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Ward addresses labor conflict Chancellor says UW not party to Palermo’s dispute, has no present plan to take action Julia Skulstad Campus Life Editor

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Mayor Paul Soglin ponders the future of the city in the meeting Wednesday night where City Council passed its 2013 operating budget. Soglin now must decide if he would like to veto the budget.

Operating budget passed Ball is in Soglin’s court after Council passes $267.1 million budget, gives $1.75 million to Overture Sarah Eucalano Reporter Madison’s City Council passed the 2013 operating budget Wednesday night, eliminating a bus fare increase and allocating $1.75 million to the Overture Center.

The total cost for next year’s operating budget will be $267.1 million, and Mayor Paul Soglin now has to decide whether to pass the budget or veto it.

Soglin said city expenditures since 2000 have grown around 4 percent annually, which outstrips the cost of living, which has been growing at 2 percent. He said in the past six years, Madison has borrowed $14 million to help fund the operating budget.

Soglin had initially proposed cuts to the Overture

Center and a proposed bus fare increase of 25 cents.

However, he eliminated the bus fare increase and allocated more money to Overture in his amendments released Monday, deciding to give the Overture Center more funding than he initially proposed but less than City Council’s desired increase.

“It’s a new world,” Soglin said. “I love this job. I want to do it right, but we can’t do everything for everyone, and there needs to be priorities.

I’m fearful that we don’t have our priorities straight.”

He said he had proposed to cut the funding to the Overture Center because the city has no way to pay for it and the Overture lacks transparency.

Soglin said he was critical because no one in the city

knows where the Overture’s subsidy is going and the executives of the center have had their salaries doubled over the last two years.

“We have started projects without having cash in hand,” Soglin said. “We have to wake up and understand that this is a different time, a different city.”

Soglin also said many of Madison’s citizens, particularly state employees who have seen their real incomes go down due to Act 10, are having an increasingly difficult time continuing to pay the increases in property taxes every year. “[The City Council is] borrowing money, not even to maintain basic city services — we’ve had two successive years of not properly maintaining

the city fleet, we cannot provide adequate bus services, we’re way behind other cities in the area of food — nutrition, food economy and public market access,” Soglin said.

“There is no practical way of funding the Overture Center.”

The council voted 16 to 4 to continue to subsidize the Overture Center.

Along with not increasing bus fares, the council chose to allocate $150,000 to go toward improved metro services to Owl Creek, one of Madison’s lower-income neighborhoods.

Ald. Brian Solomon, District 10, was one of the members who opposed the bus fare increase.

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University of Wisconsin Interim Chancellor David Ward issued a statement regarding the ongoing labor disagreement over the university’s ties with Palermo’s Pizza, saying UW does not currently have any plans to take action.

The National Labor Relations Board is presently investigating Palermo’s Pizza for allegations of violating labor laws and the dismissal of workers following its attempts of union organizing in 2008.

Evidence from this investigation shows Palermo’s has refused to acknowledge workers’ attempts to organize regarding safety concerns, overtime hours and wages, UW Labor Licensing Policy Committee Chair Lydia Zepeda said in an email to The Badger Herald.

Ward said in the UW statement that he received a letter from LLPC early yesterday.

“In the letter, the chair of the LLPC, on behalf of the committee, recommends that I put Palermo’s on notice unless it meets demands articulated by the LLPC. I will review the committee’s request and respond accordingly to them,” Ward said in the statement. “In the

meantime, we have no plans to take any action.”

Lingran Kong, Student Labor Action Coalition and LLPC member, said this was a time-sensitive and urgent issue they brought to attention at the beginning of the school year. She said she was disappointed Ward listed no concrete future steps.

Kong said it does not make sense for UW to be affiliated with a company that has clearly broken a contract. She said she would still expect and hope to see some kind of action from UW. “They’re clearly giving UW-Madison a bad name right now,” Kong said. “We have to act.”

She said this is a workers’ rights issue and a problem of human rights and added Palermo’s is clearly not respecting the contract it agreed to. She said she thinks the university has the complete right and power to terminate its contract with Palermo’s.

“We believe that people shouldn’t be getting their fingers cut off,” Kong said, “Its pretty simple.”

In the statement, Ward said UW has “direct and indirect contractual relationships with Palermo’s.” He said UW is not a party to the dispute and cited

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Students tackle advising issues Forum fosters discussion regarding educational innovation, improvement Alice Coyne Herald Contributor The Shared Governance Week of Action, a series of events and discussions organized by a committee of Associated Students of Madison, continued into its third day Wednesday with a forum addressing issues of educational innovation.

Designed to glean efficient student feedback, the event was made up of a panel of speakers, who, after brief

introductions, answered student questions and input regarding educational innovation on the University of Wisconsin campus.

Wren Singer, panel member and director of undergraduate advising, outlined her ongoing efforts to improve access to advisers across campus. She noted 25 new advisers have been hired this year in efforts to make advising a more personal experience.

Additionally, seeking

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ASM creates student diversity advising committee Student Council votes unanimously for establishment of ad hoc group to weigh in on Campus Diversity Plan Julia Skulstad Campus Life Editor The student government voted unanimously to create a Student Ad Hoc Committee to advise a university committee on diversity issues in a meeting Wednesday.

According to an Associated Students of Madison statement, the Student Ad Hoc Committee will advise the University Ad Hoc Committee on the Campus Diversity Plan.

It will be made up of four members within the

Student Council, four atlarge members appointed

by Diversity Committee Chair Mia Akers and the four existing members currently appointed to the Committee for Diversity and Campus climate.

“The plan is set for release in the spring of 2013 and will impact students at UW-Madison for years to come,” the statement said.

“ASM voted to support the creation of the committee in an effort to best exercise the shared governance and student input in campus decisions.”

ASM Press Director David Gardner said the idea for the the Student Ad Hoc Committee came from ASM leadership.

The committee will represent student opinions and act as a liaison to advise members of the University Ad Hoc Committee on the Diversity Plan, Gardner said.

“This committee will increase the quality of the plan to be more receptive to student concerns, and directly address our specific needs on campus.”

ASM Diversity Committee Chair Mia Akers said

in the statement. “The committee will make the student voice more apparent and will create more active student participation.”

ASM Shared Governance Committee Chair Sam Seering said he would want to give the committee everything necessary to be able to receive the student opinion.

In terms of innovative ideas, Seering said he would like to conduct a survey through the University of Wisconsin Survey Center to attain a fuller understanding of

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what the student body wants in the Campus Diversity Plan.

“I want them to have the ability to do whatever they need to do because the Campus Diversity Plan is going to impact every corner of this campus for years to come,” Seering said.

Seering said in his opinion and the opinion of others, the Diversity Plan from 2008 was an utter failure for UW. Seering said the 2008 plan had no accountability standards, and because of

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UW welcomes undefeated OSU Nick Korger breaks down Saturday’s matchup with Urban Meyer’s newlook Buckeyes’ offense.

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Ryan shocked by urban turnout Editorial Board: Republicans shouldn’t be surprised — urban voters rejected a GOP platform that alienated them

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Talk centers on future of middle class Former congressman lectures on threats to middle class, focuses on education and transcending ideologies as solutions Dana Bossen Reporter The University of Wisconsin welcomed former Wisconsin congressman Steve Gunderson as the selected speaker for a lecture Wednesday night where he gave his thoughts on the future of the middle class.

Gunderson addressed what he saw as the biggest threats to the middle class in the 21st century and offered possible solutions to these problems.

He emphasized the importance of education when looking at the wealth of the middle class. He said currently, unless a household is earning two incomes, both from people with Bachelor of Arts degrees, it does not comfortably exceed the

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modern minimum to be considered the middle class.

“The important reason to understand why education leads to wealth is to understand that education is defining wages in America today and wages have to be seen as the vehicle by which we create personal wealth and personal security,” Gunderson said.

He also stressed funding education is crucial to the middle class because education provides mobility and offers opportunities to gain entry into the middle class. He also said it is going to be nearly impossible to create a modern middle class if society makes it difficult to provide people with postsecondary educations.

Gunderson suggested to

fund education, the state, as well as the country, should be looking to the private as well as the public sectors for financial assistance.

“It is up to us as a nation, whether we can come together across ideological polarization to allow the public and private sectors to make the contributions that will rebuild this vital part of American society,” Gunderson said.

In addition, Gunderson explained how the middle class is crucial to American democracy and the economy.

He said the loss of the middle class would have detrimental effects on not only the economy but American democracy as well.

He described the middle class as the glue

holding together American democracy and said no market-based democracy has survived without the existence of a healthy middle class.

“The loss of the middle class would matter because this broad cross section of citizens defines community and civic responsibility,” Gunderson said. “It matters because America can not be strong if the bulk of its citizens are struggling.”

Gunderson said while the middle class may be on the verge of vanishing, it is important to remain optimistic about the future.

He said citizens are living in a different time that is vastly more diverse than when the middle class was created. However, he said

if the nation can find new innovative ways to fund education, there is hope.

University of Wisconsin graduate Kara Kratowicz said she was impressed with what Gunderson’s lecture had to offer.

“I was particularly interested in coming here tonight because I worry about the middle class,” Kratowicz said. “It was interesting to hear what people who know more about the issue had to say about it.”

Gunderson’s lecture was based on his book, The New Middle Class: Creating Wages and Wealth in the 21st Century, which focuses on rebuilding a strong American middle class and is expected to be released early next year.

Collective bargaining law faces new lawsuit Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association files suit against Walker’s law, argues it divided employees unfairly Jake Ebben Reporter The Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining law, arguing it was destructive to its union by creating divisions among its employees.

As Act 10 divided the union’s employees into different categories in terms of what they could bargain for, WLEA is seeking to restore collective bargaining rights for all its employees.

Before Act 10, all members of the union, such as the state patrol and inspectors, UW Police, Capitol Police and members of the Department of Transportation, could all collectively bargain through

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on the back of our low-income bus users,” Solomon said. “We shouldn’t be creating a regressive tax.”

Ald. Lisa Subeck, District 1, said she was against the bus fare increase and supported providing a bus line for the Owl Creek neighborhood.

“Actual bus service makes the most sense for this city,” Subeck

WLEA. After the law passed, only the state patrol and inspectors could collectively bargain on issues other than wage increases.

In its statement, WLEA said the collective bargaining law was “especially destructive” to the union since it divided its union.

The statement noted during the 2011 Capitol protests, University of Wisconsin and Capitol Police worked alongside state troopers doing the same jobs, despite all of them knowing Walker had only “selected [the troopers] for special treatment.” “[The law] fractured the union and the solidarity of its members, undermining their ability to join together and advocate for the best

said. “When we put affordable housing on the very outskirts of the city, that’s the only place [lowincome people] can live, and they don’t receive the same services there.”

If Soglin decides to veto the budget, members will call an emergency council meeting in the following weeks, during which the council will either reach a compromise or the mayor’s veto could be overturned.

WARD, from 1 three contractual relationships the university shares with the company.

He said the UW Athletic Department holds that UW will uphold radio and sign advertisement and will sell Palermo’s pizza at Camp Randall and the Kohl Center, that UW will sell Palermo’s pizza at Union South and that Roundy’s, by a license permit, may put the Bucky Badger logo on pizza sold at Madison-area grocery stores.

Kong said Palermo’s signed a code of conduct that asked it to adopt the university’s standards, of which she said Palermo’s is expected to follow. She said the document they sent to the chancellor clearly pointed out four instances in which Palermo’s has directly violated the contract.

Ward said he would encourage those concerned to maintain their efforts toward a solution.

“As an institution, we have been monitoring the situation,” Ward said in the statement, “With particular attention focused on any information that may be made available by the National Labor Relations Board and other similar sources.”

conditions to keep Wisconsin roads and communities safe,” the statement said. “Differing treatment by state agencies toward all hard-working state employees without valid reason and the loss of rights for some of its members led the WLEA to try to regain those rights and equal treatment for all its members and other state employees.”

Act 10 limited collective bargaining for many Wisconsin public employees to only wage increases, although those could only be negotiated as high as the inflation rate. In September, a Dane County judge ruled the law unconstitutional, although his ruling only applied to municipal and school district workers. The Department of Justice is

already appealing that ruling.

Dana Brueck, spokesperson for the DOJ, said in an email to The Badger Herald the department is looking through this newest lawsuit.

“We are reviewing the complaint,” Brueck said.

“We believe Act 10 to be constitutional, and that we’ll ultimately prevail.”

Rep. Kathleen Bernier, R-Chippewa Falls, said the Act 10 reforms were necessary to balance the budget and should be kept.

If the state were to return all collective bargaining rights to everybody, she said it would be an “absolute nightmare,” as it would bring back a deficit in the state’s budget.

Bernier said Act 10 allows

employers the ability to reward employees who are doing an exceptional job. She gave an example from her time as county clerk, when she wanted to compensate one of her deputies who had gone above expectations, but because the deputy was in a union, Bernier could not compensate her.

This, along with the savings the state’s budget has seen, are among the positive effects of Act 10, Bernier said, adding that people need to look deeper at how Act 10 actually works.

“Many people think that because of Act 10 and the measure taken on collective bargaining, the world will come to an end,” Bernier said. “That is not a rational thought.”

Aspiring medical students to see new MCAT format Sarah Lindstrom Herald Contributor For students hoping to go to medical school after they graduate, an ongoing revamping process for required testing could mean a more difficult path to the profession for some.

The Medical College Admission Test, required for all students applying to medical school, is undergoing an updating process some experts are saying could result in a harder exam.

According to Owen Farcy, director of prehealth programs at Kaplan Test Prep, the MCAT tests aspiring medical students on their scientific knowledge and also their ability to think critically while under pressure.

While this goal has not changed, the methods for testing aspiring medical students are set to change by 2015. The Association of American Medical Colleges, the nonprofit organization that administers the MCAT, recently decided the emphasis on physical sciences on the test led to a neglect of social sciences.

The newly-formatted MCAT will incorporate more questions on more advanced scientific questions, such as biochemistry, as well as the social sciences and overt

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“The reason that we have to have this new Diversity Plan is because of the failure of the [2008] one,” Seering said. “If it hadn’t been a failure it would have just continued.”

critical thinking problems, according to Farcy.

The University of Wisconsin is among the top 10 universities when it comes to students taking the MCAT. Farcy said in 2011, 455 UW students took the test.

UW pre-health adviser Julissa Ventura said the changes to the MCAT that will be in full effect by 2015 will directly affect this year’s freshman class. She said she would suggest students enroll in introductory sociology and psychology classes in preparation for the changes.

With the new necessity to enroll in such social science classes for the MCAT, more demanding coursework is an obvious result, she said.

With the MCAT changing, the general course progression also changes. For example, Ventura said students should take biochemistry before senior year.

Ventura said to help students transition and prepare for the new MCAT, the pre-health advising department is providing a new planning guide, which can be found on its website.

Farcy said when the MCAT was first introduced, medical schools found its results were used to predict students’ rate of success.

With the upcoming changes, pre-med students

at UW have an advantage because of “the large pre-med population and necessary resources” available on campus to help them adjust to the new test, according to Farcy.

A statement from Kaplan Test Prep said with these changes, timing for the MCAT exam will increase from five hours to sevenand-a-half hours by 2015.

Farcy said he would reassure test takers that the time is added with reason.

“The increase in time allows for an increase in validity, as there is more data to analyze a student’s performance,” he said.

Farcy noted although that may seem like a daunting amount of time, 74 percent of medical school advisers believe it will better prepare students for medical school.

Kaplan, along with medical schools across the nation, believe the improved MCAT will produce medical students more able to take on the challenges facing the world in health care, according to a Kaplan statement.

Farcy said as far as changes that will roll out before 2015, the MCAT will lose its writing section and add an optional nongraded portion to the test beginning in January 2013.

He said this will act as testing grounds for the 2015 test.

The crux of the problem, Seering said, lies in the lack of sufficient and holistic input from the student population. He said the importance of creating a Student Ad Hoc Committee is to make sure student opinion is heard this time around.

At the meeting, ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky,

ASM Rep. Niko Magallon and ASM Rep. Devon Hamilton were appointed to fill three of the four membership positions within the Student Council body to serve on the Student Ad Hoc Committee. The Student Council also voted in approval to provide $1,000 in funding to the committee.

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Langdon development sees concern In meeting, neighborhood members voice worries regarding Iota Court apartment proposal Cogan Schneier Herald Contributor A downtown neighborhood association is beginning to show signs of concern about an upcoming apartment development.

At a meeting Wednesday night, members of the StateLangdon Neighborhood Association voiced their split opinions about the historical significance of the area where a local developer plans to construct the development at the corner of Iota Court and Henry Street.

The building, designed

by Knothe and Bruce Architects, has been reduced in size in response to the last meeting. Carole Schaeffer, owner and president of Schaeffer Consulting, explained there has been a 15 percent reduction in the mass of the building. The original proposal had two extra stories that have been removed.

“We really want this to feel like it fits in the neighborhood,” Schaeffer

STUDENTS, from 1 to improve adviser training, Singer said she hopes to consequently foster better relationships between students and advisers.

Undergraduate advising was the most debated issue at the event. Students expressed concern over accessibility to advisers, an issue Singer said she is hoping to address in her process of renovating the advising department.

Shared Governance Committee Chair Samuel Seering also voiced his concern regarding the “siloing” of advising.

To break down these barriers across advising departments, Singer said she has made “communitybuilding” efforts by organizing advising events that encourage advisers to meet one another and exchange ideas. She said

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Still, members of the association were conflicted about the impact the development would have on the neighborhood’s listing as an historic district.

Neighborhood resident and member of the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Ledell Zellers explained while the building would not necessarily end the neighborhood’s listing, it would be a “cog in the wheel.”

According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, in order to be considered an historic district, neighborhoods must be a local example of an architectural style. Historical districts also qualify for certain tax credits, according to the WHS. Zellers said the process to set up a national registered historic district is quite rigorous.

To become an historic district, a neighborhood or property owner must start by filing out a lengthy

questionnaire about the history of the area as well as developmental changes to the buildings. If an area changes too much and no longer represents international architecture, a district could lose its designation.

Schaeffer explained the development of the building at Iota court involves weighing benefits and potential harms. She said she hopes that despite concern about the building, it will provide some positives in the area.

“It’s very much a balancing act,” Schaeffer said. “There’s things in terms of sustainability that we will be able to do here that currently we’re not.”

In addition, Schaeffer noted the increased safety that could be possible with the new building. She said there have been discussions with both the police and fire departments, and emergency access to the area is currently quite limited.

According to Schaeffer,

the new building would mean expanding the lane to the building, allowing ease of access for emergency vehicles.

“We are widening the lane to 20 feet in width, creating an emergency access lane for the Madison Fire Department as well as pedestrian access,” said Randy Bruce of Knothe & Bruce Architects in the last meeting.

Local residents, including those from the Cliff Dweller, the Lodge Fraternity and Nottingham Cooperative, had also been worried about noise from balconies.

Schaeffer said architects have pulled back the balconies and reduced the sides of the building in an effort to please the residents.

The project still faces meetings with Landmarks Commission, Urban Design Commission and City Council, which could all request changes.

“There are a couple of different routes we have to take,” Schaeffer said.

she has also been working to foster more cooperation among advisers at Student Orientation, Advising and Registration.

Singer said she enjoys the “philosophy of having more students advised in a general way,” especially for incoming freshmen, she added.

Students at the forum also suggested tailoring advising sessions to be more of a twoway conversation, a strategy Singer said she hopes to instill in future advising training.

The evolution of courses and grading policies was another contested topic at the meeting. Students voiced concern over congruency between learning methods and grading methods.

“Grades are, at best, an indirect measure of what you’ve learned,” said panel member Christopher Olsen, vice provost for teaching and

learning.

Olsen said grading is necessary, especially at such a large university.

He outlined ways to make grades more meaningful and cited learning objectives and assessments and teaching in a relevant manner as examples.

Third panel member and Assistant Dean for Academic Planning Elaine Klein noted this importance as well. “[It is important] that we find the most effective way to teach each topic that we teach, because one size doesn’t fit all,” Klein said.

“We want more tools in our toolbox. We want everybody to have access to the best types of tools to help them learn most effectively.”

Students also raised concern over the evolution of online courses for off-campus students and the creation of sustainable change on campus through student

organizations.

To address this, Klein said if students want change, she would assure them there is a way to do it.

Assistant Press Office Director for ASM Grace Bolt said she found the forum to be constructive, as it covered issues students are concerned about.

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Herald Editorial Ryan’s ‘urban’ comment epitomizes Republican problems As anyone who frequents Interstate 90 understands, Janesville sits somewhere between a Wisconsin small town with a closed automobile plant and a big city with the industrial milieu of Milwaukee. This description includes Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the congressman from Janesville whose mild manners and frequentlymentioned widow’s peak add to the old-timey, middle- class feel of the place.

But Ryan is now a national figure, and his “aw shucks” attitude will not help his political future. In one of his first interviews since last week’s election, he told Jessica Arp at Madison’s CBS affiliate, WISC, “The surprise was some of the turnout, some

of the turnout especially in urban areas … gave President Obama the big margin to win this race.”

It is hard to understand how Ryan could be surprised by a strong urban turnout.

The Republican Party engaged in a campaign that repeatedly ostracized minorities and low-income Americans who benefit from welfare. It is difficult to see how Ryan finds it shocking that voters alienated by the Republican platform turned out at the polls to vote Democrat.

It would be easy enough to dismiss Ryan’s comment as a gaffe that does not warrant a response from the political press. But his comment proves just how much he has

left to learn if he wants to continue to be a leader of the Republican Party.

The word “urban” has been used euphemistically to describe areas with heavy minority populations and high rates of poverty for some time, and Ryan’s use of the term implies he is willing to accept that these people will never vote for him.

But our country is changing, and cities are the main venues for that change. This change is not only demographic but cultural as well — cities are becoming more diverse and multicultural than they were in decades past. President Barack Obama has built a coalition that recognizes this change and embraces it.

But Ryan’s party’s consistent decision to concede urban areas to Democrats because they refuse to embrace change will spell political doom for Republican politicians in the future. That is not good for the country.

Clearly, it backfired in this election. Just look at some of the demographic makeup of Obama’s winning coalition. Yes, he did attract the large majority of Latino, African-American and AsianAmerican voters. He also was competitive with white voters —many of whom live in both rural and urban areas.

Ryan’s comment is, put simply, a prime example of the biggest problem the Republican Party faces: a notable dearth of ideas that

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give minorities an alternative to voting for Democrats.

Rather than chalking the Obama victory up to a strong urban turnout, Ryan should consider the fact that his campaign never gave urban voters a reason to vote Republican.

The need for change in the Republican Party is nothing new; this board has repeated it in the fallout of this election along with other commentators from around the nation. But as Wisconsinites living in a state with a history of urban and rural harmony, we are disappointed with Ryan’s apparent desire to attribute his ticket’s loss to a population in a faraway land where he does not live.

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GOP tries to derail Vatican justifies stance on marriage Obamacare debate John Waters Columnist Nine Republican assemblymen made the news Tuesday with some peculiar requests. Chief among them: a desire to arrest federal officials who attempt to implement Obamacare.

I have talked at length in the past about the benefits of moving the nation away from universal coverage based on emergency care and toward coverage with a greater focus on primary care. Before I rehash those ideas, I want to talk about the continuing problem with the conversation surrounding Obamacare.

The voices coming from the Republican Party continue to proclaim how adamantly opposed to Obamacare they are, but they fail to explain exactly why. If you are a Republican politician, I want to hear specifics — are you against children being covered under their parents’ insurance until they are 26? Are you against preventing insurance companies from turning down people with preexisting conditions? Or is it solely the requirement that all people be insured that you oppose?

If the last issue is your only concern, then explain to me on a fiscal level why you oppose it. Stop offering insights like those of Rep. Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield, who said, “Just because Obama was re-elected does not mean he’s above the Constitution,” because we had that discussion already, and the Supreme Court made its decision. Obamacare is constitutional, the president has been re-elected and this law is moving forward.

So, instead of pontificating, tell me why you don’t think it would be beneficial for the average Wisconsinite to have access to a health insurance exchange. Better yet, explain to me why, for the vast majority of citizens who already have insurance, it would not be better to

institute health care policies that will move people away from the emergency room and into primary care situations.

Because that is what this law comes down to, and yet it is the talking point I hear mentioned the least. It is so far away from the mainstream of conversation that former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., thought he could get away with saying on 60 Minutes that the emergency room works as a care center for the uninsured.

I’m just tired of the entire farce. As a nation, we cannot continue to pay for uninsured patients to go to the emergency room. It is the most cost-ineffective place to see patients. The fundamental problem Obamacare addresses is that while the conversation of this nation has revolved around whether we want universal health care, the reality is we already have it — in its most costly form.

We are so far past the issue of whether we should reform the health care system that I think statements like this are frankly insulting to Wisconsinites. Obamacare is not the only health care reform going on right now, but it is certainly the most public, and it has successfully passed every hurdle to become law. The question is no longer whether it will be implemented, but how. And I would very much like to see the state government involved on behalf of the citizens and not stuck on talking points that were wrong when the bill first passed and are irrelevant now.

So no, I’m not worried federal officials implementing a constitutionally upheld law will be arrested. But I am worried that this far into a national conversation about holding those who raise everyone’s premiums by using emergency care without coverage accountable, we can’t talk about the effects of the policy. Enough about how much you abstractly hate Obamacare. I want to hear about the specific policy changes, and if you disagree with a specific point, what you would do differently.

John Waters ( jkwaters2@ wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in journalism.

On Wednesday, Adelaide Blanchard’s column called for a revision of the Catholic Church’s stance on homosexual marriage, claiming, “From a theological standpoint, it is nonsense the Catholic Church … would actively want to get in the way of two consenting adults getting married in what is supposed to be a bond of faith and love.” I seek to point out to Blanchard it is exactly from a theological standpoint that the Church’s position on homosexual marriage actually does make sense.

“Gaudium et Spes,” one of the documents to come out of Vatican II, defines marriage as “the institution … ordered to the procreation and education of … offspring. ….” In other words, the prime goals of Catholic marriage are to bear and raise a

child.

Note that this does not mean a couple must bear a child, but that a child must remain a viable and open possibility for the couple and

“I understand the church’s stance on homosexual marriage finds little support on campus at the University of Wisconsin, ... and readers of other religious persuasions are free to disagree.” ideally the goal of the marriage —- this is why contraceptives are also forbidden for use by Catholics. Note too that neither love nor sexual intercourse is the prime goal of marriage for Catholics.

Love — in the words of theologian Thomas Aquinas, “.. to will the

good of another,” — provides the optimal environment in which to raise a child. Sexual intercourse provides the means for bearing a child. However, neither of these is the prime goal of marriage in Catholic theology, and thus using love or sexual viability as the main argument to justify marriage of any kind will not be valid in terms of Catholic theology.

Now, as an aside, it should be noted that the Church is not stupid — obviously two men or two women who love each other could raise a child well. But marriage in Catholic theology has as its goals not only raising, but also bearing the child in the first place.

Raising a child without conceiving it — e.g. bearing a child in order to put it up for adoption — seems to be doable. Bearing a child without raising it has also been shown to

be possible, but setting out solely do so would likely be frowned upon in society. So, even though both are feasible options, that does not mean they should be made the norm. Within Catholic theology this goes for same-sex couples raising children as well.

I understand the church’s stance on homosexual marriage finds little support on campus at the University of Wisconsin, and pickand-choose Catholics such as Blanchard and readers of other religious persuasions are free to disagree.

But if you find yourself disagreeing with the Vatican, make sure you also realize that within Catholic theology and under its own definition of marriage, the Church’s stance is justified.

Tom Jensen (tljensen@wisc.edu) is a religious studies major.

Sarah Witman The Badger Herald

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UT tries hand at Orson Welles

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Satirical ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ nods to ’30s-era iconoclastic labor movements Philip Wissbeck ArtsEtc. Writer With union rights in the news more than usual during the past year, student theatrical production “The Cradle Will Rock” is especially timely — perhaps as much so as when it was written in the 1930s.

“It is a seminal piece of theatre. It is a piece that resonates today and that asks provocative questions about how we as members of society operate within our society to protect our rights and those others without a voice to protect fundamental rights and freedoms,” said Norma Saldivar, University of Wisconsin theater professor and director of “The Cradle Will Rock.”

Born into controversy itself in 1937, “The Cradle Will Rock” is a musical satire about union organization and the social corruption with which it must cope. Written

by Marc Blitzstein, produced

by John Houseman and directed by Orson Welles, it was part of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Theatre Project started during the Great Depression.

Photo courtesy of University Theater

“The Cradle Will Rock” opens at UW’s Mitchell Theater Nov. 15 and will play throughout December. It was written amid the Great Depression and details union organization as well as social corruption during that time period.

In its third production of the year, UW’s University Theatre opens “Cradle Will Rock” Nov. 16. The show will run through Dec. 8, with a break for Thanksgiving weekend.

The play takes place in fictional “Steeltown, USA,” on the night of a big labor union rally. The drama shows the abuses of big business, media and the arts using the blues, vaudeville and music incorporating the styles of Kurt Weill and American protest songs.

Ironically, the drama became the subject of its own controversy when the WPA, concerned about

possible outbreaks of violence, locked the door of the original theater in June 1937 before it opened.

The actors were afraid not working would alienate them from their union and wanted desperately to perform. The show went on as a “readers’ theater” production in another theater.

Finally, the cast opened on Broadway with the original sets and costumes and a new organization, the Mercury Theater Company. Only then were Welles and Houseman ready for film.

In UT’s production, returning graduates Joe Lullo, Pete Bissen

and Morgan Boland will be back on the boards performing along with the undergraduates of the department. Third year MFA design students Sarah Woodworth (costumes) and Jennifer Pflager (sets) along with guest lighting designer Hide Tsutsui from the University of Texas-El Paso have joined up with Saldivar, as well as musical director Scott Foss, Maureen Janson (choreographer) and Jack Sayre (sound designer) to recreate the 1937 experience.

The director said she feels “Cradle” is a helpful piece for young performers to build their skills.

“This material is both very complicated in its artistry and very direct — almost simple — the music is very advanced and sophisticated but unique to its time — while the performance requires elements of agitprop and archetypal renditions that are basic and harken us to more classical work. It also provides a great exercise for students of theater to see the threads of the production that are in the fabric of our modern work.

Its a dream project that way,” Saldivar said. “It will offer a terrific opportunity to see burgeoning talent in theatre and music.”

An added attraction is the fact that composer Marc Blitzstein’s personal archive is located at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research in the Historical Society building on Library Mall. The original script and music are available to view. There will be a free panel discussion about the production Nov. 29 from 4-6 p.m.

“Cradle Will Rock” plays Nov. 15 through Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. with matinees Nov. 18 and Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $23 and $16 for students and children.

It will be performed in Mitchell Theatre.

From movies to music: historic Barrymore Theatre on Atwood Bess Donoghue ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Since the opening of the Barrymore Theatre in December 1929, the music venue has served different arts-related functions in the Madison community.

Its significance for the Madison entertainment scene cannot be underestimated after renowned performances at the theater, including Phish, Green Day and Dave Matthews.

Steve Sperling, the theater’s general manager of 16 years, can recount the number of transformations the Barrymore has seen since its inception. The Barrymore began as a movie theater, originally called the Eastwood Theatre, and was Madison’s first venue built for talkies.

“If you grew up in Madison in the ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s, it was your neighborhood movie theater,” Sperling said.

The theater occasionally offered vaudeville as well until the 1970s, when the Barrymore had its first transformation. It became a cinema theater showing pornography, secondrun films and children’s movies.

This stage lasted until 1987, when Barrymore Theatre’s founders, Richard Flone and Tom Petersen, began to convert the theater into a livemusic venue. The theater was reopened in July 1987, officially as the Barrymore Theatre visitors know today.

“Since then it’s been primarily a live-music venue, although we do quite a bit of comedy and we do some theater,” Sperling said. “We still show some films, but we don’t show first- or second-run films; we show films as part of events, and we do other kinds of outdoor films for festivals.”

Over the course of these transitions, the

Madison community did not backlash, but rather embraced the changes.

Sperling explained the Barrymore had two focuses. First, the theater sought to provide entertainment, but secondly, it strived to help reinvent what was previously a run-down surrounding neighborhood area.

“The fact that we are a cool neighborhood is a reflection on the fact that the Barrymore has been here for 25 years,” Sperling said. “There’s this whole corridor of restaurants and bars and entertainment that runs all the way from Blair Street all the way down Willy Street down Atwood Avenue [the current location of the Barrymore].”

Today, the Barrymore still remains a live music venue. It programs shows as well as operating as a rental venue. Prior to his performance at Summerfest one year, Bob

Dylan secretly rehearsed at the theater for three days. For Sperling, the occasion was a memorable one for the Barrymore.

“The history of our theater is an amazing one; almost every major band coming up played here,” Sperling said. “It’s really an incredible list of a different variety of acts.”

Unfortunately, due to a large music scene in Madison, there is great competition between all the different music venues to not only get a variety of musical acts but also audiences to attend their shows.

“There are certain nights where there are so many events going on, you don’t know which one to go to first,” Sperling said.

“There are some nights when there is nothing going on, and some nights where you might have to choose between three or four different events you might want to go to.”

In an attempt to

compete, the Barrymore Theatre has a number of distinguishing characteristics, most notably its size and capacity for a large audience. Sperling said he believes it creates an appealing atmosphere for music that draws people to attend the shows, simply calling the Barrymore a “cool room.”

When it comes to programming, the theater looks to create a variety of events that would attract potential customers.

Instead of seeking to program one event over another, Sperling explained the theater is open to anything.

“The more we can expand the kinds of things that we do, the better,” Sperling said.

Sperling insisted the Barrymore does not “manufacture” shows, but rather programs an event it believes people would want to attend.

The theater averages

around 80- to-90 shows a year, many of which occur outside the summer season.

Looking into the future, the theater has booked a number of quality music events, including Stephen Lynch, Lindsey Buckingham and Lotus.

The Barrymore Theatre operates to provide a number of different functions. In addition to providing entertainment and re-inventing the surrounding area, it has become a venue for artists to seize the opportunity to play in Madison. The theater also strives to create a welcoming atmosphere for people to listen and dance to simply great music.

“We’re looking to get as many people in here as possible, but as many different kinds of people as possible,” Sperling said. “And then we are looking to create a good experience for them when they’re here.”

Midwest-based Field Report has shone under many names Front man Chris Porterfield ready to take main stage after famed collabs Phillip Balistriere ArtsEtc. Writer Recently, life has been a blur for Milwaukee-based folk band Field Report.

“Everything seems to be happening pretty quickly,” said Field Report’s front man Christopher Porterfield.

Porterfield formerly played with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver until branching out with Field Report, the name of which is an anagram of his last name.

“It’s exciting. It’s validating to know that after all the work

that has gone into this thing that it is being heard.”

That is saying something, since “being heard” is becoming more frequent for Field Report. The band, having recently released its self-titled debut album, has garnered press from Rolling Stone, National Public Radio and even Time Magazine, all in addition to sharing the stage with the likes of Counting Crows, Emmylou Harris and Aimee Mann. This time around, however, Field Report is out on its own headlining tour and will be making a stop at Madison’s High Noon Saloon Saturday.

The Badger Herald caught up with Porterfield before he set off on tour. Porterfield, who was previously known to the Milwaukee music scene as

Conrad Plymouth, said he did not anticipate he would one day be the front man of a rising music group. After moving to Milwaukee from Eau Claire, he found himself playing on his own for the first time — but did not consider himself a lyricist.

“I sort of naively thought I was done with it and just moved on, but then moving to a new town and you don’t know anybody, you’re sort of just sitting at home, that’s when the songs started to happen,” he said. “I had been writing before, but not songs. I started journalism school; I was going to be a newspaper man, but … I never got into that industry, so I think maybe the songwriting started happening out of … the desire to continue to write in some way.”

For Porterfield, writing

means talking about the world he inhabits, especially the Midwest.

“I don’t know that we need another song about California,” he said. “That’s fine because a lot of people live there and have experiences there, but … we’re just trying to speak to the places that we know and places that we’ve been.”

However, Porterfield admitted life in the Heartland is not always pleasant.

“The record is a little bit bleak sometimes. It doesn’t really paint a super rosy picture of what happens in the Midwest,” he said.

This is evident on the album’s opening track, “Fergus Falls,” but Porterfield said he has found that people are OK with a bit of melancholy.

“I get emails from people all

the time from Fergus (Fergus Falls, Minn.) and they have families that live there or they remember driving through there with the kids,” Porterfield said. “They’re just so excited … because nobody has referenced that place in this kind of way before, even if it isn’t in the most favorable light.”

When taking the music and these stories on the road, Porterfield emphasized the effort it takes by all six members of Field Report to bring it to life.

“We’re not really a rock band,” he said. “We’re sort of an atmospheric folk band and a lot of times we play really, really quiet and it takes all six of us to be that quiet and there’s a lot of trust that goes on back and forth between everybody onstage.”

Madison audiences should be prepared to partake in the band’s distinctive, muted onstage atmosphere.

“They can expect a lot of space and sort of just letting this thing wash over and allowing the lyrics to just carry a lot of the weight,” Porterfield said, adding he is looking forward to sharing that experience with the city’s music fans. “It’s going to be really, really fun to get back to Madison. It’s going to be the last show on this headlining tour and … everybody will be really happy be back in Wisconsin. We love playing the High Noon.”

Field Report will be at the High Noon Saloon Saturday. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

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Raddatz trying to build own legacy with Badgers Sarah Randall Sports Writer Following in the footsteps of her parents, freshman Claire Raddatz still had to earn her spot on the Wisconsin volleyball team.

Attending UW has been a lifelong dream for Raddatz and the dream has finally come true this year.

The defensive specialist/ libero went to Homestead High School in Mequon, where she played varsity volleyball for all four years and also played for the Milwaukee Sting volleyball club.

“When I was younger, I was really tall and everyone told me I should play volleyball and I only wanted to play soccer,” Raddatz said. “I tried one time; my uncle owns a volleyball club in Indiana and he gave me a volleyball and showed me how to do some stuff. I instantly fell in love with it

and I never looked back.”

But suiting up for the Badgers was not something Raddatz thought of overnight. She had already spent plenty of time on campus thanks to her parents, who are both former Badgers.

Her father, Craig Raddatz, was a Badger football player in the ‘80s, and the Cincinnati Bengals drafted him in the ninth round of the 1987 draft.

“I grew up always loving Wisconsin sports and athletics, going to a lot of events and volleyball games,” Raddatz said. “Getting the chance to be here and doing it just like my dad and my parents’ alma mater is a really cool feeling. It’s the school I would’ve chosen regardless if [my parents] had come here or not. This is a great school and I love it.”

With both parents going to the same school, it would seem there would be some pressure on their child to

follow them, but Raddatz’s parents maintained an open mind.

The UW freshman was told to look wherever she wanted, that there was no pressure to go to Madison.

But when Raddatz decided to come here, her parents were excited.

Since choosing Wisconsin, Raddatz has experienced firsthand the difficult change from high school to college that nearly every freshman experiences. And playing a sport adds a whole other element to an already challenging transition. “[College volleyball] is a ton faster; it’s a lot more competitive,” Raddatz said.

“We travel almost every other weekend, the season is longer, but I’m enjoying it a lot.”

As a freshman, she said it is helpful to have older teammates point her in the right direction and show her how the collegiate game works.

“They helped me a lot.

They teach me skills when coaches aren’t around, give me tips and stuff,” Raddatz said. “A lot of them help me with time management … which is really nice to have older teammates showing me the ropes of college.”

So far this season, Raddatz has played sparingly, but she looks for more playing time in the future. UW head coach Pete Waite said she is mostly working on the scout team as a freshman, a common role for first-year players.

Waite added playing a supporting role to the starters is what most freshmen do because they still need to improve skills in all areas on the court. In the spring, players focus more on technique, which is when Raddatz and fellow freshman defensive specialist Victoria Ito will refine their skills.

Ito, the only other freshman on the Badger volleyball team, didn’t meet

Raddatz until the nationals tournament during high school. Since August, when the freshmen first joined the UW team for preseason practices, the two have grown very close.

Ito praised Raddatz for her work ethic and the efforts she makes to talk to the team and keep it motivated. But the difficulty of being the youngest members of the team doesn’t faze either Raddatz or Ito. “[There is] pressure to come in and be as good as [the older girls] and be at the level they’re at because they were a team; they all played together before and Victoria and I didn’t,” Raddatz said.

“We have to come in being at that level and adjust quickly because there’s not a lot of leeway.”

Ito added older teammates have helped to not only relieve some of that pressure but also to encourage them to continue to put in the work necessary to become

key contributors in the future.

“I hope for a lot of success for Claire in the future. Each player really improves a lot over the first year, yearand-a-half in the program once they get in the weight room, once they get working on the skills and get used to the pace of the college game,” Waite said. “She’s one who doesn’t shy away from anything, so that’s something that will benefit her down the road.”

As a defensive specialist, Raddatz has her work cut out for her. According to Waite, the team has plenty of talent defensively, so she will have to prove she deserves time on the court.

When the spring arrives, she will have an opportunity to do just that.

“Once I started playing volleyball and went to a Wisconsin volleyball game, I always wanted to come here,” Raddatz said. “It’s always been my goal.”

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Decker, Rigsby earn gold with Team USA UW hockey players win Four Nations Cup after traveling to Finland over bye Spencer Smith Women’s Hockey Writer In an ordinary week, most college students go to class, do homework, watch some TV and maybe even go out for a drink.

But for two University of Wisconsin students, last week was anything but ordinary.

Senior forward Brianna Decker and junior goaltender Alex Rigsby, members of the UW women’s hockey team, flew to Finland, played four hockey games in five days for the U.S. and won a gold medal. Then they were back in Madison only a week later.

As members of the U.S. women’s national team, Decker and Rigsby competed in the Four Nations Cup for the red, white and blue.

Since 1996, the Four Nations Cup has been an annual tournament in which Canada, Sweden, Finland and the U.S. compete.

Canada and the U.S. are the only countries to ever win the cup, with Canada winning it 12 times and the U.S. winning it five times.

The tournament also marked the first chance for Rigbsy to play with the senior national team, and it marked Decker’s second appearance in the Four Nations cup.

Before leaving for Finland, Rigsby was already anticipating her first experience with the national team.

“I am really excited,” the junior goaltender said.

“This is going to be my first time putting the team USA jersey on at the national team level. I am really

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That consistency has helped the Coppell, Texas, native make an unprecedented turnaround from injury to gaining a starting position.

Yet, even when he was sidelined for a season, he remained positive about his unfortunate break. As a result, his second chance at a senior campaign has turned into perhaps his best.

“I kind of felt like it was a must-have,” Cromartie said of his counterpart’s

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When he first arrived on campus, the Badgers were still reeling after a 7-6 campaign that ended with a blowout loss to Florida State in the Champs Sports Bowl. UW has won at least 10 games in each of the three seasons since and is one oh-soenticing win away from its season closing at the Rose Bowl for the thirdstraight season.

It would be ludicrous to say the senior running back has single-handedly carried the Badgers to their most successful run since the back-to-back Rose Bowls of Dayne’s reign. But for the second half of the 2010 season and each of the last two years, he has beared the weight of the Wisconsin offense.

Just as Dayne did in the late ‘90s, Ball has transformed Wisconsin football into a national brand. Only the last time this happened, the Badgers slipped into mediocrity under head coach Barry Alvarez as UW struggled to keep its place among the Big Ten’s elite. The program now finds itself at a similar peak, and how it adapts to life without Ball will be the

looking forward to it. It is going to be an awesome experience; I am excited to meet up with the girls and play a few games in Finland.”

Decker and Rigsby weren’t the only Badgers suiting up for the U.S., with three other UW alums — Hilary Knight, Meghan Duggan and Jessie Vetter — joining the current Wisconsin athletes on the country’s roster.

Wisconsin also has two graduates on the Canadian National Team, BobbiJo Slusar and Meaghan Mikkelson.

Having seven former and current members of the Wisconsin program on either the Canadian or U.S. national team is a testament to how dominant the program has been over the past decade.

Head coach Mark Johnson said it is the player’s desire and work ethic that contribute to his players consistently landing spots on national rosters.

“We’ve had good players that have worked hard and are getting these opportunities,” Johnson said. “But that is what their dream is, is to wear whether it’s a Canadian jersey or a U.S. jersey, but to get that chance.”

After getting to Finland, the national team only had one practice to prepare before its Tuesday matchup with Sweden. Despite the limited preparation, Decker said the players are talented enough to pick things up quickly.

“We all come from skilled programs and are top players in the country,” Decker said. “The chemistry forms really quick. We only had one practice before our first game, but I don’t think you could really tell.”

The U.S. went 3-1 on the week, the lone loss coming at the hands of Canada in the group stage.

But the Americans were able to earn revenge later in the week, shutting out Canada 3-0 in the championship and giving the red, white and blue the gold for the second straight year.

Rigsby and Decker both contributed to their country’s success. Decker came up big for the U.S., scoring five goals in four games, including a fourgoal showing in a 15-1 blowout over Finland.

Rigsby played in one game between the pipes, recording a 4-0 shutout with nine saves over Sweden in her first action with the national team.

“It was awesome,” Rigsby said. “It was fun being able to watch the team play.

It was a fast and physical game. I think that the team really deserved it.”

Decker said she was proud to wear the USA Hockey jersey in Finland and welcomed the opportunity to catch up with her former teammates.

“It’s always an honor to wear the [USA] jersey and go out there and play for your country,” Decker said.

“It was nice to be on the ice with former teammates Meghan Duggan and Hilary Knight. I miss playing with them and practicing with them, so it was fun to get back out there.”

Decker and Rigsby will rejoin their Wisconsin squad, which was on a bye week while the two were in Finland, and will travel to Ohio State Friday.

Decker said she believes the experience in Finland will continue to help them throughout the remainder of the season.

“I think it gives us confidence coming back to school here,” Decker said.

“That kind of experience shows what we are capable of and that’s what we can bring back here to help our team.”

season so far. “As a senior you don’t have any room for disappointment. You have to come and you’ve got to play and you can’t feel sorry for yourself, and he definitely hasn’t.”

“I saw it as a blessing and everything happens for a reason,” Smith said.

“I just saw it as another opportunity to go out there and do one thing that I love and that’s play football. …

Whenever a play comes my way, I just try to go out there and make a play for my teammates.”

Not only has Smith remade a name for himself

this season, but he has also shown maturity through the process, according to Strickland.

Smith has not simply taken the field this season.

Rather, he’s become the very type of player he hoped to be the minute he first stepped on Camp Randall’s turf.

“A lot of guys, when they come in, talk about what they want to do, who they want to be. But a lot of guys don’t support it with their actions,” Strickland said. “And he’s done that this year and as he’s grown up through the years.”

hinges on the doorway to continued success.

But as the career of one of Wisconsin’s alltime greats comes to a close, fans must realize that as they prepare to witness history against the Buckeyes, they are also watching the final moments of a legendary career.

On a fall Sunday seven or eight years from Saturday, a collection of fresh faces in Camp Randall’s student section will cast a wide-eyed

glow over Ball. Then, the curtain will drop over the red-lettered “28 Ball” nameplate plastered alongside a select group of names on the second deck of Camp Randall. Then — and only then — will his legacy be fully realized.

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It will also be Senior Day at Camp Randall, where nine Badgers will adorn the cardinal and white for the final time at home in their careers.

Then again, that number could be eight.

Battling back from three ACL tears, fifth-year senior Curt Phillips made the first start of his career Saturday against Indiana and showed his own versatility at quarterback, throwing the ball just seven times but running for 68 yards, including a 52-yard gain on a designed draw.

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Applying for a sixthyear of eligibility at the conclusion of the season, Phillips hopes Saturday’s game won’t be his last in Madison. But, even if it is, the fifth-year senior isn’t one to get emotional.

“It wasn’t my plan initially to be here for that long, but I’ve enjoyed it,” Phillips said. “And if I get a chance to stay around, I’d love to.”

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Wisconsin’s Smith savors 2nd chance After season-ending injury in 2011, 5thyear senior returns to guide secondary Kelly Erickson Senior Sports Writer Exactly one year ago, the Wisconsin football team was in the middle of what would become a four-game winning streak.

The Badgers were prepping for a road trip to Illinois — a must-win in the new divisional system. But in their 28-17 second-half comeback, one name in particular was missing from the roster — a name that had been missing since game two of the season.

In UW’s 2011 Rose Bowl run, Devin Smith became an almost forgotten name.

Prior to the 2011 season, Smith, a cornerback, accumulated 91 career tackles, three interceptions and 10 pass breakups through 37 games (14 starts) from 2008 to 2010.

Finally regaining a starting

spot in 2011, Smith’s senior campaign was put on hold.

Only two games into the 2011 season, Smith broke his left foot and took a medical redshirt.

Despite the setback, Smith got a second chance at his senior season and is undoubtedly making the most of it, once again become a familiar name throughout Badger nation.

“He got a second chance at his senior season,” secondary coach Ben Strickland said. “He understands the urgency that goes along with that.

Once something’s taken from you, you understand how bad you want it back.

I think that he understands that.”

Through 10 games this season, Smith has 48 tackles — fourth-most on the team behind starting linebackers Mike Taylor, Chris Borland and Ethan Armstrong.

The senior cornerback leads the team with three interceptions for 45 yards and 10 pass breakups.

Smith’s work this season is just one example of a revved up secondary that

has come into its own as the season has progressed.

“You start to play as a unit; you start to play together,” Smith said. “You start understanding each other and you have the ability to go out there and make a lot more plays just because once you get in that comfortable mindset, you’re able to rely on one another and react to everything you see. You play kind of in sync with one another and I think that’s one thing we’ve done as the season’s progressed.”

With three of the four starters being seniors, cornerback Marcus Cromartie credited the secondary’s newfound success as a unit to its chemistry on the field. But that chemistry is also fueled by competition between the players.

“We’re very competitive when it comes to getting the first interception,” Cromartie said. “And making plays in general. All of us have aspirations for playing at the next level and the only way to do that is to make plays. When we come out in practice, when we come

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Cornerback Devin Smith broke his left foot early last season, never again seeing the field as UW played in its second straight Rose Bowl. out in games, if I see Devin make a play, I tell myself I have to make two. So it’s all about competition.”

That chemistry has led to 27 of the team’s 50 pass breakups and 218 total tackles out of the secondary.

And leading the way is none other than Smith.

“Coming back another year, I was a lot more confident in my play,” he said. “I just knew I could go out there and have the ability to make plays. I just have to utilize it whenever the opportunity came

my way. Whenever the opportunity does come my way I just go out there and do my best to make the play.”

But it took some time for Smith and the secondary to start making a noticeable difference on the field. It wasn’t until six games into the season, when Wisconsin hosted Illinois, that the Badgers caught their first interception of the season — one that fittingly fell into the hands of Smith.

He added his second and third interceptions against

Minnesota and at Indiana, respectively.

While Smith admitted it was at times frustrating that the secondary was unable to create those turnovers, he noted it is all a matter of staying consistent and having patience.

“One thing I really harp on is being consistent and that’s my thing I always make sure I do,” Smith said.

“Just be consistent every single week and if you do that plays are bound to

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After applying for a sixth year of eligibility, fifth-year senior quarterback Curt Phillips is still not sure if Saturday’s Senior Day will mark his final game at Camp Randall.

Records on line against Ohio State Buckeyes enter at perfect 10-0; Badgers’ Ball threatens NCAA touchdown record Nick Korger Sports Content Editor For the second time in as many visits to Camp Randall, No. 6 Ohio State arrives in Madison with an undefeated record.

And while the Buckeyes already have at least a share of the Leaders Division title wrapped up, it will be the Wisconsin Badgers (7-3, 4-2 Big Ten) who represent the division Dec. 1 in the Big Ten Championship Game, regardless of Saturday’s outcome, due to a oneyear bowl ban on Ohio State (10-0, 6-0).

But that doesn’t mean the game lacks meaning for either team, or that Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema will be resting his starters for a trip to Indianapolis guaranteed with two conference games remaining.

“We’re in a race to finish at the top of our division and this opportunity this week is a chance to play the team that’s at that No. 1 spot,” Bielema said.

“I think I might have a mutiny on my hands if I tried to pull anybody out of this game this Saturday.”

Aside from the implications for the division title, these teams don’t exactly like each

other.

Perhaps the most treasured win — and one of the most souring to OSU — of the past decade for the UW football program was its upset of the then-top-ranked Buckeyes in the confines of Camp Randall in a 2010 night game that jump-started Bielema’s squad on the fast track to the Rose Bowl. In 2011, Ohio State struck back, as a late touchdown pass from Braxton Miller to wide receiver Devin Smith sent the Badgers to their second straight loss and eliminated their slim hopes of a shot at the national championship.

Cementing the added fire in recent years to this growing rivalry between the two teams this week were the fiery words of Ohio State junior wide receiver Corey Brown.

“I don’t want to go on record saying that I hate Wisconsin more than Michigan,” Brown told The Columbus Dispatch. “But I hate Wisconsin just as much as Michigan.”

The matchup between these two teams has been extremely even over the past eleven meetings, with Ohio State owning a 6-5 advantage.

Hard feelings aside, there’s also a big piece of NCAA history that could be made in the

2012 installment of this rivalry.

Sitting at 77 career touchdowns, Wisconsin senior tailback Montee Ball needs just two scores to break the NCAA record for most scores in a career, a mark set at 78 by Travis Prentice of Miami (Ohio).

It’s a bit ironic that Ball has the chance to break the record against Ohio State in Camp Randall. The last time the Buckeyes came to Madison, Ball didn’t even play a single snap.

“I think I look back on it when times get tough,” Ball said Monday. “I look back on it and tell myself I went through that. I went through that challenging time, so anything that comes my way again, I’m able to overcome it.”

Coming off a schoolrecord 564 rushing yards against Indiana, Wisconsin’s offensive line will hope to propel Ball to a potential historic feat against the conference’s secondbest run defense (107.9 rushing yards allowed per game).

“They mix it up and bring all kinds of different pressures,” UW offensive line coach Bart Miller said. “That’s something we really have to work on this week.

They’ve had two weeks

to prepare for us and they’ve had a lot of time to dial things up. We’ve got to be perfect in our execution and in our preparation.”

If numbers are any indication of continued success, the Badgers should be a bit worried of the Buckeyes coming off their bye week. Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer’s teams are 32-2 in games where they have had more than two weeks to prepare.

Leading Meyer’s spread offense is Heisman hopeful Braxton Miller. The sophomore dualthreat quarterback has spearheaded the Big Ten’s best scoring offense this season (39.9 points per game) and is always a threat to run with the ball, rushing for 1,116 yards and 13 touchdowns through 10 games.

Boasting the conference’s best run defense (103.4 yards allowed per game), UW has already been tested once this year against an equallygifted quarterback in Nebraska’s Taylor Martinez.

The results weren’t encouraging, as Martinez shredded the Badgers for 107 rushing yards — most of them coming

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As a timid freshman more than three years ago, I walked into the McClain Facility to interview a freshman running back I knew nearly nothing about.

He was a somewhat lauded four-star recruit who had just earned the first carries of his young college career, a player still buried beneath the shadow of the dual-headed rushing attack of John Clay and Zach Brown.

But for this tailback, the one with the name I struggled to pronounce, I needed to scan the Badgers roster to learn the most fundamental details on whom I was about to interview. Standing across from me that evening was Montee Ball, a much different figure than the nationally-recognized running back he is today.

Never did I imagine this unfamiliar face would grow into a Heisman finalist surpassing all-time NCAA records. Never did I imagine Montee Ball, who rushed for 391 yards that season, would become the enduring face of Wisconsin football.

Yet when Ball high steps into the end zone for the last time at Camp Randall Saturday, the record books won’t be the only place he will secure a spot. He will also etch his name into Wisconsin football legend, joining the most historic figures to ever don the cardinal and white.

When he likely ties or breaks the NCAA career touchdown mark against Ohio State, Ball will officially join the elite ranks of UW’s two Heisman winners — Ron Dayne and Alan Ameche.

The senior tailback has never earned the top award in college football, but over the past two-plus years his achievements have more than secured his spot as one of the best players to ever grace the nearly century-old Camp Randall grounds.

With 4,536 career yards

and four games remaining in his college career, as Ball’s career comes to a close the legacy he has built at this program becomes increasingly apparent. He won’t own as many records as Dayne when he exits the program and will fall thousands of yards shy of the 7,125 yards the 1999 Heisman Trophy winner slugged his way through over four years.

But Ball has crossed the goal line on his own two feet 77 times in his career, a mark that is nothing short of unbelievable.

Dayne, a four-year starter, only managed to reach the end zone 63 times over his career.

Never did Dayne score more than 19 total touchdowns in a single season, less than half of Ball’s 39 a season ago. When asked about breaking former Miami (Ohio) running back Travis Prentice’s all-time record of 78 scores, Ball humbly explained his own place in college football history.

“I just have a nose for the end zone. It kind of says it itself,” he said at a press conference Monday. “I’m the one who has scored the most touchdowns [ever], if I break the record, and just that person that you want to give the football to.”

And it would be more than valid to argue those touchdowns were equally — if not more — valuable than Dayne’s incredible career rushing yard total.

Where would this team be without Ball pounding and crawling his way through the tackles for the last two years?

Forget about the two consecutive trips to Pasadena. And forget about Russell Wilson even joining the Badgers without having the security blanket of a Heisman-caliber runner in the backfield.

On its face, Ball’s brutally physical style and inexplicable ability to reach the end zone have helped this offense score and won the Badgers more than a handful of games.

But at a deeper level, the Wentzville, Mo., native has been the individual hand, more than any other, that has lifted the Wisconsin football program to new

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