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Chancellor finalist addresses funding Noah Goetzel State Politics Editor The last finalist candidate who could become University of Wisconsin’s next chancellor visited campus Wednesday to lay out her priorities of maintaining funding for the university, leveraging new educational technologies and expanding community outreach.

Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank currently serves as acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she is responsible for a dozen federal agencies with a nearly $10 billion total budget.

However, Blank said she now wants to leave the ubiquitous political battles in government and return to the realm of academia.

“I’ve been there long enough, and I’m sort of ready to come back home again,” Blank said, adding her time in Commerce reaffirmed these feelings of nostalgia.

The Minnesota native said she has been around big public universities a large

part of her life, teaching undergraduate, graduate and professional students alike.

Blank is no stranger to UW. She was a finalist for the chancellor position five years ago and was a visiting fellow at Wisconsin’s Department of Economics and Institute for Research on Poverty in 1985.

She began her day in Madison by answering student, faculty and community members’ questions during a public reception at the Chazen Museum of Art. Afterward, Blank fielded media questions ranging from rising tuition rates and fundraising efforts, to addressing labor licensing controversies and educational trends in the digital age.

As someone with a rich background in economics, Blank said if chosen to be UW’s new chancellor, her objective would be to ensure the university has the funding to continue to operate at a high level.

“The first priority for any chancellor has to be dealing with the balance between getting the budget

of this university together and making sure there is access for all students, particularly students in the state,” Blank said.

Raising tuition among instate students is the last place UW should look to increase revenues, Blank said. She did not rule out the possibility of allowing out-of-state tuition to be more competitive peer institutions, but advocated for more outside fundraising campaigns from the Wisconsin Alumni Association and UW Foundation.

While Blank said she would love to believe the state will give more funding to UW, she acknowledged the university cannot count on this and taxpayer funding will likely continue to plummet.

“That’s one of the sad facts of virtually every public university in the country,” she said.

Blank has switched between educational and bureaucratic positions for years. She was a an economics professor at Princeton and Northwestern, director for

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Acting Secretary of Commerce and UW Chancellor candidate Rebecca Blank visited campus Wednesday. She said she wants to return to the world of academia. the Joint Center for Poverty Research, and a member of former President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. Blank also ran University of Michigan’s School for Public Policy for nine years.

UW’s Chancellor Search and Screen Committee Chair David McDonald said it would be difficult to miss a candidate as qualified and Blank when selecting finalists for the position.

“She had distinguished

herself in every area of priority for a chancellor,” McDonald said.

Blank did not comment on the Adidas lawsuit and Chancellor David Ward’s

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Five-year transit proposal approved City committee votes for plan to study, put in place effective changes to Madison bus routes Stephanie Awe Reporter

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Newly elected members of University of Wisconsin’s student government rejoiced when results were announced Wednesday. The student body also voted for a new ASM constitution with 3,065 votes.

New ASM constitution passes 72 percent of student voters support structural changes to student government in election Muge Niu Higer Education Editor University of Wisconsin’s student body voted to pass a new student government

constitution that will alter some branches of the Associated Students of Madison and introduce new ones.

The 15-page-long new constitution, which

includes various changes to the structure of the Associated Students of Madison, was voted on by a total of 4,255 students across campus in a threeday period from March

11 to March 13. It won by 3,065 online votes, with 72 percent of students voting in favor of it.

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A city committee approved a five-year plan with potential for changes in the Metro Transit system at a meeting Wednesday.

According to Mike Cechvala, Transportation Planner for the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Transit Development Plan starts this year and will continue through 2017. The plan would continue to study and implement changes to configure the most efficient bus routes possible, he said.

The Metro Transit experienced problems with overcrowding and bus stop spacing in the past, Cechvala said. While bus service hours have only been increasing 1 percent each year, ridership has been increasing by over 4.5 percent per year, he said.

The buses currently stop on every block, which is excessive and only slows the

system, Cechvala said. MPO proposed consolidating the stops from eight to 10 per mile to four to six per mile, especially in the busiest neighborhoods on Johnson and Gorham Streets, Jenifer Street and Monroe Street, he said.

Cechvala said MPO is more concerned with improving the speed and reliability of the system than it is with having stops closer together. By consolidating stops, the bus system is expected to run faster, he said.

“You may have to walk a little bit farther, but you’ll have faster, more reliable service once you get there,” Cechvala said.

The Transit and Parking Commission expressed concern about reactions from transit users, pointing out bus stop spacing would be less convenient.

Ken Golden, a TRC member, said he understood

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Student leaders propose midterm policy INSIDE In 17-1 vote, Student Council supports legislation to allow students to rearrange exams falling in two-day span Alice Coyne Reporter Members of University of Wisconsin’s student government addressed proposals for establishing a two-day midterm policy that would closely resemble current rules for final exams as well as a freshman alcohol advising requirement in a meeting Wednesday.

Currently, if a student has three finals within 24 hours, that student is able to approach their professor to have one of those

finals rescheduled. The student must be able to provide evidence of their finals schedule through the Student Center in order to be considered for exemption.

Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Maria Giannopolous said the midterm legislation would similarly allow students the opportunity to rearrange their midterms should they have three during the span of two school days. Like the finals legislation, the decision would ultimately be based on professor

discretion, but requests may have more sway with this legislation backing them, Giannopoulos said.

Giannopoulos proposed the time stipulation be made longer than the 24 hours placed on finals legislation because students are also still attending class during the time they are taking their midterms.

“I think there’s a really solid case for having the time requirement at two days,” Giannopoulos said, noting during finals, students have more time to

study and prepare without the imposition of classes.

The two-day midterm legislation was originally proposed under the condition that each midterm must be worth 15 percent of the student’s grade in order to be considered.

Rep. Libby Wick Bander questioned whether or not this policy was necessary, noting it is a decision that can be left up to professors on an individual basis.

Faculty would still be able to use their discretion when granting students’

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midterm modification requests, Giannopoulos said. She stressed enacting a policy, however, would help students realize they have the opportunity to have a say in their schedule in the first place.

“This policy would help students that don’t realize they can have their exams changed,” Giannopoulos said, noting she personally encountered an issue of “crammed, back-to-back midterms,” and hopes to help students avoid

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Panel looks at achievement gap in Madison Allie Johnson City Life Editor Community leaders and educators from across the city highlighted the key ways to close the achievement gap in Madison at a panel Wednesday.

The panelists presented their ideas on which issues needed to be addressed in Madison public schools. The panel was organized as a part of Ed Talks Wisconsin, a 10-day-long event intended to jumpstart discussion about renewing public education in the state.

Michael Johnson from Boys and Girls Club of Dane County CEO said closing the achievement gap will require multiple approaches, commitment, political will and the combined efforts of

everyone in the community.

“We must coordinate our collective efforts to help those kids that need it the most,” Johnson said. “The students in our community deserve to have us working with one another.”

All panelists agreed reaching out to parents is one way to address the achievement gap.

Johnson advocated that implementing a parent outreach program in schools would better engage parents in the classroom.

Mayor Paul Soglin said it is important for school districts to address parental involvement because it is one of the essential ways to create successful education.

He explained it is important to engage parents in school and make them feel they

have significant say in the education of their child.

“It is not good enough to send a note home in a backpack,” Soglin said. “That is not engagement.”

Soglin also emphasized the importance of getting parents involved in their children’s education early. He cited efforts in other cities to engage parents started with talking to parents before their children are even born.

The community also needs to focus on specific needs of students, according to Soglin.

It is a tremendous challenge to learn in schools today, he said. Many households do not have computers, and if that is not recognized, it can impede ability of students to succeed, he said.

Out-of-school time was another key issue that

needed to be addressed by educators and the community.

According to Johnson, one of the ways to achieve this is by connecting students to positive adults in the community. He said mentoring, field trips and career exploration through internships are some ways to help students maximize out of school time in this way.

Luke Gangler, a James Madison Memorial High School student and panel respondent, stressed the importance of starting to implement some of the plans outlined by the panelists.

“We are never going to achieve equality unless we start implementing these efforts now,” Gangler said.

The panel created an important conversation,

according to Jaime Ropski, University of Wisconsin sophomore and Students for Education Reform organizational health chair.

Ropski said the panelists had a lot of good ideas about how to close the achievement gap, but their plans need to meet in the middle.

“Everyone talked about collaborating but no one is collaborating,” Ropski said.

UW senior and SFER Operations Director Quyen Bui added the panelists discussed the many changes that needed to be made but provided no strategy for how to make those changes.

Johnson added if the community is serious about the issues facing the achievement gap, it needs to create a comprehensive plan to address them.

Police to increase patrols this weekend Bennet Goldstein Herald Contributor City residents will see increased patrols from the Madison Police Department in an effort to curb dangerous driving during St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

MPD officers will patrol streets in increased numbers from Friday through Sunday night, according to a MPD statement. St. Patrick’s Day weekend is a time police usually see an increased number of impaired drivers and alcohol-related crashes, the statement said.

MPD Lt. Carl Strasburg said officers will be looking for driving violations, focusing mainly on speeding, seatbelt violations and impaired driving.

Strasburg added all of these offenses occur with greater

frequency during the holiday weekend compared to other times of the year. “[MPD] will be putting these officers in areas where there’s high traffic volume and also into areas where there have been past crashes,” Joel DeSpain, an MPD spokesperson, said.

Officers will be placed in strategic locations, including East Washington Avenue and John Nolen Drive, DeSpain said. The officers will take a no-tolerance approach to any instance of impaired driving, he said.

Strasburg said the policy originated from a recommendation from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

The department examined specific times of year where driving violations occur and determined when increased

law enforcement is needed. The department recommended MPD to increase staff during these times to focus specifically on driving violations, he said.

St. Patrick’s Day is one of the holidays requiring increased police presence, he said.

While the police presence may be felt on the road, pedestrians will not encounter more officers than they already do, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4.

He said MPD increases its downtown force every weekend throughout the year as part of Madison’s Downtown Safety Initiative.

There will be more police in the downtown area, but the majority of those extra officers will be on the lookout for drunk drivers, Verveer said. The number of officers patrolling the

downtown entertainment district and University Avenue will not change from most other weekends, he said.

Verveer said he expects bars to be full during the weekend but does not anticipate major problems during people’s nighttime bar crawls.

“Even with people, perhaps, having a bit more to drink than usual, we really haven’t had any sorts of problems in prior St. Patty’s Days,” Verveer said.

“I expect our good record to continue this weekend as well.”

According to a report from the DOT, Wisconsin experienced 7,227 alcoholrelated crashes in 2011. In Dane County alone, 435 drivers were involved in alcohol-related crashes and 1,444 in speed-related

crashes, the report said.

Strasburg said it is important for St. Patrick’s Day celebrators to take the time to ask themselves if they really are safe to drive. It will help Wisconsin residents and visitors to avoid tickets and arrests, he said.

People should take advantage of alternative modes of transportation, such as Madison Metro buses, taxies and rides home from friends to avoid roadway accidents, Strasburg said.

Strasburg added even those who do not drink during the celebrations this weekend need to drive cautiously.

“If they are going to be out there driving, [MPD] wants to make sure they wear their seatbelts and stay focused,” Strasburg said.

Senator proposes bill allowing sale of raw milk Madeleine Behr Reporter As Gov. Scott Walker announced his plan to grow the Wisconsin dairy industry Wednesday, a state senator is expected to reintroduce a bill to legalize the sale of raw, unpasteurized milk.

Sen. Glenn Grothman, R–West Bend, said he is planning to introduce the legislation but does not have an exact timeline yet.

Walker’s spokesperson Cullen Werwie said in an email to The Badger Herald Walker would support the bill provided it contains “appropriate safeguards” to ensure public health and the state’s dairy industry.

He added the bill must also allow consumers to purchase raw milk straight from farmers.

Walker also introduced his Grow Wisconsin Dairy 30x20 plan Wednesday.

BLANK, from 1 refusal to break UW’s contract with Palermo’s Pizza because since she believed it would

He said in a statement its objective is to expand “the state’s signature industry” and increase annual milk production from 26.1 billion to 30 billion pounds by 2020.

Campaign for Real Milk campaign spokesperson Kim Hartke said many industry leaders in Wisconsin who contributed to the 30x20 plan, including the Wisconsin Farm Bureau, are not serving the best interests of consumers in Wisconsin. “[Organizations like] the Wisconsin Farm Bureau are insurance agencies that operate like trade associations,” Hartke said. “They have their own agenda and don’t want to ensure high risk farms, [which are smaller, independent farms that don’t pasteurize milk].”

Hartke added the process

be inappropriate to comment on issues with which she is unfamiliar. However, Blank recognized the significance of university contacts and controversies surrounding

of pasteurization resulted from an issue created by the industrialization of dairy farming. According to Hartke, pasteurization eliminates the essential vitamins and animal fat that are necessary to a human diet.

Grothman said he agreed.

“Raw milk, just like raw carrots, is more healthy than cooked milk,” Grothman said. “When you kill the bacteria, you kill the nutrients.”

Spokesperson for Wisconsin Safe Milk Coalition Shawn Pfaff, however, supports the process of pasteurization.

He said the processes were created 150 years ago to eliminate “99.99” percent of bacteria in milk.

Hartke said there are other options to pasteurization in dairy production, but added

labor rights.

“These are issues you take seriously,” she said. “You look into them, you make sure you have all of your facts straight and then you have to make a

politicians are often fearful of these methods due to a vast nutritional ignorance.

“We can get as many farmers and activists to bring attention [to the issue], but one public health official can talk to a committee, and [the politicians] look like deer in headlights, and won’t move forward,” Hartke said.

Grothman added the industry is afraid of the competition of raw milk because dairy companies do not want to lose profits.

Contrary to public health officials, many health practitioners, such as chiropractors and nutritionists, believe raw milk is actually healthier, Grothman said.

While Grothman said raw milk is necessary for a healthy lifestyle, Pfaff said a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

study reported 120 raw milk related outbreaks in the U.S. He said he hoped these outbreaks would not affect the $26 billion dairy industry in Wisconsin.

Regardless of these documented outbreaks, Grothman said Europe was an example of good health for Americans.

“One of the reasons Europeans seem to be healthier than Americans is because they are not afraid of raw milk,” Grothman said.

Pfaff said that similar bills introduced in Indiana and Iowa have not passed.

However, Grothman said he was not deterred by the bill’s previous failure in 2011.

“We didn’t push [the bill] as hard as we should have,” Grothman said. “We will have to get some sort of compromise or regulation, but the compromise is yet to be determined.”

decision. That decision may be the next contract instead of the one you’re currently related to because when you sign a contract, it means something.”

Sam Klepfer, a Student Labor Action Coalition member and junior history major, said Blank seemed dedicated to labor issues and said she would encourage SLAC to push her to become more involved with

the Adidas and Palermo’s controversies.

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said UW System President Kevin Reilly and the members of the search and screen committee will interview all four finalist candidates Friday. He added the full Board of Regents will confirm the new UW chancellor at its April 4 and 5 meeting in La Crosse.

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ASM ELECTION 2013

Student body elects new representatives Muge Niu Higher Education Editor Turnout A higher number of students voted in the Associated Student’s of Madison spring election than last year, with 15 percent of the student body completing online ballots in the three-day period.

This year 6,077 completed online ballots out of the 40,723 total enrolled students for the spring semester.

The turnout was higher than during last year’s election, when 11.7 percent of the student body voted.

Student Election Commission Chair Mickey Stevens said although he would like to see a even greater number of voters, the current turnout is good for a regular election with only one added referendum.

He said the turnout has surpassed his expectations, adding that he usually does not see a 15 percent turnout.

ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky said this is the second-highest turnout ASM has seen in the past five or six years.

“I’m really excited to see it, I think 15 percent is great,” he said.

The highest voter turnout in ASM election was about 35 percent, when the NAT UP referendum, which increased segregated fees

for revamping the Natatorium, was included on the ballot in 2010.

Last year, the election did not include any referendum items.

According to Stevens, the 11.7 percent turnout was higher than what the Student Election Commission projected.

General Election Results The University of Wisconsin election brought new faces to the student government, with council members vowing to become a better service body for the students and to focus on key issues such as diversity.

ASM Student Council allotted 10 out of the 12 seats for College of Letters and Science to new representatives. Rep. David Gardner and Rep. Maria Giannopoulos retained their seats on the council for next year.

The College of Letters and Science also had the biggest returns among all colleges, with the number of votes for winners ranging from 791 to more than 1,600.

Courtney Jackson, who won as the seventh representative of the College of Letters and Science, said her goal is to make Student Council more accessible and to bring better service for the student body.

“My goal is that students are able to come to the Student Council, to feel confortable bringing their concerns and ideas…to express

changes they want to see on campus to the Student Council,” she said.

Another new representative this year from College of Letters and Science, Justin Bloesch said he wants to focus on improving diversity on campus, by finding ways to truly integrating students from different backgrounds.

Mike Van Sistine from the School of Human Ecology, School of Nursing and School of Pharmacy received 602 votes, the second highest number after the College of Letters and Science recipients.

Rep. Jamie Wheeler, who spoke on behalf of the graduate and professional students on the issue of proposed alcohol policy, retained her seat on the Student Council as the representative of graduate school with 264 votes.

Rep. David Vines and Rep. German Larrain retained their seats on the Student Services Finance Committee as the top and second recipients, winning more than 1,200 votes.

SSFC’s current Chair Ellie Bruecker, who is graduating this year, said she is excited to see new faces on the committee and trusts that the committee is in good hands.

Senior class officers were also announced, with Joe Meeker winning the position of Senior Class President by 64 votes over Sarah Neibart, who was elected Senior

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Voter Turnout Out of 40,723 students, 6,077 voted

Class Treasurer.

Bulovsky won both Senior Class Vice President and Senior Class Secretary, receiving more than 2,000 votes. He was the only candidate running for the two positions aside from write-in candidates.

The results of the election are still preliminary, according to Student Election Commission Chair Mickey Stevens. The results will be finalized in three to five school days.

ASM Constitution passes with majority of votes The current session of Student Council will now need to approve the bylaws of the new constitution with a two-thirds vote before it goes into effect for the 20th session of Student Council beginning May 1, according to Press Office Director David Gardner.

ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky said he is optimistic that the new constitution will address and help solve inefficiencies in governance, internal communication as well as student outreach.

“It’s going to make for a more efficient ASM,” Bulovsky said. “The new leaders of the 20th session [Student Council] will have a better framework for the organization in general, and they will be able to move forward from there.”

The new constitution would define more clearly jurisdictions for authorities in ASM, making the branches more specialized and more proactive in student outreach in general, he said.

Aside from addressing the need to make the organization more accessible to UW students, the new constitution would

also help Student Council focus on grassroots campaigns and initiatives through two different approaches, according to Nominations Board Chair Sean McNally.

First of all, the new document outlines the creation of an Appropriation Branch, which combines the functions of the current Student Services Finance Committee, Finance Committee and the Student Activities Center Governing Board.

McNally said the Appropriation Branch would make financial decisions under the new constitution. Budgets and grants passed by the new branch would not need to be passed by Student Council, which would become the Student Senate under the new constitution.

“The grassroots committees won’t need to deal with finance and can just focus on the campaigns,” McNally said. “The new constitution will also create a President’s Council… that’s [comprised of] all the different student leaders across the campus

that will help drive the campaigns in addition to the Appropriation Branch.”

Another change of the legislative body under the new constitution is the creation of the President’s Council, which plays a similar role as the current Coordinating Council but will include leaders from the large student organizations on campus as a way to bringing in more student input.

The new executive branch will consist of a President and Vice President.

If the current session of Student Council does not approve the new constitution bylaws, the new session will continue to adopt the current constitution, McNally said.

The current Student Council approved to move the new constitution to campus referendum by an 83-percent majority in February.

McNally said debate surrounding the need for a new constitution dated back to 2008, and members of the Student Council have been talking about the changes since then.

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Constitution Voted Yes: 3,065 Voted No: 1,190 4,255 Total Votes

Winners College of Letters and Science

Senior Class Officers Joe Meeker

Andrew Bulovsky

Senior Class President

Senior Class Vice President

Sarah Neibart

Courtney Jackson

Carissa Szlosek

David Gardner

Andrew Bulovsky

Sarah Neibart Senior Class Treasurer

Senior Class Secretary

Genevieve Carter

Hannah Kinsella Chris Hoffman

Benjamin Agatston

Kayla Van Cleave

Maria Giannopoulos

Justin Bloesch

Mia Akers

State appeals court upholds sex offender ordinance Maryn Zwier Herald Contributor A state appeals court upheld a Milwaukee ordinance Wednesday that prohibits child sex offenders from living in close proximity to schools.

After being convicted of a second-degree child sex offense crime in 2000, Milwaukee resident Todd Kester moved to an area close to a South Milwaukee elementary school about three years ago, according to a Court of Appeals opinion.

However, because of a city ordinance stipulating child sex offenders cannot live within 1,000 feet of an

elementary school, the city ordered Kester to move, according to the opinion Kester and his lawyer, Larry Dupuis, contested this decision. Dupuis argued that by preventing Kester from moving houses, the city was excessively punishing him for his criminal history without an individual determination of his dangerousness, the opinion said. On these grounds, Dupuis took his client’s case to a state appellate court to try to get this decision reversed.

But Judge Maxine White affirmed the law was properly applied and decided to uphold the

ordinance in court, thus prohibiting Kester from moving.

Dupuis said he is planning to contest the appeals court’s decision and plans to move forward with the case.

“This is a serious deprivation of and intrusion on someone’s rights,” Dupuis said. “It forces them to move and to separate from their family. There are places [Kester] can never go.”

Rep. Mark Honadel, R-Milwaukee, said he does not think the ordinance is as harsh as Dupuis proclaims.

“There are so many other places they can go outside of 1,000 feet from an elementary school,”

Honadel said.

In addition to disagreeing with the court’s decision, Dupuis said the ordinance in question is unconstitutional.

According to Dupuis, the ordinance is unconstitutional on two accounts. He said it violates the ex post facto law and Kester’s due process rights.

Dupuis argues that because the ordinance was not in place until after Kester was convicted of his offense, submitting his client to the punishments laid out by the ordinance retroactively is unconstitutional.

“He’s already done his time and this will haunt

him for the rest of his life,” Dupuis said.

Dupuis said the ordinance violates the ex post facto rule in the federal Constitution and a parallel provision set out in the Wisconsin Constitution.

Dupuis also said the ordinance is unconstitutional because it violates the due process clause, which he said is why he brought the case to an appeals court. Instead, he said the court had a “superficial view” of the case, and the ruling failed go into enough depth in explaining how Kester was dangerous.

Dupuis defended his

client and said Kester had no criminal charges brought against him before this incident and has not had any since his conviction. He added Kester did not pose a danger to the community.

“Mr. Kester was deemed to be low risk. The state didn’t even require him to have a sex offender classification of any sort.

Now he’s being punished for the rest of his life,” Dupuis said.

As to whether Kester and his lawyer plan to challenge the constitutionality of the ordinance in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Dupuis said he currently has no specific plans to do so.

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Private schools with no accreditation receive state funds Jacob Ahrens-Balwit Herald Contributor New findings from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction have the potential to dampen current public support for a voucher program proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s new budget.

Three private voucher schools in Milwaukee that are currently receiving state dollars through continue to take in funding although they have lost their accreditations.

The schools have lost voucher licenses for the funding program because of a failure to meet financial or other reporting requirements, according to School Choice

Wisconsin President Jim Bender.

Bender, a leader of the primary agency advocating for the funding program for accredited private schools, said these schools continue to receive millions in taxpayer dollars.

Bender said the issue came to surface last year just after the legislative cycle ended while investigating another Milwaukee school.

“We actually contacted the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to inform them that we had identified a school that wasn’t accredited anymore,” Bender said. “We got a call back from DPI that they had gone and scoured the

law only to find that nowhere was it stated that schools were required to maintain accreditation, only to attain it.”

Bender said it seems everyone was under the impression private schools in the voucher program were required to continue receiving accreditation. However, he noted a loophole currently exists through which private schools can receive public funding indefinably after their initial accreditation.

Sen. Luther Olsen, R– Ripon, is working with School Choice Wisconsin on drafting legislation requiring private schools in the voucher program to uphold their accreditation as

long as they want to receive public funding, Bender added. He said the bill would also implement new more stringent regulations on private schools requesting to participate in the voucher program.

Washington DuBois Christian Leadership Academy is one of the three Milwaukee schools involved in the issue. Bender said the Association of Christian Teachers and Schools will have inspectors review the school.

Washington DuBois Academy Principal Ernie DiDomizio said he guaranteed the accreditation for the academy is up to date, and

the situation boils down to a clerical error made last April. DiDomizio said he is confident the truth would come out and clear the Academy’s name.

“We are all for transparency, and one hundred percent behind accountability.”

DiDomizio said.

The school received a letter from the ACTS in April 2012 alerting DiDomizio the school would no longer be accredited because the required continuous accreditation report had not been filled out, according to an ACTS statement.

If the Washington DuBois Academy, or schools like it, were to permanently lose its

accreditation at this point, they would still be eligible to receive state funding, Bender said.

Accreditation is important because voucher schools do not have to meet the same regulations as public institutions, Bender said. This process demonstrates third party agencies have positively reviewed the schools, and find them deserving of public funding he added.

Currently, the DPI is withholding a portion of funds from the Washington DuBois Academy in the investigation stemming from infringements of their financial or other reporting regulations, DiDomizio said.

Democratic lawmakers release federal budget plan Andrew Taylor Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats unveiled a largely stand-pat budget Wednesday that calls for $1 trillion in new tax revenues over the coming decade but actually increases spending, while protecting the party’s domestic policy priorities and adding $4 trillion more to the national debt than a slashing alternative from House Republicans.

The plan by Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., blends about $1 trillion in modest cuts to health care providers, the Pentagon,

domestic agencies and interest payments on the debt with an equal amount in new revenue claimed by closing tax breaks.

But because Democrats want to restore $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts over the same period — cuts imposed by Washington’s failure to strike a broader budget pact — Murray’s blueprint increases spending slightly when compared with current policies.

On the other side of Capitol Hill, House Budget Committee Republicans barreled ahead with an entirely opposite approach that whacks spending

by $4.6 trillion over the coming decade, promises sweeping cuts to Medicaid and domestic agencies while setting a path to balancing the government’s books within 10 years.

The House panel approved the plan, by Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., late Wednesday by a 22-17 party-line vote. Murray’s plan was set to be approved by the Democratic-led Senate panel on Thursday.

Both measures face floor debates next week.

Even as Democrats controlling the Senate and the strongly conservative House moved in divergent directions, President Barack

Obama again traveled to the Capitol to open a dialogue with lawmakers.

Wednesday’s meeting was with House Republicans, who welcomed the gesture even as they noted that deep divisions remain.

“We’ve got a big difference between us,” said Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore. “He supports higher tax revenues.”

But Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., said Obama told Republicans that he also supports a revised inflation adjustment called “chained CPI” that would curb cost-of-living increases in Social Security benefits and increase tax revenue

through slower indexing of income tax brackets. He also supports “means testing” for Medicare benefits that would require higherincome beneficiaries to pay more for their health care.

Cole said Obama told them everyone needs to honestly confront the political barriers to reining in popular benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security. “He said, ‘Your people don’t want entitlement reform either.

Go home and poll them.’”

The White House praised the Senate plan.

“The Senate Democratic budget is a concrete plan that will grow our economy

and shrink our deficits in a balanced way, consistent with the president’s belief that our economy grows best from the middle out, not the top down,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement late Wednesday.

The debate in the Senate Budget Committee was the first time since 2009 that Democrats in charge of the Senate have advanced a budget blueprint, which opened to predictably poor reviews from the panel’s Republicans, who said it’s heavy on tax increases and light on cuts to rapidly growing benefit and safety net programs.

Wis. superintendent candidates debate gun policy Scott Bauer Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State superintendent Tony Evers and challenger Don Pridemore outlined their very different visions for Wisconsin’s schools during a debate Wednesday, disagreeing over the governor’s proposed expansion of the state’s voucher system and proposed freeze in public school spending.

Pridemore, a Republican state representative, voiced support for Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal, which would expand the use of vouchers beyond Milwaukee and Racine while not allowing

public school spending to increase. Evers, who is seeking a second term in the nonpartisan position heading the state Department of Public Instruction, opposes both proposals.

Evers drew applause when he said he wanted to raise spending by $225 per student.

“We can’t be defunding our schools and increasing funding for private voucher schools,” Evers told the crowd.

Pridemore said budgets remain tight, so schools should be prepared for no spending increases.

“We are in bad economic times,” Pridemore said. “We’re going to have to sharpen our pencils at least one more

budget cycle.”

About 300 school board members and administrators from around the state attended the debate. Members of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards held the meeting before going to the Capitol to lobby lawmakers.

Walker’s proposals expanding the voucher program and freezing school spending are among the most hotly contested portions of his budget and have become a central focus of the state superintendent race.

Walker’s plan has already run into trouble among Senate Republican leaders, who have said they want to rework the voucher plan and allow school

spending to go up.

Pridemore said he would support voucher schools until his “dying days.”

“That may not be popular here today, but I think we need more competition in education,” Pridemore said.

Evers disagreed.

“If we’re about best practices, I’m not quite sure we can say it’s best practice to expand vouchers across the state of Wisconsin, especially in school districts that don’t want them,” he said.

In a rare moment of agreement, both Evers and Pridemore said they opposed another Walker proposal to create a separate school board to oversee charter schools.

That plan has also been met with opposition among Senate Republicans.

Evers also spoke out against the Walker proposal to extend vouchers to special needs students. Pridemore was noncommittal, saying he wanted to learn more about Walker’s plan.

“I don’t necessarily know what problem the governor is trying to solve with this,” Pridemore said.

Pridemore also supports allowing armed volunteers, such as retired police officers, to patrol schools to help keep them safe.

“A no-gun policy is an open door for criminals to come onto our campuses and wreak

havoc,” Pridemore said.

Evers said he didn’t think having armed volunteers would make schools safer.

Rather, it would risk turning schools into the “wild west.”

He said he wouldn’t want his grandchildren going to schools with armed patrols.

Evers touted his 36 years’ experience working in public education in Wisconsin, including the last four years as state superintendent. He emphasized his work on various initiatives with the business community and Republicans, including Walker, such as his work on the state’s new accountability system and on bolstering career and technical education.

Census: Nation’s counties experience population drop Hope Yen Associated Press A record number of U.S. counties — more than 1 in 3 — are now dying off, hit by an aging population and weakened local economies that are spurring young adults to seek jobs and build families elsewhere.

New 2012 census estimates released Thursday highlight the population shifts as the U.S. encounters its most sluggish growth levels since the Great Depression.

The findings also reflect the increasing economic importance of foreignborn residents as the U.S. ponders an overhaul of a major 1965 federal immigration law. Without new immigrants, many metropolitan areas such as New York, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and St.

MIDTERM POLICY, from 1 the same situation in the future.

The legislation passed with a 17-1 vote and one abstention.

Many committee members approved the decision with enthusiasm, noting the excessive stress and time constraints students endure daily.

“I think nowadays we’re really expected to do more and with that comes a lot of restriction in our time,” Rep. Nikolas Magallon said.

Louis would have posted flat or negative population growth in the last year.

“Immigrants are innovators, entrepreneurs, they’re making things happen. They create jobs,” said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, at an immigration conference in his state last week. Saying Michigan should be a top destination for legal immigrants to come and boost Detroit and other struggling areas, Snyder made a special appeal: “Please come here.”

The growing attention on immigrants is coming mostly from areas of the Midwest and Northeast, which are seeing many of their residents leave after years of staying put during the downturn. With a slowly improving U.S. economy, young adults are now back on the move,

departing traditional big cities to test the job market mostly in the South and West, which had sustained the biggest hits in the housing bust.

Census data show that 1,135 of the nation’s 3,143 counties are now experiencing “natural decrease,” where deaths exceed births. That’s up from roughly 880 U.S. counties, or 1 in 4, in 2009. Already apparent in Japan and many European nations, natural decrease is now increasingly evident in large swaths of the U.S., much of it rural.

Despite increasing deaths, the U.S. population as a whole continues to grow, boosted by immigration from abroad and relatively higher births among the mostly younger migrants from Mexico, Latin America and Asia.

He added he supports the legislation because of its fairness and the amount of time it allows students to continue their out-ofclassroom pursuits.

At the meeting, University Affairs Chair Becca Buell also introduced a piece of legislation requiring a general education requirement for first years about alcohol.

Buell said her committee has been collaborating with University Health Services and the Dean of Students office to create strategies

for tackling excessive alcohol consumption on campus.

Buell said the university wants to hold students accountable for drinking and make sure students understand the implications of their actions.

Press Office Chair David Gardner requested the legislation be tabled until March 20 to allow the committee more time to work out some more of the technical policy details behind it.

Ian Thomasgard The Badger Herald

Members of a city committee met to pass a five-year Metro Transit plan Wednesday. The proposal supports looking at changes to Madison’s bus routes.

TRANSIT, from 1 how consolidating bus stops could speed up the system but added bus stop spacing might be less convenient for other transit users.

“I’m more than willing to do it, but if I’m trying to rush home. It’s going to take me longer,” Golden said.

David Tolmie, a committee member, added that he wanted to see actions taken in consideration of those with disabilities and the elderly.

The plan is still in its early stages, according to Golden. Changes in bus stop spacing may be seen within one to two years.

Other changes proposed to the Transit system

included decreasing the amount of routes and increasing bus frequency, Golden said.

Cechvala said several current routes, including routes 2 and 3, have hourly service, and the proposed changes would increase the service to every 30 minutes.

The plan would also extend bus routes to go outside the city, reaching surrounding areas such as Sun Prairie, Monona and Stoughton, he said.

Amanda White, TPC vice chair, said she was concerned with how the Metro Transit could provide more service while working on a limited budget.

Cechvala said the plan was prioritized into short,

medium and long-term needs in hopes it will better accommodate the budget.

Golden added the plan may also include replacing the higher density Metro Transit routes with Bus Rapid Transit buses, which would cost about $30 million per piece but would provide more comfort and convenience to bus riders. This is a growing trend nationwide, he said, and would rely on federal funding and state support.

These changes would not likely appear for another three to five years, Golden said.

The five-year plan faces City Council for a second time at its meeting March 19.

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‘Poppins’ full of ‘Oz’ adaptation clicks heels, flops charm, delight Disney follows yellow brick road to failure; produces high-budget waste of film, misses creative opportunity

Sarah Witman

Phebe Myers ArtsEtc. Writer “Mary Poppins” delighted audiences of all ages Tuesday night at the Overture Center. The show was different from the Disney film, adding scenes viewers might have been unfamiliar with but were nonetheless enjoyable.

The audience was filled with a plethora of adorable young girls decked out in Mary Poppins costumes, ready to get swept away by the excitement of the musical. However, the musical was not entirely geared toward children.

Many of the scenes were very trippy and of the “Alice in Wonderland” variety. When watching this at an older age, the very center of the plot becomes different; the heart of the story is based around Mary Poppins’ employers, Mr. and Mrs. Banks.

The musical is based around a wonderful and charmingly unique nanny, Mary Poppins, who comes to rescue the Banks family from themselves. Considering the amazing Julie Andrews starred in the original film production, Mary Poppins’ shoes are hard to fill.

Madeline Trumble, who played Mary Poppins, had a beautiful voice. While she nailed the character’s quirky charm, she lacked the overall sparkle of the musical’s namesake.

The most impressive part of the play was the variety of sets. They were elaborate and intricate, like an old-fashioned dollhouse. The special effects were also stellar - Mary Poppins actually flew! The special effects were clearly geared toward the younger audience, though they wowed the entire crowd. During the number “Step In Time,” Bert was suspended in air and made to look like he was walking upside down. The special effects

brought the magic of “Mary Poppins” to life.

Each of the smaller characters, from the children Jane and Michael Banks, to Bert the chimney sweep, was spectacular. They had their own talents and shone whenever onstage.

But the heart of the show was Mr. and Mrs. Banks.

Mr. Banks’ acting stole the show, but the role of Mrs. Banks tugged at the heartstrings. Mr. and Mrs. Banks start the show as a couple that has lost their way. Mr. Banks, played by Chris Hoch, is completely caught up in his job and pays no attention to his family. Mrs. Banks, played

by Kerry Conte, tries her hardest to please her husband but to no avail.

When Mary Poppins arrives, she shakes things up and makes Mr. Banks realize what’s really important in life.

Overall, “Mary Poppins” was a wonderful show. There were a few unnecessary scenes or scenes that went on too long such as “Playing The Game” where Mary Poppins makes the children’s toys come to life, causing anyone in the audience with a fear of clowns to have nightmares for weeks.

The choreography and special effects were clearly targeted at the show’s younger audience. But the performance had something for those of all ages, a beautiful love story between a married couple for the older crowd and a tale about magic for the youngsters. This rendition of “Mary Poppins” was much wackier and more hypnotic than other versions, kind of like traditional Disney meets director Tim Burton’s less creepy cousin. The music was charming and catchy, causing the audience to leave the show smiling.

In short, “Mary Poppins” was “practically perfect in every way.”

ArtsEtc. Editor Emeritus When is a “good” time for a new take on a classic film?

Let’s think. The classic “Wizard of Oz” (MGM, 1939) is immortal not only because Judy Garland became the biggest star of the age, but also because it broke ground technically as the first film to use a combination of black and white with Technicolor.

As of 2007, “The Wizard of Oz” is number 10 on the American Film Institute’s Top 100 films list. So the bar is set fairly high.

Then take into account there is already a perfectly good prequel currently circulating, the “Wicked” musical, which is the 12th longest-running show on Broadway ever.

Some might say Disney had a head full of straw to even try making an “Oz” revamp, that such a film would have to be truly spectacular to be worth a second glance — and they would be right.

Expectations were already fairly low when trailers started cropping up last year, but the casting decisions made the film feel more promising. It seemed that Disney had decided not to go with obvious, huge-name choices, but instead chose actors with a wide breadth of experience.

Case in point: “Oz the Great and Powerful” stars James Franco (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”), Mila Kunis (“Ted”) and Zach Braff

(“Garden State”). All three just got out of a project directed by 12 New York University film students about the life of writer C.K. Williams. Unexpected, right?

Perhaps Disney thought these three, along with the indie-ethereal Joey King (“Dark Knight Rises”) would somehow be able to launch this doomed project out of a hole — much like was done with Disney’s 2010 “Alice in Wonderland” remake with Johnny Depp (“The Rum Diary”), Anne Hathaway (“Les Misérables”), Helena Bonham Carter (“Les Misérables”) and Mia Wasikowska (“Jane Eyre”), who was then a young newcomer.

But it was to no avail due mainly in part to horrendous pacing and a truly lackluster script.

The first three-quarters of the movie are almost entirely inconsequential because of excruciatingly dull dialogue. Franco is convincing as a slimeball carnival magician, and Kunis excels later on as the (spoiler) Wicked Witch, but nearly every line feels forced and mechanical, the definition of scripted.

No thanks to the hokey, ultra-literal screenplay, the plot takes forever to get going. And in the end, the only trace of a takeaway moral or theme, achieved not so subtly, is Glinda (Michelle Williams, “Shutter Island”) proclaiming that Franco has grown to be content with being good-

hearted rather than “great.”

Watching “Oz the Great and Powerful” make weak homage after weak homage to MGM’s lovable masterpiece is cringeworthy, as are the lukewarm attempts at humor sprinkled throughout the film. Not to mention that we as a society are apparently still not above pigeonholing little people into the role of “Munchkin,” nor is it likely a coincidence that the only people of color in the film are simple, quaint, straw hat-adorned townspeople.

The best possible route Disney could have taken with this film would have been to draw more upon the books L. Frank Baum wrote in the early 1900s, bringing to life the “modern fairy tale” that he proclaimed was his foremost intention as a writer. Baum wrote the “Oz” books, 14 in all, not as bedtime stories but rather as a set of freakish, psychedelic tales that could terrify a

child’s imagination.

If Disney wanted to do something different, this might have been a new and interesting tack. But the closest the film comes to doing so is probably its adaptation of the evil flying monkeys, who have been alarmingly transformed into winged, fanged CGI baboons. They are truly scary, in form, but have little impact on the story.

In summary, a shallow script can only lead to clammy, transparent acting, and so it seems that “Oz the Great and Powerful” will go the way of creepy ’80s sequel “Return to Oz” (1985) or Michael Jackson’s 1978 musical film “The Wiz.” At best, very young children will enjoy the film simply because they do not know any better.

Sadly, it may have been better for us all if some Disney higher-up had dropped a house on this project early on.

Courtesy of Disney

James Franco plays the wizard in the latest movie adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s famous book.

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Students not to blame for web multitasking in class In this day, professors must explore new ways to connect while lecturing Garth Beyer Columnist I’m going to be bold here and ask a question: “Does anyone pay attention in lectures?”

Of course some students do, but the majority are busy with other things: Facebook, emails, applying to internships (I hope you see the irony of this), reading, texting and now - what is most trendy viewing images. Obviously not just any images but powerful images. Witty images. Funny images.

Cute images. Images that really spark an emotion.

In a couple of my classes if I sit in the back and look around, I can see a handful of people that are using laptops looking at images on Imgur.

Warning: If you haven’t been on sites like Imgur, 9gag, or Imgfav yet, you will get sucked in once you visit. You’ve been warned.

The days in which students could only spend boring classes napping are gone. The same goes with the age of merely texting.

College students are notorious for multitasking.

To think that we only text in class or only go on Facebook is outlandish.

If you look hard enough, you’ll find every student tackling assignments, projects, conversations and learning all at once using multiple technological devices. I’ve never seen an Internet browser open with only one tab.

Despite their lack of attentiveness in class, students remain innocent.

Their attention spans and levels of motivation are flexible. Most would say they “go with the flow.”

And most importantly, almost all of these students still pass their classes. That’s what the University of Wisconsin wants, isn’t it?

With all of this in mind, the question isn’t whether it’s good or bad, right or wrong, that students don’t pay attention – the question is why students don’t pay attention.

Clearly students’ choice to not pay attention in class has no effect on their ability to get good grades and by extension to understand the content lectured. In fact, the graduation rate at UW continues to increase despite the decreased amount of attention paid

by the students.

While I could take a few guesses as to why students don’t pay attention, I thought I had better conduct research before I made any assumptions.

Also, it seemed fitting to discover whether this is something specific to UW or if there is attention deficit at other universities. So I posted a status on Facebook and waited for responses – could there possibly be a better way to investigate technological distractions?

The research revolves around two important questions – if and how students use their laptop in class, and why they don’t pay attention. Here are some responses.

“I never use my laptop, but I’m ALWAYS scrolling through Imgur on my phone,” said Kathryn Olson, a senior at Northern Illinois University. “I do it because most of my professors already post their notes online and I just study off of those later. For the classes that don’t post notes online, I make sure my phone is away and that I take notes. Because then I would be screwed.”

Can you relate? Initially I thought to myself, “then why do we even have teachers?” Praying this was a special case, I decided to take my research elsewhere to Loyola University Chicago and got feedback from a senior, Katie Christensen.

“I rarely use my phone in class, because I feel like teachers view that as a direct insult,” she said. “As for my laptop, I’m usually flipping through a series of websites checking for updates, like (all 6) email, Facebook, LinkedIn, class notes through our note server. I’m doing this because with my schedule, I always have something I should be doing. In the business world.”

While the question of whether or not multitasking is beneficial is still up for debate, it seems for Katie, it is.

College students have an incredible amount expected from them – whether they’re in the business world or not – and multitasking while attending lectures is a safe way to work on fulfilling those expectations. Or so it seems.

Unsatisfied with my investigation, I found writer Hemi Gandhi had

Andy Fate The Badger Herald

A laptop with many open Internet tabs is a common sight in UW lecture halls. During class, students regularly check email, Facebook, Imgur and other websites rather than listening attentively and taking notes. done similar research on students using Facebook.

When he asked his classmates why they use Facebook in class, this is what he heard: “A professor starts regurgitating exactly what they’ve read in the

“The days in which students could only spend boring classes napping are gone. The same goes with the age of merely texting.

College students are notorious for multitasking. To think that we only text in class or only go on Facebook is outlandish.” textbook; paying attention won’t clarify confusion; a professor starts on a random tangent that is neither interesting nor relevant; students need a break to refocus; students feel pressed for time and decide to multitask.”

It seems the reason

why students do not pay attention in class is twofold.

First, students are expected to keep up on everything. That means all classes, work, personal projects, relationships and professional connections.

A student figures if they can get more or less the same grade paying attention in class as they would if they were also paying attention to setting up a meeting, chatting with a friend about the homework for another class and connecting with people on a website like Imgur – fulfilling social needs that they have more difficulty fulfilling because they already have so much to do – then what’s the point of solely paying attention in class?

The cumulative benefits of multitasking – be they small or large – exceed the singular benefit of paying attention in class.

Secondly, everyone, not just students, must now transform his or her life to cohere with the connection economy – an economy that rewards achievement instead of compliance.

Lectures are ineffective because students

want interactivity and connectivity, which they find online instead. As they reach to connect in multiple ways online, they become more knowledgeable.

One would imagine students view images for entertainment, as a type of escapism or because they are bored. Truly they view them to connect with other people.

Every image that people laugh at, they connect with. They think, “I know exactly what this person means!” In fact, I made a new friend last week because I saw she was viewing images on Imgur at CoffeeBytes. We talked and found out we are also in the same class together and majoring in journalism. Connection!

This same connection needs to be sought after by the professors who are lecturing. Learning is meant to be an activity.

It’s meant to be created through interaction. It’s meant to be engaging.

I would like to take a moment and note there are some professors who are extremely engaging, who naturally attract the attention of all students and who understand that

the teaching “norm” has become obsolete. To those professors, thank you.

However, there are still professors that fail to connect with students through their lectures.

Now, students naturally act on what benefits them most. If students are paying less attention to their professors and more attention to interacting with others online, then don’t you think something is seriously wrong with the way professors teach, and not the student?

Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, says, “Ironically, by removing lecture from class time, we can make classrooms more engaging and human.”

Isn’t that what we really want? Maybe you can tell me. What is it we really want? Email me. Also feel free to visit the online version of this article and leave a comment, or email me, and tell me why you go online instead of paying attention to class.

If you choose not to go online, I would really like to know why you don’t.

Garth Beyer (gbeyer@ wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in journalism.

Work with police, city; avoid letting Mifflin die Hayes Cascia Staff Writer If there’s one thing I love about America other than the song “Free Bird” and water skiing squirrels, it’s American tradition.

American traditions range from hot dog eating contests to chopping down a tree with your family during the Christmas season – something that almost led to disaster one year for my family as our tree tumbled off the roof of our car and onto the highway. Luckily, our tree did not hit a gas tanker and cause an explosion, and my dad was able to win a game of real-life Frogger as he dragged the tree from the middle

of the highway without being hit by a car or semitruck. You could say it was a Christmas miracle.

Throughout time, however, even the strongest traditions that motivate you to cross four lanes of traffic to retrieve a fallen tree evolve or fade away. This is something very sad to witness, and it seems as if the Mifflin Street Block Party is slowly fading away into nonexistence. This is why people should begin taking action to preserve the great Wisconsin tradition of Mifflin.

I consider the Mifflin Street Block Party not only a Wisconsin tradition, but also an American tradition because its origins are rooted in one of the oldest American traditions - war.

The very first Mifflin Street Block Party was established to protest the Vietnam War. Although much of the original meaning of the Mifflin

Street Block Party has been lost to the years, it still serves as a muchneeded last hurrah. It comes as a nice break before the grueling onset of finals engulfs the entire campus like a zombie apocalypse fueled by 5-Hour Energy and overpriced snacks at College Library, where we pay two bucks for cheese sticks that don’t even peel well.

Throughout the past few years, the historic Mifflin Street Block Party has been getting a bad rap. People keep on focusing on the negative aspects of the block party, instead of the tradition graduates tell their kids about when they are old enough and some people share at confession with their priests. It is a shame that a few people who made poor decisions in the past have caused Mifflin to be altered, downsized and flooded with cops handing out

tickets left and right, and with star running back Montee Ball topping off last year’s list of a record 167 arrests.

What used to be an actual block party where you could mingle in the street is now confined to the houses that line Mifflin, and if you cannot

“I consider the Mifflin Street Block Party not only a Wisconsin tradition, but also an American tradition because its origins are rooted in one of the oldest American traditions — war.” come up with the answer to “who do you know here, bro?” you could be cuffed and thrown in the slammer.

Instead of student

leaders taking a step back in the planning process for Mifflin, they should become more involved because they know what the expectations are of the student body for the Mifflin Street Block Party.

They can also work with police and city officials to reach a common ground that does not result in another year of record arrests. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, agrees with this position and is urging the student leaders of the Associated Students of Madison to play a larger role in the planning process.

An argument against further student and ASM involvement is that there are more important issues on campus to worry about. However, what that argument fails to realize is that a large proportion of the student body attends the Mifflin Street Block Party each year.

Because of this, Mifflin is actually a very important

issue here on campus.

It will take time - but if the police, mayor and students work together to see eye to eye on the issue - the city could cut costs by being able to call on fewer policemen to patrol Mifflin, and fewer students would be arrested for reasons such as “trespassing.”

We should not stand back and watch the Mifflin tradition slip through the cracks.

Instead, with the help of ASM, we should strive to reach a common ground with the city and police.

I was sad enough to see my family’s tradition of chopping down a Christmas tree each year fall to the wayside. I do not want to witness the same thing happen to the Mifflin Street Block Party, an American and a Badger family tradition.

Hayes Cascia (hcascia@ wisc.edu) is a sophomore with an undeclared major.

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Soda side-effects not all that sweet They reach Americans

Nathaniel Olson everywhere - in workplaces, Columnist

If there was one person who understood the value of Coca-Cola, it was Andy Warhol.

“What’s great about this country,” Warhol said, “is that … the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest… the president drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola… you can drink Coca-Cola, too… no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same, and all the cokes are good.

Liz Taylor knows it, the president knows it, the bum knows it and you know it.”

It’s all true of course. But the democratization of soft drinks hasn’t all been sweet.

In fact, the great availability of sugary beverages has sickened America, fueling the obesity epidemic and shaping our culture in many ways.

Let’s back up. On Monday, the New York Supreme Court ruled that a new regulation, set to ban sugary drinks larger than 16 fluid ounces, was “arbitrary and capricious,” essentially rendering it unenforceable.

“The Portion Cap Rule,” the decision continued, “would create an administrative Leviathan and violate the separation of powers doctrine.”

It would be disingenuous to say that “sugary drinks” – defined in the lawsuit as non-alcoholic, carbonated or noncarbonated beverages that have more than 25 calories per fluid ounce and don’t contain more than 50 percent milk or milk substitute – have not contributed to obesity. Soda and its alternatives are cheap, tasty and ubiquitous.

schools, convenience stores and supermarkets - providing an easy stress release for a low short-term cost.

The court’s decision, however, is the correct one. The law would be a nightmare to enforce, have limited if any benefits and unfairly manipulate beverage markets in New York City to the detriment of some businesses and the advantage of others. It would be illegal to purchase a 22.5-fluid-ounce Arnold Palmer but acceptable to consume 64-fluid-ounce 7-Eleven Big Gulp and refill it.

But it would be simpleminded to say government action in this arena is unneeded, immoral or – gulp – tyrannical. America’s weight has moved from an individual problem to a societal nuisance.

As the court itself notes, Andy Fate The Badger Herald “Obese individuals spend $1,443 more on health Earlier this week, the New York Supreme Court overruled a regulation banning sugary drinks larger than 16 fluid ounces. While the ban may have been impossible to enforce , the negative public health impacts of soda are significant. needs than normal weight individuals. The number programs like Medicare and in nutritional value may willpower-draining choice, made several decisions, a of those individuals Medicaid get saddled with be restricted to locations making them more likely psychological phenomenon receiving Medicaid/ the costs. As anyone who’s such as the back of store, to splurge on an immediate known as “ego depletion.”

Medicare means tax payer ever gained a little winter behind the counter, or at reward. Science.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Chancellor must Ward continues to disregard students share governance In this time of transition to a new leadership for the University of Wisconsin, Interim Chancellor David Ward must not forget about the principles of shared governance. By shared governance, we mean not only our right for our voices as students, faculty and staff to be heard, but to be respected in our decisionmaking power.

Many issues confront the campus community this year. We are in the midst of a search for a new chancellor.

We are facing a new state budget that could make UW less accessible to students. We are in a battle to cut ties with Palermo’s Pizza, a business which has disregarded workers’ rights. We are in a pending lawsuit regarding students’ rights to allocate segregated fees – the list goes on.

Although all of these issues are very different, the theme that ties them together is that the decision-making power cannot rest within the top tiers of the university. The decisions must be made by all shared governance bodies on campus, including students.

In just a few weeks, Ward will be presented with the budgets the Associated Students of Madison, a body elected to represent the entire student body, has approved for student groups and other campus services.

Last year, students’ decisions on many levels were blatantly disregarded. Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group, a student group that has been on campus since 1989, had its budget drastically cut despite strong student approval.

ASM voted down budgets for the Wisconsin Union and Recreational Sports but Ward overturned ASM’s decisions. These decisions

indicate a lack of respect for student decision-making power on this campus.

These budgets are not the only instances where shared governance has not been respected on this campus.

Ward has ignored shared governance committees throughout his second tenure, such as the Labor Licensing Policy Committee’s recommendation to cut UW’s contract with Adidas Group.

We cannot let the voices of a few administrators be heard above the voices of the entire campus community.

We cannot let the voices of UW Legal, the legal counsel for administration and not for students or faculty or staff, control the decisions that are made on this campus.

We must defend our right to shared governance and defend our power as students.

This starts by making sure the chancellor, whether it is Ward or his successor, respects the decisions that have already been made about the allocation of segregated fees by students.

This is a university governed together, not from the top.

It is a university that should demonstrate its commitment to democracy by practicing it. Let’s put Adidas Group on notice as recommended by the advising committee on UW apparel contracts. Let’s join the boycott of Palermo’s Pizza as recommended by shared governance committees. Let’s listen to student leaders in ASM and fully fund WISPIRG.

Thirteen years ago, students, including thenAssociated Students of Madison chair Adam Klaus, occupied the office of the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin.

They occupied after a year of stalling and stonewalling by the chancellor. They occupied to demand the university ensure its apparel was not made in sweatshops by joining the Workers’ Rights Consortium. They intended to occupy until the chancellor met with them. The protesters remained peaceful and did not disturb any classes.

The chancellor, however, would not even stay in Madison to discuss the issue with the students. Instead, he responded by sending in law enforcement – the police arrived with full riot gear, armed with tear gas, and forcibly dragged out the students.

Arrests of more than 50 UW students persisted throughout the morning, with outraged community members showing up to support the students.

The chancellor resigned a few months

later, under pressure due to his brutal treatment of students of UW. That chancellor was our very own, current Interim Chancellor David Ward.

During the last year and a half of Ward’s return to UW as interim chancellor, it is apparent that he has not learned from the mistakes he made during his first term.

Thirteen years ago students won their demands, and our university is affiliated with the Worker’s Rights Consortium, an independent, third party factory monitoring organization. The WRC has performed factory investigations and found Adidas in violation of our University Code of Conduct for its refusal to pay $1.8 million to 2,700 workers who were formerly employed at its PT Kizone factory in Indonesia. Similarly, the WRC has found Palermo’s Pizza, a pizza manufacturing company in Milwaukee, in violation of our code of conduct for violating workers’ right to freedom of association.

Thanks to past sit-ins, we also have

a Labor Licensing Policy Committee, a shared governance committee that advises the chancellor on labor decisions. The LLPC has advised Chancellor Ward to cut the contracts with Adidas and Palermo’s Pizza on multiple occasions.

Palermo’s workers have been on strike for nine months after being illegally fired for organizing for better work conditions, and Palermo’s Pizza represents unionbusting values contrary to UW’s pro-worker, pro-community values.

Community groups and campus groups, including the Dane County Board of Supervisors, have encouraged the university to join the ongoing boycott of Palermo’s Pizza.

Ward has ignored the shared governance process, students and the community. Not only has Ward maintained his corporate, antiworker values, he has continued his anti-shared governance despotism that forced him to leave UW more than a decade ago. He has ignored ASM

decisions, student support for WISPIRG’s funding and the recommendations of shared governance committees to cut our contract with Adidas.

Now, he is ignoring shared governance recommendations to cut our contract with Palermo’s Pizza.

As he nears the end of his term as interim chancellor, Ward still has one last opportunity to turn his legacy around.

He could choose to do his job and represent the voice of UW students and the Madison community, or he could reinforce and further strengthen his reputation as a corporatist autocrat. To Chancellor Ward, we say: the decision is yours, and the clock is ticking.

The UW-Mad@Palermo’s coalition includes members of Student Labor Action Coalition, Working Class Student Union, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Atzlan, United Council, United States Student Association, the Teaching Assistants’ Association and the International Socialist Organization-Madison, among other organizations.

Leland Pan (ltpan@wisc. edu) is a UW undergraduate and Dane County Board Supervisor for District 5. Charity Schmidt (cschmidt2@wisc. edu) is a UW Ph.D. student and Teaching Assistants’ Association co-president.

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The Badger Herald | Sports | Thursday, March 14, 2013

UW shifts into 2nd gear with playoffs approaching After slow beginning to season, Wisconsin gaining momentum for postseason push Kelly Erickson Men’s Hockey Writer It feels like a completely different season.

Looking back on the Badgers’ atrocious 1-7-2 start to the 2012-13 season, it’s hard to imagine how quickly things can change. Sure, October and November don’t seem so far away in retrospect, but now, by mid-March, that 10game streak started about five months ago.

It’s been 26 games since that fateful 4-2 home loss to Minnesota State capped one of the most heart-wrenching starts to a season. Twenty-six games. That’s 13 weekends of hockey, plus two weeks off for break. It’s been three and a half months since the Badgers essentially hit rock bottom.

“Regardless of where they end up in the season, you always have storms that appear on your journey,” head coach Mike Eaves said.

“Our storms just came right out of the gate and they were big storms. Our ship could have sunk then, but with the leadership we had in the locker room and the coaches and that leadership working together, we persevered through that tough time and picked up a very precious commodity: resilience.”

Since it’s end, no. 14 Wisconsin turned that ugly start into a 17-12-7, 13-8-7

WCHA season. With that record, they finished fourth in the conference and will host their first playoff series in three years.

Looking back on Nov. 24, 2012 after their seventh loss, the Badgers weren’t sure they would be able to be where they are today — in fact junior forward Michael Mersch admitted they probably didn’t think they could at all, at the time.

But with a little perseverance, persistence and resiliency Wisconsin started to win — and won big going on an impressive 11-game unbeaten streak and an 11game conference unbeaten streak, ultimately claiming the fourth place finish they were expected to have in preseason predictions.

“We never really lost hope and we just kept on battling,” sophomore goaltender Joel Rumpel said. “We knew that it was going to be a tough road ahead of us, but we all knew that we could do it. I think that’s what attributed to us being able to be in the position we are right now, from second-to-last in the league at the start of the year to finishing in fourth place — which is pretty special on our part.”

It wasn’t just resiliency that helped the Badgers finish the regular season sitting fourth in the WCHA. At the beginning of the season, Wisconsin implemented a new forecheck and different offensive system.

While these aspects certainly took some time getting comfortable with, both the offense and defense have

MICHIGAN, from 14 we’ve turned the ball over too much, given up too much in transition, haven’t done a great job rebounding — those are all things that just come down to execution and sticking to what helped us be successful,” senior

Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald

Sophomore goaltender Joel Rumpel (front) and Co. will look to extend their season when they open up the first round of the WCHA playoffs at home Friday at the Kohl Center. found their groove — leading to UW’s recent success.

“Both have gotten so much better since the start of the season,” Rumpel said. “At the start, both our defense and offense, and myself, struggled a little bit. Towards midseason our defense started getting a lot stronger —which helped me out — and coming into the home stretch here our offense has picked up quite a bit.

“Coming into playoffs is when you want your team to be at your best and I think we’re at that right now.”

Over the course of those streaks and the push toward the post season over the

forward Jared Berggren said. “If we get away from that, we can be an average team and get beaten by anyone.

“When we … take care of the ball, we rebound, we defend well, get back in transition and defend the basket, limit their easy shots, we’re capable of beating anyone.”

final games of the season, the Badgers have admittedly been playing desperate.

Every weekend has had some sort of impact on their postseason hopes — whether it was a potential boost in the PairWise rankings or a much needed three-point weekend from a conference opponent.

Now, with the playoffs finally upon them, Wisconsin isn’t changing pace.

But where the Badgers had room to lose a game in the regular season, there isn’t leeway this weekend — something Mersch was keen to point out.

“We’ve lost a few games,

NITTANY LIONS, from 14 The Badgers will hope that Dekker, an All-Big Ten Freshman Team selection, continues his role as a Lion tamer if the team does meet them in the first round of the tournament. Last Sunday the talented youngster gave UW

obviously,” Mersch said. “Now it’s coming down to the time of the season where you can’t lose. We have to take those out of our repertoire and keep winning.”

Kicking off their postseason, the Badgers host the UMD Bulldogs (14-175, 10-13-5 WCHA) — a team they have only seen once this season. When the Badgers squared off with the Bulldogs, it was the second week of the season, UW took game one 2-0 — its only win in its 1-7-2 stretch — and tied game two, 2-2.

Four and half months later Wisconsin considers

14 points off the bench despite struggling from the field.

“It’s going to be exciting, it’s going to be an experience I’m going to cherish,” Dekker said. “I’m going to play my heart out. I don’t want our second season to be cut short because I feel we have a lot of basketball left to play.”

Minnesota-Duluth to be just as different as it is.

“It’s two different teams at this point,” Eaves said. “They have a young team that’s grown up a lot. The guys that are the most of an offensive threat are their young kids. They’re not freshmen anymore. They’ve played in all key situations, and they have talent. We need to be ready for that.”

While the Badgers prepare to host UMD for the first time this year UW is just happy to return home for postseason play, a luxury which a majority of the team has never experienced.

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Post B1G tourney, 3 players qualify for Big Dance UW’s Hein, Graff, Medbery ready to wrestle March 21 in NCAA tourney Lee Gordon Wrestling Writer In the country’s most challenging wrestling conference tournament, the Wisconsin wrestling team finished 10th overall in the team competition at the Big Ten Tournament, but witnessed the Badgers’ top three wrestlers earn NCAA tournament bids.

Redshirt junior Tyler Graff, redshirt freshman Connor Medbery and redshirt junior Jackson Hein will compete at the NCAA tournament starting March 21 by finishing third at 133-pounds, fourth at heavyweight and seventh at 197-pounds,

respectively. Redshirt senior Tom Kelliher also earned a spot on the podium at the Big Ten tournament by finishing eighth.

Head coach Barry Davis was proud of the three Badgers that will be wrestling later in March but wished a couple more of his wrestlers were joining them.

“It’s good to get three guys to go [to the NCAA tournament],” Davis said.

“We had a chance to get a couple of more guys. We had some close matches, some opportunities we didn’t quite capitalize on.”

Both Graff and Medbery received top ten seeds in the NCAA tournament, with Graff wrestling as the 3-seed and Medbery wrestling as the 7-seed. Hein is unseeded in the 197-pound weight bracket and is the only Badger facing a ranked opponent in the first round.

The two-time All-

American Graff finished second in the Big Ten tournament two years ago and fourth in his freshman campaign.

Graff went 2-0 on the second day of the tournament, pinning Illinois’s Daryl Thomas in the first period and defeating Minnesota’s Chris Dardanes to finish third.

The Big Ten’s top rookie snatched the highest NCAA tournament seed of all freshmen in the heavyweight class based on his Big Ten tournament performance and was even able to do it feeling under the weather.

Medbery said he was vomiting throughout the entire weekend, even before competing, after catching the flu on Friday. However, Medbery tried to prove it to himself that he could compete with the league’s best even feeling sick.

“Part of it was mental toughness,” Medbery said.

“That was good, I still went out there and still competed and was able to win matches and even have close matches with some of the top guys even when I’m not feeling 100 percent.”

Medbery lost the thirdplace match by decision to the 4-seed in the tournament, Iowa’s Bobby Telford, after nearly scoring a takedown to finish in the top three.

Medbery was disappointed in his finish and knew he was capable of better wrestling, but knows he can hold his ground with difficult competition.

“It was good to test yourself because the Big Ten Conference is really tough,” Medbery said. “Just getting through that tournament knowing every match is a grind. That’s what NCAAs is all about.”

Hein finished the conference in the exact position he was seeded.

He won the seventh place match against 5-seed Braden Atwood in a 4-2 decision.

While Hein was looking to finish better than where he was positioned, he acknowledged that beating two opponents ranked in the top 20 is a feat worth noting.

He said he needs to improve his ability to get out from the down position to avoid his opponents racking up riding time points.

“It’s better than what happened last year,” Hein said. “Last year I went 0-2 and I wasn’t too happy when I was leaving the tournament. I’m definitely still not satisfied placing seventh, but I’ve had a lot of close matches with people.”

Hein has been fortunate enough to have trained with Badger assistant coach Trevor Brandvold. He earned two All-American honors and two Big Ten titles at the 197-pound weight class.

Hein said that wrestling with Brandvold in practice has been fundamental to his growth.

The Badgers have another few days to train until the three qualifiers travel to Des Moines on Tuesday for the NCAA tournament.

Davis understands that the last week of practice can be imperative in succeeding in close match situations.

“We just have to make sure we’re converting, coming out ahead instead of behind one point,” Davis said. “That’s the whole key. Whether it be one takedown by Graff, a matter of getting away, a matter riding a guy for five more seconds. There are things we’re going to continue to work on, and when we get to the NCAAs, we need to make sure that instead of losing by a point, we end up winning that match by a point because that could be the difference.”

Volleyball gets back to business with new coach at helm In offseason, 3 UW players gain extra experience trying out for USA squad Dan Corcoran Badger Blog Editor Winter and the winter sports season are slowly drawing to a close here at Wisconsin, and although brighter days and greener pastures are fast-approaching with spring on the horizon, many of the sports teams are about to head into a hibernation of sorts, at least competition-wise. However, the volleyball team is not among those with a break, and it is actually one of the few teams with a fall season and a spring season — albeit a shorter one for the latter.

Spring football practice started Saturday and so began the Andersen Era of

Wisconsin football, but only five days earlier and a few hundred feet away at the Field House, the Sheffield Era of Wisconsin volleyball also debuted with the first practice under new head coach Kelly Sheffield.

But for many of the players including sophomore Courtney Thomas, sophomore Ellen Chapman and junior Annemarie Hickey, it wasn’t their first time playing since the fall season culminated at the end of November. While all the players spent a few hours a week at the gym in the offseason, a little more than a week before practice began, the trio of players in Thomas, Chapman and Hickey had a very special opportunity to showcase their skills.

Beginning Feb. 22, the three players traveled to Colorado Springs, Colo. for the three-day U.S. National A2 team tryouts, a team that features the premier talent in

the college level.

As for how the opportunity came about for the three players, it was not a roundabout process but instead a very direct proposal as Hickey explained.

“Coach just called me up one day and was like, ‘Hey do you want to go to the USA tryout?’ Obviously, I wasn’t going to turn that down. It’s a great experience, a great opportunity. You get to play with some of the best people in the world for volleyball,” Hickey said.

For the first time for all three players, it was a chance to play with the best players that college volleyball has to offer instead of against them. And although it was a great opportunity to simply play alongside the best in the business, there was more to the experience than just that, which Sheffield found out his players had done in the report from the tryouts.

“The reports that I got

Badgers’ season ends after poor final performance wins — and heading into the final game, UW was riding an eight-game winning streak — a few more wins earlier in the season could have made the difference.

Should we question injuries? Maybe if senior Caroline Sage defenseman Stefanie Sage Advice McKeough and sophomore Brittany Ammerman weren’t sidelined for the In times of defeat, it is season UW would have won easy to look at everything more games. that was working against Then there is the easiest you. to blame of them all, the Blame the opponent, tournament selection or the coach or look back process. at previous performances Heading into the and wonder. Fault injuries matchup between the or question the outside Badgers and North Dakota powers for putting you in last Friday, it was clear the a predicament in the first teams were playing for place. The list can run on much more than a spot in and on. the WCHA tournament And for the Wisconsin championship game. women’s hockey team and They were fighting it out all those who support the for a place in the NCAA Badger ladies, this is a very tournament, which the easy road to take. rankings correctly showed For the first time since only had room for one. the expansion of the NCAA Yes, I agree, it seems tournament to an eightwrong that just two team field and with head coach Mark Johnson behind teams from the WCHA would make it into the the bench, the Badgers have tournament. The conference not advanced to the Big has taken all 12 national Dance. championship titles since However, Sunday night the tournament was first at approximately 5:04 p.m., played in 2001 after all. But UW learned that streak had in winning every conference ended, and its 2012-2013 game, the Golden Gophers season was finished. hurt the group as a whole Wisconsin finished the by inflicting more losses on regular season tied for the other WCHA teams this second place in the nation’s season, making them less toughest women’s hockey competitive ranking wise on conference. And coming the national level. from the conference with This would be the easy, a Minnesota team that has and in many ways, the yet to be touched, a 23-10-2 justified outlook on this record come selection time season’s conclusion. for UW was by no means But don’t forget to take unqualified. one hard look at the team So why are the Badgers itself and realize Wisconsin’s no longer competing? performance last Friday We could criticize their against UND is to blame. early season performance.

The Badgers knew exactly The Badgers opened the season with an unimpressive what was at stake in what turned out to be their final 3-3-2 record that had many game against North Dakota question the ability of this and simply failed to execute. team. While they silenced Last Wednesday, Johnson questions by turning their spoke with confidence play around to earn 19 more

about what they needed to do to come away with a win: continue doing what they have done to win the past eight games and don’t give UND unneeded opportunities by taking penalties.

But when the team stepped onto the ice Friday afternoon in Minneapolis, adorned in their usual white with cardinal red, the play on the ice from those jerseys showed no resemblance to what fans had witnessed in the recent past.

In the first two minutes of each period Wisconsin took a penalty, allowing North Dakota to set a pace each time out. And while there were no power play goals, UND established a rhythm in their own favor that was clean, simple and fast, leaving Wisconsin chasing UND for most of the game and not playing their own game.

UW uncharacteristically put up just eight shots on goal in the first 40 minutes of play.

After UND took a 2-0 lead with goals in the first and early in the third, Wisconsin finally began playing like the team that won 14 of its last 17 games with pure domination. Firing 16 shots in the third period finally earned UW a goal. But still down with 3:54 left in the game, another penalty killed all hope. When the final horn sounded, UW had been outplayed by its rival.

My respect for this team runs deep, and I would have liked to see what the squad could do in the NCAA tournament. But at the end of the day, or season rather, it was Wisconsin’s final performance that should take the most thought when we back on how things unfolded.

Caroline is a junior majoring in journalism. Think she’s wrong? Email her at csage@ badgerherald.com.

back were that they had really good tryouts,” Sheffield said. “It’s one thing to tryout, but it’s another thing when you’re playing against top notch competition of being able to bring it. It sounds like our players were able to bring it, so we’ve got talent here.”

It was supposed to be a three-day tryout for Chapman, Hickey and Thomas, but it blossomed into more thanks to some bad weather. The flight for Madison scheduled for Sunday night was cancelled due to a snowstorm, which allowed the three Badgers an opportunity to bond with their new assistant coach Brittany Dildine for the first time since she joined Sheffield at Wisconsin. The players were able to realize not only who Dildine was as a coach, but also as a person, yielding a fun, positive experience for all four.

“I never really knew her

before that, so it was really neat getting to know her and seeing that’s she not just a coach to us. She is like a friend,” Chapman said.

The individual experiences in Colorado Springs are symbolic as they transition into what the spring season for volleyball is all about. Much shorter than the fall season, the Badgers spring schedule — consisting of three games and a tournament this year — is geared toward the improvement of the individual rather than the team.

“I’ve always thought the spring was about the individual and the fall was about the team. This is kind of different when you’re a new coach coming in because you’re trying to learn about each of them individually but you’re trying to put some of those pieces together, as well,” Sheffield said.

Not only does the spring

season allow for the players to concentrate on their own development, it also allows for a new coach in Sheffield and his coaching staff to get to know and understand his players whom he only recently met.

“Right now it’s just about learning each other. I’ve got to learn who they are and what they’re capable of, and they’ve got to learn me and what our expectations are and how we run things,” Sheffield said. “We try to have a gym where there’s a lot of learning going on, a lot of competing going on and just start building from there.

This is day one. Rome wasn’t built in day.”

Regardless of how Wisconsin fares this upcoming spring season, the new life and foundations that are a part of spring ball will be the most important in paving the road to success come fall and in the seasons to come in the Sheffield Era.

Sports Editor Nick Korger sports@badgerherald.com

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After earning bye in first round of Big Ten tournament, Wisconsin likely to face 5-seed Michigan in semifinals Ian McCue Men’s Basketball Writer It’s nearly impossible to follow up a miracle, the kind of game singularly defined by “The Shot.”

But if the Wisconsin men’s basketball team draws a rematch with Michigan in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament Friday, it will be trying to do just that. It was just more than a month ago that junior guard Ben Brust tossed up and sunk a shot launched just a few steps past halfcourt as the clock expired, students swarmed the floor as the unranked Badgers took down the No. 3 Wolverines.

UW players, however, realize it’s a fresh slate in the single-elimination format at Chicago’s United Center, and Big Ten Player of the Year Trey Burke remains an

equally, if not more lethal, guard than he was in early February. “[Burke’s] the type of guy you can’t really scout because he’s such a reactionary player, he doesn’t have too many weaknesses,” sophomore point guard Traevon Jackson said. “With him you just got to kind of get a hand up and hope the ball doesn’t go in.

“Make him take tough shots, but he’s made so many tough shots already so it just becomes natural to him.”

Wisconsin held one of the nation’s best point guards to 8-of-21 shooting in its one and only matchup this season, but Burke still finished with 19 points.

Any hope of shutting Burke down is unrealistic, the primary goal instead to keep him from taking over the game offensively. It’s

something he can do not just as a scorer but also as a distributor, averaging 6.8 assists per game.

“Trey’s really done a great job of learning how to create on his own and you can guard him perfectly and he’ll still create separation, be able to get a shot off,” UW associate head coach Greg Gard said. “He doesn’t make them all, but he’s made his fair share of them obviously, being the MVP of the league.”

Even if Burke enters a dry spell he has plenty of talent around him to keep Wisconsin defenders on their toes. Shooting guard Tim Hardaway Jr., a first team All-Big Ten selection by the coaches, had 18 points in the Badgers’ upset at the Kohl Center and hit a well-contested three-pointer in the final five seconds, the apparent game-winner

before Brust’s miracle heave.

While he may not be able to match Burke’s natural ability to create his own shot, Hardaway still posts 14.8 points per game as a steady 45 percent shooter and has the ability to step outside and convert a deep three.

Although the Wolverines’ two elite guards hog most of the spotlight, Michigan’s scoring threats don’t end there. Freshman guard Nik Stauskas can catch fire from three-point territory and his 46 percent conversion rate from downtown ranks thirdbest in the Big Ten. “They’ve got a lot of weapons, they’ve played a lot of guys,” Gard said. “They played 12 Sunday against Indiana, so they’ll keep rotating the frontline guys through there, and obviously Hardaway and Burke get most of the attention.”

The biggest change since the first matchup likely comes in the frontcourt, where 6-foot-8 junior forward Jordan Morgan is in the lineup after an ankle injury sidelined him in the earlier matchup with the Badgers. Along with Morgan, freshman forward Mitch McGary, who proved effective in the post against UW with 12 points and eight rebounds, rounds out the Wolverines’ primary inside threats.

While Michigan must first make it past a pesky Penn State team Thursday — one that upset the Wolverines in State College, Pa., on Feb. 27 — Wisconsin will be running with fresh legs. The Badgers snuck into the top four of the conference standings and earned a first-round bye thanks to a last-minute collapse by the Wolverines in a 72-71 loss to Indiana at

home Sunday.

The key for a Wisconsin team that barely squeezed out a victory over the Nittany Lions Sunday courtesy of a late Jackson three-pointer is a return to its foundational principles.

Following a stretch of three consecutive wins by at least 20 points, the Badgers were the victim of backto-back losses to Purdue and Michigan State due largely to uncharacteristic defensive lapses that handed the opponent easy transition baskets.

And in a Big Ten tournament stacked with talent, whether Wisconsin returns to its late-February form may decide whether the Badgers make a run at their first conference tournament title since 2008.

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Upset win over Wolverines would mean second-round matchup between Nittany Lions and Badgers Friday Nick Korger Sports Editor Penn State may be the 12-seed heading into the Big Ten Tournament’s open round, but that doesn’t mean the team is a long shot to beat the 5-seed, Michigan.

After all, the Nittany Lions have already shocked the Wolverines once this season.

Losing their first meeting in Ann Arbor, Mich., back on Feb. 17, Penn State shocked the Big Ten just 10 days later with perhaps the biggest upset of the conference season, beating No. 4 Michigan at home 84-78 and sending reverberating shock waves through the college hoops world.

“They work as hard as any team in the conference,” freshman forward Sam Dekker said. “They cause some problems, especially

on the defensive end.

Obviously, they’ve only won two conference games, but they beat a good Michigan team and they almost beat us. They’re not an easy team to take down.”

That’s why Wisconsin (2110, 12-6 Big Ten) wouldn’t be shocked if Penn State (1020, 2-16 Big Ten) shocked Michigan again, this time on a neutral court when the two face off Thursday afternoon on the hardwood of Chicago’s United Center.

“Michigan is a jumpshooting team. They rely on jump shooting from Hardaway and Burke,” senior guard Dan Fahey said. “A big part of our game was getting [Jared] Berggren going early, while Michigan has NBA guys who hit mid-range shots, but if they’re not hitting it’s tough for them.

“In this conference you expect the unexpected.”

That’s the main reason the Badgers were able to survive their meeting with the Lions this past Sunday, relying on the double-double of redshirt senior center Berggren to pace them during their 63-60 win over the Lions.

And they didn’t make things any easier when they played the Badgers during the first meeting between the two at the Kohl Center.

This year both meetings between the two teams were decided by an average of six points.

Both games were wins for Wisconsin, even though the Badgers probably didn’t deserve to win the last. If not for a Traevon Jackson buzzer-beating heave from deep, UW could have potentially lost its third straight game last Sunday.

“It felt good, mainly it was great to get the win,”

sophomore guard Jackson said. “We grinded it out and got the finish we wanted.

Any one of our guys on our team could have hit that shot because we all have that confidence, we all know that.”

Even though the Lions record in Big Ten play is the worst in the conference, and the scores may hide it, head coach Patrick Chambers has done a commendable job making his squad competitive.

Chambers suffered a similar situation Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan experienced at the beginning of the year when veteran guard Josh Gasser went down with a torn ACL. Just four games into the season Chambers saw his best player, 2012 First Team All-Big Ten guard Tim Frazier, go down when he ruptured his left ACL.

Losing Frazier, who averaged 21.7 points and five assists in the three complete games he played, took away a dominant, athletic scorer and a skilled distributor off the dribble.

But, Chambers was able to turn it around, developing redshirt sophomore guard D.J. Newbill and junior guard Jermaine Marshall into solid offensive options.

The duo combined to wreak havoc on the offensive end against the Badgers last Sunday, combining for 45 of Lions’ 60 points. Both players shot 9-of-20 from the field, with no other player on the roster shooting more than five times.

“They’re good at those floaters, those mid-range shots,” Fahey said. “That’s what they’re looking for.

Those are shots that they like to take and those are shots we usually force teams

to.”

Still, if UW faces Newbill and Marshall again Friday afternoon at the United Center it will have to limit penetration in the paint.

This holds especially true for Newbill, who has solid court vision and dished out five assists against Wisconsin this past Sunday.

If Penn State does beat Michigan and advance to the quarterfinals to play Wisconsin, the Badgers will most likely stay with their same plan of attack that they used the last time around: Try to get the ball down low to Berggren, as the center poses a severe mismatch because of Penn State’s lack of size, and hope their outside shot is on, stretching any sagging defensive help on Berggren to the perimeter.

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