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Heroin epidemic spurs county summit Madison, Dane County join forces in brainstorming initiatives for safety Sam Schmitt Staff Reporter City officials and local organizations are working to break the habit of increasing heroin addiction in the Dane County area through a cooperative community effort.

According to a statement from the offices of Mayor

Paul Soglin and County Executive Joe Parisi, heroin and prescription drug abuse has been on the rise in recent years, making poison-related deaths mainly caused by drug overdoses the number one cause of death in Dane County.

The Opiates Action Plan, discussed during a countywide summit held Monday, aims to reduce the access to drugs, monitor prescription drug addiction, offer better resources to those suffering from addiction and decrease the number of overdose deaths, the statement said.

“This is a devastating issue

that affects individuals and families throughout the city and the county,” Mayor Paul Soglin said in the statement.

“I am pleased that the effort to address this problem continues. The city is proud to be a partner in this project.”

Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said Safe Communities, an organization that regularly coordinates campaigns in public safety, facilitated this summit with the hopes of addressing the addiction issue across the board, including health care professionals, law

enforcement, city officials and drug abuse prevention groups in the discussion.

According to the Safe Communities website, the organization has improved the personal safety of more than 35,000 Dane County residents since 1999.

The statement said these professionals from various backgrounds have been divided into “workgroups,” which Soglin said will collaborate and propose solutions and plans of action as a unified council.

From here the workgroups that offered their ideas during the summit will be involved

in a taskforce that will continue to have connections to the outcome in one way or another, Soglin said.

Oftentimes physicians recognize a patient’s addiction to prescription pain medications and cut them off,” Soglin said in an interview with The Badger Herald. “Folks that are unable to deal with the problem head down the path of acquiring drugs on the street and then turn to heroin [because it is easier to access].”

The coordination between Safe Communities and the various workgroups is the beginning of a yearlong

commitment to address the problem, Soglin said.

DeSpain said the new focus on the issue is in part a result of encouragement from the police department to produce greater involvement in the community, with help from city officials, to address the heroin epidemic.

“Heroin, by far, has been driving a lot of crime in our area, as people rely on theft and sometimes armed robbery to get money to buy the drug,” DeSpain said.

“Arresting people isn’t going to solve the dependence on

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Landowner, UW clash on proposed student housing City hears plans for 14-unit apartment building on campus, university wants land Vanessa Benton Herald Contributor City and campus leaders explored outstanding issues regarding the construction of a 14unit student apartment building on the University of Wisconsin campus at a meeting Tuesday night.

The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee dealt with two main items Monday surrounding various constructions connected to campus streets and buildings.

The committee heard a presentation for a new private student housing apartment designed by architects Joe Reed and Joe McCormick.

McCormick is the

owner of the current property, residing where the proposed apartment building would be.

McCormick’s property is almost directly across from the Educational Sciences Building on West Johnson Street.

McCormick presented a design for a five story, 14unit apartment structure on the grounds between 202 and 206 N. Brooks St., which would provide additional living space for approximately 43 or more students.

The primary reason for proposing a new apartment structure is because of the state of the current property that lies on McCormick’s land, he said. Currently, the three living flats on his plot are approaching 100-yearsold, housing about 16-18 students.

“My current [property] is in seriously bad shape, and I knew that it needed to be redeveloped”,

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McCormick said at the beginning of his presentation.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, also said the state of the current property could only be described as “dilapidated.”

“This project is right in line with other up-andcoming modern high-rise structures,” Resnick said.

“This is not a run-of-themill-type structure.”

Still, some members of the Madison community expressed uncertainty about the proposal.

UW Transportation Planner Rob Kennedy raised the argument that the university wanted to use this space for academic research.

Kennedy also brought up the university’s plan to use the plot of land as a “green space.”

“If the university cannot afford to buy this land at the time, and it’s just sitting there rotting … it seems that the best option would be a new apartment,” Laura Gutknecht, the committee’s co-chair, said.

No final decision was reached on the issue.

The committee also took up potential renovations around the south campus and Kohl Center area. Kennedy recounted up and coming construction for the 20112012 school year along with the 2012-2013 term.

Kennedy commented on the completion of the new Gordon Commons, which officials plan to open in June. The university will demolish the building later this year. Kennedy

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MPD responds to the explosion in the Chemistry Building Monday. Aside from the room the explosion occurred in, no one was evacuated.

Chemistry student sustains minor injuries in explosion Department says incident shows need to improve response efforts Jackie Allen Campus Life Editor A postdoctoral student sustained minor lacerations to the fingers and neck after an explosion and a small fire in the University of Wisconsin Chemistry Building Monday morning.

The student, who is also a chemistry department employee, was working on a distillation when an air-sensitive compound ignited. The ignition caused glass to break and started a small fire, Robert McClain, chair of the chemistry department’s Safety Committee, said.

Department officials

effectively extinguished the small fire in the laboratory before the Madison Fire Department arrived. While MFD ensured the fire was put out, police assisted with medical treatment and blocked off the area.

However, Matt Sanders, assistant academic program director, said none of the other students were aware of what the injured student’s research involved or what he was working on at the time, besides the specific chemical compound.

It is also normal for many of the students in the lab to not be informed of these specifics, Sanders said.

McClain said these details will be included in the investigation from UWPD, MFD and the chemistry department, which will provide

said they were unsure what the student’s experiment involved, but the research is conducted under a vacuum to prevent explosions and fires.

UW Police Department Sgt. Aaron Chapin said the student is in stable condition and being treated for non-life threatening injuries. They should be released in the near future and make a full recovery, Chapin said.

“At this point, the incident is under investigation to determine what exactly happened and where we go from here,” Chapin said.

Other students in the lab at the time of the accident helped treat the injured individual as well as extinguish the fire and alert authorities. McClain said the students acted in accordance with standard safety procedure.

The students also

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Lasee exits US Senate race, INSIDE apparent underdog in funding Jacob Kaczmarowski Herald Contributor

Next stop: Happy Valley, B1G dreams

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Pere, announced Sunday he will drop out of the race for Herb Kohl’s Senate seat in Washington, saying it was not the right time to run.

“After much consideration and prayer with my wife, Amy and I have determined this is not the right time to run for the U.S. Congress,” Lasee said in a statement Sunday.

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Michelle Obama hosts a call-in session with members of Young Progressives Monday. She spoke with students in an effort to engage them in the upcoming presidential campaign.

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A controversial proposal to redevelop and restructure the 100 block of State Street received partial approval at the Landmarks Commission meeting Monday.

The proposal calls for action against two buildings that are designated as historical landmarks in Madison — the Castle and Doyle building at 125 State Street, and the Andrew Schubert Building at 120 W. Mifflin.

The Castle and Doyle building would be heavily renovated, with the interior space being drastically redrawn and the exterior being repaired to better match its original appearance. In the case of the Schubert Building, the 100 Block Foundation,

the organization behind the proposal, has deemed it fit for total demolition.

George Austin, the project manager for the 100 Block Foundation, said his organization believes the project represents a civic improvement for both the State Street area and the city of Madison as a whole.

“This project is an inflection point to build on our past, while adding to our future,” Austin said.

He also said the updated buildings would help anchor Madison’s central business district while providing support for the arts, especially in the form of increased attention on the Overture Center.

While the main purpose of the project is reinvesting in the “vitality” of the street by way of increasing building efficiency, Austin said preservation of the architectural scale of the area would also be a main

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Only select portions of the 100 block proposal are set to move forward following Monday’s Landmarks meeting. The City Council can overturn Landmarks’ vote.

“It’s not a perfect district; no commercial, historic district is, and the 100 block exhibits that character better than any other. … This proposal would take a severe gouge out of that character.”

Tish said renovating the Schubert building would cost a fraction of the cost of the demolition and removal of the structure, let alone the cost of building an entirely new one.

He also spoke to the benefits of increasing the efficiency of the buildings through use of greener energy practices, speaking to the extended future such changes could give the buildings.

“State Street is our Main Street; it’s State Street, it’s

objective of the project.

Eric Lawson, CEO of Potter Lawson Inc., an architecture company, supported many of Austin’s claims. He showed multiple renderings of the project plans, presented various slides showing the deterioration of the Schubert Building and supplied numbers that showed a marked futility in renovating the structure.

Jason Tish, executive director of the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, shared an opposing view to that of the developers.

“Our opposition is founded on the idea that State [Street] is our downtown link to history,” Tish said.

Madison, and it’ll always be that way. We’re not trying to destroy that, we’re trying to add to that,” Austin said.

The meeting adjourned at 1 a.m. Tuesday. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the committee largely approved the proposal for State Street, which includes preserving the landmark Castle and Doyle building.

Additionally, Verveer said the committee voted to refer their decision on the more controversial aspects of the plan, such as the ones for the demolition of the Fairchild, or Stark, building, and the landmark Schubert building on W. Mifflin, to their next meeting on Feb. 13.

Congressional candidates bag heavy support Finance reports for fourth quarter demonstrate Dems each bringing in thousands in campaign fundraising Friday, Pocan’s campaign 2011.

A statement from the said they raised more than Worzala for Congress $150,000 in the fourth With a primary more Campaign said they raised quarter.

According to the than seven months away, $223,140 in the fourth 97 percent Democratic candidates for quarter, spent $22,824 and statement, the Second Congressional have more than $252,196 in of Pocan’s donors were individuals and 80 percent District race are beginning cash on hand.

The statement said of the donations received in to rake in thousands of the quarter came in Worzala’s dollars in campaign increments of $100 or campaign had contributions. less. more than four Dane County “From the start, times as many Treasurer Dave this campaign has contributors Worzala; Rep. Mark been driven by the this quarter as Pocan, D-Madison; Rep. hundreds of grassroots it did during the Kelda Roys, D-Madison; supporters who believe previous quarter. and Matt Silverman, a “Congress local attorney and Iraq Pocan in it,” Pocan said in Roys the statement. “We needs someone War veteran, are each vying for Congresswoman who understands how to get based this campaign on Tammy Baldwin’s seat. finances in order without the idea that we need to do Baldwin is vacating the seat sacrificing the programs we more than just talk about since she is running for U.S. care about like education, our progressive values; we social security or health need to get things done for Senate.

While financial reports care,” said Jacob Breymaier, working people.”

According to a statement, campaign for the fourth quarter are Worzala’s due to the Federal Election manager, in an email to The Roys’ campaign raised Commission today, most of Badger Herald. “It is time $76,560 in the fourth quarter.

Currently, the Kelda for the candidates announced Wisconsin sends someone their total fundraising to Washington that can Congress campaign has and the contents of their fight for the programs that $128,828 on hand and has campaign war chests are important to us. Dave spent $14,585 during the fourth courter, said Rick Tuesday. The quarter ran Worzala is that candidate.”

In a statement released Coelho, Roys’ campaign from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31,

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“Kelda [has been] a strong advocate for progressive values found: Whether it’s her leadership on the mining bill where she submitted an open records request to Gov. Walker, or her historic introduction of the efforts to bring ethics and openness to the courts by removing Justice Gableman,” Coelho said. “Kelda has been at the forefront of doing the right thing no matter what.”

Silverman said his campaign has raised $6,325 and spent $1,973 during the fourth quarter. He currently

has $4,262.

Silverman said the biggest issue for him is money in politics because money influences how politicians make decisions. He said it also makes people lose faith in the political process.

He added his campaign is not taking money from any organization and he believes Wisconsinites should focus on getting money out of politics.

Independent candidate Joe Kopsick is also running for Baldwin’s seat. The primary is Aug. 14 and the general election is Nov. 6.

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CHEM, from 1 recommendations for preventing accidents in the future.

“We like to think that our postdoctoral students are like professors and they should be able to work independently in the laboratory,” McClain said. “The question is how special of a procedure was he working on.”

He also noted two main possible problems at the incident. Campus police, for example, quickly entered the lab without adequate protection; McClain said they should have worn safety glasses in case another explosion occurred.

The Chemical Safety Department, which is also notified in the case of an accident, potentially could have arrived on the scene

earlier, McClain added.

The Chemistry Building, with the exception of the laboratory in which the incident occurred, remains open and poses no dangers to the community, Chapin said. Sanders added the chemistry fume hoods contained all chemicals from the explosion.

Graduate students and teaching assistants are trained on standard safety procedures before they begin working in the laboratory, including chemical safety, electrical hazards and laser standards, Sanders said.

“The chemistry department is not the same as an English department,” Sanders said.

“So we have to take extra precautions to make sure students know what to do in situations they may be exposed to.”

Neumann’s campaign manager Chip Englander helped us and encouraged said Lasee’s decision to drop out would not affect us along the way.” campaign According to the Neumann’s Neumann would Wisconsin State and Legislature’s website, Lasee continue traveling the state, was in the Assembly from promoting a conservative 1994 to 2006 and then won approach to government his district’s Senate seat in with a balanced budget.

Baldwin’s campaign 2010.

The three Republicans spokesperson Phil Walzak still in the race include said that despite Lasee’s disappearance from Speaker of the the race, the GOP State Assembly primary would still Rep. Fitzgerald, be brutal.

RHoricon, “The Republican former U.S. Rep. food fight is shifting and gubernatorial to the right,” candidate Mark Walzak said. “All Neumann and of the candidates former Gov. Tommy Lasee are trying to ‘outThompson.

U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D- conservative’ each other Madison, is currently the and appeal to the Tea Party only candidate running on base. It will not matter who emerges from the primary the Democratic ticket.

Jay Heck, Common election because they wont Cause in Wisconsin appeal to the values of most director, said Lasee likely of Wisconsin.”

In an email to The dropped out because he was lagging behind in the polls Badger Herald, Thompson and probably having trouble for Senate spokesperson Darrin Schmitz said it was raising money.

Heck said competing unfortunate Lasee decided with with big names like to withdraw from the race. “ [...] Thompson wishes Thompson made Lasee a long shot from the start. him well as he focuses He said Lasee was mostly on his work in the just exploring the idea of state Legislature as it is important to keeping the running for U.S. Senate.

Republican and Governor Walker agenda moving forward,” Schmitz said in the email.

Schmitz said the former governor leads in all primary and general election polls and expects Thompson to be the top fundraiser for the fourth quarter once reports are filed today.

Quarterly campaign finance reports from all candidates were due to the Federal Elections Commission at midnight Monday.

In a statement released from Thompson’s campaign Monday, Thompson reported raising more than $650,000 in the last quarter of 2011 and has nearly $550,000 cash on hand. The statement said Thompson has raised $130,000 more than Neumann.

The Associated Press reported Monday Neumann raised $518,000 last quarter.

Baldwin raised $1.1 million during the reporting period and currently has $1.8 million cash on hand.

Fitzgerald had yet to report his campaign finances as of press time.

speed on the upcoming construction for the Memorial Union Park Project set to go underway in August.

This project will be a part of the Lakeshore Path restoration, which will alter the shoreline of the path. During this

construction the buses will lose the Memorial Union bus stop.

The committee also celebrated the completion of the Chazen Museum of Art renovation, which was completed in midOctober.

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Kennedy also brought the committee up to

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City politics could impact student life, Mifflin party Leg. Affairs set to meet with officials, weigh impact of concealed carry Tahleel Mohieldin Herald Contributor A student government committee examined several potential measures Monday night to protect student tenants following recent updates to the proposed Madison Nuisance Party Ordinance.

Rachel Lepak, vice chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee, said the major change in the ordinance is the increase in the number of party elements that qualify as a nuisance from nine to 17 options for police and landlords to choose from.

While the previous draft required a minimum of four of the nine elements to be violated for an act to qualify as a nuisance, with two

violations related to alcohol and two related to safety, the current draft requires a violation of only one requirement, Lepak said.

Lepak added the committee wants to ensure tenants are protected while also holding landlords accountable.

Bulovsky said the committee currently is partnering with the Tenant Resource Center to create a database that provides recognition to landlords who are willing to sign a pledge that helps protect tenant rights.

Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers said committee members are concerned the ordinance may provide police with too much discretion in determining what is and is not a nuisance, which could ultimately end up endangering student residents.

Because landlords will be fined if a tenant is found to have violated the nuisance ordinance with a noisy

or out-of-control party, Somers said committee members are concerned landlords may pass the new fines on to their tenants.

She said landlords are also wary that the fines may be negative for business.

Somers encouraged her fellow committee members and all University of Wisconsin students to voice their opinions on the ordinance.

“It’s important that we are making sure students are informed about their rights and which landlords are working for them,” said Somers.

The committee also took up issues surrounding the Mifflin Street Block Party.

Representatives plan to meet with Madison Mayor Paul Soglin next week to further discuss his stance on issues surrounding the party. The mayor came out against the annual event after two stabbings at last year’s party.

The committee plans to share the data which

First lady rallies students for campaign via phone Campus org. hosts call-in with White House, stresses student involvement Tara Yang Herald Contributor First lady Michelle Obama joined University of Wisconsin students in a conference call yesterday evening in an effort to encourage increased participation and voter turnout in the upcoming presidential campaign.

Wisconsin State Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, also joined the progressive students at the event to listen to Obama, give tips and inspiration to students on how they can get involved and encourage more students to volunteer in the Democratic campaign.

“Because of the investments we’ve made to raise standards in our schools and make college more affordable, more young Americans like you can pursue their dreams and fulfill their potential, and be all that they can be,” Obama said.

Obama’s re-election campaign headquarters in Chicago arranged the conference call at UW, Young Progressives President Sam Gehler said, because Wisconsin students traditionally work hard for the campaign.

“The student atmosphere at the event was filled with

excitement,” Gehler said.

“The fact that the first lady called our campus out of all the other campuses in the state means a lot to us. I can’t describe how grateful we are.”

In her 30-minute phone call, Obama said it was important for students to get involved in the campaign because it would empower them to advocate for themselves.

“The fact that the first lady called our campus out of all the other campuses in the state means a lot to us.”

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Gehler said work students do before the summer is critical to re-electing President Obama and to keeping Wisconsin’s tradition of democracy strong.

A large number of new club members turned out to the event, Gehler said.

The conference also saw a strong turnout from its current members, showing a new flow of energy from the campaign, he said.

“I was fortunate enough to be able to ask first lady Michelle Obama a question, so I asked her for additional tips on how students could get involved,” Gehler

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County Executive Joe Parisi argues heroin addiction cannot be fully combated if the newly organized opiate taskforce does not look at both treatment and supply issues.

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The goals of the new initiative go beyond police activity, instead working to bring individualized efforts together in a holistic approach, Parisi said.

Parisi said heroin addiction often stems from prescription drug abuse, therefore not only the

treatment, but also the supply, must be addressed.

Officials said members of the Dane County community should be on the lookout for more concrete information on the Opiates Action Plan to surface in the coming days and weeks as the summit’s report is released and steps are taken by these groups to continue fighting the heroin epidemic.

said. “She responded that students should join the school organizations and get involved with local field organizations.”

Fifty-eight students signed up to volunteer with the Young Progressives at the end of the event, Gehler said.

“This was a great opportunity but it was just a kick start to our campaign,” said Gehler. “We have big events planned in the next month, including students going door to door, making calls and volunteers all over the place.”

In an email to The Badger Herald, College Republicans President Jeff Snow said while there is an opposing side wanting to defeat President Obama, they have yet to find the right candidate.

While the event, hosted

by UW Students for Barack Obama, was publicized across campus, the call was not open to members of the press because members of the Obama campaign were worried news coverage would make new people joining the organization apprehensive, Morris said.

Gillian Morris, from Obama for America Wisconsin Chapter, said it is common practice for volunteer events to be private and off the record.

“This was an event that was supposed to be about getting people excited and riled up,” Morris said.. “There was no exact reason it was closed. … It’s not that we were excluding anyone. It was just off the record.”

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Students at last night’s Leg. Affairs Committee urge action in defending their tenant rights after a proposal to potentially give police more authority to deem a party a nuisance adopts looser wording and policies. The ordinance would place fines on landlords if tenants are caught in violation of one of the proposal’s criteria. presents the results of student surveys taken about Mifflin with the mayor.

“Students care about Mifflin, and we want to share their support, make sure they see how the students feel,” Somers said.

Committee members also will meet about the block party with the Mifflin Neighborhood Association in

the coming weeks.

“Mifflin has to happen, but with changes,” Freshman Rep. Maria Giannopoulos said.

Giannopoulos said the next step is to discuss what these changes are, as members of the Mifflin Neighborhood Association are concerned about potential safety threats.

ASM members and Mifflin Neighborhood Association members will discuss advocating for regulations of conceal and carry permits to promote safety at the block party.

Giannopoulos added she hopes these changes will create a “community focus [for Mifflin] that everyone feels comfortable going to.”

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Dems bite off too much in John Doe Charles Godfrey Columnist Ongoing investigations reveal that several of Gov. Scott Walker’s aides were doing campaign work while on the clock at the Milwaukee County Executive’s office. Kelly Rindfleisch, 43, has been charged with four felony counts of misconduct in office, and Darlene Wink, 61, has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of political solicitation by a public employee. The charges state that the two aides sent thousands of emails for political purposes while working on former Rep. Brett Davis’ campaign for lieutenant governor in 2010 and made use of personal laptops and a “secret email system.”

The allegations have been framed as a scandal by the media and the Democratic Party. To be sure, working on a political campaign while being paid taxpayer

dollars is illegal. However, these revelations of political misconduct within Walker’s office in Milwaukee, before he was governor, are clearly being used to tarnish his reputation. This is hardly surprising; Walker has been the target of smear campaigns since he took office last year.

According to Graeme Zielinski, spokesman for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, “This was a shadow government meant to further the political career of Scott Walker. All of them knew what was right and what was wrong, and they chose the crooked path.”

Zielinski makes these allegations sound like the tip of the iceberg in a vast Walker conspiracy and also seems to be calling Walker and associates sinners for intentionally choosing to do wrong, as if he were about to launch into a fire and brimstone sermon.

It’s hard to see how he got the idea of a shadow government out of a “secret email system” at the Milwaukee County Executive office. If that’s a shadow government, I’m not scared. It is worth mentioning that the

campaign work in question was not related to Walker’s campaign for governor, but the lieutenant governor campaign that Brett Davis lost to current Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch. This makes these crimes relevant only from a moral point of view.

As a hockey player, I will take this opportunity to invoke a scene from the movie “Miracle.” In one emotionally-charged scene, Olympic coach Herb Brooks tells team captain Mike Eruzione: “You worry about your own game. There’s plenty there to keep you busy!”

I think the Democratic Party of Wisconsin could take this message to heart.

They are in the position of Eruzione, about to face off against a powerful opponent, although I hesitate to compare Walker to something as communist as the Soviet hockey team.

It isn’t enough for the Democratic Party to convince every Wisconsinite that Scott Walker is a bad person. Nor is it sufficient to collect one million recall signatures and set the recall process in motion. If the Democratic Party truly wants to succeed, then

they must organize around a strong candidate that has a significant chance of beating Scott Walker in a recall election. If Democrats can’t put forward a strong gubernatorial candidate, then the petition drive was a grand waste of time and money.

So far, the Democrats have failed to find their strongest candidate. Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, had announced his intention to run, but he is hardly the Democratic hero that fed-up Wisconsinites are looking for. In fact, in the notorious prank call in which Ian Murphy, a liberal blogger impersonating millionaire David Koch who recorded numerous candid and unseemly Walker comments, Walker refers to Cullen as “one guy that’s actually voted with me on a bunch of things,” and even remarked, “I appreciate his friendship.”

Kathleen Falk, a former Dane County executive, is also running, but her track record as a Madison liberal and her recent unsuccessful attempts to run for governor and state attorney general make it unlikely that she would make a strong showing across the

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Gov. Walker faces allegations he allowed aides to misspend money and time.

With the recall effort underway, is this the best issue for Dems to focus on? state.

The most noticeable noshow in the Democratic field is progressive fan favorite Russ Feingold. Feingold is a household name and seemed the logical choice for a big name liberal candidate that would have a serious chance of beating Walker in a recall showdown. Unfortunately, Feingold has maintained that he has no intentions of running for governor, saying, “There will be a new governor in a few months, but it won’t be me.” Having a star player sitting on the bench is not improving Democratic chances in the upcoming recall election.

With all of the Democrats’ worries in mind, when I see comments like Zielinski’s assertion that there is a “shadow government” meant to further Scott Walker’s career, it sounds like a desperate attempt to put blame on Walker and draw attention away from problems on the Democratic home front. Really, Wisconsin Democrats need to work on their own game — there’s plenty there to keep them busy.

reasoning fell on deaf ears.

It is a new low for a party that has consistently put its own political interests above the interests of Wisconsin citizens. To, as Mason put it, “prioritize partisanship over saving babies’ lives” tells you all that you need to know about the state of the Republican Party in Wisconsin right now. There

is a time and a place for establishing political power, and there is a time to try and figure out how to save the lives of babies. You decide which of those most held the joint legislative session’s focus.

Charles Godfrey (cwgodfrey@wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in math and physics.

Politics trump infant mortality fixes John Waters Columnist The Republican Party reached a new low last week, rejecting outright a series of proposals brought to a joint legislative hearing on infant mortality. Wisconsin finds itself among the worst of all states with infant mortality rates. The number of infants who die in Wisconsin in the first year of their lives is twice the rate of those in Minnesota. Worse still, according to Chairman of the Committee on Infant Mortality Cory Mason, D-Racine: “If [Racine] were a country, [the mortality rate] would have put us between Nicaragua and Kazakhstan.”

According to Mason’s press release, the committee was “comprised of medical and public health professionals, elected officials, community leaders and policy experts.”

This distinguished group put forth eleven relevant proposals to, as Mason put it, “save lives and save money,” which are two “very positive things that I hope we can

build bipartisan support on.”

Unfortunately, there was no such support from GOP lawmakers.

In some Wisconsin counties, babies are dying at the same rates as many developing nations.

Proposals that could have saved millions of dollars as well as thousands of lives were rejected solely to serve partisan political interests.

At one point during the session, Mason explained, “just reducing the five communities that have the highest infant mortality rates would save over $17 million a year.”

Understand this for a second: Wisconsin currently has a crisis in our healthcare system because we are failing to create an effective system that will maintain the care for an infant after it has left the hospital. In response to this crisis, a committee of the best and the brightest in their field was asked by our Legislature to take time away from their jobs to create a comprehensive and costeffective plan to reduce the problem.

Those experts accomplished what they set out to do. Of the 11 proposals, five had unanimous support.

The other six no more than one or two dissenting votes out of the 12 committee

QUOTE OF THE DAY “He said he smokes the incense because it gives him a better high than marijuana.”

-JOEL DESPAIN, MADISON POLICE SPOKESMAN On Monday, Prince Owens attempted to burglarize a Madison BP gas station while trying to obtain incense to smoke it for intoxicant effects.

As reported by the Cap Times, two customers and a store cashier were able to detain the man until police arrived. A search of erowid.org for “incense,” returns no results, and opinion editors have no knowledge of China Rain ever causing a high. This conclusively proves that smoking incense probably isn’t a thing.

members. In response to all of that information, the Republicans chose to reject that these proposals be advanced to a standing committee where they could formally be presented as a bill.

Simply put, Republicans chose to adhere to this partisan position that they are against healthcare reform over using the time and knowledge of experts to save the lives of infants. It is beyond unacceptable.

If Governor Walker wants to reject the federal grant to create a health insurance exchange in Wisconsin as he did this week, fine. I understand the greater political battle of the Affordable Health Care Act and the uncertainty surrounding its eventual implementation pending the Supreme Court case. I completely disagree with the Republican stance but recognize the political climate in which that decision was made. But there is no such excuse in this situation.

What is the point of spending taxpayer money on these committees, aimed at solving real and serious problems within our state, if the unequivocal answer is no? The rest of the joint legislative session was no

better. Rep. Edward Brooks, R-Reedsburg, voted to reject changes that were presented by the committee he chaired.

Ridiculously, his excuse for voting down his own committee was they went in a direction outside their scope. He entirely missed the point — as chairman, perhaps, at some point, he could have changed the direction to something within the scope.

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, may have put it best.

“I don’t think I would ever even consider chairing a council; looking at the actions of this committee, we have turned down report after report … ignoring professionals who are creating a body of knowledge that we asked for.”

Time and again during the session, the only Republican responses were, loosely, “well somebody somewhere already does this, and we don’t really need to create these changes.” They ignored the data, recent outcomes and, most of all, specifically ignored the people working in these fields.

“These were the best ideas they could put together, health care specialists,” Mason said. “They said ‘this is how we can fix this.’”

This common sense

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

UW tackling disaster preparedness Tom McClintock Guest Columnist A planning team consisting of University of Wisconsin staff and consultants are in the middle of a two-year Federal Emergency Management Agencyfunded grant to develop a Disaster-Resistant University plan for the Madison campus and outlying properties. The goal of this plan is to help mitigate and minimize potential damage from natural, technological or political hazards or disasters.

University community members, including faculty, staff and students, are invited to attend a meeting Tuesday to learn more about the UW DRU plan and provide input on identifying hazards and mitigation ideas important to you. The meeting will be held from

4-6 p.m. in room 240 of the Steenbock Memorial Library.

The DRU Plan will facilitate cooperation between federal, state and UW authorities as well as enhance a planning network to better enable UW to articulate accurate needs for mitigation. The UW DRU Plan will also assure eligibility for future funding opportunities through The Department of Homeland Security, FEMA and Wisconsin Emergency Management Agency hazard mitigation grant programs.

The DRU steering committee consists of university representatives including Campus Police, Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, Facilities Planning and Management University Housing, Ag Research Stations, UW Hospital & Clinics, Risk Management, the City of Madison,

Wisconsin Department of Administration and two consultants, Integrated Solutions Consulting and the Polis Center at the Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis.

The DRU plan requires assessing the risks from the identified hazards to university property, operations and safety of humans. University community members will also have an opportunity to identify perceived threats at the public meeting Jan. 31. Staff at the LICGF center on campus are integrating spatial information and databases from different sources, including campus structures, demographics and hazard locations on campus using Geographic Information Systems.

These GIS layers are helping the planning team model potential disaster scenarios and estimate risks.

Mitigation strategies will be developed by the DRU Committee Jan. 31 prior to the public meeting. These strategies will be available for the public to review and comment on during the 4-6 p.m. public meeting.

Goal #1: Increase public understanding of emergency management and build support for hazard mitigation.

Goal #2: Develop, promote and integrate mitigation actions.

Goal #3: Continue to improve and enhance UW’s all-hazard preparedness program.

Goal #4: Increase the economic stability, core values and quality of life of UW Madison.

Tom McClintock (tlmcclin@wisc.edu) is UW LICGF outreach program manager. For further information, visit lic. wisc.edu/dru or call 608263-0009.

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This election cycle’s Republican primary season can best be summed up by the tagline from Aliens vs. Predator: “Whoever wins, we lose.”

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The Badger Herald | Arts | Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Cracking the Code A look inside Madison’s hacker space.

on Sector 67

space is it’s highly dependent on what the members are interested in.”

ArtsEtc. Content Editor And what are the members interested in? Project-filled Rubbermaid bins and a towering shelf holding each member’s supplies paint a diverse picture.

Tucked away in a warehouse on “We have a 12-year-old the Near East Side lies Sector67, member that’s working on Madison’s own hacker space. building a single-serving muffin Officially dubbed a Center for machine,” Meyer said. “We’ve Prototyping, Technology and got aluminum casting equipment Advanced Manufacturing, the because one of the members is mystery of just what goes on at really into learning casting and Sector67 remains even after stepping foundry work.” through the nondescript door.

One member is programming a Although the middle of the remote control to turn on and off industrial space is filled with a electrical sockets on a timer, and conference table and haphazard another is working to restore a chairs, heavy machinery and other three-wheeled electric car. Then toys for tinkerers lay just out of sight. there’s the tech start-up running In one nook sits 3D printers out of the business incubator and and CNC milling machines, and in the artist who welds his recycled another lurks a welding area. Down art at the space. the hallway is a shared office space, “It’s pretty variable, and that’s and just beyond that is a computer lab a lot of the fun part of it,” Meyer with a 3D scanner. Sewing machines, said. electric saws, oscilloscopes, and For members, Sector67 plenty of tools and half-done projects provides both a space to work on adorn the space as well. projects and the tools necessary So what is Sector67? Founder and to start them. But the space has recent University of Wisconsin grad resources for nonmembers as Chris Meyer puts it this way: “Think Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald well. about it as gym club for people who Sector67 founder Chris Meyer answers a question from a member using a laser cutter in one of the space’s many tucked-away work areas.

Besides being involved like to do and build stuff.” with the community by doing When asked what a typical in engineering from UW. When Meyer was an undergraduate, day was like at Sector67, Meyer projects for local groups like the Madison He labeled Sector67 as both a no such club existed. replied with a smile, “There’s no Children’s Museum and the non-profit “As a student, I always entered invention community workspace and hacker Dream Bikes, the space offers courses in such thing.” competitions and that kind of thing, but space but is quick to clarify what that The membership fee grants such topics as automotive repair, circuit I never really had any workspace that I means. members access to all of the board sketching and software engineering, “It’s not like getting in and stealing could use off-campus or on the weekends,” supplies and machinery that all with enrollment open to anyone who is he said. “So when I graduated, I wanted to someone’s credit card information; they’ve been trained in, meaning interested. create a space that other people could come it’s getting in and taking an object Although the space is still young and someone could be throwing in and use to do stuff and build stuff and and repurposing it for something pottery, working on a car engine, continuing to evolve, Meyer is optimistic else,” he explained. “A hacker have the necessary tools and equipment.” programming a circuit board or about the future.

He wrote up a business plan for just such space is people who are interested “Sector67 may go a lot of different building a dining room set on any a space and entered it into the Wisconsin in taking something and then given day. For those not making or directions and do a lot of different things,” School of Business’ G. Steven Burrill reapplying it to something it was building physical things, Sector67 he said. “But we’re certainly interested in Business Plan Competition as a non-profit never intended for.” has both rental office space in the any opportunity to build cool stuff.”

While many members organization.

As for the immediate future, Meyer and “business incubator” and an (almost) After winning second place in that engage in Meyer’s definition of other Sector67 members are happy to take quiet workspace. competition and third place in the hacking at the space in such “A typical day could be nice and quiet on whatever projects strike their fancy. As Governor’s Business Plan Contest, Meyer ways as using an Xbox Kinect with folks in the business incubator. Meyer put it, “It just kind of depends on the opened Sector67 (“Sector” was inspired by as a large-scale 3D scanner, Another typical day could be someone day and what comes up.” the Argonne National Laboratory, “67” is bike chains as art supplies comes in and is fixing their car exhaust the number of members needed to remain or Styrofoam to make highFor more information on Sector67 classes, or something and so you’ve got a grinder altitude balloons, hacking is cash flow positive). running and a welder and all sorts of hours and membership, check out www.sector67.

The space opened in October 2010, just a just one of many things that noise,” Meyer said. “What’s cool about the org or visit the space at 2100 Winnebago St. few months after Chris received his master’s goes on there.

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Super Bowl competitors battle over regional food Sam Stepp Chew On This Columnist For any Packer fan, mere mention of the upcoming big game probably induces a cringe. But the respect Wisconsin lost in football can be gained back in food. Let’s look at the regional cuisine of the two competing teams in Super Bowl XLVI:

New England Patriots: Clam Chowder Wisconsinites naturally love the idea of clam chowder, given that its main ingredients include milk, cream and potatoes. So do people from Massachusetts,

who have held claim to the dish pretty much since the colonial era. A composite of all the ingredients readily available to newlyimmigrated pioneers, the soup made of milk or cream, onions, potatoes and clams was a natural outgrowth of colonial life and represented a composite of all the ingredients at the heart of Massachusetts’s history as a colony and a state.

But that still doesn’t explain where the word “chowder” comes from. In fact, it doesn’t have much to do with the dish itself, but rather the container in which it was cooked. The term comes from the Latin word “calderia,” which literally refers to “a place for warming things” or the French “chaudiere,” meaning “cooking pot.”

Colonial women would throw all their chowder

ingredients into a big pot and let them cook all day, turning into a giant communal dish for the family or extended family. This cooking method was convenient because it gave chore-laden families more time to do what they wanted rather than focus on making dinner.

Consequently, the only rational conclusion any serious scholar of clam chowder history can draw is that MAKING CHOWDER WAS LAZY. I mean, how much easier can it get? All they did was toss all the nearest food into a big pot and heat it up. Way to go, Patriots, your crowning dish requires the cooking skills of a fifth grader. Pathetic.

Anyway, on to New York.

New York Giants: Pizza The truth is, a number of areas in the U.S. have sizable pizza traditions, most notably

Chicago. But only New York can lay claim to the iconic pie — huge, flat, fold-able and sold by-the-slice.

Pizza first came to New York in 1905 when Gennaro Lombardi, a recent immigrant from Naples, began selling pizza at his shop in Lower Manhattan. These first pizzas were actually called “tomato pies” and were built with the sauce spread over the top of the cheese and toppings.

Since then, New York pizza has developed thicker crust, “aged” shredded cheese instead of fresh mozzarella, reversed its topping order and generally evolved into the paper plate-consuming monstrosity we know as NY pizza today.

One interesting fact that becomes increasingly clear as one delves deeper into NY pizza history is that NEW YORK PIZZA IS A SHAM. Really, New York?

“Oh look, I’ve got this great, authentic, elegant, flavorful pie straight from Italy; let me pile a bunch of tasteless cheese on top and throw away these fresh tomatoes and put canned sauce on it and add some more grease to it for the drunks.”

What you call pizza, I call an American abomination.

Time to throw the yellow flag, because this stuff is foul.

For true Neapolitan pizza (I’m serious — San Marzano tomatoes from Naples and the whole nine yards), you only need to look right next door at Pizza Brutta, 1805 Monroe Street. That’s Wisconsin, Giants, doing your job better than you could do it yourself.

Wisconsin: Curds

at the end of the Ice Age. The proliferation of farming and livestock that ensued, combined with cheesemaking skills brought over by immigrants from Switzerland and Germany, gave rise to what is one of the greatest dairy traditions in the world.

Hence, If one had to point to a single quintessential Wisconsin dish, it would inevitably by cheese — and, by extension, cheese curds. Cheese curds are best eaten within a few hours, encouraging local dairy farms and cheese manufacturers.

Making them requires labor and skill. They are not a sham.

They are small, delicious and squeaky. Wisconsin wins; flawless victory.

Cheese

Wisconsin owes its rich dairy tradition to glacial movement, which gave way to lush pasture lands

Sam Stepp is a junior majoring in journalism.

Comments, questions, recipes, suggestions? Email her at ssstep@wisc.edu.

Blue Man Group enthralls, entertains Madison audience 20 years later, group succeeds captivating crowd at last week’s Overture showing Sam Berg ArtsEtc. Reporter Since beginning its act 20 years ago, Blue Man Group’s distinctive performance has become a global entertainment giant. The cast of blue men has grown from the three founders to an army of nearly 90 painted performers.

Despite its globally franchised success, Blue Man Group made last week’s performances at Overture Hall in the Overture Center for the Arts feel both unique and surprisingly intimate.

Being part physical

stand-up comedy, part art exhibition and part science demonstration, the group brought a performance that is difficult to package into a single term.

As the lights dimmed at the start of Blue Man Group’s show, Overture began to seem like some sort of robot church.

Two stock ticker screens mounted high on either side of the stage blinked disembodied orders to the audience. “Get to know your neighbors,” the red lights began.

The screens then instructed random members of the audience to stand as the rest of the crowd welcomed them in unison.

“HELLO [name], it’s so good to see you here,” the audience slowly read in monotonous chorus. After this warm-up, the air in

Overture Hall was thick with good vibes that lasted until the final encore.

BMG turned up the intensity slowly, beginning with its well-known but nevertheless breathtaking drum and paint number.

As one blue man drummed an oil drum timpani set, the other two squirted glowing paint on the drums. When a mallet struck a drum, a plum of neon color shot as high as 10 feet into the air before splattering back onto the drum.

The visual presentation during the show was spectacular, but the bulk of BMG’s performance focused on showing the audience how music can be made out of absolutely anything.

In one act, the blue men found boxes of Captain Crunch and began feasting in each of their own charming

styles. One ate the pieces one at a time. Another shoved fistfuls of cereal into his mouth. The other simply dumped the box onto his sticky blue face.

Then they chewed, each to a different rhythm. The chewing started forming a simple beat that the back-up band supported and turned into a full three-minute song.

The chewing music was surprisingly pleasant and left the crowd in ferocious applause.

Instead of creating good music, legendary visual effects or Woody Allen level comedy, Blue Man Group is in the business of making the audience have a good time, whether the audience likes it or not.

During the show, the performers picked a man from the audience who was obviously trying to ignore

them by hiding behind his program. They brought him to the stage.

They dressed him in a white jumpsuit and a motorcycle helmet with a black visor. The blue men then tied the blinded man’s feet to a rope that dragged him into the air until he was hanging upside down.

Another blue man unveiled a hose and sprayed the man’s body with paint. One blue man swung the hog-tied man onto a canvas where his soaking body made a dull splat as he stamped an impression of himself.

The man got to keep his work of art but appeared even surlier as he left the stage with his giant painting.

In another cheeky move, BMG stopped in the middle of performing a song, changing the video on their giant projector screen backdrop

from rotating threads of DNA to live footage of a couple arriving late to the show.

One of the men revealed a hand-held spotlight from offstage and shined it on the mortified couple until they finally took their seats. The rest of the audience was in stitches and unanimously relieved that they got to their seats on time.

The show felt like it had lasted less than half an hour before BMG started its last song. The performance was so engrossing and fresh that it never once dragged.

Although the music sounds dated, it hardly detracted from the quality of a spectacular show. Blue Man Group proved that they deserve their place in American culture and have earned their status as an act that has sold out venues for decades.

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Selflessness ails Wisconsin’s offense Drew Harry Sports Writer The Wisconsin men’s hockey team (12-12-2) is still trying to produce consistent results each night.

After losing consecutive games at North Dakota this past weekend, UW head coach Mike Eaves and the Badgers are hoping to capitalize on the final four series of the season, two of which will be on the road.

“We’re not that far to home ice,” Eaves said in his Monday press conference. Yet the Badgers will likely need to steal a few road games in order to secure home ice. With 16 points in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association conference standings, UW sits in ninth place, five points behind sixth-place Nebraska-Omaha (21).

UW must overcome its inexperience on the road, where it is 1-8-1 on the season.

The relative youth of the team suggests this group has extensive room for improvement, providing a hopeful outlook for the rest of the season.

Subsequently, Eaves garnered many positives from this past weekend’s games at North Dakota.

“We did a lot of good things,” Eaves said. “We competed hard enough in that building to win, and that’s one of our concerns with such a young team.

Could we handle that environment and play physical and go toe to toe?

And I think we did that.”

With such a young team, Eaves is looking for leadership from a variety of characters.

Although Junior Justin Schultz has been unable to find the net consistently as of late, he has still been a force on the ice.

“He played like a man this weekend, he controlled the

game physically and with his play without the puck,” Eaves said. “He is doing so many more good things away from the puck that he’s still an influence in the game.”

Schultz’s physicality indicates his role as an enforcer on the team, as his strength serves to stabilize the Badgers from physical teams. Yet from a leadership standpoint, the team can extrapolate a lot out of his selflessness — perhaps to a fault.

The team has struggled with seizing opportunities when they arise, and Eaves stressed that they must “take what’s given. If the shot is open, take it.”

Eaves noted that against North Dakota, the Badgers “didn’t do enough in the offensive zone to create any sustained offensive pressure and create enough shots on the net. That was to some degree our demise,” he said.

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games than Frazier.

Paul had a forgetful game, scoring 10 points on 3-of-10 shooting.

But even last year, as a sophomore that didn’t pose much of a scoring threat, Frazier made so much of an impression on Gasser that he now calls the PSU guard one of the three toughest foes he’s ever had to defend.

“He’s up there, top three for sure,” he said.

Allowing the Wolverines back into the contest with a string of turnovers (which Michigan turned into 16 points in the game) and throwing the ball up from outside despite tough looks, guard Morgan Paige said her teammates learned from their mistakes earlier this year.

“Even when they went on the run, we didn’t get down on each other, we

ROCHEL, from 8 now and again … you can’t just turn and throw it.”

While the Wolverine press created turnovers it also created a mental challenge for the Badgers, as the team

HUGHES, from 8 basketball had a graduation success rate of just 68 percent, while football scored 69 percent.

The culture of college basketball and football has shaped into a full-on business, and there are examples of universities setting aside educational priorities for monetary ones instead.

One example, brought to you by the Springfield NewsSun, gives you the details of recently hired Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer’s new contract.

Every year, Meyer stands to win $700,000 in bonuses. $550,000 are set aside for on-field accomplishments such as winning a conference title, going to a BCS bowl game and the like. That leaves $150,000 left over for academic and graduation achievements.

As Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN.com quips, “This suggests that football is 3.7

opportunities will allow the Badgers to put together more consistent play, according to Eaves, and perhaps in turn will make the team more cohesive as they attempt to figure out how to be a bit more selfish with the puck.

Eaves emphasized that the players need to find their roles and capitalize on their opportunities.

“Part of that is the psyche.

If you don’t score, do you want that responsibility of not being that guy who didn’t score?,” he said. “If you make a pass it’s okay because you tried to pass it, tried to set up your teammate. So you don’t take as much responsibility.

“Guys don’t want to be labeled selfish,” Eaves said.

But he also emphasized he wants the team to “take the responsibility and shoot.

You’re not being selfish; you’re taking what’s given.”

Taking opportunistic shots and creating pressure on opposing defenses

didn’t disband,” she said.

“If anything, we tried even harder to get closer in that huddle and make sure we were setting up the next play on offense, and just knowing that we could come out of it.

And I think that’s due to the experience in earlier games this season where we have fallen apart.”

The Badgers limited standout Michigan center Rachel Sheffer to just five points in the first half, but

stopped looking inside and started settling for cross-court passes. During the Wolverines’ press and coinciding run the Badgers attempted five threes, all unsuccessful.

“Whatever we were doing wasn’t working … so I was

ready to try something,” Borseth said. “Grab in the bag of tricks and see what happens. During that period of time maybe it changed the rhythm of their shots and they didn’t make any, and we maybe stayed in it too long.”

times more important than education at Ohio State.”

Men’s basketball and football players are involved in a lucrative opportunity to make millions of dollars after school without an education — although more of them do not see this come to light.

So if universities — and institutions like the NCAA — truly care about their studentathletes beyond the revenue they bring in, they’ll offer men’s basketball and football players incentives to earn a diploma.

For what it’s worth, I find it difficult to imagine recruiters from other schools being effective in securing graduate transfers. There’s too many possibilities involved. What happens if the player took too few credits as a freshman to graduate before his eligibility dries up? Would both schools approve of the deal? What if he fails a class down the road?

Sounds like an inefficient enterprise to me. It would be nothing like recruiting out of

high school or out of junior college; there’s too many things that could rule out a player from transferring to a specific school.

And for all Ryan offered on this rule, saying it “creat[es] conversations behind the backs of the institutions and the coaches and his teammates,” players already have the right to talk about normal transfers anyway.

Any student-athlete that works hard at school should be granted a reward in the form of a last-chance opportunity to salvage what may have gone astray in their athletic career.

It might put a little dent in the game of college basketball and football, but really, the NCAA is an institution of higher education and needs to act like it — if only somewhat.

Elliot is a senior majoring in journalism. What do you think about the transfer rule? Tweet at him @BHeraldsports.

she was a key part of UM’s comeback with 15 points on 6 of 11 shooting in the final 20 minutes of the game.

Though Wisconsin struggled for consistency much of the game, Wurtz — the Badgers’ leading scorer with 15.8 points per game — finished with a team-high 21 points.

Converting 53.8 percent of her shots on 7 of 13 shooting, Wurtz missed only one of her shots

will also take pressure off another emerging leader on the team — freshman goaltender Joel Rumpel.

Since Jan. 7, Rumpel has only allowed 1.86 goals per game, and Eaves indicated that Rumpel has been developing nicely, along with other players.

“It’s still a group of young people that are young in their development, and we will continue the process of coaching them and helping them get better,” Eaves said.

In the game against North Dakota, Rumpel epitomized the Badgers’ resiliency and desire for improvement this season.

“He walked off the ice, he said, ‘Coach, I just lost it in the background.’ But what was particularly important was how he responded to that,” Eaves said. “He played very well after that; he kept us in the game in the second period with that

from the charity stripe and sealed the victory by sinking three free throws in the final 36 seconds.

Still dwelling in the bottom half of the conference standings at No. 8 after defeating the Wolverines, Kelsey had a renewed sense of confidence in her team as the development and improvement visible at many moments this season finally translated into a ‘W.’

breakaway save.”

Rumpel signifies the youth of the Badgers, but he also illustrates their capabilities. According to Eaves, if they can rebound from poor play and learn from it, they can then start to consistently take advantage of opportunities, such as the breakaway save.

In Rumpel’s case, Eaves saw it as a microcosm of what the team should strive to accomplish, which is ultimately learning from its mistakes.

“That was a little look into his mindset. He let it go, he bounced right back and played very well,” Eaves said. “I thought he handled the environment very well. It was a nice step forward for Joel.

“We gave ourselves a chance to win, [and] we came up short, but how can we take what we saw and transform that into something of value?”

“I want them to look back on their experience and say ‘we gave it our all,’” Kelsey said. “Not I wish I could have, should have, would have, didn’t, it’s over. You’re only out here a short time, and if you go out there and fight and scrap, you have a chance. If you don’t, you won’t win, it’s just that simple for me.”

“But we’re very proud of them, we’re going to keep working.”

Sports Editor Elliot Hughes sports@badgerherald.com

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SPORTS

Badgers win 3rd in a row RECAP

Wisconsin brings down Michigan 66-60 despite string of turnovers, late comeback Ian McCue Associate Sports Editor In a thrilling 66-60 victory over the Michigan Wolverines Monday night, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team finally proved its resiliency.

Junior guard Taylor Wurtz sunk a layup to put the Badgers (8-13, 4-5 Big Ten) up by two with 3:29 remaining, and Bobbie Kelsey’s squad never looked back, staving off a late Michigan (16-6, 5-4 Big Ten) comeback. With a seemingly secure 16-point lead early in the second half, the Wolverines came back in full force with a 16-0 run that tied things up at 47.

But forward Cassie Rochel and Wurtz hit the nerve-wracking free throws that have cost them numerous games this season to put away the conference’s fifth-ranked team.

“I think early on we were really learning how to play,” Kelsey said. “Again, when you lose a lot of your scoring from last year, a lot of these players haven’t been in these situations in the game. They’ve been on the bench cheering, but when you’re in the game it’s different, you have to make the play.”

The win — which marked the Badgers’ third conference win in a row, their longest such streak

of the season — also saw a momentum-changing three-pointer from veteran guard Jade Davis just under the 2:30 mark. Davis tied a season high with 13 points.

Moving the ball around smoothly on the offensive end and proving that they are effectively adjusting to Kelsey’s new system, the Badgers jumped out to a 10-point lead at halftime. Surrendering just 16 points in the opening period, Wisconsin allowed Michigan to nearly triple that number in the latter half with 44.

But UW relied on role players like the 6-foot-4 Rochel — who scored seven key points in the final five minutes — to pull off the

upset on the Kohl Center hardwood.

“Our biggest strength as a team is just staying together during pressure situations,” Wurtz said. “And I think that we’ve learned how to hit big shots down the end, and obviously we have things to work on, but we’re learning how to play better defense towards the end.”

The Badgers continued to struggle from beyond the arc all game, shooting just 28.6 percent from three-point range, but ended the night with a 44.6 percentage from the floor thanks to a combination of high-percentage layups and quality jumpers.

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Cassie Rochel only played 14 minutes but helped launch UW to victory with nine key points.

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Rochel’s confidencebuilding play carries UW to victory over stingy Wolverines Nick Korger Associate Sports Editor All the usual suspects showed up for Wisconsin on the offensive end of the floor Monday night against Michigan.

Star guard Taylor Wurtz piled in 21 points while Jade Davis put in 13 to guide the Badgers through a pesky Wolverines squad.

But one name in the box score had a surprisingly seismic contribution for the Badgers at the Kohl Center.

In a game that saw the Badgers yield a 16-point lead

to the Wolverines over seven minutes in the second half, one Wisconsin post player came through with a defining performance that made a difference. This time the player’s name wasn’t Anya Covington.

Sophomore Cassie Rochel was scoreless through the first half for the Badgers, but the young center stepped up when it mattered most, scoring all nine of her points in the second half while adding five rebounds to a solid performance.

For a player who admits to having a pass-first mentality, Rochel certainly grabbed the spotlight for herself in the Badgers third consecutive conference win.

“My biggest thing this year was struggling with confidence,” Rochel said. “But I really have to give all the credit

to my guards. They found me when I was open, and I just happened to finish my layups this game.”

Rochel, who players and fans alike often refer to as a diamond in the rough, emerged during the most crucial stretch of the game.

With little more than four minutes remaining in the game the score was deadlocked at 49-49, as the Wolverines used an 18-2 run to climb back from the abyss. But as quickly as the Wolverines had tied it the Badgers had an answer, as Rochel intelligently broke off-ball to the weak side of the basket where Badger guard Jade Davis quickly dumped it an easy Rochel layup. Rochel’s first points of the game were big ones, but she wasn’t done yet.

With the Badgers only leading by four with two

minutes remaining, Rochel grabbed an offensive rebound off of a Morgan Paige miss and followed it up with a put-back layup. On the next offensive series Rochel once again helped the Badgers with a solid scoring look.

After Michigan’s Kate Thompson answered with a three on the ensuing possession, the Badger lead had dwindled to three with only one minute left. But once again, Rochel would not let the Badgers fall. Using a terrific post seal on the block against a smaller Michigan player, Rochel received a near-perfect entry pass from Paige.

From there it was all Rochel, as she used a quick drop step on the baseline to draw a conventional 3-point play. All nine of Rochel’s points came in the final four minutes and 13 seconds of the game.

Pressing issues at hand In the first half the Badgers commandeered a stranglehold on the game rarely seen this season.

Up 26-16 heading into halftime, it looked like Wisconsin was in cruise control. The Badgers benefited from constant open looks throughout the floor while holding the Wolverines to a measly 23 percent from the floor.

But Michigan head coach Kevin Borseth had a defensive trick up his sleeve that almost jettisoned the struggling Wolverines out of the Kohl Center with a win.

After struggling to scrape up 16 points in the first half, Borseth turned a 2-1-2 halfcourt and sometimes full-court press on the Badgers. Borseth had displayed a glimpse of the

Badgers hope to extend 5-game win streak, continue climb up B1G ladder Sports Editor Where the Wisconsin men’s basketball team once peered up from near the bottom of the Big Ten standings, it now finds itself looking down on most of its peers after just three weeks’ time.

The Badgers (17-5 overall) went from 1-3 in conference play to a 6-3 mark that leaves them tied for third place with Michigan and just one game outside first-place Ohio State.

No. 20 Wisconsin has had the luxury of four full days of rest after pulling off a well-played 57-50 upset over then-No. 16 Indiana at the Kohl Center last Thursday.

Mix that with a 3-1 conference road record, and don’t be surprised if you find a little spring in the step of Badger players as they prepare to meet with Penn State (10-12, 2-7) Tuesday.

“We’re sitting pretty good,” guard Josh Gasser said. “We had a couple days off after the big win to kind of reenergize ourselves, rest our bodies a little bit.

“We got a lot of time to regroup and stuff, and we know we have a big stretch coming up with traveling to Penn State and Ohio State later in the week. We just like where we’re at right now.”

The Nittany Lions may find themselves at the very bottom of the Big Ten standings, but in

what may be the nation’s deepest conference, a loss can emerge from anywhere. Both of Penn State’s two victories in the league came against teams with winning records, while one of them — Illinois — has consistently been ranked.

Fans of either team may cringe at the thought of UW and PSU matching up again after the last time they met — in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament last year, the two teams battled it out in a game where the final tally read more like a halftime score.

Penn State shot 33.3 percent from the field while Wisconsin managed 29.4 in a 36-34 decision.

But much has changed for PSU’s men’s basketball team since. The Nittany Lions introduced a new head coach, Patrick Chambers, in the offseason and waved goodbye to four senior starters.

The Badgers, meanwhile, also graduated three starters themselves.

“They have pretty much a completely different team; they had a lot of seniors last year so they have a lot new faces now.

We have some new faces as well,” center Jared Berggren said.

But the lone PSU starting returnee just happens to be one of the Big Ten’s most impressive guards.

Junior Tim Frazier — at 6-foot-1, 170 pounds — is second in the

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press when the Wolverines were down 10-2 early in the game but unleashed it in full for almost the duration of the second half.

As the Badgers turned the ball over three times against the Wolverines’ aggressive press, their lead began to dwindle. The Wolverines benefited immensely from the Badgers second half miscues against the press, scoring 12 second half points off of Wisconsin turnovers.

“Part of it is not them necessarily [other teams] taking it out of our hands but the decision that’s made,” Wisconsin head coach Bobbie Kelsey said. “You can’t just throw it and try to throw it over people, you have to use a fake, you have to use a stepthrough, a bounce pass every

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Jared Berggren has averaged 10.6 points per game with a season total of 234 points, second on the Badgers, behind offensive star Jordan Taylor. conference with 19 points per game in league play and first with 5.1 assists.

His numbers have made quite a leap from last year, when he started 33 games and averaged 6.3 points per game.

UW guard Jordan Taylor and associate head coach Greg Gard both said one reason for Frazier’s leap in production has to do with the fact that last year he was a sophomore starting along with four seniors, and the burden of scoring was placed more heavily on his teammates.

With so much experience leaving, Gard believes that, in a way, Frazier had no choice but to step in and take charge. Either way, Gard praised Frazier’s development and nearly called him the conference’s most improved player.

“They lost a lot, so [Frazier] had to take a jump or he has to stand

out because he’s one of the few returning,” Gard said. “But … I don’t know if there’s anybody in the league that’s made the jump he has in what he’s added to his game.

“He’s made himself a better shooter. Very similar to Jordan, when he came in, his shooting was not — you know, you’d like to have him shoot it from out there — and he was just a driver, just a penetrator. Now he’s added [shooting] to his game.”

In all likelihood, it will be Gasser who will be assigned to defend Frazier Tuesday, as he did last season as well.

But Gasser has already had success against some of the Big Ten’s best.

More recently, against Illinois Jan. 22, he was primarily responsible for Brandon Paul, now currently the only person averaging more points per game (20) in Big Ten

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On Jan. 23, Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan sat down for his weekly press conference and fielded a question about the NCAA transfer rule for graduate student-athletes.

The reporter sought Ryan’s opinion on the rule given that Wisconsin’s football team had just benefited from it and that the Michigan State and Illinois men’s basketball teams both utilized it this year as well.

The rule states that any student-athlete who earns an undergraduate degree and still has eligibility remaining can transfer to a different school and skip a year of sitting on the sidelines — which is required during all other transfer situations.

As long as both schools agree to the transfer, it’s a done deal.

Given that Wisconsin recently played in the Rose Bowl, Ryan’s answer may leave Badger fans a little taken aback at first. His words: “I don’t think it’s a good idea at all, have never liked the idea of people leaving a program after four years of development at that institution; with teammates, with the school and to all the sudden change and be eligible to play right away,” Ryan said.

“And then all of the sudden, what’s going to happen here is there’s going to be more of this going on. There’s going to be guys, through outside third parties, trying to find out, for example, if a guy was playing on a team and a bunch of

seniors graduated.

“But it’s creating free agency, and it’s creating conversations behind the backs of the institutions and the coaches and his teammates. So, no, it’s a terrible rule. It’s one of the worst rules I’ve ever seen.”

Ryan isn’t the only person that dissents on the rule, with worries surrounding a free agency atmosphere, third party interference (recruiters) and friction among teammates being the common threads.

Northwestern head coach Bill Carmody also recently said he doesn’t “see anything good about it” but also said he wouldn’t have a problem using the rule since it’s there.

And now, after Wilson enjoyed the kind of year he had, some think the rule will be used more often and by higher profile players.

From Ryan’s perspective, I can understand where he’s coming from.

Ryan asked reporters at the press conference to imagine what would happen if Jordan Taylor had ditched Wisconsin for another program last offseason, and surely for many Badger fans it would be an experience tantamount to vertigo.

As a result of the rule, what many coaches might indeed worry more about is how to keep their best players on the team rather than go looking for the next Russell Wilson.

But one of the obvious benefits of the rule is that it encourages players to work hard in school and, you know, do that thing that students should do: graduate.

That’s a sore spot for the NCAA — but only when the topic is men’s basketball and football. The NCAA announced in October the entering class of 2004 in men’s

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