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No fiddlers on this roof A daring group of University of Wisconsin students take in some afternoon sun on the roof of a Lake Street house on Wednesday.

Some days are far too beautiful to be spent cooped up in the library with a textbook.

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Legislation to change renter relations approved in Senate along party-line vote Mike Kujak State Legislature Editor A bill which would make sweeping changes to current tenant-landlord laws in the state was passed in a Senate session Wednesday despite protests from Democrats who said the bill opened the door for mistreatment of renters by some landlords.

The bill makes a variety of changes to landlordtenant relations, including removing the ability of cities and states to prohibit landlords from pursuing eviction of a tenant.

The Senate voted 17-16 in a party-line vote, with Republicans supporting the measure and Democrats in opposition.

Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, said one of the bill’s main problems is it would change state law to prohibit local governments from enacting a moratorium on evictions.

Taylor said the bill would even allow people to be evicted on Christmas, and it would also allow landlords to discard a tenant’s private property immediately following eviction.

Sen. Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee, also spoke against the bill and said it was not in the best interest of consumers.

Larson criticized the Legislature’s failure to add an amendment disallowing

evictions on holidays such as Christmas.

“Who is asking for this stuff? Who is saying, ‘Oh man, things would be OK if we could just evict people on Christmas?’” Larson said. “Who is asking to have people’s stuff thrown out because it’s a pain to hold people’s property for a couple of days, even if you can charge people for that now?”

Larson added if lawmakers insisted on moving the bill through quickly, they should make sure it is done in a responsible way.

None of the bill’s supporters spoke about the bill during the session Wednesday but did voice their support in a session late Tuesday night in which Democrats used a procedural move to block a vote on the bill.

When asked which parts of the bill provide protections for tenants from unreasonable contract provisions, Sen. Frank Lasee, R-De Pere, said the bill includes a provision disallowing such contract provisions.

He also said the contract would be void if the landlord violated the list of restrictions in the bill.

During Tuesday night’s session, Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, said before becoming a legislator,

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ALRC passes Hawk’s expansion Committee allows for small capacity increase, owner voices frustrations over city process Leah Linschied City Life Editor Despite hopes for a significantly higher increase, the owner of Hawk’s Bar and Grill on State Street received permission to boost the bar’s capacity at a city alcohol policy committee meeting Tuesday.

The Alcohol License Review Committee voted unanimously to increase the bar’s capacity from the

current 83 person limit to 99. Owner Hawk Sullivan expressed content with the decision, but said he initially requested a capacity of 160 at an earlier meeting, a number he said had been agreed upon through conversations with city officials and the Madison Fire Department.

Sullivan said he was no longer able to pursue the significantly higher capacity, because a previously

overlooked state law requires bars requesting capacity increases over 100 to implement a firepreventative sprinkler system, which can cost an establishment nearly $30,000.

“This is extremely frustrating, because it seems like a handful of departments truthfully didn’t know what they were talking about,” Sullivan said. “The mayor seemed

quite upset about the situation because of the miscommunications and the fact that I would have to spend $30,000 to install a sprinkler system. It was a very, extremely frustrating process.”

Sullivan added he planned to pursue the original plan’s capacity of 160 people through an appeals process with the city. He said the

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Council denies special election on constitution ASM denies resolutions that claim funding not viewpoint neutral Danielle Miller Herald Contributor

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The UW Athletic Department currently covers the traveling expenses for Rose Bowl student athletes to fly “home,” which the Big Ten defines as flying anywhere.

Bowl athletes get ‘perk’ of flying home to any location Andrew Averill Senior Reporter University of Wisconsin athletes receive perks from Rose Bowl tournament officials for coming, but perhaps less commonlyknown is a perk athletes can receive when leaving Pasadena: the ability to fly virtually anywhere for free.

UW’s athletic department pays the cost for student athletes to fly with the team back to campus using money awarded by the Big Ten Conference. A recent rule change in NCAA bylaws was made to cut down on

institutional expenses and allows athletic departments to reimburse “actual and necessary” transportation costs of a student traveling home from a bowl game.

However, the NCAA leaves the definition of “home” up to participating institutions and conferences, and the Big Ten’s official interpretation allows athletes to fly anywhere.

Associate Commissioner of Compliance Chad Hawley said an institution could cover the expenses for a student athlete to travel

Rose Bowl travel costs by year Comparing the travel costs for UW football players leaving the Rose Bowl before and after the recent change in NCAA bylaws.

Total amount reimbursed $26,000

Players reimbursed 113

2011 2012

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Representatives of the University of Wisconsin student government struck down a proposal to send a new proposed constitution, which would restructure the branches of government, to a special election of the student body.

Following weeks of debate, the proposal failed to pass by a vote of 12 to four, with multiple representatives raising concerns that if approved, the time frame for the special election would

not allow for adequate time to educate students on the new constitution’s provisions.

“I think [a fall ballot] would be a better avenue for the constitution to be introduced,” Rep. Karen Scott said.

Speaking in support of the council’s decision, Rep. Tia Nowack stated the Associated Students of Madison Constitutional Committee should have created a petition to be signed by students in favor of the new constitution before presenting the document to council.

“The four representatives that voted in favor of it had private knowledge before it was made known to student council or the public in general,” Rep. Thom Duncan said. “If a constitution is to be drafted

for greater inclusion of students, it should begin with inclusion; process shows intent.”

Rep. Cale Plamann said he believes ASM should change, and a new constitution should be voted on by students.

However, he added the downsides of the time limitations on the ability to educate students outweighed the benefits of the proposal.

The council also voted to overturn three of the five resolutions presented by the Diversity Committee Chair Niko Magallon, postponing the last two to be discussed and voted on during the council’s next meeting.

Rep. Justin Gerstner urged members to vote down the proposals

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Dane County Circuit Court Judge Richard Niess issued an order Wednesday to extend the deadline 11 days from March 19 to March 30 in order for the Government Accountability Board to complete its examination of the recall petitions for Gov. Scott

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“If these resolutions are not voted on tonight they become binding, and there’s been a lack of communication that needs to happen and in order for that to happen we need to override these tonight,” Gerstner said.

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Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.

According to a GAB statement, the new deadline would set the recall elections for a May 8 and June 5. The May 8 elections would be for the necessary primaries as well as the general elections for races with only one challenger. The winners of the May 8 primaries would face the incumbents on June 5 in a general election.

GAB spokesperson Reid Magney said the recall elections are not yet certified because the petitions still face review from the board. “[The elections] are not set in stone yet,” Magney said.

“On March 30, the board will look at what the results of the duplicate reviews are, and if not enough signatures are struck, then the board will order a recall election.”

State law requires a recall election be held “on the Tuesday of the sixth week” after the board certifies the recall election, according to

the GAB statement. Since the previous deadline for the review was March 19, the elections would have been on May 1 and May 29, the day after Memorial Day. Wisconsin Republican Party spokesperson Ben Sparks said his party is pleased with the decision to extend the GAB deadline, as well as holding recall elections on the same dates.

“Aligning the recall elections on the same date is the most efficient way to go through this baseless recall process with the least cost for the taxpayers,” Sparks said.

Jeremy Levinson, an attorney representing the incumbents’ challengers, said the Democrats are content with election dates being set.

“The extension [the GAB] got is one that gives us certainty of when these elections are going to happen,” Levinson said.

“Finally, we have some dates to work with.”

Calling for an investigative committee to be formed, the resolutions also pushed for a closer review of Student Services Finance Committee rulings and procedures.

The last of the resolutions overturned required the SSFC decision on Multicultural Student Coalition eligibility be overturned and the group be granted a new hearing on the grounds that neutrality was violated during the hearing process.

It further stated that due to “negligence in due process” during judicial proceedings on possible violations, Student Judiciary Chief Justice Kathryn Fifield and Vice Chief Justice

Nicholas Checker should be removed from their positions.

Fifield said while she trusts the committee to do its job, the resolutions presented by the Diversity Committee Chair imply a lack of trust in the Student Judiciary representatives to do their jobs. “[Diversity committee members] had no discussion in these. This is not a representation of us; it is a representation of Chair Magallon and whoever he conferred with,” Rep. Mia Akers said.

The overturned resolutions will be returned to the committee for further discussion and review.

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Hawk’s Bar and Grill Owner Hawk Sullivan voiced frustrations about his attempts to increase the bar’s capacity from 83 to 160. The committee voted to increase the number to 99 patrons.

HAWK’S, from 1 original decision to set the capacity at 83 for the bar’s opening 10 years ago was an “inaccurate” volume, and since then the bar has often been fined by MFD for having more than 83 people in the establishment.

The bar is currently 500 square feet with room for 93 stools, so that if every stool was occupied, the bar would be over its current capacity, Sullivan pointed out.

“I’m usually over my capacity, but I’m never near what my capacity should be,” Sullivan said.

“I understand how it may look, but in reality when you issued a capacity 10 years ago, it should have been issued at 160, the appropriate amount, and I can’t tell you why it wasn’t.

I’m simply here to not have the fire inspectors give me grief.”

At an earlier meeting, ALRC member Pamela Bean expressed concern that a capacity increase would affect the bar’s sales composition, which currently resides at approximately 45 percent

ROSE BOWL, from 1 from the event site to any destination in the world, according to an email exchange between the Big Ten Conference and the UW athletic department obtained by The Badger Herald.

Giving a hypothetical example, Hawley said he thinks that an institution could pay for a student athlete to travel to France, provided the athlete pays for all expenses there and for the return journey.

“Consequently, I think it’s OK to not limit postgame travel to campus, home, or any other destination,” Hawley writes.

But Hawley seemed uncertain, asking the email’s recipients to let him know what they think and reminding them that the final decision is still up to institutional discretion.

Although student athletes could seemingly travel anywhere after the Rose Bowl, no flights were booked to exotic locations and the cost to reimburse athletes who chose to travel individually decreased dramatically after this year’s Rose Bowl compared with last year’s.

For years before the new rule became effective Aug. 1, 2011, student athletes were reimbursed for individual travel according to a formula that provided the same amount — for example, $800 after the 2011 Rose Bowl — to each individual regardless if they required the total amount or not.

If a flight did not cost $800, the leftover money could be spent at the student athlete’s discretion, according to UW Director of Compliance Katie Smith.

The NCAA, in a document explaining the rationale behind changing the rule, admitted there was a monetary “incentive to travel individually” under the old system.

With the new rule in place, fewer players chose to travel individually after the 2012 Rose Bowl than in 2011. As a result,

alcohol sale and 55 percent food sale.

Bean outlined several suggestions to address her concerns in a letter to the committee, which outlined possibilities such as extending the bar’s kitchen hours to midnight or later.

Sullivan contended the suggestions provided were not associated with his request for a higher capacity.

“These recommendations don’t have anything to do with my capacity,” Sullivan said.

“Nothing. They don’t at all … You have to understand my frustration.”

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, expressed his support for the capacity increase and said the addition of 17 more people would not create a significant change to the bar’s atmosphere.

“We’re not talking about a large increase whatsoever,” Verveer said.

Despite Bean’s absence, ALRC approved Sullivan’s application to increase capacity and voted to refer Bean’s recommendations to the committee’s April meeting.

UW spent far less in 2012 covering the actual and necessary travel costs for student athletes who chose to travel individually, according to travel receipts obtained through an open records request by the Herald.

UW gave 113 players $800 for travel after the 2011 Rose Bowl, costing more than $90,000.

In 2012, the receipts received showed only 65 players opted for individual travel, costing the athletic department about $26,000. The average amount spent per player was $400.

The Herald did not find any conclusive evidence that an athlete tried to take advantage of the system or the Big Ten’s loose definition of “home.”

Federal law required student athlete names be redacted from the documents, making an accurate comparison of athlete’s destinations with their hometowns impossible. A rough pairing of the number of athletes living in a state with the number of athletes who flew into that state showed only a few instances where athletes did not fly to their hometown.

No one returned to airports in the areas of Washington, Indiana, Virginia, Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey, or Washington D.C., despite those states being home to 11 athletes. Still, those athletes could have traveled back to Wisconsin with the team.

New Mexico and Georgia were destinations for one athlete each, though no one on the 2012 roster calls either state home.

One athlete rode first class from Los Angeles to Cincinnati, Ohio, before riding economy from Cincinnati to West Palm Beach, Fla., costing $509.90. However, the upgrade did not make that ticket the most expensive. The highest plane fare was for an economy seat on a flight going to Ft. Lauderdale for $797.70.

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Federal job figures show Wis. leads nation in losses Julia Jacobson Reporter With job creation taking the forefront in state politics, a federal report revised state figures on job growth to show Wisconsin is leading the nation in job loss in both the public and private sectors.

According to a report released Tuesday from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wisconsin lost an estimated 12,500 public and private jobs between January 2011 and 2012, the most of any state in the country. The nation as a whole added jobs during the last 17 months, but Wisconsin was one of only six states to experience consistent losses.

The new data comes at a pressing time for Gov. Scott Walker, who faces a likely summer recall election.

His 2010 campaign focused on job creation and he promised to create 250,000 new jobs in the state According to Walker’s spokesperson Cullen

LANDLORD, from 1 he was a landlord who oversaw thousands of rental units in Dane County.

Miller said during his time as a landlord, there was always a particular set of individuals within the landlord community that took advantage of young people, often in college towns, because they did not have an extensive knowledge of the law like other tenants did.

“As any good business, you should be providing a service, not ripping off customers,” Miller said.

“It opens the doors to business people who are tempted to rip of their tenants because they can get away with it.”

Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, also said the bill was not in the best

Werwie, Walker followed through on his promises to the best of his abilities.

“We are a losing football team that is trying to take the team to the Super Bowl,” Werwie said. “It’s going to take a couple seasons to get there, with some wins and losses, but hopefully in a few years, we reach our goal.”

Werwie said in the three years before Walker entered office, 150,000 jobs had already been cut by the previous Democratic administration.

He added the state faced overwhelming tax increases and budget deficits that Walker worked hard to eliminate.

He also said compared to other states, Wisconsin is establishing long-term prosperity.

“You look at the budget deficits of California and Illinois, which have been called a death spiral of unsustainability,” Werwie said. “They are facing multi-billion dollar deficits, which will have a negative

interest of the public.

“This is a special interest bill supported by landlords,” Risser said. “It’s against the people who have to rent in order to live. It’s supported by landlords and for landlords.”

long-term effect on their economies. We have a strong financial footing.”

Andrew Welhouse, spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, agreed Walker’s policies will help create jobs in the near future.

He said the governor improved the business climate in the state by implementing essential tax credits for businesses providing jobs.

Welhouse also said the Legislature’s opposition to

bills limiting industries has hurt job creation. He cited the mining bill as an example, which was recently voted down by the Legislature.

“When you talk about specific numbers, we still have challenges facing our state,” Welhouse said. “Our largest business association says that recalls are bad for business, but we are moving in the right direction.”

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said in a statement Walker has not

shown leadership on some of his biggest initiatives.

He said in the statement the legislative session is nearly over, and Republicans have shown no desire to support legislation on job creation.

University of Wisconsin economics professor Steven Deller said in an email to The Badger Herald the policies of the Walker administration may have actually hurt the business climate. He also said the revisions were substantial, and the state

does not look healthy from a jobs perspective based on the report’s figures.

“I think that the aggressiveness of the Walker administration along with the Republican leadership in the Assembly and Senate has actually hurt the business climate,” Deller said.

“Businesses prefer certain levels of certainty in terms of public policies, and wild political swings (left or right) create a lot of uncertainty. ….

Businesses hate uncertainty.”

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Voter ID ruling shows Republican arrogance

Herald Editorial A county of dunces The Editorial Board recently sat in on a debate between University of Wisconsin students and Dane County Board District 5 candidates John Magnino and Leland Pan. While we have not made an endorsement because we have not met with the candidates, general observations can be made from the debate. Although, quite honestly, “debate” may be a tad generous.

Both candidates made it unfortunately clear they have little knowledge of what county board even does, and if they do, it will not be put to good use. Pan did not make the debate on time, so the “debate” started with Magnino giving a short introduction to his plans for County Board. Within the span of five minutes, it became obvious he was not clear on what his duties might be if elected, and based on the lackluster tenure of past District 5 supervisors, this is no new phenomenon. He spoke in general terms of galvanizing student involvement, but how, exactly, does one get 18- to 21-yearolds excited about governance at the county level? Magnino did not offer any concrete suggestions.

Furthermore, Magnino spoke of the need for a coalition of representatives from the campus, city and county to improve the Mifflin Street Block Party. Maybe this was just a talking

point to get students interested in his campaign, but surely Magnino must know the county has very little, if anything, to do with the block party’s planning.

By then, Pan had arrived, and in the spirit of fairness was given a few minutes to introduce his platform.

He began by laying out that he held uncompromising views, and that his time on the board would be spent focusing on social justice issues. Pan did seem to know some specifics of county-level governance. Precisely how he will translate that knowledge into relevant policy remains to be seen. As he himself said, his interests lie not in the day-to-day proceedings of the county but with larger social issues.

It even seemed that the moderator and audience were not exactly sure what the county board position encompassed. There were few questions, and then Magnino had to leave early for another meeting.

In truth, this election will fall on spring break, so it is unlikely that a significant student population will even turn out at the polls. The last District 5 race drew a mere 264 votes; breaking 150 this year would be astonishing. So although the candidates do not seem to know much about county board, neither do their constituents.

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Charles Godfrey Columnist A pair of rulings by Dane County judges has declared the voter ID law unconstitutional, and the GOP is finding out the hard way that it can no longer railroad legislation through the Capitol like has been for the past year.

Last year, before the first wave of summer recalls, Republicans hurriedly passed a bill requiring voters to present a government issued photo ID at the polls, despite widespread concern that this would exclude minority voters from the democratic process. In the words of Gov. Scott Walker’s spokesman Cullen Werwie, as reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, the law was passed with the intent to implement “common-sense reforms,” and it “increases citizens’ confidence in the results of our elections.”

Critics pointed out that the law undermined the voting rights of minorities, the elderly, students and the homeless. As reported by US News, the American Civil Liberties Union compared it — rightfully so, if you ask me — to Jim Crow laws that excluded black voters before the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Despite the controversial nature of this law and considerable dissent, Republicans were able to push it through Congress, and Walker gave it a stamp of approval.

Two lawsuits, one brought forward by the immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera and

Obamacare: necessary or encroaching?

Healthcare reform might be imperfect, but necessary for flawed system inflammatory disease.

Combination pills protect against a school of other health issues including iron deficiency, infection and even some types of cancer.

People who are in the field of public health Spencer Lindsay should serve public health, Columnist and employers should serve the health of their employees. Faith-based As reported by The insurance industries should Wisconsin State Journal, have to follow the law, and there is a possibility faith-based businesses Catholic organizations should have to cover will have to pay for birth their employees just like control. While this raises a everyone else. Although first amendment issue that people’s religious beliefs is legitimate, industries are important, people that are in the field of in the health insurance public health should industry know what they serve public health. As are signing up for. The for the larger political bill does not say that the question of Obamacare, church or the industries many necessary reforms cannot propose alternative are being made to expand coverage and cut costs. The methods.

Obamacare was a bill was far from perfect, necessary reform to a very but it is in the process of flawed system. It bends the becoming an effective cost curve and saves the solution to the health care problems we have faced for U.S. money. It is projected

by Doctors for Global a generation.

Health to cover 32 million There is a first Americans who otherwise amendment issue with would not be covered, Obamacare in that it many of whom could not does mandate something afford it. It implements that may contradict regulations that make one’s personal beliefs, health care run more but it is not a severe efficiently and better for abridgement of this all of us. The bill was by no right. These are trained means perfect; it was full of health professionals. A pork and was the product doctor cannot refuse that of a corrupt process, but someone be treated for it was effective in what religious reasons. The it set out to do: improve Hippocratic Oath tells insurance for all of us. them to do no harm, and there are health benefits Spencer Lindsay to taking birth control (sclindsay@wisc.edu) is pills. The pill can reduce a freshman majoring in menstrual cramps and political science. protect against pelvic

Obamacare threatens religious institutions by being overly intrusive

Vincent Borkowsi Staff Columnist Your taxpayer dollars will be used to pay for other people’s heath care and contraceptives in the disgustingly expensive “Obamacare” bill. Whereas before you only had to pay for other people’s children through welfare, now you will support contraceptives you may not even believe in. You’ll pay for health insurance that you won’t use and hospitals you may never visit.

Contraceptives are a big issue in this bill, especially when those people who do not believe in their use will be forced to pay for it for others. If the Democrats wanted contraceptives paid for the 1 percent on the left should just foot the bill. I personally don’t use birth control, and I’d hate for my tiny paycheck to be cut even more.

Adding insult to injury is how the bill will force of institutions to pay for contraceptives that it has a religious disagreement with or suffer removal of federal funding as punishment, as reported by The Wisconsin State Journal. Many see the Catholic Church to be entirely against birth control. However, recent movements have been made by the Church suggesting a

loosening of contraceptive policy, as reported by The Guardian. No law should force a religion to do anything that it does not agree with.

Obamacare’s socialist principles are also wrong in that they do not give a choice in allowing dissenters to require out-of-pocket payments for controversial items like birth control. A simple compromise would have been to implement all the costly measures minus the controversial contraceptives part.

There is no compromise, and churches are again threatened by the punishment of funding removal. This law will give government ultimate authority over health care, and that much power is something of which to be afraid. The cost of Obamacare is astronomical, especially when we’ve had a national debt of over $1 trillion since 2009 as reported by Business Insider.

If you want to use contraceptives, I have no qualms with that. You may go and buy them, but I don’t want to pay for them, nor do I want to pay for other people’s hospital visits and medications. If you personally want to pay for other people, I suggest you send a check to the National Treasury right now.

Otherwise, if you want to keep the paycheck you earn, then join the fight against Obamacare.

Vincent Borkowski (vborkowski@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in neurology.

the Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the other by the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, led to the ruling that the bill is unconstitutional.

Dane County Circuit Court Judge David Flanagan temporarily blocked the bill last Tuesday, and on Monday Circuit Judge Richard Niess ruled it “unconstitutional to the extent they serve as a condition for voting at the polls.” He also permanently blocked any attempts to enforce the provisions of the bill. Niess’ injunction against the voter ID law is particularly eloquent — it reads like a classic of American political philosophy. He concludes his decision writing with “Voter fraud is no more poisonous to our democracy than voter suppression. Indeed, they are two heads on the same monster. ... A government that undermines the right to vote ... sows the seeds for its own demise as a democratic institution.”

Somehow, Walker maintains that he’s confident that this ID law will stand.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says he will appeal, and, according to the WSJ, Walker lackey Cullen Werwie said, “It’s a shame activist Dane County judges continue to stand in the way of common sense.” In light of the fact that the law has been blocked by two separate judges, this sounds like wishful thinking.

Werwie says some abrasive things in his unflinching and perpetual defense of the abrasive things Scott Walker says, but his complaint that “activist” judges stand in the way of “common sense” is most likely to take the cake the most ludicrous thing he’s said all year. What he seems to be referring to is

the concept of checks and balances — also known as separation of powers — that stabilizes American democracy, Wisconsin included. The fact that the judicial system is capable of overruling unconstitutional legislation protects citizens from undemocratic laws like the voter ID bill. Maybe Werwie is still convinced that Wisconsin government consists of Walker, Republicans and thoseliberals-who-left-to-Illinoisfor-a-while-but-came-back, but technically it consists of the executive, legislative and judiciary branches.

This isn’t the first time the Republican Party has run into trouble with the judicial branch. The redistricting maps they pushed through the Legislature with this voter ID law have been in and out of court since summer. What’s more, a slimmer majority in the Legislature, due to the first wave of the recall elections, has prevented GOP politicians from passing legislation this fall — a case in point being the bill that would have streamlined the environmental permitting process for iron mines.

Republicans might be frustrated that they can’t push legislation through over any and all objections, and lately they’ve been framing attempts to block GOP legislation as “politics over progress,” but a balance of power on Capitol Square is healthy for Wisconsin.

Walker, his sidekick Cullen Werwie and the legislators who passed a law as blatantly undemocratic as the voter ID one will just have to accept that checks and balances are part of the game.

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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Ward must act on LLPC request Our university has a long history of successful shared governance — something we hold in high regard as active members of the student community.

Unfortunately, Interim Chancellor David Ward recently violated shared governance statutes in his failure to acknowledge students’ voices regarding our contract with Adidas.

As committee bylaws state, Chancellor Ward is required to follow the recommendations of the Labor Licensing Policy Committee (LLPC), or to explain in person to the Associated Students of Madison, the Faculty Senate and the Academic Staff Assembly why he chooses to disregard its advice. In the case of Adidas, Ward has since ignored three recommendations from the LLPC to put Adidas on notice for contract termination due to its failure to uphold labor codes of conduct.

Furthermore, Ward has failed to explain his choice to ignore the wishes of students and the LLPC. His choice to pursue mediation is not an adequate substitute for putting Adidas on notice. Under our contract, mediation practices and putting a company on notice are not mutually exclusive — which the administration is attempting to imply.

Thus, we remind the Chancellor of the LLPC’s recommendation to

put Adidas on notice immediately.

Ward’s disregard for shared governance has persisted over the course of several months, with full consideration of how this stalling affects the daily lives of workers of the PT Kizone, the Adidas subcontractor in Indonesia. Without the severance pay they are owed, local communities are devastated and families struggle to survive without the wages they have been owed for more than a year.

Students at the University of Wisconsin have no interest in doing business with a company that violates its contract and mistreats its workers, and we as students expect the Chancellor to acknowledge our voice in this matter. Adidas has violated its contract with UW, and the next logical step is to put them on a 90 day notice, and ultimately cut the contract if they fail to remedy the situation. We expect the Chancellor to uphold shared governance by putting Adidas on notice immediately.

Sarah Blaskey (blaskey@ wisc.edu), member of the Student Labor Action Coalition.

Beth Huang (bphuang@ wisc.edu), Chair of the ASM Shared Governance Committee.

Taylor Marx (tjmarx@ wisc.edu), member of the Student Labor Action Coalition.

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Chazen writes of Claiborne’s birth Top donor to campus art museum co-founded immensely profitable womenswear company Bennet Goldstein ArtsEtc. Reporter It was 1975. A group of three met in New York City’s West 39th Street Garment District. In a relic of a bar, two men and one woman sat around a table.

First, a successful business executive, Jerome Chazen.

Next, Chazen’s former roommate, Art Ortenberg — back from university days they spent together in Wisconsin. The third was a woman. A designer by the name of Liz Claiborne.

Together, the three hatched a plan.

In his recently published book, “My Life At Liz Claiborne: How We Broke the Rules and Built the Largest Fashion Company in the World,” Chazen, who would later make an enormous donation and become the namesake of UW’s museum of art, recounts these days when he, along with Ortenberg, Claiborne and Leonard Boxer (the company’s fourth progenitor), designed a new brand. They would run a fashion company that would respond to a changing social landscape.

Second-wave feminists were drawing national attention to sexism — sexism in the family, the

bedroom and the workplace.

“Things were changing,” Chazen writes. Women were changing.

“My Life at Liz Claiborne” describes a piece of this story. This book is Chazen’s first. “I was prodded into [writing] it … by my grandchildren,” he said in an interview. “They would hear stories about the company, … and they asked me ‘why not put it down?’”

Chazen acquiesced. “I want[ed] to tell the story of the growth of the company from my point of view.”

Chazen is quick to point out that his book is not about himself, but rather Claiborne, Inc. “It’s a business memoir. It’s not a biography. … I had to give my background, growing up and all the rest of it a little bit of space in order for people to understand where I was when we started the company,” he said.

Providing apparel to meet women’s changing wants quickly became the mission of the newly founded Liz Claiborne, Inc. “There was a woman out there who was turning away from dresses and looking for the opportunity to put together different outfits by mixing and matching,” Chazen writes.

Photo courtesy of UW-Madison

In Jerome Chazen’s new book, titled “My Life at Liz Claiborne,” he remembers the creation and success of Liz Claiborne Inc., stressing the feminist underpinnings from which the company arose.

This was significant for the retail industry as a whole. Designer Liz Claiborne had her collections placed in the same department store sections, which allowed buyers to combine separates from the same designer into multiple outfits. It is due to Claiborne’s vision that our current department stores are arranged in this manner.

It was a business model

that worked. In just 10 years after its 1976 founding, Forbes magazine named Liz Claiborne America’s most profitable company. Shortly thereafter, Claiborne’s annual sales would top one billion dollars.

Chazen also includes details of his working life prior to the founding of Claiborne. A great deal of Chazen’s professional growth came from exposing

himself to the many sectors of the garment industry — from the factory floor, executive conference room, to every store-shelf in between.

In recounting these experiences, Chazen provides the reader with lessons from more than 50 years working in fashion.

“I wanted to give younger people an opportunity to think about the ‘real world’

out there,” Chazen said.

Women were always central to Chazen’s work.

“I think that the main asset that I got out of all of that work … was an appreciation for the consumer, and how the consumer really lets you know what she thinks and what she is going to do.”

“My Life at Liz Claiborne” is now available through Author House.

Overheated rhetoric steps on toes of dystopian lit Lin Weeks ArtsEtc. Editor A few weeks ago, in February of this year, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said, of President Barrack Obama, “The president wants to unilaterally weaken the United States.”

He continued, speaking to a group of students at Oral Roberts University, “We are in a world that is very dangerous. And I say this to those of you who represent the next generation because you’re going to bear the consequences.”

A few years ago, in February of 2008, the liberal commentator Keith Olbermann turned to his camera and addressed then-President

George Bush directly in a diatribe ostensibly on telecommunications: “If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business — come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes that toxic blend. You’re a fascist.”

The vitriol is understandable in either case — to get noticed in a crowded primary field or a packed cable news lineup, you’re going to have to occasionally show some emotion. But what’s a little harder to understand is the hyperbole. It seems awfully short-sighted, I think, for a person who has any sort of aspiration toward a future in which he’d like to be heard to spew inane nonsense and sell it as prediction.

Somehow, we avoided a fascist state through the last six months of the Bush presidency. Somehow, I don’t think evidence of Obama’s plot to weaken the country will ever be

uncovered, largely because it will never exist. Just as no one listened to Harold Camping the second time around, Gingrich’s credibility will probably take a hit; Olbermann’s (who’s now in a place with far fewer viewers than MSNBC) certainly did.

Trust me when I say I have no interest in prolonging the careers of hyperbolic mudslingers, but good god, I just wish the doomsday predictions would stop because this magnifying dome of a non-stop political cycle is making it damn hard to enjoy a good book.

My taste in fiction has always gravitated toward dystopian plot lines. From the morality lessons of “Lord of the Flies” and “The Giver” to young adult genre pieces like “Feed” and “Virtual War” up through still-classics by renowned authors like Bradbury (“Farenheight 451”) and Huxley (“Brave New World”), I was captivated by stories that plunged

readers right into the heart of a society that’s badly lost its way.

Often when books set in a dystopian age are analyzed, there appears to be a specific event or state of mind from which the author drew inspiration: “Nineteen Eighty-Four” was written shortly after the end of World War II; “A Clockwork Orange” grew its roots from Anthony Burgess’s experiences in communist Russia. But that connection — in sum, a desire to learn about a certain era’s deepest fears — can’t explain my current distaste with modern dystopian lit; those works by authors who live in this time and, I assume, have an at least somewhat similar set of societal concerns as the majority of their present day peers.

But I think I’ve found an explanation: It would appear the wiring has been reversed. Where fiction writers once used dystopian literature as a projection of their society’s deepest

qualms, these fears are now hurled forth in such a casual fashion in such disingenuous terms every single day on multiple platforms that the effect has been numbing. It’s a little like sitting down to watch 12 hours of gore-centric slashers. At first the blood gets to you, but pretty soon all you care about is how deft the killer is with the chainsaw.

And that’s what’s happening to new authors attempting to navigate the genre: Robbed of the shock value of a truly ruined society by shrill Beck-ian paranoia which claims that every move by an ideological opponent brings us one giant leap towards the crevasse, they’re forced to one of two paths.

Either, as some have tried, the dystopian novel becomes a lighthearted commentary on the destructive absurdity of these claims (a lá “Pop Apocalypse,” to an extent), or it’s left a limply

exaggerated shell of a certain political platform.

Should the reader really be concerned with the forced euthanizations in Drew Magary’s “The Postmortal” when Sarah Palin makes claims of “death panels” resulting from a health care bill? Why worry about the upper class purposefully and personally injuring the poor, as in “Super Sad True Love Story?” To judge by the masses hurling invective at individual Wall Street bankers last fall, we must have just missed that on the news.

So, to the cable news yellers, never-had-a-chance candidates and generally excitable town criers: Chill. Leave off with the apocalyptic rhetoric for a second, and let the fiction writers do the fiction writing; that way we can all read a nice page-turner.

Unless, that is, you truly believe what you’re saying.

In that case, I envy you.

Because nothing beats a good exposé.

In Thrillwaukee, sausage not like law: You want to see it made

Holly Hartung Dairyland Down-low columnist This weekend, I traveled to the glamorous city of Thrillwaukee. For those unfamiliar with Thrillwaukee, it is the nickname my siblings gave Milwaukee as a way to entice me to come visit them.

Not only is Thrillwaukee a great place

to hang out with your favorite kitty pals, Albus and Guinness, but it is also a historic city with a lot of old world culture. As part of my visit, I explored some of Mil … I mean Thrillwaukee’s cultural offerings, and I learned two valuable lessons.

Lesson 1: Do NOT arrive late at an authentic German restaurant

Just don’t.

For that matter, never show up late to anything involving Germans.

During my semester in Germany, I learned that punktlichkeit is probably that country’s

most important collective trait. They simply cannot fathom why anyone would ever be late. If you do show up in an untimely manner, they will assume Deutsche Bahn is on strike or that you got in some sort of accident.

Apparently, this is also the case for authentic German restaurants.

We tried to go to one in Thrillwaukee around 2:30 p.m., only to discover that like many European establishments, the restaurant shuts down from 2-4 p.m. Verdammt!

Luckily, we had other plans in store, which brings me to my next

revelation.

Lesson 2: OMG, SAUSAGE!

Anyone who knows a little bit about Thrillwaukee’s history knows how important sausage is to the city.

While the city is home to large sausage producers like Usinger’s and Klement’s, we decided to hit up a small sausage shop that has been around for decades.

According to European Homemade Sausage Shop’s website, Frank Jakubczak emigrated to Thrillwaukee from Poland and has been running his business for 38 years. He

was featured on Wisconsin Foodie on PBS, where he displays his talent and passion for handcrafted sausages made with quality meat.

Watching the video will melt your heart, and tasting the sausage will make you swear off Johnsonville for life.

Walking into the shop is like entering a time warp, and you imagine you’re grocery shopping just the way Grandma Kolasinski did back in the day.

Although Jakubczak is from Poland, he makes a variety of sausages in different European styles. He let us sample the smoked Hungarian

sausage, which another man behind the counter described as “like a Slim Jim, but spicier.” I’d describe it as a Slim Jim with none of the gross and all of the delicious — so, not like a Slim Jim at all.

Simply put, the shop is awesome, and everyone who goes to Thrillwaukee should go there before this tradition disappears.

Holly Hartung (hhartung2@wisc. edu) is a senior majoring in journalism and communication arts. If ya have ideas for future Dairyland Down-low columns about Wiscaansin culture, send ‘em her way.

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Sports MONTANA, from 8 to be clicking at the end of the season, the loss to the Spartans in Indianapolis highlighted a season-long issue — prolonged, illtimed scoring droughts.

Against Michigan State, Wisconsin opened the game on a 14-5 run.

Over the next 13 minutes, though, the Spartans built a 26-5 run to close out the half and lead 35-25.

MSU’s advantage blossomed to as many as 19 points little more than four minutes into the second half, but UW was able to bring it down to six points another four minutes later with a 13-0 run.

That was the closest the Badgers came, however, as they ultimately lost by 13 points.

Entering the NCAA Tournament, Wisconsin believes it will be able to return to more fundamental scoring.

“Just moving without the ball, and maybe pushing it a little more, trying to get more easy baskets, whether it’s off the defense or just transition, stuff like that,” Taylor said when asked for the key to avoiding those droughts. “Most teams are better when they can play 5-on-5 defense the whole game, so just trying to put them at a disadvantage.”

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OWENs, from 8 “Freddie just didn’t have the years of experience yet,” Ryan said.

As a coach should, Ryan remained encouraging, telling Owens to gain more experience and reminding him that things have a funny way of coming back around.

But coaching against Owens probably was not what Ryan meant.

After leaving Wisconsin without a job, Owens returned to his assistant coach position at Montana — the very team the NCAA selection committee paired with Wisconsin in the first round of this year’s tournament.

The two teams tip off Thursday in Albuquerque at 1:10 p.m. central.

“We were [excited] just trying to figure out what seed they were going to give us,” Owens said. “But once we saw that we got a 13seed, and let alone, against my alma mater, it was an awesome deal. Everyone’s real excited around here.”

With Owens on the other end of the sideline, the game will reunite Ryan and the rest of the Badgers with the man responsible for one of the program’s fondest memories.

In the second round of the 2003 NCAA tournament — Ryan’s second year at UW — 5-seed Wisconsin faced a 13-point deficit

against 13-seed Tulsa with 3:36 remaining. But the Badgers put together a vintage March Madness comeback and pulled within two points with 12 seconds remaining.

In the game’s waning moments, Devin Harris sprinted upcourt with the ball, worked off a high ball screen, drove to the lane and dished it to a wide-open Owens in the corner.

Owens rose up and sunk the three with one second left, topping off one of the best come-from-behind victories in program history.

The year before, he also ended Michigan State’s 53game home win by hitting the game-winner with 25 seconds left.

“That expression, ‘It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog,’ and Freddie — he’d be a poster guy for that saying,” Ryan said, claiming Owens was better known for his defense. “Tough. Played hard.”

A native of Milwaukee, the 6-foot-2 guard played for the Badgers from 200204, starting the final two years of his career, and helped UW win regular season Big Ten titles in 2002 and 2003 as well as a tournament banner in 2004.

He was one of five players to average 10 points or more as a junior before averaging 6.8 points per game and coming in second on the team in assists as a senior.

Following graduation,

Owens zeroed in on continuing his playing career and waved off the idea of coaching.

He recalls a story he heard from Harris, who, in 2004, was accompanied by Ryan in New York City for the NBA draft: “He was on the bus with coach Ryan, heading over to Madison Square Garden, and coach Ryan had mentioned to him, ‘I see Freddie getting into coaching one day,’” Owens recounted. “He told me that and I was like ‘No, I want to play. I’m fresh out of college; I’m ready to go make some money playing.’”

But his talents didn’t take him too far. He played professionally in Latvia from 2005-06 before enlisting as an AAU coach for a year to stay close to the game.

“It’s the next best thing to playing,” Owens said. “I started coaching at AAU and really fell in love with … game-planning and mentoring young kids.”

Now 30 years old, Owens helps lead a Montana (256) team that features nearly five players averaging double figures and has won its last 14 games, winning its conference tournament in the process. Meanwhile, Wisconsin (24-9) is fresh off a semifinal loss in the Big Ten tournament and finished in fourth place during the regular season.

That built a relatively strong likelihood the two

teams could be paired together to kick off the tournament’s first weekend.

Ryan said he had a feeling it could happen, and once it was confirmed Sunday, Owens and the UW coaching staff made sure to exchange quick pleasantries before diving into the strategizing. “’Congrats on the season up to this point and see you in New Mexico,’” Owens said. “Pretty short and brief just because both sides have a lot of work to do.”

The thought of going up against the Grizzlies — or, as UW’s dubbed them: “The Fighting Freddie Owenses” — had Ryan smiling after the selection as well. But Ryan knows that Owens gives the Grizzlies an extra dose of familiarity not too often seen outside the Big Ten. “Freddie might be the most popular guy with [Montana head coach Wayne Tinkle] right now,” he said.

But that hasn’t prevented anyone at Wisconsin from smiling at the thought of him as Thursday approaches. As might be expected, everyone’s happy to see him rising in the ranks of the profession — but they’d like him to hold off on any March Madness magic just this time.

“He works really hard; he always stays in touch,” Gard said. “I’m happy for Freddie.

“We’ll see how happy I am Thursday afternoon.”

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SPORTS

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Montana’s starting MONTANA Badgers, 5 to keep UW busy Owens to reunite in 25-6 NCAAs WHO ARE THE

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Apparently in Wisconsin, it takes a lot to carry regular-season memories into March.

The Badgers entered last weekend’s Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament in Indianapolis riding a four-game winning streak that saw them play their best offensive ball, which began with a rousing road upset of Ohio State. In their opening round game of the tourney, previously unheralded bench player Rob Wilson scored 30 points on an electric 11-for-16 shooting performance (7-for-10 from 3-point range).

Collectively, the Badgers’ late-season efforts seemed to set them up perfectly for a strong finish to the year. But then Wisconsin met Michigan State in the tournament semifinals and fell 65-52.

In their first game of the NCAA tournament, the fourth-seeded Badgers (24-9) will face the 13th-seeded Montana Grizzlies (25-6) Thursday afternoon in Albuquerque, N.M. The Grizzlies most recently won the Big Sky conference tournament with an 85-66 win over Weber State March 4.

“You’ve just got to take it game by game and all the hoopla, all the media talk really, at this point, is just out the window,” point guard Jordan Taylor said. “People are obviously going to pick who they want; that’s the fun of March Madness.”

While the Badgers have the higherprofile resume after finishing with a 12-6 record in the Big Ten — arguably the nation’s deepest conference this season — the Grizzlies enter the NCAA tournament having won their last 14 games, a stretch that dates back to Jan. 19. Their last loss came five days earlier at Weber State, a game that Montana entered on a six-game winning streak.

The Grizzlies heavily rely on their starting five, each of which averages at least 26 minutes per game. Three players average at least 10 points per game — junior point guard Will Cherry (16.0), sophomore guard/forward Kareem Jamar (13.8) and junior forward Mathias Ward (11.1). Montana’s two other starters, senior forwards Art Steward and Derek Selvig, each average 9.2 points per game.

“You look at stat sheets, they’re the iron five,” UW assistant coach Greg Gard said of Montana’s starting lineup. “They play a couple of other guys off the bench, but those five that start have really done a lot for them, carried them. … They’ve had different guys step up at different times throughout the year.”

According to Gard, Wisconsin scouted Selvig before he opted to stay in his home state. The 7-foot, 230-pound forward isn’t Montana’s only connection to Wisconsin, however.

Montana assistant coach Freddie Owens played four years for Wisconsin and two under current head coach Bo Ryan from 2001-04 and was a two-year starter.

Although Owens sports familiarity with Ryan’s system, Wisconsin’s head coach hardly seemed concerned on Selection Sunday.

“Look at the Big Ten, how much we know about each other,” Ryan said in Sunday’s post-selection show press conference. “But you expect that. Out of league, it’s a little different. So Freddie might be the most popular guy with [Montana head coach Wayne Tinkle] right now.”

Regardless, Wisconsin appears focused solely on its own game entering its 14th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and 11th under Ryan.

Although the Badgers’ offense seemed

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Just after finishing his playing career with the Wisconsin men’s basketball team back in 2004, Freddie Owens had not quite considered himself to be coaching material.

Greg Gard, an assistant coach then and the associate head coach now, admits that at the time he did not see Owens, a hero of the 2003 NCAA tournament, in a suit and tie along the bench either. But after a short lived professional career came to a close in 2006, Owens found himself coaching at the grassroots level of the game and slowly began working FREDDIE OWENS his way up.

He eventually turned MONTANA ASST. COACH 2009-PRESENT his eye back on Madison in 2010 WISCONSIN BADGERS and applied 2001-04 for the open assistant coach position on Bo Ryan’s staff, and the head coach even considered Owens a finalist for the job.

But, despite having once picked out Owens for a future coach, Ryan an felt the timing just was not right.

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