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Finalist says collaboration key to leadership success Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor University of Wisconsin chancellor search finalist Kim Wilcox, current provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Michigan State University, finds collaboration to be key in his leadership style.

In an email to The Badger Herald, Wilcox said as chancellor, he would be an

dean is making sure all parts of the university understand each other to help them work together.

“What I learned from that is how leaders can work to bring programs together positively and effectively as a cluster, rather than individual pieces,” Wilcox said.

The position of dean, according to Wilcox, provides the

effective leader for campus while at the same time understanding, respecting and helping facilitate UW within the larger UW System.

Wilcox also served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and vice provost for general education coordination at the University of Kansas from 2002 to 2005. He said the key to the role of being

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opportunity to be a part of university leadership while remaining close to students, faculty and staff. He said much of what he learned as dean applied to his job as

provost at MSU and would be applicable to the role of chancellor as well.

As chancellor, Wilcox said, he would engage with the larger UW System to make sure the Madison campus is the best it can be and that others can understand its role.

“Every university is a bit different from every other university,” Wilcox said. “We all have our own traditions

[and] strengths.”

Wilcox said because each university differs from another, he would attempt to create a system that would integrate the universities.

He said it is in the UW System’s best interest if each university can be its best.

Supporting students during their time at school is another priority Wilcox said

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Legislators favor UW tuition cap United Council pushes for four percent, System says this action is not necessary Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor

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With the annual ban of glass containers for big events such as Mifflin and Freakfest, students end up getting cited by police the most for open intoxicants and underage drinking.

Officials prepare for Mifflin As block party nears, City Council begins planning for safety of annual spring event Allie Johnson City Life Editor Madison’s City Council unanimously approved its annual resolution to not allow glass containers on Mifflin Street May 4 at their meeting Tuesday, as they expect the traditional block party to occur.

The resolution named Mifflin Street a glass-free zone during the period of time when the street will most likely be occupied by the annual Mifflin Street Block Party, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. No glass bottles or containers will be allowed on the street from 8 a.m.

May 4 through 6 a.m. May

5, he said.

The area affected by the ban will include the 400, 500 and 600 blocks of West Mifflin Street, as well as the 10 and 100 blocks of North Bassett and North Bedford Streets, respectively, Verveer said.

Verveer explained the resolution was proposed in response to the excessive amount of glass seen on the street in years past, both at the block party and at other events, such as Freakfest.

He cited many safety hazards involving glass, particularly because many students wear flip flops during the event.

“The amount of glass containers and beer bottles

on the streets during Halloween and Mifflin was outrageous,” Verveer said.

“The bottles were even used as weapons some years.”

Several years ago, the City Council adopted an ordinance allowing it to propose the resolution each year, Verveer said.

The resolution is annually approved without controversy to enhance the safety of the block party, he said.

According to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, students will be issued a ticket if they bring glass onto Mifflin Street during the time frame established by the resolution.

Resnick added the clean-up process was also considered when adopting the resolution. Aluminum bottles are easier for cleanup than glass ones, he said.

Despite the alternative event to be held on campus May 4, Verveer said the Madison Police Department still anticipates large crowds on Mifflin Street. Police are planning to implement the same strategies as last year for that date, he said.

At the meeting, City Council members also denied an appeal to block the construction of a new apartment complex at 1360

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Legislators from both parties have reacted positively to including a tuition cap in the state’s biennial budget, a measure University of Wisconsin System officials said may not be necessary.

Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget, which includes a $181 million investment in the UW System, removed the previous 5.5 percent cap on tuition increases.

Without a cap, the Board of Regents could technically raise tuition above that, so United Council of UW Students is pushing for a cap of 3 or 4 percent.

United Council held a news conference Monday at the Capitol pushing for a tuition cap and talking to around 40 legislative offices about it, the group’s government relations director, Dylan Jambrek, said. He said legislators from both parties have been either supportive or have not taken a stance.

Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, and Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, said Tuesday they would support a tuition cap.

Rep. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, the chair of the Assembly’s Colleges and Universities Committee, also supports a tuition cap of about 3 or 4 percent, his spokesperson said Thursday.

Sen. Glenn Grothman,

R-West Bend, who sits on the Legislature’s budget committee, supports not just a cap, but a freeze, or no increase in tuition.

“We’re happy to see that providing tuition certainty to students isn’t a partisan issue,” Jambrek said.

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said students will likely see a “very modest” tuition increase if Walker’s proposed $181 million investments go through.

That amount is a large contrast from the more than $300 million in cuts the UW System took over the past two years.

That contrast “negates” the need for a cap, Giroux said. Student Regent Katie Pointer, a UW junior, agreed. Although student groups note without a cap, tuition has risen by 15 percent, Pointer said those “incredibly high” increases would not happen if they were one in place.

“We’re all on the same side that we’re not going to raise tuition in an extreme amount — or hopefully not at all,” Pointer said.

Pointer said although there are positives to having a tuition cap, there are also there “dangers,” such as setting a cap at an amount higher than regents intend to raise tuition by and leading them to consider an increase at that cap.

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Students could see mental health check Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor A task force for the Madison Metropolitan School District has recommended the school board implement a mental health screening program in Madison’s public schools.

Scott Strong, executive director of Community Partnerships, a local nonprofit that works to provide community-based resources to people with mental health problems, is a member of the task force that gave the recommendation.

Strong said the screening would be used to identify if there is something impacting a student’s learning, and then contact the student’s family about the problem.

Strong said the screening would detect the signs and symptoms of mental health problems. He said it is a good idea for students at any point in their educational career, but an especially good idea for elementary school students because it would help with early intervention and identification.

“It’s an idea the task force has put forth but not yet implemented,” Strong said.

“It’s a good idea on many different levels.”

Strong said students would be screened for common mental health problems that commonly impact learning such as mental depression and mood disorders. Madison schools already have

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Health secretary explains Medicaid proposal Walker’s office responds to criticism budget’s health care plan has received from several Democrats Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor Gov. Scott Walker’s outgoing health secretary responded to criticisms of Walker’s Medicaid proposal at a Tuesday health care conference.

ABC for Health’s annual health care conference included a panel of five Democratic legislators— no Republicans accepted the group’s invitations.

But Department of Health Services Secretary Dennis Smith responded to criticisms Walker’s plan covers less people, yet costs the state more.

Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said he has had conversations with some moderate Republicans who have some concerns about parts of Walker’s plan.

The Republicans have an 18-15 majority in the Senate, so Democrats would need two Republicans to

stop Walker’s plan. Senate Minority Leader Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee, pointed out some Senate Republicans have realized Walker’s intentions are often political and “not the best” for taxpayers.

Walker’s plan would move 87,000 childless adults currently without insurance to Medicaid and move 82,000 parents out of Medicaid into private insurance exchanges.

Under his plan, those under 100 percent of the poverty level are eligible for Medicaid, and those above would be in private insurance plans. Those between 100 percent and 400 percent of the poverty level would get some federal subsidies.

Walker’s plan would reduce the uninsured by 224,850, a number Democrats pointed out is 28,000 less than their proposal of taking a full Medicaid expansion.

Democrats also pointed to the fiscal impacts of Walker’s

decision. A preliminary analysis from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau showed Walker’s plan would cost the state $320.3 million by 2020, while the Democrats’ plan would cost it $66.7 million.

The analysis does not take into account administrative costs or a “woodwork effect” of more people than expected signing up for Medicaid.

The cost differences come from the Democrats’ use of federal funds for the expansion, for which the state would never pay more than 10 percent of the costs. Under Walker’s plan, the federal government would pay $460.6 million by 2020, but the Democrats’ plan would cost the federal government $4.38 billion.

Smith said the federal government is likely to break its funding promise because of its debt problems. He also pointed to the more than $200 million more the

state has to pay because of decreased federal funding for the state’s current Medicaid program.

The federal government has also proposed cuts to Medicaid in the past, Smith said. Although they are now only proposing Medicare cuts, he said providers would shift those cuts over to Medicaid recipients. The federal government is also looking to prevent states from collecting a tax on providers, which Smith said would end up leading to more costs for the state.

Smith also said since the total costs are the same under each plan, the same money would be spent in the state. As Medicaid offers lower payments to doctors, he added, the state’s economy would grow more as more people have private plans.

“The total cost would be the same, so whatever that impact is has no bearing on the loss of jobs [and is

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Moreover, we believe the total economic impact is likely to be greater under the governor’s proposal.”

The insurance exchanges are affordable, Smith said, pointing to the lowest premium of $19 a month for an individual making 100 percent of the poverty level. He also cited figures that showed most Medicaid enrollees have stayed in the program despite some premiums.

Smith said Walker should get more credit for ensuring those under 100 percent of the poverty level get insurance, as many childless adults are currently on a wait list to get into the current Medicaid program.

Medicaid expansion advocates maintained Walker could cover more people with less state money under their proposal.

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The Associated Students of Madison Finance Committee urged Registered Student Organizations to apply early to ensure event grants.

Student orgs break down ASM funding at forum Molly Coplan Reporter Members of various registered student Organizations addressed their funding and policy concerns, while also hearing suggestions and explanations from student government at a Finance Committee meeting held Tuesday.

Finance Committee Chair Andrew Kidd, Nominations Board Chair Sean McNally and

Student Services Finance Committee Chair Ellie Bruecker were seeking feedback from various student organizations to know how Associated Students of Madison policies can best serve the groups.

The issue of needing to have the ASM required logo and disclaimer attached to student organizations was addressed by the leaders of the meeting.

“Recognition of where the money comes from is important,” Kidd said.

Kidd said the logo and disclaimer is the standard approach for identification of student groups.

Mari Vangen, a member of Campus Womens Center, said her organization often has questions only SSFC has the ability and qualifications to answer. She suggested having multiple SSFC representatives available to answer these questions in order to make the process more convenient and efficient.

Bruecker said a goal for the future is to have a training program for liaisons who would represent SSFC and be informed enough to answer questions for each of the student organizations.

“There’s a little bit of a consistency issue there,” Bruecker said.

This is due to the differences in dedication these liaisons may or may not possess, Bruecker added, so it would be unfair to specific student organizations if they did not receive the same caliber of advice as others, she said.

Katie Baldwin, member

of Engineers Without Borders, brought up the issue of travel grants and how to obtain them most efficiently.

According to Kidd, the issue with travel grants this year originated when ASM ran out of money rather quickly and various organizations were applying for more than one grant per semester.

“Apply early, that’s always the best policy,” Kidd said.

The Finance Committee also hopes to rely on social media to bring about awareness because the committee underutilizes it, according to Kidd.

Bruecker also stressed the importance of student organizations not applying for more money than they need or will use in their budgets. She said this is important because the unused money of specific organizations cannot be allocated to other student organizations that may actually be in need of money.

She suggested ASM could be doing a better job of helping out student organizations by advising them on how to budget for their upcoming year.

CWC also addressed planning the budget for the group a year in advance. This stifles creativity for the new year and disables the organization from moving away from ideas since the previous year, she said.

“Groups coming into a budget they didn’t write is difficult and we understand that,” Bruecker said.

She said this has to happen because it is difficult to do budget alterations later in the year when they may be needed.

Police arrested 21-year-old Francisco Martinez late Monday night after he allegedly threw a bottle of beer at a worker of a restaurant on the 200 block of Gilman Street, and drove away intoxicated afterward.

According the the Madison Police Department statement, Martinez threw the bottle at around 9:30 p.m., and the bottle nearly hit the worker at Los Gemelos restaurant.

Shards of glass landed on two restaurant patrons, the statement said.

After receiving a description of the suspect and his vehicle, MPD was able to track him down in his pulledover vehicle near where the incident had occurred, the statement said. The statement said the suspect was intoxicated, had empty beer bottles in his car and claimed he had thrown the bottle

FINALIST, from 1 he has.

Wilcox said he reformulated student support programs at MSU. He said he increased engagement centers across campus with a host of different support programs.

During his time as provost, Wilcox said he initiated an effective program for transitioning incoming freshmen that was well received by students.

Especially for incoming students, Wilcox said he developed an initiative to have them get engaged with the university at the very beginning of their time at MSU. He said he changed the introduction period for incoming students to the university.

Under his leadership, Wilcox said incoming students engaged more with MSU over the summer and during their first days on campus. He said they recrafted the first few days of class to make them more engaging and fun to create something where students, faculty and staff would work together to start the school year.

“It has been a real success,” Wilcox said, “[to] help students feel connected in ways they did not before.”

Wilcox is also involved with the Partnership

because bottles had been thrown at his car by others.

According to MPD, the restaurant worker did not know the suspect, so the incident was most likely random.

Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, said she has not noticed a recent crime or drunk driving increase in the area.

“Things tend to be relatively quiet at this time of year,” Maniaci said. “I think this was a random and isolated act.”

She said crime in the area usually peaks during warmer months and weekends that correlate to sporting events. She said this incident is very unusual, but issues of drunk driving are never something that should be seen as “normal.”

Maniaci said she thought someone was targeting his vehicle.

“When there’s alcohol involved, the reasons why people do what they do can vary substantially,” Maniaci said.

to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit organization.

He said MSU created the organization 10 years ago to bring different groups — government, nonprofit and for-profit — together to build a sustainable agriculture system in Africa.

Both MSU and UW share a history of international engagements and commitments to peoples in developing countries, Wilcox said. He said Madison leads in sustainable agriculture and is a great international and agricultural university.

Wilcox was a finalist for the chancellor position at the University of Hawaii-Manoa in 2012.

On carrying over from his experience as a finalist last year, he said it is great to be able to travel to a campus and meet the students, faculty leadership and staff.

It is fun, exciting and personally rewarding, according to Wilcox, to learn more about campus, and added he is looking forward to having conversations with people at UW. “Of course its always flattering to be finalist,” Wilcox said. “It’s a bit of a recognition of what others see in your experience.”

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Senior chosen to run UW System Twitter account Student gives peers overview of life on campus, excited for unique opportunity Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor The University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus is the latest carrier of a Twitter torch for the UW System.

Nate Moll, a fifth-year senior, is participating in a cross-university Twitter campaign designed to exemplify the Wisconsin experience at all System campuses.

The Twitter account, @UWpowersMe, is part of Knowledge Powers Wisconsin, a much larger UW System marketing strategy with the goal to energize and empower individual students, alumni, staff and faculty about the Wisconsin experience, according to UW System spokesperson David Giroux.

Moll said the account is just one facet of the entire initiative. He said it serves a purpose of relaying how different system schools are impacting the state.

Giroux said this Twitter account allows for the opportunity to show different perspectives from within the UW System.

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The 36-unit apartment complex and day care center was proposed by CareNet, a Christian prolife pregnancy center in Dane County, and the owner of the land.

Several community members appealed the Plan Commission decision to grant a conditional use permit for the project.

Sean Phillips, a resident of the neighborhood, said the area could not support such a highdensity project. He said the neighborhood consists primarily of single-family homes and an apartment complex does not belong in a small residential neighborhood.

Phillips added the

LEGISLATORS, from 1 will decide in their meetings this June whether or not and by how much tuition will increase next year.

The regents will be focused on keeping college affordable, Giroux said, but they will also consider fixing below-average faculty salaries. UW System President Kevin Reilly has said he would like to make the system more competitive in that aspect, as its faculty salaries are currently 18 percent below the

They will choose a different student, alumni, staff or faculty from a different UW System school every week, he added.

“It’s not a corporate voice, it’s a real, authentic, organic first-person account,” Giroux said. “I get the sense that [Moll] is a passionate ambassador for UWMadison [and] that pride comes out loud and clear in everything he tweets.”

Moll said he manages the Twitter accounts for UW’s

“Really, I’m just letting life happen and sharing that.”

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Visitor and Information Programs and Wisconsin Union Directorate, and helps with different social channels for University Communications. He said he has been involved with official social media outlets on the Madison campus for two years now.

On being selected as this week’s curator for the @UWpowersMe Twitter account, Moll said he feels excited and humbled that he was chosen. He said he finds the task intimidating, however, because he is

neighborhood and MacArthur Road are already congested and would not be able to handle an influx of people.

Ald. Joseph Clausius, District 17, also voiced his support for the project.

He said he is a strong supporter of affordable housing. The day care center that would also occupy the building would be a benefit to the neighborhood as a whole, he added.

“I think a day care center would slow things down [on MacArthur Road], because people have to be aware,” Clausius said.

While the council approved the building for construction, Resnick said city funding for CareNet’s project is tabled indefinitely.

national average.

Pointer also said ignoring that problem would harm quality, noting popular professors have left the UW System for better offers. She said, however, regents will likely not increase tuition solely to pay more for faculty and will instead find other ways to pay for faculty pay increases.

“I don’t think students are going to want to continue to pay for a world-class education if they don’t have worldclass faculty teaching them,” Pointer said.

given the responsibility of representing a school of 42,000 different students.

Moll also said he finds it exciting there are so many cool things happening on campus every day. So, he added, he knows there will be a lot of content to share.

On having the Twitter account for a week, Moll said he feels he is able to give a holistic overview of what life is like on campus. He said he finds it a great opportunity.

“I am just one of many here, and I want to share what my experience is here, but I’m not the only story,” Moll said. “There is so many other people here, and I want to try to make their voices heard.”

Giroux said the UW System is trying to change the conversation about higher education with the Twitter account. He said they hope to change the way people think about the university and build a greater public understanding and support for higher education in general.

Interactions through Twitter are especially important for higher education, according to Giroux, because of the strong impact that social media has on a student body in the ways students use it to interact.

“If we weren’t doing this, I would feel like we were

STUDENTS, from 1 social workers, nurses, guidance counselors and psychologists to support the mental health of students and the screening will add another layer of support, Strong said.

Strong said the task force has been meeting for more than a year, and an implementation planning team has been put together to meet twice a month between now and May. Marj Passman, vice president of MMSD’s Board of Education, said mental health clinics in schools would also be implemented as part of the proposal. She said the clinics would first be brought into high schools and middle schools because that is where there is the greatest need, but she would also like to see them eventually brought into elementary schools also.

She said the mental health clinics are a good goal for the district to have, and she supported the entire screening program. She said the core of the program was to bring everyone together

missing the boat,” Giroux said.

This initiative is directly linked with the Wisconsin Idea, according to Moll. He said he hopes the Twitter account will be used to

identify some of the great things that are happening on different campuses and for the betterment of the state.

It will be hard and overwhelming to compact everything that happens on

campus into a week, Moll said.

“Really, I’m just letting life happen and sharing that,” Moll said. “I want it to be as organic of an experience as possible.”

Bird flu studies to resume shortly After more than a year off, UW plans to continue progress with influenza research on campus Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor Research on avian flu may start up again on the University of Wisconsin campus after scientists voluntarily put the project on hold more than a year ago.

UW spokesperson Terry Devitt said UW professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka from the university’s Department of Pathobiological Sciences may resume his research on the transmission of the bird flu virus. Devitt said Kawaoka and scientists who did similar research stopped their research in order for the government and public to work through some issues. “[The moratorium] had been in place for a year, and the researchers were anxious to get back to work,” Devitt said.

He said questions regarding the research have been satisfied. He said researchers were waiting for guidelines, which

the National Institute of Health published in Science magazine last Friday.

Devitt said the research on the transmission of the avian flu has started in other countries, but not in the United States yet.

According to a UW statement, there have been over 500 cases of bird flu, and more than half of those have been fatal. Devitt said the majority of bird flu cases were found in people who worked or lived in close proximity to birds.

Rebecca Moritz, a research compliance specialist in the Office of Biological Safety at UW, said the moratorium was self-imposed by the research community to allow public debate to play out and answer questions about the research.

The research manuscripts of Kawaoka and a group of scientists in the Netherlands drew international scrutiny because mutations of the virus were able to

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and identify the needs of students and find a place where they can go to have their needs met.

“It’s what our schools need right now,” Passman said. “It would fulfill a lot of needs. It’s a coming together of the community, a product that was needed, and now we have some wonderful news for the community in terms of mental health for our kids.”

Passman said a timeline for when the program is set up in Madison schools depends on financing.

She added she wanted the program to begin as soon as possible, and Strong cited next semester as a possible starting point.

The program would require the school district to hire an administrator, which means the program would cost at least $60,000, Passman said.

She said it would help if the district could afford the program in their next budget.

Passman said the program is a necessity because the district is overwhelmed with children who need to be treated for mental health problems.

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Fifth-year senior at UW Nate Moll is eager to take on the responsibility of providing students an overview of day-to-day events on campus.

Gov. Scott Walker and other Republican governors criticized the president’s across-theboard spending cuts scheduled to take effect this week during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

The governor said he believes these $85 billion in federal cuts, known as the sequester, are irresponsible, arbitrary and President Barack Obama has resisted offering a reasonable alternative, spokesperson Cullen Werwie said in an email to The Badger Herald.

The email added the White House’s state-bystate sequester release detailing the spending reduction breakdown for Wisconsin is “essentially talking points.” Werwie’s email said the state will not know the full details of specific cuts until Friday or when there is additional federal action.

During the Republican Governor’s Association press conference, Walker said White House officials should have met with the governors before releasing these state-by-state sequester effects.

“I think it’s pretty clear those were put out for

political purposes, not to educate the governors, because you have a meeting scheduled today with all the governors across America,” Walker said. “If you were serious about having a discussion with governors about the implications, you wouldn’t give it to the press before you gave it to governors.”

Walker has downplayed the effects of the sequester, encouraging Republicans in Congress to “call the bluff ” of Obama in an interview with Fox News this Monday.

The White House statement said the sequester cuts would reduce pay to the state’s Department of Defense employees by $12.4 million, trim funding to Education for Children with Disabilities by about $10 million and take another $8.5 million from primary and secondary education.

Andrew Reschovsky, a University of Wisconsin public affairs and applied economics professor, said the governor is correct the effects of the sequester on the state will have underwhelming impacts, because it does not have a large defense industry.

“Certainly, the direct impacts in the short run will be relatively modest,” he said.

be transmitted between mammals, specifically ferrets, she said.

“People questioned what was the benefit of this type of research,” Moritz said.

“The benefit is global public health.”

Moritz said both Kawaoka and the Dutch scientists used ferrets in their research because ferrets are the best model to study the flu in humans. She said ferrets have respiratory tracks that are similar to a human’s, and ferrets also cough and sneeze like humans.

She said Kawaoka found four mutations that allowed a strain of bird flu to transmit through aerosol droplets from one ferret to another.

She said bird flu was not able to do this before.

Moritz said because ferrets and humans have similar respiratory systems, it is possible the mutated strand of bird flu could transmit from one human to another human. The original

strand of bird flu cannot be transmitted between mammals, she said.

The Dutch researchers found five mutations, and their virus was directly inoculated in the lungs of ferrets, she said. This was lethal to the ferrets, she said.

Both manuscripts were published with only minor modifications, she added.

Moritz said the United States government has made a list of bacteria, viruses and toxins that need to be registered with the government. She said certain government bodies regulate all the entities that use these agents and added that bird flu falls under these regulations.

She said bird flu researchers need to start figuring out the mechanism behind transmissions and the mutations themselves.

“There are lots of things they could do,” she said.

“They will continue where their studies left off.”

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Herald Editorial Keep students safe by rewarding Responsible Action It is no secret students at the University of Wisconsin occasionally indulge in weekend, shall we say, revelries.

Football gamedays, Halloween weekend and Thursday nights out are all part of the cultural landscape of Madison.

While these activities can be both fun and harmless, they can also have serious repercussions: It seems that every weekend a handful of UW students literally poison themselves with alcohol. Too often, students fall victim to the sort of violent crime often associated with the consumption of alcohol.

These harsh realities are augmented by the fact, wishing to avoid an underage drinking ticket, students who have been

drinking are often reluctant to call law enforcement if they have been the victim of a violent crime, have witnessed criminal activity or if one of their friends is in need of medical attention.

In recent years the UW Police Department and the UW Division of Student Life have adopted a policy called “Responsible Action.” Under the policy, if a student is assaulted, witnesses a crime or realizes a friend is in need of medical treatment and calls for immediate assistance, he or she will be protected from disciplinary action with regards to alcohol consumption. We are glad UW realizes that in such situations, safety takes priority,

and no student should be punished for underage drinking if they respond appropriately by alerting the authorities.

Today, however, this policy only applies to the university.

While the Madison Police Department often honors the Responsible Action policy, there is no law protecting students who call 911 in the City of Madison from a drinking citation. For that matter, students at other universities in the state of Wisconsin face the same problem. Too many college students have been faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to do the right thing and call the police, knowing they might end up paying a hefty fine and working

hours of community service.

Currently, state lawmakers are deliberating over a Responsible Action Bill created and lobbied for by Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee and introduced by Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison. Last week, we met with ASM Legislative Affairs Chair Dan Statter to discuss the particulars of the bill. Statter explained that most states with Big Ten universities have already passed similar responsible action laws and, despite having a comparatively high rate of alcohol consumption, Wisconsin has so far neglected to pass such legislation.

We thoroughly approve

of ASM Legislative Affair’s support of the Responsible Action Bill. We feel it is a very important piece of legislation for students statewide and urge its swift passage into law.

Students at universities in Wisconsin have died because their peers were reluctant to call the police, afraid of being cited for underage drinking.

It is past time that state lawmakers take legislative action to assure students if they call law enforcement to report an assault or request emergency medical treatment for a friend who has alcohol poisoning, they will not be punished for the relatively minor offense of underage drinking.

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‘Confessions’ ushers UW to important conversations John Waters Columnist I want to talk about the “UW-Madison Confessions” Facebook page and the manufactured controversy that has recently surrounding it.

If you’re the rare student not aware of what’s going on, here is the gist: two weeks ago, someone started a Facebook page allowing University of Wisconsin students to post anonymous submissions — not that different from the Herald’s own Shout-Outs — about everything from hooking up to cheating on tests.

The difference being The Badger Herald has journalistic integrity and Confessions has none. But Confessions is a Facebook page and not a news organization, and therefore cannot be expected to adhere to journalistic standards. This is why the attacks against Confessions make no sense to me.

Katy Culver, a professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communications,

has come out on Twitter actively attacking the site, calling it “vile and valueless” and criticizing the person who started the page, self-titled “The Creator,” for remaining anonymous. The university has taken action to make sure all official UW logos be removed from the page.

The page complied with the university requests, and so as far as controversy goes, the remaining question is whether or not “The Creator” is doing something wrong.

Well, the page has gotten over 16,000 likes in a matter of two weeks, so no matter what anyone else would want to say about the page, the students have clearly already spoken. And we like it.

Now do some of the posts cross the line? Sure, but every single obvious lie, crime or over-the-line joke I read was immediately followed by a comment string of people bashing the post. That instant feedback loop is in my mind one of the best features of the page — jokes everyone likes get applauded, and bad posts get instantly rejected.

What better filter could you ask for?

Also there is a real silver lining to the page I think can easily get overlooked when people start surfing for a scapegoat. The two

most liked posts I have seen are first, a story about a person who tried to commit suicide, failed and is now happy a year later. That got more than 750 likes. The second was posted Monday by a soldier explaining his experiences, and it got more than 2,000 likes. It beat everything else on the page.

At some point, whoever wants to bash something like this page has to realize students want to read this, and there is something important about reading a stranger’s story and feeling it resonate with our lives, or just make us laugh. And when a confession is posted that reaches for cheap comedy and is clearly fake, such as a story about exchanging birth control for Tic Tacs even though that would be impossible (something I learned on the page), there is an immediate and negative reaction from students.

It is appropriate Culver tried to push a #dontfollow hash tag in the same vein as Dean of Students Lori Berquam’s “don’t go to Mifflin” appeal last year, because they represent the same kind of misconception.

The students at this school are amazing because we don’t need our hand held by anyone. Mifflin and “UW-Madison Confessions”

EXERPTS FROM “UW-MADISON CONFESSIONS” Confession: “Tomorrow it will be one year since I attempted suicide. Never been so happy to have failed at something.” (785 likes) Comment: “There is always hope, never forget that.” (5 likes) Confession: “... I was part of a highly trained mountain warfare unit, and I’ve seen and done things nobody could imagine.

I’ve killed people, seen my fellow soldiers get gunned, seen women and children murdered at the hands of terrorists.” (2,925 likes) Comment: “You voluntarily went so others don’t have to. Hero in my book.” (175 likes) Confession: “I always buy my girlfriend dinner after I cheat on her. She just thinks I’m being a gentleman. Quite the opposite.” (38 likes) Comment: “... and you are a scumbag.” (146 likes) Confession: “I don’t feel bad about cheating on tests that aren’t on a curve.” (30 likes) Comment: “I hope whoever confessed this fails out of UW.” (2 likes)

are real and valuable cultural experiences. Now, in both instances there are also some clear outliers of unacceptable behavior, but it is much more educational to recognize the good and put down the bad than it is to shut the whole thing down because one action was unacceptable.

The world doesn’t work like that. Learn as much as you can, share as much as you can, and whether it is a poop joke, a soldier’s story or a stupid lie, it’s because we hear and deal with all of those things that an interesting group of people comes out of this university.

So respect “The

Creator’s” decision to remain anonymous, keep on posting and ride the latest internet meme into history — or the end of next week when we all get bored again.

John Waters ( jwaters@ badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in journalism.

GWS provides raw, powerful education experiences Pamela Selman Editor-at-Large When I enrolled in Gender and Women Studies 103 — Women’s Bodies in Health and Disease — I was looking to score some quick, non-sciencey science credit. I was more than a bit skeptical about taking a GWS class because I was convinced it would label me a feminist and force ideas on me without allowing me space to consider what I thought about the issues.

Three semesters later, I’m enrolled in my third GWS class and preparing to leave the University of Wisconsin in May with a unique perspective about not only my role as a self-advocate, but also about pressing

issues that are often swept under the rug in today’s society.

I say I was worried about being labeled a feminist not because I do not care deeply about women’s issues or because I write off people who actively stand up for what they believe in. Instead, I was shy about it because I had been pre-exposed to the oftenpessimistic stigmas unfairly associated with the GWS Department.

As a result, I fell victim to the claims that everyone in the department was a hardcore feminist or that ideas about women’s rights and equality were shoved down students’ throats.

Today, I am embarrassed to have given those claims any credence.

In GWS 103, I learned more than I had ever anticipated about my own body, about the importance of patient advocacy, how different cultures around the world are hundreds of years

behind the U.S. in fulfilling equality and so much more.

In GWS 533, I am privileged to be taught by the same woman who piqued my interest in not just women’s rights, but human rights — Araceli Alonso.

Only weeks into the course, I have gained invaluable insight into the ways human rights are considered on the international field and the way one person, such as Alonso, can make tremendous differences in the lives of many.

My experiences with GWS courses have been raw and eye-opening in ways my other classes on international poverty or gender and race inequality have failed to be. The handson approach GWS professors such as Alonso take should serve as a prime example for the rest of the campus community and demonstrate ways in which we can improve our education standards and experiences in

the classroom.

Last week, Alonso showed our GWS 533 class a documentary that depicted a real-life female genital mutilation — a practice that unfortunately is incredibly prominent in many parts of the world and one which horribly violates the most basic human rights. This video was a game changer. It was followed by a raw, taped interview Alonso performed with a female genital mutilation survivor and human rights activist.

As a student who has never traveled to the most impoverished or ethically questionable parts of the world, there is only so much I can gain from a textbook or lecture series.

In many other classes, professors trying to teach, for all intents and purposes, ignorant students about issues they have never experienced fail to achieve the rawness the GWS Department provides.

The passion with which

professors in the department provide their students with information, and the way in which they command respect for the material is powerful. It changes the learning experience entirely and opens up students’ minds to issues that are thousands of miles away.

With graduation quickly approaching, I’ve begun to think of all the different things on my UW bucket list I failed to cross off or things I would have done differently. I’ve also had time to think about all the things that made my UW experience one of a kind and that make me ready to dive head first into the real world.

Pursuing courses outside my comfort zone and taking classes that force me to consider issues in new ways is one of the most effective decisions I’ve made during my time in Madison.

I know I was not alone in writing off the GWS Department. But the value it has to offer students, even

those who have little to no interest in women’s issues, is tremendous. Students should take a leap of faith and trust that the educational foundation which GWS courses provide for students is one that will reshape the way they expect to learn in other classes, re-energize their passions for issues of all kinds and allow them to demand more of their education.

Professors throughout campus should take note of the way in which GWS instructors present information in fresh and meaningful ways in order to cover material beyond the expected minimum.

Together, the UW campus should see the example the GWS department sets as a means to redefine our standards for learning and education.

Pamela Selman (pselman@ badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in journalism and political science.

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ArtsEtc. All views encouraged to steep in new group

Colin Kellogg ArtsEtc. Editor When Adam Ernst, who often goes by his Chinese tea name Qi Hong, opened his teashop nearly five years ago, he knew he wanted it to be a place for members of the community to discuss their ideas and bond over a simple cup of tea. Now, this teashop, Dobra Tea is the home to the University of Wisconsin Campus Women’s Center’s biweekly “communiTea” discussions.

Sadie Dempsey, a UW junior and the CWC program coordinator, is the woman behind the idea. She originally approached Ernst after seeing in Dobra Tea’s newsletter the business was looking to host more groups and discussions. Dempsey wanted to come up with programming for CWC that would get students involved, and to find a space that students felt safe to discuss freely in. Dempsey had always loved the environment at Dobra and felt it would work well with what she had in mind. It was the perfect match. “[communiTea] is directly in line with my intent for the space,” Ernst said. communiTea’s biweekly discussion sessions focus on topics relating to feminism. The first gathering’s topic was feminism and pop culture, though Dempsey said the conversation quickly expanded to include many other topics, including gender identity. Dempsey said the discussion veered towards the topic because they were unsure of what to expect in terms of attendees’ familiarity with feminism, but the group had no trouble carrying the conversation. Both Ernst and Dempsey were pleased with the turnout at the first communiTea gathering.

Dobra Tea is just the right size for the type of discourse they encourage — just big enough to talk about other perspectives, but also not too big that they needed to break up into small groups.

Both Ernst and Dempsey believe maintaining openness and safety are essential to communiTea. It is their goal to make the group sustainable and ensure the conversations are nonhierarchical.

Additionally, Ernst wants a variety of viewpoints and backgrounds represented

in the discussion.

“Feminism is not what you think it is, to a certain extent, and we want show you that,” Ernst said.

According to Dempsey, students can especially benefit from these discussions.

In university settings, discussions are often run by a facilitator or delivered in a panel format. In communiTea, the conversation is totally in the hands of the participants.

People can come to listen, ask questions and participate in other ways. Because of the diversity in opinion communiTea strives to cultivate, a lot can be learned from these differences. Dempsey believes it is important to be able to have a productive discussion with someone in opposition to your beliefs and opinions and engage with people from all different backgrounds. communiTea’s openness is also what sets it apart from other feminist discussions, Ernst said. Feminism has changed over the years and continues to evolve and morph. In American history, significant feminist movements include the suffrage movement, the women’s liberation movement and the “Sex Wars” of the 1970s. Feminism is now considered to be in its “Third Wave,” a movement whose characteristics and boundaries are less and less clear. Ernst believes this ambiguity is what makes communiTea compatible with modern day feminism.

“That’s why it’s working: feminism is being really open and receptive right now; the teashop is really open and receptive,” Ernst said. “It’s cool to have a topic that’s so passionate, so involved.”

Though feminism may be receptive, policing of labels does occur, Dempsey said. communiTea wants to get away from deciding who can and cannot be a feminist since it is an issue everyone can relate to.

Ernst wants people to understand that the heart of conversations at communiTea aim to address gender issues and gender roles, not feminism exclusively. Ernst sees communiTea as an opportunity for personal development, both for himself and others. Feminist issues are everywhere in life, and gender roles have become a constant subject of debate in today’s world.

Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald

The State Street sit-down tea shop plays host to thought-provoking, open discussion sponsored by UW Campus Women’s Center.

“I don’t feel like I’m an ally to the cause, I feel like the issue is in all of us, and in society, and I’m a part of that, whether I want to be or not,” Ernst said.

Dempsey and Ernst find common ground in their love of bringing people together. Beyond the opportunity to engage in thoughtful conversation with others, both communiTea curators stressed the benefit of the unique environment of Dobra Tea, and the power of a cup of tea.

Throughout his years of working at Dobra and his travels abroad observing tea culture, Ernst has witnessed tea’s ability to bring people together. The communiTea

gathering held nearly two weeks ago was no exception.

“After the discussion and a cup of tea, it changes your relationship to [communiTea], and then all of us were all of a sudden a group of positive people,” Ernst said. “It’s very stimulating … the energy that evolves from that early in the morning with a few cups of tea. It’s awesome.”

The next communiTea gathering will be held Friday, March 1 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Dobra Tea, 449 State St. More information can be found on the CWC website, as well as both Dobra Tea’s and CWC’s Facebook pages.

AMOK offers audio journey despite lack of emotion Erik Sateren ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Over the years, Radiohead has always proven its ability to take whatever music its members are listening to and turn those influences into something entirely new.

On OK Computer, the band blended the sounds of the krautrock genre, composer Krzysztof Penderecki and other musical elements.

What resulted is an entirely unheard-of style — an ominous and grand sound that reflects the bleak nature of technology and the looming 21st century. On Kid A, they pulled from Aphex Twin and Autechre to create a complete subversion of a previously-established sound. More recently, on the painfully-underrated The King of Limbs, the band experimented with a sound grounded in subtlety and ambience, drawing from post-dubstep and further electronic influences.

Now here we are in 2013.

Thom Yorke has an intense infatuation with DJ sets and doling out new Radiohead songs as singles. The album format seems to be of lesser importance to Yorke than it was around the time of Kid A. This shows through on AMOK, the first album from Yorke’s supergroup, Atoms for Peace. AMOK was conceived during a three-day recording binge in Los Angeles, during which members Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Mauro Refosco and Yorke laid down glitchy drum beats, vocal samples and hypnotic synth patterns.

Over a two-year period, the sounds were mixed into album form that just dropped Monday. As a result of its unorthodox conception, AMOK feels disjointed, like a writer tossing words on a page and mixing them around in Microsoft Word, hoping they’ll eventually turn into

something meaningful. This album is experimentation without heart and soundscapes without direction. It seems as if Yorke is combining all of his present influences into one package.

Yet AMOK lacks the glitchy menace of Aphex Twin, the moody atmospherics of Burial or the spacy, multilayered sound of Flying Lotus.

Yorke’s experimentation does honor to his musical influences, but it never builds off these sounds.

AMOK comes off as more of a contemplative DJ set than an album with anything original to say. Simply put, this album lacks cohesion — a trait executed gracefully and masterfully on nearly all of Radiohead’s and Yorke’s previous albums. That being said, Atoms for Peace have a sound that never fails to be interesting.

Despite AMOK’s shortcomings as an album, it

never bores.

Through their meticulous production, Nigel Godrich and Thom Yorke have created what could likely be the best headphones album of 2013. On the standout track “Ingenue,” syncopated percussion sounds like water dripping in the dark recesses of headphones. The song turns into a flawless groove as Yorke’s angelic falsetto floats smoothly atop beautifully dystopian synths and the pitter-patter of distant percussion. This song could be made of liquid.

The title track is the auditory equivalent of sitting in the dark basement of a house haunted by the ghost of Thom Yorke: sinister vocal samples float beneath a dubstep drum beat and simple piano chords.

“Default” is the closest thing to hearing spiders crawl around in your headphones; rattling, glitchy

percussion shoots from one ear to the other as Yorke lulls with beautiful falsetto.

“It slipped my mind / And for a time / I felt completely free.”

On “Judge, Jury and Executioner,” samples of Yorke’s reverb-heavy vocals create a cathedral of sound in the listener’s head as Yorke sings, “All bouncing voices down the echo chamber.” It’s the perfect pairing of musical experimentation and lyrical content.

On “Unless,” Yorke sings, “I couldn’t care less,” in a lethargic tone over a punctual drum beat and bloodless synth chords.

Halfway through the song, everything stops and layers of Thom’s sputtering voice scatter themselves across the space inside headphones, creating an immersive wall of sound constructed entirely of the word “yeah.” This midway breakdown is interesting

and sonically pleasing, but it doesn’t redeem an ultimately lifeless song.

This is often the case with AMOK. Many songs slowly unfurl themselves into moments of breathtaking beauty, but these moments feel like unsatisfying tastes of what could have been created from this project; what could have been organic and profound music gets lost in the messy, disjointed nature of experimentation. For now, AMOK is interesting enough to hold us over until the next Radiohead album.

AMOK

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ARTSETC. PRESENTS: HUMP DAY

Find singles with benefits safely this Hump Day Katherine Harrill Hump Day Columnist Hello, my fellow Badgers! I am happy you all found time to read this week’s Hump Day despite midterms being upon us once again. This week, I have responses to some of your pressing questions relating to the world of dating.

Here we go: Hey ladies, I’ve recently become single and am having trouble navigating the world of dating after my previous longterm relationship. Any helpful hints for this newly-single man?

I agree the dating world is a daunting place, especially in college where there are so many venues where you could meet your significant other. We have bars, clubs, classes and so many other opportunities.

So my first bit of advice is to look for a date somewhere you actually enjoy. You want to be with someone you can

share something with, right?

If you’re an active person, try out a co-ed sports team or exercising at the Southeast Recreational Facility. Not really your thing? Go see a show at the Majestic Theatre to meet someone with similar music tastes. This way, you will have the bonus of doing something you enjoy and people around you will notice.

And, this way, your shared interest helps smooth out first encounters. Or, if you already share a class with someone, try talking to them. If I read one more shout- out about “that pretty girl in my class who I never talked to,” I will go insane. Nut up or shut up is definitely the best option in these kinds of situations.

Secondly, avoid clichés and being cheesy. Yes, we all love ridiculous pickup lines, but walking up and saying, “I lost my phone number, can I borrow yours?” may not be the best strategy. Instead, be

honest. Walk up and tell the beauty you have your eyes on she is gorgeous, or, better yet, ask her to dance. It may seem old-fashioned, but at the end of the night, you will likely be remembered for the right reasons.

Thirdly, stay sober. A lot of people drink to loosen up in the hopes alcohol will take away some of the nerves of approaching that hottie across the room. However, a lot of people also make utter fools of themselves in the process. Do you want to be remembered as “that drunk guy that hit on me?” Probably not. Having the ability to think clearly will surely help you make a good first impression. So, sober up, and if talking to that girl still seems like a good idea, go for it.

Hello, Hump Day writers, I recently had a guy approach me wanting to start a no-stringsattached friends with benefits situation between us, and I

am down for it. But I want your advice for where to begin.

Thoughts?

No-strings-attached relationships have both pros and cons. One reason they are so prevalent on college campuses is because many people wish to have a sexual relationship without needing to balance an emotional commitment with other factors such as homework and jobs. However there are some things you must consider before embarking on such an adventure.

First, and hopefully most obviously, is the risk of STIs and pregnancy, which is an issue that needs to be considered whether you are exclusive or fuck buddies, monogamous or not. STIs are wildly prevalent on college campuses and a very real danger. Every single student needs to make a conscious effort to get tested and to get their partner(s) tested.

University Health Services can provide testing and treatment services for STIs, and it is free for students!

Therefore, you have no excuse to not get in there and get tested. I cannot express enough the need to get tested and to get your partner(s) tested.

Many strains of gonorrhea are becoming drug-resistant, and the number of possible treatments is decreasing.

You need to be safe and be persistent about getting tested, and that goes for those in exclusive relationships as well. After all that, make sure to use condoms. Many organizations on campus give them out by the handfuls for free, along with lube and other sex supplies, so use them.

Don’t take an excuse about them not fitting or decreasing pleasure. Compromising your health is not worth it, so put your foot down and be safe.

Next, I would negotiate

what exactly your relationship means. Hot stuff, right?

However, this is a very important step to ensuring everyone benefits and no one gets hurt. Will you cuddle and watch movies, or will one of you booty call the other as needed? Does he have to wine and dine you? There are important questions to ask and, as silly as they may seem now, they will help to avoid misunderstandings later.

If you both work through the logistics like adults, then feel free to enjoy yourselves with no strings attached. If it is what you both want and feel is the best for your lives, then who is anyone to tell you otherwise?

That is all I have for now, Badgers. Keep on studying, stay safe and stay sexy until next time.

Do you have questions for our Hump Day columnists? Send them to humpday@badgerherald.com

Fresh strains growing in re-envisioned video rental store Bennet Goldstein ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Lisa Brennan did not considered herself a gardener, yet last year she found herself hanging potted plants from the ceiling of her video rental store, Four Star Video Heaven. Window shoppers who pass Four Star Video’s glass entrance face a terrarium of DVD cases, permaculture books and gardening supplies.

Brennan introduced Sprout, the green section of the store, to customers last April. Including gardening products inside any video rental shop is unexpected.

However, Brennan’s advocacy for sustainable agriculture vis-à-vis Sprout fits within the store’s history of supporting community initiatives and events. A few years ago Brennan collaborated with

Planned Parenthood and the Madison AIDS Network to raise awareness of sexual health by providing condoms to interested customers.

The inspiration for Sprout came from Brennan’s increasing awareness that problems such as global warming and pollution of the water supply stem from current agricultural practices.

“Large scale agriculture [and] genetic modification — this is very heavy input agriculture,” she said.

“It seems so very, very unsustainable to me.”

With Sprout, Brennan hopes to promote “sustainable” agricultural practices, including growing produce on a small scale for local consumption using renewable and recycled materials and planting diverse strains of plants.The latter point is of particular

concern to Brennan.

She says the current agricultural system is vulnerable to plant diseases because of widespread use of single strains of plants.

“If you look at the Irish Potato Famine, it was caused by a lack of genetic diversity,” Brennan said. “Everybody was growing the same variety of potato, and when a blight hit, it really took out everything. We’re really in a position where that could easily happen to us again because we grow so few varieties.”

Speaking to farm owners and members of the Madison Area Permaculture Guild gave Brennan ideas for solutions that she could incorporate into Four Star Video’s operations.

After the guild put Brennan in touch with local seed and compost vendors,

Brennan began to stock Four Star Video with seeds and tools for indoor sprouting.

She places emphasis on the do-it-yourself aspect of smallspace gardening by providing examples she has created in the store.

“The planters that we have hanging on the front of the store, I made those out of rain gutters,” Brennan said. “We just strung them together with chains, drilled drain holes … and we grow greens in them during the season.

In addition to providing fresh food to eat, Brennan points out home gardening is inexpensive and efficient.

“There are really amazing amounts of stuff you can grow on these very small plots, and in some cases, contain [your] gardening on balconies,” she said. “It’s amazing how much how you

can actually do once you figure out how to maximize your space.”

Brennan says Four Star Video customers have been very receptive to the addition. “[Initially], there was a certain amount of bemusement,” she said. “It’s an unusual combination.”

However, the store soon attracted a following.

Brennan said many Four Star Video customers find casual interest in Sprout, but a number of them come in just for the green aspect of the store.

Brennan also points out that plants brighten the space. The growth catches your eye — above the cash register dangles a canvas bag that strongly resembles a behind-the-door shoe hanger.

“It never fails to get comments when people

come in,” Brennan said.

Brennan has several ideas planned for Sprout’s future. During the autumn harvest season, for instance, she wants to add food dehydrators to the store’s stock of pickling and canning supplies.

Amid the novelties and food preparation products, Brennan still wants the ecological importance of gardening to remain a focus of Sprout.

“I think we’ve gotten very disconnected in this way,” Brennan said, “and I think it’s very valuable exercise to get out there and reconnect to the way that food is grown.”

Sprout is located inside Four Star Video Heaven at 449 State St. The store is open daily between 10 a.m. and midnight.

For more information about Sprout customers can call Four Star Video at (608) 255-1994.

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ASO to the girl that is standing right outside my apt door sobbing/screaming into her phone.

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Off to fast start, UW softball hungry for more Sean Zak Senior Associate Sports Editor Although school records at the University of Wisconsin tend to own a great deal of significance, the women’s softball team could not care less, or at least it seems like it could not.

The Badgers made breaking records a second hobby in 2012, raising the bar in six offensive categories en route to a school record 34 victories. It would seem like the bar is high enough, almost too high to reach once again. Only it is not.

If the Wisconsin offense was thunderous in 2012, the young, 11-game slice of 2013 has been deafening. In just two weekends of work, the Badgers have scored 68 runs on their way to, yes, a school record 10-1 start. Although they have completed just one-fifth of their season, the Badgers have rolled out a .352 batting average, which,

although sure to decline, would stand as another school record. Right now, things just seem to be working.

“I think we are balanced, and that’s really key,” head coach Yvette Healy said.

“We’ve got a lot of great lefty hitters and some righties.

We’ve got some speed, we’ve got some power … we’ve got a lot of players doing a lot of good things.”

Wisconsin’s early season offensive prowess has them sitting atop the Big Ten team batting average ranks. Their closest competition is Penn State, who has garnered a .349 average in just seven games.

Like most seasons at Wisconsin, the nonconference schedule tends to begin with trips to each coast, competing in invitational tournaments against all types of competition. Their 10-1 record would lead one to believe the entirety

of Wisconsin’s offensive explosion has come from a lack of quality competition.

The Badgers’ five opponents have opened 2013 with a combined record of 28-25, but remove the games Wisconsin has played in and that record jumps to a much more impressive 27-15.

Although the names Georgia Southern and Boston University certainly don’t jump off the page, Wisconsin’s bats have not faced any pipsqueaks. In fact, the pitchers the Badgers have already faced are just as good as any.

Boston’s ace, senior Whitney Tuthill, was a second team All-American East conference selection last season. The Badgers roughed her up to the tune of 21 hits and nine runs over 12 innings and two Wisconsin victories.

Georgia Southern’s top dog, Sarah Purvis, saw a similarly difficult time as Wisconsin knocked her around for 12

hits and eight more runs, though Wisconsin hitting coach Randy Schneider was full of praise in her defense.

“Purvis was as good as any pitcher we’ll see,” Schneider said. “We didn’t have a ton of hits on her, but we knocked her out of the game twice.”

That is what it has taken for Wisconsin to produce runs against quality pitching: not necessarily a boatload of hits, but getting on base and moving runners around the diamond. They will have to do so even more this weekend as they head west to Fullerton, Calif., to play in the Easton Invitational.

Whatever lacking competition they may have had to begin the season with will no longer be the case as the weekend slate includes their first bouts against ranked opponents No. 16 Stanford and No. 8 California.

By no coincidence, the best teams on the west coast boast some of the best pitchers in

the nation. Stanford’s Kelsey Stevens and California’s Jolene Henderson have dominated their opponents thus far and will look to quiet the streaky Badgers come Friday and Saturday.

Stevens’ .99 ERA in 12 appearances is good enough for third-best in the Pac12 while Henderson’s 1.19 average slides her in at fourth in the conference. Wisconsin will travel with their hot bats, but continuing their torrid pace is not the expectation.

Instead, the focuses for Wisconsin will be having quality at-bats and forcing their opposing pitchers into higher pitch counts.

Wisconsin’s leadoff hitter, Mary Massei, is noteworthy for her nuisance-like approach to driving up pitch counts.

“She always has great at-bats,” Whitney Massey said of her Big Ten-leading teammate. “It’s a rare occasion that she just goes

down and doesn’t really do much with her bat, so when we see her battling pitches like that, it really pumps us up.”

Massei has led the charge thus far with a team-high 21 hits and a .525 batting average. It is no wonder when she is wholly effective as a leadoff, Massei’s ignited teammates follow suit.

As the Badgers look to hang with their most noble opponents of the season, they will look to Massey again for a kick-start, as Massey noted the Badgers’ hitting is “contagious.” Coach Schneider does not need the Badgers to break any new records; he is plenty content with what they have established thus far.

“I really think we’ll go out there and hit,” Schneider said. “I feel like we are one of the best hitting teams in the country [right now].

Hopefully I can stand on that for awhile.”

Bond relishing her supporting role at Wisconsin Dan Corcoran Badger Blog Editor Words are merely symbols that try to represent what people see, hear and do.

And although oftentimes these representations are accurate, there are times when even words fall short and cannot describe someone to their full extent. One such person is Wisconsin women’s basketball assistant coach Alysiah Bond, who through her many accomplishments and personality traits has the ability to leave people mesmerized.

But more often than that, Bond leaves her players and fellow coaches smiling and laughing, especially a player with whom she works often, senior point guard Tiera Stephen.

“Coach Alysiah is a character. People say that we’re twins. We act alike kind of. I guess that’s a

THRASHES, from 12 with 10 points, and Talley, no Husker finished with double digits in scoring, as second-leading scorer Gallegos managed just six points and reigning Big Ten Freshman of the Week Shavon Shields went just 1-for-7 on the night.

“We just have to take it one game at a time and take care of business,” Berggren said. “We have two more on the road. We have to just try to take care of business.”

BLOCKS, from 12 because I knew it was going in.”

Despite not seeing action for the first several minutes of play, the star freshman quickly announced his arrival on the hardwood with a pair of three-pointers in under five minutes midway through the first half. Scoring his lone basket of the night from inside the three-point arc in between those long-range jumpers, Dekker was the proud owner of 13 points by halftime.

In one of the most complete performances

TOURNEY, from 12 an easy feat by any means with six other WCHA teams currently ranked above them — No. 2 Minnesota, No. 6 North Dakota, No. 7 St. Cloud State, No. 9 Minnesota State, No. 10 Denver and No. 13 Nebraska-Omaha.

That brings us back to option two: the at-large bid.

In order to solidify an atlarge bid the Badgers need to improve their PairWise ranking to persuade the Selection Committee they’re a viable NCAA tournament team.

While the PairWise isn’t the exact system the NCAA Selection Committee uses, it is a system that attempts to mimic the method the committee does use to determine the tournament participants, according to USCHO.com. The selection process is entirely based on

compliment,” Stephen joked, but with all kidding aside had this to say of her assistant coach. “But, man, I love coach Alysiah. She has helped me grow so much. It’s probably more between me and her.

“A lot of people probably don’t even know that because it’s more personal. She pulls me aside all the time. We make eye contact and I already know what she’s going to tell me. She just knows the point guard position so much being a former college player at Ohio State.”

However, there’s much more to Bond than her background as a coach and former player at Ohio State than meets the eye. Yes, she played point guard for the Buckeyes from 1991 to 1995 — helping her team to a runner-up finish in the 1993 NCAA championship game — and served as director of basketball operations under Hall of Fame head coach

NOTES: Wisconsin senior center Jared Berggren recorded three blocks in the first half and four on the night, moving him into sole possession of the alltime mark in school history.

Berggren passed former Badger Rashard Griffin for the record and now has 126 career blocks. … Nebraska allowed Wisconsin to shoot 59.3 percent in the first half. Heading into Tuesday night’s game, the Huskers had the worst field goal percentage defense in the Big Ten, allowing opponents

Pat Summitt at Tennessee from 1998 to 2001, but those are only a small part of her sports experiences.

Almost right out of college she worked at the Big Ten headquarters in Chicago, and then used connections while at Tennessee to land a job in the television industry.

Bond explained how the opportunity developed and her reporting and color analyst duties, among other things, that soon ensued.

“The guy who was the director of broadcasting [at Tennessee] used to work at the local station there. He was the main sports anchor at that station. A position opened up.

I had actually called a few games as a color analyst for the university. I put a resume tape together, sent it into the station with his good word and they invited me in to do an actual on-set run through and from there it kind of progressed. I was just super

to shoot an average of 42 percent. … Wisconsin’s 44 first-half points were the most for the team in the first half of a conference game this year. … Entering the game Wisconsin was seventh in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio and recorded 19 assists to eight turnovers Tuesday night. … Entering the game, Nebraska’s defense had allowed just 62.7 points per game this season. The team gave up over 70 percent of that to Wisconsin in the first half at the Kohl Center Tuesday night.

of his young career, he also dished out four of Wisconsin’s 19 assists against the Huskers. It was those extra passes that showed Dekker can be more than a pure scorer capable of creating his own shot — proving he can also operate as an offensive generator.

The freshman, whose 19 points tied a career high notched against Arkansas in November, is now shooting at a team-best 44.8 percent clip from three-point territory.

“Just knowing my spots, when to attack, when to be aggressive and when to take shots,” Dekker said. “It helps

a lot when these guys have a lot of faith in you when you go out there. They don’t mind when I put a bad shot up once in awhile, because they know I have the skill and the talents to make that.

“So just the confidence that my teammates put in me and I have in myself, that’s pretty much the reason I’ve been playing better.”

Now comes the challenge of maintaining that moxy as the Badgers creep back into the Big Ten title race and begin a definitive threegame stretch to close out the regular season.

mathematical matchups and while the committee does reserve the right to consider strength of conference, the selection process remains objective.

Still, Wisconsin’s best and really only option for an at-large bid is to win out.

If they finish the regular season 4-0, UW would jump up to 16th in the PairWise, with all other teams stagnant.

Here are several different scenarios to consider, with all other teams stagnant, calculated using College Hockey News’ Customizable PairWise rankings: If they were to drop one game in either series or get a tie, Wisconsin would move to 17th with all others stagnant.

If they were to split both series the Badgers could jump to 22nd.

If UW won only one

game, but tied the other three it’d move into 21st.

When it comes right down to it, Wisconsin simply has to finish the season 4-0 for its best hope to make the NCAA tournament.

Given the position they’re currently in — coupled with an atrocious 1-7-2 start to the season — getting into the tournament would be a testament to how resilient the Badgers have been all season long.

But unfortunately that overtime loss, in its eleventh overtime game of the season, may just prove fatal to Wisconsin’s tournament hopes.

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fortunate because so many people have to start in a very, very small market. I was in Knoxville, Tennessee. That was an incredible start for me,” Bond said.

While working for NBC affiliate WBIR in Knoxville, Bond learned nearly all phases of the television news process, and even anchored the weekend and morning newscasts along with her sports anchor duties. Bond also spent time as a color analyst with Comcast Sports Southeast for Tennessee women’s basketball. Then in 2003 she moved to Columbus, Ohio, to work for the NBC affiliate, WCMH, and cover her alma mater.

After a year in Columbus, Bond moved back into the game of basketball as a coach, and in 2011 found her way to Wisconsin as an assistant under new head coach Bobbie Kelsey.

Bond certainly has the

basketball knowledge and experience to be a head coach, but when asked if she wants to be a head coach, she answered with a firm no, relishing in the aspects of her role as an assistant.

“I appreciate and enjoy the dynamic that an assistant coach can have with the student-athlete because it’s kind of like you can be the aunt or the big sister, and mom is sitting in there in the big hot seat,” Bond said, while adding this, unselfishly about her role. “I simply do things for the joy of it. I’m not a money, status or power person or a title person, but I do respect everyone who elects to pursue [the head coach] path. It’s just not something that I’ve ever desired to do.”

As “aunt” or “big sister” to her players, Bond sees her role as a teacher for her players, and not just a teacher of the game of basketball, but

also of life.

“I’m really enjoying this.

What I enjoy so much about it, is the ability to impact young people and remind them of how strong they can be when they are confident, when they put in work, and when they believe in themselves. That carries over to life, not just basketball skills,” Bond said.

“One of the main things that I always said, if I ever coached was that I wanted to be the type of coach that I wanted to play for. I think you do a major disservice to young people if all you teach them is basketball. That is something that I’m trying to make sure that I do.”

With all she has done and who she has demonstrated to be as a person, Alysiah Bond might leave people searching for words, but one doesn’t need words to see her importance to this Badger squad.

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Wisconsin thrashes Nebraska 77-46 No. 17 Badgers now sit one game out of first place in tough Big Ten conference Nick Korger Sports Editor

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Freshman forward Sam Dekker finished Tuesday’s 77-46 win over Nebraska with a team-high 19 points, his fifth straight game scoring in double digits. Making four of his attempted five three-point shots, Dekker is averaging just under 45 percent from beyond the arc this season.

With first-place Indiana falling on the road to Minnesota earlier in the night, the stage was set for Wisconsin to get back in the Big Ten title hunt.

And boy, did they ever.

Benefitting from a career night for freshman Sam Dekker and woeful shooting by its opponent, Wisconsin bested Nebraska in a 77-46 blowout Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.

The Badgers (20-8, 11-4 Big Ten) held the Huskers (13-15, 4-11 Big Ten) to just 23 points in each half, sealing a victory that pulled Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan’s team within one game of first place in the conference.

“I think we’re playing at a high level right now,” senior Jared Berggren said. “We’re just hitting shots right now.

We’re also making hard cuts, being efficient defensively.

We’re getting on the same page here and playing hard.

“Hopefully we can close things out in the Big Ten and get the help we need to be able to get a piece of the title.”

Dekker tied his career high at Wisconsin with 19

points on 5-of-6 shooting, converting four of his five three-point attempts and dishing out four assists.

Leading all scorers was Nebraska senior point guard Dylan Talley with 21 points, almost half of the Huskers’ total offense in the game.

Nebraska, the Big Ten’s lowest scoring team, was held 15 points below its season average of 59, a credit to a stingy Wisconsin defense that kept its opponent to just 32.8 percent shooting from the floor.

“Talley and [Ray] Gallagos.

There aren’t two guys in the league on the same team that I feel are as good as those two in terms of explosiveness,” Ryan said. “I thought we played extremely well to do what we did tonight.”

It was a disappointing performance for first-year Nebraska head coach Tim Miles, whose team was coming off the third biggest comeback win in school history after erasing a 19-point deficit against Iowa Saturday.

“I really questioned my ability to get our guys ready to compete tonight,” Miles said. “You could see that every time [Wisconsin] scored it affected our energy level. You just can’t play like that, you have to be more competitive.

“That was really disappointing tonight.”

Behind 59.3 percent shooting from the field in the first half, the Badgers

amassed a commanding 44-23 lead at halftime.

But, having the context of Nebraska’s Saturday comeback in fresh memory, Wisconsin offered no glimpse of a comeback.

On the Huskers’ first offensive possession of the second half, Berggren swatted a shot by Talley back into the guard’s face.

At one point in the first half, Nebraska held an 1110 lead, but eight quick points from Dekker led the Wisconsin run that gave the Badgers a lead they never relinquished.

The Badgers used a 14-0 run midway through the game’s first 20 minutes to put themselves firmly in the driver’s seat. Dekker finished the first half with 13 points and went 3-of-4 from beyond the arc to lead Wisconsin.

But Talley went on a personal 7-0 run of his own to answer the Badgers, helping to narrow his team’s deficit between the five and three minute mark to 3521 and instilled a brief but fleeting burst of energy into the downtrodden Huskers.

“I thought our two seniors, Brandon Ubel and Dylan Talley, came out ready to compete, but I’m not sure anybody else was at that level,” Miles said. “I think there’s a bit of immaturity or a lack of understanding where we are in the world sometimes.”

Besides Ubel, who finished

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Berggren earns title as UW’s all-time blocks leader Ian McCue Men’s Basketball Writer When Jared Berggren stepped onto the Kohl Center floor Tuesday night, he knew he needed to swat away two balls to tie the all-time Wisconsin record for blocks in a career.

And he wasted no time attacking that record in a 77-46 stomping of Nebraska (13-15, 4-11 Big Ten), grabbing two of them in the opening 1:16 and quickly tying Rashard Griffith, who collected 124 blocks in just two seasons for the Badgers.

The record-breaking block — one Berggren said he was not sure would be scored as a block — came before halftime, and he flashed a wide smile as the Jumbotron showed him taking a seat on the bench, the career line of a record 125 career blocks flashing just below his name.

“To think about all the good players that have come through here and for me to come out on top of that record, it’s a pretty cool moment,” Berggren said. “I’m not a guy that’s real big on individual accomplishments

and individual stats, but [it’s] kind of a cool deal.”

On a night when Wisconsin (20-8, 11-4 Big Ten) had no problem finding the bottom of the net, Berggren’s final numbers were far from eye-popping.

The four blocks he finished with matched his four points on the night, as he took only four shots and quietly pulled down six rebounds.

But, as has often been his most treasured skill in his four years playing for the Badgers, he proved a defensive enforcer inside against the Cornhuskers.

“He doesn’t intimidate because he’s got a bad haircut, he doesn’t intimidate because he looks mean, he doesn’t intimidate because he’s got 900 tattoos,” UW head coach Bo Ryan said. “He intimidates by his presence and his timing. And it’s not just the blocks.”

Ryan added Berggren’s most underrated skill as a shot-blocker is his ability to avoid foul trouble in the process of dismissing balls orbiting around the rim.

He has not fouled out in a game this season and has

only finished twice with four personal fouls.

To explain just how difficult and critical it is to block shots without fouling, Ryan reflected on a game from his days coaching at University of Wisconsin-Platteville when the opponent attempted to block every single shot and his Pioneers shot just 29 percent from the field. Their lone saving grace was they hit 30-plus free throws, escaping with an ugly victory thanks to an opponent decimated by foul trouble.

“Blocking shots sometimes can get you in foul trouble if the offensive player reads you the right way,” Ryan said.

“Jared’s forte is that he gets those blocks without fouling.”

Dekker not running out of power Watching Sam Dekker bury a struggling Nebraska team Tuesday night felt like peering into the future of the talented freshman.

Dekker, who led the Badgers with 19 points on a hyper-efficient 5-of6 performance from the floor, hit three-pointers

Ian Thomasgard The Badger Herald

Senior forward Jared Berggren only contributed four points towards the Badgers win Tuesday, but added four blocks on defense. with a consistency that should startle future Big Ten opponents. With Ryan’s swing offense in prime form, UW spread the ball around with marked precision, often giving up decent looks at the

hoop in favor of teammates who had an even more open look at the basket.

“It’s good to have guys who are hitting shots, because you just make the extra pass and you know that there’s

a high possibility that it’s going down,” junior guard Ben Brust, who finished with 13 points, said. “Every time Sam had the ball I ran back

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On thin ice: men’s hockey must win out to make tourney Kelly Erickson Erickson The Red With red faces either from a hot post-game shower or maybe a few too many frustrated tears, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team didn’t mince words about its 3-2 overtime loss to Penn State Monday night.

Sure, Penn State was a firstyear team Wisconsin thrashed 5-0 the night before.

Sure, the Badgers outshot the Nittany Lions 44-36 and dominated puck possession for much of the game’s 65 minutes.

All that being said, Wisconsin should have won that game, leaving itself admittedly devastated by the result. But while the above factors certainly stung, what made the loss truly traumatizing was the effect it had on UW’s post-season hopes.

After the 5-0 win Sunday

night, the Badgers found themselves up two spots in the rankings to No. 16 and up six spots in the PairWise rankings to a tie for 17th.

One night and one loss later, they fell to a tie for 28th in the PairWise, essentially destroying their current hopes for an at-large bid for the NCAA tournament.

Now hold up. There are two weeks left of the regular season and the NCAA Selection Committee doesn’t even announce the NCAA tournament field until March 24. But with only a few weekends left to keep

their second half season push alive, the Badgers chances of making it into the pool of 16 have encountered some complications.

In order to qualify for the tournament, Wisconsin has two options: either win the WCHA tournament or earn one of 11 at-large bids.

Each of the five conference tournament champions automatically qualify. If Wisconsin can manage to string together another unbeaten run to end this season, winning the WCHA Final Five is a possibility — a tough one, but certainly a

feasible one.

To start that potential run, UW travels to Omaha to face No. 13 Nebraska-Omaha. UNO currently sits in a tie for third with North Dakota in the WCHA with 30 points, three points ahead of Wisconsin with 27, who is currently tied for sixth with Denver.

After UNO, UW returns home for a special season finale at the Coliseum against No. 7 SCSU who is currently the conference leader with 33 points. With each of their remaining opponents ahead of them in the conference, the Badgers control their

own fate as far as improving their conference standing and gaining home ice in the first round of the WCHA playoffs.

But the last time the Badgers even made it to the WCHA Final Five in St. Paul, Minn., was in 2010. In that year, UW took third place in the conference tournament, earning an at-large bid into the NCAA playoffs.

While it’s certainly possible the Badgers can put together the necessary run through the WCHA tournament to earn the automatic bid, it won’t be

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