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Senate race gets heated In second debate, Thompson and Baldwin face off over middle class support , taxation Polo Rocha State Legislative Editor The candidates for Wisconsin’s open Senate seat portrayed each other as candidates who would not stand for the middle class in a notably heated Thursday night debate. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, and former Gov. Tommy Thompson both focused on their records and policies they would support to ensure the middle class grows. Thompson spoke of his record as a reformer and a job creator, while he said Baldwin “drives jobs out of the state.” Among the contrasts he made, Thompson said he cut taxes 91 times as governor, while Baldwin voted for 155 tax increases. “Every chance my opponent gets to vote for a tax increase, she will vote for it,” Thompson said. He also painted Baldwin as one who is among the most liberal in Washington and more liberal than President Barack Obama or House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Baldwin said an important part of her platform was to ensure fairness in taxation, calling the current system “rigged,” with some millionaires paying less in taxes than the average family. “It is wrong people who make [more than] a million
dollars a year shouldn’t have to pay at least the same tax rate as hard-working middle class families,” Baldwin said. A tactic that has been used in races across the nation, Baldwin tried to tie Thompson to vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s budget plan, although Thompson distanced himself from it and said he had his own plan. Both parties would probably come off thinking their candidate won the debate, and neither came out with a “knock-off punch,” University of Wisconsin journalism professor Michael Wagner said. “Most Republicans who watched the debate probably thought it was a win for Tommy and most Democrats probably thought Tammy cleaned his clock,” Wagner said. He added Baldwin came off as more polite in the debate, while Thompson was more aggressive. He noted some in the live crowd in Wausau booed Thompson when he called Baldwin “Joe Biden” for interrupting him, referring to the vice president’s debate performance last week. The moderators asked each candidate to speak to which part of the other’s plans they would support. Wagner said
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Two students enjoy Freakfest on State Street last year. This year, the event is expected to draw record numbers with Mac Miller and Big Gigantic as headliners.
Freakfest preparation finalized Committee addresses final planning measures for event expected to draw big crowd Camille Albert City Hall Editor Members of the Downtown Coordinating Committee addressed how to prepare for the uniquely large crowd Freakfest is expected to draw next Saturday. Frank Productions spokesperson Charlie Goldstone said State Street will be gated off starting at 7 p.m., and the event will last until 1:30 a.m. Goldstone said a few new VIP areas ticketed at $35 — compared to
$8 for an average ticket — will allow close access to the stage, and Frank Productions has received a considerable amount of interest in terms of ticket sales. He said the benefit is not waiting in line for the concert early in the evening because VIP ticket holders are guaranteed a spot by the stage. He added Frank Productions wants to provide a unique and convenient experience to some willing to pay more for tickets while keeping regular ticket
prices the same in the hope of appealing to a wide audience. Goldstone said ticket sales are among the largest seen in years. He said they have sold around 1,500 tickets so far and anticipate to sell 45,000, 80 percent of which are normally purchased either Friday or the day of Freakfest. “We’re pretty pleased with how things have gone so far this year,” Goldstone said. “We’re significantly ahead of where we were last year and we’re anticipating a
large crowd.” According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, having Mac Miller and Big Gigantic perform at Freakfest has drawn many students. He said Frank Productions spent more money on talent this year than in previous years. Madison Police Department Capt. Carl Gloede said the main entry access points will be on West Johnson Street, with everything south of West Johnson
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Orpheum may reopen this winter Frank Productions in talks to take over closed theater; applies for liquor license Camille Albert City Hall Editor The Orpheum Theatre, which has not been open to the public since last summer after losing its liquor license, could potentially reopen in December under new management. According to Frank Productions spokesperson Charlie Goldstone, the attorney receiver contacted Frank Productions to manage
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Members of Badger Catholic addressed SSFC in its meeting, where SSFC approved the group’s budget. The committee also approved funding for MEChA during the meeting.
Committee passes budgets in meeting Badger Catholic, MEChA receive funding from SSFC, both with few changes made Julia Skulstad Campus Life Editor A student government committee approved budgets for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán and Badger Catholic in a meeting Thursday. Student Services Finance Committee voted to approve the entire budget for MEChA at $90,153 by a vote of 11 in favor, zero opposed and three in abstention. Regarding the budget decision for MEChA, a group that has previously run into
issues with obtaining funding within the past few years and experienced conflict over gaining funding for its location last year, committee members mainly raised concerns regarding how many members should attend the national MEChA conference. SSFC voted to reduce airfare, hotel and registration in its national MEChA conference program budget. Ultimately, the committee granted MEChA $1200 for airfare, $540 for hotel fees and
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the Orpheum, and the company signed the contract Wednesday. He said Frank Productions would be essentially running the Orpheum on behalf of the bank that has owned and operated it since it shut down last summer. Goldstone said Frank Productions will eventually bid on purchasing the Orpheum in eight to 12 months once the foreclosure takes place. He said Frank Productions
has been promoting shows in the Orpheum most likely longer than anyone in Madison and has been pursuing to operate it for several years. “We feel pretty good about it,” Goldstone said. “We’ve always had an interest in operating the Orpheum. Operating it for about a year will give us a really good idea of what the value and potential of the theater is.” Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said Frank
Productions applied for a liquor license with the city Tuesday, which will be heard at an Alcohol License Review Committee meeting in November. He added the theater has not had its liquor license since July 1. He said assuming the license is granted, Frank Productions hopes to reopen the venue to the public in December. Verveer said the
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Stephanie Awe Herald Contributor The majority of Madison’s City Council hopes to allocate more funds toward the Overture Center in the 2013 operating budget after the proposed budget cut its funding by $1 million. The 2012 operating budget allocated $1.85 million to the Overture Center, and Mayor Paul Soglin proposed to decrease its funding to $850,000 in 2013. Soglin’s spokesperson Katie Crawley has said Soglin focused his proposed budget on services including
increased allocations to the Madison Police Department to address and maintain a safety focus on certain neighborhoods and areas like the downtown area. Verveer said the majority of City Council members opposes the decision to significantly cut funding to the institution, as it may affect the downtown community. He said 14 of the 20 City Council members have committed to supporting the Overture Amendment, which proposes to dedicate $1.75 million to it in the budget. “For me this is personal, and [I’m] very familiar with what an asset [the Overture Center] is to the downtown [area],” Verveer said. Verveer said ideally,
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he would like to give the Overture Center $2 million in the 2013 operating budget, which is as much as it received in 2010. He said even though it is unlikely because the budget is tight, he is still optimistic in proposing $1.75 million. He said he believes Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed budget puts the Overture Center’s programming and employees at risk. He added he does not yet know what programs would be eliminated, but it has the potential to affect the University of Wisconsin student events, children’s shows and many free and lowcost tickets the center provides. Rob Chappell, spokesperson for Overture , said most
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Eric Prudent, a 24-yearold University of Wisconsin student majoring in biochemistry, is running for Assembly in Waukesha County. His platform includes growing the economy by encouraging small businesses to create jobs, protecting the environment and ensuring affordability and quality in both education and health care. The Badger Herald: Some may say the state is becoming less focused on higher education. As a student, how would your voice help bring out those issues? Prudent: I think that I can provide a perspective to really stand up for what’s in the best interest of students. A number that I talk to people about is the average student graduates with $23,000 in debt. Students, up until the last presidential election, were a voting bloc that really didn’t get out and make their voices heard. Fortunately, that’s starting to change. There are a lot of voices in the Legislature right now that that’s not the first thing on their minds, whether it’s because they don’t think it affects them directly or whether they don’t think the students are going to vote so they’re not concerned about that. That’s really something I really want to bring to people’s attention
and something we need to change. BH: How have your classes here shaped your beliefs? Prudent: There are plenty of people I’ve talked to that say, “Oh you went to UW-Madison, the liberal stronghold.” I think people forget Madison is a lot more purple than people give it credit for, just like I think Waukesha is a lot more purple than anyone gives it credit for. [I’ve been influenced by] a combination of my classes here, all the different viewpoints from professors of different backgrounds, all the TAs I’ve had, group work and interacting with other students. UW has [more than] 40,000 students. There is going to be a wide variety of viewpoints and backgrounds there, and I’ve interacted with a lot of these people. That gives me a unique perspective where I feel I can understand where a lot of different people are coming from. BH: Can you talk about your opponent and how you differ from him? Prudent: Bipartisanship is a big part of my campaign. My opponent, [Rep. Paul Farrow, R-Pewaukee] out of 769 votes has voted along strictly party lines 768 of those times. The one time he disagreed was when he thought we should end unemployment benefits. That’s not bipartisanship;
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Eric Prudent, a UW student, is running for an Assembly seat in Waukesha. His platform includes protecting the environment and job creation. that’s not even thinking for yourself. And that’s something I want to bring: someone that is willing to reach across the aisle and talk to people. BH: You are running in a district that is reliably conservative. Can you talk about how you are connecting Democratic voters in your district? Prudent: Waukesha has the stigma of being
incredibly conservative. And going door-to-door, especially in the spring, getting signatures to get on the ballot, I talked to people and a very common answer was, “I support you, I’ll sign, but good luck in this neighborhood.” And I’d say, “Well, hold on.” I’d point to their neighbors, their other neighbors and their other neighbors, three people right on their block and say,
OVERTURE, from 1 of its community and educational programming would be cut if Soglin’s $1 million budget cut is approved. He added that would negatively impact the community. “[There will be] fewer people coming downtown, fewer events, [fewer] people eating at restaurants and shopping on State Street,” Chappell said. Chappell said if City Council passes the Overture Amendment, he does not anticipate the center cutting any programs. He said the center may face some internal cuts, but nothing that would outwardly affect the community. City Council President Ald. Shiva BidarSielaff, District 5, said the Overture Center’s partnership with community schools, which is a popular destination for field trips, is at risk of being cut. Bidar-Sielaff said City
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Street being an exit, with the exception of VIP areas. He added one of the VIP areas will be off Carroll Street. After 7 p.m. Saturday, anyone walking on State Street will be required to have a ticket for Freakfest, which may present inconveniences to people visiting the area for Homecoming, Gloede said. Gloede said police will make arrests at the City County Building rather than on the street. He said last year, only 30 or 40 citations were issued, which is extremely low for this type of event. “We don’t predict anything other than that level and we’re hoping it continues to reduce because that’s the nature of the event,” Gloede said. He said the Freakfest event offi cers will come in at 5 p.m., and the area will consist of more than 150 MPD offi cers in the
“Hey, they said the exact same thing as you.” They looked down at my papers and I’d see their eyes widen, and they had no idea that there was support for an alternative view right here in their own neighborhood. That’s something that has been a big motivation for me, to bring these people together and give these people a reason to sort of come out of hiding.
Council originally had an agreement to provide annual funds of $2 million to the Overture Center after it was switched from being city-owned to a privately owned non-profit. She said the city’s annual funds have decreased since then and have only been able to provide $1.85 million for the past couple years. Because Overture is a non-profit private facility, it has been working to become less dependent on the city government, Verveer said. He said last year, the center raised $2.4 million in private fundraising. The first vote to approve the Overture Amendment will be held Oct. 22 by the Board of Estimates, Verveer said. Chappell said the 2013 operating budget will be passed at a meeting on either Nov. 14 or Nov. 15. He said it will be decided then whether the Soglin’s proposal or the City Council’s amendment will be approved.
event zone. He added State Patrol personnel and Dane County sheriffs will also be present. The University of Wisconsin Police Department will have officers on university property, he added. The Downtown Coordinating Committee unanimously voted at its last meeting on its annual decision to make Freakfest a glassfree zone, similar to the Miffl in Street Block Party. According to Gloede, one of the biggest challenges this upcoming Saturday will be the traffic caused by the UW Badgers football game, Homecoming and Freakfest. He said MPD worked with traffic engineering to shut down half the isthmus downtown and provide a detour for the closures on West Johnson Street. “Patience will be a virtue that day after the game,” Gloede said.
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ORPHEUM, from 1 Monona State Bank signed an agreement to own and operate the Orpheum since it shut down last summer. He said the bank filed a foreclosure action several weeks ago in Dane County Circuit Court, claiming the previous owners of the theater did not keep current with their mortgage payments. The previous owners of the venue had a sour relationship for a long time, which led to the crisis it experienced last summer, according to Verveer. The venue has not been open to the public whatsoever since it lost its liquor license other than an occasional wedding reception, Verveer said. President of Capitol Neighborhoods Inc. Davy Mayer, an adviser to The Badger Herald’s Board of Directors, said the Orpheum will not operate as a restaurant or bar unless there is a show going on once it reopens. He said it likely will not show movies, with the potential exception of the Wisconsin Film Festival, and will serve primarily as a concert venue. There are other companies and promoters
SENATE RACE, from 1 Thompson could not come up with anything aside from a bill that would cut down the deficit, while Baldwin “rattled off” multiple issues. Students for Obama Chair Peter Anich also noticed this and said Thompson looked
COMMITTEE, from 1 $193 for registration in its national conference budget. SSFC Rep. Devon Maier said he thinks no group should be sending more than half of its staff to a conference of this type. “This [reduced national conference budget] would send three members, and I think that is more than sufficient for a national conference like this,” Maier said. Maier said if SSFC allows for funding of the entire staff of one group to go to nationals, it will establish a
“I am a firm believer conferences in general really help build and train people. Jonathan Harris SSFC Secretary
precedent for other groups coming forward to ask for more than a valid amount. He said SSFC should establish a precedent of only allowing half of a staff to be able to go to a national conference. SSFC Rep. Tito Diaz said he was opposed to the reduction because he believes sending all members MEChA asked to send, plus one, would help the group. He said big conferences like this have many workshops involved, and he added he would want as many members as possible
that have expressed interest in ownership, but it is unknown how serious they are about it, Goldstone said. Goldstone also said Frank Productions has been promoting shows in Madison for more than 40 years and the Orpheum has been around much longer, giving them both a longstanding history with the city. “We view it as a great opportunity to turn lights back on in the Orpheum and restore it to what it should be,” Goldstone said. Verveer said the Orpheum is a tremendous resource to the community and to students at the University of Wisconsin campus in particular. UW student organizations have performed at the Orpheum repeatedly over the years, along with the UW men’s a cappella group MadHatters, Verveer added. “I’m thrilled the Orpheum likely will have its lights on again and the doors will be open to the community as they have been for decades,” Verveer said. “The Orpheum is a true gem. It’s an absolute landmark institution in Madison and it has been really painful to see it slowly deteriorate.”
“dumbfounded” by the question and gave a “roundabout” answer to it. “It’s very insightful to see Tammy has that bipartisan message in mind, and she’s not at all opposed to working across the aisle,” Anich said. Anich said Baldwin is “no stranger to the numbers”
to attend the workshops. SSFC Secretary Jonathan Harris said he thought the budget should allow for sending the entire group. He said they need many people to go because it is a national conference, with so many workshops that happen simultaneously. “I am a firm believer conferences in general really help build and train people,” Harris said. In the meeting, SSFC also passed Badger Catholic’s budget. The group had previously sued the university in 2007 over line items being withheld and content being censored in relation to its segregated fees in a conflict that ended in September of 2011, when a Wisconsin State Court ordered the UW System to produce settlement funds to the organization. Thursday night, SSFC ultimately voted to approve the entire budget for Badger Catholic at $100,947.63 by a vote of twelve in favor, zero opposed and two in abstention. The committee also voted to strike two hours per week from the marketing director position, thus reducing the responsibilities to five hours per week. SSFC Rep. Kyle Quagliana said that from his understanding, it seemed like the individual is solely there to tweet and use Facebook. He said he thinks it is something a volunteer could do. “I would be concerned with giving them honestly any hours,” Quagliana said. “I think that is something you can do in less than an hour.”
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WEDC loses track of $8 million State agency failed to keep tabs on millions in taxpayer dollars in loans given to businesses Noah Goetzel Herald Contributor The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has lost track of $8 million of taxpayer money in loans given to private businesses, according to a WEDC spokesperson. Tom Thieding, WEDC spokesperson, said 99 private businesses are overdue on repaying loans given out by the agency, which formerly was the state Department of Commerce. Thieding did not identify which companies are overdue on their payments or when they will be paid back. “We’re contacting companies that have been either behind or default of loan payments and trying to get them back on track,” Thieding said. “If they do not, we’ll be pursuing appropriate legal action to get the loans repaid.” Two members of the WEDC board — Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha,
and knows her support of a fair tax system would help the economy grow. UW College Republicans Chair Jeff Snow said he was pleased with Thompson’s aggressive performance. Baldwin’s liberalism, Snow said, is something voters got to see in this debate. “At the beginning, he was
and Sen. Julie Lassa, D-Stevens Point — expressed displeasure with these unmonitored loans, which account for more than 15 percent of the WEDC’s total loan portfolio of $51 million.
“We’re contacting companies that have been either behind or default of loan payments and trying to get them back on track.” Tom Thieding WEDC Spokesperson
In a statement, Barca said programs like WEDC may contribute to Wisconsin’s low job growth under Walker. WEDC replaced the state’s Department of Commerce in 2011, a process Lassa said was not planned out enough and
basically calling out Tammy Baldwin for extreme liberalism, and that’s what really stuck out,” Snow said. “You definitely got to see a side of Baldwin a lot of people haven’t heard about. She’s actually extremely radical and only represents liberal Madison and not the rest of Wisconsin.”
has led to various mistakes from the semi-private agency. The old DOC was too sidetracked by regulatory functions to significantly improve the economy, according to Todd Berry, president of the Wisconsin Taxpayer Alliance. Berry added it is too early to evaluate WEDC’s progress, since it only began in July 2011. “The genesis of this was feeling the former DOC was not focused enough on economic development,” Berry said. “It was a correct decision and I don’t think that in any way undermines the original thinking behind the creation of the WEDC, but it does point to things that need to be cleaned up and monitored as the agency matures.” Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, is a member of Wisconsin’s Joint Legislative Audit Committee, which regulates operation and spending of state agencies. Her spokesperson
Eric Peterson said he thinks WEDC provides an opportunity to grow Wisconsin’s economy, but he said it has yet to accomplish this goal due to a lack of responsibility and transparency. “WEDC can work if we start doing things right and we start agreeing we’re going to show people where we’re spending the money,” Peterson said. “When we try to cut the deal in the back room and keep things quiet, it doesn’t work for public development. It creates a matter of distrust.” WEDC did not inform the Joint Legislative Audit Committee of the $8 million in untracked loans during the Wednesday meeting between the two groups, according to Thieding. The WEDC Board of Directors, which Walker chairs, is meeting Friday. At the meeting, Peterson said Walker must show the new agency can be trusted and be accountable.
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Herald Editorial Classroom =/ soapbox At the University of Wisconsin, being politically neutral can be a mighty task. Aligning left of center on the political spectrum ensures you a spot in the majority here in Dane County, and it can be easy to assume everyone you encounter on this historically progressively campus will agree with you. We encourage professors in this politically-charged time to keep a healthy, balanced dialogue in the classroom. In light of the recent presidential and vice presidential debates, UW professors cannot forget the UW System rule that requires faculty and staff to refrain from engaging in political activity while on the clock. Faculty cannot advocate for one political idea over another on students who pay for a comprehensive education. If a student feels like a certain department is a haven for liberalism or conservatism, and they have opposing views and choose to not take those classes, they miss
out on the learning those classes provide. Professors must do all they can to fight political stereotypes associated with the university and with the schools within it. We have no doubt certain courses naturally warrant discussion of current political issues and events. These discussions, if handled properly, can greatly enhance students’ educations through relevant real-world examples.When professors take class time to engage in discussion of current events, it is crucial they encourage a safe space for all students to be able to engage and think critically about candidates and issues. Laughing at a gaffe or talking about how one candidate is doing better in the polls is not an issue in the slightest. It is when a professor’s opinion becomes embedded in the course material and students’ performance that is not tolerable. It is critical professors recognize while students come to political science courses to learn about
politics, this does not imply they want to learn about their professors’ politics. Aside from the serious consequences of isolating those who trust professors to teach, this type of behavior also cheapens students’ educations at a time when the price tags are high. Students must be provided with an environment that fosters critical thinking and allows for viewpoints outside of dominant media messages. In a town where wearing a Romney-Ryan t-shirt can get you heckled off State Street, professors need to always be checking their professionalism. We are not advocating for vanilla discussions on topics a la a fourth grade social studies course. We are not advocating for avoiding difficult political issues. But no matter which side of the spectrum students are on, they should never feel intimidated by classroom pressure to keep their mouths shut.
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Wisconsin voters in limelight John Waters Columnist With three weeks until the Nov. 6 elections, Wisconsin is a microcosm of the entire country, with both the presidential and senatorial races within a single percentage point, according to a Marquette University Law School poll. With overall national polls showing the presidential race just as tight and the senate majority still up for grabs, the Wisconsin voter is very much in the spotlight. The recall saw a record amount of money being spent on Wisconsin from outside the state. Non-partisan watchdog Wisconsin Democracy Campaign reported more than $60 million was spent on the race, and both candidates received money from people around the country. The WDC said more than 70 percent
of Gov. Scott Walker’s individual contributions came from out of state. I bring this up as outside spending ramps up in the senate race, where, WisconsinWatch. org reported $14.5 million has poured into the state, funding ads sarcastically bashing Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., as a more liberal Bob Marley and former Gov. Tommy Thompson more crooked than Bernie Madoff. Another $20 million is being spent by the presidential campaigns to say basically the same thing. Ads like this have become par for the course for Wisconsin. Other states are in similarly heated situations, but only Wisconsin has been doing it pretty much non-stop since Feb. 14, 2011. I’ve read about some voters being tired of it all, which I completely understand. We have seen, more than most, how predictable, negative and repetitive the modern ad campaign has become. But I am more impressed by the vast majority of Wisconsinites committed
to voting and making their decisions on a race-by-race basis. With more than 60 percent of Wisconsin voters turning out for the recall and more likely to turn out in November, it is clear Wisconsinites have been disillusioned by a year and a half of what feels like a constant election. Perhaps most interesting is the willingness of voters to treat each race individually. After electing the president by almost 14 points in 2008, Wisconsin turned around and elected someone diametrically opposite. Twice. Now, with three weeks remaining in the races, the nation’s eye is focused intently on us again, as the state that seemed to have decided to flip again and vote Democratic with Marquette polls in mid-September showing Baldwin and Obama with comfortable 9 and 6 point leads respectively, now looks decidedly undecided. Regardless of how the elections come out in a few weeks, Wisconsin is an incredibly interesting site of modern politics. The constant elections have led to a robust discussion about
nearly every issue in the nation, and our electorate remains committed not to choosing which team it wants to win every time, but to which individual will do the most good at this time. The amount of campaign money and independent expenditures spent to convince voters to vote one way or another bears this idea out. Because no matter how unlimited the spending of outside groups can be, you don’t spend this much to talk to people who aren’t listening. The presidential debates have had a marked impact on the polls here, another example of the Wisconsin voter’s keen interest in the individuals running. With another debate last night for the state Senate race, it will be interesting to see if that race is influenced in the same way. Whatever the case, the Wisconsin voter remains at center stage in the national conversation for having an open mind and a commitment to voting. And that’s a good thing. John Waters ( jkwaters@ wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in journalism.
environmentally and socially responsible. Inherently, mono-cropping systems take a toll on nature, whether it’s corn, soybeans or, yes, coffee. By poring over one of the sites, spp.coop, Taylor Nye that MadTable lists as a Managing Editor “good” coffee certification cooperative, I can’t I don’t drink coffee and determine what the criteria never have, so you’ll have are for small-holders to to excuse my ignorance. become certified. Not However, a recent article in only do you need to speak MadTable titled “Madison’s Spanish to understand the local food news” said local site, but what qualifies a coffee producers are angry farmer to become accepted? at the organic certifying Is it having a wild bird organization Fair Trade. So conservatory in your coffee angry, in fact, one member fields? Is it engaging in the said they are “angry like a shade-grown system, where family member stabbed you fruit trees grow above the in the back.” coffee bushes? Is it paying So what’s got local coffee your workers U.S. minimum cooperatives all up in arms? wage? Fair Trade USA has recently Another co-op, Just moved forward with a Coffee, makes its bank decision to allow corporate statements available for coffee exporters to become transparency. That’s all well certified under their brand. and good, but if a group Since Fair Trade does not outline what certification is gearing itself practices it requires for a toward corporate interests, farmer to become certified, local importers and the consumer doesn’t know roasters feel like they are what he or she is paying abandoning their standards extra for. and have started looking So if we can’t tell what for other we’re paying certifying for, then one bodies So if we can’t tell certification with more what we’re paying for, company is just principles. as good as any then one certification other. Even Let me first say, if this means company is just as as I think willing good as any other. Even they’re anyone to certify some would, I am if this means they’re larger entities pro socially- willing to certify some like Starbucks responsible and Green larger entities like food. But Mountain give me a Starbucks and Green Coffee. What break here. customers pay Mountain Coffee. Fair Trade for in fair trade USA is a certification business, and by allowing is peace of mind — the importers like Starbucks assurance that someone, and Green Mountain Coffee somewhere, is making sure to become certified with it, your coffee is held to some the company made a whole kind of standard. lot of profit. How much If we, as buyers, are profit? Certainly more than not informed about what Madison producers give it. exactly this certification Fair Trade was looking out entails, then we are in no for its own interests, and position to pooh-pooh Fair rightly so. Trade USA for taking on a No organization can bigger client. If you really uphold lofty principles feel a social responsibility without having to look out to your products, find out for its bottom line. And who your coffee’s certification is to say Fair Trade USA criteria. Then you can won’t use the profit it made proudly buy a coffee with the “evil” corporations that endorses women to further fund “good” small-business owners coffee plantations? or uses profits to send Why the scare quotes rural children to school, around “evil” and “good?” or whatever it may be. Everyone knows largeBut don’t get hung up on holder-produced, nonwhether Starbucks is a organically certified member of the team. coffee is worse for the environment. In Taylor Nye (tnye@ coffee, the premise of badgerherald.com) is a organic certification senior majoring in biology, doesn’t necessarily archaeology and Latin mean your company is American studies.
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Administrators incapable of correcting M/D errors Without more complete and more accurate information, how can the Chancellor’s Office make informed decisions about the allocation or reallocation of resources to support the 60 or more campus minority and disadvantaged student programs? Last week’s Annual Diversity Forum offered a timely but neglected opportunity for University of Wisconsin Interim Chancellor David Ward and Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Damon Williams to enlighten the campus and the general public about the financial costs of the UW’s M/D programs. In the interests of transparency, accountability and institutional integrity, they should be pressed to answer the following questions: 1. Why do UW’s reported M/D expenditures continue to omit several important categories of expenditures
and costs that, if counted, would increase the resource costs of its M/D programs by 60 percent? M/D expenditure data for UW exclude several major items, among them employee fringe benefits, several public and privatelyfunded scholarship and grant programs open only to minority students and compensation costs of senior staff members who spend part of their time supervising M/D programs. When these omissions are added to UW’s $25 million in reported M/D expenditures during the 2008-09 academic year, the total resource cost of these programs rises to $40 million. Estimating the omitted costs is not that complicated. What is gained by not reporting the full resource costs of M/D programs? 2. What accounts for the large annual gyrations in expenditures for the M/D programs operated by University Housing?
As reported in my May 2, 2012, The Badger Herald Letter to the Editor, “Inconsistences in diversity housing necessitate audit,” M/D expenditures in University Housing fluctuated wildly between the 2005-06 and 20102011 academic years. After holding steady at slightly less than $3.5 million for 200506 and 2006-07, its M/D expenditures rose to $8.5 million in 2007-08, only to drop back to $3.5 million in 2008-09. Spending jumped back up to $8.7 million in 2009-10 and then declined to an inconceivably low figure of $6,100 in 2010-11! What accounts for these inexplicable fluctuations in the vice provost’s data? Did somebody miscopy the numbers? Did nobody check the results? Equally troubling is the reporting of full-time equivalent personnel associated with University Housing’s M/D program. For 2005-06, the FTE
count is 2.0, for the next three years it is 1.0 and for the two most recent years, 2009-10 and 2010-2011, it dropped to 0.25. Is there something wrong with the vice provost’s numbers? How could so few staff people effectively manage the large and fluctuating expenditures on University Housing M/D programs? 3. What accounts for the wide differences between the University Housing M/D expenditures reported by Vice Provost Williams and those provided by Paul Evans, director of University Housing? The data put together by University Housing accountants show annual M/D expenditures of about $300,000 between the 200809 and 2010-11 academic years. As I have already pointed out, the vice provost reports expenditures for these same three years of $3.5 million, $8.7 million and then $6,100, respectively. How can there be such wide
differences in the reporting of M/D expenditures? Even if University Housing’s M/D program expenditures are approximately $300,000, can this expenditure level be managed effectively with the assigned 0.25 FTE staff members listed for 2009-10 and 2010-2011? The UW community, Wisconsin taxpayers and private contributors to minority scholarships deserve a more accurate accounting of the resources devoted to M/D student programs. Campus administrators seem unable to discover the omissions and errors detailed here. To preserve institutional integrity, the Board of Regents should immediately order an independent, outside audit of UW’s M/D program expenditures. W. Lee Hansen (wlhansen@ wisc.edu) is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Wisconsin.
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ArtsEtc. pounds the jukebox with Mix Bag Friday Allegra Dimperio, ArtsEtc. Editor Here at the arts department, we occasionally get sent a package suspiciously shaped like a square Frisbee. Inside these packages are those lovely relics of music’s past: real CDs. Some are from local artists, some come in fancy packaging and some of them never get listened to. Cue Mix Bag Friday to change that. On weeks we get CDs, we’ve decided to share with you their delights.
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Hometown Sweethearts Hometown Sweethearts
While violin is not always an appealing sound to collegiate ears, this album’s mix of unwavering vocals, varied percussion, plucky bass and yes, violin, makes us want to keep listening. Minnesota native and Madison resident Ida Jo brings a unique sound that is not quite folk and not quite indie to her third album. With a voice as gripping as Grace Slick’s of Jefferson Airplane and lyrics that are both hopeful and revealing, Ida Jo’s album has plenty of tracks that will resonate with the Vanessa Carlton and Michelle Branch fans among us.
While you may not think you’ve caught Hometown Sweethearts, there’s a pretty good chance they’ve played a wedding or two you’ve attended. If the bride and groom put their name on the waiting list soon enough, that is. This self-titled CD is the first compilation of original work from Madison’s “Best Cover Band,” who has been playing weddings and private parties across the country (and even in movies and on National Public Radio) for the last decade. Self-declared as indie rock, the album is undeniably catchy, with electric guitar hooks, earnest and honed vocals and electronic touches sprinkled amid uptempo percussion. Best bets are “Set The World On Fire” and “Worlds Apart,” but with tracks as varied as their wedding sets, the album has something for everyone.
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Heather Pickering, Chelsea Anderson and Shannon Davis star in ‘Come and Go,’ part of ‘I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On.’
University Theatre presents six Samuel Beckett shorts MFA students will portray absurdist playwright’s work starting tonight Philip Wissbeck ArtsEtc. Reporter Samuel Beckett is considered to be the playwright of momentary consciousness, expressing emotional attitudes and then letting the audience take what it can from them. He is also considered to be one of the most famous absurdist playwrights, and University Theater will perform six of his short plays starting Saturday and directed by Patricia Boyette. Boyette was awarded best actress for her performances in “THE BECKETT PROJECT” when she performed it at The Grove Theatre in the greater Los Angeles area in 2000. She also
performed Beckett in Cork, Ireland in 2003 and toured the U.S. in 2006 and 2008. Now Boyette, professor of theater at the University of Wisconsin, is bringing her experience to students and directing six seldom performed Beckett plays in three different spaces at UW starting Oct. 18 and running until Nov. 3. The performance, “I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On,” by the Nobel prizewinning playwright Samuel Beckett will occupy the Hemsley and Mitchell theaters as well as the Scene Shop. Performing will be eleven graduate students from the newly formed MFA program in acting and directing. Nationwide auditions last spring yielded six men and five woman. “Beckett thought plays were too long,” Boyette stated. “The [Method acting] doesn’t really work with Beckett.” All the pieces for this current
show come from the early ‘60s to 1989, the year of Beckett’s death. This was the period when Beckett’s style was most minimalist. In the first half of the performance will be “Ohio Impromptu,” “Play” and “Eh Joe.” “Eh Joe” will include video sections of a man’s monologue. “Catastrophe,” considered to be Beckett’s most political play, leads off the second half. “Come and Go” is about three women and consists entirely of their conversation about life, marriage and death. The last play to be performed, “Not I,” depicts a woman’s hectic life. “I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On” runs through Nov. 3 at Vilas Hall Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee Sunday, Nov. 28, at 2 p.m.. For tickets, phone 608-265-2787, visit Vilas or order online at utmadison.com. Prices are $23; $16 for students and children.
Stephen Lynch Lion
Cisco Adler Aloha
What happens when you combine a stand-up comedian with a microphone and a famed producer? Lion happens. Comedian Stephen Lynch’s fifth album is set to come out in November and features delicate vocal harmonizing, guitar strumming and completely ridiculous lyrics. The two-disc CD (one live and one studio) features such tracks as “So This is Outer Space,” which proclaims, “You’re on acid/Oh that’s right let’s go to the arcade,” “Lion,” with lyrics of a similar sentiment to Meatloaf’s famed “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), and “Whiskey Dick,” whose opening line is “Oh my God/I feel sick/drank too much/whiskey dick.” If that doesn’t convince you to check out the CD, we don’t know what will, except maybe the fact you can see it live at the Barrymore Nov. 16.
You may know Cisco Adler best as Mischa Barton and Paris Hilton’s ex, but this former Whitestarr member is back with a solo album that celebrates his Hawaiian and Californian roots. With tracks as varied as the sunny lyrics and upbeat guitar of opening track “You’re A Fool” to the reggae-esque “Boom Boom Boom” to the piano-intro’ed hiphop track “Sunshine or Rain,” the only word that accurately describes every song is “easy,” as in easy to listen to. It is definitely a summer CD; next week’s release date may strike some as a little strange, but many of the album’s tracks definitely wouldn’t be out of place on a Langdon party playlist. With guest appearances from G. Love, Don Carlos, Mod Sun and others, the album is worth a spin, though only if the idea of a peppier Jack Johnson sounds appealing.
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Sports LABAHN, from 8 “We still have Decker but she needs other people; she can’t score all our goals,” sophomore forward Katy Josephs said. “It’s definitely opened our eyes that people need to step up and it’s going to be a different year than last year.” The puck will drop Friday at 7 p.m., following an inauguration ceremony that will take place after the teams’ warm-up period. The teams will face off again Sunday at 2 p.m. This weekend will offer each player the opportunity to make a lasting mark on women’s hockey. As for Decker, she said she hopes fans are shocked several times throughout the weekend by the shrill of one of the arena’s more fun features. “The air horn when you score, it’s pretty loud,” Decker smiled as she described her favorite component of the LaBahn facility. “We tried it out in practice and I think the fans are going to be surprised. Hopefully they hear it a few times.”
Badgers to honor Margie Fitzpatrick Fieldhouse to hold ‘Pink match’ honoring National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in game versus IU Zach Nelson Volleyball Writer The Wisconsin volleyball team is coming off a heart-breaking loss to No. 10 Minnesota Wednesday. The Badgers lost in three sets to the Gophers, nearly coming back to win the third set, only to fall 28-26. Wisconsin was outblocked for only the fourth time this season, something Badgers’ coach Pete Waite said his team needs to focus on. “Part of it has to do with Minnesota’s attackers,” Waite said. “There’s some real talent there as far as the players’ ability to avoid the block. That total did surprise me that we were that low, but I would base it more on not what we were necessarily doing wrong but what they were doing really well.” Wisconsin (15-7, 3-6) returns to action Friday
as the Indiana Hoosiers (9-12, 1-8) come to town. The Hoosiers won their first conference game earlier this week with an impressive 3-1 win at Purdue. Indiana ranks in the lower half in most conference statistics besides ranking fifth in service aces. Junior outside hitter Jordan Haverly leads the Hoosiers. Haverly leads the team in kills per set with 3.89. She also is second on the team in digs per set at 2.37. Junior Caitlin Hansen leads the Hoosiers with 3.43 digs per set, and senior middle blocker Samantha Thrower leads the team in blocks per set with 1.27. Indiana has been switching between two setters, something Waite said can make preparation for them challenging. “They’re a team going back and forth between two different setters,
so you don’t know what style they’re going to have out there,” Waite said. “But they certainly proved themselves against Purdue earlier this week and beat a very highranked team in their own gym.” The Badgers beat Indiana in their only meeting last year by a score of 3-1. That match was played at Indiana. This came after a 2010 season in which the Hoosiers dominated the Badgers, beating them 3-0 in both Indiana and Madison. Junior outside hitter Julie Mikaelsen said the Badgers need to be more focused going into Friday’s match. “We need to focus on blocking and defense,” Mikaelsen said. “We need to keep our intensity up. We need to keep up our good play. We tend to have streaks where we play
really well, then stop and then go again, so we need to keep the high level of play.” The match Friday also has a little more meaning to it than a normal Big Ten match would. The game will be played for breast cancer awareness, as October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Badgers will honor former player and coach Margie Fitzpatrick Friday; she lost her battle with breast cancer in 2004. Fitzpatrick was a fouryear letter winner for the Badgers and ranks near the top in almost every statistical category in Wisconsin history. She returned to the Badgers in 1990 as a coach, helping guide the Badgers to their first Big Ten title and NCAA Tournamnet appearance under head coach Steve Lowe. Waite said the impact
Fitzpatrick has had on the program is enormous. “I saw her go through a terrible time with that [breast cancer],” Waite said. “I remember her all the time and carry something with me just remembering what she gave all of us and this program. But there are so many people who are affected by breast cancer. Everybody on our team knows somebody who has gone through it, so we all want to support the cause as much as we can.” For Badgers’ senior Mary Ording, breast cancer has especially affected her life. “It definitely hits home right now in my family,” Ording said. “Breast cancer runs in my family and I’ve got family dealing with it right now. So this match really hits home and keeps you focused on what’s really important in life.”
ZAK, from 8 Just when things might look gloomy for non-revenue sports at Wisconsin, an easy way of generating excitement is to lean on the team we have always counted on, the team we all knew would have success, regardless of its competition or expectations: the men’s cross country team. This team has won 13-straight conference championships. It won the national title last year and was a shoe-in for yet another national championship run. The most reliable of athletic programs in the past decade recently placed 17th at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational, however. Over the past four years, the lowest Wisconsin has ever placed in an event was seventh. The women’s hockey squad started the season ranked No. 2 in the nation, returning one of the best players in the nation in Brianna Decker. Wisconsin swept through Minnesota State and Lindenwood in its first four games without a loss but went winless during a weekend set against unranked MinnesotaDuluth. The team’s season remains as young as ever, but the towering expectations from the preseason are beginning to look a bit lofty. The sunny side to the rises and falls of non-revenue teams is none of their seasons has come to a close yet, although their opportunities to shine outside the shadow of UW football probably have. Even though for most of the year they compete with the football team for the attention, the non-revenue sports teams may have to pay a little attention themselves and take a lesson from the team in Camp Randall and turn things around. Sean is a junior majoring in journalism. Have a thought on the column? Email him at szak@ badgerherald.com
BORDER, from 8 were at this point in 2011 (768), giving the running back plenty of reason to believe he can get his name back in the race. “Man, hopefully I do; I’m not going to sit here and say no,” Ball said about getting his name back in the Heisman race. “I hope I get back in it. But, like I said, I’m looking forward to winning the rest of our games and making it back to [Indianapolis]. That’s my
UW aims to keep ball rolling in East Lansing After starting Big Ten season 0-2, Wisconsin heads to Michigan State in search of third-straight victory Nick Daniels Associate Sports Editor Following a recent resurgence in form, the UW men’s soccer team will look to build on its first winning streak of the season when it heads to East Lansing, Mich., to take on the Michigan State Spartans (6-7-1, 1-2 Big Ten) Sunday. After earning a hard-fought 2-1 victory against Michigan Saturday and dominating a matchup Wednesday with in-state rival UW-Green Bay 3-0 in the pouring rain, the Badgers (5-6-3, 1-2 Big Ten) appear to have turned a corner this fall and now sit only one game short of .500 — a statistic that didn’t seem possible just a week ago after the team lost four of its last five games before Saturday’s victory. Coming into the season, one of head coach John Trask’s main goals was to earn UW’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1995. While the door seemed to be closing on that dream, a midseason return to form may have come just in time for the Badgers to salvage their preseason goal. “The RPI
goal and I believe if we do that then I’ll have a great chance.” A few records will be on the line in Madison come this year’s Border Battle, but the most intriguing is the fact a Badger win would tie the longest win streak in the series at nine games, set originally by the Gophers, who dominated the series from 1933-41. “Rivalries you always, I don’t want to say treat differently, but you always have to look at them as
(rankings) just came out and it would be an uphill struggle to say we could make the NCAA Tournament without winning out or winning the Big Ten Conference Tournament,” Trask said. “I think when you are ten games into the season prior and you’ve got a lot of retuning players, the assumption is the next step is obviously the NCAA Tournament. We need to just keep continuing to improve.” Last year in a tightly contested battle between the Spartans and Badgers at the McClimon Complex, the Badgers came out with a memorable 1-0 win on their way to UW’s first 3-0 start to the Big Ten since their National Championshipwinning season in 1995. While UW started the 2012 Big Ten season winless in two attempts before finally clinching a victory on its third try, the Badgers still have three games remaining, and with three more wins they could still end up with the same 4-2 record that helped earn them a second place finish in the Big Ten regular season in 2011.
you’re playing one of the better teams you’ll play all year,” Wisconsin left tackle Ryan Groy said. “You have to. You have to respect the rivalry because no matter how good or bad the team is they’re going to come out and give 100 percent every time, us included. We’re going to come out swinging just like they are and you really have to respect the rivalry and respect the tradition that has gone on throughout the years.”
Still, to make that possibility a reality, Wisconsin will have to contain a Michigan State offense that has relied on a few key offensive players thus far in the season. Three players — sophomore Adam Montague, senior Luke Norman and senior Domenic Barone — currently have 30 of the team’s 68 shots on goal and eight of their 14 goals this season. Despite this formidable combination of offensive threats, sophomore defender AJ Cochran said the game plan won’t change Sunday. “When we go into games and we get scouting reports on their good players, every team is going to have their one, two or three good players,” Cochran said. “We definitely go into those games and want to limit their touches on the ball, but that is the same for any game.” As if the fact their NCAA Tournament dream might just be hanging on by a thread was not enough motivation heading into Sunday’s game, the matchup will also be televised on the Big Ten Network, significantly increasing the average audience in front of which UW is accustomed to
playing. “Always in the beginning of the season, [we] look at the schedule and say, ‘All right which games are going to be on TV’ just because it’s sort of cool to be on TV,” junior forward Chris Prince said. “Especially it being a Big Ten game and being on TV, it will give a lot more motivation to the guys to
“Especially ... being a Big Ten game and being on TV, it will give a lot more motivation to the guys ...” Chris Prince
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work even harder so we show people watching the game what we are capable of.” Along with Wisconsin’s midseason revival, Chris Prince has had his own resurgence of sorts in his last few games. After two goals early in the season, Prince went through a scoring drought lasting 10 games before fi nally ending his scoreless streak Saturday with his third goal of the season.
Prince said he hopes he won’t have to wait quite as long for his fourth goal as he did for his third. “I’ve been searching for a goal for quite a while,” Prince said. “I’m playing kind of a new position, attacking [midfielder] this year, so I kind of have a different role, but it does a lot for my confi dence. I will definitely be looking for [goals] more often now.” Another benefi cial aspect of playing in a televised game are the potential benefits a good showing on national television could have on the recruiting process for the Badgers. As an unranked team, the Badgers don’t receive as much attention as some of the top programs in the country, so any attention is good attention for the future of Trask’s program. “A lot of households get the Big Ten Network,” Trask said. “There will be plenty kids across the Midwest and the country tuning in to watch Big Ten soccer. They will get a chance to see what we are all about, the style of play, the discipline, the strength, the demeanor of our team. “It’s always a good advertisement for us at Wisconsin.”
Sports Editor Ian McCue sports@badgerherald.com
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Badgers prepare for Border Battle Wisconsin aims for 9th-straight victory in college football’s longest rivalry game Nick Korger Sports Content Editor Paul Bunyan’s Axe stood in all its glory at the edge of the field at the Dave McClain Athletic Facility Wednesday night. As the Wisconsin players ran off at the conclusion of practice, each tapped the red face of the axe, an homage to the importance of Saturday’s rivalry and a visual reminder of what is at stake. In the 122nd installation of the oldest rivalry in college football, the Badgers (5-2, 2-1) look to win their ninth in a row over the Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-2, 0-2) Saturday at Camp Randall. With a permeable border not only with student population at the University of Wisconsin but athletically as well, many Badgers have some form of link to the state with which Wisconsin shares reciprocity. UW’s defensive tackle Beau Allen is one of them. The native of Minnetonka, Minn., grew up watching the rivalry. His allegiance, however, did not belong to his home state. Allen’s grandfather, Fred T. Westphal, was a six-time All-American for the UW swimming team from 195659 and is a charter member
of the Wisconsin Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame. “I actually kind of grew up rooting for the Badgers,” Allen said. “My mom’s side of the family is actually from Janesville. But a lot of my dad’s family went to the U of M. I’ve got a lot of friends and family that go there still, so I guess there’s a lot of ties pulling me both ways.” Allen, who has been a standout member for an excelling Wisconsin run defense, will be an important part in containing a much-improved Minnesota offense. The Badgers come into Saturday with the conference’s thirdbest running defense, giving up an average of only 116.6 yards per game. The Gophers currently sit in the middle of the conference in rushing offense at 165.8 yards per game, but numbers don’t do justice to the danger of the Minnesota ground game. Hampered by injury and seen in a walking boot at the beginning of the week, Gopher quarterback MarQueis Gray is questionable with a high ankle sprain, an injury the standout player reinjured in Minnesota’s 21-13 loss to Northwestern. Despite being less than 100 percent, Gray still served as a dynamic playmaker for the Gophers, completing seven of his 11 passes for 66 yards, catching a pass for 16 yards and running the ball nine times for 86 yards, including a 25-yard touchdown scamper.
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Giving up just 116.6 yards on the ground per game, the third lowest total in the Big Ten, native Minnesotans Beau Allen (96) and Brendan Kelly (97) anchor a stout Wisconsin defensive front that has been unyielding. While Gray’s status and role Saturday remain unclear, Wisconsin has been preparing for any situation. “We’re going to prepare as if he’s playing; I’m sure he’ll play,” senior linebacker Mike Taylor said. “We faced him last year, we know what he can do. He’s a good runner, he’s a good thrower so we’ll have to prepare for both.” “I know he obviously aggravated an injury Saturday, but when Gray gets going downhill now, he’s a load,” head coach
Bret Bielema said. “He’s 250 pounds of lean, mean fighting machine coming at you.” The Gophers will likey start the 6-foot-6 sophomore Max Shortell for the fourth straight week. Shortell, a more traditional pocket passer, has completed 60 of his 105 pass attempts for 791 yards, six touchdowns and four interceptions. Shortell will look to test the Badger secondary with A.J. Barker. The redshirt junior wideout is enjoying a breakout season in 2012, already amassing 406
yards and four touchdowns. But Minnesota’s defense is where the real question lies. In the loss to Northwestern, the Gophers allowed the Wildcats’ Venric Mark to run for 182 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries. Coming off a career-best 247 yards on the ground against Purdue that earned him Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week and Maxwell Award Player of the Week, Wisconsin star tailback Montee Ball is quite the step up talent-wise from
Mark. Playing a re-energized brand of football against the Boilermakers Saturday in a game where he physically shook off several defenders on any given play, Ball gained 194 of his 247 yards after initial contact. For Ball, a preseason Heisman favorite saw his hopes wiped away after the first four games of the season. But, after seven games in 2012, Ball’s total rushing yards (847) are higher than they
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Senior forward Brianna Decker was last year’s Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner, the highest honor in women’s college hockey, after leading the nation in goals with 37.
UW set to open LaBahn Arena Badgers look to rebound with solid play against Beavers in inaugural game at new home Caroline Sage Statistics Editor No bigger stage could be set for the Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s home opener. “It’s going to be a great experience; you only get one chance to open up a building,” head coach Mark Johnson said. “It’s going to be a special night.” The team will face off against Bemidji State in the inaugural game of the brand-new LaBahn Arena Friday night. All 2,273 seats will be filled with fans eager to witness the first 60 minutes of hockey on the Lance Johnson Memorial Rink. While the Badgers have practiced and used their new locker room since Oct. 1, it still remains a new world for the team. When UW takes the ice Friday, players will be stepping into a new era of women’s hockey. The excitement can be read on the face of every player and coach at practice this week as they anticipate what this unknown territory will hold. “Nobody knows what kind of atmosphere it’s going to be like,” Johnson said. “But it will be fun to see how the players react under the settings and the
atmosphere.” The excitement over the new facility may be foreshadowing for the actual event taking place: a pair of hockey games. The Badgers will take on the Beavers as the team looks to make up for two early season losses in Duluth last weekend. Despite being shutout by the Bulldogs, Johnson said he remains upbeat and pleased about what he is seeing from his team. Chances weren’t absent for UW past weekend. The Badgers outshot UMD 5645 in the two-game series, with 31 of those shots coming in the 2-0 loss in game one. For senior forward and captain Brianna Decker, remaining positive and constructive is important to keep the team focused. “We had a great weekend, just not able to put the net, but you just have to move on from that,” Decker said. “We’ve put the puck in the net before and so we have to look at the positive from last weekend and not that we were shut out.” Bemidji State is no stranger to big games on the road at Wisconsin. Playing against UW at last year’s “Fill the Bowl,” and in the Camp Randall Classic three years ago,
the Beavers will now try and spoil opening day at LaBahn. Offensively, Bemidji State returns all but one of its forwards. This team possesses experience and consistency, something the Badgers are still working to achieve with eight freshmen on their roster. However, the Beavers lost their starting goaltender from last season and have given up 12 goals in their first four games. Against the Beavers, Wisconsin won all four games last year, but at home competition remained close. UW won both games by a single score. The Badgers are not overlooking their opponent but said they believe the outcome rests on their own effort. “[Bemidji State] plays very aggressive; they put a lot of pressure on the puck and depending on how we handle that and execute will dictate the scoring opportunities,” Johnson said. “When you score it gets everybody going and gets the fans involved. It’s a lot of energy so if we can come out in the first period and do that, it will be real positive.” The hype around LaBahn undoubtedly gives Wisconsin plenty of energy and excitement
heading into the weekend, but with any other big event, it also comes with every coach’s nightmare: distraction. A grin spread across Johnson’s face as he explained his desire to avoid any distraction that may keep his players unfocused. He has reminded the team to take care of everything before Friday so that when game time rolls around, storming the ice is the only thing on their minds. What should be UW’s focus is getting the puck into the back of the net. Wisconsin graduated three of its top four scorers last season whose combined 92 goals accounted for 51 percent of the team’s scoring. Now a Badger alum, Hilary Knight holds program records in career goals, shots, short-handed goals, game-winning goals and hat tricks. Decker has now taken on Knight’s role as UW’s key threat for any opponent’s defense. While the competitive and hardworking captain will likely remain the team’s top scorer, the attention teams place on stopping her will open up doors for other forwards to make their mark.
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Just when you think you’ve got things figured out, something crazy happens. This fall season of Wisconsin sports has taken just about every possible direction on about every playing field. Just when we thought the UW football team was primed for greatness (it still might be), a seemingly unimaginable road loss to then-unranked Oregon State woke all types of Badgers from their success-filled slumber. It was a multi-year hibernation from mediocrity for the Wisconsin football program, and its early season struggles — taken in the context of following two Rose Bowl appearances — were given plenty of coverage from all outlets. As I have pointed out once already this semester, there are plenty of venues other than the illustrious Camp Randall that display everything UW athletics has to offer. My fellow associate sports editor Nick Daniels even went on to lay out the worthy argument that many non-revenue sports were worthy of greater attention on campus. That was Sept. 24 — less than a week before the football team would lose its first conference game to Nebraska — and at the time, you couldn’t blame him. Non-revenue sports were in the midst of their most dominating season in recent memory. A stumbling football squad didn’t hurt their case either. Just when Daniels thought he had it all figured out, similar to many other Wisconsin Badgers aficionados, the calendar flipped months and the UW athletics script flipped like a Saturday morning pancake. A pair of conference victories and an impending date with the Legends
Division champion has university athletics back to its former state of a footballdominated fan base. Non-rev sports had their chance at what looked like a great 2012 season, but eventually the perils of stiffer competition have caught up with them, and uncharacteristically, each team has dropped off their early pace, some of them in stunning fashion. Just like any great underdog story, the most surprising of non-rev successors often finds the saddest ending. Wisconsin’s volleyball team flew through its non-conference schedule, going 12-1, winning a pair of weekend tournaments and losing its only match to Creighton, a Top-30 team in the RPI rankings. Then the Badgers met the Big Ten and quickly found they play in one of the best conferences in the nation. Reality hit hard. Wisconsin lost four of its first five Big Ten matches, and after Minnesota added another sweep of the Badgers, a 3-6 record in conference play and an eighth place standing materialized to the surprise of everyone. Midseason aspirations that included a top-25 finish and the first NCAA tournament appearance since 2007 now appear curbed. Equally as surprising a start to the season came from the Wisconsin women’s soccer team, only to unravel as well. The Badgers ran into the rankings as they started the season 6-1 and found themselves rated No. 13 in the nation. One loss to then-No. 2 UCLA kept UW from a perfect record before things fell apart. Penn State tripped up Wisconsin in its first conference game and the Badgers tumbled, winning just one of their next six matches. A recent three-game winning streak has served as the Badgers’ parachute, saving them from their three-week free fall. Three conference games remain, and anything less than two victories places them in danger of missing out on the Big Ten tournament, once thought of as a sure thing.
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