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OUT OF THE SHADOWS With such a small percentage of sexual assuaults reported, state, university officials take initiative

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County still in disagreement over homeless day shelter Despite concerns after last winter, plans for future of proper transitonal housing, resource center remains uncertain, budget remains intact

by Logan Reigstad Reporter

After the Dane County Board of Supervisors failed to agree on a longawaited location for a daytime homeless center, the future of the facility remains uncertain.

The Shine Initiative announced its decision to suspend negotiations in a letter to Dane County Executive Joe Parisi Monday, as reported by the Wisconsin State Journal. In the letter, the group said they would not operate the proposed facility until a site has been secured.

The county had explored several sites before settling on a former Porchlight site on

Martin Street, off Fish Hatchery Road, in the township of Madison.

Some county board members expressed concerns that the site’s location was too far from the overnight shelters and other resources for the homeless located downtown, according to Dane County Board Supervisor Leland Pan, District 5.

“It’s not close to downtown; it’s not close to where homeless people sleep and catch the bus,” Heidi Wegleitner, Dane County Board supervisor, District 2, said.

The city has a limited number of bus passes for those with low incomes, but the supply runs out quickly, Wegleitner said.

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and the surrounding neighborhood had their concerns as well, according to Pan. The town does not have the capability to add a sprinkler system to the site, which, combined with space and safety concerns, led the town to reject the conditional use permit for the site.

The proposed comprehensive day resource center would provide access to laundry services, showers, personal storage space and connections with legal and medical services, many of which are located downtown, according to Wegleitner.

Dane County’s 2013 budget provided $600,000 for the purchase of a site for a day

center, and money was allocated for the facility’s operational needs in the 2014 county budget. The money remains in the county’s upcoming 2015 budget.

The Shine Initiative currently operates several other services for the homeless. It works to provide services to those with substance abuse or mental health issues and those who have banned from other services for a variety of reasons, including assistance locating housing and employment opportunities, according to their website.

The initiative was founded last year by Sarah Gillmore and Z! Haukeness, who had worked together

to establish a daytime warming shelter in Madison during the winter of 2012. That shelter, run through Porchlight, closed in March 2013.

Despite the concerns, Pan said some board members still believe the Martin Street site is a viable option.

“I think there are folks who want to make the Martin Street site work by next winter, and there are folks who want to try to find a different site, so that conversation will have to be reopened,” he said.

Establishing a relationship and building trust between the homeless population and the county is key, and was something Shine excelled at, Wegleitner said.

For Wegleitner, the transportation issue alone is enough to disqualify the Martin Street site, and a viable solution is long overdue.

“We can’t afford to waste any more time with the Martin Street site,” Wegleitner said.

“Our community deserves better.”

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City works to close ‘digital divide’ Ald. Scott Resnick’s $100,000 proposal to bring internet to low-income communities passes

by Sarah Hopefl Reporter

Madison is looking to close the “digital divide” by providing high-speed internet to low-income residents and students of those families who cannot afford it.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, proposed a $100,000 amendment that passed at Tuesday’s Board of Estimates meeting that will go towards a feasibility study to provide internet throughout Madison using a high-speed Long Term Evolution network.

The goal of the study is to find a way to create a city co-op utility that would provide wireless internet to low-income neighborhoods and families.

“If you think about students in the Madison School District, there are still students who don’t have access within their homes,” Resnick said. “When they try and compete in the classroom it becomes a huge disadvantage. The answer of ‘you can go to the library’ is no longer a satisfactory solution,” he said.

Resnick said the LTE network would be similar to getting a library Wi-Fi

connection a mile and a half away at home. He has said previously that for many students in Madison, when the library closes, places like McDonald’s becomes their library.

Resnick has focused on the digital divide since he took office in 2011. At the Board of Estimates meeting, Mayor Paul Soglin said that they are working off of national studies that show that about one-third of households do not have high-speed internet access.

Many alders at the meeting agreed on the necessity to combat this divide.

“We have to take some

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risk and if we’re serious about doing something about the divide in this community, if we’re serious about what’s going on in low-income households.

This is one mechanism which is relatively cheap given the way we’re spending money to get some really significant outcomes, not just in terms of education, but also in terms of job opportunity,” Soglin said.

Some alders were concerned that, if accepted, the proposed budget amendment would make

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Officials address campus sexual assault In wake of UW-Milwaukee’s ‘date rape’ scandal allegations, ‘Good Samaritan’ legislation focuses on victims

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Good Samaritan Law. This law, similar to UW-Madison’s Responsible Action Policy, allows for a victim or peer to report incidents to police without fearing consequences if they were drinking underage or consuming marijuana, for example.

This plan goes hand-inhand with another part of Schimel’s plan, which will provide free date rape drug test kits and expand current availability of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner services.

“That’s our hope ... that even if a victim is not ready to come forward, they can discreetly get their hands on a kit and when they’ve cleared they’re heads they have that preserved,” Schimel said. “The Good Samaritan Law will ease that reluctance.

Someone could say, ‘Well I don’t want to do that because now I’ll get in trouble for having smoked marijuana.’

[This law] makes sure they are not reluctant to come forward.”

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running candidates seeking to propose answers to the problem. Attorney General candidate Brad Schimel released a plan to handle the problem by uniting law enforcement, students and college administration officials in a special task force that would brainstorm and implement various solutions.

Schimel said the renewal in a movement to solve issues of sexual assaults is something that should be ongoing and not forgotten as dramatic incidents spike interest that can fade away.

“Well, when tragedies like this happen people get angry and we need to leverage those emotions into actions, let’s do something, let’s make a change,” Schimel said. “UWMilwaukee is where I went for undergrad. I hope they’ll be able to effectively clean this up. This is an opportunity [around the rest of the state] to be proactive.”

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Harassment was created in efforts to increase preventative education on sexual assaults, Tonya Schmidt, a member of the task force and the director of Title IX and the Clery Compliance, said.

Schmidt said she believes the new actions will strengthen current programs already in place, such as Tonight!, a program administered through University Health Services that is mandated to all firstyear and transfer students to raise awareness on sexual assault prevention.

“I believe the education provided in the Tonight! tutorial helps students identify sexual assaults and instructs students on reporting incidents...the numbers reported will only increase, which is good because it means survivors are getting the help they need and perpetrators are being held accountable,” Schmidt said.

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When it comes to sexual assault on college campuses, increased numbers of incident reports can be a good sign; it means victims feel more comfortable coming forward and seeking help.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for the academic year 2014-15, released Wednesday, reported 34 sex offenses in 2013, a number consistent with the year before and slightly lower than the 37 reported offenses in 2011.

However, Carmen Hotvedt, assistant director for violence prevention, said the numbers found in this annual, federally mandated report are not indicative of the reality of sexual assaults on campus.

She said an estimated 2-13 percent of assaults are reported, and even the numbers that are on the

annual report only represent a limited amount of reported assaults, as the numbers are drawn only from assaults that occur on or near campus.

“Not all students will see their experience represented because of how the federally required report works,” Hotvedt said. “It does not accurately show how many are occurring, not even all that are reported to police.”

In light of allegations a University of WisconsinMilwaukee fraternity had slipped “date rape” drugs into various drinks at a party, along with continuing reports of incidents on college campuses, including an assault reported at UWMadison on Monday, both the university and the state of Wisconsin are responding with plans to address sexual assault.

Last week, the UW System released a plan to develop a new task force to target the issue. The UW System Task Force on Sexual Violence and

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‘Dirty, drab’ Humanities awaits facelift Campus building will continue to function despite its need for repair, expects new classrooms, music school updates

by Daniel McKay City Editor

Aside from the occasional cockroaches, University of Wisconsin’s music students and faculty are finding ways to work around Humanities’s bumps and bruises.

In light of the recent design for the School of Music’s new performance center, improvements are being made to the current music facilities in the Humanities building.

Patrick Coughlin, who is in his third year as the School of Music Facility manager, said the building has its challenges, but he has always known that.

“It’s not falling apart at the seams but it definitely takes a lot of work to maintain it, and you really have to be on top of your game,” Coughlin said. “It’s a challenge.”

The building sometimes faces problems like leaking after heavy rains, but Coughlin said most of these issues are not unique to Humanities. The Physical Plant team takes care of building maintenance and repairs, and Coughlin said it is at least a little reassuring to hear from them that buildings all around campus are having similar problems.

As they look forward to

the new facility, Coughlin said the School of Music is doing as much as it can now to continue adding and improving what they already have in Humanities, such as adding new carpeting and resources for the 300 music students that call the building home.

Professor Brian Hyer has been teaching music theory at UW for 24 years. When talks of a new performance center began in the early 2000s, Hyer said it hit him for the first time how young the building actually is.

“Thinking back, when I walked in the building for the first time it was in 1990, and it looks just the way it does today: dirty, drab, dark,” Hyer said. “It was 18 years old, and that never would have occurred to me.”

The faculty, Hyer said, is aware that they will not be relocating to a new building anytime soon, so he and others have been working hard to renovate the existing classrooms on the second floor.

Two of the biggest rooms have already begun renovations, and more classroom upgrades are beginning soon. Hyer said these upgrades will include new chalkboards, new lighting and new audio and

video equipment, such as TV monitors.

“What we’re trying to do is maximize the functionality. We’re trying to get equipment that we need that will work,” Hyer said.

Maya Webne-Behrman, a violin and vocal major, said she understands the limitations of the building, but appreciates it for what it has to offer as well.

Webne-Behrman said the occasional cockroach appearance is unsettling, but she thinks the School of Music is doing a good job.

“You know, there are a lot

of things that I really like about Humanities. If you were to ask me to complain about it, I could easily do that,” Webne-Behrman said. “There’s always room for improvement, we can always do better, but for what we have, I think it’s fine.”

As for the new performance center, both Hyer and Webne-Behrman agreed that it is an exciting development for the School of Music.

While Hyer said he thinks it may not be the top priority, he is willing to acknowledge a need for

Photo · Despite the cockroaches, Humanities is hanging in there, until renovations begin.

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“The university has been very generous in understanding our specific needs and they’ve been very generous the funding on these projects,” Hyer said.

“We went decades where no one even asked for that funding, and I’m hoping to renovate other spaces in the Humanities building.”

Congressman advocates for state to aid UW Rep. Mark Pocan: Gov. Scott Walker’s claim that tuition freeze helps students is just ‘putting lipstick on the pig’

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United States Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, says the governor ’s arguments that he has helped college students with a tuition freeze is “putting lipstick on the pig.”

Speaking to The Badger Herald editors and the editorial board last week, Pocan said while Gov. Scott Walker ’s tuition freeze is beneficial to students,

it leaves the University of Wisconsin System in a tough financial position.

“If the state of Wisconsin doesn’t invest money on the UW System, it puts pressure on tuition, and then if he freezes tuition, you put double pressure on the UW,” Pocan said. “I’m not advocating for raising tuition, but I’m advocating for the state putting a proper share into the UW, given how much that is an economic engine for the rest of the state.”

Pocan said he agreed with the UW System Board of Regents request to boost funding for the UW System.

The regents in August asked Walker for $95.2 million in additional funding while he crafts the state’s budget for the next two years.

“My fear has always been [going] from a world class institution to one of the best in the country to eventually, ‘Hey, they’ve got a heck of a football team,’” Pocan said. “That’s the slippery slope of not investing in your system.”

Pocan has introduced several bills on college affordability, including one that lets borrowers refinance their student loans with

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lower interest rates.

He acknowledged many Democratic proposals are focused on those who already took out student loans, rather than addressing college costs for future students. But he said Democrats are working with the U.S. Department of Education to reduce college costs, while many Republicans are suggesting nothing.

“We’ve been dealing more, I’ll agree, on the late end, but we’re at least trying to address the front end and trying to figure out some ways around that,” Pocan said. “But I haven’t seen some Republicans in Congress any way offer any suggestions of how to [make] college more affordable.”

Pocan continued to raise concerns over sequestration cuts hitting the National Institutes of Health, which funds a large chunk of research at UW. He said the federal budget cuts likely won’t go away, so he introduced a bill asking the NIH to prioritize its budget to focus on helping younger researchers.

Pocan introduced the Next Generation Research Act last month saying the lack of NIH funding has turned young researchers away.

He said the bill could pass through the “donothing Congress” because it does not “add a bunch of dollars” to the NIH, but rather asks the agency to prioritize its funds.

Pocan also commented on the controversy over Democrat Mary Burke’s jobs plan, parts of which Buzzfeed reported were copied from past Democratic candidates.

Burke, the former state commerce secretary, is running against Walker in the November elections.

“Was it silly and dumb?

They shouldn’t have done that, yeah,” Pocan said.

“They should’ve put more thought into that. But is it a giant issue? No. The real issue is Scott Walker promised 250,000 jobs.

He’s not even close to that number. We’re last in the Midwest for job creation.

That’s all the stuff he doesn’t want you to look at.”

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UW takes steps toward recital hall construction After almost a decade of anticipation, university presents plans for new music school building on corner of Lake Street, University Street

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In the hopes of someday replacing Humanities as the home of student musicians, the University of Wisconsin School of Music presented plans for a new performance center to the Urban Design Commission Wednesday.

Gary Brown, director of Campus Planning and Landscape Architecture for University of Wisconsin, said the primary focus, the initial of construction of the building and a recital hall, is just one of three phases.

The second phase will be the addition of a much larger concert hall to replace the existing Mills Hall in Humanities.

The third phase, Brown said, is the final transition into the new building, which he hopes will house the music faculty for many years to come.

“In the future, there will be a third phase, which is the academic pieces of the music department coming out of Humanities, so this is our first initial throes of getting people out of Humanities,” Brown said.

The planned 325seat recital hall and rehearsal room is “entirely funded through private philanthropy,” by

anonymous donors, Cook said.

Holzam Moss Bottino Architecture of New York City is partnering with Strang Architects of Madison to design the building. Cook said HMBA is a company well known for their experience in designing architecture of the arts, Cook said.

“This has been in the works for quite awhile,” Susan Cook, director of the School of Music and Professor of Musicology, said. “It’s probably been almost a decade because different things have happened in terms of the economy and a host of things.”

With 300 undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in the School of Music, the new building will primarily be for student use. Whether it be for individual recitals or student activities, major or non-major, the recital and rehearsal hall are meant to accommodate an efficient, comfortable space for students to access and use, Cook said. An inviting lobby is also a primary focus for the project, welcoming visitors at the entrance.

The design elements of the project are unique and innovative, in hopes of filling the space next to the Chazen appropriately.

Cook said she anticipates a building that will “animate the corner.”

Photo · The Director of UW’s School of Music said the new building will “animate the corner” next to the Chazen.

Courtesy of UW- Madison School of Music “It will incorporate design elements that are produced here in Wisconsin.

The outside of the building will be made out of poured concrete from companies in the state,” Cook said.

One concern the design commission had was parking availability when a music event overlaps with a UW basketball game, for example. Brown said the campus planning committee has been in talks with the city’s transportation department about setting aside certain lots, like Grainger and other nearby campus buildings, solely for music events.

Cook said construction of the building is expected to begin in 2015, and Brown said he hopes to submit the project to the design commission for approval sometime around November of this year.

She said she foresees this new recital and rehearsal hall to strengthen and enrich the surrounding campus and the music school’s program.

“This is not just a building,” Cook said. “It’s a building that’s becoming part of a community.”

Mexican Consulate to help foster Latino vote In light of new documentation requirements at polls, Chicago bureau turns mobile in support of growing Hispanic community

by Marigrace Carney Reporter

As Wi s c o n s i n ’ s Hispanic community becomes a major portion of the voting population, the Mexican Consulate is looking to make their Chicagobased office mobile.

In an e ff o r t to i n c re a s e access to adequate voting documentation, the Consulate’s mobile o ff i c e coming to Wisconsin, will provide passport re n e w a l services for potential voters, mainly the Latino population. The increasing need has led t o Wa l k e r ’ s p ro p o s e d permanent consulate t o re p l a c e t h e m o n t h l y mobile consulate visit.

Salvador Carranza, senior academic planner at the University of Wisconsin System, said the Latino population has grown a substantial amount since 2008, and a majority of the population was born here and will have more voting power.

Carranza said one of the biggest barriers is connected with the new voter ID laws.

If an immigrant has come to Wi s c o n s i n a n d t h e y d o

not have all the right documentation, they have no way of getting a driver ’s license.

A c c o rd i n g to Carranza, Wi s c o n s i n L a t i n o s a re n o w t h e l a rg e s t minority in the state, surpassing African Americans and “the population keeps growing.”

O ff i c i a l l y, t h e re a re 4 0 , 0 0 0 L a t i n o s i n Madison and 336,000 L a t i n o s i n Wi s c o n s i n , Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, said. That number has g ro w n s u b s t a n t i a l l y, f ro m 193,000 in 2000, she said. Bidar-Sielaff is an executive committee member of the Latino Support network.

B i d a r- S i e l a ff said w h i l e t h e re i s a l a rg e population of Latinos that live in urban areas, such as Milwaukee and Madison, there is also a l a rg e a m o u n t t h a t l i v e in rural areas who need to be able to access information about their voting rights. Getting the information out to these Latinos is one of the most important tasks, she said, in order that they will be able to utilize their rights and vote in the upcoming election.

“Having accessible

information, being able to get voter IDs that m e e t t h e re q u i re m e n t is going to be very c r i t i c a l , ” B i d a r- S i e l a ff said.

The goal of this p ro g r a m i s t o h e l p not only Latinos, but other communities get involved in the political process, Carranza said.

Helping them obtain p ro p e r identification t o re g i s t e r a n d v o t e i s what’s most important, he said.

College-aged Latino immigrants who have been raised here almost their whole lives also face challenges with accessing higher education.

The university sees them as out-of-state students, c h a rg i n g t h e m t h re e times as much as an in-state student, which for most Latinos whose parents are immigrants means that they cannot a ff o rd t o g o t o s c h o o l here, Carranza said. “ O b v i o u s l y, people keep saying, ‘But, L a t i n o s a re i n t e re s t e d in the same thing everybody is, about jobs and work.’

Ye s o f c o u r s e .

But [documentation and e d u c a t i o n ] g o d i re c t l y to the issue of jobs and work,” Carranza said.

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Resnick disagreed, noting the fiber cable is still necessary for the LTE network.

Both budget amendments are focused on closing the digital divide, providing a space at home as well as other places in the community to access high-speed internet.

Resnick said the biggest benefit to providing internet would be that it would serve students as an additional tool.

“Having internet access doesn’t guarantee you success in the

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classroom,” he said. “It is, though, another tool that allows students to remain competitive in the classroom.”

Now that the proposed amendment has passed, Resnick said the next steps are to start the study and begin putting together the infrastructure.

The council will hire a consulting organization to help gather input, and talk to community leaders to look at how they can leverage the current fiber optic network.

“We need to make sure that we’re going to close the achievement gap in Madison,” Resnick said.

“We need to work together with our partners to make sure the internet is in the homes of our students.”

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Is shock value in pro-life demonstrations effective?

Use of graphic depictions of fetuses alienate, mislead public

by Madeline Sweitzer Editorial Page Editor

It was a typical morning.

I caught the 80 bus to go to class, and as I approached the entrance to Library Mall and prepared to weave my way through construction, something caught my eye. My view was partially blocked, but I could see activists of some kind handing pamphlets out. The crowd shifted and before I knew what was happening I was faced with a large, graphic photo of what I could only assume was an aborted fetus.

It wasn’t even lunch yet and here I was staring down the bloody aftermath of abortion.

I’m fairly pro-life, but as I was admittedly shocked by the graphic nature of the demonstration, I shrugged off a pamphlet and continued on my way to class.

This kind of promotion is entirely permissible within the realm of free speech.

They had the right to be out expressing their views on abortion. The question is whether this kind of protest is the best way to express the pro-life message.

There are effective communication methods and non-effective communication methods. Shock value in the form of graphic images are ultimately detrimental to the campaign as they alienate viewers and, in the context of abortion, are misleading.

The point of any public

political promotion is to spread your stance on the issue and hopefully gain new followers in the process. In my perception, the image was an emotional appeal by the demonstrators. It was meant to draw simultaneous sympathy for the aborted fetus and disgust at the gory, unaltered “reality of abortion.” Confronted with the image, this mixture of sympathy and disgust was meant to persuade people to stand against abortion, or at least look further into the pro-life movement. The image was successful in drawing disgust, but ultimately this disgust leads to alienation and not the intended result.

How many people rejected a pamphlet, the chance to learn about the organization’s specific stances, because they were distracted or downright turned off by the image in front of them?

This alienation does not stem from our unwillingness to discuss abortion, but rather our understandably low tolerance for having graphic images thrown at us. Images are worth a thousand words, yet anyone who knows something about surgical abortion, pro-life or pro-choice, knows the aftermath is explicit. Is it really necessary to show it?

Take other advocacy groups.

It is unnecessary, it borders on redundant and it is all for shock value.

Proponents of the images state that this is simply

the reality of abortion, yet in this sense, the images are misleading. There are two methods of abortion – medical and surgical.

Medical abortions involve the use of an oral pill to terminate a pregnancy, and have been growing more prevalent every year since their introduction in 2000 and were around 27 percent of all early abortions performed in America in 2011. While they still terminate, the results are much less graphic (think very heavy period as opposed to gory remains). The images try to show the reality of abortion, but they only show one reality, the more visually graphic one. At best, this is an incidental occurrence and at worst, it is a manipulation of information to serve shock value purposes.

In the end, you’ll catch more flies with honey than vinegar, and you’ll get more people to listen without graphically showing aborted fetuses.

To voluntarily remove these images from pro-life demonstrations would strategically maximize results; it is not censorship.

If pro-life organizations wish to gain new supporters, they must stop the use of these alienating and misleading graphic images in their demonstrations.

Madeline Sweitzer (msweitzer@badgerherald. com) is a sophomore majoring in political science and intending to major in journalism.

‘Appropriateness’ of explicit images should not be questioned

by Theresa Cooley Contributor

Pro-life vigil, 40 Days For Life, started Sep. 24. Last week activists appeared on State Street and around campus showing, as some are calling them, graphic images of an aborted child.

Moreover, questions have been raised as to whether these images are efficient and effective ways to spread a pro-life ideology, if they’re appropriate, and if not, what should be done in their place. Now, on setting out to respond to these questions, I found I have serious fundamental disagreements with the wordings.

Words like “graphic,” “efficient,” “effective,” “ideology,” and “appropriate” put an innate spin on the issue at hand and make the questions impossible to answer.

Let’s begin with ideology. An ideology is the science of an idea.

It naturally implies an element of “we would like to see the world this way” or “this is the mindset which we wish you would adopt.” Though an ideology can be a truth, an ideology is not necessarily the truth, and to call this movement one of spreading ideology is to imply that pro-lifers are not fighting for facts as cold and hard as the aborted babies they represent.

Next, let’s discuss the words “efficient” and “effective.” These words make the judgment of the potential benefits or costs to the cause of the pro-lifers showing these images.

Now, if you’re still looking at that cause in terms of an ideology, it’s no wonder people who walk by the activists automatically shut down and try their hardest to disengage from them. No one wants to be brainwashed or persuaded on the street, right? However, if you look at the images in terms of exposing a reality exactly as a camera does — a totally neutral eye—then the words take on entirely new meanings.

Suddenly, they speak much more toward the ability to reach out to people and attain justice for a wrong being committed.

Thus, it’s important that you know when I would answer that these “graphic” images are efficient, I would mean that yes, they get the point across. I hope that we are not so prejudiced and ideologically prioritized that we can’t see those little bloody hands and recognize something of ourselves in them.

On to the word “appropriate.” Naturally, having opened the pamphlet, seen the images, read the text and heard the pro-life conversion stories

like Abby Johnson’s, author of “Unplanned,” I find this word impossible to consider. If this is only an ideology being spread, then there simply cannot be a just discussion on whether the images are appropriate.

To judge one way or another is to impede on First Amendment rights and to dance with censorship, which, quite frankly, this country has enough of already.

However, if this matter is to be considered outside of ideology, then for me to discuss the appropriateness of it is to say we must judge the appropriateness of distributing pink cancer ribbons.

“Appropriateness” is applicable to picking your nose in class. Or in church.

The appropriateness of the images, however, is a request for me to judge whether the murdered defenseless are allowed to have breathing advocates.

These demonstrators are trying to show the public that they have proof of the murders that, so long as they remain hidden, society is willing to accept. There is no question as to the appropriateness of their appeals. There is simply the matter of whether their appeals will be answered.

Theresa Cooley (tcooley@ wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in English.

Voter ID law hinders democratic process Legislation violates constitution, will lower Nov. turnout at polls

by Briana Reilly Editorial Page Editor

A federal appeals court Sep. 26 ruled not to hear discussion on Wisconsin’s recently-implemented voter ID law, which means that all voters must bring photographic identification with them to the polls, a move that will invariably harm turnout in the upcoming November general elections.

Prior to that, legislation was passed Sept. 12, dictating that all voters must present photo ID before being allowed to vote. It had been suspended after a 2012 primary by judges in federal and state courts, before it stumbled its way through the legislative system in the interim, relying on state Republicans and judiciaries to make it through.

While concerns that forcing voters to show identification would violate the 14th Amendment, the appeals court ruled less than a week ago that no such infringement existed, allowing the ruling to take effect just in time for Election Day. However, this ruling wasn’t always so cut-anddry. In April, a federal judge deemed the voter ID law unconstitutional based on violations of both the 14th Amendment and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The 14th Amendment does not allow states to deny “life, liberty or property, without due process of the law” or to “deny any person within its jurisdiction

the equal protection of the laws.” Because states’ responsibilities to their citizens are explicitly mentioned, this amendment expanded every citizen’s rights.

Additionally, the Voting Rights Act, as stated by the New York Times, “bans states from imposing rules that abridge a citizen’s right to vote based on race.”

It seems obvious that the 14th Amendment would indeed be violated, because by only allowing access to polls on the basis of ID, states are denying some of their citizens, such as minorities and college students, the ability to partake in the democratic process. In the same vein, the Voting Rights Act was clearly found to be disregarded because the would-beeligible voters that would not be able to obtain proper identification are minorities, who also happen to regularly vote Democrat.

The argument for so blatantly neglecting this legislation is that photo identification will help uphold, as Republicans say, “electoral integrity.”

Judge Lynn Aldeman, who ruled in April that Wisconsin’s voter ID law is illegal, responded to the allegation that the law will protect against voter fraud by saying, “Virtually no voter impersonation occurs in Wisconsin.”

Rutgers University professor Lorraine Minnite, who studies voter fraud across the country, has monitored Wisconsin because of its same-day registration, which she says could increase the chances of fraud. Minnite

Photo · With the gubernatorial election just weeks away the reinstated voter ID law complicates absentee and in-person voting, raising questions of political motivation and constutionality.

The Badger Herald File Photo kept records of all cases of voting mishaps, however last November she revealed that, from 2008 to 2013, she had only found 31 instances of “fraud,” 10 of which she discarded because they largely resulted from errors on the workers’ side.

Thirty-one states in the nation have some sort of identification law, but only 10, one of which is now Wisconsin, require voters sending in absentee ballots to attach a copy of a photo ID. Wisconsin has already mailed out more than 11,000 ballots to absentee voters before the re-implementation of the voter ID law, none of which include instructions on how to include photo identification.

In short, as the state scrambles to find more poll workers to ensure chaos doesn’t break out Nov. 4, and money is poured into videos and advertisements teaching voters what the new voting law entails (watch for more Chad Vader vids), voters are left trying to figure out exactly what they need in order to exercise their fundamental rights.

Briana Reilly (breilly@ badgerherald.com) is a sophomore majoring in journalism and international studies.

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I spent a sweaty week playing Humans vs. Zombies For seven days, I showed up to class out of breath, faced ridicule from my fellow students to have a shitload of fun killing my undead peers

by AARON HATHAWAY ArtsEtc. Writer

If you’ve been on Yik Yak in the past week, you’re aware that there’s been quite a bit of disdain for the participants of this week’s Humans Versus Zombies participants. To be fair, this judgment isn’t entirely unwarranted. Showing up sweaty to every class with a bulky Nerf blaster jammed in your pocket doesn’t impress anyone, and having to mimic Seal Team 6 whenever you’re outside can prove crippling to your social and academic life. When you’re hiding behind a bush during passing time and staring at passing college students, an orange headband is the only thing distinguishing a ‘zombie’ from someone who has probably eluded their parole officer. These are just a few of the many lessons I learned this week when I sacrificed life, limbs and brains for The Badger Herald by playing Humans Versus Zombies.

As an organization, Humans Versus Zombies (abbreviated as HvZ) is tremendously well-run both locally and nationally. The Madison game is simply one chapter of a nationwide association. It benefits from sharing a common set of rules and guidelines established

by the game’s founders, who played the very first round at Goucher College in 2005.

Our Madison round was preceded by an informatory meeting, in which a University of Wisconsin Police Department officer and representative from the Dean’s Office essentially told us to not be idiots. Personal safety and well-being was left up to the individual, but the moderators of the HvZ program did well in ensuring we’d stay out of legal trouble.

Monday morning. The sun breaking over Lake Mendota illuminated the golden leaves sheltering Lakeshore Path, painting an idyllic fall scene that almost made me forget that this morning signaled the rise of the living dead across campus. Undead populations rose from 10 to nearly 90 by the end of the day, confirming my suspicion that the kids who were interested in HvZ were rarely the same kids who were physically able of running away from a zombie for more than a block. The growing hordes proved a challenge that night, during which all HvZ players were assembled for a “mission.”

Remember the games of Cops and Robbers you played on your block as a kid? Now imagine somebody injected that game with elephant steroids and gave it a gram of cocaine. After two hours

of scrambling over Bascom Hill squeezing shots off at zombies and frantically searching for a cassette tape, I was convinced that any number of judgmental looks from basic kids in Vineyard Vines tees was a price gladly paid for the childish glee this game afforded me.

The game only expanded in membership as the week progressed, attracting even non-students: Madtown Hopper CEO and hair icon Amir Morning had joined the fight for survival by Wednesday, offering the services of the Hopper to remaining students.

By Thursday, we had packed the Hopper full of Nerf-toting undergrads, resembling a less lethal version of the Somalian combat jeeps from “Black Hawk Down.” Cruising up Observatory Drive toward Bascom, Morning spots a lone zombie on her way back to class. “Hold up, lemme get this,” he says as he turns off the audio system that had been blasting “Booty Had Me Like.”

The soft hum of the Hopper ’s electric motor stealthily brings us close to the target. In a single motion, Morning throws the cart into park and chambers a round in his Nerf blaster. Hunched over, he cuts across the street to lurk behind his target. His colossal brown afro bobs up

and down with his soft steps, helping to camouflage him as a suspiciously mobile shrub.

By the time the zombie is aware of his presence, she’s already received a Nerf dart to the head. These streets are no place for the unaware. It’s Nerf or nothing.

By the end of the week, the zombie hordes had overridden the humans, with a decisive zombie victory concluding the final mission. I had fought it out until the very end, becoming one of the hordes thanks to a jammed Nerf blaster.

The setting sun illuminated

the neon-orange Nerf darts as humans and zombies put aside their differences to collect the foamy loads we had strewn across Engineering Mall. A week of mockery from those who thought themselves above this game was well worth the fun I had while playing.

Humans Versus Zombies proved to be a well-run, large-scale hybrid of some of our favorite childhood games. Sure, it’s probably a little immature. But it’s also a riot. If at some point this week you saw a sweaty, unkempt kid sprinting away

Photo · Me (in the white shirt) chilling with HvZ bros next to the Madtown Hopper, which gave us rides around campus as we slaughtered zombies with our deadly Nerf bullets.

Courtesy of Amir Morning from a pack of sweatier, unkemptier kids, you probably thought they looked like fools. Honestly, you were probably right. But you were dead wrong if you thought they weren’t having a hell of a time.

Old Crow Medicine Show talks Dylan, folk, Madison In preparation of the band’s Friday Overture show, lead singer Ketch Secor reflects on traditional music’s power, his lyrical influences

by MEKEA LARSON ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

This Friday, folk-rock band Old Crow Medicine Show will be bringing its tour to Overture Hall with The Deslondes as openers. Since the band’s start 16 years ago, Old Crow Medicine Show has gone from playing the curb outside the Grand Ole Opry to being inducted into it.

OCMS frontman Ketch Secor took some time to share his thoughts with The Badger Herald on a few topics of our choosing, including the Opry, Bob Dylan, folk music and what we can expect from the

band’s Madison show.

On the Grand Ole Opry “Well, the Opry has been around for about 87 years now — it’s close to 90. We celebrated the birthday in October. It’s just such an incredible accolade and mark of achievement for a string band like ours. When we first came to Nashville, the first place we were hired to play was in front of the Opry on the curb. So looking back, I can see now that the Opry was a goal of ours for a good solid decade or more when we first got to Nashville. We are joining the ranks of some really incredible country music

makers, real legends of the genre.”

On Bob Dylan “Well, Bob influences everything, everyone. He’s like the wind. He makes us all bend. I guess I really revere Bob more than most.

I felt like I’ve studied Bob all through school; instead of caring much about my studies, I really focused on Bob Dylan. He was the poet I read. He was the fiction I was interested in. He was the mechanic, the physicist I liked. He was just the professor whose classes I most wanted to be in.

And all you had to do was just listen. The guy’s got,

like, 40 albums out. Each one to me is a masterpiece, even the bad ones. There’s so much to learn about song, about a life in music, about, gosh, everything from celebrity to politics.

It’s all in Bob Dylan’s songs. I feel very much like a student of Bob Dylan.

And songs like “Sweet Amarillo” and “Wagon Wheel” [originally written

by Dylan and covered by OCMS] have been this incredible opportunity to hold in reverence the master but also actually get to work alongside as an apprentice.

It’s quite an internship.”

On folk music

Love is ‘strange,’ too sentimental Despite heavy-handed directing, film finds delightful chemistry in long-term relationship

by VINCENT MOLLICA ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

There’s a moment very late in “Love is Strange” in which the film’s central couple, Alfred Molina (“An Education”) and John Lithgow (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”) leave a performance of Chopin.

Molina states his dislike for the performance, claiming it added too much drama to something that’s already so romantic.

This sentiment serves as an adequate criticism of the film as well, which finds the need to add weight to a story that is already powerful. A character ensemble piece with too little faith in its characters and its ensemble, “Love is Strange” has good intentions but is ultimately a victim of over-direction.

A riff on Leo McCarey’s classic 1937 tearjerker “Make Way For Tomorrow,” “Love is Strange” updates the story of an elderly couple forced to live apart by making the couple two gay men, while keeping its predecessor ’s upper-class New York setting. The couple marries after 40 years of being together. George (Alfred Molina) loses his job at a

Catholic school because of the openness of the marriage and, unable to subsist on Ben’s (John Lithgow) artwork, they lose their home. Forced to adapt while waiting for a new home, George moves into the apartment of their much younger downstairs neighbors, where his introversion is constantly tested by their seemingly constant house party.

Ben moves in with his nephew, his nephew’s wife (Marisa Tomei, “Parental Guidance”) and their son, all three of whom are slowly drifting apart from one another.

When director Ira Sach’s camera is comfortable to simply watch these neatly-formed characters bounce off and react to one another, the film is incredibly poignant.

Scenes like one in which Ben keeps his niece-in-law from working through his constant bombardment of questions shows the incompatibility of the routines of these two characters, while subtly establishing their inherent similarities. Any scene between Molina and Lithgow shows off their incredible chemistry and hints at a variety of very

truthful physical and personal rhythms within their characters. When it focuses on these many realized relationships and characters, the film’s interest in the sustainability of relationships, their set patterns and the natural forces that allow them to both come together and come apart is neatly laid out for the audience.

The issue is that Sachs seems too impatient with simply letting this natural chemistry work out the film’s themes about love and honesty. He often feels the need to spell them out or amp up the emotion to a grating degree. The conflict of George’s need for honesty in his own life, as well as his reliance on set patterns — running counter with the Catholic Church’s needs for the same — is very moving.

What isn’t moving is a long scene in which George cries watching a little girl play Chopin; this scene is intercut with his letter about “honesty” to the Catholic Church, and it hits the audience over the head with emotion.

The film feels a need to highlight the inherent drama of the story by

slathering it in a constant tinkling piano score or long shots of characters silently emoting.

Worse are moments where the characters awkwardly state either their relationship with another character or their own emotions with either a faint hint or a total lack of subtext. This need for overwrought meditation runs against the film’s strength in its dialogue and its performances.

There are moments where the film’s tertiary characters interact with its leads, like a scene in which one of the downstairs neighbors explains “Game of Thrones” to George.

These moments play off the strength of the film’s characters and allow the film to become much richer and fuller. Were the film to consist of more moments like this, it could easily become the moving study of characters in long-term relationships that it wants to be.

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“It’s self-perpetuating, regenerative. It’s what you’d call a perennial American song. I don’t think it needs a revival, resuscitation. It lives and flourishes. It really just needs people who are 18 years old to get exposed to it. But it will go on with or without them. The folk song is more powerful than anything on the radio, than anything that’s released.

It’s more powerful than any Old Crow song. It’s that distillation of the voices that goes on for a long, long time, and that’s what makes them strong.

It’s hard to imagine it in 2014, but “Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley” and “Rock Island Line,” those were some hard-hitting, powerful songs. Those were songs that captivated the nation and realigned the nation with its folk music heritage. And I would argue that today’s audience hears

songs like “Wagon Wheel,” and that same force takes place, that same kind of re-aligning of the wheels.

Definitely you are pulling a whole lot of weight, the weight of 200 years of American song.”

When Secor and the rest of Old Crow Medicine Show come to Madison, audiences can expect more than just the “high-energy show” Secor promises. They can expect to be a part of that show.

“I feel like the audience has already drunk our Kool-Aid,” Secor said about playing for the Madison audience. “We like to sing ‘This Land is Your Land,’ but we mean it. I think Madison already knows it.”

Tickets to Friday’s show are still available on the Overture website. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m.

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Polls to require secret password UW prepares for great migration New state legislation to require voters to provide ‘the code’ before going into booths The Republican Party of Wisconsin is rolling out a new strategy to curb voter fraud in Wisconsin in anticipation of the 2014 gubernatorial election. In addition to presenting a state identification or driver ’s license, voters must now provide “the password” before casting their votes.

“Our ‘no girls allowed’ sign was effective for almost a century-and-a-half until we were forced to take it down,” GOP spokesperson Jonathan Weiss said. “But we are confident that we are now on the right path towards restoring the credibility of the American government.”

Weiss went on to clarify the intricacies of thxe plan,

“At each station there will be man named Scott asking each and every wannabe-voter ‘what’s the password?’ This way we will weed out all of those seeking to vote multiple times, as well as losers, little brothers and dweebs. You can also get in if you can score us some of your dad’s beer.”

Many Wisconsinites, however, are up in arms over the alleged unconstitutionality of the new legislation. Madison resident Kevin Graham says it is a blatant violation of basic civil rights.

“How is anyone supposed to know what a randomly decided password is? I mean, I’m sure it’s probably ‘Dave Matthews rules’ or something,

but these conniving assholes will probably include a capital letter, a number and a symbol.”

University of Wisconsin political science professor Steve Franklin is concerned about the public reaction to the issue due to the demographics affected.

“Even considering the heinousness of this constitutional violation, I think there will be a lot of people turning a blind blue-eye to this issue,” said Franklin.

Despite the cries of illegality, Republicans continue to claim it is a reasonable solution to a totally not imaginary problem.

“Think of it like adjusting

the aperture of a camera,” Weiss said. “If it’s too wide, the image gets saturated and exposed to imperfections. You want to let just the light in. I mean you want to let just the light in. I mean let just the right amount of light in. Then you get a nice, clear, pure result.”

The GOP maintains that the Wisconsin voter ’s rights will not be violated, as long as they are not a total doofus.

“You’re Nancy and Dan’s kid, right? You’re good people,” Weiss said, before checking if anyone was around and leaning in for a whisper. “This year it’s ‘Dave Matthews rules.’ But don’t tell anyone. Loose lips sink governorships.”

Empty cop cars bring justice UWPD presence felt by unoccupied vehicles on campus, students responding, no crime In an effort to crack down on crime on the University of Wisconsin campus, the UW Police Department has mobilized a large force of empty police vehicles to be located at various points around campus. The vehicles will be out on Friday and Saturday nights, when underage drinking and other crimes are most prevalent on campus.

“We really want to flex our muscles and show we mean business,” UWPD Chief Susan Riseling said. “To be sure, we’ve carefully planned out the locations of our vehicles to be on major pedestrian paths rather than dark alleys or lesser traveled parts of campus.”

In many cases, the vehicles will be turned on and running to show that each vacant car

and truck is ready for action at a moment’s notice.

“Just another reminder, each and every one of these vehicles will be completely empty of any officers, or any sort of operator that would be qualified to help were a situation to arise,” assistant police chief Brian Bridges said. “All on-duty officers will be either at Ian’s Pizza, or occasionally watching Breaking Bad re-runs down at the station.”

To show the extensive reach of UWPD, officers plan to take all available police cars and trucks to parts of campus where it would be completely illegal for any other car to go.

Many times these positions have been strategically planned out to be on curbs, malls and various other highly

inconvenient places. Officers also plan to place two or three empty cars adjacent to each other in quieter parts of campus.

“Some experts suggested that we evenly and efficiently spread the cars out,” UWPD Field Services Captain Michael Newton said. “But we really feel that some places, such as Gordon Commons, need that added protection that only three empty squad cars can provide.”

UW students have met the plan with overwhelming approval.

“It’s really nice to not have to worry about officers catching you walking home drunk when you’re underage,” freshman Alex Booth said.

“Although if I actually passed out or got mugged or

something, I’m not really sure how long it would be ‘til help arrived.”

Sophomore Lexi Caldwell said she is also glad they’re doing this.

“I’ve always been nervous walking through East Campus Mall by myself on Saturday nights. You never know what kind of people could be lurking around there,” Caldwell said.

Officials have declined to comment as to why the vehicles will be left unlocked and unguarded.

“I not really sure why they did that,” senior Spencer Oemig said. “But if I had to guess, I would say they’re probably not worried about theft or vandalism since they have all those other unoccupied cop cars around to stop trouble.”

Seasonal movement toward southern shores occupies collective student mind The beginning of the fall season is nigh. With forecasted temperatures beginning to dip, the University of Wisconsin campus has begun to prepare for its annual migration south for the winter.

As usual, Chancellor Becky Blank plans to lead students in a large V-formation. The chancellor hopes students will arrive safely at their wintering grounds, located somewhere in the region of southern Texas.

“It’s a long journey, but I believe in each and every one of you,” Blank said, addressing a large gathering of students who were anxiously pecking at the ground.

Migration often carries a high risk of mortality due to predators. However, the annual cycle of student migration can be traced back thousands of years.

The first known record of migration is found in the print of the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah, who wrote: “Even the sconnie in the

sky knows her seasons, and the turtledove, swift, and crane, keep the time of their coming.”

Blank has urged students to rigorously prepare for the undertaking.

Suggestions include eating lots of grain, grasses and insects, and making sure to practice a good landing technique. The chancellor hopes that by the time they take off, students will have enough fat stored up to sustain them until they reach their destination.

“Nothing is more important to me than the safety of our students as they follow their natural migratory patterns,” Blank said.

Humans have often puzzled over the phenomenon of migration, and ecologists have spent years studying the practice to figure out the motivation behind it. To clear things up, we asked junior Gary Lordson why and he responded in short order, “Wisconsin is just too darn cold.”

The Misnomer’s Time Outs! #TO To all naughty boys, girls, entities this side of Lake Mendota: go to your respective rooms

Bowser kidnaps Becky Blank UW-Madison chancellor kidnapped by King Koopa, escapes to castle, aka Red Gym This morning, around 8:30 a.m., University of Wisconsin Chancellor Becky Blank was abducted by the King Koopa himself, Bowser.

Eyewitness reports began pouring into campus police from those headed to morning classes when the oversized dinosaur laid siege to Bascom Hall before breaking in and putting the chancellor into a large glass bottle.

Campus police quickly made pursuit, but were incapable of getting past the Hammer Bro blockade and were quickly routed by Koopa forces. Outmatched and outmanned, officials came to the conclusion that nothing they could do could possibly get them into Bowser-controlled territory.

If they wanted to turn the tide of the war, they’d need to go straight up the ladder of command and call in the heavy hitters. Less than seven minutes later, Bucky Badger had arrived.

Hot on the Koopa King’s trail, Bucky stomped on top of Goombas, doublejumped off of walls, burned down the Humanities building with a fire flower power-up resulting in $0 of property damage and dodged his way through the Hammer Bro blockade before finally reaching Bowser’s Castle, known more commonly as the Red Gym. After running, jumping and stomping around Dry Bones, Thwomps and fire pillars through the UW Armory and Gymnasium, Bucky finally found the secret gymnasium.

An epic fight with Bowser ensued, and quickly ended with Bucky immediately jumping

unharmed straight through Bowser’s hammers whose hitboxes were unable to load and landing on the switch that sent the King Koopa plummeting into the dungeons below– defeated and captured, for the timebeing.

Bucky reportedly then moved into the next room

to rescue Becky Blank.

What he found instead was a tied-up member of the UW marching band, who reportedly said to him, “I’m sorry, Bucky, but the chancellor is in another castle.”

Bucky was last seen running down Langdon Street towards Science Hall.

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Forget about Shout Outs! Time for the Madison Misnomer Time-Outs! This is for all your naughty boys, girls or entities out there.

20 minute TO to the police chief for supporting the legalization of marijuana.

Didn’t your mother raise you better than that? What happened to my sweet innocent baby? I should’ve never let you listen to that rock and roll music.

6+ minute TO to the iPhone 6+. You’re bending me out of shape.

20 minute TO to that last pun joke.

Breakfast TO to the Gordon Commons server who skimped on the eggs and hashbrowns, you FILTHY TWO-TIMER 8 hour TO to the Burke/ Walker campaigns. Play nice!!!

2 hour TO to Al Gore. You know what you did.

1 hour TO to the group talking loudly in the library.

Does silent section mean nothing to you people?

15 minute TO to the barista who filled my coffee to the top after I SPECIFICALLY asked for room.

50 minute TO to the girl in front of me

browsing Facebook for the entire lecture. Take some responsibility for your learning!

32 minute TO to the bunnies getting it on outside my bedroom window.

Seriously?

4 hour TO to my co-worker who showed up 2 hours late, brats don’t flip themselves!

1 hour TO to the sloppy freshman that puked on my Air Jordans.

30 second TO to Wisconsin Badger football. This is their second timeout.

3 minute TO to my penis, for all the good it did me last night.

Indefinite TO to MY penis, apparently. How do I order Viagra again?

1 semester TO to my Spanish teacher for showing videos of sloths for 20 minutes. That was cool in high school when I wasn’t paying to get smart.

2 hour TO to the fly that has been in my room for 2 weeks. Shouldn’t you be dead by now???

3.14 hour TO to the waiter who laughed at me for how long it took me to calculate his tip. You only get 7% now ... if I can figure out how to do that.

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Men’s soccer freshmen show promise, mature on pitch Young Badgers work to fill big shoes after team lost 12 players last year, look to turn around season’s rough start with gained experience

by Nick Brazzoni Men’s Soccer Writer

This year, the Wisconsin men’s soccer team has plenty of players that are going through the very stressful transition from high school to college.

The adjustment from high school to college is difficult for every student, especially one that plays a sport, but for the college athlete, they must adjust to new teammates, new coaches and a new style of play on top of a new academic atmosphere.

After the men’s soccer team lost 12 players from last year ’s NCAA tournament team, the team’s new crop of freshman are battling through their first collegiate season while making that adjustment.

The team’s 1-6-1 overall record this year through eight games may imply that the new guys are struggling to adjust, but the reality of the situation is that the players have adjusted well thus far and are continuing to progress.

One of the biggest adjustments for the players, despite the obvious speed and physicality of the college game, is how much is demanded of them from the start and the pressure to produce right away.

“I think they are always learning,” head coach John Trask said. “We are asking a lot out of these guys and they knew that coming in. They knew that they were going to be expected to perform and obviously we would like to see that at a higher level, but also knew they were going to struggle initially.”

According to Trask, the team is still getting

settled.

With 12 new freshmen currently on the team, many of them were forced to be put into a big role on the team from the very first match. Many of them were called upon to play and a few of them were even starting in the first match against a talented San Francisco team on August 29th.

While it may seem that Trask was forced to play so many freshman because they take up so much of his roster, he still had the confidence to play them because of their physicality, despite the fact that all of them are still developing skill-wise.

“I think they all come from good clubs, they have all had good coaching, and physically most of those guys are up to par,” Trask said.

“When you look all the way through our freshmen class, you see some really gifted athletes...They still have room to grow as players, but they have a physicality that allows them to compete as freshmen.”

Among the youngsters is freshmen forward Mark Segbers, who leads the team with four goals this season.

Segbers was not initially a starter for UW, but after impressing the coaching staff in the team’s first two matches, scoring two goals in the second contest against Xavier, he found himself on the pitch for the opening kickoff in the team’s third game against George Mason and has started five games for the Badgers so far this season.

Being asked to be a starter so early on in your college career can be quite nerve-racking for

a freshman, but Segbers explained that it was ultimately the support of his teammates and coaches that helped him settle into his role.

“I would say I was a little nervous for the first game, but all the other guys on the team really gave me confidence. They really make you realize that you are out there for a reason,” Segbers said.

“The encouragement from both them and the coaches turns those nerves into confidence and helps you play out there like you have been playing for a year already.”

Another freshman that was asked to take on a huge role from the very start is forward Chris Mueller.

Mueller felt the need to adjust before he even

stepped foot on the pitch.

The overall atmosphere and temperament of the student body at Wisconsin was something Mueller never personally experienced in high school.

“It was much bigger,” Mueller said of collegiate life at Wisconsin. “Right away all the buildings and all the people swallow you. The atmosphere is much different too. It has more of a school spirit vibe than high school.

Everyone here is in it for the Badgers and everyone is a Badger. In high school, students didn’t seem as proud to be there as they are here.”

Once Mueller took his first steps onto the pitch, he also had to adjust to the college game, as all freshmen do.

“It is much more physically and mentally demanding,” Mueller said. “You could take a lot of breaks in academy and high school-level soccer, but in college soccer you never have time to click off. It’s much more physical.

You always have to be aware and it’s always a battle.”

Mueller, after starting three games for the Badgers, currently finds himself coming off of the bench for the team. For Mueller, the adjustment continues, as it does for all of Wisconsin’s twelve freshmen.

Coming off of being stars on their high school teams, these young men must once again work their way up the team against older, more experienced players. And

Photo · Wisconsin freshman Mark Segbers, who leads the Badgers with four goals this year, has started five out of eight games for UW this season.

Hayley Cleghorn The Badger Herald that, in the end, may be the biggest adjustment of them all for those freshamn making the transition from high school to college.

“I think part of it is just the demands that are put upon them and the fact that they’re playing against older, more experienced players again,” Trask said. “It seems like with most teams we play, their average player is at least a year older than ours, and that is really tough on the younger players.”

Badgers hope for big weekend against OSU, PSU Women’s soccer looks to stake their claim atop the Big Ten with two wins at home over Ohio State, seventh-ranked Penn State

by Jamie Degraff Women’s Soccer Writer

After grinding out a series of 1-0 wins on the road against Big Ten rivals Indiana and Purdue last Friday and Sunday, the No. 12 Wisconsin women’s soccer team (10-1-0, 4-10 Big Ten) looks to stake their claim as conference favorites with a pair of home games this weekend against Ohio State and No. 7 Penn State.

So far in Big Ten play, the Badgers have been nearly flawless.

Photo · Rose Lavelle leads UW with 14 shots on goal, with high hopes to score this weekend against the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions.

Kaitlyn Veto The Badger Herald

Besides one last-minute loss on the road against Michigan, Wisconsin has been merely untouchable at home and on the road, with a tally of nine goals scored to just two scored against them.

The Badgers’ past three opponents have fallen victim to shutout losses, as the experienced back line of redshirt senior Alexandra Heller and junior Briana Stelzer, combined with redshirt senior goalkeeper Genevieve Richard, continue to consistently frustrate premiere Big Ten strikers.

Ohio State brings an interesting scenario coming into this Friday’s matchup, starting at 7 p.m. at the McClimon Complex.

While their overall record (5-6-0, 2-3-0 Big Ten) is far from impressive, the Buckeyes are coming off of a commanding 3-1 win over Northwestern

Sunday.

In addition, the return of some key pieces for Ohio State has Wisconsin head coach Paula Wilkins seeing the Buckeyes as a legitimate threat.

“One of the things I know about Ohio State is they have the return of Nichelle Prince, who hasn’t played other than this past weekend,” Wilkins said. “So when you have a player who’s a good goal scorer and can create some danger in the front half I think every team will build in confidence, and I think you saw that against Northwestern. I think it just kind of raises your confidence and it’s the same with us having Cara [Walls] come back. I think it’s going to be a similar effect.”

Wisconsin senior forward Cara Walls, who had been out with injury since the start of Big Ten

play, finally got back on the field last Sunday against Purdue, recording one shot in 73 minutes of play. Walls, who has scored a staggering seven goals in seven games this season, appears to have returned just in time to counter a revamped Buckeye attack.

Similarly, Ohio State’s star sophomore striker Nichelle Prince made her debut last Sunday after missing the entire season up to that point.

Prince scored a teamleading 13 goals for the Buckeyes last season and received second-team all conference honors.

Perhaps the biggest test of the season is looming for the Badgers as they await the arrival of Penn State (10-1-0, 5-0-0 Big Ten) at noon on Sunday.

With a combined nine wins and just one loss between the two teams in conference play, there’s

little question to the heavy implications of this matchup.

Looking to dethrone the Nittany Lions atop the Big Ten standings, redshirt senior Kodee Williams said the return of her offensive counterpart, Walls, will pay huge dividends against the apparent brick wall that is Penn State’s back line. The Nittany Lions enter the weekend allowing only 0.82 goals per game.

Although the second game of any given weekend is usually more physically demanding than the first, Williams believes both teams are “in the same boat” since Penn State will be in action Friday as well, at Minnesota. Williams did, however, emphasize the need for every player to be ready if their number is called off the bench.

“We just have to make sure that we’re treating our bodies right and getting prepared because we’ll be putting in a lot of

minutes. We’ll probably go pretty deep in our bench,” Williams said. “So we really need everyone this weekend especially because it’s pretty much a fact that it will be a tougher game on Sunday.”

If there’s one concept Wilkins has emphasized above the rest, it’s that the Big Ten is won or lost Sundays.

As an eighth year coach, Wilkins is more than familiar with the increasingly difficult physical demands of the season as the games add on. The important part is keeping everything in perspective.

“Our fitness standard coming into the season was good,” Wilkins said.

“I think sometimes it’s hard to manage because of how many games that we have in a row. I think the bigger part here is to manage their health, so that’s what we’re trying to do right now and making sure they’re fresh for the games,” Wilkins added.

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UW gears up for Illini after win Volleyball beats Northwestern in straight sets, will face Illinois in top-20 matchup

by Chris Bumbaca Associate Sports Editor

In its first Big Ten road match of the season, the Wisconsin volleyball team defeated Northwestern in straight sets Wednesday night.

It took Wisconsin (11-2, 2-1 Big Ten) three sets to take down the Wildcats (12-2, 2-1 Big Ten) 25-20, 25-16 and 2523.

Northwestern didn’t wither against Wisconsin, battling for the majority of the match. In the third set, Wisconsin distanced themselves from Northwestern by going on a 6-1 run behind the play of senior outside hitter Ellen Chapman and sophomore middle-blocker Haleigh Nelson after the score had been tied at 10-10. Chapman had three kills during that stretch, while Nelson added two.

It looked like Wisconsin would run away with the set after establishing a 2113 lead, but Northwestern fought back. The Wildcats staved off five match-point attempts by the Badgers.

Finally, freshman outside hitter Kelli Bates, who shared match-high kill honors with 13, slammed home the final point for Wisconsin.

In the first set, it was Wisconsin who had the catching up to do. The Badgers fell behind 9-5, but battled back with six straight points, highlighted by three aces from sophomore setter Lauren Carlini. UW led for the rest of the set until a 1717 tie, when the Badgers went on a 8-3 run to capture the first set.

The Badgers dominated the second set. After getting out to a 8-5 lead, Wisconsin rattled off seven straight points to take a 1o point lead.

Nelson had four kills during that stretch. The Badgers scored the final three points to secure the second set and take a 2-0 lead over the

BEHOLD, THE JOY OF

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Wildcats.

Carlini turned in a doubledouble with 38 assists and 11 digs. Junior libero Taylor Morey had a team-high 14 digs for the Badgers.

Nelson accumulated eight digs, and her five blocks were also a matchhigh. Chapman had nine kills, while seniors Dominique Thompson and Courtney Thomas racked up seven kills apiece.

UW hit for a .396 percentage, while holding Northwestern to a .243 hitting percentage.

Following the takedown of the Wildcats Wednesday, Wisconsin will be on the road once again, this time traveling to Champaign, Illinois to take on the Fighting Illini of Illinois Saturday night.

The No. 16 Illini faced off against No. 18 Minnesota Wednesday. Illinois beat Minnesota and is now 3-0 in the Big Ten, with their first two victories coming against conference newcomers Rutgers and Maryland. All three of their conference wins came in straight sets.

Since dropping its two matches at the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge to UCLA and No. 1 Stanford, whom they played to five sets, Illinois has won eight out of its last nine matches. The lone loss was a five-set match against Virginia Tech. In that span, the Illini have won seven straight matches, and have lost only two sets during the stretch.

“They have a really big front line,” Chapman said.

“They’ve always been a scrappy team.”

Illinois’ Jocelynn Birks is the reigning Big Ten Player of the Week after her performances against Rutgers and Maryland last week. The redshirt junior outside hitter averaged 3.87 kills per set heading into Wednesday’s match.

Opposite senior Liz McMahon adds 3.18 kills per set for the Illini.

“They have this wave of offense comin’ at you constantly,” Sheffield said.

“They’re experienced, they’re a team that’s won a lot over the years. Very good blocking team,” Sheffield added. “I think they’re one of the most physical teams in the country.”

Leading the blocking brigade for Illinois is Watertown, Wisconsinnative Katie Stadick. The sophomore middle blocker averages 1.24 blocks per set, while redshirt senior middle blocker Anna Dorn averages 1.22.

Freshman defensive specialist Brandi Donnelly digs 4.27 balls per set.

Her performance at the Creighton classic earned her Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors for last week.

The Badgers are looking to avenge last season’s loss to the Illini. Illinois’ “Spike

Photo · The sixth-ranked Badgers took care of business against Nortwestern and will enter a raucous environment on the road against Illinois Saturday night.

Hayley Cleghorn The Badger Herald Squad,” the volleyball team’s devoted fan section, made the trip to the Field House for that match, during which Illinois won in four sets.

This year, it will be much louder. Saturday night, Illinois fans will pack Huff Hall and attempt to break a 22-year old decibel level record, as part of the game’s theme, “IlliNOISE”.

This won’t be Wisconsin’s first matchup in a loud environment. Their first match against a ranked opponent, which came on the road at then-No. 13 Colorado State, featured a crowd of 7,000 plus. The UW Field House has also had crowds averaging 4,303 attendees per match through only five home matches, good enough for third in the nation.

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ROADMAP TO BIG TEN TITLE With new alignments, Wisconsin Badgers look to navigate conference play in hopes of division title, trip to Indianapolis

After falling in their first two contests of the season to California and Northern Illinois, the Wildcats have returned to the .500 mark with wins in the last two weeks. This past weekend, Northwestern went on the road to Happy Valley and stunned then-undefeated Penn State 29-6 in a game few people expected the Wildcats to pull off. After finishing last year with losses in seven of its last eight games, Northwestern has a favorable schedule this season in hopes of

contending in the new Big Ten West Division.

Its toughest test of the season comes this Saturday against Wisconsin, and after that it has a relatively non-threatening schedule, other than a road test at Iowa and a home game against Michigan. Speaking of non-threatening, the Wildcats’ offense hasn’t been anything special this season, scoring just 23 points a game, with a rushing attack that averages only 112.2 yards per game. Northwestern has given up more yards on average to opponents but does have a plus-two turnover differential.

Star player: Senior QB Trevor Siemian – Siemian has produced the best of the mediocre offensive numbers so far, completing 58.5 percent of his passes for an average of 218 yards a game with two touchdowns.

Although the Terrapins have a strong 4-1 start to the season and should make a bowl game this year, they have yet to face a quality opponent.

Their closest matchup thus far was a three-point home loss to West Virginia, with the next closest game a sevenpoint win on the road at South Florida. The first big test will come this weekend when Maryland hosts No.

20 Ohio State for its Big Ten home opener.

The Terrapins have multiple backs in the rushing attack with three players who average over 35 yards per game, but neither running back averages over 50.

Quarterback CJ Brown actually averages more than both of the running backs with just over 50 yards per game.

Star player: Redshirt senior QB CJ Brown - Brown is the premier player in the Maryland offense as the leading passer and rusher. He has passed for just under 1,000 yards this season with a per game average of slightly less than 200 yards, while rushing for an average of 53.2 yards.

The Boilermakers dropped their first Big Ten game of the season last weekend to Iowa, and own a 2-3 overall record to start the season.

Purdue’s two wins this season (one more than they had last year) have come against Western Michigan and Southern Illinois while their losses came to Notre Dame and the Hawkeyes.

Purdue currently ranks 12th in the Big Ten in scoring defense, allowing 27.8 points per game, and are last in total offense with 312 yards per game.

The Boilermakers currently have three rushers who average over 45 yards on the ground in Raheem Mostert (58.6), Akeem Hunt (53.8) and Keyante Green (45.5).

Star Player: Sophomore QB Danny Etling – A 4-star quarterback out of high school, Etling has thrown for 800 yards and six touchdowns with a 54.9 completion percentage through five games this season in his sophomore campaign.

Thought to be a dark horse in the Big Ten this season, the Hawkeyes picked up their first conference win of the Big Ten season against Purdue last weekend and are 4-1 overall with their lone loss coming to in-state rival, Iowa State.

Iowa is second to last in scoring offense (22.6) but have given up only 17.2 points per game. Their run defense could pose a

threat to the Badgers as they rank fourth in the Big Ten allowing only 93.2 rushing yards per game. The Hawkeyes have a tough finish to their Big Ten slate as they take on Wisconsin before closing out conference play against Nebraska as they hope to contend in the Big Ten West.

Star Player: Junior QB Jake Rudock While Iowa plans on playing two quarterbacks this Saturday, Rudock has had a strong start to the season.

Despite sitting out last weekend’s game with a leg injury, Rudock has thrown for 798 yards and five touchdowns with a 66.9 completion percentage in the four games he has played.

SENIOR QB

TREVOR SIEMIAN

86-147 872 yds.

58.5% 2 TD, 4 INT 107.4 passer rating

The Illini have started the season with a 3-2 record, but don’t expect that record to stay above the .500-mark for long.

In their only two games against above average competition, Illinois has given up 89 points in losses to Washington and Nebraska this past Saturday. After getting hammered 45-14 in Lincoln, the Illini’s schedule doesn’t lighten up in the near future with road games at Wisconsin and Ohio

State over the course of the next four weeks.

The passing game has carried much of the load through the first five games of the season, averaging just over 309 yards a game while the rushing attack has had a tough time averaging 102.2 yards per game.

Star player: Sophomore QB West Lunt - Lunt transferred from Oklahoma State, and after sitting out last year, he has had an immediate effect on the Illini this season.

His biggest game came against Western Kentucky when he threw for 456 yards.

He has also tossed at least 250 yards in each game this year. Lunt has completed just over 65 percent of his passes and has 11 touchdowns in five games for Illinois.

SOPHOMORE QB

WEST LUNT

100-152 1,237 yds.

65.8%, 11 TD, 3 INT 154.1 passer rating

REDSHIRT

SENIOR QB

CJ BROWN

73-128 996 yds.

57.0% 7 TD, 3 INT 266 rushing yds.

5 TD

The Scarlet Knights’ win at Washington State in their first game of the season looks pretty good considering secondranked Oregon barely escaped with a win over the Cougars. With a similar 4-1 opening mark to Maryland, the other Big Ten newcomer is going to have to run the gauntlet to reach the Big Ten title game. Rutgers drew Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraksa, Wisconsin

SOPHOMORE QB

DANNY ETLING

89-162 800 yds.

54.9% 6 TD, 5 INT 102.5 passer rating

Nebraska enters the sixth week of the season as the only undefeated team in the Big Ten with a perfect 5-0 record, including a win over Illinois last week, and are arguably the favorites in the Big Ten West. The Cornhuskers are first in the Big Ten in total offense (527.6 yards) and second in scoring offense (45.4). The Nebraska rushing attack is also the best in

JUNIOR QB

JAKE RUDOCK

85-127 798 yds.

66.9% 5 TD, 2 INT 129.5 passer rating

Minnesota had one of their biggest wins in program history when they beat Michigan 30-14 last weekend to improve their record to 4-1.

The Golden Gophers follow a typical Big Ten formula as they pound the ball on the ground while relying on a stout defense.

Minnesota averages 230.2 yards per game on the ground while giving up only 19 points per game. The Gophers

and Michigan State, and the Knights have their work cut out for them.

For Rutgers to have success, it will have to rely on a balanced attack offensively. The Scarlet Knights average just over 170 yards rushing and 240 yards passing each game with a defense that is 41st in the nation in points allowed.

Star player: Senior QB Gary Nova Despite throwing seven interceptions already this season, quarterback Gary Nova has accounted for over twice as many touchdowns as any other player with 13. Ten of Nova’s touchdowns have come through the air, while averaging almost 240 yards passing per game, and he has also rushed for three more.

the Big Ten thanks to senior Ameer Abdullah, as they average 354.8 yards per game on the ground. Sophomore quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. has had a fast start to the season, throwing for 1,052 yards and 10 touchdowns to just three interceptions with a 154.2 passer rating.

Star Player: Senior RB Ameer Abdullah – Abdullah is one of college football’s top talents and also the nation’s leading rusher with 833 yards on only 114 attempts (7.3 yards per carry). He has found the end zone eight times and is a leading candidate for the Heisman trophy.

have struggled through the air with quarterback Mitch Leidner averaging just over 100 passing yards per game (105.8) while their best receiver, redshirt sophomore Maxx Williams, has only 161 receiving yards on the season.

The Badgers and Gophers will finish their Big Ten conference slate and battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe at Camp Randall on Nov. 29.

Star Player: Senior RB David Cobb – Cobb already has 722 rushing yards this season with four touchdowns as a senior. Last season, as a junior, Cobb ran for 1,202 yards and seven touchdowns for Minnesota.

SENIOR QB

GARY NOVA

71-111 1,197 yds.

64.0% 13 total TD 7 INT 171.7 passer rating

SENIOR RB

AMEER ABDUL LAH

114 carries 833 yds.

7.3 yards per attempt 8 TD

SENIOR RB

DAVID COBB

124 carries 722 yds.

5.8 yards per attempt 4 TD

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