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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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Chadima probe granted $100K UW given funding limit for reviewing allegations of misconduct by ex-official

1 year after a 17-day Capitol occupation began, protesters commemorate efforts Mike Kujak State Legislative Editor Protestors marched down State Street and into the state House Tuesday as part of a Week of Action commemorating the 17-day occupation of the Capitol building that took place a year ago.

The Capitol was captured first by a Valentine’s Day student-worker march and then by a rally led by Madison Teachers, Inc. later in the afternoon.

The Valentine’s Day march started at the steps of Memorial Union, where protesters held signs criticizing Gov. Scott Walker for the state of the economy and lack of job creation.

Teaching Assistants Association co-president Alex Hanna said people were there Tuesday to commemorate last year’s mass protests against Walker and his controversial budget repair bill and to oppose the $250 million in cuts made to the University of Wisconsin System in the biennial budget, along with a

budget lapse that may cut an additional $65 million from the System.

Student labor unions and a 12-piece band led the protest down State Street and into the Capitol to join additional protesters at the middle of the rotunda. As the protesters entered, they dropped dozens of signed “I Still Love UW” valentines into the middle of the rotunda floor. Last year, students marched to Walker’s office on Valentine’s Day to leave valentines that read “We <3 UW. Governor Walker, don’t break my <3.”

Several speakers who followed the group sing-along addressed the need to protect public education in Wisconsin.

Kevin Gundlach, recently elected president of the South Central Federation of Labor, said at the rally it was a shame that on a day of love like Valentine’s Day, the rally would be protesting such large cuts to the Wisconsin’s education system.

Rep. Dan Knodl, R-Germantown, criticized the nature of the protests.

“For roughly a year, the

Jackie Allen Campus Life Editor

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

A group of protesters gather in the Capitol building Tuesday for a group solidarity sing-along to send Gov. Scott Walker the message that they are still standing strong and fighting against his controversial policies. halls of the Capitol have been filled with protesters who shout and yell, bang on drums, heckle lawmakers and their staff and generally try their best to disrupt government proceedings,” Knodl said in a statement.

Knodl added while the right to free speech is paramount, he questioned the Capitol’s decision to tolerate adults who he claimed routinely scream obscenities at elected lawmakers.

During the Madison Teachers, Inc. rally later

Tuesday afternoon, fewer than 100 protesters marched around the Capitol and heard several speeches, including one from Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison.

Pocan thanked the teachers for showing up at the rally and told a story of how the 17day occupation of the Capitol began a year ago.

Pocan said as Capitol security escorted the protesters out for the night during one of the occupation

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University of Wisconsin officials have been approved to pay up to $100,000 to investigate allegations of misconduct

by John Chadima, former senior associate athletic director.

UW spokesperson Amy Toburen said in an email to The Badger Herald that the university has the authority to pay up to $100,000 for the entire investigation. UW began the investigation after allegations that Chadima had sexually assaulted a male student employee surfaced shortly after the Badgers’ trip to the Rose Bowl in December 2011. Two additional allegations against Chadima have since come forward.

Former Dane County Circuit Court Judge Patrick Fiedler, who is chairing the investigations connected with Chadima, charges $300 an hour.

Toburen added

officials do not know how many hours the investigation will take and the $100,000 allotted does not necessarily mean UW will pay the full amount.

Mike Hardiman, UW’s Chadima director of purchasing services, said the UW Business Services Department became involved to form a contract with Fiedler to chair the independent investigation.

“At that point in time, we had no idea what the allegations were ... so we were pretty much doing this contract a little bit blind,” Hardiman said.

“We will spend nowhere near that amount of money.”

The $100,000 was allotted to secure approval of Fiedler’s hiring from Gov. Scott Walker’s office and to ensure there would be no

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MPD, county clash over detox center funding cuts Adrianna Viswanatha City Hall Editor Madison Police Department officials are contending that Dane County is evading responsibilities after a funding reduction to the county’s detoxification center led to a new policy heavily limiting the amount of inebriated individuals MPD can bring in for help.

The decision to cut funding to the detox center was made a little over a year ago in fall of 2010.

The Dane County Board put together a study committee to determine how the county would meet its obligation to

Travis Sheridan The Badger Herald

Ald. Paul Skidmore, District 9, addresses concerns on a proposed Nuisance Party Ordinance at Tuesday’s Public Safety Review Committee. Skidmore made a motion to approve the ordinance, which the committee unanimously passed. He said the ordinance is not meant to stop drinking, but rather to end threatening situations that arise from big parties.

Party ordinance soars through city’s pubic safety review reps Commission moves bill through process Katie Slavin Herald Contributor A city committee moved forward a long-debated party ordinance Tuesday following several attempts to find a balance between landlords and student tenants.

The Public Safety Review Committee met Tuesday night to review the fourth revision of the Nuisance Party Ordinance. A motion to pass the ordinance by Ald. Paul Skidmore, District 9, was unopposed, and the legislation passed through the committee.

The Nuisance Party Ordinance has been brought before the Economic Development Committee, the Alcohol Licensing Review Committee and the Housing Committee.

Eventually, a small group of stakeholders, alders, landlord representatives, students and tenants sat down to discuss the language of the ordinance, Alcohol

Policy Coordinator Mark Woulf said.

“We added in language that included a meeting that would occur after the first nuisance party was declared at an address with the tenants as well as landlords, police departments and the city attorney’s office,” Woulf said. “That was put in there so if all parties were coming and actively working with city officials there would be no fines levied for the first offense.”

In the original version there was a provision that allowed landlords to evade the nuisance party fine if they actively tried to evict tenants that violated the ordinance.

The fourth revision of the ordinance removed any language that made mention of eviction. The idea is that landlords are not encouraged to evict tenants, and also they do not feel pressured to move in that direction.

The legislation aims to distinguish between landlords who are actively engaged with their properties and with city officials,

and landlords who are not responsive, Woulf said.

Skidmore said the ordinance lends itself some flexibility pertaining to the initial confrontation. He said if both parties are actively working with city officials and the landlords have taken the necessary steps -- yet something else happens -the tenant could be more responsible in that instance.

He said it was determined that students should be involved in the first offense, and should sit down with the police and the landlord to talk about what happened and how to prevent it in the future.

“It’s progressive discipline; the first step is education.

With the second step, if they do it again, they are probably knowingly doing it, and there will be consequences,” Skidmore said.

The ordinance deals with parties with egregious, lifethreatening behavior, not the garden-variety parties, Skidmore said.

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provide emergency treatment services to help those incapacitated by alcohol, MPD Captain Joe Balles said. He said although the study committee never produced a final report, the director for Dane County Human Services Lynn Green moved forward with a model that would provide detox services only to those who voluntarily stayed seven to 10 days at the center.

According to a memorandum from Green, a 2011 investigation by the department found evidence that the funds allocated for alcohol and other

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Adidas, UW set to engage in mediation conversations Katie Caron Higher Education Editor After a report alleged Adidas had violated workers’ rights, Interim Chancellor David Ward announced Tuesday the University of Wisconsin will enter into a period of mediation with the company.

Ward’s announcement arose out of a situation in which a factory owner at the Adidas-subcontracted

PT Kizone in Indonesia fled the factory and left more than 2,800 workers without about $3.2 million in legally-mandated severance pay.

Adidas has said it is not responsible for compensating the workers and that it has adhered to the UW code of conduct, but an investigative report issued by the Worker Rights Consortium

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INSIDE Evans’ hard work translating to hardwood After a rocky sophomore season, Evans’ recent offensive strength has been a long time coming.

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Recall workers defend signature authenticity

Eine kleine nachtmusik

Four GOP senators up for recall suggested fraudulent signatures should void potential elections.

Classical Revolution brings chamber music to Madison’s night scene, performing in coffee shops and bars city-wide.

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ARTS | 8

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Corrections In the Feb. 14 edition of The Badger Herald, it was incorrectly reported that on March 28, 2011, the Wisconsin Department of Justice overturned a court ruling that blocked the collective bargaining law. It should have been reported that the Department of Justice deemed the law valid and called for a restraining order to be lifted. The error occurred in the timeline on the front page accompanying the article “Wisconsin Divided.”

The Herald regrets the error.

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In a legislative session Tuesday, lawmakers passed a bill removing the enrollment cap on Family Care and debated legislation dealing with building on wetlands and restoring collective bargaining.

The Senate unanimously passed a bill removing the enrollment cap placed on long-term Family Care programs in the 2011-13 biennial budget act. The bill would also allow Family Care to expand to other counties.

Sen. Jessica King, D-Oshkosh, said more than 8,000 people are on waiting lists for Family Care services statewide, and said if the state does not lift the cap, it could lose $1.7 million in federal money.

“I think a society is really judged on how we treat our elderly, who have provided

years of service and generations of service to our community,” King said. “And the one thing we all have in common is that we’ll all die, and we have to think about how we treat our seniors.”

However, Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Madison, said he had grave concerns about how the bill would fare in the Assembly. He said at the very least he hoped Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican majority in the Senate would work with the Assembly to get the bill passed without a hitch and signed into law.

Sen. Terry Moulton, R-Chippewa Falls, who helped introduce the legislation, said legislators are not supposed to question the motives of authors of legislation.

“It sounds to me like that’s what’s happening here,” Moulton said. “And I certainly hope that’s not the case. This is supported by the vast majority of us here and I never intend to question the motive of another senator here in this body, but I see this all too often and it’s very disappointing for me.”

Erpenbach said he was not questioning the motives of any of the senators, but rather the motives of the Assembly and the governor.

Lawmakers also debated a bill that would make changes to the process of providing building permits to wetlands.

Sen. Neal Kedzie, R-Elkhorn, said lawmakers worked together with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, various conservation groups and special interest groups to develop a bill that was reasonably balanced between the interests of all the groups.

However, Sen. Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee, said the bill would harm wetland conservation.

“Make no qualms about it,” Larson said. “This bill is a valentine to those interests that would like to build on Wisconsin wetlands and to destroy our wetland habitats.”

He said the bill only has the support of groups who will benefit from it passing, while conservation groups have registered against it.

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Sen. Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee, moves against a proposed wetlands bill during Tuesday’s session. He argued the bill would harm wetland conservation in Wisconsin. had been passed, Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, motioned for a bill restoring collective bargaining rights to public employees to be withdrawn from committee and referred to the Senate Organization Committee, which could then place it on the Senate calendar for a vote.

“The bottom line is this,” Risser said. “If we all get back together again and correct some of the mistakes we

made earlier this session, … we could get together in a more active way and pass legislation to benefit the public.”

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, questioned whether the motion had to do with gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Falk and the relationship between her and her union supporters, whom he called “corrupt.”

Recall groups dispute signature challenges 4 GOP senators facing possible recalls submit reports alleging some petitions have fraudulent information Ilona Argirion Herald Reporter After four GOP senators facing potential recalls submitted an analysis of possibly fraudulent signatures, committees heading the recall efforts filed responses to the reports with the Government Accountability Board Tuesday.

The filed responses argue the GOP challenges were incorrect on several counts.

The responses said the GOP challenges are based on newly-drawn district lines, which had been previously reviewed and rejected by the GAB. They said the challenges are based on improper analysis of the 60-day signature collection window.

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argument found in the four responses is a significant amount of challenges that found signatures with incomplete addresses were actually complete.

In an email to The Badger Herald, GAB spokesperson Reid Magney said the board has a responsibility to examine the petitions for legible addresses and complete dates, but state law also puts the burden on officeholders to challenge signatures in these situations.

Magney said in the email petitioners did have the right to file correcting affidavits to fix problems the officeholders may have found, but petitioners only had until 5 p.m. Tuesday night to file rebuttals to the challenges.

If this course of action were taken, officeholders would

then have two more days to file replies to the rebuttals.

According to Magney’s email, the GAB will continue to review recall petitions while the challenges are being filed and debated. He said the 50 employees verifying the signatures and the rest of the GAB staff are working hard to review the petitions. Magney’s email also said at the current time it was premature to say exactly how many petitions had been reviewed.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, Sen. Pam Galloway, R-Wausau, Sen. Terry Moulton, R-Chippewa Falls, and Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, all worked together to challenge enough signatures to void an election in complaints filed and posted by the GAB earlier in the week.

DETOX, from 1 drug abuse, or AODA, treatment, was not the best use of money.

The memo said a very low percentage of admitted people went on to treatment, and more than half had been there before. Additionally, only 7 percent of the people were reported to have gone to detox voluntarily.

However, Balles said the new plan meant the county would not provide emergency treatment to those law enforcement found incapacitated by alcohol. The detox center would also be closed to officers Monday through Thursday.

Balles said that in 2010, MPD took 280 to 290 people per month into custody and to detox, which averages to six times per day.

“We’re not talking about people who are intoxicated,” Balles said.

“There is intoxicated, but incapacitated is a whole different thing. Incapacitated people are a danger to themselves and others.”

Balles said the county

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However, according to an analysis by the State Senate Democratic Committee, none of the GOP’s challenges could be close. The analysis said the closest a senator came to the threshold was Fitzgerald, who was 2,758 signatures away from stopping the recall election.

According to the response filed against Fitzgerald’s claims, the largest section of Fitzgerald’s challenges refuted by the complaint were the 1,739 signatures Fitzgerald wanted disqualified -- because the circulator of the petitions under question was not certified properly. After their review process, the response said a credited circulator did actually properly certify 1,628 of the challenged signatures.

“The challenges Fitzgerald was making were frivolous

and wouldn’t stand,” State Senate Democratic Committee Executive Zac Kramer said. “Fitzgerald inflated his challenge total by wrongly alleging some petitions were missing required data that they weren’t and double-counting some of his challenges and making data entry errors.”

Kramer predicted all four elections would proceed, and that a cursory review of the signatures the senators challenged shows they have not met the threshold to prevent the elections.

According to Kramer, the fraudulent recall challenges, secrecy pacts and distorting the budget to make it appear to be a balanced budget are all dangerous partisan political games to play on the backs of citizens.

wants people to believe the center is just a drunk tank and MPD brings any intoxicated person down there, but the reality is much different. He said only a small group of incapacitated people are brought in.

Green said in the memo that she released another memo to the Dane County Police Chief’s Association Jan. 19 saying Dane County would make its unused beds available for incapacitated individuals in protective custody.

Tellurian UCAN, the company contracted to perform detox services for Dane County for nearly 25 years, will now do much less for the county, Tellurian spokesperson Kevin Florek said.

“We’ve had to make layoffs and tough decisions,” Florek said. “We can’t serve as many people because we wouldn’t be able to do it in a safe, effective manner.”

Florek said the county made the decision to cut funding by $200,000, which is a very significant cut.

Tellurian is now contracted

to perform fewer services than they have in the past.

He said that Tellurian’s decreased responsibilities mean more responsibility is put on the shoulders of Dane County Police.

“It’s an inconvenience for the police because they have a legal obligation to do something if they run into someone who needs assistance,” Florek said.

Additionally, Florek said there may be an increased burden on hospitals, as more dangerously intoxicated people will be taken to emergency rooms and need to be looked after, instead of going to the detox center. “[The county] has an obligation to provide emergency treatment seven days a week, and they disagree with that,” Balles said.

The memo said the department has explored other possibilities to make the most of detox services while also saving money, but if a mutually acceptable solution is not found, the current operation will not be sustainable.

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“The after-set parties may occur in a basement or empty building where 200 people may just take over,” Lengfeld said. “The ordinance will give us the tool to end the party that night, and that is what we’re currently missing. Right now unless you can find violations you have no authority to break up the party, and this ordinance will give us the avenue to do that.”

He said it is not about stopping drinking, but stopping life-threatening behavior that threatens those responsible, others or the property in a dangerous way.

According to Madison Police Captain Jay Lengfeld, the ordinance will help stop latenight, after-pub parties, commonly called “aftersets,” as well.

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Legislators call for varying redistricting reforms Dems, GOP propose solutions to debate surrounding new voting districts Julia Jacobson Herald Contributor Advocates of voter redistricting reform held a public hearing at the Capitol Tuesday, calling on the Legislature to pass the Redistricting Reform Act, which would make redistricting a nonpartisan process.

Every 10 years, lawmakers redraw voter district lines to reflect changes in the state’s population. Under current

redistricting laws, the majority party in Congress determines district maps.

Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, said the bill’s writers modeled the legislation after the Iowa system of nonpartisan redistricting.

The Redistricting Reform Act would require the Legislative Reference Bureau and Government Accountability Board to preside over the redistricting process.

“The basic idea is the voters are given a chance to chose their politicians, not that politicians choose their voters,” said Hulsey, who cosponsored the bill.

The proposed agencies would be responsible for maintaining certain

standards in the redistricting process, including electoral competition within districts.

The only direct role for legislators would be to approve and ratify new district maps.

The proposed bill would require the standard of electoral competitiveness be part of criteria when the LRB and GAB are forming their submission to be approved by the legislature.

Republican lawmakers have also reached an alternative solution to partisan redistricting, which would take the form of a constitutional amendment.

A Senate Joint Resolution has also been drawn by Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janseville, and will be introduced later this

week.

“This is not a Democratic bill or a Republican bill, it’s about fairness,” said Rep. Kelda Helen Roys, D-Madison.

“It’s about the right of the voters to have a meaningful voice in democracy.”

If passed, the Redistricting Reform Act would not take effect until 2021, after the next census.

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, said after experiencing two prior redistricting processes, now is the perfect time to consider redistricting changes.

“One of the lessons we have learned from the past when we have tried to do redistricting is that it involves too much politics,” Pocan said.

“Legislators have very short

attention spans, and that’s a problem.”

Pocan also cited the failed partisan redistricting procedures of Texas and Florida, states that have had to go to court to settle redistricting disputes.

Voces de la Frontera, an immigrant rights group currently pursuing a lawsuit challenging the state’s current process, said at the hearing Tuesday the reform is important because open meeting laws and the state constitution were violated in original drafting.

“Regardless of which political party is in office or in majority, this process would ensure that efforts to gerrymander districts for partisan interests is

minimized,” Voces de la Frontera Executive Director Christine Neumann-Ortiz said.

Mike McCabe of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign said Republicans may have violated the open records law. He said after forming redistricting plans in private, Republican lawmakers signed legal agreements permitting them to withhold the maps from Democrats and the public.

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign filed an open records request last summer but has yet to receive a response from either house. “[The] bottom line is that legislators have been told to ignore the public,” McCabe said.

Judge will reconsider voter ID law Camille Albert Herald Contributor A Madison judge will reconsider a request to halt the new voter ID law on grounds questioning the legislation’s constitutionality.

The law, which requires Wisconsin voters to show a voter ID in order to receive a voting ballot, has raised many concerns with citizens and activists since its passage last May. Peter McKeever, attorney for the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, said the lawsuit is pending now but was filed sometime before Christmas.

It is one of three different lawsuits challenging this law. There are two lawsuits in the Dane County Circuit Court and one in Milwaukee that all have allegations that the voter ID law is unconstitutional.

Judge David Flanagan initially denied the motion but has agreed to reconsider it on Feb. 24, McKeever said.

Flanagan set the case for a weeklong trial that will open April 14, where

plaintiffs will try to prove students,” McKeever said. that this law disenfranchises “Students are going to show many people, McKeever up and not be able to vote.”

Lester Pines, attorney said. for League “Many of Women seniors, poor Voters, is people and “The voter ID involved with people of a case that color don’t law is to assure seeks the have photo that people who same result as IDs because are voting are the NAACP. they don’t The League need one or who they say of Women don’t drive they are and to Voters anywhere,” restore integrity requested McKeever in elections and temporary, said.

“It’s rather than hard for some make sure your people to get vote isn’t canceled permanent, relief from them because by someone else’s the voter ID they don’t law. know where fraud.”

Andrew Welhouse According their birth Sen. Scott Fitzgerald to Pines, certificate is Spokesperson NAACP or can’t afford asked the one.” court for an The law says that students have to injunction against the voter show proof of enrollment ID law because they believe at the voting booths, and it violates the Wisconsin NAACP that school IDs alone are constitution. claimed the law places inadequate proof.

“I think it’s a complicated improper and unnecessary law and a complicated burdens on the right to vote, issue that deserves an in- Pines said.

“If you’re making depth look, especially for

minimum wage and you have to take a bus to city hall or the DMV and have to pay for it, and take the time off of work because your employer doesn’t give you time off, this inhibits people from voting,” Pines said. “The point of the law is to keep certain people from voting.”

Andrew Welhouse, spokesperson for Assembly Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said the law was modeled after a law in Indiana and was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court as constitutional.

“The voter ID law is to assure that people who are voting are who they say they are and to restore integrity in elections and make sure your vote isn’t canceled by someone else’s fraud,” Welhouse said. “It’s in the best interest of a free election to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.”

Welhouse said Fitzgerald’s campaign is fully confident the bill was passed through the legislative process correctly and that the law is constitutional.

Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald

UDC will hear projections for a contentious State Street project at its Wednesday meeting.

100 block proposal set to move forward Lesia Witkowsky Herald Contributor

Leah Linscheid City Life Editor

REMEMBERS, from 1 protests, a security guard whom he did not want to name came to him and said that if the legislators scheduled a hearing, the Capitol could stay open.

Seconds later, the meetings were scheduled and the protests continued for the next 17 days.

“It’s not just the attacks on collective bargaining,” Pocan said, “but also the ... cuts to education throughout the state and a 30 percent reduction in funding to tech schools.”

The Week of Action is scheduled to end Feb. 19 with a statewide planning session called the “WisConvocation,” where participants will deliberate on issues and formulate proposals for candidates to use in the upcoming recall elections.

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After Adidas initially responded to the report solicited from WRC, Ward released a statement expressing his concern about Adidas’ claim of no responsibility and his plans to continue his commitment to the matter.

The mediation will address the severance pay dispute, and the process is contractually

CHADIMA, from 1 competition in paying for the investigation.

Hardiman added Fiedler worked at most 50 hours on the first investigation, which brings the cost to about $15,000. However,

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Two members of the Teaching Assistants Association deliver valentines addressed to Gov. Scott Walker in the Capitol’s rotunda Tuesday.

The valentines read “We still <3 UW” and were aimed at getting Walker to reduce the funding cuts UW and the System are expected to take.

required to address this type of dispute, according to a UW statement.

“I’m committed to seeing redress for the impacted workers, and I believe mediation is the most efficient and practical method to reach this goal,” Ward said in the statement.

In a statement from Adidas, the group said it has met with UW leadership to further discuss the issue. The group also said it is confident it is adhering

to the spirit and letter of the UW code of conduct, and that it welcomes continued discussion with UW to explore solutions.

Student Labor Action Coalition member John Perkins said the latest step from Ward is a disappointment to him and the organization, and that he had hoped Ward would give Adidas notice before cutting ties.

“I’m disappointed to see Ward not taking the lead,” Perkins said. “It

seems to me that he is trying to keep up a good public appearance when the real reason he’s not putting them on notice is the big contract we have with them.”

According to the UW statement, the mediation period is undefined but could last up to 60 days depending on the availability of the mediator. In coming days, both Adidas and the university will agree to a mediator and set a date for the mediation.

with Fiedler’s two additional investigations, Hardiman said he could not estimate how much the investigations would cost in total.

Hardiman also said the contract is a typical attorney retainer contract,

which gives a vague description of Fiedler’s work to complete during the investigation. “[Fiedler] is probably doing this just out of the goodness of his heart, to be honest,” Hardiman said of the $300/hour rate. “It’s

very reasonable, especially for a person with the stature of Fiedler.”

Currently, Fiedler is leading a second investigation into allegations of misconduct from two more adult males against Chadima.

The Urban Design Commission will have another chance to take action on plans to renovate State Street’s 100 block Wednesday night, after the Landmarks Commission untraditionally referred its discussion to a later meeting to give UDC the ability to take up the issue.

Madison’s Landmarks Commission referred action on the 100 block plans with the hope that UDC would make suggestions to redesign the plan in a way that would be more favorable for Landmarks, according to Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, who is a member of both committees.

Landmarks plans to take action on the plan at its next meeting. The proposal has stirred up controversy among city committees, as various community groups protest the notion that the block’s historic nature could be destroyed.

Rummel said the Landmarks Commission plans to review several aspects of the renovation plan, including the demolition of the landmark Schubert Building and the Stark Building on the corner of Fairchild Street and Mifflin Street.

Because the Schubert Building is a historical landmark, a certificate of appropriateness must be issued by the Landmarks Commission before the building can be demolished, Rummel said.

However, Rummel added because the Stark Building is not a landmark, the Landmarks Commission need only make an advisory recommendation to UDC regarding its demolition.

Rummel said she believes Landmarks Commission referred its renovation plan discussions to give UDC the chance to suggest revisions to the plan before Landmarks potentially votes against the Schubert and Stark Buildings’ demolitions in its future

meeting.

According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, UDC members are divided on the issue of demolishing the two historic buildings, which would be removed to create an open plaza.

However, the Frautschi family, philanthropists who own the State Street 100 block properties and who have been the driving force behind the renovation plan, sent a letter to UDC last week threatening to sell the properties if it did not support the plaza.

Verveer said the Landmarks Commission made the correct decision in referring its discussion to a later meeting because a compromise is needed for the project to move forward.

“I was pleased the commission didn’t take final action at the meeting last night but deferred to the Urban Design Commission to see if a compromise could be made tomorrow,” Verveer said. “I remain optimistic that the UDC and developers can come to a closer compromise.”

According to UDC secretary Al Martin, the applicants of the State Street 100 block renovation plan will give a presentation that will be directed toward revisions made in accordance with the commission’s suggestions from its last meeting on Feb. 1.

The presentation will be held at the meeting on Wednesday.

Project Manager George Austin said the debate surrounding the construction has been an ongoing issue because many have strongly opposed the construction, considering it will take place on State Street and affect several historic buildings.

“There are proponents and opponents to almost any development project in Madison,” Austin said. “The fact that the site is on State Street, within a block of the Capitol, and involves a bold plan, you would expect a wide variety of opinions.”

The Frautschi family will continue working with UDC to review the procedure the commission will take, Austin said.

Editorial Page Editor Taylor Nye oped@badgerherald.com

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Cuts to UW disproportionate, unfair CAPCO legislation Myranda Tanck Guest Columnist Today, the Joint Committee on Finance will hold a hearing regarding the disproportionate budget lapse to the University of Wisconsin System. It is proposed that the UW System take a $65.6 million cut, 38 percent of the total lapse. This, after the System received a $250 million cut in the current biennial budget, bringing UW funding down to 7 percent of the total state budget.

Wisconsin’s higher education system has become an easy target for legislative cuts due to a tepid response from the UW System, especially the general inaction of UW System President Kevin Reilly and his administration. While other groups targeted for cuts have fought back, the UW System administration has rolled over, allowing

cuts to higher education to become the path of least resistance in Wisconsin’s ongoing budget battles.

Last spring during the debate revolving around the future of Wisconsin higher education, Reilly stressed the importance of an undivided UW System in order to maintain a strong, unified voice at the Capitol.

Where is that voice? We are seeing once again that due to the UW System’s passive reaction, higher education is taking a disproportionate hit.

This lackadaisical leadership has become all too familiar under Reilly’s administration. Despite several ambitious proposals such as the “Growth Agenda” and “Principles for Progress and Prosperity” plans, few of Reilly’s attempts at improving the university system have been pushed to fruition. It wasn’t until the bold leadership of former Chancellor Biddy Martin that these

concepts broke through and were even seriously discussed at the Capitol.

Once the conversation was underway, Reilly and his administration demonstrated that they had the potential to be a powerful voice through their advocacy of the Wisconsin Idea Partnership.

However, in the absence of this kind of assertive, activist leadership, the university system is undefended in the face of continued state assaults.

This lapse against the university system is the most recent of these attacks. The $65.6 million cut — $25.8 million of which will hit our own campus — will threaten the educational quality provided by the UW System and expected by the citizens of Wisconsin. We understand that the state faces difficult times, and we know that all entities within the state must share the burden, but the proportion

of it that the university must carry should be on par with our share of the budget. That is why we ask the Joint Committee on Finance to correct this disparity and reduce our share of the lapse to $12.2 million, or a proportional 7 percent. Otherwise, our state will send a clear signal that the future of our children is simply not a priority.

As Reilly himself stated in a 2006 speech to the Board of Regents, “Vision without action will not change anything.” We urge President Reilly to abide by his own words. It is time to become that strong voice once again and defend this great system of higher education that we hold so dear.

Myranda Tanck (mtanck@ wisc.edu) is the president of Wisconsin Student Lobby. For more information, write to her at wistudentlobby@gmail. com.

Memes show racism, bigotry Charles Godfrey Columnist I’m sure that University of Wisconsin memes were cool long before I found them, and that people with more “internet savvy” or “computer literacy” or “time to spend on Internet junk” than I have were posting meme after meme before they were even cool in the first place.

Anyhow, I recently spent a solid half-hour poring over at least 100 of these memes, and it was a grand old time. For those of you who live under rocks or are older than 40 years old, a meme in this sense is simply a picture with words, and in general the purpose of a meme is to entertain. If you haven’t seen these memes, I strongly recommend a quick perusal; it will be worth your while.

Particular gems are the “lazy college senior” and “college freshman” categories.

In general I thought the memes were funny, and I appreciated the way they extracted humor from many of the daily triumphs, minor inconveniences and typical catastrophes all UW students experience at some point in their academic career. However, there were also memes that missed the mark completely because they discriminated against foreign students and faculty.

The first one I saw was a series of screen shots from the movie “Inception.” A caption under Leonardo DiCaprio’s face says, “That one Asian kid ruined the curve on our Econ final.” A caption under Cillian Murphy’s face responds, “What does he look like?” The final screenshot is Leo squinting back at him, a look that the creator of this meme obviously took to be a parody of Asian facial features.

It’s irritating to see a group of fellow students being ostracized in this way. This meme finds fault with an Asian student for being academically successful, and with twisted and backward logic it uses this as a jumpingoff point for discrimination.

It is overtly racist in that it identifies a student as “that one Asian kid.” In general, I feel that identifying somebody by his or her ethnicity shows a lack of understanding that they are indeed an individual.

Photo courtesy of UW Memes

This meme, which appears on the Facebook page ‘University of Wisconsin Memes,’ has not been removed by the site administrators despite strong, negative racial overtones. There are several more with similar messages.

Memes about Asian students used Leo’s squinting face as a description of Asian appearance, stooping to the lowest of racist lows and commenting on the way an ethnic group looks. This may be the worst form of overt racism — the purest ignorance — the inability to look beyond the superficial differences in human appearance and see the more important fact that we are all people.

Other memes contained complaints about foreign TAs. One meme was a picture of a chalkboard with the caption “The first day of math class: Because if your TA knows enough English to go over the syllabus, you’re in the wrong room.”

Another was a picture of the Dos Equis white-haired beer connoisseur “Most Interesting Man in the World” and read “I don’t always understand my TAs, but when I do, their first language is usually English.”

Without TAs, academic life at the UW would come to a standstill, and TAs put serious time and effort into teaching labs and discussion

sections for not a whole lot of money. It is frustrating to see them disrespected in this way.

It’s hard to see why people complain about being unable to understand their TAs — maybe these people have never heard an accent before, or maybe it is just plain closed-mindedness. In my experience, foreign TAs can make themselves understood perfectly well in English, although (gasp) it may not be the same Midwestern American English common to these parts. They are generally knowledgeable and competent in their subject areas.

UW benefits greatly from foreign TAs for many reasons, but I’ll name two. Not only at UW, but in American higher education as a whole, science, engineering and mathematics programs would be understaffed and overworked without international faculty and graduate students.

These foreign TAs that certain meme-makers are disrespecting are not only hard-working and helpful, they are an integral part of higher education in the United States. Another

reason that UW benefits greatly from foreign TAs is that they bring with them a wide variety of cultural backgrounds into the classroom. In a flattening and shrinking world where distance is becoming irrelevant, geographic barriers are becoming insignificant and the global marketplace is becoming ever more interconnected, cultural IQ is invaluable.

I can give many reasons why it is a good thing that there are many international students and TAs at UW. But in the end it all boils down to the fact that discrimination against other people, especially fellow students and teachers, for their language, ethnicity or appearance is flat-out wrong. This is an institution that prides itself on being forward-thinking, and a community known for its open-mindedness. Racism directed at Asian students and complaints about foreign TAs have no place here.

a huge oversight Joe TImmerman Staff Writer When a law providing for state-subsidized venture capital was signed in 1999, it seemed like a win-win. The state would provide $50 million to investment firms, called CAPCOs, which would invest in fledgling companies, creating plenty of jobs along the way. As one might imagine, things didn’t turn out exactly as planned. According to a new Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report, the program ultimately created 202 jobs, which, if my math is correct, equates to a ludicrous cost of $247,000 per job.

This fiasco is a classic example of what can go wrong with too little oversight and a poorly written bill, which, as Gov. Scott Walker was quick to point out, was passed under former Gov. Jim Doyle. At its heart, the program wasn’t a bad idea. The state provides a modest $50 million investment, and makes it back plus some profit.

Beyond that, the state, if everything went well, would also enjoy the extra tax revenue that the new jobs would generate.

So where did it go wrong? The real question is, where to start? There were two huge problems with the bill. The first issue was that the law, for whatever reason, only required the CAPCOs to invest half of the funds that the state gave them.

Let me say that once more: The CAPCOs were only obligated to invest half — HALF — of the money given to them. The other gaping flaw was the CAPCOs weren’t required to share any profits or returns with the state.

When asked recently about these issues, the bill’s chief sponsor, thenstate Sen. Gwen Moore, D-Milwaukee, told the Journal Sentinel that she had expected the investment firms to “comply with not only the ‘letter of the law,’ but also with the ‘spirit of the law.’” That seems to have worked out pretty well.

Of course, it wasn’t just a problem of bad legislation. Even if these issues had been fixed in

the language of the bill, there still would have been a problem of oversight.

Several investments that the CAPCOs made don’t appear to satisfy the requirements laid out in the law. To qualify for funds under the program, a company (supposedly) needed to show that they were unable to obtain loans through other means. In one case, a company that had been in operation since 1921 and secured conventional loans from commercial banks was still approved by the Commerce Department for funding under the state program.

CAPCOs were only obligated to invest half ... of the money. ...

Bravely forging ahead despite this putrid performance record, the CAPCO companies involved in the previous debacle spent $250,000 last year lobbying state lawmakers to renew the program — except this time, they want it bigger. Several Assembly members, including Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, have been hesitant to exclude the same CAPCOs from new plans for venture capital funding.

However, as the Journal Sentinel was preparing to publish their article, the CAPCOs ceased their lobbying. This specific example is illustrative of the broader problem of what happens when bad legislation and poor oversight collide. Both are very real problems, but neither is insurmountable.

These issues can be tackled with careful and deliberate planning.

Hopefully this will serve as a lesson to the state as it contemplates new ways to spur job creation in a still-lagging economy.

Joe Timmerman ( jptimmerman2@wisc. edu) is a freshman majoring in math and economics.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “One of pop culture’s most enduring symbols, the black leather jacket is cultural shorthand for cool.”

-HARLEY DAVIDSON MUSEUM EVENTS The Harley Davidson Museum, located in Milwaukee, announced yesterday it will hold an event titled, “Born to be Wild: the Black Leather Jacket.” The exhibit will celebrate both the garb’s functional use for riders of chopped hogs as well as its haute couture, cool-guy image. Items on display will include the leathers Elvis wore as well as the jacket Taylor Lautner donned in the Twilight series.

In the same vein, the Opinion page editor will be holding an exhibition as a tribute to shoes. She has on hand a large collection of heels, but is willing to accept donations to expand the exhibit.

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

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Classifieds SO to the return of Shamrock Shakes!

SO to the sexy US Bank tellers, you complete me. And my financial transactions.

SO to the dude with legit daggers for fingernails on the 80 this morning. All I could think of during the ride was that I was sitting next to Wolverine.

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ASO to losing control of my car a little bit on the snowy roads tonight.

SO to the little voice that popped into my head that helped me remember how to save myself.

It was just like Obi Wan, if he worked at a driving school or something.

ASO to being gassy in the quiet area of the library. Awkward...

SO to a whole bunch of 50 Cent songs randomly playing on my iTunes at the library. As if my physics homework wasn’t Gangsta enough already!

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SO to my left hand.

Best friend forever!! Happy valentines day.

SO to the guy who asked the walgreens cashier if they sold copies of the “walgreens soundtrack.”

I think I was the only one to appreciate your humor because the cashier sure didn’t.

ASO to loud eaters! It’s a sandwich and some soup

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SO to snorting adderall with a rolled up flashcard. Bihyaaah!

SO to the girl that got dumped at college library and dealt with the pain by eating a whole rotissary chicken.

You are a champion and he was a douche.

ASO to people who say that they hate being sick. Because really, who likes it?

ASO to the present at the bottom of every bottle of vodka.

Blackout.

SO to my 21st birthday being on bacon night. There is a God. SO to the guy who was also shaving at the SERF this morning. you made me feel considerably less homeless.

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SO to the gorgeous blonde watching Marcel the Shell in Memorial. Would you like to hand-glide on a dorito with me sometime?

SO to the girls stumbling up and down Langdon last night determined to party like it’s three months ago.

Excuse me miss, your skirt is so short I think I can see your vagina. Nothing says, “I don’t have a Valentine,” like fishnets on a 6 degree Saturday night.

SO to the two people sketching the buttons in the elevator, you were pretty friendly for doing something so fucking creepy.

ASO to “baggage.”

what is that shit. do your problems fold themselves neatly in a samsonite for you to carry around and feed girls as excuses? i don’t eat luggage.

SO to falling like Peter Griffin from Family Guy. My hands never got a chance to leave my pockets. You’re welcome to the group of guys that saw this grace.

ASO to my roommate for peeing in a bottle. SO to my other roommate for thinking the bottle full of piss was wop. At least it’s sterile!

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Classical Revolution Madison brings Beethoven, Bach and Brahms to bar time resound with the silence that follows the end of a piece. It’s merely an occasional occurrence, she said, but it’s a “palpable stillness” that inspires an incredible moment for both musicians and audience members alike.

“Even with the espresso machine going and people talking and drinks being ordered — there’s still occasionally this moment of really powerful silence,” she said. “I think that’s a really cool thing — to bring stillness to a very active place.”

KATIE FORAN-MCHALE

ARTSETC. STAFF WRITER

T

he ingredients for a perfect night out in Madison are fairly standard – cheap booze, good friends and great music.

That last item leaves room for subjectivity. But one thing night owls search for is music with energy, whether it be through a thumping bass, driving beat or soaring melody.

One Saturday night in December you may have wandered into Brocach, an Irish pub on the Capitol Square. Ten to 15 musicians are present in the venue, armed with instruments like violins, cellos, French horns and oboes. But the energy is undeniable. As a small string quartet performs a piece of classical music, a cellist’s hair flies, sweat beading down her forehead as she drives a bass line forward.

Not what you’d expect from a night of classical music? Then welcome to the era of the Classical Revolution.

FROM BARTOK TO BAR SCENE Chapters of the Classical Revolution, a nationwide effort that began in 2006, aim to bring live chamber music to audiences who might not experience classical music otherwise, similar to salon music performed at social gatherings in middle-class homes during the 19th century.

Co-director and UW grad music student Andrea Kleesattel brought it to Madison in fall 2010, when the group performed in the now-closed Mercury Café.

Since then, the Madison chapter performs at downtown venues like Brocach and Fair Trade Coffee, with musicians from the UW School of Music performing works from the likes of Mozart, Brahms, Vivaldi and much more. Typically, the group performs a specific program of music, followed by a reading session of selections brought in by musicians.

“Chamber music is meant to be intimate and fun and [have] a lot of energy in a small space,” said fellow co-director and UW grad music student Laura Weiner. “When you think of classical music you think of people in tuxedos not moving.

But it’s actually kind of the opposite when you play chamber music.

There’s a lot of physical energy that’s very noticeable.”

And that’s what they capture.

Even with coffeemakers whirring or intoxicated 20-somethings shouting,

BEETHOVEN TO BEAT HEAVEN This Thursday at 8 p.m., Classical Revolution Madison will host a performance at the Brink Lounge, 701 E. Washington Ave., featuring a night of classically inspired electroacoustic music. Musicians in the Classical Revolution will perform a Shostakovich string quartet to open, followed by members of the club music scene NONCLASSICAL. Performers include U.K.-based DJ Gabriel Prokofiev, grandson of famed Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, percussionist Joby Burgess and cellist Peter Gregson. Attendance is $5 for students, $10 for the general public.

Fitting with the Classical Revolution’s goal of repurposing classical music for a new generation of listeners, Weiner said the show will change up classical idioms.

“They’re extremely cutting edge in music right now,” Kleesattel added.

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the group maintains a level of intimacy between the musicians and audience, and between each other, while also sustaining a fierce level of energy in unexpected venues.

“Inhibitions are down for both audience and musicians, too,” said Weiner, who plays French horn at performances. “It’s really fun to play an instrument with someone drinking a beer three feet away from you and asking you afterwards about how the performance went and who you are.”

She described one night last year when she played in a horn quartet that was performing a piece by modernist composer Paul Hindemith. A woman, clearly intoxicated, approached the musicians afterwards, shared her passion for how “glorious” the sound of the horns was and bought them drinks.

“It was just a trip,” Weiner said. “I think had she been sober and at a different venue, we would have never gotten to know this woman who was so incredibly passionate about this piece that we played.”

In a similar fashion, a Brahms sextet might inspire spinning and dancing from audience members.

CLASSIC TRENDS Kleesattel, who plays cello, said onlookers frequently pull out their cell phones and take pictures as if they hadn’t seen the instruments of a chamber group up close.

SOUNDS AND SILENCES Classical Revolution Madison usually sticks to classical greats of centuries past. Weiner said she was initially worried audiences would be adverse to hearing classical music in unexpected places, but she said she’s heard nothing but positive feedback.

“We’re not walking into a super college-y bar and insisting they listen to Mendelssohn,” Weiner said. “We’re not going to force ourselves on that scene. But honestly, people think it’s cool.”

And the group occasionally throws in a few surprises — a cello quartet

once played an arrangement of a Metallica song and the December performance at Brocach inspired Irish tunes and dances.

Recently, Classical Revolution Madison has also started an effort to connect to other Madison-area performing groups, specifically the Madison Symphony Orchestra.

Before the MSO’s weekend of performances in late January, which featured works by Prokofiev and Debussy, the Classical Revolution offered auditory tastes of both composers in their own concert.

“It’s neat to get a smaller ensemble taste of what’s to come that afternoon,” Kleesattel said.

But, oddly enough, considering the overwhelming volume a horn quartet can bring to places like coffee shops, Weiner said sometimes the most powerful moments during performances in public venues

While the group is seeking nonprofit organization status and evolving from an open-mic format to more structured programs of chamber music, Madison’s Classical Revolution continues to build up a following. “[Classical Revolution Madison is for] innovative people who enjoy new artwork, new dance works — things that are trendy artistically,” Kleesattel said.

And as far as artistic and political trends go in Madison these days, “revolution” isn’t an inappropriate word to use.

In addition to Thursday night’s performance, upcoming gigs for Classical Revolution Madison include March 11 and April 15 at Fair Trade Coffeehouse, 418 State St., from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. For more info about the group, check it out at classicalrevolutionmadison.org.

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Local comics compete in yearly pro-judged contest ‘Madison’s Funniest’ showcases multitude of comedy hopefuls Jared Heino ArtsEtc. Writer Performing for a crowd that seemed about as responsive to jokes as a funeral party would be to a keg stand, comedians from all over the upper Midwest have come to Wisconsin’s capital city to compete in the preliminary round of the third annual Madison’s Funniest Comic Competition at The Comedy Club on State.

Participants in the competition are asked to come up with three minutes of material in the preliminaries, forcing them to bring out their best. Throughout the competition, the comedians will be judged by an panel of celebrity judges consisting of both current and former Badger football players, comic enthusiasts, last year’s champion Mike Schmidt and other notable touring comics such as Nathan Craig. The audience also casts ballots for their favorite comedians.

Judges, apart from keeping track of time, look for originality, stage persona, professionalism and appropriate material.

Competitors are marked down for cursing or any other antics that may induce a cheap laugh from the crowd.

After each round, the field will be cut down; the field goes from the original 68 competitors in the prelims to 20 in the first round. The next round will see only 15 competitors. Ten competitors will fight for the final three spots in the final round of the competition March 1.

“With nearly 70 competitors in the field, this year’s competition is the biggest the Comedy Club on State has hosted yet,” said Eve Paras, creator of the event.

“Comics have an opportunity to gain further standing in their field with more notoriety if they win the competition.

This can include MC work and possibly feature work at local clubs here in Madison or even regionally, not to mention a $500 purse.”

With the possibility of future employment and money on the line, comedians in this year’s preliminary round brought out a wide array of material and a ton of energy to the stage.

“In a competition that is seeming to evolve year after year, comedians are constantly changing their material in order to bring about the biggest laughs,” Paras said.

The first round of this year’s competition kept to this trend.

Comedian Nate Bjork set the tone for the first night of the preliminaries by wearing a man purse complete with holder and joking about Weight Watchers. Rodney

Burayidi also gained huge crowd responses on the first night with his high energy and mannerisms that he brought to the stage during a bit about snacks.

Other comedians lacked in both energy and laughs from the crowd, such as Alex Gawenda, who spoke in a monotone voice throughout his whole set about tweets.

He seemed to sprint off stage as he almost ran over the maximum four minutes of allotted time. Rick Yoose, sporting a Pabst Blue Ribbon shirt, also seemed to lose the crowd’s attention as he tried to win them over with his “dick puns.”

The second night of the preliminary round brought out a crowd that almost seemed unwilling to laugh.

Comedians resorted to what they thought was a guaranteed hit with the crowd. This game plan seemed to consist mostly of penis jokes, which only served to make the crowd antsy as comedian after comedian brought up the subject.

But notable comedians, such as Eric Linnes-Bagley and Daniel Borchardt, turned the crowd around. Bagley had the crowd roaring with his description of working at Plan B, a gay bar on the east side of Madison. Borchardt brought them to applause by describing his ideal girl as “being like Batman, dressed in leather and being motivated by dead parents.”

Photo courtesy of The Comedy Club on State

Developing stand-ups and established acts share a stage during the event; acts are judged by the other comedians, the crowd and UW football players.

In a competition that changes as it moves forward, comedians will work their way through the next four rounds. Sets grow harder to perform as they increase in length from the original three

minutes to five minutes in the first and second rounds, then to eight and 10 minutes in the third and final rounds respectively. A live crowd certainly wouldn’t hurt; here’s to hoping the funeral ends

soon.

If you are a fan of local comedy or laughing in general, check out the Comedy Club on State at 9 p.m. every Wednesday in February.

THE BADGER HERALD PRESENTS HUMP DAY

When going soft is OK: Romance, Hump Day style Sam Johnson Hump Day Columnist Happy Valentine’s Day, Hump Day readers!

Okay, okay, so Valentine’s Day was yesterday. But for those of you who wait until the roses and chocolates go on sale, here are some Qs & As to help make your celebration hot and steamy. And for those of you observing Singles Awareness Day, clip this out and keep it on file for the future — Hump Day’s about to get all romantic on your ass!

I want Valentine’s Day weekend to be special for me and my boo, but I’m not about to drop a lot of coin for one day.

What are some cheap dates in Madison?

Play (or learn to play) pool

together. The billiard tables at Memorial Union are $1 per game, as opposed to the ones at Union South that are $7 per hour in the evening.

You can also catch a flick at the Marquee Circle for free.

Just check the WUD Film schedule online for show times.

Thursday night is student night at the Comedy Club on State Street: just $2 if you bring your student ID. Spend an afternoon at Henry Vilas Zoo. It is free and open all year round. If you are into nature, explore the University of Wisconsin Arboretum together.

Go ice skating at the Shell — $3 for skating, $2 to rent skates.

Try restaurant hopping — pick out some cool cafes that you have wanted to try and just order an appetizer or dessert at each to share.

Search for or order a used copy of “The Book of Questions” by Gregory Stock, the original or “Love & Sex” version. Spend an evening over wine or tea, taking turns turning pages and getting to

know each other.

Visit the new extension of the Chazen Museum of Art, do a one-day service project together through the Morgridge Center or, if you like playing with kids, volunteer through the Campus Women’s Center Kids Time evening that happens once a month.

Take up the Badger Ballroom Dancing Team on one of their free lessons and learn how to tango or salsa.

Shop at the farmers market — it still goes on in the winter, indoors, at 330 W. Mifflin St. If you have a camera, take a walking photo tour of the city of Madison; pick your favorites, print at Walgreens and find eclectic frames at St. Vinny’s.

If it is warm enough, make a campfire at Picnic Point.

Rent a fairy tale from the library and read to each other. Hans Christian Andersen is my personal favorite.

I would really love to give my partner a back

massage. The problem is I have no idea what I’m doing. Help!

Purchase a small bottle of cheap body oil or, better yet, just use some olive oil from the kitchen cabinet. It works in the same way. Start with broad, open-palm, sweeping motions all over the back.

This is called effleurage.

Fancy, right? Next, align the heel of your hands at the base of the back closely along either side of the midline with fingers pointing towards the neck. While avoiding the spine, put your weight onto the heels and slide them upwards in a steady, parallel motion. Then when you get to the shoulders, kneed the fleshy parts between the neck and shoulder bones with your fingers like dough.

Repeat!

Climaxing at the same time: just for the movies, or possible in real life?

Tricky, but you can totally make it happen! Obviously, it is all about timing, so becoming familiar with the

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sexual response cycle and the physical cues that your partner has transitioned from one level to another is key. What noises do they make when they get close to coming? What color do their goody bits turn? Give these moves a try: for two female bodies, I am a fan of using the Heartthrob vibrator at A Woman’s Touch. It is slender enough to slide in between and up and down two sets of lady folds while your bodies are lying snug. For two people with penises, you can both get off in missionary by having one person penetrate (if you both enjoy penetration) while jerking off the receptive partner.

And now for the trickiest — opposite sex partners. You can both build up to orgasm in missionary by alternating between rubbing the head of the penis on the head of the clit and sliding into each other. Let the clit-owner take control of the cock by grabbing it and rubbing the clitoris back and forth between the frenulum ridge.

Once she gets very close to

coming, she should switch to manually rubbing herself and let him pile-drive away. The back wall of the vagina will balloon up, making the walls of the canal even tighter, and the pulsating muscles of her orgasm should squeeze the cock into coming. Voila!

If you could pick just one sex tip, what would it be?

Enthusiasm, hands down.

Sucking, licking, bumping and grinding like you mean it makes all the difference in the world. Laughing, smiling, complimenting and making eye contact can turn regular ol’ sex into birthday-sex-every-day kind of sex. Take a tip from mindfulness-based gurus and counselors: Be present in the moment. Actively process and appreciate what you are doing as you are doing it.

You will fall in love with your partner’s body all over again.

Send Sam and Amie your questions and comments at humpday@badgerherald. com.

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The Badger Herald | Sports | Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Badgers’ inconsistency, poor defense yields skid Absence of senior forward Covington disrupts offensive rhythm, turnovers still plaguing team Nick Korger Associate Sports Editor

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With senior forward Anya Covington missing two games due to illness, the Badgers’ offense struggled to find a groove. The other Wisconsin posts only combined to score 16 points during her two-game absence. In her first game back, Covington put up 20 points against Penn State Feb. 9.

If basketball is a game of peaks and valleys, then there is no better group to exemplify it than the Wisconsin women’s basketball team.

In a season marked by streaks in both the win and loss columns, the Badgers (8-16, 4-8 Big Ten) are currently in the midst of three straight defeats, two of those coming to top 25 teams. While the Badgers are no strangers to rough stretches — having endured two streaks of four or more losses earlier this season — they are looking to stamp out any inconsistencies en route to playing their last four remaining games of the regular season.

The largest inconsistency that currently plagues Wisconsin is its offense.

While the Badgers averaged 47 percent from the floor during the three-game win streak that preceded their past three games, the team is shooting an average of 39 percent from the floor in their recent three game slide. Although shooting nearly 40 percent from the floor is still a positive for the Badgers, the team is struggling to match the point production that has led them to victories all season.

Currently, the Badgers are averaging 59.7 points per game, with only 56 points in their last two contests. Although the offense has recently hiccupped, Wisconsin is fully capable of outshooting opponents. In games where the Badgers score more than 60 points, the team is 7-4, and the team is also 4-1 in games when they score 70 or more — point totals that are extremely necessary for a team that gives up on average 43 percent from the field to their

opponents.

Although the team is reluctant to admit it, the Badgers’ offensive chemistry may have been affected by the two-game absence of senior forward Anya Covington to illness.

In the team’s two games without Covington — both resulting in losses — Badger post players only managed to score a combined sixteen points while the team was outrebounded in both games.

Covington’s presence is something that Wisconsin sophomore guard Morgan Paige believed could have helped the Badgers’ seal up a win against No.9/10 Ohio State last week. In a game where the Badgers made a school record 12 three-pointers, the team was severely lacking from within the arc, going a measly 11-of-34 from anywhere inside the three point line.

“It hurt against Ohio State to not have Anya in the paint even though we had one of our better shooting nights there,” Paige said. “I wouldn’t say the three pointers we took at Penn State were bad shots, we just couldn’t buy a basket. I feel like in our next few games, having Anya back, our consistency should come back, but it’s just one of those things where you never expect to come out and shoot as poorly as we did against Penn State.”

Shooting poorly might be an understatement.

Although the Badgers boast the fourth highest team three-point percentage in the Big Ten, that stat was all for naught against the No. 12/17 Nittany Lions last Thursday. Penn State held Wisconsin to 1-for-12 shooting from three, a season low for the Badgers, wasting a 20 point performance from the returning Covington.

For Wisconsin head coach Bobbie Kelsey, chemistry has no role in the team’s recent struggles.

“I mean you obviously miss [Covington’s] scoring but other people have to step up,” Kelsey said.

“Chemistry had nothing to do with our offense struggling. When people

are missing other players have to step up. Some of the silly plays, not matching up, giving people straight line drives to the basket — you can’t win doing that. Even though we haven’t been playing our best we’re still in these games; we just have to close these games out.”

When it comes to closing out games, Kelsey’s words echo the exact truth.

The Badgers have held leads in several of the games they’ve dropped this season, including a 10-point lead in a recent overtime loss at home against Iowa. Turnovers have also killed the Badgers, as mistakes in key moments of recent games have cost the Badgers wins.

In the overtime loss against Iowa, the Badgers had an opportunity for a final shot to win the game in the waning seconds of regulation. But Wisconsin could not hold onto the rock, turning the ball over and allowing the Hawkeyes the two final shots of the second half, as both attempts luckily did not find their target. On the road against Ohio State the team brought the game within six points in the second half but unraveled with a string of turnovers and missed box-outs, as the Buckeyes capitalized on second chance points.

In the last three games, the Badgers have 61 combined turnovers, for an average of 20 a game.

Those 20 turnovers equate directly to offense, as the Badgers have on average lost 20 chances from the floor during their recent three game skid.

For Kelsey, fixing the team’s inconsistencies of late are a matter of finding the players that step up in big moments.

“Our players need to have a closer mentality,” Kelsey said. “Some of our players want me to give it to them, but I’m like, you’re sadly mistaken. I can only bring out what you already have; I can calm you down a little bit but you need to have that attitude when you play. I mean, we have some passive players; you just need to have confidence in yourself. A coach can’t give you that.”

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ADIEU, from 12 and turned it into a historic being that has six National Titles to its name along with 24 NCAA tournament appearances; 12 in which UW made it to the Frozen Four.

Johnson certainly didn’t do all that in his 15 years, but he set a precedent that has continued through Jeff Sauer’s 20 seasons at the head of the program and now Eaves’ 10.

“The Coliseum, it’s unbelievable,” sophomore forward Keegan Meuer said. “Everybody played there. ... I’ve been going there since I was born. … So many great players. Basically, when people think Wisconsin hockey, they think of the Coliseum; this is where it all started.”

But while it’s been the Badgers’ home for decades, some players are ready to let it go.

“My immediate reaction is ‘no,’” junior forward Ryan Little said when asked if he was going to miss their home away from home. “I mean, I had class ‘til 2:15; you

have to get out here, it’s a rush. Sometimes you have to scoot out here in the winter. It’s not a bad place — we have a nice locker room here, a nice facility — but I don’t think I’m going to miss it.”

After this week, the Badgers will vacate the Bob Johnson Hockey Facility and finish the season at other various locations. But next season they look forward to a fresh, state-of-the-art practice rink on campus in LaBahn Arena.

Although still under construction, the Badgers are anxiously anticipating the chance to finally enter their new locker room at LaBahn and have everything conveniently located in one place.

“We’ve only been down there in the locker room for hard hat tours,” Eaves said. “We’ve seen it three, four times now — just going from metal studs to drywall that’s been painted, the space how it looks and feels — it’s going to be dynamite. …

To be able to go down the hallway and have that practice facility at our fingertips is phenomenal.”

“I think it’s great

of the United States’ premier golf circuit.

According to ESPN, dominant player once television viewership of again — including a majors nearly doubles fourth place finish last when Woods is in season at the Masters contention in the final — but he has shown the round compared to when consistency in recent he is injured or misses tournaments that was the cut. absent from his game Similarly, fellow since 2009. players love competing With that much against one of the most improved play comes naturally gifted men to a renewed sense of ever play professional confidence, one of golf, and his presence the most important on the course heightens aspects of his game and the level of something intensity for that was essential Perhaps everyone is just everyone on course. to closing looking for improvement the As longtime out majors from a player they so rival Phil when he controlled desperately want to see Mickelson said after the lead taking going into regain his competitive Sunday. advantage. But it’s hard home the As Woods to argue against the fact trophy at Pebble revealed in Pebble that his play over the last Beach, Beach, several months has been “I just feel very he’s still noticeably better than inspired faltering when I play in the final that of recent memory. with him. I round, but love playing the stoic with him, focus that and he brings out some powered him to victory in the past will re-emerge of my best golf.”

Although I consider as his confidence is myself a diehard golf fan; rebuilt.

I can’t deny that I am Perhaps everyone glued to my living room is just looking for couch when Woods is in improvement from contention. It’s just that a player they so much fun to watch him desperately want to see play. regain his competitive Woods is essential to advantage. But it’s hard every aspect of the sport, to argue against the fact and to the relief of slicing that his play over the last Sunday golfers and PGA several months has been officials alike, 2012 looks noticeably better than to be the year he finally that of recent memory. turns things around.

Simply put, the PGA We’ve all been waiting.

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strides, for recruiting purposes and … to not be constantly moving around, to kind of have a stable home,” junior defenseman John Ramage said. “Looking forward to next year, we’re going to be able to bring in some big recruits and it’ll be probably the best place to play college hockey.”

But with all its faults and merits, Meuer is going to miss the trek out to what he’s always known as his “home” rink.

“Obviously you can complain about the little inconvenience about scooting out here and transporting the gear back and forth, but the staff, they’ve always done a great job and made it as easy as possible for us,” Meuer said. “This place is special. You think of everybody that’s gone through here. They all did the same thing you did.

“This is home. When you think of all the guys that went through here, this is where they’ll tell you that they spent most of their time. This is definitely home for generations of Badgers and it’ll be a sad day to see it end.”

YET, from 12 school, not playing much as a freshman, getting cut as a sophomore,” Evans said. “I may as well have been cut last year, as bad of a season as I had.”

According to the 6-foot6, 210-pound forward, the weight of his own expectations that year slowly flattened his confidence. It didn’t go as expected for him, so as 2011-12 neared, he cleared his mind of anything else, freeing himself from the self-analysis.

“That was my downfall last year,” he said. “I set expectations for myself and when they weren’t getting accomplished I was kind of going down, going down, going down. Instead I came into this season with a positive mentality.”

Meanwhile, Paris and the rest of the coaching staff were able to pinpoint Evans’ shortcomings on the court as well. He would too often attempt shots when he was off-balance, like a turn-around jumper and he was unable to maintain possession when he put the ball on the ground.

“His percentage of turnovers when he dribbled

the ball was high, yet he continued to do it because he wanted to prove that ‘I’m capable of doing this,’ when in reality he was not capable of doing it successfully on a consistent basis,” Paris said. “This year, he hasn’t done that

“This is a special season ... it means a lot to me. It’s been a good run so far and I think it could get a lot better still.”

Ryan Evans

Junior Forward

near as much, you don’t see him driving baseline [and] getting stuck. He’s gotten better, his shot selection has gotten better.”

Today, Evans leads the team in rebounding per game (6.8), and is third in scoring (10.3 points per game) and shooting percentage (.433 average from the floor). He averages one turnover every 22.5 minutes.

He’s also come close to

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earning “the elusive doubledouble” — as Paris calls it — at other points this year.

During the conference season, Evans has fallen one rebound or two baskets short of the feat three times — against Michigan, Indiana and Northwestern.

Paris notes there is still improvement to be had for Evans, in terms of ball handling and the development of a more consistent three-point shot (he is 22.2 percent from behind the perimeter this year).

According to Paris, there’s still plenty of potential for him on defense.

“He can be one of the best defenders in the league, bar none, guarding any position almost,” he said. “His ceiling is very high from the defensive side of things.”

But nevertheless, Evans — as well as everyone else on the team — is finally getting a chance to enjoy his success.

“This is a special season … it means a lot to me,” Ryan said, when asked if being a starter meant anything extra to him. “It’s been a good run so far and I think it could get a lot better still.”

Sports Editor Elliot Hughes sports@badgerherald.com

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The Badger Herald | Sports | Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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Badgers bid adieu to Coliseum At end of week, Bob Johnson Hockey Facility no longer home to UW hockey Kelly Erickson Sports Content Editor Only a few minutes journey down John Nolen Drive lies the Alliant Energy Center.

Tucked away into a hill between the Coliseum and an unmarked rink, the unassuming gray building sinks into the ground.

Near the doors, a few telltale mopeds are parked rain, snow or shine.

Inside, photos line the main hallway with notable moments throughout program history and team photos grace the corner of the ramp.

A short walk down a dark hallway and up some stairs is a large rink guarded by old boards that look like they could fall over at the slightest touch. Red banners hang around the rink with players’ numbers and championship years.

It’s humble and hidden: Welcome to the Bob Johnson Hockey Facility.

“This little rink here has served its purpose well,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “We did it up as good as we could. We were very

creative in it and it was a good home. It was bright.

We put up our banners, we had our individual pictures, the ice itself was good. But it’s off campus.”

With no permanent practice facility on campus — yet — the Wisconsin men’s hockey team practices out at the Bob Johnson Hockey Facility more often than not.

When the Kohl Center ice is covered in basketball hardwood and the Shell is too small of a rink for that specific week, the Badgers voyage out to their isolated hockey island.

Despite being so far removed from campus, Eaves enjoys the disconnect that exists between the practice facility and campus.

“Once you’re out here, it’s just all hockey,” Eaves said. “You’re kind of isolated and it’s kind of nice … that’s probably the biggest part about being out here; once you’re here it’s just all hockey. But I’ll let that go very quickly because of the fact that we’ll have everything under one roof.”

Before the Kohl Center was even a brain neuron, Eaves himself saw many days at the Coliseum as a Badger between 1974-78.

The Coliseum was essentially the birthplace of Wisconsin hockey. The sport was resurrected in the 1963-64 season as an independent team under John Riley — and called

Noah Willman The Badger Herald

The Wisconsin Badgers claim the Kohl Center as home rink, but throughout the season it is rare that they consistently get to practice on the ice there. More often than not they make the hike out to the Bob Johnson Hockey Facility located at the Coliseum by the Alliant Energy Center, which serves as their home rink more than any other ice sheet near campus.

Hartmeyer Ice Arena home. But in the 1966-67 season, under Wisconsin coaching legend Bob Johnson, the Badgers moved to the Coliseum.

They officially became a member of the Western

Collegiate Hockey Association. Three years later, UW would win its first NCAA championship.

“The Coliseum was the Kohl Center of its day,” Eaves said. “It was the rink of its time. There wasn’t

any other place that was as big or as nice. I think the Kohl Center is the new Coliseum, if you will, of this era.”

But the history that took place on that unimposing plot of land can simply be

traced back to the very name that graces the main hallway of the building.

Johnson brought Wisconsin’s hockey program up from nothing

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Woods finally back on the rise Ian McCue Right on Cue

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Most recently, at Minnesota, Ryan Evans earned a double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds. With a total of 257 points so far this season, Evans is averaging 10.3 points per game.

Evans enjoying best season yet Enduring growing pains last year, hard work results in consistency for junior forward Elliot Hughes Sports Editor A double-double in the game of basketball is no fluke. They just don’t come along courtesy of serendipity.

Even on just a gameby-game basis, the achievement of a doubledouble requires an unflagging work ethic.

But the 17 points and 11 rebounds that forward Ryan Evans earned Feb. 9 against Minnesota represent more than just a good oldfashioned hard day’s work.

It was a signal of how much Evans has refined his game since last season and

also since being cut from his high school junior varsity team as a sophomore.

“It is (a mark of his growth),” assistant coach Lamont Paris said. “It is an indication of how active he is. You’re working hard to get a double-double; there’s no way about it. You can’t fake your way into a double-double.

“He really has worked hard at attacking some of his deficiencies and he’s played hard. [He’s] paid some dues, things haven’t always gone his way and he’s persevered.”

Evans is currently riding the best four-game streak of his career. With the doubledouble as the capstone as

of this moment, Evans has scored in double digits in each the last four games, including six out of the last eight.

And, over those last four contests, he is averaging more points and blocks than his season average.

His emergence as a consistent producer on the court has arrived thanks to an upgraded offensive game that prevented him from getting off the bench more often as an underclassman.

Evans, who is the only player on the Wisconsin men’s basketball roster not from the Midwest (he comes from Hamilton, Ariz.), joined the Badgers as a late signee in March 2008

after turning around his high school career.

He redshirted his first year but earned time on the floor immediately during the following two years, thanks to a well-rounded defensive game.

Somewhat mirroring his high school career, his performance dipped as a sophomore — especially on offense. Evans played 11.6 minutes per game, down from 13.2 the year prior, and had a shooting percentage that inched over 30 percent.

He also averaged a turnover once every 17 minutes.

“I kind of went through the same thing in high

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For loyal golf enthusiasts and even the casual observer, there are few things more exciting than a stellar, dominant round of golf from Tiger Woods.

And as Woods entered Sunday’s final round at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, that excitement was once again apparent as ESPN’s Tiger Tracker (itself a sign of his popularity) returned to SportsCenter and analysts agreed he seemed to be rediscovering his once-impeccable swing.

Although the winner of 14 major championships fired off an ugly 75 in the final round, Woods proved that his game is finally back this weekend.

Ever since the tour’s biggest name let the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine National slip out of his grasp despite a lead heading into the final round, Woods’ game has never been the same.

His drives have been so uncontrolled that his tee shots often struck spectators or came to a rest at the foot of oak trees 30 yards right off the fairway.

But Woods’ performance this weekend wasn’t just a fluke. It came on the heels of a third place finish in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in which he finished just two shots behind winner Robert Rock. Tiger’s Sunday red is no longer a sure sign of victory, but Woods’ game looks better than it has in years, so don’t be surprised if he brings home a major trophy before August.

On top of his strong

start to kick off the 2012 tournament season, the first billionaire athlete picked up his first win since 2009 when he came out on top in the Chevron World Challenge in early December. The hype is back — and for good reason.

The key to Woods regaining his winning ways starts with his driving, undoubtedly the aspect of his game he has struggled with the most over the past several years. He’s only played in two tournaments this year, so it may be early to start breaking out the stat book, but anyone who has tuned in and watched him play can see a remarkable difference in his accuracy with the driver in hand.

Thus far in 2012, Woods has hit 72 percent of the greens in regulation and has hit close to 73 percent of his fairways. Those numbers are not just a major improvement for Woods, but also place him fourth on the tour in driving accuracy and 25th in greens in regulation.

In contrast, in the 2011 season he hit just 48.9 percent of his fairways, ranking 186th on the tour. The lone fact that Tiger, who once spent 281 consecutive weeks as the world’s top-ranked golfer, is regaining control of his shots is more important than anything else to his long-term success.

It’s clear that new coach Sean Foley’s swing adjustments for his biggest client are once again giving Woods the consistent and powerful swing that allowed him to win three majors in a single season.

This certainly isn’t the first time you’ve heard Woods is back, that he’s once again the player who brings an aura of intimidation every time he steps up to the first tee. He’s certainly shown glimpses of becoming a

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