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After a 14-year drought, Wisconsin cemented a spot in the Final Four after a heart-pounding overtime battle against No. 1 seeded University of Arizona Saturday. Now the Badgers will head to Texas to take on Kentucky with their sights set on a national championship.

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Courtesy of the Vietnam Health Project At least 21 UW students will go on the Vietnam Health Project trip in summer with a focus on medical care efforts.

Project targets healthcare Students seek to improve medical care and access in rural Vietnam Ye Jin Herald Contributor Students with a strong connection to Vietnamese culture and a passion for promoting public health are coming together through the Vietnam Health Project.

Each year, VHP, a nonprofit organization, sends a group of students to Vietnam with the mission to improve the health care situation in rural areas.

“The trip as a whole is about going back to Vietnam and basically giving back to a community and volunteering. We try to have more of a health focus because our group was started by pre-health students,” Justene Wilke, vice president of VHP longterm projects, said.

The project’s former advisor was involved with work in Vietnam and conducted multiple health projects, which is the reason medical care remains the primary focus, Wilke said.

This year, they will be returning to Hai An City to work in a clinic and perform

medical care tasks including youth health education programs, dental care and comprehensive physical exams, Wilke said.

“In exchange, we get to learn about their health care system and some of the alternative medicine they use,” Wilke said. “The clinic we went to had a medicinal herbal garden.”

In Vietnam, Wilke said one of their goals is to get people in rural areas medical care since lowerincome people have less access to care because they are unable to afford it. In addition, many do not have the ability to get to clinics due to lack of access to a vehicle, she said.

Specific accomplishments include providing water filters for a community living near a landfill, building a playroom in a pediatric hospital and rebuilding homes affected

by Agent Orange, a chemical used in the Vietnam war, Wilke said.

Tien Tran, a member of the health project and a Vietnamese international student at UW, said she was attracted to the program because of her interest in a medical-related career field and also because she grew up in Vietnam.

Tran said her Vietnamese

upbringing is what makes the trip meaningful. She said she looks forward to helping students with learning the language since a lot of people on the trip do not know how to speak Vietnamese.

Tu-Anh Le, a UW student, said as a VietnameseAmerican, she wants to go back to Vietnam to get in touch with her roots.

“A big part of why I joined VHP was I thought it was a great way for all of us to share our passion for Vietnam and giving back to the community. VHP is a great way for us to bond together and work together to achieve the goal,” Le said.

Many students who join the organization early end up attending multiple trips, Daniel Banh, a seasoned member of VHP, said. Banh said he has been on two trips so far.

“As an undergrad, it’s a great experience to see what they’ve learned, how progress is made and what [the local people] can teach us,” Banh said.

Over summer break, at least 21 students will be going on the trip, which is about a month long with two weeks devoted strictly to medical care efforts, Wilke said. This summer’s trip will begin June 30 and students will return July 11, she said.

Having signed 30 bills into law early last week, Gov. Scott Walker will receive another stack of legislation to sign later this week following the Senate’s last session Tuesday.

Though the official list of bills to be taken up in the Senate has not yet been released, the chamber will decide the fate of approximately 70 bills following a reception for the Senate’s retiring members, according to a tentative calendar released by the office of Senate Minority Leader Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee.

Wisconsin’s Republicancontrolled Assembly met for what was likely the last time this session earlier this month, where several controversial bills including legislation to limit early voting hours were passed and sent to Walker’s desk for his signature. The Assembly made amendments to other bills that the Senate has to sign off on before those bills can be sent to Walker for final approval.

The Senate is expected to take up several important bills, including legislation to make oral chemotherapy treatment more affordable for some cancer patients, a pair of bills designed to combat heroin use, as well as legislation to restrict the use of drones and a measure to require police departments to bring in outside investigators when people die in their custody, according to the tentative calendar.

The oral chemotherapy treatment bill, initially introduced by Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, had already passed the Senate but was later amended in the Assembly. The Senate must approve those changes, which include a $100 co-payment cap for the treatment, to ensure the bill does not die this session.

Some legislators have expressed concern about the amendments.

“I’m deeply concerned about the amendment to the bill but I think it is better than current law,” Sen. Robert Jauch, D-Poplar, said.

Walker has said he would sign the amended version of the legislation if it is approved by the Senate.

Legislators from opposing parties had varying perspectives on the last floor period, as well as the work the Legislature has done over the course of the session.

“From my perspective I think it has been a very successful session primarily because we were able to reduce taxes for Wisconsinites,” Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, said. “We are putting more money back into the hands of the taxpayers.”

Tiffany spotlighted the fact that the Legislature had cut taxes three times during the session, including the recently signed “Blueprint for Prosperity.”

Tiffany also pointed to the discovery of nearly $650 million in undesignated funds at the University of Wisconsin System and the resulting tuition freeze as important moments of the legislative session.

Tiffany’s controversial non-metallic mining legislation, which would have grandfathered in regulations on existing sand mines, is dead for the session, he said.

On the other hand, Jauch expressed strong opposition to the Legislature’s actions this session, criticizing the recently signed legislation involving early voting and lobbyist contributions as attacks against Wisconsin’s democratic system.

“To wish for a good public policy under this Legislature is to wish for a miracle,” Jauch said. “When you have a Legislature that is so reckless with democracy I want us to adjourn – the public will be better off.”

UW develops app to help combat alcoholism Morgan Krause Herald Contributor University of Wisconsin researchers have designed a smart-phone application to aid in the recovery from alcoholism, and its clinical success has placed it at the forefront of addiction countering technology.

The Center for Health Enhancement System Studies is a research center on campus that has been developing computer programs to aid in human crisis since 1973, according to its website.

Some of its earlier developments worked to quantify the lethality of suicidal behavior and prevent adolescents from engaging in risky health behaviors at young ages, according to the site.

“CHESS has been

developing websites to help people manage chronic diseases for some time and when mobile apps became a possibility we saw they could be used for addictions rather than solely using websites,” UW researcher Andrew Isham said.

Isham said the app has been a result of the collaborative work of CHESS principal investigator David Gustafson, lead programmer Haile Berhe and himself.

A number of addiction treatment providers and patients have been crucial to the success of the app’s development as well a number of student hourly workers that partake in conducting clinical studies, Isham said.

Patients using the A-CHESS app experienced 57 percent fewer risky drinking days

at the four month mark than those in the control group, he said.

The app provides patients support from all angles, sending them encouraging messages, asking them questions to assess their mental state and connecting them to online support groups and counselors, Isham said.

“Another interesting feature is one that allows patients to enter geographically-referenced high-risk locations, so if they have a place they used to go to drink they can make it so that their phone will alert them or others,” Isham said.

While there are a number of programs that are commercially available that offer some of these features, Isham said A-CHESS is the only app that incorporates all of the

features in one.

The app is currently only compatible with the UW Health server and its patient information, but the CHESS research team is working to expand it and make it commercially available so that it can be purchased and used by other clinicians, Isham said.

“These sort of systems have enormous potential,” Gustafson told Health Day, “They are going to allow us to turn around not only addiction treatment, but the whole field of health care.”

One of the primary challenges in advancing the app to the next level is technology is constantly changing, which makes the analysis a bit of a moving target as well, Isham said.

Isham said UW was the perfect place to conduct the research and development

behind the app due to the strength across countless departments.

“We work in collaboration with people from computer science, across clinical schools, psychologists, primary care physicians, people in life science communication and journalism and we combine all of these skills to come up with solutions that address the multiple dimensions of a person,” Isham said.

Before it is formally commercialized and used on a wide scale, CHESS is addressing privacy policies and continuing to develop different components of the app, he said.

Isham said CHESS continues to experience successful results in clinical trials and in turn is seeing an increasing demand from other agencies to use the app in treatment.

Couple brings taste of Africa to Madison with store Olivia Main Campus Contributor What first began as plans for a corner store is now a market on the east side of Madison that sells unique and authentic ethnic products from various African countries.

The idea for the African and American Store was born after the Diallo family moved from New York to Madison in hopes of finding a more familyfriendly environment, Mamadou Diallo said. “[We moved] because of our family. We have a big family,” Mamadou Diallo said.

In New York, the Diallos had run a similar business that sold various items

such as pocketbooks and shirts.

After moving to Madison, the Diallos initially intended on owning a corner store, but soon abandoned that venture after the couple noticed customers preferred to shop at stores like Woodman’s for basic goods, Mariama Diallo said.

“I started by having a grocery store, something for the neighborhood, but no one was buying and all of our products expired.

We had to keep throwing everything away. That was nine years ago,” Mariama Diallo said.

Now, the Diallos’ African and American store is flourishing, she said.

The establishment offers mainly clothing and food, consisting of staple ingredients found in multiple African countries.

“We have a lot of different food from African countries, very different food,” Mariama Diallo said. “We have everything from Africa.”

Although selling everything from Africa would be an ambitious endeavor, the Diallos said they do try to offer as wide a variety of food as possible. However, even with their constant search for new goods, the line of merchandise inevitably has some gaps, Mariama Diallo said.

There have been

occasions when a customer comes into the store and does not find a desired product, whether due to rarity or oversight, Mariama Diallo said. She said they take note of the product and if it can be found, order it for the future.

In respect to food suggestions for college students, Mariama Diallo said everything is worthy of recommendation, but a purchase would completely depend on the shopper’s national origin and knowledge of African cuisine. For those who struggle with cooking ethnic food, she said the cooked lamb is popular.

The store also offers an educational experience

as an elementary school group tours the store every year, asking questions and learning about African culture, Mariama Diallo said.

Mariama Diallo urged people to just step inside the store if they can, saying it is the only way to truly appreciate the diversity of the products.

The store has been a growing presence in the community, Mariama Diallo said. Gradually, people are becoming more aware of the ethnic products they offer.

The Diallos said they hope more people will come to peruse their unique selection of African goods.

“Those who know us

Courtesy of Mariama Diallo The Diallo’s own the African and American store which offers a diverse range of clothing and food.

appreciate us. People come from another country and they come in our store and they’re happy,” Mariama Diallo said. “Everyone who comes here is happy.”

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STORM STATE In a mad rush, Badgers took over iconic State Street Saturday night to celebrate the men’s basketball victory over University of Arizona and the advancement to the NCAA Final Four for the first time in 14 years.

Pouring out of bars and residences, fans sat atop bus shelters, climbed trees and scaled the construction structure in place over the sidewalk across from the Towers apartments while singing, dancing and chanting.

With no arrests made or major incidents reported by the Madison Police Department or University of Wisconsin Police Department, both said they were happy with fans’ behavior.

“A lot of credit needs to be given to those who came to State Street,” MPD Lt. Amy Schwartz said.

“People, for the most part, were just there to celebrate with other Badger fans and most were respectful and responsible.”

Informal crowd estimates range from 8,000 to 10,000 people in the area of the 500 and 600 block of State Street, Schwartz said. She said she believes the safety of this weekend, even with such a large crowd, can be attributed to officers’ ability to connect with students in an effective way.

Schwartz said in recent times, UW has exhibited a tendency toward nonviolent, safe public celebrations on campus.

When the Badgers advanced to the Final Four in the year 2000, State Street was filled in a similar fashion, which was part of the reason MPD prepared for these events, UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott said.

“Fourteen years ago, almost the exact same thing happened,” Lovicott said. “As the Badgers won … they gathered, they had a great time, just as they did on Saturday night. We knew if the Badgers won that was going to happen and we wanted to be prepared for it.”

The two police departments increased their forces in anticipation for the fan reaction.

Schwartz said MPD had officers working extended shifts and coming in for overtime, city patrol officers were on-call and Madison Fire Department had crews ready at the scene as well.

Specific expenses for expanding forces are undetermined at this time, Lovicott said.

“The way we look at it, it’s just money well

“A lot of credit needs to be given to those who came to State Street. People, for the most part, were just there to celebrate with other Badger fans and most were respectful and responsible.”

— MPD Lt. Amy Schwartz spent because it was a safe night overall, there were no incidents and that’s why we prepare for things like this,” Lovicott said. “It was an expense, it was overtime, but that’s what we’re there for — to make sure everything’s peaceful.”

Shortly after midnight people began to disperse on their own and police action was not necessary, Schwartz said.

Minor damage to a few signs in the area were reported, Lovicott said, which will be resolved with minimal costs for replacement.

“If overall only a couple signs are taken down, we’re happy. We’re happy no one was hurt, we’re happy no one was injured and we’re happy people celebrated in a really peaceful manner,” Lovicott said. “Things took an ugly turn in Arizona unfortunately, and we’re happy they didn’t go that way here and we didn’t expect them to.”

Following the loss, University of Arizona student newspaper, The Daily Wildcat, reported that students began throwing smoke bombs, beer bottles and other objects when police officers on motorcycles began circling the crowd.

In response, police began shooting pepper balls into the crowd, the Daily Wildcat reported, and at least a 15 members of the crowd were taken into custody.

Lovicott said UWPD and MPD are taking into consideration events from this past weekend at both universities to plan a course of action for the Final Four game against Kentucky Saturday.

Top four images Saturday night’s crowd of an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people took to the 500 and 600 blocks of State Street.

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Bottom Badger fans dislodged a sign from State Street, passing it down among fans.

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Audit shows decrease in federal aid to state Joel Drew Herald Contributor As Wisconsin’s economy shows signs of recovery, many of the state’s agencies have seen distinct decreases in federal funding over the past four years.

According to a report released last week by the state Legislative Audit Bureau, federal financial assistance administered through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to state agencies reduced by roughly $3 billion since the 2009-2010 fiscal year from $3.5 billion to $155.1 million in the 20122013 period. Total federal funding to Wisconsin during the 2012-2013 period sat at $12.5 billion, the report said.

The report showed federal funding from the ARRA peaked in Wisconsin during the 2009-2010 fiscal year, the year following the nationwide economic crash. Since then, the numbers showed ARRA funding in Wisconsin has slowly decreased each year.

According to the report, some of the biggest recipients of federal funding include the Department of Health Services, the University of Wisconsin System and the Department of Administration.

Federal funding is divided among state agencies, and from there it is given to various state projects and initiatives.

The largest expenditure of federal money is for Wisconsin’s Medicare

system, which receives $4.4 billion in federal funds, according to the report.

According to the ARRA website, the act allows federal funds to be distributed in several key ways including tax benefits, contracts, grants and loans, as well as entitlements.

Since the ARRA was enacted in 2009, it has given out $816.3 billion to states.

Mary Burke, candidate for governor in November’s race, has said if elected to the governor’s office, she would push to increase federal funding of infrastructure projects in Wisconsin.

“We must insist on our state getting its fair share of our hard-earned income, and do more to win all the federal funding available for grants

and procurement, advanced research and economic development projects, reduce our federal funding gap and bring our fair share of federal tax dollars back to our state – beginning with acceptance of the federal expansion of Medicaid,” Burke wrote in her jobs plan.

Regarding the Medicaid example, Gov. Scott Walker has said accepting the federal funds for Medicaid could lead to the federal government going back on its pledge, leaving the state to pick up the tab.

The DOA receives federal funding and then allocates it throughout the state but, with fewer funds, the DOA is forced to scrunch funding for projects across the state,

DOA spokesperson Stephanie Marquis said.

The DOA also uses federal funding to help when communities have an emergency, such as flooding and tornado damage, Marquis said.

“Our job at the DOA is to give funds to communities throughout the state to encourage community development and build infrastructures,” Marquis said.

The reduction in federal funding has affected UW, as well. The UW System is the second largest recipient of federal financial assistance in the state, according to the report.

UW public affairs and applied economics professor

Andrew Reschovsky, an expert in government funding, said the research program at UW is largely funded by federal grants. He said Pell grants, which are given to low-income students at the undergraduate level, are federally funded as well.

Reschovsky said it is nearly impossible to determine a better process for the state to efficiently manage federal funding.

“The spending of this money is a reflection of the political process as a whole.

This money is spread all around the state to various agencies, and it becomes so complex that it is difficult to figure out how it could be done a better way,” Reschovsky said.

UW partnership may save U.S. government millions CFIRE helped identify ideal base to return equipment from war, vital military resource Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor University of Wisconsin students left a positive impression on military officials that sparked an agreement for collaboration between a university research branch and efforts to return heavy machinery and army vehicles used in Operation Enduring Freedom.

The National Center for Freight and Infrastructure

Research and Education at UW was sought out by the Department of Defense after meeting students at the annual CFIRE consortium.

Using UW as a resource could save the government millions of dollars of logistical analysis research, CFIRE Executive Director and UW professor, Teresa Adams said.

The experts at UW worked together with Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center to identify the ideal intermodal base on the U.S. coastline to use for the process of returning machinery and equipment from Afghanistan, Adams said.

CFIRE is a Tier 1 University Center funded by the U.S.

Department of Transportation Office of Research, according to the CFIRE website. The northern hub is led by UW-Madison and includes partners from UW-Superior; UW-Milwaukee; University of Illinois at Chicago; Michigan Technological University; and the University of Toledo.

According to a statement from CFIRE, military officials estimate they will spend $7 billion to ship nearly 750,000 pieces of equipment worth $36 billion as combat operations come to an end in 2014.

CFIRE’s extensive knowledge of intermodal transportation tools like rail, shipping and highway routes across the country made them

an important asset for the military, Ernest Perry, CFIRE Mid-America freight coalition facilitator, said.

The agreement gives the military access to information that CFIRE studies at UW like comparative analysis, cost efficiency and logistics solutions, which saves them costs of conducting this sort of research on their own, he said.

The Department of Defense and military officials became interested in connecting with UW after they met with UW students at this year’s CFIRE consortium, Adams said.

Each year at the consortium, groups from CFIRE’s northern hub meets with groups from the southern

hub in efforts to work in a collaborative effort to coordinate education, training and technology, the website said.

At the consortium, student representatives from each branch presented poster sessions, research projects and other analyses.

“They’re the professionals of the future and that’s we want to do when we have our student symposium — give them a chance to innovate in the real world,” Adams said.

The interaction between the students and the army reinforced UW as a quality partner for the Camp Shelby initiative, however students were not involved in the

project specifically, Adams said.

Perry said the students were ambassadors for the university and the impression they left on officials led to cooperative efforts between CFIRE and U.S. military in their work at Camp Shelby.

The students represented UW and CFIRE well enough to initiate this project, Perry said.

“Another important thing that UW brings here is that CFIRE has been working in the freight logistics world for almost 10 years and has a handle on all these systems and how they interact or can be used by the military,” Perry said. “We can provide a fuller perspective on how to do this.”

Wis. population sees urban shift Trends show movement away from small, rural counties and into more central areas Charlie Burnett Herald Contributor

Courtesy of Chocolaterie Stam Stam was born above a chocolate shop into a family that has been involved in the business for 101 years and carried on the legacy in the Midwest.

Chocolatier holds ties to city scouts Margaret Rotter Herald Contributor A Madison scout marcher turned chocolatier is giving back to the organization that kept him in the country after his move from Holland.

Tom Stam is the owner of a Chocolaterie Stam, a chocolate franchise found throughout the Midwest. Three years ago, Stam opened a shop in Middleton that donates all of its profits to the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, which he was a member of about 30 years ago.

The Madison Scouts is a world-class competitive junior drum and bugle corps founded in 1938. Stam said the organization is a nonprofit which provides a program for youth interested in music and offers members performance

trainings.

The Scouts has been present in Madison for 75 years and is wellknown throughout the world, Stam said. Its mission is to teach values such as honesty, integrity and accountability.

While marching for the Scouts in 1981, Stam said he learned a lot.

“I think the Scouts taught me that you don’t put yourself first, you put others first.

You must care about the group, care about excellence and care about others,” Stam said.

Stam currently serves on its Board of Directors, helping with the longterm planning of events and its long term financial situation. Stam said his job is to make sure the organization continues to run so kids in the future can also benefit from the experience.

The Middleton shop Stam opened has received a lot of enthusiasm, he said.

While the shop’s success was slow at first, they have seen significant improvement each year due to the increasing shops in the area, he said.

Stam’s family has been involved in the chocolate business for 101 years. He said their dedication to chocolate inspired him to open his shops.

“I was literally born above a chocolate shop.

Having chocolate in my life was pretty much unavoidable,” Stam said.

“It’s funny because we now have generations of my family born above that same chocolate shop.”

However, Stam said chocolate as a career was not always his plan.

Originally from Holland, Stam had the intention

of being a financial planner when he came to the United States.

Although his family had a history of chocolate making, he said his father never pressured him or his brothers to go into the business.

After noticing a lack of quality chocolate Stam opened his first shop in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1998. The shops first just had a variety of chocolates that were imported from Holland.

Now, they have their own fine chocolates in many varieties and are made in the United States. The shops also sell fresh Italian gelato that is made right in the store and many also sell their own brand of coffee, he said.

The franchise currently has nine shops and Stam said he hopes to have between 20 and 25 shops by the year 2020.

Population data shows distinct trends in the movement of Wisconsin’s youth out and away from small, rural counties into more urban areas like Milwaukee and Madison, stemming from factors including economic recession and newly emerging industries in urban centers.

According to county population estimates released by the Wisconsin Department of Administration, nearly all of Wisconsin’s rural counties saw decreases in their populations between 2012 and 2013, most notably Price and Rusk counties, both falling an estimated 2.2 percent. Dane county saw the greatest influx of new people at 4.6 percent during the same period — 20,926 new people. Milwaukee County saw an increase of 7,759 new people.

University of Wisconsin professor David EganRobertson, a specialist in U.S. Census data and population estimates for Wisconsin, said the trend is caused partially by the nationwide economic recession. Many young people who leave their home counties for college are returning at a diminishing rate because of greater economic opportunities in urban areas, he said.

With the economy worsening since recession, there’s a patter of young people who, once they finish college, are not necessarily returning to their original counties, Egan-Robertson said. The greater economic opportunity presented in metro areas also explains the general increase in Wisconsin’s higher populated counties, he said.

Egan-Robertson said this was especially true in the Madison area because it is home to several growing technology companies, including Epic Systems.

“There is a really solid technology center in Madison, and that seems to be drawing some people with technological skills into

the county,” Egan-Robertson said.

Hanna Haight, a junior majoring in medical microbiology and immunology, has noticed the trend in her hometown of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, population 9,144.

She said she has noticed that many of her hometown’s young people do not end up returning home after graduation. Most of her high school friends plan to live in bigger cities when they finish college.

“A lot of my friends have gone away to school and plan to stay in their cities because it’s a lot easier to find a job than in a small town. There’s just not that much going on,” Haight said.

A large percentage of the population in rural counties is comprised of retirees who have moved out of urban areas, Egan-Robertson said.

The volatile housing market and general economic downturn have slowed this trend of older people returning to rural areas too, however, which is another cause for the decrease in rural populations, he said.

On the older end, fewer people are deciding to enter rural counties that previously drew a lot of retirees because of their economy and the depressed housing market, EganRobertson said.

The DOA population estimates are determined based on births and deaths, tax returns that indicate people moving in and out of counties, and Medicare data, Egan-Robertson said.

He pointed out that most of the rural counties losses were less than 1 percent, and said the estimates are not entirely accurate, indicating the trend could be less pronounced than the report indicates.

“The decreases in the rural counties are really very modest. The rural counties had fallen anywhere from less than 1 percent to 2 [percent] or 3 percent. Looking at that as a demographer, that’s not a lot of change and anytime you prepare an estimate there’s always a margin of error in that estimate,” EganRobertson said.

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Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Thomas-Greenfield outlined freedom, prosperity, securty and investing in the future as the four main partnership goals the U.S. has with Africa.

Alumna talks strategic goals in Africa Emma Palasz Herald Contributor Highlighting freedom, prosperity, security and investing in the future, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, outlined strategies for the U.S. to achieve its goals in Africa at the Pyle Center Friday.

Thomas-Greenfield came to University of Wisconsin in 1974 and earned her masters in political science.

She was appointed to her current position in August 2013 and has held numerous international positions prior to her current role.

“She is the highestranking Badger alum in [the] federal bureaucracy,” the Director of African Studies Program, Neil Kodesh, said.

Thomas-Greenfield spoke on four main “partnershipsupporting goals” the U.S. has with Africa which include freedom, prosperity, security and investing in

the future. The U.S. strategy for sub-Saharan Africa in relation to these goals includes strengthening democratic institutions, protecting human rights, supporting economic growth, advancing peace and security and improving opportunity and development, she said.

“None of these pillars can stand alone,” ThomasGreenfield said. “We must take them all into account as we make our approach to Africa in order advance our long-term strategic goals of freedom, prosperity, security and investing in the future.”

Thomas-Greenfield said freedom meant free, fair and peaceful elections as well as advancing human rights.

She mentioned northern Nigeria where Boko Haram, a militant group, has killed hundreds almost on a weekly basis.

Thomas-Greenfield also pointed to anti-LGBT legislation in Africa “that criminalizes acts that should

not be criminalized.”

When addressing the goal for prosperity in Africa, Thomas-Greenfield talked about the lack of electricity on the continent, where more than two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africans lack reliable access to electricity. “[Imagine] if hospitals could properly store medicines and illuminate their operating rooms,” Thomas-Greenfield said.

“Imagine … if government buildings had reliable wifi and computers that worked.

Imagine the business opportunities that are being missed because there is no electricity on the continent of Africa.”

Addressing security, Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. goal is to impress upon people in Africa that without security, freedom and prosperity are not possible.

She said the recent tension between Ukraine and Russia should be an example to Africans of what they do not want going on in their own continent.

Investing in Africa’s future by building relationships with today’s youth is essential, ThomasGreenfield said.

“These people have to be provided with leadership skills and have invested interest in the future of these countries,” ThomasGreenfield said. “Otherwise they respond to the rhetoric and the extremist of AlShabaab or Al-Qaeda and become negative forces if we don’t harness their positive forces.”

Thomas-Greenfield said through the Young African Leaders Initiative, 500 African youth will visit Washington, D.C. this summer to learn networking and professional development skills.

Thomas-Greenfield said UW had helped her reach her own successes.

“I am a product of this university. My passion was nurtured at this campus,” Thomas-Greenfield said.

“It has made me into the person I am today.”

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Editorial Page Editor Briana Reilly breilly@badgerherald.com

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Grading attendance is ruining higher education Katherine Krueger Editor-in-chief The instructor writes on the board and poses an open-ended question to the assembled students. No one moves, no one reacts and no one feels the need to speak.

He nearly wakes a sleeping student, but the question, rendered rhetorical, was not enough.

The class isn’t worth the instructor or students’ time — but at least every seat is filled.

Students attend these classes as a result of instructors’ authoritarian attendance policies, which often dock students’ grades as punishment for absences.

For example: Discussion sections for a 400-seat introductory gender studies course allow one “free” absence before docking the semester grade two percentage points for each subsequent no-show.

An intermediate level journalism course allows two absences before a student’s semester grade falls half a letter grade with each absence.

While some might celebrate these instructors as guardians of valuable tuition

dollars, these policies are instead fostering a culture of apathy and disengagement.

Students learn they can physically show up to class to receive their attendance gold star for the day without any assurance they’ll arrive prepared or even remotely interested in substantive academic discussions.

There’s a large body of academic research about how best to motivate students’ learning. While there seems to be a high correlation between attendance and academic achievement, there is little research about whether these high-achieving students actually took away any skills or different ways of looking at the world.

A better predictor of students actively engaging with course material is the degree of their intrinsic motivation. It’s this internalized drive that will encourage students to continue interrogating popular claims and thinking critically long after they receive a degree, not the number of times they passively attended a discussion section.

College is lauded as a critical time of transition

to the self-reliance of adulthood.

So it’s counterintuitive to chart attendance in the same way students have grown accustomed to since their first day of kindergarten.

The practice is paternalistic and diminutive. Instead of allowing students the freedom to attend class of their own accord, assigning an extrinsic reward — a grade for attending class — only succeeds in incentivizing a physical presence in a classroom.

Encouraging real learning remains a much more different task, one that isn’t served by calling the roll.

The more unyielding an attendance policy is, the more likely students are to grow to resent the policy, the course or the professor.

Assigning an arbitrary reward for simply showing up does nothing to encourage students to delve into their coursework. A study by John Condry and James Chambers found students who are internally motivated to succeed are more strategic and logical when approaching a complex problem. In stark contrast, students motivated by an external reward are

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Mandatory attendance policies breed resentment among students rather than encourage the pursuit of knowledge.

more likely to expend only the minimal amount of effort required to receive that reward — like getting out of bed and walking to class in exchange for academic credit.

Other studies have found instructors’ use of externally-based rewards can also actively undermine a student’s natural motivation. When everyone gets two points just for

showing up, what’s the point of being among the one or two students who arrive prepared for class?

By distilling the value of higher education down to small, measured doses of reinforcement, instructors debase the power of their courses to be impactful and meaningful experiences.

Rather than authoritatively demanding students attend class come hell or high

water, instructors should champion those who arrive and prepare of their own accord because credit is rarely awarded for simply showing up after you leave the university’s hallowed halls.

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

Huntsman ideal choice for ASM makes right call for commencement speaker fossil fuel divestment LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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Digital Managing Editor No, he doesn’t have Anders Holm’s charm or Russell Wilson’s national title, but don’t cast judgement on this year’s commencement speaker quite yet.

Just take a look at Jon Huntsman’s life and career, and it becomes evident why the senior class officers selected him for this prestigious position.

Huntsman hasn’t always been the pepper-haired, starched suit-wearing politician that he is today. Early ambition led the long-haired teenage “Jonny” Huntsman to drop out of high school and form a band known as the Wizards.

After the band failed to make it big, ambition led Huntsman to Taiwan for a two year missionary trip where he casually learned to speak Mandarin, a skill he would later utilize as ambassador to China.

Returning to school, he earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania before entering into public service as ambassador to Singapore and being elected governor of Utah at an incredibly young age. Huntsman’s approval rating soared as high as 90 percent at times, and after his first term he was re-elected with an impressive 78 percent majority.

As a Republican governor,

Huntsman came out in support of marriage equality, distancing him both from the Mormon church and his party. As co-chair of political action group, No Labels, he has pushed for the adoption of a form of “new politics,” based on problem solving, communication and collaboration. Above all, throughout Huntsman’s career in politics, he has demonstrated a commitment to his own personal beliefs, while still remaining open to compromise and understanding. This resolve is both a unique and refreshing quality in a politician — one who does not simply rally behind popular opinion or sing to the chorus.

And let’s not forget, Huntsman was voted one of 21 sexiest men in the country (older than 50), something that Badgers can obviously relate to.

Huntsman’s life experiences prove there’s no “right” path through life, as long as you follow the one you’re on with ambition and a steadfast adherence to your own beliefs.

At a school where values and determination define the college experience, this is a message that should resonate with every future alumnus.

As Huntsman explained on stage at Stanford this past September: “When all is said is done, you pretty much have a couple of words that are etched on your tombstone of life that kind of summarizes everything

Jon Huntsman you’ve done — and it all seems to get right back to one core principle — service.”

Huntsman is a shining example of a politician who actually puts real public service above bureaucratic discourse, understanding over antagonism and values before labels.

We have an entire guiding philosophy built around this at UW, it’s called the Wisconsin Idea. While he might not have trekked up Bascom to class, rubbed Abe’s toe before finals or worn Cardinal and White to Camp Randall, we should be proud to call him a future honorary Badger.

I won’t be graduating alongside the departing seniors this May, but I’ll certainly be in the stands — for what will surely be a memorable commencement address.

Will Haynes (whaynes@ badgerherald.com) is a junior majoring in computer science and economics.

The Associated Students of Madison chose to stand on the right side of history by passing a resolution in support of fossil fuel divestment March 26.

ASM, our student government, voted overwhelmingly (18-6) to ask that the university divest from fossil fuels. As Rep. Andy Stoiber stated, “This resolution says that the students of this university do not support gambling on planet Earth’s resources.” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that 80 percent of the known oil, gas and coal reserves that fossil fuel companies plan to extract must stay in the ground to avoid twodegree Celsius warming — the tipping point for spiraling into climate disaster.

Internationally, the fossil fuel divestment movement has spread to more than 380 colleges and universities. The movement has been characterized by an Oxford University study as “the fastest growing divestment movement in history.” The threat of global climate devastation due to catastrophic warming of the planet is unparalleled. Several studies estimate that

by 2050 there will be as many as 200 million environmental refugees displaced to other countries by rising sea levels, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme weather events.

The fossil fuel divestment movement aims to draw attention to the dangers of climate change and take away fossil fuel companies’ social license to operate.

As Rep. David Vines noted, “The goal (of divestment) is to spark a wider conversation and a wider movement.” Divestment campaigns across the country draw inspiration from the successful campaigns to divest from South African apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s.

At UW-Madison, we have a rich tradition of standing on the right side of history. Our university was the second in the country to divest from South African companies in 1978.

Today, we have the opportunity to continue that tradition. Our university’s mission states: “The primary purpose of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is to provide a learning environment in which faculty, staff and students can discover, examine

critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help ensure the survival of this and future generations and improve the quality of life for all.” Divestment from fossil fuels aligns perfectly with the idea that we must “ensure the survival of this and future generations.” If it is morally reprehensible to destroy the environment, it is morally reprehensible to profit from that destruction.

I am a part of the Fossil Free UW Coalition and I am proud that ASM has taken a strong stance on this issue. We must continue to push for the UW Foundation to divest its holdings from fossil fuel companies over the next five years.

To get involved in our coalition, as an individual or student org, please feel free to send me an email. Our next meeting is Monday, April 7, in Humanities Room 2631.

We look forward to working with as many students and faculty on campus as possible.

Joe Evica (evica@wisc. edu) is a senior majoring in sociology and the cochair of Fossil Free UW Coalition.

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Fashion community hesitant to embrace rappers Phebe Myers & Mekea Larson

The Showroom Columnists Fashion and hip-hop have a relationship older than Bill Murray was looking at this year’s Oscars. Ever since the masters of rap were rhyming through their fi rst verses, allusions to the material world of fashion have been tied in to their music. On “Hypnotize,” The Notorious B.I.G. raps about how girls in different cities favor specifi c fashion lines: “Miami, D.C. prefer Versace.”

Kanye West mentions Maison Martin Margielas almost as often as he mentions Kim K.’s behind. But why?

Musicians in general have always had a certain influence on fashion. Kurt Cobain influenced Marc Jacobs and practically created grunge, but he certainly never wrote songs about it. Madonna has famously been the muse for many a fashion lines. Yet other musicians don’t name drop fashion designers the way rappers do.

The name-dropping is a more recent development.

In the ’90s, during the rise and tragic fall of rappers like Tupac and Biggie Smalls, the main focus of rap was on a very different lifestyle. Though Smalls talked about the style of the girls he hung with, his lyrics revolved around gangster culture. Look at songs like “Somebody’s

Gotta Die,” “What’s Beef ” and “Niggas Bleed.” Smalls certainly talked about money, but this was about street cred, not celebrity status. With the devastating loss of these icons, rap moved in different directions.

P. Diddy (or has his name changed again?), Jay Z and Kanye West have helped to usher in a new era in hip-hop culture. All three have fashion lines and gone beyond being “musicians” to achieve “celebrity” status. Jay Z began his rap career talking about his past as a drug dealer and the struggles he went through. As he gained mainstream attention, he’s hardly rapped about anything other than his bank account.

Hip-hop has a close relationship with money.

All genres have ties to materialism and consumption, but rap originally focused on a much less public, seedy side, dropping lines about money gained through illegal means — think of the number of songs that talk about paying in stacks of cash. Wearing these winnings on your back makes a statement about wealth; money gets laundered through clothes and provides unmistakable proof of success.

Therein lies one of the biggest reasons rap is tied so closely to fashion: success. Rap draws in the underdogs of society, those

Photo courtesy of Annie Leibovitz / Vogue Since its beginnings, fashion has been a popular topic in rap songs. But with artists like Kanye West, hip-hop artists are now gaining recognition in fashion.

who aren’t recognized and aren’t given the best in life, let alone enough.

Even a successful rapper is looked down on by more established or higher grossing genres.

Until recently, a successful rap career had more to do with street cred and its winnings than platinum albums. Think about Drake — it wasn’t until recently that people took him seriously because he wasn’t “hard” enough for the rap community.

In this new arena,

street cred is replaced by networking.

Both involve knowing the right people, but in different ways. Fashion is still a way of legitimizing rap by “wearing your success.”

Now, however, it’s just as important for the clothes to be designer; wearing success now means wearing your network.

Wearing your riches has combined with name dropping, where if you have to ask who you’re wearing, you aren’t cool enough to know.

But it’s West who has changed the rap game as far as style is concerned.

West has been obsessed with style and fashion since the beginning of his career, and the more money and status he amassed, the bigger the obsession grew.

His interest in avant-garde fashion has ushered in a new appreciation for designers like Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy and Tom Ford.

West has been fighting against the “classicism,” as he calls it, that wants to lock rappers

into a specific style by sporting Maison Martin Margiela bedazzled masks and even a leather skirt.

While the fashion community was quick to embrace the rock stars, it has taken its time embracing the rappers. It is only in this coming April that the style bible, Vogue, put Kardashian and West on their cover. In terms of fashion, success and acceptance rappers are the new rock stars, as West himself has said, but not without having to ask.

Professor to address ‘profound’ at Artist Colloquium Selena Handler

ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Photo courtesy of Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Stephen Hilyard’s work focuses on the sublimity of nature and ideas of the profound.

A profound sense of awe, the type that can only be inspired by the grandeur of nature. A humbling sense of the sublime, one that can be felt at the basin of a waterfall’s powerful presence. Challenges to our very perception of the profound. All these things can be seen through the digital manipulations of professor Stephen Hilyard.

Artist Stephen Hilyard will give a lecture as part of the University of Wisconsin’s Art Department’s Faculty Artist Colloquium regarding his work in the digital arts and other media Tuesday April 1.

Hilyard’s extensive travels have dovetailed with a deep and varied artistic background to create pieces that challenge our perception of the truth and demand us to take a closer look at our reality and what makes it profound.

His focus will be on his most recent pieces, but he will also give a glimpse into his current projects

as well as future endeavors that will deal with medium outside of the digital realm.

The Faculty Artist Colloquium is a forum of experienced and knowledgeable faculty artists at UW who are working in a variety of media from varying facets of the art world.

Previous lecturers have included the likes of professor Molly Wright Steenson, whose work deals with the union of architecture, design and communication.

Future lecturers include Jill H. Casid, who uses the means of “pygrography” and other forms that predate the technological era to communicate messages about the exposure of art and photography.

The Faculty Artist Colloquium works in tandem with the Visiting Artist Colloquium, which brings in artists from out of town to display their own work in their unique niche of the art world.

Speaker professor Hilyard’s current fields of study are digital imagery,

photography and video that works with themes of the profound, encompassing such ideals as the sublimity of nature and the explanation of why we are drawn to such ideas of perfection that are simply unattainable without certain manipulations.

His background is a mix of architecture, bronze sculpting and digital art, which he began in 1999 when he took on a teaching job at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. His travels to geographically variant locales such as Africa, Iceland, Australia and the Arctic have allowed for his dynamic depictions of nature as symbols for his themes of the profound, such as the sublime.

The idea of the sublime does not lend itself well to a cookiecutter definition, a short and succinct sound bite.

The nature of the beast is one akin to the abstract, the transcendent, the macrocosmic and the spiritual.

“Growing up I did a lot of rock climbing and mountaineering.

The sublime is a way of describing that experience you get in wild places, the spiritual experience you get in a place like that, that is beyond just being beautiful. There is by no means a simple definition,” Hilyard said.

But his interests are no longer focused solely on the sublime.

As he has matured as an artist, his interests have broadened to encompass many forms of experience that he has characterized as the profound. Profound is another word with similar complexity that strikes a deeper emotional chord, an idea that Hilyard says “never quite materializes.”

“People go looking for it, but no one ever actually attains it because it is too perfect.

My work deals with the problems facing the profound and how it is really more of an ideal,” Hilyard said.

Hilyard addresses this problem with pieces like his recent gallery, “Mountain,” five digital images derived from lava cones in Iceland.

The mountains are manipulated to be perfectly symmetrical to their height, representing the idea of a mountain, maintaining its natural splendor and awe but transforming it into an ideal. Hilyard will be presenting this collection during the lecture as well as another recent piece and one of his favorites, a video entitled “Waterfall.”

“It has all the qualities I’d hope my work could have. It’s beautiful and it deals with serious ideas, but it is also funny and a bit pathetic. I had actually just stumbled upon the footage; I was incredibly lucky. It was not planned, the events just happened,” he said.

Hilyard said the truly important part of the footage became apparent on further inspection.

He had not anticipated the final meaning; the piece began to create its own meaning and transformed throughout his work on it.

He characterizes his process as a back-andforth between intended meaning and the meaning that is shaped by the piece whether it is bronze, photographs or video.

“That’s why I think it is worthwhile to make artwork. It is because of the changes that happen. It’s not just enough to make something because it looks cool, it’s a process of thinking about what you’re making. You have to look closely at all the decisions you make to see if it is helping your meaning,” Hilyard said.

Ultimately he likens his creative process to that of creating poetry: it’s how you pin down your meaning through creating the piece of art.

Professor Stephen Hilyard will speak Tuesday, April 1, at the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, room L160, from 4:30-5:45 p.m.

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Shelton hoping to catapult from fast start After a strong first season, defensive back still has room for improvements Eric Kohlbeck Football Writer Sophomore cornerback Sojourn Shelton may have been looking forward to the start of the Badgers’ spring football practices the most out of anyone on the 91-man roster. Spring practice, which kicked off March 5, meant winter would finally begin to remove its emphatic grip on the state of Wisconsin, much to the avail of Shelton, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., native.

But spring practices, which will culminate April 12 with the Badgers’ annual Spring Game, aren’t only a sign of warmer weather for Shelton, but more importantly, a chance to improve on an impressive freshman season in which he was named an All-Big Ten honorable mention by the media.

Shelton played a large role in the secondary for the Badgers last season as a true freshman; an often unheard of thing under the Badgers’ previous regime. But head coach Gary Andersen and the rest of the Badgers’ coaching staff knew they had something special in Shelton, who came out of Florida as a 4-star recruit and was the 26th-ranked cornerback according to ESPN. Shelton then graduated from high school early, became one of Wisconsin’s early enrollees in January of 2013 and went through last season’s spring practices.

It’s something Shelton knew would be beneficial, as it gave him more time to understand the terminology that gets significantly tougher from high school to college and to become acclimated with his new teammates.

“The terminology is way different from high school,”

Shelton said. “Coming in early, that helped me out a lot.

And just being able to grow with the teammates. A lot of guys took me under their wing and I think that was the best part.”

The numbers Shelton would put up in his freshman season showed just how beneficial early enrollment was. He started 11 out of 12 games at cornerback and had 30 tackles and four interceptions.

Shelton’s presence was felt right off the bat in UW’s opener against UMass when he recorded four tackles and tallied his first interception in his first collegiate game.

The impressive first season from Shelton wasn’t surprising to one of the players who took Shelton under his wing, fellow cornerback, Darius Hillary.

Hillary knew from day one in spring practices last season that the Badgers had found a special player in Shelton.

“I was definitely impressed,” Hillary said. “I knew when he came in early last year that he was going to be a strong player for us. He’s definitely done a great job, and he’s a very good corner.

So I’m definitely proud of him and can’t wait to see what he’s going to do this next season.”

But Shelton may be his own worst critic. He’ll be the first to tell you that despite what was regarded as a successful season by many, it was the few plays he didn’t make that stick in the back of his mind the most. Shelton doesn’t need any outside motivation to continue to improve, as he holds himself to a higher standard than what he played at last season.

“Honestly, I don’t even think last year was a great or a good year,” Shelton said. “I left a lot of plays out there.

If you go back to Ohio State, Minnesota, there’s a lot of plays I feel like I could have made to make myself great and to have a good year. But

Andy Fate The Badger Herald Sophomore to-be Sojourn Shelton (8) finished last season with 4 interceptions and will be a key piece of the Badgers’ secondary come this fall.

from that you just have to continue to learn on. I expect better things out of myself but I have to continue to work hard and progress.”

Working hard and progressing has been Shelton’s aim in this year’s spring practices. Shelton already has the pure talent it takes to play cornerback at the top-tier of college football, but spring practice has allowed him to get a better understanding of where he needs to be, reading defensive schemes and working on the little things, according to cornerbacks coach Ben Strickland.

Strickland, a former Badger walk-on, is in his first

year as a full-time assistant coach. He spent the last two seasons as a graduate assistant with the Badgers.

“I think just for [Shelton] is understanding the little things that are going to put him in better position,” Strickland said. “Formation recognition, understanding splits, where his help is or where it isn’t; just conceptually understanding the structure of the defense to be able to know what he has to defend and what he has to protect.”

Shelton, being the tough competitor that he is, is looking to improve on every facet of his game for his sophomore season. After a

successful freshman season, coaches oftentimes want to see strong improvement from players in their sophomore season, and Shelton is working on accomplishing that. He’ll be anchoring a Badgers’ secondary that has had a lot of moving parts thus far in spring practices, but he’s been focusing on bettering himself in spring practices, which will translate to the success of the secondary as a whole.

“Just being hard on myself. I want to polish up everything,” Shelton said.

“Continue to play good mancoverage, play good mandefense, progress my role as a better player, and see

where it takes me.”

The sky’s the limit for Shelton in his second season in Cardinal and White.

Strickland sees his high expectations and Shelton’s competitive nature as a reason for him to progress as a corner, and push his talents to the next level in this upcoming season. “[Shelton] can be his own worst critic, and he needs to be,” Strickland said. “He knows that I’m going to expect a lot out of him. So, he still has a lot of maturing to do in terms of football knowledge. But he’s getting there and he’s competitive so that’s what you’re looking for.”

Wisconsin opens home season with series loss Iowa takes two of three games from the Badgers with outburst of offense Meghan Eustice Softball Writer

Claire Larkins The Badger Herald Senior hurler Cassandra Darrah suffered both losses against Iowa this weekend, allowing eight runs total.

This weekend brought the warmest temperatures so far this spring, setting up nearly ideal conditions for the Wisconsin women’s softball team’s home opening series. After what seemed like an eternity on the road, the Badgers christened the home season hosting Iowa in a three-game series at Goodman Diamond, but the Hawkeyes played the role of spoiler, winning the series 2-1.

In the first of a two game doubleheader Saturday, Iowa started off with a bang, getting three hits and two RBIs right away in the first inning.

Wisconsin responded with a pair of hits in the bottom of the first frame, but wasn’t able to get on the scoreboard until the bottom of the third when junior Maria Van Abel stole home. Hawkeye catcher Holly Hoffman threw down to second base when Badger pinch runner Marisa Gonzalez stole from first, and the speedy Van Abel used the opportunity to take home.

The only other hits of the game came in the top of the fifth inning. Iowa pitcher Kayla Massey led off the inning by hitting a homer to left field. Next up was cleanup hitter Megan Blank, who reached first on a single, and after advancing to second and third on a hit and wild pitch, scored the final run of the game on a sacrifice fly in the 4-1 Badgers’ loss.

The Badgers didn’t let the loss discourage them, though.

Van Abel mentioned that at this point in the season, the team is just trying to make adjustments and figure things out for the rest of Big 10 play.

“We’re still putting a lot of the pieces of the puzzle together right now,” Van Abel said.

The second game of Saturday’s doubleheader took

off in the opposite direction as Wisconsin scored four runs in the second inning alone, with Marissa Mersch, Megan Tancill and Stephanie Peace all earning RBI with singles to the outfield.

The Hawkeyes responded in the third inning with a run of their own, only to be outdone by the Badgers who tallied three more in the bottom of the inning when Mersch singled up the middle for another two RBIs, while Van Abel added one of her own.

Later, Iowa made a run at a comeback when three more runs were batted in in the fifth inning, shortening the distance on the scoreboard to 7-4. But the Badgers held their ground as Mersch collected her fourth RBI of the game in the sixth inning, batting in Gonzalez for a final score of 8-4.

Scoring eight runs after being held to just one in the first game might raise the question of where the Badgers’ sudden spark came from. Van Abel said she felt the hitting successes of the weekend were due to batting coach Randy Schneider having the team watch themselves bat to understand what needed to be worked on and watch out for Massey’s pitching, even if it took until the second game to really kick in.

“Coach Schneider has really emphasized watching our film from last year, so we studied a lot this week on their pitchers,” Van Abel said.

“I got a chance to look at my at-bats from last year just to get a better idea of what [Massey] threw me and what I struggled with. Having a game plan really helped me going into this game, and I think a lot of our hitters would say the same thing.”

The third and final game of the series was played Sunday afternoon, and with the series being split to that point, neither team knew what to expect in the finale.

After a tight first inning, Iowa’s Megan Blank homered to left field for the first run of the game, until a second run

was earned moments later as teammate Whitney Repole walked her way around the infield.

Wisconsin struck back in the bottom of the fourth inning when shortstop Sara Novak singled to right field, advancing Mersch from second to home and earning UW’s sole run of the game.

Iowa, however, was only halfway done, and went on to send two more runners home, one on an error by the Wisconsin infield, taking home a second 4-1 victory.

There are many external factors that can affect the outcomes of softball games, weather being a major one, especially when considering things from the pitchers’ point of view. Looking back on Sunday’s matchup, head coach Yvette Healy commented on the wind during the game, and how Iowa used it to their advantage.

“We did have a little wind, and we’ve got some power hitters but we just weren’t able to connect,” Healy said.

“I think [Massey] did a nice job keeping the ball down, so our players couldn’t really get underneath it, and we left a couple pitches elevated and [Iowa] made that count.”

While not necessarily satisfied with the weekend’s outcome, Wisconsin isn’t about to let a disappointing home opener affect the rest of the season.

Healy went on to agree with Van Abel that right now, the team is more concerned with getting kinks out before facing some of the bigger competition.

“Obviously you want to come out and get wins at home, so that’s not ideal, but I think this group just has to play another weekend,” Healy explained. “So more so than whether we win or not, it’s just about playing good softball, and we need to play better.”

This week the Badgers will prepare for their weekend trip up to Minneapolis where they will take on the Golden Gophers in what is likely to be one of the more exciting conference games.

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UND terminates UW’s season, seniors’ careers For 2nd-straight year, Wisconsin comes up empty in NCAA 1st round Dan Corcoran Sports Content Editor With one of the largest senior classes in quite some time, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team had high hopes heading into this season and started off as the No. 2 ranked team in the country. But in the pursuit of a National Championship to live up to the big expectations both inside of and outside the locker room, the Badgers’ season was halted prematurely in the NCAA regional semifinal against North Dakota, ending the careers of nine seniors with the 5-2 loss.

After winning the Big Ten Tournament last weekend, Wisconsin (24-11-2) secured one of the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament and what it had hoped would be a bit easier path to the Frozen Four. But with the Big Ten Tournament win over Ohio State, which prevented the Buckeyes from receiving an automatic bid, Wisconsin ended up helping fourth-seeded UND in the tournament. And not only did the Badgers aid North Dakota’s tournament cause, but they were faced with the tough task of taking on North Dakota Friday night in Cincinnati at U.S. Bank Arena.

Right out of the gates, North Dakota (24-13-3), who finished second in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference regular season and third in the tournament, hardly looked like an underdog and took the lead just five minutes and six seconds into the first period.

Although Wisconsin had fallen behind early, defenseman Frankie Simonelli didn’t think the first goal changed Wisconsin’s attitude.

“I don’t think we were on our heels at any point. It was a pretty toe-to-toe game for the most part,” Simonelli said.

After digging an early hole, Wisconsin climbed back into the game to tie it at one, a situation Wisconsin found

ANAHEIM, page 12 a free throw until there was 2:26 left in the half and taking seven fewer shots from the line than Arizona, Wisconsin was able to come within a possession thanks in large part to its rebounding.

The Badgers outrebounded the Wildcats 22-14 in the first half.

Coming into the Elite Eight, Arizona owned the 6th best rebounding margin

itself in again in the third period.

In the third with UW down 2-1 this time, Nic Kerdiles skied the puck into the zone near the right wing boards which, after bouncing several times, eluded both UND defenseman that were clustered together near the blue line. Badgers’ forward Tyler Barnes came roaring into the zone behind the play and picked up the loose puck floating at the top of the right faceoff circle and, with a wide open look at the net, blasted the puck past North Dakota goaltender Zane Gothberg with 10 minutes and 28 seconds to go in the game.

Even though Wisconsin had tied the game, North Dakota was the team that dominated the final period, outshooting Wisconsin 14-6 in the last 20 minutes.

Badger netminder Joel Rumpel, who finished with 30 saves, managed to turn away the multitude of scoring chances and it appeared the game was headed for overtime. But with one minute and 44 seconds left, North Dakota’s Brendan O’Donnell let go what seemed like a fairly harmless shot from the right point. A screen in front of Rumpel by North Dakota’s Mark MacMillan meant to block his view resulted in a rather fluky goal as the puck caromed off MacMillan and somehow ended up redirecting into the back of the net.

It appeared MacMillan had made contact with Rumpel, who immediately protested the goal, and so the referees reviewed the disputed goahead score.

“The referee did come over and say, ‘Coach the North Dakota player did not bump your goaltender. It hit him and went it. It was a good goal.’ You have to trust their ability to make that call and that’s what he told us,” Eaves said.

Having tied the game a few minutes before the gamewinning goal and despite being outshot, Wisconsin appeared to have momentum on its side. But with the heavy advantage in the shot department in the period, the Badgers didn’t put themselves

in the country, grabbing 7.2 more boards per game than its opponent.

“Wisconsin was killing us on the glass in the first half,” Miller said. “It was amazing that we were winning.”

It was a back-and-forth battle in the second half as, for all but 2:12 in the half, it was a one-possession game until the final buzzer sounded in OT. Wisconsin didn’t own a lead until the 15:12 mark

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Although Wisconsin’s season ended prematurely, head coach Mike Eaves has led the Badgers to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances.

in a good position to win the game.

All it took for North Dakota to secure the win, the 14th time since 2003 a No. 4 seed has upset a one seed, was the lucky bounce late in the game, which despite the lopsidedlooking final score was close until the final minute.

“Once we tied it up 2-2 there I really thought we had it. We were buzzing. It was kind of a flashback of our comeback games. We tied it up and then we had the momentum but like coach said, they got the bounce today,” junior defenseman

in the second half when freshman guard Bronson Koening nailed a three from the top of the key to give the Badgers a 36-34 edge.

For the rest of the second half, the lead would be exchanged twice and the game tied up four times.

Ben Brust would put Wisconsin ahead in overtime with his first three-pointer of the game and from then on

Jake McCabe, who was on the ice when the game-winner was scored, said.

Wisconsin made a last ditch effort to save its season by pulling Rumpel after the goahead goal was scored, but on the ensuing faceoff in the Badger offensive zone, UND’s Rocco Grimaldi backhanded the puck out of the zone which slid all the way down the ice into the Badger net.

Down 4-2 now, the Badgers pulled Rumpel once more and again Grimald converted into the empty net to complete a hat trick and silence any hope of a comeback.

the Badgers would not surrender their lead.

Arizona, down 64-63, owned possession with 11 seconds left in the extra period with a chance to win at the buzzer.

With three seconds to go, Nick Johnson drove to the basket and was called for a charge to give Wisconsin possession.

On the inbounds play, Gasser looked to get the ball in to Jackson.

Arizona’s Rondae Hollis-

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald Junior point guard Traevon Jackson (10 points) was the only scorer outside of Frank Kaminsky who reached double figures for UW and added 5 assists.

Despite falling in their final games as Badgers, the nine seniors have left a lasting legacy not limited to just once performance. Eight of the nine seniors have played in more than 100 games in their careers, including Michael Mersch who played in every single game and was the leading goal scorer (67) in the Mike Eaves coaching era and Mark Zengerle, the new leader in points while Eaves has been at the helm with his 162.

Although they were unable to get to the National Championship in their careers, the seniors led

Jefferson made a play on the ball and it was tipped out of bounds.

The referees initially signaled Wisconsin possession, but went to confirm the call with instant replay and took several minutes to make a decision.

Ryan didn’t bother wondering what the refs would call, he was preparing his team to seal the game on the defensive end.

“If it’s going to be that long, we’re not getting the ball,” coach Ryan said. “But as long as it took them, we said okay.

If it’s their ball, here’s what we’re going to do…mainly we spent most of it knowing that it wasn’t going to be our ball.”

The ball was awarded to the Wildcats and the No. 1 seed would have one more chance to leave California with a win.

The ball was inbounded to T.J. McConnell, who was 2 of 9 from the floor to that point.

Jackson guarded McConnell who used a screen to work across the key and get a clean look at the rim. But the second team-All Pac-12 selection didn’t get the shot off in time and the Wisconsin players ran to celebrate with

the way to back-to-back conference tournament titles, in the WCHA last year and the Big Ten this year, and will be missed greatly in the lineup come next season.

“Your last of the year is always a tough game, especially for our group of guys. We’ve got nine seniors that gave us great leadership this year. But as we said to these young men, they left nothing inside of them. It was all on the ice and for that reason alone they can walk out of this building with their heads held high tonight,” Eaves said.

their teammates, knowing they had just punched its ticket to Dallas.

The Final Four berth marks the first for Wisconsin since 2000 and the first in the 13year tenure of Ryan.

On what would have been his father, Butch’s, 90th birthday, Ryan put the finishing touches on his already sparkling coaching resume.

“He wanted this so bad for us and we wanted to get this for him,” Dekker said.

“He said, ‘just so you guys know, this would have been my dad’s 90th birthday.’ And he had a little tear in his eye, so you know his dad was smiling down on him at that time.”

The Badgers will now head to Dallas where it will take on the Midwest Regional Champion Kentucky Saturday at Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium.

And though Wisconsin has been striving to break the Elite Eight ceiling and advance to the Final Four, that doesn’t mean it is at all ready to stop wanting more.

“We’ve got 40 more minutes,” Kaminsky said.

“We want a national championship now.”

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DANCING to DALL AS Spencer Smith Sports Editor ANAHEIM, Calif. — It took 13 seasons and an extra five minutes, but Wisconsin is taking head coach Bo Ryan to the Final Four.

The Honda Center was the site of a true heavyweight fight between the No. 1 and No. 2 seed in the West Regional, playing for the right to go to the Final Four.

Wisconsin (29-7) and Arizona (33-5) exchanged haymaker after haymaker in a regional final that couldn’t be decided in regulation.

“It was just a knuckle-onknuckle fight,” Wisconsin forward Sam Dekker said. “If I wasn’t wearing my mouth guard my teeth would have been gone again.”

The bout would be extended by five minutes after junior point guard Traevon Jackson missed a 17-footer in the final seconds of the second half to leave the score tied at 54.

In overtime, forward Frank Kaminsky would not be denied as the 7-foot junior put Wisconsin’s fate on his back, scoring six of the Badgers’ 10 points in the extra period, leading his team to a 64-63 win.

“Frank Kaminsky is the reason Wisconsin’s in the Final Four,” Arizona head coach Sean Miller said.

Top: Traevon Jackson hoists up the final shot in regulation over Arizona’s Aaron Gordon, which fell short, leading to the extra session. Jackson would go on to dish out two crucial assists in the overtime period.

2nd from top: Head coach Bo Ryan is carried off by his players in the pandemonium that ensued after the final buzzer sounded.

2nd from bottom: Junior forward Frank Kaminksy, who scored 28 points in the game, flashes a ‘W’ during the postgame celebration.

Bottom: Freshman Nigel Hayes drives the lane against Wildcats’ sophomore center Kaleb Tarczewski.

Arizona tried to limit Kaminsky’s production by matching him up with its own 7-footer, Kaleb Tarczewski, but the junior out of Lisle, Ill. took his game to a whole new level connecting on 11 of his 20 shots — three from beyond the arc.

“Frank’s the man. He can score on anyone,” Dekker said. “We run our stuff through him for a reason, because he is so good.”

Kaminsky finished with a game-high 28 points and posted a double-double with 11 rebounds.

“He’s a difficult match-up,” Miller said. “Got to be one of the best offensive players who plays college basketball, for sure.”

It was an ominous start, though, for Wisconsin playing in a hostile crowd for the first time in the tournament as Arizona fans made a large majority of the 17,000-plus that filled the Honda Center.

The ‘Cats daunting defense lived up to the hype to start the game, forcing the Badgers to eat a lot of shot clock and pull the trigger on difficult looks that resulted in a 5 for 18 (27.7 percent) shooting effort through the first 12 minutes of the half.

“Those first ten minutes I was very, very — internally there was a lot of gnashing going on,” Ryan said.

“Sometimes you can want it too much for your team.”

Wisconsin was down and needed a wake up call.

Coach Ryan obliged, earning a technical foul with 7:59 left in the first half for game misconduct.

“At the time, when coach got the technical, I was kind of mad at him,” Dekker said.

“But it kind of woke us up in a sense that said ‘alright calm down, we got the refs’ attention little bit, let’s go out and play.’ It worked for us.”

Wisconsin would respond with an 11-6 run to close out the half and cut Arizona’s lead to three, 28-25, going into halftime.

Despite not attempting

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