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Chadima target of new allegations Jackie Allen Campus Life Editor The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a second allegation against former Associate Athletic Director John Chadima involving an adult male.

In a statement released Monday, Interim Chancellor David Ward said UWPD has been investigating new allegations since Jan. 30, but did not specify the nature of the allegations or whether the individual bringing the allegations

forward was a student.

UWPD has been working in collaboration with the Dane County District Attorney’s Office.

According to the Chadima statement, UWPD believes the newest allegations are credible and has been able to corroborate many of the details the victim brought to them.

Chadima resigned last month after allegations of misconduct surfaced.

An independent review

panel later released a report outlining a report he sexually assaulted a male student Athletic Department employee at a party before the Rose Bowl.

In a statement yesterday, Ward said the individual who most recently brought allegations forward has

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been informed of his legal right to press charges, but has chosen not to do so.

The victim in the alleged Rose Bowl incident has also not chosen to file charges.

In addition to UWPD’s investigation, Ward said he has established an independent review committee to further look

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into the new allegations and any subsequent claims.

“We take all reports of this sort seriously,” Ward said in the statement.

“The university police will continue to investigate all allegations of sexual impropriety or abuse of power brought to their attention.”

The review board will be led by retired Dane County Circuit Judge Patrick Fielder, who also led the investigation into the first allegation of sexual assault against Chadima.

Fielder and two other investigators will

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Interim Chancellor David Ward addresses members of the Faculty Senate Monday, explaining he created an independent review committee because of allegations against former UW Athletic Official John Chadima.

Ward commends new tuition policy Chancellor says Board of Regents’ ability to set prices will reflect students’ needs Tahleel Mohieldin Herald Contributor University of Wisconsin Interim Chancellor David Ward gave support on Monday to a recent decision by the Legislature slated to move tuition policy power form the Wisconsin Legislature to the UW Board of Regents.

Ward said the regents are better suited to ensure student needs are addressed.

He added the Legislature might value public opinion and tax policy concerns more than they value individual student needs.

“When tuition is being considered in the Legislature, it is considered within the compounds of tax policy. … That’s not a good policy,” Ward said. “Twentyfirst century tuition needs to be flexible. Need-based aid

must be behind all tuition policy.”

He added the regents are better equipped to see that tuition policy relates to the needs of students.

Regents also will not be able to change the actual amount of tuition costs, which Ward said could be a positive.

Ward said Wisconsin representatives previously kept tuition cost within the Legislature because they were worried the Board of Regents might increase tuition.

“The legislature should trust the board to have good discourse on tuition policy,” Ward said. “In cases where states have high tuition, state support is down.”

Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell also presented Faculty Senate members with the Human Resource

Design Project, which follows the Wisconsin Legislature’s decision to enable the creation of a new HR system at UW. Bazzell said the new design seeks to better service the needs of UW by increasing efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness within the human resources system.

Bazzell added this new design is aligned with UW’s mission and vision, which aims to make UW a model public university.

There are 11 work teams that are focused on providing direction for structural and policy development within the HR system by expanding representation and expertise, Bazzell said.

Ward also discussed new allegations brought against former Senior Associate Athletic Director John

Chadima.

While initially there was no evidence of a connection between the incident that occurred at the Rose Bowl, where Chadima reportedly sexually assaulted a male student employee, and a second allegation that surfaced Monday, Ward said he felt it necessary to create a second independent review board. He said he felt compelled to reopen the issue after another individual came forward, allowing a chance for other potential victims to come forward.

“I felt the need to reopen the case,” Ward said. “PostPenn State, transparency is important.”

He concluded he intends to leave further investigation in the hands of the UW

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A city commission moved forward with a plan for the reconstruction of a cathedral on the University of Wisconsin campus.

St. Paul’s Cathedral, at 723 State St., adjacent to the Presbyterian House apartments, would be rebuilt entirely new under a proposal in front of the city process, and the old cathedral would be demolished.

The presentation was first made to the Landmarks Commission because the Pres House building is a designated city landmark.

From there, the proposal went to the Urban Design Commission, where it was voted down.

“Madison has allowed architecture diversity, and we hope that this body continues welcoming the role of architecture diversity

in their community, and in this case, diversity that is consistent with our environment,” City Attorney Ron Trachtenberg said.

Bob Krupa, one of the designers of the proposed cathedral, said the lower level of the building would be the student center, above that would be the chapel and sermon area and above that would be an educational area.

“This is an organization that has been here for over a century,” Krupa said. “This architecture says this is an organization that is here to stay, and is moving into the next century.”

Randy Milbrath, the other designer of the proposed cathedral building, said the architectural team feels the architecture is reflective of the building’s identity as a Catholic organization.

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Members of the Plan Commission agree to send the proposed renovations to the St. Paul’s Cathedral student center to the next step of the city process Monday night.

City raises concerns on Mifflin Block Party INSIDE Officials, students convene to examine shortfalls from last year’s event, point to open alcohol as culprit Vanessa Benton Herald Contributor

Adrianna Viswanatha City Politics Editor Members of the University of Wisconsin student government put forward initial expectations for both students and the city in regard to this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party at a series of meetings Monday.

Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers reported on the block party following a meeting earlier in the day with Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, Ald. Scott Resnick,

District 8, and Madison police officers.

Somers announced students should and will be involved in planning in the future and the Legislative Affairs committee will be putting their plans of involvement into effect immediately.

At the earlier meeting, Soglin voiced some concerns with regard to the student government’s involvement in Mifflin planning. In particular, Soglin drew attention to how last year’s Mifflin was different from previous years.

“Drinking in public has always been prohibited, except for last year,” Soglin said. “I think that

wrinkle was what created a lot of problems last year.”

At the meeting with the mayor, Resnick said many students may not know what to expect from the block party year to year.

“This leaves us in a vacuum that no one, not students, know what’s going on, what you will be cited for, what the ground rules actually become,” Resnick said.

Somers said Legislative Affairs ultimately wants feedback from students, the police, city officials and others in order to put together a plan in time for the Block Party in May. She said Legislative Affairs hopes to put

together a plan for Mifflin in the next two weeks.

“The reason why we are trying to put this into effect in the next two weeks is so we can hopefully bring it back to campus and the city early in order to get feedback,” Somers said.

The committee also raised the possibility for a student town hall forum on Mifflin to gauge student interest and desires.

The committee also addressed the Responsible Action Survey. Students received the survey regarding their views and feedback of the university’s alcohol policy, which was reviewed

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and commented on by committee members.

Freshman ASM Rep. Maria Giannopoulous said the survey needs more description.

“Many people don’t know what the current policy is, so they probably wouldn’t answer the questions,” Giannopoulous said.

The committee is also looking for potential conflicts between the UW alcohol policy and the drinking laws of Wisconsin, which will help members to start writing new policies within UW’s policy.

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Campus Life Editor A Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism report revealed the University of Wisconsin System has not met several goals for mental health services.

The center found just eight UW System campuses met recommendations of a 2008 UW System report that called for one mental health provider for every 2,000 students. Only two of the eight universities — UW–Stevens Point and UW–Superior — met the higher international standard of one staffer for every 1,000 to 1,500 students.

The study also found many students wait two weeks or longer between their initial appointment and first counseling session.

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University Health Services also increased by 10 percent last year.

UHS Executive Director Sarah Van Orman said mental health services are particularly important for young adults who may be experiencing mental health illnesses for the first time.

“I think they’ve portrayed an accurate picture of some of the challenges of mental health services and mental health needs of student populations right now,” Van Orman said. “What we’ve seen is the need for mental health services for young adults both on our campus and nationally.”

UHS Director of Mental Health Services Danielle Oakley added the report accurately portrayed the challenges counseling services face.

“We have done quite a bit with the resources we have, but it is still clear we are lacking in the resources for mental health services,” Oakley said.

“Overall, we’re good stewards of the resources we have.”

UHS has attempted to alleviate these resource challenges through a variety of services, such as group therapy programs and new ways of communicating healthy choices to students, Oakley said.

She added more students are seeking counseling services for a variety of reasons, including a reduced stigma around mental health and an increased risk of stress and mental health illness for young adults.

Van Orman added young adults who are enrolled in college are more likely to

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study, said she saw the study as a reality check.

“We ought to have more [services] and one of the reasons is because students are increasingly stressed,” Blum said. “But we don’t adequately supply good mental health services anywhere. It’s always been something we’ve struggled with culturally because young people have a harder problem with mental diseases.”

Van Orman said UHS will continue to work on the questions the report raised, including access to mental health services, case management and work with various student groups on campus. She said nothing in the report was particularly surprising to UHS, contending UHS was already aware of the challenges it faces.

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seek mental health services than young adults who are not, showing universities may provide young adults with health services they may not otherwise have.

A lack of health insurance also poses challenges to students seeking mental health services, the report added, with 6 to 8 percent of UW students uninsured and another 30 to 40 percent without coverage in the Madison area. While UHS mental health services are free of charge to students — the tab is picked up through tuition fees — students can only access a certain number of appointments per year before being referred to outside professionals.

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UW System employees could opt into plan outside WRS if Board of Regents approves Jacob Kaczmarowski Herald Contributor

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Rep. Kelda Helen Roys, D-Madison, questions why a state committee’s plan to take power away from the GAB’s ability to regulate campaign finance is so expansive. The committee proposes stripping the GAB of all power, but Roys said there is a much simpler solution to the concerns.

GAB’s rule authority could see hefty slash Proposal would limit officials’ ability to regulate campaign finance Sean Kirkby State Politics Editor State election officials could see a cut in their power to regulate campaign finance if a bill legislators considered Monday makes its way through the House and Senate.

According to a Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules report, the bill would remove the Government Accountability Board’s ability to regulate corporation and individual campaign expenditures.

At a public hearing Monday, Rep. Jim Ott, R-Mequon, co-chair of JCRAR, said the bill seeks to change a current GAB rule that requires any individual who spent more than $25 campaigning to pay a registration fee of $100 with the GAB. “Our objection to [the rule] is that the GAB cannot go beyond campaign finance laws currently written in Wisconsin,” Ott said.

“We see no way this would affect their ability to regulate campaigns under current law.”

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Sen. Leah Vukmir, R-Wauwatosa, said currently any individuals who spend $25 or more buying buttons, making signs or even on gas money to get to a protest have to register as a corporation.

However, Rep. Kelda Helen Roys, D-Madison, questioned why the proposed bill was so expansive in prohibiting the GAB from promulgating rules dealing with disclosure. She said if JCRAR thought the bill required registration from people who should not need to register, the committee should change the threshold.

She said the bill goes far beyond saying no to the $25 rule and prohibits GAB from promulgating rules that require corporations to play by the same rules as people.

“You’re hamstringing the GAB from ever dealing with that,” Roys said. “It just blows my mind that you’re willing to take that step and come forth not just to say that you think this rule goes too far … but we don’t want to let the GAB handle this at all.”

Ott said JCRAR is charged with oversight of state agencies and the GAB had gone beyond the current state finance laws. He said any legislator is welcome to offer a specific piece of legislation which could

address disclosure, but that is not JCRAR’s mission.

Executive Director of Common Cause Wisconsin Jay Heck said GAB passed the disclosure rules when the Senate failed to pass new disclosure laws in light of the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which ruled corporations and unions could contribute as much as they want to political action committees.

The $25 requirement was found in the state statutes, Heck said, so GAB could not change it.

He added GAB has said it was not their intention to go after individual citizens who make signs and said the intention of the disclosure rule was to go after widely disseminated communications used in the 60 days prior to the election.

Heck said rather than taking away GAB’s authority to create administrative rules related to campaign finance, the bill should seek to change the $25 rule. “[JCRAR] didn’t need to take a surface-toair missile to this rule; they could’ve taken a scalpel,” Heck said.

“They could’ve done this in a way that made common sense.”

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents would have the flexibility to allow new System employees the freedom to opt into a retirement plan outside the current Wisconsin Retirement System if a new proposal circulating in the Wisconsin Assembly is passed.

The proposal by Rep. Patricia Strachota, R-West Bend, would also allow more mobility for professors, Strachota’s spokesperson Trevor Ford said.

According to a statement released by Strachota, the lack of such a plan in Wisconsin puts the state at a competitive disadvantage when competing with other states to hire quality staff.

The statement said the plan would give the UW System the flexibility it needs to attract new professors who will allow the university to grow because every other Big Ten university has similar options.

“The proposal was created in response to a member on the Board of Regents requesting more flexibility,” Ford said.

“The bill is not a mandate requiring the Board of Regents to create a new system. The bill just gives them the opportunity to explore the possibility.”

Still, Assembly Democrats are skeptical about the bill’s benefits and timing.

Kevin Benish, spokesperson for Rep. Tamara Grigsby, D-Milwaukee, said the proposal could be beneficial, but it could also be potentially disastrous.

“If the system works,

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Agricultural and applied economics professor Brad Barham also made a motion that would place a non-voting student on the University Academic Planning Council, which advises the chancellor and provost on major academic program decisions.

don’t break it,” Benish said.

“The WRS is considered the best retirement system in the U.S., with $80 billion in assets. This might be a good idea, but we are worried. For all we know this could be another Republican assault on Wisconsin.”

Benish said until the Assembly can get a better feeling of what voters and UW employees want, it is hard to take a firm stance.

Benish said Grigsby will be watching the bill very closely.

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said he is also skeptical about the plan and said several key deciding factors are unknown.

“First, we know that a certain number of university employees are interested in having this optional plan sometime in the future,” Giroux said.

“But, we have to understand the impact that this would have on the current WRS plan administered by Employee Trust Funds.”

Giroux said the UW System is still waiting on the analysis numbers from the ETF before taking a concrete stance.

Carol Lamp, Wisconsin Retired Educators’ Association president, also stressed the importance of waiting before the ETF study was released before supporting the legislation.

“We aren’t opposed to the idea,” Lamp said.

“WREA feels strongly that Rep. Strachota should put a hold on this bill until the study is complete.”

The ETF study is scheduled for release by the end of June.

Lamp also said UW System employees were given an option similar to this in the recent past and voted it down.

The decision will be voted on at the next Senate meeting next month.

“Faculty get used to thinking of students as consumers in education, but students serve many functions in teaching and learning,” UW Department of Education assistant professor Noah Feinstein said.

“I’m impressed with students for putting in the time, and they should have a concrete voice for their efforts.”

MIFFLIN , from 1 Members of the alcohol policy group discussed Wisconsin’s Chapter 125 laws relating to Wisconsin’s alcoholic beverage policies, including underage drinking.

Somers said the next step for the committee will be to discuss a proposal for this year’s Mifflin with the Madison City Council in the coming weeks.

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CCTAP unveils budget proposals Tara Yang Herald Contributor Members of the University of Wisconsin student government debated newly proposed budget options for the UW System in a meeting Monday night.

The new budget options, called Money is Green, outline the flexibilities universities have in the budget, allowing them to potentially use money more efficiently, Student Services Finance Committee Chair Sarah Neibart said.

Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell opposed the budget options, which were sent to Neibart by UW-Parkside Interim Dean of Students Cyndi Graham.

“When I spoke to Bazzell

ST. PAUL, from 1 to come back to UDC and explain how the architecture works,” Milbrath said. “The design we’re showing is the way St. Paul’s wants to go.”

Krupa said they would strive to keep construction off of Library Mall, as it is a very populous area.

Krupa said the new cathedral would bring more activity and life to the mall because there would be a coffee house, meeting room and study area in the student center of the building.

Many UW students, most part of St. Paul’s community, came to show their support for the new design, saying it would provide more room for them to hold meetings and study.

CHADIMA, from 1 summarize the results of the inquiry in a report to Ward and the Board of Regents, Ward said in the statement.

Ward also urged anyone with additional knowledge

about the budget options, he was offended,” Neibart said.

“He noted that he was not in favor of the options because it did not really pertain to students at UW.” According to Neibart, Bazzell said he is unsure Money Is Green is relevant to UW students, adding students are not worried about segregated fees.

Neibart said other UW System schools are supportive of the Money Is Green plan, but do not have the same flexibility in handling segregated fees as UW. The details of the budget have not been released by the committee at the moment, although they were encouraged by Neibart to share the document widely with students.

SSFC Vice Chair Chase Wilson also discussed the UW budget itself with Bazzell. At the moment, SSFC members said they wanted to look more closely at the UW budget because they only have estimated numbers.

Members also questioned whether the proposed UW budget would be feasible.

“What we’re asking is impossible,” Wilson said.

“But with just the change of numbers it would be fixable.”

UW’s Child Care Tuition Assistance Program also presented two new budget options in an attempt to handle budget cuts last year.

CCTAP, a program at UW whose mission is to support enrolled students with children to complete

UW junior Kendra Yule said St. Paul’s has become her family. She said the community at the church is a very important part for all those within it.

“It’s really, really beautiful, and it’s time we had a building that reflected that,” Yule said.

UW junior Nicholas Checker said St. Paul’s offers many opportunities to a large group of Catholics.

He said the space is not currently adequate to cater to all its members.

He said the way churches are built affects the way people worship, and he believes the proposal for the new church would assist students in their need to worship as they desire.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the process

of discussing the cathedral began many months ago, with Resnick being brought into the discussion in March 2011.

He said the neighbors were not initially comfortable with the proposal, but said those neighbors, namely the Pres House, have reiterated that for their mission to work, everything in the project has to go together.

“This is something here today at least for the neighbors, particularly the Pres House and those in the neighborhood,” Resnick said. “This is for that scale a satisfactory project and result.”

The Plan Commission voted to approve the plan, which will now go back to UDC for consideration.

or potential victims of inappropriate conduct by Chadima to come forward.

Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said UW is looking for Fielder to investigate the allegation, as well as see if UW

can work to prevent similar incidents in the future. UW is currently concentrating on ensuring the investigation works effectively and transparently, he said.

He added the second allegation has slowed down

their degree programs, also provides financial grants to support early care and education.

The first budget option increased teacher salaries in order to obtain highqualified teachers. The second budget plan would still increase the salaries but it would lower the expenses and supplies.

The program lost 11 teachers last year because of low benefits and salaries, while increasing the budget would allow students’ children to obtain an education.

However, SSFC members questioned how CCTAP distributed grants and how the two budgets were different. They also wanted to know more about the CCTAP salaries, which

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Representatives from a university program that works to allow education for children of UW students ask for funds to grant benefits and salaries to allow teacher retention.

CCTAP staff said they would forward to the committee.

The committee asked for more verification and specific documents about this year’s budget, but no one questioned whether the program should or should not obtain money.

“It’s usually not a

controversial topic,” Neibart said. “We usually come to agreements after compromising.”

SSFC will be voting on the CCTAP budget proposal and further discussing the Money is Green budget options at the next SSFC meeting.

Sink or swim?

Members of the University of Wisconsin Hoofers organization set sail on an almost frozen Lake Mendota Monday afternoon, despite temperatures in the low 20s.

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UW’s review of campus alcohol policies, which Ward established after the first report on Chadima’s alleged misconduct was released Jan. 24.

“We would probably have a bit more progress made, but we spent the

last seven days working on this second allegation,” Sweeney said. “It doesn’t slow it significantly, but we probably would have been closer to deciding how we would proceed if that situation didn’t come along.”

In addition to contacting UWPD, Fiedler is accepting reports and information. To contact the university police, phone (608) 262-2957 or email report@general.wisc. edu. To contact Fielder call (608) 262-3017.

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On both sides, a few radicals hurt bottom lines Reginald Young Editorial Page Content Editor In a new twist, supporters of Gov. Scott Walker have been encouraging voters to write in Walker as a candidate in the Democratic primary for the recall election.

This builds on the saga Walker supporters have created by doing things like running “fake Democratic” Republicans in Democratic primaries. It seems the reality that Walker might actually lose in a recall is dawning on them.

As Wisconsin Democratic Party Spokesman Graeme Zielinski put it for the Menomonee Falls Patch, “Republicans seem frightened by democracy and the will of the people and, given what Scott Walker has done to ruin Wisconsin, they should be.”

I agree with Zielinski, who feels this new tactic has no chance of succeeding, just as the “fake Democrats” ploy failed.

But it certainly speaks to the sad reality of modern politics.

Some will hear this and be quick to label Wisconsin Republicans as corrupt and disrespectful of the democratic process. But the reality is the people doing this are only a small faction in the party. Yet, through their misguided behavior,

they give all Wisconsin Republicans a bad rap.

One can easily compare this subterfuge to the hecklers at Walker’s recent State of the State address.

These folks acted on their own immature impulses and in doing so made all Wisconsin Democrats look like disrespectful idiots.

These are the kinds of actions that make bipartisanship impossible in today’s political climate.

A few lone rogues paint their own party as crazy because they can see Russia from their house. The only reason any Walker supporter would try such an extreme measure is because they’re afraid he would actually lose. They’re afraid people don’t want him in office, and they’re willing to compromise the democratic

process.

It’s unlikely that voters will turn up for the recall and have to choose between Walker and Walker, but the whole issue still conjures up an image of an Orwellian dictatorship. All in all, Walker ought to distance himself from the people organizing his writeins on the Democratic primary. In fact, he should outright discourage it and pressure organizers not to continue. Otherwise, he’ll appear to agree with what they’re doing. And with the ongoing John Doe investigations, that’s the last thing he needs.

The worst part of the whole debacle of course is that, as mentioned, it only contributes to the schism between Democrats and Republicans. When we

are constantly bombarded with prime examples of the ignoble behavior of a group, those notable examples become the most readily available schemas.

So go ahead and keep it up, those of you who want to take away Wisconsinites’ ability to vote. But you are only painting your party as radical, closeminded buffoons. This is just as disheartening as hearing the hecklers during Walker’s State of the State. It further justified the Republican belief that those protesters marching outside the Capitol weren’t ordinary citizens but hysterical, uncivil hippies.

I often find myself reading similar news items and immediately think, “See! That party IS crazy!”

But then that lovely critical

thinking this university is supposed to imbue in us sets in, and I realize it’s just a misrepresentation. Not all Wisconsin Republicans are democracy-depriving radicals; not all Democrats are peace-loving hippies.

I urge you all to keep this in mind. We are not waging a war against some despotic opponent. We are supposed to be having civil discourse.

One of Madison’s most glaring flaws is its lack of conservative thought. Try sitting down sometime with someone from an opposite party and you’ll find those liberal ideas that were “obviously right” become a personal preference.

Reginald Young (ryoung@ badgerherald) is a junior majoring in legal studies and Scandinavian studies.

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SLAC has played a major role in protesting recent labor issues surrounding Adidas and its Indonesian contractors. Its contract with the university represents a significant investment, and Chancellor Ward’s actions now will likely determine the business future for the involved parties.

Adidas labor policy raises concerns John Waters Columnist How much responsibility do American companies who manufacture their products overseas have to the workers making those products? The Student Labor Action Committee’s request that the university terminate its relationship with Adidas over $1.8 million in severance pay owed to workers in PT Kizone Indonesia throws this question into the spotlight.

Adidas released a statement in response to the allegations that it owed Indonesian workers severance pay in two ways. The first is a general statement of its existing goals of providing “fair labour practices, fair wages and safe working conditions in factories throughout our global supply chain.”

To ensure these practices are implemented, Adidas says in 2010 it “conducted 1,350 factory audits worldwide, 506 of which were carried out by various external monitoring groups.”

The specific response

to the issues being raised, according to Adidas, is that the corporation had no working relationship with the factory at the time of the closure. According to the statement, “The central fact remains that the PT Kizone factory was illegally closed and abandoned by its owner, not by the Adidas Group, and this occurred more than six months after we placed our last order with them.”

Adidas also said it has no obligation to pay when its contract suppliers fail to do so.

It is true that the owner, who has since fled Indonesia, is the primary actor at fault.

But the Adidas line that it was not involved in the factory at the time of the shut down, and therefore not liable, does not add up. In Adidas’ 2011 mandatory collegiate disclosure, it listed PT Kizone as a supplier factory; the severance pay stopped in September 2010.

Yesterday, Interim Chancellor David Ward released a letter in which he said he felt Adidas’ response to concerns raised by the Labor Licensing Policy Committee “failed to address the concerns … regarding the failure to contribute financially to severance payments to displaced workers.”

Ward went on to promise to “pursue my serious concerns … directly to the senior management of Adidas.”

Blaming the lack of severance pay on the ownership of the factory did not satisfy Ward, nor should it have. According to the Worker Rights Consortium’s report on the incident “under university codes of conduct, it is the duty of the licensees to correct code violations, including non-compliance with domestic legal mandates.”

The continued efforts of SLAC and WRC and cooperation from the university administration will hopefully force Adidas into complying with its contract and providing severance pay to the factory workers.

But as production becomes more and more a globalized phenomenon, I think it is important to take a step back and look at the big picture.

Our university commissioned Adidas to make apparel for us. We had the company agree to a code of conduct based on our ideas of fair labor practices. Adidas then took that contract and outsourced it another country, where a factory owner would eventually leave his factory high and dry.

Without the response of the university and the

various workers’ rights groups, Adidas would never have acted. With the principal owner of the factory out of reach and a large group of creditors picking apart the assets, thousands of workers would have been assured no legal compensation for their work. Because of the pressure, hopefully things will work out differently, but I wonder what we as individual consumers should do about transgressions like these abroad.

The only reason this story has a chance at a just ending is because the university obviously doesn’t want to be associated with illegal labor practices. But in these countries like Indonesia and China and others, there are many and worse practices happening every day that contribute to products we buy everyday. I applaud the efforts made on campus to make Adidas accountable for the actions in its outsourced factories, but as the overall trend toward cheap labor abroad continues, consumers will face an ever-increasing need to ask themselves: Who made this for me, and under what circumstances?

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

Workers’ rights have become an increasingly important issue in Madison since the uproar of protests at the Capitol last year.

During the budget repair bill protests, I became interested in worker’s rights not only for public workers, but for students here at the University of Wisconsin. When I heard that the Associated Students of Madison was hosting a Student Workers’ Rights Campaign, I was proud that my student government was working to help students in a very significant way.

I began working this semester, so naturally I was eager to get involved and hear what ASM had to say about student workers’ rights. At the kickoff, they brought up some statistics, including that the median wage for students at UW was $8.50 an hour. You would have to work more than a full-time job year-round with that rate just to pay for tuition.

An eye-opening moment at the kickoff was when students starting sharing their personal stories. Most of the people there worked to pay for college. One person talked about how his best friend had to work two full-time jobs to pay his way.

Another talked about how she met a student who had to spend five months homeless, despite having a job. One man there was older and was formerly a student — he couldn’t afford to ever finish college.

The stories illustrated what the facts proved: The American Dream, the idea that if you just work hard enough, you can pay for college and rise to the middle class, is dying. There

are people who believe in hard work and believe it will help them get through college. It doesn’t. The math is abundantly clear: Tuition skyrockets and wages stagnate.

Even the middle class is not free from the hardships of paying for college, especially since the recession. Allie Gardner, the chair of ASM, told a very personal story about her middle-class background and how that was thrown into doubt when a parent lost their job in the recession.

One thing is clear — students need to be organized. The speaker, Joe Richard, showed it’s not wages or protections at the end of the day, but power.

Students should have a say in the policies around student workers. Students should have a say in how universities spend their tuition money — even how they set tuition. Students, sadly, are at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to policy power. The state government, university administration and other groups consistently put their interests over students’. If our voices are to be heard, we need organizing.

That can take the form of a union, the grassroots committees on ASM or the many student groups fighting for student interests on campus, ranging from SLAC to WISPIRG to MCSC to MEChA. Any way we move forward, we must move together if we are to have a say in the policies of our university. Only then can we ensure we can attend to this university and graduate with dignity — and without debt.

Esta Pratt-Kielley (prattkielley@wisc.edu) is a freshman intending to major in journalism.

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Feed Me EP leaves listeners still hungry for more DJ’s buildups show potential, but final execution a letdown for Feed Me fans Allegra Dimperio ArtsEtc, Content Editor It takes just one minute to get into Feed Me’s newest EP, Escape from Electric Mountain. At approximately 1:08, the beat drops on the album’s first track “Trapdoor,” spiraling into the glitchy, in-your-face, knobspinning breakdown Feed Me has built his sound around.

Escape from Electric Mountain is the British DJ’s follow-up EP to 2011’s four-track To the Stars. Quietly signed to

Mau5strap Records since 2008, Feed Me has just started to emerge from under the radar, with plans to headline his first U.S. tour this March.

His new EP has all the elements of a Feed Me success story: poppy electro, choppy dubstep and the finger-tapping beat that ties it all together.

But after the glorious breakdown known as 1:08, the short six-track EP fails to live up to its potential.

The EP skips from genre to genre, resulting in an album that demands to be played in no specific order.

The tone set by the angsty lyrics sung by British band Hadouken! in club-ready “Trapdoor” is shattered with the next track, “Relocation.”

“Relocation” by itself is masterful: a satisfying,

layered, muted electro track with snippets of Feed Me’s own previouslyreleased track “Blood Red” tucked into the outro. The track is a deviation from Feed Me’s style and is reminiscent of Deadmau5’s “Strobe,” with both tracks taking listeners to a musical realm they didn’t expect.

But just when listeners are basking in the electrozen, they are ripped into reality with the spoken word intro of the third track, “One Click Headshot.”

After a few dubby seconds, Feed Me’s video gamer fans could hear the beloved voice of Doug from Pure Pwnage saying, “My hands are shakin’!

My hands are shakin’! But I’m still shootin’! An’ I’m still gettin’ headshots! It’s

like, boom! Headshot!

Boom! Headshot! Boom!

Headshot!”

Although the track looks like it will stay high-energy after the vocal sample, it fails to go beyond the rapid-fire blips of synth that sounded so good for the first 30 seconds.

“Embers” meets a similar disappointing fate. Starting with the dulcet voice of vocalist Lindsay, Feed Me at first adeptly layers the vocals in with piano, electro chord progressions and a persistent dance beat.

But after a record-spinning buildup, the middle of the song veers off, forgetting the beginning and doing its own thing before almost abruptly reintroducing piano. The outro manages to blend the sections, but it comes about five minutes too late for the song to be

cohesive.

Luckily, “Trichitillomania” comes in to remind the listener what Feed Me is all about. It seems as if Feed Me treated the song like a slow cooker, continually throwing in beats and sounds until it got something resembling dinner.

With tempo changes, flipped switches, dub wobbles and synthy tones, the track has all the technical elements that one expects from the DJ, but the lack of an outro left the song ending on a dull note.

Cue “Whiskers” to save the day. By far the standout track, the collaboration with dubstep artist Gemini is the type of song that forces a listener to flail their body about. The end result sounds part Porter Robinson, part electric

keyboard, part movie score, but all satisfying. As far as final tracks go, “Whiskers” was definitely the correct pick.

Pieces of Escape from Electric Mountain showcase Feed Me’s incredible skill, but overall the EP was underwhelming, leaving the listener hungering for more of what they know the DJ can do.

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THE BADGER HERALD PRESENTS LOW-FAT TUESDAY

Serving sizes demystified for easier portion control Rachel Werts Low-Fat Tuesday Columnist We often see it on nutrition labels. We often hear about how many we need in a single day. But what the heck is a “serving size” exactly?

Portion control is important to healthful living because it is a key element of energy balance, or the balance between the amount of calories you take in and burn off in a single day.

As we all know too well, taking in too many calories leads to weight gain, and burning off more than you consume leads to weight loss. You can take some of the guess work out of this delicate balance by knowing and consuming correct portion sizes.

Doing so will help you maintain a healthy weight and prevent future chronic disease.

The USDA and the FDA have developed guidelines for single servings of almost all foods commonly eaten in the United States.

But what if you, like the majority of Americans, eat almost 50 percent of meals outside the home?

Measuring out these portions can be difficult.

How can you “control” your portions if it’s not even clear what one portion is? Luckily, there’s no need to stuff a food scale and a bunch of measuring cups in your backpack to figure it out. The USDA MyPlate (the replacement for MyPyramid) provides guidelines for serving sizes for men and women of different age groups.

For our purposes, we will be looking at the recommendations for moderately active men and women ages 19 to 30.

Let’s start with fruit.

Both men and women should aim to eat two cups of fruit each day. One cup of some common fresh fruits is equivalent to one large banana (8-9 inches long), an apple the size of a baseball, a large orange, 32 seedless grapes or eight large strawberries. A half cup of dried fruit or eight ounces of fruit juice can also count as a serving.

When it comes to vegetables, the recommended amount differs for men and women. Men should try to consume at least three cups of vegetables a day, and women should shoot for at least two-and-a-half

cups. One cup of vegetables is equivalent to 12 baby carrots, a large ear of corn, one medium potato, two large celery stalks, two cups of lightly-packed lettuce or one large bell pepper.

Prefer your fruits and veggies chopped?

No problem. One cup of broccoli florets or sliced bananas is roughly the size of a standard baseball. If you’re not a baseball fan, a half cup of chopped fruits or vegetables is about the same size as a standard computer mouse.

For grains, the daily recommendation is eight ounces per day for men and six ounces per day for women. One ounce of grains can be equated to a regular slice of bread, three cups of popped popcorn, two small pancakes or a half cup (computer mouse) of cooked rice or pasta. A large bagel is four ounces of grains, a large muffin is three ounces and a large tortilla (12-inch diameter) is four ounces. Make sure that at least half of these servings are from whole grains.

The daily protein intake is five-and-a-half ounces per day for women and six-and-a-half ounces per day for men. To put this in perspective, two to three ounces of seafood, meat or fish is about the same size as a standard deck of cards.

Also, one egg is considered a one-ounce equivalent, while one tablespoon of peanut butter and a half cup of beans or tofu count as two-ounce equivalents.

Three cups of dairy per day are recommended for both men and women.

That’s the same as a baseball-sized serving of lowfat yogurt, or eight ounces of milk. One slice of processed cheese counts as one-third cup, and one slice of hard cheese counts as a

half cup of dairy.

Finally, oils, which include nut and fish oils, salad dressings and cooking oils, are recommended at six teaspoons for women and seven teaspoons for men in this group. One teaspoon of oil can be viewed as the size of one dice or eight olives. Three teaspoon equivalents is roughly 130 calories worth of nuts, or half of a medium avocado.

It is recommended that the consumption of solid fats such as butter and trans fats be kept to as low a level as possible because they have been linked to high levels of LDL, or “bad” cholesterol.

So now you know the correct portions, but here are some other easy tips to help keep your consumption at the recommended levels: Serve smaller portions to begin with, and put them on smaller plates. Studies show this helps portion control and limits going back for second helpings.

When you eat out, only consume half your meal, split a meal with a friend or order an appetizer as an entrée. Restaurant dishes often contain multiple servings in a single plate.

Try not to eat out of a container or package and be aware of packaging sizes. Try to buy the smallest packages possible.

We tend to eat more out of bigger packages and less off of dishes.

Limit your snacking in front of the TV or while doing other activities. It’s easy to overeat when your mind is elsewhere.

To find out more about the portion sizes of your favorite foods go to myplate.gov or write to the Low-Fat Tuesday column at Wisconsin.dnc@ gmail.com.

RECIPE OF THE WEEK Easy Fruit Salad One portion of this easy recipe contains one whole serving of fruit, a quarter serving of vegetables, a quarter serving of dairy and one serving of healthy oils!

INGREDIENTS 1 small red apple, cored and diced 1 small green apple, cored and diced 1 cup, sliced canned peaches, drained 2 stalks of celery, chopped 1/2 cup dried cranberries 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1 (8 oz.) container of lemon low-fat yogurt PREPARATION Combine fruit, nuts and dried cranberries in a bowl.

Stir in yogurt and serve chilled!

Serves 4 people

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Pianist Marco Benevento combines classic instruments and circuit-bent toys to produce his signature sound.

Marco Benevento promises eclectic piano performance Innovative jazz pianist will bring sound to State Street in free show Amanda Connors Staff Reporter

With an inspiring mix of acoustic piano and circuit-bending, jazz pianist Marco Benevento will take the stage in a solo concert at Redamte Coffee House Friday. Innovative and imaginative, Benevento takes jazz to a whole new level by mixing his piano skills with raw sound from amplified instruments such as Casio keyboards and children’s toys.

Benevento, a modern pianist with an electric twist, uses his instruments, not lyrics, to tell the story. He appreciates instrumental music because it allows everyone, including himself, to come away from a song with a different feeling.

“There’s no set way to do it. It gets people to use their minds and gets their imagination stirred,” he said. “Even I have a different feeling of the song each night I play it live.”

Benevento especially enjoys uniquely engineered music.

“I have my own studio, and I have a bunch of microphones and gear, and so I’m kind of an engineer in my own way,”

he said.

He is currently working on a new album to be released this fall. Some of his other albums include Between the Needles and Nightfall, Me Not Me and Invisible Baby.

The pianist graduated from Berklee School of Music in Boston. He likened the experience to a “bullpen” and noted that many freshmen drop out within the first year.

“You get jilted by negatives and by all sorts of ideas of how you should sound and what you are doing wrong; it’s hard to be constructive,” he said, although he personally loved the experience.

Benevento’s four years at Berklee taught him to say “yes” to every gig and student project.

“I spent a lot of time in the practice room,” he said.

For two years, he had a gig at a bar every Thursday night from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., where he played a lot of jazz. He was especially motivated by pianist Joanne Brackeen.

“She’s totally up-todate with the jazz scene.

She’s so cool,” he said.

Along with his jazzy style, Benevento is also famous for blending the acoustic piano with circuit-bent toys, something he did not learn in class.

A man came to one of Benevento’s gigs “with these crazy kids toys that had extra knobs on them and lights.”

“He modified keyboards … and this weird battery operated toy to teach kids how to learn,” Benevento said. “He just mangled them all up and put quarter-inch outs on them so you could plug them into guitar amps.”

Benevento immediately fell in love with the loud, crazy sound and started collecting circuit-bent toys. He used the sound as background music in some songs and brought it to the forefront in others.

“Some songs were totally inspired by a circuit-bent toy where you play with it and there’s this weird rhythmic glitch,” he said.

“You start playing along with this weird rhythmic glitch and this messedup keyboard and start getting compliments on the song that this weird thing accidentally made.

It’s inspiring for any composition.”

At his gigs, he uses the P.A. system to broadcast the sounds made by his circuit-bent toys, creating a different environment at every performance.

“I’ll do a combination of both covers and originals … and maybe some sing-alongs. Who knows?” he said. “I like to hang out, see what the crowd is like and take it from there.”

Marco Benevento will perform Feb. 10 at the Redamte Coffee House at 449 State St. The performance will start at 7 p.m.

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Sports HUGHES, from 8 Bruesewitz at least offered a change in postgame narrative after Saturday’s loss. And, before I quote him, I want to make clear he didn’t say this with disdain in his voice; he was calm and polite about it: “...Especially early in the first half — we missed [Jared] Berggren and Ryan [Evans] and myself, other guys in the post a little bit,” Bruesewitz said after being asked if the Badgers couldn’t work the ball inside. “I think we needed

FAULKNER, from 8 Faulkner presided over All-MAC running back Jasmin Hopkins at NIU last season, who ran for 956 yards and 15 touchdowns. Overall, the Huskies possessed the nation’s No. 12 rushing game with an average of 234.14 yards per contest.

The 2008 Ball State team went undefeated during the regular season and featured running back MiQuale Lewis, who rushed for a schoolrecord 1,736 yards.

Faulkner accumulated 1,064 yards and seven touchdowns himself as a running back for two Big Ten championship teams at Wisconsin.

HIT, from 8 how the referees could make that crucial of a call against him. But at the same time, the defenseman says he was just trying to make a clean play to give the rest of the team and

to look inside a little bit, especially since our threes weren’t falling for us.”

The Badgers play a patient yet opportunistic offense. But when it’s followed so stubbornly, it leads to avoidable losses.

There’s a saying that goes: “Live or die by the three.” Don’t give me that crap. You and I and Ohio State know better.

Elliot is a senior majoring in journalism. Are you tired of Wisconsin’s three-point tendencies? Tell him about it at ehughes@badgerherald. com.

After his college career, he went on to sign a free agent contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers before moving on to the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.

“I’m excited to be able to bring Eddie back to Madison,” Bielema said.

“It’s always special to be able to hire a former letter winner.

“In addition to coaching our tight ends, Eddie brings great experience coaching special teams and has tremendous talents as a recruiter. He’s obviously worked with Matt, and he is highly-respected among the coaches on our staff.”

fans at the Kohl Center something to cheer about.

Instead, he got an early shower and a view of the game from the stands.

“I never intend to injure anyone, but if the time comes to step up and make a good hit then I am going

UW looking for rhythm Ryan remains confident despite 3-point struggles; road matchup at Minnesota looms For years, a home game at the Kohl Center spelled a victory for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team. But what was once a fortress has now become shaky ground for a Badger team (18-6 overall) that has already lost four times at home this year.

Even though the 5852 loss against then-No. 3 Ohio State Saturday may not have been an unexpected defeat to many, it marked the end of a ninegame home winning streak against OSU — including a victory last year that saw UW beat an undefeated and top-ranked Ohio State team.

But head coach Bo Ryan insists none of the statistics matter.

“I don’t [pay attention]; I don’t know how many [losses this season],” head coach Bo Ryan said at his Monday press conference.

“You’ve got to remember what we do. What we’re trying to do is develop young men into a cohesive unit and compete at the highest level that they can. … There are people losing

at home that don’t normally lose at home besides us.”

The Badgers, who have shot the ball well from 3-point range under Ryan, have been streaky from behind the arc as of late, which has led to shooting woes, especially at home.

So far this season, Bo Ryan’s men are shooting an abysmal 23 percent at home from 3-point range, while they are sinking 40 percent of their shots on the road.

“It’s crazy, and if there was an answer that was easily attainable, I think we would have it by now,” Ryan said. “I haven’t … ever had a team get into those kinds of phases. It’s just something in practice you just keep working on.”

Ryan went on to express the need for this Badger team to strive to become more than “average” this season, and he even handed out an article on the topic to motivate his team before the Penn State game Feb. 2.

“Average is no longer good enough; a lot of people could survive on average the past couple generations,” Ryan said. “It was referring to education, but it also, to me, referred

to a lot of other areas of your life. Being average in athletics, is that going to get you a scholarship? Is that going to get you a chance to pick which school you want to go to?

“Average isn’t good enough anymore if you want certain things in life.”

Senior point guard Jordan Taylor has also struggled with “average” this season. Taylor, who finished with 12 points Saturday, is averaging 14 points per game for the Badgers this season, a total that is down from his 18.1 points per game last year.

Before the season began, Taylor was selected as a preseason All-American, as well as being chosen for the Wooden Award’s top 50 list. With such high expectations ushering him into the season, it would have been understandable if Taylor got frustrated — but Ryan insists Taylor’s intensity hasn’t wavered.

“Every day we come to practice, I always check the eyes of my players, … and I haven’t seen anything different in him,” Ryan said. “He knows that he is getting a lot more attention.

You could see the way the

screens were handled by Ohio State; they weren’t going to give him some of those looks that he was getting last year, … but it hasn’t changed his eagerness to be on a team that is getting something done.”

Heading back on the road this week, the Badgers go to Minnesota Thursday to play in a state where Ryan recruited three players on Wisconsin’s current starting lineup (Taylor, Jared Berggren and Mike Bruesewitz).

The group of Minnesota natives on UW’s roster represents a recruiting rivalry that is common in the college sports world and often leads to tension between programs and coaches. Still, Ryan insists there is no bad blood between the two teams.

“In the recruiting process, I don’t get territorial. I don’t get to the point where you worry about what you don’t have.

With us, it’s always what you do have,” Ryan said.

“Whoever decides to come here, … we have guys who want to be here, and they have guys who want to be there.”

to look for it,” Ramage said.

“It’s a tough hit, I mean it could go both ways. For me I could see how it’s a clean hit, but also now with the new rules you just don’t know anymore. I think ... maybe better educating the players would be a good

idea.”

Eaves knows a thing or two about how rough a hockey game can be; he was forced to retire from the NHL after eight seasons due to concussions.

Now he must help his players adjust to a new set

of rules.

“There has been such an underlining of concussions, and we are trying to address those issues to protect players,” Eaves said. “I don’t want to see contact taken out of the game at all. In the college

level, they have learned not to hit guys from behind [from prior rule changes].

We have to continue to educate our guys that these kind of east-west hits, blindside things ... to learn that this is not going to be in the game right now.”

Nick Daniels Sports Writer

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of safety concerns Brett Sommers Statistics Editor Friday night’s Wisconsin men’s hockey game was a prime example of players having to walk, or in this case skate, a fine line when it comes to rules that protect their own safety.

And in a sport that features as much constant contact as football and at times embraces fighting as much as boxing, calls can be controversial depending on whom the referee decides is responsible.

Hosting St. Cloud State at the Kohl Center, just over 15 minutes into the first period, UW junior defenseman John Ramage put what appeared to be a shoulder-to-shoulder (legal) but devastating hit on SCSU freshman forward Nick Oliver, who had intercepted the puck a fraction of a second before the collision. Ramage’s explosive strike left Oliver, teammate Jefferson Dahl and himself spinning to the ice, Oliver unable to get to his feet.

Pandemonium erupted throughout the Kohl Center as fans came to their feet and all the players to the ice. Save Oliver and the goalies, the teams erupted in a brawl. Multiple SCSU skaters were making their way toward Ramage in an attempt to defend their own, but one skater in particular was impeded by junior forward Ryan Little.

“I was just looking for

somebody to grab onto so they wouldn’t go after Rammer [Ramage],” Little said. The SCSU player that Little happened to grab a hold of was 6-foot-4 defenseman Kevin Gravel.

Little is 5-foot-9.

“I lucked out and happened to find somebody that didn’t have a lot of fight in him, so he went down pretty easy. You’re just basically trying not to look like an idiot out there,” Little said.

It seemed players would just go to the penalty box for the fight, but the referee’s hand extended and Ramage was charged with a five minute major penalty for a hit to the head and was ejected from the contest for game misconduct.

“I want to say it was a clean hit and a good hit, but with the rule changes now, it was kind of borderline,” Little said. “A year or two ago, that would have been completely clean. I think just the fact that he came east to west on the guy; [Oliver] was kind of unsuspecting. That is the only thing that is really wrong with it. Given the same situation I’d do the same thing.”

That may be the most difficult thing surrounding the ejection of Ramage.

He missed more than 45 minutes of the game for a hit deemed illegal in addition to the Badgers having to kill a power play, yet other players would still make the hit on the

opposing team.

“In the new day and age of hockey, they are trying to protect the hockey player more and prevent head injuries,” UW head coach Mike Eaves said.

“I think with John, it was a shoulder-to-shoulder check. ... I understand the [WCHA] looked at [the hit] and thought about giving John an additional game, but the fact is he got DQ’d from that game, so they just left it alone. In today’s age, when it’s an east and west hit, coming from the side, when the player is in a vulnerable position, they don’t want those type of hits.”

Hits that lead to fights on the ice can be one of the most exciting parts of a hockey game from the crowd’s perspective, and some players relish the opportunity to be physical, but as evidenced by the referee’s call, collegiate hockey isn’t going to tolerate it. “[Big hits and fights] are really starting to die out unfortunately, I love it,” Little said. “I am all for it as long as you’re not hitting a guy in the head or cheap-shotting someone, I think it’s great. But with the amount of concussions and the way the game is kind of evolving, you don’t see it as much anymore. It’s kind of unfortunate but at the same time, safety is a concern as well.”

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UW defenseman John Ramage was ejected from Friday night’s game due to a crushing hit that, to the referee, appeared to be a hit to the head. Head coach Mike Eaves and forward Ryan Little both said the same hit would not have drawn a penalty a year ago.

Faulkner returns to UW Weeks after being hired by Chryst at Pitt, former Badgers back completes Bielema’s staff Elliot Hughes Sports Editor Turns out Pittsburgh can’t have them all.

Wisconsin football head coach Bret Bielema announced Monday the addition of Eddie Faulkner as the program’s new tight ends coach. The move for Faulkner comes nearly one month after accepting a job to coach running backs for Paul Chryst at Pittsburgh.

Faulkner’s arrival at Madison marks the end of Bielema’s coaching carousel, which began just before the Jan. 2 Rose Bowl when Chryst, then UW’s offensive coordinator, announced he accepted Pittsburgh’s head coaching position.

Chryst eventually UWBadgers.com took three of Wisconsin’s Before taking over as tight ends coach at Wisconsin, Faulkner spent time at Ball State under assistant coaches with him. current Michigan head coach Brady Hoke. In 2011, he served as NIU’s running backs coach. Two other assistants later

departed as well, leaving as few as six positions unfilled.

Faulkner is the fifth coach Bielema hired from outside the program, although he played running back for the Badgers from 1996-2000.

Faulkner spent the 2011 season as Northern Illinois’ running backs coach and special teams coordinator.

In returning to his alma matter, Faulkner will again work alongside Matt Canada, who took the reins of UW’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in January. Canada spent the previous season as offensive coordinator at Northern Illinois.

“I’m very excited about the chance to come back to Madison and coach,” Faulkner said. “Being an alum and coming back to the university I graduated

from, I think that’s an opportunity most coaches look for.

“I want to thank coach Bielema for this chance. I worked for Matt Canada last year at Northern Illinois, and he is a great coach and someone I really respect.

I can’t begin to say how excited I am about coming back, and I’m looking forward to getting to work.”

Prior to joining the Huskies, Faulkner worked in various capacities for Ball State between 2003-2010.

He began as a graduate assistant and moved on to coach running backs for six seasons, special teams for four and acted as offensive coordinator for two (200910).

He worked alongside Brady Hoke, now the head coach at Michigan, until 2008 and served as the

Cardinals’ interim head coach at the end of the 2010 season prior to leaving for the Huskies.

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Wisconsin must turn inside when 3s don’t fall Elliot Hughes Look Hughe’s Laughing Now To a certain degree, opponents can count on the Wisconsin men’s basketball team to defeat itself this season.

This past Saturday, Ohio State came to Madison and left it with wide smiles for the first time in 11 years because the Badgers catapulted 3-pointer after 3-pointer and watched 22 of 27 bypass the net. That’s an 18.5 percent conversion rate.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin was on the money from inside the arc, converting 17 of 28 shots — a percentage of 60.7.

But up went another three.

On the other end, however, Ohio State recognized what it had on its hands: a bad day from behind the arc and a solid game going inside.

The Buckeyes made just one 3-pointer on the day but only attempted seven to begin with. With OSU executing inside (hitting 21 of 44 shots, 47.7 percent), the Buckeyes ended up winning by six points, and all of Wisconsin’s fandom was left saying to itself, “It’s hard to win when you go five of 27 from 3-point range.”

This isn’t the first time this season — or in seasons past — the Badgers opted to ignore shortcomings from its outside game and continue to force the issue. But in comparing the shot selection between Wisconsin and Ohio State, we see the difference between these two teams.

The Badgers played some

great basketball Saturday.

They kept pace with a team many consider to be the nation’s best (even though it’s ranked No. 3). The difference was Ohio State catered its offense to what was working while Wisconsin did the opposite.

Wisconsin is unwilling to change its gameplan to win. Stubbornness lost the Badgers their seventhconsecutive Big Ten victory and a share of first place for the time being.

No matter the game, opponent, situation, whatever, the Badgers continue to slam on the gas pedal when it comes to threepoint shooting — and for once I would just enjoy to see them take a step back and go about things differently when the situation calls for it.

In five of Wisconsin’s six losses this year, the Badgers shot 28.6 percent or worse

from three. Their best performance came against Michigan State, when they had moderate success with 35 percent.

And yet the Badgers continued to give it a go from downtown anywhere from 19 to 28 times in those games despite the fact that they were shooting better closer to the rim in five of those games (Michigan State being the exception).

The Badgers shot 60.7 percent inside the arc against Iowa but insisted on hurling 28 treys (and making three).

They shot 51.2 percent inside against Michigan but opted to put 20 threes to the test anyway (making seven).

Wisconsin has lost all but one of its games by seven points or less, and they were never down by an extraordinary amount in those games. Three-pointers — to the extent that UW was

using them — weren’t exactly necessary to keep pace.

It almost makes me want to accuse the Badgers of being “chuckers,” — trigger-happy players who senselessly offer up shots — like Jerry once memorably accused George of being in “Seinfeld.” But, admittedly, that’s not the case.

The swing offense’s philosophy involves manufacturing the best of looks from the field, which requires patience and multidimensional players — bigs that can hit a three, guards that can rebound.

That’s what Wisconsin does — it creates good looks.

And, really, how much can you blame a player for attempting a shot that begs to be taken?

It comes up in the postgame press conferences every time the Badgers go “thud, thud, thud” from the

arc: “Were you liking the shot selection?”

And every time, whether it’s Ryan or one of the players answering, they’ll say the same thing: “Yeah, the shots were there, but we just weren’t hitting them.”

This story is just getting old. Perhaps a highpercentage, closer-to-the-rim shot is truly more valuable than an open look from 20.75 feet away.

The Badgers have the capability of playing a solid 40 minutes near the rim.

Jared Berggren has got some nifty post moves up his sleeves; Jordan Taylor, when he’s determined, can attack the hoop like a bullet; Mike Bruesewitz can muscle his way down there, and Ryan Evans has a smooth midrange jumper.

But up goes another three.

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