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Students, city community voice concern on legislation that would streamline renting laws Alice Coyne Higher Education Editor A bill set to see an Assembly Committee vote today invalidating many Madison ordinances that protect tenants has sparked ire in the student and city community.

As each municipality is currently able to have its own set of renting ordinances, the bill aims to make a uniform set of laws statewide, thereby overturning these locationspecific ordinances, according to the bill.

The bill was introduced to the Assembly and referred to the Committee on Housing and Real Estate on

April 30. The bill, if passed out of committee, could reach the Assembly floor next week, according to the Legislature’s website.

“At this point, the sheer speed that [the bill] is going through has really caught me by surprise,” Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee member Ryan Prestil said. “It came to committee before people could even figure out what it was about. It’s difficult to get the full idea of what’s going on.”

Prestil said, if passed, the bill would make many changes to state statute

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Regional English dictionary work gains new funds Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor A recent wave of gifts and funding brought new prospects for the Dictionary of American Regional English.

An anonymous $100,000 gift joined the increased funding streams for DARE last week, according to a University of Wisconsin

statement. The statement said the project also received a $30,000 gift from the American Dialect Society and $100,000 in non-tuition and non-state funding from UW’s College of Letters and Science.

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Paul DeLuca and Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Darrell Bazzell also committed their

support with a $130,000 per year, three-year commitment, according to the statement.

DARE is a cataloged record of all of the words, phrases and pronunciations of words in the English language that vary from one part of the U.S. to another, Chief Editor Joan Hall said.

“Until we see how much variety there is, we really won’t have any understanding

at all of historical, ethnic and regional differences in our speech,” Hall said. “Granted, we do communicate very well, but there are many thousands of differences.”

Gifts from DARE’s individual donors have “fallen off,” Hall said. She said this lack of donations is probably due to the economy and because some people felt that since the dictionary reached

the letter “Z” in its print edition, it was time to move onto other things.

The most recent anonymous $100,000 gift, Hall said, is a wonderful contribution to the dictionary’s ongoing expenses.

This gift, Hall said, will hold off the seven layoff notices she was forced to send out at the end of June.

Now these people, including

Hall, will be employed for almost another year at least, she said.

The collection is important because the English language of the U.S. evolves and changes with time, according to DeLuca. He said although work is finished on the “A” through “Z” five-volume DARE editions, the project is

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WEDC audit provokes yearly review legislation Noah Goetzel State Politics Editor

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“The Hub” would sit at 441 North Frances St. and stand 12 stories high. Architects say the building will not interfere with the city’s skyline or block Capitol views.

Committee hears State Street complex designs Mixed use building, “The Hub,” would contain stores, apartment units Sarah Link Reporter A new mixed-use building that would change part of State Street underwent its first critique before a city commission at

a meeting Wednesday.

The Urban Design Commission heard an informational proposal from Court Campus for a 12-story residential building located at 441 North Frances St.. The building, called “The Hub,” will contain a mix of retail stores facing State Street and many residential units, as well as an outside courtyard.

Jeff Zelisko, an architect on the project, said The

Hub would be built with a brick and glass style similar to other buildings on State Street.

In accordance with city ordinances, the side of the building facing State Street will be set back at various levels. The architects also said the building will not interfere with the skyline or block the view of the Capitol or State Street.

The proposed project

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After an independent state review organization produced an audit bringing to light the state economic growth agency’s failures, a Democratic senator announced Wednesday he plans to introduce a bill requiring these investigations to occur annually.

Sen. Dave Hansen, D–Green Bay, said in a statement this measure is the only way to ensure the quasi-public Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation acts neutrally after repeated incidents of mistrust and acting against the interest of Wisconsin taxpayers.

WEDC demonstrated a lack of transparency and accountability, the Legislative Audit Bureau said in its report last week.

The audit said Gov. Scott Walker’s flagship state jobs agency did so by inappropriately tracking its money that entire year and illegally funding unapproved projects and associates.

Hansen said WEDC granted Schenck SC $1.1 million in tax credits and $300,000 in grants for monitoring WEDC’s finances aside from official compensation.

“It’s clear from the audit that WEDC cannot be trusted to avoid conflicts of interest in its hiring of outside vendors,” Hansen said. “This is especially troubling when it is revealed that the firm hired to conduct an audit of WEDC’s book was itself conflicted because it represented businesses that were applying for assistance from WEDC.” Walker held an emergency public meeting with WEDC in Waukesha Wednesday to address concerns emphasized in the LAB’s findings.

WEDC board members expressed frustration at the meeting the agency was denied any information regarding the audit until it was released.

Reed Hall, WEDC secretary and CEO, said he is going through every issue with the corporation identified be the LAB to make certain these errors

have been rectified.

“This report does not reflect what we want the WEDC to be,” he said. “We work very hard to have a reliable, transparent organization.”

Hall said the LAB’s report is the fourth review of the WEDC, and each one adds to the organization’s goals for the organization’s future. He noted, however, the process of getting back on track for helping develop Wisconsin’s economy has faced setbacks since the WEDC replaced part of the state’s Department of Commerce.

Walker noted during the meeting WEDC has helped numerous state businesses improve job creation efforts and allow Wisconsin’s business climate move up the National Federation of Independent Business to 17th nationally since 2010.

“That’s all the more reason why I get frustrated when we still have to discuss lingering administrative issues, which may be attributed to just a handful of people,

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Soglin calls for lobby change Aliya Iftikhar Reporter The city would require certain city contractors to disclose contributions to advocacy organizations under a new resolution proposed by Mayor Paul Soglin Tuesday.

Soglin introduced the ordinance that would require disclosure for person or entities entering into a contract with the city in excess of $25,000, according the proposed legislation. The contractors will be required to disclose contributions made to certain advocacy organizations and failure to do so will result in a one-year disbarment from contracting with the city, according to the legislation.

The ordinance mainly affects groups and developers that contract regularly with the city, according to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8. It allows the public to have a more transparent insight into major city contracts, he said.

Groups that regularly contract through the city of Madison are currently able to put unlimited contributions toward super political action committees, Resnick said. The ordinance

will make some of these groups rethink their financing choices, he said.

The ordinance may also discourage some contributions to shadowy political organizations by contractors, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said.

It will also bring light to the money that is involved in political advocacy and shed light on how much money is being spent by city contractors, he said.

The ordinance is not exclusive to Madison, Verveer said.

Many communities have adopted it across the country, he said.

The ordinance is a response to the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this year, which struck down restrictions on the amount of expenditures for election or political related advertising under the First Amendment, according to the legislation.

Under the same amendment, the Supreme Court did not restrict mandatory disclosure of political or election related expenditures and upheld the disclosure requirements in the federal law, the legislation said.

As a result of the Supreme Court ruling, the ordinance will not

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Madison Mayor Paul Soglin proposed a new city ordinance that would require city contractors to disclose contributions to advocacy organizations. The resolution would mainly affect developers that contract regularly with the city, Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said. prohibit any payments being made but will also include exemptions, Verveer said. He said it is possible contractors for public works projects may be exempted.

Verveer said he was disappointed in the Supreme Court decision and supports the Mayor’s ordinance. He added the ordinance will help mitigate the damage caused by the Supreme Court decision.

“I think this is a very positive proposal that will help mitigate the damage caused by the Supreme Court decision,” Verveer said.

“If a company doesn’t want to disclose their anonymous political contributions I don’t know that I really want to do business with them.”

Verveer said he does not see any reason for resistance against the ordinance and said the majority of people

think it is a positive thing.

He said he expects the ordinance to pass.

The ordinance will be on the agenda at the next meeting of the City Finance Committee on May 13 and if it passes it will be up for approval at the city council the following week, Verveer said.

Resnick said he believes the ordinance is important for the city.

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City zoning code rewrite fosters development Bennet Goldstein Reporter Property development proposals are currently adjusting to the new approval process under the city of Madison’s rewritten zoning codes that went into effect earlier this year.

City officials enacted the zoning code changes on Jan. 1 to incorporate changing demands for housing and to streamline the approval process in order to attract new businesses to Madison.

The new zoning codes allow for the kinds of buildings developers often propose to build, Brian Ohm, an urban and regional planning University of Wisconsin professor, said.

Having pre-approval reduces the number of proposals that

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The Hub will attract a lot of both positive and negative attention if it is built, Ald. Lauren Cnare, District 3, said. “[The building] will be one where people sit up and take notice.” Cnare said.

Regarding the proposed 12 stories of the building and its effect on the layout of State Street, Cnare said the building likely sounds

have to be negotiated, he said.

Ald. Ledell Zellers, District 2, said the rezoning also incorporated the city’s priorities as outlined in its Comprehensive Plan.

“The new zoning code … lays out in the requirements that anybody could see what it is we are looking to be built,” Zellers said.

Zellers, who sits on the city’s Plan Commission and Downtown Coordinating Committee, said it is a very “active” time for property development in Madison, particularly on the city’s east side.

Zellers said current projects tend to be housing and rental properties.

She described several developments downtown and on the 800 block of

East Washington Avenue, which are working their way through the proposal stages.

“There is a lot of excitement about the 800 block proposal that includes a grocery store, some room for businesses and quite a bit of residential [space],” Zellers said.

Prior to the zoning code rewrite, developers relied on zoning ordinances from 1966, according to the city’s website dedicated to the project.

“The zoning that was in place reflected a 1960s emphasis on more suburban style development,” Ohm said. “That proved unworkable for the city in a number of respects.”

The reasons why the old plan proved unsuccessful are reflected in the changing

needs of cities, specifically the continued move to redevelop urban landscapes with mixed housing and business structures, Ohm said.

The city of Madison Comprehensive Plan, adopted in January 2006, outlined a vision for city development that included the creation of densely spaced, tall, mixed-use buildings, according to the city website. The plan also recommended developing streets oriented for use by pedestrians, bicyclists and the mass transit system, the website said.

The previous zoning ordinances separated sections of land into singleuse districts, Ohm explained.

Developers had to go through a special rezoning

process if they wanted to construct buildings for combined commercial and residential uses.

“The zoning [was] rewritten on a parcel by parcel basis,” Ohm said. “It [was] a very time consuming and intensive process.”

The process may have contributed to the sense that Madison was against development, even “antibusiness,” Ohm said.

Throughout time, consensus emerged that the process needed to be streamlined, he said.

Zellers said she is pleased with how the rezoning changes are running so far.

She added it is too early to tell how effective the zoning changes will be or if they will affect the character of Madison.

bigger than it will actually appear if built.

UDC member Thomas DeChant said the meeting was designed to give feedback to the architects. The project is still in its initial stages, and the meeting does not determine the fate of the project.

DeChant said he was not “wowed” by the project and felt the design has several issues that need to be worked out. Overall, The Hub could potentially be improved, he said.

“I still have a lot of questions [about the project],” DeChant said.

“It’s a start but there is a lot of work to go.”

The commission also

heard an informational proposal on a residential

two to three bedroom units.

Commission member Dawn O’Kroley said the design of the building is not visually pleasing.

She said the apartment units appear too similar to each other and enough variation exists in the small courtyards between the units.

“The courtyards are very nice, but there needs to be collection of buildings,” O’Kroley said. “It looks too repetitive.”

O’Kroley also recommended adding a bike lane in compliance with city fire codes for residents that wish to bring their bikes up in to their rooms.

Jim Shields, the design architect for Olbrich Botanical Gardens, also presented a proposal for expansion. The proposal included the expansion of some buildings and the gardens, as well as building an educational wing and safer and greener parking.

“Olbrich appears to be a very important, vital thing for many.” Shields said.

All three buildings are still in the design process and will be up for approval by the commission sometime during the summer. If approved, construction will begin on The Hub in January 2014 and is set to open in two years.

to award DARE with a $130,000 per year, threeyear commitment was based on a number of factors. He said estimates suggest the revenue stream in terms of royalty from the original hardbound volumes will take up to two or three years to stabilize.

It was difficult to anticipate the amount of external funding from various foundations, DeLuca said. He said it takes some

time to compete for and put foundation funding into place.

“Our estimate was from what could be done from central campus, recognizing that new income streams will come in and replace the short term money we provided,” DeLuca said.

Hall said throughout the dictionary’s history, the National Endowment for the Humanities has primarily funded DARE.

Other large streams of funding, she added, came from the National Science Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, different parts of UW and other private foundations that have been extraordinarily generous.

“I am incredibly grateful to all of the people and organizations that have helped us,” Hall said. “I think they will be proud to be associated with our work.”

leadership, Walker said it is important WEDC does not lose focus of job number one: helping Wisconsin’s job creators to provide more jobs.

Assembly Minority Leader Rep. Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said the unawareness of WEDC’s

transgression among its board members has often been lacking until months after such incidents occurred. He said members must be informed of these concerns as soon as they are discovered.

“To really take advantage of the private sector input,

which was the whole idea of creating WEDC in the first place, the board needs to be appraised immediately as soon as it comes up and we need to receive the documentation well before the meeting,” Barca said.

“That will facilitate active participation by the board.”

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The dictionary editors are now working on creating an online edition, DeLuca said.

He said this involves making a searchable database that is hyperlinked to multiple locations.

“I don’t mean putting a PDF file online,” DeLuca said.

“We have to transition from the old to new.”

DeLuca said the decision

WEDC, from 1 some of whom are gone,” Walker said. “To tackle those issues, it detracts from the otherwise exceptional work the front line WEDC staff is doing.”

In the efforts to refocus on strong administrative

‘The courtyards are very nice, but there needs to be a collection of buildings.”

Dawn O’Kroley

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building planned for the 700 block of East Dayton Street. The proposed building is a four-story complex with containing

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Assembly approves bill curbing Milwaukee board Noah Goetzel State Politics Editor The Assembly approved legislation to limit the Milwaukee County Board’s finances and authority Wednesday due to complaints the board abused its power and in the midst of its pending illicit union negotiations.

The Republicancontrolled Assembly voted 59-39 to pass the bill along party lines and move the measure to the Senate.

The Senate’s Committee on Elections and Urban Affairs also endorsed the identical bill Wednesday, which could bring it to the Senate floor as soon as next week.

The bill proposed by former board supervisor Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, R– West Allis, would cut out two-thirds of the Milwaukee County Board’s

TENANT, from 1 that would affect student tenants in particular. For instance, the first section of the bill outlines that municipalities are not allowed to have laws in place that require landlords give their tenants any contact information not required at the federal or state level.

With this new regulation, landlords would only be able to give out their name and address to tenants. Additionally, if the landlord’s building is in code violation, he or she is solely required to tell potential renters if there is a written order from a building inspector.

More than half of Madison’s residents are renters, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said. He said he was concerned the list of potential new laws will entirely override the city’s comprehensive list of ordinances in place to protect renters.

annual budget, limit their four-year terms to two years and reallocate the board’s authority in contracts, union negotiations and property sales to the Milwaukee County executive.

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele said in a statement he supported the Assembly’s passage of the legislation restructuring of the board in a statement.

He thanked Sanfelippo for understanding the measure’s importance to the Milwaukee taxpayers and looks forward to the objective of achieving county government reform.

Additionally, the bill would give Milwaukee residents the choice to halve salaries of board supervisors down to about $24,000 during a referendum vote next

April.

Sanfelippo said the Milwaukee County Board overstepped its bounds on numerous occasions and cannot continue to act like it is above the law. Given Gov. Scott Walker’s support of his bill as well as the Republican majority in the Senate, Sanfelippo said in the Assembly session he is confident the board’s reforms bill be written into law.

“We’re at the point where we know this thing is going to pass,” he said.

However, opponents of Sanfelippo’s measure argue the referendum vote should occur in November, rather than April, when turnout is higher traditionally and that it should encompass more than just the salary of board supervisors.

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He said the bill would make it illegal for landlords to provide voter registration information to tenants.

The bill also gives landlords the right to tow cars on site without first getting permission from police or parking enforcement, which would throw off the balance between tenant and landlord, Brenda Konkel, Tenant Resource Center executive director, said.

“Students in particular get taken advantage of because they have no idea what their rights are,” Konkel said. “I think this bill sets them up to get taken advantage of even more.”

In an April 29 email sent to legislators when the bill was being circulated for co-sponsors, Sen. Frank Lasee, R-De Pere, and Rep. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, said the bill streamlines state tenant laws and “updates, cleans up and standardizes”

Wisconsin law. ”Current law presents questions, and often time, uncertainties regarding the landlord/tenant relationship,” the two said in the email. “This bill helps to clarify some of these questions, while also making improvements to current law...[it] also clarifies and enhances the rights and responsibilities of both the tenant and landlord in aspects related to personal property, rental agreements and civil procedure.”

Prestil said he hopes legislators will make amendments to those statutes significantly affecting students, but said details such as eviction are more of a gray area.

“The majority of the ordinances to be overturned have been on the books for a long time,” Verveer said. “I hope some legislators will realize that this is a very hastily rushed and outrageous proposal.”

Pasch, D–Shorewood, said state government should not dictate how Milwaukee County should run its operations. She added she was upset that no meetings were held in Milwaukee regarding the overhaul of the board until last week, accusing Republicans of not listening to what local constituents have to say.

“I’ve been in Milwaukee County – born there, lived there all my life — and I think for the people in this

body from all over Northern Wisconsin, and Western Wisconsin and Southern Wisconsin telling the people of Milwaukee County how to do business is arrogance,” Pasch said. “I am incredibly disappointed.”

Prior to the Assembly session Rep. Paul Tittl, R–Manitowoc, called on representatives to do what is right for Wisconsinites while putting all personal biases aside.

However, Rep. Brett

Hulsey, D–Madison, called out Ablele for simply being unable to cooperate with the Milwaukee County Board members.

Rep. Janet Bewley, D–Ashland, said it is contradictory for supporters of the bill to rally against what the federal government tells states to do but to have no problem adding regulation to smaller, local units of government such as the Milwaukee County Board.

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Bielema goes hog-wild all the way to Arkansas Bret Bielema is a party boy. He drinks, he likes to chase women — you get the drift.

In fact, Bielema was actually banned from several local bars for being such a sloppopotamus.

Thank God he left, and good riddance. Former University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin had better luck proposing her New Badger Partnership than Bielema had coaching big games.

They would probably both be insulted by this comparison, but who cares — they are both gone. We were honestly surprised that the Wisconsin Athletic Department did not have to start a fundraiser because Bielema was eating the department out of house and home. I mean, three racks of ribs, coach? And all the bacon?

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career was like a dog shitting outside — it does its business but doesn’t know what to do afterwards. When he got to the Rose Bowl, he seemed more interested in looking for his next source of poon than actually winning the game.

I mean, how the fuck do you use a timeout? Does anyone know? Do you make a “T” symbol? Like a steak? When are the best times to use it coach?

This is not YMCA football coach; this is the Rose Bowl!

So, imagine our surprise when this ineffective being with the IQ of a common ground squirrel (approximately 13.7) decided to leave Wisconsin for a school whose mascot is a pig. Sure, he was raised on a pig farm in a town where the sows outnumbered the people,

but did that mean that it was time to go “pig sooie”?

Bielema told his Wisconsin players after the announcement it was the best opportunity for him.

But we think that Bret just sucked.

Running away doesn’t solve everything. Choosing to take the money and run, rather than creating your own legacy at a major BCS school like current Athletic Director Barry Alvarez did, shows weakness. Who cares if Arkansas can pay your assistant coaches more?

Maybe win one of those two Rose Bowl and the donors might find a way to give your program a little boost.

But thanks for running away from your problems, Bret. Sometimes, a breakup with a real “pig” is for the better.

Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald File Photo Have you met our friend Bret Bielema shocked fans and players alike when he jumped ship and left the Badgers for a coaching position at the University of Arkansas.

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Reilly pulls a Buckner on cash fund Hansen drones on ... on drones It was late in the game, and the pressure was on.

Because Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 budget cuts resulted in a sharp decline in state appropriations for the University of Wisconsin System, the stakes were high as lawmakers began this year’s budgeting process. Believe it or not, the System appeared to be ahead in the game, and all signs pointed to a significant increase in state funding for UW schools – all system administrators needed to do was play heads up defense, and, you know, not fuck anything up.

You might say it was the bottom of the ninth inning, and the UW System was taking the field with a precarious two run lead.

That is, of course, until UW System President Kevin Reilly dropped the ball. Lawmakers uncovered a revenue appropriations balance of more than $600 million about which System administrators had been less than forthcoming.

All of the sudden, state politicians were calling for a revision of the budget to cut funding for UW schools.

Then there’s a ground ball hit to Reilly and …

well, shit. For system administrators, this should have been a routine play – after all, they simply needed to be up front with finances. It was their lack of transparency that lawmakers capitalized on for political gain.

Reilly’s flub didn’t end there – his response to irate lawmakers was, on the whole, clumsy. Republican legislators were reaming out the UW System, and rather than focusing on the financial necessity of the revenue balance and defending the System’s administrative decision

making, he spent too much time apologizing.

If it wasn’t clear that Republican lawmakers came out on top before Reilly made an appearance at the Capitol, it certainly was after his rather acquiescent question and answer session.

Now, as Walker talks about diverting funding from UW to K-12 schools and tax cuts, it is obvious that Reilly’s defensive error blew a late-inning lead. It also earned him this year’s Badger Herald Editorial Board Bill Buckner Award for Faulty Infielding.

Well, at least the lawns are safe The Madison Police Department came out with everything short of drone strikes to get students off of Mifflin Street this year.

On top of that, they spent last Saturday patrolling downtown threatening to ticket anyone daring to drink outside in the 70-degree sun. For that, we feel they deserve the Get Off the Damn Lawn award.

Choosing to approach a campus weekend with the subtlety and tact of 70-yearold yelling from his porch, MPD busted up any party not crowded indoors. Come on guys -- we know you are

usually a reasonable and respectful bunch when it comes to student house parties. Do not change just because you wanted to beat out Mayor Paul Soglin for this award.

They really went the whole nine yards in pursuit of this award. For that, we have to give them credit.

Sending threatening letters to those “kids with their rap music,” choosing ultimatums rather than discourse with house owners and, our favorite, enforcing noise violation restrictions that would have more of a place in our

grandparents’ retirement communities than on a college campus.

Of course, we can’t talk about their mishandling of the event without talking about how MPD threw Revelry under the bus by saying the world would be a better place as soon as it replaced all those “illegal house parties.” MPD showed ignorance worthy of this honor, by both misrepresenting Revelry’s intentions and basically saying that holding house parties is illegal.

Congratulations, MPD, for choosing to protect

lawns everywhere from the menace of a few students’ feet, a couple of speakers and, God forbid, a keg.

We salute your arbitrary application of regulations and indifference to the desires of your downtown community. That’s what grumpy old men do. If only we had played a little “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine in” and smoked some weed like you guys did at the first Mifflin, everything would have been swell. Instead, we were those damn kids drinking and listening to rap. We were basically asking for it.

Lessons in political SLACtivism It has been a great semester to be a student activist/sit-in enthusiast.

The Student Labor Action Coalition seized a golden public relations opportunity to occupy Interim Chancellor David Ward’s office and demand he unilaterally cut the university’s contract with Palermo’s Pizza.

Ward never heard their complaints, but this might have had something to do with the fact that he was not in his office.

After months of rallying, making posters and sending out campus emails calling for non-existent pizza parties, a mighty

crowd of 12 SLAC members descended on Ward’s office.

The sit-in also coincided with the publication of a report from the federal National Labor Relations board ruling Palermo’s did not violate labor laws when the company fired 75 employees following an immigration audit — further emphasizing the futility of the event.

Because SLAC has built a reputation on fighting the good ol’ leftist fight for ages, its latest antics were far from surprising (as was Ward’s continuing refusal to cut the contract).

But if this board had to select one figurehead

to accept the Attention Whore Award on SLAC’s behalf, University of Wisconsin’s own hapless jailbird Maxwell Love would be first in line. Love was so set on making an example of himself at the protest that he actually asked to be arrested and was subsequently loaded into a police van after the rest of the student protesters had joined the group’s planned rally on Bascom Hill.

Love is no campus hero for dragging the group’s main cause — justice for the fired Palermo’s workers — even further from the minds of moderate

thinkers on campus.

Certainly, students exist who might otherwise have been motivated to take up the call for labor rights (particularly in a city as hospitable to organized labor as Madison).

Unfortunately, SLAC’s psycho-liberal approach to the issue was exceedingly ineffective in terms of galvanizing mainstream support.

SLAC’s protest failed in bringing any substantive change for Palermo’s workers. However, it succeeded in what was apparently the protester’s main goal: bringing attention to themselves.

Remember the guy with drones? Neither do we.

The District 8 alder race did not start out on a terribly substantive note, with candidate Christian Hansen challenging incumbent Ald. Scott Resnick’s nomination signatures, while at the same time making an error in his own. Unfortunately, the campaign never got much more interesting — and never became much of a campaign at all.

Hansen racked up a few endorsements from progressive organizations early on, but his campaign never managed to gain much momentum.

Ultimately, a single image summed up the race as well as any words could: the photo of Resnick sitting next to an empty chair being held for Hansen at a candidate forum, from which Hansen was conspicuously absent.

The race was cut mercifully short when, on March 4, Hansen bowed out of the race, citing a lack of time and financial resources.

It’s a shame that University of Wisconsin students weren’t offered any choice in this election.

While Resnick has proven himself to be an excellent alder for the largely student district, this does not mean he should be free from facing competition. An election is not really an election only one candidate is running. Although the result would likely not have been different — hopefully not too many students could have been wooed by Hansen’s drone-based fear mongering — everyone would have benefited from an actual race.

No, seriously. This guy made drone-awareness a central tenant of his campaign.

Even though Hansen may not have been the most gifted campaigner, he could have made any magician — no, illusionist — green with envy of his ability to apparently slide right out of existence. For this, Christian Hansen wins our Stealthy, Like a Drone award.

Ward (almost) avoids headlines If you were to give former Chancellor Biddy Martin credit for one thing in office, it would be the sense of warmth she brought to the University of Wisconsin. Students loved her; she was personable.

About one month into David Ward’s tenure as interim chancellor, the Anglo-American made it clear that he was as disinterested in any form of engagement with the Madison community as a fifth-year senior with a high-paying job waiting after graduation.

Throughout his time in office, Ward has managed to anger any and every constituency important to UW, from conservatives who assume he’s just another liberal academic to campus activists who stormed his office.

Ward’s unpopularity is not the result of his controversial policy. On the

contrary, it is simply due to his overwhelming passivity.

Ward made it clear at the beginning of his term that he was acting more as a steward of UW than a leader, but early on he seemed to have misinterpreted his role as the university’s leader and public spokesperson. He rarely, if ever, made a noticeable effort to explain his decision making directly to undergraduates, and his blasé attitude when confronted by activists (“not these workers, not today.”) tarnished his reputation further.

So we are not giving Ward a headliner award, but instead a “Never-in-the-Headlines” Award. His passivity has created a power vacuum at UW, leaving incoming Chancellor Rebecca Blank not with shoes to fill, but with shoes to cobble.

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So long to 77 square miles of humanity Ryan Rainey Editor-in-Chief One of the most chronically repeated maxims about the University of Wisconsin holds that this institution, ostensibly renowned worldwide as a model for public higher education, is simply an “economic incubator.”

This is a convenient way for technocrats in Bascom Hall to explain to their counterparts down State Street what exactly UW does. Many legislators and policymakers understandably fail to acknowledge UW’s significance beyond an economic lens to take home to their constituents, and the university becomes just another item in the state’s biennial budget. The administration receives enough funding to keep that economic incubator running every two years, and the process continues every oddnumbered year.

Yes, UW is an economic incubator, and yes, Madison would likely be nothing but a gasoline-and-motel stop on Interstate 90/39 without the strip of academia between Park Street and Highland Avenue. But more important than the economics and the systematic churning out of a new workforce is an almost indescribable quality of humanity that emerges from an experience at Wisconsin.

In the last four years, that’s one of the crucial lessons I’ve learned about this university: It educates more with humanity and

humility than with the brand of cynicism that dictates education’s only value lays in its economic output. And in spite of a legislative assault on higher education’s humanity throughout the country, UW will continue to be a human institution for coming time.

So I’ll say, at the risk of sounding presumptuous, that UW has made me a better person in addition to giving me marketable skills.

I came here in 2009 from a typical exurban household and since arriving have learned two new languages, fulfilled the dream of exploring a distant nation and learned the virtues of good writing. The promise of living in a larger city like Washington, D.C. or Chicago drew me to a mid-sized place like Madison, where I could put on some urban training wheels before moving to a larger city.

Now I’m leaving Madison for one of those larger cities, happiest that this was a place where -- after experiencing death, divorce and financial ruin within my own family -- I was finally able to develop a kinship with those who I now love as part of my own adopted family.

That kinship would not have been possible without The Badger Herald, the experience that I will remember as the centerpiece of my experience in Madison.

The Herald taught me things not learned in classrooms: the confidence (or arrogance) necessary to prove the strength of your convictions,

the humility to know when you have reported incorrectly or wronged someone and the skepticism that defines every successful journalist.

I often carry out a thought experiment in which I never walked into the Herald’s offices and thus never became a journalism student. In an ideal world, my GPA would have been several-tenths higher, my life would be quieter and my appreciation for other parts of student life here would have increased. I’d probably be about 20 pounds lighter, too.

Every time I reach the same conclusion: Because of the Herald and the goodness I’ve seen in the people I work with and have grown to love for the last four years, I love UW. My bond with the people who also love the Herald kept me motivated to stay and learn to love the archetypal late nights at the office. This newspaper is a living example of that human quality of UW that technocrats ignore, and like the university, it will continue to hold that example regardless of format.

The Herald is consistently steadfast with its commitment to independence from the university’s administration, but it will continue to succeed because of a love for the UW community that cannot be ignored or imitated.

The staff that has worked with me this year has taught me lessons about journalism, resilience and loyalty in ways I never could have expected.

My successor, Katherine Krueger, is not only one of my

closest friends but also one of the most capable student journalists I have met at UW. Her tenure will surely be highly successful as the Herald becomes one of the first student media outlets to transition into a new climate for student journalists, and the team she has assembled for the task, led by incoming managing editor Katie Caron, will likely accomplish more in one semester than previous Herald staffs have accomplished in years.

At some point in the next two weeks, I will become one of those thousands of graduates of UW held up as someone with a job — another success for UW’s economic viability. The Herald will drift slowly down my resume as

my life continues, and my diploma will collect dust on a bookshelf.

Both institutions, however, have left an unerasable imprint on my conscience that will remain a permanent part of my identity.

From what I can tell, most UW alumni relive their time in Madison through their lifetime Union membership, an annual drunken visit to the Memorial Union Terrace during the summer and a stroll down State Street. I plan to remember my time here that way, too. But I’ll never forget to stop into the Herald’s office and have a chat with the editors of this incomparable student paper.

The Herald will always help bring the UW’s unique

human quality to Madison, and UW will always leave that permanent imprint on the lives of the hundreds of thousands of students who pass through in the decades or centuries to come. Being one of those students has been the privilege of my life.

Ryan Rainey (rainey. ryan09@gmail.com) is a senior majoring in journalism and Latin American studies. He’ll be moving to Washington, D.C. this summer to intern for The Huffington Post’s politics section.

He’d like to thank his family— Garry Rainey, Christy Rainey, Rylie Rainey, Patricia Post and Bob Reynolds—along with Laura Checovich, Brian Phelps and Katherine Krueger, for the last four years.

Dangerously close to cult status

Pamela Selman Editor-at-Large A set of old Herald sweatshirts bears the words, “Dangerously close to cult status.” Perhaps the saying is a bit presumptuous and just a tad politically incorrect. But it is also entirely true. I have to admit the saying has real merit when it comes to the Herald family — it certainly captures the spirit of who we are and what we do.

The Herald is remarkably different than any other

student newspaper in the country. I could point to the Herald’s complete independence from the university, the production schedule it runs on or the environment it thrives in pitted up against another student paper on campus each day.

Yet, what I keep coming back to when I try to explain the meaning the Herald holds for me and why it is so different than anything else I could have done with my college tenure is the

dedication Heralders demonstrate day in and day out. It is remarkable.

This dedication has, from time to time, broken each one of us in one way or another, myself included. I have seen my fellow comrades give literal meaning to the adage of pouring blood, sweat and tears into a product.

Whether the circumstances have called for making a newspaper sans Internet at three in the morning, starving yourself for an entire day in order to reserve your spot in committee hearings in the midst of the collective bargaining protests or hiding your mono diagnosis so that the show can go on, the Herald’s editorial team has truly proven itself to be one of a kind.

The Herald takes a lot from its staffers — academics, sleep and sanity are just a few of the frequenters on the “reasons why you shouldn’t do this to yourself” list.

Yet the return it provides is something so unique, so special and so empowering that even my parents now recognize the trade-off is well worthwhile.

A message from Opinion Editor Emeritus Reginald Young:

I DON’T ALWAYS WRITE FAREWELL COLUMNS

When I started out as a baby Heralder — an overly eager freshman who made the trek up the still breathtaking Herald stairs (no really, breath-taking) before the first day of my first year of college had even begun — I was what some would call a knowit-all.

What I failed to realize, though, was that the Herald would continue to teach me lessons about journalism, life and tough luck each day for the next three years. I’d like to think I’ve grown quite a bit as a person and a journalist since that first day.

Sure, the Herald has instilled in me a level of confidence and knowledge that sometimes allows me to mirror that know-itall freshman, but at least now I know — well, most of the time, anyways — the appropriate level of arrogance necessary to succeed.

The Herald has given me the chance to see the city I now view as my own through a lens that would otherwise have been severely out of focus.

I have gained invaluable relationships with sources

who have taught me more about Madison than I ever dreamt was possible. While Memorial Union Terrace chairs and Saturday mornings at the Dane County Farmers’ Market will always hold a special place in my heart, I’ve learned to expand my appreciation of what a University of Wisconsin degree can mean and the significance of the city around me. Some of these sources have impacted my life in ways they might not ever realize, and for that I will forever be grateful.

Our readership has also taught me lessons that I will never forget, whether I wanted to learn them or not. Having spent four semesters on the news team, I’ve felt the shame of getting it wrong, marring a name or being scooped on the story. As an opinion columnist, I’ve realized the world exists outside my bubble and my opinion is not always right or popular, but it is my own.

And most importantly, I’ve gained more than I ever imagined from the Herald itself and the staffers who give their all to make the Herald their

own. I’m not one of those overly sentimental people who deem everyone their best friend or remember every event in shining lights. Optimism has never really been my thing. But the only way I can describe these people -- who I have worked and grown with, disagreed with or consistently missed the 2 a.m. deadline with -- is my Herald family.

It’s truly been a blast, and I couldn’t have asked for a better or more inspired team of gentle clowns to run with. And because the Herald never really lets you out of its grip – no matter how hard you try – I know that this column might be goodbye to my writing days, but my love for the Herald will always ring true.

Pamela Selman (pselman@badgerherald. com) is currently the editorat-large and chair of the board of directors. She will be graduating with a double major in political science and strategic communications.

She will be moving to Chicago in July to join the corporate communications team at Edelman.

Cheers, Madison people, wrote a couple cool things and got insulted in roughly every way possible.

Again, thanks for the page views.

It has been an entertaining ride to say the least. When I started I certainly didn’t think that I would be made fun of by the Wall Street Journal or flashed at a bar as thanks for my Mifflin article. But it happened. Seriously. I saw her boobs.

“ ... I hope you gained some enjoyment out of my work.”

John Waters

BUT WHEN I DO, THEY LOOK LIKE THIS #YODO

Columnist I’m out bitches.

It’s been an interesting past three years, and I definitely enjoyed most of it. To all the real Badgers out there who had my back on all Mifflin-related issues, you guys are swell. To the rest of you, thanks for the page views.

Never change, Madison.

Keep partying, learn something and if it won’t kill you, pick up the Herald every once in a while. This is one of the best places to go to school, and I loved every minute of it. The Herald was a big part of that for me, being the organization I spent by far the most time with in my time here. I met some great

Anyway, love me, hate me or be completely indifferent, I hope you gained some enjoyment out of my work.

I did my best, and now I have to leave you all for the world beyond the lecture hall. As long as there is beer, I should be good. Cheers, Madison.

John Waters ( jkwaters4@ wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in journalism.

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herald to pioneer new media model

Happy summer, see you next year

Of course, the editorial Another semester has page is much more than a come to pass, and with it place for our writers to hold another installment of The forth — it’s a place to have Badger Herald’s editorial community-wide discussions. page. These have been an Thanks to letters to the eventful several months for editor from readers like you, those of us at the Herald, we’ve been marked by able to significant changes – “Of course, the editorial page represent the views the most important is much more than a place for of a great of which is our writers to hold forth — it’s variety of people and a pivot to an groups. online-first a place to have communityIf you’ve publishing wide discussions.” enjoyed model, reading the coming editorial page this semester, next semester. Along the way, you might consider writing we’ve had our fair share of opinion columns next year. If adventures. you didn’t enjoy everything We had a great group of on the page,or even if you writers this semester, each found a column infuriating, with his or her own area of expertise. This is part of what we encourage you to send us a letter sometime. At its core, we believe makes our page this page is a medium for great — it’s not just a place conversation, and we want for political science majors you to be part of it. to talk about politics. Among Although we’ll be heading our columnists, we have our separate ways for economics, Scandinavian summer vacation, here at the studies, sociology, math, Opinion Desk we’re already physics, journalism, history, thinking about next fall — psychology and yes, political we’ll both be here again next science majors, as well as a semester. The Herald will be law student thrown in for prioritizing online content, good measure. We have and the editorial page will be done our best this semester no exception. to foster an inclusive We look forward to the environment with a variety opportunity to experiment of opinions.

with a more immediate and interactive form of content – we’ll be putting more emphasis on shorter pieces that will be posted much quicker relative to the event they’re discussing.

We also want to find new ways of engaging with our readership, whether that be through Twitter or our existing comment section.

However, none of this means that the editorial page as we know it is going away.

We’ll still be publishing fulllength columns in print twice a week. We also want to take advantage of this newfound freedom from print constraints by producing more long-form, in-depth pieces.

Regardless of the changes that take place here, the editorial page will remain, at its heart, what it has always been — a forum for fostering ideas.

If you have any suggestions for ways to improve the page, or are interested in getting involved, please email us at heraldoped@gmail.com.

Charles Godfrey (cgodfrey@ badgerherald.com) and Joe Timmerman ( jtimmerman@ badgerherald.com) are the editorial page editors.

Katherine Krueger Incoming Editor-in-Chief Daily is irrelevant, and print is on its way out.

These are quickly becoming the maxims evoked to scare any freshman thinking about pursuing journalism back to the job security of the business school’s hallowed halls.

But instead of clinging to our daily print edition and our conceptions of what an old school, conventional student newspaper should be, The Badger Herald’s staff made a bold choice: to focus on covering the news that matters to students 24-hours a day while crafting a new print identity for our Monday and Thursday editions.

This means you’ll be able to track major stories online as they develop, rather than waiting to see the headline on anyone’s front page the next morning.

Daily print editions of a newspaper, student or otherwise, are not how students (myself included) get their news.

As a fully student-run news organization, it no longer makes sense to pour resources into a product

that doesn’t serve the needs of our readers.

As with any major change to an established organization, our announcement of a new publication model has been met with everything from cynicism to punditry — all of which are far easier than trying new solutions to old problems. Innovation is difficult. But as I prepare to take on the role of Editorin-Chief, I couldn’t be more excited to take the lead in rebuilding the Herald from the ground up.

The Herald was founded on being edgy, forwardthinking and oppositional — traits you only get from a fully independent student paper. As we create a new media organization that’s focused on digital-first storytelling and interactive content, we’ll also be reconnecting with our roots. The Herald has always been a student experiment, and this is the next chapter.

I am humbled and honored to have the chance to lead such a talented and innovative group of student journalists. I also should thank and praise my close friend and mentor, outgoing Editor-in-Chief

Ryan Rainey, for his incredible work this past year. Ryan has navigated rough waters with strength, poise and humor — achieving the incredibly difficult task of ruling with an iron first while wearing a velvet glove. He will be missed, but his drive for pursuing what’s next at the Herald will not be forgotten. I also want to thank my friend and Herald confidant Pam Selman, this year’s Editor-at-Large, for being understanding, insightful and one of the toughest ladies I’ve ever met. It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since we bonded over the life of an associate.

So next fall, if you’re a writer, a photographer, a designer, a hacker or simply interested in being a part of building an entirely new kind of college media organization, I encourage you to join us.

Big things are happening at the Herald — I’m just excited to be a part of what’s next.

Katherine Krueger (kkrueger@badgerherald. com) is a junior majoring in journalism and political science.

Social sciences find application in ‘real world’ Julia Wagner Staff Writer Graduation is just two weeks away, people are entering the “real world” and others are choosing their classes for next year – or their graduate school of choice.

With our society the way it is, it’s hard to know which college major will give you the best chance of thriving in this so-called “real world.” Books are being replaced by computers, methods of communication are advancing almost every day and it’s oftentimes not enough to just have a college degree when trying to get a job. Thinking about these things brings up the question of what you can do to understand why society is the way it is and how you can contribute to it.

In fact, a whole academic field is devoted, in part, to asking this question and other questions like it. The social sciences are concerned with studying the nature of society and the nature of humans in general. This field encompasses everything from history to psychology

to political science.

Choosing a major in this field is sometimes regarded as a soft option, and sometimes these studies are not seen as “real” sciences. However, our society has changed so much from what it has been – it is advancing so quickly that learning how to ask the right questions and offer possible answers could prove to be an invaluable skill.

No matter what job you go into after college, you will most likely find you have to work with people very different than you and learn how to manage them.

Alford Young, who chairs the sociology department at the University of Michigan, has some interesting thoughts on how sociology can help you relate to people. He states: “Sociology is the discipline that gives the greatest attention to social difference...We need to look beyond people’s individual motivations or their psychological foundations and gain a better understanding of how people’s social location with regard to gender or race influences their

research continues to thinking and behavior.”

Young makes a very good be cut at the national level. In February, House point when he suggests Majority Leader Eric we often attribute social Cantor, R-Va., called for differences to people on cutting National Science an individual level, when Foundation funding for in fact each individual social science. In addition, is influenced by many in early April Sen. Tom components of society.

Coburn, R-Okla., amended By majoring in one of the a federal spending law that fields of sociology, you removed National Science will likely find yourself Foundation funding for more prepared to perceive political science research, differences between people except in studies deemed you meet and more able to important for national deal with them. security. According to USA Understanding why Today, Coburn said the humans are the way they restriction are, and would why better society is “Though some findings in the way social science research may focus scarce it is, will basic enable you seem like common sense, research to consider they can actually have another important implications in dollars on “important important our changing society.” scientific question: Is it endeavors.” working? Is the society in A Harvard Business which you live operating Review article by Duncan in a way you find to be Watts, “The Importance working? If so, why is it of Studying the Obvious,” working? If not, what could helps to explain why be done to improve it? funding has been cut Despite the fact the and questions whether social sciences field has this is the right move. proven to be a very real Many people who control and complex area of study, NSF funding feel most funding for social science

research projects in the social sciences have little value to society. This is sometimes true. However, many projects in other areas of science are just as irrelevant as far as providing immediate, concrete value to society.

So why is the social sciences field singled out?

The main reason, Watts said, is that people perceive findings from social science research as “common sense.” Research results in the sociology field apply to people, not atoms or animals, and as such people feel researchers are telling them what they already know about themselves.

The process of proving these “common sense” conclusions, however, is just as arduous as proving any other scientific hypothesis. Moreover, Watts said when findings from studies do not support our intuition, the tendency is to dismiss them rather than be surprised or impressed. This is partly why funding is often cut for social science research.

Though some findings in social science research may seem like common sense, they can actually have

important implications in our changing society.

Examples are companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Google, who are hiring more and more researchers to ask questions about how their companies relate to society and to merge social science with computer science. More examples of this field’s usefulness can be found in virtually all areas of politics and international relations, including issues of economic development, social inequalities and ethical standards.

These examples support the idea that gaining knowledge of the social sciences is indeed useful.

We should seriously question whether funding should be cut for it, and if the reasons given for cutting the funding are valid. While a degree in the social sciences may not seem like the most useful or profitable choice on the outset, it is important to consider how this field of study may contribute to society in new and meaningful ways.

Julia Wagner ( jgwagner@ wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in English literature.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Faculty senate divestment discussion just beginning The May 7 article about the University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate’s vote on fossil fuel divestment contained a crucial factual error—in its headline. The Faculty Senate did not vote down a resolution calling on the UW Foundation to divest interests in fossil fuel companies. The body voted to form an ad hoc committee to further consider the issue, with the purpose of addressing it this autumn. The Faculty Senate’s conversation on

fossil fuel divestment has not ended: It has only begun.

UW family science professor Bruce Barrett’s resolution has begun a long-overdue discussion of how our investments contradict this university’s claims to promote sustainability. Through our endowment investments, we are profiting from activities that, if left unchecked, will cause crop failures, storm damage and extreme heat waves threatening our current

students’ economic prospects. If our university is truly committed to its stated mission to “preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help ensure the survival of this and future generations and improve the quality of life for all,” we are seriously off track, and divestment is an important corrective.

Some faculty senators suggested that divestment is not an effective way to approach the issue. It is true that divestment

alone cannot end the grip of fossil fuel interests on U.S. energy policy. But when we divest, we will free up funds to reinvest in better energy use and in Wisconsin businesses.

Financial analysts have found that this can be done at negligible loss of investment returns. We move forward the national conversation on our fossil fuel addiction. Moreover, we will bring ourselves more in line with the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea.

Support for fossil fuel

divestment is growing at UW, as on more than 300 other campuses nationwide. More than 1,300 UW students, faculty, staff and community members have signed a petition demanding divestment. One-hundredand-twenty faculty members have signed an open letter calling for the same.

This autumn we will hear further deliberations in the Faculty Senate. We will see bigger actions by the student organization

Climate Action 350UW. We will be part of a national movement for climate sanity. As I take my degree and move on, I look forward to returning to a UW that is once again at the national forefront, just as when it was among the first major universities to divest in protest of South African apartheid.

John Zinda ( jzinda@ wisc.edu) is a doctoral candidate in the department of community and environmental sociology.

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UW System takes heat for reserves debacle Noah Goetzel State Politics Editor Legislators statewide erupted with fury after the University of Wisconsin System president requested a tuition increase despite a nonpartisan state agency’s April revelation that it was sitting on more than a billion dollars in reserves.

The Legislative Fiscal Bureau’s report indicated the system had $648 million in unrestricted assets and increased these funds by more than $200 million since 2011.

Andy Fate The Badger Herald

UW estimates say the system’s balances could inflate another $150 million by the end of June.

UW Board of Regents President Brent Smith attributed the unprecedented increase in cash on hand is due to both increasing enrollment to UW schools the past five years and repeated tuition hikes of 5.5 percent during that time period.

The LFB’s findings will almost certainly determine the amount of funding the Legislature will allocate to the UW System.

Gov. Scott Walker called on the Joint Finance Committee to

freeze student tuition to all UW schools. Walker said Friday an undetermined sum, originally $181 million intended for the system, will now support K-12 public schools and an expanded tax cut.

UW System President Kevin Reilly said lawmakers have overreacted to these reserve balances, as the system holds only a quarter of the funding it spends – a figure smaller than the majority of other systems and universities.

However, Reilly said he is working with Smith to create a

new policy for its reserves that increases transparency and sets a minimum amount of assets the system should hold in reserves at all times.

Reilly added the notion the UW System is sitting on a pot of a billion dollars is misleading.

Approximately $400 million comes from federal aid, grants, contracts, gifts and other sources and is inaccessible.

Additionally, Reilly said about $441 million of that sum is already committed to education operations at the system’s 26 campuses.

Andy Fate The Badger Herald

Mifflin sees decline as Revelry kicks off

Chancellor search comes to close

Sarah Eucalano

Julia Skulstad

City Hall Editor Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, summed up the state of the Mifflin Street Block Party the day after 2013’s event, saying “the past Mifflin that some upperclassmen are used to is done.”

In early April, Madison police issued a neighborhood letter saying there would be no block party on May 4, causing a stir in the campus community over the future of the event.

This year’s Mifflin was almost nonexistent compared to previous

years’ festivities on the street, which along with their drunken antics are also remembered for high levels of police presence and violent crimes such as stabbings and sexual assaults in 2011.

The 2012 event saw more than 500 citations, but this year police issued just six so far. These were all for minor violations such as public urination, carrying an open intoxicant and possession of marijuana.

No one drank in the streets at this year’s

Mifflin, one of the event’s traditions, and Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said that it was more of a “porch party” than a block party.

City and campus leaders also began planning their own “not an alternative to Mifflin” party, called Revelry, a campussponsored and organized event held around Union South on the same day as Mifflin.

Revelry featured more than a dozen musicians, including headliners Hoodie Allen and Toro Y Moi. It also had a foam

machine, food vendors and public art. One attendee needed to be transported to detox.

The university sold more than 3,000 tickets for Revelry, filling the event to 82 percent of its capacity.

Some students protested Revelry and the large police presence at previous Mifflins, calling it a “War on Mifflin,” but student leaders called Revelry a success and voiced plans to make the event an annual spring tradition at University of Wisconsin.

Senior Campus Editor While Interim Chancellor David Ward will finish the last of his two years serving in his position for the University of Wisconsin with the conclusion of this semester, the search for the next UW chancellor started long before Ward’s final days in office.

The UW System established a Chancellor Search and Screen Committee that held its first meeting in October 2012. The UW System announced four finalists, a result of the committee’s efforts, for the chancellor position

New faces elected to City Council Allie Johnson City Life Editor Madison’s City Council gained several new faces after the spring elections in April, including a new representative in the student-populated District 2.

In a close race, Ald. Ledell Zellers, a community leader and former president of the Capitol Neighborhood Association known for taking hard alcohol policy stances, secured District 2 against her opponent Bryan Post with 51.7 percent of the vote. She has represented the district, which stretches from the Langdon Street and downtown areas

to the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood on the city’s east side.

Zellers filled the position vacated by former Ald. Bridget Maniaci, the district’s representative for the past four years. She credited her win to her extensive outreach efforts to residents of the Langdon Street area, particularly fraternities and sororities.

Zellers said one of her first priorities as an alder will be to improve communication between the city government and the diverse residents, particularly regarding new development projects.

Zellers said she will

also continue to support economic development on East Washington Avenue, which she called “the gateway to the city”.

She is currently focusing on the redevelopment of the 800 block into a mixed-use building.

Incumbent Ald. Sue Ellingson, District 13, was elected to serve a second term after another highly contested race against Edgewood College student Zach Madden.

Ellingson said she plans to continue to focus on development and revitalizing the neighborhoods in her district. She also wants to improve traffic safety and walkability.

Three other campus-

area alders also retained their seats after uncontested elections.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, won his seat after candidate Christian Hansen dropped out of the race in early March, leaving him uncontested.

After re-election, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, is now the longest-serving member currently on city council.

Former council president Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, will continue to represent the Eagle Heights and Regent Neighborhoods.

After the spring elections, new members currently make up a quarter of the representatives on City

Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor

Palermo’s contract retained despite protests Higher Education Editor The University of Wisconsin’s contract with Palermo’s Pizza remains in place as Interim Chancellor David Ward’s term approaches an end.

The student coalition UWMad@Palermo’s began protesting UW’s ties with the Milwaukee-based pizza company in late 2012, when student leaders of the coalition heard of the company’s alleged unfair labor practices that included threatening and firing workers

for union formation.

The National Labor Relations Board and the Worker Rights Consortium have separately investigated Palermo’s for labor law violations since last year.

While WRC found Palermo’s guilty of violating UW’s Code of Conduct in February, the NLRB’s investigation partially dismissed charges against Palermo’s. The decision was appealed.

Ward issued the first statement in February citing “contradictions” between the WRC and NLRB and called taking action without final

regent committee recommended Blank in March. The UW System Board of Regents ultimately approved Blank for the position the following month.

Blank said she felt honored to be recommended for the position.

“I am honored and delighted to be offered the job of Chancellor at UW-Madison,” Blank said in a UW statement. “This is a world-class school, and I have been continually impressed by the caliber, dedication and enthusiasm of its students, faculty and staff.”

Following her

recommendation, Blank emphasized the importance of building relationships during her first year in office.

She said she would spend her first several months as chancellor meeting campus leadership, staff, faculty and students in addition to the Board of Regents and other community and state leaders.

Blank also noted that a major fundraising campaign would be a focus for her first year as chancellor.

She said launching this campaign would be imperative to increasing UW’s revenue streams.

Taxes, Medicaid dominate budget talk

Taylor Frechette The Badger Herald

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in February.

The four finalists included Rebecca Blank, U.S. Acting Secretary of Commerce; Nicholas Jones, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering dean; Michael Schill, University of Chicago Law School dean and professor; and Kim Wilcox, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Michigan State University.

Each of the chancellor finalists visited campus in the March.

UW System President Kevin Reilly and a special

findings from the NLRB “premature.”

Meanwhile, student protesters attempted to get Ward to take further action through rallies on Bascom Hill, a vigil outside of Ward’s house, a demonstration at an administration luncheon and an April 29 sit-in protest in Ward’s office, which resulted in the arrest of one UW student.

On the same day as the sit-in protest, NLRB issued a decision to uphold earlier findings.

Ward cited the NLRB decision in his second statement in response to the student protest.

He said in the statement that cutting the university’s ties with Palermo’s at this point is “not warranted based on the facts” but will continue to monitor new information.

UW sociology professor Jane Collins, who served on the labor committee that advised Ward on the issue, said the chancellor should act upon violations of code of conduct for university licensees, instead of the national board’s standards.

Student activists have said the April protest will not be the last one.

On Feb. 20, Gov. Scott Walker introduced his budget to the Legislature, although he began releasing details of his budget earlier.

In his biennial budget, Walker proposed a $343 million tax cut, part of $630 million in total tax cuts, as well as major reforms of the state’s Medicaid program.

Pending legislative and federal approval, Walker seeks to reject federal Medicaid expansion dollars but has an alternate

plan that would cover fewer people.

It would put everyone below poverty on Medicaid and everyone above it on private insurance, which Walker said encourages independence while helping the neediest.

Walker also plans on keeping public school funding flat, after more than $800 milion in cuts in his last budget.

He also seeks on giving students more choice in education, proposing a voucher school expansion to nine districts and a special needs scholarship program that would apply statewide.

A number of Senate Republicans have criticized Walker’s education plans, although Democrats have said a few Republican senators are concerned with the Medicaid plan.

Walker originally planned on investing $181 million in the University of Wisconsin System, a large chunk of that from splitting UW System payrolls from the state.

After revelations of $648 million in reserves at the UW System, he has signaled his planned funding might change, a call Republicans have echoed.

Legislators

from both sides have called for a tuition freeze.

Republicans have raised concerns about parts of the budget, such as the amount of additional state workers Walker wants to hire and the roughly $1 billion in borrowing in the budget, much of it for large highway projects.

The Joint Finance Committee has started slow, voting on less controversial budget items.

Once the committee finishes its work with the budget, the Legislature has to pass an identical bill that would then go to Walker’s desk.

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With summer almost closing in, it’s time to start making plans to hit up music festivals. Below are three of the best festivals the Midwest has to offer, from hip-hop in a Minnesota suburb to dubstep in the woods of Michigan. With factors such as cost and location, choosing the right festival can be difficult, but the following are road trip destinations worth every penny. Take a trip once school’s out and explore the Midwest’s musical mayhem!

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Electric Forest Rothbury, Mich.

June 27-30

BY IAN ERICKSON

ARTSETC. WRITER

Soundset Shakopee, Minn.

May 26

BY COLIN KELLOGG ARTSETC. EDITOR

Held right outside of the Twin Cities in Shakopee, Minn,, Soundset is one of the best value music festivals in the Midwest. The day-long hip-hop fest is put on annually by Rhymesayers Entertainment, the Twin Cities label boasting socially conscious hiphop acts like Brother Ali, Atmosphere, Aesop Rock and the late Eyedea of Eyedea & Abilities.

For only $35-$50, depending on whether you take advantage of the presale price or not, you have access to literally some of the best artists in hip-hop today, particularly if you like more independent artists and labels.

Though Soundset loves to give stage time to local performers or artists on the rise, a few bigger name artists always draw a crowd.

Past years have featured Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, several Wu Tang Clan members, Kendrick Lamar, Big K.R.I.T, Big Boi and Wiz Khalifa. This year, Snoop Dogg, Tech N9ne and Busta Rhymes are among headliners, along with returnees Atmosphere, Brother Ali and Mac Miller.

This year also welcomes Juicy J, Schoolboy Q and Joey Bada$$.

Soundset is a festival that puts a premium on the concertgoers’ experience. Organizers ensure that fans have fun and get to experience as many performances as possible. One of the greatest aspects of last year’s festival was the staggered stages. While one artist was performing, another would set up on the adjacent stage, and the lively emcee would

seamlessly transition to the set at the other stage.

A highlight last year was being close to the front of both stages seeing Kendrick Lamar and Big K.R.I.T. back-to-back.

Many of the artists Soundset brings find their way to mainstream radio waves several months or years later. Several years ago, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis played on the festival’s smaller stage and casually drove around the grounds in a golf cart highfiving fans. Now, they play sold out shows and would likely need a security detachment to protect them from enthusiastic fans.

Soundset is the perfect festival for hip-hop fans eager for live music, but who may not have the energy or funds to catch similar acts at a bigger festival like Lollapalooza.

Due in part to its size, Soundset has a casual, chill atmosphere filled with plenty of Minnesota nice. Another benefit to its small festival status is the meet-and-greet opportunities throughout the day, connecting fans with the artists they love.

Though last year’s festival was cut short by a vicious rainstorm and tornado warning, the day usually culminates with Atmosphere’s set. If your idea of bliss is Slug rapping “Sunshine” as you watch the sun settle into the clouds, enraptured hip-hop fans all around you, this is the festival for you. Don’t just listen to hip-hop, take a chance on Soundset and experience it.

Tickets for Soundset 2013 are currently $46. See the complete lineup and purchase your tickets online at soundsetfestival.com.

Take a trip, expand the mind and visualize going to the Electric Forest Music Festival. The Electric Forest is one of the most dazzling, sensoryoverloading, interactive festivals to check out this summer. It’s no hallucination!

Electric Forest is located in Rothbury, Michigan at the Double JJ Ranch. It’s approximately a 5-to6 hour drive from Madison, taking place during the four-day weekend of June 27 through June 30. While that’s a big time commitment, it’s well worth the trip.

After getting wristbands and heading onto the festival grounds, one can easily see that it will take more than a day to see and experience everything the Forest has to offer.

Heck, it might even take multiple trips!

Besides the light-up Ferris wheel, the various art shacks and multiple music-stages, the real gem is the Sherwood Forest. Dividing part of the festival, the Sherwood Forest is where most of this festival’s character can be found. During the day, it’s a nice place to cool off, chill with friends and make new ones. It has hundreds of hammocks, various tents, sculptures,

hidden stages, statues, interactive devices and playthings. It also has a dome covered in gongs that one can sit under and literally be showered in vibrations. Various artists and performers are found throughout the forest, dressed up in all sorts of costumes. They entertain by dancing, juggling, painting, etc. At the main entrance, stands a huge wooden clock tower, accompanied by free hanging, stained glass windows that make the Forest seem almost like a temple.

However, as soon as the sun goes down, the lights, fog machines and lasers turn on. The Forest transforms into something out of Alice in Wonderland or a Dr. Seuss book; it is truly something to behold first hand.

The three big headliners include The String Cheese Incident, Pretty Lights and Passion Pit, but that only scratches the surface of a lineup loaded with many other notable acts.

The primary scope of artists featured at Electric Forest are mostly jam bands, DJs and electronic-type music, but world-music, funk and bluegrass acts are anything but few and far between. In fact, many bands, like The String Cheese Incident, often like to mix things up by playing many

types of genres during the course of a concert.

Another great feature for those wishing to take a break from the festival grounds is the glow-in-thedark disc golf course set up just outside the entrance. It’s open at all hours, free of charge, but like the forest, it truly needs to be experienced at night. That being said, playing at night only makes it that much easier to lose any personal discs, so play through with caution.

The forest also features a water park and a golf course, both located outside the campgrounds. While golfing is expensive, the water park admission is definitely worth the price, if just for the shower. A couple things to consider: If one gets uncomfortable around others talking about or doing drugs or hippies, avoid this place like the plague! Bring plenty of sunscreen, large water bottles and a cooler full of food and beverages. The cuisine inside is actually quite tasty, but the cost of food and beer both inside and outside the festival grounds are quite expensive!

Other than that, if this place sounds choice, be safe, drink plenty of water and have fun.

Kanrocksas Kansas City, Kan. June 28-29

BY PHEBE MYERS

ARTSETC. STAFF WRITER Attention world, there are cool things that happen in Kansas!

OK maybe not things plural, but Kanrocksas, in its second year, is bringing an incredible list of musicians to the sunflower state. In its inaugural year, the festival had Eminem, Muse and The Black Keys for headliners -- talk about impressive. This lineup presents a great group of bands, but no headliner quite comparable to the previous three.

The aforementioned headliners are Tiesto, Fun. and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, all bands that will perform amazing and “fun” concerts.

The downside of the festival is the location. It’s on the Kansas Speedway, and those familiar with the mild temperatures of a Wisconsin summer would be in for quite a shock in the hot Kansas heat. The black tar of the track picks up on the 100 degree weather, making water even more of a necessity than usual. The speedway is not the ideal place for a festival; part of the allure of the event is the dream of living like a crazy Woodstock hippie, which doesn’t quite fit in at a NASCAR

racecourse.

As a festival-goer, the atmosphere is friendly but a little sane if you prefer festivals filled with glitter, tapestries and hula hoops. Kanrocksas does provide lots of different activities for the adventuring concert-goer to partake in: a Ferris wheel of lights, live art projects, bungee jumping trampolines and a giant water slide, just to name a few.

The audience is not like what you would find at a festival like Bonnaroo or Electric Forest. That is to say, the people are far more normal than the typical camping hippie. Think plain tank tops and shorts as opposed to long flowing skirts with body paint. Last Kanrocksas, an overwhelming population of the crowd was decked out in Eminem tattoos; but with a funkier lineup, a wackier crowd may follow.

Kanrocksas had bigger headliners in its first year, but this second year has a larger amount of great acts. Kanrocksas goers can look forward to listening to one of the greatest rappers to spit in the recent years: newcomer

Kendrick Lamar. Lamar’s most recent album good kid, m.A.A.d city was met with stellar reviews from critics and listeners alike.

Passion Pit and MGMT will be bringing their catchy indie beats to the Kansas stage. Pretty Lights and Zeds Dead, two dubstep bands, will no doubt perform the best show for the crowd who cares more about having fun than listening to the music, although both groups make great beats. This year’s breakthrough artists Imagine Dragon, Baauer (“Harlem Shake” anyone?), Trinidad Jame$ (“Pop a molly”) and Miguel are all scheduled to preform. This isn’t even half of the lineu,p and already most music lovers should be salivating.

The location is far from ideal: It could be a more appealing festival if it was located in some far-off Kansas prairie. But the musical content is to die for. Being able to camp and see Kendrick Lamar, Pretty Lights, T-Pain (“Lemme buy you a draaaank”), Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros for under $200 -- sounds like a pretty stellar experience.

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Classifieds EMPLOYMENT

SC to the girls discussing Game of Thrones and browsing Reddit in History 398. - The guy who chimed in behind you. (P.S. I’ve got HBO) SC to Josh who runs Monday night trivia at the Sett. You are too cute. Thanks for making my Mondays.

DSO to trivia continuing over summer.

SC to Sheila from the terrace. You thought me and my group of friends were funny even though we were super nerdy. Let’s meet up at the terrace on Friday? Same place?

2nd chance to Bucky4 years ago at a hockey game as a freshman I asked you to marry me and you said yes. Despite the fact that

BECAUSE SIZE MATTERS

I am now graduating and moving to Chicago, you will forever be in my heart and I will wait for the day we can be together again and look forward to the days ahead of growing old together in our badger den. You are my #1 man and our love knows no distance. Forever & always xox SC to the sorority girl in CA350 with the stellar breasts.

You’re also pretty hot. Keep up the good wor SC to the girl in pink shorts and polka dots on the top level of the U-South terrace. You are an absolute dream.

SC to Julia the Badger on Jeopardy. You didn’t win, but you won my heart.

SC to Caroline H. You are absolutely gorgeous.

SC to liking a guy in my class. He’s the cutest guy I interact with outside of drunken bar scenes and disfunctional ex’s, and I can’t get over his sense of humor and adorable smile.

ASO to the end of the year, not being brave enough to say anything, and knowing he’s probably way out of my league anyways.

SC to my weekend booty call. I can’t believe you’re graduating. Here’s to really hoping you pick the job in Madison so that we can still meet up occasionally if you know what I mean. www.badgerherald.com

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A farewell to ArtsEtc., best wishes to exciting future Tim Hadick and Colin Kellogg ArtsEtc. Editors The ArtsEtc. section of The Badger Herald is twisted. On the one hand, it has the most flexibility in its organization, which can lead to both smooth workdays and stressful nights; on the other hand, ArtsEtc. gives new writers an easy pathway into transitioning from academic essay structure to the journalistic format of our articles.

As editors for this fine section, we’ve trained our newest writers to tell the

University of Wisconsin student body what movies to watch, what music to study to and even which bathrooms to use. Everything is subjective, but ArtsEtc. is where editorial and news coverage into something amazing: truth through exposure. The more that happens around campus, the more we are able to share it with anyone who happens to pick up the paper or navigate to our section of the website after reading Shoutouts.

The new model of The Badger Herald gives ArtsEtc. an exciting advantage next semester. Incoming ArtsEtc.

Editor Erik Sateren is able to train new and seasoned writers in a wider variety of formats using the flexibility of online-first focus, and he will not have to worry about filling four papers per week with content lest the section is blank in print. A burden of necessity leaves ArtsEtc. next semester and opens room for more articles, more writers and more experiences to transpose into writing.

Believe us when we say the possibilities for next year’s ArtsEtc. section are endless.

Between social media and incorporating more sound and video, we have the

chance now more than ever to focus on delivering content in ways that will truly engage our audience. We don’t just want to write about music, we want to feel and experience it with you. For example, we tried something new this semester with our weekly Spotify playlist. This was only a small wave in the sea of opportunity that lies before us.

With such new changes in store for the Herald next year, there will undoubtedly be obstacles to overcome and new challenges to face. But the flexible and necessary nature of ArtsEtc. has the

strength to carry its weight and more to bolster the legacy of this great paper.

Still, we cannot do it alone.

To those who have never written for any other reason than you were forced to, and to those itching to plunge into creative non-fiction, use this section as a way to reshape your idea of perception. Begin your career in journalism here, or just write an album review because you have something to say. Reading is exploring another’s thoughts and imagination; writing is discovering your own.

Everyone at The Badger Herald can attest to the

profoundly positive impact the organization has on being able to write for classes, but the amazing thing writing for everyone to read does is that it shows ourselves what we truly believe deep down.

Our time as editors comes to a close, but Herald blood runs through our veins and impacts every fiber of our beings and actions we take from here on. We count ourselves among the luckiest students on campus to have gained a base in journalism, ethics, teaching and more in a semester of incredible effort and learning.

Lifeblo0d lacking from Vampire Weekend album New York band shirks early career highs with messy, directionless tracks Nick Hoffman ArtsEtc. Writer Vampire Weekend may be stuck in a perpetually losing battle to live up to those infamous first impressions left by their self–titled debut.

Modern Vampires of the City is more of a confusing journey than an album. Right from the start, the first track, “Obvious Bicycle,” seems intent on lulling listeners into an album more or less theme-less and indefinable.

It doesn’t fit at the beginning given the aura of the rest of

the album. The song is just too slow. It seems, for lack of a better place, tacked in front as if the song is apologetically saying, “There’s nowhere else to put me - I promise the rest of the album is faster.”

Granted, this is somewhat forgivable given the song is cute and sincere, and also fairly listenable if you’re in the right mood (one unfitting of conventional Vampire Weekend listening). But this sort of awkward, “What is my purpose?” predicament the song’s placement offers seems to be one of the only coherent themes construed from the album. “Don’t Lie” in particular epitomizes the album’s directionless and ambling tendencies: a song with a hook that makes sense, but in no way, shape or form is capable of being anyone’s

favorite track. One could argue the last 20 seconds or so of the tune is gold - which it is.

But when all’s said and done, the only thing worth paying attention to is that 20 seconds, which is unfortunately too short-lived to be truly deserving of any real credit.

The song “Finger Back,” feels, looks and smells like the “old” Vampire Weekend, you know, the one that people actually liked. So why, oh why did Vampire Weekend need to go and colossally screw it up with its “book-on-tape” approach near the end of the song? The singer spouts some strange, accented monologue about love in Jerusalem.

Fully out of place, it feels like watching someone take the lead of an intense race only to watch them crash and burn in the very last stretch by an

act of senseless showboating.

It is awkward, out of place and comes off as completely pretentious. This album is not good enough to pull a stunt like this.

“Everlasting Arms,” however, is a refreshingly enjoyable song. It brings a nicely syncopated bass accompanied by sweet and mellow synth chords together in a tastefully simple way familiar to the band’s likable sound. It’s one of the rare moments on the album where the band isn’t beside itself trying to reinvent or genrebend. They keep it fairly simple in a way that pleases listeners and music snobs alike to produce a charming yet graspable Vampire Weekend sound.

Finally, for those of you familiar with Vampire

Weekend’s past work, “Ya Hey” is to Modern Vampires of the City what “Cousins” was to Contra. It’s the album’s clear summit and really the only thing to truly “hit the mark” if Vampire Weekend was aiming for one. It’s got elements of the weirdness subtly implemented throughout the album that the band is clearly trying to get across, namely in the “Alvin and the Chipmunks”-styled vocal effect in the chorus part (repeating “Ya”) which the band pulls off successfully.

Moreover, the catchy progression of the song itself, steered by a complimenting bass and drum combination, is extremely easy to latch onto and reminiscent of the band’s first album. In respects to the album as a whole, it could have had a much different outlook had the band stuck to

the winning formula that is “Ya Hey.” However, this is one of the few standout moments found within Modern Vampires of the City.

In summary, listeners, do what you did with Contra and listen to the album’s hit. You’ll save yourself the headache and sophistication of deciphering the rest of this messy album.

MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY VAMPIRE WEEKEND

Comics

Until We Meet Again...

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This ain’t no time to panic, friend, so keep it cool and I’ll walk you through. Here’s the low down: each clue tells you what the sum of the numbers to the right or down must add up to.

Repeating numbers?

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DIFFICULTY RATING: Keep it real, my dear, sweet homies.

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The Badger Herald | Sports | Thursday, May 9, 2013

MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

Montee Ball There’s no longer room for controversy: Montee Ball is one of Wisconsin football’s all-time greats.

The career numbers look like something out of a fantasy football league: an NCAA record 77 rushing touchdowns and 5,140 yards gained in four seasons. He was a Heisman Trophy finalist as a junior and the Doak Walker Award winner as a senior, the running back who was buried on the depth chart midway through his sophomore campaign releasing pentup frustration from games spent observing from the sideline with each stiff arm and tromp into the end

zone.

While true that his senior numbers didn’t match those of a truly remarkable junior campaign that included 1,923 yards and 39 total touchdowns, it was a near-impossible act to follow. After struggling through the first month of the season in 2012, he unleashed his full fury in a 247-yard, three-touchdown trampling of Purdue that returned him to the previous season’s form.

Ball’s career was not without its struggles — he lost three straight Rose Bowls — but his consistent production may have been the single most important piece in reestablishing

Mary Massei

Wisconsin football among the Big Ten’s elite. With a style that invited contact, watching Ball run rekindled memories of the great Ron Dayne. He was a workhorse back who evaded injury for most of his career, carrying the ball 924 times in anchoring the Badgers’ run-heavy attack.

So the star tailback may be the easy, obvious pick for Male Athlete of the Year. But any Wisconsin fan would be hard pressed to find another Badger athlete who had a bigger and more lasting impact on his or her team through a four-year stretch than Ball.

If there is one thing players and coaches strive for across all sports, it is consistency. When it comes to Wisconsin softball, no one better emulates the pinnacle of consistency than junior right fielder Mary Massei.

Among a batting lineup that has excelled for Wisconsin all season, Massei shines the brightest as the leadoff hitter can almost always be counted on to kick start the offense for the Badgers – a sentiment that was highlighted last weekend in UW’s second-to-last regular season game last Sunday when Massei launched a leadoff home run and then

-Ian McCue

hit her second homer of the game in the fifth inning in a 3-0 win against Michigan State.

Massei’s batting statistics speak for themselves as

Among a batting lineup that has excelled for Wisconsin all season, Massei shines the brightest as the leadoff hitter ... to kick start the offense. the California native has 74 hits, 47 runs and 121 total bases – all Wisconsin single-season records. Not

to mention her .433 batting average that is 32 points higher than the record set

by Julie Borchard in 1998.

On Tuesday, the Big Ten recognized Massei’s accomplishments this season awarding her with an unanimous first team all-Big Ten selection to go along with her selection to the Capital One Academic All-District Softball Team.

Massei will continue her record-setting campaign with Wisconsin Friday in the Big Ten Tournament Quarterfinals as the Badgers will see their first postseason action since 2008.

-Spencer Smith

PLAY OF THE YEAR

Ben Brust’s Shot The time is 12:44 p.m. on Feb. 9, and as many UW students awake to a hangover, Wisconsin is deep into a bout with No. 2 Michigan. Only moments earlier, Tim Hardaway Jr. drained a three-pointer from the top of the arc with senior forward Mike

Bruesewitz draped all over him, putting the Wolverines up 60-57.

It appears the game is all but finished, and a silence and feeling of impending doom falls upon the Kohl Center. But, head coach Bo Ryan elects to call one timeout with 2.4 seconds

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Sam Dekker Sam Dekker became just the fourth true freshman to start under head coach Bo Ryan (Devin Harris, Alando Tucker and Josh Gasser being the other three), but the Sheboygan native’s main role during the 201213 season was that of a sixth man.

Dekker earned Big Ten All-Freshman team recognition to go along with an honorable mention for All-Big Ten. He was Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Jan. 14) and Co-Freshman of the Week (March 4).

Scoring was Dekker’s forte this past season as he ranked fourth on the team in scoring over the course of the entire season (9.6 points per game) and was the leading scorer in conference play among Big Ten reserves (9.4ppg). The 6-foot-7, 220-pound forward was 14th in the conference, fourth among freshman, in field goal percentage

(.478) and ranked seventh in the conference in 3-point field goal percentage (.391).

Dekker hit from deep at least once in 17 of the last 21 games for the Badgers.

Dekker reached his career high in scoring when he scored 19 points against Arkansas on November 24, and again when he scored the same amount versus Nebraska on Feb. 26.

In the Badgers’ semifinal victory over Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament, Dekker recorded 11 points off of 5-8 shooting in 20 minutes. Nine of Dekker’s 11 points came in the first half, including an impressive personal 7-0 run.

In his NCAA tournament debut, Dekker recorded 14 points to go along with three rebounds in the Badgers’ disappointing 57-46 loss to Ole Miss.

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remaining to set up one final play.

Enter Ben Brust stage left, the 6-foot-1 junior point guard from Hawthorn Woods, Ill. As play resumes, Bruesewitz toes the inbound line almost falling over it trying to get the ball in to someone, anyone.

Then, Brust comes curling from the left sideline to just behind the ‘W’ logo in the backcourt, and Bruesewitz hits his man in stride.

Four steps later, with his weight anchored in his left foot, Brust propels himself into the air and the ball leaves his hand.

Everyone, including Brust, stops momentarily, and all eyes watch the orange ball spinning through the air toward the basket.

The ball hits nothing but net on the way down, and the Kohl Center erupts into a frenzy. Brust arms rise into the air above his head,

the “Bench Mob” races out to well, mob the hero and even Ryan can be seen celebrating on the sideline.

It’s “Space Jam” meets “Rudy” meets “Miracle,” and the moment of the year.

-Dan Corcoran

GAME OF THE YEAR

B1G Championship With head coach Bret Bielema still at the helm and a number of ineligibility issues preventing Penn State and Ohio State from participating in the Big Ten Championship, the Badgers represented the Leaders division instead and what ensued at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis became The Badger Herald Game of the Year.

Revenge was on the line for the Badgers following their early season debacle

in Lincoln, Neb. and a spot in the Rose Bowl awaited the victor. It all started out quite flaccidly with two senior running back Montee Ball carries and a senior quarterback Curt Phillips first down conversion.

Then sophomore running back Melvin Gordon took an end around carry for 56 yards and a touchdown.

All hell was about to break loose.

Nebraska’s answer was a first down Taylor Martinez

pass that ended in the hands of Marcus Cromartie as No. 14 comfortably darted into the end zone.

A pair of ensuing Nebraska scores made the game interesting. In the first quarter, that is.

Wisconsin would score the next 35 points of the game and run up an astounding total of 70 on their way to a 39-point victory and their third consecutive Rose Bowl appearance (and loss).

Although the season

would take a different direction following the championship game, it was not one to be forgotten.

Senior running back James White ran for the third most yards that day — 109 behind Gordon’s 216 and Ball’s 202 — but added four touchdowns. He even threw for a score.

For one night, anything and everything went the way of the cardinal and white.

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COACH OF THE YEAR

Mike Eaves His team started the season in the worst way possible. Between suspensions, injuries, a coaching change and only one win in its first 10 games Mike Eaves didn’t let his skaters call it a year, not once.

As he continued to chant something about turning a ship, the ship indeed turned. Soon, that horrendous start felt like

some distant nightmare as the Badgers went on an 11-game unbeaten streak and an 11-game unbeaten conference streak.

After a quick, exhilarating win outside at Soldier Field, the Badgers continued to push for the playoffs. As they often noted, they played playoff hockey since mid-season, pushing to keep their season alive. As they kept

WORST DAY

Rebels’ Ruin The day was Friday, March 22, 2013—the fifth-seeded Badgers were expected to politely shove aside the Rebels of Ole Miss and perennial trash-talker Marshall Henderson en route to a seventh straight second round (“third round”) appearance in the NCAA tournament. The Wisconsin faithful was looking for a good excuse to enter spring break with alcoholic beverage in hand in celebratory fashion (not that we ever need an excuse for such refreshments).

However, not only were the Badgers outscored by 14 points in the second half on their way to shooting 25 percent for the game, but they allowed the unofficial garbageperson of the NCAA tournament to score 17 points in the second half to lead the Rebels to a 57-46 win. Closing the game on 1-for-14 shooting was certainly not the way the Grateful Red wanted to see the

frontline seniors of Jared Berggren, Ryan Evans and Mike Bruesewitz end their prosperous Wisconsin basketball careers.

Wisconsin should have felt especially awful about bowing out to Ole Miss because the loss forced all of America to stand idly by and cringe at the sound of more jeweled words of wisdom from Henderson.

“I’m trying to get paid here soon because I’m tired of doing all this stuff for free,” Henderson modestly stated before the matchup with Wisconsin. “And this is where you make your money, the NCAA tournament.”

If Wisconsin is ever to lose to a team in its opening game of the NCAA tournament, many would hope it comes against a team with far more class and a player far less conceited about the finances of college basketball.

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rolling — Eaves’ second mantra of the season — Wisconsin entered the WCHA playoffs with their sights set on an NCAA bid.

Roll, they did. Eaves coached his team to three consecutive wins in the WCHA Playoff tournament at the Xcel Energy Center — a building he hasn’t seen much success in — to win the final Broadmoor Trophy and an automatic bid into

the NCAA tournament.

Eaves took a talented team that couldn’t put it all together in the beginning, and majorly suffered the consequences, and turned it into an NCAA Tournament contender. He and the Badgers transformed a rather forgettable season to one of their greatest in recent years.

-Kelly Erickson

BEST WORST MOMENT

Call them hogs Life has a funny way of coming full circle. But for a boy who was raised on a hog farm to coach a school whose mascot is a giant pig? That’s just perfect.

Born and raised on a hog farm in Prophetsville, Ill., life came full circle for former Wisconsin head coach when he bolted Dec. 4 for a new coaching job with the Arkansas Razorbacks.

“I grew up on a pig farm, about 2,500 pigs,” Bielema told arkansasrazorbacks.com.

“We had way more pigs than people.”

The next day, Bielema was introduced at a press conference as the new Arkansas head coach.

Several minutes into the press conference, the new head coach led a cheer of “Calling the Hogs,” the signature Arkansas cheer.

In what can only be described as one of the most awkwardly delightful occurrences/ GIF worthy moments in the history of college

sports, Bielema yelled out a “let’s call those hogs” in a voice still strained from coaching Wisconsin just days earlier in the Big Ten Championship game.

Then came the fireworks.

He held the first “woo” too long and in a tone that was not only flat, but octaves below an acceptable pitch. The “pig sooie” part didn’t make it any better, coming in a good second too slow with the crowd.

Then, to make matters worse, the camera zoomed in on his face during the second “woo pig sooie” sequence, capturing a Bielema face that seemed to say a few things: “This is NOT how we called in the hogs back home.” “What the hell is going on?” and “To think all I had to say a few days ago was ‘On Wisconsin.’”

The chant instantly became an internet sensation and solidified in Madison lore.

-Nick Korger

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Sweet Caroline, good times never seem so good of forming who I am and what I’ve become? I’m not sure if I can do it, but I’ll try.

Like anybody who had only known one place his whole life, a sudden change in environment and setting Nick Korger yielded a fighting response Korger’s Korner from me. Madison was new, its people different and something unique I had It’s hard to admit when never experienced before. a good thing has finished.

I remember the day my Which is probably why parents dropped me off at it’s been so difficult the Slichter Hall: I was sweaty, last several months to nervous and scared. My comprehend that my mom gave me a hug while time with the University visibly crying (I was her of Wisconsin as an first-born), my dad shook undergraduate is ending. my hand and my youngest So, pardon me while I lock brother told me I would myself in my room and make friends if I stopped refuse to acknowledge the being so sweaty. fact I graduate in less than At that moment, Madison two weeks. was the opposite of home Seriously, how did it to me. Now, five years later, come to this, where I it’s the only place I want have to say goodbye to to be. something that has been So what changed? Well, such an instrumental part

living in one place for five years might just do that to you. Then again, so will having a wonderful group of friends to call your own.

Or maybe it’s the fact that I got older, a little wiser and now can finally grow facial hair.

College is equal parts education and growing up.

Growing up pertains to doing your own laundry, making your own meals, cleaning up after yourself, being in charge of finances and above all, succeeding at the highest levels with only yourself as a motivating force. College makes you take personal account for your life and lets you decide what to make of yourself.

You can be lazy, lethargic and apathetic. Or, you can be motivated, driven and successful. The choice is, ultimately, yours and yours alone. Sometimes it takes a while for that choice to

become apparent, for black and white to clarify and the haziness to become sharpened. For me, that came my second semester of junior year. And I haven’t looked back since.

In a way, college is like a competition — a sport, if you will, which is why I ended up loving the University of Wisconsin. It offers every opportunity in the world, where all that’s left to do is seize it. You get what you give, as they say.

Whether that comes from studying, practicing, networking or becoming involved, Wisconsin offers such a diverse array of options that you can find what you need and discover things you didn’t even know existed along the way.

It makes you want to be great. The only part that’s left is individual mandate.

How far will you go to better yourself? How much

will you dedicate yourself to what you are passionate about?

Now that I finally do have the chance to look around as my life as a student winds down, I can’t tell you how immensely lucky I have been to not only have been at Wisconsin, but a member of The Badger Herald.

Being a reporter brought me the connection with athletics that I had been missing since high school.

Even though I don’t plan on continuing a career in journalism, it taught me valuable writing and people skills that I will use for the rest of my life.

They used to tell me to leave it all on the floor or the field before every basketball or football game my senior year, meaning don’t have any regrets.

Think every game is your last.

Do I have any regrets?

Every day. I regret that my time here is limited and this column is contained by a word count.

Let me just leave you with this.

Never give up on anything you want to accomplish. If someone says you can’t do it, smile and keep going. No matter what the obstacle, don’t lose faith — always persevere If things don’t go your way, focus on what you can do to change that.

Look at what you can do to make you better and do it.

That is what defines, in my mind, a champion.

It has been a pleasure, Wisconsin. Hopefully see you soon when I’m a law student. ON WISCONSIN! Nick is a fith-year senior majoring in English and history. Email him at nkorger@badgerherald.com

Bidding farewell to 4 years on Herald Sports page It is that exceptional ability for words to provoke feeling and thought that has always drawn me to writing.

Never the gifted orator, from an early age words became my outlet, my corner for expression. This is not to Ian McCue say what I wrote was always Right On Cue profound — in fact, quite the opposite — but a blank space was where I felt I could most Words are so simple. vividly and honestly illustrate They are just letters and my thoughts. syllables threaded together, What is equally their message shaped entirely challenging and addicting by the person behind them. about writing is that it forces They can convey our deepest me to organize my thoughts sympathies in the face of in a way palatable for any tragedy, our biting scorn reader. Words thrown onto in response to perceived the paper are nothing more injustice, our laughter when than stray body parts if there we are most in need of comic is no central skeleton holding relief. Deployed carelessly, them together. I have spent they can cut lasting wounds. countless hours staring into When molded with precision, my computer screen, arms they allow people to connect crossed and lips pursed, my to a certain situation or mind set on a singular goal: another individual in a way unmatched by any other form shaping words into sentences, then into paragraphs and of communication.

eventually into the exact story I hope to create.

During the nearly four years I have spent writing for The Badger Herald, the words I used to fill these inches on the back page have become a source of intense pride. It was where I got to be my own wordsmith, tossing every bit of intellectual energy into telling the stories of the people and events that define the Wisconsin athletic program. There were moments of crisis, struck with sudden concern that I simply couldn’t cut it as a writer. More memorable were those bringing a rebirth of confidence, sudden assurance that fellow students actually cared about what I wrote.

Beyond any lead or angle, however, shaping these stories served as a personal journey that forced me to look inward. I say this not in an effort to bathe myself in self-importance; it is

more a personal realization that the sports page of this student newspaper taught me much more about myself than whatever knowledge it bestowed upon my audience.

Writing is a deeply individualistic activity — a keyboard, a computer screen and a recorder the only sustained companions.

Such temporary isolation forces the author to think long and hard about what they want to write and, more importantly, how they should transport that message to the reader. Buried in the stress of every deadline, of every uninterested interviewee, is the lasting sense of achievement any writer feels when the message is complete and the words printed.

So yes, I have had the immense privilege of covering a Rose Bowl and an NCAA basketball tournament game, of traveling to football

stadiums and basketball arenas across the Big Ten all thanks to this wonderful organization. I have expressed joy and rage and (OK, mostly) disappointment.

Learning how to articulate those emotions seated in a press box above a dark field, the silence broken only by the furious pecking of keyboards, was when that self-assurance for this career choice — usually brought on by deadline-fueled adrenaline — came.

I like to think every one of my fellow graduating seniors has had similar moments of self-assurance in the time they spent in this lovely city, one so diverse and bustling with energy that its pulse never slows.

For the confidence and moments of clarity that I have gained from these pages, I owe a massive thank you to everyone involved with this student newspaper —

they provided me with this platform. Writing about the teams that unite this student body on Saturday afternoons at Camp Randall and on Tuesday evenings at the Kohl Center helped this Wisconsin transplant carve out a special niche in the Badger community.

To spare you a few syllables, words define me.

To every one of you — friend or stranger — who has ever expressed your appreciation for anything I wrote, now you have a better sense of just how much your praise meant to me. Words, you see, can really be quite powerful.

Ian is a senior majoring in journalism. He’s heading to Denver to explore the great West after graduation, so if you want to share some final thoughts or stay in touch, shoot him an email at imccue@badgerherald.com or give him a shout on Twitter @imccue.

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