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Mifflin Party to be themed Students, officials suggest central idea to event would show stakeholders’ interest, involvement Leah Linscheid City Life Editor University of Wisconsin students hosted an informational meeting Tuesday to generate theme ideas for the Mifflin Street Block Party, addressing concerns that the party is not community-friendly.

Members of the Associated Students of Madison said conversations with Mayor Paul Soglin and other city officials have resulted in the agreement that a theme would promote more community involvement and discourage the party’s drinking culture.

ASM Legislative Affairs representative Maria Giannopoulos said a theme would also demonstrate to the

city that students are actively involved in making the block party a safer event.

“The theme demonstrates a responsibility we have as students, and it makes sure we can ensure the future of Mifflin,” Giannopoulos said.

“It shows we have a vested interest, and that we’ve been thinking about these things very carefully.”

ASM members suggested several theme options previously discussed with city officials, including “I Am Mifflin,” “It’s Our Mifflin” and “A Madison Mifflin.”

Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers said the theme would create a positive light for potential sponsors of the event, but she asserted it would largely not affect the experience of Mifflin party

in Hudson, according to Legislative Affairs Rep. Jacob Miller. The business has been associated with the party in the past and would have an understanding of standard protocols and procedures, he added.

Legislative Affairs representative Devon Mayer said the search for a sponsor would involve giving more attention to safety issues, in light of last year’s stabbing incidents at the party.

“Our main concern … is finding a viable sponsor who will respect what we’re trying to get accomplished with respect to safety issues,” Mayer said.

The event was cosponsored last year by both

goers.

“Something that’s important to keep in mind is this theme is going to have little impact on your Mifflin experience,” Somers said.

“It’s not like you’re going to go to the Mifflin party and be bombarded by it, and it’s not going to do anything to change what the experience is for you. It’s more about sending a positive message.”

Students discussed other strategies to create a more community-based atmosphere for the Mifflin Street Block Party, including the incorporation of contests and games into the event.

A sponsor has not yet been chosen for the party, but students and city officials have considered All Star Catering, a business located

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Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers asks students to take an active role in planning the Mifflin Street Block Party this year. She said a theme would give a positive image to sponsors, but wouldn’t affect the event.

Slavery prevails quietly in Wis. Advocate groups allege human trafficking still has roots in varying severity degrees Sam Schmitt Reporter

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Taking a stance

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Capitol and Assembly chamber Tuesday to protest bills making changes to sexual education laws and laws governing abortion. Speakers offered stories of their experiences with Planned Parenthood, hoping to counteract three bills set for votes on Tuesday’s Assembly Schedule. The Assembly passed a bill to prohibit a health plan offered through any health exchange required under federal law from paying for abortions except those needed to save the life of a woman, in cases of rape and any circumstances that would prevent health damage to the woman receiving the abortion. Another bill would require school districts to present abstinence as the preferred choice of birth control and emphasize it as the only reliable way to prevent pregnancy and avoid sexually transmitted diseases. The final bill would require doctors be present to administer abortion-inducing drugs. Doctors would also have to inform a woman seeking an abortion a day before the procedure that she has a right to refuse, and it is illegal for a doctor to perform an abortion without her consent. --State Politics Editor Sean Kirkby

Abortion, sex ed heat Assembly floor Sean Kirkby State Politics Editor In a late night session, Assembly lawmakers approved bills establishing abstinence as the preferred choice of birth control in public school sex education and prohibiting abortion under health care exchanges.

Assembly lawmakers passed 60-34 a bill requiring school districts to present abstinence as the preferred choice of birth control and emphasizing it as the only reliable way to prevent pregnancy and avoid sexually transmitted diseases.

The bill passed the Senate last year and will now head to Gov. Scott Walker to be signed into

law.

Assistant Assembly Minority Leader Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay, said the bill would repeal programs she said are currently reducing the pregnancy rate for teen mothers. She said teen pregnancy leads to higher high school dropout rates.

“Repealing the Healthy

Youth Act is an outrage,” Pasch said. “By [supporting this bill] you are doing nothing to help support and educate the youth of Wisconsin. In fact, you’re doing just the opposite.”

Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R-Fond Du Lac, said the bill would give school

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Human trafficking, a modern-day form of slavery and a growing criminal activity both internationally and also here within Wisconsin, goes largely unnoticed by most citizens.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime defines human trafficking as the act of recruiting, transporting, harboring or receiving a person through use of force, coercion or deception, with the purpose of sexual exploitation, commercial sex acts or labor exploitation.

Slave Free Madison, a community action group, cites human trafficking as the second-largest criminal activity in the world with $32 billion in profits each year, second only to drug trafficking.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics lists the average cost of purchasing a person at just $200.

Another such group, 5-Stones, which originated in Appleton, has been working to not only inform individuals of the crime, but also to provide an emergency shelter for victims of sexual trafficking, the

most prominent form of human trafficking in the state.

A first-hand account of sex trafficking was aired at a 5-Stones event, where the organization’s volunteers put together a 12-minute video interview with a woman who had been a victim for almost 20 years.

The woman, who went by the name Lisa, explained she had been in college and gotten into what she described as a normal relationship that gradually became a form of sexual trafficking as her boyfriend brainwashed her into it.

“I think it’s a situation young women can get trapped in,” Lisa said. “It can happen anywhere in a lot of different ways.”

Her boyfriend had started using her initially by asking her to upload sexual pictures to the Internet and trying things she was not comfortable with in bed, eventually using her to make money through exploitation.

“For a long time I was lost, really lost,” Lisa said.

“It was a living hell.”

In an interview with The Badger Herald, Melissa Hollendyke, the coordinator of a recent

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Kleefisch recall secured: GAB INSIDE releases exact signature counts Ilona Argirion Herald Contributor Recall organizers collected 842,860 public signatures to recall Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, the Government Accountability Board said in a statement Monday, making it the first official tally confirmed by the board.

The statement from GAB said the board staff has nullified 29,125 total signatures against Kleefisch, leaving the total well above the 540,208 signatures needed to trigger the recall election.

GAB nullified 25,495 signatures

against Walker so far, but said the review is not complete, according to the statement. This leaves the current total signature count for Walker at 905,547, enough to trigger an election but less than the original reports of “over 1 million,” according to the statement.

Earlier in the recall elections, a Waukesha County judge ordered GAB to verify whether enough valid signatures exist before ordering elections, GAB Director Kevin Kennedy said. The judge gave the board staff until March 19 to complete their review.

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Higher Education Editor Marking the latest development in a case involving an accusation of alleged rape at a fraternity on campus three years ago, a circuit court has denied a former University of Wisconsin student’s appeal.

The decision released March 6 detailed reasons for denying a Milwaukee woman identified as Jane Doe’s appeal to a decision made to grant summary judgment to UW’s Sigma Chi fraternity, the Sigma Chi national headquarters and its insurers.

Doe argued in the appeal the original trial court erred in its decision because of “disputed material facts,” and also contended the court erred

in finding Sigma Chi member Mitchell Holzman and the national chapter by extension to not be negligent.

In July of 2009, Doe filed the original civil suit, and sought more than $10 million in damages for sustained and future injuries after she was allegedly drugged and raped at a privately-rented apartment in the building housing the Sigma Chi house Oct. 5, 2008.

The suit claimed the UW chapter did not maintain a safe place for guests, and the national headquarters did not maintain control over its chapters. An amended complaint filed in December 2009 dropped the safe space allegations.

A response filed with the circuit court by the defendants in January 2010 denied the

allegations, citing lack of sufficient information.

According to depositions filed, Doe claimed she attended a party at the fraternity, and consumed alcohol before attending a UW football game. She later went out to bars before returning to the fraternity house when Holzman said she could enter to use the restroom, according to the decision.

The next morning, she awoke partially clothed with her pants off, and could not remember what had transpired the night before. She later decided to go to the hospital when she noticed vaginal pain and bleeding.

Meriter Hospital records of her visit indicated damage was found during a pelvic exam and that Doe also sustained

injuries to her right foot and face.

The appeal court ultimately affirmed the trial court’s decision last week on the grounds that Doe’s evidence for the occurrence of a sexual assault was “razor thin,” and that none of the events described occurred in the fraternity house area.

Judge Timothy Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit court said in an interview with The Badger Herald the court of appeals concluded that since Holzman was not negligent, neither Sigma Chi nor Alpha Lambda could be deemed negligent because there was no issue of joint liability.

“He wasn’t negligent and therefore the fraternity wasn’t,” he said. “Another part of it is that where the act was alleged

to occur was living space and not the fraternity’s space.”

Upon the case being dropped in February 2011, Doe was also ordered to pay fees of more than $11,514 to the fraternity and its underwriters, according to the Wisconsin State Journal on March 26, 2011.

Dugan said from here, Doe has the right to ask the Wisconsin Supreme Court to review the case, as any plaintiff does.

After several attempts and calls made on the part of both parties, The Badger Herald and Sigma Chi’s attorney in the case, Marie Stanton, were not able to connect.

Robert Elliot, the attorney representing Doe in the case did not return any calls to The Badger Herald.

Downtown Plan components move ahead Adriana Viswanatha City Hall Editor Several components of the long-debated Downtown Plan moved forward at a city committee meeting Tuesday night.

The Plan Commission, the last committee through which the Downtown Plan must move before it goes before the City Council for approval, moved forward issues of transportation and historic districts in the city of Madison.

The commission discussed defining historic districts in terms of finding the marketing and education value and upkeep in historic properties.

“You talk about economic incentives for preservation, but on the flip side, if you choose to be derelict you’re

able to let these properties decay,” Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, said. “If you have owners that have contiguous properties, that becomes an issue.”

Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, a member of the Plan Commission, said if historic buildings are denoted as such more publicly, it might incentivize property owners to upkeep their properties appropriately.

The Plan Commission voted not to accept a recommendation from the Urban Design Commission that would denote exactly which buildings do not contribute to a historic district after some debate on the issue.

“Some buildings have bigger stories to tell than other buildings, and

they’re worth saving or not depending on that history,” Rummel said.

The Plan Commission also took on several issues concerning transportation in the city.

A proposal outlined in a memo prepared by the Plan Commission for a 24-hour bus that would run on campus to provide a means of getting home for students out late at the library was rejected by the body for not being encompassing enough.

In an interview with The Badger Herald, Plan Commission member Bill Fruhling said the group felt that Downtown Plan does not extend to the campus area.

Fruhling said the idea of a constantly-running bus would need to be

something addressed city-wide if it were to be implemented.

The memo also suggested the current location of Monona Terrace as a potential location for a rail station, but Rummel said this would cause downtown travelers problems.

She said the construction of the rail station would cause people in the downtown area too much “agitation” in terms of street closures and traffic issues. The Plan Commission chose to keep other locations in mind as potential future homes of the rail station.

Proposals for the future of West Mifflin Street were also included in the memo.

Fruhling said in the interview that the future of Mifflin has been under

discussion for the past four years or so in terms of what the do with the housing in the area.

“If we’re keeping the houses there, we need to fix them up,” Fruhling said.

“This is a 20-year plan, so a higher level of maintenance is required.”

Another option under discussion is to replace the run-down houses with apartment complexes, Fruhling said.

The plan for Mifflin involves reconfiguring the street without curbs to make it more open to pedestrians and bikes, according to a Plan Commission memo.

The Plan Commission will meet next on March 22 to continue discussion of elements of the Downtown Plan.

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Researchers make strides in growing eye structures Camille Albert Reporter University of Wisconsin scientists unveiled groundbreaking research Tuesday which led to their ability to create eye structures from human stem cells.

After a year of research in the UW Waisman Center, ophthalmology professor David Gamm and his team were able to produce chemical retinal structures from stem cells that were derived from human blood.

The research produced findings that can be used to treat patients with retinal disorders associated with blindness, Gamm said.

These findings will help scientists study degenerative diseases of the retina, such as retinitis pigmentosa, a prominent cause of blindness in children and young adults, according to a UW statement.

Gamm said the research findings were based on the ability to study stem cell composition.

“Our lab was interested in understanding the basic science behind how to take an undifferentiated stem cell and how to systematically get it to become something

as specialized as a photoreceptor cell in the retina,” Gamm said.

Lead study author Joseph Phillips said in an email to The Badger Herald the research team was able to discover this by observing collections of cells from early retinal structures.

The research showed for the first time that retinal cells can be derived from blood, Gamm said.

Past research in this area had only been successful by using the patient’s skin, which is more difficult to obtain than taking a blood sample, he added.

Gamm said the study also provided revolutionary evidence that human cells can be used to build primitive tissues and assemble themselves into layers, much like what is seen in the back of the eye.

According to Phillips, it is unclear whether the retinal structures will behave similarly to a real human eye. He added the human retina is highly organized and consists of several layers.

“The functions of the retina-like structures have not been directly tested yet, although our work suggests that some individual neurons may be functional,” Phillips said. “Further tests are

required to determine how much these structures behave like a real human retina.”

Phillips said the next step in the lab for eye research is to uncover underlying mechanisms s=o that scientists can direct the process and increase their efficiency.

This technology will hopefully lead to the creation of complex retinal tissues from stem cells to help people who were previously blind see in the future, Gamm said.

According to Gamm, the lab is also interested in building better models of retinas in a dish by working with blood samples of the patients.

Gamm said when a patient provides a blood sample, it is developed into a stem cell and then engineered into retinal tissue. The method is advantageous, he added, because scientists can use the individual’s sample as a model of that particular patient’s retina in a dish to test its response to drugs, understand how the disease affects that retina and ultimately find a way to stop it.

Gamm said he ultimately hopes to use the results found by his team to help families and children combat serious eye diseases in the future.

appear to lessen the GAB’s workload,” Kennedy said.

Republican Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Ben Sparks agreed with Kennedy in urging that GAB continue its efforts in ensuring the recall elections be held on the same date in order to reduce the escalating costs to Wisconsin taxpayers.

The statement from GAB said if the board determines there are enough valid signatures March 19, it would have to schedule the recall elections six weeks and

a day later — May 1. If a primary occurs, the May 1 election would turn into the date for the primary, and the general election would take place May 29.

University of Wisconsin political science professor Charles Franklin said Kleefisch was neither Walker’s nor the party’s first choice when she ran in the 2010 primary, and her lack of action or duties makes it difficult to determine what the numbers about the recall efforts against the governor.

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RECALL, from 1 Democratic Party of Wisconsin Graeme Zielinski said it is unclear why GAB continues their review efforts when it is clear there are more than enough signatures to ignite a recall against both Walker and Kleefisch.

Kennedy had a different view of the situation.

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State Rep. Robin Vos, R-Burlington, participated in a vote nearly along party lines Tuesday to send a bill prohibiting abortion funding through health care exchanges to Gov. Scott Walker.

ASSEMBLY, from 1 districts flexibility to meet local demands and does not stop school districts from providing current sex education programs.

“School boards have the responsibility to make sure they are going to teach human growth and development in a way that the voters in their district want them to teach it,” Thiesfeldt said.

Lawmakers also passed on a near party-line vote, 61-34, a bill prohibiting the coverage of abortions through health care exchanges created under the federal health care reform law.

The bill will also head to Walker for signing.

Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, questioned why government should have a role in women’s health care decisions when it does not have an “invasive” relationship with men’s.

“Why should government only care and regulate a woman’s reproductive choice?”

Berceau asked.

Berceau said no reason exists for government to be involved in this decision and accused Republican legislators of pushing social agendas when they should be focused on creating jobs.

Democratic legislators called the bill part of a “war on women.” Rep. Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc, called comments against the bill “disingenuous.”

“We have heard that this is an attack on women, a war on women’s rights,” Kleefisch said.

“But what about the war on the rights of the women who have not been born?”

Rep. Pat Strachota, R-West Bend, said the bill does not prohibit women from receiving an abortion but clarifies health care exchanges should not include coverage of abortions or have tax dollars paying for them so they can be consistent under state law.

A bill prohibiting the use of bribes to induce someone to sign or not sign a recall petition passed unanimously. The Senate also approved lifting the cap on Family Care enrollment.

At the beginning of the session, Ho-Chunk President Jon Greendeer delivered the State of the Tribes to legislators.

Greendeer called for more dialogue between state leaders and tribes.

The Assembly also passed a resolution honoring Wisconsin musicians Bon Iver and the band’s lead musician Justin Vernon on their 2012 Grammy Awards, and approved a bill adding cougar damage to a list of wildlife damage payments. Rep. Amy Vruwink, D-Milladore, requested a roll call vote.

“You want a roll call? Because I was just going to say that everyone in favor say meow,” Speaker Pro Temp Bill Kramer, R-Waukesha, said. After the roll call, Kramer noted, “That’s 97 meows and zero noes.”

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HR project sees stakeholder input UW staffers collaborate with 11 teams to provide feedback on overhaul proposals Katie Caron Higher Education Editor As part of an initiative to overhaul the Human Resources department at University of Wisconsin, the first of two engagement meetings allowed interested campus members to provide input Tuesday afternoon.

The meeting, which drew about 130 attendees according to Director of the Classified Human Resources office Mark Walters, involved breaking up participants into 11 stations for topics pertaining to specifically-charged work teams.

This meeting came as a development within the Human Resource Design project, which was part of the flexibility UW received in the 2011-13 state budget to restructure the pay system and create a more competitive department.

Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell, who is one of the executive sponsors of the project, said

MIFFLIN, from 1 Majestic Entertainment and Capital Neighborhoods, Inc. A major change to this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party will be the restriction of open alcohol containers in the street, which was permitted for the first time last year, Miller said.

Giannopoulos also said despite concerns that visiting students would be turned away from the event, city officials have decided not to impose restrictions

TRAFFICKING , from 1 5-Stones event, explained the misconceptions about and problems of human trafficking.

“Trafficking does not necessarily have to mean moving over state lines or international boundaries,” Hollendyke said. “It can happen in any number of ways, though it tends to occur among those who are in a vulnerable position.”

These examples can range from a father forcing his child to commit commercial sex acts for money in order to help pay the family’s rent, to an individual being kidnapped at a bus stop, drugged and forcibly held in a brothel overseas, Hollendyke said.

“Since it’s such a broad, misunderstood phenomenon, it is assumed to be largely underreported,” Hollendyke said.

Another problem 5-Stones recognizes is that a victim of sex trafficking can be arrested for prostitution and never recognized as a victim of trafficking, plaguing their record and life in such a way that makes it hard for these individuals to move on in life, Hollendyke said.

Victims of trafficking can have difficulty getting away from their captors because victims may fear for their lives,

in an academic staff assembly meeting Monday evening its primary aims are to create an HR system that is efficient, flexible, consistent and transparent.

“To get here, we need to make sure the system we design is going to be adaptable — this is a once-in-our-lifetime opportunity that’s in front of us right now to design a system that reflects the needs of a major public research university,” he said during the meeting Monday.

He added the primary goal of the two forums this week is to gain additional ideas from the campus community to ensure a variety of options for the project are considered by the 11 work teams.

Walters said that during Tuesday’s meeting each of the 11 stations had participants address each of the focuses of each work team that is currently looking at various aspects of HR for the overhaul.

The feedback provided at Tuesday and this Thursday’s meetings will inform the work

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UW faculty were split into groups to debate the proposals for the HR Design Project during the first of two engagement meetings Tuesday afternoon. Staff examined 11 different areas up for restructuring. teams, which will take the ideas into consideration before giving draft recommendations to a project team by the end of the month, Walters said.

“We’re going to roll up that feedback so that the work teams can address it before they’re going to be making recommendations by the end of March,” Walters said. “We wanted to have these forums to engage the campus and get its input.”

for entry onto Mifflin Street.

“We’re not restricting anyone from entering,” Giannopoulos said. “It’s not just solely for UW students, it’s everybody. We’re not blockading anything, putting up checkpoints or making anyone pay.”

Giannopoulos also stressed the importance of educating students on the importance of promoting safety at the 2012 party and its implications for the future of the event.

Mayer said ongoing

conversations between students and city officials will continue to take place as the Mifflin Street Block Party looms closer.

“We’re going to continue to seek student input on what we’re doing and what we’re trying to accomplish,” Mayer said.

A meeting to further discussions on the Mifflin Street Block Party between students and city officials will take place March 22 at 7 p.m. at the Madison Senior Center.

be held against their will by violence and drugs or believe that their trafficker has their best interests in mind, Hollendyke said.

Although sex trafficking is considered the most prominent form of human trafficking, JoAnn GruberHagen, a spokesperson for Slave Free Madison, believes labor trafficking also exists in Wisconsin, but is even harder to recognize.

“What I think most of us aren’t very good at is identifying that when we eat at a nice restaurant, we don’t know how these people cleaning our tables or doing our dishes are involved in the business [or if they are being paid],” Gruber-Hagen said. “In those situations they look like they are just doing their job.”

Gruber-Hagen also thinks agriculture is a big area where people tend to be exploited, which is only an estimate because of the fact that roughly 95 percent of the nationwide victims of labor trafficking are foreign-born, and many are undocumented.

This is in sharp contrast to sex trafficking, with the vast majority of nationwide sex trafficking victims being U.S. citizens, not people from another country as many suspect, Gruber-Hagen said.

In general, help geared specifically for victims

of sex trafficking is hard to come by, as the U.S. currently only has five shelters for victims, totaling just 42 beds, Hollendyke said.

In a recent analysis of each state’s laws, Shared Hope International, a global effort against sexual trafficking, rated Wisconsin with a “D” in addressing the overall problem.

Shared Hope International’s Protected Innocence Initiative identified Wisconsin’s lack of tools to conduct investigations and identify sex trafficking cases as the major sources of failure, leaving room for improvement with motivation from groups within the state, according to their website.

With nearly $1,800 raised through 5-Stone’s Awareness Through the Arts event, the organization plans to split the funds between establishing Wisconsin’s first shelter for these victims as well as developing a Wisconsinbased documentary on the issue, Hollendyke said.

Slave Free Madison hopes to continue alerting people of the crimes that are happening and also to work to pass legislation that will give law enforcement and other groups better ability to deal with the issue, Gruber-Hagen said.

Then, Walters said, there will be more forums in April before the final recommendations are reviewed by executive sponsors Interim Chancellor David Ward, Provost Paul DeLuca and Bazzell.

He said Tuesday’s meeting included discussion of a wide variety of topics, but highlights included benefits, compensation and employee categories

“As far as trends, people had a lot of good comments as far as compensation and benefits, but there was a really wide variety of things that were discussed,” he said.

Walters said the next meeting will involve the same process of rotating participants through each of the 11 work team topics.

According to a UW statement, the overall UW System has also been granted

flexibility to create its own HR structure. In addition, the final recommendations from seven of the work teams will tentatively be due by May 1, according to the statement.

The next campus engagement meeting will take place this Thursday 9-10:30 a.m. in the Upper Gulley of the Carson Gulley Commons.

—Campus Life Editor Jackie Allen contributed to this report.

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Special election, ‘Activist’ judges right to halt voter ID louder voices Alex Brousseau Editorial Board Chair Tonight, the Associated Students of Madison Student Council will be voting on whether to approve a special election so students can vote on the ASM Constitutional Committee’s proposed constitution, bylaws and financial code. A special election would put the proposal in the hands of the students, giving them the choice to decide, rather than keeping the decision in the hands of a very few.

Members of Student Council briefly debated the proposal at their last meeting, with many expressing concerns that students were not smart enough to understand the proposed documents and the difference from the current governing documents. One representative even went so far as to make a motion to postpone the proposal indefinitely so it would never see the light of day again.

The ACC and its supporters on Student Council are pushing for a special election because we think a decision as important as this should be left up to the students, not to a few people with their own agendas. We also do not agree that students at this university are not smart enough to make such an important decision. The University of Wisconsin is a world-class institution with some of the most intelligent

students in the nation — if a group of students can draft such a proposal, it is guaranteed others can understand it.

Student Council faced a similar dilemma last semester when they decided to approve a referendum on the fall ballot, which would gauge campus opinion on the proposed Memorial Union renovations. The main reasoning behind approving the referendum was to give students the opportunity to voice their opinion on something that would impact them on a daily basis.

Whether or not representatives agree with the ACC’s proposal, they should still vote for the special election for the same reason they approved the Memorial Union referendum last semester: a change to ASM’s governing documents would affect students on a daily basis.

They should have the power to decide on whether or not it is passed.

Student Council representatives should empower its students to make its decisions, not jam up legislation because they may not agree. Doing otherwise substitutes a representative’s own personal and political opinion with that of his or her constituents.

Students these days can occupy the state Capitol, help run campaigns for presidential candidates and dispense millions of dollars to student organizations.

The least Student Council can do is give them the power to decide their own form of governance.

Alex Brousseau (abrousseau@badgerherald. com) is a second year law student.

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Reginald Young Editorial Page Content Editor On Monday, a Dane County judge ruled Wisconsin’s voter ID law unconstitutional.

The Badger Herald reported that, as one would expect, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign spokesperson Mike McCabe praised the ruling, while the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s spokesperson, Ben Sparks, said Republicans are planning to appeal.

Cullen Werwie, a spokesman for Gov. Scott Walker, said, “It’s a shame activist Dane County judges continue to stand in the way of common sense,” according to the Huffington Post. The whole activist court argument has always seemed pretty myopic to me. If you feel an activist court ruling is “shameful,” then you must also think it’s a shame we have desegregated schools, because Brown v. Board of Education was an “activist” court decision at the time.

What the voter ID law comes down to is Wisconsin’s constitution.

Is it constitutional or not? There are five kinds of laws that can be passed regarding voting.

First, a law can be passed defining residency.

Presenting an ID to prevent voting fraud does not seem to be relevant to who qualifies as a resident. Yes, you must be a resident to vote, but that’s dealt with in the registration phase, not the actual voting.

Thus, the voter ID law doesn’t fall under the first category.

Second, a law can be passed “providing for the registration of voters.”

Since registering to be able to vote is different from ensuring you are who you are, the voter ID law doesn’t qualify here.

Third, a voting law may be passed if it relates to absentee voting. Again, the voter ID law doesn’t satisfy this requirement, since voting verification at the polls has naught to do with absentee voting.

Fourth, a law can be enacted if it regards the exclusion of felons or incompetent people.

While some may argue that only “incompetent” people won’t have a valid voter ID, Wisconsin’s constitution refers to a different sort of incompetence, and the voter ID law fails to fit this category.

Finally, a law can be passed if it regards extending voting rights

to groups, subject to ratification by the people. Again, requiring a voter ID doesn’t fall under this category.

Under the five criteria for what is a constitutional voting law, there isn’t much supporting the voter ID legislation. There’s nothing in our state constitution allowing government to regulate who can vote at the polls.

Most citizens, unfortunately, don’t hear the reasoning behind a court decision. They simply hear “the court ruled such-and-such law is or isn’t OK.” There will likely be backlash from Republicans, calling this a liberal, activist ruling, just as Democrats will probably argue it’s the “right” decision.

The ruling, however, is a great example of how courts are often perceived as making some sort of moral decision when ruling on the constitutionality of laws. Yes, there are some ideological decisions, but in this instance, based on the five criteria for voting legislation, the ID law is pretty obviously unconstitutional.

You might disagree, then, with the state constitution, and believe it should allow citizens to be required to present a voter ID. Unfortunately, the reality is no constitution is perfect. There will always be some who

disagree with some clause or section, since, after all, we live in an imperfect world.

Americans seem to feel they have some sort of entitlement to always being right. We grow up with notions like free speech and privacy and feel entitled that what we believe is always right and should be imposed on others. So if there’s a ruling or law we disagree with, we get viscerally outraged, instead of accepting that we can’t always get our way.

Law is law. While some legislation may benefit the ethics of some legislators and citizens, constitutions don’t possess morality.

They simply establish a framework for creating a long-lasting, operational governance system.

The recent voter ID law ruling will likely be both praised and denounced for being “right” or “wrong.” But its status wasn’t a question of ethics; it was a question of constitutionality.

This attribution of a sense of fairness in this instance reveals the “I want it my way, and only my way” mindset that has pervaded politics and continues to pull our state and country asunder.

Reginald Young (ryoung@badgerherald. com) is a junior majoring in legal studies and Scandinavian studies.

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History Joe Timmerman Staff Writer

TC Mask A Luchador Writer On the opinion page on this day in 2011, we were all on spring break. On the page in 2010, the Editorial Board celebrated the fact that the spring commencement speaker, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, was at least halfway decent. With still no commencement speaker set for this year and almost no money in the speaker fund, it seems as though we’ve regressed a little.

Former writer Andrew Carpenter cited the Daily Cardinal and railed against “blind acceptance of global warming propoganda.” Thank goodness we no longer think this is acceptable, although we may still doubt the veracity of global climate change.

Interestingly, columnist Charles Godfrey’s 3/12 column supported the theory of global warming and was hotly debated in the comment boards. Maybe the debate will be resolved in another two years when New York becomes an underwater city.

Finally, a columnist known only as TC Mask wrote on the merits of frat boy bare-knuckle boxing. The self proclaimed “luchador columnist,” said disputes among Sigma Chi members should be resolved by the principal, “two bros enter, one bro leaves.”

However, the most offense claim of the article is that bitter, “lead flavored” Egyptian wine was the precurosr to Pabst Blue Ribbon. The nerve.

Also, current Herald writers are dying to know: Who the hell was TC Mask, anyway? He should email us at oped@badgerherald.com.

If you’ve watched any TV over the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen Gov. Scott Walker’s new ad, titled “Promises Kept” (that’s not a joke). If you haven’t had the pleasure of seeing it, don’t fret — I’ll be doing a play-by-play of the ad in this week’s column. If you want to watch the ad and follow along, grab your popcorn, get some candy, mix yourself a (strong) drink and pop a sedative. You’ll need it.

So without further ado, let’s set the scene. The ad begins with Walker, dressed nicely, but not TOO nicely, because he’s an everyman just like one of us, seated on the edge of a comfortable-looking black chair, but not too comfortable, because not everyone can afford a comfortable black chair, and Walker is just like one of us. The background is a sort of antique white that is almost as intensely boring as Walker’s Twitter feed.

Across the bottom, the ad reads “Paid for by Friends of Scott Walker,” which I’d imagine is a very fun group of people to spend time with.

Walker begins his plea with a completely meaningless comparison between asymmetric statistics. First, he tells us that in the three years before he took office, Wisconsin lost almost 150,000 jobs. As he says this, a helpful arrow that reads “under Doyle” points to the number of jobs lost. He then informs us that the unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest it’s been since 2008.

Let’s take a look at this. Are both claims true? Absolutely. Does what he says mean what he wants us to think it means? Kind of. The problem is that it’s a fundamentally asymmetric comparison. Comparing job growth to unemployment is

Screenshot courtesy of Support Scott Walker

Gov. Scott Walker’s new video, “Promises Kept” draws on several sets of not comparable statistics. like comparing apples to oranges — they’re both similar, but not necessarily comparable. A more accurate comparison, but one that Walker isn’t likely to make, would be this: “In the year before I took office, Wisconsin gained 12,700 jobs. In the year after I took office, Wisconsin lost 4,500 jobs. Also, remember that I promised to create 250,000 jobs?” Now, to be fair, claims correlating job creation to control of government are just that — correlation. There’s no proof that the elected official had anything to do with it. I could just as easily say that in Walker’s first 13 months in office, the rate of Packers Superbowl wins has declined by 100 percent per year. Statistics can be tailored to fit a message.

In Walker’s first 13 months in office, the rate of Packers Superbowl wins has declined by 100 percent per year.

Walker now goes on to let us know that he balanced Wisconsin’s budget. True. But let’s not forget that the budget repair bill also stripped public employees’ collective bargaining rights and sparked the recall movement. Now, Walker helpfully makes it known that he’s held the line on property taxes. In fact, he quips, school

property taxes have actually gone down. Lower taxes, you say?! Sign me up! What our beloved governor fails to mention, though, is that he also slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from public education. How impressive! I’m sure Wisconsin’s schoolchildren are thrilled. I sure can’t wait to pay higher tuition.

Hang in there, we’re getting close to the end. The following are the helpful phrases that appear onscreen to summarize our illustrious governor’s talking points: “More money into the classroom.” Impressive, considering the $800 billion in education cuts.

“Protect our seniors.” While leaving future generations out to dry.

“Saved thousands of jobs.” But lost thousands more.

Walker then tells us, “We can’t go back to the days of (dramatic pause) billion dollar deficits and doubledigit tax increases.” I’ll give him that one. And finally, Walker asks us to help him oppose the recall and “keep moving Wisconsin forward.”

Forward? Like progress? Like progressives? That can’t be right, can it?

Alright, that’s a wrap folks.

Thanks for sticking with me (if you made it). I’m sure we’ll have plenty more of these to look forward to in the coming months.

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

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Sketching out big dreams Amanda Connors ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

R

ichard Simmons, the flamboyant man known for his “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” fitness videos and striped shorts, should be proud to know that he not only influenced thousands of people to lose weight, but also dramatically changed the life of one Green Bay native, Erin Kay Van Pay. While attending a friend’s birthday party at Comedy City, Erin, then 13, was chosen to be an audience volunteer for a guessing game in which she had to illustrate Simmons and a toothbrush using only pantomime and meaningless gibberish. She had never done improv before.

“I raised my hand and went up … and [Comedy City] approached me afterwards and asked if I wanted to be in the high school league. I said, ‘well, I’m only 13’ and they said ‘we don’t care, you can be in it,’” said Van Pay. Two years later, once she was able to drive, she joined.

Van Pay fell in love with improv and sketch comedy and went on to attend the University of Wisconsin in hopes of becoming a professional comedian. She will graduate in May with a degree in English and a degree in creative writing.

“I’ve gotten in trouble so many times for being the class clown, I figured I might as well make a career out of it,” she said.

Van Pay’s English and creative writing majors gave her a strong background in storytelling and fiction. “The workshops expanded my mind. It’s always good to read the tradition, to find out where stories and where tradition stands today and how things are passed down,” she said.

As part of her creative writing thesis, Erin Kay Van Pay wrote a one-woman show that she plans to re-work and perform once she gets to Chicago. The plot follows a dance recital and takes each genre of dance, such as jazz, Broadway and point ballet, and shows the characters and dances in a satirical light.

“I danced for years and years competitively and we had around five recitals a year. There are just certain tropes that are engrained in you, like the studio mom and all sorts of dance recital clichés,” she said.

She will also write and perform a show as part of her education at Second City, a very prestigious comedy theater in Chicago. She got into the program last year, but deferred in order to finish her education and her four-year stint with Atlas Improv Company in Madison.

The Second City program lasts

UW English and creative writing student Erin Kay Van Pay is an aspiring comedian with her eye on a career full of laughter. First stop: The Windy City

about a year and will hopefully give Van Pay the connections and training to allow her to succeed as a professional comedian.

“A lot of people from Saturday Night Live have come from Second City,” Van Pay said, naming Tina Fey as a prime example.

Fey, Amy Poehler, Maria Bamford and Amy Sedaris are some of Van Pay’s idols. Van Pay really admires women in comedy and would like to see more women bending gender roles and stereotypes.

“There are prejudices about women in comedy. Some people think that women aren’t funny. [I think] it’s not really a competition; it’s about what you can bring to the table. Everybody has a chance at being the best and being the funniest,” Van Pay said, adding that she encourages any woman interested in improv and comedy to try it out.

“I’ve gotten in trouble so many times for being the class clown, I figured I might as well make a career out of it.”

Erin Kay Van Pay UW Senior Starting improv at 15-years-old helped Van Pay to gain confidence and self-esteem. She said that improv has not only helped her confidence onstage, but in life as well. Van Pay cited an instance in which she wore a leotard to a party, and a few girls came up to her and asked her how she had the guts to do it. She was amazed because it had not occurred to her to be worried or self-conscious about what she was wearing.

Improv has also helped Van Pay learn how to listen to others.

“The whole concept of ‘yes, and’ [from improv] helps you in everyday relations. Somebody puts something out there and instead of saying ‘no,’ you go along with it and through your responses in everyday situations, you learn how to make people feel good about themselves and how to really have a conversation and how to communicate,” she said.

According to Van Pay, the important thing is to “follow the fear” and allow yourself to fail.

Failure is bound to happen in the

Photo courtesy of Erin Kay Van Pay

Erin Kay Van Pay believes that the skills learned in improv comedy are also applicable and important to everyday life. She’s worked with Madison’s Atlas Improv Company for four years and plans to move to Chicago to work with Second City after she graduates. arts and there are going to be people who are against you, she said.

One of the biggest and scariest steps for any creative person to take is to move away and attempt to make a living solely on their art.

“What you’re afraid of — I think it’s a sign to you that if you overcome it, you’re gaining something. You’re gaining something really big and there’s a reason you’re afraid of it,” she said.

One of the biggest and scariest

steps for any creative person to take is to move away and attempt to make a living solely on their art. Van Pay is not worried about the move because she has strong ties to Chicago, thanks to a semester in Chicago with program called Comedy Studies in fall 2010.

As for making a living from comedy, Van Pay knows it will be difficult, but has accepted the challenge.

“In this day and age, you aren’t going to make money doing anything except being an engineer or a doctor, and that’s totally fine because those people have their own visions and I respect them greatly.

But people who are artists? If that’s what you want to do, get a job being a waitress and do your art or get a job being a server and do your art. You are going to be so much happier.”

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SO to all the Brewer Shirts on campus. Now you know it’s almost spring. can’t wait for opening day!

SO to the girl on Observatory who was using her umbrellas like a pimp cane.

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ASO to when you decide to spit on your pillow in your sleep because for some reason in your dream you were chewing rocks and spitting them out to make concrete...

ASO to my hair being way bigger than Gretchen Weiners’ hair and yet not containing one single secret. Unfair.

SO to sand being in places it shouldn’t.

I actually welcome that. Beach volleyball weather, baby!!!

SO to the men in the parking lot behind Babcock who were dressed in Medieval garb and hitting each other with swords and lances.

SO to two bros sharing one umbrella ASO to cream cheese in the cardboard box, what’s the point its like 12 cents cheaper and way less easy to use.

SO to people who have a really hard time transitioning from winter to spring.

It’s like you don’t trust the weather in the morning and partially dress for a blizzard, just in case. SO to your uggs and dresses. SO to your tank tops and scarves. SO to your winter jackets and

SO to there always being a trampled Daily Cardinal on the bathroom floors in Vilas. Couldn’t think of a better use myself.

ASO to all those 2012 believers who are seeing this week’s forecast and preaching doom. Calm down Nostra-douches, the state has seen record level high’s like this before.

SO to “We Are the Champions” coming on my iPod as I reached the top of Bascom Hill this morning.

How utterly appropriate.

HMFSO to french toast, you rock my socks. That is all.

SO to the big blemish on my cheek. At first I was upset you were there, but then people kept asking if I had gotten into a fight with another ASO to stale Reese’s girl. “Why yes... I Puffs. When I’m stoned did. And she looks at 1am, I expect worse than I do.” deliciousness in my bowl. Not cardboard.

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Aspiring movie makers release finished product UW-Hollywood Badgers undaunted by small budget Holly Hartung ArtsEtc. Reporter There’s no doubt that finals week is a stressful time. While most students were holed up in the library cramming for exams, one ambitious group of University of Wisconsin students was dealing with another set of stresses.

UW-Hollywood Badgers spent their finals week filming a movie that was the culminating project after a semester of planning.

“Anyone can upload a video to YouTube. You can shoot a movie on your iPhone. We didn’t want to just come up with a storyline and shoot it. We wanted to go through each step of making a feature film,” said Matt McCoy, one of the film’s producers.

Last fall semester, the student group oversaw the production of a 30-minute film from the screenwriting process, to location scouting, character casting, shooting and editing. Now, they will be screening their first film, “The Plunge,” Saturday in Vilas Hall.

UW-Hollywood Badgers is the student chapter of Hollywood Badgers, an alumni group that helps alumni in Los Angeles and New York network with the goal of getting a job in the entertainment industry.

The student chapter holds weekly meetings that include workshops about writing resumes and cover letters as well as social events like Oscar parties.

President of UWHollywood Badgers and Executive Producer for “The Plunge” Chase Ellman said the group encourages students to start making their dreams a reality sooner rather than later. “People should just do what they want to do in life. I don’t know how much more simple I can put it than that,” he said.

“The Plunge” stars Colten Zacharias as Josh, Nicholas Van Brunt as Adam, and Abigail Taubner as Isabel.

Josh and Adam are estranged brothers. When Adam shows up at Josh’s door, Josh struggles to incorporate his brother back into his life and is not sure how to tell his girlfriend Isabel about his brother.

“If I can be cliché, it’s an interweaving of two

emotional journeys,” Brendan Wolf, another producer, said somewhat jokingly.

Ellman has had several internships in L.A. that prepared him to produce this film. Despite his experience, he said “The Plunge,” which was produced on a $500 budget, will have a distinct student-produced flair.

“I wouldn’t say [the film] mimic[s] Hollywood aspect.

We’re students. We could decide to smile and have fun or be serious. Hollywood sets are not really fun and we were trying to blend both aesthetics,” he said.

Whereas finding a location to shoot in L.A. is cutthroat and costly, the Madison community was very receptive to their production.

“Here it’s a novelty, almost.

People would look at us and we were like, ‘Don’t look at the screen! We’re making a movie here!’” Ellman said.

The movie was shot entirely in Madison at locations that students will recognize, including the Kollege Klub, MacTaggart’s Market, and the Memorial Union docks.

Like in Hollywood, the film was a collaborative project, an approach Ellman emphasized. The screenplay, written by Máire Jacobs, was

Photo courtesy of UW Hollywood Badgers

The student arm of a national alumni networking organization, UW-Hollywood Badgers screens its 30-minute film, “The Plunge” this weekend.

chosen from six written by various members of UWHollywood Badgers.

Ellman, McCoy, Wolf and Jason Schwartz produced the film. It was directed by W.E. Halamka and shot by Logan Cascia, who also made “Teach Me How to Bucky.” Ben Simons and Mike Denruiter

edited the final product.

Wolf said he was particularly impressed with other students’ patience and willingness to give up their free time, especially during finals. He said it typically takes several hours to shoot what appears as only a minute or two onscreen.

As for the future, UWHollywood Badgers is working on two more films, which they hope to finish by the end of the semester.

“The Plunge” screens Saturday at 3 p.m. at Cinematheque in 4070 Vilas Hall.

THE BADGER HERALD PRESENTS HUMP DAY

Time for a quickie? Brief sex answers, sans briefs It’s that time of week again, and the day we all look forward to — Hump Day. This week, I’m tackling as many of your questions as possible by answering them in 20 words or less. You ready?

Amie Kjellstrom Hump Day Columnist

What’s a good sex position for a man with a

small penis?

Load up on the foreplay, then choose a position that maximizes depth and friction, like doggy style.

I’ve heard that the hormones in birth control can affect your sex drive.

Is that true?

It depends on the individual and the type of pill. If you’re concerned about your libido, talk to your OB/GYN.

Does every single man orgasm every single time?

are.

What does “bukkake” mean?

When multiple men take turns ejaculating on a man or woman, usually on his or her face during porn.

Nope. Two words: whiskey dick.

What are some reasons a person might choose to be in a porno?

What’s the best song to have sex to?

Money, 15 minutes of fame, empowerment, adrenaline rush, curiosity…

If you like it rough, STP’s “Interstate Love Song.”

Want to slow it down?

Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks.”

Are there people out there who would let me cum on their face?

Is there any method of birth control that’s 100 percent effective?

Has anyone ever had sex in a church?

Not just yet, but when inserted correctly, IUDs (intra-uterine devices) are over 99 percent effective.

Squirting: real or fake?

Yep.

Think of the children …

Rinse with cold water. If your eye gets infected, or if your partner has an STI, head to the doctor.

Do all women have a G-spot?

No one knows for sure.

In fact, some scientists are still debating whether the G-spot even exists.

How do I tell my boyfriend I want more foreplay?

Say, “Baby, I want more foreplay.”

Is it normal to still be having wet dreams in college?

Perhaps a bit of a surprise in the morning, but wet dreams are perfectly healthy at every age.

Although sometimes fabricated in porn, squirting is very real and possible with a bit of practice.

Will using my vibrator affect my birth control pills?

Every clitoris has about the same number of nerve endings, though a larger clit may be easier to stimulate directly.

What’s the worst mistake a person can make when giving cunnilingus?

Can I catch an STD if I only put it in for a few seconds?

What’s a good position for a threesome to make sure that everyone gets some?

Can you suggest a good position for having sex in a tiny dorm bed?

Does having a bigger clitoris make it easier to orgasm?

The human centipede.

What’s the deal with those rabbit vibrators?

Why are they so popular?

Because they stimulate everything.

Is there a good way to give my jaw a rest when giving a guy a blowjob?

If you’re cramping up, put your lips around the tip and then masturbate him with your hand for a while.

What if the condom slips off inside of me after intercourse?

If you’re using a condom to prevent STIs or pregnancy, you’ll be at risk and should get checked out ASAP.

What’s the best sex toy in the world?

Ultimately, the best sex toy is whatever gets you off best, though this may take a bit of experimentation.

Is it possible to fit two penises into a single vagina or anus?

Possible? Yes. Painful?

Sounds like it. Going for it anyway? Lube up.

Are people in pornography sex addicts?

Some may be, but not all

Nope. Fire away.

Yep.

Biting off the clitoris.

Spooning or facing each other. Or Skype.

How long does it really take a man to “recharge” after orgasm?

Depends on the dude and his age, but it can take anywhere from minutes to hours to days.

What’s the term for the fetish for dressing up in plush animal costumes and gettin’ down?

Plushophilia: being sexually attracted to stuffed animals or people dressed in animal costumes.

Where can I get a Clone-A-Pussy?

Internet.

Do people actually die from erotic asphyxiation? If so, how many?

Erotic asphyxiation, suffocating oneself to heighten orgasm or sexual response, causes approximately 1,000 deaths in the U.S. every year.

Do all vaginas and/or anuses feel the same to a man’s penis?

More or less the same, but with subtle differences in size and shape.

What should I do if I get semen in my eye?

What do I do if I rip my foreskin?

Abstain from intercourse for awhile to let the cut heal. If the tear gets infected, see a doctor ASAP.

I feel like I’m the only woman I know who’s never had an orgasm.

That can’t be true, right?

Right. According to a recent study by the Kinsey Institute, approximately 1015 percent of women have never had an orgasm.

It’s always awkward for me when I have to use lube, but I definitely need it sometimes. Is this something I should be embarrassed about?

Many people use lube for everything from intercourse to anal — there’s no need to feel embarrassed at all.

What does it actually mean to “deep throat” during oral sex?

You’re “deep throating” if you take a penis past your gag reflex.

Do guys like having their nipples licked?

Depends on the guy!

Some like it, some don’t.

Only one way to find out.

That’s all this week from me, Badgers. ‘Til next time.

Send Amie suggestions for her final few columns of the year at humpday@ badgerherald.com.

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The Badger Herald | Sports | Wednesday, March 14, 2012

EX-SPENCE, from 12 team out.”

On top of all of the onfield accomplishments, Spence is one of the leaders in the locker room.

“She gives us the kind of leadership we need as a program,” coach Yvette Healy said. “I think that the upperclassmen leadership is really important to a group as young and trying to build towards a championship as this team is.”

Spence has also been one of the leaders offensively for the Badgers this year, as well as being named Offensive MVP of the team as a freshman.

“It is definitely noticeable when she is not in the lineup,” Healy said. “She is a big student athlete and spends a lot of time in the weight room and just being as strong as she can be.

“When she’s swinging well, she is definitely an intimidating young woman

FORGETTABLE, from 12

Noah Willman The Badger Herald

Brittany Ammerman is fifth in offensive output with 28 points on 11 goals and 17 assists this season for the Badgers.

Sister act approaches finale in Frozen Four Brooke, Brittany Ammerman reflect on playing time together at UW Zach Nelson Sports Writer As the Wisconsin women’s hockey team prepares for this weekend’s Frozen Four in Duluth, Minn., sisters Brooke and Brittany Ammerman could be playing together for the last time. It will be the final weekend as a Badger for Brooke, who is a senior on the team.

Last season, Wisconsin beat Boston University 4-1 to win the national championship.

Both Brooke and Brittany would like nothing more than to repeat last season and celebrate a title together for one final time. For both sisters, it was an experience they will never forget.

“It was really special,” Brooke said. “Our family is really close and they were there to enjoy it there with us as well. It’s something you dream of, and hopefully we can do it again this year.”

Brittany, a sophomore on the team this year, said winning a championship is something many siblings do not get to experience.

“It was a feeling that you can’t really describe to anyone,” Brittany said. “We worked so hard and worked our whole lives together for that one moment. It was probably one of the best feelings I’ve had in my entire life.”

Brooke has been a key member for the Badgers since she first began her career at Wisconsin. She has scored 96 goals in her career as well as dishing out 116 assists. This season, Brooke has scored 32 goals and totaled 42 assists, both of which rank second on the team behind teammate

Brianna Decker. These numbers have her ranked third in the WCHA in goals and fifth in assists.

Brooke is equally if not more effective on the power play. She leads the team in power play goals with 12, a total that also leads the WCHA. The fact that she has experienced this success with her sister makes it even more special to her.

“It was a cool experience,” Brooke said. “I don’t know how many siblings get to play with each other. Seeing how successful we’ve been makes it even more unique.”

The Ammerman sisters have many similarities, as most siblings do. Both of them are forwards on the team and also attended high school at the North American Hockey Academy, where they played together for only one season.

Despite their similarities, they also have their differences: Brooke shoots the puck right-handed, while Brittany shoots it lefthanded.

Coach Mark Johnson said some of their similarities don’t necessarily have to do with their hockey skills.

“They both have a pretty good sense of humor and generally have a smile on their faces,” Johnson said.

“They also like each other, which is nice considering that’s not always the case with siblings.”

Even though Brittany is only a sophomore, she already dug out a niche for herself on the team.

Brittany has scored 11 goals this season while tallying 17 assists on the year. Brittany also scored a game-winning goal against Boston University in October earlier this season.

Brittany’s numbers are also similar to Brooke’s in her first two seasons at Wisconsin. Brooke scored 20 goals her sophomore year compared to Brittany’s 11 and also had 20 assists

her sophomore year in comparison to the 18 assists that Brittany has this year.

Brittany knows that it will be different next year without having her sister around.

“I think it will be twofold,” Brittany said.

“It will be really sad that she’s gone because I’ve only experienced college with her here. It’s a great experience playing with your sister, and we’re best friends. But I also think it will be exciting to experience things on my own and have my own sort of spotlight.”

Brittany will not be the only one who will miss her older sister. The Badgers have experienced great success since the eldest Ammerman has been on the team. The Badgers have been to the Frozen Four in three of Brooke’s four seasons at Wisconsin, winning the national title — thus far — in two of them.

Johnson said it is always hard when players graduate but that it also will be an opportunity for Brittany.

“The hard part is when kids graduate who have been as successful as Brooke has been,” Johnson said. “I’ll miss those things, certainly on the ice. I’m sure Brittany will miss her, but it may be an opportunity for her to take a larger role, become more independent and become more of a leader on the team.”

“Obviously it was an awesome experience,” Brooke said. “Being able to go to the Frozen Four three times, win two national championships and be as successful as we were — I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

As successful as these two sisters have been together, they have one final shot to win that one final championship and end their experience, together, as champions.

the .500 mark, Wisconsin’s group of 20 underclassmen and six upperclassmen began to gel, showing the beginnings of perhaps a bright future on the horizon for the program.

“It’s too bad we couldn’t be playing like that earlier in the year, especially in the midsection there, when we were going through that drought,” sophomore center Mark Zengerle said.

“But that’s how the hockey season is; the playoffs start in March.”

Rookie goaltender Joel Rumpel won three WCHA Rookie of the Week awards during a season that saw him record a UW freshman record of three shutouts, the last of which came when he shut out Denver in the opening playoff game.

Junior defenseman Justin Schultz and Zengerle each had Hobey Baker-caliber seasons.

Zengerle came within one game of tying Eaves’ school record point streak, reaching 21 consecutive games. Zengerle also led Wisconsin with 50 total

ERICKSON, from 12 one of the final series of the regular season. Even though UW dropped game two 2-1, they still showed promise, leading U of M 1-0 headed into the third.

Along came Denver again. And with a 1-0 victory in game one of the series, Wisconsin had the fire and momentum that made them a dangerous team to face.

Unfortunately, after a few mistakes that led to key goals for the Pioneers in the ensuing nights, UW had to pack its bags and set its sights on the offseason, letting go of its forgettable ‘11-’12 campaign.

But the potential for next year is nothing to scoff at.

Despite losing freshman blueliner Patrick Daly March 13 — two days after Wisconsin’s overtime heartbreak — because he wished to focus on school, the Badgers are currently expecting to return their entire roster sans senior Eric Springer and hot NHL prospect Schultz. In regard to Schultz, while he hasn’t announced anything yet, word on the street is he’ll finish out the semester but the kid is as good as gone.

I won’t complain if I’m wrong, though.

In all honesty, none of the freshmen are quite ready to say auf wiedersehen to college hockey just yet.

up there. Having her there really makes everyone around her better. When players are scared to pitch to her, everyone around her hits better.”

Not everything has been easy for Spence, as the junior has made her return this season from an injury that sidelined her for the entire 2011 season.

“It’s a continuous process,” Spence said.

“I can’t say that I am completely healed, but I’m well enough to be playing.”

“Molly is a special student athlete,” said Healy. “She was out all of last year injured. Even this fall and winter she has spent a lot of time rehabbing and playing through pain and injury.

She is a student athlete where things haven’t come easy to her, but she is extremely talented.”

Spence has shown that she is a strong person through all of the difficulties of the past year.

She says the main key to

her success is continuing to work hard.

“I think it would have been easy for me to just give up after last year,” said Spence. “I had support from every single person in my life to continue to play, and my teammates really helped me and pushed me along the way.”

She hopes to continue her hot streak this coming weekend as the team travels to California for the Gaucho Classic to play five more games.

The injury has changed the perspective of the game of softball for her as well.

“It’s really made me appreciate the game more,” Spence said.

“Sometimes you get to the point where you don’t want to go to practice or play, but sitting out and watching my team play for a year made me want to be back on the field so much more. It has made me love the game in a whole new way.”

points on the season with 13 goals and 37 assists.

Zengerle’s efforts earned him a 2012 Third-Team AllWCHA honor. As a whole, Wisconsin also tied a team record with eight players named to the WCHA AllAcademic team.

Schultz became just the third-ever two-time winner of the WCHA Defensive Player of the Year award, as well as a 2012 FirstTeam All-WCHA selection.

In a year that may wind up being his last in the cardinal and white as he contemplates moving on to the NHL, Schultz tallied 44 points on 16 goals and 28 assists.

Schultz has remained quiet on his future thus far, but regardless of whether he should return for his senior season, the Badgers will find themselves loaded and extremely motivated after this season’s tough playoff exit.

“If you look where we have come from the beginning of the year, we have come miles,” Schultz said. “If we did have a couple more games, we would be a dominating

force. I still think we can compete with any team in this league right now and across the country.”

Although Eaves said the tears fell in the locker room after their final game, likely over what could have been the end of a career for one senior and possibly others, two key points are clearly visible as the Badgers look to take another step forward into next season.

The Badgers showed how good they could be this season. They know how hard they had to work to improve as much as they did this season and realized how close they were to putting the total package together. Even though they fell short of their ultimate goal, they aren’t going to continue to hang their heads. The players know they did everything they could in Denver and Eaves was proud of the effort.

“One of our goals was have no regrets,” Eaves said.

“That’s the one thing we can control, not so much the win or loss but that factor in itself. They left everything out there. We have no regrets.”

The only other Badger besides Schultz who could realistically make the jump would be Zengerle, but as he told Andy Baggot from the Wisconsin State Journal on March 9, he’ll be “right here, 100 percent.”

In fact, he made one of the biggest assists of the season Friday night in Denver, bringing the puck down the ice and crashing to the net, where he slid the puck through a Denver player’s skates and put it on net where Sean Little was waiting to knock it in.

The future is certainly bright for the kid.

The freshman forwards certainly enjoyed a lot of playing time — something that drew Joseph LaBate to Wisconsin in the first place. He led the freshman class this season with five goals and 15 assists, seeing a lot of playing time on UW’s top line.

Most notably, the Badgers will have both freshmen Joel Rumpel and Landon Peterson back between the pipes.

The two largely split time through the first half of the season before Rumpel became Eaves’ go-to netminder. Rumpel finished the year with a .919 save percentage through 26 games, earning a 12-12-2 record and three shutouts.

While the individual efforts should be noted, the season essentially proved when the Badgers were on as a team, they could be as dangerous as any team out there. They created success against some of the nation’s top teams, snatching wins here and there along the way.

With all these returning weapons and those that have remained unmentioned, next year certainly seems to be a promising campaign for the Badgers, with the variety of experiences they’ve faced in the last year.

Zengerle and the rest of the underclassmen faced a lot of playing time and gained a great deal of experience this season that will pay dividends as next season rolls around.

Zengerle and the rest of the underclassmen faced a lot of playing time and gained a great deal of experience this season that will pay dividends as next season rolls around.

While Zengerle’s 50-point season stands out, other guys started to take important strides as the season wound down.

Forwards Tyler Barnes and Michael Mersch both posted 11 and 14 goals respectively on the season and finished with a total of 56 points between them.

Defenseman Frankie Simonelli — paired for the vast majority of the season with Schultz — finished with 18 points on five goals and 13 assists clearly learned a lot from his d-partner, turning into one of the Badgers’ best defensemen.

Speaking of defensemen, freshman Jake McCabe — the youngest player currently on the Badgers roster — proved to be one of the Badgers’ stingiest and most promising blueliners, posting 12 points in 26 games (he missed 11 games due to a freak hand-to-skate accident on the bench).

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The Badger Herald | Sports | March 14, 2012

TOP FIRST ROUND GAMES (12) Harvard vs.

(5) Vanderbilt Thurs., March 15, 3:40 p.m.

(12) South Florida vs.

(12) California Wed., March 14, 8:10 p.m.

One of four play-in games to kick off the NCAA tournament and likely the most entertaining — if you like play-ins. USF didn’t get much respect after going 12-6 in the Big East and Cal finished second in a weak Pac-12, but there is little doubt each squad has talented players.

Vandy is coming off a huge upset win over Kentucky to win the SEC Tournament, but Harvard will be desperate to win a first-round game, not having been invited to the tournament since 1946. And historically 12 seeds do well in the first round.

(10) Purdue vs.

(7) Saint Mary’s Fri., March 16, 6:27 p.m.

Purdue is the only Big Ten school that will face a higherseeded first round opponent.

The Boilermakers can prove how tough the Big Ten was with a victory over the Gaels who have won four straight games and won the WCC with a 27-5 overall and 14-2 WCC record.

NUMBER OF THE WEEK

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The number of assists by Florida State guard Luke Loucks in the Seminoles’ 85-82 ACC Championship game. Loucks added 10 points and six rebounds to outplay UNC star point guard Kendall Marshall.

NATIONAL RANKINGS AP Top 25 1. Kentucky (61) 2. Syracuse (1) 3. Missouri (2) 4. UNC (1) 5. Michigan St. 6. Kansas 7. Ohio State 8. Duke 9. Baylor 10. Florida State 11. Marquette 12. Murray State 13. Michigan

14. Wisconsin 15. Georgetown 16. Indiana 17. Louisville 18. Wichita State 19. Creighton 20. Vanderbilt 21. New Mexico 22. SDSU 23. UNLV 24. Saint Mary’s 25. Florida

TEAM OF THE WEEK

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

You will be hard pressed to find a better feel-good story than the 30 points off the bench that Wisconsin got from Wilson against Indiana on Friday. A senior, Wilson’s previous careerhigh was 13 points before nailing a school- and tournament-record seven 3-pointers in the Badgers’ 79-71 victory over the Hoosiers.

NAISMITH WATCH 1. Thomas Robinson, F, Kansas 17.9 ppg, 11.8 rpg, 1.9 apg 2. Anthony Davis, F, Kentucky 14.3 ppg, 10.0 rpg, 4.6 bpg 3. Kevin Jones, F, W. Virginia 20.1 ppg, 11.1 rpg, 1.0 bpg 4. Draymond Green F, Mich. St. 16.1 ppg, 10.4 rpg, 3.6 apg 5. Doug McDermott, F, Crei.

23.2 ppg, 8.2 rpg, 1.1 apg

CONFERENCE POWER RANKINGS

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Big Ten — The Big Ten’s level of competition keeps them in the No. 1 spot this week after a great tourney in Indianapolis, but the NCAA Tournament is the perfect opportunity for risers and fallers by next week.

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Big 12 — Rather impressively, the Big 12 was able to secure six bids into the NCAA Tournament, tying the Big Ten for second most, and at least Kansas and Missouri need to be considered national title threats.

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Big East — The Big East led the pack with nine bids into The Dance, but year after year the Big East has failed to meet expectation and with the exception of Syracuse or Marquette making a run, expect more of the same.

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ACC — Duke and North Carolina must be reeling after each lost to Florida State in the ACC tournament, but they each managed a one and two seed respectively. We’ll see if an inadequate bottom-half of the league has the ACC ready for tournament play.

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SEC — The rest of the SEC finally showed some fight against kingpin Kentucky in the SEC tournament and the Wildcats finally broke. Every game in the NCAAs will feel much the same. Will UK crumble?

14. Michigan 15. Georgetown 16. Saint Mary’s 17. Indiana 18. Louisville 19. Wichita State 20. Creighton 21. Florida 22. New Mexico 23. SDSU 24. Vanderbilt 25. UNLV

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1. Kentucky (30) 2. Syracuse 3. Missouri (1) 4. Michigan St. 5. UNC 6. Kansas 7. Ohio State 8. Duke 9. Murray State 10. Baylor 11. Marquette 12. Florida State 13. Wisconsin

ACC

Hard not to go with Florida State after they beat Duke and North Carolina to take home its first-ever ACC Championship. The two wins gave the ‘Noles a 2-1 series advantage over Duke this season and a rare season sweep of the Tar Heels. After starting the season 9-6, a No. 3 seed was well-deserved.

TOP PERFORMANCE

USA Today Top 25

FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS

Florida State Seminoles

A second loss may prove useful later on for Kentucky, but Taylor and the Commodores don’t care. Taylor led Vandy with 18 points and 11 boards, eventually ending Kentucky’s 24-game winning streak. It is just Vanderbilt’s second-ever SEC Championship and the first since 1951.

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There is little argument that Kentucky is the most athletic team in the field of 68, but will they be able to overcome their youth and win a national championship?

Tourney Regional Breakdowns Brett Sommers Statistics Editor South Region Kentucky received the overall No. 1 seed and deservedly so, but there is plenty of competition within the South region that could cause the Wildcats some problems — and one team already has. Can anyone challenge the Cats to make a run to the Final Four?

Dream Matchup: (1) Kentucky vs. (4) Indiana. Ahh, the aforementioned troublemaker.

Indiana gave Kentucky its only loss of the entire regular season when the Wildcats visited Assembly Hall in Bloomington on Dec. 10. It took Christian Watford’s shot of the year at the buzzer to fell UK 73-72, and who doesn’t want to see a rematch of that in the Sweet 16 if both teams make it?

Cinderella: (7) Notre Dame. VCU again? A year after it went to the Final Four? Actually, look for the Fighting Irish to have a chance at an Elite Eight run. A seven seed may not be the most ridiculous Cinderella story, especially as the third-place Big East finisher, but potential wins over an inconsistent Duke and a talented Baylor Bears squad would be impressive.

Going Home Early: (2) Duke or (4) Indiana. If a top four seed goes home over the first weekend, it will be either the Blue Devils or the Hoosiers. The Blue Devils, however, will find the Fighting Irish’s perimeter defense and strong frontcourt play on offense a tough matchup if both teams potentially advance.

Winner: Kentucky. It’s not just a safe bet; it is a smart bet. There isn’t a more athletic team in college basketball and the loss in the SEC title game should ease some of the pressure. This could finally be Coach Cal’s year.

East Region Syracuse and Ohio State could both be in jeopardy of falling before the Final, as each has multiple challenging potential matchups before they would ever play each other. In fact, outside of OSU and Syracuse, the East holds three other teams from power six conferences that played in their conference tournament championship game — Vanderbilt (won), Florida State (won) and Cincinnati (runner-up).

Dream Matchup: (1) Syracuse vs.

(5) Vanderbilt. The Commodores have a great perimeter game, averaging almost nine 3-pointers per game. Vandy’s ability from deep could stretch the Syracuse zone, allowing Vandy’s skilled big-man

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tandem of Jeffery Taylor and Festus Ezeli could send the Orange’s mascot rolling home early.

Cinderella: (12) Harvard. The Ivy League champs haven’t been to the Big Dance since 1946, so why not? If anybody deserves to be a Cinderella it’s a team whose evil intra-conference step-sisters have kept it locked up for 56 years.

Vandy is a tough draw for Harvard in the first round, but it should be a great matchup.

Going Home Early: (4) Wisconsin. The Badgers look like the high-seeded team to be sent packing in the first round; probably not against Montana, but the Commodores or the Crimson will likely give the Badgers’ hit-or-miss offense all kinds of trouble in the second round. Wisconsin lives and dies with the three, and a team with strong interior presence and solid post play could doom a droughtsusceptible Wisconsin team to an early fate.

Winner: (3) Florida State. The Seminoles have beaten Duke and North Carolina twice this year and won the ACC tournament. Call me an optimist that they can keep it up, but there is not a single dreadfully scary team in the East region that the ‘Noles can’t beat.

Midwest Region North Carolina swiped the No. 1 seed away from Duke a couple of weeks ago with a win at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Now the Tar Heels will have to navigate arguably the deepest region of the bracket.

Kansas, Michigan and even San Diego State are just a few teams that could challenge UNC. Dream Matchup: (1) North Carolina vs. (2) Kansas. Dynamic players on both squads make this a marquee matchup for more reasons than just a one seed vs. two seed matchup. A game featuring Harrison Barnes, Tyler Zeller, Kendall Marshall and John Henson (if healthy) vs. Tyshawn Taylor and POY candidate Thomas Robinson is appealing to any fan of up-tempo offense and future NBA lottery picks. With a trip to New Orleans on the line if these two teams meet, this game has the potential to be the best of the tournament.

Cinderella: (6) San Diego State.

The Aztecs lost a core group of players to the NBA last season, but really didn’t miss a beat, making it back to March Madness. They have a pair of guards in Chase Tapley (43 3PT percent) and Jamaal Franklin (17.2 ppg, 7.9 rpg) that can challenge any team in the Midwest region.

Going Home Early: (3) Georgetown. I’m not buying into

the Hoyas this year. A projected three seed for weeks before they were awarded that designation, the Hoyas have lost to some questionable opponents — specifically Pittsburgh and Seton Hall — and have not won more than two consecutive games since Jan. 21.

Winner: (2) Kansas. The Jayhawks have the senior leadership and the phenomenal talent required to reach the Final Four. An elite matchup of UNC and KU seems likely, but the Tar Heels still have not proved they have the mental toughness to be a champion.

West Region Michigan State pulled it off, finally escaping the grips of the three-way first place tie atop the Big Ten conference. The committee had no choice after the Spartans won the Big Ten tournament, but it has been clear for some time that Michigan State was the class of the conference despite its slip-up in securing the Big Ten outright.

Dream Matchup: (2) Missouri vs.

(3) Marquette. Each team has a stud guard in Marcus Denmon (17.6 ppg) for the Tigers and Darius JohnsonOdom (18.5 ppg) for the Golden Eagles. If this matchup happens, an interesting facet to the game will be Marquette’s ability to shoot the three-ball. Marquette doesn’t shoot particularly well — just 33.7 percent from three on the season — but over its conference slate, Missouri’s 3-point defense was a terrible 41.5 percent clip.

Cinderella: (12) Long Beach State. Winners of 18 of its last 20 games, Long Beach State could be poised to make a valiant run in the tournament. The 49ers played a strong non-conference schedule against the likes of UNC, Kansas, Louisville and Creighton. They didn’t win any of those games, but they were close and crazy things happen in March.

Going Home Early: (5) Louisville.

Louisville just ran the table through the Big East tournament, but will run a gauntlet of good teams no matter who advances through the first couple of rounds. I’m not saying the Cardinals are going to lose early; they just appear to be in the most danger early in the tournament.

Winner: (1) Michigan State.

Michigan State dominated the Big Ten tournament field, forgiving the narrow win over the Buckeyes in the championship game. Izzo leads his teams to Final Fours and this Spartans team looks as good as any Izzo has ever had.

3 POINTERS

After St. Bonaventure defeated Xavier in the Atlantic 10 tournament, effectively eliminating a desperate bubble team, NCAA interim VP Greg Shasheen said the Bonnies’ win cancelled a vote for one spot remaining in the bracket. The teams that would have been up for the final spot had Xavier won are Drexel, Miami, Oral Roberts, Seton Hall, Mississippi State and Nevada. Those six teams will probably be rooting for a first-round beat down by Florida State out of spite.

Interestingly, in the latest ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll, Missouri moved up to No. 3 in the rankings but still missed out on a No. 1 seed from the selection committee. Missouri won the Big 12 tournament and moved up two spots with losses from Kansas and North Carolina, both of whom lost over the weekend. Missouri will have to prove the committee got it wrong by fighting through the West region and possibly an Elite Eight showdown with 1-seed Michigan State.

In a report from ESPN.com news services, sources claim that NCAA tournament darling of the past two seasons, Butler, has expressed interest in moving from the Horizon League to the Atlantic 10 conference. The idea was precipitated by the Atlantic 10’s loss of Temple to the Big East in 2013.

Butler believes that a move to the A-10 would give it increased competition as well as access to larger media markets.

Team Syracuse Marquette ND G’Town Cincinnati S. Florida Louisville WVU Seton Hall UConn Rutgers St. John’s Pittsburgh Villanova Prov.

DePaul

Conf.

17-1 14-4 13-5 12-6 12-6 12-6 10-8 9-9 8-10 8-10 6-12 6-12 5-13 5-13 4-14 3-15

Overall 31-2 25-7 22-11 23-8 24-10 20-13 26-9 19-13 20-12 20-13 14-18 13-19 17-16 13-19 15-17 12-19

BIG TEN Team

Conf.

Ohio State 13-5 Mich. St. 13-5 Michigan 13-5 Wisconsin 12-6 Indiana 11-7 Purdue 10-8 N’Western 8-10 Iowa 8-10 Minnesota 6-12 Illinois 6-12 Nebraska 4-14 Penn State 4-14

Overall 27-7 27-7 24-9 24-9 25-8 21-12 18-13 17-16 19-14 17-15 12-18 12-20

BIG XII Team Kansas Missouri Baylor Iowa State Kansas St. Texas OK. State Oklahoma A&M Texas Tech

Conf.

16-2 14-4 12-6 12-6 10-8 9-9 7-11 5-13 4-14 1-17

Overall 27-6 30-4 27-7 22-10 21-10 20-13 15-18 15-16 14-18 8-23

PAC-12 Team

Conf.

Overall

Wash.

California Oregon Arizona Colorado UCLA Stanford Oregon St. Wash. St. Ariz. State Utah USC

14-4 13-5 13-5 12-6 11-7 11-7 10-8 7-11 7-11 6-12 3-15 1-17

21-10 24-9 22-9 23-11 23-11 19-14 21-11 19-14 15-16 10-21 6-25 6-26

Team

Conf.

SEC Kentucky 16-0 Florida 10-6 Vandy 10-6 Tennessee 10-6 Alabama 9-7 Miss. State 8-8 Ole Miss 8-8 LSU 7-9 Arkansas 6-10 Auburn 5-11 Georgia 5-11 S. Carolina 2-14

Overall 32-2 24-10 23-10 18-14 21-11 21-11 20-13 18-14 18-14 15-16 15-17 10-21

NATIONAL LEADERS Points 1. Reggie Hamilton, OAK 2. Damian Lillard, WEB 3. Doug McDermott, CREI 4. Quincy Roberts, GRAM 5. Shane Gibson, SHU

25.7 24.5 23.2 22.7 22.0

Rebounds 1. O.D. Anosike, SIE 2. Thomas Robinson, KU 3. Jamelle Hagins, DEL 4. Kevin Jones, WVU 5. Andre Roberson, COLO

12.5 11.8 11.3 11.1 11.1

Assists 1. Scott Machado, IONA 2. Kendall Marshall, UNC 3. Jesse Sanders, LIB 4. Vincent Council, PROV 5. Jason Brickman, LIU

9.9 9.7 8.0 7.5 7.3

Blocks 1. Anthony Davis, UK 2. William Mosley, NWST 3. Damian Eargle, YSU 4. C.J. Aiken, JOES 5. Eric Buckner, GAST

4.6 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.4

Sports Editor Elliot Hughes sports@badgerherald.com

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SPORTS

The Badger Herald: Bracketology 101 Go online for the Herald’s breakdown of March Madness 2012

2012-13 looks bright for UW Kelly Erickson Erickson the Red

Noah Willman The Badger Herald

Justin Schultz is tied for No. 12 in the nation in points with 44. He tallied 16 goals and 28 assists for the Badgers this season, co-leading their offense with sophomore forward Mark Zengerle.

Simply forgettable Badgers show glimpses of potential in 2011-12 campaign, can’t create postseason success Brett Sommers Statistics Editor The 2011-12 season was truly a work in progress from beginning to end for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team. Perhaps the journey became more impressive considering the way the Badgers went down fighting in the first round of the WCHA playoffs.

Entering the season as an extremely young team with no defined expectations, Wisconsin (17-18-2, 11-15-2

WCHA) managed to beat highly ranked teams, protect the Kohl Center’s home ice most nights (12-7-1 home) and have a few individuals put together remarkable seasons despite a record that suggested less than desirable play.

The team’s youth showed early, as the Badgers went 1-8-1 on the road to start the season, but eventually won four out of five on the road just before season’s end — including wins over top 10-ranked Minnesota and Denver — before falling

in the only WCHA opening round playoff series to go the full three games.

It was a season that left fans scratching their heads when the Badgers dropped five consecutive games at one point, only to have UW head coach Mike Eaves quoting the inspirational Vince Lombardi after the game three overtime loss that concluded Wisconsin’s season.

“What came to mind is I remember reading about Vince Lombardi, and some games he used to say, ‘we

ran out of time; if there was more time on the clock we would have won,’” Eaves said. “I feel like that was the season with the way our kids were playing. We ran out of games this year. We really came into our own the second half and saw growth.

It’s tough.”

The Badgers began the season 1-3, digging themselves an early hole from which they never completely recovered. While constantly fighting to eclipse

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It wasn’t until the third period that I realized I wasn’t ready for the hockey season to be over.

Listening to WIBA’s Brian Posick’s call the final game of a bestof-three series Sunday night against Denver was one of the very few times in my reporting career I felt the onset of melancholy — as DU tallied the golden goal just over a minute into overtime, effectively ending the Badgers’ season.

And what a forgettable season it was.

Before the year started, I was asked to participate in a hockey roundtable for Bucky’s Fifth Quarter with the likes of Posick and NBC 15’s Robb Vogel.

Predicting Mike Eaves’ squad to finish under 20 wins and in the middle-bottom of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, I had the most pessimistic outlook for the 201112 season. With 20 underclassmen on a 26man roster, Wisconsin faced one of its most undeveloped teams in

several seasons.

Despite the return of All-American defenseman Justin Schultz, the young Badger pups did not have any clear offensive leader. That’s where sophomore centerman Mark Zengerle stepped in. Pegged to lead the offense, there was still a question mark lingering over the Rochester, N.Y., native, but he quickly quieted skeptics en route to a 50-point season that included a 20-game point streak.

But, similar to my prediction, the Badgers finished their season in the first round of WCHA playoffs after earning a 10th place finish in the regular season. They were only a few games away from a 20-win season, finishing at a 1718-2 mark and 11-15-2 in conference play.

With all this in mind, heading into the playoffs I was optimistic about the Badgers’ chances to at least win the first round. They were facing a Denver team they had success against very recently in their final home game of the season Feb. 18 with a 5-2 win. The win sparked a four-game streak as Wisconsin rolled over Bemidji State on the road, earning a 4-2 win each night, and then went on to embarrass Minnesota 4-1 in game

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UW Athletics

Wisconsin junior Molly Spence was recently named the Big Ten Player of the Week after batting .529 during last weekend’s Wolfpack Classic in Reno, Nev. In the Badgers’ five games in the tournament, Spence blasted four home runs and 10 RBI’s.

Sparing no ex-Spence: UW boosted by return After spending last year injured, UW junior making presence felt early Chris Caporale Sports Writer Wisconsin junior Molly Spence had one of the best weekends a player can even imagine.

She was awarded the Big Ten Player of the Week after her amazing performance at the Wolf Pack Softball Classic as she belted four home runs and drove in 10 runs over the weekend.

On top of all of the

other stats, she has hit for an astounding .529 batting average over the past five games. “[Receiving the award] is awesome,” Spence said.

“It is something I never thought would happen.

Especially coming from last year, it’s been a really long, hard process.

But I have had the support of my coaches, my teammates and the medical staff from the beginning. Without each and every single person, I couldn’t have done it, and my teammates are crucial to that.”

Over the weekend, Spence’s offense was crucial to the team. Even when she was not getting

hits, she was still able to drive in runs with sacrifice flies.

In their last game, Wisconsin (10-7) defeated Nevada (8-20) by a score of 7-1 while Spence blasted two home runs and drove in four runs.

Spence’s play sparked the team to many victories as the Wisconsin softball team won four out of the five games they played this week.

“I just played the game,” said Spence. “I don’t think there was much going through my head. Just get in the zone.

Play the game like I know how. Just try to help the

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