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Recent shootings inspire gun bills Rep.: Bill would require convicts of domestic abuse to relinquish arms Emily Loveland Herald Contributor After a shooting in Brookfield this weekend, two Democratic legislators are planning to reintroduce a bill that would ensure domestic violence offenders surrender their guns to police within a two-day period.

The shooting suspect, Radcliffe Haughton, took his own life after killing three and wounding four others Sunday at the Azana Salon and Spa, according to Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus.

He had recently been given a four-year restraining order from his wife, an employee at the spa. As a stipulation of the restraining order, Haughton was required to turn in his firearm.

Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, and Rep. Penny Bernard Schaber, D-Appleton, announced

they are planning on reintroducing a bill in response to the Brookfield incident during the next legislative session.

The Legislature first discussed the bill in 2009.

Current law states a person is prohibited from possessing a firearm if they are perpetrators of domestic abuse, child abuse, harassment or if they caused some type of harm to others, according to a Legislative Reference Bureau analysis.

A statement from Taylor and Schaber outlined several loopholes in the current law. Their bill would ensure if the person does own a firearm, he or she must surrender it, or a warrant for their arrest will be issued after 48 hours. The statement said the bill received wide support in 2010 from groups like the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association and the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Taylor said the shooting demonstrates the need for a standardized system of enforcing current gun laws.

“Sunday’s tragic incident in Brookfield points to a need to adequately enforce laws already on the books,” Taylor said in the statement. “Across Wisconsin there are inconsistent standards, or sometimes none at all, for the collection of weapons owned by domestic abusers.”

She said in the statement she hoped both sides of the aisle, as well as both victim support groups and gun rights groups, could work together and pass the bill.

Whether the bill will be effective remains a question to some, according to Jeff Nass, president of Wisconsin Force, a group affiliated with the National Rifle Association.

He said he did not think the bill would be beneficial in curbing domestic violence, citing other ways individuals can inflict harm. He also noted it would not have prevented the Brookfield shooting.

“We don’t think it would have stopped this crime,” Nass said.

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Supreme Court to take up resale of used goods eBay, Overstock advocate for sale of secondhand overseas products Polo Rocha State Legislative Editor A case advocates say would greatly affect students’ purchasing of second-hand items will soon be argued in front of the United States Supreme Court.

The court will hear arguments Oct. 29 about whether an individual in the U.S. can sell or lend a product that was made in another country without permission from the copyright owner, according to court documents.

The case revolves around Supap Kirtsaeng, who moved from Thailand to the U.S. in 1997 to attend college at Cornell University.

He had asked people he knew in Thailand to buy textbooks there and send them to his U.S. address. He then sold the textbooks on eBay to help pay for college costs.

Kirtsaeng believes he followed the law in doing so, arguing the first-sale doctrine applies to this.

The first-sale doctrine allows people to sell or lend copyrighted products, such as books or electronics, once they have bought the products themselves.

Book publisher John Wiley & Sons’ sued Kirtsaeng for making $37,000 in revenues, not including his costs,

off their textbooks, manufactured in Asia.

A district court said the first-sale doctrine did not apply to goods that are produced in foreign countries, and the case has now reached the Supreme Court in the hope of a final say on the matter.

A Supreme Court document noted the increasing costs of college textbooks, saying “at least a small population” of college students can relieve some of those costs by asking people in another country to buy cheaper books there and sell them in the U.S. The court’s ruling would go much further than only college students and would affect several

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Students debate economy University of Wisconsin political groups exchanged barbs during a debate that centered largely on the nation’s economy and President Barack Obama’s performance in office over the last four years. See page 4 for full story.

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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., spoke on campus at an event hosted by the University of Wisconsin College Republicans, outlining his thoughts on the future of the nation.

Johnson highlights nation’s debt, social issue problems Sen.: Citizens who do not have children out of wedlock have lower chances of being poor Camille Albert City Hall Editor U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., spoke to students at the University of Wisconsin Tuesday night to educate them about the nation’s deficit and to urge their participation on Election Day. John Lambert, second vice chair of the UW College Republicans, said the organization wanted to bring Johnson to campus because of his concern for large issues facing America, especially ones facing the younger generation.

He said he believes Johnson brings a “fresh face” to the political table.

In his speech, Johnson said it is crucial for students to understand the financial situation of the country because what past generations have done to students is “immoral.” He noted as

government grows, citizens’ freedoms recede as a pervasive problem with the country.

“Far too many Americans have traded their freedom for a very false sense of economic security,” Johnson said.

President Barack Obama, Johnson said, chose to grow government in his four-year term. He added Obama’s plan to increase taxes on the wealthy will not work. He said in about 24 years, the federal government will consume 35 percent of the nation’s economy.

According to Johnson, the federal government is bankrupt. He said in the last 10 years, the federal government spent $30 trillion; the current gross federal debt is $16 trillion.

Most of the deficit, 75 percent, is attributed to government spending, Johnson said. He also predicted Obama will spend $14.1 trillion and will borrow $5.1 trillion by the end of his potential second term.

He added when full spending is put into place in 2016, the health care law will cost $2.4 trillion.

UW hires firm to aid in search and screen Sarah Murphy Herald Contributor University of Wisconsin’s Chancellor Search and Screen Committee has commissioned an outside firm in hopes of alleviating difficulties in the search process.

According to Committee Chair David McDonald, the university will be working in conjunction with the executive search firm, Storbeck/Pimentel and Associates, based in Pennsylvania, in an effort to find a replacement for Interim Chancellor David Ward, whose two-year term will come to an end by July.

McDonald said the university looked specifically for firms specializing in higher education hires and chose Storbeck/Pimentel and Associates due to their previous successes.

“You need help when it comes to higher education because of the demand [of the number of candidates],” McDonald said. “We looked for people who had a good record of success with appointing people at our level.”

According to McDonald, Storbeck/Pimentel and Associates has helped other universities of a similar caliber choose their presidents, such as the

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There were several factors that led to the committee’s decision of Storbeck/ Pimentel and Associates as the executive search firm for the UW, McDonald said, stressing the firm’s high success rate, persuasiveness, professionalism and commitment to selecting a diverse pool of candidates.

According to McDonald, diversity is a “very important consideration” for the university.

Storbeck/Pimentel and Associate’s spokesperson for UW’s chancellor search, Charles Bunting, said their firm is one of the largest higher education search firms nationally, focusing mainly on president or chancellor positions.

According to Bunting, the firm has a large number of networks available to it, which will help its members identify the ideal candidate.

Bunting said the first task is for the UW search committee to determine what qualifications it is searching for in potential candidates.

The firm, however, will also call upon various sources who “themselves might have good ideas for candidates,” Bunting added.

“We will hit up private foundations or government

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Lambert said the nation’s debt is projected to double in the next 12 years alone, a statistic he asserted should scare the average American.

The way to reduce spending is to minimize the difference between the government and the size of the economy and stabilize the relationship between government and the gross domestic product, Johnson said.

Johnson said Obama has failed to keep his promise of lowering the unemployment rate. Obama promised it would be at 5.3 percent, but current unemployment is at 7.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He noted including individuals who have dropped out of the labor force would raise the number to 10.7 percent.

The federal government’s involvement in the finance of education has greatly contributed to the increase in cost of college tuition, Johnson said. He said tuition is currently 2.4 times higher than it would be if it went with

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Well, that was a good choice After almost hanging up his shoulder pads after the Rose Bowl, redshirt senior Robert Burge in starting role

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LAKE STREET Battery A University of Minnesota student suffered a head injury at Kollege Klub early Sunday morning, according to a statement.

The intoxicated 21-yearold victim stepped in between an altercation about sports around 12:55 a.m., the statement said.

It said the victim does not remember what the fight was about.

DeSpain said the victim

was not sure if he was punched or pushed, but fell over and hit his head. The statement said the victim was unconscious after he fell backward and was taken to the hospital.

No other arrests were made or suspects identified

by MPD, DeSpain said.

EAST JOHNSON STREET Damaged Property A vandalism spree occurred on East Johnson Street Saturday night or Sunday morning, according to a Madison Police

Department statement.

It said around 30 vehicles were damaged that were parked on the north side of the street between the 400 and 1000 blocks.

MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain said the cars were operational after the incident, and most of the cars had broken rear-view mirrors on the driver’s side. At least one car had a shattered rear windshield, and some others had additional damage, according to the statement.

DeSpain said MPD has not made any arrests and do not currently know of any

possible suspects.

“Unless someone who has evidence of a perpetrator [comes forward], all we have are damaged vehicles,” DeSpain said.

He said insurance of the drivers whose cars got damaged will likely pay to fix them.

DOWNTOWN Weapons Violation According to a statement, a 19-year-old male suffered a gunshot wound early Sunday morning.

DeSpain said the victim showed up at the hospital with a wound to his leg. He said the victim was not forthcoming about what happened and where the incident took place downtown.

The victim did not suffer serious injuries, DeSpain said.

He said MPD is not sure if someone shot the victim or if the incident was self-inflicted or accidental.

“It could be a wide

JOHNSON, from 1 inflation over the years.

He compared current tuition rates to those of the 1960s, when they averaged approximately $1,000.

“I have no idea why we encourage you kids to incur debt for education,” Johnson said.

Johnson said the amount of government funds that go toward aiding women with births out of wedlock is another unintended consequence

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A number of retailers, online companies, libraries and educators announced Tuesday they will be organizing to “protect owners’ rights” under a new group, the Owners’ Rights Initiative.

Among those in a conference call Tuesday announcing the new group were eBay, Overstock.com, the Association of Service and Computer Dealers International and the University of Washington library system.

Andrew Shore, the ORI’s executive director, said a ruling against Kirtsaeng would affect students greatly, as they frequently buy secondhand items.

“College students tend to buy and sell a lot of used items, whether it’s to furnish a dorm room or off-campus housing, or

array of things but we don’t have enough information to make a determination,” DeSpain said.

GORHAM STREET Weapons Violation A 19-year-old male was hit in the leg by a pellet or BB gun early Monday morning, according to a statement.

It said the victim was walking between West Johnson Street and West Gorham Street when he sensed something hit him in the thigh. The victim said his leg was bleeding and he said he noticed a hole in his jeans, the statement said.

The statement said the victim did not see or hear anyone around him after feeling the shot, but a vehicle with a broken window and numerous pellets inside was parked nearby.

It added the victim did not receive any medical attention for his injury.

of government involvement in our lives.

He said the percentage of births out of wedlock in the 1960’s was 6.9 percent, a number that has jumped to 41 percent. He added single mothers can often receive up to $51,000 from the government.

Citizens who graduate high school, do not have children out of wedlock and do not get addicted to drugs or alcohol have a 2 percent chance of being in poverty, Johnson said.

to step up your phones,” Shore said. “It’s not just about books. You might want to sell your MP3 player or trade up to the next one or sell some of your science equipment.

All of the products could be taken out of the marketplace.”

Alfred Paliani is the president of the American Free Trade Association and general counsel of Quality King Distributors Inc., the group that won a previous Supreme Court decision on the first-sale doctrine.

Paliani said students might also be seeing price increases in local stores if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the book publisher.

Overstock.com general counsel Mark Griffin said the website would likely raise prices on consumers with such a ruling.

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Student political groups take on economy in debate Lauren Tubbs Herald Contributor Turning Point USA, an organization designed to promote citizen political engagement against governmental debts and deficits, hosted a debate between four students representing varying political perspectives on issues currently facing America on campus Tuesday.

Debate participants represented four different political views, including the University of Wisconsin Social Democrats, the College Democrats, the

College Republicans and the Independents.

A moderator asked the debaters 10 questions that covered a variety of topics including health care, the recession, the current state of the economy, student loans, unemployment, free trade, the deficit and government spending.

Brendan Moriarty, the debater representing the Social Democrat perspective, said the two main goals of the Social Democrats in dealing with domestic policy are raising and dispersing income tax rates and ensuring every citizen is able to enjoy a

reasonably high standard of living.

“With these two policies, the Social Democrats would both lower income inequality and raise the standard of living for everyone,” Moriarty said.

However, College Democrat Representative Austin Helmke said the best way to deal with domestic policy is to make governmental programs more efficient, contextualize foreign policy to suit the nation’s economic needs and rely on the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes.

Helmke added as current

students of UW, the debt problems the country faces should be a huge concern.

“I would lay out a vision of Democrats as a plane of balance,” Helmke said.

“This country has a lot of debt problems, and as young people, we’re going to have to deal with it.”

The debate representative from the College Republicans, Ryan Hughes, said the unemployment rate and debt in the U.S. have increased under President Barack Obama’s policies, and Republican policies will help correct these issues.

According to Hughes, Republicans will create

economic growth through lower taxes and lower regulations.

Hughes added fixing the economy and helping to reduce unemployment are key issues for current students because many will soon have to deal with unemployment upon graduation if the job market is not fixed.

Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and representative of the Independent perspective in the debate, said the Independent Party believes both Democrats and Republicans are at fault for the current deficit and

unemployment because both engage in irresponsible spending.

“The Republicans are not fiscally conservative in wars,” Kirk said. “The Democrats passed an unbelievably wasteful stimulus bill. Both parties got us into this mess, and both parties need to get us out. Washington is stealing our generation’s money, … and that is because of both parties and their reckless spending.”

The representatives debated American domestic issues and policies for more than an hour before making their closing statements.

Coordinating Council approves internal budget Tara Golshan Higher Education Editor Chairs of the University of Wisconsin’s student government voted to pass the internal budget Tuesday before opening debate to the entire representative body, highlighting what may become contentious budgetary issues.

Associated Students of Madison’s Coordinating Council convened Oct. 23 to amend, debate and vote on the internal budget, ultimately passing the budget to receive further debate in Student Council.

According to ASM Press

Officer David Gardner, one major change was made outside of Coordinating Council with the removal of Homecoming and AllCampus Party from the internal budget.

The money was reallocated to event grants with the expectation it would be allocated to Homecoming and All-Campus Party, Gardner said, after concerns were raised to ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky regarding the funds’ placement.

Bulovsky said the events were removed in an effort to minimize debate.

However, although the disagreement regarding

budget for Homecoming and All-Campus Party was minimized, Gardner said he anticipates the $60,000 budget for Varsity Day, a fund meant to attract “world-class” speakers to campus, to raise debate among members of Student Council.

Chief Justice of ASM’s Judiciary Branch Nicholas Checker motioned for the body to “zero-fund” Varsity Day, adding UW has plenty of top-line faculty who would be willing to offer the same speaking services for free.

However, Bulovsky emphasized his passion for Varsity Day and said such an event with a renowned

speaker would not only bring prestige to the university, but would also provide students with a long-lasting “tangible experience.”

“This is a very personal one for me,” Bulovsky said.

“In fact, this is the only line I would say I have any passion for in this entire budget. This is an opportunity for student government to actually benefit campus. Something that students can actually feel tangibly, the tangible benefit to campus. If you don’t want that, I honestly don’t know why you are in student government.”

According to Bulovsky, more events, like Neil

City prepares for Freakfest weekend Elliot Hughes Deputy News Editor Madison’s annual Halloween festival alone is enough to make city officials and local law enforcement batten down the hatches.

Throw in a University of Wisconsin football game and Homecoming festivities, and things could get interesting.

Planning officials for Freakfest held a press conference Tuesday, laying out the city’s plans to ensure a smooth operation of all the weekend’s events.

“We had to put a little more thought into it, but we’ve been preparing for this for months

so we feel we have a good plan in place,” Frank Productions spokesperson Charlie Goldstone said in an interview with The Badger Herald.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said law enforcement decided to increase its presence Friday night and Saturday at the game and the festival because Freakfest, a UW football game and Homecoming are all converging on the same day, Because crime at Freakfest has been kept to a minimum in recent years, Verveer said, there was an original idea to decrease police presence and not use the CityCounty Building as an arrest processing center. But that idea

has since been scrapped due to Homecoming.

“When all is said and done, there actually will be more cops working this year, taking into account all cops working the entire weekend, than we’ve seen in previous years for Freakfest,” Verveer said. “But again, it’s not a reflection whatsoever on Freakfest.”

He added officers from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and the Wisconsin State Patrol will be on hand. Madison Police Capt. Carl Gloede told The Badger Herald last week 150 MPD officers will be in the event zone.

According to a city of Madison statement, all streets crossing State Street will close at 5 p.m.

Saturday for Freakfest.

Johnson Street will also be

closed, and its eastbound traffic will be directed onto Bassett Street.

Bus routes 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 will be directed away from State Street and the downtown area starting at 5 p.m. and will last through the end of the service day, another statement said.

Maps of the scene and other information can be found at Freakfestlive. com.

Westbound and southbound traffic from the Camp Randall Stadium area of Regent Street will be unaffected, the statement said. Left turns onto Park Street for Regent’s eastbound traffic will not be allowed.

The statement said traffic delays are expected, and Goldstone added those could last from 5:30 until 8:30 p.m.

deGrasse Tyson’s visit to campus, which was funded by this same budget allocation under a different name, increase the university’s presence and leave students with tangible experiences to take away from their time at UW. ASM Chief of Staff Sarah Neibart said she agreed with Bulovsky and stressed her desire to increase the budget to $75,000. She added with the arrival of the new chancellor next year, she hopes such a speaking event and budget will be institutionalized as a traditional UW event.

However, with the 2013-

SEARCH, from 1 foundations, national associations at universities or other organizations of that type,” Bunting said.

“Then, in addition, we have our own networks from all of the searches we do, and so we’ll be looking at all of this in terms of reaching out.”

Because of these networks, the firm can identify good candidates the university might not be able to find, McDonald said.

McDonald added that in addition to setting up interviews and connections, the firm will also be managing the large amounts of paperwork and administrative

GUN LAWS, from 1 “To use this tragedy to reintroduce this bill is not logical.”

He also said the proposal would be impractical, because there would be no way for officials to know what firearms the person has to begin with. He said the person could buy firearms in the black market, which he said would cause a

14 budget cuts to grassroots committee budgets and travel budgets, Gardner said he felt uncomfortable with such a large sum being allocated to a single event, which he alleged, in the case of Tyson’s visit, did not get ASM’s name out.

“The Neil deGrasse Tyson event was not advertised at all as an ASM event,” Gardner said. “There was no material benefit to ASM. I am personally incredibly uncomfortable with a lot of the cuts that we are seeing, and seems that they are being done to accommodate a fund for a speaker that has no benefit for ASM.”

work associated with the incoming candidate nominations.

Despite the firm’s work, however, Bunting emphasized UW’s decisions will remain to be its own, as Storbeck/ Pimentel and Associates works “side by side” with their clients.

“Basically, our philosophy is that we are in partnership with the university on any search, but ultimately the search is the university’s and the university’s system’s search, not ours,” said Bunting.

The committee must propose no less than five candidates for Ward’s approval by February, McDonald said.

problem for officials who would not be aware of the purchases.

Tony Gibart, Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence president, said his organization supports the bill, as it did in 2010.

Despite the organization’s support for the measure, he said he has some concerns about whether the law would actually fix the problem.

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Police use of aircraft beneficial for Wisconsin drivers Joe Timmerman Columnist Traffic enforcement is not generally one of the most popular duties performed by police. Most people can attest to the unpleasantness of looking in the rear view mirror and seeing a squad car turn its lights on. However, there are two good reasons speed limits exist — they save lives and they save fuel.

Even if they can be frustrating at times (“Sure, I know speed limits are important, but I REALLY need to get work on time

today...”), everyone is made better off if speed limits are enforced in a consistent and sensible manner. Thus, The Cap Times’ reporting Wisconsin State Patrol’s use of aircraft has resulted in 2,197 traffic stops during August and September, despite being a little unsettling, is ultimately a positive for Wisconsinites.

The reality of driving is nearly everyone speeds to some degree. Going a couple of miles per hour over the speed limit, especially if that’s the speed of traffic, is at worst marginally more dangerous than following exactly the posted speed limit. Furthermore, it’s sometimes necessary for drivers to speed more significantly, but only for a specific situation, like getting around a large truck on the highway. However,

the real danger arises when motorists completely shun the speed limit and travel more than ten or 15 miles per hour above the speed limit.

The only difference is that the planes can do their job better. As long as the use of these planes is not abused, they will make Wisconsin drivers better off.

This is where the State Patrol’s planes can be most useful. Since planes have a much better, largerscale view of situations on the road than regular squad cars, they can sort

out cars that are actually driving dangerously from the ones who might just be speeding in a certain brief situation. Where a squad car setting a speed trap only has a good view of each for a few seconds, a plane can watch it travel for as long as is necessary to determine if the driver is driving dangerously. By using planes, the Patrol can focus their resources on the drivers who are posing the greatest threat to others on the road rather than just ticketing anyone who speeds. This is a net gain for drivers, since the roads will be safer and they will be less likely to be cited for a very minor offense.

Better, broader observational abilities, planes also can help keep a bad situation from becoming extremely

dangerous. Under normal circumstances — with no air support — police have two options when a driver attempts to flee. They can either give chase, or let the car go. Both options have positives and negatives.

Pursuing the driver puts police officers and other motorists at risk, but generally ends with an arrest. Letting the driver go keeps everyone safe, but also lets the bad guy win.

Neither option is ideal.

However, if there is a plane observing the situation, the police can have the best of both worlds. The officers on the ground can let the car go while the plane continues to track it. Once the car stops — at home, at a store, at a gas station — officers can immediately move in to apprehend him or her, all without having

to give a dangerous, highspeed chase. As a bonus, this can result in a rather comical situation, where just as a motorist thinks he or she has evaded the police, they appear seemingly out of nowhere to make an arrest.

The thought of planes in the sky watching over motorists certainly evokes some Orwellian feelings of discomfort. However, these planes don’t pose any more risk to privacy than do regular police cars. The only difference is that the planes can do their job better. As long as the use of these planes is not abused, they will make Wisconsin drivers better off.

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

Certificates: Own your experience Coffee clarification LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Sarah Witman Editorial Board Member Nearly 100 certificates are offered at this school, yet the message about what they actually are must have been lost on me during freshman orientation — I’d guess at some point between capstone courses and the Wisconsin Idea.

In preparing to write this column, I spoke to an academic adviser in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication, an advisor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies who also worked in Cross College Advising Services for more than a decade, two coordinators with Letters & Science Career Services and a University of Wisconsin expert on higher education. Each one had his or her own unique take on what a certificate is, why the University of Wisconsin prefers them to minors and how an employer might perceive the word “certificate” on a resume.

All were hazy in some regard.

My pursuit to find the answers behind this topic was partly motivated by my own nearlycompleted certificate in environmental studies.

My concerns echoed that of the two individuals from L&S: I do not want a potential employer to think a certificate is any less competitive than what other schools call

a minor. “Certificate” sounds like something I could have completed in a weekend or online from an unaccredited college.

After hearing from these stars of academia, I have come to a few conclusions.

It is not guaranteed every certificate program is created equal. It is not guaranteed each certificate will achieve its learning goals, no matter how careful its design. Most importantly, despite the fact certificates are hyped as a hip trend among top universities, employers who are not familiar with UW-Madison, even if they have crossed paths with other UW Schools, may very well have no idea what our certificates are or the type of work they require.

Therefore, I emphasize to fellow students they ought not treat certificates as one more bullet point to batten down the edges of a resume. Certificates are not merely a label that will prove we are versed in yet another subject — one could argue the same for additional majors. Rather, the certificate programs at UW-Madison are an opportunity to provide a broad counterpoint to the narrow depth found in our majors.

They are structured interdepartmentally, at least the good ones are, so students may enter the workforce having chosen courses that most aligned with their unique array of interests. Through a certificate, students will have gained skills in these areas as well.

My second plea to my peers is they try their utmost to accurately communicate to an employer how the

chosen certificate has supplemented a wellbalanced educational oeuvre. It is imperative to expound upon the certificate further in the resume, cover letter or interview. Describe a meaningful experience, or a new idea that presented itself. List the credits taken in a certain subject.

As a first-semester freshman, I participated in a “leadership certificate program” through Chadbourne Residential College on campus, which only required me to attend a few meetings.

If I had chosen to pursue the similarly-named but much more in-depth UW-Madison leadership certificate, I would have found myself cataloging 100 hours of leadership work, as well as taking three online courses. One can easily imagine the frustration if an employer equated one experience to the other.

Another instance of this can be found right within my own Nelson Institute.

For the past 10 years, a 26-credit certificate in environmental studies was the most popular certificate in the university, according to school records. With last year’s much-needed induction of UW’s firstever environmental studies major, the certificate requirements were lowered to accommodate that change. Some students — especially juniors and seniors near to completing the requirements anyway — swiftly adapted from the certificate program to the new major, while others like myself opted for the 15-credit certificate.

In retrospect, though, an unintended consequence is

two students who both tout an ES certificate from UW as part of their degrees may have had entirely incomparable coursework.

Again, I must vehemently stress it is up to the student to accurately portray his or her experience when it matters most. A wellthought out certificate track can provide additional exposure to new ideas that employers seek, whereas minors have the connotation of a wimpy sidekick to one’s major — it is critical to prevent any confusion from taking place.

Above all, it is most important for a student to know why they have chosen a particular certificate than what it says in its title. This mental process gets the student in touch with their own talents, interests and values, which makes for a better interview.

Employers do not want a secondary area of depth, rather they care that an applicant is able to be trained. As such, even preprofessional students who typically have less leeway on course choices should make a conscious effort to be academically wellrounded.

Students must be advocates for what they have achieved when the label alone is not enough.

Not doing so risks underrepresenting the skills, attitudes and knowledge earned in those few extra semesters of coursework.

Don’t let it happen to you.

Sarah Witman (switman@badgerherald. com) is a senior majoring in journalism and getting a certificate in environmental studies.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

News ought be more than just polls What qualifies as news?

The above the fold front cover story in your Oct. 18 issue entitled “Wisconsin split even on presidential election” outlined a new poll from Marquette Law School giving statistics about how the race is basically tied.

What journalism was involved in this? No one’s really in the lead, debates

affect polls, perceptions shift and momentum is building. It tells us fundamentally nothing about the election. What happened to media outlets informing us? I need to know what Obama said, what Romney did, what they believe, how they’ve voted, who they support, what the real issues facing us are. Articles about polls

are devoid of information that matters.

There are hundreds of polls throughout the election cycle, and every single one has different results. They are very subjective, time sensitive and, in my opinion, absolutely useless. I wish newspapers would inform us about politics and save maybe a poll or two near

the end of an election to let us know how the rest of the country is thinking. But alas, that will probably just be fantasy for the rest of my lifetime.

Rayna Christman (raynabess@gmail.com) is a senior majoring in German, German education and communication arts: tv, radio and film.

I read Taylor Nye’s recent article “Fair Trade’s decision not necessarily bad,” and was hoping to clarify a few of the points made in the piece. I do appreciate the effort to educate people about Fair Trade, but unfortunately it seems there may be a misunderstanding about who Fair Trade USA is, what exactly we do and, more specifically, what some of the recent changes are in the Fair Trade movement. I’d love the opportunity to help explain some of this.

First: Fair Trade USA is a non-profit organization.

As the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, we audit and certify transactions between North American companies and their international suppliers.

This guarantees the farmers and workers producing Fair Trade Certified goods were paid fair prices and wages, work in safe conditions, protect the environment and receive community development funds to improve their communities.

Fair Trade USA also educates consumers, brings new manufacturers and retailers into the Fair Trade system and provides farming communities with the tools, training and resources necessary to thrive as international business people.

I think this paragraph from the article might be a bit confusing to people: “Fair Trade USA is a business, and by allowing importers like Starbucks and Green Mountain Coffee to become certified with it, the company made a whole lot of profit. How much profit?

Certainly more than Madison producers give it. Fair Trade was looking out for its own interests, and rightly so.”

To clarify, Fair Trade USA certifies individual products; we don’t certify companies.

Basically, we partner with over 750 companies in North America, the majority of whom are small-to-medium sized businesses, to help them source Fair Trade products from certified farming groups. We then audit the transaction between buyer and seller.

We’ve actually been working with companies like Starbucks and Green Mountain for over 10 years to help them develop more sustainable, traceable supply chains.

As for the question of profit, I’d like to state again Fair Trade USA is a nonprofit organization. We’re supported by service fees paid by companies using the Fair Trade Certified label, as well as donations and grants from both foundations and individuals. All of our financial information is available to the public on our website.

As for what’s changing — we’ve recently launched

what we call our Fair Trade for All initiative, which aims to double the impact of Fair Trade for farmers and workers by 2015. It’s about including more farming communities in Fair Trade and strengthening existing cooperatives.

Fair Trade reaches far less than one percent of those living in extreme poverty in the world. In the coffee sector alone, around 90 percent of all coffee farmers are ineligible for Fair Trade certification because they are not organized into a formal cooperative.

Just for some background, in the current Fair Trade system, all coffee farmers must be organized into a co-op or association to be part of Fair Trade, but in other categories such as rice in India, communities of small independent farmers are allowed to obtain certification. And in bananas, tea and flowers, farm workers on large farms can also receive Fair Trade benefits.

We’re now working to eliminate this inconsistency that has historically excluded the vast majority of the world’s farmers (even if they can meet and exceed the rigorous Fair Trade standards).

Beginning with coffee, we’re taking existing, international Fair Trade standards and applying them first to new groups in coffee.

Specifically, we’re applying them to farm workers who don’t own land and therefore can’t be in a co-op, and to independent small farmers who, for a variety of political, geographic, social or financial reasons, also cannot or choose not to be in a co-op. Over the next two years, we are piloting these standards on 10-20 different farms, to determine best practices for delivering more impact to more people.

Our first pilot, a 100 percent organic, familyowned farm in Brazil with 110 workers, recently used their first Fair Trade premiums on life changing eye and dental care. In a blog I wrote recently, you can read about a woman named Maria Filha de Jesus, a 58-year-old woman who just got her first pair of eyeglasses thanks to Fair Trade.

You can visit our website, fairtradeusa.org, for ongoing updates about our pilots.

I hope this information was helpful to you. I just want to be sure that people have the most accurate info possible so they can make the purchasing choices that works best for them.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions, or need any clarification. I’m always happy to help!

Jenna Larson ( jlarson@ fairtrade.org) is the communications manager for Fair Trade.

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The Badger Herald | Classifieds | Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Classifieds SO to all the people who scribble out select letters on the hand dryers. PUSH BUTT never gets old.

ASO to guys who dress like toolbags. You’re a college student, not a cast member of Jersey Shore

ASO to my TA who has the penmanship of a 6 year old.

ASO to the awkwardest library moment ever.

I think I walked into some sort of poop stand off in the bathroom.

Two stalls, both occupied, with each girl trying to wait for the other to leave so they can take a dump.

I walked in to dead silence and felt so uncomfortable I had to leave.

ASO to the the mouse that wiggled its way out of the mousetrap we set for it last night.

HASO to finding it gushing blood on our living room floor and twitching uncontrollably. SO to my roommate for picking that shit up with only plastic baggies on her hands. Way to man up.

ASO to lighting myself on fire this weekend. I want to bite my fingers off. DASO for not having a fire extinguisher in our kitchen, that can’t be safe. But SO to Vicodin. I heart Vicodin SO to my roommates studying for their repro phys exam. I have by proxy learned more about the orientation of bull testicles than I ever thought possible. DSO to the homemade cardboard reproductive tracts currently living on our coffee table.

ASO to that moment when you realize you’re sitting in a rocking chair.

ASO to my nose still running blue from the Color Me Rad Run. HopefulSO to sneezing in front of pre-med students and them trying to diagnose me.

SO to when your girlfriend comes to visit.

ASO to her being a Minnesota Gopher. DSO to her thinking about transferring. If you want to be a Badger just come along with me!

SO to putting my headphones in just so that my neighbors wouldn’t judge me for listening to T. Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” on repeat for the last half hour. ASO to rocking out instead of writing my paper.

SO to all the badger men out there who like dogs just as much as I do! ASO to cats & guys who think they are the cutest animals to walk this planet.

ASO to people wearing winter coats. Good luck

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SO to Justin Bieber for putting on a great show last night! DSO to having even worse Bieber Fever after attending!

ASO to all the haters, you have no idea how talented he really is!

SO to the gentleman I overheard proclaiming “I feel like Mary Poppins!” with his umbrella. Congrats sir, my umbrella-less self feels like a wet dog.

SO to the kid walking down university on a Sunday night wearing sunglasses and carrying coco puffs. You would have been the coolest in 5th grade.

ASO to people who whine about wanting to cuddle but have nobody to cuddle with. That’s why I got a fluffy little bunny. SO to bunnies, the best pets ever.

SO to cleaning lint traps. So satisfying.

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Outdoor parking and garages available all around campus.

Prices vary based upon location. tallardapartments.com for maps and availability. Call 250-0202

SO to men who love to go down and are really, really good at it. Bravo, gentlemen.

Brafuckingvo.

SO to the guy who shared his umbrella with me on the walk to class this morning!

ASO to the 3rd floor girls’ bathrooms in College. Gum, blood, tampon wrappers on the floor & no toiler paper?

It’s my worst nightmare come true.

SO to being in love with a Badger. I’d follow you into the dark, but only by the bright shining light of the mother fucking moon.

ASO to Lake Mendota for making campus smell like a pile of dead fish.

SO to having a boyfriend who brings me milkshakes at the library. Must be true love.

ASO to passive-aggressive people who are too chicken to actually confront someone about an issue and instead just stay mad until things go their way.

Grow the fuck up and learn how to problem solve bitches.

RandomSO to how easy it is for men to masturbate compared to women...

SO to getting a WiscAlert test text, then scrolling up on the conversation to see my first WiscAlert: “UWMadison has cancelled classes for February 2, 2011 due to the blizzard.” Ahh Biddy, how I miss you.

ASO to this weather.

DASO to the fact that it makes me feel like dementors are everywhere in Madison. TASO to dementors.

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The Badger Herald | Arts | Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Use UHS, Group-X to work out midterm stress Stephanie Awe Herald Contributor As midterm season ascends on the University of Wisconsin campus, students prepare for the spike in stress levels that accompany the slur of exams, papers and presentations.

According to the American College Health Association, nearly 50 percent of all college students nationally reported stress or anxiety as factors hurting their academic performances in Fall 2011.

Rob Sepich, University Health Services stress management specialist, said many students suffer from chronic stress because they, on average, have 50 “fightor-flight” reactions to various situations per day. These reactions can be to things as simple as a text message or random thoughts that confuse the body into thinking there is a life-threatening situation, he said.

“We haven’t evolved as a species just to sit,” Sepich said. “[Fight or flight responses] used to be helpful for thousands of years; there were constant threats to our survival, we needed to have that hair-width sensitivity so that if something happened, we were ready to react.”

He said exercise is a positive way to release some of this tension, especially around midterms, and said students should aim for at least 30 minutes at a time.

During midterms when time is limited for students to exercise, Sepich said evidence shows even 10 minutes of active exercise, such as climbing stairs or Bascom Hill, helps the body both physically and psychologically.

“It’s better to do something briefly than not at all,” Sepich said. “Really finding something you like is the key.”

Because of the nature of an active student life on the

UW campus, Sepich said students will likely always have something come up and interfere with a workout program, so it is important to find an enjoyable exercise to allow for a greater chance the student sticks with it.

Between aerobic, strength and flexibility exercises, aerobic exercise has shown to be most beneficial for stress management, he said.

Tim Gattenby, UW kinesiology faculty associate, said cardiovascular exercise helps release endorphins to reduce cortisol, a hormone that causes natural stress and pain.

“You get more endorphin release from the rhythmical, continuous cardiovascular type of exercise,” Gattenby said. “It needs to be sustained and continuous, usually something that’s rhythmical.”

Gattenby said students needed to do these exercises more days than not to see benefits.

Gattenby said walking, martial arts, yoga and swimming are some of the best exercises to release physical and emotional tension and increase feelings of well-being, but cautioned students to be mindful not to over-exert and harm the body.

Other resources: Relaxation, UHS programming and eating right To provide for moderation during midterms, Sepich said students should also carve out time for relaxation with prayer, meditation or yoga. Students should also focus on nutrition, he said, keeping balance, variety and moderation in mind. Getting between six and nine hours of sleep also reduces health risks, he said.

“There are dozens of things people can do in addition to exercise to cope [with stress],” Sepich said. “During midterms, you’re studying in more of a way to survive.

[Relaxing] tells your mind, ‘oh, I’m okay.’”

Relaxing five to 10 minutes before studying and sitting in a relaxed posture, not hunched over a textbook helps the brain absorb information easier, he said.

Another critical component to staying healthy during the academic year, Sepich said, is finding support from family, friends or a counseling center.

Elizabeth Larson, UW kinesiology professor and occupational therapist, said a recently developed class called Living Well: Lifestyle Redesign and Health Promotion for College Students, offers resources for students to learn about stress and how to best deal with it based on each individual’s needs.

Larson said the class forms a community that focuses on developing a healthy lifestyle and not only considers exercise, nutrition and sleep, but also establishes a balanced

daily routine that includes opportunities for rest and social connections as well as schoolwork.

“The important part for students is being together,” Larson said. “Having a group of people to talk to when you want to change [habits]; social support is really important.”

Larson is currently teaching the course, which includes current research, experimental learning and wellness practices, and is looking to expand enrollment.

UHS also offers counseling between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Monday through Friday. The services offer individuals help with stress management as well as group counseling for no charge. Students can also receive massage therapy for $40 per 50-minute session and acupuncture costing $20 for a single treatment.

Students can also download free mp3s on the UHS website that talk them through relaxation techniques.

Sweating out the stress The Southeast Recreational Facility and Natatorium both offer exercise and social support through their Group-X Fitness classes. The SERF has 11 different classes, the NAT seven and each includes both strength and cardiovascular training that make for great study breaks. The classes below are Group-X cardio workouts. The Badger Herald sent a reporter in to observe and participate in the classes.

Spinology

Yoga

Box Blast

A hefty workout, this cycling class will burn more calories than most of the others.

It integrates intervals and heart rate and is customizable for each individual. However, the class is very intense, so it might not be the best option for students looking for a fun and stress-free workout to get a break from the library. 3 stars

This is a combination of ashtanga and hatha yoga, which allows for a workout accompanied by relaxation. It is welcoming to newcomers and offers opportunities to work the muscles that have barely moved all day sitting at a desk. The class ends with relaxation strategies and will most likely leave you feeling refreshed and ready to handle your workload. 5 stars

This class definitely offers a fun workout. A non-contact kickboxing class, it is choreographed to kick-butt music and is a great way to relieve stress and frustration. It will ready you into hitting up the library afterward. No prior kickboxing experience is necessary — you won’t regret trying it! 5 stars

ARTSETC. FEATURE

And then there were three: Hump Day’s latest lady Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro Hump Day Columnist Happy Hump Day, Badgers!

I’m joining the current sex columnists at The Badger Herald to help you get answers about your sexual curiosities and relationship woes. We’ve got a lot of

questions that need answers, so let’s just get into it!

My girlfriend and I have been having sex now for around two months, but she still hasn’t gotten completely naked in front of me. Is that normal? Should I be worried about this? She’s got a

great body, not overweight or anything, so I just don’t understand it.

While you shouldn’t be worried about the fact she won’t get naked in front of you, you should be concerned about why exactly that is. I don’t know if you’ve noticed this by now or not, but most

women are sensitive to how they feel they look. Pay attention to that last part, how they feel.

You may think she’s hotter than Megan Fox, but for some reason we don’t always think we look the way others paint us to be. Whatever the reason is, she’s not comfortable enough to be able to take her clothes off and you need to figure out why. Not just so she will get naked for you when you want, but because it’s important to be comfortable, especially when it comes to the sexual part of a relationship.

Communicate. Ask her what’s going on and if there’s anything you can do to help her become more comfortable. I know it’s hard for many people to do this, but hey, if you want to see her naked …TALK.

My boyfriend recently made a very odd request.

He wanted to use foodstuffs in the bedroom, more specifically chocolate syrup. I’m not exactly sure how I feel about this…

This request may not be as odd as you think.

Bringing food into the bedroom is meant to create a more stimulating sexual experience and can be pretty erotic. Many people get this idea in their head they need to be covered in food like the chocolate syrup scene from “American Wedding,” or they need to wear the infamous whipped cream bikini. Not the case. I really do believe in don’t knock it until you try it because you could be missing out on something that could really turn you or your partner on. Just start slow and work

from there.

I like whipped cream because it’s not as messy and you don’t feel super sticky after. Don’t just spray some on and let him go at. It’s meant to be sensual and sexy. Tell him you’re going to put whipped cream in the spots you want his mouth to be, one by one. Work your way from your neck down to those erogenous zones. If you get comfortable with that you can work your way up to drops of chocolate syrup, honey or frosting, just to list a few delicious items people like to mix with their steamy sex sessions.

Also, use this to your advantage! I don’t know many people who actually enjoy giving blowjobs, but add a little frosting and it’s all of a sudden a little more pleasant experience.

Have fun with it! Although, be careful to not let any foodstuffs get into bodily openings such as the vagina, urethra, or anus because it could cause an infection.

I am, as people would say, well-endowed beneath the belt. But every time I try to have sex with my girlfriend (who is about 5-foot-5), I can’t go very long without hurting her. Is there anything I can do to make this work? Because we haven’t really ever been able to enjoy what people would say is a “normal” sexual experience.

First off, there is no such thing as a “normal” sexual experience, but each sexual experience should certainly be enjoyable for both partners. There are quite a few things that can be done to help you out in

this situation. It already sounds like you’re both communicating, which is the first step that needs to be taken. Find out exactly what it is that’s hurting her.

Is it the girth, the length, the motion, the pace or is it just all of it?

For each of these situations, make sure you’re using plenty of lube and keep reapplying as you go.

She may not be producing enough natural wetness and this could alleviate that. Also, knowing it might hurt may be causing her to unconsciously tense her vaginal muscles, so make sure she’s relaxed. Do this by engaging in an adequate amount of foreplay time focusing on other areas, along with her vulva.

Now if it’s the length that’s being bothersome, remember, the bigger the angle of penetration the easier it is to push your penis in too far and hurt her. It may be hard for you to control this, so let her control the pace. Make sure she’s on top so she can do this and figure out how far she can let your penis go inside her before it starts to hurt. If this helps you can mix it up; try having her straddle you with her back facing you or straddle you while you’re sitting in a chair. Take it slow and go from there!

Until next time, stay extra safe and extra sexy on this Halloween/ Homecoming weekend.

Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro is the newest addition to the Hump Day family. Say hello to the Hump Day ladies at humpday@badgerherald. com and get your sizzling questions answered.

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The Badger Herald | Comics | Wednesday, Rocktober 24, 2012

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What? You still don’t get it? Come, on, really? It’s not calculus or anything. Honestly, if you don’t know how to do a sudoku by now, you’ve probably got more issues than this newspaper.

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The Badger Herald | Classifieds | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 ASO to being the sniffly, coughing, obnoxious, nose-blowing classmate that everyone glares at. I promise I’ll pay it forward and be patient when it’s you next week!

SO to how many good looking dressed up badgers there are around campus! DSO to job interviews!

ASO to still NOT having a costume picked out for this weekend! SO to probably being so drunk

that it won’t matter.

SO to toot it and boot it. A motto to live by.

ASO to our shower drain. Seriously, I am so sick of these shower-baths.

RIPSO to my phone. Apparently you are not beer-proof...

HSO to the cool guys that stole my bike from my garage when I threw a party Saturday. DSO to sarcasm.

SO to Homecoming week!

Can’t wait to see Bucky kick Sparty’s ass!

ASO to realizing that all I’ve eaten today are two chocolate Pop Tarts (with Halloweenthemed frosting and sprinkles!), a bunch of Halloween Oreos, Doritos and Diet Coke.

Oh, and I’m sucking on a caramel apple pop as I write this. SO to my body for putting up with me. www.badgerherald.com

Sports

Legends lead set to be claimed Saturday

NATIONAL RANKINGS Associated Press Top 25

Caroline Sage Statistics Editor You’ve heard coaches say something like this before, “Play every game like it’s the championship.” On Saturday, it’s less of a cliché, because that is exactly what Michigan and Nebraska will do when they meet in Lincoln, Neb. It has taken eight weeks of football for true frontrunners to appear in the Big Ten Legends Division, but these two teams look to be the ones showing they want it, and they both want it bad.

The leg-up among the Legends group is at stake, moving forward what would likely be the team that will head to Indianapolis to play in the second Big Ten Championship game for a spot in the Rose Bowl.

No. 22 Michigan (5-2, 3-0 Big Ten) holds a onegame lead heading into the game. A victory would keep them in sole control of their destiny, two games ahead and could also mean a last-week game against undefeated Ohio State could have no implication on their standing.

But Nebraska (5-2, 2-1 Big Ten) won’t be any less motivated Saturday. A Husker victory would result in a tie for the division lead, with the tiebreaker advantage in their favor

after a head-to-head victory.

With four very winnable games to end the season, this weekend’s game against the Wolverines is their biggest hurdle remaining.

Entering the game, both teams will be riding momentum from their Week 8 victories. For Michigan, that came from beating rival Michigan State for the first time in four years after a last-second field goal to give the Wolverines a 12-10 edge over the Spartans. The Huskers also came back from a twelve-point deficit to beat Northwestern on the road.

Given the momentum, here is how I see these teams matching up: Running ability in question Ranked fifth in the nation in rushing and leading the Big Ten with 279 rushing yards per game, Nebraska holds a clear statistical advantage. However, it is unknown if, or how much, their star tailback Rex Burkhead will play after he suffered a left knee injury against Northwestern. While losing him would be a blow to Nebraska’s offense, Ameer Abdullah and quarterback Taylor Martinez are both threats on the run.

Michigan’s numbers fall not far behind the

Huskers. Quarterback Denard Robinson currently ranks as the team’s leading rusher with 900 yards and six touchdowns. Junior Fitzgerald Toussaint, who has received 10 or more carries since Week 2, is the team’s lead back.

Advantage: Michigan.

Without a healthy Burkhead, Robinson’s dynamic running ability will edge out the threat’s of Martinez and Abdullah.

Skipping stones: Robinson and Martinez As aggressive as Robinson is on the run, his passing game does not even come close to matching that level.

His 53.5 percent completion rate on the season is lessthan-impressive.

Now onto Martinez.

When he is on, he is on fire.

With 15 touchdown throws this season, two of which brought home a win this past weekend, Martinez is definitely a game changer for the Huskers. Martinez is ranked 15th nationally in passing efficiency with a 162.8 rating and has thrown just four interceptions. He was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week Monday for the third time this season.

Martinez hasn’t been without his rough spots this year, most notably two weeks

ago against Ohio State where he threw three interceptions.

However, I suspect the Martinez we saw against the Wildcats will be the guy that shows up against Michigan with everything at stake. The Huskers have not lost a game in which he recorded zero interceptions. That will be key to a Nebraska victory.

Advantage: Nebraska, and a significant one.

Clear Defensive Difference The ability to stop Martinez and the Husker offense is what will decide the outcome of Saturday’s game. Two years ago, Michigan owned one of the worst defenses in college football. Now we are looking at a group who in the last month has resembled a unit that could be one of the best in the nation. In Big Ten play, the Wolverines have given up 23 points total in their three games, meaning their opponents averaged just a measly 7.7 points in each game. Since a rough start to the season with a loss to No. 1 Alabama and a close game with Navy, Michigan has flipped the switch when they don’t posses the ball and after Week 2, have given up no more than 13 points in any game.

What also is in the Wolverine defense’s favor

is their experience with top teams this year. While losing to both Alabama and currently No. 5 Notre Dame, a powerhouse offense like Nebraska’s will not faze the experienced group.

Nebraska’s defense has seen more struggles this season than successes.

Ranked 72nd nationally, they allow on average 27.7 points a game, with a number that is even higher against its first three Big Ten opponents.

Advantage: Michigan Location is everything!

It cannot go unmentioned that Nebraska is undefeated in its four home games this season. Michigan is 1-2 on the road, but the crowd at Memorial Stadium will be amped up and ready to greet the Wolverines for the first time as Big Ten competition.

Last season Nebraska was trampled in Ann Arbor 4517 and will be looking for revenge, like what happened to Wisconsin in Week 5.

Advantage: Nebraska This game figures to be close, but I predict Michigan will come out on top. The way Michigan’s defense has played tips the game in their favor for me. Martinez and his offense are good, but we have seen them stopped before this year, and I think we will again come Saturday.

1. Alabama 2. Oregon 3. Florida 4. Kansas State 5. Notre Dame 6. LSU 7. Oregon State 8. Oklahoma 9. Ohio State 10. USC 11. Florida State 12. Georgia 13. Miss State

14. Clemson 15. Texas Tech 16. Louisville 17. S. Carolina 18. Rutgers 19. Stanford 20. Michigan 21. Boise State 22. Texas A&M 23. Ohio 24. LTU 25. WVU

BCS Standings 1. Alabama 2. Florida 3. Kansas St. 4. Oregon 5. Notre Dame 6. LSU 7. Oregon State 8. Oklahoma 9. USC 10. Georgia 11. Miss State 12. Florida State 13. S. Carolina

14. Texas Tech 15. Rutgers 16. Louisville 17. Stanford 18. Clemson 19. WVU 20. Texas A&M 21. Boise State 22. Michigan 23. Texas 24. Ohio 25. Wisconsin

BIG TEN Legends Team Michigan Nebraska Iowa NW Mich St. Minnesota

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Team Ohio St. Penn St. Wisconsin Purdue Indiana Illinois

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Overall 5-2 5-2 4-3 6-2 4-4 4-3

Leaders Overall 8-0 5-2 6-2 3-4 2-5 2-5

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2012 Badgers reminiscent of 2010 Rose Bowl team Ian McCue Right on Cue Just like that, the memories came rushing back.

There were the Wisconsin running backs, streaking through the Greyhound Bus-sized gaps along the offensive line and continuing to pound the ball down the field. Minnesota knew exactly what was coming next — James White or Montee Ball bull-rushing his way into the second or third level of the Gophers’ defense. But try as it may, they had no answer.

Even as it set up at the line of scrimmage, prepared for the all-but-guaranteed cutbacks and fierce stiff arms, Minnesota looked helpless.

The UW offensive line was too physical, too strong and too fundamentally sound to let even one member of the front seven slip through the cracks and drag down

BURGE, from 12 Groy was forced to slide over to left tackle as Zac Matthias, not Burge, was thrown into the guard spot to replace the rotating Groy.

The move made sense.

With Kyle Costigan injured during the season, Matthias had made the start at right guard previously. Thanks to that experience in the starting lineup, Matthias jumped over Burge.

But, this past Saturday against Minnesota, it was Burge who made the start at left guard, rotating with Matthias every few series but eventually playing the entire second half.

“Last game I think he played 59 snaps or so; we rotated him with Zac

a tailback in the backfield.

That was the moment when the fans knew: The Badgers’ offense was back, and with it came a renewed sense of confidence — even swagger — in the team.

It was a flashback to 2010, when Ball came but four yards from joining John Clay and White as the third running back on the team to cross the 1,000-yard mark in a single season, a feat never before achieved in college football.

In its most dominant victory of the season Saturday, a 38-13 steamrolling of Minnesota, Wisconsin finally looked like the team everyone expected to take the Camp Randall field against Northern Iowa eight weeks ago. And on the way to their third straight win by at least two touchdowns, the Badgers proved why they are again a popular selection to celebrate New Year’s in Pasadena for the third time in as many years.

The victory that would land them in the Coaches Poll Top 25 for the first time since the Nebraska loss also made a repeat trip (that’s back-to-back-to-back) to the

a little bit but he was up there,” Miller said.

Miller also noted Burge recorded the most knockdowns of any player during the game, totaling 16.

When asked if he spat any trash-talk at center Travis Frederick, the man on the line known for his consistently high digits in the knockdown category, after his performance Saturday, Burge just smirked.

“The whole line played well but it was nice seeing my name at the top of the knockdown list,” Burge admitted. “[Frederick] has been one of our top guys in knockdowns so one of my goals in the last game was to get more than him, more than anyone else and Kyle’s very good

Rose Bowl more than a mere possibility.

Quarterback Joel Stave threw the ball 15 times for just more than 100 yards, an underwhelming performance that made the term “game manager” seem like overstated praise. Not that it mattered. Because when UW’s running game operates like a beautifully crafted machine, the signal-caller is little more than a stand-in for any other fan who can successfully backpedal and place the ball into the chest of a pair of immensely talented backs.

It proved the eye-popping 467 rushing yards against Purdue — a team that supposedly boasted one of the best defensive lines in the Big Ten — was more than simply a fluke. Even without Ricky Wagner anchoring the offense line at left tackle, Ball and White found plenty of space. It was vintage Bill Nagy of 2010, as the backup filled in for Peter Konz and the running backs continued to run wild.

Over the last two games, Wisconsin is averaging 402 yards on the ground. But its ability to simply overwhelm

at that as well. So, that was nice seeing my name up there. I knew I had the ability to do it, but to actually do that was nice.”

So with Wagner’s status questionable heading into this weekend’s game against Michigan State, there’s a good chance Badger fans will again see Burge in the starting lineup.

And to think there was a chance he wasn’t even going to be on the roster.

“I thought [my career] was done, for sure,” Burge said. “But once I decided to come back, I knew that I had the ability to make [the starting lineup].”

So, was it worth it to come back for his senior year?

“Definitely,” Burge said.

opposing defenses through the run game compares remarkably well to the 2010 squad that would end the season with a heartbreaking loss to Texas Christian in the Rose Bowl.

Without a dynamic, gamechanging passer sitting in the pocket, the Badgers’ two most impressive victories of the season have come almost entirely from the battered hands of White and Ball.

Stave has certainly been efficient and looked remarkably cool in daunting situations as a redshirt freshman. But to even compare him to Russell Wilson, a man who fits the description of a dynamic, game-changing passer, would be an insult to the starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks.

The strong-armed, relatively slow-footed Stave compares much better to a quarterback whose primary job similarly included handing the ball off and converting play-action passes — Scott Tolzien. Tolzien had an entire year of starting experience under his belt before he took the Badgers to Pasadena in

TRADITION, from 12 but at the same time you didn’t want to let anybody down either,” Keegan added.

“So there was no pressure on it which was really nice but at the end of the day you always knew you wanted to continue this. This is our hometown.

This is where we live; this is where we love to be. There’s nothing better than being a Badger.”

While McKenna upholds a Meuer soccer tradition, Keegan took his talents to the ice in the footsteps of his uncles — Rob and Jeff Andringa.

The Andringa brothers helped UW earn three of its six NCAA titles, Rob with the 1990 team and Jeff with the 1981 and ’83 teams.

Keegan admitted growing up, he wanted to be his uncle Rob. Whether watching

2011 for the first time in more than a decade. But the two quarterbacks’ preferences for efficiency over gaudy numbers only further deepens the similarities between the 2010 and 2012 Wisconsin football teams.

A UW defense that ranks third in the conference may serve as a more critical piece of this team’s success, but a J.J. Watt-powered unit two years ago also finished second in the Big Ten in total defense. Linebackers Chris Borland and Mike Taylor have taken the reigns from Watt, but the combination of a physical Big Ten ground attack and a solid but not suffocating defense matches up nicely with the team from two years ago.

And then there’s the scoring. Early in the season, an invisible forcefield seemed to guard the end zone on the Badgers’ offensive drives as they averaged 16.3 points per game in the first three games of the season (including a frustratingly stagnant seven points against Oregon State).

Over their three most recent games? Try 35.7 points.

Not quite up to the record-

the 1990 “Drive for Five” championship tape for the millionth time or treasuring a broken Gary Shuchuk stick — now his coach — the kid was made to skate.

“I did soccer for a while, but I didn’t love it. I hated it,” Keegan said..

While Keegan has yet to earn a national championship ring, he was a part of the 200910 championship run, his true freshman season, which he redshirted. The following two seasons, the forward played 51 games and scored eight goals and six assists for 14 points.

Through two games in the 2012-13 season, he has one assist on a Frankie Simonelli goal.

Of his eight goals, seven were scored last season — although McKenna apparently has yet to see one.

“She always comes to my games, but she’s too cool to

setting pace of 44.1 points per 2011, but you get the idea.

A team can only put up so many points when it relies on a clock-consuming rushing attack on nearly every offensive drive.

As far-fetched as it seemed after Wisconsin nearly fell to Utah State and dropped to 1-2 through the first three games of the year, the Rose Bowl is now something more palpable than the elusive dream it was five weeks ago. It comes as little surprise that the Road to Indy is already paved in a Big Ten fraught with NCAA infractions. But if the Badgers continue to dominate on the offensive end, their chances of winning the Big Ten Championship Game will increase by the minute.

The team has all the hallmarks of Bret Bielema’s 2010 squad. So now it’s time to see if the year ends in similar fashion — with players dancing around, roses clenched between their teeth.

Ian is a senior majoring in journalism. How confident are you the Badgers will make another appearance in Pasadena? Send him an email at imccue@badgerherald.com

stay for the whole thing,” Keegan said. “So she’ll leave and then I’ll score once she leaves. She’s under the impression that she can’t come anymore. … I’ll leave a ticket for her as always; my family has season tickets so she’s always welcome and I definitely welcome that. I try to get to her games whenever I can.”

The support they give each other and receive from their long line of Badger ancestors gives each of them that extra edge, whether on the ice or at the pitch.

“I believe that I have the best family in the world,” McKenna said.

“They’ll support me no matter what I do — always there when I need them and I think that’s a huge reason again why I wanted to go to Madison, because it’s so natural when my whole family had gone there.”

Sports Editor Ian McCue sports@badgerherald.com

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Burge leaves no doubts in last season Nick Korger Sports Content Editor When Wisconsin running back Montee Ball hit the spotlight a year ago, national media couldn’t get enough of the fact that at one point, the Heisman finalist was buried at No. 3 on the Badgers’ depth chart.

But there’s another player on UW’s roster who has had a similar story line of success, although it will never receive the glitz and glamour of the Badgers’ 2011 Heisman finalist.

And it’s not just because he’s soft-spoken.

At the conclusion of his redshirt junior season and a few weeks after the 2012 Rose Bowl, walk-on offensive lineman Robert Burge walked into the football coach’s office to tell his coaches he wanted his playing career at Wisconsin to be over.

“I was in the coach’s office telling them ‘I don’t want to do this anymore’ and I had pretty much made up my mind,” Burge recalled.

“It was just something internal. I didn’t have the drive to play anymore. I wasn’t having fun doing it. It had nothing to do with the team; it had nothing to do

with the coaches.”

Burge points out there were no moments during the previous year, no bad performances in games that lessened his desire to continue playing. Instead, it was what he called a “growing” feeling inside.

So, with his team already projected to lose three starting offensive linemen to either the NFL Draft or graduation, Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema wasn’t going to let a valuable piece of his returning roster leave without another conversation.

“He was going to not come out for his senior year,” Bielema said. “And myself, actually (now interim offensive line coach) Bart Miller, coach Markson, because he was the O-line coach at the time, sat him down and explained what I thought was out there, what opportunities would be in front of him.”

Burge said the conversation turned him back toward the program.

“They basically told me to reconsider,” Burge said.

“There was a spot open on the O-line at right guard.

That was obviously a big part of [coming back], them saying that I had a chance to

start and contribute.”

“We just kind of explained the rewards and how much he might regret not being out here and the fact that quite honestly he had worked his butt off to be in a position to contribute,” Miller said. “So, with that, it took very little convincing I think.”

And that meeting sparked the transformation of Burge. The guard asked for nutrition advice from head strength and conditioning coach Ben Herbert, who recommended he begin incorporating more lean proteins, fruits and vegetables in his diet while cutting out things like pizza and late-night snacks. At the end of the offseason, Bielema said he thinks the guard lost “anywhere from 5 to 10 percent body fat.”

Combined with training his taste buds, Burge received additional help for getting into peak physical condition from assistant strength and conditioning coach Brian Bott.

The dedication was noticeable during fall camp, as Burge battled with Kyle Costigan for the right guard spot. And although he ended up losing the job, the redshirt senior proved to himself and the coaches

Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald

Redshirt senior offensive lineman Robert Burge has seen time in seven games this season for Wisconsin, making the first two starts of his career. that if his number was ever called, he would be ready.

Heck, Burge even earned a scholarship during fall camp.

Burge’s hard work not only caught the eyes of his coaches, but those of his teammates as well.

Referring to Burge as a “program guy” with great

intensity and as a player he loves to be around, starting left tackle Ryan Groy had nothing but praise to offer for his soft-spoken teammate.

“Burge has been in the program a long time,” Groy said. “He’s a physical kid and he worked his butt off to be

in the position to contribute like this and he’s done so.”

After veteran left tackle and senior captain Ricky Wagner went down with an injury to the medial collateral ligament in his right knee against Purdue,

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The thoroughbred Badger family Siblings Keegan, McKenna latest crop of athletes to carry Meuer name at Wisconsin Kelly Erickson Men’s Hockey Writer Wisconsin athletics is no stranger to family affairs.

Over the last several seasons, multiple teams have had sibling athletes, from the Kelter twins on both the women’s soccer and hockey teams, the Ammerman sisters on the women’s hockey team, the Little brothers on the men’s hockey team and the Trotter and Armstrong brothers on the football team.

But rarely has a family had such a strong connection with UW as the Meuer family.

While Keegan skates his junior season with the men’s Noah Willman The Badger Herald hockey team, his younger Junior Keegan Meuer hopes to win an NCAA title in hockey like two of his uncles did at Wisconsin. sister McKenna is in the midst

of her freshman campaign with the women’s soccer team.

And they aren’t even the first of the Meuer clan to don the cardinal and white. Their father, Kelly Meuer, played for the men’s soccer team in the late ‘70s. Their older sisters both played for the women’s soccer team — Molly and Katy played their senior seasons in ’04 and ’07, respectively.

“It’s ingrained as a way of life for us,” Keegan said.

“When you’re that close to it, you don’t realize how special it is and how lucky you are to be a part of something like that, it [isn’t] taken for granted. All of us have worked extremely hard at our craft and what we love to do to make it possible, to make it happen.

There’s a sense of ownership and wanting to continue that tradition.”

For the Meuers, that tradition seems to lie at McClimon complex — the very place McKenna has held court this fall.

In just her first year, the midfielder has netted four goals — the most of any freshman — and one assist through 17 games played, 15 of which she started.

The transition to college can always be a tricky one — especially in Division I athletics — but for McKenna, having Keegan right on campus has made her freshman year that much easier.

“It’s actually been

really great to have him,” McKenna said.

“Obviously you don’t always get along with your siblings. With both of us being in college at the same time, it’s really helped bring us together.

He’s awesome; he’ll have me over for dinner all the time — me and my soccer teammates. He’s always there to help when I need it. … It gives you another level of comfort when you’re in this new environment.”

Before bonding a little more through their shared college experience, they were typical siblings — fighting, picking on each other and of course making the most of sibling rivalries.

They were never at each other’s throats, nor did they ever hate each other — apparently, the kicking and screaming fights were left to Molly and Katy — but Keegan always had the upper hand.

“We never didn’t get along; it was just me kind of picking on her as older siblings do,” Keegan said.

“But I kind of run her show a little bit; she’s used to it. Now that she’s grown up and now that she’s in college, she’s learned to push back a little bit.”

When both of her older sisters played, they each served their senior seasons as captains.

While time will only tell for McKenna, one thing is certain — she has never felt any pressure from anyone outside herself to continue playing soccer, much less about doing so at Wisconsin.

“When I’m playing, there’s a whole other level to it,” McKenna said.

“I’m not just representing myself; I’m representing my family. People have known my sisters; there are people who know me through my sisters, through my dad and all that kind of stuff.

It’s a whole different experience playing when it’s not more so about yourself, but what you represent and what your program represents. … To continue on something that started decades ago has been really awesome.”

“There was never any pressure for us to follow in each other’s footsteps,

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