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Recalls will move ahead GAB officially rejects senators’ challenges, general election may be held on June 5 Mike Kujak State Legislature Editor The Government Accountability Board officially authorized recall elections for four state senators at a meeting on Monday after unanimously rejecting multiple challenges to petitions brought by attorneys representing the senators.

The unanimous rejection of all four formal challenges for Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau; Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine; Sen. Terry Moulton, R-Chippewa Falls; and Sen. Pam Galloway, R-Wausau; ends the parties’ ability to challenge the signatures,

so the recalls against them will move forward.

The board also approved an 11-day deadline extension requested

by GAB Director Kevin Kennedy last Friday. The extension grants the GAB more time to review petitions for the governor and lieutenant governor.

A Dane County judge is scheduled to approve the extension Wednesday morning.

If approved, the deadline for the GAB to finish the review process would be set to March 30.

The extension would also move the recall election to May 8 unless primaries occurred, in which case May 8 would become the primary, and the general election would occur June 5.

The majority of the meeting was spent reviewing the challenges brought forward by the

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Government Accountability Board Director Kevin Kennedy requested an 11-day extension before the board in order to verify recall petitions against Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, which was approved. The board also will not factor the work of the third-party group Verify the Recall into their decision of which signatures are valid. senators.

The most debated challenge asserted the 2012 district maps recently passed last year should be used as the boundaries when

From Dogtown to Madtown University of Wisconsin senior Umer Dar pops a kick flip near Lake Monona during one of the first bursts of springtime weather to hit campus. Terrace times are (nearly) here again.

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considering if a petitioner signer’s address falls within the senator’s district or not.

Michael Best & Friedrich attorney Joseph Olson, who represented

all four senators at the meeting, said there was evidence both in constitutional language and in previous GAB staff memos that the 2012 boundary lines should be

used.

“The present district that the incumbent officer represents according to a GAB staff memo that was

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Second judge rules ID law is unconstitutional Attorney General to appeal decision which calls photo rule into question Tara Yang Herald Contributor A second Dane County judge handed down a decision on Monday that ruled the state’s voter ID law is unconstitutional and legally barred any further

attempts to enforce the law.

The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin challenged the new voter ID law on the basis that it was unconstitutional because it took away citizens’ inherent right to vote. Dane County Court Judge Richard Niess permanently upheld an injunction against the state voter ID law, preventing the state from enforcing the law until they take further legal action.

According to the

decision, Niess found the suffrage provision of the state constitution does not give the Legislature the power to enact a voter identification provision that has the effect of disenfranchising otherwise qualified voters because they lack one of the forms of acceptable identification.

Niess added the voter ID law goes beyond the mere regulation of elections by eliminating the right to

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Fight draws nearly 300 to watch scene at Wando’s UWPD, MPD help restrain bar patron who attacked 3 bar bouncers on Sunday Adrianna Viswanatha City Hall Editor UNIVERSITY AVENUE Battery A man was arrested after he punched three bouncers at Wando’s Bar and Grill early Sunday morning, according to a Madison Police Department report.

Ward receives second report into allegations on Chadima Jackie Allen Campus Life Editor University of Wisconsin Interim Chancellor David Ward received a second report on Monday on an investigation into two additional allegations of

misconduct against former Senior Associate Athletic Director John Chadima.

According to a statement released Monday, the university is obligated by law to provide Chadima with a notification that the report will be publicly released because the allegations arise

from during his tenure of employment at UW. UW must also allow him 10 days to file a court action objecting to its release. In the statement, Ward added UW will publicly release the second report as soon as it is

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The report said the bouncers escorted the man, who was a patron at the bar, out of the establishment after he was smoking a cigarette inside.

The patron allegedly hit two of the bouncers in the head inside the bar and hit the third bouncer in the face when staff were trying to restrain him outside.

According to the report, both University of Wisconsin Police Department officers and MPD responded to the incident as a crowd of approximately 300 people gathered at the scene.

INSIDE Bassett could become newest housing hotspot

MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain said bouncers occasionally experience attacks but he said it is rare to see three bouncers injured at one time.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said members of the crowd were taking pictures and video of the incident and the police had some issues breaking up the onlookers.

DeSpain said one bouncer drove another one to the hospital, where they both sought medical treatment.

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CRIME in Brief REGENT STREET Weapons Violation A UW student was arrested after he threatened other students with a knife on the 1400 block of Regent Street early Saturday morning, an MPD report said.

The student, 18, had a dispute with his girlfriend, also 18, who was visiting from St. Paul, Minn., DeSpain said.

The student allegedly pushed his girlfriend while inside his apartment on Regent and picked up a knife after she left, which a friend managed to get away from him, the report said.

are bizarre.

The suspect then grabbed a second knife and went out on the street, where he threatened two passersby, ages 20 and 21, with the knife, the report said.

“The two victims he did not know,” DeSpain said. “Their impression was that he thought they were talking about him.”

He also said the student had been drinking, an offense for which he received a citation. The two people threatened on the street were also identified as UW students.

Resnick said the events leading up to the incident, as well as the incident itself,

KING STREET Battery A bar patron allegedly beat a 32-year-old Fitchburg man outside Madison’s bar early Saturday morning, according to an MPD report.

The man and the suspect, described as being in his 30s, were kicked out of the bar for shoving each other. Once on the street, the suspect reportedly knocked down the first man and hit him repeatedly.

“It is not clear what instigated the attack,” DeSpain said. “The dispute

started inside the bar.”

The victim was taken to a hospital and received stitches. He is also scheduled to receive a CAT scan, DeSpain said.

The suspect has not been identified.

UPDATE—LANGDON STREET Weapons Violation An update from MPD on a stabbing that occurred Sunday night on Langdon was released by police officials.

The updated report said MPD is in contact with two men believed to be involved in the incident,

one of whom is the person from the first report. Both men were involved in the dispute and sustained non life-threatening injuries for which they were treated at a hospital. As of Monday, there have been no arrests in the case.

“When things get close to the campus, people wonder if that is suggestive of a broader problem,” DeSpain said. “In this case, it appears to be a very isolated incident between these two people.”

The report also said the “underlying motive” behind the altercation is currently under investigation.

Group takes on student safety Adrianna Viswanatha City Hall Editor A city committee took up potential methods to address safety concerns raised by recent incidents around campus as well as a contentious proposal for new student housing in a meeting held Monday.

The Bassett Neighborhood Association meeting took on a discussion of several housing proposals in and around the Bassett Street neighborhood, which includes many student housing buildings. The neighborhood also is an area in which a number of crimes, such as residential burglaries, have occured at student residences.

Association Chair Peter Ostlind said the neighborhood already has some safety measures in place to help students and other residents protect themselves against burglaries.

Ostlind said the Madison Police Department goes door-to-door around the neighborhood every August to talk to many residents about safety, including passing out “Lock It or Lose It” pamphlets to encourage students to lock their doors, windows and vehicles.

He said this is a particularly important matter during the University of Wisconsin’s breaks in the

summer, winter and spring, when the threat of burglaries in student residences is even higher.

Ostlind said the association has also discussed encouraging student papers to take up the issue of crimes like burglaries in dense student residential areas to increase awareness of the prevalence of the issue, and potentially creating a neighborhood watch group.

Victor Villacrez from development firm Hovde Properties brought up several suggestions for students and the neighborhood on improving security.

Villacrez brought up the concept “Eyes on the Isthmus,” a set of ideas initially thought up five or six years ago to deal with safety in the Bassett neighborhood area.

“This effort, this initiative should be packaged to try to capture all constituencies,” Villacrez said. “That means landlords, tenants, residents, owner-occupied individuals, and to put on alert the bad guys.”

He suggested a meeting of neighborhood members and other concerned individuals to potentially set up a neighborhood watch program.

Additionally, Villacrez said participating landlords and such could display a decal or sticker in their windows to

CHADIMA, from 1 legally permissible to do so.

Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said Monday afternoon UW had not received notification yet from Chadima’s lawyer on when university officials could release the report.

“We’ve notified Mr. Chadima’s legal counsel that we got the

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Victor Villacrez of Hovde Properties pitched suggestions for introducing safety initiatives in the area to cut down on recent incidents around the student housing areas. Among the ideas were “Eyes on the Isthmus” among landlords and tenants to watch over the neighborhood. advocate their membership and let “bad guys” or potential criminals in the area know there would be a program in place.

“The first step is already there: There’s issues in our Bassett neighborhood,” Villacrez said. “These are issues we should be concerned about — issues I feel should make it a top priority.”

Additionally, Villacrez said he wants to see the Associated Students of Madison participating in the safety plans for students, in hopes of educating the entire student body.

Also debated at the meeting

report, and they have by law up to 10 days to file an objection to our releasing it,” Sweeney said. “So we’re on hold at the moment.”

Retired Dane County Circuit Judge Patrick Fiedler, who conducted the first investigation, also led this review into allegations from two other adult males of sexual assault from Chadima.

The first 30-page report released by Fiedler and three other officials detailed an interview with a male student identified as “John Doe,” describing the alleged sexual assault at a party the night of Dec. 30, 2011, for athletic department staff and student employees.

Documents obtained

by The Badger Herald showed Chadima’s text correspondence during the Badgers’ trip to the Rose Bowl, revealing threatening text messages sent immediately an alleged sexual confrontation with a student employee were sent from his phone and more than $1,000 in damages were made to a hotel suite.

The documents show Chadima sent a text on the night of the party threatening to send the employee home after firing him from his position.

Chadima resigned from his post in early January after he was placed on administrative leave.

was a contested student housing development plan from property owner Brandon Cook.

The controversy stems from issues during Cook’s development of properties in the backyard of 115 and 117 S. Bassett, including the building code and the Madison Fire Department’s problems with the height of the building.

Cook presented his idea to the Association in the hope of gaining approval before he officially applied for the proposal with the city, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said in an interview with The Badger Herald.

Association member Rosemary Lee said Cook had not paid necessary city fees for part of the development at 115 S. Bassett. However, Cook said he has a “pecking order” of things that need to be done at his properties, the fees at Bassett being a priority.

The association said Cook would have to resolve these issues before the project could proceed.

“When we get to the point of taking care of some of these problems, we can carry on with this project,” said association member Davy Mayer, a former Badger Herald employee.

RECALLS, from 1 adopted by this board are the new districts created

by Act 43,” Olson said.

“That has been the case since Aug. 24, 2011. The constitution requires the electors come from the district that he currently represents.”

Representing the recall committees, attorney Jeremy Levinson said there was nothing to suggest the 2012 lines would be used.

He also said the issue of what district lines to use was resolved long before the challenge was filed.

“Only a lawyer could suggest one set of electors petition for an elector, in which another set

of electors votes.

There is nothing in case law, Act 43, the constitution or statutes that suggests such a perplexing notion,” Levinson said.

He said the text of Article 43 specifically states the new district lines will begin to be used in the general election of November 2012.

Another challenge brought by the senators argued the number of signatures acquired on the first day of the petition gathering process should be disqualified.

“The statute says circulation can begin the day of registration,” Levinson said.

“There is no dispute that when these committees registered for correspondence, the GAB indicated a registration period which included that day.”

The third challenge regarded the independent review project called Verify the Recall and its efforts to review the senator’s petitions.

The board voted unanimously to deny the possibility of Verify the Recall’s challenges being factored into the board’s decision over which signatures are invalid against Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch.

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Organizers concerned for student voice in elections Attorney says timing could change nature of voters for recall date during summer Julia Jacobson Reporter The Government Accountability Board’s decision Monday to push back recall election dates could affect the electorate

that turns out to vote, including a smaller number of students, many of whom may be out-of-town on summer vacation when elections are held.

Pending the approval of a Dane County judge Wednesday, the deadline extension would move the recall election to May 8 unless primaries occurred, in which case the general election would occur June 5.

According to the University of Wisconsin’s

academic calendar, final exams end May 19 and summer break will officially begin — two weeks before the likely general election.

At the GAB’s Monday meeting, the board addressed the issue of the deadline extension.

Attorney Jeremy Levinson, who represents the recall committees, warned this extension could change the electorate participating in the election.

“As we move into June,

the character of the electorate will change,” Levinson said. “I know the GAB’s goal is to leave as light of footprint as possible on this election. I think it is important to seek gratuitous elections that won’t change the electorate.”

GAB Staff Counsel Michael Haas said at the meeting that absentee voting would still be available for students who will be out of the state during the summer.

Jeff Snow, chair of UW’s chapter of College Republicans, said the board’s request for more time to count signatures was completely valid.

“The signatures need to be reviewed to make sure that the election is authentic and legitimate. To let the recall go unchecked would be bad for our state,” Snow said.

He also said if students are passionate about the recall, it wouldn’t matter

if they were on campus or not. It would still be easy for Wisconsin students and out-of-state students to vote regardless of their location, he added.

Since the date of the general election is currently dependent on if primaries occur or not, Wisconsin Progress Executive Director Scott Spector released a statement Monday urging the four Republicans facing recall elections to “just say no” to “fake” primaries.

County Board candidates face off on engaging students Magnino, Pan vying for District 5 seat; aim to involve UW more in government Jackie Allen Campus Life Editor Two University of Wisconsin students running for the Dane County Board debated campus and city issues in an event hosted by the Pre-Law Society Monday night at the Memorial Union.

UW junior John Magnino and Leland Pan, a sophomore, are set to face off in the county election

April 3 for a seat currently occupied by District 5 Supervisor Analiese Eicher, who has decided not to run for another term.

Both Magnino and Pan said student involvement in greater Madison and Dane County issues would prove key in improving events and problems on campus.

“Not that many kids know about [the Dane County Board,] so I really want to get people more involved and learning and just get that information out there that this is important, this exists, this is what it’s doing and this is how you can get involved and help out,” Magnino said.

Pan also said encouraging

students to get involved in the county government would be a significant part of his role as supervisor if elected to the board, adding his experience in mobilizing people around different issues is key in this goal.

In particular, Magnino cited the Mifflin Street Block party and a recent number of sexual assaults on campus as areas where the campus could come together to find common solutions.

However, Magnino said UW’s 42,000 students with different backgrounds and perspectives meant the county supervisor would have to foster

communication among those with various viewpoints, rather than similar ideals.

Magnino added he would set up opportunities to speak with students around campus and would support a joint campus, city and county committee to bring student and community leaders together in a public forum on key issues.

“I think I’ve shown more of an aptitude to work with people I don’t personally agree with,” Magnino said.

“And I think that is one of the biggest things that a representative needs to do, is to go out there and talk with their entire constituency.”

Pan responded that people who know him, including the student government, know he has worked with people with contrasting perspectives.

He added while he is clear on his left-wing political beliefs, the voters will ultimately decide whose opinions they want to represent them on the Dane County Board.

Pan added while committees sound like a good idea in theory, it is bottom-up change and students voicing their opinions that will encourage city officials to reevaluate Madison policies.

Due to state budget cuts, Pan said increasing

funding to city and county organizations, such as the Rape Crisis Center and Tenant Resource Center, would also be important in helping students.

Both Magnino and Pan cited cleaning up the Madison lakes as a local issue which students can get involved in, with Pan adding he is also interested in tackling other state issues such as Gov. Scott Walker’s “union-busting” legislation.

“I think everyone … knows I am a bit on the left,” Pan said. “And I think that I should be very clear about my political views and the voters will decide if that is someone they want or someone they don’t.”

Downtown fire station revamp might feature apartment units Board of Estimates solicits information, Soglin says plan is opportunity for city Leah Linschied City Life Editor Funding concerns took center stage during debate over an initial proposal to incorporate the renovation of Madison Fire Department facilities into constructing a high rise development in the downtown area.

The Board of Estimates met with MFD officials and Hovde Properties Executive Director Michael Slavish at its meeting Monday to deliberate whether the city would be able to fund the project, which would include a 14-story, mixed use development with space included for fire department administrative offices.

The project would also provide room within the development for Fire Station No. 1, currently located on West Johnson Street.

The development itself would be located at West Johnson Street and Dayton Street.

MFD Chief Steven Davis said current high energy costs and space concerns are driving factors for the inclusion of the fire station and administrative building in the proposed development.

ID LAW, from 1 vote altogether for certain constitutionally qualified electors.

“Because the Wisconsin constitution is the people’s bulwark against government overreach, courts must reject every opportunity to contort its language into implicitly providing what it explicitly does not,” Niess said in the decision.

Niess said the Wisconsin constitution “unequivocally” says the right to vote belongs to all Wisconsin citizens who are qualified electors, not just “the fortunate majority” for whom the voter ID law poses little obstacle at the polls.

In a statement released hours after the judge upheld the injunction, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced the Department of Justice will appeal the decision issued today by Niess and contended the voter ID law is consistent with the

“We’ve essentially outgrown the administration building,” Davis said. “It was originally designed for 25 people, and we currently have 45, so we’re a bit cramped.”

According to Slavish, the city would be responsible for funding the portion of the development housing fire department offices, and the residential and retail space would be funded privately

by Hovde Properties.

The development would ultimately include 250 residential units comprised of studio, one- and twobedroom apartments, 10,000 square feet of retail space and approximately 400 parking stalls that would accommodate both residents and fire department employees.

Slavish said the project would be constructed in two phases so the fire department would not be forced to shut down for a period of time.

According to Aaron Olver, city director of economic development, proposed costs for the fire station and administration building are estimated at between $14 million and $18.4 million, with a potential $11.4 million in current resources from which funds could be drawn.

The remaining $3 to $7 million would be added to next year’s capital budget.

Mayor Paul Soglin reminded the commission should the project be approved, budget

constraints would delay other city projects.

Initial estimates project the final development should be finished by July of 2014.

Soglin spoke of the opportunity costs associated with the proposed development.

“If we don’t do this, sometime in the next five to 10 years, we will not only have had to spend $1.6 million that’s needed for Fire Station No. 1 (for its renovation,) but we’re going to have to find a new site for the station,” Soglin said. “Given the costs of downtown land, and given the size of the (fire department) facility, that is going to be really daunting … We need to take advantage of an opportunity.”

Olver added the fire station would need to be replaced sometime in the near future if it is not included within the proposed development.

Soglin closed the meeting by expressing his content with the proposed development conversation.

“The discussion has been very valuable in regards to giving a sense as to what kind of resolutions we should introduce, and so I think I’ve got a food feel from the board,” he said.

City officials will continue to meet in the coming days to draft resolutions to formally begin the process of approving the development, Soglin said.

constitution.

“We’re confident that the law will be appealed during all 2012 elections,” Republican Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Ben Sparks said.

The campaign for Kathleen Falk, Democratic candidate for governor and former Dane County executive, released a statement on the injunction in support of the judge’s decision.

In the statement, Falk said the voter ID bill is a $17 million “scheme” that makes it harder for hundreds of thousands of eligible citizens such as seniors, minorities and students to vote, and purports to ‘solve’ a problem that does not exist.

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign spokesperson Mike McCabe said his organization supported the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin’s challenge and supported their determination that the law should be struck down.

“We applaud the judge’s decision,” McCabe said.

“This law discriminates against certain groups.

It creates a barrier in participating in elections.”

He added he believes yesterday’s challenge was based on the constitution, and nowhere does the document say under the voting requirements a person will qualify if they have an ID. “This law goes beyond what the Wisconsin constitution permits,” McCabe said. “It makes people jump through hoops just to exercise their right to vote.” Although there have been two challenges against the voter ID law within a short period of time, the Republicans are still positive.

McCabe also characterized the current law as unjust.

“This is only one step in a long process,” McCabe said.

“It’s like a caste system for voting; only those with a privileged status get to vote.”

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Occupy Mifflin 2012 Hayes Cascia Staff Writer The date is May 5, 2012.

Where will you be, a Cinco de Mayo party? No way!

This year, the Mifflin Block Party falls on the same day as America’s favorite Mexican holiday, creating the perfect storm for the party of the year. However, due to last year’s violent events, committees are working together to create a safer environment for students.

According to Peggy LaHahieu, a member of the Mifflin Neighborhood Association, students need to stop thinking of the end of the year block party as a “drunk fest.”

Pretty much any weekend in Madison can be considered a “drunk fest,” but to cut down, residents are pushing for a small-scale block party, which will only allow students from the University of Wisconsin

and Madison Area Technical College. Let’s be honest. How do they expect to keep tabs on that with thousands of college students coming in from all over the country for one of the biggest college parties of the year? I mean, there could be a checkpoint where everyone has to check in with their student ID, but that still will not stop people from attempting to sneak in.

When there is a will, there is a way, and when alcohol is involved, any way seems like a good idea. If authorities try to weed out non-students, I think it would just lead to more problems and potentially an increase in violence from last year, as police will focus part of their attention on the entrance and not be able to patrol the block as vigilantly. Also, students from other universities will most likely be very upset if they are denied and if they are under the influence will act out without thinking.

Mifflin is a wellestablished end-of-theyear party and something everyone looks forward to.

It is a kind of last hurrah before finals week and gives students a reason to see friends from other colleges. After hearing stories from both my mother and father about their college days in the age of “Animal House,” Mifflin pales in contrast.

To me, it is no different than unofficial St. Patrick’s Day at the University of Illinois and Little 500 at Indiana University, which can both be considered “drunk fests” but still occur each year without as much resistance as Mifflin currently faces.

If one does not get overly intoxicated and remembers their Mifflin, it is a birthplace of memories. I remember my first Mifflin — it was one of those sun’s guns out kind of days in May. The girls were dressed in their finest summer attire, and almost-perfect soon became perfect when I was handed an icy cold beverage. It sure did hit the spot, and with the exception of anxiously waiting in line to use the port-a-potties, I felt great the whole day. And hey, I even made some friends along the way that I am

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The Mifflin Block Party of 2011 was a mixed bag: It was lots of fun for students, yet there were two stabbings. still in touch with today.

There is one last thing I would like to say to the Mifflin Neighborhood Association. No matter the sanctions imposed on this year’s Mifflin, we will all be there to bask in the hot May sun and enjoy

arguably the greatest collegiate party in the nation. Here at Wisconsin, we fight through adversity and, quite bluntly, we love beer. So, let us all stand together, students of Wisconsin, and all across the nation. Let us occupy

Mifflin May 5, 2012, cheer to the human spirit and let our war cry ring from the hilltops across this great state. On Wisconsin!

Hayes Cascia (hcascia@ wisc.edu) is a freshman with an undeclared major.

Grothman’s rhetoric ignores men’s fatherly duties John Waters Columnist Assistant Senate Majority Leader Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, thinks that America is facing an “epidemic” where women are “adopting a single motherhood lifestyle” because they are going to get paid by the government.

Grothman has said “unwanted or mistimed” pregnancies are “the choice of women” and that to believe otherwise is to “undersell these women.”

Grothman thinks women

are so excited by the idea of “government largesse” apparently available for being a poor single mother that they are actively getting pregnant. In an interview with Fox 6 Milwaukee, he said “As a matter of fact, I think if you ask around you will find … women who feel that their sister is in this position, if they are not in that position, are living better than they are in a variety of ways.”

Grothman was being interviewed because he has introduced a bill into the Senate that would have Wisconsin’s Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board add single parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse. Grothman’s evidence for suggesting this is a national study on child abuse and neglect by the

U.S. department of Health and Human Services.

Specifically, one page out of a 455-page report that states “Compared to children living with married biological parents, those whose single parent had a live-in partner had more than eight times the rate of maltreatment overall, over 10 times the rate of abuse and nearly eight times the rate of neglect.”

That is a really unfortunate statistic, but both Grothman’s personal views and his ideas of what the government’s role in solving the problem should be have no place in the conversation. When asked by the interviewer if President Barack Obama’s recent birth control mandate wasn’t a more effective way to reduce

unwanted pregnancies than say, creating legal language telling single mothers they are likely to be abusers, Grothman brushed it off. He said for “the vast majority of women who are having children, they are not accidents.”

Actually, the Guttmacher Institute released a study this summer that said, “at least four in 10 pregnancies were unwanted or mistimed.” But don’t tell Grothman that; in his mind, there are millions of devious women out there who are going to milk the system and raise a child by themselves.

I doubt Grothman’s bill is going anywhere, but this is just another example of the out-of-touch tone of the conversation around women and pregnancy

Dangerous areas need lighting Christin Wiegand Staff Writer As a freshman, one of the first things I was told was “Don’t walk Rapeshore alone at night.”

As unflattering as that nickname is, “Rapeshore” doesn’t only describe Lakeshore Path anymore.

Women have been sexually assaulted all across campus. In many of the articles reflecting on them, sources such as police officers and Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, have stated lack of lighting is a factor in referring to the University Avenue assault. When a solution as simple as lighting may help to provide a safer campus to the student body, why has nothing been done?

According to the 201112 UW Campus Safety Guide, there are more than 100 blue emergency phone lights throughout dangerous parts of campus. Offhand, I can only recall two, both located along Lakeshore Path. While this is

nowhere near enough lights on the otherwise unlit path, my question is: Where are the rest?

Where was the blue light in the Hawthorne Court alleyway, a blatantly sketchy part of the campus area, where a young woman was recently assaulted? There are many places where walking alone at night can be rendered unsafe. A college campus should not be one of them.

To some extent, the university has acknowledged the danger present on our campus after nightfall.

Programs such as SAFEwalk, SAFEride and SAFEbus exist to offer accompaniment to individuals in the form of a free walk home, six free cab rides per semester as well as a free bus system.

While a great concept, the programs have their flaws. Many times, those who need assistance are outside of SAFEwalk’s boundaries or aren’t in compliance with other restrictions. Other times, students don’t want to wait the usual 30 or more minutes before a SAFEcab or SAFEwalk arrives and opt to walk home instead.

And why shouldn’t walking be an option? It’s unfair for students to feel

too unsafe to walk home on our college campus.

With more lights present, we wouldn’t.

On a personal note, during welcome week this past summer, a friend and I were stopped by the police while walking home around midnight.

We were reprimanded for walking alone and asked if we were aware of the sexual assaults taking place across campus and how unsafe it is for two young women

[Many times] students don’t want to wait ... 30 minutes or more before a SAFEcab ... arrives and opt to walk home. to walk home alone unaccompanied. During a follow-up meeting with an assistant student dean, information pertaining to how unsafe our campus is was firmly drilled into my mind. The dean held up a stack of yellow folders and explained those were all the unresolved sexual assault cases on campus, and that those files only pertained to when he was on duty. He was one of five assistant student

deans. My interaction with the police occurred at the intersection of Park Street and Dayton Street, a location where an incident had occurred not long before I decided to walk home.

The heightened number of sexual assaults calls for immediate police action. However, a very obvious first step is the addition of lights and emergency telephones across campus. Blue light emergency phones should be placed across campus, not only in areas deemed “dangerous” or “unsafe.”

I would never have imagined an area as highly populated as University Avenue would have been the location for a sexual assault, so reading about a woman having been pulled off the street and assaulted in Hawthorne Court hit close to home.

I have frequently walked University Avenue at night, and maybe it’s just luck that I myself haven’t been assaulted. None of the student body should feel unsafe while walking at night in a city that we’ve all come to know as home.

Christin Wiegand (cdwiegand@wisc.edu) is a sophomore with an undeclared major.

coming from the Republican Party. We have a problem with unwanted pregnancies, but birth control isn’t the answer. We have a problem with stability in single parent homes, with women being five times as likely to be the lone parent, and the crux of the issue isn’t that men are failing to support their child but that women are running around grabbing whoever they can get their hands on so they can get food stamps.

One person alone cannot get pregnant, although with the amount of men talking about pregnancies and birth control over the past month, you might think it is only a male issue. I have heard all about “sluts” and blatant misconceptions about how birth control works and why people use it. Now I

can add, “when this many women are having children out of wedlock, I would say some or many expect the government handouts to solve their problems.”

Nobody wants to start a family alone. The women that are left in that situation have one of the hardest jobs in America. At some point, are we going to talk about the father? What role does he play in all this? In a month-long national conversation about birth control, I have heard everything and more about the intentions and responsibilities of women in regard to sex and nothing about the intentions and responsibilities of men.

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

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Beyond beer, brats in Cream City Sam Stepp Chew On This Columnist Since most of you reading this column probably don’t have cars and can’t travel very far outside of campus limits without suffering through needlessly long, loud and sometimes disturbing bus rides, I typically like to keep my restaurant exploration close to downtown Madison. But today is an exception. This week, we’re exploring several culinary facets of another big Wisconsin city: Milwaukee.

Throughout my undergraduate career, the opinions I heard about Milwaukee were almost universally negative. “Dirty” and “scary” or pursed lips and a long, meaningful glance comprised my only impressions of the city.

So I set out to explore the few good Milwaukee food recommendations people had given me and see if I couldn’t exonerate the name of Wisconsin’s largest city.

If you’re driving to Milwaukee on a Friday night, it’s worth it to branch off toward Waukesha on

the way and stop off at a little place called DadyOh’s Restaurant (250 W. Broadway). Centered in the heart of historic downtown, the small, glass-plated storefront of Dady-Oh’s gives way to a huge back seating area and a bar that goes on for miles. Most days the restaurant is only open until 2 p.m., but on Friday nights they stay open until 9 p.m. for their Friday night fish fry. If you’re a fish fry connoisseur, their crispy, golden haddock, walleye and bluegill is worth the sometimes spotty service — our waitress forgot to bring us our check.

Once in the outer limits of Milwaukee, you’re going to want some dessert. And without a doubt, Kopp’s Frozen Custard (7631 W. Layton Ave.) is the way to go. If Milwaukee is the “Custard Capitol of the World,” Kopp’s must be the Capitol. Scores of Wisconsinites flock to the colossal A-frame restaurant nightly to bask in the glory of this cool, creamy, dense dessert.

“I spent way too many hours of my life in that place,” Brookfield native Suzanne Liebergen said.

“In high school, my friends and I would spend hours deciding where to go and then we would get here and eat our custard in 10 minutes and be like, ‘What now?’”

But Kopp’s always keeps customers coming back

with its relentless quality and innovative flavors (rum and Coke, anyone?). To be considered custard, a product must have at least 10 percent milkfat and 1.4 percent egg yolk solids.

Otherwise, it is considered ice cream. Quality custardmaking is determined by the speed with which the custard leaves the tube within which it is frozen to serving containers.

The faster it goes, the smaller the ice crystals that form, and the smoother the custard. As devout customers will testify, it’s a process Kopp’s has mastered.

If it’s Milwaukee’s other specialty — beer — you’re hankering for (and you’re 21), head on up to Lakefront Brewery (1872 N. Commerce Street). For $7, one of the microbrewery’s charismatic founders will take you on an engaging and witty tour of the aromatic brick warehouse where all of Lakefront’s beer is made. You’ll learn why “light” beer isn’t necessarily “light,” the difference between an ale and a lager, and why you might not want to drink beer that is cloudy.

While most brewery tours end “at the tap,” the best part about Lakefront’s is that it starts there, allowing you to use up one (or all) of your four six-ounce sample pours before the tour even begins. Because let’s face

it — everything is a little bit more enjoyable with a measure of Riverwest Stein under your belt.

If breakfast or brunch is your thing, you can’t miss Blue’s (also known as Blue’s Egg, 317 N. 76th St.), a bustling family restaurant that specializes in everything that’s great about breakfast.

Blue’s is one of those few restaurants where the focus on quality is so attentive that it really doesn’t matter what you order.

Light, sweet French toast, omelets with Wisconsin aged cheddar and spinach, roasted mushroom strata (a savory bread and egg pudding) — it’s going to be good. Commendably, Blue’s is one of the only breakfastand-dinner only restaurants I’ve seen with a full cocktail menu. It’s popularity means the place is packed on weekend mornings, so be ready for a 30 to 45-minute wait — it’s well worth it.

If you’re tired of exploring a city where the main demographic is “college student,” find someone who knows their way around the Milwaukee area and check out some of Wisconsin’s best and most iconic culinary locations.

You won’t get mugged, I promise.

Sam Stepp is a senior majoring in journalism.

Comments, questions, recipes, suggestions? Email her at ssstepp@wisc.edu.

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LIT WEEK One non-e-reader’s defense of ink Allegra Dimperio ArtsEtc. Content Editor

In honor of Lit Week, I have a confession to make: I just cannot get on board with e-readers. Call me old-fashioned, but to me an e-book is about as satisfying as fat-free frozen yogurt — close, but just not as good as the real thing.

Sure, you can have an entire library (well, eight gigabytes worth) in one lightweight tablet, and yes, the backlight means you can read in dark places (though your eye doctor wishes you wouldn’t). But e-readers really only solve nonexistent issues while creating new ones.

“They’re so lightweight!” e-reader lovers proclaim.

So are paperbacks, I retort.

I have never had an issue carrying around a paperback or even a hardcover. If I shelled out for a hardcover, it means I really, really wanted to read it and I’m not going to let a measly extra pound or two deter me. I’m not alone; ask anyone in the always-busy Barnes & Noble if books are too heavy to carry, and they’ll laugh

you right out of the store.

I dare the bold “books are too heavy” people to show me someone who is actually worse off for carrying a 200+ page book around.

Yet e-reader fans gush over the fact they can carry more than one book at a time with no added weight.

But let’s be real: Who reads multiple books at once? The only thing I could see an e-reader being good for is a long vacation where you plan on reading multiple books, but we’ll get to the vacation fallacy later.

An e-reader might be awesome as a substitute chemistry textbook weightwise, but they have no resale value and no way to highlight passages or take notes in the margins. Nor are they good to throw across the room in a fit of angst during midterms.

But even if you really can’t bear to carry more than eight ounces of book, you could probably stand to save a few bucks.

We all know that hardcover books aren’t cheap and that new paperbacks can run to about the equivalent of a 24-pack. But even without production costs, e-books really aren’t that much cheaper. E-versions of bestsellers go for about $10 on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and once you buy an e-book, the only thing you can do with it is read it on your approved device. Oh

yeah, which you have to buy.

If the only way you read books is by purchasing them new, e-books might not be a bad call for you. But if you utilize libraries and secondhand bookstores, you’re spending way more than you have to on e-books. I admit I wax nostalgic on libraries, having grown up within walking distance of the one I frequented, but they really make the most financial and environmental sense.

With a library book, you at most pay a negligible fee to get a library card and tiny fines for late books (for reference, the Madison Public Library charges 25 cents a day for overdue books). You get to read a book for virtually free and give it back when you’re done, thus saving shelf space for all the other books you’ve only read once and saving however many trees it cost to print a new book.

You also get the joy of turning pages, clandestinely dog-earring them when you know you shouldn’t and closing the back cover with conviction when you’ve finished the book. If the book doesn’t prove finish-worthy, you have to option to bring it right back without paying for a book you didn’t like. With e-books, you pay a nonrefundable $10 to read a book once and have it take up memory on your $100ish device.

Even if you don’t do libraries, secondhand bookstores can save money and give that nose-in-the-air “I read” vibe to your bookshelf. If you want cheap, head to Half Price Books, but if you want prestige, Paul’s Books and other holein-the wall bookstores scattered across the U.S. are bound to carry at least one tattered copy of “The Catcher in the Rye” and a substantial Russian lit

section.

Secondhand books are decorative, cheap and give that je ne sais quoi to your book collection.

You can throw them in a bag, read them wherever, fold the pages to your heart’s delight and read the annotations their previous owner’s felt compelled to make. You can throw them on a coffee table or pretend to read them in Starbucks.

With an e-reader, all people see is a tablet and your “library” is but a heap of files.

But perhaps you want a book to be more than a prop (gasp!). Perhaps you do want to read onthe-go or on vacation and think an e-reader is the convenient answer. Sure, if convenience involves remembering to charge a battery or having access to an outlet when you’ve forgotten to.

Real books don’t run on batteries; they’re always available and will never tell you you have 10 pages left before they render themselves unreadable.

Nor will a flight attendant ever tell you not to read your book during takeoff or landing or scold you when you try to.

Real books also are incredibly hard to break.

You may crack the spine but not the screen; you can tear a page but not the software. They will not malfunction if they get sand in them, and they will not prove useless should they get roughed up in baggage.

In short, they will always be there for you — unless you go Wicked Witch of the West on them, and in that case, they too melt.

So call me oldfashioned, but I cannot be persuaded that e-books are superior to the original, nostalgia or no nostalgia. On this Lit Week, if at no other time, set that e-reader down and give real books a chance: The analog version just might woo you.

Andrew Fate The Badger Herald

The Plaza Tavern before the 10:45 p.m. crush turns Henry Street into a rowdy line of students and regulars anxious to imbibe cheap alcohol.

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Thursdays at The Plaza More than its $2 Long Islands draw late night crowd to Madison’s best dive bar Holly Hartung ArtsEtc. Columnist At 6:43 p.m. on a Thursday, the few patrons in The Plaza Tavern seem blissfully unaware of the storm that will hit the bar in a few hours.

About eight 50-somethings are up at the bar chumming with each other and the bartenders. Meanwhile, a lady wearing a ribbed white turtleneck, mom jeans and sneakers bops around to James Brown’s “Living in America” like a jovial post office worker walking her daily route.

“The Plaza has been a downtown campus-area bar for over 50 years. It’s one of the last bastions of the old Madison downtown,” Dean Hetue said, who has owned The Plaza for nine years and worked there for over 30. “I bought it so that it would stay the same, so that I could keep it the same way it always used to be.”

With wood-paneled walls and booths with formica laminate tabletops, The Plaza is reminiscent of a grandma’s house or family cabin that has not been renovated since Marcia Brady got hit in the face with a football. The crowd described earlier is exactly what you would expect from such an establishment.

Fast-forward a couple hours, and The Plaza transforms. The place is packed to capacity with college kids sucking down as many $2 Long Islands as their budgets will permit. This Thursday ritual may be what keeps them coming back week after week, and it might also be why readers of The Badger Herald recently voted it the “Best Dive Bar in Madison.”

Hetue also said Thursdays have traditionally been the busiest day of the week.

Long Island Night has been going on for seven or eight years, he said, and before that, Thursday was Jack Daniels Night.

However, several other bars have similar deals on Thursdays, including $1 PBR pints at the Vintage and $2.50 rail drinks at Wando’s, according to their websites. A series of interviews with the workers and regulars reveals The Plaza’s popularity is as much about the ambiance as the cheap booze.

“The [crowd] is diverse. Everybody has a lot of energy,” Daniel Thompson, who claims he is “not a regular” but comes to The Plaza two to three Thursdays a month, he said.

“It’s not like most bars where you walk in and people look at you like ‘Ugh, stay away from me.’ You walk in and feel like ‘Hey I could talk to anybody in here and they’d probably be cool,” Thompson said.

While Thompson comes to mingle with

the crowd, others go just to watch. Friends Julie Goodwin and Luke Krause stake out a booth by 9:30 p.m. every Thursday because The Plaza is prime people-watching territory.

“You know the type,” Krause said in a snarky tone. Goodwin’s chimed in to elaborate.

“I always say — I’m like, Plaza … ugh, fine. Those fuckin’ hipsters. But I keep coming back, and I really enjoy it here. I like the atmosphere,” Goodwin said.

Atmosphere aside, the power of the Long Island cannot be ignored. The promise of cheap drinks brings students in The Plaza’s door in droves, making bartender Tim Belliveau’s job somewhat difficult. He said early in the night, the place usually hits its 180-person capacity by 10:45 p.m.

“I’d have to say the Long Islands probably bring the girls in, and then the guys come in because they know the girls are here,” Belliveau said, with a nondescript Death Cab for Cutie song playing in the background. This conversation takes place around 8:15 p.m. — hours before the huge crowd will roll in, which explains why he actually has time to chat.

Regular patrons may also recognize him as the man on the stool with strawberry-blond hair who decides whether or not you get to enter The Plaza.

Belliveau has held this title for about six months and said he likes working Thursdays because of the “excitement in the air.”

Like clockwork, at the stroke of 10:44 p.m., lucky number 180 waltzes in declaring his love for Long Islands while “Dirt off Your Shoulder” by Jay Z blasts from the jukebox.

Immediately after, a line forms outside, stretching all the way to Gorham Street.

Despite the drunken insults and impatient foot tapping from some of the people in the line, Belliveau has a permanent smile plastered on his face and ushers in regulars with an enthusiastic wave.

“Definitely working for a corporate company for a long time helped because I had to be nice when people were telling me I was a horrible person,” he said in reference to the seven years he spent managing a Buffalo Wild Wings prior to working at The Plaza.

Whether for the atmosphere or the cheap booze, those looking to make their first trip to The Plaza should beware of the hangover potential. When asked about a Long Island’s ingredients, Belliveau replied,“Vodka. Rum. Gin. Tequila. Triple Sec. Sour. Lemonade.

Pepsi. Straw. Lemon.”

That combination has kept The Plaza filled to capacity for many Thursday nights past.

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Jennings powers Bucks to 105-99 win Star guard guides Milwaukee to 3rdstraight victory with 34 points, 7 rebounds NEWARK, N.J. — (AP) With roughly six weeks left in the season, the Milwaukee Bucks are starting to get a sniff of the playoffs, and being tired isn’t slowing them down.

Brandon Jennings had 34 points, seven assists and seven rebounds and the Milwaukee Bucks posted their third straight win, 105-99 over the New Jersey Nets on Monday night.

Coupled with Chicago’s win over the slumping Knicks, the Bucks moved into a tie with New York for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

“We had a slow first half, I think just from being tired, but then we just came together as a unit” said Jennings after the Bucks won on consecutive nights. “This is an important win for us. Right now, we’re trying to get to the eighth or seventh spot. That’s our main focus, just trying to win basketball games.”

The Bucks won this one because they had a solid team effort on a night that conference player of the week Ersan Ilyasova was limited to four points and three rebounds because of foul trouble and exhaustion after playing 44 minutes the previous night.

Drew Gooden added 23 points, eight rebounds and a season-high seven assists as the Bucks rallied from an early 12-point deficit to beat New Jersey for the 10th straight time.

Beno Udrih added 15 points and seven assists and fellow reserve Mike Dunleavy had 15 points, including a 3-pointer from the corner with 1:30 to go that opened a 10-point lead.

“We got it done, that’s the most important thing,” Dunleavy said. “We got it done and a win is a win. We will take it and go back home.

Offensively, if we share the ball, we have a lot of guys that can pass, score and shoot. If we keep sharing it, then it will work for us.”

Kris Humphries had a careerhigh 31 points and 18 rebounds for New Jersey, which lost its second straight without point guard Deron Williams. Jordan Farmar added 17 points and seven assists, while Anthony Morrow also scored 17.

“We were in control of the game until the fourth,”

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Nets guard MarShon Brooks (9) finished Monday night’s game with 10 points and three assists. New Jersey’s leading scorer was forward Kris Humphries, who finished the contest with 31 points and 18 rebounds.

said Humphries, who finished 11 of 15 from the field. “They play good basketball. They move the ball. They have multiple guys with high assist totals. Trap them, they swing for an easy 3. In the fourth quarter, they scored probably every way you can score -- back cut, duck in, 3-pointer, pull-up J, everything. They played well as well.”

Milwaukee didn’t have a lead in the opening 36 minutes, but closed the third quarter with a 9-0 run to tie the score at 73.

The Bucks opened the fourth with a 14-7 spurt that gave them an 87-80 lead with 7:36 to go.

Jennings, who was 6 of 11 from long range, hit two 3s to open the fourth

quarter and capped the run, working a great giveand-go with Gooden for a layup.

“Offensively, if we share the ball, we have a lot of guys that can pass, score and shoot.”

Mike Dunleavy Guard/Forward

The Nets got within three points twice, but Dunleavy scored on a goaltending call against Humphries with 6:22 to go and Jennings made his final 3 with 4:01 to go to

start a 7-2 run that built the lead to eight points.

“Our energy was up all night, but when we had a chance to win the game, they got going in the fourth quarter,” Nets rookie guard MarShon Brooks said. “They kept on scoring late in the third and early in the fourth, and we never got the stop that we needed.”

Humphries had a great opening half, scoring 21 points on 7-for-9 shooting, while grabbing 10 rebounds in helping New Jersey take a 54-47 lead. Just as important, the power forward forced Ilyasova to pick up two quick fouls and head to the bench.

Ilyasova spent most of the second half on the

bench. In his last game against New Jersey he had career highs of 29 points and 25 rebounds.

“He played really well last time,” Humphries said of Ilyasova. “I just wanted to make sure he didn’t come out and get momentum and have that kind of a night.”

They didn’t need him this time.

“I think we have good chemistry on the team,” said Ilyasova. “We know who the main guys are, and everybody each night gets the (opportunity) to do something positive for the team.”

Game notes Defensive end Justin Tuck and running back Ahmad Bradshaw of the

Super Bowl champion Giants were at the game. ... Jennings’ 34 points were a season high by a Nets opponent. ....Referee Steven Anderson showed a short fuse hitting Dunleavy with a technical on a play in which the veteran deflected a Nets’ pass off the backboard causing a turnover. ... Milwaukee had 32 assists on its 43 baskets. ... Humphries’ previous high was 25 points earlier this year. His career best for rebounds is 19. ...Bucks guard Carlos Delfino and coach Scott Skiles didn’t arrive at the game until an hour before the tipoff because their bus was stuck in New York City traffic. Delfino scored two points on 1-of-8 shooting from the field.

The Badger Herald | Sports | Tuesday, March 13, 2012

HUGHES, from 10 summer.

So, in a post-Wilson world, the natural reflex for many will be to go all out for Maryland quarterback Danny O’Brien, who intends to use the same graduate transfer rule Wilson did and has named UW as a possible destination.

But can there be a downside to the image of Wisconsin quarterbacks if Bielema keeps pulling them out of top hats?

Plenty of people used Wilson as an example to advance the argument that Wisconsin is a place where elite quarterbacks can now feel welcome to play and thrive. But the truth is Wisconsin has yet to prove that to college recruits. What recruits need to see out of Wisconsin is a quarterback emerge from its own system and become a playmaker — not a game manager.

As good of a quarterback as Tolzien was at Madison (and his career passer efficiency rating of 153.2 is stellar), he was still seen as a game manager rather than a playmaker. Whether he actually was one or not, he was still seen that way.

Wilson was seen as a playmaker. And although he took his play to another level at UW, Wilson didn’t develop his talent at Wisconsin. That took place

FUTURE, from 10 No. 2.

Nick Korger: Looking into the future, who are your incoming recruits for next year and what do they bring to the table?

Bobbie Kelsey: We got Nicole Bauman from [New Berlin] Eisenhower, here in Wisconsin.

She’s a feisty little player; she’s a playmaker. Her and Dakota Whyte from Canada, they’re both playmakers. They can see things before they actually happen, they can anticipate well, so they can make the pass or shoot themselves and make the shot. I think they have the biggest upside of anybody we’re bringing in. Makailah Dyer (from Madison) does as well; she doesn’t play in as good as a league as Nicole or the competition Dakota sees, but she’s a capable scorer. I mean all of them have stuff they need to work on. We also have

at North Carolina State instead.

If the Badgers really want to prove to recruits that quarterbacks can thrive in Madison, they need to develop a playmaker within its own system. Without doubt, Badger fans would look down the road at Houston for that. Nobody can say for sure if Houston has the capability to step in and play right away, although Josh Helmholdt, a recruiting analyst for Rivals. com, told me in February

One-and-done transfer quarterbacks aren’t going to convince recruits looking for a four- or five-year home to come to Madison. he thinks Houston could probably step into a starting role if need be.

But, as stated before, Houston’s expected to miss time during summer camp — which directly precedes the regular season, an obviously crucial period for a potential starting freshman.

With Bielema answering his first question on whether Budmayr’s injury is career-threatening (by not being able to answer it), with Phillips still healing from an unfortunate string of tough injuries

Shannon Malone from Flower Mound, Texas, she’s a very aggressive forward, a rebounder who can finish around the basket with contact and doesn’t mind getting hit. She had a knee injury, but she’s recovered from that, so her stats don’t look as robust as last year, but we know what she’s capable of. We’re looking for her to come in and add that aggressiveness we need. We also have a [6-foot-3] junior college kid from Jacksonville (Fla.) coming in.

NK: How do you sell a recruit on a program that’s rebuilding?

BK: You have to help them see the potential of it and the opportunity for them being at a school like Wisconsin.

Winning helps. I mean, if you get that exposure some kids want to hop on the bandwagon, and some want to come for other reasons besides the basketball. It takes time; we haven’t even been here long enough,

and with two other young quarterbacks that haven’t shown much of anything yet, you begin to think a transfer quarterback is all that can save the Badgers from a train wreck.

Of course, nobody on Wisconsin’s coaching staff is dumb enough to start relying on transfer signalcallers year in and year out.

But if the Badgers complete a move with O’Brien, it could paint an image of instability at UW. One-anddone transfer quarterbacks aren’t going to convince recruits looking for a fouror five-year home to come to Madison. And the recent coaching carousel wouldn’t help reverse a sentiment of instability, either.

With Budmayr, the most logical choice for quarterback, injured indefinitely and with Houston — the future of the program — facing an inadequate preseason, a transfer may be what’s needed. But the Badgers need to get back to developing their own stars under center.

Conjuring quarterbacks out of midair won’t help this program reach a new level of riches.

Elliot is a senior majoring in journalism. What do you think about Wisconsin’s quarterback situation? Tell him about it at ehughes@ badgerherald.com or tweet @BHeraldSports.

and some of these kids don’t know who we are. We’re still trying to learn about what’s available in the state and the surrounding states. If you can get them here you sell the whole package, not just basketball but the love for the Badgers and the area. I mean we’re not in a one-stoplight town; this is a very robust community. A lot of kids, when they come, if they haven’t been here already, they’re pleasantly surprised. It’s a good challenge to see who we can get and how fast we can get them.

NK: Next year you’re bringing back Morgan Paige and Taylor Wurtz.

What are you looking for them to improve on this offseason?

BK: I think Morgan needs a mid-range game; she sort of has an all-ornothing offense where it’s either a layup or a three for her. She needs to learn how to pull up because the best guards in our conference have

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SCORES, from 10 came in the second half was within six (46-40) at the 12:18 mark. Overall, the lack of any sustained scoring from the Badgers ultimately sent them home early from Indianapolis.

Defense: 4 out of 5 Against both Michigan State and Indiana, Wisconsin held its conference tourney opponents below their scoring averages. The Hoosiers lead the Big Ten in scoring with 77.3 points per game, while the Spartans are fourth at 72.1.

Team defense was never really UW’s problem in Indianapolis, though MSU did greatly expose the Badgers. Particularly, Michigan State’s frontcourt trio of forward and Big Ten Player of the Year Draymond Green, center Adreian Payne and center Derrick Nix found plenty to work with inside.

Green began the game poorly, scoring just two points while turning the ball over four times in the first half. He finished with 14 points and 16 rebounds, however, in a much improved second half where Michigan State withstood a 13-0 run by Wisconsin.

Nix finished with nine points and five rebounds, with all of his scoring coming in the first half.

that. Taylor needs to take hers more too. She picks up a few charges in games when she’s driving for a layup and a defender beats her to a spot. Sometimes she holds onto the ball too long, but that’s because she’s trying to make something happen for our team, and that’s to be commended. But sometimes the best player can hold onto it too long.

She has to be more of a playmaker as well. When you have other kids that can come in who can pass her the ball and she can get open set shots. We really didn’t have those guards

Payne, meanwhile, scored six points, all in the second half.

Comparatively, Berggren seemed most to blame for allowing MSU’s frontcourt to dominate as they did. The 6-foot-10, 235-pound junior struggled defensively on both Nix and Payne, while also grabbing just two rebounds.

Evans did a fair job against Green, despite giving up 20 pounds to MSU’s star in that matchup.

Bench: 4 out of 5 If Wisconsin learned anything in the Big Ten Tournament, it’s that outside of Wilson, very little should be expected from the bench.

That statement is more of a reflection of head coach Bo Ryan’s short rotation than anything, as Wilson was the only bench player to score against Indiana. Ben Brust played seven minutes and Frank Kaminsky played three, though they were a combined 0-for-3 from the field.

Against Michigan State, Wilson played another 32 minutes — the same amount as the Indiana game — but scored only six points. Brust took one shot, which he missed, in three minutes on the floor, while Kaminsky added just one 3-pointer.

Player of the week: Rob

this year that could create for themselves and others off the dribble. I think Taylor will benefit from especially Dakota coming in and being a typical point guard.

NK: What do you expect from your players in the offseason and their body of work with conditioning and skill work?

BK: It’s putting in the skill work. It’s the ball handling and the shooting; that’s where it’s at. You don’t have to be a great player to be in great shape.

Anybody can get in great shape if they commit to it. I’ve coached players

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Wilson Wisconsin’s two-game trip to Indiana was full of one-game performances — Wilson, Taylor and Berggren all appeared stronger in one matchup than the other. But for Wilson’s sheer brilliance against Indiana, he earns this week’s player of the week honors.

The boost Wilson provided the Badgers has been detailed frequently, though one understated factor comes in the fact that Wisconsin hadn’t won a Big Ten Tournament game since it won the whole event in 2008.

Had the Badgers entered the NCAA Tournament continuing that streak, the dreaded “they can’t win a big game” talk might have continued.

With the East Regional being arguably the tournament’s toughest bracket, UW already faces plenty of challenges that could derail its hopes of building a run. Wilson’s emergence — nothing new, either, considering the play he’s set forth since consistently earning double-digit minutes since the Feb. 16 game at Michigan State — gives Wisconsin a great allaround option off the bench. Against the tough teams they’re bound to face this month, the Badgers will benefit greatly from Wilson’s improved play.

who were in great shape but they didn’t have the skill set to do what they needed to do on the court.

It’s a priority to work on your shooting. If you can’t hit an open shot, you can’t be on the floor; nobody’s going to guard you. If you can’t handle the ball you can’t be out there, so those are the two things in my mind that are the most important. Conditioning’s next; you make mistakes when you’re tired. You have to be in great shape.

It’s going to be interesting to see how good we can get and how long it will take us.

Sports Editor Elliot Hughes sports@badgerherald.com

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Grades: IU win brings high scores Wilson earns player of week award after stunning 30-point game vs Hoosiers Mike Fiammetta Senior Sports Writer

With the Big Ten Tournament under wraps, it’s officially singleelimination time for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team.

After their 65-52 loss to the Michigan State Spartans in the semifinals of the conference tournament in Indianapolis, the Badgers earned a No. 4 seed in the East Regional bracket of the NCAA tournament. The Badgers will face the No. 13 seed Montana Grizzlies Thursday afternoon in Albuquerque, N.M. Though the Badgers’ run in Indianapolis likely ended earlier than they wanted, a 79-71 win over Indiana on Friday broke UW’s string of three consecutive oneand-done appearances in the Big Ten Tournament.

Furthermore, after MSU proceeded to win the whole tourney, the Spartans proved their talent by earning a No. 1 seed in the West Regional bracket of the NCAA tournament.

Offense: 4 out of 5 If Wisconsin’s first game in the Big Ten Tournament were isolated, this grade would most likely be a perfect 5. Against the Hoosiers, the Badgers scored 79 points, shot 48.2 percent from the field and 50 percent from 3-point range and had four players score in double figures (Josh Gasser also finished with nine points).

Most notably, senior swingman Rob Wilson continued his stretch of strong play off the bench — and then some. Wilson scored a career-high 30 points by making 11-of16 shots, including 7-of-10 from 3-point range. On one of those nights where every shot seems to be

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Senior swingman Rob Wilson single-handedly led the Badgers’ bench scoring Friday, as he was the only non-starter to score. Against Michigan State, Wisconsin’s bench managed just nine points. going in, Wilson provided an undeniable spark for Wisconsin. On more than one occasion, a Wilson 3-pointer forced Indiana into a timeout, sending Wisconsin’s own bench flooding onto the court to congratulate the previously unheralded senior.

Aside from Wilson, center

Jared Berggren scored 16 points, while Ryan Evans and Jordan Taylor each added 12.

But against Michigan State, Wisconsin met a much tougher defensive team. The Badgers shot just 34.7 percent from the floor and 35 percent from 3-point range, while Evans and

Taylor combined to score 37 of UW’s 52 points.

The game began with a fine start for the Badgers, who opened up a 20-9 lead with 10:21 left in the first half. However, by halftime the Spartans took a 35-25 lead. The closest Wisconsin

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vs Indiana

vs Michigan St

Jordan Taylor

3-12, 12 pts

6-14, 19 pts

Rob Wilson

11-16, 30 pts

2-5, 6 pts

Jared Berggren

16 pts, 9 reb

6 pts, 2 reb

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After a 9-20 opening campaign, head coach Bobbie Kelsey is counting on incoming recruits, along with Morgan Paige and Taylor Wurtz, to lead the team to a stronger finish in 2012-13.

Q&A: Kelsey talks future Rookie coach offers insight, details on rebuilding Wisconsin program through next season Nick Korger Associate Sports Editor After the season

finishing with a

disappointing loss to Minnesota in the conference tournament, The Badger Herald’s Nick Korger got a chance to

sit down with Wisconsin women’s head basketball coach Bobbie Kelsey to go one-on-one after the conclusion of the rookie

head coach’s first year and find out how things are coming together for year

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The following sentence may catch a few Wisconsin football fans off guard, but it’s more or less true.

Since Scott Tolzien left the program at the end of the 2010 season, the quarterback position at UW has been unstable.

That is in no way a comment on the performance of Russell Wilson last season, and I hardly need to remind anyone of the (unprecedented) year he had.

But let’s recap what the Wisconsin quarterback position has gone through over the past 12 months or so: Last year, the Badgers entered spring camp looking at either Jon Budmayr or Curt Phillips to replace the departed Tolzien. But then Phillips was ruled out for the season when a procedure revealed more damage to his ACL injury. Meanwhile, Budmayr — along with young bucks Joel Stave and Joe Brennan

— looked clumsy in a spring game in which no offensive touchdowns were scored.

After that, the Badgers started looking past everyone on the roster for the starting job and out came a reallife deus ex machina in the form of Wilson.

Wilson did incredible things for the one year he was at Wisconsin.

He wowed fans, danced around linebackers, peppered defenses with indefensible passes and drafted his own version of Wisconsin’s passing records.

Oh, what a fabulous time it was for Wisconsin. But it only could’ve lasted one season, and now the Badgers have written themselves into another hole.

Last week, head coach Bret Bielema announced an injury Budmayr sustained last summer will keep him sidelined for all of spring camp. Phillips, who has undergone three ACL surgeries and hasn’t played football since the 2009 season, will see limited action in the spring. Bart Houston, a much-hyped incoming freshman, won’t be in Madison for spring, and a minor surgery will limit his practice time in the

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