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Protesters anticipate road to recalls General election will likely be held June 15 as board prepares to reject challenges Pam Galloway, R-Wausau, previously filed challenges questioning the validity of the recall petitions filed against them, claiming the signatures were improperly collected.

The GAB plans to further address the details around the complaints of the four Senate recall petitions and other recall petition issues in a Monday meeting.

Erin Sievert, spokesperson for the Committee to Elect Lori Compas, a recall campaign against Fitzgerald, said she is pleased but not surprised by the development.

“We knew right away that the challenges presented by Senator Fitzgerald were pretty weak, and that all of the signatures that we collected were collected in good faith,” Sievert said. “The senator was just throwing everything at the wall to see if something sticks.”

Republican Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Ben Sparks said in a statement that a statewide recall election would come as a significant burden to the state and to local governments throughout Wisconsin, with one

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Nearly 35,000 supporters from around the state gathered to commemorate the progress of organizers on the one-year anniversary of the passing of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill.

Speakers say citizens’ work is not done as momentum shifts into mobilizing for recall races Tori Thompson Reporter One year after the passage of the budget repair law that sparked mass protests in Madison, an estimated 35,000 people gathered outside the Capitol on Saturday for the Reclaim Wisconsin Rally.

While the event was organized as the last stop in

a Wisconsin State AFL-CIO bus tour, many organizations participated in the rally, including Madison Teachers Incorporated and We Are Wisconsin.

Speakers urged attendees to champion union rights, the continued need for transparent democracy in state government proceedings and a shift in momentum to the upcoming

recall elections.

Lori Compas, who is running in the recall election to unseat Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, said independents, Democrats and Republicans worked together to do what many believed could not be done.

“I’m here to tell you that change is in the air,” Compas said. “These aren’t

Democratic issues or Republican issues. These are the concerns of ordinary people who want a decent life for themselves and those whom they love. A year ago the powers that be refused to hear us, but I think they hear us now.”

Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Professional

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The Government Accountability Board requested an additional two weeks to complete the review of the signatures supporting the recall of Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican senators, despite also announcing the likelihood of denying the senators’ challenges.

A statement from the GAB’s petition review staff said they would not be able to finish the reviewing of the 1.9 million signatures

by March 19. They are requesting the deadline be moved to March 30, which would result in the primary for Walker’s recall election on May 15, with the general election slated for June 12. These extensions require a judge’s approval.

The statement from the GAB also said the staff recommended the board dismiss challenges from the four Republican senators to the petitions, which, if the board dismisses them, would officially trigger recall elections for the senators.

Republican Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, Sen. Van Wangaard, R-Racine, Terry Moulton, R-Chippewa Falls and Sen.

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Ward, committee stand at odds over mediation Group pushes end date for Adidas talks, chancellor cautions timetable Katie Caron Higher Education Editor A University of Wisconsin shared governance committee and Interim Chancellor David Ward continued to stand at odds over the university’s approach to resolving a labor rights dispute with Adidas in a meeting on Friday.

Students and members of the Student Labor Action Coalition rallied outside Bascom Hall before attending the Labor Licensing Policy Committee meeting, in which the body discussed the conflict with Ward and gave their recommendation for moving forward.

The meeting came as the latest development in UW’s conflict with Adidas over the question of the group’s responsibility for $1.8 million owed to 2,700

workers who lost jobs at an Indonesian factory who was a subcontractor with Adidas when the owner fled.

Last month, Ward announced UW will move into a “mediation” period with the apparel corporation in hopes of remedying the situation and working out the disagreement over the group’s liability.

“I would like an independent voice on the potential damages that could come from breaking the contract,” Ward said about his decision. “I feel that getting it from a mediator who is probably a retired federal judge would give enormous clout to that.”

The committee’s final resolution passed Friday — the fourth since the body called for putting Adidas on notice in December — recommended a mediation period completed by April 15 and that part of the agreement should involve Adidas paying back the full $1.8 million to the workers.

During the meeting, Ward said he was troubled by the timeline proposed

by the committee and said it was clear to him that putting Adidas on notice would mean workers would never be paid back while mediation allows for at least some prospect.

“I’m a little troubled that this time is so important … if [mediation] takes a little longer, it seems to me that’s better than abruptly saying sorry, we don’t want to talk to you anymore and that’s the end of it — they’re never going to pay any workers,” Ward said.

LLPC Chair Lydia Zepeda said from the committee’s point of view, too much time has already passed in terms of paying back the workers.

“I think that we have a difference of opinion about the most effective strategy,” Zepeda said.

“The committee’s concern is that it’s already been over a year.”

UW senior and committee member Jonah Zinn said when UW cut ties with Nike in 2010, the group displayed changes in behavior when

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Dave Cieslewicz brings his knowledge of city planning to UW students as an associate professor of geography and political science.

Former Mayor Dave takes city expertise to classroom Meghan Zernick Reporter Dave Cieslewicz fits the definition of a true Madisonian. From being a University of Wisconsin graduate, former mayor of Madison and now an associate professor of geography and political science at UW,

Langdon Street sees crime-ridden weekend Police respond to sexual assault of a 16-year-old, begin investigation of a stabbing Leah Linschied City Life Editor

Adrianna Viswanatha City Hall Editor SEXUAL ASSAULT Two Madison men have been charged with the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in an incident that took place in

a Langdon Street apartment, while another suspect has not yet been identified.

Deandrae Bell, 22, and Howard Eskridge, 24, were arrested on charges of first degree sexual assault and false imprisonment, according to a criminal complaint. The 16-year-old girl told police she met Eskridge, whom she knew,

along with Bell and another unidentified suspect at East Towne Mall.

Eskridge reportedly asked the victim if she wanted to drink alcohol, and she went into a family bathroom with the three men and left with them to a downtown Madison apartment, the complaint said.

There, the complaint said,

the three suspects reportedly punched and each assaulted her.

The complaint said the victim was able to sneak out of the apartment in the morning and call her mother from a grocery store.

According to MPD

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Cieslewicz’s career has come full circle. As mayor, he worked in the politics and functioning of cities, and now as an educator he shares that knowledge with his students.

Dave as an Educator Although he is known better for his political

career, Cieslewicz told The Badger Herald he has some background as an educator.

He taught short courses in urban regional planning during his eight-year stint as mayor.

He now teaches Geography 304, Introduction to City, as

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INSIDE Badgers simply not among Big Ten elite

How does UW measure up in Klout?

Despite winning its first Big Ten Tournament game in four years, Ian McCue argues that the loss to Sparty proves UW’s mediocrity.

The university is among the final four in a bracket contest which aims to compare campus’ social media influence.

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Office brings sustainability to forefront Paige Costakos Herald Contributor Unveiled in an event on Friday, a new office on campus will further the goal of promoting sustainability at the University of Wisconsin through research, education and campus life.

The event kicking off the opening of the Office of Sustainability featured several speakers who had roles in realizing the goals and implementation of the new office.

The Office of Sustainability focuses on making UW a living model of sustainability, as well as integrating sustainability research and education into campus operations, speakers at the event said.

In addition, the office aims to eliminate waste as well as honor and engage students and advance literacy in hopes of spurring a cultural change.

In 2010, a task force charged with building a foundation for effective sustainability on campus developed the office.

Gregg Mitman, interim director of the Nelson

Institute for Environmental Studies, commended the progress the university has made in reducing waste and conserving energy since the “We Conserve” movement, which began in 2006.

During the event, Mitman, who is also the chair of the Sustainability Initiative Task Force, pointed to the rich ecological history of Wisconsin, which includes influential environmentalists like Aldo Leopold, John Muir and Gaylord Nelson.

“If we are able to make UW a real living model, then we can begin to think about how we translate that to the environmental stewardship of our planet,” Mitman said.

Mitman also worked with Provost Paul DeLuca and Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell to establish the office.

DeLuca said he predicts the creation of the Office of Sustainability will go down as a key campus initiative that will prove important moving forward.

Although Bazzell said the launch of the office is

certainly significant, he believes the university must not let up in its efforts to promote sustainability.

“This is a time to double our efforts. This is not a time to rest. We need to press forward aggressively to realize our visions,” Bazzell said in his address at the event.

Craig Benson, director of Sustainability Research and Education, echoed Bazzell’s sentiment.

At the event, Benson said UW has succeeded in raising awareness but needs to further promote rational sustainable thinking and foster science and engineering on campus to fully utilize the opportunities the new office offers.

Director of Campus Sustainability Operations Faramarz Vakili also emphasized the importance of reducing waste around campus to improve sustainability.

Senior class President Steven Olikara, who served as the student director of the operation, organized the launch event and provided

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Faramarz Vakilisaid said the office would continue to expand efforts to be environmentally conscious. both the opening and closing remarks. He urged students to get involved both on and beyond the campus because “that is the Wisconsin way.”

Benson said along with the office’s launch, they plan to provide Sustainability Innovation in Research and Education grants, internships and a sustainability certificate

program in the future.

Other programs introduced as a part of the office included an improved “Got Ideas” program and the Communities of Practice program. Benson said the office welcomes any innovative ideas from the campus community at the new website at www. sustainability.wisc.edu.

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Walker starts legal defense fund Money from campaign can be moved to help cover costs incurred during course of ongoing John Doe investigation Mike Kujak State Legislature Editor Gov. Scott Walker has opened a legal defense fund to help pay for the legal expenses surrounding the John Doe investigation, according to a statement released by his campaign.

The statement released Friday said in order to fulfill his commitment to working with the investigation, Walker will form the legal fund to pay for the expenses incurred in cooperating with the investigation.

The fund would operate in accordance with Wisconsin law and the campaign has not attempted to use public money for the defense fund, the statement also said.

In addition, Walker has been fully cooperating with the investigation over the last two years, the campaign said.

So far, the John Doe investigators have charged four former aides to Walker over a variety of issues from during his time as Milwaukee County executive.

A statement released by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin said Wisconsin has never had a governor who needed a defense fund before Walker.

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Common Cause in Wisconsin Executive Director Jay Heck said according to state statutes, a state official cannot set up a legal defense fund unless the official or one of the official’s workers is under investigation.

“It’s difficult to tell what it means,” Heck said. “The statements have been very vague. I think at the very least Walker needs to come out and explain what this means and specifically state that he is not under investigation.

To not say anything is bad for everyone, including Walker, and leaves us all in the dark.”

Heck also explained who is allowed to contribute to a legal defense fund of this kind.

CRIMES, from 1 spokesperson Joel DeSpain, sexual assaults similar in nature to the incident are uncommon in the downtown area, but he added there have been attacks on women near campus in recent months, including an assault on University Avenue last summer.

Kelly Anderson, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center in Dane County, said a high number of sexual assault crimes are committed by someone the victim knows.

“The statistics are somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of victims are assaulted by someone they know, which is unfathomable to most of us,” Anderson said. “The reality is you’re much more likely to be assaulted by someone you know.”

STABBING An assault on Langdon Street Sunday evening resulted in a Madison man being taken to the hospital.

The assault occurred on the 200 block of Langdon around 5 p.m., according to a Madison Police Department report.

The report said the man

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Heck added once the money is in the legal defense fund, it then has to be disclosed to the public.

The governor cannot take money from campaign contributions from lobbyists and put it into the fund, according to the statues.

In a statement from One Wisconsin Now, Director Mike Browne said the governor’s announcement raises more questions than it answers and urged the governor to disclose who is paying for the criminal defense lawyers.

was stabbed, but did not sustain life-threatening injuries and is currently in the hospital.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said there were still units at the scene around 10 p.m., and MPD is looking into whether the assault was a random or premeditated incident.

He said this is a serious crime and he encourages anyone with information to contact MPD. Resnick added this type of occurrence is typically rare in the area near Langdon Street, but the details of this incident were not yet fully public.

“We will have more information both as the night goes on and into tomorrow as the investigative unit wraps up their time on the scene,” Resnick said.

Police are currently investigating what may have led to this crime, the report said. MPD Lt. Trevor Knight said he does not believe the stabbing has to do with any other recent incidents but that the investigation is ongoing.

Knight said he would always encourage people to be aware of their surroundings to avoid unsafe situations.

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ADIDAS, from 1 it ultimately paid workers back despite its contract being cut.

“We don’t know what’s going happen, but we know that from precedent legal action produces payments … we have no evidence in the past that mediation produces anything but gestures,” Zinn said.

Associated Students of Madison Chair Allie Gardner, who attended the meeting, said in an email to The Badger Herald neither Nike

or Adidas should take priority over UW’s shared governance groups on campus.

She said she thinks the April 15 deadline should be adhered to as the committee is made up of labor experts appointed by shared governance groups.

Ward also said UW will be using a Department of Justice attorney as legal council in the mediation and the period is contractually required in the sponsorship agreement when disputes arise.

RECLAIM, from 1 Firefighters of Wisconsin union, said citizens should not stand for a government that “takes away from the many and gives to the few.”

Mitchell also said statewide cuts to education are damaging the state of higher education.

“They’re trying to desensitize us and defund us,” Mitchell said.

“Millions of dollars [have been] taken from public education, including a 30 percent cut from tech colleges. And now they want to go even further. ” John Nichols, a correspondent for The Nation, said despite the efforts stacked against the protesters, the state was still able to collect enough signatures to trigger a recall election of Gov. Scott Walker.

Nichols also said advocated for citizens to participate in the movement to reclaim their state. ”We don’t bring this movement together to advance a party,” Nichols said. “We don’t bring this movement together to advance a candidate. We bring this movement together to advance an ideal of democracy that allows the people to say no to power.”

Nichols also said the direct relationship democracy has with the people, saying it is dependent upon the efforts of the public to take on the biggest economical and political powers to keep their rights.

A consistent rallying point in the speeches involved the rhetoric of the Occupy movement and its relationship to Wisconsin. Mary Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, said changes are still to come involve creating a government that works for the 99 percent.

“There should be a promiddle class governor and lieutenant governor, and there should be a proworker majority in the state Senate,” said Henry.

“We’re going to win in November, but we’re not just going to win an election. We’re going to win a mandate for change for the 99 percent in Wisconsin.”

A small number of supporters for Gov. Scott Walker were also present at the rally, with one man holding a sign that read “Support Scott Walker, not union thugs.”

A series of small conflicts broke out between the man with the sign and other attendees at the rally until police escorted the Walker supporter and another protester out of the area.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Event highlights justice for Tibet Dane County Executive Joe Parisi urges support for nation’s identity, independence Adrianna Viswanatha City Hall Editor Wisconsin activists and students gathered Saturday morning to advocate for human rights and political change in Tibet on the anniversary of an uprising in the disputed territory.

March 10 marked the 53rd anniversary of the Tibetan uprising, when Tibetans in the capital city of Lhasa rebelled against the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama fled the country. Amid native songs and prayers sung outside the City-County Building, several speakers made clear their views on the current political state in Tibet.

Khamlung Rinpoche, president of the Wisconsin Tibetan Association, gave a brief history of the uprising and thanked the state of Wisconsin and the City of Madison for declaring March 10 as Tibet Day. Rinpoche said Tibet had been its own independent nation prior to Chinese occupation, a fact that is

sometimes forgotten.

“We need to make sure all the governments, including the American government, recognize that Tibet was independent,” Rinpoche said.

“To you, and to Tibetan people around the world, you will never be alone.”

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He said 25 people have self-immolated themselves since the last anniversary of the uprising in protest of the Chinese government’s control of the country.

Rinpoche said both Tibetans and the international community should do all they can to ensure that Chinese policy in Tibet changes and that Tibetans have basic human

rights and freedoms.

Additionally, he encouraged the United States to open an embassy in Tibet and said China needs to allow media sources into Tibet to report on what is happening in the country.

Activists also read a proclamation from Gov. Scott Walker stating the Legislature’s declaration of March 10 as Tibet Day. “Human rights and freedom in Tibet must be the concern of all freedomloving people everywhere,” Walker said in the the proclamation.

Dane County Executive Joe Parisi also spoke on the county’s official approval of March 10 as Tibet Day. He said the Chinese government intends to “wait us out,” in the hope that Tibet, its culture and its people will be forgotten. However, he said he believes this will not happen.

Parisi expressed his hope that one day Tibetans will be able to express their own customs, such as

flying the Tibetan flag or displaying pictures of the Dalai Lama in their homes, without fear of legal or violent repercussions.

“To you, to the Tibetan people around the world, you will never be alone,” Parisi said. “We will always stand with you.”

Participants also read statements from Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, and Sen. Herb Kohl. Each called for peace in Tibet and political freedom for its people.

In Baldwin’s statement, she said it is the duty of the U.S. government to assist Tibet in its struggle for freedom.

University of WisconsinLa Crosse senior Tenzin Kunor said he came to the rally to show support and help to ensure the selfimmolations of protestors in Tibet would not be in vain.

“I want to bring about awareness of what is currently happening in Tibet and get some support from the rest of the world as well,” Kunor said.

UW battling it out for campus Klout National social media influence contest pits Bucky against others for bragging rights Tara Hoffman Herald Contributor The growing prominence of Facebook, Twitter and other platforms of social media use at University of Wisconsin have led the Badgers to the final four universities in an ongoing national contest to find which school wields the most influence.

UW has reached the final four of Klout’s “Influencer Insanity” contest. Klout measures each individual, or in this case university’s, online influence through connections to social media sites.

UW spokesperson John Lucas said the formula Klout uses to calculate an individual’s influence takes into account their followers and how much the user’s content engages others through interactions within their social network.

The contest uses a bracket system inspired by college basketball’s NCAA tournament to create a tournament between universities who rank highly in social media use.

Social media users vote for the university of their choice to give them “Klout

points” to win their match up and advance to the next round, Lucas, who is also UW’s social media coordinator, said.

Faculty Associate Don Stanley said the contest serves to show how involved social media is in university life.

“I think it’s a really cool concept,” Stanley said. “It kind of demonstrates how social media is becoming more ingrained and should be becoming more ingrained, at all types of academic institutions.”

Lucas said UW has frequently ranked in the top five in Klout’s most influential universities.

He added while the contest is all in fun, the university can be proud of the bragging rights gained from beating out other universities with larger followings.

Stanley said UW’s position in Influencer Insanity is reflective of the efforts made to ground UW as a leading university in social media use, especially in light of the growing national trend of social media use at universities. “[Social media] is a tremendous platform for us to share things that are happening here

with our parents, alumni and donors,” Lucas said.

“It just really provides a tremendous way for us to connect with people in a whole new way, whether you’re here on campus or whether you were somebody who was here years ago.”

Lucas said with this in mind, UW is working

“[Social media] is a tremendous platform for us to share things that are happening here.”

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to grow and branch out social media use by implementing an initiative called #UWSocial.

He said the initiative’s purpose is to get people interested in social media together to collaborate and learn about how to use different platforms of social media effectively.

Lucas said an example the group’s work includes

The Bucky Challenge social media contest last semester. Students, alumni and Badger supporters were urged to follow UW and the Wisconsin Alumni Association on Facebook and Twitter to raise $1 per follow, ultimately reaching about $20,000 in donations for the Great People Scholarship, he said.

On March 21, Lucas said #UWSocial will be hosting the Social Media Breakfast of Madison, where business owners and social media users will learn about how to use social media. #UWSocial also invites alumni involved in social media careers back to campus to encourage social media use, Lucas said.

Stanley added social media is an important tool for students to utilize and in order to promote businesses to hire them after graduation.

Social media is effective in building connections and networking, he said.

Lucas said students can access the Influencer Insanity site online to sign into Klout and help advance UW’s team up until 2 a.m. Tuesday morning.

MAYOR DAVE, from 1 well as a seminar on the Politics and Policy of Green Urbanism that is a part of Political Science 401, a Selected Topics in Political Science course.

“I really enjoy the teaching. Not only that, I really enjoy preparing for class. I spend whole day before each class preparing for the next day’s lecture, and I love it,” Cieslewicz said. “I’m a real city geek.

This gives me a chance to explore my full geek-ness, my geekitude.”

His plan for the final project in his Introduction to City class consists of the students exploring a real issue that exists in the City of Madison and making a recommendation on how to solve this issue.

Students will be basically using Madison as their own personal laboratory by applying their course work to the real world, he said. But he added his goal as an educator is to teach in a way that allows the students to enjoy the material.

“When I’m teaching, I really want my students to have fun. I think that is the most important thing.

I don’t want them to feel like its drudgery, but rather I want to instill in them some of the excitement that I have about cities,” he said.

Cieslewicz also said he has every intention of coming back and teaching again next semester.

He said he is unsure about whether or not he will return to politics, and he really enjoys teaching and interacting with UW students.

Cieslewicz is also doing some consulting work with UW, Meriter and St. Mary’s hospitals. They are looking to redevelop the neighborhoods surrounding those hospitals, he said.

He added he enjoys having more time to pursue writing, having once considered pursuing a journalism early on in his career. He has a blog — Citizen Dave — for Isthmus’ The Daily Page, where he posts his thoughts on Madison and current events.

“I am enjoying my life quite a bit right now, and I have no immediate plans to return to politics,” Cieslewicz said.

One of his students, Makie MatsumotoHervol, a sophomore at UW, praised Cieslewicz’s teaching style.

“Dave is great, all around five stars. Constant wit, a splash of occasional selfdeprecation as ex-mayor and a genuine love affair with city-related material.

There is little not to love about his lectures,” Matsumoto-Hervol said.

In reflecting on how Cieslewicz’s past experience as mayor affects his teaching, Matsumoto-Hervol said his experience as mayor is just an extra punch in an arena of politics that is rarely explained in depth.

“Politics is messy, but Dave emphasizes specifically which parts are messy, and that gives it an interesting spin,” Matsumoto-Horvel said.

Another student, Herschel Kissinger, a UW freshman, agrees the Introduction to City class has been a great experience so far.

Herschel said he feels

RECALLS, from 1 statewide recall election costing more than $9 million, not including the cost of a primary.

The statement also urged the board to continue its efforts to ensure that these recall elections are held on the same date to reduce the growing burden and cost to Wisconsin taxpayers.

Scot Ross, spokesperson for Kathleen Falk’s gubernatorial campaign, said Falk is adamantly against extending the delay in the recall, because it is “unjust and unnecessary.”

Ross said the campaign is concerned the delay would result in the disenfranchisement of thousands of Wisconsin facing difficulties relating to residency requirements made by Walker’s “voter suppression bill.”

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because Dave’s background is not exclusively academic, he brings something to the classroom that not every professor can bring.

“A lot of anecdotal evidence that he uses is from neighborhoods in Madison, so it makes his knowledge of Madison really applicable,” Herschel said. “Dave has met a lot of the people whose theories we study, so I would definitely say that his experiences as mayor have definitely come through in his teaching.”

Dave as Mayor Cieslewicz was the 56th mayor of Madison; he served in office from April 2003 until April 2011 after losing a race for a third term to Mayor Paul Soglin.

As mayor, he became notable for creating of a municipal minimum wage in 2004, the citywide smoking ban in 2005 and mandating 15 percent of new building units be made affordable to persons of a lower socioeconomic status.

“In some ways being mayor and being a professor are very similar experiences. In both cases you’re trying to convey what are sometimes very complex ideas as clearly as possible,” Cieslewicz said in an email to The Badger Herald.

The difference is that as a prof you get an hour and fifteen minutes and as mayor you get 30 seconds if you’re lucky. Also, as a prof your students more or less have to listen to you. That wasn’t always true as mayor.”

One of his goals as mayor was to make Madison a more bikefriendly city. His initiative to make Madison one of the top biking cities in America earned a gold ranking in 2006 from the League of American Bicyclists.

“I really enjoyed the opportunity to get around the city, meeting people from different interests and backgrounds and be[ing] a little bit involved in everything that was going on in the city. One day you would be talking to the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors in the morning and in the afternoon being on Allied Drive meeting with neighborhood residents and having lunch at the fire station. That’s what I enjoyed most,” he said.

He also said having the best parking space was a definite perk.

As mayor of Madison, Cieslewicz faced a couple of great challenges, one of which being “troubled” neighborhoods. He said neighborhoods in the city were changing, especially on the southwest side and crime, along with racial tensions, was starting to increase, he said.

Cieslewicz said he feels he did a reasonably good job of turning those trends around, but the efforts still have a long way to go.

He also said his other biggest challenge as mayor was the perception of city government among the business community.

“Madison has long had a reputation as being antibusiness, which I think is unfair, but it’s been a perception nonetheless,” Cieslewicz said. “So we made an effort to turn that around and we were making some progress when we left office.”

campaign released on Friday said the delay would deny the will of the more than one million people who have followed the letter of the law to hold this election now.

The campaign said they will pursue any and all means available to ensure Wisconsin’s university students are not “disenfranchised by this unjustified and unnecessary delay.”

Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Graeme Zielinski said moving back the deadline is “absolutely ridiculous.” He said he cannot understand how they continue to request more time for less work.

“At this point, dragging this out is only doing Walker’s bidding,” Zielinski said. “The law is the law.

You cannot just make things up as you go along.”

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Herald Editorial The prestige question An important debate at the state level has sparked an equally important question on the future of the University of Wisconsin: Should the university focus on accessibility or prestige? The debate is important because raising tuition would give the university more revenue, allowing them to attract more quality faculty. However, an increase in tuition costs would also result in decreased accessibility for prospective students.

If the goal of UW is to not raise costs, the idea that we can choose both accessibility and prestige is untenable.

While we wish professors would choose to teach at UW because of the faculty senate, the atmosphere of the city and the culture of the campus, the bottom line is that our salaries are lower than those at other universities. The university is bordering a breaking point where is must make a value judgment.

We may have already passed it, we

might be about to pass it or we might be in the midst of it. Regardless, Madison can no longer let the uncertainty over accessibility hinder action with regards to quality, though both are important.

Sticker shock is a real concern and cannot be ignored since tuition increases are likely inevitable. UW isn’t the only university facing this issue; all universities are. Thus, this issue is not only important on a system level, but a national one.

UW needs to be realistic about its current state. It faces serious revenue problems if it intends to keep tuition at its current level. Yet, there are not many other funding options. The university is financially spread thin. While the university’s Educational Innovation initiative is seeking new revenue streams, none are on the horizon, and UW can no longer postpone facing the accessibility versus prestige opposition that exists under its current model.

A site with short memory With the exception of a handful of graduate students who went through their undergraduate careers during the era of dial-up and pen and paper, students at the University of Wisconsin are lucky to say they have learned a significant amount of material on the Internet. Much of this is attributable to Learn@UW, which allows students to view readings and contribute to discussions online. While it is a fine example of how online learning can enhance the university experience, we still see some room for improvement with its accessibility.

Learn@UW’s most unfortunate setback is its temporality. Students already have become accustomed to forgetting much of what they wrote or learned after their final exam, but, in most cases, Learn@UW’s material magically disappears soon after the last day of the semester. This hinders academic understanding and retention; any student who would want to use previous course material as a reference for future academic ventures is out of luck.

Just as disappointingly, a course’s paper trail uploaded to Learn@UW disappears along with the reading material, making it impossible for students who want to track their papers, feedback, quiz answers and overall knowledge over their university career to adequately measure their

academic progress.

To alleviate this problem, UW’s administration should allow students to pursue a life-long commitment to their online education. This means making Learn@UW a more accessible and long-term software through which students and alumni can access readings and their own writings. The site already saves students from the depressing costs of purchasing readers and books, but does not allow the preservation of these resources for further use.

Learn@UW can support this feature; the reason it does not is because of copyright laws. While this is a valid excuse for some restrictions on the software, UW should change its approach to how it educates faculty on its use. Not every reading requires the copyright exemption. The default should be changed from deleting the information to preserving the information, while holding professors accountable to know when a courses’ content should be turned off at the end of a semester.

For a university that prides itself so much on the Wisconsin Idea, UW’s online academic resources do not lend themselves to sifting and winnowing.

We all know the Internet is here to stay; it is time for UW to consider making some changes to Learn@UW’s most frustrating roadblocks.

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Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has drawn media attention, most recently, for calling Obama a “snob.”

Rick Santorum’s words have much deeper meaning Jeff Schultz Staff Writer My fellow Badger Herald columnist, Charles Godfrey, recently wrote an op-ed in which he agreed with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s contention that academia is decidedly liberal. On the campaign trail, Santorum stated, “There are good, decent men and women, who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to the test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them.”

Santorum’s statements are demagoguery.

Godfrey’s approval of those statements shows the public’s willingness to accept such demagoguery.

By agreeing that academia leans too far to the left, Godfrey is trying to prove that he does not fall for his professors’ “liberal dogma.” That’s fine. What’s not fine is what Santorum actually means when he talks about “liberal college professor[s].”

When Santorum starts throwing out words like “liberal” and “academic,” he’s trying to allude to those who don’t adhere to his fundamentalist Christian views. Political pundits would call Santorum’s comments a “dog whistle attack,”

meaning that his words, while seeming politically correct to the untrained ear, actually communicate Santorum’s ethnically and racially exclusive message to voters who share his belief that white Christians are an oppressed minority in this country.

Political historians would call the rhetoric that Santorum is using when he talks about those “good, decent men and women,” populism — the idea that the common man and woman should exert greater control over the government. This

“White, middle-class American men” feel that they are under attack from some sort of boogeyman. sounds good on paper, but populism has been and continues to be a guise for nationalism and nativism, especially when conservative politicians use it.

Go back to the days of William Jennings Bryan, when populist reformers blamed the country’s economic woes on Jews and foreigners. Go back to the days of George Wallace, a conservative southern Democrat, who used populist rhetoric when espousing his segregationist views.

But we don’t even need to go back that far in history. During the 2008 presidential campaign, former Alaska governor

Sarah Palin heaped praise on “real America,” or small towns. Real America, small towns, likely have little diversity, both racial/ethnic and religious, or, as Palin, Santorum and others like them may see it, places that don’t suffer from the scourge of diversity.

Santorum is just part of a long tradition of politicians who try to pass their white, Christian nationalist views off as a “love of the people.”

So why does Santorum resort to this tactic? He does it to appeal to voters who feel they are being marginalized and that their accomplishments are being undermined by people who are different from them. I’m not saying that Godfrey shares these feelings, but he mirrors that sentiment when he writes, “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.” This paranoid mischaracterization of what occurs in the classroom is part of the myth that makes “white, middle-class American men” feel that they are under attack from some sort of boogeyman. Sadly, politicians like Santorum use this rhetoric to get votes, and even worse, my colleague at The Badger Herald listens to this rhetoric without hearing its true meaning.

Jeff Schultz ( jdschultz@ wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in history.

Ed i t o r i a l B o a r d o p i n i o n s a r e c ra f t e d i n d e p e n d e n t l y o f n e w s c o v e ra g e .

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Student health care needs focus On February 28, The Badger Herald published an article titled “Bill would halt health care crisis” on the recently proposed bill appealing cuts to BadgerCare. The article detailed the effects the bill would have on life for Wisconsin’s workers and young children. However, noticeably absent from this article was any mention of students, who number over 50,000 in the Madison area.

Senator Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, co-author of the bill was cited saying, “If the governor is serious about job creation, he needs to do something about health insurance …” If job creation is the principle concern then students, who stand to lead the future workforce, should receive equal consideration.

The primary concern of the administration should be increasing student awareness of their health insurance coverage. In 2011 the UW System Ad Hoc Committee on Health Insurance assembled an unpublished report on student health insurance.

This report relayed that of all students with health insurance, 50 percent did not know whether they were covered in Madison or not. As such the UW System committee is considering plans to mandate Wisconsin based health insurance for UW students. This plan came to the attention of concerned students at ASM who formed a group within the University Affairs Committee.

The Student Health Insurance Initiative is a

group within ASM that is led by UW Madison student Sophia Weerth. This group has begun to research the ad hoc committee’s plan and what options students would have if health insurance is mandated.

SHII hopes to bring in more concerned students to make this research into action.

If Wisconsin’s workforce is the chief concern for the future, attention needs to be brought to students.

For more information about working with SHII, students should contact Sophia Weerth at asmstudenthealth@gmail. com.

Corin Menuge (menuge@ wisc.edu) is a freshman and a member of the Associated Students of Madison University Affairs Committee.

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To kick off the week, we asked for your opinions on all things book-related, the results of which are below. So sit back, relax and see your fellow Badgers’ lit picks. Then stay tuned for the rest of Lit Week and fall in love with books all over again.

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UW alumna heralds student activism in new book ‘The Sausage Maker’s Daughters’ explores role of collegiates in Vietnam-era protests Jessica Korneff ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Last spring, the University of Wisconsin campus was caught in an uproar. Thousands of activists flooded State Street, thundering through the Capitol and chanting in protest to proposals to take collective bargaining away from public employees.

Many of these activists were students, abandoning their comfortable beds to sleep on the cold hard floors of the Capitol building, putting aside schoolwork to picket out in the chilly Wisconsin air.

While photographs of these massive rallies stunned the nation, this type of activism is actually not new to the university.

Author A.G.S. Johnson explores this idea in her novel, “The Sausage Maker’s Daughters,” a legal drama largely set in the UW campus during the Vietnam era.

The novel’s protagonist, Kip Czermanski, is a UW alumna facing a court hearing in her fictional hometown of

Wausaukeesha, Wis. She spends much of her time reflecting back on her life, especially her college days of counter-culture activism during the Vietnam War. As a college student in the ’60s, Kip transforms from the small town daughter of a sausage company owner to an Afrosporting, bra-burning, anti-war feminist. To the horror of her conservative family and hometown, she wrangles her way out of their restrictive values and into the dizzying world of rebellion.

Kip spends her college years actively protesting the war, shouting mantras against President Johnson alongside her friends and professors. Kip describes her devotion, claiming, “Only our shouting and chanting could divert our minds from the penetrating wind chill factor. … We determined to stay until our demands were heard.”

Sound familiar? This kind of devotion is is reminiscent of last year’s rallies, where people would camp out for days at a time in front of the Capitol to illustrate a point.

A.G.S. Johnson’s choice of Madison as the setting for “The Sausage Maker’s Daughters” was no accident. During an interview with The Badger Herald, Johnson described

Madison as a sort of “Third Coast,” especially during the Vietnam era.

Schools like Berkeley and Columbia, situated on either coast of the country, were legendary for their radical movements.

Madison, sandwiched in between these two sides of the country, was similarly experiencing social upheaval. Nestled comfortably in middle America, the university became a hotbed for radical ideas.

Die-hard anti-Vietnam activists may be hard to find in Madison today, but Kip’s story remains poignant for the current generation.

“The potential for students to erupt in rebellion or overt resistance is always there,” Johnson said. “The environment is perfect.

You’re at college; you’re the right age. … There’s free thinking all around.”

Despite this era of free thinking, Kip’s activism is not at all sugar-coated.

She lives during an uncomfortable period of transition in America, where the conservative 1950’s model of thinking was under pressure from the open-minded atmosphere of the ’60s.

Today, the U.S. boasts equal rights society, where feminist values are supposedly embraced and the youngest generation

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Author A.G.S. Johnson draws on her experiences as a student at UW-Madison in the radical 1960s in her new book. doesn’t have the threat of a war draft hovering from above. Compared to the Vietnam era, things seem to be going pretty well. Does this mean there’s nothing left to fight for?

According to Johnson, the answer is a resounding no. Look deeper and it’s clear there are plenty of issues that deeply concern college students, she said.

Whether it’s the question of current women’s rights or the debate of whom to tax, there will always be a cause. And if the past Vietnam protests and the

latest rallies have proven anything, it’s that this campus is ready to act.

Johnson calls the recent budget repair bills a “spark” that gives the current campus body a glimpse of its own potential. If there’s one thing she wants us to understand from “The Sausage Maker’s Daughters,” it is that students have the power to make a difference.

Today, students face different problems than those Kip tackles in her day.

There is no war draft, no blatant sexism. But there

are endless causes that are still worth fighting for.

Johnson addresses the general student body when she says, “Let’s change the world. It could be better.” For generations, UW students have been sacrificing precious time and energy to fight wholeheartedly for what they believe in. Thousands of activists demanded their rights on the very soil that UW students tread through each day. With this spirit in mind, “changing the world” might not be such an unattainable goal after all.

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Sports FROZEN, from 10 Prevost gave Wisconsin a 1-0 lead at 11:48 in the first period. After her linemate, junior forward Brianna Decker, made a move around a Laker defenseman, Prevost received a pass across the slot and buried the puck in the back of the net.

“At this time in the season and these type of games, your upperclassmen, your seniors, your best players have to be your best players if you are going to have a chance to be successful,”

Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson said. “It was nice to see [Carolyne] get the opening goal. They made a great read.”

Mercyhurst did not show signs of letting up and came out strong in the second period, tying the Badgers in shots at 10 each. With 40 seconds left in the second period, Lakers forward Kelley Steadman shot the puck past UW goaltender Alex Rigsby from inside the right circle. The goal sent both teams to the locker room tied 1-1 with one period

left to play.

“I think our second period was our best, we put a lot more shots on net and we had a lot more scoring chances,” Steadman said.

“Obviously when that goal went in it was a bit of a turning point for us.”

However, the energy Mercyhurst gained was quickly dissipated by Wisconsin at the beginning of the third period. Knowing her team needed a goal, senior forward and captain Hilary Knight stepped up big for Wisconsin.

After creating a turnover during a penalty kill, Prevost rushed the puck up the ice and saw Knight crashing towards the net. Prevost slid the puck across the crease, allowing Knight to tap it in, giving UW a 2-1 lead with 8:42 left to play.

Knight’s shorthanded goal was her ninth game-winning goal for UW this season. She leads the nation in game winners, as well as tying for the top spot in short-handed goals with four. “[Prevost] was able to see Hilary coming down and

they made a great play, a great pass, and those are the differences between maybe winning a game, and not winning a game,” Johnson said. “It was a big play at a key time in the game.”

The Lakers fought on, but after pulling their goaltender in the final minutes to try and tie the game up, Decker was able to put in Wisconsin’s third goal on an open net and sealed in the UW victory.

“I think we did a lot of good things,” Johnson said. “I think as coaches you are looking for perfections so. … I don’t think we played an entire 60-minute game, but we did what we need

to do to win the game.

That is what we are looking for right now.”

For Knight, Prevost and the three other Badger seniors, Saturday’s game marked their final time playing in at home in Madison.

The senior class has made an undeniable impact on the UW program, being a part of the national championship team last season.

“It is hard to really put it into words, but this place is so special,” Knight said. “Covering my four years here, it is a pretty incredible experience. I’m just happy to be apart of something great, and I am really grateful.”

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FRONTCOURT, from 10 in allowing Michigan State to rebound from the 20-9 run Wisconsin began the game with, scoring 12 points on 4-for-4 shooting from three-point range.

All together, with their top player unusually ineffective, the Spartans entered halftime leading 35-25.

“One of us was down, and I’ve been saying all year, a lot of the credit came towards me, but this team wouldn’t be where it’s at without Austin,” Green said, singling himself out for his first-half struggles.

“I’ve always said we complement each other so well. I’m kind of a guy who’s up front and all that and Austin is just behind the scenes, does the work.

And today, everybody saw what he was capable of doing when I started off the game struggling very bad.”

Green was quick to praise Thornton, but the all-around efforts of Nix and Payne might have played the largest roles in carrying the Spartans to victory. Offensively, Nix finished with nine points, while Payne added six.

But on the defensive end, the duo largely shut down Wisconsin’s post players, providing a noticeable advantage in the paint.

UW forward Ryan Evans finished with 18 points, but the majority of those points came on jumpers abnormally far from the hoop. Forward/ center Jared Berggren, one game after nearing a double-double against Indiana with 16 points and nine rebounds, finished with just six points on 1-for-7 shooting against Michigan State. Forward Frank Kaminsky added one three-pointer, while forward Mike Bruesewitz was held scoreless.

“They’re a good defensive team,” point guard Jordan Taylor said.

“They do that to a lot of teams. But we didn’t do a very good job moving without the ball and some

MSU, from 10 34.7 shooting percentage as Michigan State hit half of its field goals and 66.7 percent of its 3-pointers.

“Bizarre game, never felt comfortable and yet we played, obviously, well.”

MSU head coach Tom Izzo said. “Probably 30some minutes [were] some of the best basketball we played.”

Badgers’ guard Jordan Taylor led all scorers with 19 points on 6-of-14 shooting, while forward Ryan Evans hit 7-of-15 buckets for 18 points and five rebounds. Guard Josh Gasser and forward Mike Bruesewitz, both of whom started Saturday, went scoreless.

Draymond Green, Keith Appling and Austin Thornton paced the Spartans with 14, 13 and 12 points, respectively.

Thornton sparked Michigan State by going 4-for-4 from three-point range — his only shots on the day — while Appling went 3-for-5 and hit all six free throws.

Green had a rough outing in the first half, turning the ball over four times and was held scoreless until 16 and a half minutes into the game, but he turned it around in the second and hit 8 of 12 free throws on the day.

The Badgers opened the game by scoring the

other things.”

Wisconsin’s biggest issue seemed to be an ability to manufacture quality shot attempts, reflected by its 34.7 percent (17-for49) mark from the field.

The Badgers also made just 35 percent of their 3-point attempts (7-for20), making a secondhalf comeback even more difficult. Michigan State’s largest lead of 19 points came with 16:52 left in the game, but the closest Wisconsin was able to come in the second half was within 46-40 at the 12:18 mark.

With the Badgers’ frontcourt unable to manufacture consistent production, the Spartans took advantage — from start to finish. All nine of Nix’s points came in the first half, while all six of Payne’s were scored in the second.

The 6-foot-9, 270-pound Nix greatly overpowered any of the defenders Wisconsin threw at him defensively and on the boards, none any bigger than the 6-foot10, 235-pound Berggren.

Payne, at 6-foot-10 and 240 pounds, also exhibited his will on the Badgers in the second half.

Ultimately, the size disparity manifested itself inside. Michigan State finished with 22 points in the paint, while Wisconsin scored just six.

Coupled with the Spartans’ hot threepoint shooting, keyed by Thornton, the Badgers simply could not keep pace. MSU finished 6-for-9 (66.7 percent) from behind the 3-point arc, including 4-for-5 (80 percent) in the first half.

“The three threes really hurt because there were a couple things that we didn’t do according to our rules,” head coach Bo Ryan said. “Some teams make you pay more than others if you don’t stick to your reads on defense.

People talk about reads on offense; I like to talk about [them] on defense. It’s the same thing.”

game’s first nine points and hit nine of their first 15 shots in a run that gave UW a 20-9 lead after 10 minutes.

But Wisconsin hit a wall after that. Thornton hit back-to-back threes to pull within five points and propel Michigan State onto a 26-5 scoring run to close out the half.

The Spartans began penetrating inside, and the Badgers simply couldn’t stop MSU’s transition offense.

“He did what a leader does,” Green said of Thornton. “One of us was down. Today everybody saw what he was capable of doing when I started off the game struggling very bad. He hit a few big threes and got us back in the game.”

The Spartans outscored the Badgers in the paint, 14-2, and in transition, 9-2, in the first half. By game’s end, those numbers inflated to 22-6 and 12-9.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin’s offense became stuck and went the final 10:13 of the half without a field last field goal.

“They just outworked us [during] that timespan they took that lead,” Taylor said. “They were doing things we weren’t … and it just got away from us.”

After the break, MSU widened the gap to 46-27 before UW snapped out of its scoring drought. Taylor

Indy run shows UW’s mediocrity Ian McCue Right On Cue INDIANAPOLIS — It was a nice run, but most Badgers fans knew it was headed for a premature close.

After taking down a dangerous Indiana team in front of a Bankers Life Fieldhouse crowd full of Hoosiers fans, a sense of cautious optimism developed around Bo Ryan’s squad. Maybe this team was better than we thought, maybe Jordan Taylor and Co. could string together several wins and amount an improbable run at the program’s first conference tournament title since 2008.

But then the Badgers played a Michigan State squad — one that may be the best in the Big Ten — and realized they simply couldn’t match the size, athleticism and talent of one of Tom Izzo’s best teams in years. Fans and analysts alike learned this weekend that not only they can count on the Spartans to make a deep NCAA tournament run, but also that Wisconsin remains outside the Big Ten’s top echelon of Michigan State and Ohio State.

Although the Badgers sat just one win (or an Iowa home loss) away from a tie with MSU, OSU and Michigan for the conference title, the Spartans’ dominance Saturday proved UW didn’t deserve a piece of the crown. This year’s Wisconsin squad is certainly a quality team, but its lack of gamechanging stars outside of

and Evans put together three field goals before swingman Rob Wilson made a three-pointer to pull within 10.

Wilson, a day after turning heads with 30 points versus Indiana, scored six points on 2 of 5 shooting with Michigan State defenders paying extra attention to him.

Green then failed to hit two free throws on the other end, and when Wisconsin brought the ball back, Wilson earned a trip to the free throw line.

After hitting his first, the senior guard bricked the second, but Bruesewitz was there to corral the rebound.

He kicked out to Taylor on the wing, and the senior sunk it to narrow things down to six points.

But the Badgers couldn’t sustain its 13-0 run after that and, again, hit another wall. Momentum swung back in favor of the Spartans, who went on to score 11 consecutive points.

With the score reading 57-40 with just over four-and-a-half minutes remaining, the pendulum never swung back.

“It was a hard fought game yesterday, a hard fought game today,” Ryan said. “That 13-zip run in the second half showed me something about our guys. … I just didn’t know what we had left. Michigan State obviously had more.”

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Taylor and inconsistent shooting restrain it from the elite category.

As Big Ten Player of the Year and Michigan State forward Draymond Green pointed out after Saturday’s game, a speedy, athletic defense like that of the Spartans that can limit the Badgers’ open looks from outside will almost always come out on top against this team.

“I think when we play Wisconsin … they shoot a lot of threes, and one thing that our coaching staff really hits on is stopping them from shooting threes — they’re going to beat you from the 3-point line,” Green said.

The majority of the time [Taylor’s] penetrating in, he’s looking to kick out to those shooters.”

Wisconsin remains outside the Big Ten’s top echelon of Michigan State and Ohio State.

Not every team has the athleticism to keep UW’s array of 3-point threats at bay, but the conference’s best certainly do. It’s no secret that the Badgers live and die with their shooting, and that major vulnerability was as apparent as ever in Indianapolis.

Hitting 48 percent of their shots from the field and 50 percent from beyond the arc against Indiana, a Rob Wilsonpowered team was able to sink just enough shots to bring down a Hoosiers squad that itself had a nice outing. However, against a Michigan State team boasting three legitimate post threats in Green, Derrick Nix and Adreian Payne, the Badgers were clearly overmatched.

Ryan’s team has

built wins this year on a foundation of never surrendering easy looks to opponents — an emphasis that places them third nationally in field goal percentage defense — but against well-rounded teams with dominant big men, such a strategy isn’t sufficient for victory.

In the 79-71 win over the hometown favorite, the Badgers allowed Indiana to sink 49 percent of their shots and relied on 30 bench points (all came from Wilson) to carry them to victory. The 13 3-pointers Wisconsin hit tied a Big Ten tournament record, as Wilson’s hothandedness from outside came at the perfect time.

But the UW defense then allowed the Spartans to finish 6-of-9 from 3-point land and 50 percent from the field, numbers that doom them against the teams Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney is counting on to make deep runs come March.

Ryan admitted postgame that this is a team that relies on a slew of players to step up and score on a per game basis.

From Ryan Evans to Jared Berggren to Ben Brust, the lack of a consistent scorer aside from Taylor is a major weakness of this team, yet another piece of the unfinished puzzle that keeps this year’s team away from the same caliber of play of the Buckeyes or Spartans.

“We had some guys that didn’t score,” Ryan said. “We need it from everybody, we need bunches of scoring, and when we get that, we’ve proven 24 times that we can get some things done.”

To put it simply, laser-like three-point shooting carried the Badgers to victory in the quarterfinals, and when such success

stopped against the Spartans, it crushed the growing but unrealistic dreams of a tournament championship.

Some will point out that Michigan State, who has now defeated Wisconsin three times this season, is nothing more than a poor matchup for this year’s team. But the issue is more than how Ryan’s squad matches up with this particular Spartans team, one that extends into the disparity between these two squads in the greater Big Ten picture.

Despite a comeback close to the midway point in the second half that brought Wisconsin within six, an 11-0 run by the Spartans proved what was already becoming clear — Izzo had the best team on the floor. Just when Wisconsin seemed to have enough to regain the lead, Michigan State answered with a stellar post move to the hoop or sunk another three-pointer, and the run quickly became indicative of the gap between where these two rivals stand.

By pushing the ball up the court and capitalizing of his advantage close to the hoop by outscoring the Badgers 22-6 in the paint, UW showed they lack the tools to dismantle such an elite squad.

Michigan State did have more, and along the way they helped prove why the Badgers fell into the perfect spot this season as a Big Ten title contender that couldn’t overcome the speed bumps that prevented them from holding a piece of the regular season title.

Ian is a junior majoring in journalism. Think the Badgers are actually a better team than they proved against Michigan State? Let him know by emailing him at imccue@badgerherald. com.

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Defense proves best offense for Wisconsin With trip to Frozen Four on line, UW’s defensive efforts turn into goals Nathan Palm Women’s Hockey Writer As an offensive juggernaut throughout the regular season, Wisconsin women’s hockey rarely had trouble scoring goals. But in the biggest game of the season, in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the Badgers’ prolific offense met its match.

It took until midway through the third period, but Wisconsin eventually took a late lead on a breakaway shorthanded goal courtesy of Hilary Knight and never looked back.

But Wisconsin’s defense shined as the real difference maker Saturday evening in its 3-1 victory over Mercyhurst, as all three UW goals came directly off turnovers.

“I think our defensemen did a great job,” sophomore goaltender Alex Rigsby said.

“There was a lot of back checking, especially with our forwards as well, but our defensemen, they definitely broke up a lot of plays.”

The Badgers’ defense prevented Mercyhurst from putting a single shot on goal until nearly 15 minutes into the game, showing its toughness early on. An impressive feat in any game, but particularly against a Mercyhurst squad that averages 42 shots on goal a game. “[The defensemen] do a great job every game,” Rigsby said. “That’s huge for me every single game, so it definitely makes my job easier.”

Having great play from

defensemen is a luxury for any goalie, but not seeing many shots on goal can also make it difficult to remain focused.

“It was definitely tough not seeing some shots for awhile,” Rigsby said. “I think the hardest ones were in the first period where I don’t think I saw a shot for the first 15 minutes, because our team had so much energy and was keeping it in [Mercyhurst’s] zone. It’s also tougher in that situation, but you just have to stay focused throughout the entire game.”

“I don’t think I saw a shot for the first 15 minutes, because our team had so much energy and was keeping it in [Mercyhurst’s] zone.”

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The lack of shots on goal early in the game may have had something to do with Mercyhurst’s only goal of the game. It came on a deep wrist shot goal by Kelley Steadman with about 40 seconds left in the second period, catching nearly everyone in the Kohl Center off guard, including Rigsby.

The goal remained one of few highlights for Mercyhurst, as Wisconsin put up three scores on the Lakers, all caused by stingy defense.

Playing for the right to move on to the Frozen Four in Duluth, Minn., both teams played with high intensity and physical play. That physicality led to five penalties for

each team, presenting plenty of opportunities for power play goals. Despite numerous good looks at the net, UW couldn’t capitalize on the power play, but Wisconsin’s defense proved to be its best offense.

It began with junior forward Briana Decker midway through the first period, when she recorded the Badgers’ first goal after stealing the puck in Mercyhurst’s zone. The next goal didn’t come until two periods later, when Carolyne Prevost snatched the puck from Mercyhurst with the Badgers shorthanded.

Prevost’s turnover led to a two-onone breakaway where she found Knight for the gamewinning goal.

Even UW’s third goal — an empty net goal — came off a turnover forced by the Badgers’ defense.

“Certainly a big part of the game is when you talk about managing the puck and making sure you’re taking care of it in certain situations and areas on the ice,” head coach Mark Johnson said. “And if you don’t do a very good job in those areas, it leaves the other team transitioning and maybe getting outnumbered in situations.”

As a senior, it’s a sweet ending for Knight’s career at the Kohl Center. Even in the toughest of games, she knows how to will her team to victory. And she did just that — scoring the gamewinner Saturday night.

“You have to take the bounces as they come, and fortunately for us we got bounces on the turnovers and capitalized on them,” Knight said. “With any game it has its own story, and you just have to figure out what opportunities are presented to you and take advantage of them, and I think we did a good job of that tonight.”

Sports Editor Elliot Hughes sports@badgerherald.com

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Spartans go on to win Big Ten Tourney; Badgers earn No. 4 seed in Big Dance Elliot Hughes Sports Editor INDIANAPOLIS — It’s all about scoring runs in basketball.

In the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament semifinals between Wisconsin and Michigan State, the teams traded runs twice, but the blitzes the Spartans put on produced more points and lasted longer than the Badgers. The result: a 6552 defeat for the UW, its

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by Michigan State’s combined offensive effort in frontcourt Mike Fiammetta Senior Sports Writer

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Badgers’ forward Jared Berggren (40) had a tough night guarding and attacking the rim against the sizable Spartans. A night after nearly achieving a double-double against Indiana, Berggren shot 1-for-7 from the field, scored six points and corraled two rebounds. Michigan State consistently produced results down low, outscoring Wisconsin 22-6 in the paint.

INDIANAPOLIS — Most teams would be satisfied with the defensive effort the Wisconsin men’s basketball team set forth against Big Ten Player of the Year Draymond Green Saturday afternoon in Indianapolis.

But with Michigan State’s deep frontcourt rotation, Wisconsin wasn’t able to get the result it wanted in the semifinals of the Big Ten

third loss to MSU this year.

The Spartans went to defeat Ohio State in the championship game, 6864. On Sunday, the NCAA announced the Badgers earned a No. 4 seed in the NCAA tournament and will play No. 13 Montana in Albuquerque, N.M. on Thursday. The winner of that game will face either Vanderbilt or Harvard.

The Spartans went on to earn a No. 1 seed and will play Long Island University-Brooklyn on Friday.

Against Michigan State, the Badgers started both halves hot but finished them cold, while the opposite was true for the Spartans. Wisconsin finished the day with a

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Michigan State’s leading scorer and rebounder finished with an impressive stat line of 14 points and 16 rebounds, but it took him longer than usual to produce those numbers.

In the first half of the Spartans’ (26-7) 65-52 win over the Badgers (24-9) at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, however, Green scored just two points and turned the ball over a stunning four times.

But thanks to his frontcourt partners, centers Derrick Nix and Adreian Payne, Green was able to take his time before picking things up in the second half. Guard Austin Thornton also was critical

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Alex Rigsby stopped 28 of Mercyhurst’s 29 shots on net in the NCAA quarterfinal game Saturday night at the Kohl Center.

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Badgers earn Frozen Four bid with 3-1 win Knight’s 3rd period shorthanded goal boosts Wisconsin past Mercyhurst Caroline Sage Women’s Hockey Writer Tournament time calls for top players to step up big time, and for the Wisconsin women’s

hockey team, that’s exactly what happened in a 3-1 victory over Mercyhurst Saturday night.

The Badgers will head to Duluth, Minn., for the Frozen Four next weekend against Boston College. A win Friday would send Wisconsin to the 2012 National Championship game Sunday.

With the stakes raised

significantly, the Badgers (32-4-2) came out strong and with two key goals coming from senior players, they were able to defeat the Lakers (23-8-3).

The Badgers started off the game with energy and offensive dominance, keeping Mercyhurst without a shot on net for the first 15 minutes.

Senior forward Carolyne

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