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Safer Mifflin met with mixed reviews Police report 0 incidences of violent crime, smaller crowd Camille Albert

past years, everyone issued a citation was arrested.

He added that last year Mixed feelings over at Mifflin at the same time, this year’s Mifflin Street there were only 118 citations Block Party stemmed from written, which was largely increased arrests and stricter due to people being allowed rules, but an overall safer to drink on the street and atmosphere. sidewalk.

Madison Police “Overall I think people did Department spokesperson get the message. The number Joel DeSpain said as of 5 of people at the event were p.m. Saturday, there were down significantly,” DeSpain 282 arrests that were almost said. “Our estimate of the all due to trespassing, crowd was about 5,000 this underage drinking and open year, and last year was 20 to intoxicants. In contrast to 25,000.”

According to DeSpain, the majority of the arrests were of University of Wisconsin students, with small numbers from other UW Open intoxicant Underage drinking System schools. citations citations DeSpain said at that point in the evening, there had Glass container Trespassing been no reports of citations citations any violence, such as stabbings, sexual assaults or battery.

Depositing human Obstruction According to MPD waste citations citations Lt. Dave McCaw, the nuisance party ordinance was not Possessions of THC Disorderly conducts enforced at all this year and the detox facility was not completely filled, Harassing a police Assault on a police which is a change officer citation animal from previous years.

SOURCE: Officer Joel DeSpain, MPD According to Ald. Reporter

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Madison police keep the peace as Mifflin rages on. The event drew a crowd of about 5,000 this year, a huge decrease caused in large part by increasingly strict regulations.

Mike Verveer, District 4, the most common citation issued was for having an open intoxicant on a street or sidewalk, which was a citation of $303.

McCaw said the most noticeable difference at the block party this year compared to previous years was the “no trespassing”

signs located on the front of the houses on and around Mifflin Street. He said the signs acted as warnings for people who were on a property without permission from the owner, which can lead to an arrest.

He said the street being open to traffic was one of the biggest differences as well,

because no one could drink in the street. He added that drinking was not allowed on the sidewalk or on a private property unless given permission to do so by the owner.

UW senior Becky Rupel lives on Mifflin Street and signed her house up for the protection plan. She said the

plan worked well because this year is less chaotic and crowded than previous years, which is due to the decreased number of out-oftown students and the helpful police force.

“There’s fewer people from out of town and it’s more

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Former student recounts activism that defined UW Molly McCall Reporter In the 1960s, social change and student activism — both violent and non-violent — defined the University of Wisconsin campus, and now that history echoes weakly as attendance dwindled at the Mifflin

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In one of two special meetings held over the weekend, ASM voted to modify responses to intentional policy violations.

ASM passes measure revising funding criteria Jackie Allen Campus Life Editor In the first meetings with a fully participating Student Council Friday and Sunday, members of the University of Wisconsin student government passed measures changing responses to intentional policy violations and allowing for more services to count as direct services.

Introduced Friday by

Student Services Finance Committee Rep. Ellie Bruecker to Student Council, the first piece of legislation passed allows series of events to count as direct services in a student organization’s eligibility for segregated fee funding.

Bruecker, who is also running to be next year’s SSFC chair, said the legislation will allow SSFC to differentiate between different kinds of events, ensuring events that meet

direct service requirements that are requestable, tailorable and educational to the entire student body to be funded.

She also said it could potentially allow more groups to become GSSF groups, adding she plans to reach out to student organizations in an effort to inform them if they would be eligible for additional funding.

“I understand that direct

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Street Block Party this weekend.

Evan Stark, now a resident of New Haven, Conn., was one student who experienced and was a part of the political movements of the ’60s.

In an interview with The Badger Herald, Stark, now a professor at Rutgers University,

recounted his time at UW during the protests, a time filled with volatile rallies and brushes with the police.

Stark said he had already been involved in influential protests at UW when the Dow Chemical protest made

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Reilly talks System’s future in light of recent budget cuts PART 2 OF 2 Sean Kirkby State Politics Editor During the past year, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly has led the UW System in the face of $300 million of funding cuts and budgetary lapses. The Badger Herald sat down with Reilly to discuss the impact of these trends and possible solutions being offered. Here are the highlights in part two of a

two-part series.

The Badger Herald: Are you worried about the cost of tuition reaching a breaking point?

Kevin Reilly: I’m very worried. I think the public is clearly more and more concerned about that. I think that’s got to, again, be part of the public dialogue with the Legislature, with the governor.

We may want to say for instance, well, if you can reinvest in the university to this amount, we can hold tuition down to

this amount. ... And we got, I think, to have that conversation explicitly with the public and with the state saying this is to some extent a tradeoff. The more public dollars we are willing to invest, the lower tuition can be.

People, I think, more and more, understand the value of higher education that they’ll need to have some level of it to have a decent life in the 21st century. But partly because

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Dem. recall challengers face off in debate

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Candidates gather at Vilas Hall to talk state’s economy, rising student loan debt

Racism level: hockey

Ben Vincent Herald Contributor With a recall primary set for tomorrow, Gov. Scott Walker’s potential Democratic opponents faced off in a debate held at Vilas Hall Friday night, addressing the issues of rising student loan debt and improving the state’s economy.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, and Secretary of State Doug La Follette took part in the debate hosted by Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Public Radio, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and WTMJ. All four candidates criticized Walker’s job

creation record and emphasized bridging the gap between Democrats and Republicans in the state.

They also vouched for the reinstatement of collective bargaining, and Barrett said he would hold a special legislative session this summer to address the issue if elected.

“What we find with Gov. Walker is everything is part

of this national ideological civil war, and that’s what I want to end,” Barrett said.

The candidates also spoke about amending BadgerCare, protecting the environment and rising student debt.

Barrett, who trailed Walker by 1 percent in a poll conducted last week by

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Rally protests ‘Cinco de Mifflin’ theme New coalition Badgers Against Racism aims to spread awareness of racial issues, improve inclusion of all students Paige Costakos Reporter A crowd of students, faculty and community members rallied at East Campus Mall Friday afternoon to support Badgers Against Racism’s efforts against the use of the term “Cinco de Mifflin” in connection with the Mifflin Street Block Party.

Badgers Against Racism, a new coalition on campus that encourages people to speak out against racism, works to educate people about potentially harmful stereotypes. The formation of the group was a response to the widespread use of the term, “Cinco de Mifflin,” according to a statement from the group.

The statement added that the term “Cinco de Mifflin” promotes stereotypical thinking that can lead to serious hate crimes and is offensive not only to the Mexican-American community, but to people who care about diversity and cultural issues as well.

They added in the statement that they are not against the block party, but the associations between Cinco de Mayo and the Mifflin Street Block Party.

They also said recent incidents, including the alleged hate crime at Delta Upsilon fraternity, are not

isolated incidents of racism and are unacceptable.

Ashley Thorpe, one of the organizers of the rally and a member of Badgers Against Racism, spoke about the importance of the event.

“Spreading awareness is the first step to creating a change here on campus,” she said. “It’s important to point out that this is not an isolated event. This is a daily occurrence of students who are being marginalized by their race, gender, sexuality and so on. It isn’t just at Mifflin.”

C.J. Williams, a third generation MexicanAmerican and a fourth-year student at UW, said that it is not only the term, “Cinco de Mifflin,” that is a racial problem. The costumes, the sombreros and the shirts that replace the serpent on the Mexican flag with a beer bong are equally as offensive, he said.

“Appropriating culture is disrespectful, and the fact that this hasn’t been considered by fellow Badgers makes me feel uncomfortable and almost unwelcome because of my culture,” Williams added.

UW student Jorge Rodriguez also spoke about the history of Cinco de Mayo and urged the audience to reconsider the way they celebrate the historical event, as common

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Students gathered on East Campus Mall to encourage the UW community to be cognizant of racial stereotypes, including “Cinco de Mifflin.” stereotypes ultimately “magnify the ignorance and lack of respect for Mexican ancestors.”

UW student Joe Evica also reminded the audience that Mifflin began as an anti-war movement and expressed his hopes that Badgers Against Racism will become a registered student organization within the next year.

Meghan Smith, a freshman at UW, said

she stopped at the event after she saw participants gathered in East Campus Mall.

“I don’t think we realize how big of a deal something so simple can become,” Smith said. “It’s so important to stay educated about other cultures. I had no idea that this perspective about ‘Cinco de Mifflin’ was so prevalent.”

After the Mifflin Street Block Party is over, Thorpe said that Badgers Against

Racism plans to focus on becoming a student organization and improving inclusion of all cultures throughout the campus.

C.J. Williams added Badgers Against Racism will work to show that people’s intentions do not always align with the impact they carry, and that “people of color on campus deserve more respect than a costume and a T-shirt with a seemingly harmless design.”

Recall may have national political impact Experts say outcome of election could increase influence of Tea Party, indicate conservative trend in Wisconsin Mitchell Herrmann Reporter With Gov. Scott Walker’s recall election a month away, the events leading up to the gubernatorial recall have influenced political sentiments nationwide and could reflect a gradual trend of greater conservatism in Wisconsin.

While Wisconsin elections tend to be closely split between the parties, Walker’s support could indicate a gradual trend of greater conservatism in a state that has voted for Democratic presidential candidates going back to 1980, University of Wisconsin political science professor Kenneth Mayer said.

In 2010, the state saw

Republicans take control of not only the governor’s office, but of the state Senate and Assembly.

While Mayer said the recall election is not going to settle any question over the future direction of the state, he said the Tea Party may be growing in Wisconsin and influence politics in the future.

According to Mayer, if Walker can hold onto the governorship, far-right conservatism will continue to persist in Wisconsin and could ultimately reshape state government around the small government, Tea Party ideals.

“I can see how they want to align themselves with Walker,” Mayer said. “You could see some sustained activity in the state. The

attitudes that the Tea Party reflects are not going to go away.”

Mayer also said people are paying attention to the recall elections nationwide.

While it is unclear exactly how the results of the gubernatorial recall may impact the presidential election, Mayer said a Walker victory would show the nation that the Tea Party’s politics are supportable, at least in Wisconsin.

Michael Hintze, state coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, said a Walker win in June would hurt President Barack Obama’s chances for reelection by undermining his union support base. “[A Walker win] would be negative for Obama,” Hintze

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Walker’s recall may be one of the first big examples of controversy over such intensely conservative policies, Mayer said, but it will surely not be the last if the Tea Party continues to gain support.

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MIFFLIN, from 1 just housemates and their friends having fun, which is, I think, what it should be,” Rupel said. “This year seems like a good turning point as long as people are able to have fun but still stay safe.”

The block party was more challenging and disappointing for out-oftown students than in past years, according to UW-La Crosse alum Jerek Obry.

“We came two years ago and it was fun and we thought there would be more people here this year but there’s not,” Obry said.

“You’ve got to know people to be on their property, and that’s the biggest [challenge].”

UW senior and running back for the Badger football team Montee Ball was arrested for allegedly violating the city’s notrespassing ordinance and was issued a $429 citation with a court date in June.

UW senior Nicole Halpern said she liked being able to walk in the street in previous years because it made the school seem smaller with everyone together in one area.

She said she understands why the rules were stricter because of the unfortunate events that took place last year, including stabbings and sexual assaults, but that she was expecting it to be similar to the Mifflin she remembers from two years ago. Halpern called this year’s event the “worst Mifflin” she has ever experienced.

McCaw said MPD is still trying to get used to the difference in this year’s event and make an assessment on it.

“It’ll take a moment to digest to see if it was a success, and I guess when everything settles out everyone will have a better opinion about how things went,” McCaw said.

REILLY, from 1 more and more people understand that, the public is more and more worried that they won’t be able to afford it.

And again, we need the help from students and their families in particular to say to elected officials we want you to reinvest in the university and help us hold down the tuition so that more of our sons and daughters can do this, and can do it without accumulating very large levels of crippling debt.

BH: Do you think the UW System is falling behind in its ability to retain faculty due to the funding problems?

KR: I worry a lot about that. We have lost some very good people. Do I think we’ve lost a critical mass of people to date, so that the quality has been damaged in a major way? No. Am I very worried that if current trends continue as they are, that would happen? Yes, I’m very worried about that.

The reputations of universities takes a long time to build, and once you lose them, it takes a very long time to get them back.

One of the things that’s still true, if you … say you’re from the University of Wisconsin, people inevitably say, “What a great university,” or “What a great university system you have in Wisconsin.”

We want to keep that ability and part of that is to compensate our faculty and

staff adequately. And we’re not asking to be at the top of any of the comparable groups. We like to be at least at the median and we’re not.

We’re falling behind farther and farther, and over time, if that trend does not get reversed, we will have a really damaging loss of talent out of the system. So we got to find a way to get adequate pay and compensation to our people.

BH: Would you support revising Policy F-50, the policy defining the legal aspects of administering university segregated fees to give more power to student governments?

KR: We’re in conversation now with all the student governments about that and we’re getting, what I would characterize, as a mixed message. Some of them think we really need to look at that again. We did a total overhaul of it five years ago.

Some of them are saying no it works pretty well on this campus and part of that difference, I think, always goes to who are the people involved in any campus, what’s the personal relationship like between the chancellor and student government leaders, what level of trust is there.

So we are looking at that, actively. … We’ll continue to talk about it and look at where we might want to go. We’re trying to figure if there’s some consensus on what the students want in that regard.

BH: Where do you see

the UW System 10 years down the road?

KR: Well, I think, if we’re lucky, we’ll be seen as much more of a core economic engine for the state and similarly our peers across the country will be seen that way. ... This country is going to win the international economic competition not in the blue collar trade side. It’s going to win it in the knowledge economy side. And if it is going to win it, universities have to be more essential to doing it.

So, the trick over the next 10 years for us will be how do we evolve the higher education system to keep pace with all the developments that are going on in other parts in the world, in places like China where I’ve been, in places like India, in places like Brazil, more and more of those countries are investing in their higher education systems to build them up.

They’re not disinvesting.

So until our political leaders wake up to that fact, we will slip farther behind as a country, I’m afraid.

We’ve got to say OK, higher education again is going to be part of what keeps our economy competitive and in the long run keeps our national security sound.

We’ve got to have an economy that chugs along at a pace we can get it to do everything we need to have it do and higher education will only be more central part of that.

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HR restructuring sparks salary, benefits concerns Some fear changes will create ‘2-tier’ wage system, limit collective bargaining Tara Hoffman Reporter After review of the initial recommendations for the University of Wisconsin Human Resource system released a month ago, some concerns have been raised about whether the changes will help or hinder university employees.

The initial recommendations came from seven work teams, and included benefits, compensation, competencies, a diverse workforce, employee categories, recruitment and assessment and titles.

The Wisconsin University Union focused their feedback for the recommendations on those released by the compensation work team.

WUU is concerned the evidence used to establish the salaries of UW’s employees is based on undefined labor markets.

Which labor market UW employees are compared to — university labor markets, private sector labor markets and the like — will have the potential to lower workers’ salaries, WUU spokesperson David Ahrens said.

Although these changes

may not affect current workers, WUU fears they will create a two-tier wage system with future employees.

“I think our purpose is to educate people on campus about what the proposals are,” Ahrens said. “I think there’s been a lot of talk, very grand generalizations being made and very short on specifics about what the proposals are and what their implications are.”

Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell countered the criticism, saying it was unfounded. He said that from the beginning of the project it was stressed that, with the new system, employees would not lose compensation and there would be exceptions.

Bazzell said he is not aware of any circumstances where an employee has lost any salary under the marketbased approach to determine compensation that has been recommended for the HR system.

“We currently operate under a market-based system, and the system proposed for UW-Madison is also a market-based system,” Bazzell said. “There’s a long track record of working under a market-based system.”

The Academic Staff Executive Committee also raised concerns over the preliminary recommendations suggested

for the new HR system in a report published last week.

In the report, ASEC provided feedback on the recommendations of the employee categories work team, who suggested including classified staff in the same category as academic staff.

ASEC said the employee categories work team should revise their recommendations by either modestly restructuring the categories of university employees or ceasing to change the categories in any way.

The ASEC report added by combining the two employee categories, classified employees would lose the collective bargaining rights they possess. In order for academic staff to obtain the collective bargaining rights they do not currently possess, legislation would have to be passed.

The report added if the employee categories are combined and the state law gave collective bargaining rights to academic staff, the academic staff may be placed into a labor union without consent.

Bazzell said the project is still in its early stages and feedback from the campus community will continue to be considered.

The system must be implemented by July 1, 2013 after passing through the Board of Regents and state Legislature.

ASM, from 1 services criteria are complicated,” Bruecker said.

“And I think that a lot of members on SSFC are really committed to getting rid of the idea that SSFC is an … evil committee that doesn’t want to give anyone money. I am above and beyond committed to giving groups as much help as they need to understand this.”

Bruecker also said the change would be beneficial to the majority of groups who receive General Student Services Funds and would help the groups to better serve students on campus.

In a meeting Sunday, past SSFC Chair and current Student Council Rep. Sarah Neibart said the change allowed for services that do not cater to all students on

PRIMARY, from 1 Marquette University Law School, took aim at Walker’s national campaigning.

“The first promise I’ll make is I will not try to become a rock star to the far-right conservative movement and travel around the country giving fundraising speeches talking about how successful I’ve been in attacking workers’ rights,” Barrett said.

“Because that’s what we have right now: a governor who doesn’t seem to even want this job.”

Falk touted her budget management experience as a former Dane County executive. She said budgets are “moral documents” and discussed the programs she introduced as executive

ACTIVISM, from 1 history. Recruitment on campus upset students because Dow Chemical was the company responsible for making napalm for the war in Vietnam. The protest put UW on the map, though Stark said it was one in the line of many.

“Protest was pretty much continual from ’65-’67,” Stark said. “The recruitment of Dow Chemical was an issue, but it didn’t really stand out except as a convenient target.”

Prior to politics and activism becoming the forefront of activity on campus, Stark said there was a divide between the students from the East Coast and those from the Midwest. For the first time, both of the groups were together exchanging feelings and coming together.

In 1966, the student government found out the university was handing over students’ grades to the draft, which led to a sit-in. Stark said the draft brought a lot of mainstream students into the fold that had not been there previously.

“The draft was very significant because it obviously created a very deep self-interest,” Stark said. “Especially for people who might not have been aware of or certainly not against the war up to that point.

Students who had never spoken publicly got up and talked, not just about the war, but about their lives.”

While he had been politically active in other parts of the country, Stark said there was something special about the Madison campus in the 1960s.

Madison was a different place because of “whole communities of radicals, not just a handful,” Stark said. He added there were many different subsets of people who were involved in a variety of “very exciting” activities.

Stark said he had informants in the Madison Police Department.

Another incident that led to protest occurred when Stark’s informants in the department informed him one of the deans had been secretly meeting with the Madison police chief without the current chancellor’s knowledge.

The students then began to protest the presence of Madison police on campus.

He added Dow was dramatic, but it really was not so different from what they were already doing.

campus to receive direct services funding, which requires the need to be tailorable towards all UW students.

The second piece of legislation approved by Student Council allows for differentiation between individual and group intentional policy violations, while creating a process for responding to accusations of intentionality behind policy violations.

“This creates a more proactive way of handling violations,” Bruecker said.

“It’s really important to have a measure of how can this not happen again going forward.”

Bruecker said the change allows a group or an individual accused of an intentional policy violation to have a hearing in front of SSFC, where the individual or

the group can speak for 10 minutes on their own behalf, followed by 30 minutes of questions by SSFC. The legislation also differentiates punishments for individual versus group policy violations.

However, Neibart moved to amend this hearing process Sunday, saying while this was an important step for SSFC as some have criticized the current bylaws as “draconian,” the organization should not distinguish between a group and an individual.

“How do you separate a member from the rest of the group? How can you not say that this was in the same spirit as the rest of the group,” Neibart said. “Individuals make up the group, and there’s no point at which you can distinguish between an individual versus group member.”

that have improved infrastructure and protected the environment.

Falk said she would work to close the loopholes that currently exist in Wisconsin tax codes. She also praised Wisconsin’s leadership in water pollution research, stem cell research and forestry management.

“I was a county executive for 14 years. I’ve balanced more budgets than any of my friends on the stage here, and I’ve balanced a budget far longer than Scott Walker, and I love doing it,” Falk said.

Vinehout said she was concerned over the increasing burden of student debt and the diminishing number of youth able to afford a secondary education.

“An investment in

higher education is a great investment not only for the family member and the student, but also for the entire state,” Vinehout said.

“We’re falling behind in Wisconsin.”

La Follette was the only candidate who supported a potential raise on the state sales tax to increase funding for education. The other candidates said they would not support raising taxes, but instead offered other ways to increase state aid for schools.

La Follette, a former University of WisconsinParkside professor, said an investment in research is necessary to help state businesses.

The Democratic primary will take place May 8, with the winner taking on Walker June 5.

The Dow Chemical protest started on Bascom Hill. There was a performance theater group called the San Francisco Mime Troupe that announced the protest against Dow and led the group up Bascom Hill with trumpets and drums, Stark said.

Stark said about 300 people went inside Ingraham Hall, and those who did not want to get arrested stayed outside.

Stark estimates it was anywhere from 1,0003,000 people who were outside the building.

Stark, who said he had bodyguards with him, went to meet with thenChancellor William Sewell to negotiate about Dow, but he said a settlement was not reached.

During the protest, the police attacked the protesters with tear gas and long clubs, he said.

But despite this, Stark said he was never in danger. The captain of the freshmen football team, Kim Wood, stood in front of Stark, trying to talk police out of violence, but Stark said Wood took the brunt of a police hit. Stark said the football team joined in on the protests after an incident where a black player was kicked off the team for coming late to practice and missing the team picture because his mother was sick.

When the tear gas was getting unbearable, Stark escaped Ingraham Hall and walked across the street to Social Sciences.

In the midst of the chaos, he said he decided to go up and check his mail.

What Stark found next was a group of professors looking out the window at the riot and cheering on the students.

“The protest that night changed,” Stark said. He said the shift went from getting Dow off campus to police brutality.

Stark said he was not interested in that cause, so he grabbed his disguise and his girlfriend and drove off campus, and from there he spent time dodging police.

The next day Stark was expelled from UW, but he said he voluntarily left before he was expelled.

He fled to Canada. Stark then took a job with the Canadian government and continued to lead sitins at universities, which he said “reinvented” him.

After three months, Stark returned to the U.S. and went to the University of Minnesota, where he tried to finish his PhD. However, his efforts did not last long because he said the FBI

was following him from Madison.

“They kept me from getting any kind of employment,” Stark said.

Stark could not afford to continue with school without a source of income.

Stark stayed in Minneapolis for a couple of years, where he became the head of a center involved in a poverty program. He also ran a series of community centers and anti-war sitins at the the university before moving back east.

One of the Armstrong brothers, who were responsible with two others for the Sterling Hall bombing in 1970 that killed a university physics researcher, was underground in Minneapolis at the same time Stark was there.

Stark said he ran into him a couple of times.

Stark said he also had a couple of brushes with the police, once when he was involved in a car accident.

He hit a deer with his car and when the police showed up, they looked through his pockets. He said luckily his things had been scattered all around because of the crash and he was never identified.

Stark’s luck soon ran out when he and his wife attended a play with an old professor in Madison.

The play was about fascism and militarism, with actors dressed up as police officers walking through the aisles pretending to arrest audience members.

“You’re under arrest,” Stark said he heard from men in uniform, but he ignored it.

Unfortunately for Stark, they were real police officers and he was taken to jail, but was bailed out by his professor.

“Madison was the most exciting place to be in the U.S. during that period,” Stark said. “People who were there remember the experience of the protest,” he added.

Now Stark lives in New Haven, Conn., with his wife. He has four children who are all out of the house. He is the director of the Public Health Program and a professor of public administration at Rutgers University.

He shares a department in the School of Public Health at New Jersey Medical School and does research and forensic work focused on violence against women.

He has done research at Yale University and is a forensic social worker, and part of his work includes murders connected to domestic abuse.

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2012 MIFFLIN BLOCK PARTY Lukas Keapproth and Megan McCormick, The Badger Herald

After a year’s worth of controversy, Saturday’s Mifflin Street Block Party raged on as a small but determined crowd of University of Wisconsin students and out-of-towners took to the streets for a cool afternoon’s worth of partying.

The famous day of debauchery was curtailed, but certainly not crushed, by increased police presence, tighter regulations on drinking and house parties and a huge influx of arrests and citations.

Students seemed determined to let their longtime tradition live on.

After all was said and done and every beer can was swept from the gutters, police reported a day free of violent crime and detox centers that had not reached their capacity. With the year’s biggest event over and the last weekend before finals lived to the fullest, it’s time to wash out the alcohol stains, stock up on coffee and make friends with Helen C. White.

Editorial Page Editor Taylor Nye oped@badgerherald.com

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Gitmo trials show absurdity of War on Terror Meher Ahmad Staff Writer On Saturday, in the shadowy recesses of the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba, the trials of five alleged Sept. 11 conspirators resumed three years after the Obama administration attempted to bring them to civilian court in New York.

After fierce opposition to the civilian trial, which was to be held a few blocks away from Ground Zero in New York City, the Obama administration backed down and agreed to proceed with a prosecution in military court.

Now, as the drama of the proceedings has resumed,

the five men accused have stepped onto a global stage.

The Miami Herald reports that the prosecutions are being televised on multiple military bases, with several hundred families of 9/11 victims watching with a 40 second lag, allowing for the government to censor any admissions of classified information and, undoubtedly, descriptions of the torture techniques used on the five men during their time in Guantanamo.

The outburst against their courtroom antics has been amplified with every move they make. Led by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the Pakistani national who claims to be the mastermind behind the attacks, the five men have protested at every stage of the hearings already.

Kneeling to pray during their arraignment, removing their headphones with Arabic translators and refusing to

answer questions, KSM, as Khalid Sheikh Mohammad has come to be known, and his co-conspirators continued what they call Islamic jihad in the courtroom.

One defendant, Waleed bin Attash, had to be strapped to his chair until he agreed to cooperate.

The outcry at their protestations is what KSM and al-Qaida seek, and U.S. prosecutors are well aware of that fact. The Los Angeles Times notes that former chief prosecutor Morris Davis said of KSM’s rulings: “If we execute him, we will be giving him exactly what he wants.”

But what is it the prosecutors, and the American people, seek?

For the families who lost loved ones on the day of the attacks, the outcome of the trial is perhaps a cathartic finale to the horrible aftermath of the brutal

attacks. For the American public, it is the justice at the end of a decade-long ordeal. And for the Obama and Bush administrations, it is a justification for the stain on American history that is Guantanamo Bay. The War on Terror, as it has been dubbed, is partially the knee-jerk emotional response to the attacks on this country. For every pointless loss of civilian life in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other corners of the world where the West likes to point its finger to, the public is somehow meant to feel safer and just knowing that some guy in a turban finally paid for 9/11.

The perpetrators of 9/11, despite the trillions of dollars and millions of lives lost, are winning the shadow play that is the War on Terror. Eleven years after 9/11, Islamophobia is rampant in the West, and as drone bombs make rubble

of my homeland, Pakistan, the anti-Western sentiment only grows more vicious.

And that is the brilliance behind the tactics of fundamentalists in groups like al-Qaida. Pitting an ideological war against the West, they continue their attacks at an emotional level.

Answering with governmentsanctioned drone bombs and full-scale occupations, the United States feeds into their scheme.

The expectation in the international arena, a false one as most have come to realize, is the United States sits at a higher moral plane than other nations. We are meant to be leaders in human rights, in ethics, in freedom.

Yet, as legislation in multiple states passes outlawing shari’a law, as blatant attacks on Muslims continue in our own backyard, as innocent civilians are detained indefinitely and as American

rights are slowly chipped away, we succumb to the same level as the terrorist organizations that resented the U.S. for its freedoms.

So instead of stepping down to the deplorable level of hatred at which KSM and his co-conspirators operate, the only way the American people, and all who have suffered as a result of Sept.

11, can counter the mental anguish and racism al-Qaida hopes to infect our minds with is to step above pointing fingers.

KSM’s trial is the condensed metaphor for the way the West has dealt with terrorism. Only in this case, the prosecution knows better than to give in to what alQaida wants.

Meher Ahmad (mahmad@ badgerherald.com) is a junior majoring in international studies and Middle Eastern studies.

Falk not viable governor, Barrett best candidate Charles Godfrey Columnist The net effect of Wisconsin’s ongoing recall process has been a deepening of political divisions along party lines. Since last February, the state has been involved in a constant political debate — protests led to a petition drive, and recall elections this fall will mark the end of a year of perpetual campaigning.

If Gov. Scott Walker comes out on top in the recall elections, citizens of Wisconsin can expect no end to the liberal-conservative dichotomy that has split state government into two competing factions.

At the end of the first two tumultuous years of Walker’s

term as governor, nothing is more evident than his resolve to remain unflinching and uncompromising in the face of Democratic opposition.

A win for Walker would galvanize his conservative coalition and validate claims that Walker does, in fact, represent the conservative majority. If Walker is reelected, so to speak, expect a return to business as usual on Capitol Square — Republicans will remain uncompromising, Democrats will continue with their policy of non-cooperation and the stalemate will resume. Legislation will bounce back and forth in the partisan gridlock before stagnating in the state courts.

A win for Walker means two more years of the same old.

On the other hand, there is the possibility that a Democrat walks out on top next September. In this case, it isn’t quite clear what the next two years will look like, but there are two extreme cases — imagine them as

two different pages in the Wisconsin Political Future choose-your-own-adventure book.

One rather dystopian possibility is that the incoming Democratic governor tries to undo two years of conservative legislation, purge the capitol of all Republican appointees and in general swing the state government into the antiWalker left. The alternative is that the incoming governor looks beyond two years of partisan bickering, and begins with a concerted effort to heal political divisions in the state, in order to end the stale and exhausted argument that has been dragging on for the past year and move Wisconsin into the future.

In fact, the Democratic gubernatorial candidates are choosing their own adventures. Based on a Marquette University Law School poll, former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett represent

the two candidates with a reasonable chance of winning the Democratic primary.

In a debate last Friday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports these two candidates made their intentions clear.

While all candidates support the idea of restoring collective bargaining rights for public workers’ unions, the ways in which they intend to achieve that goal are quite different. Barrett’s site notes that he would call a special legislative session to restore collective bargaining, or introduce a standalone bill to the Legislature. Both of these strategies would require support on both sides of the aisle — they are necessarily cooperative efforts.

A different strategy is presented by Kathleen Falk, who has asserted that she will veto any state budget that does not restore collective bargaining. Falk told the Journal Sentinel, “Having a special session won’t get it done because we know Assembly Republicans won’t

act on it. … You’ve got to be willing to use all the tools the governor has.”

Replace “Republicans” with “Democrats” and this sounds like a classic Walker sound-bite, and it shows that Falk intends to be an anti-Walker, and to send the state on a wild pendulumswing to the opposite edge of the political spectrum.

The “Issues” page of Falk’s campaign website is a case in point — the page says as much about Walker’s flaws as it does about Falk’s virtues with statements like “Gov. Walker threatened the futures of our children,” and “Gov. Walker was dishonest with the people of Wisconsin,” and “because of Gov. Walker’s bad choices, 65,000 [people] will lose their health care.”

Falk has presented herself as a foil character to Walker — the problem with this is that Wisconsin doesn’t need the liberal opposite of Walker, it needs a governor who will look beyond Walker and

return the state to political normalcy.

Responding to Falk’s plans to veto budgets that lack a collective bargaining measure, secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Doug La Follette summed things up concisely at Friday’s debate, saying, “I don’t believe you do it by getting in people’s face.” La Follette is right — Wisconsin doesn’t need another 10 years of the same old back and forth liberal-conservative struggle that it is stuck in today. It needs a governor who will break the gridlock and open the Capitol to the mere possibility of progress.

While it is yet to be proven that Barrett would be that sort of governor, it is certain that Falk is not. This makes Barrett the logical choice in Tuesday’s Democratic primary elections.

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

Destructive nature of mining bill overlooked in Jauch recall Jared Mehre Staff Writer Once again the petitions are being signed for another recall election to take place. This recall, however, is the first to take place that is not in response to the events that took place here in Wisconsin back in February 2011. State Sen. Bob Jauch, a Democratic senator from Poplar, Wis., is under fire for opposing a mining bill that would have created the ability for a Florida mining company to mine in Ashland and Iron County.

The mining company was speculated to have brought about 2,800 jobs to the area, according to the Superior Telegram.

The prospective loss of these jobs is the reason given by petitioners that Jauch should be recalled.

While I have been in support of the recalls thus far, this particular recall seems to be lacking sufficient reasons for why it should take place.

This biggest problem I see in this effort to get Jauch recalled would be in the numbers. Republicans hold a majority in the Assembly and in the Senate; they obviously have the numbers in their favor to get any bill they want passed, and in the new hardline political

Wisconsin we live in, controversial bills tend to get passed down party lines. Clearly, someone who is not a Democrat must have done the unthinkable, crossed party lines and voted “no” on this bill. Enter Sen. Dale Schultz.

Schultz, a Republican from Richland Center, voted “no” on the mining bill, which effectively ended its passage. Schultz, as reported by TMJ4, stated that he would be willing to vote for the bill, “as long as it doesn’t contain an onerous contested case provision and these environmental changes without a thorough robust and transparent discussion that I think all of us need to listen to.” As one can see, Schultz merely wants the people in charge of this decision to sit down and have a discussion on the best way to handle this issue, an idea I am inclined to agree with.

Another reason why this recall could be considered a sham would fall on its organizer, Shirl LaBarre.

LaBarre held early on in her recall campaign that she would neither go door-to-door nor stand on a street corner to collect signatures. Instead, she had decided that creating a Facebook page is good enough to get the word out, telling the Superior

Telegram, “You can have a luncheon with 25 people and maybe they’ll tell an additional 25 people, but one message on Facebook can reach thousands of people.”

This to me seems like a lazy way to collect signatures, since posting your name on Facebook doesn’t count in quite the same way as a signature on a petition. Now, in LaBarre’s defense, she did recently begin to hold rallies for her recall effort.

For the individuals who opposed this bill, one of their main reasons is that it did not protect the environment to their satisfaction. I think in this whole process people forget that this is a bill that would affect all of Wisconsin, not just the people in Iron and Ashland County.

This is a bill that would make it easier for mining companies to ignore the environment while they strip the land of its natural beauty and resources.

The individuals involved in recalling Jauch need to look into this issue more than anything else and ask themselves if they are willing to let Wisconsin’s wetlands become Wisconsin’s wastelands.

Jared Mehre (mehre@ wisc.edu) is a freshman majoring in political science.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Don’t go.”

-LORI BERQUAM, DEAN OF STUDENTS We went.

We won’t remember any extreme violence, because there wasn’t any. Last year was an exception, not a norm.

We went.

Because, you see, we won’t look back on our lives in a few decades and remember that weekend we studied before finals.

We’ll remember that weekend we laughed, hung out with friends and made great memories. And then woke up ready for finals.

We went.

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THE BADGER HERALD PRESENTS AN ARTSETC. SPECIAL FEATURE

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College Life An oral history Sam Berg, Katie Foran-McHale, Holly Hartung, Joe Nistler and Lin Weeks ArtsEtc. Seniors As a tool for reflection on the University of Wisconsin, “College Life” is a warped and spotty mirror.

The MTV show rankled the UW administration, drew the scorn of wizened upperclassmen, provided fodder for campus gossip for the better part of two semesters, inflamed tempers, sparked debates and generally drew the attention of Madison observers of all stripes.

But for the matriculating class of 2008, that attention seemed tinged with an air of extra importance.

Each of the four cast members originally chosen to appear on the air each week — Jordan Ellerman, Andrea Endries, Kevin Tracy and Alex Viser — belonged to that freshman class. When Alex left the show, she would be replaced by Lindsay Zadra, another freshman. Two more “webisode”

cast members, Dan Ross and Anna Shoemaker, were in their first year of school as well. Only one regular on the show, Josh Hickson, was older, and he came on board uncast, having been handed a camera due to his ongoing connection with Andrea. These people were our dorm mates and project partners.

We saw them in class and at house parties, in libraries and on State Street.

It would be unwise to judge the cast members themselves by their representation on their show; our generation more than any other has learned that lesson hundreds of times over, many of those times while watching MTV. But appropriately or not, their characterizations were by far the most public representation of our class. In many ways — namely, those typical, unavoidable, reality television ways — “College Life” is a broken lens for which to examine our class. Like any tiny, unrepresentative sample,

similarities are as easy to manufacture as differences, it just depends on what you’re looking for.

Still, to some degree, the comparison works. Who among us doesn’t know a party animal that had a bit too much fun freshman year or a couple that just can’t quite seem to make a clean break? It was clear that the casting department of “College Life” was trying to cover its bases in terms of diversity, as one of our interviewees, an independently contracted casting director for the show, said: “You always want to have your archetypes.”

What, then, can we learn from “College Life?” When we — a small group of ArtsEtc.’s seniors — set out our goals for this project, we hoped to accomplish a few things.

We wanted to know the impact of the show on the university, on the cast members and on our class. We wanted to catalogue the history of the show in a more comprehensive manner than had ever been done before. We wanted to figure out

where to cast blame, if there was blame to be assigned, and where to give credit, if it was due. And we wanted to figure out what the cast members were up to now. If you’d made a wager in late 2008 that some members of the cast would no longer be at UW by this May, that bet would pay off. But if you picked Kevin, you’d be out a little cash.

Perhaps our curiosity was driven by a lingering, ingrained celebrity fascination, but we doubt it. Rather, we see “College Life” as the massive, landmark, popcultural event of our four years in school. Despite its problems, the show was an undeniably significant part of our Wisconsin experience, and we figured we’d accept the task of telling its story. Like “College Life,” we’ll tell the story through the first person with little to no editorializing. But like “College Life,” all information hereafter has been edited, condensed and arranged by topic to allow a coherent story to emerge.

Follow ArtsEtc. throughout this week for all of our five-part series Monday Creation and controversy Tuesday Casting and production Wednesday Reception, reality and response (pt. 1) Thursday Reception, reality and response (pt. 2) Friday Where are they now?

‘This show has not been approved by UW-Madison’ UW administration pulled support for Wexler’s vision to deleterious results LORI BERQUAM (University of Wisconsin dean of students from 2008 to present) in a 2009 press release: Unfortunately, it appears that MTV squandered a tremendous opportunity to show one of the most active and engaged campuses in the country. The network’s view of campus life is not reflective of the challenges and opportunities experienced by the majority of our student body.

DAVID WEXLER (show creator, writer, producer): I think the first documentary I ever saw was “Hoop Dreams.” … It followed these kids in high school playing basketball, and I had ended up re-watching it kind of recently, and I thought this four-year period is really interesting to me, and I had thought of the time when I had kind of changed the most in four years. I thought it would be fun to follow that, to follow that progression.

TRICIA DICKINSON (marketing director, UW Communications): [David Wexler] had sort of an interesting back story. From what I recall he was from the New York area and did not want to come to school here.

It was not his top choice, and he ended up coming here and loved it. He really felt like this school was an amazing place and it heavily influenced him, and so he thought it was the perfect place to tell the story of the amazing experience of the

University of Wisconsin.

So, he came and pitched us that story. … We certainly agreed with this concept — that Madison is an amazing school that changes a lot of people’s lives. Students come here and do wonderful things and because of the experience they have here, they leave and do wonderful things. So that was the whole concept of the show he was suggesting.

DAVID WEXLER: MTV immediately wanted to go the UCLA, USC route, sort of the sexy, sleek, blonde, everything you would think. And, by the way, I have only the greatest things to say about MTV, I can tell you how I think they handled the whole thing. But I really wanted a raw, kind of, “This is what my college life was like.” I wanted to show it off. … I couldn’t imagine any other place, really.

Unfortunately, what happened is, we kind of got the green light and then the dean switched right when we were about to shoot.

LORI BERQUAM, in a 2009 press release: We understand the power of MTV and were initially honored to be considered for a program that could showcase our unique experience. But the “College Life” they’re selling is nothing more than a stereotype that disrespects our students and harms our institution and the value of a UW-Madison degree.

DAVID WEXLER: I think I can kind of see where this person was coming from, you know, “Right when I come in, is it a good idea to have this thing?”

TRICIA DICKINSON: Right around the time we were getting comfortable saying, “Yeah, I think this could be

interesting, maybe it could be a documentary, maybe it could be something cool,” he sold the show to MTV. And that happened without us knowing.

What happened, from our perspective, is that once MTV got involved, the focus of the show shifted. At several points, we said, “We don’t like the way this is going. We’re not comfortable signing a contract.” At that point, things sort of just broke down. … We had a sense of what they were looking for, and that’s why we said, “The university doesn’t endorse this show.”

DAVID WEXLER: What wound up happening is it kind of almost turned into this exploitation film. Almost from the first frame on. We had this slate that said, “This show has not been approved by the University of WisconsinMadison.” That’s sexy for ratings; that’s sexy for shows.

That’s not what I wanted, though.

I didn’t feel like we were allowed — you can’t show classrooms, you can’t show libraries, you can’t show anything on campus, so, what else are you going to see? My hands were tied at this point.

So at this point it began gearing toward a little more of the social life versus the academic life. And again, I don’t blame the university.

SUE WITHUHN (mother of a 2008 UW freshman): I know Madison has a lot to offer out and about with the bars and the social scene, but I thought maybe some of the clubs could be highlighted and the whole Union experience could be highlighted. It was mostly, if I recall, house parties.

ALEXANDRA REED (exBadger Herald writer), in a 2009 feature about the

show: The university has received criticism for choosing not to endorse the show, as without campus footage, the scope of the program would be very limited in what it could depict. Berquam agrees it was a possibility MTV could have chosen to film volunteer work and student organizations, but that’s not what they chose to do. “We struggled with the idea that this was reality TV and what would actually make for good TV,” Berquam said.

“We knew it wasn’t going to be cramming at the library for an exam. We have a responsibility of protecting the value of a degree,” she added.

about was boy drama and party drama.

That was tough, but, you know, what are you gonna do?

I get where the school’s coming from.

KYRA SHISHKO (UW freshman in 2008): All of the shots are in dorm rooms or house parties. Like, there could be no shots of campus, which is everything here, so they couldn’t show anything. … You know, going to the Farmers’ Market, Rec Sports, there’s so many things people do here, even as freshmen.

DAVID WEXLER: Even if you look at our cast of characters, which I think were great, I mean, we were really trying to showcase the university in the best light. One of them is this girl Andrea, who had never, I think, drank. She was just this kind of religious, straight-laced, powerful young woman. And everyone else, really, I think we tried to stay away from parties as much as possible.

JORDAN ELLERMAN (cast member): The show was about our personal lives, it wasn’t about UW. ... I would have loved to film the clubs I was in and some of the really fun things I did in class or some of the things at the Memorial Union. I think it could have been great for UW, and I think they screwed up. I really think they did.

All the people on the show, save for Kevin, all the people on the show were good students. Lindsay Zadra was valedictorian of her high school. Josh and Andrea were really good students. I was getting straight A’s when I was at UW. We all would have loved to show a little more of what UW had to offer and shed it in a positive light. We just didn’t get the opportunity.

ANDREA ENDRIES (cast member): When UW took their endorsement from it, what happened was I could no longer show my student organizations, I could no longer show that I was in the student library or the fact that I was getting a 4.0, you know, I could no longer show those things, so all my story became

JASON SMATHERS (Badger Herald managing editor in Fall 2008): I think that people around here thought, well, this is a great opportunity for us to explain what it is to be a Badger and show how much, just pure fun we have on this campus. I thought people were going to imagine it as, “You get to see

JOSH HICKSON (cast member): I kind of get where they’re coming from. I would say Kevin’s story with the alcohol and bad grades and stuff is pretty bad looking on UW. But if they would have let us film at UW, we could do the football experience and like all the gameday stuff, and people studying for finals in the right location compared to some random library.

life as a Badger,” rather than “You get to see four kids in college.” I think that was the draw. Nobody cares about a bunch of kids in college — if that was the case then we’d still be watching “The Real World” and shit like that.

TRICIA DICKINSON: Wisconsin is a different kind of school. It attracts a different kind of student. We’re nationally known, and what the show focused on was the most mundane, stereotypical things people think about college — basically relationships and bad decisions about alcohol.

I understand it goes on here at UW. It goes on at a lot of schools. But seriously, that’s not at all the most interesting stuff that goes on here. Of all the stories — all that goes on here — that’s what they chose to focus on?

The best way I can summarize it is to say that it was a great concept brought to us by passionate alumni, which I totally appreciate, but it was the execution that just didn’t work.

DAVID WEXLER: I think I remember — I think the university didn’t seem thrilled with it. There was a lot of confusion, and again, there wasn’t really a forum for me to explain it to them. So I remember that being negative.

Again, I just wish that, if we had the opportunity to work more with the school, we could have molded it more into what we wanted it to be.

I mean, I was looking at some really entertaining, really PR things, just to really showcase how awesome the university is. I think that once there was that divide, like MTV versus the school, it was really hard to have anything except negative feelings.

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Sports HAMMOND, from 10 “He’s a big guy and he can jump,” quarterback Joel Stave said. “He’s got big hands. He’s really nice to throw to.”

Although any quarterback would be happy to throw to a target the size of Hammond, there’s still plenty of work for the oft-injured wide receiver to accomplish before he can be a regular in the huddle.

Nevertheless, he felt that after the spring game he had demonstrated an ability to execute when it’s time to put on the game jersey.

“I really showed that when its time to play, I can make plays,” Hammond said. “I really think that that’s been big on me. I may not always have the best practices but that’s what practice is for.”

Hammond’s return to full strength from the broken ankle was a long and arduous one that imprinted its timeline in his mind. On the spot, he can recall the exact date when the entire ordeal began: Aug. 22, 2008.

He had six screws and a plate put in his ankle as a result of the injury, and by the time he arrived to play at Wisconsin two years later, the screws

ERICKSON, from 10 to diversify. Not that the NHL is a racist organization or anything of that matter. Rather, it’s the circumstances surrounding the game that continue to hold back diversity.

If you didn’t already know, hockey is an expensive sport to play. The sheer cost of equipment from peewees to high school to whichever level one continues to play, is astronomical. As a result, in order to play the sport, you have to be able to afford it. For many, the costs are too much and

became bothersome and so he went under the knife a second time to get them removed. All the while, doubt about the future of his career percolated.

The ankle continued to cause problems, and on Aug. 4 of last year, as Hammond recalls, he underwent another procedure.

“I had a lot of scar tissue, bone chips, things floating around — torn ligaments,” Hammond said. “[The doctor] went in, cleaned all that up, smoothed out my cartilage, and it’s been working great ever since.”

The procedure removed Hammond from play just as another season began, but he eventually got back into the groove of things. In week 10, in preparation for a game against Purdue, Hammond was named UW’s scout team player of the week.

“I’ve been hanging out for a while up here, I’m kind of tired of that,” Hammond said. “I’m ready to play, I’m feeling great, my body’s feeling great.”

Hammond’s performance in the spring game highlighted and concluded the bumpy road that he and the rest of the wide receivers walked

on throughout spring.

Across the board, UW’s wideouts struggled to gain separation from defenders and consistently hold on to passes during practice.

“I think he made some steps this spring at certain times during practice,” Bielema said.

“I’m excited because I think it’s there. He’s only a sophomore, so he’s got a lot of good football, hopefully, in front of him.”

Now it’s on to the summer, where the team won’t be able to hold formal practices until August. In the meantime, Hammond said he hopes to add some weight onto his “kind of lanky” frame — as Bielema would describe it — over the course of the threemonth lull.

And, despite his encouraging performance in the spring game, Hammond knows there’s plenty of work to be done on his technique if he is to thrive as a wide receiver in the Big Ten. “Talking to [wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni], there’s a lot of things going on,” he said.

“I might have looked like I had a good day to everybody but between me and him we know there’s a lot of things that need to be fixed.”

therefore they can’t play.

In an attempt to not over generalize here, those with lower socioeconomic status can’t afford to play the game. According to a 2007 study by the National center for Education Statistics, African American children are three times more likely to live in poverty than Caucasian children.

In order to introduce more diversity, the sport itself needs to find ways to offer kids the chance to play even if they can’t afford it. The NHL, USA Hockey or various other hockey organizations throughout the country need to host hockey days,

particularly in inner cities, giving kids a chance to learn to skate and try the game for free. The costs can be covered through donations and funds that these organizations already have or can start fundraisers for. Either way, if the sport wants more diversity, it needs to help create it.

Much like the Mighty Ducks, kids just need someone to show them how to play and find a means of playing. None of them had great equipment — at least until Gordon Bombay helped change that — but they loved the sport so they found ways to play. More kids need

DIRTY, from 10 top speed.

Friday the cyclone struck again as The Daily Cardinal beat The Badger Herald, 7-6, with a set of star batsmen that ripped and crashed through a strong Herald defense with more speed and power than the warring journalists could meet.

After winning last year’s game the cyclone was indeed snared early on, falling behind the Herald 4-0 after the first two innings. With that advantage, the Herald players could perhaps be forgiven the faintest hints of optimism.

Maybe, they might have thought, this year would be different from the last. Maybe this team was good enough. Maybe their newspaper isn’t a visually boring bastion of the passive voice that people flip past on their way to read drivel like “SO to the coastie wearing Uggs!!!1 lolz.”

But this year wouldn’t.

That team wasn’t. And their newspaper is.

The Cardinal cyclone soon restored order to the world, crushing that optimism in a valiant comeback and pulling past their Herald counterparts with great hitting, expert baserunning and a suffocating defense led

that chance which the NHL and other hockey organizations can help provide.

Nothing can excuse how the Boston fans reacted to Ward’s goal and simply how degrading their comments were, but one way the NHL can help prevent situations like that in the future is to help create some diversity now and continue to foster it in the future.

Kelly is a junior majoring in journalism. How do you think hockey can create some diversity? Let her know @ kellymerickson or send her an email at kerickson@ badgerherald.com.

by pitcher Matt Kleist.

The Cardinal cruised to the win as Kleist pitched his way through a tense final inning that ended when Herald Sports

“The only other place where I have so much attention on me is my cats at feeding time, but we all know how fickle Grady is.”

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Content Editor Kelly Erickson popped out with the tying run on third base.

“It was a rocky start, but once the Herald actually started obeying its batting order and not putting the same five guys up to bat every inning, we turned it around,” Kleist said.

Epic comebacks that will echo in the halls of glory for an eternity aside, Friday’s game was packed with intense action, controversial calls and the thrilling specter of a six-foot,

seven-inch photo editor attempting to reverse direction in a muddy field to avoid getting doubled up on a fly out.

It was truly a sight to behold.

Umpire, journalism professor and cigar enthusiast James Baughman ruled over a heated but fair game between the rivals, often taking anticipationpacked extra seconds to call base runners out or safe to up the intensity whenever he could.

“One of my good friends from Harvard used to always tell me, ‘Jim’ — and he’d always talk like that, and I would tell him, ‘What is wrong with your jaw?’

— anyway, he’d always tell me, ‘Jim, you simply have to make the most of the spotlight when it’s on you.’ And I’ve lived with that advice every day since,” Baughman said. “The only other place where I have so much attention on me is my cats at feeding time, but we all know how fickle Grady is.”

After the game, Cardinalistas moved on to the flip cup table to dominate their foes in another arena, before shifting their focus back to kicking the Herald’s ass in the last weeks of the semester. The cyclone, as it always does, rages on.

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Hammond standing tall After ankle injury once cast his career in doubt, sophomore hopes for starting role Elliot Hughes Sports Editor This past spring camp marked Chase Hammond’s most important month of collegiate football to date.

Entering his third year with the Wisconsin football program as a redshirt sophomore wide receiver out of Youngstown, Ohio, Hammond hadn’t quite been healthy since he broke his right ankle in his junior year of high school.

He underwent three surgeries on the same ankle since then and at one point his future in football began to look blurry. Following the first two operations, doctors speculated that football might no longer be in the cards for him. After the third, UW’s coaches began looking at him sideways,

wondering if the health issues would ever end.

Hammond entered camp with his ankle troubles behind him and began work at a position where UW is still fishing for a starter opposite Jared Abbrederis.

Hammond called it “do or die” time for himself, but once the spring game on April 4 came to pass, Hammond certainly achieved selfpreservation.

With Abbrederis watching from the sidelines, Hammond stood out among the wideouts, catching four passes for 48 yards and a 7-yard touchdown. On more than one occasion, the 6-foot-5, 212-pound target showed off his lengthy wingspan, stretching and jumping for passes his defender had no hope of reaching.

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Chase Hammond stood out in the Badgers’ 2012 spring game April 28 with four catches for 48 yards and a touchdown. With his ankle injury behind him, Hammond hopes for a starting spot opposite Jared Abbrederis.

Dirty Birds win for once After 120-year mark, DC given new reason to write about itself, real news be damned Evan I. Disco Daily Cardinal Correspondent With apologies to Grantland Rice: Outlined against a bluegray May sky, the Four Horsemen rode again.

In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Evans, Kleist, Brackeen and that kid who draws “Tanked Life” (Steven?). They formed the crest of the Daily Cardinal cyclone before Megan McCormick The Badger Herald which another fighting BH managing editor Ryan Rainey smashes a base hit Friday at Vilas Park. After making the Dirty Birds look like fools in print each and every day, Rainey thought it nice that Cardinalistas got to smile about something. Badger Herald softball

team was swept over the precipice at Vilas Park Friday afternoon, as a few dozen spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the muddy green plain below.

A cyclone can’t be snared.

It may be surrounded, but somewhere it breaks through to keep on going. When the cyclone starts from Vilas Hall, where the candle lights still gleam through the Wisconsin sugar maples, those in the way must take to storm cellars at

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NHL needs more diversity to combat racial slurs Kelly Erickson Erickson the Red

While it’s a topic somewhat removed now, I can’t help but shake off the nagging thoughts that came immediately after the Washington Capital’s rightwinger Joel Ward ended the Boston Bruins season.

Fans, not only loyal to Boston, but other

NHL teams as well, took to Twitter expressing their disappointment in the most racist of ways.

Seemingly angry at the prospect that Ward, who is black, scored the game winner, people took to the social networking site and called him the n-word on

countless occasions, almost as if to say Boston’s loss was compounded by the color of Ward’s skin.

Multiple tweets concerning the issue claimed hockey is a “white man’s game.” One even went so far as to exclaim, “white power!”

Here few examples of some of the egregious comments from fans: One fan tweeted “#bruins just got beat by a n* I thought hockey was a white man’s game #wtf fuck ward.”

Another wrote minutes later, “Fucking stupid arrogant, smelly, useless, waste of life, sad excuse for a NHL hockey playing N*.”

Soon after, another tweeted “Can’t believe Boston just let a sand n* beat them #gobacktothejungle.”

Finally one fan just couldn’t string together a competent thought and just repeatedly tweeted the n-word along with a string of other profanities that would surely earn their mouth some quality time with a bar of soap.

Fans certainly take sports over the top seomtimes. But to go so far as to react in such a childish and uncivilized way is simply unacceptable. Just because it’s sports doesn’t make racist slurs OK, or any other sort of slur for that matter.

Those fans who took to the Internet and

expressed their anger at a man not because he scored the game-winner, but because of the color of his skin in addition to scoring the game-winning goal, effectively crossed a line.

These racist comments — while unwarranted, unnecessary and completely idiotic — arise out of the fact that there are few black players in the National Hockey League.

Ward is one of only 28 active players in the NHL who are at least partially black. During the regular season, teams have a maximum of 23 players on their active roster, making for 690 active players in the league. But they can have 50 players under contract, meaning there at 1,500 players under an NHL contract at any given moment during the season. Essentially, 28 players out of 690 active players is miniscule (about 4 percent), much less 28 out of the 1,500 under contract.

Hockey is certainly a sport that needs

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