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UHS budget under ASM scrutiny Health providers say funds would be partially used for Lakeshore satellite Katherine Krueger News Content Editor Members of the student government’s budget allocation committee pressed the University of Wisconsin’s health provider for increased accountability and funding breakdowns of where student dollars are spent during a Monday budget hearing.

The Student Services Finance Committee heard budgets for University Health Services, Rape Crisis Center and Tenant Resource Center during their meeting.

Members called for itemized lists of the organizations’ budgets and access to the body’s internal funding allocation model in order to make a fully informed decision.

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Proposals surface for redistricting reforms Dems look to shift power away from Legislature, would model other states Leopoldo Rocha Reporter As accusations of partisanship surround last year’s redistricting process, legislators and advocacy groups have begun to focus on reforming Wisconsin’s system for drawing electoral maps.

Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, and Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, met with various groups last week to discuss an Assembly bill on redistricting first introduced last July.

According to current law, the redistricting process involves solely the Legislature, which draws new maps after the population census is conducted every 10 years. The maps are then passed as bills in the Legislature and signed into law by the governor.

The proposed legislation would shift responsibility of drawing the maps

from the Legislature to the Government Accountability Board, an independent agency overseeing state elections.

“The goal is that people choose their politicians and politicians don’t choose their voters,” Hulsey said. “The Republicans have been holding [the bill] up. We have asked for a hearing several times.”

University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden said similar bills have been introduced in the past several sessions of the Legislature.

Burden said during the last two years of Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration, the Democrats controlled both chambers of the Legislature, but a similar reform bill was not passed then.

Hulsey attributed that to the bill being introduced late into the legislative session.

He added last year’s redistricting process was aimed at ensuring a Republican majority until the next redistricting cycle.

The maps are currently facing various lawsuits

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State Street pedestrians peer into B-Side Records, a Madison landmark that will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year. The store’s owner reflected on the history of music sales in Madison with The Badger Herald. Check out page 3 for the full story.

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in court and last week a federal court ordered a release of previously secret emails between outside consultants and top Republican aides.

According to Burden, last year’s redistricting proceedings differed from those held in the past since the Republican Party was in control of the Legislature and the governor’s seat, which led to the most recent maps being passed on party lines.

“The last few cycles were all divided government. They were deadlocked, and [they] ended up in the courts,” Burden said.

While Wisconsin’s Legislature draws the district maps, a number of other states have adopted a redistricting process that is handled by an independent commission.

In Iowa, the Legislative Services Agency draws new maps. Ed Cook, legislative counsel to LSA, said these maps are then submitted to the Legislature. In drawing the maps, LSA cannot consider current districts, incumbent addresses and

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As protesters commemorate the one-year anniversary of the budget repair bill protests, many workers at the Capitol building are reporting disturbances by consistent protesters and are calling for action to be taken.

Rep. David Craig, R-Big Bend, and Rep. Paul Farrow, R-Pewaukee, sent a letter to the Secretary of Wisconsin Department of Administration Mike Huebsch, citing several disturbances by protesters and asking for action to be taken.

According to a statement released by Craig and Farrow, the Solidarity Singers, organized labor groups and other protester-affiliated events have blatantly ignored and broke new rules that took

effect Dec. 16, 2011.

The statement said that for the Capitol police to continually overlook these infractions and capitulate to the demands of the disillusioned few is tantamount to a violation of rights for the law-abiding citizens who visit the Capitol every day.

Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, said he believes Republicans are attempting to cover up their own illegal activity.

“I read the letter, and it just struck me as much ado about nothing,” Hulsey said.

“After all the law-breaking and corruption that the Republicans have brought to this legislative session, … now they are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill with the Capitol police.”

The joint statement cites a number of disturbances,

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Members of the committee requested further itemized budget breakdowns as well as the model UHS utilizes to allocate money to its various centers before its budget decision on Thursday.

In response to a request for an itemized list for staffing salaries, Van Orman said the information should be publicly available and UHS only has one reserve fund and could not break down segregated fees in the fund.

“We wouldn’t be able to separate that out,” she said.

In an interview with The Badger Herald, SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said these itemized budgets were requested of all non-allocable units applying for funding, although it is difficult for some organizations to show where each dollar goes because of the complexity of these budgets.

“Since we’re the stewards of students’ money, we need to know. … This sheds light on the reason why we need to have increased information,”

student segregated fees. The 2012-2013 budget presented includes a request for $12,894,543 in student fees, which calls for no increase in the $170.68 Student Health Fee assessed to UW students.

UHS Executive Director Sarah Van Orman said the budget includes hiring a fulltime nurse practitioner to staff a satellite clinic opening in the Lake House area. She said the idea for a satellite came from University Housing approaching UHS officials. The clinic will include a single exam room and small lab area to treat minor illnesses for any student on campus.

While Housing will pay for the facility’s construction, UHS is supplying all medical supplies and staffing, she said.

The budget also includes adding one additional fulltime mental health provider, which Van Orman said is necessary to meet an increasing demand from students for these services.

Nearly 21,000 students are projected to use UHS mental health services before the

including the noise of many officially banned items such as drums and megaphones, along with screams disrupting a meeting of the Assembly Committee on Consumer Protection and Personal Privacy on the third floor.

Farrow also pointed to an annual Youth in Government seminar he was holding in the North Hearing room when two protesters interrupted, “causing great alarm and disturbance to the children,” the statement said.

University of Wisconsin College Republican Chairman Jeff Snow said he is not surprised by the protesters’ actions.

“These people are obviously very passionate about what they are doing, but I have never seen so much incivility in my life,” Snow said. “They have no respect for the people around them.

All they care about is chanting catchy phrases.

Their disruption of the government process and other ceremonies does not surprise me.”

The statement also said multiple weddings with permits to use the Capitol Feb. 14 had been interrupted by the protests .

According to the statement, Police Chief Charles Tubbs had a “mutual understanding” with protest leaders that their festivities would last in the building until 1 p.m. and then disperse to allow the weddings to proceed.

However, critics said the deal was not kept, and the protests went on past the deadline.

The representatives questioned why the citizens who follow the prescribed process of obtaining a permit take second priority to the

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City Hall Editor Contention has arisen surrounding a new student housing building proposal that could infringe on territory claimed by the University of Wisconsin, forcing a city committee to stall approving the beginning of construction on the property.

Joseph McCormick, owner of the building at 202-206 N. Brooks St., said he intends to replace the current student housing with a new five-story, 14-unit building.

The building would be used for student living, and includes 45 bedrooms and a parking area for bikes and scooters, accessible from Dayton Street.

McCormick said he has

run into problems with UW, which he said claims it wants to build on the property itself at an unspecified time.

However, McCormick said the university has no plan at present to build on the site, but said it may in the next 10 or 20 years.

“I don’t think I can be expected to do nothing with my property until the university decides it wants to,” McCormick said. “It’s not really their property — not yet.”

Ron Trachtenberg, an attorney representing McCormick, said UW has a right to condemn these buildings and buy them for a fair value, which can be determined by trial.

He said the university is attempting to artificially condemn the property so that it may acquire the

property itself at a future time at a lower value. He said this prevents the property owner from using the property to generate income.

“The university wants the city to reserve this site so at some point in the future it can use it at best and highest value,” Trachtenberg said.

McCormick added both buildings are dilapidated, and UW had the option to purchase the property from him, but it let the offer lapse in 2006.

Joe Lee, architect on the project, said the new residential building is being designed so that the north and west façades have firewalls that would allow construction and expansion of university uses.

Lee said the Urban Design Commission gave favorable feedback to the proposal,

and initial approval about a month ago. He said the proposal team wanted to present their ideas to the Plan Commission before seeking final approval from UDC. Gary Brown, UW Director of Campus Planning, said the area of the proposal is well within the proposed 2005 Campus Development Plan boundary, which is also the basis for the 2008 Regent Street South Campus Plan.

The Regent Street Plan would implement academic and research facility construction in this area.

Brown said UW’s School of Education also wants to build on the block, although the plan is not in the university’s current six-year plan, which is updated every two years.

“We’re not suggesting the property owner cannot make

changes to his property,” Brown said. “He’s let the property decline and decline and decline, to a point now that he says he has to do something about it.”

The university talks regularly with private property owners so they know where the university is headed with particular projects, Brown said.

However, Trachtenberg also said a private land owner has the right to develop a building within zoning code to its highest and best use.

The Plan Commission ultimately decided it needs the opinion of the city attorney to help clarify the legal implication of this issue before a final decision is made.

The proposal was referred to the next meeting, which will take place March 5.

City officials urge students to plan Mifflin party ASM leaders caution UW community must accept responsibilities while given chance to keep tradition alive Tara Yang Herald Contributor Madison city officials and University of Wisconsin students are currently in the early stages of organizing the next Mifflin Street Block Party’s sponsor and permit holder.

The Mifflin Street Block Party’s permit holder needs to be a non-profit organization for the block party to happen, student government officials reported to members of the Associated Students of Madison’s Legislative Affairs Committee following a meeting with city officials.

This non-profit organization legally blocks off and closes Mifflin Street, Legislative Affairs member Maria Giannopoulos said.

Leg Affairs members also said there must be a sponsor to provide small necessities such as accessible bathrooms and vendors.

Giannopoulous added Mayor Paul Soglin is asking for students to take more responsibility for the planning of the block party.

“The city officials are asking for students to take over and find sponsors and permit holders, but I don’t

know if that’s too much for someone to do that stuff,” Giannopoulos said.

Students met with WSUM student radio’s manager Dave Black, last year’s Mifflin sponsor, for suggestions and input for the event this year, but said he was not optimistic.

Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers and Giannopoulos also suggested students could show Mifflin will change by creating a group of students which could help the Madison police.

“Forming a group as an opportunity, students can show they are taking responsibilities,” Somers said.

Students who met with city officials are also concerned about whom to contact to be sponsors and permit holders and what happens if there is no willing organization to take up the positions this year.

If an organization does not request the permit, the city would control any activity around the street with police enforcement, Giannopoulos added.

“I spoke to a friend of mine and he said that even if there is no Mifflin, they would still have our own party during the day time inside their own house,”

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Legislative Affairs member Maria Giannopoulos reports back to the committee on her meeting with Mayor Paul Soglin discussing details for the Mifflin Block Party.

Rep. Andrew Mackens said.

Giannopoulos said Mifflin residents could potentially be ticketed without a sponsor and permit holder.

Mackens and Giannopoulos were also concerned about how much work students will need to put into the project to find a sponsor and permit holder for Mifflin.

“There are some places

that haven’t said no to anyone, so there should be no reason we can’t ask them,” Mackens said.

People will still show up for Mifflin no matter what the outcome, the two representatives said. They also said without a sponsor it would be a less organized event.

Further action plans will be discussed Thursday with the community and

city. No decisions have been made, but tentative plans to gather more input will be established, Giannopoulos stated.

“We were given the only chance that students had to compromise,” Somers said. “I feel like if we back out and we don’t get a permit or have any way to organize it then we are giving up the one chance we had.”

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Cook said the Legislature then votes on the recommended maps.

If the maps are voted down, they are sent back to the LSA to be redrawn.

If the maps are voted down three times, they are decided by the Iowa Supreme Court.

However, Cook said this has not happened since the process began.

In Rhode Island, the state Legislature has created an advisory commission which draws the maps and sends them to the Legislature after public input. Rhode Island redistricting consultant Jim Brace said during the last redistricting cycle, the commission held about 30 public hearings around the state.

Brace said the Legislature can either choose to turn down the recommended map or amend it. However, since the state’s legislators are mostly Democrats, he said the changes made to the maps are usually small.

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Wisconsin differs from those states, Andrea Kaminski, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, said last year’s process was highly secretive and different from what has occurred in the past.

“Usually, the local governments develop their maps first so there is some consideration of the wishes of people who know their communities best. This time, there wasn’t,” Kaminski said.

“The public was closed out of [this redistricting] process.”

Because of the upcoming fall elections, Burden said he does not expect much progress on redistricting reform this year. However, he hopes the next session will pass a redistricting reform bill.

Burden said most of the current legislators would not be in office 10 years from now during the next redistricting cycle and that therefore, legislators should not be concerned about their careers when working on redistricting reform legislation.

The Badger Herald | News | Tuesday, February 21, 2012

owner navigates turbulent waters of music industry

By Sam Schmitt In the era of digital downloads, instant file sharing and a slew of portable music players, it is a rare occurrence to stumble upon a store that is dedicated to selling tangible discs, especially of the vinyl variety.

B-Side Records, a locallyowned record store on State Street, has been around long enough to witness the evolution of several musical formats, with the store nearing its 30-year anniversary this coming October.

The name, B-Side, fits the nature of the store. For those born in the era of Walkmans and cassettes, or perhaps even after that, the B-side of a record refers to the opposite side of a vinyl, where songs that were less likely to be aired on the radio were placed.

In an email interview with The Badger Herald, owner Steve Manley explained how he got started in the business and how it has changed over the past decades.

While he is not one of the original owners, Manley started frequenting the store when it first opened, when he bargained with the original owners on record prices by offering them his employee discount on sandwiches at the place he worked at the time.

After nine months of continued interest, Manley had been hired and was quickly promoted to manager, which let him decide which records to have in stock.

He later acquired the store when the original owners sold off their shares.

Originally named B-Side Records and Tapes, the tapes section was dropped once cassettes became practically extinct.

Today, the store continues to sell records but also offers a selection of CDs and more recently guitar strings.

Manley, who remembers broadening his musical horizons by hanging out in record and stereo stores at a young age, admits that even he is surprised by the resurgence of record sales.

“I saw the near-death of vinyl as a format about 15 years ago,” Manley said.

“Slowly, vinyl has made a very unexpected comeback, especially with people

UHS, from 1 she said. “Right now, there’s very limited accountability.”

She added without more information available by the budget decision meeting, committee representatives could say they are unable to approve the budget without additional details.

Rape Crisis Center Director Kelly Anderson also presented on the center’s budget, which includes access to the crisis line, advocacy services and community outreach and education. For a budgeting period from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2015, the center is requesting $60,214,

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under the age of 30 or so.”

Manley attributes this renewed interest, a trend that has been growing for the last 10 years, to the idea that records are considered more “special” than simply a digital download or CD, as the records are thought of as pieces of art or artifacts.

Even with tough competition from the iTunes, torrent sites and department stores, B-Side is able to distinguish itself with unique offerings, including rare orders that arrive within a week and discs in stock many do not expect to find.

According to Manley, there is still a significant older demographic that enjoys browsing through a store, and there is a broad range of customers that prefers “the tactile experience of browsing in a physical store, as opposed to pointing and clicking from a chair.”

Piracy, a controversial byproduct of online music access, is something Manley said he disagrees with.

“Free downloads are fine if that’s what the artist wants,” Manley said. “[But] it seems disrespectful to not compensate an artist for owning, and enjoying, something they created.”

Determination to buy a physical copy still exists, as Manley finds that customers are fairly loyal to shopping at record stores, even if it is not just one specific store.

Although he has been invested in the business of music retail for an extended period of time, Manley still sees a number of problems with the music industry and big name publishers.

He said record companies usually are operated by people who do not care about music at all, a process that has caused many of the companies to overcharge their customers. This ends up alienating their consumers and raising the advertised price in stores, including his own.

“Greed can, and should, backfire,” Manley said. “CDs should never list for more than $10 or $12, even for superstar artists. I say give music consumers a reason to purchase the actual disc [like interesting packaging to] have some added value

an increase from a budget of $52,907 from three years ago.

While SSFC Vice Chair Chase Wilson asked whether the increased budget was caused by greater costs to operate or by expanding access, Anderson said the center is seeing an increasing number of calls coming to the crisis line.

Elizabeth Gokey, a housing resource specialist at the Tenant Resource Center, presented on the group’s budget for $60,000.

This marks a $20,000 increase over the 2011 budget of $40,000 for staffing contacts.

to the budget repair bill, which took away collective bargaining from public employees. The protests of the last week are part of the “Week of Action,” commemorating the 17-day occupation of the Capitol building that took place a year ago.

over a download.”

Manley understands why vinyl costs more, as it is more expensive to produce, but said he thinks it is ridiculous that some companies still list their CDs for $19 and overprice certain records, making it more difficult to offer a competitive price in store.

Some major record labels have recently started to catch on, which allows B-Side to offer some “quality titles” for a price range of $6 to $10.

As for the future expansion of the store, Manley jokes: “We’re not going to start selling bongs. They do that next door.”

Although there are no new products to offer besides an updated and relevant music collection and the recent addition of guitar strings, in two months record stores around the world, including B-Side, will be participating in an organized event.

The fifth annual Record Store Day is scheduled for April 22, when special releases, storewide sales and other events occur. It would be as good a time as any to check out what local record stores have to offer.

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Herald Editorial Wisconsin craptography pertinent documentation. Today, a three-judge panel is set to rule on whether the new voting districts are constitutional or not.

It is nearly impossible to have redistricting done in an unbiased way; whichever party is in power always redraws the voting map to benefit them in some way or another.

It can be done by “drawing” the opposing party out of re-election or redistricting to ensure an official has a greater chance of staying in office.

Time has come for Wisconsin to implement a new, redrawn voting map. As expected, this redistricting has come with a political blunder.

Republicans, while trying to exercise caution, appear to have overstepped their power.

A majority of Republicans in both the Senate and Assembly reportedly signed pledges to keep redistricting discussions secret from the public but have recently been ordered by a federal court to release

that might not otherwise have been raised.

Instead of trying to solve the problem with secrecy pledges and closed-door debates, politicians need to take a hard look at this inherentlybiased process and propose solutions to make it more bipartisan. Until then, mud will always be flung, and someone will always look bad. As Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, said to The Badger Herald Editorial Board yesterday: “This was just dumb.”

Either way, there is no such thing as a bipartisan redistricting.

In this case, Wisconsin Republicans used fearful caution in light of upcoming recalls. We all know they are going to implement a voting map with inherent bias, just as Democrats would. But instead of keeping the process public, they chose to hide it from citizens. This raises obvious questions about the extent to which they redrew voting maps in their favor — questions

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Shadid provided wartime insight Meher Ahmad Staff Writer The shocking news of New York Times reporter and University of Wisconsin alum Anthony Shadid’s sudden death last week inspired a rash of memorial articles enshrining the writer as one of the most talented reporters of our time.

His passing inspired UW students to glance at some of his works, perhaps to see what the fuss was all about.

And the brief Twitter and Facebook statuses commenting on his death provided the shallow answer to that curiosity.

Students echoed the headlines and gave the School of Journalism & Mass Communication an ego boost by posting some of his award-winning work.

But as with all news stories, the attention was kept for a millisecond, if that. Students paused to read a few articles and moved on. I can’t blame them for it really, because Shadid’s death was a drop in the news cycle bucket.

For the millisecond that students read about his work, though, I had the hope that they would linger and discover why he had become a pillar in Middle East reporting.

Shadid spent close to 10 years reporting the Iraq War, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. His dispatches were unique in that they revealed what it felt like to be an Iraqi amid a brutal and wretched invasion and subsequent war.

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Anthony Shadid, UW alumnus and New York Times correspondent, brought Middle Eastern issues to the forefront in his in-depth coverage.

The Iraq War was declared over in December of last year.

The announcement, for cynics like me, was a joke, borderline offensive even, when you take into account the exponential amount of conflicts that will continue since the last troops departed Dec. 15.

While studying abroad in Jordan last year, my encounters with Iraqi refugees gave me a real sense of the brutality they have endured. I would sometimes catch a ride with my neighbor, an older Iraqi man who had fled to Amman in 2004. I asked him once what city he was from, and he answered Baghdad. I told I had heard the city was very beautiful once: A cheesy phrase, but the best I could muster up with my Arabic. Most Arabs jump at telling you about how beautiful their hometowns are, but he remained silent. I saw

melancholy on his face that I could tell he was used to. The uncomfortable silence weighed down on me, and I understood then that even mentioning Iraq’s past would bring him discomfort.

I remember reading one of Shadid’s articles about a city called Thuluyah, where he described the descent into brutal sectarian violence that has plagued the city, like much of Iraq, since the start of the war. What struck me from the story was Shadid’s description of a mournful sheikh walking in the bullet-pocked city streets, passing a faded sign that said, “Long live Iraq.”’ His tableaus of daily life in a warzone made the human suffering that reverberated through the country palpable to the reader.

The average collegeaged student’s perception of Iraq doesn’t go much further than the images on

TV and maybe what they saw in “The Hurt Locker.”

We scarcely pay attention to the numbers of civilian deaths that fly out of newscasters’ mouths. Even during the official war, it’s safe to say that most college kids completely forgot the U.S. was kneedeep in conflict.

I hope in commemorating Shadid’s death, we seek the story Shadid was trying to convey. There’s a real cost to war, and it isn’t just trillions of dollars in funding a full-scale occupation. Roughly 110,000 civilians have died since 2003. More than 1.6 million Iraqis have fled the country, and 1.8 million are internally displaced. There are close to five million orphans in Iraq, about half of the country’s children. Data on Iraqi mental health is difficult to acquire, but in lieu of numbers, Shadid gave us a glimpse into the fog of hopelessness and depression that has settled over the country.

Iraq is still in the grips of the bloodshed that the American invasion spurred, and millions of Iraqis are still left unable to return to normalcy. It is important to commemorate Shadid as one of UW’s finest graduates, but if we learn anything from his life’s work, it should be to comprehend the real meaning of war.

Meher Ahmad (mahmad@badgerherald. com) is a junior majoring in International Studies and Middle East Studies.

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Hardcore birth control rhetoric won’t score GOP points John Waters Columnist GOP candidates for the U.S Senate seat in Wisconsin have jumped on board with their party’s presidential candidate hopefuls in denouncing President Barack Obama for his policy of mandating all employer health insurance must cover birth control.

After checking that we are indeed in the 21st century, I decided to lay out the facts and try to understand how any politician in America could really believe that joining Rick “Birth Control is Harmful to Women” Santorum is a good move.

Former Gov. Tommy Thompson went to his Facebook wall to share his thoughts on the new policy, saying, “Not only is the birth control requirement an affront to Catholics, but it is a breach of our religious liberties that any person of faith should oppose.”

Let’s take a second to break down Tommy’s concerns here. First of all, the birth control mandate never applied to churches themselves, but to churchaffiliated businesses like a hospital. Regardless, Obama backed down and allowed any employer to be exempt from the mandate on religious grounds. In that case, the health insurance company would have to pay for the birth control.

The insurance companies have noticeably not objected to this at all, maybe because, like the Obama administration, they are fully

aware of the comparative costs of paying for cheap, effective birth control vs. paying for neonatal and pregnancy care. Not to mention the $11 billion dollars spent by taxpayers on unintended pregnancies.

A study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute also found that two-thirds of unintended pregnancies are publicly funded. The author of the 2011 study said, “In the absence of the services provided at publicly funded family planning centers, the costs of unintended pregnancy would be 60 percent higher than they are today.”

So for Tommy to stick his neck out to defend this as an “affront to Catholics,” they must all be against birth control, right? But that’s simply not true. A recent CBS News poll found that three-fourths of U.S women, including Catholics, have

taken birth control. A recent Pew Research Poll found that only eight percent of Catholics believed using contraceptives was morally wrong.

One of Thompson’s campaign officials, Darrin Schmitz, said, “Birth control is a personal decision and a voluntary choice and not something that should be mandated by the federal government against the will of a private employer.” What if my employer has a moral issue with vaccinations?

Do their personal beliefs in that situation outweigh the collective value of a society not riddled with polio or smallpox?

Looking at all the facts, it just doesn’t make sense for Thompson to come out in opposition against birth control. Obama’s compromise already has allowed religiously-affiliated institutions to avoid

“religious persecution” (code in this election year for not getting exactly what you want). At the same time, this is 2012; almost all women use birth control, and to come out so vehemently against a simple issue seems counterproductive to winning an election.

This week’s CNN poll seems to play out. It says about half of Americans oppose the new birth control policy. But most of that opposition is coming from the Republican side and is clearly more wrapped up in the attack-on-religion storyline than any actual problem with women being guaranteed birth control coverage.

Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, and another GOP hopeful, said, “Our federal government is not to impose a morally questionable mandate upon any of our citizens, and any

attempt to hold individuals to a standard that goes against their religious theology shall not stand.” Come on, Fitzgerald: This policy isn’t demanding that every Catholic take birth control, only that a business owner must expand insurance to include access to this cheap and effective way to prevent escalating future costs.

I understand ramping up rhetoric in an election.

I can certainly get behind promoting religious freedom.

But jumping on the back of the latest extreme in a presidential primary trying to decide who can look more conservative isn’t going to win candidates any points in Wisconsin. Stop pontificating about an imagined attack on religion and get back to the issues that matter.

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

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Preventing and treating, one case at a time Madison’s AIDS Network responds to community needs statewide Bennet Goldstein Arts.Etc Reporter Tucked away in a Williamson Street office park is an inconspicuous doorway marked “Suite H.” Straight to the point, the glass pane lists only the hours of operation in practical white stickers. If you weren’t already aware, you might never know of the public services the staff and volunteers inside this building provide to Madison and southern Wisconsin.

Founded under the leadership of community activist Adrian Pope, the AIDS Network has provided HIV-prevention and client care services for the past 26 years. It operates from its main office in Madison, as well as offices in Janesville and Beloit.

AIDS Network addresses

HIV in two ways, with the first focusing on activities that prevent the spread of the disease. To do so, AIDS Network staff distribute health information and condoms at night venues, offer confidential STD testing and operate a needle exchange. The second type of service AIDS Network provides is care for HIVpositive individuals. For instance, volunteers are paired to help clients who might have physical impairments.

From its inception, AIDS Network has been supported by donors and volunteers from Madison and neighboring communities.

The organization receives donations from the monthly “Camp Bingo” games at the Edgewater Hotel -- emceed by “Diva” Cass Marie. The largest fundraising event for AIDS Network is the annual Wisconsin AIDS Ride, which will occur in August this year.

Dan Guinn, AIDS Network’s executive director, has worked with Madison’s HIV-positive community for

the past decade.

“I wanted to help lower income populations … populations with higher need, [who are] disenfranchised,” said Guinn.

From his years of experience, Guinn has a deep knowledge of HIV statistics and prevention strategies.

One of his current worries relates to people’s lack of awareness concerning their HIV status; a sizable number of HIV-positive people do not know they are infected.

“One in five is what they (the Centers for Disease Control) think,” Guinn said.

Another part of Guinn’s job at AIDS Network is to support its case managers, the staff who work directly with clients. One of these people is Shawn Neal, who before becoming a case manager worked in the field of HIVprevention. He described his job as one focused on preventing the spread of HIV by encouraging safe-sex and testing.

Prevention efforts in Madison are directed at men.

While women represent

a rapidly increasing demographic in terms of new HIV infections, men still make up about 80 percent of Wisconsin’s 6,482 reported cases. As such, prevention initiatives focus on locating places “where men would try to meet other men,” Neal said.

Some of these places are out in the community, like bars and parks. Others are digital, like chatrooms.

Stigma is always an ongoing concern when discussing HIV. Neal emphasizes the importance of maintaining a nonjudgemental attitude as he raises awareness about STDs. It is especially a concern for communities that experience disproportionate rates of HIV-infection.

African Americans and Latinos make up about 13 percent of the Wisconsin’s population, but as of September 2011, represented 50 percent of the state’s number of HIV cases.

Neal noted this stigma leads people in minority communities to distance themselves from discussions about infection.

“In African American and Latino groups … some … want to get away from the idea of HIV as much as possible,” he said. “Going out and talking to communities … you hear a lot of people say, ‘Oh no! I’m good, I’m good.’”

Guinn points out that an unfortunate consequence of reading about higher rates of HIV in specific communities is that people forget that all people are still at risk.

“We have children on our caseload, elderly … many nationalities, all races, all genders,” he said.

As Neal illustrated, the thought that HIV happens to other people can prevent people from getting tested.

“I had a married heterosexual client [who] was almost on the verge of passing away before [his doctors] said, ‘well maybe you should get an HIV test,’” Neal said. “Just because of the community he was a part of, they just never assumed he would be at risk for HIV infection. He is still pretty angry at the doctor for not [assuming] that too.”

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clients, AIDS Network staff take a holistic approach to providing care. Ranging from its dental clinic to its food bank, AIDS Network provides many services inhouse. It also refers clients to community partners for the services it doesn’t currently provide.

One of the more sobering issues any agency that works with HIV-positive people inevitably faces is responding to client deaths. AIDS Network has created a quilt to help remember and mourn the passing of these people.

When pointing to the quilt Guinn spoke quietly.

“Every year, however many clients we’ve lost, we’ve sewn that many stars upon it.” He paused. “I’ll have to phase over to something new pretty soon.”

A reminder of the dead is poignant. Yet, we rarely see the deaths AIDS Network helps prevent. When they are visible, it is a special moment. Neal said people have approached him and told him, “‘I think you saved my life.’”

ARTSETC. PRESENTS LOW-FAT TUESDAY

Quest for quick and healthy packaged food Rachel Werts Low-Fat Tuesday Columnnist Sometimes during a busy semester, it can seem like you’re just living from one packaged meal to the next. With work, exams and a social life, how could anyone possibly find time to cook a meal from scratch? But as you load up your grocery cart with frozen and “just add water” convenience meals, are you paying attention to what they’re made of?

Not all convenience foods are created equally. Many packaged foods are loaded with saturated fat, sugar and sodium to make them more appealing. There are easy ways to identify these products and replace them with more nutrient-dense varieties.

When buying packaged foods, always read the label. Food

labels can sometimes seem daunting with all the information they contain, but if you’re not following a special diet, there are only a few things you need to note before you toss an item in your cart.

To determine how many calories you are getting, start by looking at the serving size.

Many packaged foods contain multiple “servings” in one box, so you must multiply the number of calories by the number of servings. For example, a package of Maruchan Ramen noodles in chicken flavor contain 190 calories per serving and 2 servings per package. 190 x 2 = 380 calories per package.

Because most of us need around 2000 calories per day, you should try to choose convenience meals that are between 300-600 calories per package. That way, you can round out your meal with a piece of fruit or a glass of milk while staying within about a third of your calories for the day.

The next thing you should note on the label is the saturated fat content. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans

recommend that saturated fats be kept as low as possible and not exceed 10% of your total calories.

Saturated fat is often listed in grams, and a food is considered “lean,” or a good choice, when it has 4.5g of saturated fat or less per package.

You also want to look out for the trans fat content. Trans fats should also be kept as low as possible. Look for trans fat-free labels for products that have <0.5 g of trans fats. Trans fats can be found in foods that contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Sodium is another item listed on food labels. Many processed foods add lots of salt to their products, and for some people eating too much of it is linked to hypertension (high blood pressure). The recommended amount of sodium per day is no more than 2300 mg. When choosing a processed food, look for products that have less than 800mg for the entire package.

Keep an eye out for tags like “low-sodium” or “no added salt” to find options that contain 800 mg or less.

Dietary fiber is not an essential

nutrient, but it may help you maintain a healthy weight by helping you feel fuller longer.

A packaged food that contains more than 2.5g of fiber is a good source. Look for products that contain whole grains to make finding high fiber convenience foods in the grocery aisles easier.

Sometimes you might feel like you don’t even have time to read a label. For those cases, I’ll recommend some of my favorite pre-packaged products: Healthy Choice Fresh Mixers, Green Giant frozen vegetable packages or Progresso soups. Also, don’t forget that dried pastas come in whole wheat varieties; you can buy brown rice instead of white, and you can purchase low-sodium sauces to make your semi-homemade meals healthier.

Everyone gets busy during the school year, and not everyone has the time to cook — using these tips will help make sure you stay healthy and keep performing at the highest level all the way through your final exams.

For more information on healthy eating e-mail the column at Wisconsin.dnc@gmail.com.

RECIPE OF THE WEEK This week’s recipe combines several healthy convenience items to make one tasty dinner in a flash.

Easy Shrimp Fra Diavolo Yield: 4 servings 16 oz. whole-wheat linguine 16 oz. frozen shrimp 1 jar canned mushrooms, drained 1 tbsp. olive oil 1 tbsp. pre-minced garlic 2.5 cups low-sodium marinara sauce 1 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes Bring a pot of water to a boil and cook pasta as directed.

Cook frozen shrimp according to package directions in microwave.

In a skillet combine oil and garlic, cook 1-2 minutes.

Add marinara sauce and red pepper flakes.

Add mushrooms and cook over medium heat until heated through, ~3-5 mins.

Drain pasta and shrimp. Toss with sauce and serve.

Deadmeat Tour brings one-two electro-dub punch to Madison DJ Steve Aoki promises new set and visuals in his show Wednesday Allegra Dimperio ArtsEtc. Content Editor “I’m just in the business of music and everything that it involves.”

Those were the words of California-based producerturned-DJ Steve Aoki, who took some time out of his second day off in 32 days to chat with The Badger Herald about his upcoming show at the Orpheum.

Even with a non-stop tour schedule and the responsibility of artist signing and development at his own label, Dim Mak Records, Aoki has managed to start 2012 off right, releasing his new album Wonderland and kicking off the Deadmeat Tour with his

label’s first dubstep artist, Datsik.

Although Aoki described his own music as clubfriendly, saying, “Some people call it electro; some people call it techno. I just call it dance music, myself,” he sees the tour with Datsik as a positive blending owf genres.

“The bass junkies, the dubstep kids, they come to hear Datsik’s sound. My fans come to hear my sound, and we all just kind of mix and have a really good time,” he said. “We’re in an interesting time where you can put together two different artists from two different worlds and have a successful tour.”

And successful it has been.

“It’s a one-of-a-kind show that we’re doing on this tour,” Aoki said.

The DJ worked with a visual team whose previous clients included Daft Punk and Deadmau5 for the lights

Photo courtesy of Dim Mak Records

DJ and Dim Mak Records founder Steve Aoki returns to Madison this week.

on the Deadmeat Tour.

While the Orpheum may not be big enough to house the full set’s light-up AOKI letters, the DJ promised “an evolved visual set that goes with all my songs.”

An evolved set is also in the cards.

“On this tour, I’ve started to play all my own music,” Aoki said. “Last year, it was about giving as much of a Dim Mak experience as possible, but now I’m focusing on my own music.

So when you come to an Aoki show, you get the full Aoki experience.”

At the Orpheum, that experience will include favorites like “Turbulence,” Aoki’s collaboration with Laidback Luke and Lil John, “Warp,” his track with The Bloody Beetroots, and “No Beef,” his new song with Afrojack, along with some half-time songs with dubstep elements.

“When I’m DJing out, I’m playing dancier songs for the floor, banger, kind of like club-bangerish music,” he said.

So visuals and music aside, what three words would Aoki use describe his shows? “Crazy, crazy people,” he said.

“The interaction I have with the crowd is really important to me,” Aoki said.

“If they’re giving me love, I want to give them more love.

It’s like we’re dating.”

If Aoki’s past Madison shows are any indication, the Orpheum crowd will be more than ready to give the DJ love.

Datsik dubstep yin to Aoki’s clubready yang on duo’s Deadmeat Tour Adelaide Blanchard ArtsEtc. Contributor Datsik is the first to admit his partnership with Steve Aoki for the Deadmeat Tour may seem sketch on paper.

Datsik, aka Troy Beetles, dips his swampier dub into a hip-hop influence, compared to Aoki’s slicker, poppy top tracks.

But come Wednesday night at the Orpheum Theater, Datsik is ready to continue the Deadmeat Tour on the Madison dubstep scene.

The city’s lack of an illustrious, gigantic, headliner-magnet venue is no secret, but fans may be in for a treat with the Orpheum’s more intimate setting.

“I change my set up a little bit every single night. When it’s a smaller show, I get a bit more experimental; I try to freak my set as much as I can and do things I might not usually do,” he said. “For me, personally, I really like massive systems and a big crowd, but I like the small intimate clubs, because it feels like you’re connected with the audience.”

While Aoki will provide the mainstream tunes that most fans will be familiar with, Datsik said he will be infusing his set with more underground tracks, drawing from his hip-hop background.

Photo courtesy of Dim Mak Records

Canadian producer Datsik boasts hip-hop influenced dubstep in new set.

Despite the difference in styles, Datsik said so far the crowds they’ve encountered during the tour haven’t shown up just to see one DJ. He said he’s had good luck in Madison before, with an energetic crowd that “knew what they were doing.”

Promos for the Deadmeat Tour promise the duo will unveil a new live show.

Datsik said he will be controlling the light work in a very literal way, through a “crazy live visual rig.”

The lights will react to his motions on stage — all while he loops his tracks live.

“I’m constantly busy the whole show. It keeps it interesting,” he said.

Hailing from Canada, Datsik said the dub demand isn’t much different across the border. But crossing borders isn’t the only crossover in the tour.

Datsik said his interest

and influence from hiphop was easy to transfer to his electronic career: The rhythms, the breaks, the drums and the bass are all ingredients in both hip-hop and his current musical styling.

Hip-hop has been around and been popular for awhile, he said, but now electronic music is on the rise, which might be due in part to how easily the styles play off each other. For his part, Datsik has successfully blended the genres.

With both heavy dub and lighter electro fare, the Datsik-Aoki pair of opposites should be enough to attract even the most reluctant out on a school night.

Steve Aoki and Datsik will stop at the Orpheum on Wednesday. Doors open at 8 p.m., and tickets are $25. For more information, visit www.majesticmadison.com.

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Gorman rising at UW Freshman point guard catches Kelsey’s eye after scoring 19 points in past 2 games Matt Wimmer Sports Writer Despite recent struggles for the Wisconsin women’s basketball team (8-18, 4-10 Big Ten), discouragement is the last thing on head coach Bobbie Kelsey’s mind as the Badgers prepare for their final two opponents of the season.

Although the Badgers have dropped five consecutive Big Ten games, Kelsey seemed upbeat at her Monday press conference while the team prepares for a showdown Thursday night on the road against the Indiana Hoosiers (5-22, 0-14).

Although the Badgers have hit a rough patch, Kelsey has been encouraged by her team’s attitude.

“I am proud of our team from last night’s game (68-59 loss at Nebraska),” Kelsey said.

“We were down a lot but didn’t give up. We persevered in the face of adversity. It is very encouraging when you don’t

HUGHES, from 8 likely fall on the three seniors at the frontline.

Thus, the three should consistently score more than they do now. And as seniors with plenty experience, cleaning the boards should become more of a habit.

Evans (4th) and Bruesewitz (10th) are currently in the Big Ten’s top 10 in rebounding. Of the other eight players, two will graduate, and Jared Sullinger will likely enter the NBA Draft, bumping these two even higher up the conference’s rebounding food chain.

The last few games seem to portray Evans as someone on the verge

REFLECTS, from 8 Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991, the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993.

He was diagnosed with brain cancer in 1991 and passed away later that year.

But his legacy lives on.

“Shortly after he passed away, the letters, the stories; I didn’t realize the impact he had on so many players,” Mark Johnson said.

Bob Johnson’s coaching career was only just beginning at Wisconsin, however. In 1982, Bob Johnson began his NHL coaching career as head coach of the Calgary Flames, where he stayed for five years. He later won the Stanley Cup in 1991 with the Pittsburgh Penguins and became the

give up. This group has a lot of pride and wants to do well.”

One surprise that’s emerged as of late is freshman point guard Lacia Gorman, who’s caught the eye of Kelsey lately and is starting to adjust to the college game.

Although it’s been a challenge to find her place on the court, Gorman has shown promising development the last two games, scoring 19 points over the recent stretch for Wisconsin. UW’s head coach has taken notice of Gorman’s improvement and had encouraging words about her young point guard.

“Lacia did a great job,” Kelsey said. “She has been coming on as of late and has gained a lot of confidence these last two games. She can handle the ball and has a lot of upside to her. It carries a lot of responsibility to be a point guard.”

The Badgers will look to build momentum as they end the regular season this week

of turning into a doubledouble machine. If Berggren can learn to hit more of his shots out of the post, and if Breuesewitz attempts more shots next year, then these three could, collectively, put up double-double figures on a regular basis next season.

It’s all just a work in progress at the moment, but come next season, expect the return of a sturdy Wisconsin frontcourt.

Elliot is a senior majoring in journalism. What do you think about the growth of Wisconsin’s frontcourt this season? Let him know at ehughes@badgerherald. com.

second American coach in NHL history to win the cup.

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“[Bob Johnson] would’ve really enjoyed what’s happened to the women’s hockey game.”

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the international circuit as well, coaching the U.S. men’s hockey team in the 1976 Olympics and the Canada Cup tournament four times.

“His passion was hockey,” Mark Johnson said of his father. “He was selling hockey whether it be here in Madison,

reflect on. Sunday will be a special day as the seniors play their final home game at the Kohl Center.

Entering the season, Kelsey didn’t know what to expect.

She said that things could go very well or very badly. Taking over a new group and a new program is tough for most coaches; however, she praised the leadership of her seniors.

“I am so grateful to the seniors from day one,” Kelsey said. “It was almost like having 12 freshmen at the beginning of the year. I have to credit the group and their maturity to accept someone they don’t know.”

After accepting the coaching position, Kelsey knew she wasn’t going to inherit a Stanford-caliber team. She understood that the transition was not going to be easy and that hard work would be critical in building a record of success.

Kelsey, who was previously an assistant coach for four

with matchups at Indiana Thursday night and a home game against Illinois Sunday.

It’s an important stretch for a team that is looking for a spark heading into the Big Ten Tournament.

Wisconsin’s game against Indiana poses a lot of challenges, starting with the fact that Indiana has yet to win a conference game and is hungry to get its first Big Ten victory.

“Indiana is scary because we don’t want to be the first team to lose to them,” Kelsey said. “They don’t have anything to lose, and we cannot take them for granted. We are not looking at it as an easy game. This is an important stretch for our team because you always want to play well going into a tournament and have the confidence to know you can play with anyone.”

As the Badgers’ season winds down, there have been a lot of good memories to

TRIP, from 8 Although it will be quite a while before the Badger faithful can watch the men’s hockey team at the Kohl Center again, Badger fans can look forward to the newly named “Bob Johnson Rink.” The rink was named in honor of Hockey Hall of Famer and former Wisconsin head coach Bob Johnson, who played hockey at UW and later coached the Badgers to three NCAA championships.

He also coached in the NHL and led the U.S. in international

internationally or here within the United States.”

Bob Johnson’s passion for hockey has worn off on his family as well. With Mark Johnson as the Wisconsin women’s hockey coach, his five children have all delved into the sport. Doug Johnson is now a coach for a U-14 girls team, while Patrick and Chris Johnson both played college hockey, and his two daughters play youth hockey.

Mark Johnson also says his father would be proud of the present state of women’s hockey across the nation.

“He would’ve really enjoyed what’s happened to the women’s game,” Mark Johnson said. “To see where women’s hockey has come in the last 12 or 13 years, he would’ve loved it.”

competitions, most notably the 1976 Olympics.

Eaves remarked he was very excited about the naming of the rink and noted Johnson was integral to the development and success of the Wisconsin hockey program today.

“What pops out in my mind the most was his passion and enthusiasm for the game,” Eaves said. “His passion was exactly what was needed in this city to get it going. … He was the perfect guy because of his energy and his passion for the game.”

As coach Mark Johnson and his team prepare for their playoff game, it is undeniable that Wisconsin hockey’s recognition has grown tremendously over the last few decades. Mark Johnson has brought four national title banners back to Madison with the women’s team, which has moved from playing in the Coliseum to the Kohl Center and will compete in the new La Bahn Arena starting next year.

Although the women’s team is switching arenas, Mark Johnson remains proud of his father’s name, which will emblazon the Kohl Center ice.

“For the 15,000 that will come to the Kohl Center on a regular basis to watch men’s hockey over the next 25 years, whether they’re young, whether they’re old, they will be able to see

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Gorman, who could be Wisconsin’s starting point guard next season, set a career-high with 10 points against Nebraska, a performance that followed up a nine-point game against Michigan State. seasons at Stanford, helped lead the Cardinal to a 137-14 record and four consecutive Final Fours. Her plans for success are the same in Madison as she tries to resurrect the women’s basketball team into a title contender.

The new coach believes she can bring her experience to

Wisconsin and make a lasting contribution to the program.

“The challenge is to take a group without all the names and accolades and see what they can do,” she said. “I felt it was time to help another group. [The journey] must start somewhere, and there isn’t a place I would rather do it than Wisconsin.”

S PORTS Eaves readies for trip to Bemidji State Sports Editor

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The Badger Herald | Sports | Tuesday, February 21, 2012

With no remaining home games, UW enters playoff mode in Minn. road series Drew Harry Sports Writer The last time Wisconsin men’s hockey head coach Mike Eaves visited Bemidji State, he was coach at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

The locker room at Bemidji was so small he had to split up his team into groups and address each separately prior to the game.

“It was the old barn,” Eaves said in his Monday press conference. “It was beat up; it was a home-court advantage.”

This time around should be a bit more comfortable for Eaves, as Bemidji State opened a new arena in 2010.

However, Bemidji will still look to capitalize on home ice (where the Beavers have posted an 11-4-1 record this season) with the crowd planning a “whiteout weekend” against the Badgers.

The Badgers (13-15-2 overall, 8-14-2 WCHA) are positioned to tie for 10th place in the WCHA and are three points behind Bemidji State. With two wins this weekend, the Badgers could overtake the Beavers for ninth place in the conference standings. But with only four more games remaining in the season, the Badgers are readying for playoff hockey.

“The way we played, I think the guys have a real

sense of where we need to go,” Eaves said. “It’s just all about being playoff-ready.”

Looking to build upon last Saturday’s 5-2 win over 10th ranked Denver, the Badgers are making a final push to polish their game and end the season strongly. After losing five straight games before Saturday night (the longest losing streak of the season), Eaves stressed that the Badgers’ level of play needs to be indicative of Saturday’s effort.

“You know, we just need to play like we played on Saturday,” Eaves said. “Small sheet, big sheet, I don’t think that is really relevant anymore.”

Nonetheless, Wisconsin has not won a road game since Jan. 13, perhaps indicative of the lack of experience on the team.

The Badgers only have one senior on the roster in defenseman Eric Springer to go along with one road victory on the entire season.

If the Badgers want to win a game come playoff time, it will have to come on the road because at this point they cannot obtain home ice during the playoffs.

Eaves remains optimistic about his youthful group, however, and hopes to gain Wisconsin’s second and third road wins this weekend.

“I look forward to it,” Eaves said. “I know they play well at home.”

According to Eaves, freshman goaltender Landon Peterson played well in the victory against Denver.

Heading into the playoffs, the Badgers will likely need similar contributions from

Noah Willman The Badger Herald

Wisconsin’s Landon Peterson received praise from head coach Mike Eaves for his performance last weekend. He made 22 saves and allowed two goals in Saturday’s game against Denver. underclassmen to overcome their inexperience. Eaves was also proud of the way Peterson commanded the

game throughout.

“I’m glad he got the win,” Eaves said. “He’s played pretty well for us this year.

He had good command of the net, he challenged the puck, [he was] very authoritative. … He did a

nice job; it was nice that he got the win.”

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Johnson reflects on father’s impact Kohl Center ice to be named after legendary UW coach ‘Badger Bob’ Zach Nelson

renamed “Bob Johnson Rink” at the beginning of next season in honor of the legendary coach who, along with coaching in the NHL and Olympics, led the Badgers to three national championships.

Sports Writer As the Wisconsin women’s hockey team prepares for the first round of the WCHA playoffs against Minnesota State after locking up a conference title, head coach Mark Johnson has already received another honor — one in the name of his father.

The University of Wisconsin Athletic UW Athletics Department announced At his weekly press conference Monday, Wisconsin women’s hockey head coach Mark Johnson spoke about his father, Bob, a legendary head Monday that the ice at coach for the men’s squad. The UW Athletic Department announced Monday the Kohl Center’s rink would be named in Bob Johnson’s honor. the Kohl Center will be

“It’s a great tribute. ... He did a lot for hockey, not only in Madison but in the state of Wisconsin.”

Mark Johnson Head Coach

“It’s a great tribute to him and the men’s hockey program,” Mark Johnson said of the tribute to his father. “He did a lot

for hockey; not only in Madison, but in the state of Wisconsin.”

Bob Johnson began his hockey coaching career after serving as a medic during the Korean War. After coaching high school hockey in Minnesota, Johnson moved to UW where he served as head coach until 1982.

Bob Johnson led the Badgers to seven NCAA appearances, including national championships in 1973, 1977 and 1981. He also coached multiple players who blossomed into notable NHL skaters while at Wisconsin.

Bob Johnson was inducted into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987, the United States

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Frontcourt looks promising for 2012-13 Elliot Hughes Look Hugh’s Laughing Now It’s no secret to anyone who’s paid any attention to the Wisconsin men’s basketball team this season that the offense has had to undergo a somewhat bumpy transition in the frontcourt.

Unsurprisingly, Ryan Evans, Mike Bruesewitz and Jared Berggren haven’t been able to replicate what Jon Leuer and Keaton Nankivil (along with Tim Jarmusz) were able to produce on the frontlines last year.

On an individual level, all three of UW’s current bigs

have experienced periods of affluence and streaks of nonfulfillment. Collectively, they’ve been a part of an offense that, at times, has looked dysfunctional -where good looks are passed up for a hopefully better look and hot potato ensues.

But give this unit some postseason experience and another offseason to fine tune things, and what the Badgers could have on their hands come next November is a well-rounded frontcourt where one or two of them could produce doubledouble numbers every night.

In an interview last week, UW assistant coach Lamont Paris referred to it as the “elusive double-double,” since the Badger players had only managed the feat twice so far this season (two games later, that stat remains true).

All season long, the trio has been flirting with double-doubles, and I can’t help but think it represents the shell these rookie starters are playing under — which can be broken once they come around for their senior seasons.

Bruesewitz, who achieved a double-double against Ohio State, has also come one three-pointer away from the accomplishment against Penn State and needed seven more points against Minnesota. Those games, by the way, are three of UW’s last four.

Berggren fell three rebounds shy against Iowa, one free throw away in the second game against Nebraska, and notched 10 rebounds and one point on the road versus Penn State.

Evans, who earned Wisconsin’s other double-

double, has come closest to achieving the elusive feat the most. He needed two more baskets against Michigan and three more rebounds against Michigan State. Against the likes of Northwestern, Indiana and Penn State, he needed just one more rebound.

Now I know you’re going to lock onto a few of Bruesewitz and Berggren’s numbers I put forth and point out that they hadn’t even come halfway to reaching double-digit point totals. But what’s important to remember is that both of them have the ability to score. In conference games, Bruesewitz has the team’s third-best shooting percentage, and Berggren averages 8.6 points per game and 10.5 on the whole season.

So while we know all

three can score in doubledigits (Evans averages 11.1 points in conference games), we can figure that, due to Jordan Taylor’s departure after this season, the scoring dynamic will place increased emphasis on the frontcourt.

Taylor’s absence will leave Josh Gasser and Ben Brust to man the backcourt. After nearly two full seasons as a starter, Gasser has yet to prove he can be a consistent scorer. Even on this team, where he has the secondmost starting experience, Gasser is fourth in scoring.

There’s not much reason, at least right now, to think he’ll light up scoreboards next year.

Meanwhile, this was supposed to be Brust’s breakout season as a marksman, but once Big Ten play arrived, that prophecy

now looks premature (he’s shooting .349 from the field and .286 from downtown).

That’ll leave Wisconsin with three seniors with previous starting experience in the frontcourt, two of whom show a much larger nose for the basket than Gasser.

That’s where the points are going to come from.

And without Taylor, Wisconsin’s offense will have no excuse dillydaddling for an entire possession. There will be no Taylor for the Badgers to fall back on, no Taylor to offer up shot-clock-beating heaves or last-second drives to the rim.

With Taylor gone, someone will have to take charge, and that responsibility will most

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