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Madison police chief supports marijuana legalization Citing racial disparities, ineffective enforcement, Koval says he would rather prioritize violence and weapons than target ‘casual’ possession incidents

by Daniel McKay City Editor

Citing a history of inefficient enforcement and racial disparities, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said he supports the idea of legalizing marijuana.

As some serious drug issues are rising in Madison, such as a surge in heroinrelated crimes, Koval said he would rather see his force’s energy go toward solving those rather than continuing to pursue controlling marijuana crimes.

“Frankly, I’ve reached that threshold in my professional career, where I realize that the enforcement efforts have proven largely unsuccessful,” Koval said. “It just didn’t work. It wasn’t effective.”

Koval said he would reserve the criminal record for crimes of violence and weapons offenses, rather

than for casual possession of marijuana.

Koval cited the failure of the alcohol prohibition effort as an example of how ineffective absolute enforcement can be, saying he can imagine how “overwhelmed” officers felt. Rather than continue to criminalize people, Koval said he would rather see marijuana treated the same as alcohol and tobacco products are.

“I’m not endorsing the use of any of those substances, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, but I have just assumed that it would be heavily regulated and taxed, and that money would be earmarked for other therapeutic interventions or alternatives to incarceration,” Koval said.

As far as the impact on the University of Wisconsin campus, Koval said he believes legalization would not make much of a

difference. Depending on the age threshold, he said, the effects should be similar to the impact alcohol has on campus.

With that in mind, Koval said he wants to emphasize that he does consider this a serious matter, regardless of his use of the term “casual.”

The ultimate benefits of marijuana legalization for Wisconsin would be fewer arrests and fewer instances of racial disparities in incarceration, he said.

Racial disparity in drugrelated offenses in Madison, however, is something Koval said needs to be addressed sooner than later.

“The rate of arrests ... for possession of marijuana, as is the case of most possessory drug crimes, is significantly higher for African-American males than it is for the rest of the demographics of our city,” Koval said.

According to an analysis

by MPD, about 60 percent of people arrested for drug crimes last year were white.

The remaining portion of people arrested were black.

In comparison, Madison’s population is 75 percent white and only 7 percent black.

However, Lieutenant Jason Freedman of the Dane County Narcotics and Gang Task Force, said dividing drug crimes up by demographics is not a simple endeavor.

The task force investigates and tracks the sale of narcotics throughout the county, focusing its efforts largely on heroin, cocaine and marijuana. It is possible to see trends in the average profile of who is selling what, but Freedman said there are always exceptions.

While a large percentage of marijuana-related crimes in Madison involve black males, Freedman said the average large volume dealer is actually a white,

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college-aged male.

Koval said he does not think racial profiling is the problem, but rather a mix of social and economic issues that lead to higher instances of crime in certain “challenged” neighborhoods.

“Quite frankly, you have a higher incidence like that in these neighborhoods that are increasingly becoming challenged due to socioeconomic factors of poverty,” Koval said.

“That’s where we have a disproportionate amount of people of color living coincidentally.”

The issue is not just specific to the city, Koval said,

though Madison is where his priorities lie. He said Madison is representative of a much larger national issue that needs to be dealt with.

For now, Koval said he realizes he still has a responsibility to enforce the state’s drug laws. However, it is not the most urgent issue on his list.

“I look at the myriad of instances that confront the police, not the least of which is weapons offenses, crimes against persons and heroin,” Koval said. “In relative scale, casual possession of marijuana does not rise to the top of our things to do.”

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Plagiarism scandal shadows Nov. 4 election, experts say this could have impact on swing votes

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Gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke’s campaign is under scrutiny following a scandal in which parts of her jobs plan were discovered to be plagiarized.

After a Buzzfeed report showed that parts of Burke’s plan appeared to be lifted from passages from various campaigns, the Burke campaign responded by firing political consultant Eric Schnurer, who worked on writing the plan.

Burke told Gannett

Wisconsin Media Friday that it was not correct to call the situation plagiarism, since Schnurer copied the content from work he had done for previous politicians.

“Certainly we did not expect that [Schnurer] would take exact verbiage that he had written and provided to other plans,” Burke said.

“But these are ideas that I endorse and should be used in Wisconsin to ensure that Wisconsin has a leading economy, not a lagging economy.”

University of Wisconsin journalism professor Mike Wagner said although there

have been examples in history in which charges of plagiarism have derailed campaigns, he does not think this would have the same effect.

“I’m not convinced that what she did was plagiarism,” Wagner said. “She paid a political consultant to give her advice, and she took what she paid for.”

Wagner said the decision to accept that information was bad judgment, but it is unlikely she will lose her any of her current supporters.

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the campaigns, however, he sad they may see this as a lack of seriousness in Burke’s plan.

Wagner said how she handles this situation would be important when it comes to voters who do not know her very well.

“She acted quickly, fired the consultant. That was a smart move,” Wagner said.

“It’s usually best to just admit you were wrong and try to move on. The longer political candidates let these things twist in the wind, the

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Porch used as homeless refuge shut down Advocate told she can no longer allow her property to serve as shelter for Madison residents without housing options

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For some of Madison’s homeless population, former city alder and Occupy Madison spokesperson Brenda Konkel’s porch has been a place of refuge.

For two years, she opened up her property to those in need. Following a neighbor’s complaint resulting in a city zoning violation, her guests now need to find a new place to sleep.

“It was nothing we ever really intended to do,” Konkel said. “It was just trying to figure what to do when somebody had no options.”

Konkel kept her porch open to the homeless and provided lockers for people to store their belongings in. None of her neighbors ever brought it up to her, but now she said an absentee landlord nearby filed a complaint as he is trying to sell

his property.

Kyle Bunnow, housing inspection supervisor for the Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development, said the housing violation is a simple breach of the property’s zoning code.

“The main issue here is the fact that there are people living at the property that are not living in the dwelling unit, and the zoning code prohibits that,” Bunnow said.

Konkel said she thinks the lack of other housing options led people to her porch. She said single men and women are only allowed 60 days a year in shelter, as well as when the temperature drops below 20 degrees. Konkel said other affordable housing options only lead to waiting lists that can last years.

Konkel said she has become good friends with most of her guests. With more than 50 people staying on her porch in

the last two years, she said some relationships have been more personal than others.

One man, whom Konkel went to high school with, has a broken back. Konkel said he used the lockers to store his belongings and lessen the burden on his body.

“For him to carry around everything he owns was actually causing him more medical issues, so he came and put his stuff in the lockers,” Konkel said.

“He was able to take the braces off his legs that he had when he had to walk.”

Dane County Board Supervisor Heidi Wegleitner, District 2, said the city ordinances that prohibit people from sleeping in most areas around the city is half of the problem.

“We need to remove the laws that penalize homeless people for carrying out life-sustaining activities. We need to remove

the laws that penalize good, generous volunteers that are trying to help those people survive,” Wegleitner said.

Konkel said she places the blame on the city, not the housing and zoning departments. She said every zoning staff member she talked to felt awful about handing out the violation, but she understands that they just have to enforce the laws.

The other half of the problem, Wegleitner said, is lack of affordable housing for the city’s homeless.

“We don’t have the affordable housing we need to house people who are currently homeless,” Wegleitner said.

“I have heard that homeless services providers have actually referred people to her porch, so it’s strange and really unfortunate to see the city cracking down on this.”

Wegleitner said Dane County

itself is very behind in providing affordable housing, citing a study stating that the county would need to add 1,000 units of housing each year for the next 26 years in order to catch up with the homeless population’s needs.

However, Wegleitner said she is encouraged by Mayor Paul Soglin’s inclusion of a four year, $20 million affordable housing plan in his 2015 capital budget.

The budget includes funding for redevelopment of existing housing facilities as well as the construction of new buildings over the course of the next four years. Wegleitner said the budget is a start, but it is still not enough to turn around a local and national problem.

“Are we ever going to get to a point in time where there’s no homeless people? Probably not,” Wegleitner said, “but we really need to work together as a region to solve homelessness.”

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In a sea of more than 43,000 students, a University of Wisconsin program focusing on suicide prevention is hoping to teach Badgers to care for one another.

Umatter, an initiative within University Health Services, aims to spread awareness about mental health and suicide prevention so students know the resources available on campus and how to look out for their peers.

Valerie Kowis, suicide prevention coordinator with Umatter, said she wants to help raise awareness of mental health issues throughout the community, especially for staff and students to learn to notice warning signs of students in distress.

“We really do expect Badgers to look out for one another,” Kowis said. “I just think that the key message is, that if they themselves or a friend is in crisis, there are

services here, there are people on campus that want to help.”

As a primary prevention program, Umatter helps provide education to members of the UW community and promotes the various mental health services offered at UHS. Danielle Oakley, director of Mental Health Services at UHS, is in charge of overseeing the intervention services provided by UHS. She said the best way that UHS can help people with mental health is to help them access campus services. She said students can come to the 7th floor of UHS between 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, or they can call the UHS 24-hour crisis line.

She said this is open so that students have access to help at all hours, whether its at night, a weekend or the holidays.

UHS also provides psychiatry, and individual and group counseling to those struggling with mental health issues, Oakley said.

Students may be referred to a mental health provider, who

will see them on the medical floor. According to Oakley, UHS sees around 10 percent of the student body in mental health services each year, highlighting the importance of these programs.

Oakley said she believes early intervention is a main component in the effort to combat depression and various mental health issues.

“That’s part of suicide prevention, keeping it so that we recognize things early, get someone in treatment, and that they don’t have to go down the line and be in a situation where the student is really in crisis,” Oakley said.

If a student has to leave the school for mental health issues, UHS works directly with UW to help support the student, she said. If they return home, a care manager will help them access services at home, and Oakley said when they get back to campus, they are connected to services so they can stay in mental health treatment.

These programs allow students to help get back to an

academic track to graduation, Oakley said. She said with these services, UHS helps students manage their mental health issues so that they can stay in school.

At-Risk, introduced

by Umatter, is an online training program designed to train staff and students to recognize signs of students in distress, so they know how to communicate and make an effective referral.

Along with At-Risk is the Red Folder program. Similar to At-Risk, the Red Folder is a program designed to help recognize students in distress, and help make referrals to services on campus, Oakley said. It is an in-person training that takes around 15 minutes.

According to Oakley, faculty and staff are often the first to notice students are struggling, and have the ability to get them to appropriate services faster.

Ask.Listen.Save., a student organization that focuses on suicide prevention on campus, holds an annual Out of the Darkness Suicide

Prevention walk during the spring semester.

Stephanie Dietz, president of Ask.Listen.Save., said the UW suicide prevention walk has led the charge, holding the number one spot in the nation for campus suicide prevention walk fundraising.

The 2013 walk at UW raised $39,000 dollars for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, she said.

Dietz said she got involved with Ask.Listen.Save. her freshman year. Now a senior at UW majoring in psychology, Dietz said it is important for people to get past stigma of mental health so students feel comfortable talking about it.

“Whether it’s something personal, whether you know someone, it’s still okay to talk about the topic. And that’s something we are really trying to get students to be okay with ... We can’t just ignore it. We have to be able to talk about it, bring it to light, so we can start making strides to lowering suicide rates among college students,” Dietz said.

Alum lectures on African Ebola crisis University of Wisconsin graduate returned to speak to students on use of U.S. military as prevention of disease

by Amanda McEnroe Herald Contributor

University of Wisconsin alumnus Stephen J. Morrison returned to campus to address the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa, emphasizing the urgency of the present situation.

Morrison, a distinguished figure in both African studies and foreign affairs, earned an honorary degree from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science from UW. He currently serves as senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and

directs the CSIS Center for Global Health Policy.

The event was cosponsored by the Division of International Studies, the African Studies Program and the Global Health Institute, where Morrison discussed the exponentially increasing epidemic hitting few African countries.

The primary focus of the discussion was on the newly confirmed U.S. intervention, and the steps President Barack Obama is taking in order to fulfill a “moral obligation.” The growing concern over the magnitude of this outbreak is well validated, Morrison said.

“Ebola is complex. It’s cruel. It’s transformative.

It’s very fast moving,” he said. “We’ve never seen this phenomenon that’s now upon us.”

Referring to the current Ebola crisis as West Africa’s “darkest moment,” Morrison said the efforts the U.S. is putting forward to intervene will bring hope to the most heavily-infected areas of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The current West African outbreak, as of Sept. 14, has confirmed 5,335 cases with 2,622 deaths, the largest Ebola crisis ever recorded, Morrison said.

When compared to the 2000 outbreak affecting Uganda, with 224 deaths in 425 cases, he said these statistics have created an urgent need to intervene.

“The outbreak is now exponential. That means that every person infected is infecting one to two people and those one to two people become symptomatic within 21 days, and they infect one to two people,” Morrison said.

Morrison said a lack of surveillance, acutely weak health systems and massive distrust of authorities are all factors that led to the unremitting spread of the fatal disease.

Thus, Morrison said the early-mid cases of Ebola were driven “underground,” unseen and unheard of by authorities worldwide that were unaware of the significance of the epidemic.

Though the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders have all joined the fight against the disease, the ferocity of the spread and lack of adequate resources has led to direct U.S. intervention, he said.

“How do we explain what the turn around was?

First, the ferocious trajectory of the outbreak itself, the

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exponential growth,” Morrison said.

Through internal modeling, it has been estimated that the Ebola cases could reach half a million by Christmas if unstopped due to urban invasion, an incident that had never occurred before for this disease.

What Morrison refers to as an “abyss,” the end of this summer showed no alternative choice than to turn to the military for its vast numbers, knowledge of bio warfare training and expertise and logistics in airbridge lifts.

Morrison said with economic aid, the U.S. military hopes to establish a joint military command center in Liberia by deploying 3,000 troops.

The plan is to create an airbridge from Senegal and build additional treatment and isolation centers.

Training indigenous health care workers has become essential in eradicating the infection while also delivering home kits in order to prevent further spread.

Morrison said he questions if this is enough, and is uncertain if U.S. involvement will bring a decline in this fatal epidemic.

“We don’t know. The critical question is whether or not you can break transmission; whether you can isolate those that are infected and sick and you can break the chain of transmission,” Morrison said. “There’s no data or experiential base for doing this and that is going to be the critical challenge.”

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Still, Republicans are taking the opportunity to slam her campaign, accusing her of violating the plagiarism ethics of Madison Metropolitan School District, where she works as a board member, as well as universities she has attended, including Georgetown, London School of Economics and Harvard.

“It’s a sad day for Wisconsin when the Democratic nominee for governor misleads voters by offering a plagiarized jobs plan, in which she has staked her entire candidacy.

Wisconsin deserves better, and its clear that Mary Burke cannot be trusted to lead our state,” Stephan Thompson, Walker ’s campaign manager, said.

UW journalism professor and law expert Robert Drechsel said while there will not be any legal issues associated with this situation, it is an embarrassing incident for Burke’s campaign.

He said when language is borrowed that way, even if it is a case of a consultant who wrote the same things

UW School of Music to host festival series College will put on three events this year as opposed to usual 10-12 shows

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for various candidates, it is still plagiarism.

“At the very least, it’s pretty damn lazy and it shouldn’t happen,” Drechsel said. “All it can do is make people all the more cynical, if that’s possible, about the political process itself. Burke certainly did the right thing by firing that consultant, I would too.”

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From Baroque to brass, the University of Wisconsin School of Music will host a series of music festivals this year bringing new styles, musicians and composers to the campus.

Three short festivals and one year-long festival are planned, replacing the traditional 10 to 12 guest artists that would perform throughout the year.

“There is more excitement about a cluster of events around a topic or theme or individual,” said Susan Cook, director of the School of Music and professor of musicology. ”You can really go deeper and do more interesting programming when you have folks on campus for more than just one event.

It seems to be better for our students — they can really get

to know these visitors — and also more interesting to our audiences who can have a more sustained musical experience.”

The change in tradition is a new effort to bring in more of the surrounding community as well as students and faculty to School of Music events.

The festivals will last several days and feature performances, master classes, colloquia, workshops and lectures.

“It’s a nice time of transition here at the School of Music.

We have fun new people here and new ideas,” Katherine Esposito, manager of concerts and public relations at the School of Music, said. “I hope people start to notice what we are doing a little bit more here and join us. We’ve been here a long time, and we are trying to create events that are really intriguing.”

They are all public events,

with most being free; some galas and the three headlining concerts are ticketed.

Celebrate Brass!, organized

by John Aley, professor of trumpet, will kick off the festival season Oct. 8-13, featuring guests such as internationally acclaimed Norwegian tubist Oystein Baadsvik and composer Tony Plog. The festival will include brass-related concerts, masterclasses and open rehearsals.

The 4th Annual UWMadison/Madison Metropolitan School District Jazz Festival will follow in December, as well as a George Crumb-themed festival in March and the year-long Rediscovering Rameau.

Between Feb. 19-23, the School of Music will present “Seventy Degrees Below Zero,” the music of British composer Cecilia McDowall. The festival is McDowell’s first residency in the U.S. and will include her composition based on Robert Falcon Scott’s last letters home from the Antarctic.

Cook said she hopes students will experience the range and diversity of music available to them. “[We want students] to appreciate the contributions of their music-making friends, to see the School of Music as a gateway to a world of sounds, to be inspired to find their own modes of creativity,” she said.

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UW alumnus returns to teach writing class Danielle Evans will finish her new novel before she joins faculty

by Daniel McKay City Editor

The University of Wisconsin will welcome author and alumnus Danielle Evans to its creative writing program this spring, where she will teach fiction workshops similar to those she attended in Madison years ago.

Evans, who is on leave as part of her hiring agreement, is getting settled in Madison and finishing up the first draft of her new novel before she begins teaching next semester.

Evans first took writing as a career seriously in college, she said, when she began taking creative writing courses and talking to contemporary authors.

Originally from Washington D.C., she graduated from Columbia University in New York City with an anthropology degree and a creative writing certificate.

“That was the point in which I started realizing kind of what my life might look like as a writer as opposed to writing being just a thing I did while I had my real job and my real life,” Evans said.

She then got her graduate degree at University of Iowa in 2006 and attended UW’s fellowship program for the Creative Writing Institute. Evans got her first teaching job at Missouri State University, where she taught for a year before

moving back to D.C. Sean Bishop, creative writing program administrator at UW, said Evans’ time at UW was a factor in knowing how effective of a teacher she can be.

“We’ve known Danielle for quite awhile,” Bishop said, “so we know that she’s an incredible teacher of creative writing.

Certainly she was the best writer of our faculty search.”

Evans will be teaching graduate and undergraduate fiction workshops and an advanced fiction class.

She said the focus of the workshops is primarily improving the students’ editing skills. Even if not all of her students will go on to be a professional writer, Evans said learning to communicate effectively is a valuable professional skill.

“The editing part gets easier but the generating part is always kind of terrifying and painful because if you’re risking anything at all there’s always the chance that it can go terribly, wildly wrong,” Evans said.

Coming off the success of her first collection of short stories, “Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self,” she said the fun part of being a writer is being able to start all over again on the next project.

Evans said she is always aware of the critics that constantly say that “no one

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cares about writing anymore” or “the novel is dead.” However, she said her experiences in teaching have always proven this to be false.

“Every year someone publishes a piece that declares the novel dead,” Evans said. “One of the things I like about teaching is that you see that people are still engaging with writing and that it’s still a way that we learn to understand ourselves.”

As she wraps up the fi rst draft of her novel, Evans said she is excited to get back in the classroom and meet her graduate and undergraduate students.

On whether she plans to keep moving around the country or settle here in Madison, Evans said she is where she wants to be.

Bishop said the department even has plans for her to become a director of the Master of Fine Arts writing program or the one of the fellowship programs she was once a part of.

“I’ll be here as long as they let me stay,” Evans said. “I don’t think all writers want to be teachers, but I very much want to be both.”

Organization generates scholarships on campus University League raises thousands for students through social events

by Emily Neinfeldt Reporter

A University of Wisconsin organization formed by faculty wives in 1901 is still going strong today, with more than 400 members charged with the mission of generating scholarships for UW students.

University League, composed of faculty, students and the greater Madison community, aims to promote educational and social activities for its members more than a century after its inception.

The first meeting was held in spring of 1901 on the lawn of the wife of one of the pioneer members of the faculty. Today, University League members participate in volunteer and social opportunities with the overarching mission of raising scholarship funds.

“From among the 40 women present, committees were promptly formed … Teas, receptions and lawn parties were planned as suitable ways to promote social contacts for faculty as well as women students. Opportunities for helping girl students were found,” the Capital Times reported in 1929.

The largest volunteer program currently running is the University League’s partnership with Bookworms, president Kay Jarvis-Sladky said.

“Volunteers from the

University League go out to Head Start programs, which promote pre-literacy preparation, and read a book to children ages two to four,” Jarvis-Sladky said.“This program runs once a month for eight months a year, more or less the school year.”

General scholarships from the League are funded by membership dues, donations and their annual scholarship benefit invitation.

Jarvis-Sladky said membership dues are $30 a year.

The League is efficient with their dues, she said, as about 90 percent go back to scholarships.

“When we register our members on an annual basis there is an opportunity at every one of the activities to make a scholarship benefit,” Helen Lackore, endowed scholarship head, said.

The League also raises funds through a scholarship benefit invitation that is sent out to the members at the end of January.

This fundraiser raised $15,000 in 2014, contributing to the total of $22,800 the organization donated in general scholarships.

General scholarships are not designated in memorial for a certain individual or to a certain college at the university, Lackore said.

“University League does not make any decisions about where the scholarship money goes or to whom it goes,” Lackore said. “It simply goes into the scholarship

funds that each college has to offer to students and then whoever deals with scholarship money at the various colleges makes the decision about how many people receive a scholarship, how much money that is and who they are.”

In addition to general scholarships, the University League offers endowed scholarships which are generated when endowments are made by members in honor or memorial of a friend or family member, Lackore said. In 2014, more than $68,000 was donated in endowed scholarships.

“Some of those scholarships are not designated to any particular school,” Lackore said, “and some of them are.

Whatever university college our endowed givers want their endowment to go to, then they have the opportunity to designate.”

For those who do not wish to designate, the foundation manages the endowment.

Jarvis-Sladky said there is a fair distribution of endowment scholarships spread across the university. The University League gives the money to the schools, and those schools or colleges decide how to divide it up, she said.

Jarvis-Sladky said University League is always looking to expand membership in hopes to fund more scholarships and reach more Head Start programs around Dane County.

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Election choice simple after plagiarism blunder

by Zachary Walters College Republican Columnist

“I will make it my personal mission to give you an F and get you expelled from the University of Wisconsin,” stated one of my professors as he outlined his policy on plagiarism and cheating. His rationale behind this logic is that in the real world, taking someone else’s ideas as your own would not be tolerated, and it can have much more severe consequences than just a failing grade. In the real world, consequences include locking one in jail and tossing away the key.

Take the smartphone industry for example. In 2012, Apple decided to sue Samsung for patent infringement. After two years of fighting in the

courts, Apple won the case, and as a result Samsung had to pay Apple $929 million to make up for their cheating. All of this goes to show that cheating is not worth it, and that there are real consequences to stealing someone’s work whether it is patent infringement or plagiarizing.

Without a doubt, cheating can get you in a lot of trouble.

It can get you kicked out of school or even get you in some serious legal bind. In the real world, all of us are held by these standards.

Despite this, some in politics seem to be immune to the consequences of cheating.

The most recent example of this can be found in the upcoming governor’s race. To muster support in her corner, gubernatorial candidate Mary

Burke recently released her “Invest for Success” jobs plan in which she promised new, unique solutions to Wisconsin’s economic woes. Despite her positive intentions, the jobs plan quickly turned on her when Andrew Kaczynski published a Buzzfeed article that outlined blatant plagiarism in Burke’s jobs plan. When looking at Mary Burke’s “Invest for Success” jobs plan, one can easily see that it copies word for word various jobs plans used in previous Democrat campaigns. Here is a portion of Burke’s jobs plan that Kaczynski pointed out seems to be plagiarized: “And in the short-term, small-and medium-sized businesses have been hiring new employees at a faster rate than large companies since

the beginning of the economic recovery in 2009.”

Next, here is a section from a similar jobs plan that Kaczynski said that Burke’s plan was copied from. This text is from a jobs plan that was published in 2012 by John Gregg, a former Democratic candidate for governor in Indiana: “At the same time, small-and medium-sized businesses have been hiring new employees at a faster rate than large companies since the beginning of the economic recovery in 2009.”

Now, I am not a genius, but it is pretty obvious to me that Burke cheated while putting together her jobs plan.

So the question is: do we hold our politicians to the same standards that we hold our students? If we say that it is fine for Burke to get away with

this cheating, it must be okay for me to cheat on my exams.

It would be so much easier to get all of the answers from my friends than to actually put effort into my classes and get a good grade that way.

Burke’s response to this obvious plagiarism was to fire one of her campaign consultants, Eric Schnurer.

Burke said she had nothing to do with the plagiarism, and that she did not even know that sections of her plan were copied. Despite this claim, Burke’s excuse is equally disturbing. If Burke cannot manage the people running her campaigns, how can she ever hope to manage an entire state government?

If Wisconsin chooses to hold their politicians to the same standards that they do

with their students, they will re-elect Gov. Scott Walker. Not only has Walker not plagiarized his jobs plan, but he also has an incredible record as far as the economy is concerned.

He created more than 100,000 jobs in Wisconsin, cut taxes, balanced the state budget and even managed to throw a tuition freeze into the mix.

Looking at the facts, the choice is obvious. You can choose someone who cheated and does not have many, if any, unique ideas for success, or you can vote for someone who has executed a unique and effective jobs plan. As for me, I will be voting for Walker.

Zachary Walters (gopbadgers@gmail.com) is the communications director of the College Republicans.

Burke’s in-office aims insufficient Walker’s specific education, economic ideas will instigate change in Wis.

by AMY HASENBERG Contributor

As a state, Wisconsin has plenty of room for improvement in order to better help citizens’ livelihoods. There is a dire need for job creation, and the economy can always use improvement. If you look at the plans for job creation

by Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke, both present some very favorable points in their overarching vision for Wisconsin.

The commonalities between the two candidates’ agendas are a focus on education, aid to the private sector and a desire to continue and expand job growth. One major contrast between the two is that Burke seems to provide only a basic economic explanation for how to grow the economy, whereas Walker gives both an economic explanation and specifics on what policies he will institute in order to create change.

Burke discusses how investment is a quintessential factor in creating jobs in the state. True. Reading an economic textbook would tell you the same thing.

Investment allows companies to expand production which

creates a labor demand.

But, how is that investment actually going to take place?

Where is it going? Burke is fast to criticize Walker, but she really has not introduced any plans regarding how she will create change.

Burke has also harshly criticized the school voucher system and the elimination of collective bargaining for public employees. Candidates will always criticize other candidates, but typically they will also create a plan that has specific actions for the voters to consider. Burke’s plan is full of words like “strengthen,” “invest,” “boost” and “stop.”

These words produce a nice facade of an individual who is aware of a problem and wants to implement some sort of solution. But, what is the solution? What exactly is she going to do to provide support to the middle class?

The ambiguity in Burke’s plan would give her the ability to do something entirely different if she is elected into office. That means that the people could not hold her accountable for not executing specific plans which they voted on.

There are actually a few specific components to Burke’s plan, one of which is to raise the minimum

wage. That sounds great to individuals, like students, who often make the standard $7.25.

However, raising the minimum wage is a temporary solution to a much larger and complex problem.

This initial raise will cause prices to go up on products, meaning that this raise is essentially insignificant.

Alternatively, Walker ’s plan is different. Primarily, he is much more specific on most of his issues. This could be the consequence of being the incumbent, but either way it does not excuse Burke from presenting her economic plan during the election. This is especially significant considering many individuals base their vote off candidates’ economic plans. Specifics are important, especially when dealing with the economy. Everyone wants to fix it, but there is always a debate as to how. (Remember the government shut-down?)

Walker actually tells you what he wants to do and how he plans to do it.

Walker ’s plan has a very specific Wisconsin-centered focus. His proposals for education are all about Wisconsin; taxes will be reduced (property, income tax and taxes in manufacturing and agriculture); and to

promote private sector growth and thus further job creation, he plans to reduce barriers to entry into the market for new companies and small businesses.

Other changes which, if instituted, would have an economic impact include refusal to institute Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) and instituting a regulatory drug test for those seeking unemployment benefits or food stamps.

Education is something Walker is planning to focus on in order to create job growth. He plans to implement state educational standards, meaning students from Wisconsin will remain competitive when compared to students from other states.

Another major consequence of this is that educational standards are created in Wisconsin for Wisconsin, not Common Core which are educational standards created in Washington as a universal plan for all students.

In addition, Walker plans to continue the tuition freeze on the University of Wisconsin System for two more years.

This is done so that college is not a pipedream for individuals not yet enrolled and for current students, in order to continue their education without being at the mercy of yet another tuition hike (at least for the next two years).

Promotion of education and enhancing skills will make individuals more desirable candidates for jobs, and individuals can then receive higher pay based on their skillset. This does not mean that higher pay will cause prices of goods and services to go up universally, like raising the minimum wage would.

The reduction in taxes and barriers for new companies will promote business growth and entrepreneurship because the money reserved for taxes is freed and instead used to seek innovation and new hires. The private sector, in this scenario, is given the tools to expand if these plans are executed properly with

Photo · As Election Day draws nearer, Burke’s continued lack of a tangible economic and educational plan will hurt her chances of taking the Capitol from Walker.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald individuals taking advantage of the opportunities.

These are all specific plans to address specific Wisconsin problems. We need explicit solutions, not just general outlines to respond to problems that have a huge impact on Wisconsin. Burke needs to present specifics for her economic policy. Until she does so, a vote for Burke is not a vote for change.

Amy Hasenberg (ahasenberg@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in political science with a certificate in African Studies.

‘The Wisconsin Promise’ should be a reality for students State Republicans must enact legislation, similar to the Tennessee Plan, to make higher education available for all interetsed individuals

by ADAM JOHNSON Columnist

It’s no secret that we need some fresh ideas to right the sinking ship of higher education in Wisconsin.

Governor after governor, both Democrat and Republican, have fleeced the University of Wisconsin System’s budget to pay for other priorities or just lessen the tax burden on the state. State contributions

have gone down substantially while the amount students pay continues to increase.

Gov. Scott Walker continues to tout his tuition freeze as a solution to help limit student debts but ignores one basic fact: the biggest cause of student debt is states’ dwindling investment in their public universities. In 2003, state dollars supported 27.33 percent of the UW System budget. In 2013, that number

dropped to 19.24 percent.

This is just the most recent segment of a more than 40year trend of defunding higher education, but is an important part in getting to the root of student debt.

While students nationally are bearing the brunt of this decreased funding, Tennessee is pioneering an innovative solution: free higher education for high school graduates.

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Erin Zess (zess@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in microbiology and history

The Tennessee Promise is billed as a solution to rising debt and as a gateway for more young students to access higher education, particularly those from lower income brackets or from areas which, traditionally, have much lower levels of educational attainment. The program offers graduates of Tennessee high schools free schooling at any of its 13 twoyear colleges if the students can maintain a 2.0 or higher GPA while enrolled full time and commit to eight hours of community service per semester. Additionally, each student is assigned a mentor to help transition into the college lifestyle and answer questions as a friend rather than a teacher or parent.

It is important to note this is a “last-dollar” program which kicks in funds to cover the cost of education after other funding sources, such as scholarships and Pell Grants, have been exhausted.

This helps minimize the cost to the state and maximize their limited resources. Initial estimates place the program’s cost at approximately $34 million annually, but it will be partially funded by transferring existing scholarship money into the program’s funding and using

some state lottery funds to create an endowment where interest can fund the remainder.

Why can’t we do the same thing in Wisconsin?

Wisconsin, like Tennessee, has 13 two-year colleges and it would be relatively simple, as policy goes, to emulate the Tennessee program.

While free education for high school graduates seems like a liberal pipedream for many, Tennessee, like Wisconsin, claims a Republican governor and Legislature, so clearly there is common ground to reach.

Breaking it down simply, the UW colleges currently receive $44 million from tuition dollars. However, with UW System college students receiving $33 million annually in financial aid (80 percent of those funds from federal sources), the cost to the state will be less than the $44 million amount.

The Tennessee Promise is promoted as a program to recruit students who typically pass on college, including lower-income and first-generation students.

Increasing the pool of in-state talent not only creates a better work force for existing jobs, but new jobs will be created as a result of a more educated

population. We could even improve on the Tennessee program by potentially subsidizing additional semesters if the students agree to stay in-state for at least a year after graduation.

Currently, the UW System as an extension of the state offers many such incentives.

One notable example is that graduates from the UW Law School are not required to take the bar exam to practice in Wisconsin. By adding some creative incentives into the program, we could ensure the best and brightest remain in Wisconsin and make new contributions.

Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam continues to praise the Tennessee Promise: “It is a promise we have an ability to make … net cost to the state, zero.

Net impact on our future, priceless.” If Republicans in multiple positions across the country can push free higher education programs, why can’t Wisconsin’s Republican Party do the same?

A Wisconsin Promise is a promise we can, and ought to, make.

Adam Johnson (amjohnson25@gmail.com) is a graduate student at La Follette School of Public Affairs.

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The Head and the Heart bid farewell to summer The band’s performance brought Majestic’s Live on King Street series to a close, entertained crowd with harmony, praise for Spotted Cow

by JACK FINNEGAN ArtsEtc. Writer

The Head And The Heart showed up in fine form to their outdoor performance Friday night, projecting the soulful harmonies they are so famous for. The crowd was already warmed up by the nice weather, the view of a glowing capital and a commendable amount of casual drinking.

This all added up to an unforgettable experience with a great touring band and one last taste of a Madison summer on MLK Blvd.

The band’s set pulled equally from their two studio albums, alternating between songs from Let’s Be Still, released in 2013, and their self-titled debut from 2010. What impresses me about The Head And The Heart is there ability to take great but low-key studio recordings and transfer them to the stage. Their performance style, at times, makes you want to raise

your fist in the air, close your eyes, nod and await a mosh pit that’s never going to come during songs such as “Shake,” “Cats & Dogs” and “Homecoming Heroes.”

Their great stage presence was established immediately by the presence of vocalist Jonathan Russell, who takes on the role of front man in fan favorites such as “Lost In My Mind” and “Down In The Valley.” He had the confidence to come out in an outfit that could only be described as belonging to a carnival barker from the 1920s, one he would slowly strip away over the course of the show. Drummer Tyler Williams also aided in the rock feel of the show with his signature head banging and use of a maraca as a drumstick, proving that folk drummers can look just as cool as punk rock drummers if they’re dedicated enough to the role.

The moments of spectacle were undercut

with intimate performances that reflect the feel of the band’s albums, made possible by the harmonies that have come to define them.

The combination of the soulful sound of Russell and Josiah Johnson with the more jazzy inflection of sole female member Charity Rose Thielen results in this unique harmony.

They create a sound that seems to do justice to every single broken heart that has ever existed in the Seattle region, their home base. The band illustrated this during the

performance of “Winter Song,” which silenced the Madison crowd for a brief moment.

Throughout the show, band members expressed their appreciation of the audience and the city in general, with Thielen singing the praises of Spotted Cow as the best beer in America. It’s a

Photo · The Head and the Heart proved themselves to be effortlessly charismatic Friday, giving speeces about the greatness of Spotted Cow. Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald

speech she gave the last time I saw them in Madison and, once again, it properly received one of the biggest applauses of the night from a proud audience.

Perhaps the coolest moment of the show, however, was when Russell came out for the encore and played a soft unreleased love song, asking the audience to break out their phones and tape the performance so the person who it was about could see it. It garnered a collective “awww” from every girl in the audience. Even I was little attracted to him at that moment, because, dammit, I’m a sensitive man and that request was adorable.

In the end there is

Photo · The soulful harmonies of Russell and Josiah Johnson appealed to every broken heart in the Live on King Street crowd Friday night.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald very little that can go wrong when you combine good weather, good beer and live music. This is especially apparent when you remember that in a few months we’ll all be figuring out how to wear as little clothing as possible and survive the walk to a sweaty rave at the Majestic or Orpheum. The Head And The Heart gave us one last summer night Friday.

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ISIS, Hamas and the Black Flag of Global Jihad How dangerous is global jihad to the U.S., Israel and the rest of the world—and how should we deal with this threat?

Terrorist groups ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), Hamas, al Qaeda and Boko Haram have in common their disdain for Western values, their murderous disregard for human life and their goals of conquering vast lands in the name of Islam. Because they consider jihad a divine mission, they refuse to surrender or negotiate peace. other terrorist acts, killing thousands of innocent civilians. Boko Haram has distinguished itself by ISIS, the latest, most brutal and militarily murdering some 5,000 citizens, including 2,000 in successful Islamist terror group, grew as an offshoot 2014 alone, kidnapping 300 Christian schoolgirls and of al Qaeda in Syria. The group now controls huge driving 650,000 Nigerians from their homes. swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, massive stores of What Can Be Done? Islamist terror groups are armaments, some 15,000 soldiers and billions of clearly ascendant, increasing their carnage and dollars in assets. ISIS’s avowed goal is to create an influence daily and increasingly threatening Middle Islamic caliphate—empire—consisting of land it Eastern nations, perceives to belong to Western Europe, and the Islam, including most of “We will drown you in blood.” the Middle East, North - ISIS Internet Video U.S. Indeed, American Secretary of State Kerry Africa and Spain. In recent months ISIS has “We love death like our enemies love life.” called ISIS a force of savage, slaughtered—in many - Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh “ugly, inexplicable, nihilistic cases beheaded— and valueless evil.” thousands of innocent Christians, Yazidis and Shiite Likewise, British Prime Minister David Cameron has Muslims, whom the group considers apostates to called Hamas’s intentional attacks on Israeli civilians Islam. ISIS’s bloody conquest has been virtually “barbaric.” Comparable adjectives have been used to unimpeded by Syrian and Iraqi armies and ignored by describe the ruthless and fanatical brutality of al Western nations, despite the group’s warning to the Wes Qaeda and Boko Haram.

U.S. that “we will drown you in blood.” Indeed, U.S. While most of the world’s nations agree that the intelligence affirms that ISIS’s long-term goal is to inte global Islamist jihad must be stopped, its attack atta America and the West. perpetrators have implacably refused to surrender or Likewise, Hamas, a terrorist Palestinian splinter Li negotiate a peace. All remain unconditionally group grou of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has killed committed to the defeat of Islam’s “infidel” enemies hundreds of innocent Israelis through suicide bombs hun and colonizing their lands. Even Hamas in its recent and launched more than 13,000 rockets aimed at conflict with Israel broke all 11 ceasefire agreements, Israeli Isra civilians from Gaza. It has also abducted and rendering peace talks impossible and subjecting murdered Israeli children. Since Hamas violently mur Palestinian citizens to more suffering. seized seiz control of Gaza in 2007, it has ruled with an While no Western nation seeks another war in the iron Islamist hand, imposing strict sharia religious Middle East or Africa, we must ask how long these law, law a , crushing civil rights and driving Christian Arabs terrorist aggressors should be permitted to kill and out by the thousands. Hamas’s charter states its goal expel civilian populations and conquer others’ is to conquer the entire Holy Land and kill all its territories. Indeed, since these groups show no signs Jews.

Jew Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has proclaimed of relenting their murderous terror campaigns, that “we love death like our enemies love life.” No responsible Western nations, led by the United States, wonder then, that the group readily sacrificed won should consider urgent action for stopping them. thousands of its own people by using them as human thou While Israel is helping to fight Hamas—in fact is shields shie in its war on Israel. compelled to do so since Hamas attacks its citizens Other Ot Islamist terror groups, such as al Qaeda, with daily—Israel cannot hold back the jihadi tide by cells throughout the Middle East and Africa, and itself. It needs the unalloyed support of the West for Boko Bok Haram in Nigeria, use equally bloodthirsty its fight. But even more, the world needs Western tactics tact in their jihad to expel foreign influences from nations to defeat the global jihad . . . before these “Muslim lands” and create a worldwide caliphate. Al “Mu terror groups swallow more territory, enslave more Qaeda, Qae of course, engineered the 9/11 attacks, the people and strike our homeland once again.

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ROBIN HOOD ON FOUR WHEELS Amir Morning spent his life savings and lost his girlfriend to give drunk college students free, safe rides home with the Madtown Hopper

by ERIK SATEREN ArtsEtc. Editor

It’s 11 p.m. on a Monday night and Amir Morning has just pulled up in front of my house. He blasts Avicii as he fusses with the neon lights that line the inside of his Madtown Hopper, a small electric car used to give free rides to people in downtown Madison.

We introduce ourselves, and he checks to see if the clothes I’m wearing are warm. He looks like a man who’s been transplanted from the streets of Paris: His clothes are fashionable and tight-fitting and he smells strongly of quality cologne.

He looks good, but he also looks warm — an attribute that will only increase in importance as the night drags on and temperatures plummet into the low 40s.

We drive to the State Street area, and Morning cranks the music loudly. He tells me he’ll often turn up the Hopper ’s music to get people to notice the vehicle. Tonight is a Monday, so State Street looks like a ghost town. Because he’ll be getting less business tonight, he proactively parks himself in front of areas with the most people. Naturally, he begins at Madhatters.

A man named Derek stands outside the bar, visibly intoxicated.

“What the hell is that?”

Derek shouts.

“It’s a free ride service,” Morning says.

“Fucking free? I’m fucking with y’all,” Derek says. He gets in the Hopper.

Derek says something about going to the Capitol Square area, and Morning heads in that direction. Along the way, he picks up a couple walking home. They both wear backpacks and appear to be entirely sober. Derek’s presence is the complete opposite of theirs, but the loud music drowns out any potentially awkward social dynamics.

Morning drops the couple off near Butler Street. As he drives around the Capitol, blasting Skrillex and changing the setting on the Hopper ’s LED lights to “strobe,” it becomes very clear that Derek has no idea where he’s going.

“Where do you wanna go?” Morning asks.

“I don’t give a fuck,” Derek says. “This shit is so fun.”

So, after a 10-minute ride, Derek gets dropped back off at Madhatters. Derek asks how much he owes Morning.

Nothing, Morning says, because it’s a free ride.

A Hopper’s Origins Morning first got the idea for Madtown Hopper while on vacation in Miami. He saw the same car being used to transport tourists around South Beach. Inspiration struck.

“I said, ‘You know what? I want to buy one,’” Morning said.

When Morning came back to Madison, he and his girlfriend began planning a ride service that would utilize these electric cars. The couple had trouble deciding how they would differentiate their company from the other cab companies operating in the Madison area, as well as newcomers like Lyft and Uber.

Morning found inspiration from a TED Talk by Amanda Palmer, the lead singer of The Dresden Dolls. After a concert, a man offered Palmer a $10 bill, saying he felt bad because he had gotten all of her music from a friend, for free. Shortly afterward, she decided to release all her music for free, allowing fans to donate if they wished. She crowd funded a studio album and made $1.2 million by asking people to pay rather than forcing them to.

Morning came up with the idea of a free ride service.

Instead of forcing people to pay for a ride, he’d let them

pay if they wanted to.

He and his girlfriend bought two Hoppers, hoping to operate both in the downtown Madison area.

The two worked with Ald. Scott Resnick, District 2, and Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, to create an ordinance for the operation of low-speed vehicles like the Hopper in downtown Madison. Her father was troubled by his daughter’s ideas, questioning how they would make money from the service and calling Morning an idiot, Morning said.

“Nobody wants to hear that when they’re passionate about something,” Morning said.

Her father made her sell the Hopper she had purchased. She ended up selling it to Green Cab, a company that had become Madtown Hopper ’s main source of competition.

Green Cab offered to buy his Hopper and allowed him to bring his free ride service to their company. Morning had invested his life savings in Madtown Hopper, and he refused to give up so soon.

He declined the company’s offers. (According to a Capital Times article, Green Cab General Manager Phil Anderson said they never offered to purchase Morning’s vehicle or give him a job.)

This ordeal sparked the beginning of an ongoing tension between Morning and Green Cab. It also marked the end of he and his girlfriend’s relationship. Morning was now the sole operator of Madtown Hopper.

A Safe, Free Ride Amir Morning was born in California, but because his father was an international businessman and he had no mother, he was raised overseas in Syria, Ukraine, Russia, Spain, Egypt and various other countries.

He attributes his idea for

Madtown Hopper to his worldly upbringing.

“Without me traveling, I would never have had this idea. You see things in different countries that you don’t see where you’re actually from,” Morning said.

“If you only know one thing, you can only know so much.

Your imagination can grow by seeing different things.

It changes your idea of how people live and how people survive in different places. I think that’s very important for being a part of a change in your own community.”

So far, that change has manifested itself in free, safe rides for people in downtown Madison who might otherwise not be able to make it home safely. Morning now operates every night of the week, saying that if he were to take a night off, he would feel guilty thinking about people who might need a safe ride home.

“There’s no way for me to shut it down on certain nights because it’s easier for me or it’s cheaper for me. I know I’m going to get phone calls from people who are drunk and need help, and I’m not going to be able to sleep that night because I wasn’t able to help them out,” Morning said.

An Unorthodox Business Model Morning and I finish an interview by the Capitol, and a couple walks up to us.

They begin asking questions about the brightly-lit vehicle currently playing Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way.” Morning tells them to hop in.

We begin asking them questions. Their names are Mark and Lisa. They’re from San Francisco, and they’re in town on business. Lisa made Mark try tequila shots for the first time ever tonight.

They’re both very drunk. “I’m a shot virgin,” Mark says.

“What even is tequila?”

As we drive to the Campus Inn, where they’re staying, Morning plays Disclosure’s “Latch” for the third time in two hours. Mark and Lisa howl like wolves in the backseat as Morning whips around corners. He looks in his rearview mirror at the couple howling with joy. He cracks a smile.

Morning drops the couple off and Mike attempts to give him a $20 bill. Morning tells him to keep it and give Madtown Hopper a “like” on Facebook. He gives Mike his number in case he needs another ride home while he’s in town. They thank Morning and enter the hotel.

As I ride along with him, I watch Morning turn down numerous tips. By the end of the night, he’s made about $5.

Morning says he turns down tips because he wants people to know they don’t have to pay for his service. If someone insists he take a tip, he will.

“The only reason why they pulled out money in the first place was because they felt that they needed to pay,” Morning said. “Some people will say, ‘Are you sure?’ As soon as they say ‘Are you sure?’ I right away learn that they probably don’t have that much money and they kind of need it. So I say, ‘Keep your money, go home, have a good time and be safe.’ If they have to ask if I’m sure they can keep their money, then they’re pretty much asking me if they can keep their money.”

Morning tells me his primary goal right now is to get the word out about Madtown Hopper rather than make money. In the future, he hopes companies will sponsor his company and advertise on the side Hopper, which he’ll be installing doors on when the cold winter months arrive.

“I’m hoping to land big companies like Red Bull, Coca-Cola,” Morning said. “I’m up for alcohol companies, promoting social responsibility — drinking responsibly and riding responsibly. I think there’s a lot of synergy in that: promoting a company that sells alcohol but also stepping up to offer free rides to people who are drinking their products.”

With enough advertising revenue, Morning hopes to hire drivers (who will be able to keep tips in addition to a fixed income), purchase more cars and expand his service across the United States.

“My dream is to have it on every college campus in the U.S.,” Morning said.

A Growing Fanbase

Photo · The Madtown Hopper is lined with LED lights that change colors rapidly to the sounds of booming electronic music.

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Photo · On weekend nights, Amir Morning gets an average of 80 calls from people in the downtown area looking for a free ride on his Madtown Hopper.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald For now, Morning has developed a cult-like following among people who frequent downtown Madison bars. People shout his name from sidewalks.

He gives high-fives to passersby as he drives down State Street. He has regular customers who have begun to utilize him as a regular form of transportation. He allows customers to call his cell phone for rides. When a customer requests a ride, he’s usually able to pick them up within five to 10 minutes.

Morning now receives about 80 calls a night on weekends.

On these weekends, he usually ends his work night at 4 a.m.

While we’re still out, Morning gets a call from Sergio and Kenneth, two UW students who work for SAFEwalk, a service that provides walking escorts for students after dark. They’re all done for the night, and they’re looking for a ride home.

Sergio and Kenneth acknowledge the irony in giving a safe ride to SAFEwalkers, then offer their praise for the service.

“I love the Hopper. It’s my favorite way to get home on any given weekend,” Sergio says.

“The Hopper is the most clutch ride in Madison. Way better than the [Metro Transit route] 80,” Kenneth says.

For people like Sergio and Kenneth, Madtown Hopper has become an essential tool for getting around quickly and safely after dark. Morning is proud to be known for this.

“It’s kind of a Robin Hood thing,” Morning said. “I’m taking money from the big companies and providing a free service for people who don’t have money, like broke college kids.”

Morning and I end our night together by driving three girls from Vintage to their home on Butler Street.

We pull up in front of their house and they invite us inside.

Morning hasn’t received a call in more than an hour, the streets are dead and it’s uncharacteristically cold for a mid-September night, so we go inside. The girls give us chocolate cake and hot tea. We all sit around for an hour, talking about life.

As our conversation ends, Morning says they’re some of his favorite customers. The girls object to this label.

“Sorry, I mean friends,” Morning says.

They give him hugs, and Morning and I step outside into the cold night. He drops me off at my house. I walk into my front door and hear loud EDM slowly fading into the night.

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Player of the Week

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back spot, which is really a place that he’s never played much. He looked at me like I had 12 heads when I

20 The number of first downs Eastern Michigan’s defense surrendered to Michigan State before finally getting one of its own. The offensive futility for the Eagles wasn’t even the most embarrassing stat, as they finished the first half with one total yard on offense.

mentioned it to him.” — UW head coach Gary Andersen

1. Florida State: 23-17 W vs. No. 22 Clemson — Sean Maguire threw for 305 yards and one touchdown with star quarterback Jameis Winston sidelined for the entire game, and the host Seminoles escaped with the overtime win.

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2. Oregon: 38-31 W at Washington State — Marcus Mariota continued his early season dominance, completing 21 of 25 passes with 329 yards and five touchdowns, as the Ducks defense stopped the Cougars on a late drive to preserve the Pac 12 victory.

3. Alabama: 42-21 W vs. Florida — Leading by only seven points at halftime, the Crimson Tide pulled away in the second half behind 445 passing yards for Blake Sims and more than 200 receiving yards from Amari Cooper.

4. Oklahoma: 45-33 W at West Virginia — The Sooners outscored the host Mountaineers 21-9 in the second half with three of Samaje Perine’s four rushing touchdowns coming in the final two quarters to earn their first Big 12 win.

5. Auburn: 2o-14 W at Kansas State — Nick Marshall threw for 231 yards, including a 39-yard strike with more than two minutes left, to help the Tigers hold on for their first road non-conference win over a ranked team since 1984.

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8. LSU: 34-29 L vs. Mississippi State — Despite 19 fourth quarter points, the Tigers couldn’t overcome Bulldog quarterback Dak Prescott’s 268 yards passsing and 105 yards rushing in a upset home loss.

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9. Notre Dame: DNP. Next game vs. Syracuse Saturday at MetLife Stadium.

1. Marcus Mariota – QB, Oregon

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Saturday: 21-25, 329 yards, 5 touchdowns

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Saturday: 16-22, 265 yards, 2 TD, 57 rush yards

Saturday: 229 rushing yards, 2 touchdowns

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19. Wisconsin: 68-17 W vs. Bowling Green — Wisconsin set a school rushing record with 644 yards on the ground and accumulated 756 total yards, also a school record.

20. Kansas State: 20-14 L vs. No. 5 Auburn — Kicker Jack Cantele missed two field goals in the first half that proved to be the difference in the game. Quarterback Jake Waters had two costly interceptions, including one in the endzone.

21. BYU: 41-33 W vs. Virginia — The Cougars trailed by 3 at the half (16-13), but bounced back strong offensively. Adam Hine returned a kickoff 99 yards halfway through the fourth quarter to seal the victory for undefeated BYU. 22. Clemson: 23-17 (OT) L at No. 1 Florida State — Clemson failed to capitalize on Jameis Winston’s suspension and inexperienced quarterback Sean Maguire.

The Tigers missed two short field goals early in the game, and coach Dabo Swinney elected to go for it in the fourth quarter during their first possession of OT, rather than kick a field goal. FSU’s Karlos Williams won the game on the next possession with a 12-yard touchdown run.

24. Nebraska: 41-31 W vs. Miami (Fla.) — Heisman candidate Ameer Abdullah had 229 rushing yards as the Huskers downed the Hurricanes in Lincoln.

25. Oklahoma State: DNP. Next game home against Texas Tech.

Badgers’ Report Card Offense - A : The numbers speak for themselves when you take a look at the Wisconsin offense’s performance against Bowling Green. It would be hard not to award the unit an “A” after setting school records in both total yards and rushing yards. But it wasn’t just Melvin Gordon’s performance that led to the gaudy numbers put up by the offense Saturday. It was an all-around beat down by the offensive unit that also included 100yard rushing performances from Corey Clement and Tanner McEvoy, and even recentlyconverted running back, Dare Ogunbowale, who finished with 94 yards. Although the passing game was rarely used, McEvoy did hit Sam Arneson for a 34-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter, who finished the day with a team-high 63 receiving yards.

Special Teams - B+ : When returner Kenzel Doe gets north to south, he is a formidable return man. He had two big punt returns of 57 and 38 yards that set up the Badger offense up in great field position. Doe's two kick returns went for a combined 72 yards.

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Coaching – A : The Badgers’ coaching staff did an excellent job on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball Saturday. In the early going on offense, offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig called a diverse set of plays that allowed the run game to open up after the first quarter. His use of dual-threat Tanner McEvoy early on forced the Bowling Green defense to have to choose between McEvoy or Melvin Gordon, which really helped Gordon have the day he did. On defense, defensive coordinator Dave Aranda had his unit well prepared for the up-tempo style of Bowling Green. Despite the game being tied at seven early, the defense dug in and seemed to be ready for any look the Falcons were going to throw at them, thanks to the coaches who made sure the right packages were on the field for the Badgers.

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Gordon’s day did not start out as well as he and Badger fans hoped. On his first carry of the day, he fumbled the football for the first time in his career. That broke a streak of 332 carries without losing the ball.

Bowling Green would score on the next play, tying the game at seven.

The fumble would motivate Gordon for the rest of the game.

“I didn’t let it get me down too much,” Gordon said. “It’s a lot of football left to be played, can’t let that get me down. But I definitely felt I had to make up for it and I did that.”

He sat out most of the next drive as the Badgers marched down the field, with sophomore Corey Clement carrying the load at tailback. Gordon’s next touch was a two-yard touchdown run that he bounced to the outside.

On the next drive, Gordon was re-inserted as the number one back and reeled off a 40-yard run that reminded everybody of vintage Melvin Gordon. The drive was killed the next play when redshirt junior quarterback Tanner McEvoy fumbled the snap and Bowling Green recovered.

With 12:16 remaining in the second quarter, Gordon trucked ahead for a 13yard gain. Two plays later, Gordon burst between the tackles and streaked right down the middle of the field, threw a vicious stiffarm to a retreating safety, and scampered into the end zone for his second score of the game.

The next drive for Wisconsin took 11 plays and covered 57 yards, all

on the ground between McEvoy, Gordon and Clement. Gordon capped off the drive with a three-yard touchdown.

Gordon’s fourth touchdown came with under a minute remaining in the first half from 21 yards out, when he broke two Bowling Green tackles and pin-balled his way to the outside for the score.

Gordon said the two weeks he had to digest the Western Illinois performance allowed him to focus on what he wanted to accomplish.

“As a player, as a competitor, that’s not the type of performance you want to have,” Gordon said.

“So I just kept thinking about that every day in practice and it motivated me.”

Clement took over the running duties during the third quarter. The compact, bruising-back finished off a 87-yard drive with a tough 13-yard run and punched it in from one-yard away later in the quarter.

Clement finished with 111 yards on 16 carries, and was proud to be a part of this record-setting attack.

“He’s a great guy,” Clement said of Gordon.

“Trying to keep up with him in practice, me and him compete, and that’s what I think gives us the best results.”

Clement also added that this game was a confidence booster for the entire running back unit after that disappointing showing against Western Illinois.

However, the rushing yards didn’t just come from the running back position. McEvoy had a big game running the ball as well, showing why he’s considered a dual-threat

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quarterback, going for 158 yards on 11 attempts. His longest run of the day was 62 yards and set up Clement’s first touchdown in the third quarter.

McEvoy started the Badgers’ scoring on their first play from scrimmage in the game, keeping it on a read-option play and taking it to the end zone for a 24-yard touchdown run.

Wisconsin has now had three rushers individually eclipse the 100-yard mark in five of its last 18 games. And they were just six yards away from having four 100-yard rushers.

Redshirt sophomore Dare Ogunbowale entered the game in the third quarter to attempt his first career touches. The former defensive back and special teams player converted to running back this week after the coaching staff saw the potential he had at the position.

“The offensive coaches saw him in a drill during camp that we call speed in space ... and Dare was very hard to tackle in those situations,” Andersen said. “I was all for the it [the change]. And the young man was all for it.”

Ogunbowale carried the ball 14 times for 94 yards in his debut at running back. Ogunbowale said that he was able to experience success because of the play of his offensive line, which calmed his nerves.

“First game, I was pretty nervous,” Ogunbowale said.

“After I broke through, we have an unbelievable O-line ... the hole was huge so I just ran as far as I could. After that, the butterflies got out of my stomach.”

This unit now knows how great its potential is, and they intend on reaching it

every outing. However, they know that the main goal is to keep winning football games.

“I think we all had fun as a group,” Clement said. “It’s a great accolade to come across, but as long as we get the ‘W’ in the end that’s all that really matters.”

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Photo · Sophomore Corey Clement ran for two of Wisconsin’s eight rushing scores Saturday afternoon, finishing with 111 yards on the ground.

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Strong second half not enough to earn win for UW Men’s soccer tallies equalizer in 48th minute and dominates rest of game but settles for 1-1 draw with St. Johns at McClimon

by Nick Brazzoni Men’s Soccer Writer

On a windy night at McClimon Soccer Complex, the Wisconsin men’s soccer team’s match against St. John’s University ended in a 1-1 draw after 20 minutes of extra time.

The tie ended a threematch losing skid the Badgers have suffered over the past couple of weeks, but it still isn’t as satisfying as a victory, especially with how strong the team played on both sides of the ball throughout Friday’s match, according to head coach John

Photo · Mike Catalano (left) scored the lone goal for the Badgers in the draw with the Red Storm, despite 10 second half shots and seven corner kicks in the final half of play.

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Trask.

“It’s tough,” Trask said.

“We gave up a soft goal in the first half. But I told the guys at halftime, other than that play, it was the most complete half we played from a coach’s standpoint.

We were playing to our strengths and we were solid defensively.”

For most of the first half, UW was solid on defense.

Their only breakdown was in the 41st minute following a free kick, when after a save, St. John’s redshirt junior goalkeeper Jordan Stagmiller punted a ball to freshman midfielder Mohamed Awad on the run. Awad struck the ball into the back of the net once he was one-on-one with redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Casey Beyers.

But, to say Wisconsin was solid on the defensive side of the ball in the second half would be a huge understatement.

After giving up four shots on goal in the first half, the Badgers picked up their defensive effort in the second

and didn’t allow St. John’s a single shot on goal for the next 45 minutes.

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with the exception of the big ball that they scored on, it was probably the best all season we played in the back. ” David Caban UW defender

Senior defender David Caban and the rest of the Badger backline kept the Red Storm in check down the stretch.

“Obviously with the exception of the big ball that they scored on, it was probably the best all season we played in the back,” Caban said.

“If we could erase that one mistake, it would probably be near perfect. But that happens in games and we picked each other up and got the tying goal.”

That tying goal came in the 48th minute from freshman midfielder Mike Catalano. Freshman forward Tom Barlow crossed a beautiful ball to the far post, where it found Catalano’s head and the back of the net.

The match was tied from then on till the final whistle blew.

“I just saw Tom out there and usually he takes it in,” Catalano said.

“But this time he picked his head up so I just took it as a cue to get in the box, and every time you get in the box, good things tend to happen. The ball just came right to my head.”

The goal was Catalano’s second of the season and was the only goal to come out of 10 second-half shots for the Badgers. The goal also makes Catalano the third player on the team to have multiple goals this season along with fellow freshmen Barlow and forward Mark Segbers.

A big reason as to why Wisconsin created so many opportunities

offensively in the second half was because they had the wind at their backs, as the conditions had a large effect on the match. The team took advantage of the conditions in the second half and played intelligently.

“You have to pick and choose the right time to go,” Catalano said. “You can’t be running around like crazy.

You have to conserve the energy and play smart. You can’t work extremely hard throughout the game. [You] really need to pick your times in these conditions.”

With their losing streak snapped, the Badgers can attempt to get back on a winning track, something they haven’t yet been on for more than one game this year.

With that said, positive decisions won’t only benefit the team’s resume; they will also help bring fans to the game, which coach Trask and the rest of the team are

longing for at McClimon.

Going back to last year, Wisconsin had a 14-match home unbeaten streak going and the student fans, now referred to as “the Colony,” are going to play a huge role in the team getting back to that level of home success.

“With the Colony and all the students here, there was an opportunity for us to show off,” coach Trask said.

“And you saw it on the first goal; they’re waiting.

We’ve got enough people in this stadium now and they are waiting for real good things to happen. Hopefully they continue coming out.

They’re a big part of what we are trying to do right now.”

The Colony will have to wait before they again make their presence known at McClimon, as the Badgers hit the road to the east coast where they will take on another new member of the Big Ten in Maryland next Friday.

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by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

Melvin Gordon showed displeasure this past week towards his performance through two games this season for the Wisconsin football team.

He is probably feeling much better after Saturday’s game.

The redshirt junior ’s historic day ended with 253 yards on 13 carries and five touchdowns as the Badgers (2-1) set an abundance of offensive records in a 68-17 rout of the Bowling Green Falcons (2-2) on Saturday Camp Randall Stadium.

Tanner McEvoy started the scoring barrage for UW with a 24-yard touchdown run in the first quarter that would be only a precursor to what the Badgers’ rushing attack would do the rest of the game.

However, it would take a quarter for the Badgers to really get going offensively.

After Gordon lost a fumble for the first time in his career at the 11:41 mark of the first quarter, Bowling Green’s Fred Coppet rattled off a 35-yard touchdown run that tied the game at seven. The Badgers then responded on their very next drive with an 11-play, 70 yard drive that ended in Gordon’s first touchdown of the game that came on a two-yard run.

Following a Bowling Green field goal that made it 14-10, the Badgers took just one offensive play to pull ahead 21-10 thanks to a 57-yard punt return from Kenzel Doe that set up a 34yard touchdown pass from McEvoy to Sam Arneson.

But the Falcons kept fighting and were only eight yards away from dropping the Badgers lead down to four at 21-17. Then third and goal, Wisconsin’s Lubern Figaro intercepted a pass from Bowling Green’s James Knapke that was tipped by Derek Landisch, and returned it 43 yards to the Wisconsin 43-yard line, ending the Bowling Green threat.

Once the Badgers got the ball back after Figaro’s interception, the next four scoring drives for UW would end in Melvin Gordon touchdowns and Wisconsin would go on to score the next 44 points to blow open their lead.

Three plays after the Figaro interception, Gordon scampered for fifty yards and added his second touchdown of the day that gave the Badgers a 27-10 lead with 11:18 remaining in the second quarter. The 50yard run by Gordon put him over the 100-yard mark just 18 minutes and 42 seconds into the game.

Wisconsin added to their total by scoring on their next

drive, going 57 yards on 11 plays that once again ended with a Gordon touchdown run. This one was from three yards out and put Wisconsin in the driver ’s seat at 34-10 with just over five minutes left until halftime. One final 21-yard rushing touchdown from Gordon, who showed off his elusiveness on the run, in the second quarter gave the Badgers a commanding 41-10 lead as they went into halftime.

Gordon finished the first half with 179 yards on only eleven carries with four touchdowns. McEvoy did his own damage on the ground through the first two quarters, running for 90 yards on nine attempts.

Coming out of the break, Gordon again wasted no time scoring his final touchdown of the game, which came on a 69-yard run on just the second play from scrimmage in the second half.

The touchdown capped off Gordon’s career-day in his time at Wisconsin and gave him a total of 253 yards, which is a career-high, on only 13 carries to average 19.5 yards per rush.

For Gordon, he was happy to be back on the field after a tough performance against Western Illinois and put to rest some of the doubt that had been flying around the potential Heismancandidate.

“I was really motivated,” Gordon said. “I had heard a lot of people saying ‘I can’t do this, I can’t do that, Melvin’s not this, Melvin’s not that, Melvin shouldn’t be considered with this guy, or be talked about with this guy’…That definitely motivated me to get out there and do what I needed to do.”

Despite the criticism that Gordon had gone through during the first few weeks of the season, Wisconsin head coach Gary Andersen was pleased to see Gordon persevere through it and have the performance that he did on Saturday.

“The unselfishness of Melvin Gordon for the last three of weeks as we’ve gone through the first part of the season has been incredible,” Andersen said. “I’m so proud of the way he’s handled it. Today was his day. It was great to see him have the success.”

Although it wasn’t just Gordon who found success on the ground for the Badgers as both McEvoy and Corey Clement also eclipsed the 100-yard mark.

McEvoy finished the day with eleven carries and a career-high 158 yards to go along with two touchdowns, but struggled through the air, going 9-for-16 for 112 yards with one touchdown and one interception.

Clement, who scored on

back-to-back possessions after Gordon’s final touchdown, ended the day with 111 yards on 16 carries.

Even Dare Ogunbowale, who just made the switch from defense to running back this week, had 94 yards which all came in the fourth quarter.

The Badgers ended the day with a school-record 644 yards on the ground, which is the most rushing yards in modern-era Big Ten history.

The 644-yard total broke the previous record of 573 which happened in both 1971 and 1975 by Michigan State and Michigan respectively.

Added to the new school rushing record was a schoolrecord for total offense (756) which broke the previous high of 705 that came against Indiana in 1999.

With an all-around strong performance from the rushing attack, after struggling against Western Illinois two weeks ago, Clement saw Saturday’s performance as a great boost of confidence for the running backs and especially Gordon.

“It think we all needed a confidence boost like that, coming off of the last game,” Clement said. “We didn’t really produce how we should as a Badger unit, but Melvin had an outstanding game. He hit the holes at 100 miles per hour, couldn’t be caught.”

Coming into Saturday’s game, the Wisconsin defense

knew they would be up against one of the fastest tempo offenses in the country in Bowling Green.

In a win over Indiana last week, the Falcons ran over 100 plays throughout the game. Senior linebacker Derek Landisch, who led the Badgers with six tackles, three-and-a-half tackles for loss, and two sacks, knew that the defense was prepared for the up-tempo style of Bowling Green.

“I think we were very well prepared,” Landisch said.

“I don’t think there was a look that we saw out there that we haven’t seen during practice. Even some of the goofy tackle, split-wide formations, we saw that in practice. So we were very well prepared and I think for the most part we executed the game plan.”

As the Badgers pick up their second win of the season and head into preparations for their final non-conference game of the season next Saturday against South Florida, McEvoy saw Saturday’s game as an overall quality win for UW. “It was a great team win,” McEvoy said. “Our defense was taking the ball away from them, but we had some giveaways and turnovers, but [the defense] go it back for us. Great special teams and obviously the rushing was a key today and that helps.”

Quote of the Game:

Player of the Game:

Stat of the Game:

“The unselfishness of Melvin Gordon for the last couple three weeks as we’ve gone through the first part of the season has been incredible. I’m so proud of the way that he’s handled it. Today was his day. Great to see him have the success.”

-Gary Andersen

Running back Melvin Gordon – 13 carries, 253 yards, and five touchdowns that came from 2, 50, 3, 21, and 69 yards out.

19.5 – Gordon averaged 19.5 yards per carry on Saturday, breaking the previous UW record of 14.9 (minimum 10 attempts) which was set by Ken Starch in 1974. Gordon is now averaging 8.26 yards per carry for his career which is tied for the NCAA record.

FOOTBALL ANALYSIS

Backfield trio shoulders load after week 2 struggles Heisman hopeful averages more than 20 yards per carry, while Clement and quarterback McEvoy each go over the century mark to set school record

by Chris Bumbaca Associate Sports Editor

Melvin Gordon and the rest of the Badgers’ rushing game got the Wisconsin offense back on track Saturday against Bowling Green at Camp Randall Stadium in a 68-17 rout.

After only putting up

167 rushing yards against Western Illinois two Saturdays ago, and only 38 from Gordon, there was reason for concern regarding the Badgers’ rushing game.

The Badger running attack definitively quelled those concerns. And then some.

UW (2-1) set a school record for rushing yards

against the Falcons (2-2), accumulating 644 on the ground. That surpassed the previous team record of 573 yards set against Indiana in 2012. The 644 rushing yards are the most rushing yards in the modern Big Ten era, which began in 1946.

Led by redshirt junior Gordon, who had a careerhigh 253 and reeled off five

touchdowns, another careerhigh, the Badger rushing attack showcased its dominance. Gordon’s five touchdowns tied the UW record for most touchdowns in a single game. The last Badger to achieve the feat was P.J. Hill who did it against The Citadel in 2007.

“Melvin is determined for his football team. I promise

you that’s the driving force between Melvin wanting to have success,” head coach Gary Andersen said.

“He found out that the rushing totals were a record in total offenses record.

Brought a great big smile to his face to know he was a part of it, not just what he did.”

In the first half

alone, Gordon had four touchdowns and 179 rushing yards on just 11 carries, averaging 16.3 yards per carry at the half.

Gordon’s second touch of the second half went for 69 yards up the sideline for his fifth touchdown of the day.

That would be his last touch

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