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I, TOO, AM UW-MADISON STUDENTS SPEAK OUT ON DIVERSITY Campaign raises awareness about common stereotypes against marginalized students Ye Jin

Herald Contributor After seeing students purchase sombreros and ponchos for a themed party, Marianna Rivera felt unwelcome and disrespected. Rivera, a University of Wisconsin senior, was photographed as part of the “I, too, am UWMadison” Tumblr page. In the photo, she holds a sign that reads, “My culture is not the theme for your dumb party.” A group of UW students led by Claire Zhuang organized the campaign as a way to raise awareness about microaggressions against ethnic minority students on campus.

Microaggressions are brief verbal, behavioral or environmental exchanges that intentionally or unintentionally communicate negative or insulting slights to marginalized groups in society. Inspired by Harvard’s “I, too, am Harvard” and the “I, too, am Oxford” campaign at Oxford University, Zhuang, a UW senior, decided to launch a similar project for the Madison campus. Emily Yee, a contributor to the campaign, said she felt an emotional connection to some of the quotes when she was reading through the Harvard campaign. Yee assisted Zhuang in setting

up the Tumblr page and posting photos on the blog. Zhuang said she started the campaign to let people know that racial discrimination still exists, although it might appear in different forms. Many UW students face these situations on a daily basis, she said. “I think this is inspiring since it shows a fresh angle of racial stereotypes and might be able to call more attention and enrich the chapter of fighting against racism,” Max Ma, a UW junior studying journalism, said. The goal is not to discourage students from talking about racism, but to encourage white students to be more thoughtful, Zhuang said. “They should just be more conscious of some of

the things they are asking before they say them, especially like sensitive identity questions,” she said. One of their main goals is to represent a variety of multicultural students as the campaign gains popularity on campus, Yee said. The campaign is still developing and students from many underrepresented groups are reaching out to get involved, she said. Rivera said the campaign helps show ethnic minority students and international students are the same as all degree-seeking students on campus. She said she hopes this campaign will open people’s eyes. Specifically on UW’s campus, which prides itself on being progressive, tolerant and

diverse, there are still a lot of “micro-questions” going on campus, Rivera said. “Madison may be a very liberal place, but even the ally could still unknowingly pass on the microaggression, and they may not have to think about it, but there are other students going through that everyday,” Rivera said. Approximately 40 students are active in this campaign, a number that continues to grow, Zhuang said. While Ma commended the project’s goal, he said he was hesitant to get involved because he does not feel he has been treated differently than his peers on campus based on his ethnicity. “The campaign is where the minority stands up

and speak for themselves. It shows the gut and vitality of non-white students and it helps them communicate their feelings and problems to the masses,” Ma said. “The most encouraging aspect, to me, is that it’s using social media to reach more audience and let them hear what they might have never heard of.” Echo Zhang, an international student, said international students can be quite shy and might only make friends in their own ethnic community. Zhang also said she sometimes felt her American classmates did not want to make the effort to be friends with her either, although she generally feels she fits in well with the campus community.

Campus reaction mixed over graduation speaker Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor

As Badgers prepare to walk across the stage at Camp Randall in less than two months, the announcement of Jon Huntsman, Jr., former governor of Utah and a United States ambassador, as the commencement speaker

sparked mixed reactions from the student body. Huntsman, who started his career as a staff assistant to President Ronald Reagan, has served under four U.S. presidents and was a 2012 Republican presidential candidate. Most recently, he served as the U.S. ambassador to China.

“He is a moderate, bipartisan leader who has a record of positive public service,” Andrew Bulovsky, senior class vice president, said. The University of Wisconsin will not pay Huntsman for his appearance, he said. It has been two decades since Badgers graduated

in a single ceremony, and Huntsman is a speaker who could unite the class, Bulovsky said. However, other students do not share his opinion. Laura Killingsworth, a graduating senior studying rehabilitation psychology, said she was not pleased with the announcement because

Huntsman is a politician and is not affiliated with UW. “As a unifying event on campus, a politician representing a certain party shouldn’t be the keynote speaker,” Killingsworth said. The move to a singleceremony commencement was announced in the fall, with one goal being to bring a

prominent speaker to campus. Bulovsky said he encourages students to withhold judgment until they hear what Huntsman has to say at the ceremony. In a UW statement, Huntsman said, “I consider it a great honor to be a small part of sending them off to conquer the opportunities ahead.”

Self-likeability: a Facebook effect Professor finds that looking at own profile can lead to viewing oneself more positively Rachael Lallensack Campus Editor

After moving from Europe and finding herself isolated for the first time, Catalina Toma began to rely on technology to ease the transition to college. Toma, a University of Wisconsin professor of communication arts, recently completed studies on the effects of Facebook self-presentation on self-esteem, cognitive task performance and self-affirmation. She found people thought of themselves more positively after looking at their own Facebook profiles. “I came from Europe to the United States for my college education, and I found myself for the first time in my life completely isolated from friends and family,” Toma said. Toma spent much of her time studying the psychological effects that

Facebook profiles have on users. One of the main topics of the research is selfpresentation, the images that people construct of themselves in front of an audience, Toma said. “I study how technology affects personal relationships, and how it affects people’s abilities to relate to one another, to understand one another,” she said. Facebook, with its massive network, is a venue unlike any that people have had before, Toma said. She wanted to investigate how a person’s carefully constructed profile affected their selfesteem and cognitive performance. To conduct her research, Toma said she needed a way to measure self-esteem and decided to veer away

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Board candidates seek student voice Two UW seniors are running for Dane County supervisor in the upcoming April 1st election Daniel McKay

delegate funding to different services. On April 1, students will be able to vote for either Leland Pan or Chris Hoffman, both University of Wisconsin seniors, to serve as District 5 supervisor in the Dane County Board elections. Pan is currently finishing up his first two-year term as district supervisor, but continues to look ahead to unfinished work such as the issue of homelessness in the area. Since taking office, Pan said he has worked to see funding allotted for daytime resource centers and services for homeless youth. He said the highlight of his efforts have been the development of a daytime resource center, which he hopes to have by summer.

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Dane County Board Supervisor candidates for District 5 are running campaigns on different issues, but both agree students have a responsibility to stay informed and vote in the upcoming elections. The Board of Supervisors is a group of 37 elected supervisors, each representing different districts in the county. District 5 includes the campus area and decisions made by the supervisor can impact UW students directly. The Board of Supervisors acts as the legislative branch of the county government. Supervisors draft ordinances, pass laws on area law enforcement and help

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done in the community to legislative change in the county.” Hoffman said he wants to see more students taking roles on county committees and taking an active role in county affairs. “This is something that students should be more involved in, something they should be more informed about, and therefore more invested in their local community,” he said. Hoffman said he wants to focus on issues of public safety and environmental matters, specifically in Madison’s lakes. Additionally, Hoffman said he also wants to focus on the inadequacy of the Dane County 911 dispatch system. Currently, the dispatch response times are below

Researchers map galaxy Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor

The Milky Way Galaxy, which is 100,000 light years across and scattered with more than 300 billion stars, has been reduced to a single 360-degree image by a team of University of Wisconsin researchers. Using NASA’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, the team has compiled 2.5 million images over the past decade to create a vivid panorama of the galaxy known as GLIMPSE360, currently being displayed at the UW’s Institute for Discovery. The telescope, launched into earth’s orbit in 2003, has been used by scientists across the nation for a range of studies. But the intergalactic discoveries made by members of the UW project known as Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire are unparalleled by any of the five other universities using information from the satellite, Edward Churchwell, a UW professor and lead researcher on the GLIMPSE team, said. The discoveries made by the UW team have been used in more than 650 research papers. Because the galaxy is in the shape of a pinwheel, it is impossible to view stars further

than a couple thousand light years away in visual light waves, Churchwell said. “It’s like being in the middle of a forest and trying to figure out the shape and the boundaries of the forest, but there are thousands of trees in the way inhibiting your view,” he said. “In the infrared, the galaxy becomes pretty much transparent, so we can see almost right through the galaxy.” Using infrared imagers, researchers are able to cut through these clouds of interstellar dust. They bring millions of never-before seen stars, stellar nurseries and nebulae at the farthest reaches of our galaxy into full view and allow for a more complete understanding of the Milky Way’s structure, Bob Benjamin, a UW professor whose main responsibility on the GLIMPSE team is to use data from the telescope to understand galactic structure, said. In addition to the discovery of more than 200 million new stars, the team discovered the galaxy is filled with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are high-energy gas molecules, found inside substances such as gasoline and oil here on earth.

“One finding that I was completely blown away with was that the disk of our galaxy has a lot of polycyclic, aromatic hydrocarbons – gas molecules out in space. Our galaxy is actually full of energy,” Churchwell said. The new images also provide conclusive evidence of a dense bar of stars that is present at the center of our galaxy and spreads more than 12,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way in either direction, coming relatively close to the sun, Churchwell said. Previously, there was much speculation on the existence of this bar, but in the infrared, it “sticks out like a sore thumb,” he said. With millions of pieces of data to comb through, the team put the data online where thousands of volunteers helped to look through images, identifying points of interest for researchers to further analyze. Although the discoveries unveiled by the GLIMPSE team answer many questions, they also raise new questions regarding the inner workings of the galaxy, questions that will have to be taken up by future generations of scientists, Churchwell said.

the national standards, an issue which Hoffman wants to address especially for the safety of students. “I really think that we need to make sure that we have an adequate and rapid response from our emergency services. That’s something I think is really important to campus,” Hoffman said. Hoffman said he first became involved in county government through the College Democrats and after hearing from Dane County Executive Joe Parisi during a class. Hoffman said his desire to get students more engaged in county issues prompted him to run for supervisor. “I saw the underutilized potential in connecting UW with the county government,” he said.

FACEBOOK, page 1 from the traditional questionnaire and use an implicit association test. The test is based on the idea that researchers can measure how closely associated concepts are in people’s brains by how quickly they associate those concepts when they are presented to them, Toma said. People were asked to match certain attributes to themselves in the time taken to match indicated the strength of the association, she said. The study also tested cognitive ability, asking participants to perform a cognitive task, Toma said. The results determined that because a person’s own Facebook profile enhances their self-esteem, they show a lower number of attempts at the cognitive task and do not feel as motivated to perform the task, she said. Psychological

studies have shown that large audiences actually increase people’s motivation to put a lot of effort into their selfpresentation, Toma said. “Self-presentation on Facebook is like no other; it’s very carefully crafted,” Toma said. Technology users are able to make use of its features and present themselves in a much more careful way than they would face to face, Toma said. With the control over selfpresentation and the motivation to make a good impression, people theoretically construct flattering profiles, she said. In her fourth year teaching at UW, Toma said she finds including her own research in the four classes she teaches brings students closer to the subject matter. Toma plans to continue to find new ways to analyze social media and has studies in the process of publication.

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“I think there is a shocking lack of services and affordable housing for homeless people,” Pan said. “So we’re really looking to push long-term housing and employment for those who are struggling.” Pan’s political interests began at Middleton High School, where he said he became involved in topics such as the environment and drug prohibition. After growing up in Dane County and keeping informed of different political affairs, Pan said he felt he had enough of a well-rounded experience of county issues to run for supervisor. “I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, but I ran and was elected,” Pan said. “I’ve been trying to translate the progressive work being

The first black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin Law School returned to campus on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Wednesday, where she was presented with the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Ninety-year-old Velvalea “Vel” Phillips was the keynote speaker at “A Nation under Construction,” a UW spring diversity event focused on the past, present and future of civil rights. Phillips graduated in 1951. She was the first woman ever elected to

serve on Milwaukee’s City Council in 1956. She became the first female judge in Milwaukee County as well as the first black person to serve in Wisconsin’s judicial system. Kate Dixon, a WAA spokesperson, noted Phillips contributions to the civil rights movement. “Her contributions to the civil rights movement in Wisconsin and nationally were absolutely incredible and the bravery that she had and continues to show to every day … is just so notable,” she said. On a national level, Phillips was the first black person voted onto the National Committee of either political party. She personally knew Presidents

John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. In 1978, she became the first woman and black person elected to a statewide constitutional office as Secretary of State. Phillips’ accomplishments were not met without significant obstacles. “When I was here, I didn’t get to eat in the Rathskeller,” she said. “It was very different.” Phillips said her desire for a college education started at a young age, as well as her dream to become a lawyer. When she attended UW’s law school, 12 other women were enrolled. Phillips expressed her pride in the progress schools have made in

increasing enrollment of women to include almost half. One of the biggest challenges of her life was making it through the first four years of her tenure as a city alder in Milwaukee, Phillips said. “When I decided to run for the City Council, I had no idea it [would be] one of the hardest things I’ve endured,” she said. “To say to an alderman ‘Good morning’ and not have them say it back to you, it was hard.” When Carter visited Milwaukee, Phillips said she was asked to introduce him because she was the highest-ranking Democrat in the Executive Branch as Secretary of State. To her surprise, she said

even members of her own political party became her opposition. “My own Democrats were calling the White House saying, ‘Why is Vel Phillips introducing the president? She’s not important. We’ve got a lot more important people than her,’ and that was very disgracing,” Phillips said. Despite these experiences, Phillips said she made strong connections with many national leaders. Looking back, Phillips said she remains optimistic for the future and wishes she would have saved more of the positive notes or letters she received from people who helped her along the way.

Regular exercise could reduce vision impairment Andrew Newman Herald Contributor

Higher rates of exercise and moderate drinking could be be linked to better vision health later in life, new research found. Husband and wife duo Ronald and Barbara Klein, professors in the University of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology, have spent nearly 20 years conducting the Beaver Dam Eye Study, a research analysis of the connection between alcohol consumption, regular exercise and eyesight degradation. Between 1988 and 2013, researchers in the UW Department of Public Health, monitored the effects of exercise and alcohol consumption on the

development of age-related visual impairment disorders. The research team found people who exercise regularly had a reduction in the development of visual impairment disorders over the 20-year period, Ronald Klein said. They also determined people who drank only occasionally also had similar reduced impairment, Ronald Klein said. However, people who drank in excess exhibited no signs of visual impairment reduction, he said. Ronald Klein said the subjects completed a series of questionnaires to measure exercise and drinking habits. The results of the eyesight examinations and questionnaires were analyzed and compared, he said.

According to a statement from the Beaver Dam Eye Study by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the research team found that 6.7 percent of sedentary persons and 2 percent of physically active persons developed visual impairment. The statement also said 11 percent of non-drinkers, people who have not consumed alcohol within the past year, developed visual impairment while only 4.8 percent of occasional drinkers did. Professionals in the field had seen relationships with exercise, occasional drinking and eye health, which prompted the study, Ronald Klein said. This study did not show cause and effect and it was an observational study, not an experimental trial, he said. “It is not known whether

putting people on new exercise regimens or altering their drinking habits will reduce the risk of visual impairment,” Ronald Klein said. The research team must be careful to not insinuate that changing one’s habits will improve eyesight, Ronald Klein said. Barbara Klein said there was still not much standardized collection of data in the field at the time, and she and Ronald Klein wished to collect ample population-based data. The study involved going into a community and examining people’s eyesight every five years, the researchers said. It was a population-based study located in Beaver Dam, Barbara Klein said. She said she and her husband started

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald It is not known if new exercise regimens will reduce risk of vision impairment.

working there in 1988 and tried to involve all people between the ages of 43 and 86, although not everyone joined. In the end, the research team was able to successfully cover 83 percent of the population in Beaver Dam, Barbara Klein said. Photos from the eye examinations were graded

at UW with standardized protocols and the researchers tried to ascertain certain risk factors based on the habits of the individual subjects, Barbara Klein said. “We hope that this research can be of use in the development of future public health priorities,” Barbara Klein said.

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ASM votes to support fossil fuel divestment Resolution looks to address climate change; opponents say it is not enough Austin Grade

Herald Contributor Raising the importance of a united student body taking a stand against climate change, the Associated Students of Madison passed a resolution to support a fossil fuel divestment plan Wednesday. Student members of the Fossil Fuel UW Coalition gave a presentation of their plan for divestment at the University of Wisconsin. The

Divestment Resolution plan was passed with a vote of 186-2. Teresa Arrate, Miranda Meyer-Zibolski, Kaja Rebane and Joe Evica, members of the coalition, said the goal is for the student body to come together to take a stand on climate change. The Fossil Free UW Coalition is group of registered student organizations that are environment-focused and that discuss and support the divestment of fossil fuels. The organizations involved in the coalition include Student Labor Action Coalition and Teaching Assistants’ Association, ASM

spokesperson Grace Bolt said. Throughout their presentation, members said this was a moral concern and this divestment plan would protect future generations. Rebane said the Fossil Fuel Divestment Plan starts with “letting the air out of the carbon bubble.” Divestment is not primarily an economic strategy, but a moral and political one as well, Rebane said. More than 380 divestment campaigns are on campuses worldwide, and nine different universities have campaigns as well as 23 cities and 23 religious institutions, Arrate said. The 350 Madison Climate

Action Team designed a petition that encouraged members of the student body and the faculty to take a stand on the plan for divestment, Arrate said. They said more than 90 members of the UW faculty co-signed as well as more than 1,400 UW students. Divestment groups have also started at other UWSystem schools such as UWLa Crosse, UW-Steven’s Point, UW-Green Bay, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Eau Claire and UW-River Falls, the presenters said. ASM Rep. Chris Hoffman spoke in support of the divestment plan. “Climate change is an issue, and as an academic student

body we need to make a change,” Hoffman said. Other ASM members raised concerns over the plan and different perspectives and viewpoints surrounding the politics of this resolution were debated. Rep. Jamie Wheeler said some of the information on the fossil fuel presentation was contradictory with information from the UW Foundation. Divestment is not a concrete thing, and it does not solve the problem of energy consumption, she said. Rep. Pierre Schmidt said sending a message was not enough. “Let’s do something else.

Let’s do something new. It is simply not enough to say, ‘We are going to send a message.’ We need a new plan, a Wisconsin plan,” Schmidt said. “We need something new and brave, not something based on the studies of others.” Hoffman said divestment is a moral choice and it is important to think of our future generations. During the meeting, ASM also approved the Transportation Budget and heard a presentation about proposed General Student Services Fund eligibility criteria recommendations from Student Services Finance Committee.

DoIT creates TV app Alex Arriaga

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Kirby Wright The Badger Herald According to the study, 34.6 percent of cigarettes sold in Wisconsin are smuggled in across state lines.

State cigarette tax spurs flourishing black market Tobacco-use prevention law sparks widespread smuggling of products across state lines Dan Kinderman

Herald Contributor Although the state has issued cigarette tax hikes aimed at curbing tobacco use, the public policy initiative has also created a black market for cigarettes as some smuggle smokes into Wisconsin from out of state to avoid the tax and maximize profits. According to a recent study released by the Tax Foundation, 34.6 percent of cigarettes sold in Wisconsin are smuggled in across state lines, ranking Wisconsin fifth nationally for inbound cigarette smuggling consumption. Between 2006 and 2012, Wisconsin’s cigarette tax jumped 227 percent to a rate of $2.52 per pack. Wisconsin’s smuggling consumption rate went up 21.5 percent during the same time period, according to the study. The illegal smuggling of contraband cigarettes into

the state is a problem the Department of Revenue is actively fighting, Jennifer Western, DOR assistant deputy secretary, said. “The [DOR] addressed cigarette smuggling in the past year by intercepting over 70,000 packs of contraband cigarettes which had been shipped into Wisconsin and did not have Wisconsin cigarette tax stamps,” she said. “This means no Wisconsin cigarette taxes were paid on those cigarettes.” Western said contraband cigarettes create an uneven playing field for retailers, distributors and manufacturers who comply with state and federal law. Melissa Horn, tobacco policy and government relations director at Health First Wisconsin, said the policy actions the state has taken on smuggling and cigarette taxation have proven to be effective but more resources are needed to continue combating the issue. “Our organization supports the [DOR]’s investigations of any fraudulent tax stamps or sale issues across state borders,” Horn said. She said Health First Wisconsin believes the $2.52 cigarette pack tax increase has been successful and the tax

has played a large role in curbing of costs associated with treatment of smoking-related illnesses and dropping Wisconsin’s youth smoking rates to new lows. Although the state’s tax rate is one of the highest in the Midwest — second only to Minnesota’s tax of $2.83 per pack — Wisconsin has the highest smuggling rate of the region, Western said. Health First Wisconsin suggested an increase in government investment to combat smuggling of tobacco products as well as overall tobacco use, Horn said. “Wisconsin needs to invest more to reduce tobacco use in our state because we are falling well short of what we should put towards reducing tobacco use,” Horn said. Horn said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that Wisconsin spend up to 10 times what it currently does on tobacco prevention and control. Although Wisconsin generates more than $600 million in annual tobacco tax revenue, the state only spends $5.6 million on tobacco use prevention, she said. The Department of Revenue is currently conducting a “broad study” on the cigarette tax collection system and cigarette smuggling, Western said, adding that since the report was not complete, it would be premature to comment directly on the Tax Foundation study. Although the smuggling problem in Wisconsin has grown in the six-year period according to the Tax Foundation study, Horn said Health First Wisconsin still strongly supports the large increases in cigarette pack taxed, saying they effectively reduce tobacco use in Wisconsin.

For students looking for a way to stream Thursday night’s Badger basketball game, a collaboration between Charter and University of Wisconsin’s Division of Information Technology allows students to access TV for free on Apple mobile devices using campus wifi. The application, Charter U, will function on any iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone and will feature 50 channels, a statement from DoIT and Charter said. The app launched Wednesday. UW is the first university to have this kind of app, David DevereauxWeber, a DoIT network consultant said. Charter was looking for a university with a leading edge in technology, and UW was a perfect fit, he said. “Charter is doing things that nobody’s done with a university before,” DevereauxWeber said. “They looked at us, we looked at them and we thought this was a good fit.” The app was brought on by the change in

media consumption in today’s mobile-device connected society, Devereaux-Weber said. When more people have mobile devices they want to access entertainment and media on those devices rather than older, traditional devices, he said. Charter already offers a similar service for residential users who have the same access only within the residence, DevereauxWeber said. Charter is able to provide this function to UW because the university is a bulk customer of the cable company, DevereauxWeber said. All the residence halls are provided with cable from Charter and the student fees help fund the application, he said. Kim Haas, a Charter spokesperson, said the cable company is focused on innovative ways of delivering value to their customers. “Charter has a strong employee base in Madison and is proud to have an effective partnership with UW,” Haas said. “Our teams worked handin-hand to deliver this solution and we’re all very proud of the end

product.” Having this app available at a university is significant because of the way it connects students with the media they consume and with each other, DevereauxWeber said. Often, students find out about TV shows or other media or entertainment through social avenues and having this app available makes it possible to increase the social interactivity, he said. Devereaux-Weber said he expects the popularity of the app to be especially high during times of March Madness or football season, when social interactivity related to Badger sports is high on campus and students share updates on social media. Students are also more able to connect with the local, national and global community through access to various news channels, Devereaux-Weber said. “I think in the atmosphere of the university where people are encouraged to stretch their minds and to figure out what’s going on in the world I think it’s a great place to do this,” DevereauxWeber said.

Boomer retirements to leave 1M job openings Medical fields, construction to see biggest boom as population ages Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor

Demographic projections show that by 2020, there will be more than 1 million jobs openings for the next generation of Wisconsinites as high numbers of “baby boomers” retire from the state’s workforce. According to recent projections from Department of Workforce Development, of the 1 million new job openings by the year 2020, nearly 690,000 will be as a result of retiring baby boomers. In another study, the Wisconsin Applied Population Lab at the University of Wisconsin found by 2020, 24 percent of Wisconsin’s population will be more than 60 years old.. By 2030, 27 percent of the population will be more than 60 years old. “Demographic projections show highly skilled ‘baby boomers’ will be leaving the workforce in Wisconsin,” John Dipko, Department of Workforce Development spokesperson, said. “The new generation of workers needs adequate skills to fill these openings.” In addition to the jobs

being left behind by baby boomers, DWD projects Wisconsin’s economy will gain nearly 350,000 jobs by 2020, with some sectors growing at much faster rates than others. The analysis released by the department breaks down future job projections by occupation, as well as by region. Certain occupations are projected to see jumps as large as 50 percent, while other industries are likely to lose jobs. By 2020, Wisconsin can expect major job growth in certain medical professions, such as nursing, veterinary medicine and cardiology. Additionally, Wisconsin’s construction industry is also expected to see significant increases in job growth up to 50 percent, according to the projections. Reporters, law enforcement officials, cashiers and phone operators will likely see negative job growth in their respective job sectors. As Wisconsin’s population gets older, government agencies and market forces are looking to bring the coming generation into Wisconsin’s work force, according to Dipko. He said with the retirement of such a large number of people, there is a significant need to prepare a coming generation of professional workers with the skills

needed to step into these job markets. “Projections show roughly 1 million job openings through 2020, including openings to replace retiring baby boomers as well as new positions. This is significant because retiring baby boomers have skill sets that are both diverse and extensive, and we know that replacing this talent will be a challenge,” Dipko said. “To this end, we are working together to help the private sector create jobs and equip Wisconsinites with the skills they need to fill jobs that are available now and in the years to come.” Mike Browne, spokesperson for liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, said Wisconsin should focus on policies that are attractive to graduating students so they are compelled to stay in Wisconsin to pursue job opportunities. Browne said initiatives to increase wages and lower student debt will help to keep students in the state to fill the growing gap. “College graduates get to make decisions on where they look for employment,” Browne said. “While there may be jobs opening in Wisconsin, there are jobs in other states too, and other states may have policies that are more attractive to students from a social standpoint.”

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Herald Editorial County Board failings in focus ahead of election Lack of permanent homeless day shelter, glitches in 911 dispatch system key issues oﬃcials must address

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Chris Hoﬀman

A tale of two student liberals: one seat not enough to sway board Courtesy of the Dane County Board of Supervisors District 5, which emcompasses most of campus, will have the opportunity to vote for either Pan or Hoﬀman.

With Dane County Board elections coming up next week, students in District 5 will be rushing the polls on April 1 to elect their representative. Each time the County Board has been thrust into the spotlight over the past two years, it has been because it dropped the ball on key issues. These include fixing flaws in the county-wide 911 dispatch center and securing a permanent day shelter for homeless residents before winter.

After a new dispatch system was implemented last April, malfunctions and inefficiencies have resulted in numerous instances of miscommunication, potentially putting first responders and citizens at risks. With no immediate solutions in sight and a stalemate between the city and county bureaucracies, the issue remains unresolved. The board also fell short in its efforts to provide a day shelter for

the homeless. Ideally, the permanent day shelter would have been open in time for this particularly frigid winter, but Dane County’s homeless were left in the cold. Even though $600,000 was allocated to buy a building, the Dane County Board was unable to procure a site. These are shining examples of the effectiveness of the board our potential representative can look forward to joining.

One of the few contested seats on the 37-member board will be decided by the campus community. As the race for District 5 has shaped up, voters are left to choose between two candidates that display relatively minor differences. Incumbent Leland Pan and challenger Chris Hoffman have shown they would both make suitable County Board supervisors with proven track records of representing students’ interests. In the past two years, Pan has been a consistent advocate

for organized labor and worked to tackle homelessness issues and the problem of grave racial disparities in the county. Hoffman, former College Democrats chair, has a strong focus on environmental policy and is passionate about involving students in the governing process. While Pan and Hoffman have focused on distinct issues, both are characterized by their left-of-center views, which make them more similar than different. Considering the overwhelming liberal lean of the board

and lack of primaries in many districts, it is unlikely either candidate will disrupt the trajectory of the county government. Although Pan has a natural advantage as the incumbent, we are confident that Hoffman would hit the ground running should he be elected as county board supervisor. The relatively minor differences between the candidates make it impossible to endorse one candidate over the other. Regardless of who ultimately wins the seat, at least District 5 will be left in capable hands.

Bongs away on legalization: Vote yes on the advisory referendum on maijuana legalization on April 1ballot We encourage you to vote yes on the advisory referendum in support of marijuana legalization. However, it’s important to note that you won’t be able to walk down State Street with a joint a month from now regardless of

Katherine Krueger Editor-in-Chief

the outcome. While a strong showing of support from liberal Dane County will be written off by the Republican-controlled Legislature, establishing public interest in this issue now could blaze the trail for legalization in the future.

Charles Godfrey At-Large Member

Legalization is a worthy goal, but this issue is independent of County Board politics. Both candidates support the legalization referendum, so voters should not choose a candidate based solely on this issue.

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Although a “yes” vote on the referendum won’t make highs immediately legal, it could help set the stage for future legalization.

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Katie Caron Print Managing Editor

Briana Reilly Editorial Page Editor

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How to register to vote in April 1 race By county policy, voting registration prior to elections closes the third Wednesday before the election. Normally, to register to vote before an election, a voter would need to stop by the county clerk’s oﬃce (located on 210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.), room 106 A. However, because this and registering by mail have both closed already, interested voters

can check countyofdane. com and contact their municipal clerk to see if late registrations will be accepted at the oﬃce of the municipal clerk. Otherwise, voters can register in person on election day (April 1). As stated by the County Clerk’s Oﬃce website, “The elector must provide proofof-residence giving his or her complete name and address.”

Some acceptable forms of proof-of-residence include a Wisconsin driver’s license, a University of Wisconsin ID card and fee receipt (if not living in university housing), a bank statement, paycheck, a residential lease or utility bill. However, “if the person registering on election day has a valid Wisconsin driver’s license, he or she

must provide the number to the registration deputy. If the person registering does not have the driver’s license number with him/ her, or refuses to provide the number, the person may vote a provisional ballot. The person must then provide the number to the municipal clerk by 4:00 the Friday following the election in order for his/her vote to be

counted. If the person does not have a valid Wisconsin driver’s license, he or she may provide the last 4 digits of his/her social security number or his/her Wisconsin ID card number, and he/she will be permitted to vote.” Voters can ﬁnd the polling location nearest them by entering their street address into cityofmadison.com/ election/voter/Where.cfm

Letter to the Editor UW oﬃcials: new campus alcohol policy approved through shared governance We would like to commend The Badger Herald for its coverage of important campus issues, speciﬁcally how it reported on the new campus-wide alcohol policy for serving alcohol at university events. Contrary to the

information in The Badger Herald story, the alcohol policy went through an extensive vetting process during the 2013 spring semester and was presented to and reviewed by at least eight committees. Information was posted on multiple

campus websites, including a dedicated webpage for the task force and received publicity by news release and the Inside UW e-newsletter. Faculty, staff and student governance groups were included

in this process and given the opportunity to offer input in the manner their leadership determined. Several substantive changes were incorporated into the ﬁnal policy as a result of direct engagement with the University

Committee, Faculty Senate, Academic Staff Executive Committee and the Associated Students of Madison. Governance input included an ASM resolution and feedback from faculty and academic staff. We all share an interest

in well-managed campus events when alcohol is present. Darrell Bazzell is the vice chancellor for finance and administration and Sarah Van Orman is the executive director of University Health Services.

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Reading into weed: Why marijuana is on the ballot Briana Reilly Editorial Page Editor On April 1, Dane County voters will have an opportunity not only to elect candidates to the County Board but also weigh in on an issue of particular significance to young voters: marijuana legalization. Although this referendum will have little to no immediate effect (especially due to the Republicancontrolled Legislature), it most importantly exists to expose the relationship between drug problems and racial disparities throughout the state and perpetuate change down the road. Dane County Supervisor Leland Pan, District 5, who is running for reelection in an area that encompasses most of the University of Wisconsin campus, sponsored the non-binding referendum.

This advisory referendum will ask residents whether state government should enact policy to legalize marijuana. Despite charges that the referendum could distract voters from more serious issues on the ballot, including a nonpartisan redistricting referendum, the issue of legalization presents unresolved dilemmas that could finally be brought to the forefront of the public’s mind. However, some may view Pan’s referendum as an election ploy, an effort to garner overwhelming student support for both himself and the concept of marijuana legalization. Regardless, Dane County’s history with marijuana referendums has been very one-sided. In fall 2010, 75.5 percent of voters in Dane County voiced support for the Dane County medical marijuana advisory

referendum. While fall election turnouts tend to be much higher and liberal than their spring counterparts, it’s still safe to assume that this spring’s marijuana legalization referendum will have similar success rates. Even though Pan is undoubtedly using his referendum to his advantage as he campaigns, the marijuana situation is actually much more complex and serious than it appears. There is a strong correlation between drug prohibition and racial disparities not only in Wisconsin but across the United States that could finally be brought to state lawmakers’ attention with the help of this referendum. At a national level, the numbers are disturbing. We Are 1776, a pro-freedom public policy journal, published a report regarding Pennsylvania’s Regulate

Marijuana Act, in which it emphasized the racist manner in which current laws criminalizing the possession of marijuana are applied. Currently, blacks are arrested about 300 percent more than their white counterparts, but they only constitute 25 percent of marijuana users. Additionally, according to the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 82.6 million whites have used illegal drugs in the U.S., while only 12.5 million blacks reportedly have, yet there are six times as many blacks imprisoned compared to their white counterparts. Obviously, if marijuana laws were enforced in a non-discriminatory manner, fewer blacks would be incarcerated in the nation’s prisons for drug violations, and the numbers would not be so blatantly

disproportionate. In Dane County, racial disparity is a huge issue. According to the Race to Equity report released last year, Dane County has a much greater gap between whites and blacks in many areas as compared to the rest of the nation. These categories include unemployment, poverty and education. The report also helps to highlight the disparities within the county’s criminal justice system, and the results are forcing lawmakers to address the problems brought to light. Furthermore, by having this referendum on the ballot, conversations have already been started about the topic of legalization, which will in turn help lay the groundwork and garner support for meaningful legislation on this topic in the future. In January, Rep.

Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, introduced a bill to legalize recreational marijuana, though it definitely has nowhere near the majority needed to see backing by her own party’s caucus. Although many people may view Pan’s marijuana legalization referendum as a superficial move to get out the vote, it may in fact get the ball rolling on topics Wisconsin has yet to fully recognize and respond to. Even though change will not be immediate, this referendum, in conjunction with Sargent’s bill, will provide an open forum for discourse on a topic that is in dire need of attention at all levels of government. Briana Reilly (breilly@ badgerherald.com) is a freshman majoring in international studies and intending to major in journalism.

Everyone deserves time oﬀ during March Madness Ryan Smith Columnist It’s that time of the year again when we gather around our televisions to see if our favorite team can emerge from the field of 68 as the NCAA men’s basketball national champion. We put our faith in teams we could generally care less about just because we have them making a Cinderella run in our March Madness bracket. The atmosphere of the March men’s college basketball is nearly inescapable, just judging by the number of brackets alone (more than 11 million brackets were filled out online at ESPN. com alone). When this time of year comes around, it seems as if nearly everyone is somehow affected. The real question is whether or not all the commotion of March Madness deserves recognition as a national day off. Many employees are undoubtedly likely to fill out a bracket for fun. While there is no problem with employees filling out these brackets, the problem arises once the first two days of the tournament begins as 32 basketball games are crammed into a two-day marathon. If the first two days of the tournament were on the weekend, then it might not be such a big deal, but the onslaught of games begins around noon on Thursday and continues late into Friday night. That means both Thursday and Friday afternoons are jam-packed with employees constantly checking their brackets and catching glimpses of game highlights and scores. The chaos of March Madness presents a massive distraction from the work at hand. CBS recently released the viewership of this tournament’s first two days of basketball action, and it was revealed Friday viewership was the most

for any NCAA Tournament in 23 years. While we can’t assume that this increase was related to employees devoting work time to basketball watching, some evidence supports the idea. According to an MSN survey, 86 percent of those surveyed planned on devoting some time during the workday to tournament-related activities. An even more surprising statistic from the survey was 25 percent surveyed plan to commit at least two work hours each day on Thursday and Friday to following the tournament. With that much time committed to the tournament, businesses should be worried about employee productivity. An annual study from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. reports that employers across the nation are likely to lose more than $1.2 billion for each unproductive work hour caused by March Madness. However, studies have shown these wasted wages do not have noticeable long-term effects. Even Challenger CEO, John Challenger, recognizes that these two days of lost productivity have a negligible impact on the big picture of company profits. While there may be no significant long-term productivity consequences, companies should definitely consider the advantages of closing the office for the first days of March Madness. The concerns over whether people should work or not is always looked at by the negatives, but sometimes it’s best to seek out the advantages of the situation. With U.S. employers losing potentially more than $1 billion per hour due to unproductive work, maybe it would indeed be best to let them off. Were companies to shut down the offices, more

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald College students deserve a couple days oﬀ during March Madness to demonstrate school pride since most are watching games in lieu of work anyway.

people would be likely to travel to see their alma maters play live. Watching the tournament online at a desk is one thing, but being at the game and experiencing the electricity of the tournament in person is a whole other animal. For example, Milwaukee’s BMO Harris Bradley Center (home to the Marquette Golden Eagles) hosted tournament games for the seventh time this year. The 2014 tournament games expect to produce around $4.6 million of economic revenue for the Milwaukee area. With the Badgers playing two tournament games just an hour-anda-half away from campus, there would have been

great temptation to make the journey. However, what holds many fans back is their commitment to work or inability to be released from their work obligations. If we cut the employees some slack, then both businesses and cities alike have money to gain, as fans would most likely be more willing to make the journey to watch their beloved teams play. As a student, it seems just as reasonable to cancel classes on the first two days of the tournament. This idea is especially important at universities like the University of Wisconsin where our fellow students are playing to represent our school on a national stage. As a student

body, we are extremely passionate and dedicated to anything Badger, and this is especially true in regards to sports. This tournament is a chance to show our school pride, and we should be given that opportunity whenever possible. Additionally, a large portion of college students across America are heavily devoted to following every game because of their brackets and their standing within their tournament pools. Nowadays, students are constantly distracted in class by the option to recheck their Facebook page every five minutes or update their Twitter feed about the guy in the second row who fell

asleep and is snoring. Just imagine how many laptops and phones will be honed in on tournament action during class. The professors might as well not show up because the small portion of students who even go to class would be too preoccupied with the games they are missing in the tournament. These two days are a waste of learning time because many students don’t bother to pay attention or show up, so we might as well get the days off to socialize and grieve about how bad our brackets look. Ryan Smith (rssmith3@ wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in strategic communications.

Call to Walker: Veto Republicans’ attempt to restrict voting Aaron Loudenslager Columnist Last week, the Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation that would end early weekend voting and severely restrict early voting hours if signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker. While Republican proponents of this legislation claim it only helps ensure equality because rural clerks don’t have adequate resources or staff to have weekend voting, it is clear what the legislation’s real purpose is: to further restrict the right to vote in order to enhance their political party’s electoral chances in the short-term. This legislation not only chips away at the right to vote but also fails to solve the Republican Party’s longterm electoral problems

resulting from changing demographics. Walker should veto this shortsighted and undemocratic measure. It is no real secret that the Republican Party is trying to restrict the people’s right to vote. In the 2011 and 2012 state legislative sessions, lawmakers in 37 states proposed 62 voter identification laws. These proposed measures resulted from the Republican surge during the 2010 elections. Wisconsin enacted a voter ID law in 2012, but was prevented from implementing the law when multiple courts ruled it violated the Wisconsin Constitution. Of course, conservative and Republican voter ID law proponents say the purpose of these laws is to protect the integrity of the electoral process and prevent voter fraud.

First, voter ID laws do not prevent voter fraud because, in the United States, there is practically no in-person voter fraud. According to a Department of Justice study, between 2002 and 2005 there were only 26 total voter fraud convictions or guilty pleas out of 197 million votes cast in federal elections. This amounts to less than one-tenth of 1 percent of votes cast being fraudulent. Second, it is particularly ironic that the political party which argues voter ID laws are necessary to protect the integrity of the electoral process is the same exact political party that thinks the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision further preserves the integrity of the electoral process. Before the Republicancontrolled state legislature

enacted a voter ID law, it first made sure to gerrymander legislative districts in the party’s favor. This explains why the state Assembly is overwhelmingly dominated by Republican legislators, even though Wisconsin is a swing state. But some in the Wisconsin Legislature have attempted to enact reforms that would prevent gerrymandering and its undemocratic effects from occurring. Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, and Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, tried to enact legislation last fall that would have required the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau to create new electoral districts instead of the partisan state Legislature, but this bill ended up in legislative limbo. In this context, the

state Legislature recently passed legislation that would restrict early voting hours and completely eliminate early voting on the weekends. This isn’t the first time the Legislature has restricted early voting since 2010, either. Given this context, it becomes evident that the Republicancontrolled state Legislature is not concerned with equality between rural and city clerks — this purported concern serves as mere pretext. Instead, the Republican Party is trying to increase its shortterm electoral chances by restricting people’s right to vote in urban areas, areas that usually do not tend to vote Republican. Although this legislation may help Republican politicians in the short-term, it fails to address the Republican’s long-

term structural and voter demographic problems. If the party wishes to remain a viable political party in the future, it is going to have become more moderate like its 1950s counterpart. The Republican Party is facing a long-term voter demographic problem. Even so, the party has tried to remain a viable political party in the interim by enacting laws which restrict the right to vote. The legislation passed by the Wisconsin Legislature is such a law, which would restrict people who live in urban areas’ right to vote. Hopefully Walker has the moral courage to veto this counterproductive and antidemocratic measure. Aaron Loudenslager (loudenslager@wisc.edu) is a second-year law student.

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Despite Madison’s shortcomings as a hip-hop friendly city, first-ever Madison Hip Hop Festival looks to celebrate local rap communities Erik Sateren ArtsEtc. Editor To be a hip-hop artist in Madison is simultaneously a gift and a curse. When the 11 Madison-based hip-hop acts take the stage at The Sett in Union South Friday, they’ll be carrying these realities with them — the reality that they make music in an artistically vibrant city smack dab in the middle of a state filled with cornfields and dairy farms. But bass will threaten Union South’s structural integrity and rhymes will unfold atop it all. It will be the first-ever Madison Hip Hop Festival, and it will be, above all else, a celebration of everything that makes the Madison hiphop scene great. The aforementioned “curse” that constricts the Madison hip-hop scene is multifaceted. The city is located between hip-hop hotbeds of Chicago and Minneapolis, two cities that make it relatively easier to

blow up as underground or mainstream hip-hop artists. Madison is also a college town, which means talented hip-hop artists often arrive on the University of Wisconsin campus to pursue an undergraduate degree only to leave four years later. It’s a transient culture on the UW campus; there are always plenty of talented, college-aged rappers, but they rarely stick around post-graduation. Much more troubling is the city’s deeply embedded discrimination against live hip-hop music, much of which carries with it implicit racial undertones. Madison is a city that prides itself in its liberal tendencies and artistic inclusiveness. But after a shot was fired during a fight outside of a hip-hop show at The Frequency in Jan. 2013, the venue banned all future hip-hop shows. To many — including Michael Penn II, a UW junior who

will be performing Friday under the name CRASHprez — the ban was a racially motivated move and a direct attack on hip-hop. “The city relationship with [hip-hop] is fucked up — blaming it for violence, when there’s violence at all types of shows and being scared to work with it, which is deeply, racially tense,” Penn said. Daniel Kaplan, a UW sophomore who will headline Friday as Lord of the Fly, puts it simply: “They kind of put a negative stigma on hip-hop, I’d say.” Outside of these problems with the Madison music scene as a whole, the city’s hip-hop community finds itself split down UW and “city” lines. This split creates two different but vibrant communities. That’s where the “gift” comes in. On the UW campus, organizations such as the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning

Community and WUD Music go to great lengths to promote students interested in pursuing their art and messages through hip-hop. “One thing that I really like about the campus scene is that it’s not so much just rap artists trying to make music. What I’ve seen a lot more is artists in general converging around music to make art,” Kaplan said, referencing hip-hop artists’ tendency to collaborate on visual media with scholars in the communication arts department. Outside of campus is an entire city, however, with a vibrant hip-hop community of its own. These artists, including Michael Medall, Pooh G and SincereLife — all of whom will be performing Friday — play few UW shows but often share their music at venues like the High Noon Saloon. These artists often collaborate with Madisonbased DJ Pain 1 (who, surprise, will also perform

Friday), a producer who has made beats for the likes of Young Jeezy, 50 Cent and Public Enemy. Despite this division between the campus and “city” hip-hop communities, Friday’s Madison Hip Hop Festival will bring it all under one roof. Kaplan says he knows of nearly all the rappers who share the bill will him (he follows them on Twitter), but he’s never actually met them in person. “I think one of the most interesting aspects of the festival is that its not a purely UW show and it’s not purely a Madison city hip-hop show. It’s really that united. It’ll be interesting to see if there is that sense of community or if it is stratified into those two circles,” Kaplan said. “This festival really fosters a sense of community and artistic growth,” he added. Penn shares a similar anticipation of the show’s

social dynamics, but regardless, he says it will be an amazing show. “I want to see that shit packed. I really want to see that shit packed. I think it will be awesome,” he said. “The fact that there will be that intersection: It’ll be good to see how that’ll all blend on one card.” The first-ever Madison Hip Hop Festival will be held Friday at The Sett in Union South from 7:30 p.m. to midnight. The event is free, but tickets must be picked up ahead of time at the Vilas Hall box office. Only two tickets can be picked up per person. Tickets can be picked up by students from the entire UW system, as well as MATC and Edgewood. Any leftover tickets can be picked up at Union South on Friday with a valid student ID. Performers not mentioned in this preview who will also be performing include Dada x Oppi, Flame the Ruler, 3rd Dimension, Mic Kellogg and Webster X.

‘Lost’ Johnny Cash album stands among peak LPs Nathaniel Scharping ArtsEtc. Staﬀ Writer The man’s life reads like a country song: humble beginnings and early stardom followed by a failed marriage and a long struggle with drug abuse. A new marriage, this time for good. Declining commercial success and failing health, until he created a prolific series of albums late in his life, cementing his legacy and bringing the song to a graceful end. After his death in 2003, Johnny Cash left behind volumes of unreleased work spanning his whole career. The most recent offering, Out Among The Stars, comes from a relatively unknown period in Cash’s life, when his music had lost traction amid the rapid cultural shifts of the late 1970s and ’80s. The tracks on Out Among The Stars were originally recorded with producer Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s. Cash’s son, John Carter Cash, discovered the recordings and enlisted musicians to help finish the tracks. Composed of

both covers and previously unreleased material, the album fits neatly into Cash’s genre-spanning catalog. Straight country sits alongside countrypolitan waltzes and grooving rockabilly. The album feels like Cash at his most true. No longer attached to his longtime label Columbia, Cash was free to say what he wanted. The result is an album that is both multifaceted and personal. He sings about a murdersuicide on the darkly humorous “I Drove Her Out Of My Mind,” dropping lines like “Here she comes to greet me / Dressed to kill and so am I” with what sounds like an evil grin. The jubilant duet with Waylon Jennings “I’m Movin’ On” is infused with a sense of carefree fun, while album closer “I Came To Believe” turns Cash’s gaze inward as he speaks to personal hardships and hard-won salvation. The album has deeper emotional notes as well, precursors to the weary introspection of his later years. The haunting “She Used to Love Me a Lot” is

accompanied by a video of decaying American towns, shot from the passenger seat of a Cadillac. The images are bookended by footage of the Tennessee cave where Cash almost committed suicide. The title track, a Merle Haggard cover, imparts resigned sympathy and a hope for something better as Cash sings, “Don’t you think they’d love to stop complaining / and fly like eagles, out among the stars?” Some of the album’s most memorable moments are the duets with his wife, June Carter Cash. “Baby Ride Easy” imagines the possibilities for their life together, anchored by love. The flashy pedal steel and playfully intertwining harmonies imbue the track with a spirit of unfettered happiness, while the affection apparent in “Don’t You Think It’s Come Our Time” turns a pleasant folk song into an intimate conversation. The album is grounded throughout by Cash’s distinctive voice. Emerging from his drug troubles in the 1970s, Cash’s voice is

clear and strong here. His formidable bass adds gravity to slow tracks like “Call Your Mother” and leaps with an athletic vibrancy on the Waylon Jennings duet “I’m Movin’ On.” Cash’s music has always worked best at its simplest. Occasional flourishes, such as the Spanish guitar and piano on the album version of “She Used To Love Me A Lot” or the choir that fades in at the end of “Tennessee” seem superfluous in the face of Cash’s sonorous voice. The stripped-down bonustrack version of “She Used To Love Me A Lot,” features only a shivering electric guitar and Cash’s voice and it hits much harder because of its stark simplicity. Out Among The Stars

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was recorded during a lull in Cash’s career, when declining popularity and label issues stifled his output. However, the music stands ably alongside albums from his peak years and fleshes out a sparse period

in Cash’s life. Both the rebel and the tender husband are embodied here, along with hints of the meditative man he would become in his later years as his health slipped further away.

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SO to wanting to punt the snow back into the sky.

HMFSO To the the Badgers. Duck hunting all day.

HELL YEA BABY!!! ANAHEIM HERE WE COME!!! #Badgers #TastesSoSweet Frank Kaminsky III

ASO to feelings. How do you casually sleep with someone without growing attached?? DASO to him being a player.

Like fuck me for thinking it was smart to leave my parka at home after spring break

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Hayley Bresina @HayleyBresina

SO to Frank Kaminsky. I want to climb you like a tree.

My post-Spring Break hobbies include eating and sitting on my ass

SO to Spring Break. DSO to the sun. TSO to friends. QSO to happiness. ASO to this week eventually ending.

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Rediscovered Pokémon over Spring Break. Needless to say I’m really bad at this whole adult thing

Pretty sure the Megabus is incapable of being on time #getyourshittogether

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casually drinking a summer shandy alone and waiting for the badger games to start...if only it was like 50 degrees warmer out #springbreak?

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That megabus ride was actually a little trip to my own personal hell #kidsonkids Meaghan Pauli

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ASO to all the fucking ice on the lake. Boats won’t be able to leave the docks until the middle of June at this rate.

SO to ladies who rock bandanas. SO sexy

Badger Basketball, Hockey Wins Give Spring Broken Livers One Last Night Of Abuse The Badger Harold @TheBadgerHarold

Group Trip To PCB Charges Extra For No Regrets The Badger Harold @TheBadgerHarold

SO to my professor who let me retake an exam after I slept through it from pulling an all-nighter, way to pay it forward! ASO to sleeping through a date while catching up on sleep from said all-nighter. This is getting a little out of hand...

Spring break blows. Motivation: 0 midterms next week: 3 Fucks Given: 0 Jonathan Rodriguez

ASO to people complaining about the speaker. He’s a Republican but has a liberal take on a lot of policies which is about the best anyone can do in terms of finding an “even” politician. SO to the Huntsman daughters though. You’re all stunning and your tweets during your dad’s campaign were hilarious.

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ASO to having a serious bitch of a time getting over my undergrad experience. Grad school makes me feel accomplished and all but all I really want to do is go back to bacon night. And the KK. no shame.

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ASO to people whining about the graduation speaker. Check your facts before you complain about how conservative he is.

Home sweet home: Witte Hall, “where people piss on the floors for fun” Frankie B

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HMFSO To the the Badgers. Duck hunting all day.

#Badgers coach Bo Ryan: We’re going to Disneyland...Am I allowed to say that? Jeff Potrykus @jaypo1961

ASO to my new “friends” leaving me at a bar on spring break. SO to wandering off in the first place to talk to a guy from Wisconsin.

Having a window view of the KK from my spot in Memorial was a poor choice. Get me out of here.

One amazing game! #Badgers #Wisconsin #MarchMadness #NCAA14MKE #NCAA #NCAATournament

@JonHuntsman is an interesting choice, but should have some great intellect, wisdom, and experience to share. Looking forward to it.

ASO to the douche who hasn’t talked to me in months yet had the audacity to text me and ask if we could hook up. Please...if you think missionary is enough to make me forget you’re an asshole you’re sadly mistaken (but let me know if you’ve learned some new moves)

@ders808 #Badgers are looking to get all kinds of #Sweet16 weird this weekend. Should we save a seat for you on the bench? Wisconsin Basketball @BadgerMBB

Remember, we have 2-4-1s during the basketball AND hockey games this week! Come watch Wisco lay the smack down on the ice & the court! The Kollege Klub @TheKollegeKlub

SO to Madison and to college. Europe is fun, and making money is great... but oh my lanta do I miss campus. Live it up, Badgers. It goes by too quickly.

So proud of these guys! B1G Champions! Thanks to our great fans out there for all the support! #badgerhockey #wiscoooooo Frankie Simonelli @FSimonelli27

The Big Ten Championship Hockey game was just as boring as the basketball game tonight. Shit No Badgers Say @ShtNoBadgersSay

Alex Anderson @AA_715

SO to us getting ders last year and this year getting some dude from utah

HMFSO to Badger Hockey and Basketball teams. If you can win a Championship, and make it to the sweet 16, I can probably make it through this terrible week of three midterms...

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10 | The Badger Herald | Thursday, March 27, 2014 Chancellor Blank on Jon Huntsman speaking at commencement: “He brings a rich, right-winged, white, straight male voice underrepresented at UW.”

Study finds animals enjoy being tested on In a study published by the University of Wisconsin Animal Care and Use Committee, researchers found that the majority of the more than 2,000 non-human primates favorably responded to the statement, “I enjoy being tested for the betterment of humanity.” Respondents were selected from the dozens of research efforts undertaken by UW researchers, including the psychology department’s “Pain Tolerance and Associated Synapses” study, the biology department’s “Refractive Corneal Surgery and Jugular Debasement” lab and the art department’s controversial “Responses to Van Gogh after Acute De-Veining, Third Degree Burns and Other Negative Stimuli” test. Of the 2,134 non-human primates housed in small, confining cages across campus, 34 percent successfully responded with pained, but positive, hollering when read the aforementioned statement; 12 percent responded with a negative whimper; and the other 54 percent were unable to respond and were thus removed from the statistics. “While we always knew that the little bastards enjoyed

their enslavement and torture, we were surprised that an overwhelming majority of those infernal beasts who successfully responded reacted positively to the statement,” said UW biology researcher Jack McCanyon said of the study’s ﬁndings Others are unsure of the veracity of the ﬁndings. “I don’t feel that a consensus was reached regarding the acceptability of torturing these animals,” militant anarchocommunist and animal-fucker Benjamin Tucker, whose views represent a tiny fringe of wackos, said. Chimpanzee and “Van Gogh” participant Bonzo said, using his last two fingers to speak sign language, “I’m so happy to help serve my human masters. Anything I can do to potentially improve the lives of a select few human beings in a marginal way is a great use of my short, painful life. I am glad to have my face nailed down to a board, forcefed radioactive carcinogens and injected with an untested cocktail of aspirin, beet juice and cow sperm to see if it can reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer.” Bonzo died Monday from acute pancreatic failure. McCanyon said it was “just the cost of human progress.”

One of the UW’s happy, carefree animals, here receiving a fun-filled cranium-drilling. ACUC’s study finds animals “love” receiving UW’s experiments. Kathleen Mallett

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Grainger Hall berates ‘deadbeat’ Humanities Grainger Hall loudly and openly mocked “the pansy-ass, hippiedick, commie” Mosse Humanities Building Monday. “That lazy-ass bastard didn’t even make enough money to file taxes this year, proving yet again that it brings nothing to this community and ought to be brought out behind old-man Memorial Union and drowned,” Grainger said in the early hours of the morning. Dozens of students woke up in Chadbourne Hall due to the bitter tirade, as Grainger laid into Humanities for “institutionalizing weakness, promoting socialism and embodying the slow rot of American values.” “I was so proud to hear my favorite building annihilate that sorry excuse for a productive

member of this campus,” UW sophomore and actuarial sciences major Chad Walker said. “Hail Grainger! Hail America! Hail Capitalism!”

“ Thank God Humanities will only be around for another decade before it keels over and dies.” Peter Donovan UW Business School

Instead of “fighting back like a man,” Walker said Humanities was content to “sit there looking stupid, quietly listening to opera music and reading that asshole Howard Zinn’s ‘People’s History.’” “He didn’t even stand up for himself. What the fuck, man? No dignity. No respect for the American

way,” Grainger said. While Humanities did not respond to the vicious assault, a handful of art, history and music majors banded together to have a drum circle on Library Mall. “We really spoke to the patriarchal ideology with our spontaneous musical narrative infusing the thought of Antonio Gramsci with pre-colonial African melodies,” art professor and local activist Q Stevens said. “That’ll show that fascist Grainger not to subsume our wills into the dominant culture.” “It sounded like a lot of godless hyenas fucking behind a toy store,” Business School faculty member Peter Donovan said. “Thank God Humanities will only be around for another decade before it keels over and dies.”

Revival of club boxing brings about violent student orgs After reviving club boxing from the roster of club sports on campus for the first time in 54 years, many other club sports were created, including what have come to be some of the most thrilling student organizations in history. Along with the revival of club boxing came sports such as Club Jousting, the Gang Violence Club, Students for Violence and the Russian Roulette Club. Club Jousting formed as a branch of the Unwiversity of Wisconsin Society for Creative Anachronism. A handful of male students from the already-existing student organization left the group to create the Jousting Club. The facial-haired men rented horses from the animal sciences department and knight armor from the history department. They have been using the University Bay ﬁelds to practice, but hope one day to perform in front of a student

audience at Camp Randall. The Gang Violence Club formed as members of gangs met each other in the various learning communities of Lakeshore. They have joined together to bring back childhood games such as “Murder the Carrier,” “Sell Drugs or Get Shot” and “Tag.” The diverse group of kids also has a Fight Club Committee, which is one of the largest committees in a student organization on campus. “The No. 1 rule of the Fight Club Committee is to come to the meetings every Tuesday night at Union South!” Chair Lil Enrique said. Students For Violence arose from a small group of students in favor of lifestyle choices that promote violence, Enrique said. The students often feel scrutinized by the larger group of peace-loving students on campus, he said. At club meetings, members

can finally be in a safe environment where they may be tackled, kicked, punched or stabbed at any moment. He said the students’ main goal is to eliminate the stigma around violence. The Russian Roulette Club has formed from a group of six manically-depressed students who were looking for people with similar interests. Their hobbies have become regular club activities and include staring at walls, eating tubs of ice cream and crying. The six people have attributed their significant mood improvements to the creation of the club. Also, the randomness of the game of Russian roulette brings excitement to their lives. The oﬃcial game of the year has been scheduled for April 25th and all are welcome to attend, but be sure to bring a towel.

Everyone promises it will be 60 degrees eventually With the ﬁrst day of spring last week and still no sign of warm weather, Madison residents have been assuring each other that it will be 60 degrees Fahrenheit soon. “Oh, don’t worry that it’s 20 degrees today. It’ll be bright and sunny and definitely 60 degrees at the lowest tomorrow,” said University of Wisconsin sophomore Eﬃe O’Brian. “It just has to get warm soon, right? It can’t possibly stay this cold forever. I heard somewhere that it will be at least 60 degrees tomorrow,” Jaime Fenceworth said. Gov. Scott Walker has introduced a bill that would ensure that it is 60 degrees tomorrow. It is difficult to tell the effect a

bill like this could have. The lives of many people are dependent on this guarantee of tropical weather in the upcoming days. “I am done with winter,” UW creative writing professor Hermann Citadel said. “The only thing getting me through this day to tomorrow is because someone in my noon class told me it would be 60 degrees tomorrow.” This forecast is, however, not based in fact or science, but instead in desperate hopes and desires of Madison citizens. The UW meteorology department predicts that it will continue to remain below freezing for at least one more month. “I don’t know how I know that it will be 60 degrees tomorrow,” O’Brian said. “I just really want

it to be that warm. And if you say something, then it has to come true. We just have to stick it out.” Skeptics of the 60-degree weather prediction for tomorrow have been shunned for their so-called “pessimism” and as a result, they have moved to Florida. “Anyone who says that it’s still going to be cold out tomorrow needs to G-T-F-O because they’re just being Debbie-Downers and if they don’t believe, then the sunshine fairies won’t grant our wishes,” said Aiden Trippsbottom, a local employee at Community Pharmacy on Gorham Street. “Mark my words,” Trippsbottom said. “It will be 60 degrees tomorrow. So help me God, it will be 60 degrees.”

Prospective students accidentally take tour from random sophomore Caught in the confusion brought on by the many tour groups walking the University of Wisconsin campus, a dozen prospective students and their parents accidentally followed UW sophomore Rachel Hornung for two-and-a-half hours Wednesday. The mix-up occurred around lunchtime as Hornung was leaving Union South in her red Wisconsin windbreaker, which

is nearly identical to the zipups worn by official UW tour guides, Hornung said. She was then followed by the group of high school students and their parents until the late afternoon. “I didn’t really suspect anything,” Hornung said. “I just figured we were all students trying to get to Humanities.” On her way to class, Hornung reluctantly answered questions posed by the group, she said,

eventually walking backward to facilitate the number of inquiries. At one point, Hornung said, a high school student from Missouri asked her what the football games are like. Hornung informed the student she does not typically go to football games and instead chooses to drink box wine with her friend Kristen and watch “Muppets in Space.”

“Some older woman, who I assumed was a returning student, asked me if I ever use the rock climbing wall,” she said. “I was like ‘No, nobody does, right?! What a waste of tuition and alumni money.’ She seems really confused.” When asked if she looked at any other schools, Hornung said she mentioned that she should have gotten into Northwestern but did not have the “grades,

test scores or a comprehensive list of extracurricular activities.” Suspicions grew among the 33-member group when Hornung guided everyone to her “Representation in the Media” discussion, Illinois high school senior Doug Shupe said. “I think we all thought she would just have us pop our heads in quick to see a typical class atmosphere,” Shrupe said. “Fifty-five minutes in, I

ﬁgured something was up, since they only made us sit through 50 minutes of a class at the University of Chicago.” The tour ended when Hornung, in passing, brought up Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s proposed tuition hike for out-of-state students, Shrupe said, causing the majority of prospective students to head for their cars on their way to other public institutions.

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McEvoy back in the mix for quarterback spot After roundabout start to his career, JuCo transfer has eye on starting role Dan Corcoran Sports Content Editor After starting the entire season last fall, it seemed generally accepted that Joel Stave would retain his starting quarterback position next season for the Wisconsin football team. Although that might be the logical expectation, that’s not to say that Stave’s job is anywhere near safe. Among those gunning for the starting job is redshirt junior Tanner McEvoy. McEvoy is one of four quarterbacks seeing decent time so far this spring besides Stave, early enrollee DJ Gillins and junior Bart Houston. Although the four quarterbacks may be showcasing their quarterbacking abilities during spring practice, they are also demonstrating their leadership abilities in controlling the offense and commanding the huddle as senior offensive lineman Rob Havenstein explained. “They all know how to get the offense running. It does start with the quarterback. It is his huddle. I like to chime in there every now and then but at the end of the day what he says goes. If I say something, he might kind of brush it off. But if he says something, the whole offense has got to do something,” Havenstein said. The three other quarterbacks have had fairly direct paths to Wisconsin, but McEvoy has taken the route much less traveled. He started his journey off at

South Carolina in 2011 and after spending his freshman season and the subsequent spring with the Gamecocks, he elected to transfer to Arizona Western Community College. McEvoy spent a season at Arizona Western and then last spring decided to transfer again to come to Wisconsin after getting recruited by thennew head coach Gary Andersen. After being unable to make it to Wisconsin until the summer, McEvoy was hampered in his ability to become acclimated to the program before jumping headfirst into the quarterback competition during fall camp. “In the summer, it’s a new school transferring in. Obviously, anyone has that kind of [nervous] feeling, but I wouldn’t blame it on that. I didn’t feel that uncomfortable when I was here when I first got here at all. That’s why I came here. It’s an easy group of guys to get along with,” McEvoy said. When Stave earned the starting spot in fall camp last season, McEvoy continued to practice at quarterback during the beginning weeks of the season. Then misfortune struck when McEvoy injured his wrist, adding another obstacle to his path. Unable to take snaps, McEvoy got bumped to wide receiver and saw time in the first game of the season against Massachusetts at wide out. After the results came back from the x-ray on his wrist, McEvoy underwent surgery to repair it and ended up sitting out for several weeks waiting to heal. In the meantime though, McEvoy path again turned as he was asked if we wanted to try safety. After obliging, just weeks later he found

himself playing safety at Ohio Stadium against the Buckeyes, certainly not where anyone expected to see him when he originally committed. McEvoy finished the season off at safety, but the whole time knew that come this spring he would be back in the mix for the quarterback job. In just under a year since Wisconsin, those around McEvoy, including Havenstein, have seen some major growth, which should benefit him in the quarterback race. “He’s got a lot more confidence back there calling the play like he means it like he’s been doing it 15 years calling that same play,” he said. “I think he’s got a great understanding of the playbook, the checks and what not. He’s really commanded it so far and kind of getting little details, ins and outs, the niches of the offense and I think it’s helping him out tremendously. He can walk up, make protection checks, get us in the right spot to be able to get him the better throw and if they’re bringing pressure, if we can pick it up, our guys on the outside, Tanner has the ability to get there on time and on point. That creates big plays.” After playing safety most of last season, McEvoy hasn’t had much time to practice with the quarterbacks and didn’t really get a chance to practice with them until the end of the season. But simply being around the Badger program for almost a year now has allowed McEvoy the opportunity to become increasingly familiar with the subtleties of the program and, more importantly, the play book. The confidence

Wisconsin basketball through the decades UW aiming for second National Championship in program history Dan Corcoran Sports Content Editor Under head coach Bo Ryan, Wisconsin has been on a roll when it comes to making the NCAA tournament. In his now 13 years at the helm, Ryan has led the Badgers to the tournament all 13 times with some upper echelon finishes along the way. Before Ryan though, this standard for winning was hardly a norm, which prompted a wise philosopher Spencer Smith of The Badger Herald to claim earlier this year that these aren’t your grandpa’s Badgers. As Wisconsin prepares for the Sweet Sixteen this weekend, trying to set an even higher standard for Wisconsin basketball, here’s a look back at some of the previous Badger teams and their postseason endeavors. 1941: National Champions It may have been more than 70 years ago, but 1941 was the only year where the magic of March culminated in a National Title. Wisconsin may have experienced a nice home-away-from-home advantage this past weekend in Milwaukee, but back in 1941 the Badgers actually played two of their three tournament games at home in the Field House. The only road game of the tournament was in Kansas City, Mo., in the

championship game where the Badgers dispatched Washington State 39-34. Gene Englund led the Badgers in scoring with his 13 points in the title bout, while John Kotz notched 12 of his own for Wisconsin which earned him tournament MVP. 1994: Back to the Big Dance After Wisconsin qualified for the tournament in 1947 it took 47 painful years before the Badgers found a way back into the tournament field led by Michael Finley, who would eventually go on to the NBA. The No. 9 seed Badgers scored a minor upset in their first game of the tournament, beating eight-seeded Cincinnati 80-72 with Finley scoring 22 points in the game and Rashard Griffith chipping in 22 of his own along with 15 rebounds. In the second game, Wisconsin took on No. 1 seed Missouri who proved too much for the Badgers, overwhelming them in an offensive explosion 109-96. 2000: A Whole New Level In what ended up being his final full year as head coach, Dick Bennett led Wisconsin to a fairly respectable 8-8 record and sixth place finish in the Big Ten, which ended being just enough to get Wisconsin back into the tournament. As an eight seed, the Badgers were hardly expected to go far, but after coming away victorious in their first round game against ninth-seeded Fresno State, Wisconsin turned into a Cinderella story when it knocked off No. 1 seeded Arizona 66-59 in round two.

Wisconsin followed that up with a Sweet Sixteen win over LSU and an Elite Eight victory over Big Ten foe Purdue, taking the Badgers all the way to the Final Four. In the quest to reach the championship, Wisconsin came up just short falling to another Big Ten rival Michigan State in the National Semifinal, the third time during the season UW had come up short against MSU. Still, the run put the basketball program back on the map and was the second consecutive tournament berth, the start of a streak that now sits at 16. 2005: Elite Expectations Perhaps the best team Ryan has had in his time at UW, the Badgers went all the way to the Elite Eight before losing to eventual National Champion North Carolina. Sixth-seeded Wisconsin was aided by several upsets along the way, but still took care of business against 11thseed Northern Iowa, 14th-seeded Bucknell, and 10th-seeded North Carolina State before losing to the No. 1 seed Tar Heels. Having lost star Devin Harris to the NBA after the 2004 season, the deep run was a team effort benefited by a lot of depth. With a win this Thursday against Baylor, Wisconsin could match the 2005 run in the tournament, which was the furthest UW has gone under Ryan to date.

Andy Fate The Badger Herald File Photo Redshirt junior Tanner McEvoy (17) spent time at quarterback, wide receiver and an extended stint at safety last season.

Havenstein discussed plays off being around the program for a longer period of time and has contributed into how McEvoy has performed so far this spring, according to offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig. “When he came to us in June last year everything was new going into the whole program for the first time. He started back at quarterback during the bowl preparation period. He was much more relaxed and comfortable in what he was

doing and it’s paying off for all of us right now,” Ludwig said. Plenty of time still stands between now and the start of next season, but having the opportunity to participate in spring practice this season gives McEvoy a head start he didn’t have the luxury of this time last year. That factors, coupled with having a year under his belt with Wisconsin, should give the quarterback heralded for his dual threat potential coming into the program

last year a quality shot at the starting position come next fall. Only time will tell what the future holds and what path his football career will take next. “All four guys are putting their best foot forward and that’s only going to make us better as a team. One guy steps up and makes a big throw, the rest of them want to step up and make a bigger throw or two bigger throws. It’s really going to help us out in the end,” Havenstein said.

The Badger Herald | Sports |Thursday, March 27, 2014

UW, UND meet in 1st round of tournament Former foes left for new leagues this year but will renew rivalry Friday night Nick Brazzoni Sports Writer Fresh off winning their inaugural Big Ten tournament title, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team will travel to Cincinnati this weekend for the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Badgers (24-10-2 overall, 13-6-1 Big Ten) received a one seed in the Midwest Regional for the tournament and have earned the right to play fourth-seeded North Dakota (23-13-3 overall, 159-0 NCHC). The two teams used to play annually in WCHA conference play, but because of conference realignment this past year, the teams find themselves part of different conferences. Nevertheless, Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves and his players are still fully aware of what the North Dakota program is all about and will look to use that to their advantage come Friday. “We won’t have to go into the ring and jab around for each other for a while and figure each other out,” Eaves said. “We know styles. We’ve played each other within the last year. We’ll just jump into the deep end and start swimming.” Eaves’ team won’t be swimming blindly because they are aware of the balanced attack this North Dakota team brings and that anybody that’s on the ice for them has the ability to score at any time. “They have a lot of balance. They don’t have the real big numbers of years past, but they play with good balance,” he said. “Offensively, they have the highest points per game for defensemen, so their defense will provide a lot of offense for them.” Unlike this year, last

season in the first round of the tournament, Wisconsin found itself going up against a team it had never seen before at University of Massachusetts-Lowell. The lack of familiarity hurt the fourth-seeded Badgers as they fell to the No. 1 seeded River Hawks by a count of 6-1. Senior defenseman and captain Frankie Simonelli has faced off against North Dakota numerous times in his four years at Wisconsin. He believes the high familiarity with the first round opponent is huge benefit for the team and will help prevent the Badgers from repeating what happened last year. “I think it is big, especially looking back at last year. We came across UMass [Lowell], an opponent who we have never seen before and knew pretty much nothing about. This year is going to be much different,” Simonelli said. “We have that experience from last year as well as the familiarity with North Dakota. We know their tendencies, we know what they’ve been like in the past and we know what kind of game it is going to be.” The balance presented throughout the North Dakota lineup will present a daunting task for Wisconsin. Eight North Dakota skaters have 20 or more points this season and 21 have scored a goal in a game this season. That offensive depth combined with the physicality UND has displayed over the years should make for a difficult matchup for Wisconsin in reigniting the rivalry between the two schools. “They generate their offense throughout their whole team. Their defensemen like to join in on their rushes and generate a lot of offense on their power play. It’s going to be a mucking and grinding type of game. We know it’s going to be a hard, toe-to-toe battle between the two of us,” Simonelli said. On the surface, despite earning a number one seed, it appears that Wisconsin got a tough first round draw. This is especially evident when looking at the year North Dakota has had finishing second in the NCHC regular season and third in the conference tournament. North Dakota has already experienced success in its first year in the NCHC but also has a long history of success, which includes seven national championships and a calling card as a tough opponent to go up against. Although a disparity exists between the two teams’ seedings, the

Badgers find themselves dead even defensively with North Dakota, as both teams are giving up an average of 2.5 goals per game this season. Even though UW seemingly got a tough draw to start the tournament, senior forward Mark Zengerle, who scored the gamewinning overtime goal in the Big Ten championship game, explained how the team is excited, rather than disappointed, about drawing North Dakota in the first round. “I think most people probably see North Dakota and think we got the short end of the stick as far as the drawing goes and see North Dakota as such a rough and tough team. But we are excited about that. We wanted to play them when we heard there was opportunity, it will be a fun game,” Zengerle said. “We learned last year when we lost to UMass, a team we knew nothing about, that maybe it wasn’t so great playing a team we didn’t know. I think this year it fits things perfectly.” This Wisconsin team started the season ranked No. 3 in the NCAA preseason rankings, so there is no reason to believe that this team can’t make it to Philadelphia for the Frozen Four or even win its first national championship since 2006. With that said, a Big Ten title isn’t enough for the Badgers, and this team is still hungry for more. “There is only one team out of 59 that ends up winning, but when you have the experience we have with all the seniors, the amount of talent and the goaltending, and it doesn’t all come through in the end, then it is definitely a failure,” Zengerle said. “We knew we had a realistic chance going in to the season to win everything. Obviously, winning the Big Ten is nice, but it’s not the end goal.” With the end goal being a national championship, the nine seniors on this team would want nothing more than to end their college hockey career on top. “That would be the ultimate capstone,” Simonelli said. “We haven’t gotten much of a sniff at it before, but this is the last crack I’ll have at it with nine other seniors on this team. We have an attempt to win a national championship, so hopefully we can get there and achieve that goal.” Wisconsin and North Dakota will face off in Cincinnati in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at 7 p.m. Friday.

The Badger Herald | Sports | Thursday, March 27, 2014

Zengerle capitalizing on final opportunities Senior center has reached peak in his performance during last days as Badger Dan Corcoran Sports Content Editor At most he has four games left, but his college career could end the next time he takes to the ice. Regardless of what the next three weeks hold for Mark Zengerle, however, it’s safe to say he’s saved his best for last. The Wisconsin men’s hockey first line center has had some bumps along the way throughout the course of his career, a hand injury that sidelined him early last season and a few scoring droughts, but the pieces of the puzzle have begun to fit together and it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Part of the explanation might have something to do with the fact that he recognizes his career is reaching its closing moments with an ever-increasing sense of urgency with each passing game. “Every senior thinks about it. I think any of us would be lying to you if they said they didn’t recognize it going into the game,” Zengerle said of Friday’s first round NCAA game with North Dakota, which could be the last game of his and eight other seniors’ careers. But a bigger part of the explanation of Zengerle’s crucial role for the Badgers, especially in the later going this season, has a lot more to do with the work he has put in over his four years rather than fear about his career ending. The Rochester, N.Y. native came to Wisconsin after spending three years at the junior ranks, making him quite experienced for a freshman, something that showed in his first season in Cardinal and White. In his first year, Zengerle tallied an impressive 36 points, 31 of which were assists.

In the three years since Zengerle has continued to mimic similar numbers from his freshman season, with 50 points in his sophomore campaign, a slightly diminished 32 points last year due to the hand injury, and 43 points so far this season with 37, 23 and 33 assists in those seasons, respectively. The rather large proportion of assists points to the natural role of Zengerle as a playmaker and passer, similar traits to a childhood hockey opponent and friend who is now an NHL superstar. “Any hockey player has players they look up to and try to learn off of and for me, he’s one of them just because of similar size and similar strengths,” Zengerle said of Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane, who grew up in nearby Buffalo, N.Y. “Obviously, he’s at the next level with his strengths, but it’s a guy on TV you like to watch … and pick up some things.” Although he has fewer points this season than he did in his breakout sophomore year, Zengerle is currently experiencing some of the most success of any point in his career, including an active 9-game point streak, which is the longest of any Badger this season. It could be attributed to emulating other players like Kane, but his success also owes a great deal to lessons he’s had to learn on his own and hard work in the small areas of his game. According to head coach Mike Eaves, Zengerle has the tendency to want to make the pass more often than not even if he may have a good look at the net. Selfishness may be an admirable trait at times, but Zengerle has learned a sort of controlled selfishness in prime-scoring situations. “He understands that there are moments that the right thing to do is take a shot himself and not pass it,” Eaves said. “He’s come to understand.”

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald With his 33 assists and counting this season, Mark Zengerle (9) becomes just the ﬁfth player in UW history with 30 assists in three diﬀerent seasons.

But outside of taking the shots when he has to, Zengerle has also worked diligently on developing his shot and finishing ability so he can put the puck in the back of the net when the opportunity presents itself. “It’s taken four years,” Eaves said. Zengerle admitted he came on a bit slow in the scoring category in the beginning of the season and was at first a little concerned. However, since being matched with Nic Kerdiles and Tyler Barnes on the first line, Zengerle has been on a scoring tear, which includes two gamewinning overtime goals, one of which came in the biggest

of stages in the Big Ten tournament championship game this past Saturday against Ohio State. Zengerle had a rather quiet year last season without a single gamewinning goal, which is something you wouldn’t necessarily expect from a passer in the first place. But this season in addition to his hot streak of late, Zengerle has accounted for four game-winners out his 10 total goals. “That’s the important time to score now. In the playoffs and moving forward, I got to be a contributor as far as putting the puck in the net,” Zengerle said. Zengerle has lived up to

his word, and along with his linemate Kerdiles, the two are currently tied atop the NCAA for points in March with 13 apiece. Scoring is obviously critical, but Zengerle has put in the work in the less-thanglamorous areas of the game as well. “Another part that people don’t talk about as much is his ability to play down low in the defensive zone and just get pucks,” Barnes said. “He can go into a battle in the corner in the d-zone. He’ll just grab it and skate out with it real quick. Things that go unnoticed but for guys like us that’s huge because now you’re in the offensive zone, you have the

puck, you don’t have to play defense.” A hard worker on and off the ice, and a proven passer and more recently scorer, Zengerle will certainly be missed whenever his time comes to an end with UW. It’s unknown what will happen when his time is up. For now, however, the leading scorer in the Eaves’ coaching era isn’t concentrated on himself or the scoring marks but bringing home the national title. “He’s playing as well and as hard. He’s a very competitive young guy. Even for his small size, he’s got a strong will and his will is something you need this time of year,” Eaves said.

Almost everyone profiting from March Madness Dan Corcoran Corcoran’s Clubhouse It’s called March Madness for a reason, but this year’s NCAA tournament has brought a whole new level to the madness, verging on all out anarchy. Not only is the ludicrousness in the last few years good news for the underdogs in the brackets, it’s even better news for the NCAA. The governing body of college athletics wasn’t originally founded on the principles of turning every human against one another all in the pursuit of Warren Buffett’s $1 billion, but that’s what it has become. It’s not that the NCAA wants to pit families against one another and create offices where the only thing that gets done is dreaming up new ways to watch the tournament and keep your boss in the dark about your lack of activity. But hey, the NCAA has struck gold that just keeps skyrocketing in value, so why not take advantage of it? The NCAA doesn’t have jurisdiction over who is giving away a billion dollars for a perfect bracket and it’s not directly responsible for all the rampant gambling that takes place. But the organization is not exactly stopping people from ramping up the hype for March Madness, and there’s no reason to stop anyone. These complete strangers are driving the money making machine while those in the NCAA

office in Indianapolis can just sit and bathe in the money or whatever it is they do with all the cold, hard cash they’re rolling in these days. In fact, in the documentary, “Schooled: The Real Price of College Athletics,” it was estimated that the NCAA makes around $800 million a year from the NCAA tournament alone. I’d say that’s probably plenty of money to bathe in. Heck, they probably have swimming pools full. But the NCAA isn’t the only one profiting either. CBS and Turner Broadcasting System, which owns TNT, TBS and TruTV, make a lot of money because of their rights to broadcast the tournament. “How nice,” you say to yourself when you can watch all the games of the tournament online without even needing cable. It’s almost like you get to watch for free or something. But the next time you watch a game online, look just a little closer at the bottom of NCAA. com. It’s a nonprofit website probably run by the NCAA, right? Wrong. I didn’t realize this myself until last year when I looked closer and noticed the website is part of Bleacher Report, a subsidiary of the Turner conglomerate. And the only reason they show the tournament for “free” online is because commercials come as part of the viewing experience — no matter where you go you can’t escape the power of commercialism. Speaking of which, the companies that have their advertisements on during the tournament can’t be forgotten about either. This group, although it might not

make money, contributes some $1.15 billion in TV ad dollars during the tournament, which is more than any of the big three professional postseasons, the NBA, MLB and yes, even more than the NFL and advertising giant the Super Bowl. The best of the best make their case to the NCAA and the TV partners in hopes they might get a piece of the pie. Maybe, just maybe, that company can be one of the corporate partners of the NCAA one day. Gosh, nothing sounds better with basketball than AT&T, am I right? Although that partnership is not nearly as synonymous as the NCAA and Coca Cola because, let’s be honest, nothing goes with athletics more than a beverage that depletes the calcium in your bones. Sarcasm aside, I’ve strayed much too far from my point, which I’ve

completely forgotten since I got tangled up in the mangled mess of money. Actually, come to think of it, since I started talking about the NCAA, TV and advertising, I feel like I have forgotten about something else too. Oh, right, that’s what it was: I forgot to discuss the real purpose of the tournament — playing basketball. Who cares, though? Someone will end up winning and someone will end up losing and based off of the actual bracket, I must have haphazardly assembled mine in the midst of a nightmare. Never mind the rest of my bracket; the only reason I’m even writing this column is for the pay check. March Madness is even kind to my wallet. Yes, it seems like all is well with the tournament. Ratings through the first three rounds have hit their highest mark since

1993, and the first week of the tournament averaged almost 9.3 million viewers. The Badgers are headed to the Sweet Sixteen, and money is being made in such large amounts that the NCAA might have to contact the U.S. Treasury Department so it can bypass cash and just get the gold bars already. Well, I suppose everything is well with the tournament save for maybe one small thing which is hardly even worth taking the time to mention. Everyone surrounding this tournament seems to profi t in some way, monetary or otherwise, except for the athletes. But how could I forget that they’re getting a college education, and we all know you can’t put a price on that. In fact, these players are students first. Basketball comes second to the classroom, which is why they miss almost the entire week of class to go to these

games. So the student-athletes make the entire tournament possible, yet they don’t receive any compensation for their efforts and their schooling is affected at the same time? Seems like a typical, twisted NCAA mastermind plan. The ratings might be reaching new levels and all may be well for the NCAA at least, but does anyone care about these supposed “student-athletes?” When do they get what they deserve? Dan is a sophomore intending to major in journalism. Do you think the NCAA is taking advantage of the players or is the governing body of college athletics justified in all the money it’s making? Let Dan know by sending him an email at dcorcoran@ badgerherald.com or by joining the twitter conversation and tweeting him @DanCoco7.

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GRIZZLY COMPETITION WISCONSIN GEARS UP FOR SWEET SIXTEEN MATCHUP ANAHEIM, Calif. — Advancing in the NCAA Tournament is a tall order for any team in the country, whether it is a No. 1 seed or a No. 11 seed. For the Wisconsin men’s basketball team, advancing to the Elite Eight is its tallest order yet, literally. Wisconsin (28-7) will matchup with a Baylor (26-11) team Thursday that sports a 7-foot-1 center, 6-foot-9 and 6-foot-6 forwards in its starting lineup and two players taller than 6-foot-7 that average more 13 minutes off the bench. The Bears use that length to their advantage when protecting the rim. In its run to the Big 12 Tournament Championship game, Baylor racked up 22 blocks in four games. Sophomore center and All-Big 12 defensive team selection Isaiah Austin led the block party with 18 of his own, breaking the previous record of 11 blocks during the conference tournament. With the length of Austin and senior forward Cory Jefferson, who has 71 blocks this season, protecting the paint,

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Wisconsin’s frontcourt will have to find creative ways to get to the rim. “It’s similar to a boxing match. Fighters say if the guy’s arms are longer, get in close so he can’t use his length against you,” Wisconsin freshman forward Nigel Hayes said. “That’d be the same for us. We don’t want to shoot fade away shots or try to shoot it over them because they will probably block that, so we got to try to go right through them and hopefully we can get some fouls drawn on them. Baylor couples its length with a zone defense that has turned up the pressure in the latter half of the season and was on display in the third round when it held a Creighton team that averages 79.5 points a game to just 55 in a convincing 30-point win. The key for Wisconsin offensively will be patience. “You take what the defense gives you. You have to probe,” Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan said. “Then attacking it and getting people to move a certain way and using your angles and misdirection and different things that good zone offensive teams use, we’re going to have to put all those together. Because they have the quickness and they have the length inside to protect the rim. So that’s why it’s been pretty effective.” Defensively, Wisconsin will face a balanced Baylor offense that can attack inside or from the perimeter. The Bears are second in the Big 12 in three-point field goals made (257), behind only Iowa State, averaging 9.5 per game. Senior guard Brady Heslip leads the charge for the Bears from the arc, making 117 three-pointers this season — Ben Brust has 228 in four years. An advantage may come at the free throw line where Baylor averages 25 attempts a game; however, the Badgers excel at keeping their opponent off the

Wisconsin’s path to Sweet Sixteen not always smooth

ROSTER NAME

Pos. Ht.

Wt.

Ben Brust

6-1

196

Jordan Smith

6-1

180

Aaron Moesch

6-8

200

Nigel Hayes

6-7

250

Jordan Hill

6-3

170

Traevon Jackson G

6-2

208

Duje Dukan

6-9

220

Sam Dekker

6-7

220

Josh Gasser

6-3

190

Bronson Koenig G

6-3

190

Vitto Brown

6-8

237

Wisconsin started its season with a grueling nonconference schedule and came out of it unscathed. Eventually the Badgers would reach a program best start 16-0 and reached No. 3 in the national rankings. During that stretch, Wisconsin picked up wins over six teams that reached the NCAA Tournament. Struggles, first defensively and then offensively, would lead to a stretch where the Badgers would lose five of six games, including three home losses. But Wisconsin bounced back with an eight-game winning streak to close out the regular season before losing in the season finale to Nebraska. The Badgers have found success several ways this season. They have won games where they have scored in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s and have averaged 8.9 more points per game (73.9) than last season. Wisconsin’s regular season campaign ended in a second place finish in the Big Ten —the 13th season in a row that Wisconsin has finished in the top four in the conference— and eventually received a No. 2 seed from the NCAA Selection Committee. After beating American and Oregon in the second and third rounds in Milwaukee, Wisconsin advanced to its seventh Sweet 16, its third in four years, where it will matchup up with Baylor for the first time in program history.

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line, allowing an average of 14.9 attempts per game. “They defend well without fouling and we usually do well when we get to the free throw line a lot during the game,” Bears senior guard Gary Franklin said. “So, knowing that they don’t foul or they don’t have fouls called on them a lot is something to look at.” Wisconsin and Baylor had similar trajectories to a Sweet 16 berth in the West Regional. The Bears won 12 of their first 13 games; the Badgers won their first 16. BU then went on to lose eight of its next 10, but finished its regular season winning seven of its last eight. UW lost four of six and finished its regular season winning eight of the last nine games. Both teams have a versatile offense that can attack from the paint or the perimeter and have a defense that can play with any style of offense. With so many similarities, it may just boil down to desire. “It comes down to who wants it more,” Franklin said. “Who wants rebound more? Who wants to actually sit down and play defense and wants to make the extra plays and the extra pass for your teammates to

Travis Taylor The Baylor Lariat

Baylor hitting stride with return of starting guard Coming off of its 2013 NIT Title, Baylor opened its regular season winning 12 of its first 13 games, including victories over Sweet 16 teams Kentucky and Dayton. The Bears jumped to as high as seventh in the national rankings in early January. Then Baylor hit an offensive slump that would result in losses in eight of nine games, shooting no better than 40 percent in all but three of those losses. “I think we just got beat by better teams that were healthier and playing better than we were,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said in a press conference in Anaheim, Calif. Wednesday. In February, the Bears lost their starting point guard, Kenny Cherry, who was suffering from turf toe and didn’t see significant minutes for three games. But since Cherry has been back in the starting lineup, Baylor has gone 11-2. “When we got Kenny back, I think everybody recommitted themselves to the defensive end,” Drew said. The Bears rode their hot-streak into the Big 12 Championship game where they would lose to Iowa State 74-65. After receiving a No. 6 seed from the NCAA selection committee, Baylor blazed through the second and third rounds in San Antonio, Texas, beating No. 11 seed Nebraska by 14 and No. 3 seed Creighton by 30.

BAYLOR

ROSTER NAME

Pos. Ht. Wt.

Royce O’Neale

6-6 220

Kenny Chery

5-11 180

Rico Gathers

6-8 270

Gary Franklin

6-2 190

Brady Heslip

6-2 180

Johnathan Motley F

6-9 210

John Heard

6-5 200

Chad Rykhhoek

6-11 230

Logan Lowery

6-6 190

Isaiah Austin

7-1 225

Ish Wainright

6-5 245

Points Per Game

73.9

Allerik Freeman

6-3 200

37.5

Rebounds Per Game

33.2

Cory Jefferson

6-9 220

206

15.9

Assists Per Game

12.2

Taurean Prince

6-7 210

6-5

180

40.6

Field Goal Percentage Defense

43.1

Josh Clemons

6-8 230

7-0

234

11.9

Turnovers Per Game

8.0

Evan Anderson C

6-10 245

Zak Showalter

6-2

192

Zach Bohannon F

6-6

Riley Dearring

Frank Kaminsky F

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