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Monday, January 28, 2012

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City amends law restricting parties Policy change will allow for faster fixes for residents’ party disputes Allison Johnson City Life Editor

It was Fun. Fun. lead singer Nate Ruess sings to a campus audience, headlining Union South’s “Some Night at the Union” concert Thursday night. Full review on page 6.

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Madison site leaks data Administrative error leads to publication of applicants’ Social Security numbers online Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor After accidentally releasing 50 Social Security numbers, the City of Madison has removed the leaked information from their website and is taking steps to protect those affected by the leak.

City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Beh said workers in the city clerk’s office had put up the social security numbers in error. However, most of the documents containing the Social Security numbers have been on the city’s legislative website since 2007, because they were originally on

pages of liquor license application packets. She said these packets can be up to 30 pages long, so some information on them was overlooked before they were put on the city’s website.

She said some applicants had put their Social Security numbers on the website because they were using old, discontinued applications from the state.

One corporation applying for a license included a spreadsheet with their officers’ names, titles, addresses, home addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, WitzelBeh said. The City Clerk’s

office does not request all this information for the application, she noted.

According to Sally Miley, an assistant to Mayor Paul Soglin, Social Security numbers are not required on such applications and applicants should never have provided the information.

The liquor license applications are put online as part of the Alcohol License Review Committee’s consideration process, Witzel-Beh said, with the applications put in a legislative file used to generate the ALRC’s agendas.

In response to the

leak, Witzel-Bah said the Madison Police Department has crosschecked the 50 individuals for any reports of identity theft, which none reported, she said.

In addition, Miley said the city sent each of the 50 individuals a letter so they can follow up on the issue.

The City of Madison is also offering a year of identity theft protection to those 50 people, Miley said “We are sorry that it happened,” Miley said. “I know people get alarmed when they hear something

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The City Council approved a new amendment to the chronic nuisance premises ordinance in their January meeting, which now allows Madison residents dealing with problematic properties to find quicker resolution for their grievances.

The chronic nuisance ordinance was originally put in place to allow the city to take action against landlords and homeowners whose properties generated numerous calls for nuisance activities, according to Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2.

Nuisance activity includes violation of the minimum housing code, damage to property, disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace, Maniaci explained. The ordinance helps the city hold property owners accountable for resolving nuisance activity on the premises, she said. “[The ordinance] was adopted a couple of years ago, but there were a couple things that were not working for it,” Maniaci said.

The ordinance stipulated a property required five separate notices from five separate inspections and at least one had to result in a ticket or some other form of prosecution in order for the property to be declared a chronic nuisance premise, according to Building Inspection Division Director George Hank.

It set a pretty high bar, Hank said. If there is a property owner who

causes a lot of problems and is prosecuted for it, the number of notices should be lowered to three or four, he said.

Maniaci explained the ordinance was creating a lot of lag time between reports of nuisance activity and action taken to address the problem.

It involved a lot of paperwork and a lot of bureaucracy, she said.

The amendment added violations of the fire prevention code to the list of prohibited nuisance activities, increasing the probability of getting a notice, according to Maniaci. It also amended the building referral process to bring properties to the attention of the city faster, Maniaci said.

Hank explained the amendment allows the city the chance to be more flexible in how they look at the property.

Additionally, he said the amendment gets the city to look at the properties that could qualify as a chronic nuisance premise more quickly.

“Basically, the more compliance-challenged the property owner is and the more difficulty they are having in complying, the quicker they will qualify for chronic nuisance,” Hank said.

Hank also highlighted the importance of the amendment in helping to improve neighborhoods in Madison.

When there is a property that is out of control and creating problems for the rest of the neighborhood, it can be difficult for the adjoining property owners, Hank said.

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Athletic Board introduces new Badger football coach Chair: Race plays role in latest hires, diversity reviewed in search process Noah Goetzel Higher Education Editor The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board introduced two new coaches, approved contracts for three coaches and discussed the student athlete alcohol policy during its monthly meeting Friday.

Athletic Board Chair Dale Bjorling congratulated his board members for successfully hiring new football coach Gary Andersen and volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield.

He said both new coaches seem to be a good fit at UW. According to Bjorling, the Athletic Department had to post the vacancy for both positions for two weeks before the hiring decisions were made, noting this decision to keep the positions open for that amount is stipulated by state statute, despite frustration from football fans to replace former coach Brett Bielema sooner.

Bjorling added race also played a factor in

the interview process for both candidates.

“The other thing is in both instances, you have to be careful to make sure that you include minority candidates that are perceiving reasonable consideration,” Bjorling said.

“Frankly, in volleyball it’s a pretty small community, so your choices are limited.”

Football has a much broader field of minority coaching candidates, according to Bjorling. He confirmed there was at least one minority coach seriously considered before hiring Andersen. The candidate was an assistant coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, but he decided to take a position with another NFL team, Bjorling said.

While interviewing one minority candidate for the job is not a requirement in NCAA football like it is in the NFL, Bjorling noted the Black Coaches Association has expressed concern about the lack of minority coaches. Bjorling added that was also an issue when Bielema was hired seven years ago.

In addition to these new acquisitions, the board approved the athletic department

recommendations to extend the three-year contracts of men’s cross country coach Mick Byrne, men’s soccer coach John Trask and women’s soccer coach Paula Wilkins through Jan. 2016, according to an athletic department statement.

Barb Smith, Athletic Board Equity, Diversity and Student Welfare Committee chair, said there will be adjustments to student athlete alcohol policy.

Smith said alcohol is not something you can regulate for someone who is over 21.

“But if it’s really for the safety of student athletes or their teammates, the strength and conditioning coach now has a way to say, ‘let’s not lift today,’” Smith said.

Previously, Bjorling said trainers or assistant coaches could intervene if they suspected drug use among student athletes, but the policies did not say anything about alcohol.

He added the Athletic Board expects student athletes to behave responsibly, but other than campus policies there is not much the athletic department can do to restrict drinking

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City Council made amendments to the chronic nuisance ordinance, allowing residents to more easily work through party disputes with landlords.

Donor announces $50M in System-wide scholarships Noah Goetzel Higher Education Editor Milwaukee mutual fund manager and former University of Wisconsin basketball Hall of Famer Albert Nicholas announced Thursday he is establishing a $50 million scholarship fund for high school basketball players to attend UW System schools.

Each year, the scholarships will be available for up to 250 male and female Wisconsin public high school graduates who played for the basketball

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team their senior season, according to a Nicholas Company, Inc. statement.

The statement said scholarships will consist of $10,000 annually for fouryear programs and $5,000 a year for two-year programs.

Each scholarship will be renewable for a student’s entire education.

Nicholas created the endowment to give Wisconsin student “hoopsters” the same possibilities he had going to a UW school, he said in the statement.

“Our goal is to make higher

education accessible and affordable to worthy students, helping them open doors to a better world,” Nicholas said.

“There’s no doubt my UW education made a difference for me, on and off the court.

The foundation’s objective is to give Wisconsin student athletes that same kind of opportunity.”

Nicholas is the founder and chairman of the Nicholas Company, Inc., a Milwaukeebased investment advisory which has $2.7 billion in assets,

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Crowd rallies to oppose new mining bill Environmental groups voice opposition to new GOP legislation to build state mine, cite Native American treaty rights Alice Coyne State Politics Editor Dozens of citizens and 21 environmental groups from across the state rallied at the Capitol Saturday at noon, voicing opposition to the recent mining legislation that would allow mining in northern Wisconsin.

The rally was organized by the Madison Action for Mining Alternatives and was followed by a march down to the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce office, a group that has pushed for mining legislation.

Protesters gathered to have their voices heard — voices they believed to be ignored in the public hearing on the bill held earlier that week.

They argued the mining

proposal will destroy the environment and water and have severe impacts on local famers and the tourism industry.

The protesters demanded the state reject both the GOP bill and an alternative bill Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, put out. Speakers at the rally said both bills would weaken environmental standards and called on the government to respect Native American treaty rights.

Supporters sported pins reading “I Love Lake Superior” held posters with slogans such as “Respect Treaty Rights!” as they listened to speakers representing various antimining voices from across the state.

“Not on our land, not in our lifetime” became

the catch phrase of the rally as the crowd chanted in response to speaker Andy Heidt of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Other speakers included Cherie Tero, representing

The thousands of jobs this will create are not Democratic or Republican jobs.

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the Bad River Band, Frank Koehn of the Mining Impact Coalition, Marc Rosenthal of the Midwest Coalition Against Lethal Mining, Dave Blouin of the Sierra Club and John Peck

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automatic permission of a mine. He also mentioned mining is deeply embedded in the state’s history and referred to the badger present on Wisconsin’s state flag as a reminder of this history.

Rep. Mark Honadel, R-South Milwaukee, bolstered this argument Wednesday as well. He noted the severe economic hardship Wisconsin faces and citizens’ desperate searches for employment.

This bill is seen as a good solution to the thousands of jobless people across the state, he said.

Although Gogebic Taconite, the company trying to open a mine in the area, as well as many speakers at the hearing said this will create hundreds of jobs, protesters at Saturday’s rally disputed this claim.

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of Family Farm Defenders.

All speakers echoed the assertion that mining in northern Wisconsin would ruin the environment and provide little economic relief. “We don’t need a mine” was another popular chant at the rally.

However, at the public hearing last Wednesday, Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, touted his bill as one that would bring prosperity to Wisconsin.

Republican Majority Leader Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, reiterated the importance of job creation at the hearing.

“The thousands of jobs this will create are not Democratic or Republican jobs,” Suder said. “They’re an opportunity for all Wisconsinites.”

Suder emphasized the bill does not allow for

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said at a convention Friday that his next biennial budget would base school funding on state metrics.

Walker talks education reform for new budget Governor: State to instate performancebased funding for Wis. public schools Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor Gov. Scott Walker spoke at an education convention Friday about his vision for education, including increasing funding to schools in a performance-based funding system.

In his speech, Walker previewed some of the reforms his administration will include in the next biennial budget, to be introduced next month. Among them is the new performance-based funding system, which he said would help ensure the preparedness of teachers as well as school and district accountability.

“One of the things we’re looking to do going forward

is to put additional resources into public education over the next two years in this budget in a variety of different ways is in part … put money behind performance,” Walker said. “How can we provide an incentive bonus?”

Walker said such a system, aimed to encourage growth and progress in schools, would be an alternative to No Child Left Behind, a law implemented by President George W. Bush.

This performancebased funding system will be based off the report cards the Department of Public Instruction started last year, although he said the report cards will “continue to be upgraded and improved.”

Although the performance-based program would have incentives for improving schools, Walker said there would also be funding to help those schools that are falling behind. The funds would come from categorical grants from the state.

“We should apply a portion of that performance funding to be set aside to work with schools that are failing,” Walker said.

This call for increased funding follows more than $800 million in cuts to public education in the last biennial budget, although at the time, the state had a $3.6 billion deficit.

Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, said Walker’s pledge to fund schools should be met with some scrutiny considering Walker’s past education policies.

“I think it’s interesting we took all this money away from schools, and now we’re putting it back again,” Sargent said.

Walker said in his speech the vast majority of money would go toward public schools, rather than for-profit schools or voucher schools, although he did not give a specific amount. He emphasized the benefit of a public school education, noting he and his children are products of the public school system.

Sargent expressed concern Walker might end up putting too much into alternative education systems that are not held to the same standards as public schools.

“My concern is that money is going to unaccountable voucher school programs,” Sargent said.

“Gov. Walker has mentioned this in the past, and that would be concerning. …

Not funding our public schools, that would be a travesty.”

Sargent said she would need to see some actual numbers in order to see what the funding will look like. Walker said those details will be released sometime in the next three weeks, closer to the creation of the budget.

Walker also acknowledged the concerns taxpayers may have over funding the incentive programs, stating he realizes people want to see their money actually having an impact.

“All of us will make investments, but we want performance,” Walker said.

University of Wisconsin’s student government officially created an Ad Hoc Diversity Plan Committee on Friday, granting increased representation for students in determining the campus Diversity Plan set to be unveiled this spring.

The 25 member committee will consists of five classified staff members, five academic members, five faculty members, five community members, two graduate students and three undergraduate students with one alternative member, according to an Associated Students of Madison statement.

ASM spokesperson David Gardner said the committee members could not be confirmed until Friday because quorum was not reached at the previous meeting before break. Therefore, he said some shared governance committees were unable to vote for their representatives.

He said some students were upset by the lack of students who would be part of the Ad Hoc Diversity Plan Committee, and the new committee structure better represents student interests.

The student members were the only members of the ad hoc committee who had been decided upon before Friday, according to ASM spokesperson Courtney Jackson.

The remaining shared governance committees voted on staff and faculty members from the Campus Diversity and Climate Committee Friday.

“With all of us being able to meet together from different respective bodies and collaborate our ideas, I think that a really successful plan can be developed that far by will surpass in results than other plans have in the past,” Jackson said.

While complete diversity

DATA, from 1 like this has happened.”

In an effort to reassure the victims of the leak, Miley said a city employee found and reported that the Social Security numbers were on the website and there is no reason to believe anyone else found them.

Once alerted of the situation the city went through and deleted all the documents, she added.

A statement from the City of Madison said the documents were found Dec. 18, and the website was shut down and all the offending documents removed from it on the

in every sense of the term is difficult to achieve, ASM Shared Government Committee Chair Britt Moes said the ad hoc committee is comprised of members representing and have a distinct interests in all types different types groups to be as inclusive as possible.

“It’s a lot easier when you have people who care about race, who care about sexuality and who care about gender; and then you have somebody else who cares about disabilities and religion,” Moes said. “It takes very qualified people to represent that and make it a lot more cohesive.”

Moes added the deadline to finalize the new Diversity Plan is April 1.

She is also involved in CDCC that helped establish the Ad Hoc committee, which will create the plan.

According to Moes, the goal of the Diversity Plan is to promote diversity on campus in a broad sense.

“The diversity plan is to help increase diversity on campus in all realms, not just in color, but in any way, shape or form — related to culture, related to able bodies or disabled, related to religion — pretty much anything to get more scope.”

To do this, Moes said there is a long list of ideas in consideration for the new plan, with the restructuring of the university’s ethnic studies requirement on the top of this list.

According to Moes, some classes that fulfill the ethnic studies requirement, particularly within the music and anthropology departments, do not achieve what the requirement sets out to do: help students become more competent with multicultural issues.

“We want people to be able to go out and do an internship in the community so they’re actually getting real-life experience with diversity around the Madison area,” she said.

same day.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said criminals may not have found the information because the city legislative website would be an unusual location to find this information.

He said the city works hard to protect citizen’s personal information and even takes steps to prevent the release people’s dates of birth.

“We have to remain optimistic that criminals aren’t spending their time studying the city legislative website,” he said. “It’s a pretty dry website that your average criminal isn’t looking at.”

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Mining hearing moves up north Two democratic legislators hold session outside Madison to get constituent voices Alice Coyne State Politics Editor

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A steam leak in Engineering Hall set off the fire alarm Sunday night, but no damage was caused. Read the full story at www.badgerherald.com.

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Homicide investigation underway MPD shifts focus on domestic-related deaths after victim’s husband dead in home Allison Johnson City Life Editor

The Madison Police Department announced Thursday officers will shift their investigation of a recent homicide to a domestic angle after finding the victim’s husband dead in his Madison home Friday.

Police began investigating the case as a domestic-related homicide after executing a search warrant for the home of the victim’s estranged husband.

Although MPD has not officially released the names of the victims, according to the Wisconsin State Journal, the two deceased were identified as Jennifer Boyce, 31, and Bernard Grosso. Boyce worked as an

SCHOLARSHIPS, from 1 the statement said. Nicholas is better known for his basketball performance where he was twice name named to the All-Big Ten team and once named to Look Magazine’s All-American team.

According to Michael Knetter, president and chief executive officer of the UW Foundation, Nicholas’ experiences playing basketball helped promote Nicholas to set up the scholarship program for high school basketball players.

“I think he got a lot out of the competition, the leadership and that sort of shaped a lot of his life, values and professional success,” Knetter said. “He just wanted to create that sort of opportunity for other young people and that’s what he’s doing through this scholarship program.

It’s a great gift to the state of Wisconsin.”

Knetter added the UW System exists for the benefit of young people and this scholarship program will only add to that benefit.

This scholarship endowment is not the first donation the Nicholas family

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“It’s really more of a safety issue,” Bjorling said. “It’s not a testing or

LAW, from 1 “You can get a spiral effect, where one bad building can take the others down around it,” Hank explained. “It makes it hard to rent to prospective tenants.”

Hank explained most reasonable tenants would not want to live next to a building that is out of

epidemiologist for the state forced entry at the scene.

Division of Public Health, According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, the the Journal reported.

Police found Grosso perpetrator smashed in the deceased in his home on victim’s patio window.

The couple had a hearing the 3800 block of Atwood at the Dane Avenue County Friday, Jan. courthouse 25, according to a MPD Anytime someone scheduled for is murdered it is the morning statement. of Friday, Jan. Grosso died an unspeakable 25 to finalize from what crime or tragedy. their divorce, was described Mike Verveer the statement as an apparent Alder, District 4 said. self-inflicted “Anytime gun wound, someone is the statement murdered said. it is an Boyce was discovered in her unspeakable crime or apartment on 6800 block tragedy,” Verveer said.

MPD is continuing to of Milwaukee Street on Jan. 24, the statement said. process evidence from both Police observed signs of residences, the statement

has given to the system.

Knetter said the family provided a $10 million gift to fund the Kohl Center project.

UW named the NicholasJohnson Pavilion practice facility basketball complex after Nicholas and his wife, Nancy Johnson Nicholas.

The School of Human Ecology building is also now housed in Nancy Nicholas Hall. Knetter said the family’s gift made that building facility possible.

UW Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said the scholarship endowment is another contribution in the long line of gifts the Nicholas family has given to UW and the community throughout Wisconsin.

“They truly value higher education and they’re trying to do everything they can to support it,” Sweeney said, who described Nicholas as a kind, gentle, loyal, generous and a brilliant business man.

“They want others to have the opportunities they had at the UW-Madison.”

Starting Feb. 1, students will be able to apply for scholarships through the Ab Nicholas Scholarship Foundation until April 30.

sending anybody to rehab or anything like that.”

Athletic Director Barry Alvarez noted coaches often times enforce rules regarding alcohol for their specific teams.

control. One or two really bad buildings can have a negative effect on the whole neighborhood, he said.

The way the council revised the ordinance will help residents and owners of the properties next door will see change more quickly, Maniaci said. The amendment will be a real benefit to neighbors when there is an issue, she said.

said. The discovery of Grosso led the police to look into the possibility of a related murder and suicide.

This was the first homicide of the year, according to the statement.

Verveer said Madison has an extremely low homicide rate overall.

“It is particularly unfortunate that Madison has already experienced its first homicide only a few weeks into the year,” Verveer said.

The Dane County Medical Examiner will release the manner and cause of the deaths of Boyce and Grosso later this week, the statement said.

MPD also stated there was no longer an ongoing threat to the community.

Two Democratic legislators announced they will hold a public listening session regarding the mining bills in northwestern Wisconsin, where those most affected could voice their opinions without needing to go so far from home.

Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, and Rep. Janet Bewley, D-Ashland, said Friday they would hold the session in Ashland next month. Jauch indicated this session will not be a partisan event and is intended to help inform local citizens about the two mining proposals that the Legislature is considering.

The bill that Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, authored is viewed by its critics as one similar to the mining bill that failed in the Senate last year. Legislators held a hearing about that bill last week, although some criticized the hearing because it took place in Madison, not northwestern Wisconsin.

Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, authored an alternative bill that has the support of at least one Republican senator, Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, whose no vote ensured the mining bill’s failure last year.

Jauch and Bewley hope to make information about the issue more accessible to citizens who were unable to attend the public hearing in Madison last week.

“We’ll have a truly open conversation on legislation,” Jauch said. “It will be fair, first of all, and respectful.”

Jauch spoke on behalf of citizens who attended last week’s hearing, where speakers were allowed two minutes to argue their case. He said he hopes to give citizens deprived of offering their positions an opportunity to express themselves — people who he said are “often forgotten.”

Jauch said they are going to alternate hearing

from those who are for and against the both bills in an attempt to make it as fair and balanced as possible.

Along with Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, Jauch voiced dissatisfaction with Republicans’ refusal to hold a hearing session in northern Wisconsin.

“I want to thank Sen. Jauch and Rep. Bewley for organizing and hosting this important listening session regarding mining,” Erpenbach said in a statement released Friday.

“Both Bob and Janet recognize the fact that northern Wisconsin will be directly impacted by the proposed legislation, yet no public hearing has been scheduled in northern Wisconsin.”

All are invited to attend, both Democrat and Republican, Jauch said.

He noted a number of legislators have accepted their invitation, noting Schultz, the Republican senator, is among them.

Jauch said he hopes to hear more acceptances in the days to come.

Although Tiffany, who authored the GOP mining bill, declined to comment on the listening session and comments Jauch and Erpenbach made about not wanting to host it in northern Wisconsin, he did remind attendees at Wednesday’s hearing of the extensive attention this bill has received.

“We have had numerous hearings over the past two years,” Tiffany asserted at the hearing last week. “Four hundred and seventy-one people have testified and we have heard 52 hours of testimonies and 8 hearings in regards to this issue. It has been heard across the state of Wisconsin.”

Gogebic Taconite, the mining company present at the Wednesday hearing, said the session marked the fifth public hearing they have testified at and reminded they will continue to remain open and offer assistance throughout the process.

Ryan urges GOP to act with care Wis. Rep. calls for party solidarity, asks for Republicans be pragmatic in picking fights Ken Thomas Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Paul Ryan has a message for fellow Republicans: Let’s stick together and carefully pick our fights with President Barack Obama.

In a speech Saturday to conservatives, the Wisconsin congressman and 2012 vice presidential nominee outlined a pragmatic approach for dealing with a second Obama administration.

Saying that Obama would attempt to divide Republicans, Ryan urged them to avoid internal squabbles.

“We can’t get rattled.

We won’t play the villain in his morality plays.

We have to stay united,” Ryan said at the National Review Institute’s weekend conference on the future of conservatism. “We have to show that if given the chance, we can govern. We have better ideas.”

The GOP is reeling from back-to-back presidential defeats and trying to determine whether to oppose Obama at every turn or shape his proposals with conservative principles.

How the party rebounds was a major theme of

the three-day meeting of conservative activists, a dominant voice in the GOP. A similar theme dominated the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, which ended Friday in Charlotte, N.C. With a surging minority population altering the electorate, Republican leaders have discussed the need to attract more women and Hispanics while at the same time standing firm on the values that unite conservatives.

Republicans said despite the losses, the party could return to power by projecting optimism and attracting new voters with a message of economic opportunity.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a star among conservatives after surviving a unionled campaign to recall him from office, said government needed “brown-bag common sense,” a reference to his frugal practice of packing his own lunch of hamand-cheese sandwiches every day. Qualities like optimism, staying relevant to voters and showing courage in tackling big problems would be rewarded at the voting booth, he said.

“We’ve got to learn to be more optimistic. We’ve got to learn to give a viable alternative to the voters,” Walker said.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said Republicans needed to use upcoming fights over the budget and the deficit as “leverage points” to tame long-term spending and debt. Projecting an upbeat outlook for the party, he said Obama’s policies would drive many voters to Republicans just as many Americans turned to Ronald Reagan after the economic turmoil of the late 1970s.

“We’re on the verge of a rebirth of conservativism,” Cruz said.

Looking ahead, Ryan rejected the notion that Republicans were “in the wilderness,” noting that the party controls the House and most statehouses. But he said Obama’s victory over Romney meant that Republicans would need to recalibrate their approach to deal with the new political realities.

“If we want to promote conservatism, we’ll need to use every tool at our disposal,” Ryan said.

“Sometimes, we will have to reject the president’s proposals — that time may come more than once. And sometimes we’ll have to

make them better.” He said Republicans should have two main goals for the next four years, namely “to mitigate bad policies” and “to advance good policy wherever we can.”

Ryan acknowledged that “we all didn’t see eye to eye” on the recent “fiscal cliff” vote to deal with a combination of spending cuts and higher taxes that were set to take effect at the start of the year. He defended his support for the bill, saying it was the only way to avoid sweeping tax increases and prevent the economy from going into a free-fall.

As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan said Republicans needed to guard against a debt crisis for the country that would undermine the economy. He said he would promote changes to Medicare and Medicaid and would propose a budget “that will balance and pay down the debt.”

But November’s election results still linger. Ryan said he was “disappointed” by the outcome, saying he was “looking forward to taking on the big challenges” while living at the vice president’s residence. “My kids were looking forward to having a pool,” he joked.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

‘Surplus’ a gimmick I’ve noticed when The Badger Herald talks about Wisconsin’s budget, it suggests we have a “surplus” or a “balanced budget” when, in fact, Gov. Scott Walker has run deficits every year and has increased Wisconsin’s debt by $320 million currently (by his administration’s admission) and by potentially up to $714 million in the coming years. This increased debt is a result of a $558 million loan the Walker administration took out in June 2011, according to the Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau.

Using the generally accepted accounting principles standard, Wisconsin Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch admitted to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius in an official letter Wisconsin has $3.02 billion in debt through April 2013 — up from $2.7 billion when Walker took office.

Walker borrowed $558 million so he could give the false impression of a “balanced budget” because there is now money in the bank, never mind the increased debt obligation as a result of the additional $156 million in interest. Walker used the gimmicky cash accounting method that doesn’t reflect the actual debt to make the budget look better than it really is — breaking an explicit promise from his 2010 gubernatorial campaign to “require the use of generally accepted accounting principles to balance every state budget.”

John Birkholz ( jonbluit@yahoo. com) is a Madison resident.

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TOP TEN WAYS TO SPEND THE SURPLUS With news Wisconsin is looking at a budget surplus of $419 million, there has been much debate over what to do actually do with the money. Most of the discussion at the Capitol has revolved around giving it back to taxpayers in the form of a tax cut. We thought that seemed like an awfully boring way to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. Here are a few other ideas:

10. Hire Kanye West to teach Afro-American studies 156 (“Oh, you graduated? No, I decided I was finished.”).

9. Fund a Walker for President campaign (because we need to make the 2016 primaries even more entertaining than 2012).

8. Buy the Chicago Blackhawks and move them to Madison (seriously, how does Wisconsin not have an NHL team yet?).

7. Secede from the Union, form the sovereign nation of the United State of Wisconsin (bribe Obama to make it happen).

6. Reinstate Medicaid funding (because we could actually use this money to help people).

5. Move Lincoln Memorial to the top of Bascom (make Abe more imposing, earn the University of Wisconsin mad respect).

4. Invest in high-speed rail infrastructure (since we’ve never had the chance until now).

3. Give it back to the public school system (no, seriously — isn’t that where all this money came from in the first place?).

2. Create an endowment to fund the Mifflin Street Block Party for the foreseeable future (think of it, rather than saddling our children’s children with debt, we’ll establish a party for generations to come).

1. Actually start paying back the state debt (after all, is it really a surplus if we’re still billions of dollars in debt?).

Herald management wrong to censor comic strip Gus McNair Design Director For a newspaper that was labeled a “racist propaganda machine” just a year ago, The Badger Herald sure is squeamish about mentioning race.

On Jan. 24, 2013, The Badger Herald declined to publish that day’s Ya Boi, Inc. comic strip, created by artist Vincent Cheng.

In the interest of full disclosure: I know Cheng and I tend to find his work pretty funny. But I have not discussed this specific strip (or its contents) with him.

Jan. 24’s Ya Boi, Inc. features a character named “Joe Public,” a caricature of social networkers, deciding what music to include on his Facebook profile.

He starts by choosing classical music to show that he’s complex, then selects “mainstream”

artists that he claims to enjoy sincerely. In the final panel he attempts to remember the names of “black people” whose music he will pretend to like. The Herald’s upper management decided the strip was in bad taste and refused to run it.

Race is always a touchy subject, especially when it’s being dealt with by a bunch of 20-year-old white Midwesterners.

The Herald has run a few editorials on race that generated campus-wide anger and frustration, but I fail to understand why this means the issue should be barred from appearing in the Comics section. Besides, Cheng dealt with it as intelligently as one can in the three-panel format.

It is fairly typical for University of Wisconsin students (by and large middle-class and white) to want to appear diverse

and culturally literate.

And in the age of social networking, it is easier than ever to broadcast one’s taste via the Internet. Anyone who has updated their Facebook “likes” in the last couple years did so at least partly to project a certain image of themselves. Liking indie music will make you hip, jazz will make you cool and cultured and so on.

At the same time, many middle-class white people believe that if they listen to rap, hip-hop or the blues they will be culturally well-rounded. I have friends who believe themselves to understand black culture because they know a couple Kendrick Lamar songs. The cartoon pokes fun at this fallacy — the character is more concerned with appearing culturally astute than actually learning anything.

But ultimately it doesn’t matter to my argument

Vincent Cheng The Badger Herald

This comic, which was originally slated to appear in last Thursday’s Badger Herald, was cut due concerns that its message could be misconstrued. what the cartoon is about.

(I probably just ruined it by discussing the punch line in depth anyway.) It clearly isn’t intended to be racist and is difficult to interpret as such. Yet the Herald refused to publish the comic.

Was our management afraid it would lead to controversy? Generating debate is part of a college newspaper’s job, so long as it is clearly editorial.

Did they themselves find it offensive? In an age

when Louis C.K. rules the comedy world and Christian Lander’s Stuff White People Like is a bestseller, I find this difficult to believe.

The incident proves race is still a major issue at UW. And, as a student newspaper, it is the Herald’s job to discuss it — whether that means news coverage, opinion pieces or humor. We ought to be willing to make meaningful controversial statements.

Admittedly, this isn’t a requirement. If we want, we can dance around the issue of race as if it’s deadly. We can act as if there are intelligent things that simply should not be said, for fear of offending others. So long as we do so, we will be the edgiest and most relevant student newspaper of 1953.

Gus McNair (gmcnair@ badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in journalism and English.

Comic strip’s innocent message risks misinterpretation Ryan Rainey Editor-in-Chief I feel lucky The Badger Herald has employees like Design Director Gus McNair, whose commitment to free speech principles is so steadfast he’s willing to publicly challenge the final decision I made to pull a comic by Vincent Cheng.

But I stand by the decision I made along with my two lieutenants, Pamela Selman and Katherine Krueger.

Editors of college newspapers like the Herald, which has been at the center of many unnecessary and preventable campus-wide controversies before and throughout my time here, often have to take a lesserof-two-evils approach to those ethical decisions.

McNair is right to point

out the comic stip we pulled was not that offensive. As a loyal listener of Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar, I can admit to being part of the Pitchfork-influenced demographic Cheng ridiculed in his strip.

But with apologies to Cheng, who is a fine person and a talented artist, I did not feel like wasting the opportunity for a real conversation about race, entertainment or anything else on a relatively meaningless comic strip.

Twenty years ago, the Herald printed a series of socially-insightful strips by Mark Lysgard that criticized the use of American Indian stereotypes in sports franchise naming. The strip depicted the Cleveland Indian and what was labeled a “sambo” figure in several panels, prompting an outrage from campus groups who eventually protested in the Herald’s office.

The Herald’s Editorin-Chief at the time, Jodi Cohen, responded to the incident with a thoughtful

letter in late April 1993 that said “any reasonable reader will understand Lysgard’s message.” But the controversy continued as readers continued to misinterpret the strip, even though Lysgard asked the community: “When will Native Americans be given human rights, instead of mascot rights?”

Protests from the student groups made it into the pages of The Milwaukee Journal (RIP) and The Chicago Tribune after Cohen’s letter explained the strip to readers who had misunderstood it. Lysgard’s meaningful message about the hypocrisy of bigotry and hate became lost in a sea of groups who directed their ire at the Herald instead of the institutions who created the stereotypes. Cohen didn’t apologize, and the administration weighed in to say they supported the Herald’s press freedom.

This tradition has continued as the Herald has moved from its ideological beginnings as

a conservative newspaper and into its current incarnation, as a moderate student newspaper with independent libertarian ideals. Under Editor-inChief Julie Bosman’s watch, the Herald ran an ad by conservative commentator David Horowitz that argued for ten reasons why the United States should not fulfill reparations for slavery. The campus became the focal point of a necessary and important discussion about free speech and academic freedom despite the fringe view the advertisement promoted.

Several years later, a campuswide furor erupted when the Herald continued running an advertisement that denied the Holocaust.

That time, Editor-in-Chief Jason Smathers said the University of Wisconsin community was mature enough to handle the ad’s despicable message and reject it.

Bosman and Smathers both set precedents that would have led me to the

same decisions in their respective cases. They were staunch defenders of the First Amendment and the virtues of academic freedom.

But Cheng is not David Horowitz. He is much more like Mark Lysgard, a well-intentioned and socially conscious comic strip artist whose work risks misinterpretation.

Where Horowitz’s intentions were explicit and targeted, Cheng’s were open-ended and harmless. Readers easily could have misinterpreted its message of a young white person’s façade of social consciousness as an indictment of the black community just as much as they could have seen it as an indictment of the hipsters he was ridiculing.

Cheng did not sign up for the slim chance of innocently igniting one of those campuswide controversies when he became a comic artist. As an editor, it is my responsibility not just to edit content but also to serve as the lightning rod for the decisions we

make. Cheng does not carry that burden.

In this instance, I suspect we’ll continue to receive criticism for avoiding controversy and capitulating to the demands of a group of fringe radicals on campus who have a history of storming our offices.

Previous editors of the Herald have insisted the community is mature enough to handle even unintentionally offensive content. I agree with that principle. But in less consequential cases, such as the one surrounding this comic strip, I believe the lesser of two evils is to save any potential free speech debate for the kind of content that demands it instead of letting the small percentage of students who misinterpret the work we do hold us hostage.

That is why we can’t have nice things.

Ryan Rainey (rrainey@ badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in journalism and Latin American studies.

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What? You still don’t get it? Come, on, really? It’s not calculus or anything. Honestly, if you don’t know how to do a sudoku by now, you’ve probably got more issues than this newspaper.

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Abstract prints shine in exhibit New MMoCA showcase of printmaker Ellsworth Kelly prints reveals boldness

piece also has a significant place in the history of ArtsEtc. Writer printmaking. Included in a The Madison Museum series of art prints created of Contemporary Art could by ten different painters, not have chosen a better the group of works helped promote screenway to bring in the new to year. The retrospective printing as a respected print collection of fine art medium.

A repeating theme Ellsworth Kelly is refreshingly strong. Some of visual play between works in the show date figure and ground create back to his early success movement throughout all of the 1960s, while others the works. In the shape are as recent as 2005. series, prints consisting Although he is known of only one form may for his paintings and create tension through sculptures, this show puts its positioning on the the spotlight on several paper, while other prints series of Kelly’s printed with several forms allude artworks. The subject to a dancing movement matter of the selected across the field engaging series is simplistic and the viewer in a sense of bold. The pieces consist whimsy. Whether a subtle of his shape studies, line- aversion of a convex line drawn botanical studies or the closeness of image to the edge of the paper, and a river series.

Although there are some Kelly clearly displays his screen printed pieces in careful and deliberate the show, Kelly’s preferred expression of observations the specific method of printing through that his is lithography. These adaptations surroundings relatively have inspired. large editions In the “Rivers” of no more “In his series series (2002than 45 to 75 05), his use prints per run of shape of vigorous prove Kelly’s studies, Kelly’s technical seductive color brush quality was inspired ability and palette draws by the sunlight craftsmanship reflecting is clearly the viewer in.” off rushing an essential spring waters characteristic and defining aesthetic of his work. of the Rhine in Basel, The sheer scale and Switzerland. This more immaculate precision of recent series seems quite these lithographs is truly different with its high contrast and photographic something to marvel at.

Standing in the gallery, nature.

If you are not familiar the viewer becomes surrounded by a serene, with the work of Ellsworth abstract landscape. In his Kelly, this exhibition certainly spark series of shape studies, will Kelly’s seductive color your interest. The wellpalette draws the viewer curated exhibition offers in-depth glimpse in. Rich tones of golden an yellows, deep blues and of the artist’s mind via film at glowing greens call for documentary closer examination of the the end of the gallery. masterfully distributed However, the film is hues. Oil-based pigments displayed in black and allow the luscious tones to white. Because of the importance of color in the radiate with intensity.

The conceptual majority of his work, one flat surface where could assume this lack of printmaking excels feels color was due to technical strangely defied, revealing difficulties.

Thanks to donations optical depth and illusion.

One print in particular, from the Jordan D. Family “Red /Blue,” from portfolio Schnitzer “Ten Works X Ten Foundation and other Painters” (1964), uses a contributors, admission similar color value in the to this exhibition is free choice of red and blue and on display through inks so that a scintillating April 28. This show vibrating line comes alive boasts an overall happy, where the two hues meet. contemplative feel, with Like the majority of work beauty in the littlest of in the show, this small nuances. If it is a shaky but important specificity and sometimes uncertain makes the print inviting world we live in, Ellsworth and energetic while Kelly’s artistic vision steady and allowing it to remain remains simple and bold. This reassuring.

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Vocalist Nate Ruess and Fun. delivered a solid performance at their sold-out show to round out the first full week of classes Thursday night at Union South’s Varsity Hall.

Fun. brings swoony pop to Union ‘Some Night’ pumps up students with crowd-pleasing, singalong-ready hits fest Tara Golshan ArtsEtc. Contributor In an effort to exhaust all band name-related puns, Thursday evening turned into “Some Night” of Fun. as students and members of the campus community came together to “Carry On” the start of the semester in celebration and remember how “We Are Young.”

Wisconsin Union Directorate’s “Some Night at the Union” was a hit last week, closing the university’s first week of spring classes with some dancing, loud singing and, well, … Fun. I’m done, I promise.

New York’s indie rock sensation Fun. joined Jack’s Mannequin’s veteran Andrew McMahon to transform Union South’s Varsity Hall into a concert venue in the event of the year.

The room was packed and unrecognizable as lines of students snaked around

the union to join in on the festivities.

McMahon opened the show, engaging audiences with his smooth voice, piano skills and bearded, plaid-ridden bandmates.

McMahon got the audience to sing along to his songs “Swim” and “Dark Blue,” an experience reminiscent of those puberty- plagued middle school days.

The former Jack’s Mannequin lead singer didn’t shy from jokingly geriatric remarks, in what seemed to be an effort to establish his seniority while acknowledging that many in the audience once sang his songs as eighth graders. However, he is only 30 years old.

Nonetheless, girls in the audience swooned. Others waited for the main act, in hopes of regaining their maturity, while still experiencing the youthfulness present in some of Fun.’s hits.

As the “Some Night”

part of the evening commenced, Fun. stole the show and disproved even the slightest of AutoTune concerns. Bottom line: Fun. is good recorded and great live.

Nate Ruess, lead singer of Fun., led the group in full force taunting the audience with his good looks and serenading all sides of the stage with songs from both of the group’s records, Some Nights and the less famous 2009 album Aim and Ignite.

There was general excitement to sing along with hits like “All Alright,” “Some Nights” and “We Are Young” and equal shameless excitement to belt out fake lyrics to less popular songs. But mostly, I fell in love with one of the band’s older songs, “The Gambler,” which Ruess dedicated to his parents and convinced everyone of the line “you should live until you die.”

It felt effortlessly simple

but was the utmost truth.

Singing aside, it was not only the music that made the show. Fun.’s schtick between tunes was a major entertainment factor. With some subtle age comments, Ruess’ admission to quitting smoking and above all, guitarist Jack Antonoff ’s movie pitch of “what if dogs could talk,” had the audience in fits.

Apparently, Antonoff was recently inspired to write the comical scenarios that would ensure if dogs could talk and rat out their owners on what they have seen (i.e. infidelity and masturbation, because, according to Antonoff, college students love those kinds of story lines.)

Here’s to hoping Antonoff ’s girlfriend Lena Dunham, HBO show “Girls” writer, runs with the idea.

So, we were young, we carried on and we had quite some night.

Madison’s W0ok dazzles in synth-rock debut album Seung Park ArtsEtc. Writer Many garage indie bands dream of simply getting out of their parents’ basement.

For Madison-based indie band Wook, they’re already well past that stage, having just released their ambitious first album: Glowstick Sidewalks, a culmination of years of work and practice.

“Glowstick Sidewalks has

been in the studio for nearly three months,” bassist Mike Kuerschner said. “But the writing, the lyrics — we’ve been working on that for more than three years.”

“This album is a complete idea,” added vocalist and guitarist Jake Stottler.

“Sonically, we wanted everything to be similar.”

The album was designed to show incredible range, shifting from traditional rock

to pushing the boundaries of the synthesizer — often mirroring the journey of Wook themselves.

Comprised of traditional rock elements, such as “The Dweller,” to progressive synth music, Glowstick Sidewalks is a bookend of sorts for Wook, who got their start as an independent band in Madison before branching out to the Midwest.

“The album shows how far we’ve come along as a band,” said drummer Andrew Stark.

Some of the tracks included within Glowstick Sidewalks trace their lineage back many years, sometimes even beyond Wook’s own history. For example, “Fire & Ice” — one of the tracks featured on the album — can trace its roots back to Stottler’s high school days.

Unsurprisingly, he counts the song as one of his favorites.

“We brought it back for this album,” Stottler said.

“It’s really refreshing to hear it again.”

Glowstick Sidewalks also takes a step back to

indulge in classic rock.

“The Dweller” is a prime example of how Wook not only sought to look forward, but to also pay tribute to their beginnings.

The track is one of the

“The album shows how far we’ve come along as a band.”

Andrew Stark

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earliest Wook efforts, and it shows; the entire track uses organic instruments only, a far cry from Wook’s more recent works and their heavy use of electronics and synthesizers.

“We wanted to keep in touch with our fans from the beginning,” Stottler said. “It shows our versatility as a band.”

However, the headliner for Glowstick Sidewalks is undoubtedly the third track in the album, “Galaxy,” which — at

ten minutes long — is a whopper of a piece.

As one of Wook’s most popular tracks, it will also sound familiar to their fans despite being five minutes shorter in the album version, a necessary compromise to maintain the flow of the album.

“Galaxy” is aptly named.

The track takes listeners on a roller coaster ride through both highs and lows, striking the balance between an energetic opening riff which soon segues into the repeated lyrical motif of “you and me are in our galaxy,” before embarking on a ride seemingly through the Milky Way itself, effortlessly moving between calming, repeated arpeggio motifs and bursts of thumping supernovae.

Even among the album’s energetic and sometimes frenetic chords, there emerges a sort of relaxed aura that encapsulates the Glowstick Sidewalks listening experience.

Perhaps it’s the soft, nearly jazzy instrumental that finds itself on many of the tracks — especially

“The Dweller” and parts of “Don’t Rush” — or the vocals of Adam Lowe and Stottler, which, while nothing too special to write home about, do a good job of making the listener feel at ease with their assured manipulation of the melody and lyrics.

With their first album, Wook tries to capture their essence, their spirit. It’s an experiment that pushes the boundaries of what Wook is capable of. But at the same time, it also stands as a “thank you” to their fans, who’ve stood by them since their beginnings as just one of thousands of hopeful garage bands nationwide, jamming it up in their parents’ basements.

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Sports STREAK, from 8 straight unbeaten conference contest — and moved into a tie for fourth place in the WCHA with North Dakota.

Barnes attributed the conference streak to a renewed confidence between teammates.

“The strides we’ve made over the year are pretty amazing,” Barnes said. “We started out having a rough time and not playing well together. I think that’s the biggest thing we’ve changed is we’ve gotten used to the guys we’re playing with and we have more trust in the guys we’re playing with.”

Friday night was a starkly different affair to Saturday’s 2-1 victory. Wisconsin came out hot and outshot Alaska 37-14 en route to a 5-2 decision.

With slightly shaken lines and minor changes on the power play, four different Badgers scored Friday with two power play goals from junior forward Michael Mersch — Wisconsin’s first man advantage goal in seven games.

Mersch’s first power play goal of the night came at the 9:04 mark of the second period.

The Badgers already held a 2-1 lead after freshman forward Nic Kerdiles and Barnes each found the back of the net in the first period. Working with a new look on the power play, Mersch cleaned up a rebound on a Mark Zengerle shot to convert on Wisconsin’s second power play opportunity of the night.

The Badgers got one more chance on the man advantage in the third period and again Mersch came through, wristing in a shot from the face off dot — giving Wisconsin a 66 percent success rate on the power play Friday.

Alaska-Anchorage scored a pair of goals — 6:59 into the first and 9:43 into the third — on two minor Wisconsin breakdowns.

The first period goal, netted by Seawolves freshman forward Blake Tatchell, sputtered across the goal line after sophomore goaltender Joel Rumpel couldn’t get a clean stop on it. Sophomore forward Scott Allen scored the Seawolves’ second goal after Rumpel got tangled up with a fellow Badger and was stuck lying on the ground, essentially leaving the net wide open.

Regardless of the breakdowns, Eaves was happy with his team’s overall effort, but knows they need to perform in the same manner consistently.

“In terms of where we’re at, I like the change in their game,” Eaves said. “It helps us go in the direction that we need to.”

WRESTLE, from 8 said. “It’s not quite where it should have been the last few weeks; I’ve just been more disciplined … my conditioning feels so much better. I feel like I can go 15 minutes if I have to.”

Wisconsin also saw victories from fifth-year senior Tom Kelliher at 141 pounds, redshirt junior Scott Liegel in a 12-3 major decision at 174 pounds and a Jackson Hein victory in a forfeit at 197 pounds.

The Badgers showed themselves in greater physical condition than the Hoosiers throughout late-match situations, a

Wisconsin falls to unbeaten Minnesota Golden Gophers set NCAA record for longest undefeated streak, Badgers manage just one goal against Raty Spencer Smith Associate Editor The Wisconsin women’s hockey team found out why conference rival Minnesota is ranked No.1 in the NCAA after being swept in the two-game border battle over the weekend.

No. 8 Wisconsin (15-92, 11-9-2 WCHA) got all it could handle and more with No.1 Minnesota (26-0-0, 20-0-0), losing at home 2-0 Friday and 5-2 Sunday in a statement series for the Gophers.

The Gophers’ two wins in LaBahn Arena extend their NCAA record for longest winning streak to 34 games.

Junior forward Madison Packer scored the University of Wisconsin’s lone goal in the series.

“Sometimes it’s good to lose like that,” Packer said.

“It’s tough, it’s not fun, but we have a couple of weeks before playoffs and we’ll see them again. So we’ll learn from the mistakes we made today and try and pick ourselves up and beat them when we go up to Ridder [Arena].”

Minnesota’s high flying offense got the scoring started early Sunday with a 1-on-1 goal from senior forward Becky Kortum with just over seven minutes gone in the first period.

Wisconsin was quick to strike back, however, after a Minnesota penalty gave the Badgers a power play opportunity.

UW was able to capitalize on the one-man advantage when Packer skated in front of the net and beat University of Minnesota goal tender Noora Räty to the right side, tying the game at one.

Packer’s power play score marked Wisconsin’s first goal against Minnesota on the season, after being shutout in their previous series against the Gophers back in December.

UM was quick to take back the lead late in the first period on a power play goal by freshman forward Hannah Brandt after UW’s Erika Sowchuk was called for tripping.

promising sign for a team that still has two big duals remaining against conference opponents.

“We’re in great shape,” Davis said. “Guys don’t wait that long. Guys like Frank, just get it earlier — that’s the pace you should do the whole time. Our shape is good, let’s use it more to our advantage.”

In Wisconsin’s largest margin of victory in a Big Ten win this season, the group may be peaking at the right time for Davis.

“It’s about getting better,” Davis said. “When you’re worried about getting better, winning takes care of itself … When we do that, we’ll be fine.”

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Wisconsin and Brianna Decker managed just one goal against the Gopher defense and arguably the nation’s best goalie in Noora Raty. Raty stopped 47 of the Badgers’ 48 shots on the weekend.

Wisconsin was unable to find the back of the net for rest of the game against Minnesota’s Räty, as the elite goalie racked up 22 saves and earned her 100th career win.

The Minnesota attack went on to score three more times against Wisconsin goaltender Alex Rigsby, giving the Gophers a 5-1 victory over the Badgers.

Sunday marked the first time a team was able to score over four goals on Wisconsin since Minnesota scored 7 on the Badgers in November of 2010.

Freshman defenseman Courtney Burke tipped her hat to Minnesota’s constant offensive attack, as the Gophers constant advances eventually took its toll on the Badgers defenders.

“I think we just broke down,” Burke said. “They played a full 60 minutes and I think we could have played a lot harder

JACKSON, from 8 timeout, prompting a review by the referees to see if Jackson’s shot was off before the shot clock expired and to see how much time remained in the game when Smith called the timeout.

After a review, 0.3 seconds were added on to the clock and Jackson’s shot was upheld, as a second look showed he beat the buzzer by a millisecond.

Trailing 45-43 with 1.8 seconds remaining in the game, Minnesota threw in a pass on the left elbow to Mbakwe, hoping the

shots on goal in the game.

Head coach Mark Johnson said he realizes just how difficult Minnesota is to beat and said his team needs to play better for the whole game if UW wants to compete with UM. “Our job is to try and win a hockey game and you look at the next one,” Johnson said. “The speed of the game in the second period, they were playing on their toes and we were playing on our heels.

They are comfortable in their game.”

“They don’t really have a lot of weaknesses. So if you are going to beat them, you have to do a lot of little things well for the whole game. We played well at times but not for a long enough time to beat them.”

The two losses to top-ranked Minnesota knocks Wisconsin out of second in the WCHA to third behind MinnesotaDuluth, who won a pair of

games over the weekend against No. 9 Ohio State.

The Badgers will have time to learn and recover from the Minnesota series with no games until Feb. 8 at St. Cloud State.

Johnson says his team will be able to learn from their games with the Golden Gophers and come back strong for the final six games of the regular season.

“Every game you are going to learn something,” Johnson said.

“Obviously [Minnesota] is on a roll. They don’t have many weaknesses and play at a really high level.

A little humility goes a long way.”

“We still have six important games left.

We’ll try to position ourselves to make sure we get home ice advantage.

You don’t want to lose any hockey games but you have to learn from them and move on and that’s what we need to do.”

sixth-year senior would to the line to shoot in deliver. But, a whistle Mbakwe’s stead.

With the Kohl Center soon blew the play deafening in dead, as forward Mike crowd Bruesewitz was called volume, Williams calmly sank the first for holding, free throw to sending bring UW’s Mbakwe to “My teammates lead to just the line and were able to get one. But, with Bruesewitz the pressure to the bench me open and I on to sink the with his fifth luckily knocked second and foul of the it down.” tie the game, game.

Williams But Traevon Jackson attempt found Mbakwe Sophmore Guard the back of injured his the iron, as wrist on the Sam Dekker play and was unable to shoot the free grabbed the rebound and throws, so the Badgers launched the ball into the chose to send Williams air.

“That’s a tough situation,” Ryan said in reference to Williams’ free throws.

It wasn’t pretty on either side offensively for the entire game, as the Badgers shot just 37 percent and the Gophers shot a measly 34.8 percent from the floor.

But, unlike this past Tuesday night against Michigan State, Wisconsin found a way to eke out a win in the game’s final minutes.

“This was a must-win game,” Jackson said. “You have to take care of home court when you get a chance to.”

throughout the game.”

Raty puts Badger offense on ice Friday In the first of the twogame series over the weekend, Minnesota shut out Wisconsin in a 2-0 victory Friday night.

Similar to the game Sunday, the Gophers got off to an early start with Brandt putting Minnesota on the board early with a shot from the left circle on a 3-on-2 break away just over four minutes into the first period.

Later in the period, Minnesota took a two goal lead with a 5-on-3 power play goal on a shot from the left circle from senior defenseman Mira Jalosuo.

Despite Minnesota’s 23 shots on goal in the second and third periods, the Wisconsin defense was able to stop the Gophers from scoring again but failed to get a puck past Räty, as the goalie stopped all 25

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Jackson heroic in win Sophomore guard’s personal 4-point run pushes Badgers to 45-44 victory over Gophers Nick Korger Sports Editor It was a wild one at the Kohl Center Saturday afternoon.

Wisconsin’s Traevon Jackson received a friendly bounce on a pullup jumper that beat the shot clock with just four seconds left in the game and Minnesota’s Rodney Williams missed a critical free throw to tie the game in the last second, as the Badgers (14-6, 5-2 Big Ten) held on to beat the Gophers (15-5, 3-4) in a 45-44 thriller.

Minnesota’s Andre Hollins led all scorers with 20 points, while Wisconsin’s Sam Dekker and Ryan Evans both led their team with 10 points apiece.

“We bounced back,” fifth-year senior forward Ryan Evans said.

With the Badgers trailing 41-43 with 1:03 left in regulation, Jackson hit the first of two backbreaking pull-up jumpers, hitting the first from a bit outside the free throw line.

Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith called a timeout and opted to isolate Hollins between the circles. Hollins initially blew by Jackson — his defender — on the left side but was whistled for a charge after Ben Brust beat him to a spot just a few feet outside the basket.

“That was very good footwork, very good court awareness and he deserves a lot of credit for making a play,” Wisconsin head

coach Bo Ryan said. “He made a play that helped us get that ball game on the left side and that was a huge charge to get.”

With momentum swinging fully behind the Badgers, Ryan opted to take a 30-second timeout.

There was seemingly no designed play, as Jackson took the ball just past the half-court line to the right side, watching the time tick away on the shot clock.

Then, with 14 seconds left on the shot clock and 18 seconds in the game, Jackson attacked. At first the guard was repelled from driving to the center of the lane, as Jackson found himself past the right elbow with the Gophers’ shot-blocker Trevor Mbakwe draped all

over him.

But, with two seconds left on the shot clock, Jackson put up a shot fake and drew Mbakwe up into the air and out of the way.

Jackson promptly fired up his jumper, drawing iron and receiving a kind bounce into the bottom of the net.

“I felt that I needed to step up and hit the shots,” Jackson said. “My teammates were able to get me open and I luckily knocked it down. “[The shot clock] was only at four, you can make a play with four [seconds], I was able to get him in the air and I got him in the air and got a nice little roll and we won the game.”

Tubby Smith called a

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Traevon Jackson was quiet for most of the afternoon until hitting his game-winning jumper.

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Jefferson Dahl (14) congratulates Tyler Barnes (7) on his goal Saturday night. Barnes scored off of Dahl’s assist in the second period in UW’s 2-1 win.

Sometimes wins aren’t always pretty — a fact the Wisconsin men’s hockey team experienced Saturday.

In a 2-1 decision that led to a series sweep over Alaska-Anchorage (13-16-5, 1-15-4 WCHA), Wisconsin (11-8-5, 8-5-5 WCHA) sneaked by with the win Saturday thanks to two second period goals after a sluggish opening 20 minutes. When all was said and done, the Badgers only managed 19 shots on goal to the Seawolves 22.

“They grinded it out,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “[We had a] poor first period, had to jump in the second and got a couple goals. I really liked the way that the kids solved the riddle in the third period.

We didn’t give up a lot in the third period at all.”

“We protected the puck well. There were a couple

of ‘Grade A’ scoring chances, but not very many at all and when they pulled their goalie we were very solid.

We looked like we knew what we were doing out there. We grinded it out and we solved the riddle on a night that was tough.”

Key to both goals was junior center Jefferson Dahl, who notched the game-winner and tallied an assist on Wisconsin’s first goal.

At the 4:31 mark of the second period Dahl cleaned up a rebound off a Frankie Simonelli rocket from the blue line.

Just three minutes earlier Dahl found junior forward Tyler Barnes across the slot where Barnes netted the back door shot for the 1-0 score.

After a weak first period, the Badgers held a 2-0 lead less than five minutes into the second period.

“On my assist, we wanted to establish pressure down

low,” Dahl said. “There was a change and quick up to [Nic Kerdiles] and he made a great play around the defenseman. I caught it and saw Barnes back door and just tried to slide it over to him.”

“On the goal, [Sean Little] made a good pass to Frank and we talked about getting passes through, and Frank put a good one on net and there happened to be a rebound that found my stick.”

Alaska did get one back before the second period expired. Dahl took a penalty for holding the stick with 1:35 left in the period.

Thirty-five seconds later, senior forward Jordan Kwas scored Alaska’s eighth power play goal of the season, cutting the Wisconsin lead and making it a 2-1 game.

But despite the rough start, the Badgers pulled out the ugly win — their tenth

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Badgers wrestle Hoosiers to submission in 26-9 win Medbery maintains clean duals record, defeats fifth-ranked opponent of season Lee Gordon Statistics Editor After dropping consecutive dual matches against two of the Big Ten’s best just a week ago, the No. 20 Wisconsin wrestling team righted the ship in a solid 26-9 defeat of Indiana Friday night at home.

The Badgers (7-4, 4-2 Big Ten) took seven of the 10 individual contests, including two comeback victories in the final seconds of the third period.

Head coach Barry Davis was pleased to see his team executing under pressure after his team’s two-match conference slide.

“For our guys it was about getting on track, we need to keep doing what we’re doing,” Davis said. “Be offensive, beating your ties, getting into your positions and finding ways to win.

That’s what [Connor] Medbery did tonight as well as Frank Cousins in tight matches.”

With a 10-6 lead heading into the 165-pound match, Cousins, a redshirt sophomore, was unable to amass any offense in the first period and could not earn a point for an escape in the second.

After allowing an escape

in the third period to break the scoreless tie, Cousins needed two takedowns in the final 90 seconds to keep a comfortable team lead. He was able to twist his opponent down by the leg for his first takedown and won the match with another takedown with 13 seconds remaining in the period.

“After I got the first takedown, he escaped,” Cousins said. “The second takedown, I just kind of let go, relaxed, and it was offense, offense, offense … and then eventually got to one of my holds and took him down.”

Medbery, a redshirt freshman, also completed a last-minute win thanks to an emphatic takedown with 30 seconds left in the final period against No. 13 Adam Chalfant. The No. 10 heavyweight in the nation, Medbery is 10-0 this year in dual matches and has defeated five ranked conference opponents this season.

The last-second reversal of fortunes executed

by Medbery came from preparation in practice, thanks to drills by Davis that put the team in pressure situations and forces the wrestlers to apply quick offense.

“We put them in situations where they’re down a point with 30 [seconds] to go,” Davis said.

“What’s your go-to move, how are you going to find a way to score, so you prepare

for those things because they’re going to happen in duals and especially in tournaments.”

Wisconsin never conceded its lead after redshirt junior Tyler Graff won 22-7 by technical fall in the 133-pound match.

The Olympic qualifier and No. 5 ranked wrestler in the 133-class recorded 11 takedowns on the day in one of the team’s three extra point wins.

Fifth-year senior Cole Schmitt also helped the team by winning his third consecutive match, defeating Indiana’s Preston Keiffer. After a scoreless first period, Schmitt wore down his opponent and forced the match’s only takedown late in the second period in an eventual 4-0 win.

The New Glarus native used his strength to overpower his opponent even after gaining no points in the match’s first three minutes.

“I know that I’m going to tire him out by the end of the match, so if it’s 0-0 first period, I don’t care,” Schmitt said. “I’ll just keep going and get the next point.”

Schmitt said he’s been a better wrestler in his three-match winning streak because of losing the pound or two that had been hindering his strength.

“I had to get my weight under control,” Schmitt

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