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Democrats push Medicaid boost Citing study showing $65.9 million in savings, lawmakers lobby for expansion Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor

A slice of history Amanda Breitenbach of the Wisconsin Alumni Association gets a slice of cake as part of Founders’ Day festivities. See page 2 for more.

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Iota Court plan passed In 15-3 vote, City Council gives green light to apartment despite concerns voiced by community Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor After months of deliberation over logistics and concerns voiced by community members, Madison’s City Council approved a proposal to build a six-story student apartment building in the Langdon

Street neighborhood Tuesday evening.

The City Council voted 15-3 with two absences to approve the contentious building proposal to be located on Iota Court.

Fourteen votes were required for passage.

Chris Houden, the coowner of Palisade Property, is

one of the developers of the proposed building. He said he met over 60 times with alders, neighbors and staff to discuss the project.

Many members of the Langdon community said they worried the project would ruin the historic and community feel of the neighborhood. In response,

Houden said the buildings his proposal would demolish are irreparable and the new building would fit into the neighborhood.

He said all of the current buildings contain fire hazards, citing an example of one that has only a single stairwell. He

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Democrats pushed for Gov. Scott Walker to accept a Medicaid expansion at a Capitol news conference Tuesday, citing a study from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau that said the state would save money by doing so.

Under the expansion the state would save $65.9 million from 2013 until 2016, the LFB found in its report. For the next four years after 2016, the state would pay $66.7 million more, although that is 65 times less than the $4.38 billion the federal government would pay with Wisconsin’s expansion.

Those projections are based off 175,000 new enrollees in the state’s Medicaid program by 2015.

The cost-sharing ratio from the federal government is also much higher under the expansion, at 100 percent until gradually declining to 90 percent in 2020 and beyond. The federal government currently pays 60 percent of the existing Medicaid program, and the state pays 40 percent.

Democrats, as well as the state’s hospital association and medical association, support the expansion because of the increase in health

care as well as the fiscal projections.

The expansion would increase the eligibility level for Medicaid to those who earn less than 133 percent below the federal poverty level. The state has a program for those that earn less than 200 percent of the FPL, but Democrats point to the 150,000 people on the program’s wait list as a sign the program needs some fixing.

The expansion was mandatory when President Barack Obama’s health care law passed, but the Supreme Court decided last year states have the option to expand their programs. As a result, some Republican governors have turned down the expansion, although Ohio Gov. John Kasich accepted it Monday, joining Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in doing so.

Wisconsin’s Democrats asked the governor to accept the expansion, and in case he refuses it, for the Legislature to pass it.

“Strengthening BadgerCare isn’t about loving or hating Obamacare,” Rep. Jon Richards, D-Milwaukee, said. “It’s about knowing a good deal when you see one. And this is a good

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SAC to undergo major renovation Lindsey Gapen Reporter Four years after the construction of the Student Activity Center, the facility will undergo massive renovations in response to student demands and complaints.

According to Katie Cary, SAC Governing Board chair, the SACGB has a $30,000 budget that will go toward SAC remodeling as well as a $10,000 dollar budget for a PA system projected to increase building security.

The intent of this project is to improve the atmosphere of the SAC, Cary said in an email to The Badger Herald. The current use of the space, which is primarily studying, does not fit the original intent of an

activity center for students, she added.

Press Office Director of the Associated Students of Madison David Gardner said he agrees the rebranding effort will provide students with necessary activity space.

“The SAC rebranding project is a result of listening to the feedback of students who use this space every day,” Gardner said. “Students wanted a safer, more collaborative activity space and we will be doing just that.”

This multi-year project will begin by adding a projector and screen that allows student organizations to host film events, show Badger sporting events and other major events

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Students study in the Student Activity Center located on East Campus Mall. The facility, built four years ago, will undergo renovations to improve spaces as well as install a new PA system.

New council tackles sustainability issues at UW INSIDE In second meeting, group meets with student organizations, addresses bolstering recycling at sporting events Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor University of Wisconsin’s newlycreated Sustainability Council met Tuesday to engage in collaboration across different student organizations on campus.

Student leader and student program coordinator for the Office of Sustainability, Meredith Keller, described the council as a facilitator for student groups and organizations.

In its second meeting as a council, members

from sustainability-related organizations across the university shared their mission and plans for the upcoming semester.

Coordinator for operations in the OS Frank Kooistra addressed the council regarding ways to participate in RecycleMania, a national tournament in which colleges and universities compete on waste diversion.

Kooistra said all of the university’s total waste is measured over an eightweek period that started

last Monday. He said several events with the goal to reduce waste on campus will take place over this period.

In an effort to reduce waste at athletic events on campus, Kooistra said he hopes to have 16 volunteer recycling ambassadors at the Michigan basketball game Saturday to engage in Game Day Challenge, a college and university completion for lowered waste at sporting events.

According to Kooistra, volunteers walk around and answer questions about

recycling.

“Typically we just embarrass people by taking stuff out of the trash and putting it where it’s supposed to be and taking trash out of the recycle bin and putting that were it’s supposed to be,” Kooistra said. “You’d be surprised at the impact that has on people.”

Through the efforts of We Conserve and REthink Wisconsin, two sustainability-based student organizations, the initial 3 percent waste diversion rate at UW sporting facilities

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moved up to 28 percent.

Keller added Ohio State’s waste diversion rate is at 98 percent.

“Ohio State kind of blows everyone away,” Kooistra said. “We’re not there yet, but someday we will be.”

Kooistra said he hopes engaging in the Game Day Challenge will have an impact on campus. He added they will promote RecycleMania in many academic buildings on campus, including facilities for Recreation Sports.

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University celebrates 164 years of classes Decades after offering of first course in 1849, UW takes look back at history that made campus what it is today Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor As students made their way to classes on a typical winter day yesterday, some paused along with faculty and alumni to celebrate University of Wisconsin’s Founders’ Day, marking the 164th year since the start of classes.

Wisconsin Alumni Association spokesperson Kate Dixon said the purpose of celebrating Founders’ Day is to commemorate Feb. 5, 1849: the first day of classes at UW. Dixon said inaugural Founders’ Day celebrations took place 75 years after the first day of classes in 1924.

Alumni participated in WAA chapters in almost 70 cities across the nation Tuesday, she added.

“[Founders’ Day] is a grand tradition,” Dixon said.

“It is at the core of what our university is and will be.”

Dixon expressed WAA hopes to help students on campus understand what Founders’ Day is and what it means to be part of the alumni community. She said the spirit of the day regards UW’s academic tradition and legacy.

Speaking to the importance of having a Founders’ Day, David Null from University Archives and Records Management Services said he believes it is important to remember the past and when things started.

“I think it is important to remember where the university came from,” Null said.

Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince

Sweeney described Founders’ Day as an early spring tradition of celebrating the anniversary of UW. Sweeney said the day provides an opportunity for recognition UW became what it is today because of the work of so many people over the years.

“I think it’s always important to go back, to pause, look back in history and see where we’ve been to help us look where we want to go,” Sweeney said.

According to Null, UW’s founders did not think students in the area had the educational background for university level courses. He said the first UW classes were preparatory, meaning similar to high school classes designed to bring students to a level where they could take university classes.

University classes did not begin until the following year, Null added.

Dixon said WAA celebrations of Founders’ Day continue through May. During this time, she said they ask people to share “academic ‘aha!’” moments and other profound memories in academics or research that will be shared online.

Those interested can also interact on Twitter, using the hashtag “UW1849,” Dixon added.

“To have a day or season when we can celebrate our alma mater,” Dixon said. “It’s wonderful to recognize that area of history.”

According to Dixon, yesterday WAA handed out cake to students in the residence halls. She said this activity helped introduce

younger students, who might not have heard of WAA’s goals, to the idea of Founders’ Day. This year, Founders’ Day holds the theme of giving back, Dixon said. They ask alumni to recognize, remember and reflect on the role they have had on the academic legacy of this university and consider what they can do to give back to the university to help that legacy continue.

Dixon expressed that Founders’ Day is a real highlight for alumni, and Sweeney said he expects the tradition will continue for years to come. “[Founders’ Day has] lasted since 1924, so I see no reason why it’s not going to continue for many, many more years,” Sweeney said. “I certainly hope they continue.”

Report suggests alternate focus in jobs dialogue Legislators look too much at numbers, not enough at long-term causes when talking about employment, report says Lexi Harrison

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Herald Contributor The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance reported this week legislators have been too focused on job numbers and have overlooked long-term problems that have led to the state’s job shortages.

The report said Wisconsin has long trailed the nation’s already poor numbers in population growth, wages and new firm creation. Since 1996, Wisconsin’s job growth has been better than the national average in only 28 of 102 months, a big shift from earlier years that saw Wisconsin above the national average often.

According to WISTAX, Wisconsin’s recent struggle in job creation stems from three main sources.

The first is that between 2002 and 2011, the working

age of 18 to 64 grew 5.9 percent in Wisconsin, compared to 9.3 percent nationally.

Wisconsin’s second setback is the 2.2 percent rate of new firm creation, which all other states, except Iowa, beat.

“Research is definitive: New firms are essential to creating new jobs,” the report said, noting states with low rates of firm creation rank low in job creation as well.

The report did point to some positives in the state’s job numbers. Despite trailing the nation in overall job growth, the report notes Wisconsin has higher rates than the nationwide average in manufacturing and professional and business services. In manufacturing, for example, the state had a 6.2 percent growth, compared to the nation’s 3.9

percent average.

Dale Knapp, WISTAX research director, noted the importance of manufacturing jobs to the state.

“Wisconsin relies on manufacturing more than

“Manufacturing jobs pay much better than other jobs in the state.”

Dale Knapp

WISTAX research director

any other state, [so] it is really important to us,” Knapp said. “Manufacturing jobs pay much better than other jobs in the state. The manufacturing sector is one area we should pay some attention to.”

Knapp said the higher-

paying manufacturing jobs could help deal with the state’s relatively low wages, the state’s third shortcoming the report found.

In 2011, earnings per job in Wisconsin were 12.1 percent below 31 states as well as the national average.

According to the WISTAX report, job earnings in Wisconsin have trailed the nation by 10 percent for the past 30 years.

Knapp said WISTAX research has shown across various occupations, Wisconsin has consistently paid workers less than other states.

The report also found the last time Wisconsin’s average wage ranked in the top half of U.S. states was 1980.

Alan Dines, assistant director of University of Wisconsin’s Office of Corporate Relationships,

said the way to improve the state’s job situation is through entrepreneurship.

“If we focus on getting more entrepreneurs in power to do what we do best, we will not have to worry about creating jobs,” Dines said.

Dines said the state should encourage start-ups and recognize that a portion of them will be successful.

Those that are successful, he said, will fuel jobs for the state.

Knapp agreed the state should focus on the firm creation rates, possibly through venture capital.

He added there is no way the state can guarantee decent wages from jobs created, but he said one way to fix it is to close the skills gap and ensure educational institutions are providing young people with the tools needed for high-paying jobs.

Petitioners overwhelm Madison’s email system City received influx of emails regarding Heimsness petition, causing system jam Allie Johnson City Life Editor Users of the petition website Change.org overwhelmed Madison’s email system Tuesday, causing the city to find a new approach to dealing with a high volume of emails.

Beginning Thursday, the city received an influx of emails from the site related to a petition that called for the Madison Police Department to remove Officer Stephen Heimsness from patrol.

According to Rich Beadles, spokesperson for the city’s information technology department, the petition site allowed signers to share the petition with all of their contacts automatically.

This meant one signer could share the petition with 100 of their contacts, who would then share the petition with 100 of their own contacts, exponentially increasing the amount of emails sent to the city website, he said.

Beadles explained the problem occurred when the server could not keep up with the high volume of emails the city email system received in such a short period of time. The server inspects the mail sent to all city emails, and with so many messages at once, it was unable to do its job, he said.

The result was a traffic jam within the city email system, Beadles said.

Any emails the server

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MPD Chief Noble Wray fields questions at a press conference. The Department of Justice is conducting a full review of the investigation in which officer Stephan Heimsness shot and killed Paul Heenan. could not keep up with were put in a waiting cue, he said.

“At one point, there were 170,000 messages waiting to get in the system,” Beadles said.

“Any other email traffic coming in from the Internet all goes through the same server, and it would have been behind all these other messages.”

The petition emails kept the system backlogged until Sunday, according to Beadles.

While the process is usually instantaneous, the backlogged system led to a delay from the time a message was sent to the time it was received by the appropriate city

official, he said.

According to Beadles, the city email system received about half a

“It generated many emails in a number of minutes and caused quite a bit of web traffic.”

Scott Resnick

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million emails from the website overall.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said this was not the first time the

city email system had experienced these kinds of problems.

Resnick cited a similar incident with the Edgewater Hotel a year and a half ago. Someone wrote an automated script of a petition in support of the hotel, he said. Citizens could put in their email address, and it would automatically send to all the alders on the city council, he explained.

“It generated many emails in a number of minutes and caused quite a bit of web traffic,” Resnick said.

The traffic all the emails caused led the city IT department to block all traffic from

Change.org, Beadles said.

He explained the IT department contacted the organizers of the petition to set up a Gmail account separate from the city emails for the petition emails to be sent to.

According to Resnick, this incident highlighted the importance of working with the IT department to make sure the city is able to receive a high volume of petitions in the future.

“Hopefully, our overall goal should be to facilitate that even if we are receiving thousands of emails they will still be properly communicated to City Council,” Resnick said.

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Woman reports robbery on Gilman Street Allie Johnson City Life Editor An unidentified suspect robbed a 21-year-old Madison woman Sunday night on West Gilman Street, according to a Madison Police Department statement.

The suspect approached the woman from behind and grabbed her backpack as she

walked down the 400 Block of West Gorham Street, the statement said. The suspect made off with several items of clothing and the victim’s wallet, all contained inside the backpack, the statement said.

Although the crime occurred Sunday, the victim did not report the crime until Monday morning, MPD spokesperson Joel

DeSpain said. Typically when a robbery occurs, the victim reports it right away, he said.

DeSpain said delays in reporting usually occur if the victim experienced emotional trauma or the suspect is someone the victim knows.

He noted the robbery was unusual because it occurred on a well-travelled road and

did not happen too late at night. Robberies are not common in the West Gilman Street area, he added.

Earlier this week, a man grabbed a woman without stealing anything on the 400 block of West Gorham Street.

To prevent future robberies, DeSpain explained people should be cautious when walking

home at night. MPD recommends students or anyone else in the community not walk alone late at night, particularly if they are intoxicated, DeSpain added.

But, he said, in this case there was likely not much the victim could have done.

“In this case I’m not sure much could have been done to prevent [the crime],”

DeSpain said. “The suspect came up behind her.”

If presented with a similar situation, DeSpain said he encouraged people not to take the chance of being injured.

The victim was unable to obtain a detailed description of the robber, and according to the statement, MPD has not located the suspect at this time.

Supreme Court candidate calls for no out-of-state funding Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor A Supreme Court candidate pushed for his opponents to turn away outof-state money Tuesday.

Milwaukee lemon law attorney Vince Megna said in an interview with The Badger Herald Tuesday his two opponents in the Feb. 19 primary should keep campaign fundraising in the state.

“I’m calling for out-of-state money to be rejected and [to] keep this in Wisconsin,” Megna said. “Whoever wins, wins, but will win honestly with just people in Wisconsin contributing. And that’s going

to keep the cost of the whole campaign down.”

Megna pointed to the last Supreme Court election, which took place in the immediate aftermath of the protests at the Capitol, as one that shows the impacts of out-of-state money from billionaires who try to “control” the state’s elections.

Although he called on both candidates to reject out-ofstate money, Justice Patience Roggensack is the only one with out-of-state donors, although Wisconsinites have contributed thousands of dollars to her campaign.

Roggensack, as the incumbent, has been in the race for longer and has more than $55,000 on hand.

All four of Marquette University law professor Ed Fallone’s donors in the latest finance reports are from Wisconsin. Their contributions add up to $450, compared to the $5,000 Fallone loaned his campaign.

Megna’s campaign is largely self-funded as well; he loaned his own campaign $10,000.

Roggensack’s spokesperson, Brandon Scholz,said people have the right to support candidates in other states and do so with many candidates, including Sen. Tammy Baldwin.

Scholz said when campaigns struggle with getting enough support, they decide to attack candidates.

“Vince Megna’s political attack is a political attack that’s about as old as the hills,” Scholz said. “It’s been done by every single candidate who has trouble raising money for their campaign, so their idea is, ‘Let’s go out and attack opponents for taking a contribution.’”

The most recent reports show all activity until the end of last year.

On Wednesday, Fallone’s campaign criticized Roggensack for failing to report a check sent out Dec. 27. The check in question, which is for more than $20,000, came from a school choice group and included a number of out-of-state

donors, including the Walton family who owns Walmart.

“Justice Roggensack owes it to the people of Wisconsin to explain why she left tens of thousands of dollars in donations from out-of-state special interests off of her finance report,” campaign spokesperson Nate Schwantes said in a statement.

Scholz said the Roggensack campaign was compliant with campaign finance laws, which require contributions to be deposited within five days. The check went out Dec. 27 and, as their office was closed Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, the Roggensack campaign deposited it Jan. 2.

The check will be on the

next fundraising report due Feb. 11.

“I think what should be worrisome [is] an associate professor who’s teaching law, and he’s not getting it right,” Scholz said. “That’s something to worry about.”

Scholz also contrasted Fallone and Megna’s attacks with Roggensack’s message of the experience she brings to the race.

Schwantes, Fallone’s spokesperson, said the Roggensack campaign had all of January to work on the fundraising report and did not include the check in it. He said the Supreme Court should be transparent and this “particular instance seems less than transparent.”

Adviser to Obama outlines ideal immigration reforms President wants to provide path to citizenship, protect borders, staffer says Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor One of President Barack Obama’s top advisers outlined the immigration reforms the president would like to see in a Tuesday conference call with reporters.

Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said Obama “welcomes” the current debate on what is one of his biggest legislative priorities this term.

Obama told supporters in Nevada Tuesday he wants to give roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country a path to citizenship while also ensuring enforcement will remain strong.

Muñoz described the path to citizenship as one that is “not easy or quick, but which is fair” and comes after going through a background check, learning English, paying back taxes and immigration policies.

It would also put applicants at the “back of the line” of legal immigrants who have already applied for permanent residency, the step before citizenship. Like all permanent residents, they could then apply for citizenship after five years.

“It should be clear from the outset that citizenship

is part of this process [in which] after a period of time and after fulfilling all these qualifications and getting to the back of the line, these folks would be eligible for a permanent residency.”

“Dreamers,” children whose parents brought them to the U.S., would get an “expedited pass” to citizenship if they go to college or serve in the military for two years, she

“Obviously, there’s going to be a lot of debate on the details of it, but I think we’ll have a bill passed by both houses.”

Enrique Figueroa

UW-Milwaukee professor

said.

Obama also seeks to further enforce immigration laws, calling for more border security as well as what Muñoz described as a “reliable mechanism” to check whether employers were hiring undocumented workers.

He also wants to reduce the backlog in the legal immigration process so students from other countries stay in the U.S. instead of taking their talents back home or to another country.

“It makes no sense for us to be training the best

of the brightest across the world, only to deny them the ability to … create jobs here in the U.S.,” Muñoz said.

A bipartisan “Gang of Eight” in the Senate released a framework for their reforms last Monday, which also gives a path to citizenship. That path, however, is “contingent upon securing the border and combating visa overstays,” the framework said.

Muñoz said the framework “by and large reflects” Obama’s vision and he hopes the Senate passes it. If not, she added, he “reserves the right” to ask the Senate to vote on his own legislation. The deferred action program Obama announced in the summer, which gave a renewable two-year non-deportable status to dreamers, does not give legal status, Muñoz said, so those who applied for that program would go through this new process.

Enrique Figueroa, University of WisconsinMilwaukee professor and director of the Roberto Hernandez Center at the university, said it is likely something will pass, even in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

“I think that politically, economically, socially and morally, people have come to a conclusion that something has to be done,” Figueroa said. “Obviously, there’s going to be a lot of debate on the details of it, but I think we’ll have a bill passed by both houses.”

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A new six-story housing project will soon rise up at Langdon St. and Iota Ct. Despite concerns raised over the area’s historic nature, City Council passed the plan.

IOTA, from 1 also cited moisture damage, inefficient sewage lines and other parts of the buildings, which were not meant to last for 100 years.

“No matter what we do to these buildings, they would remain substandard and obsolete housing,” Houden said.

Ald. Mark Clear, District 19, cited the incredible odors one experiences in the current buildings. He said he supported the new project and evolution of Madison’s buildings and built environment is necessary.

Steven Cover, the director of planning and community and economic development, said he agreed a higher density development like the one approved is appropriate in the Langdon area. But, he said the development should ultimately not be located around buildings that are contributing to the historic register.

Colin Bowden, vicepresident of the State and

SUSTAINABILITY, from 1 Keller also spoke on Campus Conservation Nationals that will take place from March until Spring Break. She said CCN is like RecycleMania because it is a nationwide competition, but added it targets only residence halls.

According to Keller, whichever unit reduces their

Langdon Neighborhood Association, said he was opposed to the project and agreed with those who were against taking down the historical buildings where developers would build the proposed project.

Bowden said introducing new buildings into the historic neighborhood will mean an increase in rent prices in the neighborhood.

“People don’t want to pay $75 or $100 more a month to live in the same place they’ve been living,” Bowden said.

Bill Fruhling, the city’s planning division director, said as more of the buildings that contribute to the neighborhood are lost, it erodes the feel of the district.

Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, said she believes the project is in line with the Downtown Plan, which provides the guidelines for development in the downtown area.

She said the plan facilitates debate with the community, organizes the priorities of the city and gives the neighbors

a sense of priority so they understand what may or may not be acceptable.

Ald. Steve King, District 7, said the city needs to take a bigger perspective on what it means to be contributing to the community to better balance priorities. He said the developers have worked with the city to create a project that is a significantly better project in every way.

“I’m actually amazed anything ever gets built in this city,” King said.

Cover said deciding whether or not the current buildings contribute to the neighborhood goes beyond the age of the buildings. The project would create a sense of place that is not currently there, replacing the tired and worn out feel of the current buildings, he said.

“There’s been lots of testimony, lots of opinions, lots of controversy and lots of passion,” Cover said. “I think we get caught up in trying to make the perfect project, and I don’t think there is any such thing as a perfect project.”

electricity use the most will win the competition and receive a party. She said though CCN is just limited to housing, it is still a big program.

“Houses who participate in CCN maintain their reduction throughout the rest of the year,” Keller said. “It works in changing behaviors.”

Representatives from various other UW

sustainability-based student organizations came to the council meeting as well, including Amnesty International, FH King, Associated Students of Madison’s Sustainability Committee and the Morgridge Center.

The council will meet every third week, with its next meeting taking place Feb. 26 at 7 p.m.

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Princeton Review calls UW No. 7 best value in nation University rated high among 150 others in rankings based on academics, flat cost Molly Coplan Herald Contributor Despite statewide talks of rising tuition and cuts to state funding, The Princeton Review has again named University of Wisconsin as one of the best values in higher education in the nation.

According to a UW statement, the university ranked No. 7 in a list of 150 other public colleges and universities.

“UW-Madison is an exceptional institution, which speaks to the quality of the faculty, the quality of the students, the programs we offer and the impact on our community,” UW Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Paul DeLuca said.

John Franek, author of the book The Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges, said they work with an original list of about 2,000 different schools and use 30 different factors focused in three areas to narrow their list down to 150 schools.

These areas include the school’s academics, the raw cost of attendance and the financial aid the school

offers, Franek added.

“Many schools, Madison being one of them, do an exceptional job with the cost of attendance for making it affordable to go to the school for the family,” Franek said.

Franek said the academics the schools offer should provide the students with an exceptional academic experience.

He said the financial aid area is based off of how aggressively the school works to make the sticker cost of attendance at the school available through grants and loans.

According to UW Director of Financial Aid Susan Fischer, the major sources of financial aid

given to UW students come from federal-based grants,

“UW-Madison is obviously one of the top public institutions in the U.S.” Paul DeLuca

UW Provost

need-based grants and merit-based scholarships.

“The best rating we can get is from the families individually,” Fischer said.

The amount of financial aid given to students has risen and is now up to $20

million, Fischer said.

Franek added the idea for this list originated a couple years ago, but this is the second year the list has been printed as a book.

According to a UW statement, the university was ranked No. 5 in the same category by the Princeton Review list last year.

“UW-Madison is obviously one of the top public institutions in the U.S.,” DeLuca said. “We are doing everything in our power to stay there and to be better.”

Since last year, 47 new schools have made the list for best values in higher education, according to Franek.

The quality of the faculty, combined with the quality of the students, shows the exceptional performance UW has over a broad and vast range of areas that few institutions have the ability to offer, DeLuca said.

Franek added there are three things a school must do to ensure it is the right fit for its students. It must provide an exceptional academic experience, nurture a campus culture in which students want to be and it must have as much information as possible on what the financial aid will actually be, he added.

“By achieving these three things, the school has hit the trifecta,” Franek said.

UW ranks 3rd in Peace Corps volunteer placement Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor The Peace Corps announced Tuesday the University of Wisconsin boasted the third highest amount of Peace Corps volunteers for 2013.

According to a statement from the organization, UW currently has 103 alumni volunteering through the Peace Corps overseas.

The only two universities with more alumni in the Peace Corps this year are University of Washington and University of Florida, according to the statement.

President John F. Kennedy founded the Peace Corps in 1961 and, since

then, it has had strong ties to Madison and the UW campus, public affairs coordinator for the Midwest recruiting officer Jessica Mayle said.

Since the start of the Peace Corps, UW has produced 3,070 Peace Corps volunteers. This catapults UW into the position of producing the all-time highest amount of Peace Corps volunteers, second only to University of California-Berkeley, she said.

“There’s a commitment to service you see not just in the students, but in the community,” Mayle said.

“People are committed to making a difference and the Peace Corps accomplishes

that.”

Mayle said joining the Peace Corps does not just make a difference overseas but also in the volunteers themselves.

She said volunteers get practical benefits and applications, which help them to launch their careers.

When the Peace Corps chooses its volunteers, it looks for people who are committed to service and making a difference. She said they look for people who are flexible, like adventure and are up for a challenge. People who can have fun and a sense of humor even in tough situations make good volunteers, she added.

She also said volunteering

through the Peace Corps

“People are committed to making a difference and the Peace Corps accomplishes that.”

Jessica Mayle

Public affairs coordinator allows students to plan careers and help people overseas after college.

In 2012, 107 UW alumni served in the Peace Corps, which also placed the university at No. 3. in terms

of volunteers produced, Mayle said.

University of Michigan and University of ColoradoBoulder came in at No. 4 and No. 5 as the two universities closest to producing the amount of volunteers UW does. Each of these universities has 93 volunteers serving in the Peace Corps currently.

Mayle said she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Gambia from 2010 to 2012. She said she served as an education volunteer and worked at a middle school. She taught basic computer skills in the school’s computer lab to teachers and students. She also worked in the school’s library and organized

book clubs and reading assignments to help the students become literate.

The statement said more than 210,000 volunteers have served in 139 countries since the Peace Corps began.

The Peace Corps works on issues including agriculture, community economic development, education, environment, health and youth development, the statement said.

Volunteers serve in the Peace Corps for 27 months, the statement said.

According to the statement, the goal of the Peace Corps is to “promote world peace and friendship and a better understanding between Americans and people of other countries.”

WEDC request to tap $200 billion in pension funds rejected Scott Bauer Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The board that oversees Wisconsin’s pension program for public employees has rejected a request by the head of Gov. Scott Walker’s semi-private economic development agency to tap $200 million from the fund to invest in risky startup businesses.

Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. head Reed Hall asked the State of Wisconsin Investment Board in November for the venture capital seed money. The board rejected the request late last year, saying that the

use of pension funds to pay for economic development initiatives “does not meet our fiduciary duty.”

Walker’s spokesman Cullen Werwie said Monday that the governor would not be proposing in his budget that the state’s pension fund be tapped to pay for venture capital. Werwie said the request from WEDC was just one potential opportunity to pay for venture capital.

Tom Thieding, spokesman for WEDC, said he didn’t immediately know where things stood with coming up with another plan given the rejection from the state investment board.

The request from WEDC to tap the pension fund

for venture capital comes two years after Walker successfully forced public workers to pay more for their pension benefits as part of his plan that also made them pay more for health insurance and effectively ended their ability to collectively bargain.

The request also comes as WEDC tries to recover from a series of mismanagement problems, including not closely tracking $56 million in state loans and turnover in top staff during its first year in operation.

Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature created WEDC in 2011 to lead job-creation efforts for the state as Walker looked to make good on his

promise to create 250,000 private sector jobs over four years.

Part of their job-creation agenda has been to bolster the amount of money, known as venture capital, available to help new businesses grow in the state. A $400 million venture capital plan was put forward in 2011, but it died amid disagreement among politicians and special interest groups about how the program would work.

Walker put WEDC in charge of coming up with a new plan. Hall sent the Nov. 28 request for $200 million to SWIB when he was acting director of WEDC. Walker named him as its permanent head last week.

Government proposes new school lunch rules Agriculture Department says removal of junk foods from lunch lines will counter obesity Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most candy, high-calorie drinks and greasy meals could soon be on a food blacklist in the nation’s schools.

For the first time, the government is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful.

Under the new rules the Agriculture Department proposed Friday, foods like fatty chips, snack cakes, nachos and mozzarella sticks would be taken out of lunch lines and vending machines. In their place would be foods like baked chips, trail mix, diet sodas, lower-calorie sports drinks and low-fat hamburgers.

The rules, required under a child nutrition law passed by Congress in 2010, are part of the government’s effort to combat childhood obesity.

While many schools already have improved their lunch menus and vending machine choices, others still are selling high-fat, high-calorie foods.

Under the proposal, the Agriculture Department would set fat, calorie, sugar and sodium limits on almost all foods sold in schools.

Current standards already regulate the nutritional content of school breakfasts and

lunches that are subsidized by the federal government, but most lunchrooms also have “a la carte” lines that sell other foods. Food sold through vending machines and in other ways outside the lunchroom has never before been federally regulated.

“Parents and teachers work hard to instill healthy eating habits in our kids, and these efforts should be supported when kids walk through the schoolhouse door,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.

Most snacks sold in school would have to have less than 200 calories.

Elementary and middle schools could sell only water, low-fat milk or 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice. High schools could sell some sports drinks, diet sodas and iced teas, but the calories would be limited. Drinks would be limited to 12-ounce portions in middle schools and to 8-ounce portions in elementary schools.

The standards will cover vending machines, the “a la carte” lunch lines, snack bars and any other foods regularly sold around school. They would not apply to inschool fundraisers or bake sales, though states have the power to regulate them. The new guidelines also would not apply to after-school concessions at school games or

theater events, goodies brought from home for classroom celebrations, or anything students bring for their own personal consumption.

The new rules are the latest in a long list of changes designed to make foods served in schools more healthful and accessible. Nutritional guidelines for the subsidized lunches were revised last year and put in place last fall. The 2010 child nutrition law also provided more money for schools to serve free and reduced-cost lunches and required more meals to be served to hungry kids.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has been working for two decades to take junk foods out of schools.

He calls the availability of unhealthful foods around campus a “loophole” that undermines the taxpayer money that helps pay for the healthier subsidized lunches.

“USDA’s proposed nutrition standards are a critical step in closing that loophole and in ensuring that our schools are places that nurture not just the minds of American children but their bodies as well,” Harkin said.

Last year’s rules faced criticism from some conservatives, including some Republicans in Congress, who said the government shouldn’t be telling kids what

to eat. Mindful of that backlash, the Agriculture Department exempted inschool fundraisers from federal regulation and proposed different options for some parts of the rule, including the calorie limits for drinks in high schools, which would be limited to either 60 calories or 75 calories in a 12-ounce portion.

The department also has shown a willingness to work with schools to resolve complaints that some new requirements are hard to meet. Last year, for example, the government relaxed some limits on meats and grains in subsidized lunches after school nutritionists said they weren’t working.

Schools, the food industry, interest groups and other critics or supporters of the new proposal will have 60 days to comment and suggest changes. A final rule could be in place as soon as the 2014 school year.

Margo Wootan, a nutrition lobbyist for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said surveys by her organization show that most parents want changes in the lunchroom.

“Parents aren’t going to have to worry that kids are using their lunch money to buy candy bars and a Gatorade instead of a healthy school lunch,” she said.

Wisconsin has the only fully funded pension plan in the country. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board manages $86.5 billion of investments, including about $77 billion in the Wisconsin Retirement System from which benefits to retirees is paid.

Hall noted in his letter to SWIB’s executive director Michael Williamson on Nov. 28 that the request for $200 million represents just 0.3 percent of SWIB’s total assets.

“While nominal in terms of SWIB’s overall portfolio, the effect of being able to assist in development a vibrant venture investment in terms of economic

development for the state is great,” Hall said.

The investment board said in its Dec. 21 response, contained in the report, that promoting venture capital investment in Wisconsin is very important and a state-initiated program can become the catalyst to attract additional means to fund innovative technologies and ideas that will provide job opportunities.

However, it said the challenge for the board was making sure any new investments do not adversely affect its retirement fund while also meeting its “established due diligence and investment requirements.”

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MEDICAID, from 1 deal.”

Dr. Jeff Huebner, a Madisonian who serves as vice president of the National Physicians Alliance, said Wisconsin should take the already allocated funds because it would “save lives.”

Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said if Wisconsin turns down the expansion, the federal money Wisconsin taxpayers have already provided would go to another state. He compared the expansion to the high-speed rail funding Walker turned down early on in his term.

“It’s our money, and the governor has a track record of turning down our money that was sent out to Washington,” Erpenbach said.

Walker has not made a decision on the expansion yet, and it is not yet clear when he will, as there is no

specific deadline for him to do so.

Cullen Werwie, Walker’s spokesperson, said the expansion is still up in the air because the nation’s fiscal problems could lead to changes in federal aid.

“Given current fiscal uncertainties, the federal funding contained [in] the bill today remains in question,” Werwie said in a statement.

Under current law, Werwie said, the state will have to pay $664 billion over the next two years to keep the state’s program going. Werwie said roughly 40 percent of those costs come from federal funding reductions, increased costs from the health care law and an increase in payments for Medicaid coverage.

On his Facebook page, Walker put it more bluntly, telling his supporters to “think about it.”

“Congress can’t pay for what they mandate today,” Walker said. “What makes us think they can pay for even bigger costs in the future.”

On one side of the Assembly parlor Tuesday, the Democrats held their news conference. On the other, dozens of Medicaid expansion supporters clapped at the end of statements, and some held signs that said “Say Yes to BadgerCare.”

After reporters finished asking their questions, one supporter said, “I have a question. Do you like our posters?”

SAC, from 1 to increase overall activity in the SAC. Money allocated to this process will become available July 1, Cary said, so changes will be noticeable early next school year.

In addition, Cary confirmed SACGB seeks to combine small offices in order to form larger workspaces, as a small office is not conducive to many student organizations’ operations.

She said by combining these small offices, described as “garagestyle” cubbies, student organizations will be able to work without feeling like they are disturbing other students nearby.

“The SACGB is always looking for ways to best serve the student body, and this is one area in which we’ve received considerable input that we can make an improvement,” Cary said.

“We have found that the small office spaces are simply not suitable for most organizations.”

According to Gardner, students should also expect to see increased safety measures.

Cary described the current security measures as “not sufficient.”

“The Student Activity Center did not have a sufficient way to clear the building in the case of an emergency,” Cary said. “Because the SAC is often staffed by three students or fewer, clearing the building without a PA system is difficult, and very time-consuming, which is unacceptable in an emergency setting.”

Cary said the SACGB will remedy this problem by installing a PA system on the third floor in the SAC staff office, thereby allowing SAC staff to work with the University of Wisconsin Police Department to set up an effective plan for using this system in the case of an emergency.

Cary described a second security issue has been identified, as the SAC is comprised mainly of glass windows.

“While this is aesthetically very pleasing, it is a security nightmare,” Cary said.

Cary said students would have nowhere to hide in the case of an armed intruder, so to remedy the situation, a small, simple and inexpensive measure of frosting the windows is proposed to take effect.

On a personal note in reflection of the rebranding, Cary claims she is “extremely happy” about these changes and looks forward to future progress.

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Editorial Page Editor Charles Godfrey oped@badgerherald.com

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Immigrants deserve path to citizenship Spencer Lindsay Columnist

Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald file photo

Because alcohol sales are prohibited at Camp Randall Stadium, many students resort to heavy pre-game drinking rituals, including beer bongs. Allowing beer sales at football games could change this pattern.

Sell beer, solve alcohol problems Kelsey Fenton Associate Photo Editor With beer, brats and “Jump Around,” Wisconsin football game day has a reputation as the most electric and thrilling atmosphere in the country.

It’s definitely one of the highlights of my Wisconsin career and I’m sure every other fan could say the same.

This semester I had the incredible opportunity to photograph the football games. Working from the sidelines, I was there with the team for every touchdown and through a hard-fought but heartbreaking loss in Pasadena, Calif.

My knowledge of the game has improved from knowing touchdowns are good and so is Montee Ball to recognizing plays and learning every player’s name, face and number.

Though I must remain neutral on the field, this year I’ve developed a new love for Badger football.

Given that I’m graduating and pursuing a career in the business world, this was probably my last year at Camp Randall with my camera in

hand, but you can bet that I vomit for that long.

So what happens if you will be back. start selling beer at Camp However, I have one Randall? You might think request: as a responsible, that it will give fans reason legal fan, please let me to consume more. Actually, enjoy the game with a beer empirical evidence says just in my hand. the opposite.

Fans love Wisconsin’s In 2011, West Virginia game day culture for the University changed their plethora of locally-brewed policy to allow beer sales beer selections and the inside the stadium, and activities that follow. But alcohol-related trouble fell in the past few years, while alcohol sales reached under the watchful eye of $500,000. From 2010 to the university, fans have 2011, the total number of become the center of game day arrests fell by complaints for rowdiness 35 percent and the total and extreme public number of drunkenness. But alcohol cases I have a solution by 43 to satisfy “... the fact beer fell percent. drunkies and Surprised? grumpies alike: isn’t allowed So were the allow beer sales in the stadium WVU police, at Camp Randall. incentivizes who were also Before expecting to you jump to fans to either incidents conclusions and sneak flasks into see rise. On the call me crazy, flip side, lets talk about the stadium or State incentives. drink ridiculous Colorado University in Wisconsinites amounts preFort Collins love beer, and permitted beer nothing will gaming.” sales in Hughes stop them from Stadium for enjoying a crisp, more than 30 years, until mouthwatering brewskie 2004, when they stopped on game day. Right now selling beer in an effort the fact beer isn’t allowed to curb alcohol abuse. in the stadium incentivizes They discovered alcohol fans to either sneak problems were worse flasks into the stadium or at tailgates outside the drink ridiculous amounts stadium than inside, and pre-gaming. The result resumed beers sales in is obnoxious, overly2005. intoxicated fans who leave It’s easier to see how this just after “Jump Around” is possible after thinking — if they can even hold off about the incentives again. their hunger, tiredness or

If fans know they will still have access to beer during the game, they won’t have to worry about drinking so much to create a buzz to last the whole game. They can pace their drinking and stay in control until the final second, or even stay for Bucky’s Fifth Quarter!

If you’re skeptical about the underage drinkers and those who will see this as an opportunity to drink twice as much, it’s true, that might happen. But the large revenues from beer sales will be able to offset costs for increasing security or implementing regulations such as carding, wrist-banding or restricting alcohol sales from student sections. If revenues from beer sales are high enough, they could potentially aid in keeping ticket prices low.

Last July, the University of Minnesota regents approved alcohol sales at the Golden Gophers’ stadium. Let’s not let the Gophers beat us to the punch and steal our game day glory.

We are consistently praised for our outstanding academics and our rousing game day atmosphere.

So strap on your bibs and make a toast to keeping this reputation by showing our class and ability to truly enjoy ourselves responsibly in this great beer state.

Kelsey Fenton (kfenton@ badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in economics.

The U.S. Senate is taking action on the issue of illegal immigration, and attempting to give undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.

While this bipartisan action is a breath of fresh air compared to the toxic, paralyzed environment on Capitol Hill we have grown accustom to, it is also something more. It is the expansion of the American dream to a new generation of young heroes and citizens who thought their day would never come. It is the veneration of young people who have lived in this nation for as long as they can remember, but, until now, have not been allowed to call themselves citizens. For the 85,000 Wisconsinites and 11 million Americans who are undocumented, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, this is a moment of hope and empowerment that will echo in the winds of time.

While many look at undocumented immigrants with disdain and resentment, the issue should be approached with the utmost compassion and sympathy. The notion undocumented immigrants pay no taxes is false. There is little correlation between immigrant labor and the native-born unemployment rate. They often come, not to spit in the face of American laws, but to provide for their families. The notion the average undocumented immigrant is malicious toward this country or its values is baseless and faceless.

Growing up in California, I have gotten to know many of these people, sometimes calleed “illegals,” and they are as much a part of this nation and of their communities as I or any among us. They contribute greatly to society, even if they must do so in the shadows. Many choose to work hard jobs for long hours making less than minimum wage, because those are the only jobs they can get to provide for their family.

The notion the undocumented immigrant is exploiting the American worker is false, rather American society is exploiting the undocumented immigrant.

Undocumented immigrants don’t have to be paid minimum wage, they can’t get health care coverage or draw social security or welfare, yet according to the Congressional Budget Office, “the IRS estimates that about 6 million unauthorized immigrants file individual income tax returns each year.

Other researchers estimate that between 50 percent and 75 percent of unauthorized immigrants pay federal, state and local taxes.” To call this group of people illegal aliens is to frame the debate against them. They should not be called undocumented Americans, because they contribute to our society but don’t reap the benefits of it.

The term “illegal” implies some people who I have known all my life, who I have grown up with and gone to school with, lack a certain legitimacy I am entitled to.

We should be a nation that values immigrants and their integration and contribution to our society. On the Statue of Liberty it is written, “Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to be free.” The vast majority of Americans are the descendants of immigrants.

To grant citizenship to undocumented immigrants is to add a chapter to the American story in which our society accepts a new generation of people who yearned to come here.

The issue of border security is separate from the question of a path to citizenship. There is an issue of safety at play. Immigration, on the other hand, is a long drawn-out bureaucratic process that ought to be shortened.

Undocumented immigrants deserve a path to citizenship, as they have become part of the American story. We should not as a society reject people because they lack our stamp of legitimacy. I am proud we have finally reached a point in which all of my American friends may be called Americans.

Spencer Lindsay (sclindsay@ wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in political science.

The “Four Pillars” of the framework for immigration reform recently presented to Congress •

After first securing borders, create a “tough but fair path to citizenship” for undocumented immigrants

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Reform the immigration system to reflect the needs of the American economy

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Develop an effective employment verification system

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Establish an improved process for admitting workers to serve America’s workforce needs

Source: United States Senate

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

City alders inaccurately portray Care Net Pregnancy Center The article “Pro-life facility sparks controversy with Madison alder, community,” which appeared in the Jan. 29 Badger Herald, included inaccurate statements and false assumptions regarding Care Net Pregnancy Center of Dane County.

In the article, Ald. Joe Clausius, District 17, made statements that alienated Care Net when he reffered to it as “an anti-choice organization” and stated Care Net “[attempts] to take away a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choice.”

Neither of these statements is true of Care Net Pregnancy Center.

Care Net is not a political organization and does not attempt to take away women’s rights. Care Net provides options, help and support for women facing unplanned pregnancies and concerns about their sexual health. It offers professional pregnancyrelated medical services, education, a residential program and ongoing support. Care Net’s medical personnel, staff and client advocates take time to listen compassionately to each client to hear

about her or his thoughts, feelings and values. All of their services are provided freely and confidentially.

Care Net serves women and men regardless of age, race, income, religious affiliation or any other arbitrary circumstances.

It operates with the utmost integrity, providing information that is medically accurate and sensitive to each client’s needs. It does not offer, recommend or refer women for abortions.

The goal of Care Net is to empower women to make informed pregnancy choices. Women deserve a

safe place to turn, one with no vested interest in the critical decision she makes regarding her pregnancy or sexual health.

Perhaps the best recommendation for Care Net Pregnancy Center comes from women who have sought help from Care Net. In 2012, 97 percent of Care Net’s clients rated everything about Care Net as excellent in exit surveys, and all said they would recommend Care Net to a friend.

“I love coming to Care Net; it is just a safe and wonderful place,” wrote a Care Net client on an

optional exit survey at the end of her visit. Another wrote, “I was not judged!

I was listened to; it was amazing.” And a third said “Great & caring staff! I received more help than expected. It was above my expectations. I am very happy I chose Care Net!” Care Net is a valuable community asset and is committed to empowering and educating individuals in Dane County. As a volunteer at Care Net, I have witnessed the selfless sacrifices made to ensure young women and men have access to resources and education. Care Net

is dedicated to delivering professional services to meet community needs with empathy, compassion and truth.

I’d like to end with the words of another former client, “The nurse told me everything I needed to know. I would strongly recommend Care Net and I did to two of my friends … I liked everything … It made me feel like I’m home.”

Leah Teschan (leahteschan@gmail.com) is a senior majoring in human development and family studies. She is a Care Net volunteer.

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SO to the guys who invited us to the bible study at the WID. We don’t read the bible, but for you two we will consider starting!

SO to the trails by Eagle Heights and Picnic Point. Gorgeous.

ASO to my shower curtain. I said no, stop trying to get all up on me.

ASO to my finger.

Thanks for not bleeding profusely and ruining my gloves while I was rushing to class.

ASO to the knife that cut it--what did i ever do to you?

SO to my CEE311 TA for being genuinely surprised that a class full of college engineering students did not have Bieber fever.

QSO to all badgers...when you’re in a long distance relationship, is it ok to let the same drunk boy regularly sleep in your bed with you? but “nothing” happens...

ASO to this being an insanely long week.

However, SO to my boyfriend for bootycalling me at 6pm on a Thursday night.

Yes please.

SO to wishing I could major in Netflix and South Park.

My true talents are going to waste.

ASO to my roommate fapping it on the bunk below me. SO to being rocked to sleep as a result.

Sometimes ya gotta take the good with the bad.

SO to drinking. Who doesn’t love a good strong drink? NOBODY!!! If you do, put out or get out.

ASO to the kid in my French class who keeps trying to tell the TA how they did things at MATC. Seriously just stop.

You’re in the big leagues now, act

like it.

ASO to Chris F. You’re so vain. I bet you think this shoutout’s about you. SO to you still probably re-posting this on your wall though because you love any attention that is on you.

ASO to the girl in my class who said she can’t remember the pledge of allegiance! You are clearly from this country please get your act together!

ASO to the girl forcefully pushing herself ahead of people to get on the 80, not allowing the doors to close, and then announcing that everyone needed to make more room so she could get on.

ASO to the girl in Med Sciences saying her friend is ridiculous for buy $60 lingerie. If you don’t think spending $60 on lingerie is worth it, I assume you just don’t look good in it, or you’re not having sex.

ASO to Dove. I know that chocolate is always my Valentine, but did you have to remind me that I’m single?

SO to being too drunk last night to make a move. That’s the shit I don’t like.

QSO: why do guys always have boners when they wake up in the morning? Seriously a magical mystery I will probably ever understand.

ASO to professors who get you all excited by saying there’s no final exam when there actually is one!

SO to that feeling when you refresh the shout-out page and the number of shoutouts jumps from 436 to 530. Looks like I have some catching up to do!

ASO to being drunk, rejected, depressed, and something else all at once. What a good Saturday night.

SO to my brand spankin new hedgehog! Oh, and SO to said hedgehog not wanting the treats I giver her.

SO to the girl who ate shit and dropped her pizza in the middle of the intersection in front of Witte. DSO to her picking it up and walking away.

SO to pictures

of baby hedgehogs cheering me up.

They’re so fucking cute!

SO to loving the smell of my own farts. Isn’t it supposed to work that way??

ASO to loud mouth breathing. It’s distracting, not to mention creepy.

ASO to people who dont make good bras for DD cups. I wish we all could just go braless. It would be a better world.

ASO to my roommate who uses SOs as a means of displaying passive aggression.

You fail. We know it’s you.

SO to the majestic ice sculptures outside of u south.

Ya’ll are so artistic n shit. For real though, incredible.

(A)SO to the fact that, every time I read something else after the shoutouts, every sentence that starts with “So” makes me horribly confused for a bit.

SO to typing belieber instead of believer while taking notes. you got me again jbiebs.

SO to sitting around and talking about gspots, women’s anatomy and vibrators with my roommates while eating ice cream. Thank you GWS 103, you created a great roommate bonding moment.

QSO to why semen doesn’t taste like cinnastix icing from pizza hut? SO to any badger boy that magically squirts icing ASO to finally deleting nude pictures of my ex. There is no worse feeling in a man’s life. Bye bye boobies :/ ASO to girls who wear the tightest yoga pants imaginable and look offended when they catch a guy staring.

SO to tight yoga pants though, hot damn HMFASO to girls who wear uggs and drag their feet. You were given knees that bend for a reason, so pick up your fucking feet!

ASO to sharting.

It has never happened to me before, but now that it has I can say with 100% confidence I would not wish it on my worst enemy. Ew.

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ASO to the ice at the bottom of Bascom making everyone fall on their ass (even though it is quite funny) ASO to that terrified you feeling you get when you’re creeping on an ex’s wall and are afraid you will accidentally like something from too long ago and they’ll know you were creepin ASO to all the people in college who sit alone at a 4 person table just to watch hulu. SO to anyone who wants to take one of the 3 remaining seats at my table while I actually study.

ASO to having an exam already on Thursday. Really?

Who does that?

SO to all the SO’s about getting a regular booty call, add this guy to the list, find me at the SERF QSO to my fellow Badgers: Does anyone else enjoy staying naked for as long as possible after getting out of the shower? aso to ppm, who gets pimples on their dick? you’re disgusting.

ASO to my roommate from the east coast who doesn’t know how to WOP or Wobble... get your shit to-

gether!

SO to the snow we’ve been getting! I love winter. It’s so pretty and I have snow boots so I can walk where ever I want. DSO to snow.

LOLSO to the squirrel on the Badger Herald staff page.

(Editor’s note: we love Brutus!)

SO to my sexy calc TA. You make the retched class far more bearable.

SO to a good vent session with your best friend. There ain’t nothing a good listener and fro-yo can’t fix!

SO to finding out I just got accepted to my first choice graduate school! Seriously badgers, this place works wonders!

Enjoy your time as an undergrad - it goes by so fast!

SO to lying in bed naked after showers!

BEST THING EVER!!!

ASO to my frugal ass roommate that turned the heat off during the night of the huge blizzard and our pipes froze and our heat hasn’t been working for three days. We split the heat bill 6 ways bro, take a chill pill.

ASO to being the worst cook in the world. I seriously did not think it was

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possible to fuck up easy mac. SO to my mom. I miss your cooking.

WTFSO to already being swamped with reading/papers/ homework. THIS IS WEEK TWO. ASO to it probably only going downhill from here.

SO/ASO to discovering Downton Abbey.

Nothing is getting done. Ever.

I’m not even embarrassed SO to how excited I am that Fall Out Boy is back together! It’s like middle school dances all over again. #dancedance.

HMFSO to the newest drinking game: tape a mustache cutout on the TV and watch a movie. Drink every time it lines up.

LOLSO to Jennifer Lopez having a burly mustache.

ASO to my boyfriend and his roommates for being too fucking lazy to go buy more toilet paper to the point where everyone is wiping with coffee filters.

That DOES NOT feel good on my lady parts!!

SO to masturbating while reading the shout outs.

JIIIIIZZZZZ. SO to being a weirdo. SO to my friends being weirdos. derp alert. www.badgerherald.com /shoutouts

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ARTSETC. PRESENTS “HUMP DAY”

New IUD explained in Hump Day interview Samantha Johnson Hump Day Columnist How are those sexy New Year’s resolutions we talked about goin’?

Mine are well under way, I am happy to say.

I have an appointment set up for a shiny new — and 100 percent covered! — intrauterine device (IUD), thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Was your or your family’s health insurance renewed recently? It might be worth checking into the details of your plan, since many plans are now covering a wide variety of contraceptive options. If you or your partner is interested in either beginning or reconsidering a method, I would highly recommend checking out bedsider. org for a wonderful and easy to use breakdown of various birth control methods.

However, one product that you won’t find on there as of yet is Skyla.

Set to hit the market Feb. 11, Skyla is an IUD approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent pregnancy for up to three years for women who have not had children. This week, it was my turn to ask the questions when I had the opportunity to speak with Pamela A. Cyrus, the vice president and head of U.S. Medical Affairs at Bayer Pharmaceutacials, the same people who brought you the IUD Mirena.

Badger Herald: With such a great product like Mirena on the market, why Skyla and why now?

Pamela A. Cyrus: Skyla is the first intrauterine system to come to the U.S. market in more than a decade. And Bayer did do this because nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended.

So there’s been a growing support for long-acting, reversible contraceptives in the medical community to address this problem, and it sounds like you’re seeing that with your fellow Badgers. Bayer really wanted to expand its IUD portfolio and underscore the healthy, continued commitment to empower women with

a variety of birth control options when they’re at different stages of their reproductive life.

BH: What are the main differences between Skyla and Mirena?

Cyrus: Skyla is a levonorgestrel-releasing system. It’s approved by the FDA for pregnancy prevention for up to three years. Mirena is also a leveonorgestrelreleasing intrauterine system, but it’s approved for prevention for up to five years. Additionally, Mirena is approved to treat heavy menstrual bleeding for women who choose to use intrauterine contraception, but Mirena is recommended for women who have a child.

Skyla can be used by women whether or not she’s had a child.

BH: Which sounds like a lot of college-aged women…

Cyrus: Exactly!

BH: If a young student was trying to pick a hormonal BC option, why should they pick Skyla over the pill, the patch or a ring?

Cyrus: If you look at the effectiveness of the various forms of birth control, the methods that you see the fewest pregnancies with are implants, injections, sterilizations and IUDs. So, certainly, for a woman who wants long-term birth control that provides a low chance of getting pregnant (less than one in 100), then the IUD would be a very good choice.

In the case of Skyla, for a person who wants birth control that works continuously for up to three years, birth control that’s reversible in case they change their mind down the road, if they want a method that they don’t have to take daily, if they’re willing to take a birth control method that has to be placed in the uterus and they want birth control that doesn’t contain estrogen, that’s the type of woman that’s going to want Skyla.

BH: What is the procedure like?

Cyrus: It does have to be a health care provider who inserts it. It’s done during an in-office visit.

They’re going to do an exam where they’re going to examine their pelvis and find the position of how the uterus is laying.

They’re going to clean the area and then they’re going to put a plastic tube

containing the Skyla to the uterus.

BH: So is this a quick trip to the doctor?

Cyrus: You need to put aside a little bit of time for it. Because you need to have time to get in there, have it properly inserted. It’s not necessarily a lengthy procedure, but you can have symptoms for a short period of time right after placement. They might have pain, bleeding or dizziness during and after placement.

These symptoms normally pass within 30 minutes of being inserted, but [patients are] certainly going to want to be observed closely after that time. This isn’t something that you just stop in between classes for, but it’s also not a surgical procedure that they have to take days off of class either.

BH: What are the longterm side effects?

Cyrus: Like all IUDs, it can cause serious side effects that can include pelvic inflammatory disease or perforation.

It may become attached or embedded into walls of uterus. Those are the more serious side effects.

Common side effects include pain, bleeding, dizziness or expulsion.

Skyla can come out on its own. Women are always going to want to make sure it’s in place.

You can also have missed menstrual periods, changes in bleeding, cysts in the ovaries.

BH: Perforation and expulsion? Is that very common?

Cyrus: Perforation occurs in one out of 1000, expulsion three out of 100.

BH: Does it have any effects on the menstrual cycle?

Cyrus: It can. About one out of 16 women will stop having periods after one year of Skyla use.

BH: Any chances of heavier periods?

Cyrus: You can have bleeding and spotting between periods. That’s usually in the first three to six months. Sometimes it’s heavier than usual at first. Usually, the bleeding becomes lighter than usual.

Read more about Skyla on the ArtsEtc. Blog The Beat Goes On next week, and stay tuned to follow Sam’s IUD adventures. Submit your questions to humpday@ badgerherald.com

Courtesy of My Bloody Valentine

The sudden appearance of the new My Bloody Valentine album is enough to make even casual fans pee themselves with joy.

m b v stuns with familiar, comforting rock sounds 22-year wait for new My Bloody Valentine music ends in success Erik Sateren ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

On Saturday, every rock music aficionado with Internet access let out a yelp followed by a few uncontrollable drops of urine. My Bloody Valentine had just released an album.

Titled m b v, the album is a nine-song collection 22 years in the making. It is the follow-up to the band’s 1991 classic Loveless, an album constructed of layers of throbbing, distorted guitars and quiet, obscured vocals meticulously placed atop looped drum samples to create a sound that is at once lushly ethereal and blissfully cacophonous. Loveless is so deeply wedged into the history of contemporary rock music that it stands as an emblem of My Bloody Valentine’s legacy. After years of offering playful hints of a successor, it seemed as if front man Kevin Shields was more willing to offer half-serious updates of the album’s progress than any actual music.

But it has arrived. m b v is finally here. On Saturday night, demand for the album crashed the band’s official site, but by early Sunday morning the album was proven to be real. And with a collective musical experience — the likes of which have not been seen since the release of Radiohead’s In Rainbows — avid fans rejoiced across the Internet and were greeted with an album that sounds very much like My Bloody Valentine. m b v continues exactly

where Loveless left off. What is instantly striking about the record is just how much of the band’s style is intact after a long hiatus. It’s as if My Bloody Valentine never left.

But m b v doesn’t sound like a nostalgic throwback to 1991 because the band’s sound simply cannot be dated; the sound exists somewhere outside of the bounds of contemporary music production. It is a sound only attainable through several years of floating in space, reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and translating those experiences into music, or — in Kevin Shield’s case — being Kevin Shields.

The album opens with “She Found Now,” a viscous blend of tremolo guitars that meld with Shield’s hushed vocals to create a slow-moving wall of warmth-inducing sound. A stagnant yet ever-morphing ballad, the song perfectly encapsulates the feeling of sonic existentialism that runs throughout the album.

“Only Tomorrow” — perhaps the album’s strongest track — ends with nearly three minutes of anthemic guitar chords unleashed over stuttering, fuzzy rhythm guitars. The result is a surprisingly accessible and uplifting sound that still retains a challenging and thought-provoking nature.

“New You” is the closest My Bloody Valentine has gotten to a full-on pop song, yet the band refuses to let conventional techniques of music production dictate their beauty. For example, three minutes into “Who Sees You,” screeching elephant-like guitar noises wail atop propulsive instruments like some sort of giant, weeping creature struggling to escape an ocean of noise beneath it.

Even during the album’s low moments, enough fresh and innovate production choices keep the material interesting.

“Nothing Is” is a repetitive beat played ad nauseum, but also an exhilarating exercise in tension without payoff. The convoluted and unfocused “Wonder 2” is still mind-blowing — the sensory equivalent of watching television static in the Cinerama Dome during a massive air raid. m b v is an album for those who find comfort in introspection and beauty in solitude. My Bloody Valentine’s sound can be challenging for the firsttime listener, but with patience and an open mind the grace and complexity of this album reveals itself.

This is an album that lifts all concerns from the mind of its listener; it leaves an empty, contemplative space between the headphones, allowing nothing but the band’s waves of thick sound to slosh around in your brain. m b v uncovers beauty where there is none and accentuates it where it’s present.

This is an album to listen to during a sunset, after the death of a loved one, before a marriage proposal or on a rainy day. This is an album for any circumstance. Listen to it and suddenly everything makes sense: that dirty pile of snow, that pesky hangnail, that guy yelling across the street. With this album, My Bloody Valentine has extracted every bit of beauty from walls of noise — they’ve found beauty in the harsh, the distorted and the ugly. I could have said these exact words about Loveless. Maybe that isn’t a bad thing at all.

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My Bloody Valentine

Predictably bad ‘Movie 43’ not worth properly naming Tim Hadick ArtsEtc. Editor The year’s worstreviewed movie so far is now in theaters. But no one should have expected “Movie 43” it

to be anything but crap.

The A-list celebrity cast ensemble may have heightened expectations from audiences and critics alike, but actors can’t save something that is fundamentally meant to

suck.

“Movie 43” starts out with Dennis Quaid (“Playing for Keeps”) playing a crazed screenwriter pitching a movie idea to a film executive played by Greg

Courtesy of Virgin Produced

It would take a lot more than a well-sized injection of quality to make “Movie 43” anything more than just another shitty comedy.

Kinnear (“Stuck in Love”) — there’s really no need to mention character names since no one cares or remembers. The screenwriter’s first movie idea is a rom-com. Kate Winslet’s (“Contagion”) character goes on a date with Hugh Jackman’s (“Les Miserables”) character.

The thing is, Jackman is sporting a scrotum on his chin. What ensues is the most awkward use of fake balls known to film.

After the idea fails to impress, the writer tries to sell another idea. Then another. Eventually the exec gets sick of the terrible ideas and tries to throw Quaid out. But Quaid pulls a gun on Kinnear and the ideas have to keep coming.

Each skit’s premise sounds pretty damn funny.

Halle Berry (“Cloud Atlas”) and Stephen Merchant (“Gnomeo and Juliet”) take “Truth or Dare” to a new level. Johnny Knoxville (“The Last Stand”) and Seann William Scott (“American Reunion”) try to get a leprechaun to give them his gold. Anna Faris (“The Dictator”) asks Chris

Pratt (“Zero Dark Thirty”) to poop on her. “Movie 43” is nothing but huge names in tiny roles with a heavy dose of insanity.

But the segments in “Movie 43” are akin to really over the top, kinda funny “Saturday Night Live” skits without a laugh track. Every now and then something strikes audiences as really funny and gets a good hoot. Still, the majority of the film is bland from trying too hard.

There isn’t much acting in “Movie 43.” The actors just play goofy versions of themselves, save for those in the actual “plot,” and go with the flow. It’s clear everyone working on the film had a great time making it; it’s just not as much fun to watch the final product. It’s doubtful producers had any intention of making “Movie 43” a solid feature — they didn’t even give it a proper title.

Near the end of the film’s short running time, the fourth wall is demolished and the film’s rough nature is revealed as actors, now out-of-character, introduce the second to last clip.

The trailer for “Movie 43” shows exactly what to expect from the film: nothing terribly coherent and a lot of raw attempts at humor. Those looking to turn off the brain will probably enjoy the flick, while those looking for smart, clever buildups to laughs will absolutely hate “Movie 43.”

A word of caution: No one should stick around for the skit after the blooperreel rolls. There’s a line that’s crossed between cat-on-human relations and what should be shown onscreen.

“Movie 43” is pretty funny. Audiences looking for a cheap laugh and dumb humor will feel at home watching the film. In no way does “Movie 43” take itself seriously, and since no one on the production team did either, that’s not a bad thing.

Still, save some cash and watch it when it inevitably ends up on Netflix Instant in the very near future.

‘Movie 43’

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The Most Erudite Poop Jokes You’ve Ever Read Noah J. Yuenkel comics@badgerherald.com

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WHAT IS THIS

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NONSENSE? Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

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

TWENTY POUND BABY

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KAKURO?

I know, I know. Kakuro.

Looks crazy, right?

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?

Not in this part of town.

And that’s that, slick.

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The Badger Herald | Sports | Wednesday, February 6, 2013

SECONDARY, from 14 record in 2012 and a tie for first place atop the Northern California Valley conference.

In 2011 Vercher recorded three interceptions and 29

tackles.

Andersen and his defensive coordinator Dave Aranda recruited Vercher during their time at Utah State. Vercher chose Wisconsin over Fresno

State, where he was once a soft verbal-commit, and Syracuse.

Vercher remains the lone safety commit in the 2013 recruiting class.

Wisconsin adds more depth

to their secondary with two cornerback recruits in Keelon Brooking, a threestar recruit and the No. 76 cornerback in the nation and Sojourn Shelton, a fourstar recruit and the No. 27

cornerback in the nation.

Andersen and the Badgers also continue to target Marcus Ball, the brother of Wisconsin’s offensive lineman Ray Ball and the No. 67 athlete in the nation,

GRADES, from 14 nationally.

The memorable defensive performances — namely holding then No. 1 Indiana to only 59 points, more than 20 points below its season average — are dampened by the sloppy play that allowed Iowa to hit 43.1 percent of their shots in the next game.

The team largely has its most veteran members to thank for holding this defense together. Fifthyear senior Jared Berggren has protected the paint with an agile frame that has swatted away 38 shots this season, third most in the Big Ten. Ryan Evans — despite his mystifying shot selection on the offensive end — often draws the assignment of the opponent’s best player and has done an admirable job containing players like Ohio State’s Deshaun Thomas and Indiana’s Victor Oladipo.

Junior guard Ben Brust, who likely draws more criticism for his defense than any other starter, has made some strides as a defender. Younger players like Dekker and Marshall are still learning the defensive ropes, but expect Ryan’s defense to only improve as March draws near.

Grade: B Starters Besides Ben Brust and Jared Berggren, few things have been constant in this Wisconsin starting lineup.

At the beginning of the season UW started George Marshall at point guard, but after the redshirt freshman struggled with turnovers, Traevon Jackson replaced him following the Arkansas game — a game in which Marshall recorded one assist and three turnovers.

Jackson has brought toughness on defense but still remains shaky at times, especially on the offensive end, although his drive and tenacity to attack the hoop gives the Badgers an aspect to their game that has been severely lacking.

The confidence and coolness Jackson displays in tight games and big moments has made him a valuable asset to the team as a starter. As big shots in the Indiana and Minnesota games have shown, Jackson has no plans of giving back the starting job.

Evans has once again given Wisconsin a terrific rebounder and a mostlysolid defender, but his inconsistencies on the offensive end still prove to make him a frustrating player to watch. When he’s hitting his 15-footer, he extends defenses and blows by defenders with his athleticism. But when he’s not hitting his shots, he becomes almost non-

according to ESPN.com.

A starting quarterback and safety for Westerville South High School in Ohio, Ball will decide between Wisconsin and Arizona State on Signing Day.

existent as an option.

But don’t worry, Evans will keep shooting. He’s shot more times than anybody else on the team — making 96 of his 240 shot attempts and two of his 23 three pointers.

Evans will need to become more consistent in his jumper if UW is to have any shot at a deep tournament run.

Grade: BBench Badger fans hoping to peer into the future of Wisconsin basketball need to look no further than the chairs aligned along the sideline.

Here, where the likes of Sam Dekker, Frank Kaminsky and George Marshall usually reside at tip-off, is where UW has received much-needed boosts in the game’s most critical moments this season.

And it is only fair to start with Dekker, the most exciting freshman to don the cardinal and white in recent memory. He has lived up to the sizable hype he hauled into the Kohl Center at the season’s start, acting as an energizer who shows no shortage of confidence when he steps onto the hardwood. With 8.8 points per game — fourth on the team behind three players who have started every game this year — Dekker attacks the rim and may indeed earn the starting nod before the season is over.

Berggren’s de-facto backup, Kaminsky, may not have progressed as quickly as Wisconsin fans hoped thus far in his sophomore campaign.

Despite standing as the tallest player on the roster at 6-foot-11, Kaminsky is not a traditional back-tothe-basket center but has proved valuable in his role as the modern big man — a player who can sink a three-pointer just as easily as he can dump in an offensive rebound under the hoop.

Marshall — who has earned six starts this season — is one of the most intriguing players on Wisconsin’s roster and offered a preview of his potential when he exploded for 20 points in a Jan. 19 loss at Iowa. With a lightning-fast first step, the redshirt freshman is still learning when to pull the trigger on three-pointers and developing as a ballhandler, but has provided an also-inexperienced Traevon Jackson with critical relief minutes this year.

Add in the occasional contributions of Zak Showalter and Zach Bohannon, and Bo Ryan has had no shortage of options to turn to when starters get into foul trouble or simply need a breather.

Grade: A-

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UW readies for second chance with Hawkeyes Kamisky looks to stay hot against Iowa after careerhigh 19 point game Ian McCue Senior Sports Writer In its last 20 meetings, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team has held a commanding 14-6 advantage over Iowa. But three of those six losses have come over the past two seasons as the Badgers have not taken down the Hawkeyes in nearly two years.

So what is it about Iowa (14-8, 3-6 Big Ten), a program that has not landed in the NCAA tournament since 2006, that has given Wisconsin (15-7, 6-3) such unrelenting trouble? It starts with a roster that makes the most of their talent, utilizing a style of play reminiscent of the Badgers themselves.

“A thing they do well is they match our intensity,” freshman forward Sam Dekker said. “A lot of times we’re the team that comes out and we hit them in the mouth right away, and just play harder than them, and they match it. And the past three times they’ve played harder than us and they’ve gotten the best of us.”

Wednesday night’s rematch at the Kohl Center — when Wisconsin will try to bring that threegame losing streak to a close — will be critical as the Badgers try to stay in the Big Ten title race.

Halfway through a brutally tough conference season, Iowa serves as the final prep for an immensely talented Michigan team

Saturday, one of four teams that sit ahead of UW in the conference standings.

Though the Badgers would need nearperfection over their final nine conference games to capture their first Big Ten regular season crown since 2008, a victory over the pesky Hawkeyes would hand the home team its first pair of consecutive wins in nearly three weeks.

UW assistant coach Gary Close says the Hawkeyes are a deceptively talented team, one lost in the mix of a Big Ten that currently boasts five ranked teams.

Their top talent arrives in sophomore forward Aaron White, a name that may be familiar to Badger

“White’s one of the top players in the league. Everybody ... would love to have him.”

Gary Close

UW Assistant Coach

fans after he posted 17 points and made it to the free throw line 15 times in a 70-66 Iowa win at Carver-Hawkeye Arena Jan. 19. His name may not yet have secured a spot in the vocabulary of Big Ten basketball fans, but his 13.9 points and six rebounds per game — both team highs — will soon earn him such a place.

“Aaron White’s one of the top players in the league,” said Close, who spent 13 years as an assistant coach in Iowa City from 1986-99.

“Everybody in this league would love to have him.

If he were playing for

Michigan or Michigan State or Indiana, the whole country would know about him … he’s a big-time player.”

As difficult a task as it will be to control the 6-foot-8 White, defense has generally not been the issue for this Badgers team.

Instead, it has been icecold shooting that has cost Wisconsin in tight losses.

Never were those shooting woes more apparent than when the Badgers found themselves in a 16-point hole at halftime after shooting 23.1 percent in the first half in the first meeting with the Hawkeyes this year.

That began a stretch of several poor shooting performances before UW appeared to regain its rhythm in a six-point road victory over Illinois Sunday, when it finished the game shooting 42.9 percent.

“I think that kind of got us out of [the shooting slump], getting over the hump there on the offensive end and getting to the line,” Dekker said of the win over Illinois.

“Those are just things we need to do to get confident, get us going and carry that into the next few games.”

Anchoring that improved offensive effort at Illinois was sophomore forward Frank Kaminsky, who netted a career-high 19 points in his second game back after missing three games with an eye injury, including the loss to Iowa earlier this season.

He watched much of that game with his mom and sister — who were in town for his sister’s birthday — from the lobby of a Madison hotel where

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Senior forward Jared Berggren posted eight points and five rebounds in Wisconsin’s 70-66 loss to Iowa early this season. Berggren is averaaging a team-high 11.6 ppg but has struggled lately with foul trouble, as the Badgers look to beat Iowa for the first time in two seasons. he admits he drew some startling looks as he yelled at the TV. “It was frustrating to watch, and there’s things we could have done in that game to win the game I think,” Kaminsky said.

“They were right there at the end to win the game, just a couple dumb mistakes away from victory.”

The Badgers will need all the offensive help they can get from an Iowa squad that, according to Close, is one of the deepest in the

Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald file photo

The Wisconsin State Journal’s Tom Oates irked former head coach Bret Bielema with his column on the Mike Markuson firing, resulting for some tense moments between the two.

KORGER, from 14 be all cream-puff over athletes and the Athletic Department. I’ll admit, it can be intimidating to write anything critiquing or questioning a tenured coach who has been successful, because you put yourself at risk of being alienated or shunned by the coach or, at least, feeling that uncomfortable awkwardness every time you ask a question. I mean, who wants to be criticized by some college student who hasn’t ever played the sport at the collegiate level?

Part of being a successful sports journalist is knowing where to draw the line, where questioning goes too far, where claims and ideas go without proof.

It’s important to keep respect for every person, no matter how much you disagree with them, and to stay professional at all times.

One of the journalists I’ve come to respect during my time here in Madison is the Wisconsin State Journal’s columnist Tom Oates; mainly because Oates challenged former head coach Bret Bielema in a column entitled “Badgers’ knee-jerk firing of Mike Markuson the result of a poor hire” that ran Sept.

11, 2012.

The column questioned Bielema’s remarks in response to the firing of his offensive line coach just two games into the season and seemed to raise the ire of the former Wisconsin head coach into a noticeable presence in the room, every time they were in the same room.

For a guy just in his first year, I would never have dreamed of openly criticizing Bielema in a column, even though I was tempted to do the same following the football team’s third straight overtime loss in 2012. But,

either out of cowardice or lack of confidence in myself as a columnist, I backed away.

Now, looking back at the way Bielema bolted for Arkansas midseason, I feel nothing but regret that I tiptoed around outright questioning of the Badgers’ struggles in 2012 stemming from coaching. Sure, cleverly worded didactic literature in a column can veil criticism, but we as a sports department have backed away from critical analysis of the state of the athletic landscape at this prestigious campus.

So, I make a pledge to you, fellow students. The Badger Herald Sports Department is done with being just your regular, run-of-the-mill sports section. Have a feature idea about a great/ incredible aspect of an athlete’s life that has escaped recognition? Let us know. Have an idea for a story in general you’d

like to see? Let us know.

Think we’re still not being unbiased in our coverage?

Let us know.

If this is my last semester on campus as a student and my only as the sports editor at this paper, I’ll be damned if I don’t give everything I have (while maintaining my grades and law school hopes) to bring you a better sports section with the best and most well-rounded coverage in the country of all the wonderful aspects of athletic activity this city and college has to offer.

These wonderful pages at The Badger Herald were formed as an experiment.

Let’s get back to the lab this semester.

Nick Korger is fifth-year senior and a history and English major. Have a story idea or something you’d like to see covered? Email him at sports@badgerherald.com or nkorger@badgerherald. com

Big Ten and carries nine players who average at least 15 minutes per game on the floor.

The duo of freshman Mike Gesell and junior Roy Debyn Marble lead a backcourt with 8.9 and 13.4 points per game, respectively. Athletic big man Melsahn Basabe takes pressure off of White in the paint when he comes off the bench with 7.4 points and 4.5 boards per game.

Coaches and players understand Wednesday

night is a pit stop for the Badgers at the midway point of a taxing Big Ten season, a chance to refuel and gather the momentum for a late-season run.

“We’ve just got to refocus, bring that energy again,” Dekker said. “I think a couple of those losses were eye-openers for us because we dug ourselves in another hole, and we’ve got to get out of that. We don’t want to drop any further in the standings than we already are.”

Sports Editor Nick Korger sports@badgerherald.com

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Grades: Defense keeping UW alive Offense remains thorn in side for Wisconsin team’s chances in B1G Ian McCue & Nick Korger Men’s Basketball Beat Writers Offense Shooting three-point shots is something the Badgers’ offense has revolved around this season.

The problem is, with a reliance on the outside shot comes a larger risk for going cold from the field, compared to attacking the rim. And nowhere has that been more evident than the usual Wisconsin drought, as displayed last week against Ohio State when the Badgers went ice-cold for most of the second half.

With just half of the conference schedule remaining, Wisconsin is 169for-487 from beyond the arc and, with a team percentage of 34 percent, they currently sit as the seventh-best threepoint shooting team in the conference.

While the numbers themselves may not seem so gloomy, the amount of attempts compared to the rest of the league is

a tad alarming, as only Illinois (currently 10th in the conference) and Northwestern (eighth) have attempted more threes than Wisconsin.

On the personnel level, one positive point for UW is the fact their scoring distribution is extremely balanced. Every player in the Badgers’ eight-man rotation averages at least five points, and each player is a legit threat to go off for doubledigits any night.

Offensively, another bright spot has been the production of Sam Dekker. The true freshman has contributed just under nine points per night in only 22 minutes, primarily off the bench, while shooting 41 percent from three (fifth best in the conference).

If the Badgers hope to remain consistent on offense this season and score more than 60 points a night (the team is 2-7 in games it scores under that point total), they need to establish a stronger post game.

Wisconsin showed its ability to score with its back to the basket against Illinois when Frank Kamnisky scored 19 points, but the group will need redshirt senior Jared Berggren to score more than his average 11.6 points per

game.

And maybe make their free throws. After all, the group is ranked 335th in college basketball in free throw percentage.

Grade: C+ Defense No interview with a Wisconsin coach or player is complete without at least one mention of head coach Bo Ryan’s “defensive principles.”

Defense is the glue of Ryan’s teams, and while the Badgers’ defense has been far from perfect through the first half of the Big Ten season, they have generally survived their own offensive futility by forcing similarly poor shooting performances from their opponents.

Wisconsin ranks eighth nationally in scoring defense (allowing 55 points per game) and would find itself buried in the conference standings without such redemptive effort on defense.

However, UW’s own shooting percentage this year is less than three percentage points higher than the 40.5 percent conversion rate of its opponents, a number that ranks a disappointing 77th

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Junior forward Ben Brust has been a staple of the inconsistent Wisconsin offense, playing a team-high average of 32.6 minutes per game and scoring 10.7 ppg (second-highest on the team). The Badger offense averages 67.2 ppg this season, compared to its oppenents’ 55.6 ppg.

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Dezmen Southward and the Wisconsin secondary which lost three seniors from the 2012-2013 team will get much needed experience from junior college recruit Donnell Vercher.

Badgers add depth to secondary Junior college transfer Donnell Vercher brings experience to depleted saftey position Nick Korger Sports Editor A day after addressing the need for a quarterback in his inherited recruiting class with junior-college transfer Tanner McEvoy, new Wisconsin head coach Gary Andersen reeled in another

commitment from a JUCO player to address needs in the secondary.

Needing to replace three starting defensive backs from last season’s team with just safety Dezmen Southward returning, Andersen took the first step toward replenishing the depleted positional

group by securing a verbal commitment from safety and JUCO All-American Donnell Vercher of Fresno (Calif.)

City College.

Vercher, a three-star recruit according to ESPN. com, will be the first player from Fresno City College to play at a Big Ten school since

wide receiver Arsenio Curry signed with Purdue in 2008.

The 6-foot-2 and 195-pound safety had 23 tackles and eight interceptions this past season for the Rams, helping to lead the team to a 8-3

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One of the finer points in being a studentjournalist comes with understanding where to draw the line.

First off, when you read this know the biographical facts that shape my identity as a person. I am a fifth-year student at the University of Wisconsin and I grew up a life-long Badger fan.

So, understand how incredibly difficult it has been for myself to shake off that personal bias and become an unbiased writer. The process was gradual, from my former Sports Editor Mike Fiammetta telling me as a sports writer I couldn’t have a Wisconsin logo background on my Twitter profile to finally dressing (at least, almost always) for interviews with a conscientious effort to not wear any Wisconsin clothing — an extremely hard task to accomplish, considering the color of red makes up half of my clothes.

But, I can confidently tell you I have made it past those old views and become somewhat of a seasoned student journalist. After all, when you report for almost three years on seemingly every sport on campus you begin to let your bias and allegiance evaporate. Instead, what replaced my passion as a fan was a passion for athletes and the sports they play.

There really is something to be said

about the young men and women at this university who are fulltime students, successful athletes and still find time to volunteer for various organizations and throughout the Madison community.

And these young men and women are the reason I got into working at this paper in the first place. There are just some people you meet who make you want to become a better person.

Something I’ve noticed in my time as a journalist is the fact there rarely is such thing as an unbiased writer.

In fact, I even caught myself posting a “Go Badgers” status at the Rose Bowl. I’ve heard of writers who are friends with the athletes they write about, who go out to bars and such with them and enjoy a solid relationship.

That’s all great and seriously, some of these athletes are the kind of people you wish you could hang out with, but at what point does the journalistic responsibilities of being a reporter trump your natural instincts as a peer to these studentathletes?

Well, for starters, it’s important to stay professional. As much as I wish I could go around Facebook friend requesting athletes, I don’t, because it’s creepy. And, I guess I should keep the relationship between us as professionals. I just wish every person who writes, at every level, felt the same.

Another difficulty I’ve noticed is the tendency we in the student press have to

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