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A year after the first major protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill, Democrats and Republicans still clash over the extent, influence and justification for the resulting recall efforts.

At a party to mark the oneyear anniversary, Dane County executive Joe Parisi told those gathered that the Republican Party and legislators had said the protest movement would be short lived.

“They said it wouldn’t last,” Parisi said. “Well, one year and 1 million signatures later, I think you guys showed it a little different.”

He said the next steps of the movement will be efforts to get out the vote and elect a new governor.

However, Republican Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Ben Sparks said most of the protests, especially those occurring now, have been led by a liberal fringe movement that has wanted to recall Walker since his inauguration, after he turned down federal funds to build a high speed rail between Milwaukee and Madison.

“In one year, Gov. Scott Walker balanced the budget without raising taxes,” Sparks said. “These people are fighting against the facts. There is no credible, legitimate case for recall.”

YEAR LATER, DEMS, GOP STILL FAIL TO SEE EYETO-EYE ON PROTESTS

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Experts agree that while the movement against Gov. Scott Walker and his controversial budget balancing measures is still in motion, the direction it will take is unclear.

Sean Kirkby State Politics Editor On the one-year anniversary of the first large-scale protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget repair bill, experts say the protests and the movement it spawned have had a large impact on the state and the nation.

On Feb. 11, 2011, Walker, as he later said,

“dropped the bomb” by introducing a budget repair bill designed to fix a budget shortfall by requiring public employees to pay a greater portion of their pensions and health care premiums. Most controversially, the bill also included a provision to repeal collective bargaining rights for public employees.

Three days later, on Valentine’s Day, massive protests began to hit the state Capitol. In the

following month, thousands marched on the Capitol. Protesters soon turned from carrying signs to circulating recall petitions. On Jan. 17, petitioners turned in an estimated 1 million signatures to recall Walker.

William Jones, a University of Wisconsin history professor and expert on public sector union history, said large scale union protests like those last spring are similar to ones which

occurred in the 1980s, when the firing of air traffic controllers triggered large labor protests in Washington, D.C. “However, these protests are unique considering their size since they are the largest in Wisconsin history,” Jones said. “Having such large protests at the national level is one

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A turbulent year for Wisconsin politics At peak of protests, an estimated 100,000 protesters descend on Capitol

Walker announces plan to pass budget repair bill

Feb. 14, 2011

Dane County judge temporarily blocks collective bargaining law

Mar. 28, 2011

Mar. 10, 2011

Feb. 10, 2011

Feb. 26, 2011

Mass demonstrations begin statewide

Mar. 18, 2011

Oct. 12, 2011 Jun. 14, 2011

DOJ overturns court decision; collective bargaining law in effect

Assembly passes collective bargaining limits

Protesters gather to commemorate oneyear anniversary of original protests

State Supreme Court upholds collective bargaining law

Feb. 11, 2012 Bill to reinstate collective bargaining proposed

Student attacked in campus-area parking ramp UWPD seeking 3 to 4 suspected of beating at Lake Street garage Leah Linscheid City Life Editor Police are looking for up to four male individuals suspected of beating and robbing a University of

Wisconsin student on campus early Sunday morning.

According to a University of Wisconsin Police Department statement, the student was beaten and robbed in a parking lot at 408 North Lake Street shortly after bar time Sunday morning. The statement said the suspects, who are still at large, were

described as Asian male individuals between the ages of 18 and 25 years old.

The student was treated at a local hospital for his injuries and has been released, according to the statement.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said violence in the parking ramp where the incident took place, located near the intersection of

Lake Street and University Avenue, has been an area of concern for some time.

Resnick said city committees have considered several solutions to address violence in the area, including changes to street lighting.

“The city has discussed and is in the process of implementing pedestrian

lighting in that area, but the problem is that it happens in the parking garage,” Resnick said.

According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, the parking ramp is only attended by Transportation Services employees for Kohl Center events and is typically run by meters at all other times.

Verveer said despite the

lack of employees at the ramp, UW police heavily patrol the area during latenight hours.

“The ramp, because it is so popular with bar-goers on weekend nights, is pretty thoroughly patrolled by police,” Verveer said.

“Unfortunately, of course, they weren’t there when the

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Union requests funding increase With Union Theater closing for renovation, SSFC hears proposal for segregated fee bump Jackie Allen Campus Life Editor Members of the University of Wisconsin student government heard budget proposals from major UW organizations during a meeting of the student government’s primary financial committee Monday night.

The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald Finance Committee reviewed Members of the Wisconsin Union Board asked SSFC to increase their budget to offset projected revenue loss. and questioned the budgets

from the Wisconsin Union, Recreational Sports and the UW student radio, WSUM. Wisconsin Union Director Mark Guthier presented the Wisconsin Union’s budget, which projects a loss of $278,300 for the 2013 year.

Overall, segregated fees would contribute 22 percent of the budget at $9.4 million in funding.

Guthier attributed this loss to the closing of the Union Theater for renovation, which he said brings in revenue

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not only from ticket sales, but also from student and organizational events that need to be relocated.

“We are getting close to the point where we’ve got to be even next year or near even to get back to where we were when we started this process,” Guthier said. “Our intent would not be to cover the shortfall with segregated fees. … We would have to figure that out through revenue sources.”

Guthier added the

Wisconsin Union would most likely have an even budget if the Union Theater was not closed over the summer, which cut off a revenue stream.

However, he said the current building projects with Memorial Union were necessary because of severely under-funded maintenance needs. He added he expects this revenue to return once the theater reopens.

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The State Senate Democratic Committee released an analysis Monday comparing the total number of signatures each senator filed to the factual error rate of the signatures.

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committee’s analysis, none of the GOP’s challenges would be able to invalidate enough signatures to put them below the threshold needed to stop the recall election against them. The analysis said the closest a senator came to the threshold was Fitzgerald, who was 2,758 signatures away from stopping the recall election.

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Herald, SSDC spokesperson Brad Wojciechowski said the senators’ challenges rely on two legal arguments. Primarily, Wojciechowski said, the recalls should occur in the new 2012 redistricted maps. He also said any signatures collected on the first day of collection are invalid. Wojciechowski added both are legal arguments that GAB and the attorney general rejected months ago.

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The Government Accountability Board revealed the previously undisclosed location of the recall petitions Monday, and considered upcoming plans for the verification process.

GAB spokesperson Reid Magney said the work is being done at the State of Wisconsin Central Services Building in Madison. He also said Capitol Police are providing security around the building while the staff works to verify signatures against Gov. Scott Walker and a number of Republican legislators.

About 50 GAB employees have spent the last month entering the signatures into to a database for records and further verification, according to Magney. The location, which sits two blocks away form the Capitol, was kept secret because of security reasons since the petitions were turned in last

month.

Magney said the next steps for the GAB will be to address the challenges made by the four senators facing recalls, which he confirmed has begun.

According to Magney, the recall organizers have until 5 p.m. today to file rebuttals, and then the recalled senators would have another two days after that to file a rebuttal.

He said after arguments had been made, the GAB would begin its process.

Magney also addressed the issue of considering district lines when verifying if a signature was from the senator’s district.

“We’re using the old redistricting lines, the lines that apply to any recall election before 2012,” Magney said. “That’s what the legislators have instructed us to use, and that’s what we plan to do until told otherwise.”

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Walker denotes portion of funding to balance budget deficit, creates stir Jacob Kaczmarowski Herald Contributor

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President Barack Obama addresses the nation’s budget concerns Monday, pushing community college funding to the forefront of issues facing the country.

Obama unveils higher ed plans Tom Merchant Herald Contributor President Barack Obama released his 2013 fiscal budget proposal Monday, including a $8 billion education intiative he introduced in a speech at Northern Virginia Community College.

Obama’s speech focused on job creation and improving the long-term health of the economy but also announced the “Community College to Career Fund,” which would try to align job-training programs with workforce demand, according to a statement released Monday.

In a prepared speech on Monday, Obama introduced a $3.8 trillion budget for the federal government he said would create jobs in the short term through billions of dollars in stimulus spending and would address with the deficit down the road.

In a conference call on Monday, Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, stressed the importance of the community college fund included in the president’s proposal and said the $8 billion fund would go toward helping community colleges hire staff, buy new equipment, increase apprenticeship and paid internship opportunities and expand classes.

Munoz also said the goal of this program is to train two million more workers in high demand fields such as health care, clean energy and information technology.

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said during the call Obama’s plan emphasized the importance that everyone should receive at least one year of posthigh school education and reinforced the fact that community colleges are central to his strategy for creating jobs in the future.

Solis also said the

administration’s goal is to have the highest percentage of college graduates in the world by the year 2020.

She said while agreeing on a proposed budget plan is always controversial, this is an even trickier issue to agree upon during an election year.

Obama’s speech also emphasized his “Buffett Rule,” named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, to replace the Alternative Minimum Tax on millionaires to 30 percent, which is aimed at ensuring the wealthy pay more in taxes.

“We built this budget around the idea that our country has always done best when everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules,” Obama said in the speech.

In a separate conference call Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said an important part of keeping the budget on track is reducing the national deficit. If Congress accepts this budget, the national deficit is projected to decrease by $4 trillion over the next 10 years.

“In the State of the Union, Obama laid out a blueprint for an economy that is built to last,” Carney said. “The budget he recently released shows how this will work.”

Rep. Paul Ryan, D-Wisconsin, released a statement following the unveiling of the president’s budget, raising many objections to Obama’s fiscal plan. He said Obama is calling for record levels of spending increases, tax hikes and debt.

“The president’s budget breaks his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term,” Ryan said in the statement. “It breaks his obligation to all Americans to confront the nation’s spending-driven debt crisis.”

After Gov. Scott Walker and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen unveiled plans late last week to use federal mortgage relief funds to repair the state deficit, Wisconsin legislators are criticizing Walker’s leadership and his controversial decision to move funds.

A press conference drew criticism from legislators Thursday after Van Hollen and Walker unveiled a national settlement that will bring $140 million to Wisconsin to go toward damages for families affected by the foreclosure crisis.

Van Hollen and Walker said last week Wisconsin joined a landmark $25 billion joint federalstate agreement with the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers over foreclosure abuses and unacceptable nationwide mortgage servicing practices.

Van Hollen’s spokesperson Dana Brueck said in an email to The Badger Herald that $31 million of the $140 million allocated to Wisconsin was assigned to go directly

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The protests have also had major consequence both for the state and the nation. Jones said the Wisconsin protest movements may have slowed down and defeated similar measures offered in other states. He cited Ohio, where citizens voted down a proposal to limit collective bargaining rights, as an example of the slowed momentum.

Jones also said while there was talk of introducing legislation limiting collective bargaining rights in other states, many of those states never introduced the legislation.

“While it’s never easy to draw a clear casual connection, [the Wisconsin protests] probably had an effect,” Jones said.

UW sociology professor Pamela Oliver, an expert on collective action and social movements, said the protests had a wide range of consequences for the state.

to the state. She said Van Hollen has given $25.6 million of the funds, 18 percent of the total, to the Wisconsin state budget toward deficit repair.

Brueck said in the email Wisconsin has seen of hardship since the foreclosure crisis. Brueck added the other 82 percent of the settlement money — approximately $115 million — is for specific programs that will provide relief to foreclosed homeowners and those who are struggling with mortgage debt.

Several legislators released statements following the details behind the allocation of the fund, including State Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha.

“This news illustrates how Governor Walker’s irresponsible budgeting and lack of serious focus on jobs and the economy have left Wisconsin fiscally unsound and caused us to fall farther behind on the road to economic recovery,” Barca said in a statement.

Barca’s spokesperson Melanie Conklin said Barca believes the money should be going solely to the struggling families of the foreclosure crisis.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said he sees the settlement in a different light.

“I am glad that the majority of this settlement is going to homeowners,”

Fitzgerald’s spokesperson Andrew Welhouse said.

“It is nice to see money going to homeowners that are struggling on their payments, not just the ones who have already foreclosed.”

Welhouse added he believes it is beneficial 17 percent of the overall money for Wisconsin is going directly to the state to help homeowners through a variety of programs.

Still, Rep. Kelda Roys, D-Madison, said she disapproves with the allocation of the funds going toward the state’s deficit.

“The governor does not have the interests of struggling Wisconsinites at heart,” Roys said. “He prioritizes his own political needs over the needs of struggling Wisconsin families. He swore not to raid any federal funds, but he just keeps taking.”

Ellen Bernards, cochair of Dane County Foreclosure Prevention Taskforce, also expressed disappointment over how the funds would be used.

“I am disappointed that the much-needed funds will not be used as intended,” Bernards said.

“This settlement intends to help homeowners that did not receive their share.”

Bernards added it was too soon to tell what the effect of the overall settlement would have on the state’s housing market.

She said the protests slowed down passage of the budget repair bill, which she said Walker had wanted to push though in a week.

Oliver also said the movement galvanized the state and caused it to become more polarized, splitting it nearly in half along party lines. She also said the Wisconsin protests may indirectly have inspired the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in September.

However, she said the most lasting effect of the movement could be the political mobilization of people who have never participated in politics.

“Those kinds of changes tend to be permanent,” Oliver said.

Charles Franklin, visiting professor of law and public policy at Marquette University Law School, said the movement led to the recalls of two Republican senators over the summer, though they stopped short of creating a Democratic majority in the Senate.

However, Franklin said it is too premature to determine if the protest

movement will lead to the repeal of act in the future.

He also said the future of the protest movement is in doubt, as well as its focus.

“We really don’t know if this movement will end with the recall of the governor and the repealing of [the budget repair act],” Franklin said. “Does that movement wither or will it continue as a strong organization?”

Franklin said the movement needs to remain active, get out the vote and ultimately stay united behind a single candidate for governor.

Jones said the future of the protests rests on the success of recall efforts.

He said unions will have to reach out more to the community to build a base.

The key issue facing the protest movement, Oliver said, will be to keep mobilization alive on the left, which would place pressure on politicians to pay more attention to unions and other organizations. Still, she said where the protest movement goes in the future, and what issues it will address, is up in the air.

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The statement said police believe there may be witnesses to the incident because of the time it occurred.

Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact UWPD at 608262-7752 or the Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014.

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City debuts pay-by-phone parking meter plans Patrons will be able to use automated system to add funds for additional time Vanessa Benton Herald Contributor The City of Madison plans to reveal its first payby-phone parking meter payment system this year to help public parking users avoid parking chaos commonplace in Madison.

Instead of physically inserting a credit card or money into a meter or kiosk as per traditional parking meter systems, a driver

whose meter is running out can simply call in to add more time to their meter.

Manager of City Parking Utility Bill Knobeloch said this new up-and-coming feature is a product of new innovative technology.

Users will call into a specified number, give the automated voice their spot number and credit card information and pay a fee for the extra time they want, which is currently estimated at about 45 cents. There will be no need to go back to a meter in order to receive more time, Knobeloch said.

“We have all of these capabilities available to us because of technology; why not use it?” Knobeloch said.

transactions, Knobeloch said.

Knobeloch also said 52 percent of the multi-space transactions have been by credit cards, a considerably high amount that has been growing over the years.

“Even for such a small amount of money for the meters, people would just rather pay with credit cards,” Knobeloch said.

“People just don’t carry cash and change around anymore.”

According to Knobeloch, there are about 77 multispace meters currently in place, which are the first step. He said the next step is to add the new pay-byphone feature to these

Knobeloch described the city’s need for new and easy ways to pay for the meter as a result of a “declining customer base” at traditional meters.

Although the pay-byphone meters have not yet been introduced for use in the public, Madison already has installed and put in use a multi-space meter system.

The current multi-space meter system allows a driver to pay for their meter at various other meter kiosks instead of having to walk back to their specific meter.

The multi-space meters have been implemented in downtown Madison since about 2010, and since then has received 500,000

meters.

There will be about 19 meters that will be put in for a pay-by-phone trial run on the State Street Ramp placed between Johnson and Dayton across from the downtown Madison Area Technical College.

“This metered section will be most convenient,” Knobeloch said.

Knobeloch said the payby-phone system already has been implemented in some areas of the University of Wisconsin campus.

According to Gordon Graham, who works for UW Transportation Services, UW staff members are registered under the Flex program, which Graham

said has been around for five years.

Under the Flex program, employees get four hours under one charge and then pay 75 cents for any additional hour. Currently, there are about 22 lots hosting the Flex program on campus, serving about 1,800 employees.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the pay-byphone method on campus could be seen as a pilot program for the university.

“We are looking at this along with other ideas as to how they can be implemented on campus,” Resnick said. “If it works here, it can be implemented all over the city.”

ASM: Nuisance party bill improved Students say new ordinance language step forward, still needs fine tuning

A Madison city official presented a new plan to broaden the definition of a public nuisance to the University of Wisconsin student government Monday night following an ongoing debate over recent nuisance party legislation.

As requested by the Madison Police Department, Madison officials drafted a new plan to make the definition of a nuisance party more flexible.

However, some members of the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs committee said they worried the new draft’s definition is too broad and the fines are too high, but a few who worked with the bill before note that it has improved.

“The idea was to give officers the tools to be able to tackle parties,” said Mark Woulf, Madison‘s alcohol policy coordinator.

“They really don’t want to create tension. It’s all about cooperation.”

In the draft, tenant fines were doubled and a new policy was administered.

The new policy stated the party only had to meet one requirement in the definition of nuisance to be qualified as a nuisance.

If the police did classify a party as nuisance, the party would not get any charges out of the ordinary, though, Woulf noted.

“This does not change how police respond to parties in general. Let’s say the people won’t cooperate; then they will be fined for many things like overcrowding and underage [drinking],” Woulf said. “As always, it comes back to the level of cooperation.”

If the tenant cooperates with the police, the next step would be to meet

with the city, landlord and police department to devise a plan for a sixmonth probation period.

Fines would only be implemented if the landlord or tenant did not show up to the meeting or if there was another party within the probation period.

Examples of noncooperation from tenants would include locking the door when the police show up, missing the meeting or having another party.

“If a certain house is classified as a nuisance once, will the police keep an eye out on that specific house since they know it was previously known for complaints?” Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers asked.

Woulf replied police would only make house stops based on complaints and would not act as a party patrol.

Committee members also raised concerns during the meeting over a landlord’s ability to carry over their fines to the tenants, evict the tenants or patrol the tenant’s place regularly.

“My major fear was that students would not get a say before they are fined,” Legislative Affairs member Devon Maiar said.

Although there were concerns, a few representatives have worked with the bill before and feel that each draft is improving.

Legislative Affairs member Andrew Mackens said the nuisance party bill is used as a tool, because there will be multiple reviews before a party is declared a nuisance or not.

At a previous meeting with the city, they mentioned the parties in this category have 500 or more guests, Mackens noted.

“I don’t think it’s going to be a big deal because the city isn’t going to want to meet with all these people,” Somers said. “It would cost a great deal of money, and there just isn’t enough time.”

ensured student fees were used only on allowable programs and services.

“I have to be honest with you, in the past I’m not sure there was a lot of attention paid to that,” Carruthers said.

However, Guthier said it is more efficient to combine segregated fees with other revenue streams, rather than two separate budgets. He added Union Council reviews the Union budget every month to track any variances.

SSFC approved the final Student Activity Center

Governance Board budget at $330,985.44, after cutting $10,000 for a public address system, $6,000 for caucus room chairs and $5,000 for landline phone services.

“I personally trust the people that are on the SAC Governance Board at this point to have made the most informed decision,” SSFC member David Vines said.

SSFC will approve or deny the Wisconsin Union, WSUM and Recreational Sports budgets in their meeting Thursday.

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Renovations to Observatory Drive will shut down the road for two weeks, moving Route 81 off the street. The road will reopen Feb. 26 and will be a westbound-only roadway.

Construction closes off Observatory Major electric renovation plan to connect with Lakeshore dorms forces detours Alissa Sclazo Herald Contributor Observatory Drive will once again be closed to traffic beginning today because of a construction project intended to provide a new electrical connection to the Lakeshore residence halls.

A statement from the University of Wisconsin Transportation Services said Observatory Drive will be closed between Feb. 14 and Feb. 25. The closure will affect the stretch of Observatory between Charter Street and Babcock Drive. Rob Kennedy, a transportation planner for UW Transportation, said the construction project will place insulated pipes in a concrete conduit.

“This part of the project crossing Observatory

Drive near the [UW] Soil Science [building] will provide a new connection to the Lakeshore Residence Halls,” Kennedy said.

“It’s used for everything from heat to hot water to cooking.”

Kennedy said each construction project on campus is required to have a traffic control plan, and for the Observatory Drive project, the focus will be on maintaining pedestrian traffic control.

“In this case, there will be pedestrian ‘bridges’ to take pedestrians from one side of the street to the other when a sidewalk needs to be removed,” Kennedy said.

On the UW campus, Kennedy said there are two-to-five utility projects that are considered major undertakings in a given year. Usually, UW

Transportation Services waits until after school is released to start major projects, but Kennedy said this year they made an exception.

“This summer we will make Observatory Drive one-way westbound only to the east, between Park Street and Bascom Hill,” Kennedy said.

Drew Beck, transit planning and schedule manager for UW Transportation Services, said the only route that is substantially affected by the upcoming closure is Route 81, which operates after 6:30 p.m.

The new route will travel westbound down to Linden Drive between Charter Street and Babcock Drive.

Beck said UW Transportation Services does frequently place detours on bus routes

during peak construction season.

“We design detours to be as minimally disruptive as possible and also to be understandable to customers,” Beck said.

Beck said the stop adjacent to Elizabeth Waters Hall will be the only stop the closure will affect.

Students can catch the detoured bus at the following stops: on Observatory Drive at Charter Street, or at any of the westbound stops along Linden Drive between Charter Street and Babcock Drive or on Observatory Drive at Babcock Drive.

After Feb. 25, the 81 bus route will go back to its regular route. On Feb. 26, Observatory Drive will reopen to oneway traffic. The traffic will flow westbound for approximately 2 months.

UNION, from 1 Through the various infrastructure renovations at the Memorial Union, Guthier also said they aimed to redesign the building for the long-term, rather than needing to continuously seek approval to renovate the union.

WSUM representatives also presented their budget with a one percent increase for the upcoming year.

Station general manager Dave Black said with

increased listeners during the Rose Bowl, they expected increased expenses for student travel and technology support.

Recreational Sports Director Dale Carruthers also presented a slightly increased budget for 2013, citing the steady increase at athletics facilities across campus.

SSFC Rep. Laura Checovich questioned each of the organizations about other revenue streams they used outside of segregated fees, as well as how they

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365 days of discord This Valentine’s Day marks the one-year e-year anniversary of an event at the Capitol that was not ot so sweet: the TAA’s opposition to Walker’s slashing of collective lective bargaining for public employees. To commemorate the event, Opinion writers and guest columnists reflect on what turned out to be an interesting year in Wisconsin politics. tics.

TAA celebrates, calls Wisconsin to arms again One year longer, and one year stronger.

A year after nearly a thousand students, faculty, staff and graduate employees marched from the Memorial Union to the Capitol to protest cuts to the UW and attacks on public employees, we’re still here. Since that cold Monday last year, we’ve seen one of what turned out to be many occupations across the U.S. and the world. The thread that started in Tunis and Cairo went through Madison before making its way to Zuccotti Park. Now that fight continues in Athens as people are rejecting inequality and injustice.

At the same time, the fight never stopped in Wisconsin, as grassroots organizers collected over a million signatures to recall Gov. Scott Walker and collected tens of thousands more to recall four state senators. Every day as Walker and Republicans propose and pass legislation that harms not only workers but people of color, youth, women, the elderly, not to mention the environment, Wisconsin citizens are rallying and building power to remove him and his ilk. This Tuesday, we are not only rallying to remember what was accomplished but to reinvigorate our commitment to accomplish what needs to be done and to state loudly: We STILL <3 the UW and Wisconsin.

Alex Hanna (alex.hanna@gmail. com) and Adrienne Pagac (adrienne. pagac@gmail.com) are co-presidents of the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association

Protest fervor bows aside to realism, healing One year ago, I had never been inside the Capitol, let alone slept on its floor. I had never taken part in a protest or observed the Legislature in action.

Entering the rotunda on the night of the first protest, I was wide-eyed. The eclectic signs, drum beat and untiring protesters created a swell of idealism that was hard to resist. It pulled in thousands, and for a while seemed like it would win out.

Today, without the cushion of chanting protesters, all that is left to observe is the divide that runs through the Capitol. I am no longer wide-eyed, but I see more. I know now that a few nights on a cold marble floor and even a 6 a.m. testimony are not always enough. There is a real aftermath to wake up to.

We know a lot of things that we did not on Feb. 14, 2011. If I have learned anything in the past year, it is that this state will persist.

Despite the hurt, Wisconsin will be OK. Signe Brewster (sbrewster@ badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in life sciences communication.

Walker gives pink slips to Wisconsinites Valentines unequally

Politicos use Wisconsin stage as a testing ground The Occupy movement began one year ago today, in Madison, when 1,100 people — a hodgepodge of liberals, socialists, teaching assistants and political science students — marched from Memorial Union to the front door of Scott Walker’s office.

“Kill the bill,” they chanted, referring of course to the governor’s “budget repair bill,” three words someone should have spent more time coming up with, considering how much ink has been wasted on them in the past 365 days.

Soon the Valentine’s Day protesters were joined by thousands of others, and suddenly, Madison was the political epicenter of America, the home to a classic war of words between big labor and conservatism.

Senate Democrats took an Illinois vacation in a futile attempt to delay the inevitable. Ed Schultz wore earmuffs at the top of State Street and blabbed incoherently about starving Wisconsin teachers on MSNBC. Thousands of people — including this writer, for one absurd evening — spent their nights “occupying” the Capitol rotunda, in hopes that their stall tactics would weaken Walker’s resolve.

The effects of the late winter protests can still be felt this Valentine’s Day. In Wisconsin, the governor faces a near-certain recall attempt, as do some of his freshmen Republican colleagues in the state Senate.

Nationwide, the Occupy movement — a term first used in the modern era by Madison protesters — succeeded in bringing national attention to the concept of wealth inequality. The end result of that debate is a proposal to require all millionaires to pay a

minimum effective tax rate of 30 percent, as announced Monday by the White House. President Barack Obama is betting the farm on that wedge issue, and he’s likely to win.

But what those three weeks of protests proved is a simple idea that will last through this decade: Wisconsin is the new guinea pig of American politics.

We are a state of 5.5 million people, home to Madison elitists, Weyauwega hicks, Milwaukee welfare mothers and Brookfield WASPs. It swings to the left during most presidential elections and to the right during most of the other ones. And it drinks more alcohol per capita than any state in the union.

You put that all together, and you’ve got a state primed to be the crash test dummy for every political trick in the book. The Republican National Committee had its fun trying to yank union rights. Now the Democratic National Committee is seeing what would happen if they used recall elections for political retribution.

I have fond memories of the protests — it was truly remarkable to be so close to something that historic, and to be running this newspaper during the largest political story Madison had seen since the Vietnam War. Sadly, the past 12 months have been little more than party leadership holding a clipboard as cheesehead-wearing hamsters shuffle back and forth in their cage, alternating between the exercise wheel and the water bottle.

Kevin Bargnes worked for The Badger Herald from 2007 to 2011, most recently serving as the newspaper’s editor-in-chief.

Catch up with him at bargnes@ gmail.com.

Wow, what a year. A year ago, the Packers had just won the Super Bowl and Wisconsinites were thrilled.

Then Gov. Scott Walker dropped a bomb on the people of Wisconsin by unveiling his secret plan to strip workers of their freedom and hand our state over to greedy special interests.

This action sparked record numbers of us to converge on the Capitol and prompted our Democratic senators to travel to Illinois in search of clean government. That’s when I knew our state was in trouble. Assembly Democrats debated the bill for a record 62 hours before Republicans shut down debate and finished the vote in 17 seconds.

This week, Walker is sending Valentines to his special interest contributors all over the country.

And they are returning the favor with TV ads filled with false and misleading statements like, “It’s working.”

It’s not working. With Walker’s policies, Wisconsin is first in the nation in jobs lost in the last six months, second in cuts to our K-12 schools and third in cuts to our colleges and universities.

Our state will likely face a deficit again in 2013.

Walker cut more than $300 million from the UW System, causing higher tuition for students and limited course selection. He also took worker rights away from thousands of UW employees so they can’t even bargain for safer working conditions.

In the last year, my Democratic colleagues and I have proposed a comprehensive agenda to get Wisconsin working again: Keep and create good jobs rather than sending jobs to other states and Canada; Invest in the state’s schools, UW system and job training rather than cutting them; Promote clean energy and clean water, rather than catering to polluters.

Now we should change course and get Wisconsin heading in the right direction. Contact me at Rep.Hulsey@Legis.wi.gov or call 608-2667521 for more information.

Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison (rep.hulsey@ legis.wi.gov) is a Democrat representing the 77th assembly district.

A year later, political contrasts still dominate Wisconsin discourse with partisan factions The politics and protests at the State Capitol last year riveted the nation and the world for a simple reason: They cast into stark relief the contentious new politics surrounding the difficult policy dilemmas that liberal democracies must confront in a world characterized by interconnected factors such as entrenched economic malaise, globalization, the proliferation of new technologies, mobile capital and burgeoning debt accumulated by the welfare states and public pensions. We have to face these problems whether we like it or not. But we also must deal with the dislocations being wrought by the changes in our political economies.

Give Walker credit for not sticking his head in the sand like the governor of Illinois and his minions. Illinois is drowning ever more deeply in debt, unable to pay many of its bills, while a host of companies and individuals flee to less encumbered states. Trapped by public pressure groups, other blue model

states like California and New York are not faring much better.

Unfortunately, Walker’s methods — and the reaction to them — reflect another major public problem: the intractable polarization of our political elite. Rather than prepare the state for his policies through meaningful discussion in the campaign and the building of a measure of consensus, Walker and his forces chose to spring them on the state right after assuming office. Their extremely partisan approach all but guaranteed a partisan reaction and threatens to undermine their reforms if Walker and his cohorts lose the recall elections. Meaningful change in democracies requires building the kind of broader public support that is necessary for sustained remedies, democratic consent and shared sacrifice.

The conflict we are witnessing in Wisconsin now that the genie has been let out of the recall bottle could lead to wild swings back and forth between red and blue, with the public serving as the

ping pong ball. Between 2008 and 2010, state Democrats pushed a new public union agenda, only to be rebuffed by Walker. Would we witness the same thing if Walker loses the recall election? And then what?

Regardless, the Wisconsin story is still being written. It is a harbinger of major economic, institutional and structural changes that are headed our way, the forms of which we do not yet know.

Meanwhile, both political parties — in the state and in the nation — remind us of the truth that reactionaries reside on both sides of the political aisle. The country cries out for genuine vision that goes beyond the entrenched interests and shibboleths of the present right and left. Who and what new politics is slouching toward our capitols, waiting to be born?

Donald Downs (dadowns@wisc.edu) is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.

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The Badger Herald | News | Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Inside view on protesters’ gall, public incivility Many of us will never forget the political chaos that overtook our state capitol early last year.

As an intern in Governor Walker’s Office, I had the unique experience of working at the capitol while the protests erupted. While the protesters had every right to make their voices heard, I have never witnessed such a level of incivility, hate, and disrespect in my life.

Our capitol was defaced, littered and taken over by thousands of angry protesters who would constantly yell, blow on vuvuzela horns, and bang on drums. Public officials and their families were threatened. Staff members and interns were told to leave through back-room doors to avoid harm.

Fourteen Democratic state senators abandoned their constitutional duties while they took orders from union bosses in Illinois for three weeks.

I was inspired by the overwhelming amount of people across the state that called the Governor’s office to voice their support. These were hard working Wisconsinites who did not have time to come to Madison to chant catchy phrases and sleep over at the capitol. These were the silent majority of people who elected Governor Walker to end the days of large deficits, tax increases, raided funds and a bad business climate.

Collective bargaining reform for the public employee unions has allowed local municipalities and school districts across the state to save over $903,517,079 to date. Teachers can now be hired, fired, and given raises based on merit and are no longer mandated to join a union. School district tax levies have decreased by an average of 1% this year as opposed to a 5.5% increase in the past five years.

These reforms have businesses realizing that Wisconsin is on the right track. In fact a recent Wisconsin Manufacturing and Commerce survey shows that 94% of job creators believe we are on the right track as opposed to 10% when the democrats were in power. This is a good sign for college students looking for jobs in Wisconsin upon graduating.

Governor Walker did what few politicians do: solve the problems at hand with structural reforms that will leave the next generation better off than the current one. In the upcoming recall election, the College Republicans look forward to fighting for Governor Walker because he has fought so hard for us.

University still suffers from state budget cuts Gender and Women Studies 103 was by far the most influential class I’ve taken at the University of Wisconsin.

To be honest, I stumbled into it. I had heard it was interesting and I needed a science credit, so I thought, “Sure, why not?”

Every lecture wove gender and health issues together to create a bigger picture of social problems, and this made me decide to add a gender and women’s studies certificate to my journalism major.

It was incredibly compelling and informative, and while I’m skeptical on the necessity of safe spaces, my discussion was a great place to talk about relevant and controversial issues, which more often than not affected someone personally in the class.

But good luck if you want to get in next semester.

Jeff Snow (chairman@uwgop.com) is a sophomore majoring in marketing. He is the chairman of the College Republicans.

2011 protests not Wis. reality One year ago today, Madison was a very different place. Protesters ruled the streets with signs, megaphones, banners and repetitive chants. Students skipped class en masse and chose to sleep on the cold, hard granite of the Capitol floor over a warm bed. Teachers left their classrooms to join in the demonstrations, putting a halt to education for days.

As the national media quickly turned its attention to Madison, it seemed the liberal state of Wisconsin had began to revolt against its conservative and oppressive government.

While the protests in February 2011 taught us many things, it also reinforced Madison’s most popular moniker as 77 square miles surrounded by reality.

The reality is that it was the citizens of Wisconsin who chose to elect Gov. Scott Walker over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and voted to give majority control of both the Senate and the Assembly to the Republicans.

The reality is that the first set of recall attempts in the summer of 2011 failed. Of the 16 attempts, only nine legislators actually faced recalls, and a large majority of them won re-election.

Most importantly, Republicans still

maintained their control of the Senate.

The reality is that although Walker now faces a recall election, he has raised millions of dollars in support of his campaign and will continue to garner support while the Democrats squabble over a primarily election filled with unqualified and unremarkable candidates.

The reality is that Walker will win re-election. He will trounce the divided Democrats and continue to make the hard decisions the other candidates have refused to make in order to keep our state on the right track toward recovery during these tough economic times — and not at the expense of the citizens’ pocketbooks.

Madison truly is 77 square miles surround by reality. With a city full of liberal-minded students and progressive city residents, Madison does not accurately represent the views of the rest of the state — something this city should keep in mind as the gubernatorial recall election approaches.

Alex Brousseau (abrousseau@ badgerherald.com) is a second year law student.

Social media play key role in activism’s newest generation My dad, who was exactly the age I am now in the Summer of Love, once told me, “I’m sad for your generation, because you can never really get back what we had. Everyone cared about what was going on. No one protests like they used to.”

What last year’s protests showed me was that my generation does have what it takes to enact change — in our own way. A huge aspect of last year’s protests was social media. It was so powerful it was to see the outpouring of involvement through Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites.

At first, just a few of my most diehard liberal friends switched their profile pictures to read, “I Heart UW: Governor Walker, don’t break my heart.” But then momentum grew quickly, and soon it seemed like everyone posted a mobile upload of them holding a sign from the capitol steps.

Here we are, a year later, and social media is now a main vehicle for enacting political change. The Wisconsin protests and those in Egypt are shining examples, and the fact that this change is ongoing is a testament to the staying

power of networking websites as a way to raise your voice.

While it was awe-inspiring, social media activism has its downfalls. In one way, in the spirit of true democracy, it allows everyone to chime in. In another, it lets any sycophant jump on the bandwagon without really having to commit to attending a protest or standing behind what they say.

In an entry in my diary from Feb. 14, 2011, I reflected on the Hunter S. Thompson quote, “We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.” But of course, he was speaking about my father’s generation. Can we ever, as my dad said, “Get back what we had?” The power of advocating through social media makes me think maybe. We may not be getting tear-gassed, but in our own way, we’re changing things. Even if it is something as simple as a status update.

Taylor Nye (tnye@badgerherald. com) is a junior majoring in human evolutionary biology, archaeology and Latin American studies.

Our lecture was packed, and our professor, Araceli Alonso, told us hundreds more students were on the waiting list.

She said the problem was that there was simply not enough money to hire the TAs necessary for everyone to take the class, and this was a direct result of the budget repair bill and the cuts with which UW had to work.

I was lucky I got into a class that changed my academic path for the better. UW is full of classes and professors that have the potential to change any student’s worldview. The more classes are narrowed and the more students are turned down, the chances are low that others will have experiences similar to mine.

Adelaide Blanchard (ablanchard@badgerherald. com) is a junior majoring in journalism.

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Protests unique experience for a student journalist The Badger Herald’s newsroom normally stands immune to the most shocking of all major news events that happen in Madison. Russ Feingold’s defeat in November merely elicited an unsurprised eyeroll out of the opinion section that night. No story was worthy of epic treatment, and the stories that did get heavy treatment, like the city’s new plans for the Overture Center for the Arts, mostly were mundane.

But something about watching the first protesters march through the Capitol’s State Street entrance immediately suggested the Herald would be involved in an unprecedented story of remarkable scale for a student newspaper. From my perspective as a news reporter at the time, the protests began to consume my life. The chants associated with the movement became so impossible to avoid that even the lurching of my dishwasher sounded like the ubiquitous “kill the bill.” I awoke multiple mornings to demonstrations outside my window.

One especially snowy day, as I walked across an empty Bascom Hill, I couldn’t see the Capitol, but I could hear the 20,000 people who showed up on a weekday to protest the budget repair bill.

The movements that the protests initiated continue to defy conventional political and journalistic wisdom. What began as a march of University of Wisconsin students from the Memorial Union to the Capitol was a media frenzy by the next week. The Feb. 14 protesters were quiet enough to walk on the State Street sidewalk — making a good shot difficult for the single local news camera at the Capitol — but the massive demonstrations that followed closed the entire Capitol Square and attracted coverage from outlets like Al Jazeera and Fox News.

The entire city was full of chaos, from the blistering speeches on the Assembly floor to the reprehensible signs comparing Gov. Scott Walker to Hitler, to the antagonistic nature of the Tea Party protests and the parallel political volatility in Bascom Hall. But when chants were too loud and the overwhelming scale of the event consumed my mind, I only could remind myself of how uniquely lucky I was to be a student journalist in Madison.

I’ll probably never again live in a city with the political sensibility and activity of Madison in 2011. And because of that, I’ll love this city forever for the unfiltered experiences I had.

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

Partisanship mauls democracy My first reaction to the protests last year was hesitation. I worried they were the result of hysteria, not political interest; it was the “cool” thing to do. I can think of several friends who suddenly became “activists” even though they had never uttered a single political phrase before last fall.

There are narcissists who got involved just to hear themselves speak, but there are many that got involved for the right reasons. Furthermore, who can argue that increased civic involvement is a bad thing?

There are no longer throngs at the Capitol, but that’s because the venue has changed.

The battlefield has moved to courtrooms and recall elections. To me this shows enduring beliefs; with over a million recall signatures, it’s hard to argue the protests were whimsical.

What’s disappointed me most, though, is the lack of teamwork. Union structure caused some snags, but small problems warrant bipartisan restructuring, not abandonment.

Gov. Scott Walker’s administration seems to have trampled over Democrats with its agenda, paying no heed to any feasible objections. That’s not politics;

that’s hubris. Walker’s administration is, due to its one-sidedness, likely to face strong backswing in the next year.

I don’t think Wisconsin Republicans are inherently wrong in what they work to accomplish; they simply approach problems from a different angle.

Things in Wisconsin, for the most part, have remained civil, but there have definitely been disrespectful actions on both sides. Whether ripping up recall petitions or yelling during the State of the State, both sides are equally guilty of misbehavior.

So next time you read a headline deploring a party, don’t jump to generalize from that example.

Instead of pointing fingers, we ought to be shaking hands. If that notion had been followed, Walker probably wouldn’t be up for recall.

But then again, he would have to be a politician to understand that. Businessmen run an institution for profit; true politicians run an institution for people.

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

Wis. uprising no longer current Wisconsin’s political situation imploded on itself last spring. I will never forget a certain morning when I rolled out of bed to drag myself to chemistry and was swept away by a shouting and fist-pumping mass as I attempted to cross State Street.

A friend of mine was leading chants and when he noticed me he made it clear, “We’re going to the Capitol!” I joined this crowd and marched to Capitol Square, backpack and all.

The excitement of February has all but fizzled out. I think the movement to overturn Walker’s budget bill and oust Walker himself has ceased to be a matter of public outrage and has become a matter of party politics.

I think Walker has put the contemporary dogmas of the Republican Party and his desire to implement them in Wisconsin ahead of the needs of the state — this is pretty standard in politics. However, I’ve never supported the recall because I don’t think it is good for Wisconsin.

In any given American election, almost 50 percent of voters are on the losing side, and they have a right to complain and critique, but there is a certain element of sportsmanship in waiting patiently and

accepting that political defeat as a short term sacrifice for political stability and respect for the rules of democracy that we have laid in place.

Many people in Madison seemed shocked and appalled when Walker was elected and when he implemented his budget bill. These were the people who wondered how a Republican like Walker could ever be elected in such a “progressive” place like Wisconsin.

Madison may be the capital and the home of the UW, but the state of Wisconsin elected Walker. I think many people in this state have reason to be upset with the fact that Madison-based political activism is attempting to overturn the results of statewide democracy.

Ithe end statewide politics matter most. This is why I think the protests of last spring, the recall effort and the commemoration of the “Wisconsin Uprising” demonstrate a myopic view of Madison in relation to the state of Wisconsin.

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

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The Badger Herald | Comics | Tuesday, February 14, 2012

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The Badger Herald | Arts | Tuesday, February 14, 2012

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‘Bunnicula’ haunts Playhouse Adapted from well-loved children’s book, story of vampire rabbit fuzzy for kids but packing teeth adults will appreciate Amie Kjellstrom ArtsEtc. Reporter Have you ever watched an old Disney movie and found it way more interesting as a 20-something college student? Right off the bat, “Fantasia” comes to mind.

There’s just something about seeing through adult eyes all those trippy, seminude half-horse characters that completely entrance children that makes it totally worth watching a kid’s film again.

And that’s not to mention all the jokes and innuendos you suddenly understand.

If you were a fan of the wildly popular “Bunnicula” books as a child and you feel like taking a walk down memory lane, check out “Bunnicula” this week at the Overture Center’s Playhouse.

Adapted by the Children’s Theater of Madison from Deborah and James Howe’s best-selling children’s book, “Bunnicula” tells the story of what happens when the Monroe family brings home a mysterious — and murderous — baby bunny.

Told from the viewpoint of the impossibly personified family dog and cat duo, the play opens with life as usual in the Monroe family home. But after one of the

Monroe’s young sons finds a baby bunny at a “Dracula” movie, strange things start happening in the house: Closed doors mysteriously open, vegetables punctured with fangs are sucked white and the bunny keeps disappearing from its locked cage. As any loyal family pet duo would do, Harold (Nick Barsuli) and Chester (Victoria Kemnetz) set out to solve the mystery and save the Monroe family from the evil baby bunny.

On the surface, yes, it’s a children’s play. But a heavy veil of irony over surprisingly dark undertones makes the play more than just tolerable for a tired parent or babysitter. As Chester and Harold work to solve the vampire mystery, they plot to kill the bunny by dousing it with water, starving it to death and putting a “steak” through its heart — the meat kind. The writing is smart and tight, and much of the dark humor about zombies and the impending apocalypse goes right over the delighted children’s heads.

As the cat and dog duo, Barsuli and Kemnetz entertain the small children in the audience with playful, animated dance numbers but

rarely go beyond the shallow surface of their characters.

Stealing the show — and laying the irony on heavily — are Mr. and Mrs. Monroe, played by Jake Penner (whom you may recognize from the title role of Broom Street Theater’s “Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker”) and Abby Stevens. A delightfully perky, semirobotic parental pair, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe are larger-thanlife parents who sporadically sing sarcasm-laden lessons to their sons about the perks of having pets and the dangers of buying non-organic.

“The Monroes are playing off of everyone’s memories of a 1950s television family,” Penner said after the show’s premiere Saturday. “But, you know, we’ve grown culturally to a point where we no longer see that as ideal. So we’ve taken that stereotype, pushed it as far as we could go and made it really ironic.”

Here he’s referring to the 1950s sitcom-esque canned laughter and big cheesy smiles the Monroes dole out upon every entrance, as well as Mrs. Monroe’s overtly hyperbolized housewife sexuality.

“But in some ways, the play is a bit tragic,” Penner

continued. “My character, Mr. Monroe, is supposed to be the father-knows-best kind of guy, but that’s not what he is at all — in fact, he’s really blind to who his children are becoming.”

Deep stuff. But it’s not all tragedy.

“As a college student myself, I love Bunnicula’s evil, nighttime alter ego because it gives us a chance to wink at the audience and say, ‘here we are being dark.’

But how dark can it really get when you’ve got an adorable seven-year-old girl on stage wearing a onesie and a pair of bunny ears?”

Part of the 2011-2012 season at the Children’s Theater of Madison, “Bunnicula” is just one production in a unique lineup featuring “A Christmas Carol” earlier this year as well as the upcoming “Lord of the Flies.” In support of our local dogs, cats and baby vampire bunnies, CTM is donating $2 per ticket sold for “Bunnicula” to the Dane County Humane Society.

“Bunnicula” runs until Feb. 19 at the Playhouse at the Overture Center. Tickets range from $15-24 and can be purchased at www. overturecenter.com.

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Fed for less bread: Cheap eats roundup Sam Stepp Chew on This Columnist As much as I hate to play into the “starving college student” stereotype, I have to admit I’m a little strapped for cash these days. And if you have any self-respect for your college student identity, so are you. But truthfully, being low on funds doesn’t mean you have to starve.

Now the problem with society is that it thinks “cheap” restaurants constitute places like Mickies Dairy Bar or The Weary Traveler (Google search “madison cheap eats” and you’ll see what I mean).

Granted, these restaurants aren’t crazy expensive, either.

But when I say “cheap,” I mean cheap. Like, pretty much free.

And if you don’t mind subsisting on popcorn, you can eat for free — The City Bar (636 State St.), Essen Haus (514 E. Wilson St.) and Der Rathskeller at Memorial Union (800 Langdon St.) all offer free popcorn after a certain time.

For more free bottomof-the-barrel tidbits, head

to Wando’s or Chaser’s on Tuesday nights. Wando’s serves up free bacon with a $1 beer, and Chaser’s gives out all their leftover onion straws beginning at 10 p.m.

Okay, enough of the appetizers. It may seem impossible, but you can enjoy a substantial meal for less than $5 without having to resort to McDonald’s, Taco Bell or ramen. Let’s begin with taco night.

Atypically, taco night at Chaser’s (319 W. Gorham) is not Tuesday. It’s Wednesday.

Which, as my friend Devin pointed out, is a wise move on their part because it gives them the corner on the Wednesday night taco market.

If a someone misses taco Tuesday or finds themselves hankering for a taco on Wednesday, they only have one place to head.

“The food is nothing to write home about,” Madison local Suzanne Liebergen said, “but having a nice lil’ tradition to get you through the week makes it worth it.”

On Wednesday nights from 4 to 10 p.m., tacos at Chaser’s are only 50 cents apiece. You can get sour cream for 50 cents more, a soft tortilla for $1 more or chicken instead of ground beef for $2 more. If you choose to skip all these marginal upgrades (and I recommend you do), you can get 10 Tacos for $5. And salsa

is (cha-ching!) free. They also offer $3 margaritas and $2.50 Coronas — not bad.

If Wednesday tacos aren’t quite your style, you can always try out Wednesday corn dogs at Johnny O’s (620 University Ave.). That night, you can get FREE mini corn dogs with any purchase. All taps and pitchers are halfprice to boot.

If corn dogs and tacos feel a little passe to you, you’re in luck — wing night at Brothers (704 University Ave.) offers up yet another Wednesday night food option with a barbecue kick to it. Though the saucy 15 cent wings are delicious, be warned that their fame means you might spend quite a while — sometimes up to an hour — waiting in line for them.

Despite the thrill of a cheap price, a night of eating lowgrade-yet-deliciously-greasy bar food might leave you feeling crummy. The solution?

Fresco (227 State St.), the swanky rooftop restaurant above the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. You may not be able to afford the fancy panko-crusted salmon or the ricotta cheese gnocchi entrees, but between Memorial Day and late October, $5 will get you some equally fancy seared sashimi scallops or Prince Edward Island mussels off their nighttime only appetizer menu.

If you want to shell out

another $5, you can enjoy a pomodoro (white rum, fresh lime and pomegranate juice) or a Fresco champagne cocktail off their drinks menu.

Otherwise, satiate yourself with the thought of all the ignorant peons gaping and traipsing around gawking at art beneath your feet. Puh! What do they know of not spending money? $5 is the new $500; they just haven’t caught on quite yet.

Ok, who are you kidding?

You’re a college student; grit is a way of life. You belong at the Nitty Gritty (223 N. Frances St.), yet another institution serving up cheap eats every night of the week. From 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., their itty bitty gritty burgers (basically miniature versions of their signature hamburger) go for only $1 apiece.

And as a final note, I highly recommend going to Jimmy John’s (527 State St.) any day of the week for their dayold bread. For 50 cents (or free, with some schmoozing) they’ll sell you a whole loaf.

Hope this helps you break the “starving college student” stereotype. You can eat out every night of the week without breaking (or even denting) the bank.

Sam Stepp is a senior majoring in journalism. Comments, questions, recipes, suggestions?

Email her at ssstepp@wisc.edu.

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The Ivy-educated comedian, pictured on his now-canceled Comedy Central show.

Martin performed last weekend as part of his “Telling Jokes in Cold Places” tour.

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Deadpanning comic’s riotous Madison show full of one-liners, clever insights Brontë Mansfield ArtsEtc. Writer Greeted by the roaring applause of laughter-hungry college students, Demetri Martin took the stage for a second time at the Barrymore Friday night.

After his 8 p.m. show sold out at incredible speeds, a second show at the theater was added to his “Telling Jokes in Cold Places” tour. This being Martin’s first time in Madison, he opened the show with some local material: “Why can’t you drive on State Street?” Martin said, posing the sentence as a comically annoyed statement rather than a legitimate question.

“That’s bullshit.”

After letting the chuckling crowd settle, Martin plowed forward through an onslaught of jokes in his signature deadpan style. Martin’s comedic brilliance lies in his seeming lack of a filter or forethought.

During the two hours of his show, Martin blows up the concept of a train of thought and leaves his audience laughing at the disconnected, flaming pieces of the railroad track.

The funny aspect of Martin is that his jokes are pure and unfiltered, like a glimpse into the inner workings of the comedian’s mind. Martin says the ordinary, benign things his audience always wondered (Why do humans make houses for birds?) but with a thought-provoking twist and a laugh (“Why do humans make bird houses when birds make nests for themselves?

Isn’t that arrogant?”).

The appearance of Martin onstage after his opener made the comedy of Levi MacDougall seem amateur. The opener’s

jokes lacked adequate punchlines and, like his closing poem, lasted much too long. Martin, on the other hand, gave his audience so much material it proved impossible to remember it all. In addition to his usual rapid-fire barrage of jokes, Martin shared personal anecdotes after asking his audience if there was anything they wanted to talk about.

He revealed he is not truly ambidextrous but merely got bored on a plane one day and talked about his change of profession from law to comedy (Martin, who is best known for his stand-up and show produced by Jon Stewart, is actually a graduate of Yale).

Martin also took some time to describe his role as a gay man in Taking Woodstock, wherein he had to shoot a kissing scene with another straight man in front of his girlfriend.

Throughout the show, there was hardly a dull moment. Only when someone pulled out a camera phone as Martin began to show his sketches did the comedian pause to say “Can you not film me; it freaks me out” did the show not entertain.

After flipping through his sketchpad full of shenanigans (including a horrifyingly funny do-I-laugh-or-do-Igasp plan for a “baby silencer”) Martin slipped on his guitar and played while releasing a final battery of one-liners.

Demetri Martin’s “Telling Jokes in Cold Places” was a huge success, giving a few hundred college students and lovers of comedy a brief break from the freezing February night with some side-clenching, warming laughter.

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Badgers chase outright WCHA title With share of league crown clinched, UW looks to be alone at top next weekend

“The challenge will be coming out at 2 o’clock [on Friday] and have some energy and have some pace to our game, and know that if we’re successful our team will be rewarded at the end of the game,” Johnson said.

Josh Varghese Johnson stressed a key Sports Writer to success at the end of the season is being healthy, After clinching a share of as he cited the return to its fourth WCHA title last health of junior defenseman weekend, the Wisconsin Stefanie McKeough as women’s hockey team is a big plus to the lineup. already looking ahead to McKeough boasts a plusnext weekend to claim the minus ratio of plus 20 and entire crown for itself. is sixth on the team with Entering the final regular 19 points in her 21 games season series, the Badgers, played. sporting a 28-2-2 record In addition to staying (22-2-2-1 WCHA), can healthy, senior captain clinch an outright WCHA Hilary Knight, who will be title and a first seed in the playing her last series at conference playoffs with home this weekend, has one win over Ohio State this been instrumental to the weekend. The win would Badgers’ largely victorious give UW a two-game lead season. Knight, who is the over rival Minnesota in the school’s all-time leading conference goal scorer, has standings. done things with Head the puck “that coach Mark “A lot of the little you don’t see things that the Johnson too often in our is looking public or fans game,” Johnson forward to noted. don’t see is how finishing And more the season [Knight] conducts than her onstrong at the herself on a daily ice ability to Kohl Center basis, very similar score big goals against the and create to a lot of other Buckeyes opportunities is and shook successful players the leadership his head in over the years.”

Knight brings disbelief that that will be the regular Mark Johnson sorely missed for season is Head Coach next year’s team. already “A lot of the drawing to a little things close at his that the public weekly press conference or fans don’t see is how she Monday. conducts herself on a daily The 2012 seniors will basis, very similar to a lot be honored this weekend of other successful players for their highly successful over the years,” Johnson careers, and Johnson knows said. “She does things the this weekend’s game comes right way, whether it’s rife with meaning and school, whether it’s taking emotion. care of herself, 24/7 of being

HUGHES, from 10 deal would be for UW to overthrow MSU at the Breslin Center.

Should Wisconsin fall at the hands of Michigan State (by video review or not), the Badgers can still reassure everyone of their road savviness with a win at Ohio State. But if UW wants a statement win (or a regular season title), it can’t wait for that.

Elliot is a senior majoring in journalism. Do you think Wisconsin looks like a tournament team this year? Let him know at ehughes@ badgerherald. com or tweet @ BHeraldSports.

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The Big Ten Championship in 2002 was Ryan’s first year as UW head coach, and he led his team to a 19-13 overall record, including an 11-5 finish in the Big Ten, to win a share of the regular season title.

Plagued by injuries, transfers and only seven scholarship players, Ryan had his hands full in his first season in Madison.

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With a sweep of cross-state rival St. Cloud State over the weekend, Mark Johnson’s squad clinched a share of the WCHA title for the fourth time in the program’s 12-year history. an elite athlete ... She does it very well.”

Johnson went on to make the case that if Knight isn’t the best player in women’s college hockey this year, she’s at least in the top three, citing how she has played out of position and has made sacrifices for the betterment of the team.

According to Johnson, having Knight at center rather than out on the wing has allowed her to carry the puck more and create

“They just worked; we stole a couple of games on the road with a couple of one-point games,” he said.

Ryan mentioned that 2002 was the year that Ohio State was scheduled to play four games in a row on the road. Ryan suggested to Big Ten officials that no team should compete in more than two consecutive road games, but the policy passed despite the initial controversy.

The Buckeyes remained a contender in the Big Ten in 2002,

chances for her teammates.

Knight is up for consideration for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, annually given to the nation’s top female hockey player, and her biggest competition may come from her own teammates.

Junior forward Brianna Decker is second in the nation in goals with 30 and total points with 66, while Brooke Ammerman is fifth with 62 points.

Additionally, goaltender

but that stretch of road games allowed Wisconsin to climb to the top of the standings.

“Ohio State took a few bumps in there and made the rest of us look human,” Ryan said. “We caught a few breaks, but you make your breaks.

The guys competed hard.”

In 2003, Ryan won his second consecutive regular season Big Ten championship, but the second time around he earned sole possession of the title.

This was the first time Wisconsin had

Alex Rigsby leads the nation with a .951 save percentage and is second in the country with a 1.40 goals against average.

As the Badgers finish up the regular season, it will be difficult for them to keep their eyes on the prize and not slip into a mindset of complacency. Johnson is taking it one day at a time to keep his No. 1-ranked team in tip-top shape as they continue to ride an eight-game winning streak.

won the regular season championship outright in 56 years. It was also a year in which the Badgers posted a record number of overall wins (25) while reaching the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament.

The current Badgers are hoping they can rise to the top of the Big Ten this year. With only six games left in the regular season, Wisconsin would be supporting its own cause by knocking off a tough Michigan State squad on the road Thursday.

“The team’s played consistent in the 32 games we’ve played, and for us to be in the position that we are in is a compliment to the players,” Johnson said.

“As cliché as it is, we’re taking it one day at a time.”

“We’ll go about our business like we have since September, and I’m sure the players will come out very excited and very enthusiastic about Friday afternoon’s game knowing what’s at stake.”

NATURE, from 10 “Well, I think if you look at the big picture, it’s always good to have games in your own barn and to play in front of your own crowd,” he said. “... There has been a real good success in neutral site with the WCHA Playoffs and such, that I think that the Big Ten came back around and looked at it again with all the things they were finding about getting home sites, and it looked like a real good alternative.

“I think there’s more upside to doing a neutral site.”

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Coming off overtime win over Gophers, Badgers face surging Spartans in East Lansing Lee Gordon Sports Writer The Badgers (19-6, 8-4 Big Ten) have all the motivation they need to win the Big Ten regular season title after a 68-61 overtime road win Thursday against the Minnesota Golden Gophers in Minneapolis.

Wisconsin was able to open up a considerable lead against its archrival in Thursday’s contest before letting up in the second half and winning 68-61 in overtime.

With the Badgers’ inconsistency on the offensive side of the ball, junior forward Ryan Evans ignited the team by posting his first career doubledouble with 17 points Megan McCormick The Badger Herald and 11 boards against the Head coach Bo Ryan and the rest of the UW Athletic Department will be honoring the Gophers.

2002 Wisconsin Big Ten Championship team at halftime of the Penn State game Feb. 19.

Wisconsin head coach

Bo Ryan said at his Monday the first meeting between press conference that he the two teams since the heartbreaking has no problem pushing Badgers’ his team to work hard as overtime loss to the it pursues the Big Ten Spartans Jan. 3. Wisconsin title. The Badgers aren’t shot 33.3 percent from forgetting that they lay the field and 22.7 percent just one game behind from 3-point land in the first matchup Ohio State before losing in the top on a video spot in the “Our guys are review that conference making strides. concluded standings and Evans didn’t don’t need [Rebounding is] get his any extra an area you can buzzer-beater motivation. always improve off in time.

“When you Although compete in a on.”

Bo Ryan Ryan didn’t sport, and you Head Coach watch have to talk Michigan to guys about winning, that’s a sad state State’s road victory over of affairs,” Ryan said. “The then-No. 3 Ohio State only thing that’s important over the weekend, he is the next one, and, that knows the Spartans have we have control over or a nose for rebounding the ball. The Badgers were that we can prepare for.”

Wisconsin’s next game is outrebounded by eight Feb. 16 at Michigan State, against the Spartans back

in January.

Wisconsin’s front line will have a difficult time containing Michigan State big man Draymond Green.

The senior leads the Big Ten in rebounding with 11.3 per game against Big Ten opponents. He also puts up 14.6 points and is the only player in the Big Ten to average a doubledouble in conference play.

“Our guys are making strides. It’s an area you can always improve on,” Ryan said, when asked about his own team’s rebounding.

“Sometimes the ball just bounces three inches farther or three inches shorter.”

After the trip to East Lansing, Wisconsin heads home to play Penn State at the Kohl Center.

Members of the 2002 Big

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‘Human nature’ has UW fighting to end After 4 consecutive losses, Wisconsin readies for No. 10 Denver at home Spencer Smith Sports Writer In the middle of a fourgame losing skid, the Wisconsin men’s hockey faithful still have plenty to look forward to as the final stretch of the season approaches.

The Badgers (12-14-2, 7-132 WCHA) have dropped four straight games to conference foes despite outshooting their opponents 74-47 in their last two games and now find themselves second-to-last in the WCHA standings.

With the WCHA playoffs approaching and home ice seemingly out of reach, head coach Mike Eaves said his team isn’t ready to back down just yet.

“We have a choice now — we can roll over and play dead, but that’s not human nature,” Eaves said in his Monday press conference.

“Human nature is to fight and to scrap. All we can do right now is get ready for Friday night.”

The road doesn’t get any easier for the Badgers. No. 10 Denver comes to the Kohl Center this weekend looking to extend its twogame winning streak, which

was started by an impressive series sweep of the then-No. 2 Minnesota Golden Gophers.

Currently sitting in third place in the conference standings, Denver will surely be a difficult test for Wisconsin. The Pioneers bring a high-powered offense to Madison with the best power play conversion rate in the WCHA at 24 percent and rank third in the WCHA in scoring offense with 106 goals.

“A lot of things you’d say you would want in a toprated team, they have those

“... We can roll over and play dead, but that’s not human nature. Human nature is to fight and to scrap ...”

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qualities,” Eaves said of Denver. “They compete their fannies off.”

Eaves hopes the week off will help re-energize the Badgers after their longest losing streak of the season.

UW dropped two games on the road to North Dakota and was then swept on its home ice by St. Cloud State last weekend.

Heading into the bye, Wisconsin suffered a painful 2-1 defeat in which the team fired off 42 shots but was

unable to get past SCSU’s to take advantage.

“Usually when you have a week off they come in with a little more jump,” Eaves said.

“We hope they use that jump to help us this weekend.”

Although the weekend series with Denver poses an array of challenges, the Badgers will likely be aided by the return of junior forward Derek Lee, who is probable for Friday’s contest after only playing in seven games this season due to injury.

With a roster dominated by young, inexperienced players, most Wisconsin hockey fans expected the 2011-12 campaign to be a rebuilding year for Eave’s squad. As such, the Badgers are in the bottom half of the WCHA in several categories including scoring offense and goals allowed.

Although the Badgers sit near the bottom of the WCHA with just six regular season games remaining, signs are still pointing up for the future. The team will lose just one player next season to graduation, that of Eric Springer, the team’s lone senior.

Springer, a native of Wrightstown, Wis., has four assists and a goal on the year but remains a leader in the locker room and will prove a tough loss off the ice for UW. “I think when you’re the only senior it’s difficult because there is a lot of responsibility there,” Eaves said. “He’s playing his best

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On a team dominated by youth, defenseman Eric Springer, Wisconsin’s lone senior, has four assists and a goal to his name this season.

hockey now because he’s comfortable with his role and he understands what he needs to do to help this team.

“This team is in the middle of growth. Are we going to quit growing or continue to get better day by day? Just knowing these guys, I think

that’s the path that we are going to follow.”

Many of the young Badgers currently on the squad will experience UW’s dying days in the WCHA after 43 years and the birth of the Big Ten hockey conference in the 2013-14.

The future institution recently voted to hold its conference tournament at neutral sites, rather than have teams themselves host games, a move with which Eaves felt OK.

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UW can prove readiness for March at MSU Elliot Hughes Look Hughe’s Laughing Now Come this Thursday, Wisconsin men’s basketball fans are going to witness a litmus test of sorts, with the results indicating whether or not UW is capable of a deep postseason run in either the NCAA or Big Ten tournaments.

This year’s clan of Badgers are a rare breed — one that doesn’t shrivel up after emerging from their burrow that is the Kohl Center — and it’s got me thinking that it could avoid an early exit that so many UW teams went through recently.

For the past few years,

any excursion outside the Badgers’ home was a perilous one — be it a neutral site or a true road affair. Under head coach Bo Ryan’s tutelage, Wisconsin is 45-42 (.517 winning percentage) away from home in Big Ten games and 93-80 overall (.528).

That’s a whirlwind of difference when the Badgers are home, where Ryan’s crew has gone 79-7 at home versus Big Ten foes (.919) and 153-12 overall (.927).

Those trends have conspicuously reversed this season. After going undefeated at home a year ago, the Grateful Red has had to watch the Badgers lose four times, with three coming against conference enemies. Meanwhile, UW has amassed an 8-2 record away from the Kohl Center and is 6-2 in true road games this season.

This is one year removed

from a team that was much better offensively but still went 7-7 away from home and 5-5 in true road games.

The Badgers are even shooting better away from home, hitting 40 percent from the field in conference road games and 23 percent at the Kohl Center.

Fans may, indeed, want the Kohl Center to be a stadium renowned for its inhospitality, but if I had a choice, I’d choose the trend of 2011-12 over 201011. The most important games every year are held outside of teams’ comfort zones, and no home courtdependent team is likely to make a run.

Although Wisconsin’s collective shooting has fluctuated quite a bit during the conference season (sitting in 11th place with a .393 shooting percentage in Big Ten games), the Badgers are nevertheless beginning to

look like a tournamentready team thanks to their road victories and terrific defense.

And we’re about to get a big clue about just how ready they are when they travel to East Lansing to dance with the Spartans.

The number of triumphs

After going undefeated at home a year ago, the Grateful Red has had to watch the Badgers lose four times, with three coming against conference enemies.

Wisconsin has earned on the road this year is impressive — it has more true road victories than any other Big Ten team — but the jury is still out on whether it can march through a few rounds of the NCAA tournament.

The most readily available example: failing to convert a single basket in the last 7:43 of regulation against Minnesota.

The Badgers were lucky it came out even with the Gophers after that catastrophe of a final five minutes and had an overtime period to salvage a win. But such calamities wouldn’t fly against top tier talent or in high-stakes tournament time.

Which reminds me: None of those Big Ten teams the Badgers have beaten on the road this year has a winning conference record. As of this moment, Wisconsin’s most impressive win has come at Purdue, which is 6-6 in the Big Ten and hadn’t lost at home in 26 games before UW arrived.

Illinois, Penn State and Minnesota are decentenough teams (and places where the Badgers had lost

the last time they visited) to be proud of pulling a road win out of, but if Wisconsin isn’t kidding people about their crusading ability, they’ll take down a topnotch team in their humble abode.

The No. 8 Spartans sport a 9-3 conference mark and average more than 10 more points per game than they allow. Their average of 40 rebounds per game is ninth-best in the country.

UW has a defense capable of overcoming MSU, and in going 15 of 17 from the free throw line in overtime against Minnesota, the Badgers displayed the mental finesse necessary to close out a tight game.

That the Badgers have a clear-cut winning road record right now is encouraging for the postseason, but the real

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