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Woman assaulted on University Ave City alders to push for review of safety plan for downtown area, poor lighting Adrianna Viswanatha City Hall Editor A 21-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in the 600 block of University Avenue early Saturday morning, according to a Madison Police Department report.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said he hopes to work with the police department in the coming days to ensure an appropriate response from MPD, as well as surrounding bar owners or staff to create an added safety net in the area.

“I’ll speak with the police department to determine whether the campus community should be concerned, or if these are isolated incidents,” he said.

Resnick said the mayor’s office and city staff walked the

4, said the assault occurred in Hawthorne Court, an alley off of University Avenue that runs between Johnny O’s and Bob’s Copy Shop.

The report said a man less than 30 years old forced the woman into the poorly lit area.

The suspect left on foot and remains at large.

Verveer said the attack is being classified as a second or third degree sexual assault. He said although sexual assault is an important issue on campus and in the city, this type of attack is rarely seen on city streets.

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Police confirmed a 21-year-old woman was forced into a dark alleyway and sexually assaulted on the 600 block of University Avenue early Saturday.

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State recall elections could be held in early June GAB’s likely request for additional time for review, holidays could push date back Adrianna Viswanatha City Hall Editor The state’s primary recall elections could be delayed into early summer to allow state officials the

time necessary to verify and enter signatures by hand, a process which has drawn scrutiny from both Democrats and Republicans.

According to a statement released by the Government Accountability Board, the board could potentially request more time and funding to finish the process of reviewing all petitions that have been

filed. The current deadline for the board’s review of signatures is March 19, which would make the primary election May 1 and the general election May 29.

However, because May 29 is the day after Memorial Day, the elections cannot take place on that day or the Tuesday after, which could push the election to early June. GAB spokesperson

Reid Magney said clerks’ offices are closed on the holiday and would need more time to prepare for the election.

According to the report, the request stems from the need to finish the review of the signatures against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, as well as scheduling all the elections on the same day to reduce cost.

Magney said the board considered the

possibility of using statistical sampling in the review process of the votes against Kleefisch, but decided against the method.

“We will be hand entering all the names into a list that can be sorted to identify duplicates,” he said.

He added GAB officials do not know yet when all the signatures will be fully analyzed. He said they will

have a better idea of the time they need after their next meeting on March 12.

The statement said there has been opposition from both Democrats and Republicans in response to the length of the review process.

“Some claim we are not doing a thorough enough job while others accuse the agency of undue

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Union unveils new student leadership Board selects 4 new officers to lead WUD committees and Hoofers groups Rachel Seurer Herald Contributor

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said she would make forgiving student debt a priority as the commander-in-chief during her opening of a Madison campaign headquarters.

Green Party aims for presidency Mike Kujak State Legislative Editor Jill Stein’s campaign celebrated the opening of her campaign headquarters in Madison on Saturday after a victory in the Wisconsin Green Party’s nominating convention,

in which she captured seven of the state’s nine delegates.

Stein, 62, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and currently lives in Lexington, Mass. She has run for office on six occasions, most notably in 2002 for governor of Massachusetts against

current GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Stein has won more than 60 percent of the vote in the first six state caucuses and primaries.

The Badger Herald sat down with Stein to discuss her run for the White House.

The Badger Herald: Can

you start by explaining the process the Green Party uses for its primary election?

Jill Stein: The party goes through a process state by state where some states participate in a primary, while others

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After two preliminary rounds of interviews, the Wisconsin Union Council announced four student officers to serve for the 2012-13 academic year.

UW student Sarah Mathews will replace current Union President Katie Fischer while Jose Cornejo, Tara Centero and Courtney Severson will fill the three vice president positions in the areas of Public Relations, Program Administration and Leadership and Development, respectively.

Fischer outlined the selection process, which began in January, when Union Council initiated its campuswide recruitment process, involving extensive marketing and outreach efforts to encourage students to apply for

the leadership within the Union’s Student Programming Board.

Current officers partnered with 10 academic departments, including various student organizations and the Associated Students of Madison, to generate awareness among the student body for the upcoming campaign, Fischer said.

Of the initial pool of applicants, the Union Nomination Board selected seven students to continue on to Thursday evening’s final interview before the Union Council, Union Director Mark Guthier explained.

Matthews said accessibility for all students was a key objective of the recruitment process.

“Student and staff

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UWPD investigation finds bicyclist’s INSIDE UWSP student existing illness had role in accident reported Moped driver acted legally in campus incident that left 1 in critical condition Jackie Allen Campus Life Editor A University of Wisconsin Police Department investigation into an accident between a bicyclist and a moped driver last Wednesday found the biker had

an unrelated medical condition that contributed to the crash.

As a result of the condition, the bicyclist remains in the hospital in critical condition, UWPD Sergeant Aaron Chapin said. He added the bicyclist is not a student and is not affiliated with the university.

Chapin said the moped driver, who was a UW student, attempted to safely and legally pass the bicyclist at the 1600 block of Linden Drive

the morning of Feb. 26.

The biker began to weave within his lane, eventually crashing into the moped.

According to Chapin, no charges or citations are being pursued at this time.

The moped driver was treated at the hospital for her injuries and released.

In a press release issued Friday, Chapin said UWPD’s investigation found the bicyclist’s medical condition contributed to his “erratic behavior and

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missing Police are beginning to search for 21-year-old Eric Duffey after he did not return home from a night out.

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Proposed ASM constitution needs interest A proposed ASM constitution revision shows many reasons for student interest in the issue.

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Polls finds state majority supports Walker Ben Vincent Herald Contributor Three sets of recent polls released found that while the majority of Wisconsinites approve of Gov. Scott Walker’s job performance, Wisconsin could play a roll in reelecting President Barack Obama in the upcoming 2012 presidential election.

A Rasmussen Reports telephone poll released last Wednesday found that Walker’s approval rating currently stands at 52 percent, while 46 percent of those polled said they disapproved of Walker’s job performance to date.

Common Cause in Wisconsin Executive Director Jay Heck said Rasmussen Reports, who conducted the poll, tends to lean politically conservative in their polling. He also said the approval numbers for Walker can be attributed somewhat to the absence

of a clear Democratic gubernatorial candidate who will run against him in a possible recall election.

“There are many people who will stand with Walker no matter what happens. I’m not surprised he has strong support. I think it’s tough for people to say that they would support someone else if they don’t know who that some else is going to be,” Heck said. “This is a snapshot in time, and it could easily change. I wouldn’t be confident if I were Walker, and I wouldn’t be confident if I were the Democrats. It’s going to be down to the wire either way.”

University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden said in an email to The Badger Herald that Walker’s numbers reflect what could be a very tight potential recall election this summer.

He also noted the ongoing John Doe investigation

would likely become a factor in the election.

“Several recent polls about Gov. Walker have generated somewhat different numbers, but all of them suggest he is a slight favorite to win the recall election this summer,” Burden said. “Surveys conducted since last year’s protests have shown a sharply divided electorate with few undecided voters. Whether he can hang on will depend on the relative turnout rates of the two sides.”

Rasmussen Reports also released a poll Wednesday showing Obama leading Republican presidential contender and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Wisconsin 47 percent to 42 percent and Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum 46 percent to 41 percent.

A poll released by Democratic Party-affiliated Public Policy Polling on

Walker’s job approval How would you rate the job Scott Walker has been doing as governor? … Do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?

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Thursday also shows Obama leading all Republican presidential candidates in Wisconsin. It also reported Obama has a 52 percent approval rating and 44 percent disapproval rating in the state.

“It looks like President Obama will have a relatively easy time winning Wisconsin. In fact, all of the various Electoral College strategies his campaign is considering assume that he will win the state,” Burden said. “Rising concerns about the Republican candidates

and an improving economy are both helping to ensure that he wins the Badger State, although he is not taking it for granted.”

The poll also shows an increase in his approval ratings. In a PPP poll conducted in Oct. 2011, Obama had a 44 percent approval rating and a 51 percent disapproval rating.

Heck said he sees a connection between a recent national upswing in the economy and an upswing in approval numbers for both Obama and Walker.

Conservative site aims to verify recall petitions Tori Thompson Reporter Two Tea Party groups have partnered together to build a website that would allow the public to search for fraudulent recall petition signatures.

We the People of the Republic and Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty operate Verify the Recall, a website they claim will ensure the validity of signatures in the recall of Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, as well as the senatorial recalls, according to their website.

According to a statement, the organization is in the final stages of launching the website to allow citizens to search for their names and addresses to make sure

people did not fraudulently sign their names to petitions.

People who signed the petitions have been given “confidential voting status” and would like to keep their address and name private may contact Verify the Recall and redact their information from the website, the statement said.

Larry Gamble, spokesperson for Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty, said the website is necessary because the recall process was not as transparent as it should be.

“When the recall petitions were first being circulated, there was no clear process of how the recall was going to be organized,” said Gamble.

“Nobody, not the Republican Party or the [Government Accountability Board] knew

how it was going to happen.”

This lack of organization is part of why Gamble believes the recall elections are subject to fraud.

In a statement released Feb. 26, the national organization True the Vote, on behalf of Verify the Recall, said more than 55,000 ineligible signatures had been discovered.

Gamble explained signatures were considered ineligible for a number of reasons, including nonWisconsin resident status, illegibility, incompletion or duplication.

Melissa Baldauff, Research Director for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, questioned the legitimacy of True the Vote’s research results, funding sources and motives.

ACCIDENT, from 1 was a contributing factor in the crash.”

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the accident shows the need for city officials to review moped policies in Madison.

He added while Madison officials study

a variety of traffic and safety issues that include pedestrians, traffic, motorized vehicles and bicyclists, moped drivers are often left out of studies.

A Madison committee recently formed to review moped policies related to traffic patterns and parking. Resnick

ASSAULT, from 1 area around the 600 and 700 blocks of University Avenue last summer and fall to determine whether safety could be improved in the area. Improvements included assessing the effectiveness of lighting, physical structures and the area in general to determine

GREEN PARTY, from 1 have conventions and the rest have caucuses.

The convention will be in mid-July, in Baltimore.

By the time you get to the convention, you have your delegates assigned and you know where you stand.

BH: And what are you celebrating here tonight?

JS: We’re celebrating the opening of the office, but also our connection here with the uprising in Wisconsin.

It’s not by coincidence that our headquarters of the campaign are here. What’s going on in Wisconsin is a microcosm for what is going on nationally and globally.

Wisconsin has opened the floodgates for what’s happening in the Occupy movement and in the democracy revolutions in the Middle East.

BH: Is a main part of your campaign going to be echoing those voices in the Occupy Movement?

JS: Yes, it’s a movement with a life of its own, and it really expresses many of the same issues the Green Party has been talking about for a decade now.

“True the Vote has been the subject of multiple investigations, state and federal,” Baldauff said in a statement Thursday.

According to the statement, True the Vote was the subject of an ethics complaint filed by the Texas Democratic Party in 2010.

The complaint alleged illegal contributions and illegal coordination with the Republican Party.

Erik Kirkstein, spokesperson for United Wisconsin, which spearheaded the recall signatures collecting effort, said in an email to The Badger Herald that True to the Vote’s analysis is “flawed and misleading.”

He also questioned the motives of Verify the Recall.

However, Magney said the

efforts of the GAB, which is reviewing the petitions, are completely separate from those of We the People of the Republic and The Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty. The board will also not accept challenges from third party organizations or any individuals.

The GAB will refer cases of possible fraud found by Verify the Recall to local district attorneys, Magney said.

Although transparency and identifying possible instances of fraud are among the group’s cited goals, Verify the Recall also aims to protect voter’s privacy.

In their statement, Gamble stated the Verify the Recall website will honor those who have confidential voter status.

added a review of moped safety procedures should be included.

“I do think we need to look at safety precautions between moped drivers and bicyclists,” Resnick said.

“It would be easy to look at safety with mopeds. … I think this is an accident that highlights

the necessity of that, and the city will play a role in that.”

Both UW student government committees and Madison officials are currently weighing reforms to campus and city moped policies, particularly on parking rules, in an attempt to increase traffic safety.

how to make those particular blocks safer.

Additionally, Verveer said it is unclear whether or not the woman was a University of Wisconsin student.

“This shocking crime, in my opinion, calls for the city to do everything we can to improve the lighting in [the area],” Verveer said.

Resnick said he will ask

the mayor’s office to look back into the ideas for improvements to determine what changes need to be made.

MPD Lt. Trevor Knight said it is very important that people be aware of their surroundings any time they are out, to walk with companions and stay close to them.

I think we’re all in this together, and what the Green Party does is bring that movement into the world of electoral politics.

If you have a movement that doesn’t have an electoral voice, it’s like it’s only halfway there.

What independent politics does is formulate a demand that is alive and well in our streets and communities but needs a voice in the electoral mix.

BH: Can you speak to the role of a third party in these elections and why they may be important?

JS: Progressive parties have brought us many things we take for granted at the national level.

These are things like the New Deal, Social Security, the eight-hour workday and a safe workplace.

A political vehicle for social movements has always been essential, and over the last 10 years we just haven’t seen it.

We were told to be quiet, or you might have unforeseen consequences.

We have 10 years experience of being quiet, and it doesn’t get us to where we need to go.

And none of this falls harder on anyone than the generation of college

students who are up to their eyeballs in debt.

They have been just another exploited constituency by a political establishment whose real guiding light is milking people for more profits.

They’ve just been another cash cow for corporate America.

BH: While it might be easier for us to see the difference between you and a more conservative candidate, do you want to highlight some key differences between you and President Barack Obama?

JS: Well, let me start by saying President Obama hasn’t done squat about student loans.

He has certain programs he’s talked about, but they haven’t scraped the surface of the problem.

We are very clear that we need to forgive student debt.

We did it for the banks that have caused the problem that brought this crisis on us.

The least we can do is the same for the students, who were actually doing the right thing when the bottom fell out of the economy.

The Badger Herald | News | Monday, March 5, 2012

UWSP student declared missing as search begins Friends, police start search efforts after 21-year-old does not return to his home Jackie Allen Campus Life Editor A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student was declared missing Saturday afternoon, following a night out for his 21st birthday.

The Stevens Point Police Department issued an emergency alert Saturday and Sunday for Eric Duffey, a 21-year-old originally from Fitchburg, Wis. According to the Sunday alert, he was last seen leaving a downtown Stevens Point bar at approximately 1:15 a.m.

Saturday morning to go to his home about 20 minutes

RECALL, from 1 delay,” the statement said. “Some observers wrongly assume that the GAB is motivated by favoritism toward one side or the other.”

University of Wisconsin political science professor Donald Downs said both the Democratic and Republican parties are completely polarized on the issue.

He said the Republicans are more concerned with voter fraud in the issue, while the Democrats are less concerned.

“The longer it takes, the Republicans start figuring they have better

LEADERSHIP, from 1 leaders are very vocal about making this as fair and accessible a process as possible,” Mathews explained.

“We always want the best possible candidate pool possible to apply.”

Given the confidential nature of the review process, Union Council representatives could not disclose the extent of applicants’ previous involvement with the Union.

Representatives involved in the process did note the strongest candidates tended to be upperclassmen who had previous leadership experience through other organizations on campus. “[The Union Council’s panel] did not look for past involvement or experience with the Union. Rather, we looked for candidates that demonstrated leadership skills and position-specific experience,” Fisher said.

The incoming officers will oversee the 300 members on the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s six student programming subcommittees as well as 2,000 members of Hoofers. Yet, as several of the new representatives added, one of the most unique aspects of their position is the independence with which they can respond to their responsibilities.

The candidates will begin their term in late May of this year. In the upcoming months, the four new officers will begin to interview candidates to fill for the seven director positions for the six subcommittees, Guthier said.

Guthier said he is confident the new representatives will rise to the challenge of assembling another dynamic network of student leaders for the

away.

On Sunday afternoon, the Police Department led a search party with tracking dogs and a group of about 150 volunteers throughout the community looking for Duffey. Police tried to use cellphone pings to locate Duffey, but they only showed his phone was in the Stevens Point area.

Police told reporters Sunday they did not suspect foul play and believed alcohol was a factor in Duffey’s disappearance.

“We are asking everyone receiving this message to check their property inside and out, including any outbuildings, to check for Eric’s presence,” police said in the emergency alert Sunday.

UW-Madison junior Lizzy Schultz, a longtime friend of Duffey’s who met him in elementary school, described him as

friendly, funny and sweet.

She added he loves the outdoors and was at one point a wildlife ecology major.

“He is one of the friendliest and sweetest guys I’ve ever met,” Schultz said. “He once won a best Irish kid competition. He really loved that and was really proud of it. … He was just really funny and sweet.

There’s not a lot of guys like that.”

At the time of his disappearance, Duffey was wearing an orange flannel shirt, blue jeans, a brown jacket and possibly a gray and white stocking hat. He is about six feet tall and 150 pounds, with red hair and green eyes.

Anyone with information on Duffey’s whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Stevens Point Police Department at 715-346-1501.

— The Associated Press contributed to this report.

odds because it’s closer to the next election,” said Downs, an adviser for The Badger Herald.

“Why should we do a recall just to make a point if there are new elections for part of the Legislature coming up?”

He said the goal of having all the signatures reviewed and ready for a recall election by June is probably the fastest the board could get it done.

Downs said it is unlikely that the review could happen faster than June, as the parties need to prepare for the election.

“It’s not a long time, especially with appeals and potential lawsuits,” Downs said. “June comes

up a lot faster than you think.”

He said there is a strategic difference in perspective on the timeline. The longer it goes, Downs said, it is better for the Republicans, and if they do a recall sooner, it is better for the Democrats.

In an email to The Badger Herald, Ciara Matthews, spokesperson for the Walker campaign, said the board should take as much time as it needs to complete the process.

“Upholding the integrity of the process is priority No. 1, and we are glad the GAB is committed to doing so,” Matthews said.

upcoming year.

Mathews said one of the greatest challenges the new Union Council will face will involve the logistical challenge of planning events as the Memorial Union undergoes its $100 million renovation, which would close various parts of the building over two years.

However, the leaders on the current Union Council spoke highly to the four representatives’ ability to rise to these challenges.

Fischer added each candidate showed potential to further the Union’s underlying mission to serve as the “heart and soul of the campus.”

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The Badger Herald | Opinion | Monday, March 5, 2012

Opinion

Santorum’s higher ed remarks partly true, go too far Charles Godfrey Columnist Rick Santorum, the underdog of the GOP presidential primary election, has a tendency to say all kinds of crazy shit.

He’s made a splash this fall by raising eyebrows on the left and right with his religious fanaticism and his social conservatism. He is probably the only candidate still in the running who talks openly of the existence of Satan, saying, as reported by the Huffington Post, “If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age? There is no one else to go after, other than the United States.” In all fairness, not everything he says sounds like a fire and brimstone sermon, and in some cases Santorum’s radicalism provides a public voice for widespread political sentiments that are often swept beneath the rug. At times, Santorum is crazy like a fox.

Santorum has come under fire in the academic community for his broadside verbal attacks on higher education, specifically of four-year liberal arts universities like ours. According to Santorum, as reported

by CBS, “It’s no wonder President (Barack) Obama wants every kid to go to

college. The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination.” While some, like PolitiFact and The Washington Post, have challenged whether Obama actually said that he wanted every child to go to college, Santorum’s statement on university indoctrination still stands.

Santorum has taken serious flak in the academic community for comments such as this, but he makes a valid point. Academia is dominated by liberal ideology. The overwhelming presence of liberal political opinion in education is incompatible with the goals of public education, and it marginalizes students with conservative political backgrounds.

Liberal dogmas in university academics are pervasive and often blatantly obvious.

Anthropology has effectively rewritten history into a list of ways in which the West, with a capital W, has been a destructive influence on the world as a whole, in which the past 50 years is a description of how truly awful the American multinational corporation is. Many students who take sociology classes for humanities credits struggle with the notion that white, middle-class American men are responsible for everything that is wrong in the world. Most classes assume evolution and global warming as scientific fact,

not a subject of debate, and it’s probably only in the geological engineering department that drilling for oil is considered as a worthwhile pursuit.

In general, there may as well be a sign at the entrance to social science classes that says, “Check any disagreements with liberal intellectualism at the door.” In many cases, higher education takes to be axioms such ideas as: cultural, political and moral relativism, evolution, postmodernism and the non-existence of any absolute truth, environmentalism and the conviction that war is inherently and always wrong. Many Americans, and in particular many students, would consider these “axioms” of a liberal arts education to be mere opinions. These students are alienated when they are made to endure opinion presented as fact in the classroom in a way that ridicules their political beliefs.

Over 2,000 years ago, in one of the first major works of political philosophy, Plato argued in his Republic that opinion is something less than truth. I agree with Plato, and I think the goal of higher education is to search for and refine truth.

A higher education system weighed down with political opinion is a roadblock to progress, in that it is failing to provide students with the skills and knowledge to succeed in today’s world.

Instead, it is providing either a set of liberal

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Rick Santorum’s comments on university indoctrination show he undervalues higher education, but also reveal the pervasiveness of liberalism in universities. dogmas that will no doubt be irrelevant 20 years from now, or a source of constant frustration from drowning in someone else’s political views. Far too often, college education becomes so laden with political opinion that it loses sight of its true purpose — to provide students with truth and knowledge.

With that said, Santorum goes too far in his criticism of higher education. As reported by the Huffington Post, he called Obama a “snob” for supposedly wanting every American student to attend college.

The benefits of higher education are significant both for individuals and for the country as a whole, and Santorum is throwing the proverbial baby out with the

bath water when he argues that higher education should be de-emphasized because it promotes liberal politics. Santorum enrolled his children in an online charter school — which was paid for with tax dollars, of course, as reported by the Huffington Post — but if he were unfortunate enough to require some sort of surgery, odds are he would prefer that his surgeon attended medical school, rather than some for-profit online university.

While Santorum misses the mark because he dramatically undervalues the benefits of higher education to students and the American economy, his criticism of the pervasive influence of liberal politics in academia are timely. He is

right to argue that colleges and universities should focus on providing students with the knowledge and skills they will need to succeed in the future, not a set of liberal dogmas to live by. Unfortunately, because most of his comments are inflammatory and crazy, this criticism probably won’t have much of an effect, and so far most responses from the academic community fall under the category of “backlash.” Based on Santorum’s assessment of academia as an institution dominated by liberal politics, this is not at all surprising.

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

ASM constitution revisions need more student interest Aaron Spooner Guest Columnist Commenting on the proposed Associated Students of Madison constitutional rewrite is like stepping into a field of chirping crickets that is also full of landmines. Most students probably have no interest. The few who are interested tend to enjoy explosive arguments. Still, a discussion of the proposal needs to take place, and I’ve heard precious little of substance on the matter so far.

The complaints against the constitutional proposal have, so far, centered mostly on process. Discussions about process are often the hobgoblins of legislative policy. To complain about how something was drafted is to announce that one either has not read the document or else has no substantial arguments against it. Who was involved in drafting the proposal? Who was left out?

What kind of public review process did the proposal have?

These questions ask nothing about the proposal

itself. In two years’ time, nobody is going to care about who talked with whom about drafting what.

What will affect us as students is the text of the ASM constitution. Now that Student Council is debating the ASM Constitutional Committee’s final draft of the proposed constitutional revision, students need to start thinking about what this constitution could mean for us.

So who ought to support this new constitution?

Ironically, many of the same groups on campus who have objected to the ACC’s proposed draft are the very people who probably should support this new document most vocally. Funding and segregated fees are always one of the most contentious issues within ASM. Various student organizations have been rejected for funding in recent years for various reasons, and this constitutional revision hands those groups practically all they have wanted.

Student government associations within schools and colleges have wanted access to money but were

not able to receive funding consistently through the General Student Services Fund. The proposed revision creates a College Student Government Fund.

Many student organizations have sought GSSF money in the past, but the direct services model did not allow them to spend most of their time organizing and hosting events. The proposed constitution reclassifies series of events as direct services under the GSSF. Virtually every group who has been denied GSSF eligibility in recent years would be able to gain funding with relative ease if the constitutional revision were to pass.

In addition, complaints that ASM has been tone deaf to diversity concerns are addressed with the addition of a director of diversity within the new executive branch.

Combined with the greater ease that student groups focused on diversity issues should have in securing funding, this is significant.

So who should skeptically stand opposed to this new constitution? At the top

of the list, students who are concerned about high segregated fees ought to take a long, hard look at what the expanded funding streams will amount to when they write out their checks for segregated fees each semester. Segregated fees have been kept low in part because the Student Services Finances Committee has found ways through narrow funding criteria to say no to certain groups requesting money.

With expanded criteria and new funding streams, segregated fees will rise.

The addition of an executive branch with a president, vice president and cabinet also may give some students pause. The argument has been that ASM needs these positions to execute legislation and to serve as a representative figurehead for students.

Currently, ASM provides neither of these functions or roles.

The new constitution gives students not just one executive, but at least seven members in an executive branch, all holding paid positions. The ACC wisely removed from the president

the power to nominate cabinet appointees, as had been initially proposed, and now leaves cabinet selection entirely to the new senate.

The president, however, is still an incredibly powerful position. His or her veto powers and committee appointment powers are immense.

On a campus with a history of skepticism and resistance toward centralized authority, is this consolidated power the kind of presidential authority that we want?

The roles of the other executive positions also deserve scrutiny. The vice president has a vacant job description except for the vague charge to assist the president and to take over for the brief periods when the president is unable to perform duties. If the president resigns or is removed from office, the vice president sits in until a special election can be held.

The need for many new, paid ASM positions is bound to raise some controversy, especially among students who already feel the ASM government is largely a self-

serving body.

Ultimately, students have compelling reasons to revise ASM’s constitution. The current document has been cobbled together over the past decade and a half or longer, and many sections of the current constitution and bylaws create conflicts and gaps, having been written at different times by different people who did not always think about how their narrow revisions affect other parts of student government.

The ACC proposal for a new ASM constitution is commendable for producing a more cohesive document. Whether or not the new revision is a better document for ASM’s future is for students to decide. My hope is that students will look at the substance of the proposal itself in making this decision. Whatever students choose, that decision is likely to be with us for a long time.

Aaron Spooner (amspooner@wisc.edu) is a graduate student in the English department and serves as director of the Greater University Tutoring Service.

Recently approved St. Croix bridge eyesore, waste of money Vincent Dumas Staff Writer The U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill to allow the construction of a $700 million bridge spanning the St. Croix River between Wisconsin and Minnesota.

The bridge had to gain a special exemption from Congress due to its violation of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The bridge, which would be located a few miles

south of Stillwater, Minn., is supposed to ease congestion in Stillwater, where an archaic yet majestic lift bridge resides in the center of town. Repeatedly omitted from the various discussions on the issue is the fact that I-94 crosses the St. Croix only six miles south of the hypothetical bridge’s site.

To summarize: The bridge mars the landscape protected by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, which seeks to keep beautiful areas beautiful; it costs the tax payers of Wisconsin and Minnesota $700 million collectively and it is a superfluous addition considering the six-lane highway bridge six miles to the south.

Yet, there was unanimous

agreement in the U.S. Senate, and a very large majority in the House of Representatives voted in support of the bridge. It is hard not to agree with Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and his characterization of the project as a flagrant example of congressional earmarking.

One of the most vivacious proponents of the bridge was Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., erstwhile Republican presidential primary hopeful, in whose district the bridge would be built and whose residents would reap the economic benefits.

Bachmann has made a national image for herself condemning the excesses of big government and

decrying unsustainable government spending.

But a $700 million eyesore bridge connecting the small town of Stillwater to the smaller town of Oak Park Heights, Minn., is, apparently government operating efficiently. The millions invested could be spent shoring up the enumerable deficiencies in the existing bridges across Minnesota and Wisconsin, but the reasoning for not doing so is obvious. The new bridge is a tangible and concrete investment, whereas forestalling the collapse of current bridges is not an observable achievement; if done correctly, nobody will ever know it happened.

Bachmann and all

the other governmental leaders involved, including Minnesota Democrats Gov. Mark Dayton and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, now have a demonstrable “improvement” they facilitated, which they can tout in stump speeches and campaign ads in order to woo the electorate.

Particularly puzzling is Gov. Scott Walker’s agreement to split the costs with Minnesota, despite its hefty price tag. Walker rather publicly rejected an $810 million project to link Milwaukee and Madison by way of passenger train, a train that could then be extended to Minneapolis and Chicago, linking the whole Midwest. An $810 million cost to connect

Wisconsin’s two biggest cities, with the promise of greater development to come — all of which was federal stimulus money — was too much government.

In contrast, $700 million to connect two already connected areas with an ugly, redundant structure was a project Walker could support.

If nothing else, this charade elucidates the willingness of politicians on both sides of the aisle to come together and make horrible decisions for the sake of their reelection.

Bipartisanship isn’t dead, it’s just narcissistic.

Vincent Dumas (vdumas@ wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in history and philosophy.

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“Shahs of Sunset” — Bravo, 9 p.m. Series premiere on March 11.

Like a Persian “Jersey Shore,” but probably far less interesting than that concept sounds.

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“Bones” — Fox, 7 p.m.

Returns on April 2.

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Booth and Bones are back on the case for the second half of their seventh season.

After eight seasons, more than 150 episodes and one consistently irascible genius doctor, the medical drama is finally coming to an end. Fox announced the end of its long-running show during the middle of this season; after a winter hiatus, episodes will continue in midMarch.

“Dancing with the Stars” — ABC, 7 p.m. Season premiere on March 19.

Fox, 7 p.m. Returns on March 12.

Jack Wagner. Katherine Jenkins. Melissa Gilbert.

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“I Hate My Teenage Daughter” — NBC, 8:30 p.m. Returns on March 6.

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“South Park” — Comedy Central, 9 p.m. Season premiere on March 14.

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If you’re trying to catch this, tune in right away — rumors of cancellation abound.

Fox, 8:30 p.m. Series premiere on March 6.

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The fashion mentorship of Jessica Simpson and Nicole Richie promises to be enlightening.

The trailer for “Breaking In” is maybe the most confused jumble of references ever jammed into a minute and a half. Will the show, which revolves around a company hired to test security systems, be a serialized “Ocean’s”-style show, another attempt at re-creating “The Office” or a low-budget romantic comedy? It’s impossible to say.

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Is it a coincidence that the season kicks off just eight days after Super Tuesday?

It must be the season of the unnecessarily concealed pseudoprofanity for ABC. This sitcom about a big city newcomer and her world-weary roommate joins “GCB” among the ranks of the network’s titles apparently inspired

by CBS’s now canceled “$h*! My Dad Says.” But at least this one has the benefit of rhyming.

“Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis” — Bravo, 8 p.m. Series premiere on March 14.

Despite what Bravo’s website says, the title of “Everyone’s favorite obsessivecompulsive house flipper” is, as always, vacant.

ABC, 8:30 p.m. Series premiere on April 11.

“Punk’d” — MTV, 9 p.m. Returns on March 29.

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The classic prank show somehow clawed its way through the coffin of a five-year hiatus.

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The advance press material for “Scandal” seems extremely aware of the irony inherent in a television drama centered around a crisis management team. If the show can play to that conceit without dumbing itself down, it holds a great deal of promise. Luckily, it has an experienced leader in “Grey’s Anatomy” showrunner Shonda Rhimes.

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Ashley Judd stars as a mother looking for her son, who has disappeared while abroad.

BEST WORST

“Missing” — ABC, 7 p.m.

Series premier on March 15.

Scandal

ABC, 9 p.m. Series premiere on April 5.

BEST WORST

ABC, 9 p.m. Series premiere on March 4.

The acclaimed advertising drama returns after a long hiatus.

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Is it cynical to suggest the naming of ABC’s new show — originally “Good Christian Bitches” — was as much of a marketing ploy as the diamond encrusted font used on its posters? Kristin Chenoweth stars in this light southern drama based on the book of the same (unabbreviated) name.

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“Mad Men” — AMC, 8 p.m.

Season premiere on March 25.

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Sports STUNS, from 8 play goal singlehandedly at the 15:43 mark of the second period.

On a coast-to-coast affair, Zengerle brought the puck through neutral ice before he slipped it through Gopher defenseman Seth Helgeson’s legs for a oneon-one shot at Patterson, sliding it through the five-hole on the senior goaltender and giving the Badgers an unexpected 4-0 advantage.

“It’s fun to watch,” Barnes said. “He’s got good enough vision that he saw the lane and he took advantage of it. He went down and scored.

That’s a fun one to watch.”

Zengerle not only powered the offense but made key defensive plays that kept Minnesota out of sync.

But while the sophomore centerman’s play stood out all night long on both offense and defense, it was Wisconsin’s defense overall that didn’t allow Minnesota much of a chance to even things up.

ERICKSON, from 8 night’s 4-1 victory.

Barnes started off the scoring each night, launching the Badgers’ offensive flood Friday and scoring their lone goal Saturday.

But Little admitted after the game Friday that he felt he didn’t give his best performance of the year, despite tallying

Alongside Schultz, Zengerle has become one of the Badgers’ main forces, and he quickly showed off his skills with the puck, earning a 20-game point streak earlier this season.

his third goal of the season and his first since October. Little simply credited his linemates for setting him up.

“Personally I didn’t feel like I played a very good game,” Little said.

“But when you play with those two guys, they get you the puck, they set up chances.”

If you hadn’t already guessed, Zengerle was credited with the lone assist on Little’s goal.

Whether for himself or for his teammates the kid just makes things happen.

He’s simply a stud.

Zengerle’s journey this year is comparable to what junior running back Montee Ball went through

“We give a hard hat out to who ever played the hardest … and coach Eaves gave it to the defense as a unit tonight,” Zengerle said. “They did a great job.

They had a goal at the end which sticks for Joel, but Joel played unbelievable too, he’s right in there with the defensive core.”

Minnesota tested Rumpel often, but he stayed solid, making 26 saves — many through traffic — and just missed out on his third shutout of the season as Gophers’ Nico Sacchetti would score with 1:02 left in the game.

Despite splitting the weekend, the Badgers feel they’re exactly where they need to be going into the playoffs next weekend at Denver.

“This is the way we need to play,” Eaves said. “It’s going to be an environment like this no matter where we go. It’s going to be contested; every race for the puck is going to be like somebody’s trying to steal the bread. This kind of weekend steps it up for us.”

in 2011.

Throughout fall camp, Ball and sophomore running back James White were widely expected to share the load in the backfield and split carries on a fairly even basis. But as the season went on, Ball started to make his presence very hard to ignore. He started to rack up the yards and the touchdowns, and on a warm night in October against Nebraska, Ball lit up the scoreboard with four touchdowns and amassed 151 yards.

He emerged as UW’s premier back — and stayed that way through the end of the season and now into next season. His efforts also earned him a trip to New York with a bid at the 2011 Heisman Trophy.

In much the same way, Zengerle emerged this season as one of the Badgers’ most potent players. While he didn’t necessarily have a single performance that put him on the map, his performance Friday night certainly made a clear statement that he’s one of the leagues most talented players.

Without a doubt, Zengerle is fully deserving of his current Hobey Baker candidacy and is more than qualified to be a finalist alongside his teammate Schultz.

Kelly is a junior majoring in journalism. Think the Zengerle can lead the Badgers to a strong playoff run? Let her know on Twitter @kellymerickson.

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The Illini struggled immensely to put together an efficient and functioning offense in the first half. The Badgers shot merely 38.5 percent in the opening period but led by as many as 17 points nevertheless.

The Badgers quickly pounced on the Illini, establishing a 14-2 lead with 3-pointers coming from Taylor and Wilson after five-and-a-half minutes.

Wisconsin held its ground early as well, conceding just three points in the painted area.

Led by Berggren, the Badger defense limited the touches of Illini center Meyers Leonard and kept him silenced until deep into the second half.

He remained scoreless until 9:21 remained in the game and entered the

STEP UP, from 8 that kick-started UW on Senior Day. “It feels great to come out here and get a win,” Wilson said. “That will always put the icing on the cake on Senior Day.” The senior duo combined for nine points in Wisconsin’s early 14-2 run out of the gate that set the tempo for the game, as the Badgers never allowed the Illini to get within fewer than nine for the remainder of the game.

For Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan, the team and the seniors’ were able to bottle up the emotions of Senior Day until after the team’s handling of business against Illinois.

Ryan improved his overall record on Senior Day at Wisconsin to 11-0.

“You watch across the country on Senior Day, you either get this or this,” Ryan said while demonstrating, with his

locker room at halftime flashing six rebounds, one foul and a turnover.

“I got to try to limit [Leonard’s] touches and get to the front as much as possible, and then we got good help on the backside,” Berggren said.

“There was a few times where they did throw a lob and my teammates came in behind and either got a steal or tied him up or get a tip — anything to get the ball out of his hands.”

After coming back onto the floor after halftime down 31-18, Illinois managed to shake off its out-of-sorts, first-half demeanor. Though the Illini never came closer than nine points to the Badgers, they made sure UW didn’t just sit back and wait for the final 20 minutes to tick away.

Leonard found the hoop several times in the second and continued dominating the glass

— finishing with eight points and 12 rebounds — while Paul went on to score 17 of his 22 points. The Illini hit 51.7 percent of its field goals, minimized turnovers and scored 38 points in the final half.

Unfortunately for the Illini, though, Wisconsin upped its game in the final period as well, shooting 52.4 percent from the field. Coupled with the lead it had already built, Wisconsin had little to fret about in the second half.

Eight players scored for the cardinal and white, with five hitting at least one 3-pointer — good for a collective 36.8 clip from behind the perimeter. UW also dished out 12 assists and committed seven turnovers — five of which came in the first half.

“It means we’re distributing the ball and guys are taking their looks,” UW head coach Bo

Ryan said, whose 265th victory tied Bud Foster at the top spot of the school’s all-time wins list.

“There was only a couple shots in there I was unhappy with. The rest of them, 90 percent of them, were good shots.”

The Illini crept back into the game late, with its deficit bouncing around between 10-14 points, but the Badgers kept their visitors at bay with a solid showing from the free throw line to ensure the win.

Fourteen of 16 free throws fell for Wisconsin during the last three minutes, and the Badgers hit 21 of 27 throughout the game, compared to Illinois’ 10 of 14.

“We always have to play hard against a team like that,” Gasser said.

“We knew we had to keep a foot on the pedal and keep going with it, and that started on the defensive end.”

hands, two high and low ends of the spectrum.

“Our guys played at a high level; they stuck to who they were and didn’t get away from that. The emotion comes later, after the game is over.”

While Taylor concluded an extremely successful career at the Kohl Center, the emergence of Rob Wilson in the final stretch of the conference season may be the more important story line for the Badgers moving into the Big Ten tournament.

Wilson has now scored 11, 9, 4 and 8 points in his last four games, well above the 2.9 points per game he averaged thus far this season.

“It’s really satisfying,” Wilson said. “It’s better late than never. I’m going to keep on the mindset that I can help this team coming off the bench and try to keep being consistent with it.”

Ryan also alluded to the importance of Wilson

stepping up in the past few weeks.

“It means a lot,” Ryan said. “He’s recognizing things a little better. We live in a world where we have to get things done.

It’s not about how you look, it’s about getting things done. Numbers tell the story.”

Ryan also coached yet another Badger team to 12 conference wins, the seventh time Ryan has done so in his tenure at Wisconsin and only the ninth time in school history a Badger team has reached that total overall.

Taylor and Wilson presented the game ball in a ceremony after the game to Ryan, who made a speech of his own.

Thanking his family, friends, players and many others, he also quickly passed the attention over to the final senior-day ceremonies.

From his two seniors, there was nothing but praise for the coach after the game.

“I can say he’s influenced me more in being a young man and developing into a man versus basketball,” Wilson said. “He’s taught me a lot in four years that I feel like I can take on and use in my life, other than basketball.”

Bo reaches milestone While Sunday marked the culmination of Taylor and Wilson’s careers playing in Madison, a historic mark was also reached in the meantime.

Ryan tied former Wisconsin head coach Harold “Bud” Foster for the most wins in school history with 265. To make the accomplishment even more impressive, Ryan achieved the feat in 355 games (265-99) in 11 seasons at Wisconsin while Foster coached at Wisconsin for 25 seasons, taking 532 games (265267) to reach his historic total.

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To top it off, UW cruises to 70-56 win RECAP

Offense, defense on roll as Badgers end regular season with strong win over Illini Elliot Hughes Sports Editor

Senior guards Rob Wilson (33) and Jordan Taylor (11) both played their last game on the Kohl Center hardwood Sunday. Taylor scored 16 points, dished out three assists and committed zero turnovers. Wilson, the first man off the bench, chipped in another eight points.

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The win might not have meant much, but the Wisconsin men’s basketball team sure looked sweet in its regular season curtain call all the same.

Powered by four players scoring doubledigits, No. 15 Wisconsin cruised past Illinois, 7056, Sunday at the Kohl Center, its final tune up before the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments.

Since events elsewhere in the Big Ten had locked the Badgers into its fourth-place finish prior to the final buzzer, the Badgers (238, 12-6 Big Ten) didn’t have much to play for other than to give its two seniors, Jordan Taylor and Rob Wilson, a proper sendoff as they played on the Kohl Center floor for the final time.

Meanwhile, Illinois (17-14, 6-12 Big Ten) further stunted its NCAA resume by losing

the 11th of its final 13 games and sunk to 10th place in the Big Ten. Taylor and sophomore guard Josh Gasser led UW with 16 points apiece. Forward Jared Berggren knocked back 12, and Ryan Evans, for the 10th consecutive game, scored in doubledigits, with 10.

Wilson chipped in another eight points in coming off the bench to play 26 minutes. He went 3-for-8 from the field and 2-for-6 from behind the arc.

Brandon Paul led Illinois with 22 points on 8-of-17 shooting, while Joseph Bertrand backed

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Taylor, Wilson step up in last game at Kohl Center; Ryan reaches milestone Nick Korger Associate Sports Editor When the smoke settled Sunday afternoon at the Kohl Center, two things came to a close. One, of course, was the 70-56 win by the Wisconsin men’s basketball team team over Illinois. The other was the Kohl Center career of the Badgers’ senior duo of Rob Wilson and Jordan Taylor.

“It was definitely kind of a surreal experience,” Taylor said. “It was fun to be out there in front of the Grateful Red one last time and get a win.”

Both guards left their mark on their final game played on their home floor, as Taylor poured in 16 points, three rebounds, three assists and zero turnovers while Wilson tallied eight points and a career-high two steals of his own off the bench. He also hit two early 3-pointers

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Sophomore’s season worthy of Hobey talk Kelly Erickson Erickson the Red The kid can play.

And no, I’m not talking about Justin Schultz.

As head coach Mike Eaves’ go-to centerman, sophomore forward Mark Zengerle showed everyone why he should be considered not only one of the WCHA’s best forwards, but also a viable candidate for the Hobey Baker.

The Rochester, N.Y., native not only assisted four of Wisconsin’s goals against Minnesota in the last series of the regular season, but he slipped in one of his own on a power play Friday night, giving the Badgers a 4-0 lead at the time, all but embarrassing the No. 4 Gophers.

Following a key grab by junior defenseman Schultz as the puck sailed through the air into the Badgers’ defensive zone, Zengerle brought the puck up the ice and dropped it between Minnesota defenseman Seth Helgeson’s legs before shooting it five-hole on one of the conference’s best goaltenders, Kent Patterson.

The coast-to-coast goal essentially quieted a onceraucous Mariucci Arena, where they live and die with their hockey team.

“I was kind of actually running out of real estate there, and I just [went] for a move and it worked out perfect,” Zengerle said.

“But kind of messed up the celebration a little bit.”

With a five-point weekend, Zengerle now leads the Badgers with 49 points — seven more than Schultz, who sits

in second with 42. His 49 points also place him in fourth nationally, trailing the nation’s points leader — Maine’s senior forward Spencer Abbott, who has 56 points — by only seven points. The sophomore also has the second most points in the WCHA, lagging behind UMD senior forward Jack Connolly’s 55 points by six.

At the beginning of the season, it was expected that Schultz would shine once again and have a solid bid for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award.

As a finalist in 201011 — he was the nation’s top defenseman with 47 points on 18 goals and nine assists — and an AllAmerican tag to his name, Schultz was widely known to be the Badgers’ biggest returning threat.

In that same season, Zengerle led his class and was fifth on the team with 36 points, but he only managed five goals to his 31 assists on the season.

But with several early departures, Zengerle was thrown into a leadership role this season and was no longer overshadowed by the likes of Craig Smith or Jordy Murray.

Alongside Schultz, Zengerle has become one of the Badgers’ main forces, and he quickly showed off his skills with the puck, earning a 20game point streak earlier this season.

While Zengerle’s individual effort against Minnesota is nothing to pooh-pooh, it would not have been possible without the solid first line Eaves put together.

Welcoming junior forward Ryan Little to his first top line stint of the season, Little, Zengerle and sophomore forward Tyler Barnes combined for a total of seven points of UW’s nine in Friday

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Tyler Barnes got the Badgers on the scoreboard first each night, catapulting Wisconsin’s offense Friday night to a four-goal effort and scoring UW’s lone goal Saturday night on a power play.

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UW stuns Minn. with series split Badgers claim game 1 with 4-1 victory, drop game 2 2-1 after Gophers’ 3rd period surge Kelly Erickson Sports Content Editor MINNEAPOLIS — The Wisconsin men’s hockey team was primed to play the ultimate spoiler with only one period of hockey left to play in the regular season.

With a 1-0 lead and 20 minutes left to play on the road in Minneapolis, the Badgers (16-16-2, 1115-2 WCHA) had to keep up their rugged defense and try to hold on to what momentum they had over the WCHA’s conference leader, the No. 4 Minnesota Golden Gophers (24-12-1, 20-8-0 WCHA). But even on the power play, the Badger couldn’t hold back the Gophers.

But after a brawl put the Badgers on the power play — surprisingly late in the game, considering the palpable intensity that filled Mariucci Arena for the entire game —

the Gophers’ Erik Haula notched a shorthanded goal 4:47 into the third, making it a tie game. “[We] definitely had them where we wanted,” junior defenseman Justin Schultz said. “We thought we were getting under their skin and you know, they just needed 20 minutes there. It’s only going to make us better.”

With full rights to the WCHA regular season title on the line for the Gophers — and the MacNaughton cup as a result — sophomore defenseman Nate Schmidt gave Minnesota its first lead of the weekend and the game winner at 7:40 into the third.

“It was very similar to what we had in Madison,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “It was a turnover that gave them their first goal and let them back in. … It was good fortune, but you create that by working hard and they worked hard. We didn’t

create enough on offense tonight.”

Eagan, Minn., native Tyler Barnes knocked in the Badgers’ lone goal of the game, just more than halfway through the second period.

On Wisconsin’s second power play of the game, Barnes cleaned up a rebound off a Michael Mersch deflection to give the Badgers the initial advantage. The goal was Barnes’ second of the series against his hometown team.

“We played hard together, especially towards the end there,” Barnes said. “We battled through the adversity and got a few opportunities.

That’s always good to see.”

Heading into the series, next to nothing was expected of the road-wary Badgers.

Despite riding a threegame win streak, facing off with Minnesota did not bode well for a Badger squad that had only won

three road games up to that point in the season.

But Wisconsin didn’t care much for what anyone had to say and gave one of its best performances of the season in game one, pummeling Minnesota, 4-1.

“We played Denver at home a couple Saturdays ago, and that was a pretty complete game,” Eaves said. “This ranks in that area.”

While it was one of the greatest team efforts the Badgers have given this season — perfect on the penalty kill, 2-3 on the power play and solving one of the WCHA’s best goaltenders — the effort can be summed up in the play of a single player: sophomore forward Mark Zengerle.

Zengerle assisted on each of the Badgers first three goals before finally notching his own power

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