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UW’S SEARCH FOR A NEW LEADER: PART ONE OF FOUR

Chancellor finalist brings economic perspective Tara Golshan Deputy News Editor

Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor In the eyes of Rebecca Blank, the acting Secretary of Commerce and one of four finalists in the Chancellor search and screen, a federal agency is not unlike the University of Wisconsin.

UW’s Chancellor Search and Screen Committee announced Blank among three other academic finalists

late Thursday evening, narrowing down the year long search.

In an interview with The Badger Herald, Blank, who was a member of President Barack Obama’s economic team, expressed her interest in economics and its relevance to the university.

Blank said she spent much of the past two years thinking about the issue of American competitiveness, a concept which she says ties in directly with higher education.

According to the United solved with two factors, one States Department of of which are big research Commerce, under Obama, universities.

“In the long run [there are] Blank has been working only two things to increase the that matter,” Blank United States’ said. “A skilled work competitiveness force and research in job creation, institutions on [the] innovation in the cutting edge of business sector innovation.” and overseas In many ways, competition.

Rebecca Blank Blank said, much of All of these areas of concentration and the the Department of Commerce path to a stronger American is not unlike a university, economy, Blank said, can be citing the creation of budgets

State (red) and federal (blue) funding increases for Medicaid Walker’s plan 460.6 million, 320.3 million

4.38 billion, 66.7 million

Third plan

Sean Kirkby Senior Reporter

4.1 billion, savings of 164.2 million

Projected growth in Medicaid enrollment, by plan Walker’s plan: 5,000

Dems’ plan: 175,000

Third plan: 116,700

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Wisconsin’s Medicaid options deconstructed Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor Two weeks ago, Gov. Scott Walker announced he would turn down the Medicaid expansion, opting for another plan he said would cover fewer people.

Lawmakers will review his plan, which was part of the budget released last week, for the next few months.

Meanwhile, Democrats and advocacy groups are pushing for two other plans during that time. Below is a rundown of all three plans.

What is the Medicaid expansion?

It is an option states have to expand eligibility in their Medicaid programs to those under 133 percent of the poverty level. The poverty level is currently an individual making $11,490 a year. Someone at 133 percent of the poverty level makes $15,282, and someone at 200 percent makes $22,980.

How much does the federal government pay for the expansion?

The federal government pays 100 percent of the expansion’s costs until 2016.

Then, the ratio gradually declines to its permanent level of 90 percent in 2020.

Walker said given federal debt problems, he is unsure whether the federal government could maintain those funding promises.

Walker’s opponents point to a provision Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer put in her acceptance of the expansion that let Arizona opt out if the ratio changes.

How does that compare to the current ratio?

The federal government currently pays about 60 percent for the state’s Medicaid programs, and the state pays about 40 percent. Walker’s plan would maintain that ratio.

Does Wisconsin already cover all those less than 200 percent of the poverty level?

Not all of them.

Wisconsin is one of the few states that sets their eligibility at the 200 percent and under mark, but because of

an enrollment cap, it effectively leads to a long wait list.

The BadgerCare Plus program, which is for lowincome children and their families, covers the most.

The BadgerCare Plus Core program for childless adults does not. For the latter program, a 2009 cap on enrollees has led to the current 20,000 enrollees and a wait list of more than 100,000 childless adults.

What would Walker’s plan do?

Walker would remove the BC+C cap, giving Medicaid to 82,000 childless adults under 100 percent of the poverty level, and putting those above that level in private exchanges. He would also reduce the eligibility rate for the BC+ program to 100 percent, moving 87,000 of the less poor parents to private insurance exchanges and keeping the poorest in Medicaid. The state would have 5,000 fewer Medicaid enrollees, although his plan would not

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Republican legislators said last week they support Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposals but are looking for ways to prevent a structural deficit, lower taxes further and prevent hiring more state employees.

Bob Delaporte, spokesperson for the budgetwriting Joint Finance Committee’s co-chair Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Falls, said Darling supports parts of Walker’s budget but has a few concerns about some of his proposals.

“We want to make sure that the structural deficit is covered, that we do not raise taxes and that we don’t end up with a real deficit down the road,” Delaporte said. “We’re also concerned about the

bonding level listed in the bill.

There is a lot we don’t know yet and have to find out.”

According to his budget proposal, Walker wants an $824 million increase in funding for roads, some of which would be covered by bonding — where the state sells bonds to cover for expenses.

Delaporte said new revenue streams may open up in the next few months due to an improving economy that will allow for less bonding.

He added JFC members are currently studying the budget line-by-line.

As part of his budget, Walker called for a $343 million income tax cut.

According to a budget brief, a family with two workers, each earning $40,000, could receive a tax decrease of $100 by the next year for their household.

While he said their review of the tax code is “budget neutral,” JFC member Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, said simplifying the tax code and making changes to tax credits could lower taxes

State Politics Editor If Congress does not reach a compromise before Friday, Wisconsin’s national security employees and the public education system could be the target of massive federal spending cuts known as the sequester, according a White House statement released Sunday.

The effects of the sequester would furlough roughly 3,000 U.S. Departments of Defense employees, which would cut around $12.4 million of their total pay. These federal spending cuts would also take approximately $10.1

million from Wisconsin’s Education for Children with Disabilities program and $8.5 million more from primary and secondary education funding.

Additionally, the state would see more than $5 million in spending slashes to environmental programs.

This would consist of $3,875,000 less funding to guarantee clean air and water, as well as a loss of $1,479,000 in fish and wildlife protection grants.

With total spending cuts at $85 billion nationwide, the impact on Wisconsin could amount to 36,000 fewer jobs in Wisconsin, according to a statement

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further than Walker’s proposal.

“No matter if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, a simple tax code is good for economic growth,” Kooyenga said.

Kooyenga said many tax credits and deductions are designed to drive behaviors.

He said he and other legislators are studying whether or not these programs work and what they can do to simplify them. He added many tax credits are inherently unfair or are not being used.

He said the state could use the additional revenue from getting rid of credits that are not used to lower taxes for a certain bracket. He said he would like to reduce the length of income tax filings in half, from four pages to two pages.

“If you’re a farmer and you want to farm, you don’t want to be a bureaucrat,” Kooyenga said. “You don’t want to finish working for the day and sit down and fill out bureaucratic paperwork. You want to spend some time with the family or

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Aye Paape Wisconsin sophomore forward Matt Paape looks on during a faceoff during Sunday night’s game against Penn State.

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Impending federal sequester to impact state Noah Goetzel

was previously connected with both Northwestern University and the University of Michigan — Blank said she looks forward to returning to higher education.

During her time away from the university environment, Blank said she gained an enormous appreciation for what universities do and why they are so important for American society.

Blank said as chancellor

Republicans look to prevent structural deficits in budget Legislators attempt to scale back on Gov. Walker’s announced budget, lower taxes

Dems’ plan

and the idea of setting a mission and strategy. “[This] hopefully will provide a good background for the kind of leadership that the University of Wisconsin needs,” Blank said.

According to a UW statement, Blank’s involvement with the DOC began in 2009, where she served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs.

However, despite her time away from academics — she

from Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, and Citizen Action of Wisconsin.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, and other University of Wisconsin and Madison officials met with Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Jay Williams on Friday to discuss how sequester cuts could affect the state.

Resnick said UW could face big challenges due to cuts to its funding for research projects.

UW Director of Federal Relations Rhonda Norsetter said the sequester could translate to approximately $35 million less in UW research funding. Norsetter

said she supports continued investment in UW research and a more balanced approach to reduce the deficit.

The solution to avoid these sequester cuts is for Congress to raise taxes for the wealthy and special interests, CAW Executive Director Robert Kraig said in a statement.

“The best way for Congress to avoid this unnecessary and selfinflicted crisis is to find the political courage to ask the wealthy and special interests to pay their fair share,” Kraig said. “This human-made crisis literally pits corporate tax loopholes against

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children, seniors and our most vulnerable citizens.”

While the sequester reduces the deficit, abrupt and senseless budget cuts will not boost the nation’s economy and do not focus on the root issues of the rising debt, Mark Graul, a Republican strategist and owner of Arena Strategist LLC said in a statement.

Norsetter also expressed hopes Congress would reach consensus in time, in order to avoid the impacts such a across the board cut will make.

“We hope that Congress finds another way to

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Budget to eliminate cities’ required worker residency Walker plans to let public employees live outside locales in which they work Noah Goetzel State Politics Editor A single sentence buried deep in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal could allow public employees throughout the state to live outside of the area where they work.

Walker recommends eliminating the residency requirement that forces municipal workers to live in the same city or village where they work, he wrote in his government reform initiative of the 2013-15 proposed biennial budget.

While many parts of Wisconsin have already done away with the residency requirement, according to Bob Delaporte, spokesperson for Sen. Alberta Darling, R–River Hills, the law would be applied to all 596 municipalities of the state.

That includes Wisconsin’s largest municipality, Milwaukee, which currently prohibits public workers from living outside of the city’s limits.

Union leaders and politicians have responded to Walker’s desire to end the residency requirement with mixed feelings.

Ending the residency requirement is a matter of

individual liberty, Delaporte said.

“We’re very encouraged by what the governor has [done in the budget],” he said. “[Darling] views this as a freedom issue, and people should be able to live where they want to live.”

Allowing workers to live outside of the city or town where their job is located will increase the talent pool from which public institutions can hire job applicants, Delaporte added.

Delaporte said Milwaukee Public Schools will directly benefit from the removal of the residency requirement because they’ll have a bigger, more qualified pool of teacher applicants to consider.

“It could be a huge thing for Milwaukee schools,” Delaporte said. “If this is eliminated, then they increase the talent pool that they can hire, and we want them to hire the best teachers possible. Right now they’re limiting themselves.”

Of the top 50 school districts in the country, he noted Chicago and Milwaukee are the only districts that still have a residency requirement, which he said was an outdated policy.

However, after receiving more than 8,000 total job applications last year, there is no shortage of candidates for Milwaukee’s police and fire departments, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said in an interview with The Badger Herald.

But Barrett said the bigger issue is this residency requirement law is not relevant to the state budget, as it is a “pure policy decision” that has been “slipped in.”

“It has absolutely nothing to do with his budget,” Barrett said of the lift on the residency requirement brought up in the Shared Revenue and Tax Relief section of the budget.

“He has said in the past he will not support any policy in the state budget, and here there’s clearly an item that has no relationship to the state budget whatsoever.”

Barrett said the proposed initiative should be considered and scrutinized by both houses of the Legislature to determine whether to remove the residency requirement that has been a law in Milwaukee since 1938.

Wisconsin State Firefighters Association President Larry Plummer agreed with Barrett that local legislatures should determine on this residency requirement.

There have not been any negative impacts as a result of a city that once had residency law, and then removed them, according to Executive Director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association Jim Palmer.

“It’s a stringent requirement that ties the hands of municipalities that maybe need to have more flexibility so they can attract the best candidates,” Palmer said.

Experts claimed last week that Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, which includes a $343 million income tax cut, may be too small for tax relief, not bring many jobs to the state and cause a structural deficit.

However, Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance President Todd Berry said the cut might show the state is moving out of the top tier in terms of income taxes, as the state is ranked as one of the top 10 states with the highest income taxes.

“It’s very hard for states alone to move the economy because it’s more affected by the national government,” Berry said. “That’s not to say [the proposal] couldn’t create a positive image of the state’s tax burden.”

According to a budget brief, a family with two workers, each earning $40,000, would receive a tax decrease of $100 for their household.

Andrew Reschovsky, University of Wisconsin public affairs professor, said Walker’s tax cut would be too small to have a significant impact on the state’s economy. He added even a tax cut of four times that amount would make little difference.

In his budget address Wednesday, Walker said giving more money to taxpayers would drive greater demand for goods and services, which would lead to greater production and jobs in the state.

However, Reschovsky said while cutting income taxes at the national level may increase demand, more leakages will occur at the state level. For instance, he said people often purchase products that are not made in Wisconsin, helping whatever state they are from.

Berry said Walker’s tax cuts would not have an immediate impact, unless he also proposes

changing the amount the state withholds from paychecks. He said for the past 10 years, Wisconsin has withheld 20 to 25 percent more than it needed.

Berry also said he was surprised and concerned the budget did not include any way to prevent the return of a possible structural deficit, which he said has occurred for the past 10 to 15 years.

Berry said the state only saved less than 1 percent of its expenditures, making it susceptible to economic downturns.

A permanent tax cut may increase the chances of a structural deficit in the future since it would eliminate a source of income, which Reschovsky said may not be able to offset inflation.

“If you have a surplus, that’s a one-time source of money,” Reschovsky said. “One-time sources should not be used for permanent changes.”

Reschovsky said most states establish a rainy day fund, in case of economic downturns, set at about 5 percent of their income aside, while Wisconsin law only requires the state to set aside half a percent.

Berry said in 2008 the budget surplus was 0.6 percent of what was spent in the state. When the recession hit, former Gov. Jim Doyle cut spending and increased taxes to bring the deficit under control. Walker cut spending even further to balance the deficit, Berry said.

When proposing the budget last session, Berry said Walker sought to guarantee a surplus and provide a cushion for a possible deficit.

“Walker spent a lot of political capital and endured a lot of pain to get those margins,” Berry said. “It seems an odd choice to not continue with them.”

Walker’s spokesperson did not return a request for comment.

Student Judiciary sides with SSFC Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor The student government’s main judiciary body ruled in favor of the Associated Students of Madison’s financial branch in multiple cases this weekend.

Student Judiciary heard allegations from Multicultural Student Coalition and Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow that the Student Services Finance Committee violated viewpoint neutrality earlier this month, however sided against the student organizations.

According to the SJ decision, MCSC filed a viewpoint neutrality complaint against the financial committee after SSFC minimally funded MCSC. MCSC failed to provide any evidence viewpoint neutrality was violated, SJ Chief Justice Nicholas Checker said in an email to The Badger Herald.

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In his Sequester Scorecard statement, Graul said to earn an “A” Congress and the president must create a debt plan that saves the nation at least $2.4 trillion the next

However, the SJ panel found SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker failed to set the minimum funding level on time, according to the decision.

Checker said Associated Students of Madison bylaws require the SSFC Chair to set the exact minimum funding level. He said Bruecker announced the funding level, at $10,600, late, but still one month prior to the MCSC budget presentation.

The decision said this was a result of human error.

Checker said Bruecker admitted she forgot to set the level one week prior, but she corrected the mistake in a subsequent meeting.

“It was an indiscriminate mistake, all groups were affected, thus no evidence was shown that SSFC took MCSC’s viewpoint into account,” Checker said.

The exact dollar amount did not impact SSFC members’ interpretation of criteria set in the bylaws

for minimum funding, meaning, the criteria to qualify for minimum funding is independent of the dollar amount for minimum funding, Checker said.

The decision requires Bruecker to write and distribute a letter of apology to all student organizations that applied for funding from the General Student Services Fund during SSFC’s 19th Session.

“Bruecker was singularly responsible for the mistake,” Checker said. “The mistake did not affect the process members used to arrive at the decision to minimally fund or the outcome of that process. We thought a letter acknowledging her failure to the GSSF would be sufficient admonishment.”

SJ also ruled in favor of the government in the CFACT appeal case. The decision said CFACT failed to show sufficient evidence of a viewpoint neutrality violation.

According to Checker, SJ did not receive evidence suggesting identical services were provided by other groups that receive their funds from the GSSF, as CFACT claimed in its hearing.

“It was incumbent on CFACT to show that SSFC members took CFACT’s particular viewpoint into account in making their decision,” Checker said.

Regarding the claim by CFACT that SJ did not take federal law and precedent into consideration, Vice Chief Justice Kenny Ho said CFACT cited federal cases in their brief and argued the judiciary did not consider federal precedent because it did not mention those cases.

Ho said the organization’s argument is flawed in the sense that simply because the cases were not mentioned does not mean the basic principles of viewpoint neutrality are not taken into consideration by the body.

decade by making social security and federal health spending more sustainable.

Many Republicans in Congress hope to reduce the federal deficit by downsizing the role of government; however, Democrat Rob Zerban — a former Kenosha County Supervisor who was defeated by Rep. Paul Ryan,

R-Janesville, this past fall — criticized Ryan’s ideology.

“Paul Ryan wants to cut, reduce, downsize, marginalize,” Zerban said in a statement. “And that is somehow supposed to make America great? I think America needs to grow, expand, prosper. We can do that by investing

in the things that will help our economy grow and making sure that every kid in this country has the same opportunities that I had growing up.”

Zerban added he believes America should be a land of opportunity, not a country that serves only its wealthiest people.

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BLANK, from 1 she would want to step into a listening position in order to work collaboratively and help put out a vision. With this, Blank said one of the attractions of Wisconsin is its strong presence of faculty governance, adding such an environment is ideal for “moving forward with goals.” “[UW is] a world-class university and you can feel that on campus and that goes along with a group of students and alumni that are proud of that,” Blank said. “People are proud of being a part of the University of Wisconsin or coming from there.”

In addition, Blank added she sees many opportunities to make the university even stronger and hopes to be able to act on them.

Such goals, some of which stem from her economic background, include increasing efficiency with information technology in an effort to make the university a more global attraction and looking into emerging facets of the university, such as online education.

Blank said the whole idea of innovation is the idea of taking research and moving it from the lab to the market place, adding she will look into what UW is doing at its Institutes for Discovery and find ways to expand opportunities into the community and marketplace.

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Walker said his plan is meant to help the poorest while encouraging independence among those who are better off. He said his plan would insure 224,850 more people.

What do the Democrats want to do?

Democrats and other groups want to keep parents under 200 percent of the poverty level in Medicaid. They also want to use federal expansion funds to give Medicaid to childless adults under 133 percent of the poverty level, many of whom are on the wait list.

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She also emphasized the importance of effectively using new technology in the classroom, highlighting social media as a way to create connections on campus for the students and in other parts of the world.

“Formal online classes [are] only one in which new information technologies are changing the way we think about education and the opportunities we have in the new educational environment to link people together and have them learn more in new ways,” Blank said.

In line with her international perspective, Blank also drew attention towards the importance of educating students for a global world.

Down the line, Blank added, she too would love to teach a course related to economics, noting it is important to be in the classroom to get to know students.

Blank said her prior experience at state universities is proof she knows something about what motivates faculty and what it feels like inside of a classroom.

“The University of Wisconsin is obviously a world-class university,” Blank said. “Given my interest in going back into higher education, the University of Wisconsin is a stellar opportunity and I am honored to be one of the finalists.”

would grow by about 175,000, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. It would reduce the uninsured by 252,678, according to Walker’s numbers.

Are there any other options?

There is a third option that some groups are pushing, which would add about 116,800 people to Medicaid, according to the LFB. It would reduce BC+ eligibility, although it sets the number at 133 percent of the poverty level, not the 100 percent Walker proposes. But like Democrats want, it would use federal expansion funds to expand Medicaid to childless parents under 133 percent of the poverty level.

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After ending multilingual training programs for new homeowners two years ago, lack of federal funding results in the end of Madison’s 13-year-old down payment assistance fund.

County homeowner program ends Shortage of funding leads low-income housing program to shut its doors Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor The Dane County Housing Authority has chosen to end a program that helps low-income residents buy their own home because of a shortage of funding and a decrease of people in the area seeking home ownership.

Judith Wilcox, the chair of the Dane County Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, said the Home Ownership Program was started in 2000, at the height of the housing boom when many people were buying a home.

The program provided down payment assistance to first-time home buyers who fit within certain income categories, she said.

According to Wilcox, federal funding and Community Development Block Grant backed the program. However, Wilcox said the program’s

budget has been steadily reduced since the housing market bubble.

She said funding for the program peaked at around $300,000 a year, but even that was not enough funding for the program’s administration to support the program at the level it needed to be supported. “[The Home Ownership Program] did a phenomenal job training first-time home buyers,” Wilcox said.

“They developed a unique training program that trained big groups of people who came in to be a homeowner.”

She said the classes were also taught in Hmong and Spanish to reach out to a greater amount of the Dane County community.

According to Wilcox, the program helped prospective homeowners learn what they needed to do to own their own home, including how to put together a down payment and improve

credit ratings, and served as an integral part to the program.

However, the training portion of the program was shut down a few years ago due to insufficient funding, Wilcox said, adding the lack of resources has limited the program’s reach.

Last year the program was only able to help a few people, Wilcox said.

Wilcox said they are working on moving in a new direction, to help the increasing amount of renters in Dane County.

As the vacancy rate in Dane County is less than 3 percent, and less than 2 percent in Madison, Wilcox said it is difficult for renters to find housing, especially for long-term leasers.

She added there is also a shortage of low-income housing in Dane County, due to the decreased funds.

“It it a fact of life — there is just not enough federal money, local

money or state money to help us provide the type of housing that needs to be provided,” Wilcox said.

She said foreclosures have been making homeowners into renters which creates more competition in the rental market.

Dane County Board Sup. Leland Pan, District 5, said the closure of the Home Ownership Program points to the growing lack of commitment by state and federal government agencies to fully fund low income housing programs.

“Combined with decreasing funds to local government, resources get increasingly tight while we fight a growing poverty issue in Dane County,” Pan said. “Unless local governments and state and federal programs see increase in funding to these human services, we will continue to see a growth in homelessness.”

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MPD advocates suicide prevention, issues gun locks Police partner with charity, attempt to increase community safety with project Elana Charles Herald Contributor The Madison Police Department has partnered with the Safe Communities of Dane County to hand out free gun locks in hope of decreasing the number of suicides in the area.

Suicide is Dane County’s number one cause of violent death, far exceeding homicide, said Cheryl Wittke, the director of Safe Communities of

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Justin Cleveland, spokesperson for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington, said Vos generally supports most of Walker’s proposals, but is reviewing them to make sure the plan is fiscally responsible.

In his budget, Walker recommended an increase of 710 full-time employees for the state.

Cleveland said some of the hires are federallymandated, such as those

Dane County, the charity partnered with MPD. Dane County loses between 50-70 people a year to suicide, most of which are preventable by taking the appropriate steps like locking up guns, Wittke said.

Professor Michael Scott, a UW law professor as well as a previous member of MPD, said by diminishing access to weapons, the impulsive factor in the decision of taking one’s life can be avoided.

“There is a time in which someone is considering it, and then there is a more immediate time where they take the steps necessary to carry out the act,” Scott said. “It is within that

needed to enforce the federal health care law.

In a statement Thursday, Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, recommended eliminating the proposed staffing increases at the Department of Revenue.

“I respect Governor Walker’s effort to craft a budget that would appeal to many citizens,” Nass said in the statement. “I am confident that the Legislature will make significant improvements that will further protect the interests of Wisconsin taxpayers.”

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Gun locks can play a we tend to focus more on large role in these life or people’s state of mind when they commit suicide rather death situations, Scott said.

than on people’s means to commit suicide, DeSpain said. It is important to look at how people are dying and find a way to prevent this, DeSpain said.

According to Wittke, prevention is the whole concept behind handing out gun locks as Safe Communties of Dane County is an injury prevention coalition. It looks at top causes of injury in Dane County and pulls together partnerships to address them, she said.

“Handing out gun locks is a statewidefunded project,” Wittke said. “The gun locks were awarded to us by a grant from the Charles E. Kubly Foundation.”

Scott also added the goal of the police is to make it more difficult for someone to try to commit suicide. With the intent of the initiative to prevent suicide, Scott said handing out free gun locks can effectively do so.

Taking this initiative is important for the community because it gives us the opportunity to make households safer, Scott said.

This foundation provided 3,000 gun locks, Wittke said.

According to an MPD statement, they will be handing out gun locks at all district stations, and at MPD’s training center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Invasive species threaten Wis. trees Madison begins multi-year project surveying branches for emerald ash borer Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor Madison has begun testing trees for emerald ash borers, an invasive Chinese insect that has been devastating much of North America’s ash trees.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said around 25 percent of Madison’s trees are ash trees, adding it will cost the city millions in order to fully cover the incurable disease, which causes ash trees to slowly rot and die.

He said the city is making very concentrated efforts to quarantine infected areas and replace trees vulnerable to the disease. He said it is very likely the disease, which has already reached Janesville, will spread to the city.

Resnick said the city will do this at a controlled pace over several years.

“It’s devastating,” Resnick said. “We want to prevent it from spreading and be

proactive with the trees in the eastern half of the United States having any the neighborhoods.”

Ken Raffa, a UW resistance,” Raffa said.

The emerald ash borer etymology professor, said the main emerald ash borer came to the United States infestation is in Detroit in wood packing material and has been in the United on ships, Raffa said, adding States for 12 years. Having people are encouraged infested the southeastern not to transport firewood, part of Wisconsin, including because that is how they get spread parts of the around much Milwaukee of the state and area as well region. as areas “... We want to prevent it from He said surrounding emerald ash the spreading and be borers have Mississippi proactive with the previously been River. detected by Raffa said trees ...”

Scott Resnick putting purple in China Alder, District 8 traps in ash the insects trees. However, do not kill this method healthy trees, was largely but only sick or old trees that do ineffective, and analyzing not have defenses. He said branches, which the city China’s ash trees have good of Madison will do, will be defenses against emerald more accurate, Raffa said.

He said taking a sample ash borers, which North American ash trees do not of the branch allows one to look directly for emerald have.

“There is no evidence ash borer, but is also much any of the ash trees in more labor intensive.

According to Raffa, there is no efficient method of detecting the emerald ash borer, however, new populations are often located when people notice a large number of dead trees. Upon closer examination it turns out the insect has been in the trees for four or five years without being noticed, Raffa said.

In addition, people can help ash trees by treating the trees with pesticides, but this is an expensive option that is only used in urban areas and not for ash trees in forests, Raffa said, adding people can choose to remove ash trees and plant something else.

Raffa said most cities are surveying ash trees to see which ones are in bad shape and take those ones out first, and replace them with other tree species. He said this will make the effects of the emerald ash borer more gradual instead of all at once.

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Editorial Page Editor Charles Godfrey oped@badgerherald.com

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The Badger Herald | Opinion | Monday, February 25, 2013

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Herald Editorial Mining threatens Budget not déjà vu all over again state water supply After the passage of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill, which stripped public sector employees of their collective bargaining rights, Walker became an instant Tea Party favorite.

Since then, Walker has begun a march back toward the center, most recently evident in his 2013-2015 budget and likely continuing through his bid for reelection in 2014.

Walker’s budget, while not everything we would have liked, represents a step in the right direction for both the state and the University of Wisconsin System.

From a student perspective, the highlight of the budget is a $181 million increase in funding for the UW system over the next two years.

According to UW System spokesperson David Giroux, this investment will help keep tuition increases “very modest.” This is certainly a welcome change from the past two years, and we are grateful for it.

However, when viewed in light of the $315 million in cuts the UW System endured as a result of Walker’s first budget, this funding increase is not as impressive. After Walker’s first term ends in 2015, the UW System will have seen its state funding decrease by a net $134 million.

Expecting praise from UW students for this budget’s funding increase is akin to expecting thanks from a person for cutting off their leg and then giving them a cane.

The rest of the budget is similarly a mixed bag.

Several changes are worthy of praise, like increased funding for transportation and mental health

Graphic by Joe Timmerman Data courtesy of Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

The above graph shows estimated savings for married couples of various incomes under the proposed tax changes. services. Other aspects of the budget, however, are more worrisome. Take, for example, the proposed $343 million tax cut. On the surface, this sounds like a great idea — why not put money back in the pockets of hard-working Wisconsinites? However, the tax cut is likely too small to have a significant impact on the finances of an average Wisconsin resident or the state’s economy as a whole — a family of four making $80,000 a year would see their taxes decrease by roughly $106, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. While this is not a huge number, it is certainly better than nothing.

More worrisome, however, is who will see

the greatest benefit from this plan. According to a report prepared for the Wisconsin Budget Project by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the lowest 20 percent of earners would see an average tax cut of two dollars — not very much help for those who need it the most. Further, the lowest fifth of earners would receive only 1 percent of the total tax cut, while the top fifth would receive 54 percent of the cut.

Unsettling for Madison residents is the freeze on levels of shared revenue — the portion of taxes paid by city residents that ultimately ends up in city’s hands (like property taxes.) After heavy cuts in

previous budget cycles, a freeze at current levels could make it very difficult for the city to keep up its current level of services.

While far from perfect, Walker’s latest budget is a significant improvement over last cycle’s, and he deserves credit for the improvement. However, it is important not to let current events overshadow history.

As a nation, a state and a university, we will almost surely be better off in two years than we are now — partly as a result of this budget. The important question, though, is will we be better off in two years than we were in 2010?

We certainly hope so, but the answer is still far from clear.

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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BITCHY A roundup of some of the more thought-provoking (or thoughtless) comments left on badgerherald.com

Sieve chanting becoming overused Badger hockey tradition Dude “You are a huge douche.”

Dude was not the only commenter to take issue with last Thursday’s column, which claimed the famous “sieve” chant is being overused at Badger hockey games.

Many commenters defended the cheer based on the decades of history behind it, like Hockey Fan, who wrote, “There is 50 years of tradition in that chant.”

However, Dude’s comment was remarkable in that it completely bypassed any sort of cogent critique of the column itself and resorted immediately (and only) to attacking the author.

In response to the 2/21 column:

UW politicos spew platitudes on Iran Toppington Von Monocle “FREEDOM! MURICA! GOOD VS. EVIL! BLACK AND WHITE! For a minute I was worried that this might be one of those situations with hazy grey areas and what not but thank god I was wrong! Thanks for the clarification Truckle!”

Toppington Von Monocle’s comment was in reply to an earlier comment by Truckle, which stated, “It is not even slightly hypocritical to maintain nuclear weapons for the United States while doing everything possible to prevent Iran from gaining them.”

Nuclear proliferation is an extraordinarily complicated issue.

While most agree Iran should not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons, precisely how that should be done remains very open for debate. Some might even argue the United States should not maintain its supply of nuclear weapons while simultaneously calling for other nations to end their nuclear programs.

It would seem that Mr. Von Monocle perceives slightly more nuance in questions of nuclear armament than does Truckle.

in this area? These same contaminants would make the groundwater unfit to drink and unsafe for human health. Can we justify this to the residents of Mellen, Ashland, Upson and other communities who depend on this groundwater for their drinking water? Also allowed would be the filling of any of the small ‘feeder creeks” that supply the trout streams and rivers with clean, cold water.

All of these assaults on the water resources are a complete violation of the Wisconsin Public Trust Doctrine. This doctrine is a part of the Wisconsin Constitution, which states the water resources of the state belong to the people of the state and cannot be usurped by private companies. This doctrine has been upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Unfortunately the current court cannot be counted on to rule so wisely!

If you care at all about the natural resources of this state, you will agree this is a terrible bill and must be defeated. It will be up for a vote very soon.

Please call your state senator and representative and tell them to vote “no.”

Carol R. Buelow (crbuelow@ facstaff.wisc.edu) is a retired UW chemist and current Madison resident.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Obama at fault, too In a recent piece titled “Sequester: Congress screws Up,” Joe Timmerman does an admirable (although quite easy) job of explaining why the sequester is a bad idea. However, his claim it is a “congressionallymanufactured crisis” is not accurate. Bob Woodward of the Washington Post has argued the sequester was an idea that originated in the White House. Speaker

John Boehner, in a recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, claims President Barack Obama insisted on including it in the debt ceiling deal. The sequester is an idea created by the Obama Administration and approved by Congress. The crisis was manufactured by both Obama and Congress.

James Mashal ( jamie. mashal@gmail.com) is a junior majoring in economics.

Ethnic studies impose worldview Heikal Badrulhisham Staff Writer

In response to the 2/21 column:

I am extremely concerned the open-pit mining bill will lead to irreparable harm to Wisconsin’s natural resources, particularly the water quality and quantity of many streams, rivers, lakes and ground water sources in the Penokee Hills and the Bad River Watershed. The Bill, SB1/ AB1, grants mining companies broad exemptions from laws protecting environmental and public health, like clean water, groundwater, surface water and wetlands protections.

The Department of Natural Resources may have their hands tied and will be forced to issue a permit. Allowing any industry to wilfully ignore such laws is as good as not having the laws at all!

Copper Falls State Park near Mellen is at the edge of the proposed mine, and is one of our most beautiful state parks. Imagine the largest open-pit iron mine in the world right next door, allowed to take unlimited volumes of water for its taconite processing, even if it would drastically reduce the flow in the Tyler Forks and Bad Rivers. Many miles of very high quality trout streams in the area could be contaminated with toxic lead, mercury and arsenic released from waste rock and crushed ore.

What will this do to tourism

When I visited last Monday’s ethnic studies roundtable, I was surprised to find all of the opinions aired were in favor of the university’s ethnic studies requirement.

The only complaints were regarding implementation issues.

Supposedly, the purpose of the requirement is to promote cultural understanding. In this light, the requirement sounds like a social good both on the surface and in substance.

However, the good and the necessary are not always the same. The simple fact something benefits people is not enough reason to force it on people. Almost all things in the sphere of human life that are adopted, repeated and preserved are a result of a matrix of disparate choices and preferences.

Requiring University of Wisconsin students to take an ethnic studies course subverts this process. As a result, taking one of these classes doesn’t need to be intrinsically attractive enough to overcome its costs for those who otherwise would not take one voluntarily.

To claim it is acceptable to require every student to take an ethnic studies course

rather than letting these courses be subjected to individual preferences because they have some benefit is tantamount to assuming an institution knows what is better for individual students in some aspects than the individual students themselves do.

Even the requirement’s purported aim of developing a spirit of openness is not a completely harmless one. The culture of open-mindedness itself is an opinion — just one of many ways of viewing the world. A culture of open-mindedness is in opposition to other kinds of worldviews, such as ones that value traditionalism or ethnocentrism. Thus to make it mandatory for students to take courses oriented towards the culture of open-mindedness offends people with different worldviews.

To think people who value traditionalism or ethnocentrism are “wrong” and it is in society’s best interest to “correct” them reveals a belief that people who value these things cannot possibly care about them as much as other people value causes like environmental justice.

UW’s ethnic studies requirement was proposed several decades ago, after a period rife with racially

insensitive incidents in the campus community.

I am all for preventing and punishing acts that result in harm or waste, like lynching and denial of employment based on non-competence-related inherent attributes.

But the coercive power of society and the state should end at and be restricted to manifested actions. A worldview about society is beyond this realm where intervention is not as intrusive.

Students should be left alone to ponder, develop, harbor and cherish their own social thoughts including bigotry, prejudice and misconception. Although these kinds of thoughts may be disturbing to many people, they do not limit anyone’s freedom or harm anyone. An intervention at this level is too much of a bother for an unapparent benefit.

It’s become easy to argue that requiring students to take an ethnic studies course is not an imposition of thought because students are still free to choose what to take away from the course, or students are still free to choose to skip classes, ignore assignments and boycott exams in the hope future employers would be enlightened enough to ignore an anomalous failed grade.

But it’s also true that even in imposed behavior, there is still a refuge for potentially costly autonomy. The requirement is still tantamount to forcing students to be subjected to input some of them may not want to hear.

If I walk alongside you holding a newspaper to your face that is hostile to your philosophies in such a way that you can still see where you are walking but you can also see the newspaper, you would still say it is wrong for me to do so.

Impositions on behavior, like rules against plagiarism, are crucial because plagiarism has a labor market implication of obfuscating the distinction between genuinely smart students and crafty ones. An imposition on behavior such as the ethnic studies requirement is not rooted in preventing harm and waste, but in an ideal.

The ideal is stated clearly enough, but the universality of this ideal is questionable. It will remain questionable as long as non-cultural studies majors are not left to decide to take ethnic studies courses voluntarily.

Heikal Badrulhisham (badrulhisham@wisc. edu) is a freshman majoring in economics.

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Choosing film streaming sites left its original business model and is now ArtsEtc. Columnist much more focused on Even in an streaming their content embittered economy, via the Internet than there is a high demand sending out DVDs in the for movies, television mail. Netflix continues and more recently, to gain subscribers online content. Today because it contains a the world of media is wide variety of titles, fusing with the Internet both old and new, and is ever more, leading to quickly becoming a verb new ways to advertise. in place of its original Additionally, Internet noun.

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Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum

Above, photograph of Lily Furedi’s oil on canvas piece “Subway” from 1934. This piece and many others are displayed at the Chazen Museum of Art in celebration of the Public Works of Art Program.

Exhibit provides look back to 1934 ‘New Deal for Artists’ at Chazen features nearly 60 pieces from Smithsonian American Art Museum collection Kevin Kousha ArtsEtc. Staff Writer The Great Depression and New Deal occupy a special place in the American historical canon.

For one, they mark one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history, and the beginning of a process that would end with the United States becoming the most powerful economic force in the world.

Current news has been rife with New Deal comparisons since the collapse of the subprime loan market. Yet again, the United States is questioning the role of the government, the rights of workers and the country’s collective place on the economic stage.

Given the enduring popularity of the New Deal as a historical topic today and the current economic crisis facing the United States, the Chazen Museum of Art’s new exhibit “1934: A New Deal for Artists” will inevitably generate some interest.

The exhibit features 56 paintings from the Public Works of Art Project, on lease from the Smithsonian. The PWAP was a New Deal program employing artists in

This thematic endeavors ranging from mural painting to art unification is certainly considering education. It was the first welcome, federal program created in the vast scope of subject matter and artistic support of the arts.

In addition to the styles in the exhibit. painting display, the While the headings to exhibit also features an provide a primer for array of programming the viewer, subjects still until it closes April 28. range dramatically in Last Thursday, the Chazen each category. All of the hosted a lecture by Ann works stand alone in Prentice Wegner, curator their message, and there of drawings at Arkansas appears to be no attempt Art Center, and a reception to select pieces that all afterward.

Wegner’s tend toward making a lecture provided ample certain ideological point.

There is also no single historical background to frame the works in the dominant art style in the exhibit. The exhibit and paintings the place often reflect of PWAP in “The variety thus larger American movements, art history. displayed is impressive, Beyond but also overwhelming.” like the thensolidifying the initial principles lecture, the of Art Deco Chazen design. is also But some hosting New Deal Cinema nights, a paintings defy conventions poetry reading and a of the time, and others panel discussion near the have styles distinctive to individual artists. exhibit’s close.

Interestingly, the The exhibit spans the of the two rooms of the Pleasant descriptions also draw T. Rowland Gallery, the paintings closest gallery to the main attention to different entrance of the Chazen. aspects of the piece. Some With the exception of descriptions focus on the paintings in the center artist, others on historical of the room, pieces are context and others still grouped under headings leave out any substantial like City Life and Industry. description altogether.

Overall, the pieces appear to be selected as organically as possible, trying to encapsulate the diversity of the PWAP’s artists and their work rather than using all of the pieces to make a greater point.

The variety thus displayed is impressive, but also overwhelming.

Despite the unifying headings, viewing the pieces individually instead of trying to integrate them into a single, greater framework makes the exhibit much more digestible. Going from Albright’s grotesque depiction of a housewife in “The Farmer’s Kitchen” to Kelpe’s aptly named “Machinery (Abstract #2)” is a jarring experience.

Aesthetically and conceptually it often becomes difficult to connect all of the dots between the pieces.

The value of “1934: A New Deal for Artists” comes in the power of each painting to display a snapshot of life amid the changes of the New Deal.

With impressive breadth of styles and subject matter, the exhibit gives visitors of the Chazen a little taste of many takes on one of America’s defining periods.

‘Pillars’ showcases modern dance, students UW-Madison Dance Department’s annual faculty concert presents variety of expressive pieces Nancy Payne ArtsEtc. Writer This weekend marked the final performance dates of the UW-Madison Department of Dance’s annual faculty concert, “Pillars.” The show took place in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, a quaint yet elegant setting perfect for the event. Because of its movie theater setup, every member of the audience had the perfect view of the ground floor stage.

Considering this was my first time seeing a modern dance show, I was a little nervous about what to expect. Although the show was a new experience for me, the deeper meaning I felt coming from each of the six pieces was really intriguing. Quoting JinWen Yu, Chris Walker and the concert coordinators’ opening statement in the program handed out before the show, “Pillars is a collection of creative work that conveys a kind of connectedness and support which are intrinsic

to the human experience.”

The first piece titled “A Choice of Place” was an excerpt from CREDO, a show featuring dance, song and poetry that will premiere midApril. It started with a dark stage and a young woman reciting poetry

by Danez Smith, and was followed by the live UW Madrigal Singers performing religious choir songs. The dance consisted of a handful of female dancers in earth tone dresses, all having separate movements but coming together and breaking apart throughout the piece, similar to the connections we make in this life.

The second piece, “Portal,” reflected religion, starting out with a lone guitarist playing Band of Horses’ “The Funeral” next to a shrine with crosses and candle. The dancers came out with hoods on and walked onto a very dark stage. They proceeded to perform a ritual-like dance around the shrine and then broke out into separate

movements all illustrating the struggles of death.

The dancers ended fallen, leaving the audience on edge and surprised.

“Surge,” the show’s third piece, was very daunting.

It began with a girl step dancing, setting an eerie and almost aggressive tone. The dancers wore all white with their faces painted white like masks.

The combination of the white outfits, red lighting and chilling music left me feeling nervous and slightly disgusted, but at the same time I was extremely moved by this piece and the way the dancers moved with each other and apart.

After intermission, the interesting and powerful piece “Tacit Triggers” snapped the audience back to attention. The dancers represented robots with sharp and heavy movements. Whether it was the static bass music or the power felt coming from the dancers, this piece was the most memorable.

“Fresh Ground” was a beautiful piece that turned

the show from eerie to hopeful very quickly.

The music was powerful yet encouraging, and the dancers really came together with flowing motions and beautiful movements.

Audience members could easily draw connections to this piece in the way it symbolized growing and growing together, and the ending picture of all the dancers with their arms linked facing away from the audience sent shivers throughout the crowd.

The final piece “D-Man in the Waters (Part I)” ended the show on a happy and uplifting note.

The dancers wore army outfits and illustrated the aspect of togetherness.

This talented group looked like they were having a blast performing this last piece, and it was infectious for the whole crowd. The dancers wrapped up the show with a combination of solo dances and group ones, bringing out the recurring theme of the importance of human connectedness.

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The Badger Herald | Comics | Monday, February 25, 2013

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

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Wisconsin’s Weiss swims into the record books Badgers’ senior smashes 1,000-yard freestyle time in just second attempt Paige Costakos Sports Writer On a rare day off, Mike Weiss relaxes, spends times with his friends and fist bumps exceptionally well. But, on a typical day, Weiss breaks records, wins national titles and trains for international swimming competitions.

Two weeks ago, the senior captain did something that earned him the nickname “Magic Mike.” Weiss broke the 18-year-old UW record for the 1,000-yard freestyle relay.

Weiss decided to compete in the race at the Big Ten Quad Duals solely with the goal of breaking the record. He swam the 1,000-yard freestyle only once before this season and finished with a time two seconds slower than the record time, but he convinced the coaches he should swim the event.

“It’s one of the top three events that I usually swim, so I talked to the coaches and told them I wanted to try it because I wanted to break that old record,” Weiss said. “I set out to break that record, and it’s nice to look at the record board and know that my name will be up there for a while.”

Drew TeDuits, a sophomore on the UW men’s swim team and the competition’s winner of the 100-yard backstroke, said the team never doubted Weiss’s ability to break the record.

“We all thought he would break it,” TeDuits said. “He’d been

swimming fast all year and he was ready.”

Weiss, a Nevada native, felt relieved and excited after breaking the record, but also “very proud” to contribute to the team’s first-place victory at the Big Ten Quad Duals.

Weiss cited the pressure, his teammates and his competitiveness as aide to propelling him into the record books.

“I knew it was my only chance to break the record,” Weiss said.

“It was my last meet as a Wisconsin Badger besides the championships and I had nothing to lose.

I went out really fast, died a little, but held on through the last strokes to do what I needed to do.”

His teammates said his excellence in the record books transcends past the pool.

“We all voted him captain last year and he’s been a great leader this season,” TeDuits said.

“In the pool he’s focused and out of the pool he’s a really fun, normal guy who just works hard at everything he does.

Everyone respects him for that.”

Chris Wiederecht, a senior on the team, commented on Weiss’s easy-going demeanor both in and out of the pool.

“Mike is a very good swimmer and he doesn’t show it,” Wiederecht said.

“He’s a great captain, he’s a great guy, and I have only good things to say about him. It’s been a pleasure swimming with him the last four years; I’ve learned a lot from

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Senior Michael Weiss shattered the 1,000-yard freestyle record by over six seconds in the Big Ten Quad Duals Feb. 2. Weiss’ record-breaking performance marked only his second time swimming in the event all season. him.”

Weiss said his recordbreaking swim pales in comparison to one other race: the 400-meter individual medley he swam and won to become a national champion and secure his position on the U.S. National Team last summer.

This summer, however, Weiss will finish his collegiate swimming career and continue training until he travels to Kazan, Russia, to compete in the World University Games.

After that, he said he will

— with a throw of 19.4 meters — and Maverick Darling in the 3,000-meter run, who set a meet record with a time of 7:50.97.

Sophomore Austin Mudd finished second in the 800-meter run, missing first by

just tenths of a second to Penn State’s Brannon Kidder.

Canadian Olympic runner and Wisconsin senior Mohammed Ahmed also contributed in a big way by placing second in the 5,000-meter run with Darling placing third behind him.

But the contributions in the 5,000-meter run didn’t stop there, as seniors Elliot Krause and Brian Leung also finished sixth and seventh, helping the Badgers rack up 19 points in the event, one which Nuttycombe says “we hang our program and our success in that area.”

“We needed at least 17 points out of the 5K,” senior captain Grant Bughman said. “Guys stepped up when they needed to and, at the

“keep swimming, hopefully become a professional swimmer, and see where it takes [him].”

Wiederecht added Weiss “has a very bright future ahead of him” and both Wiederecht and TeDuits said they would not be surprised to see Weiss compete as an Olympian.

“Mike’s already on the National Team, and I think he has a great shot at making it to Rio de Janeiro in 2016,” TeDuits said. “It just depends on how much he wants to keep training.”

end of the day, all that mattered was getting that stick around the track. Sometimes that’s all it takes.”

The championship was the 26th for the Badgers under Nuttycombe and the program’s 17th since 2000, reaffirming the Badgers’ track and field program as a conference dynasty.

“Just like Mav and I talked about the day before with a bunch of the guys when we met, all you have to do is focus on your job, and that’s what everyone did,” Bughman said.

“As long as everyone performs when they need to, you might get a little luck to go your way, and we did what we came here to do.”

All quotes courtesy of UW Athletics Communications

Weiss is not a stranger to the talent and persistence it takes to earn a spot on the Olympic Team. He competed in the 2012 Olympic Trials when he was 21 years old, finishing fifth in his main event, the 400-meter individual medley.

But for now Weiss and the team are completely focused on the Big Ten and the NCAA championships.

Aside from eating right, working out and getting excited, Weiss said the team is just patiently waiting to see if their hard work this

season will pay off in the championships.

“I don’t really know what I’m up against and there are a lot of new, fast swimmers, but the goal is to be a Big Ten and NCAA champion,” Weiss said.

When asked if those goals were realistic, Weiss responded, “I’m a very competitive person. It runs in the family, kind of like swimming. I make everything a competition with myself. I love to win and I’m willing to fight through those last three strokes to do it.”

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the net with the puck at his stick and no defenseman in sight after bolting from the penalty box from a roughing call. An easy right shoulder fake and backhand shot put the Badgers up 4-0 with less than five minutes to play.

The goal and assists on each of the three previous goals left Barnes pleased to see his opportunities finally showing up on the scoreboard.

“I’ve had opportunities this season I haven’t been able to close and that’s when I would really be nervous if I wasn’t getting opportunities,” Barnes said. “I just knew to keep working hard, to bear down and eventually they would start coming.”

Sophomore forward Brendan Woods made it a five-goal game just 1:34 for UW’s second power play goal of the night from a one-time shot Musico had no chance of stopping.

Both teams will be back on the ice Monday night with game time set at 7:30 p.m.

advantage for 57 seconds heading into the final period.

A second Badger penalty on Ramage gave the Nittany Lions a 5-on-3 advantage for 16 seconds. However, Rumpel and the UW penalty kill escaped untouched though both penalties.

The remainder of the third period showed PSU the competition they will soon face with the start of the Big Ten Conference in men’s hockey next season. With just less than 10 minutes remaining and UW still clinging on to a dangerous 2-0 lead, Kerdiles put the Badgers up with a commanding three-goal advantage when a shot bouncing off Musico fell right at the stick of Zengerle.

Rapidly working the puck around the crease though junior forward Tyler Barnes, Kerdiles found himself with his sixth goal of the season.

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Rumpel records 7th shutout against Penn State Badgers dominate in 2nd Sunday game thanks to 22 saves by sophomore vs. PSU Kelly Erickson Hockey Beat Writer Sundays have been kind to the Wisconsin men’s hockey team.

One week after taking down No. 2 Minnesota 3-2 in the Hockey City Classic, No. 18 Wisconsin (14-10-7, 11-7-7 WCHA) downed Penn State (12-14-0) 5-0 on senior night.

Heading into the series with the worst power play in the nation, the Badgers capitalized on two of their seven man-advantages of the night to pull away from the soon-to-be conference

rival Nittany Lions.

As junior forward Michael Mersch netted his sixth power play goal of the season on UW’s fourth opportunity of the night and sophomore forward Brendan Woods capitalized on its seventh, UW improved their meager power play from 9-of-90 with a 10 percent success rate to 11-of-97 with an 11.3 percent success rate.

Those two goals allowed Wisconsin to move ahead of none other than Penn State — who with a 10.89 success rate with the manadvantage now has the worst power play in the country.

Ending a three-game drought without a power play and scoring multiple goals on the man-advantage for the first time since Jan. 26 against Alaska-

Anchorage, Eaves is hopeful Wisconsin can finally establish more consistency on the power play.

“When [the first power play unit] is together they can be pretty darn good for us,” Eaves said. “The other unit did some pretty good things too. I was told … that we created 20 shots on our power play and (Joseph) LaBate, (Brendan) Woods and (Nic) Kerdiles — they were a product of forcing a lot of shots on net for us.”

After slow start, offense explodes While the final score read 5-0, Wisconsin used a strong final 40 minutes to get there.

After a long sevenday break, the Badgers struggled to find rhythm in the first period, managing only six shots on goal —

matching up with Penn State’s six shots on goal.

A period later, Wisconsin commanded a 2-0 lead after putting 22 shots on net. They added 23 more and three more goals to close out the contest with a season-high 51 shots on net. It was the first time all season the Badgers passed the 50-shot mark; their previous game-high was 40 shots against Bemidji State Feb. 8.

“You always want more for yourself and your team,” senior defenseman John Ramage said. “We came out and did it. In the second and third periods we showed what we are capable of and really took it to them.”

That offensive effort was led by junior forward Tyler Barnes who put seven shots on net and notched a teamhigh four points on the

night with a goal and three assists.

“I think a lot of that comes down to Mark and Nic,” Barnes said of his success. “How they’re playing and helping me out.”

Rumpel earns seventh career shutout In his third straight start, sophomore goaltender Joel Rumpel staved off 22 Penn State shots on net en route to his fourth shutout of the season.

Late in the first period, Rumpel denied Penn State on a 3-on-2 effort. Losing the puck on the shot from the right circle, Rumpel had to turn around in the crease before he eventually found the puck underneath him.

Eaves lauded the effort as Penn State’s best scoring chance of the night and a

game-saving moment on Rumpel’s part.

“He was in front of that puck,” Eaves said. “But you’re absolutely right, that was a big save for us.”

While Eaves can’t complain about the result, he did note Rumpel didn’t perform as up to par as he hoped, especially in light of a successful weekend against Minnesota the week before.

“He gets the shutout tonight, doesn’t have a lot of work,” Eaves said. “But we were pressing Joel after the game about some of his puck handling, it was not very good tonight.

Oh, he got a shutout and everybody’s proud — I’m a little disappointed in him.

He still got to keep working on his details … but he was good when the puck was in front of him.”

Student recreational facilities lagging behind at UW Nick Korger Korger’s Korner Three-thirty in the afternoon is a time of the day that means plenty of things for the average human being. The work day is almost over, maybe it’s that time for the student from elementary school through college where they finally get home from a tough day of classes.

Or maybe, maybe it means something way out there. Peak weight room hours.

One of the resolutions I made to myself after becoming one with my chair and desk at The Badger Herald last semester was to get my sedentary body out of fossil form and back into

HOT, from 10 Darrah struck out nine and walked three in her nohitter against the Eagles while McIntosh gave up four hits and two scores over five innings of solid work in the win against the Terriers.

“In the Big Ten we’re going to play three games and we’re going to have to double up on some teams,” junior infielder Michelle Mueller said following Friday night’s pair of wins.

“Having both pitchers get wins today was really big.”

Saturday was no different, as Wisconsin dominated Boston University once again for a 9-1 win behind another solid Darrah outing and a 4-for-5, two RBI effort from Massei.

After that, the Badgers kept on rolling with a

that once-decent 200-pound frame body I inhabited just a year ago.

Let’s be honest: We all say we’re busy (which I truthfully am) but sometimes after a hard day of mental sweat, a physical sweat is the last thing we want to subject ourselves to.

So, I bought myself a locker at the SERF, my first new pair of running shoes since 2008 — after the soles finally fell out of my old Nikes — and began to put my body through a more rigorous physical trail than a contestant on “America’s Biggest Loser.”

But, to my surprise, if I actually wanted to work out the way I wanted, I needed to find the right time to do so.

3:30 p.m., or really anytime after 3 p.m., is like working out in a circus.

For one, the weight room is more crowded than an early 19th century tenant house — and I do not use that reference lightly. Want

tough 4-0 win over the Eagles. Stewart gave up just five hits and four walks scattered over a seven-inning shutout. UW benefitted from the long ball, as seniors Shannel Blackshear and Whitney Massey hit home runs off of Eagles’ pitcher Allie Miles, two of the Badgers’ eight hits in the game.

Sunday saw Darrah and Purvis toe the rubber once again, this time with Darrah giving up four earned runs. But, the Wisconsin offense came to the rescue after their junior ace gave up three runs in the first inning.

Trailing for the first time all weekend, the Badgers gradually chipped away at the lead, scoring a run in the top of the second and reclaiming the lead in the top of the sixth with a three run frame, helping

to bench press? Forget about it. Four men with muscles the size of Sylvester Stallone in the first “Rambo” are already there, putting up ungodly reps of unthinkable weights.

Want to do some bicep curls? Well, guess what, those flabby arms of yours are going to stay flabbier than my stomach after this Wisconsin winter. Why? There’s no room to breathe, let alone curl around the dumbbell racks of the first floor weight room during peak hours.

Hell, there’s hardly room to do anything at all. It’s more packed than a clown car on the basketball court upstairs, and the miniscule amount of basketballs for rent have already been checked out long ago.

Sorry, bro, looks like that jump shot will have to stay looking like a Ryan Evans free throw rather than a Sam Dekker three.

Growing up a Lakeshore dorm resident as an

seal a 6-4 win.

In the final game of the tournament, McIntosh shut down BU with a complete game, giving up just one run on three hits and a walk, as the Badgers walked away perfect on the weekend after the 5-1 win.

Wisconsin is currently riding a nine-game win streak, tied for the tops in program history. The wins over the weekend were also over quality opponents, as both Georgia Southern and Boston University made the NCAA tournament last year.

“We all know it’s not how you start it’s how you finish,” Healy said following the last game of the tournament. “We’re happy for this group. It’s fun to make a little bit of history, but we’re staying focused on what happens now as we keep going.”

underclassmen, I was first subjected to the Natatorium as a freshman. The Nat has definitely seen better days, but it still serves a solid purpose. Basketball courts, swimming pools, weight room areas, everything the basic college student needs.

But, it’s old and outdated.

The weight room is too small and the place gets log jammed during anytime considered an ideal time for the student to work out. Sure, during the first part of the day the place is a ghost town (like most of the student fitness facilities from open until 3 p.m.) but I can’t exactly tell my professor at my 11 a.m. lecture, “Excuse me, I must be dismissed. If I don’t get my swoll on now, I never will.”

Remember the NatUp campaign in 2010? I thought the biggest mistake was it targeted the wrong building and funded an unsuccessful bid for a renovation with segregated fees for a

project that would require raising segregated fees to fund. Why not target funds for renovations or reconstruction away from the student body and toward donations from alumni and others?

No offense, University of Wisconsin, but I’m broker than PacMan Jones after a weekend stay in Vegas.

I’ve seen what Wisconsin has been doing around campus with the renovations to the athletic facilities. First, these changes were needed and our student-athletes deserve the best for all the revenue and exposure they bring to this university. Plus, they work their tails off to be the best, and they deserve to pursue that every day in the best facilities possible.

Never underestimate how important top-of-the-line facilities are in bringing in recruits and maintaining successful athletic programs.

And maintaining Chris Borland’s quiet dominance

of ping-pong on the football team.

Anyway, now that almost all the major projects are done, like LaBahn Arena, the renovations to Camp Randall and a new scoreboard and sound system for the football stadium, it’s time for the university to turn its eye back toward the thousands of students who make up the general population of the campus.

I’ve been to UW-La Crosse and UW-Oshkosh’s student fitness facilities, and let me just say, we are woefully behind. So, muscled men and women of the respected Southeast Recreational Facility, Nat and Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center, aka the Shell, it’s time. Rise up, put down those protein drinks and demand a better workout!

And please, for the love of God, wipe down the bench after you’re done using it.

Please?

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UW holds on for Big Ten indoor title Illinois trips up in meet’s final event; Cato, Ziemek finish 1-2 in heptathlon for Badgers Nick Korger Sports Editor GENEVA, Ohio — It wasn’t decided until the final event, but Wisconsin head coach Ed Nuttycombe was able to breathe a sigh of victorious relief Saturday afternoon at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

In a meet that saw the top five teams separated by a mere five points, the No. 10 Badgers’ men’s track and field team emerged winner of the team title in the 2013 Big Ten Indoor Track Championships.

The indoor title is UW’s first since 2008.

“The first thing was that it came down to the last event, déjà vu all over again,” Nuttycombe said in reference to his team’s close victory in the 2012 Big Ten Outdoor Championship. “The results were the same as far as us winning, the way it went down was a little different.”

But, things were a little different in the way UW was able to seal the title.

Heading into the final event, the 4x400-meter relay, Wisconsin held a 1.5 point lead over Illinois. Then, the shocker of the meet occurred, as the Illini struggled on their final exchange and their last

runner tripped up on the final lap and did not finish the race, sealing the victory for the Badgers.

It was a race that left many, including Nuttycombe, speechless, especially because Wisconsin finished only eighth in the final event.

“I was stunned,” Nuttycombe said. “I honestly did not know what to say the first few minutes after the race.”

Pacing the Badgers winning 90-point team total was the heptathlon combination of All-American junior Japheth Cato and sophomore Zach Ziemek, placing No. 1 and No. 2 at the event. Cato shattered his Big Ten record by posting a 6,090-point performance, while Ziemek trailed by posting his own impressive tally of 5,846, earning him a second team all-Big Ten honor.

With the win, Cato becomes the Big Ten’s second ever three-time winner in the heptathlon. The total mark by the Wisconsin junior also ranks as the second best by an American and fourth best in the world so far this year.

Cato was powered to the title by wins in the events 60-meter dash, long jump,

Photo courtesy of UW Athletic Communications

Wisconsin won its first Big Ten Indoor Track Championship since 2008 on the back of strong performances from junior Japheth Cato and sophomore Zach Ziemek in the heptathlon.

60-meter hurdles and pole vault while placing fourth in the high jump.

“I came here with the determination of just simply coming here to win,” Cato said. “Halfway through it, right after high jump, I

thought ‘Man, I just might go for it, you know?’ I only have a couple of these [heptathlons] my whole entire life so it’s all or nothing.

“Go big or go home.”

Ziemek’s performance was special as well, as the

sophomore finished with his personal-best performance and the No. 5 mark in the NCAA this season, finishing in the exact place in the indoor championships he had strived for.

“I really wanted to take

second place because Cato is amazing and I know I couldn’t take first,” Ziemek said. “I really wanted to help out the team this year.”

Besides the dominating

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Too hot to stop: Wisconsin 10-1 Sweep at Diamond 9 tourney sparks UW to best start in program history Nick Korger Sports Editor

Ian Thomasgard The Badger Herald

Junior forward Tyler Barnes picked up four points on a goal and three assists against Penn State Sunday. Barnes’ four-point effort brings him into a tie for third-most points on the team with 19.

Rude welcome: Badgers initiate Nittany Lions by fire in 5-0 win Wisconsin shuts out Penn State in team’s first-ever meeting in men’s hockey, offense finds rhythm after slow first period Caroline Sage Associate Sports Editor Following a sluggish first period, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team took over Sunday night at the Kohl Center and put up 51 shotson-goal en route to a 5-0 shutout victory against Penn State.

The Senior Day battle found a fitting first goal from senior defenseman John Ramage, who launched a shot from just over the blue line, surpassing multiple PSU defensemen and goaltender PJ Musico on the way to the back of the net.

The goal — coming just 1:30 into the second period — gave the Badgers (14-10-0, 11-7-7 WCHA) a needed boost following a first period that saw just six shots on goal by both teams.

“We could have been better

we could have been sharper … you always want more for yourself and the team,” Ramage said about the team’s play in the first period. “So I think that’s what we came out and did in the second and third period, we showed what we are capable of.”

While back-and-forth play dominated the first period, the Badgers were not without opportunities. After a slashing penalty on PSU’s senior forward Dominic Morrone, Wisconsin found itself fighting for the puck inside the crease. UW sophomore forward Brendan Woods managed to poke the puck in, but the goal was waved off as the referee indicated goaltender PJ Musico had already covered the puck.

The Nittany Lions (12-130) saw a near-goal of their own, but Badger goaltender Joel Rumpel managed to get

across the net just in time to keep the puck from crossing the red line.

A holding call on PSU defenseman Connor Varley late in the first period put the Badgers on the power play heading into the second.

Although unable to find the net, the momentum quickly gave way to Ramage’s goal.

The offensive persistence

by Wisconsin continued throughout play. Wisconsin went on to average more than one shot per minute in the final 40 minutes of play, boasting 44 shots on net, with 22 in both the second and third period.

“We just talked about playing with tempo and pace,” head coach Mike Eaves said.

“That was our focus and I don’t think it was desperate, it was wanting to play at a high tempo and pace.”

Though the Badgers

hammered the Nittany Lions’ defense with shots, pucks were not dropping on UW’s side following their first goal. After a shot by junior defenseman Frankie Simonelli hit the left pipe, with a ring that echoed throughout the Kohl Center, freshman forward Nic Kerdiles failed to convert with a wide open shot inside the slot.

A Badger power play finally allowed UW its second goal of the night, as junior forward Michael Mersch knocked in his own rebound from the right side of the net as junior linemate Mark Zengerle fought for positioning in the slot, distracting the PSU defense.

A late-period penalty, this time on Wisconsin, allowed Penn State the man-

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ORLANDO, Fla. — If this weekend was supposed to be a replicate of Big Ten play this season, the Badgers set the right example to duplicate.

Sweeping the three-day Diamond 9 tournament with three wins over both George Southern (7-7) and Boston University (14), Wisconsin (10-1) is suddenly off to the best start in program history.

“It is always exciting to win games and it is great to have a fast start,” head coach Yvette Healy said.

“We all know, though, it’s not how you start, it is how you finish. We are happy for this group, it is fun to make a little bit of history, but we are staying focused on what happens now as we keep going.”

Junior standout pitcher Cassandra Darrah set the tone in the first game of the tournament, throwing UW’s first no-hitter since 2001, shutting out Georgia Southern in a 3-0 victory. Darrah pitched the Badgers to three wins over the weekend, increasing her perfect record on the mound to 6-0.

Eager to keep up with their No. 1, the Badgers’ other pitchers turned in solid performances of their own, as senior Meghan McIntosh went 2-0 over the weekend and freshman Taylor Paige-Stewart recorded a seven-inning shutout over Georgia Southern in a 4-0 win Saturday and also recorded a save on the weekend.

“I felt pretty good out there,” McIntosh said following her win over Boston University Friday.

“I had good run support

with my offense. I hit my spots and the defense played great.”

Wisconsin’s offense also provided the pitching all the run support it could need, roughing up Georgia Southern’s reigning Southern Conference Pitcher of the Year Sarah Purvis for a loss and 10 hits in her two appearances against the Badgers.

The results were no different against Whitney Tuthill, BU’s second team all-conference pitcher in 2012, sending the senior to two losses on the weekend after recording a combined 21 hits in the 12 innings the team faced her.

“We faced phenomenal pitching all weekend and our offense really was impressive,” Healy said.

“I think it’s the most impressive offensive weekend I’ve seen in a long time to face quality pitching like that.”

The Badgers were led offensively by the hot bat of junior outfielder Mary Massei, who went 12-for21 from the plate in the six games with nine RBIs from the leadoff position.

Massei currently leads the team with a .525 batting average on the season, with 17 RBIs and an incredible .950 slugging percentage.

It was an impressive feat for Healy and Wisconsin, as the coach and her players had linked the format of the tournament’s three games against each opponent as extremely similar to Big Ten conference play.

Wisconsin started off the tournament Friday with a 3-0 win over Georgia Southern and a 11-3 five-inning win over Boston University.

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