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ONE YEAR IN Chancellor Rebecca Blank left Washington D.C. for UW in 2013. In her second year, she narrows in on her plans for the future of the university.

by ALEX ARRIAGA

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Sustainabilty a priority in 2015 Dane County Budget While environmentally-conscious projects are on the forefront for next year, lack of funding for county jail strikes community concerns

by Eden Finer Reporter

New sustainable and environmentally-friendly projects are a focus for Dane County Executive Joe Parisi’s 2015 budget, while the future of a new jail facility remains uncertain.

A big theme of the budget is partnerships, particularly in climate change and environmental initiatives, Parisi’s communications director Melanie Conklin said. Parisi’s budget includes roughly $532 million for the operating budget, and $38.9 million for the capital budget.

Some of Parisi’s top projects for 2015 are meant to clean

up Dane County, including eliminating phosphorus runoff to improve lake quality and using new techniques to collect carbon dioxide emissions from the Madison landfills, Conklin said.

Conklin said an innovative, patent-pending project involving the Dane County Rodefeld Landfill will involve using solar panel technology to cover the landfill.

“When a landfill fills up you have to cap it, which is a pretty expensive process,” Conklin said. “We’ve discovered the idea to cover our landfill with a solar membrane. Envision a bathing cap with solar panels on it.”

A new medical examiner’s building and the new highway

transportation garage will be located across the street from the landfill, near Cottage Grove off Highway 12. Both of these buildings are heated and supplied with electricity from the landfill currently, but the implementation of the solar “bathing cap” would generate a lot more, Conklin said.

Conklin said not only will the solar panels create revenue and power, but they actually cost less.

A big project that is not receiving an expansion of funding in the 2015 budget is Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney’s jail proposal, which Conklin said would have been focused on improving the conditions for inmates with

mental illnesses.

“In the current fiscal environment,” Conklin said, “it is simply too much for taxpayers.”

Conklin said that even though this project is not feasible for the 2015 budget, Parisi and Mahoney agree on two key issues. The first is the inadequacy of the jail cells above the city county building.

The second, Conklin said, is how inmates with mental illnesses are taken care of in Dane County jails.

Mahoney said the project currently has $8 million to work with from the 2014 budget.

“That money will be used to further work with our consultants and architects to look at ... the City County building jail,

which has now been declared a safety risk to those who are housed there as well as those who work there,” Mahoney said.

Safety and solitary confinement are two of the main problems of the current jail, Mahoney said. He said lights are on 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and inmates are sleeping on the equivalent of a “concrete slab.”

The problem needs to be addressed, he said, before a catastrophic event or death occurs in the current facility.

“On any given day we have as many as 50 or more housed in solitary confinement because of their mental illness or their medical condition, and that’s a

UW serves immigrant needs

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Law school clinic offers legal representation for migrants facing deportation

by Alex Arriaga News Editor

Edy Moran is a 17-yearold high school student at Madison West High School who works at a bakery and spends any free time he has playing soccer.

Like many others in Wisconsin, however, he faces the threat of deportation.

Moran said he decided to leave Honduras after receiving threats from angry individuals after his father, who had done work as a hitman, disappeared. Having lost his mother at the age of one, Moran was alone in his decision to leave.

Moran, who has spent five months in the United States, will face a trial

in May that will decide whether he is able to stay.

Moran said he considers himself lucky, however, as his chances to stay are greatly strengthened by the free legal assistance he receives from students at University of Wisconsin’s Immigration Justice Clinic.

UW’s Immigrant Justice Clinic is in its third year of actively providing free legal representation to immigrants in deportation proceedings, the only one in the state. It started with the provision of a three-year grant from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment.

Stacy Taeuber, director of the clinic, said it focuses on representing people who are in immigration custody and detention.

She said in Wisconsin,

the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement houses detainees in two different jails, holding about 200 people in each at any given time. Not all immigrants facing deportation are detained, however. Taeuber said the clinic works on providing visas for victims of crime and asylum cases.

“The immigration population in Wisconsin has been growing very rapidly and institutions have been struggling to keep up,” Taeuber said. “There is no other nonprofit legal service in Wisconsin that represents people who are in detention. If someone can’t afford a lawyer, they can go to Chicago or pay someone but if they can’t afford it they’re stuck.”

Taeuber said the issue

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of immigration has been an increasing presence in Wisconsin, as many states near the border run out of space to hold all the detainees and send them up north.

She stressed how difficult it is for an immigrant to represent themselves.

She said there are ways for them to apply for staying rights, including family size and the amount of time already spent in the U.S. Second or third year law students get academic credit for the program, Taeuber said, which involves a credit component as well as the hands-on experience of working with clients under supervision, which she provides.

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problem because it exacerbates their condition in many cases,” Mahoney said. “It’s not what solitary confinement is designed for.”

Mahoney said the remaining $8 million will focus on special needs housing for those who require specialized medical attention because of a medical condition or illness. The funding for the project’s current budget is appropriate, Mahoney said, and he will be putting the money to good use.

The county budget proposal will be sent to the County Board for consideration and amendments. The final budget will be approved in November and go into effect Jan. 1.

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Blank addresses alcohol policy, tuition UW Chancellor and Dean of Students react to student questions on affordability, sexual assault on campus

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In a conversation with the Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald, Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Dean of Students Lori Berquam addressed campus issues of sexual assault, alcohol policy, tuition cost and diversity.

In response to how the university should handle the scrutiny on Greek life following incidents of date-rape investigations at UW-Milwaukee, Blank and Berquam spoke in defense of the organizations and the service they do for the community, while acknowledging that there are “pockets of concern” related to alcohol abuse that extend throughout the university.

Berquam said one way the university has addressed issues of sexual assault on campus is to mandate firstyear and transfer students to watch the video series ‘Tonight’ which serves to educate on assault prevention. Berquam said at the core of this effort is the need for there to always be a clear ‘yes’ when sex is involved, not just the absence of resistance.

Issues of sexual assault on campus are highly correlated with alcohol abuse, Blank said. She said this year the university has done more work to be transparent about the fact that alcohol abuse on campus is being monitored to address the problems associated with it.

“I think the bottom line [is] regarding how do we create community, and how are we effectively communicating with each other? Recognizing that alcohol has played a role and how do we make sure that when there is sex involved that consent is connected to any sex that ensues,” Berquam said. “I think consent has to be at the core of what we do.”

One way the university has sought to address the issue of alcohol abuse has been the implementation of a Responsible Action Policy, which allows students to be exempt from legal consequences should they report to police an incident related to alcohol. Berquam said, however, she can not recall an instance in which the policy has been used

and was a poorly written piece of legislation.

Berquam said it saddens her that students would ever feel hesitant to seek help for their friends just to avoid repercussions from law enforcement.

She said the ‘Tonight’ video also addressed how to seek help even when students feel social pressure not to appear as a “goody goody.”

“That’s what we stand for is that we take care of each other, we don’t let anybody else fall victim to anything and that we are willing to take a stand. If we do that, I really think we can move the needle on this.

That’s what the ‘It’s On Us’ campaign is about, is that it it is about us as a community coming together, but I think it holds true for alcohol as well.”

Law enforcement was unhappy with the policy because of the loopholes it gave to students in cases that charges should have been applied, Blank said. At the same time, it applied strictly to UW students so if a 19-yearold reported an incident they would face harsher consequences if they did not attend the university.

Berquam said she was concerned about having students not of legal drinking age be taken to detox with a blood alcohol level of 0.3. Blank said with so many alternative activities going on in the city and on campus, she finds a problem in students having to drink in excess to have a good time.

Blank said the fact that alumni are able to look back at their academic achievement at UW says a great deal on top of the fact that students have a great time while they’re here, oftentimes engaging in the drinking culture that is prevalent in Madison.

However, she said having the university high on party rankings is not something

she wants to be known for.

Berquam said she worries that having such notoriety for partying can in some cases detract from the reputations of alumni in their professional lives following graduation.

“I was meeting with a young alum earlier this fall who said when the Playboy ranking specifically came out, they were razzed at their place of employment,” Berquam said. “It devalues the UW-Madison degree, and is that what we want?

The whole idea is that in his place of work and his office, it was like, ‘You’re not that smart. You come from a Playboy list school.’”

Issues of alcohol abuse can be traced back to the drinking culture in the state, Berquam said. While the issues has not been actively pursued by university officials, Berquam said longtime legislation in Wisconsin should change for there to be a change in the access underagers have to alcohol, while also solving issues with funding that

could further benefit the university.

Berquam said the state of Wisconsin, as opposed to other states, uses a beer barrel tax by one penny whereas a can or bottle tax is used elsewhere.

“I don’t think anybody would notice if on a six pack it went up six cents,” Berquam said.

In terms of the value of the degree, Blank addressed her thoughts on the values of the university to the state and how that should be reflected in student tuition fees.

She said while the university is very sympathetic to the need to make attendance at UW affordable to students from Wisconsin, she does not believe that out-of-state tuition reflects true market price of the university.

At the same time, Blank addressed the fact that much of the diversity on campus comes from international and out-of-state students.

She said she believes raising out-of-state tuition costs would not be a huge threat to

Photo · UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank addressed her thoughts on alcohol policy, sexual assault and out-of-state tuition.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald admissions as many students apply to UW and choose more expensive schools. In her ideal world, Blank said, she would raise tuition and get additional financial aid so that students who can afford UW will come and those who cannot can get aid. Cost should not be a reason not to come to UW, Blank said. UW should be in the $34,000-$36,000 range, Blank said.

“I do need to be able to attract low-income students both internationally and outof-state to the University of Wisconsin,” Blank said.

“We want that. We want that for diversity purposes. We want that because I don’t want to be a university that only attracts the rich kids. It sets the wrong environment here.”

Samaritans help migrants find refuge Madisonian David Zweig splits time between Wisconsin and Arizona in efforts to provide shelter near U.S. border

by Alex Arriaga News Editor

David Zweig spent 34 years installing Madison’s telephones with his business, Grant Communications, before retiring 8 years ago.

Now, he spends his winters going to Arizona every other week to help refugee migrants from Mexico and Central America.

As a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, a group of

about 150 volunteers, Zweig works to seek out migrants in the Arizona desert who are in trouble, providing them with food, water and shelter at ‘El Comedor.’

“We try to save lives in the desert, that’s our goal,” Zweig said. “Once in a while we find somebody, once in a while we find somebody who’s in trouble.”

Zweig said migrants from Mexico and Central America can sometimes spend 20 days in the Arizona desert. They

face harsh winter nights, vigilante groups and border patrol. Some die, and some get deported yet return to cross the border again and again, he said.

He sees migrants of all ages come through El Comedor, even children without parents. In some instances, Zweig has seen deportation tear families apart.

“I remember one mother I talked to was from New Jersey … she got picked up on a traffic violation, got

deported with her daughter and so her daughter and her were in a comedor getting clothes and help, her husband and other children were still in New Jersey,” Zweig said.

“They’d broken that family up.”

Zweig said women taking the train from Central America to cross the American border are also at risk of rape and abduction by prostitution rings.

One time, he said, he and other Samaritans were talking to some women from Guatemala who were going to stay with a different group. That night, someone found them and murdered them, and Zweig said they were probably recruiting them as prostitutes.

“They were there one day, and gone the next,” Zweig said.

El Comedor sees the most migrants in the summer, when Zweig said they can see up to 150 people a

Photo · Madison citizen David Zweig spends his winters helping refugee migrants in Arizona.

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day, compared to the 120 total in the winter.

Many factors play into why the migrants leave, he said, including gangs and political corruption in their native countries. The migrations come more from Central America than they used to, and in some areas, Zweig said people claim all the men have gone.

The dangers these young men face in Central America face them to choose between staying in that hostile environment or leaving for another, Zweig said. Some choose to escape on ‘the beast,’ Zweig said, a train that travels through Mexico up to the border and is an extremely dangerous method of transportation, killing many of its passengers.

The Samaritans are founded solely on donations and volunteer work, Zweig said. The clothes they give come from the workers themselves, and even the gas that fuels the search vehicle comes out of the Samaritans pockets.

Though not everyone supports his work, Zweig said it is his “passion.” Eight years ago he stumbled upon the idea of it, and now, it gives him something worthwhile to do.

“Not everyone is in agreement with me. Down there a lot of people are antimigration. That’s the way it is,” Zweig said. “I feel strongly about it, and so we do what we can.”

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Speaker addresses similarities between science, politics Cornell University professor spoke to University of Wisconsin students to discuss symmetry between technology and Constitution

by Sofiya Hupalo Science Columnist

While of different eras, the United States Constitution parallels with today’s advancements in computers and synthetic biology, according to a Cornell University professor who spoke at University of Wisconsin last week.

In a series of lectures spanning several departments at UW, visiting lecturer and ethicist Stephen Hilgartner discussed these similarities.

Hilgartner, associate professor of science and technology studies from Cornell University, illustrated how political and

technological changes are deeply intertwined, occur in similar patterns and are led by imaginaries with strong visions of the future.

“The U.S. Constitution was envisioned as a machine,” Hilgartner said. “The U.S. is a technological powerhouse; the idea that we have to be innovative is deep into the culture.”

In his lecture, Hilgartner said the system of checks and balances was devised to instill order, while freedom of speech would produce further democratic effects.

The National Bioeconomy Blueprint, issued by the Obama Administration in 2012, is essentially a mission statement listing research objectives in the life sciences

that will further economic growth and address the country’s health needs.

Similar to what the goals drafted by the founding fathers laid out, the blueprint outlines a structure for future research endeavors.

“It’s not an accident that they used the term ‘Constitution,’” Kris Saha, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, and a colleague of Hilgartner, said. “Science and politics are constitutional in very symmetrical ways.”

According to Saha, the dominating theories in science are heavily influenced by the ideas of experts who determine what becomes

powerful knowledge, closely mirroring the ideology of democracy. However, when it comes to introducing new ideas that turn the public eye and spawn revolutions, it may require a smaller group of ‘sociotechnical vanguards’ — entrepreneurs, pioneering scientists and ethicists — to promote their visions of the future.

Saha said ‘sociotechnincal vanguards’ are people who are actively building revolutions and taking things into new directions.

Hilgartner said in the context of technological and scientific innovation, it is oftentimes the case that a vision poses a turn from the public’s comfort zone.

To make dramatic visions

appealing, sociotechnical vanguards tend to use metaphors.

“Societies will imagine future technologies using past experiences as templates,” Hilgartner said. “[The approach most often taken is to] make them using the vocabulary and institutional furnishings that are currently in use.”

Examples of templates that Hilgartner explored were how synthetic biology draws from the computing revolution that already occurred. Referring to the genetic engineering of microbes and plants, he said synthetic biology contains terminology and concepts that borrow from parts-based approaches in electronics and

computing.

For instance, biological circuits are rooted and stem from electronic circuits, the term ‘bioeconomy’ borrows from information economy, and ideas of open-source software have paved the way for ‘open wetware.’

Despite borrowing from the language and concepts of the past and present, the epicenter of a sociotechnical vision is the future, Hilgartner said. Interlinked templates that tap into plausible instances of history repeating itself are most effective on a new terrain, he said.

“It’s an attempt not to think about the past, but how to anticipate the future,” Saha said.

Students react against MGE’s rate change proposal L Sustainabilty Committee opposes flat charge increase, argues it incentivizes wasteful energy usage while company representative says impact will be minimal

by Emily Neinfeldt Reporter

Students from Associated Students of Madison are preparing to go headto-head with Madison Gas and Electric and the company’s new plan to raise fixed rates on energy bills.

University of Wisconsin’s Sustainability Committee, a student government committee ASM formed to run campaigns pertaining to environmental sustainability, met Wednesday to create a statement to dissuade the Public Service Commission from approving the MGE Plan.

MGE recently created

a plan to raise flat rates on electricity bills while lowering the cost of electricity use. This rate used to be calculated by how much electricity was being used, which is more environmentally friendly, Kyla Kapman, chair of the Sustainability Committee, said.

“Those who keep their electricity usage low are going to be paying just as much as those who aren’t,” Kapman said. “There is going to be less incentive to be environmentally sustainable.”

However, Steve Kraus, manager of media relations from MGE, said he disagrees.

Kraus said fixed rates are going up, but the energy

Latino population increases in Wis. UW study shows rise in numbers in rural, urban areas over the past decade

by Nina Kravinsky Reporter

Over the last decade, Wisconsin’s Latino population has steadily increased in both rural and urban areas, mirroring general trends across the nation.

A new University of Wisconsin study found that the total Latino population in Wisconsin increased from 193,000 people in 2000 to 336,000 in 2010, with an increasing population being born in the state.

Wisconsin ranks in the middle among states in terms of proportion of Latino residents, and the largest increases in Latino population were in counties with already significant Latino populations, the report found.

However, David Long, one of the report’s contributors, said Wisconsin is a good example of the growing number of Latinos in what he referred to as “nontraditional” locations.

“If you look to see where the population’s changing, there are a lot of more rural counties where Latinos are constituting a larger percentage than they have in the past,” Long said.

He emphasized the term Latino did not simply refer to immigrants, but to all people with some type of Latin American or Spanish origin.

Long said this trend represents a general dispersion of the Latino population across the country to places that historically had a low or practically absent Latino presence. Still, the report shows the

majority of Latinos in Wisconsin can still be found in southeastern counties, especially in the Milwaukee area.

Additionally, the report indicates that a growing proportion of Latinos in Wisconsin were born in the state.

Compared to past census reports, the 2010 report indicated that

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you look to where the population’s changing, there are a lot of more rural counties where Latinos are constituting a largr percentage than they have in the past.

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David Long UW report contributor

a significantly lower percentage of Latinos in the U.S. are immigrants, and children and young adults comprise a much larger portion of the population when compared with the state’s total population.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the growing Latino population is an opportunity for “a more diverse culture” in Madison and Dane County in general.

“In general, I see this as a positive statistic for the city of Madison,” Resnick said. “We are becoming a more diverse community, and that creates a set of unique challenges, but overall, I see this as a very positive track.”

rate — the actual cost of electricity — is going down.

When put together, he said the average customer will pay about $3 extra a month.

“Right now, the way the fixed charge is and the way the energy charge is in our billing, it is not really fair to the average customer.

Depending on how much energy you use, you may not be paying your share of the fixed cost,” Kraus said.

MGE is punishing the wrong people in this situation, Kapman said.

Large businesses whose lights are almost always on are going to benefit from this plan, while residents and students who use low amounts of energy will suffer, she said.

“We shouldn’t be

punished for acting responsible,” Kapman said. “MGE is not getting the business they need and

We shouldn’t be “punished for acting responsible. ” Kyla Kapman ASM Sustainability Committe Chair

therefore, [they are] raising flat rates.”

Kraus said to make sure the rate increase does not affect low-income customers adversely, MGE will offer a special lowincome rate through this

proposal.

People that use less energy will still have smaller bills, Kraus said, adding that the benefits of saving energy will stay the same.

He said this rate increase will also help MGE cover the costs of transmission, such as paying for transportation for service vehicles.

Kelly Krein, ASM’s assistant director and campus organizer, said students are limited to using MGE since it is the main energy source in Madison.

“MGE’s supply of gas and electric to Madison is similar to public service being offered,” Krein said. “You can’t change

who supplies your gas and electric and most apartments in the Madison area use MGE. This raise of rates will affect everyone.”

The Sustainability Committee crafted a statement to submit to the Public Service Commission, which will be holding a hearing to either approve or deny the MGE Plan. The commission is asking for statements from students and community members to hear their opinions regarding this issue.

Kapman said this plan works against the goal of the Public Service Commission, which is to support the public good.

She added that if the plan passes, the rate will most likely continue to rise.

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MIGRANTS, page 1 Lola Bovell who formerly participated in the clinic is president of the Latino Law Student Association. The organization works to support Latino issues in law school, providing a support network for Latinos and advocating for community and civil rights issues, she said.

She said the opportunity to work at the clinic gave her greater insight on the

country’s immigration issue.

“I grew up in Miami, Florida, so I loved knowing that a lot of people do move to the United States from other countries and I was exposed to people from all over the world and different cultures from a very young age,” Bovell said. “But I did not realize the significant reality, the harsh reality of deportation and removal proceedings.”

Smartphone app allows detection of cosmic rays Locally developed Android application lets users monitor particles

by Sarah Zimmermann Reporter

Astrophysicists were once the only people who could monitor cosmic rays, but a new app puts it in the hands of anyone with an Android smartphone.

A new app from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center allows users to turn their smartphones into particle detectors.

The Distributed Electronic Cosmic-Ray Observatory app permits Android smartphone owners to detect cosmic rays with their cellphones.

The app will come to other smartphones soon, according to a University of Wisconsin statement.

Justin Vandenbroucke, a UW assistant professor of physics and researcher at WIPAC, said cosmic rays are high energy subatomic particles.

Detectable secondary particles called muons are then created after entering and colliding with the Earth’s atmosphere, which smartphones can detect.

“Cosmic rays are produced by exploding stars, in the aftermath of the same explosions that distribute the matter that you and I are made of,” Vandenbroucke said.

“These cosmic rays are traveling through us all the time but usually we can’t see them. The app gives people a chance

to literally take pictures of these energetic messengers from across the galaxy.”

Vandenbroucke said he got the idea for an app after talking to his classmate Kenny Jensen from the University of California-Berkeley.

While Jensen was interested in rarer, high-energy events, Vandenbroucke thought it would be useful to detect more common low-energy events.

“It is mostly for people who are learning about particle physics and astronomy, who are interested in detecting particles by themselves,” Vandenbroucke said.

Typically, a more sophisticated research instrument is needed to do these kinds of studies, he said, but smartphones are so ubiquitous now that people can learn and study these on their own.

To use the app, people need to be in a dark area or use tape to cover the camera lens, Silvia Bravo, outreach specialist with WIPAC, said. This is so the camera doesn’t detect light. Then, users take pictures with the app. The app searches for pixels, detecting the line of a cosmic ray.

“You won’t see something every time, but from time to time, you will see something there,” Bravo said. “The app will go and analyze this and determine whether it is a

Photo · An Android app from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center will allow users to detect particles with their cell phones.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald candidate to be a cosmic ray.”

Vandenbroucke said the app then sends information such as the time, the observation and location of where the cosmic ray was recorded to a central database, which anyone who is interested in these events can access at any time.

WIPAC also has a high school internship program that allows students to use and work with DECO. There are anywhere between 20 and 25 student interns each semester. They come in every Thursday evening and work in groups, Bravo said.

Vandenbroucke said last year, two groups analyzed images and worked with the cell phone app. This year, they plan on continuing with image analysis and will study the app with another cosmic ray detector for comparison.

There are radioactive events that can pass as cosmic rays, so studying and comparing DECO with the other detector will help validate the app, he said.

Lecturer highlights study on influence of friends’ habits Political scientist speaks on contagiousness of behavior in social networks

by Tyler Jossart Reporter

People’s friends have a much bigger impact on them than they might expect, a prominent social scientist from California said in a campus lecture Thursday night.

James Fowler, a University of California San Diego political scientist, started the lecture with asking the audience to list the people they considered themselves to be good friends with. On average, individuals named about five people each, which he said shows every friend on Facebook does not always foster a direct connection in personal social networks.

“Contrary to popular belief, in order to be a social network, a group of friends is not required,” he said. “A social network can actually make up just you and one other person.”

Fowler said social networks affect people’s lives every day despite most people not being aware of this. To prove his theory of social influences, he pointed to numerous studies he’s conducted or participated in over the years.

He presented a study about obesity’s “contagiousness” that

researched residents of Massachusetts based on their reported network connections from 1971 to 2003. The study’s goal was to find an explanation for the obesity epidemic sweeping across the Unites States.

Fowler said researchers found if one’s close friend is obese, then they have a 40 percent higher likelihood of becoming obese.

Psychological studies also show people who are near someone who is mindlessly eating will likely join them without realizing it, he said.

“This domino effect is not only caused by influence, but also by my favorite word, homophily, the idea that birds of the feather flock together,” Fowler said.

He presented another study based on mood that had a similar result with a less permanent effect. If a person has friends who are happy, he said, they are very likely to be happy as well. Unfortunately, the same goes for people who are sad and have negative attitudes.

People tend to adapt mentally to fit the environment of those around them, he said.

However, after about a year, the study showed that the effects wear off and people will return

to what their initial emotional state was.

Another study of smoking cessation in Massachusetts from 1971 to 2001 showed clusters of networks were quitting together in massive numbers, Fowler said. He said this was most likely due to the anti-smoking campaigns and health awareness throughout the years.

However, it also showed people who could not quit were often marginalized and disconnected socially from the people who managed to quit. The outside influence of campaign ads raised health awareness, while alienating smokers amongst non-smoking friends, he said.

“This may leave you asking if you truly have any willpower at all and if it is in your best interest to actually drop friends who might be obese, smoke or are sad. Do not do it,” Fowler said.

He said studies showed people who actually broke connections with those kinds of friends became even unhealthier.

“You still have willpower, and you should use it towards helping each other deal with each other ’s issues because that is the point of social connections,” Fowler said.

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Herald Editorial Shared governance critical

Challenge ID law by voting

Barring some act of god, Wisconsin’s voter ID law will be in place for the November elections. There is no longer a question of what we can do about the law — the only hope for repealing it before November is an emergency plea before the U.S. Supreme Court. Instead, we must ask what we can do despite it.

There is one simple answer: Vote.

Wisconsin’s voter ID law is bad legislation ostensibly addressing a problem that does not actually exist. In the words of U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, “[Voter ID] is like the worst thing we should have a debate about. It should be we want the turnout. We’re in the top three. ... It’s Maine, Minnesota and Wisconsin for voter turnout, and why you wouldn’t want that, I don’t know. And we don’t have voter fraud.”

This law places an undue burden on both voters and the local authorities that must enforce it. According to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, the City of Madison has hired more than 100 new employees for the upcoming election in order to deal with the law. This takes money that could be used to actually help people and instead ties it up mitigating the harmful effects of an unnecessary law.

Voter ID is not an issue that will go away if we simply ignore it — quite the opposite, in fact. If, through apathy and laziness, we allow the politicians who passed this voter

suppression law to stay in power then the issue will only get worse. If politicians see that they can guarantee themselves electoral victories through voter suppression, they will have no reason to stop.

For the vast majority of University of Wisconsin students, voting in November will not threaten their livelihood.

For Wisconsin residents with valid state ID, voting is the same as always. Things are a bit trickier for nonresidents. Since Wiscards are not considered valid ID, non-residents will have to trek to Union South to get a special voter ID. The out-ofstate members of this board can attest to the relative painlessness of this process — it consists of scanning your WisCard, signing an electronic pad and waiting a minute or so for the card to print.

This process is purely an inconvenience; it is difficult to imagine a scenario where it could thwart attempted voter fraud.

The state of Wisconsin — and students in particular — must show the politicians who pushed this law through the Legislature that voter suppression is not this easy. We will not allow the people who attempted to cement their power through gerrymandering and voter suppression to remain in office. The only way to get rid of this atrocious law is to get rid of the people who passed it. And the only way to do that is to vote.

How to Vote: Register To register, go to the Madison City Clerk’s office, which is room 203 of the City-County Building. Also keep an eye out for groups registering people on campus near Gordon Commons, East Campus Mall and Library Mall/ State Street. If someone offers to register you, ask to see their special registration deputy identification.

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Get an ID

Find your polling place and vote

If you have a valid Wisconsin driver ’s license, you can skip this step. If you don’t, then you can get a free voter ID at the Wiscard office (with your Wiscard) on the first floor of Union South from 8:30 a.m – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Tara Golshan Editor-in-Chief

Katie Caron Managing Editor

Enter your address at the City of Madison website to find out where your polling place is. Go there. Vote.

Encourage your friends The only way to challenge voter ID laws is to get out and vote. #UWVotes

Will Haynes Chairman of the Board of Directors

Briana Reilly Opinion Editor

Madeline Sweitzer Opinion Editor

Editorial Board opinions are crafted independently of news coverage.

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to prevent sexual assault

by Adam Johnson Columnist

Sexual assault is a scourge not exclusive to fraternities or universities. It is pervasive in our culture and we, as a society, need to demand better of ourselves. However, the national conversation on sexual assault is centered on universities and we, as a campus community, need to do better.

Late last week, the University of Wisconsin System announced a task force to address sexual assault throughout the system. Tonya Schmidt, a member of the new task force, claims the task force will focus on preventing sexual assault through educating the campus community. While a fine and appropriate goal, there’s a major problem with the UW System’s task force — there are no students involved!

As President Barack Obama announced last week, “It’s On Us” to stop sexual assault and, fortunately, in Wisconsin we have a statutory obligation to be involved.

Students in Wisconsin carry a long tradition of self-governance with an impressive list of victories.

In 1960, Wisconsin students formed United Council, the nation’s first statewide student association, to encourage students to help be part of the solution to student problems.

In 1974, students helped pass state statute 36.09(5) which delegated official legal authority to students, statutorily mandating them a seat at the table in determining policy developments for their institutions. Currently,

the Associated Students of Madison is UW’s student governing body responsible for upholding the tradition of shared governance and it is imperative that ASM has not only a seat but a strong stake in any discussions on preventing sexual assault on campus.

I call upon ASM Chair Genevieve Carter and all Student Council representatives to develop a new ad-hoc shared governance committee to work with faculty and staff on campuswide sexual assault prevention strategies. Successful shared governance, by definition, needs more than students at the table. It is essential that any council member willing to propose such a committee finds allies in both the faculty and administration. Dean of Students Lori Berquam has been a strong champion of shared governance and working with students.

I would anticipate her office being a strong ally in developing a solution where students are directly involved in solving an issue that has been a continuous focus.

This ad-hoc shared governance committee’s composition can be figured out later, but I envision this group including students from within the student government structure, in addition to representatives from groups that have done important work on sexual assault already such as Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE), and representatives from the Greek community. These students, along with representatives from administration and

faculty, can help coordinate with the UW System task force to ensure students buy in on an issue where they are most directly affected.

While this committee should not have investigation or disciplinary authority for reasons I hope are obvious, the committee can claim broad discretion in developing innovative programs to help curb sexual assault. These programs could be campaigns promoting similar ideals as the “Yes Means Yes” law recently adopted in California, which mandates a stricter standard for assessing whether sexual assault occurred or not. While I’m skeptical such a proposal could pass the Wisconsin Legislature, a shared governance body could propose that University of Wisconsin adopt a similar policy for investigating sexual assaults. Whether an investigation is conducted by the police or not, the university can and does investigate sexual assaults on its own, and strengthening our own policies is a great first step in ending sexual assault on campus.

It’s time for students at UW to take a stand on what is a predominantly student problem. We cannot allow administration to have the sole authority in crafting policies and rules. Chair Carter, it is time for ASM to step up and lead the charge. We need strong leadership and we need shared governance.

Adam Johnson (amjohnson25@wisc.edu) is a graduate student at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. He was the Vice-Chair of ASM during the 17th Session (2010-2011).

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Burke’s platform mirrors Obama’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate would enact failed policies

by Anthony Birch College Republican Contributor

Flashback to 2008. We all remember the hope and change a certain senator from Illinois promised us. America rang with chants of “Yes We Can.” He became president and passed his signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act and promised it would make health care more affordable while guaranteeing us we would be able to keep our doctor if we wanted. He passed a stimulus bill that he promised would restore America’s economic stability. Then, 2012 came along — re-election year for the president. He encouraged our country forward. He pleaded that we give his decisions a chance to come to fruition.

And we elected him again.

The decisions of his first term started to manifest themselves as something different than he promised. We found out that, under the Affordable Care Act, we wouldn’t be able to keep our doctors. We found out that it was actually costing people more money than before the law. We saw the chaotic and confusing implementation of the website. We waited for America’s economy to bounce back. Give the stimulus time, he said.

Then we were shown by the Congressional Budget Office that the projections for government deficits over the next 10 years would be $7 trillion, while jobs recovered at a frighteningly sluggish rate. Mr. President, we gave your policies time, and America is through.

According to an average of major polls, only 39 percent of America is in favor of the health care law he promised would make us better. Those

same polls tell us that only 41 percent of people approve of the direction of the economy. Mr. President, only 28 percent of the country thinks our country is headed in the right direction.

Now, Mary Burke, the Democratic candidate for governor, is welcoming the president and first lady to our state to campaign on her behalf. The first lady was in Milwaukee last week and will be in Madison tomorrow. The Democratic Party has also promised that the president will make an appearance in Wisconsin before the Nov. 4 election.

Over the last six years we have seen what policies Democrats plan to implement across the country. The president himself has promised his policies would be on the ballot even though he isn’t.

Delivering a speech at Northwestern last week he said, “I’m not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: These policies are on the ballot, every single one of them.”

Now, some people hope those failed policies will come to this state in the form of Burke. Ms. Burke hasn’t given us any new ideas that she plans to implement. Amidst allegations of plagiarizing her jobs plans, Burke released a campaign ad where she looks into the camera and embraces the fact that she has taken ideas from others. She states that she intends to take ideas from others and use them to make our state better. Here, we have two politicians telling us exactly what they plan on doing in Wisconsin if Burke wins.

My question to the people of Wisconsin is why would you want to see the same policies we’ve seen fail in our

country be implemented in our state? The fact that Burke has promised to implement these failed policies makes my decision easy. Ms. Burke isn’t promising us something different. She is promising us the same. There is no trial period that we have to wait for to see if her ideas, I mean borrowed policies, will work. She plans to implement the same policies that lead to only 28 percent of Americans thinking we are headed in the right direction.

The good news is that Burke isn’t our only choice for governor. In fact, we have a governor who has done what he’s promised, and we have been better off from those promises.

According to the latest Marquette University law poll, 54 percent of registered voters think Wisconsin is headed in the right direction, and more people think the budget is in better shape now than it was in previous years.

In my mind, this election is an easy decision. There is no “hope” or “change” that is being sold to us. I don’t have to convince you that Burke will embrace the president’s policies.

She told us herself that she will. There are two clear choices. One, Burke, who has promised to embrace the president and first lady and their policies; the same policies that we’ve seen fail over the last six years. Or, Gov. Scott Walker, whose polices we’ve seen enacted over the last four years, and whose policies we have directly benefited from. I thank Burke for making our decision easier.

Anthony Birch (communications@ gopbadgers) is a junior majoring in political science and strategic communication and is the digital director for the College Republicans.

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THE BADGER HERALD · ARTSETC · MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014

Ron Pope’s dynamic show charms High Noon Saloon Singer-songwriter shifted from fast-paced to slow, passionate show

by Rebecca Feldman ArtsEtc. Contributor

Eager butt shaking, enthusiastic guitar swinging and passionate, joint-hand clapping were just a few of Ron Pope’s unexpected body movements that excited the crowd when he performed at the High Noon Saloon Friday. I had the expectation that Pope would be a very low-key, full-of-slow-songs type of performer because he is best known for his heartbreakingly sweet love song “A Drop In The Ocean.”

In actuality, his performance was anything but expected. Most of Pope’s performance was high-energy and fastpaced. About halfway through his performance, though, all of this changed completely. He explained to the crowd that this crazier, let-loose side of him was only a part of the concert and transitioned into the start of the “second half” of his performance, a much slower and subdued part of the night. Pope’s balance between powerful, high-energy songs and soft, quiet love songs help to showcase his amazing ability to perform different roles as an artist.

The first part of Pope’s performance was intense

as his voice blared through the microphone and he constantly moved around on the stage. Pope had an unexpectedly large band, which included five bandmates in addition to himself. The band members alone contributed to the high-energy performance as they crowded the stage.

Pope often interacted with them throughout many of his songs. He would passionately run from one side of the stage to the other as he gathered closely with two of his other band mates and they would sing parts of the song together.

After performing his first few songs, Pope told the audience that if anyone knew the words to his songs, that they should scream them as loudly as possible. And the crowd did just that. When he performed “One Grain Of Sand,” the crowd was transfixed on him and a majority of people sang along to every word of the chorus. When he sang “October Trees,” his hands forcefully moved to the beat of the song and his body would twist as he really got into a specific melody. As the colors above him changed, Pope swayed his hips to the rhythm of the music and eagerly swung his guitar to the beat.

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of Pope’s performance, Pope did a complete 360 on his audience. His band members took a break and it was only Pope and his guitar at the microphone.

In this portion of the performance Pope showed a side of himself that he hadn’t shown before. As he performed “You’re The Reason I Come Home,” he stood on the stage solo, eyes closed, swaying ever so slightly to the music. Pope appeared to be in his own world, completely unaffected by the crowd around him.

The crowd, feeding off Pope’s untroubled energy, quietly moved back and forth to his voice — very different from just minutes before when they had been screaming the lyrics to his songs.

Regardless of whether Pope was singing a crazy rock song or a sweet love song, he was able to completely captivate the audience. His passion for music cannot only be seen but also felt through his powerful performances.

Pope’s dual dynamic only furthers his talent as an artist and exposes his ability to perform different roles. But more importantly, it showcases his ability to do this and still have an amazing connection with the audience.

Grizfolk’s pop tunes solicit dance at Der Rathskeller ‘Folktronic’ band played intimate set to mixed crowd Friday night

by Sandra Kinzer ArtsEtc. Writer

A sparse crowd filled Der Rathskeller Friday evening to see Los Angeles-based band Grizfolk. I sat two tables away from the band during the opening act. Their proximity made me a little nervous, but not so much that I didn’t appreciate the opening act: University of Wisconsin junior, Jake Padorr, who produced comfortable vocals, melding soft beat-boxing to lyrics.

When Grizfolk took the stage, it became clear that their recorded material is much better than their performing style. They have released only a four-song EP, From the Spark. Expanding on those melodies and sharing some currently unreleased songs, Grizfolk delivered an epic yet easygoing sound.

Their soulful tunes combined electronic and Americana into a genre they call “folktronic.”

The five-piece band opened with a song from their EP titled “Waiting For You.” It was tinged with sadness but mostly full of adoration for a lover, which was perfect to sing along to. Most audience members listened passively while some slouched back in chairs and others leaned forward intrigued but not fully engaged yet.

A song or two in, a middleaged couple went up to the

front and started swing dancing, which fit surprisingly well with Grizfolk’s lively folk-pop tunes.

Those of us still sitting down smiled, though it wasn’t long before a few of us students were up front too, twirling and tapping our feet. Grizfolk transitioned into their most wellknown song “The Struggle.”

In talking to Last.fm, the band describes the meaning behind “The Struggle.”

It is about a youth who realizes “when he faces his problems head-on, he becomes a better person” and could also describe someone “trying to escape the wild and find his way into civilization.”

Grizfolk went beyond just matching the sound they recorded on From the Spark.

Adam Roth’s vocals brought an original, wholehearted feel to each song. The other band members were similarly engaged, moving back and forth to the soaring melodies and earnest lyrics. Guitarist Fredrik Eriksson’s shoulder-length blonde hair formed a sort of veil over his face as he bent over his instrument.

The band’s commitment to involving the audience energized us. “We need you guys to help us out on this one!” they said before teaching us part of “Vagabonds.” It even inspired those who had never heard them before to approach the front and start dancing. Grizfolk

interspersed From the Spark songs with some unreleased ones, including “The Barrens,” “Young and Restless,” “The Ripple,” “Cosmic Angel” and “Bounty on My Head.”

By the last song, “Hymnals,” a small crowd occupied the slim space between the stage and the restaurant tables. I attempted to sing over the loud electronic amplifying equipment.

After the show my group approached the band, having come up with a few questions.

“If you were a fungus, which color would you be?” my friend asked bassist Brendan Willing James.

“Neon blue,” he answered.

After we take a photo with the band, everyone exchanged hugs.

With the band members’ laidback and genuine “come talk to us after the show!” attitude, it was anything but awkward.

The band’s full-length album is in progress, but they don’t know when it’ll be released.

“We have to finish it first,”” they said.

Grizfolk is currently on n tour with Bastille and will bee t. performing in Milwaukee Oct. 18.

Photo · They played songs from their first and only EP, From the Spark, and a few unreleased songs.

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‘Doug loves movies’ fails to entertain rowdy crowd Comedy podcast hosted by Doug Benson fell flat with weed jokes

by Vincent Mollica ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

A heckler at the Comedy Club on State’s screening of the “Doug Loves movies” podcast belted, “Are you having a good Hempfest?” to kick off the show Saturday night. The show was an amicable, but ultimately too zoned out, taping of the popular podcast “Doug Loves Movies.”

It brings in many of the biggest names in comedy and film to a moviethemed panel/quiz show.

Doug Benson, a comedian based out of LA, hosts the show. He has released marijuana-centric comedy pieces like album Gateway Doug and the documentary “Super High Me.” At around 4:20 p.m., the air was thick with vaporizer smoke and the club’s two-drink minimum getting the late afternoon audience a little rowdier than they normally would be before five.

The show started with Benson sweetly ambling up to the stage with the show’s prerecorded theme playing.

When the mentioned heckler made his inquiry, Benson, immediately said how uncomfortable hecklers make him. He directly asked the heckler to not make trouble. Then, almost as an afterthought, he laughed and said yes, he was having a good Hempfest. This interaction describes Benson in a nutshell. Although this story could portray him to look like a jerk, he’s

not. He’s a professional comedian, whose dazed persona masks his thick skin and his keen ability to deal with an audience quickly and efficiently.

The screening Saturday afternoon borrowed that night’s headliner and opening act (comedians Tommy Johnagin and Chris Cubas, respectively,) as well as special guest “Mark Wahlberg” (comedian Dick Van Kirk, doing an impression of the actor which is a mainstay of the LA show).

As the show began, that same professional attitude remained, at least for a while. Johnagin and Cubas both seem to have come in with what appeared to be jokes already worked out about movies they just saw (although it sounded slightly stilted in a panel environment, it led to some good banter), but the real MVP of the panel was Dick Van Kirk’s “Mark Wahlberg.” Opening with a Wisconsin specific pair of jokes about House on the Rock, he then went straight into playfully messing with the audience and the rest of the panel about understanding their jokes.

Immediately Van Kirk was able to tap into the room’s energy, and find a playful rhythm within the panel. This led to a solid 30 minutes or so of good back and forth, mostly headed

by Van Kirk and Benson’s chemistry (as well as their obvious experience with the show’s format), allowing clear roles to form among the four panelists.

However, roughly halfway through the

Photo · The screening of the show also featured two other comedians, Tommy Johnagin headlined and Chris Cubas opened. The show shifted from light-hearted to disorganized.

Courtesy of Gage Skidmore energy that carried the show so far began to run out, and the show’s marijuana and alcohol infused atmosphere began to take its toll on the show.

This corresponded roughly with the start of the show’s game portions, in which they played three movie trivia games.

With each game, the panel’s enthusiasm began to wean and the audience began to grow more and more restless. The show, which normally runs about an hour in LA, was stretched here to roughly 100 minutes, so the decrease in energy was understandable. However, it didn’t make any of the increasing pauses or shouts from the audience any more entertaining.

At one point Benson joked that a shouting audience member didn’t realize it’s a comedy show, and must think that the four people on stage are just jerks holding microphones.

Although they certainly aren’t jerks, the sentiment was not entirely far off; the room’s heady energy decreased to the point where those on stage really weren’t so different than those in the crowd.

ArtsEtc. Events Calendar Monday Tuesday

Wednesday

“A Brief Moment of Perfection” by Jack Long; Memorial Union Lakefront at Langdon Gallery, all day, FREE.

“Once;” Overture Center of the Arts, 7:30 p.m., $40-$99.

“The Exorcist;” The Marquee at Union South, 7 p.m., FREE.

Thursday

Plaza Thursday; The Plaza Tavern, until 2 a.m., $2.50 long islands.

Friday

“From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America;” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 12-8 p.m., FREE.

Saturday

“A Nightmare on Elm Street;” The Marquee at Union South, 11 p.m., FREE.

Sunday

Grieves with K. Flay, Sol; High Noon Saloon, $15.

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THE BADGER HERALD · SPORTS · MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014

AROUND COLLEGE FOOTBALL Unsung Badger: Kenzel Doe

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Doe grabbed his first receiving touchdown of his career

“No one wants to be pulled. I’m still a person. Coaches felt they needed a spark and they went with Joel. If it’s going to help the team, I’m alright with it.”

-Quarterback Tanner McEvoy about getting benched in the second quarter in favor of Joel Stave.

while snagging a career-high four receptions for a total of 34 yards. His catch proved important late as it brought Wisconsin within six points with just over four minutes to play.

Top 25 in Review 1. Florida State: 43-3 W vs. Wake Forest — Kicker Robert Aguayo converted on all five of his field goal attempts, and the defense recorded three turnovers in the ‘Noles rout of Wake Forest.

2. Oregon: 31-24 L vs. Arizona — Heisman hopeful Marcus Mariota was sack-stripped by Arizona’s Scooby Wright in the waning minutes of the game on Oregon’s final drive, after Arizona took the lead on the previous drive on a touchdown from Terris Jones-Grigsby.

3. Alabama: 23-17 L vs. Ole Miss — Blake Sims threw an interception in the end zone with 27 seconds remaining after the Tide squandered a 14-3 halftime lead.

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Wins that Arizona has over teams ranked in the top 10 since 2005. Three of those wins have come against Oregon, including Thursday when the Wildcats upset the No. 2 ranked Ducks on the road. Each time Arizona has knocked off Oregon they have been ranked in the top five and twice were ranked second. In six of the seven upsets, including Thursday, Arizona has been unranked.

4. Oklahoma: 37-33 L at TCU — Quarterback Trevor Knight threw two pivotal interceptions, one which was returned for a touchdown to put TCU up for good in the fourth quarter, which would ultimately doom the Sooners.

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5. Auburn: 41-7 W vs. LSU — Nick Marshall accounted for four Tiger touchdowns, throwing and running for two apiece. The offensive explosion matched the series-record for points in a game against LSU. 6. Texas A&M: 48-31 L at Mississippi State — Kenny Hill threw for 365 yards and four touchdowns, but also threw three picks, including two on consecutive attempts in the second half.

Josh Reynolds caught two touchdowns for the Aggies.

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8. UCLA: 30-28 L vs. Utah. — Utah kicker Andy Phillips kicked a 29-yard field goal with 34 seconds on the clock. After UCLA stormed down the field to try to salvage the game, kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn missed from 55 yards out as time expired, but was given another opportunity because of a running into the kicker penalty, and missed that attempt from 50 as well.

9. Notre Dame: 17-14 W vs. Stanford — Everett Golson threw a 23-yard touchdown on 4thand-11 to Ben Koyack with 1:01 remaining, sealing the win for the Irish.

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15. LSU: 41-7 L at Auburn — The Tigers suffered their worst defeat under head coach Les Miles, and dropped their first two SEC games under him for the first time. LSU had won the prior three meetings against Auburn.

2. Kenny Hill – QB, Texas A&M

16. USC: 38-34 L vs. Arizona State — ASU quarterback Mike Bercovici tossed up a Hail Mary with no time remaining on the clock, and his teammate Jaelen Strong came down with it in front of a pack of USC defenders, stunning the Trojans.

Saturday: 37-62, 365 yards, 4 TD, 3 INT

17. Wisconsin: 20-14 L at Northwestern — Despite Melvin Gordon’s career-high 259 rushing yards, the Badgers couldn’t capitalize offensively against the Wildcats. Joel Stave replaced starting quarterback Tanner McEvoy just before halftime and threw three interceptions and a touchdown.

3. Todd Gurley – WR, Alabama

18. BYU: 35-20 L vs. Utah State — BYU quarterback Taysom Hill was carted off the field with a season-ending leg injury in the second quarter, and the Aggies outscored the Cougars 28-6 from the third quarter on en route to victory.

Saturday: 25 carries, 163 yards, 2 TD, 1-1, 50 yards passing

19. Nebraska: 27-22 L vs. Michigan State — Nebraska battled back after falling behind 17-0, but was unable to topple the Spartans. Ameer Abdullah only had 45 yards on 24 carries, but scored twice.

20. Ohio State: 55-24 W at Maryland — J.T. Barrett threw for four touchdowns and 267 yards, as the Buckeyes trounced the Terps. Barrett also picked up 71 yards and a score on the ground.

4. Ameer Abdullah – RB, Nebraska

21. Oklahoma State: 37-20 W vs. Ohio State — Tyreek Hill sparked OSU’s offensive explosion by taking the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown to start the second half. Desmond Roland ran for 95 yards and two touchdowns in the win for OSU.

Saturday: 24 carries, 45 yards, 2 touchdowns

22. Eastern Carolina: 45-24 W vs. SMU — Shane Carden threw for four touchdowns and 410 yards, as the Pirates, in their first American-Athletic Conference game, trounced the Mustangs.

5. Dak Prescott – QB, Mississippi State

24. Missouri: Did Not Play. Next game is home against Georgia.

Saturday: 19-25, 259 yards, 2 TDs, 77 rush yards, 3 TD

25. TCU: 37-33 W vs. Oklahoma — With the score tied at 31-31, Paul Dawson picked off Trevor Knight and returned it for a touchdown, which proved to be the difference in the game. Trevone Boykin threw for 318 yards and two touchdowns while picking up 77 yards on the ground.

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Offense - D : Other than Melvin Gordon who we’re going to give an “A” for his perfor-

1. Florida State

138 passing yards on the day from both Joel Stave and Tanner McEvoy and the leading

2. Auburn

receivers for UW, Alex Erickson and Kenzel Doe, each had four catches for only 45 and 34 yards, respectively. The quarterbacks also combined for four interceptions and the

3. Notre Dame

offense converted only twice in the red zone. Had Gordon not had the performance he

4. Ole Miss

did, this very easily could have been a shutout for UW. Defense - C-: It’s tough to say how the Wisconsin defense would have fared against Northwestern at full strength, but regardless, the performance was arguably the worst of the season. The Wildcats’ Justin Jackson shredded Wisconsin’s defense throughout the Siemian completed more than 50 percent of his passes, he beat Wisconsin on several big throws and continually targeted the middle of the field, finishing with a touchdown

1. Trailing 14-3 at half, No. 11 Ole Miss turned it on in the second half to upset No. 3 Alabama and solidify itself as a championship contender.

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1. Marcus Mariota – QB, Oregon

13. Georgia: 44-17 W vs. Vanderbilt — Heisman candidate Todd Gurley rushed for 163 yards and two scores, and even threw a 50-yard completion (Georgia’s longest completion this season).

game, averaging 4.9 yards per carry while compiling 162 rushing yards. Although Trevor

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12. Mississippi State: 48-31 W vs. Texas A&M — Dak Prescott threw for two touchdowns and used his legs for three scores in the Bulldogs beat-down of the Aggies.

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11. Ole Miss: 23-17 W vs. Alabama — Quarterback Bo Wallace threw for 251 yards and three touchdowns, as Ole Miss took down Alabama for the first time in more than a decade after falling behind 14-3.

23. Kansas State: 45-13 W vs. Texas Tech — Quarterback Jake Waters had five touchdowns, four through the air, and the defense forced four turnovers in the Wildcats crushing of the Raiders.

ACC-Atlantic Florida State Louisville Clemson Boston College Syracuse North Carolina State Wake Forest

264.8 yards/ game

7. Baylor: 28-7 W vs. Texas — Bryce Petty threw for two touchdowns and running back Shock Linwood ran for 148 yards and two scores for the Bears.

10. Michigan State: 27-22 W vs. Nebraska — Jeremy Langford rushed for 111 yards and a touchdown, as the Spartans got out to a 20-point lead and were able to hold off the Cornhuskers.

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and no picks. Statistically speaking, Wisconsin came in as one of the best defenses in

47.5 pts/ game

the nation, but looked nothing like it on the way to allowing 385 yards.

46.2 pts/ game

Special Teams - C : Special teams didn’t really do much of anything Saturday. Kenzel Doe did manage 81 return yards on four kickoffs and 21 yards on only two punt returns but other than that there wasn’t much happening on special teams. Rafael Gaglianone missed his only field goal attempt on the day which came from 50 yards out, sailing it wide left and well short of the goal posts. Gaglianone is now 5-7 on field goal attempts this season.

2. Mississippi State also proved itself as a legitimate threat in the SEC with a big upset of No. 6 Texas A&M, winning big 48-31.

Coaching - F: The fact that Melvin Gordon rushed for more than 250 yards and Wisconsin still lost tells how the coaching panned out Saturday. Wisconsin had a first and goal on the three with more than seven minutes left, trying to trim the lead to six. Instead of running the ball, Wisconsin tried play action, which resulted in an interception. That one play summed up the play calling offensively. There were several drives where Gor-

3. TCU got a huge Big 12 win, upsetting a possible playoff contender in No. 3 Oklahoma at home 37-33.

don didn’t even touch the ball and offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig opted for passing for all three downs. Although McEvoy certainly had his struggles, Ludwig played away from McEvoy’s strengths and left his starting quarterback in the cold. Wisconsin didn’t execute well, but with better coaching, Wisconsin could have very well won the game.

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FACEBOOK.COM/BADGERHERALD WASTE, page 10 opportunity coming with less than six minutes left in the game. Trailing by 13, UW had a first and goal at the Wildcats’ three but opted for play action instead of a run. Stave rolled to his right and tried to fit a pass into tight quarters while under pressure near the sideline, trying to find Alex Erickson.

Igwebuike, who had three interceptions, picked the ball off again and essentially sealed the loss.

The passing game struggles from Saturday didn’t pertain to solely the quarterbacks, as the loss of Jared Abbrederis from last year was again magnified.

With Stave in the game, UW tried several long throws but couldn’t complete any.

Although the deep throws from Stave weren’t perfect, the Badgers didn’t have a proven downfield threat to target in any of those situations.

“A year ago, we throw that thing up there and there’s a pretty special kid going up and getting it,”

Andersen said in reference to Abbrederis. “The kids that are playing right now want to be special but they got to get better at it.”

Wisconsin’s longest pass against Northwestern was 24 yards from Stave to tight end Sam Arneson, who Andersen called UW’s number one receiving threat at this point. The longest pass of the season is still only 37 yards, strong evidence of Wisconsin’s inability to throw the ball downfield or have a receiver capable of making those catches.

Meanwhile, Gordon continued to showcase his dominance after his disappointing performance in game two when he had just 38 net yards rushing against Western Illinois. He accumulated a career-high with his 259 yards against Northwestern, but managed just one touchdown. A lot of that had to do with Gordon’s seven-total red zone carries, four of which came on the scoring drive to open the second half.

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in the red zone also had some roots in sloppy play by the offensive line that resulted in several crucial penalties, and a lack of protection for both quarterbacks at times.

Although the quarterbacks have been the noticeable weakness for Wisconsin this season, as they were again Saturday, the offensive unit as a whole has some large deficiencies to fix just one game into the Big Ten season.

“Right now, we’ve got to look and see what’s the functionality of our offense, what is absolutely the best offense that fits our offensive line, our wide receivers, the tight ends, fullbacks and everybody that’s involved,” Andersen said.

Photo · Northwestern fullback Dan Vitale celebrates his five-yard touchdown catch in the second quarter.

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UW stuck on 1 win after extra time loss to Michigan Men’s soccer scores late goal but squanders lead in seventh defeat

by Chris Caporale Men’s Soccer Writer

Badgers top Buckeyes, still cannot solve PSU Women’s soccer loses 2-0 in chance to take down Big Ten’s best

by Jamie DeGraff Women’s Soccer Writer

Coming into the weekend riding three straight shutout victories in conference play, the No. 13 Wisconsin women’s soccer team looked ready to take control of the Big Ten. Facing a revamped Ohio State squad Friday and No. 7 Penn State Sunday, the challenged proved to be difficult, and ultimately the Badgers (11-2-0, 5-2 Big Ten) came away with just one win.

In front of 760 fans at the McClimon Complex Friday night, the Badgers hosted Ohio State (5-7-0, 2-4 Big Ten) in what turned out to be a lopsided contest in favor of Wisconsin. After firing off eight shots in the first half, the Badgers finally got on the board with an impressive 35-yard free kick goal by sophomore Rose Lavelle, her second of the season. The unassisted shot traveled all the way through the box and off the post, ricocheting in for a 1-0 Badgers lead heading into the second half.

The second half displayed more of the offensive dominance by Wisconsin, keeping its foot on the gas to the tune of seven more shots on goal in comparison to the Buckeyes’ three. The recent return of all-conference sophomore forward Nichelle Prince was encouraging for Ohio State, but she was limited to just one shot on goal during the contest.

The final score of the game came in the 64th minute following a cross from junior defender Molly Laufenberg to senior forward Cara Walls, who beat the keeper high to find the net from the top of the box, making it 2-0. After starting the season with seven goals in her first six games, her eighth goal Friday marks her first score since being sidelined with an ankle injury at the beginning of Big Ten play back in mid-September.

Sunday’s matchup against Penn State (12-1-0, 7-0 Big Ten) ultimately determined the Big-Ten favorite halfway through the conference schedule. With an even stat

line all around for both teams for scoring opportunities and shots on goal – Penn State had 10 shots and Wisconsin had nine – it came down to a few fateful bounces in favor of the Nittany Lions.

The first 10 minutes consisted of a defensive battle by both teams, with neither offense being able to sustain possession in the attacking third. The first major opportunity for Wisconsin came off a corner kick in the 11th minute, which junior defender Brianna Stelzer barely missed with a header over the bar.

The near miss for the Badgers became a theme for the rest of the game, and Walls reflected on their opportunities after the match in a forthright manner.

“It was definitely one of those games. We had our chances, they had their chances. They finished theirs, we didn’t,” Walls said. “We had some wide-open sitters just like they did; they put theirs away, and we didn’t. I thought it was a pretty even game.”

Immediately following the corner came a breakaway opportunity for Penn State in the 12th minute, which ended with a diving save by Badger’s senior goalkeeper Genevieve Richard on a dangerous cross over the middle. The stop was one of many made by Richard on the afternoon, who was quick to recognize and clear out Penn State’s chances on goal throughout the first half.

Richard, who was certainly more busy defending her goal than in previous home games, didn’t notice anything different in the intensity of her team’s play but echoed the comments of Walls in terms of closing out chances.

“I thought we played well; the effort was definitely there.

I think maybe we needed to move the ball a little faster and put it a little wider, just little details,” Richard said. “And just our finishing, like what [head] coach [Paula] Wilkins said, it just came down to who finished their chances and who didn’t. So it’s part of the game, and when you play

Photo · Senior Kodee Williams led Wisconsin with her three shots Sunday against Penn State, one of which went on goal.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald against good teams, it is what it is.”

Despite a series of breakaways, one of them being a one-on-one shot gone far-left by Walls, the Badgers failed to test Penn State goalkeeper Britt Eckerstrom in the first half. While both teams passed well in the middle-third, both attacking units had trouble breaking through the last line of defense. Multiple chances arose with open balls in the box following deflections, but neither team could capitalize in the scoreless first half.

Although Wisconsin’s defensive backline of Stelzer, Laufenberg and redshirt senior Alexandra Heller contained Penn State’s highpowered attack, which averages 2.57 goals per game in Big Ten play, the Nittany Lions finally broke through in the second half with a goal by freshman midfielder Emily Ogle. After a diving save by Penn State’s Eckerstrom on a one-on-one shot by Lavelle at point-blank range in the 77th minute, the Nittany Lions came roaring back on the counterattack. A cross from junior Mallory Weber found Ogle in the back of the box for the easy tap-in and 1-0 lead.

In response, Wisconsin amped up their offensive numbers, leaving the defense vulnerable and ultimately susceptible to another crossgoal in the 89th by sophomore midfielder Salina Williford in the 2-0 final.

In spite of her disappointment, Wilkins said the team can benefit from the challenging experience Sunday.

“By playing a good team it shows our weaknesses that we still have six games to go and get better at,” Wilkins said.

“So that’s going to be really important for us, to learn from this game and move on.”

The University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team has struggled to win games so far this season and Saturday it suffered another extra-time defeat, this time a 2-1 loss to Michigan.

The game ended when the Wolverines’ Rylee Woods scored in the 99th minute off a free kick from 30 yards out to hand Wisconsin (1-71 overall, 0-3-0 Big Ten) another tough loss. His shot curled around the wall and through traffic, which made it difficult for freshman goalkeeper Adrian Remeniuk to make a play.

Remeniuk had taken the place of the injured Casey Beyers, who had made four starts in a row before sustaining his injury.

Both teams remained scoreless until the 80th minute when senior Jacob Brindle scored off a cross to put the Badgers ahead for the time being.

However, Michigan (2-5-2, 1-1-2) scored the equalizer just three minutes later when James Murphy stole the ball from the Badgers and bounced his shot off the post and behind Remeniuk for the goal.

In the final six minutes of regulation, Wisconsin had several opportunities to score, but could not find the back of the net.

“As soon as it went 1-1, we started creating chances again and could have easily won it in the last five or six minutes of the game once they tied it,” Wisconsin head coach John Trask said.

“I thought our response to their goal was good, but soccer can be a cruel game sometimes, and our guys are living it right now.”

In their past seven games, Wisconsin has scored only six goals, which has been difficult to overcome. Defensively, the Badgers have given up

18 goals in that same time frame.

The opportunities were there for Wisconsin, but they were unable to convert. The Badgers had 19 total shots Saturday night, but only three were on target. Twelve of Wisconsin’s attempts came in the second half, but put only one of those shots on frame.

Wisconsin also lost the corner kick battle 6-4, with all of their corner kicks coming in the second half.

In order to get back in the win column, Brindle said the Badgers will need to find ways in which they can get high-quality chances.

“We had some good chances. I know I should have put a couple more [shots] away, but we’ve been working on that in practice,” Brindle said. “Just getting into places where you can be dangerous in front of goal, they’re going to fall eventually.”

Trask sees the opportunities that

as it went “1-1,As soon we started creating chances again and could have easily won it.

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John Trask Wisconsin head coach Wisconsin gets and knows they are close to putting more shots in the back of the net.

“We had some good attacks that, with a little bit finer pass, or a little bit more clinical on the finish, and we probably get a couple more goals,” Trask said.

Trask also knows this is the learning curve that comes with a young team that includes three freshmen on the attacking end.

“I just felt that final third (of the field), that last pass,

that last decision, that’s part of having a lot of young players, that’s the nature of the beast,” Trask said. “A year from now, the decision is better, the moment is better, and we have to continue to mature this group.”

Before giving up the two late goals, the Badgers’ defense had been strong for a majority of the game. But after Wisconsin scored to go ahead, Michigan ramped up its attack to try to battle for the equalizer, and the Badgers couldn’t hold them back.

“We knew they were going to come out strong after that first goal,” senior Carl Schneider said.

Wisconsin has not played a full game of complete team defense yet, Trask said, but he will continue to work on it with his players.

Michigan tallied seven shots on goal out of their 10 total shots on the game.

“At the end of the day, we don’t seem to be able to stop the opposition from scoring goals,” Trask said.

Despite the goals they have given up, the Badgers have played close games on their home turf, with this being the third straight Wisconsin home game to go to extra time.

Remeniuk saved five shots on the night, but it was not enough to give the Badgers a win. It is unknown if Casey Beyers will be healthy enough to return to the starting 11 by their next game.

The Badgers will play that next game at home at the McClimon Complex at 7 p.m. Tuesday against Green Bay.

Photo · Wisconin lost 14 players to graduation last season and has struggled to score with the new cast of players, but managed its first goal in more than 300 minutes Saturday night.

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Wildcats run all over Wisconsin defense, as missed tackles, big plays spell doom behind inept display from quarterbacks

by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

EVANSTON, Ill. – The Wisconsin football team has not won at Northwestern in 15 years and will have to wait at least two more years to put an end to that drought.

The UW offense led by both Tanner McEvoy and Joel Stave could not cash in on numerous opportunities, and despite a career day from Melvin Gordon, the No. 17 Badgers (3-2, 0-1 Big Ten) fell to the Wildcats (32, 2-0 Big Ten) 20-14 at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois, Saturday.

Although the offense sputtered through three quarters, and Stave struggled in his return to the field, the redshirt junior quarterback pulled the Badgers to within six points at 20-14 after a 19-yard touchdown pass to Kenzel Doe with 4:14 left in the fourth quarter. But after the Wildcats got the ball back, they converted a key first down and put to rest any comeback efforts from UW. “It was a hard-fought game and [Northwestern] made more plays than we did,” Wisconsin head coach Gary Andersen said.

“Our opportunities were there and we didn’t take advantage of them.”

The opportunities were certainly there for the taking for UW, but throwing three interceptions and converting only two times out of five tries in the red zone won’t win teams many games. The Badgers threatened to pull within six points of the Wildcats earlier in the fourth quarter with first and goal from the three-yard line, but Stave threw the second of his three interceptions right to Godwin Igwebuike in the end zone.

“The turnover in the red zone, that can’t happen, that’s on me,” Stave said.

“I was trying to do too much. I was trying to force it. First [down] and three from the three-yard line, you just have to throw the ball away.”

After starting the first four games of the season, McEvoy found himself on the bench for the final drive of the first half and the rest of the game, as the Badger coaching staff went to Stave in hopes of providing a spark to the dismal Wisconsin offense. McEvoy finished just 4-for-10 for 24 yards with an interception before he sat out in favor of Stave.

“I just felt like we needed to find a spark on offense,” Andersen said. “Again, in quick review, this was the first week where I really felt

that when I looked at Joel, and I asked Joel is he ready to go. This was the week he felt like he was ready to go, and I believed it. And so I felt like we needed to find a spark and looking for a spark is why we made the change.”

Under McEvoy, once again the Wisconsin offense struggled in the first half but for the first

turnover in “theTheredzone, that can’t happen. That’s on me. I was trying to do too much. I was trying to force it.

First-and-three from the three-yard line, you just have to throw the ball away.

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Joel Stave UW quarterback time this season, entered the break with no points on the scoreboard. After a field goal from Jack Mitchell in the first quarter, Northwestern’s Trevor Siemian found Dan Vitale for a five-yard touchdown pass that put the Wildcats up 10-0 in the second quarter, which is where the score would remain going

into halftime.

As if they were following a script, the Wisconsin offense came out and scored a touchdown on the first drive of the second half to fall behind just 10-7. The Badgers have now scored on their opening possession of the second half in all five games this season. The seven-play, 76-yard drive was aided by a Gordon 61yard run, who would also cap off the drive with a twoyard touchdown. Gordon was the lone bright spot for UW Saturday and ran for a career-high 259 yards on 27 attempts, an average of 9.6 per carry.

Gordon, who is now averaging 42.8 yards on his first carry of the second half, also went over the 200yard mark for the third time in his career and the second time in the last three weeks.

Despite his strong performance, Gordon admitted it was frustrating for the offense to only come away with 14 points and not convert close to the end zone.

“It’s tough just trying to come out here and do your best,” Gordon said.

“You’re trying and trying and you break some long runs and you’re still trying and you get right by the goal line and come up short and get no points. It’s tough.”

Coming into Saturday’s game the Wisconsin defense ranked in the top 25 in most major defensive categories, but was gashed by the Wildcats’ offense, especially by freshman running back Justin Jackson. Jackson had just 234 yards on the season before Saturday, but ran for 162 yards on 33 carries to pace the Northwestern offense. Siemian did just enough on offense for the Wildcats and went 15-for29 with 182 yards and a touchdown. Wide receiver Miles Shuler scored the final touchdown for Northwestern in the fourth quarter on a reverse from 16 yards out that put them up 20-7 over UW. The Wisconsin defense had to deal with the loss of one of their best players in inside linebacker Marcus Trotter who left in the first half because of a groin injury and defensive back Devin Gaulden who exited in the first quarter with an arm injury.

The injuries to the defense and numerous missed tackles allowed Jackson and the Wildcat offense to put up enough points to get past the Badgers and pick up their second win of the Big Ten season.

“We did not tackle well,” Andersen said. “It appeared to me, without seeing the

Photo · Michael Caputo whiffs on a tackle, something that happened far too often for the Badgers Saturday.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald tape, that was the worst tackling game we’ve had this season.

“Losing Marcus [Trotter] was a huge blow. He’s in every one of those packages and he’s been playing very, very well.”

Heading into the sixth week of the season, the Badgers have plenty of questions to answer on both sides of the football after their performance Saturday.

Going forward, Andersen said both McEvoy and Stave could see time on the field beginning next week against Illinois. But regardless of where they’re at now, the Badgers have some work to do as they sit in last place in the Big Ten West standings – although it’s still early.

“The Big Ten Championship; it’s still there,” Gordon said.

“We have to hope some things fall in line for us now. But it’s going to be tough in the long run. I feel like we can still be a good team and we can do what we want to do.”

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Gordon’s big day wasted by unreliable offense Running back goes for career-high 259 net yards on ground, but tallies only one score while pass attack struggles continue to linger

by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

EVANSTON, Illinois – Melvin Gordon rushed for a career-high 259 yards Saturday afternoon, but the hidden problems of the Wisconsin football team’s offense resurfaced in an alarming way in a 20-14 loss at Northwestern.

The Badgers (3-2 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) had several bad breaks including two injuries on defense and a big offensive change with the swapping of Joel Stave for starter Tanner McEvoy at quarterback.

However, Gordon did

not use those excuses to explain Wisconsin’s failure to capitalize on multiple opportunities.

“We had position changes with the quarterback; we had some guys get banged up on defense. It’s tough having to adjust and change to that.

Somehow you just got to find it deep inside you to make those plays and we didn’t,” Gordon said.

After a loss to start the season against LSU in which McEvoy threw for just 50 yards with two interceptions, the offense covered the issues exposed in the season-opening defeat with a big day of passing from McEvoy against Western

Illinois followed by two big games on the ground against Bowling Green and South Florida.

But despite 425 yards of total offense against the Wildcats (3-2, 2-0), the Badgers’ offense struggled to perform consistently over the four quarters and revealed that the apparent fixes over the last several weeks were merely cosmetic.

“We have not proven effective enough to be what I would call a stable offense. I don’t care about yards. I don’t care about all the other stuff, other than a functioning offense that allows us to win Big Ten games,” head coach Gary

Andersen said.

A great bulk of UW’s offensive problems this year have revolved around a passing game that, outside of the game against Western Illinois, has been average at best. Outside of the 50 yards from McEvoy in week one, the passing attack has had passing totals of 112 yards against BG, 160 yards against USF and 138 yards Saturday, with 289 yards against Western Illinois, the lone outlier.

But besides a sheer lack of a passing game, the Badgers’ have also had turnovers factor into the offensive struggles. Luckily, the four interceptions before Saturday

hadn’t hurt UW too much, but the four interceptions against Northwestern ultimately turned the game in the Wildcats’ favor.

More glaring than the four interceptions was the fact that two of them came within the red zone. The first occurred with Wisconsin on a strong opening drive, looking like it would score the first points of the game.

But backed up into a 3rdand-11 on the Northwestern 20, McEvoy floated a jump ball that got picked off by Godwin Igwebuike to end the drive.

McEvoy played the next three drives, but with the Wisconsin offense sputtering,

he got replaced by Stave on the last drive of the first half.

Stave orchestrated a scoring drive, mostly due to the rushing prowess of Gordon, on the first possession of the second half, but he went on to throw three interceptions of his own.

“You can’t get down in the red zone and not come away with points. That’s basically where we’re at right now.

We’ve got to make sure that consistently we’re playing good offense,” Stave said.

Wisconsin finished just 2-5 on its red zone trips, with the most glaring missed

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