyst of No. 11 Houston, Case Keenum fires a pass over his offensive line in Houston’s dominating 56-13 win over UAB.

Is Houston’s offense good enough to earn a BCS berth?

Brett Sommers Statistics Editor They have not played a ranked team all season, and their 10 opponents have combined for a 1-15 record against top-25 teams.

So why exactly do the Houston Cougars reside at No. 11 in the BCS Standings, ranked No. 13, 17, 13, 16, 19 and 12 by the six respective computers that figure into the BCS formula?

In Wisconsin’s case, four of the six computers do not rank Wisconsin at all. Granted, the Badgers have lost in spectacular fashion in two road games against Michigan State and Ohio State, but how can a team that has played one opponent all year — UCLA — that has a national reputation have a shot at a BCS bowl?

If you have not heard of him yet, the answer is Cougar quarterback Case Keenum and the rest of the Houston offense.

The Cougars are ranked No. 1 in the nation in passing offense (455.7 yards per game), total offense (628.8 ypg) and points per game (54.7) this season. Call them astronomical, off the charts, videogame-like. There is no choice but to refer to this explosive offense as one cliché or another because using a simpler word or phrase just does not do Houston the justice it deserves.

The numbers of the second place team in each category are not even close. The Cougars pass for 61.5 more yards per game than Brandon Weeden and the Oklahoma State Cowboys, outgain Baylor and Robert Griffin III by 60.9 yards per game in total offense and score three more points per game than, again, No. 2 Oklahoma State.

But should gaudy offensive numbers automatically give a team the right to play in a BCS bowl game? Those five games are reserved for the teams that are supposedly the ten best in the

country. It does not always appear to work out that way, but should Houston earn a berth that will likely displace another deserving team from a power conference just because it sets off offensive fireworks every week? Maybe, maybe not.

It sure is hard to overlook a non-AQ school though, when it is led by a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate. It only seems fair that Keenum is making a case with the likes of Andrew Luck, Trent Richardson, Weeden and RG3 — though with Baylor’s far too many losses, Griffin has taken a backseat in the conversation.

Keenum has gained respect as a viable candidate nationally already. ESPN has a panel of 15 Heisman experts, consisting of actual Heisman voters, to help determine the Heisman race week by week and currently, Keenum stands fourth and within shouting distance of front-runner Andrew Luck.

Call Keenum a product of head coach Kevin Sumlin’s system if you want, but that system averages more that 14 yards per passing attempt and is a scoring machine. Keenum has already thrown for 3,951 yards and 37 touchdowns while only throwing three interceptions — Aaron Rodgers, who? Keenum even ran for two scores in last weekend’s 73-17 thrashing of Tulane, the second time this year Houston has put up 70-plus.

Perhaps the most scintillating performance by a quarterback this season, Keenum threw for 534 yards and nine touchdowns in one game, just two shy of the FBS record 11 touchdown tosses by first-round NFL bust and fellow University of Houston alum David Klingler in 1990.

Fans at the nine-touchdown game also saw Keenum break the FBS record for career touchdown passes, with his fifth touchdown of the game, temporarily setting the record at 135. He now has 144 passing touchdowns with two regular season games, the Conference USA title game and a bowl game to play.

Aside from Keenum, Houston’s other offensive juggernaut is senior wideout Patrick Edwards. Second on the team with 61 catches, Edwards has

1,277 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns, not to mention an absolutely obscene 20.9 yards per catch. He also caught seven passes for 318 yards and five of Keenum’s nine touchdowns in the quarterback’s record setting game.

So Houston’s offense is pretty good and deserving of a BCS berth, but what of the Cougars’ defense? The offense cannot just stay on the field the entire game. A worthy BCS team should at least be able to play some defense.

And aside from stellar play of senior linebacker Sammy Brown, who has 10 sacks on the season and leads the country in tackles for loss per game at 2.15, it is definitely the defense that is troubling.

Ranking outside the top-40 in the country in rush defense (184.1 ypg), total defense (393.2 ypg) and scoring defense (22.8 ppg) against relatively terrible competition, how can the Cougars expect to compete with another BCS team, especially if it came to a matchup against a team that scores almost as much as they do?

The fact that they rank No. 13 in turnover margin can only bail them out against so many teams, and it could be argued that margin should almost be higher when they are playing teams like Tulane (2-9), Georgia State (2-8), UAB (2-8) and Rice (3-7).

Offense vs. defense. Which is more important? A Heisman Trophy candidate. Does having one give a team the right to play in the BCS? The contrasting differences make it a tough call if one person were pulling the strings instead of a bunch of subjective voters and six computers. So the tipping point goes to 10-0 Houston and its Heisman candidate leader Case Keenum.

It is hard to go undefeated in college football. It is hard to go undefeated in Pop Warner, middle school, high school, junior college and the NFL. If the Cougars win out, their offense and spotless record has earned Houston their chance.

Without a playoff to differentiate the contenders and pretenders, the BCS has to take Houston or it undermines its own system. Undefeated must equal a BCS berth.

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No Longer Worthy The Big Ten Championship game has yet to take place and the first recipient of the game’s trophy to be awarded. But the residual fallout from the Penn State child sex scandal has forced Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany to remove Joe Paterno’s name from the trophy. Initially to be emblazoned with Paterno and former University of Chicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the trophy will be known just as the Stagg Championship Trophy.

You Can’t Have It All, Even if You’re Luck(y) The Oregon Ducks absolutely took it to Stanford Saturday night, playing on the road was never even a factor. Apart from discovering that Stanford will not be going undefeated this season, we also learned that even a kid as talented as Andrew Luck cannot win the Heisman Trophy, go undefeated, win a national championship and be drafted number one overall in the NFL draft all at once. What a sad realization.

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Associated Press

COACH OF THE WEEK

HEISMAN HOPEFULS

Team Va. Tech Virginia Ga. Tech Miami UNC Duke

Team Cinci.

Rutgers WVU Louisville Pitt UCONN S. Florida Syracuse

Outdueling Kellen Moore on the blue turf of Broncos Stadium is something that had never been done before. Pachall threw for 473 yards and five scores as the Horned Frogs snapped a 65-game regular season home winning streak.

Patterson seemed ready to cry in his on-field post game interview, but what coach does not deserve to cry after he made two two-point conversion calls to beat undefeated Boise State on the road?

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Casey Pachall Quarterback, TCU

Gary Patterson TCU

Team Clemson FSU WF NC State BC Maryland

Coastal

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Ryan only has 24 tackles on the season, but he has shown a knack for making big plays on defense. He is third on the team with six tackles for loss and has a sack and two fumble recoveries for the Wolverines.

14. S. Carolina 15. Georgia 16. Nebraska 17. Kansas State 18. Michigan 19. TCU 20. Southern Miss 21. Penn State 22. Florida State T23. Ga. Tech T23. W. Virginia 25. Notre Dame

Atlantic

Many are aware that Ball broke the Big Ten single-season record for touchdowns against Minnesota, but he has also quietly climbed into the top five in rushing yards in the nation. With potentially four games to play, Ball’s special season is far from over.

Jake Ryan Linebacker, Michigan

1. LSU (59) 2. Oklahoma St. 3. Alabama 4. Oregon 5. Oklahoma 6. Arkansas 7. Virginia Tech 8. Clemson 9. Stanford 10. Houston 11. Boise State 12. Michigan St. 13. Wisconsin

STANDINGS

Montee Ball Running Back, Wisc.

FRESHMAN FOCUS

USA Today Coaches’ Top 25

Leaders Team Penn St. Wisconsin Purdue Ohio State Illinois Indiana

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Legends Team Mich. St. Michigan Nebraska Iowa NU Minn.

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PAC-12 North Team Oregon Stanford Wash.

California Oregon St.

Wash. St.

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Overall 9-1 9-1 6-4 6-4 2-8 4-6

South Team USC UCLA AZ State Utah Colorado Arizona

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Overall 8-2 5-5 6-4 6-4 2-9 2-8

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

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SEC East Team Georgia S Carolina Florida Vandy Kentucky Tennessee

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Team LSU Alabama Arkansas Auburn Miss St. Ole Miss

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West Overall 10-0 9-1 9-1 6-4 5-5 2-8

2011 STAT LEADERS Quarterback Rating 1. Russell Wilson, Wisc.

2. Case Keenum, Houston 3. Robert Griffin III, Baylor 4. Kellen Moore, Boise State 5. Andrew Luck, Stanford

201.6 193.3 188.6 177.2 169.0

Rushing Yards 1. David Wilson, Va. Tech 2. Ronnie Hillman, SDSU 3. Bobby Rainey, WKU 4. Montee Ball, Wisconsin 5. Zach Line, SMU

1,360 1,278 1,254 1,242 1,224

Receiving Yards 1. Jordan White, WMU 1,283 2. Patrick Edwards, Houston 1,277 3. Marquess Wilson, WSU 1,197 4. Ryan Broyles, Oklahoma 1,157 5. Justin Blackmon, OK St. 1,142

Sacks 1. Whitney Mercilus, Illinois 2. Vinny Curry, Marshall 3. Jarvis Jones, Georgia 4. Brandon Joiner, Ark. St. 5. Sammy Brown, Houston

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Badgers face off in Four Nations Cup Knight, Decker help Team USA to victory, McKeough skates with Team Canada Caroline Sage Women’s Hockey Writer In an annual event that brings the four strongest countries in women’s hockey together, three members of the Wisconsin women’s hockey team faced off against each another as they competed with their respective home countries for first place in the Four Nations Cup in Sweden this past week.

Senior forward Hilary Knight and junior forward Brianna Decker played for the cup champion United States, and junior defenseman Stefanie

TAKE DOWN, from 12 6-foot-11 while Pascale rests at 6-foot-10, and each had two blocks on the night while the entire team totaled six.

Despite the Raiders’ size, though, the Badgers won the rebound battle, 4329, and even doubled up on their opponents in the first half, grabbing 20 of a possible 30 boards.

Wisconsin established a 26-11 lead midway through the first half thanks to a pair of three-pointers from Taylor and Brust, as well as another from Berggren.

KORGER, from 12 (on pace to shatter the NCAA record), compared to Tolzien’s 9.25. Wilson is also currently on pace to obliterate the record for pass efficiency in the NCAA with a current rating of 201.6 (record 186.0 set by Hawaii’s Colt Brennan). Wilson has already accumulated 30 total touchdowns, a quarterback record for Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin offense has shined to its full potential under Wilson, averaging almost 500 yards a game, with almost perfect balance from the ground (250 per game) and the air (249 per game).

There is nothing this offense cannot do. Which is why Russell Wilson and the Badgers offense this season will serve as alluring examples to recruits of what is possible on Bielema’s teams and Chryst’s system.

Quarterbacks can shine just as brightly at Wisconsin as anywhere else in the nation. Wilson has made that apparent since his transfer this summer. With the national spotlight on Wisconsin more than it ever has been before, Wilson and

an overall team effort,” Knight said. “We had this relentless will to keep going and challenging their goaltender. It was a fun game to play in.”

Along with the winning shot, Knight had a total of four points in the tournament with two goals and two assists.

Decker came out strong for the U.S. with an impressive five points in the four-game competition.

Her fourth assist of the tournament came in the final game on the U.S.’s second goal, which Knight also assisted on.

McKeough was able to put up two assists for the Canadians, helping the team come out of the preliminary rounds undefeated against the other three nations: the United States, Sweden and Finland.

McKeough represented Canada, who took second.

“We all have been joking about it, but … we are all pretty fierce competitors, so I think anytime there was a battle between any of us you worked extra hard because you don’t want to lose to your teammate or one of your friends,” McKeough said. “It was a lot of fun, but I think we all gave each other some bumps and bruises.”

Though they lost to Canada in the preliminary rounds 3-1, the U.S. was able to bounce back and defeat Canada 4-3 in the final game, which was decided on a shootout.

Knight put the gamewinning shot in the back of the net for the United States.

“It’s awesome; I mean when it came down to a shoot-out, one person puts the puck in the net, but it’s

But both Ryan and Brust agreed after the game that the Badgers were still finding the same amount of open looks in the second half, only this time the shots simply didn’t fall.

Taylor attributed it to a sliding lack of focus after obtaining a sizeable lead.

“I’d say lack of focus … when you come out and get a lead like that, teams have a tendency to relax,” Taylor said. “As a team, I think we got too complacent today and just kind of let our guard down and [were not] really concentrating.”

the offense have blinded opponents. If you thought last year’s 41.5 points per game were disgustingly good, the Badgers average 46.5 points per game this year.

How long has it been since Wisconsin has had a quarterback named an AllAmerican? Try Earl “Jug” Girard in 1944. The only All-American quarterback in Badger history was only 17 years old when he won this honor. So, needless to say, there has been a large historic gap since the Badgers have been graced with someone truly great as a play-caller.

Wilson is definitely deserving of the honor.

The stats do not lie; Wilson is the best quarterback in college football. Andrew Luck may be the best pro prospect, but as far as efficiency goes, there is no better quarterback in the land than Wilson.

Even before the Badgers landed their prized offseason catch in Wilson, Wisconsin signed one of the most highly touted quarterbacks in the recruiting class of 2012.

Many consider Bart Houston’s commitment to Wisconsin a sign of the Badgers emergence into

HENRY, from 12 had two interceptions for 29 yards and a sack.

While he is a respected player for his production on the field, the main thing that stands out to Southward about Henry is his confidence.

“Just his preparation, his confidence, it really rubs off on you,” Southward said. “I feel like I’ve gotten much better just watching him play, watching him prepare and seeing how he goes about the game

the national spotlight for recruiting. Houston, the sixth best quarterback in the class of 2012 according to Rivals.com, comes from Concord, Cal., and is a product of the vaunted De La Salle High School powerhouse football program. Houston cited the pro-style offense as one of the reasons he chose Wisconsin.

“It’s a program that is team first and individual second,” Houston told Scout.com. “That’s how it is at De La Salle, and that’s what I saw at Wisconsin.

That was their philosophy, the way they held themselves, the way they talked about the season.

I looked at the academics and the pro-style offense, and I really liked that.”

Houston said that before Wilson began to tear college football apart.

Whatever the end result of this season may be, it is safe to say that landing Wilson and his success on the field will only benefit the team in the long run.

In a playbook doctrine that has been traditionally run-heavy and restricted by the lack of an elite quarterback, the arrival and performance of Russell Wilson have not only opened up the playbook

UW team captain Meghan Duggan was named captain for the United States, and having the opportunity to once again play with Duggan was an added bonus for the American players.

“It was like going back to the university days,” Knight said. “She is a great player to play with, so it is always exciting to be with her.”

Former Badgers Jessie Vetter, Molly Engstrom and Bobbi Jo Slusar participated in the tournament. The former two played with the United States, while Slusar played for the Canadians.

The preliminary rounds showed just how dominant these two countries are when it comes to women’s hockey. The United States beat Finland and Sweden 10-0 and 8-0, respectively.

Canada had a less decisive victory over Sweden, 3-1,

The Four Nations cup has kept the women’s hockey rivalry between the United States and Canada alive, as the two teams have met in the final round of the tournament since it began in 1996, with the exception of 2001, when the U.S. did not compete. Canada holds the overall record with 12 first-place finishes to the United States’ four. “[The tournament] shows there is a lot of talent between the countries and both work hard, and both of our games were really close and I think that says something about the rivalry,” McKeough said.

“It’s not dying.”

With most of the players for both the United States and Canada being former or current college hockey players, it was no surprise to see four former Badgers in the line-ups. Last year’s

of football.”

There is no denying that Henry’s game has rubbed off on his fellow safeties as Johnson and Southward each have 33 and 28 tackles, respectively.

Johnson has also caught an interception this year with three pass breakups and four passes deflected.

Southward has two forced fumbles with two pass breakups as well.

The secondary has, in the past, been a source of weakness for the Badgers, but this

for Wisconsin this season, but his performance in the Badgers offense will help to propel Wisconsin’s image for years to come. No longer will elite quarterback recruits ignore Wisconsin.

Wisconsin may not be on the road to the national championship, but the offensive fireworks this

season, Henry, Johnson, Southward and Co. have helped make UW the No. 6 defense in the nation allowing only 15.8 points per game.

“We do a lot with each other,” Southward said.

“We watch a lot more film this year. We’re a lot more cohesive; if I need an answer to something, I’ll go ask Shelton or Aaron and likewise, if they need anything they can always come to me.

We just try to help each other with anything we can.”

Essentially, Henry is a

season have changed the common perception on the Badgers offense throughout the country. The Wisconsin offense is no longer boring football. Instead, the Badgers are becoming a balanced offensive juggernaut. With more chances than ever to show their full playbook and style on national television

but got right past Finland, 5-0, in their opening game.

“We’re really trying to develop our younger generation, so hopefully we are instilling a good sense of competition within our pool in our youth,” Knight said. “[The United States is] where we need to be, and we need to keep on progressing.”

The tournament allowed the Badger players to continue to improve their game and push themselves to perform at the highest level.

“It is a completely different atmosphere. …

When you are on the ice the competition and level of play is quite high,” Decker said. “It has been a dream for me since I was a kid to play for the U.S. team. It means you’re playing for your country, and that is an unbelievable feeling.”

pivotal player that is not afraid to say what needs to be said but stays respectful at the same time.

“He always says what needs to be said no matter if you don’t want to hear it or whether it’s something that everybody is looking to hear,” Johnson said.

“He’s always a rock out there. Whenever we need somebody to make a play, we can rely on Aaron Henry.

He’s just Aaron Henry; I don’t even know how to quantify that any more.”

with Wilson’s excellent play, a possible berth in the Big Ten Championship game and a potential BCS bowl will only extend the influence of the new Wisconsin brand to the best recruits in the nation.

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S PORTS Wisconsin takes down Colgate 68-41 Sports Editor

Mike Fiammetta sports@badgerherald.com

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UW loses shooting touch in 2nd half, keeps Raiders at bay for comfortable win Elliot Hughes Sports Content Editor It was not as graceful an ending as the Wisconsin men’s basketball team would have preferred, but Wednesday night nevertheless brought the Badgers its second win in as many games.

In a 68-41 victory over Colgate (1-1), No. 13/14 Wisconsin (2-0) finished the evening by shooting 36.7 percent from the field in the second half while uncharacteristically hitting a mere 28.6 percent of free throws.

Thanks to a strong performance in the first half, however, the Badgers finished the night hitting on a 44.3 percent clip while holding the Raiders to a 34.8 percent success rate on the night.

Reserve guard Ben Brust climbed to the top of the team’s scoring once again, putting forth 17 points on 6-of-11 shooting, including 4-of-8 from the arc.

Forward Jared Berggren and point guard Jordan Taylor followed Brust’s lead with nine points each. The two also led the Badgers with seven rebounds apiece while

Taylor dished out four assists.

Colgate center John Brandenburg, meanwhile, led the Raiders with 11 points and six rebounds.

After shooting 51.6 percent in the first half and earning a 42-20 lead at the break, Wisconsin’s offense began the second period looking anemic.

The Badgers missed their first four shots, converted one basket and then proceeded to whiff the next eight tries.

Wisconsin began to right the ship when guard/ forward Rob Wilson and Brust each earned a bucket via goaltending.

The Raiders, meanwhile, were not able to take advantage of their opponents’ scoring drought as they could only muster eight points after 10 and a half minutes in the second half, not enough to threaten what had began as a 22-point deficit.

“I thought defensively we were doing some things, but sometimes shots don’t go down,” UW head coach Bo Ryan said. “Basketball can be that way sometimes, but as long as on the other end we were getting some deflections and things going, we were doing okay. Nothing changed.”

Taylor and Berggren both struggled to score efficiently on the night, with the latter going 4-of13 from the field. Taylor,

meanwhile, managed to convert three of four threepointers but failed to hit a jumper, going 0-for-6.

Taylor’s deep ball benefited from a high screen along the wings on at least two of those occasions, which created an open look. But overall, the senior came away thinking he had taken some shots unwisely.

“I did force some shots, especially early in the second half … but we got going, we got a little better,” Taylor said. “We just kind of started to move the ball better.”

Berggren, too, admitted his offensive game was not up to par, especially given the opportunities that opened up when the Badgers were scoring from deep.

“Guys knocking down shots outside, it opens things up inside for me to hopefully face some one-on-one coverage,” he said. “I got to do a better job finishing in there. I shot 4-for-13 today, that’s a little disappointing. I got to work on finishing off a basket; hopefully that improves in the next game.”

Berggren, along with others who ventured inside near the rim, had to deal with the Raiders’ lofty frontcourt of Brandenburg and Nick Pascale.

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Wisconsin reserve guard Ben Brust turned heads again, scoring a game-high 17 points against Colgate Wednesday in the Kohl Center.

UW QB like none other Nick Korger Korger’s Korner

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Aaron Henry is third on the team with 42 tackles and has two interceptions this season. The safety is a well-respected leader on and off the field, said to lead by example.

Henry’s voice carries weight After transition from cornerback to safety, 5th-year senior becomes team leader Kelly Erickson Associate Sports Editor Last year, J.J. Watt led the Badger defense statistically, but, most importantly, vocally — on and off the field.

Without a doubt, Aaron Henry is UW’s vocal leader this season.

He may not be able to figuratively carry the city around in the palm of his hand like Watt, but the senior safety is easily one of Wisconsin’s most beloved players.

But while his “yes, ma’ams” and “thank you, sirs” have made him one of the most notoriously polite players you may ever encounter, on the field, he is completely different.

“It’s just a mentality.

You have to be able to have that switch,” Henry said. “Being on the field and just walking around here talking to people are just two different things. …

The reality of football is it’s a nasty, rough, tough sport. It’s in your face and it’s smash mouth.

You don’t go out there to try and make friends with people.”

Henry attributes his well-defined manners to his grandmother and just showing respect to people.

This respect is not just for show. And his genuine personality has allowed him to be one of the most respected players and a captain, in

“Aaron Henry, he’s ... a wonderful individual player to be around, and we kind of feed off that as a team.”

Shelton Johnson Safety return.

“He’s an over-the-top funny guy, he’s a little vain, he’s a little bit of everything,” sophomore safety Dezmen Southward said. “We’re going to miss him next year.”

“He’s obviously a great player, but I think he’s a much better individual,” junior safety Shelton Johnson said. “There’s a lot of players … that are just players, but Aaron

Henry, he’s just an all-around wonderful individual player to be around, and we kind of feed off that as a team.”

While he is a great leader now, Henry’s career at UW has not been the smoothest.

Henry played cornerback throughout his entire life until last year and did not agree with head coach Bret Bielema’s decision to move him to safety.

“I hated it,” Henry said. “I didn’t really like the decision, we kind of butted heads. He always has a player ’s goodwill at heart. He’s been doing this for a long time. I didn’t understand it because I had been playing corner my whole life … but after suffering my knee injury and going through a few surgeries, he thought it would be best.”

The Immokalee, Fla., native said he is now thankful for the switch and admits that if he could change things he may have started out at safety — but he will always be a corner at heart.

Given his knowledge of the game and his size,

the transition to safety was not all that difficult for him scheme-wise, but it did take some getting used to.

“It was a process to get him to learn how to play the position,” codefensive coordinator Chris Ash said.

“Actually it was more a process to get him to believe in that was his best position. Once he bought in and he started having success, it just snowballed from there.”

For Henry, it was ultimately a mental transition.

“It’s a whole lot more mental back there at safety,” he said. “It’s a lot more physical as far as being able to move your feet. Safety is a whole different world, a whole different ball game. … I was already a relatively smart player as far as the game of football goes, but when I went from corner to safety, it made my job that much easier.”

Despite the rough change, Henry has become a force in the secondary. Henry is third on the team in tackles with 42, and has

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For years, the NFL has benefited from a Wisconsin program that cranks out terrific offensive linemen.

We have all heard the stat thrown around by every announcer and sports commentator: The Badgers have the third largest starting offensive line of any team in college football or the NFL. Yes, the Badgers’ giant front line surpasses the size of almost every professional football team.

Besides their overall size, the talent of Wisconsin offensive linemen has led to many playing on Sundays.

Former greats like Joe Thomas, Kraig Urbik and the trio of seniors from last year’s squad (Gabe Carimi, John Moffitt and Bill Nagy) were all week one starters for their respective professional squads.

Tight ends are more of the same story. With the strong Wisconsin run game, the tight end is basically another giant on the field to help open up the giant holes that create a successful ground game. Remember when Bill Nagy started at tight end against Ohio State last year? No. 76 donned No. 89, as Nagy received the start at tight end and helped the Wisconsin ground game accumulate 184 yards against the vaunted Buckeye defense.

While Wisconsin tight ends are run blockers, by no means have they been left out of the Badgers limited air attack. Wisconsin has produced multiple AllAmericans at tight end, and former Badger tight ends Garrett Graham, Owen Daniels, Travis Beckum and Lance Kendricks all call the NFL home.

But when it comes to the position behind center, the Badgers have failed to produce a starter in the NFL for quite some time. While former players like Brooks

Bollinger and Jim Sorgi enjoyed long NFL careers as backups, it is hard to pick out a Badger quarterback who has been successful in the pros. Wisconsin has never been known to receive the highest touted recruits out of high school, but the Badgers never fail to produce great players.

With the primary focus of the offensive attack being on the run game, Wisconsin holds a terrific allure for potential running back and offensive line recruits.

However, the Badgers have lost some potential appeal for quarterback recruits in the past who fear they will not be able to shine with a run-heavy approach.

But that is all changing.

Wisconsin runs the prostyle offense, which is exactly what it sounds like.

It is not a spread where the quarterback is throwing 50-60 times a game, putting up video game stat lines.

Pro scouts tend to disregard these stats, as these system quarterbacks are just that, a product of a system.

Although traditionally the Badgers have been held as a run-heavy team, this year, more than ever, Paul Chryst and the Badgers offense have been as diverse as it gets.

Russell Wilson has picked up where Scott Tolzien left off and then some.

Through 10 games, Wilson is 160-218 through the air, meaning the senior is completing 73.4 percent of his throws. Last season, Scott Tolzien went 194-266 through the air with a 72.9 completion percentage in 13 games. That is an average of about 20 throws a game, while Wilson is on track to attempt close to the same amount per game. The numbers look similar, but there is one key difference between Wilson and Tolzien: the average distance that these throws are being made.

Wilson has already accumulated 2,416 yards through the air this season, while Tolzien accumulated 2,459 in all of 2010. Wilson averages 11.08 yards per attempt

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