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AN EPIC CITY

Verona-based software giant Epic Systems has brought a lot of minds to Madison. Now, the city looks toward the next wave of tech-minded entrepreneurship.

by DANIEL MCKAY AND NINA KRAVINSKY

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Women’s issues rise to top of gubernatorial campaigns Gov. Scott Walker, Mary Burke direct attention toward contingent of female voters with positions on health care, pay equality

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

M a r y B u r k e a n d G o v.

S c o t t Wa l k e r s e e m t o have locked horns in t h e s t ru g g l e t o w i n o v e r Wi s c o n s i n ’ s women, pulling issues such as access to certain types of health care, equal pay and community safety into the limelight.

According to League o f Wo m e n Vo t e r s o f Wi s c o n s i n Executive Director Andrea Kaminski, all of these points are topics women should be paying attention to in this election.

First Lady Michelle Obama’s Madison visit Tu e s d a y, and recent work with the Mary Burke campaign, has highlighted the importance of

the female vote for both gubernatorial candidates, underlining the fact that women’s issues could be a determining factor in the election’s outcome.

Kaminski agreed. “[In this election] women are candidates and they are working for candidates, and they are voters,” Kaminski said. “There are many issues in this election that are important to women and that women should be looking at that as voters.”

Kaminski said that in many families, women are the ones who negotiate the health care system, and issues of health and health services have become crucial in this campaign.

Planned Parenthood o f Wi s c o n s i n ’ s P u b l i c

Policy Director Nicole Safar said the differences between Burke and Wa l k e r ’ s stances toward women’s access to health care “ c o u l d n o t b e s t a r k e r. ” The changes she’s seen s i n c e Wa l k e r h a s c o m e to office have been noteworthy.

“Basic access to birth control and STD testing has long been supported by people on both sides of the aisle, u n t i l G o v. Wa l k e r c a m e i n t o p o w e r, a n d t h e n everything changed,” Safar said. “Since his administration, things like birth control and sex education have become political issues.”

A recent campaign advertisement from the Wa l k e r camp, h o w e v e r, Wa l k e r said he “supports

legislation to increase safety and provide more information for a woman considering her options.” This is one of m a n y Wa l k e r c a m p a i g n advertisements bringing light to his policies involving women, including one which features support from a woman who was the victim of domestic violence.

H o w e v e r, S a f a r s a i d the complete cut of state money to Planned P a r e n t h o o d i n Wa l k e r ’ s first budget as governor had a huge impact.

Because of these cuts, Planned Parenthood has had to close five clinics throughout Wi s c o n s i n i n t h e l a s t two years.

“In a state that is a s r u r a l a s Wi s c o n s i n , when one local health center shuts down,

Marriage equality no longer in limbo Wisconsin becomes one of 30 states to legalize same-sex marriage after court decision

by Samantha Becker Reporter

After years of legal battles, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of several states’ same-sex marriage bans Monday, effectively legalizing marriage for all couples in Wisconsin and ushering in a new age of marriage rights throughout the United States.

This decision lets Appeals Court decisions that permit same-sex marriage in Wisconsin, Indiana,

Oklahoma, Virginia and Utah stand.

Following Monday’s decision, samesex marriage is now allowed in 30 states.

“This is an amazing victory,” Molly Collins said, associate director of American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin. “The Fourth, Seventh and Tenth circuit decisions are now final, and marriages will go forward immediately in Wisconsin.”

The ACLU brought the lawsuit against the samesex marriage ban on behalf of eight couples. The case

was eventually brought before US District Court Judge Barbara Crabb, who ruled that Wisconsin’s ban was unconstitutional. A week later, Crabb halted marriages, deciding to wait for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue.

Collins said that because of the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear marriage equality cases, all of the other states in the Fourth, Seventh and Tenth circuits are now bound by the decisions made by federal appeals courts, ruling that bans

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on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional.

These states include Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

“Marriages will be happening in those states,” Collins said. “It will bring the number of states with marriage for same-sex couples to 30.”

Marriage licenses are now being issued in Dane County and around the state to same-sex couples. In addition, same-sex

it has a broad impact,” Safar said.

Rep. Chris Ta y l o r, D-Madison, said Wa l k e r ’ s policies involving women’s issues were extreme, calling his record both “abysmal” and “appalling”. “ H e h a s b e e n t re a t i n g women like secondclass citizens, from trying to shut down every health center in the state which performs abortion, to passing one of the most offensive lines he’s ever passed, which was mandatory vaginal

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Despite Chancellor Becky Blank’s initiatives to increase diversity on campus, both in the student body and on faculty, University of Wisconsin remains relatively homogeneous.

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Football Coach Gary Andersen said he plans on playing both quarterbacks on Saturday depending on who has the ‘hotter hand.’

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ultrasound,” Ta y l o r said.

According to a recent p o l l b y M a r q u e t t e L a w, t h e g e n d e r g a p i s l a rg e .

Among likely voters, 64 percent of men say t h e y ’ r e f o r Wa l k e r a n d only 34 percent are for B u r k e . Wo m e n o n t h e other hand lean towards Burke with 54 percent saying they’ll vote for h e r, a n d o n l y 4 0 p e rc e n t reporting they are for Walker.

Wa l k e r ’ s campaign office and Rep. Andre Jacque, District 2, did not respond for comment.

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Madison looks to find next big thing in tech Epic Systems’ employees branch off to develop own start-ups, find positive community of entrepreneurship

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100 State and former Epic start-ups Niko Skievaski started his company, 100 State, with two friends just months after he left Verona-based health care software giant Epic Systems in spring 2013.

Now, Skievaski has about 150 employees and is working to develop a new community of tech-savvy entrepreneurs in Madison. Skievaski said the “start-up ecosystem in Madison” is becoming a network of experts, mentors and other supporters, in which projects like 100 State can thrive.

“When I left Epic, it felt great to be in a community that has a lot of this support system built into it,” he said. “What we want to do at 100 State is make that community more powerful.”

Skievaski said 100 State operates as a common ground for many different types of projects. The only revenue comes from membership fees paid by other innovators.

The business branches off into several other different projects

too, Skievaski said, such as 100 Health, 100 Civic, which deals with the city, and even programs to impact the way education is done. Skievaski teaches microeconomics at Madison College as part of a 100 State program.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said 100 State is just one of many Epic spin-off companies Madison has seen in the last couple years.

Nordic Consulting and Blue Tree Network are also businesses started by former Epic employees, the latter of which shared office space with 100 State.

“I think we’re starting to build an ecosystem where tech companies, start-ups and entrepreneurs can survive,” Resnick said.

In 2013 alone, Skievaski said about 1,200 of Epic’s 7,000 employees left the company, and the majority of those were ready to pursue their own start-up dreams.

Of the 150 employees at 100 State, Skievaski said at least onethird of them worked for Epic previously.

What makes the former employees unique, he said, is that they are in their mid-20s, they have worked in “one of the most complex industries

to have ever existed” and they have some expendable income.

These former Epic workers, like Skievaski, are ready to take risks on the ideas they are passionate about.

“People leave Epic because they want to do something new in their careers,” Skievaski said.

“That’s what you need to start a company, to do something bigger than yourself and have that sort of that vision.”

Epic and Apple Recently, Epic has been working with larger corporations, specifically Apple, to develop health-related personal applications for the iPhone. Epic Development Executive Sumit Rana said their company has worked closely with Apple to produce an app for their new health care platform HealthKit. Epic has worked with Apple to update an application known as MyChart, which lets users track different aspects of their health, such as blood pressure.

“What we’ve done is we’ve updated it, so patients can share information with their providers,” Rana said.

Rana said that this is especially useful in cases of patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes or congestive heart failure. Normally, these

patients would have to wait months between doctors visits and important developments could be found too late.

With Epic’s new developments to MyChart, Rana said the doctor will be notified more immediately if there is a rapid change, such as a sudden weight gain in a patient with congestive heart failure or abnormal trend of glucose levels in a patient with diabetes.

Rana is hopeful these developments will lead to “more engaged patients” and doctors who “prescribe” apps to keep their patients healthy on a dayto-day basis.

A start-up community with potential Epic is one of the Madison area’s biggest businesses, along with American Family Insurance and Oscar Meyer, but Resnick said he and others at City Hall would sleep better if they could get another major tech start-up to thrive like Epic has.

“I think that we do need to always look at how we can diversify our economy,” Resnick said.

Resnick said Epic is “something special” when it comes to how businesses can succeed, citing hard work and perseverance as the main factors in the company’s success.

“Just for what their product is and their ability to capture the market share, there are many other companies that strive to execute and capture that market share, but only Epic has been able to accomplish that,” Resnick said.

Fortunately, Resnick said, the new talent and capital in the region shows plenty of room for growth.

However, Madison area investors, Skievaski said, are not used to investing in rapid, fast moving technology businesses.

More investment would spark more growth, but successful projects like 100 State and others are grabbing the attention of younger, more involved investors, he said.

As for 100 State, Skievaski said he thinks they are proving to be a sustainable business, and they have shown that they can constantly “reinvent themselves” to adapt to changing business models.

The future of Madison’s tech scene is bright, he and Resnick agreed.

“It’s not that we have all the pieces in place right now, but I think that everyone sees that we’re getting there,” Skievaski said. “We’re all excited to be a part of that movement towards it.”

City seeks funds for rapid transit buses Proposed system would cost between $132, $192 million, would address current problems with overcrowded public transport

by Lauren Thill Reporter

Madison’s commuters could see smoother and quicker bus rides in the near future, as the city looks for federal support and funding for a new Bus Rapid Transit system.

Mick Rusch, public information officer for Madison Metro, said the BRT system would provide faster, more direct service for more people.

“We hear two big complaints,” Rusch said.

“The first is that the buses are overcrowded, and the second is that travel times are too long. This system would help both expand and help the public get across town faster.”

The bus rapid transit system is made out of more physically modern buses, more like real cars, Mayor Paul Soglin said. The BRT gives its passengers a smoother ride and will not necessarily stop at every block.

However, he said, this efficient, modernized bus system comes with a price tag.

“We’re talking tens of millions of dollars,” Soglin

said.

In most cases, Rusch said, these 60-foot buses will increase passenger capacity by 75 percent to 300 percent.

The routes themselves will also be straighter, allowing riders to get from point A to point B with limited stops.

Technology allowing the buses to signal for priority at stoplights will also help the buses get through areas like downtown quicker.

Rusch said the study alone will cost $2 million, and the estimated cost of the whole implementation is somewhere between $138 million and $192 million.

Soglin said the new system would require all new routes, which would parallel the heaviest existing bus routes. The buses would also sometimes use exclusive lanes, reducing traffic, he said.

Other features of the BRT would include buses that bend in the middle and are twice the length of existing buses, tickets purchased at the line rail and storage room for both bikes and luggage, Soglin said.

Madison has one of the highest ridership per capita for just the sole bus system in the country, he said.

However, Rusch said a high ridership, though demanding on resources, is not entirely a negative for the company.

“Our problem, which is a good problem to have, is that our metro system is pretty much at capacity,” Rusch said.

The BRT would also reduce dependency on private automobiles and the issues that come along with them, such as road construction and the costs associated with owning such vehicles, Soglin said.

In order to implement the bus system, a two-year study will be performed that will design routes, decide where the buses will stop, how to set up the timed traffic lights and figure out approximately how many riders the BRT can expect, Soglin said.

Even if the study proves successful, he said, the project’s funding will need to be backed by the federal government. Soglin said if the city gets both a responsible Congress and funding, the

Photo · Madison has one of the highest ridership in the country and the new system could increase bus capacity from 75 to 300 percent.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald plan could be ready to go within five years.

“We cannot build the system without continued federal support for public transportation,” Soglin said.

Historian honors WWI’s 100th anniversary Author Adam Hochschild speaks to tragedies, heroes of first World War, highlights ‘madness’ of warfare

by Marigrace Carney Campus Editor

In the midst of the centennial anniversary of World War I, the University of Wisconsin welcomed New York Times bestselling author Adam Hochschild to commemorate the tragic consequences of the war.

Hochschild, author of “To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion,” came to the Historical Society

auditorium defined the heroes and victims of history in a lecture Wednesday night.

“So, here we are, a hundred years after the first world war, a war which, I think we can fairly say, remade our world for the worst,” Hochschild said.

This war, like recent wars, started with illusions, Hochschild said. The main illusion was of quick and easy victory. Young men would excitedly go off to war thinking they would return

heroes, and consequently not returning at all, he said.

Another illusion was the grand illusion of cavalrymen.

Cavalrymen seemed heroic because of the decisive and important role they played in previous wars, Hochschild saild. Cavalry was a path to military glory and promotion, he said.

The war had a very grave effect on Britain, he said.

Thirty-one percent of Oxford graduates in 1913 died fighting in WWI, Hochschild

said.

“War was fought by the poor,” Hochschild said, however going on to explain that was not always the case.

Most captains and lieutenants were from the upper class, based on war traditions dating far back, he said.

Yet young men were eager to fight and serve their country, he said. They wanted the glory, without realizing the price they may pay, Hochschild said. In addition, men were seen as cowards and even “effeminate” if they did not enlist in the war. The bravest men were the resistors, Hochschild said.

With the war came the first glance of totalitarian rule. Germans built an electric fence between Belgium and Holland to ensure no Reconstructionist citizens escaped to Holland, Hochschild said. The war also created one of the largest surges of refugees

Photo · Author Adam Hochschild explains how World War I was filled with illusions of a quick and easy victory.

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throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

By the end of the war, a total of nine million military members and between nine to 12 million civilians perished.

Some of the soldiers who lost their lives were 17 years old or younger “The madness of all this makes me very much respect the people who saw the war as madness, who understood some of these consequences, and who spoke out at this time,” Hochschild said.

Some opponents of the war were actually jailed for resisting, such as American union leader Eugene V. Debs.

Great Britain was also home to a majority of resistors against the war, he noted.

Hochschild cited one resistor Emily Hobhouse, a British woman, who in 1916, went to France, Switzerland, Germany and finally Berlin, just to present to the German Prime Minister peace terms.

No one sent her, and when she returned to Britain she was seen as crazy. However, today she is seen as a hero, he said. “... In this war, that killed so many millions of people, she was the only human being who went from one side to the other, and back again, in search of peace,” Hochschild said.

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EQUALITY, page 1 marriage licenses that were issued in early June, during the week following Judge Crabb’s decision, will now be recognized by the state.

Collins said there is still the possibility that other circuit courts will reach decisions different than those of the Fourth, Seventh and Tenth circuits.

The Supreme Court has not itself ruled bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, meaning that such power currently remains with the circuit courts. Bans of same-sex marriage are still in effect in 20 states.

Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry in Wisconsin, said in a statement, “The Court’s delay in affirming the freedom to marry nationwide prolongs the patchwork of state-to-state discrimination.”

Opponents to the Supreme Court’s decision argue that this issue is not yet resolved.

In a statement following the Court’s refusal, attorney Byron Babione said, “The court’s decision not to take up this issue now means that the marriage battle will continue.” Babione is the senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, an advocacy

group that represented two Virginia clerks in their appeal. “The people should decide this issue, not the courts.”

Despite the possibility of a ban returning to Wisconsin, proponents of same-sex marriage remain optimistic. The ACLU is confident that this is a turning point in the samesex marriage debate.

“We think the Supreme Court’s action this morning sends an unmistakable signal that the Court is comfortable with the lower court decisions in favor of marriage,” Collins said.

“And we think that lower courts will get that signal loud and clear.”

Local bookstore stays afloat in internet age Rainbow Bookstore Co-op hopes to maintain high textbook sales

by Sarah Hopefl Reporter

As local bookstores’ sales struggle against online retailers like Amazon, places like Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative are finding ways to adapt and keep their faith in print.

Rainbow, located on West Gilman Street, relies heavily on textbook revenue, which Joshua Stuewer, member of the store’s board of directors, said has been enough to keep them in business for the past five years now.

“Book sales have been affected by Amazon since its inception here, so it’s been increasingly more of a force to be reckoned with for us,” Stuewer said.

“Now it seems to have plateaued a little bit. It’s a struggle to keep treading water.”

The store used to have an online sale feature on their website, but Stuewer said it was not utilized much due to competing Amazon prices.

Stuewer said they rely more on people who intentionally do not buy from Amazon because of what they are doing to the book business.

“When people are buying stuff online the dominant rule of thumb is thrift, so people are always wanting to get

what’s cheapest,” Stuewer said. “For obvious reasons we can’t compete with that.”

Steve Schiebel, manager of the text department at the University Bookstore, said the online trend has not had a great affect on textbook sales.

Demand for online textbooks is still fairly low when there’s a print option, Schiebel said.

“If there’s a possibility, the print option is still the most popular,” he said.

Debbie Rasmussen, another member of the board, said she does not use an e-reader herself, but she is not opposed to it.

“I know a lot of people whose hearts are still in print, and they still read books, but they still read the e-reader,” Rasmussen said.

“But there’s definitely something about holding a book, smelling a book, that feels really important.”

With print sales still being low, Rainbow said they are trying to evolve into more of a community space.

They house a “books-toprisoners” project serving incarcerated people in Wisconsin, and another project serving the LGBT community across the country. They are also the distribution for Street Pulse, the homeless cooperative newspaper.

“There were definitely some people that felt that it was just time to call it a day and surrender to these bigger forces, and there were others of us who felt we could keep going if we just tried to restructure and make ourselves more relevant,” she said.

Rasmussen said they are considering adding a food component, offering coffee and healthy treats, which she said seems to be a trend for independent bookstores around the country.

Rainbow hosts events throughout the week, including author readings, classes and workshops. They can also be found selling books at events throughout the community.

“People are always excited to see us,” Rasmussen said. “We joke about how we hear people all the time on the street saying ‘I’m so glad Rainbow is still there, they can’t close.’ Well that’s great, but we need you to come into the store more often.”

Photo · Despite the growing popularity for e-readers, print is still the most popular textbook option for students at UW. Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald

ASM council debates own attendence policy

by Emily Neinfeldt Reporter

The Associated Students of Madison’s Rule Committee opposed new legislation removing required committee attendance of Student Council members.

Currently, the bylaw has an inconsistency related to the practice of committee requirements and unexcused absences, as stated in the proposed legislation. The bylaws state nothing about mandated service on a committee, however, if a representative does not attend their mandated number of committee meetings, they receive half an absence for each additional absence, Sean Owczarek, spokesperson of the Rules Committee, said.

“The rules committee wants to clarify the current practice of mandated serving of all Student Council members on a committee,” Owczarek said.

“This legislation proposes that we remove the portion of the bylaws that indicates that unexcused absences be monitored, which would ultimately be removing the committee requirement.”

The proposed legislation was not meant to affect Student Council member attendance at committee meetings but to resolve an inconsistency in the bylaws.

A debate followed regarding whether the absence penalty for missing a committee meeting was beneficial or harmful toward the productiveness and diversity of Student Council as a whole.

One side argued that attendance at committee meetings is crucial and provides Student Council members with points of information that will be relevant in the future.

“Committee requirements are really important for giving representatives a reason for being here,” Vice-Chair of Student Council Derek Field said. “We all chose to fill these seats to work on issues important to us. Committee meetings engage Student Council members and give us a reason for doing our work.”

On the opposing side, Steven Hughes argued that it is ineffective to force Student Council members to attend committee meetings they have no interest in.

“If Student Council members want to attend then they will,” Hughes said. “Forcing members to attend and having committee requirements restricts the diversity of Student Council.”

There are two separate roles in ASM, Student Council members and committee members, Hughes said.

Many people are

hindered by these requirements and prevented from participating in Student Council because of extensive time commitments regarding committee meetings, Hughes said.

“Mandatory committee meeting attendance discourages graduate students especially from participating in Student Council because they don’t have enough time,” Owczarek said. “Many graduate students have families, have children, and they don’t have excessive time to be spent at committee meetings.”

Megan Phillips, chair of the Nominations Board, argued that there is power in numbers for many campus wide issues.

Having a committee requirement can help generate power of numbers.

“Considering the recent student voter registration campaign, there is definitely a power in numbers,” said Phillips.

“We need everyone we can get to volunteer and requiring attendance at committee meetings can provide this.”

The Rules Committee planned for an alternative legislation to be proposed at the next meeting if this legislation were to fail.

In the next legislation there will be mandatory committee requirements for Student Council members.

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UW maps out solution to deer overpopulation University of Wisconsin cartography department develops new guide for Department of Natural Resources to manage land usage

by Sunni Porps-Hummell Campus Editor

by Mariel McAleer Reporter

University of Wisconsin’s Geography Department is working to combat deer overpopulation with cartography.

In conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of National Resources, UW is creating an updated map of Wisconsin to help better define areas with high deer populations.

“Ever since I arrived on campus seven years ago, I’ve been trying to find some internal resources to remake the map because there have been some changes to the landscape of the state,” UW assistant professor in forest and wildlife ecology, Mutlu Ozdogan, said.

Due to deer overpopulation in this state, Gov. Scott Walker invited an expert from Texas, Dr. James Kroll, to discuss the deer problem. Kroll said the state needs to update its geographic areas, geographic information system and cover resources. Based on that, Walker and a few other people

searched for funding from federal agencies and found half a million dollars to make a map.

“We had been talking to the Department of Natural Resources for a number of years,” Ozdogan said. “Once they got the funding, they immediately came to us and said, ‘Now we have the funding. Can you help us make the map?’”

A remote-sensing technician on the project with a degree in animal biology, Matt Bougie, said given the spatial component, the types of land cover that deer thrive in can be noted in order to identify where their populations tend to live. The map can model the population and predict that there will be hot spots in certain areas because these are the land cover types that deer are in.

“I was working for [professor] Mutlu on databases for a global land cover project, then I shifted over to this,” Bougie said. “Getting the skills and the knowledge from the courses I took in this GIS Certificate that the Geography Department offers has really prepared me for being able to work with the data and to do

this project.”

Since cartographers at UW are making the map, the DNR is like a customer and UW is the provider of the service, Ozdogan said. The state cartographers’ office, housed in the Geography Department, is leading the entire effort. The grant is made by the Fish and Wildlife Service, a federal agency, and made out to the DNR. Wisconsin State Cartographer Howard Veregin said, while exact updates are uncertain at this point, “deforestation and reforestation will likely cause some changes.”

Ozdogan said satellites that are owned and operated by the United States government are used to observe and snapshot the land every 16 days.

Public gives input on city building design Local residents express concerns about accessibility in proposal

by Anne Blackbourn Reporter

A “one-stopshop” design proposal suggesting a consolidated Madison Municipal Building and City County Building struck some discord with local residents, Wednesday.

Members of the public gathered at the to-be renovated Madison Municipal Building, voicing concerns over the accessibility of the building in the future.

The architecture firm in charge of the renovations is Meyer, Scherer and Rockcastle, from Minneapolis.

MSR focused on the concerns of the public through a process of “listening and learning” to gain input and feedback about the concerns or ideas of the community, Traci Engels Lesneski, head of the firm’s interior designs, said.

Many of the public concerns included consolidating the municipal and county buildings to create a “one-stop shop,” one member of the public said, speaking on behalf of the disability committee.

The current layout of the two buildings makes it difficult for those who have disabilities to access

the buildings, he said, and people with disabilities already have a difficult time navigating the downtown.

“There needs to be access, otherwise people with disabilities will be left out of the accessibility of the city services,” he said.

William Gates, a resident of Madison, said he also shares similar concerns about the buildings’ accessibility and layout.

“A lot of people have no idea where the city functions are … it takes about a year to figure out where all the meetings are,” Gates said.

Lesneski said the one-stop shop idea would make both the municipal and county building’s current layouts less confusing, as MSR plans to focus their designs on the idea of well-lit spaces to promote good work and well-being.

Creating an environment that is friendly and open would be sufficient for organized meeting spaces, Gates said, noting that spaces that are visible for people to meet in would encourage more public involvement and interests in city services.

Considering all of these values of the

public is a large part of ensuring the new building design will promote a healthy and safe place to work and service the community, Lesneski said.

Previous MSR projects, such as the Madison Public Library, have focused on these large and inviting spaces in order to create a place that can adapt and learn to adapt for future generations, Lesneski said.

The design team hopes to create a similar open environment in the municipal and county buildings.

After viewing the Madison Public Library, the renovation for the city building “is in good hands” a member of the public said, looking forward to the future design plans of MSR. Lesneski said she and MSR see a lot of potential in the old municipal building.

“If you continue to think aspirationally, you can hope to achieve something beyond the ordinary,” she said.

Photo · Community members want to see more disability access at public buildings.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald

“We build a record from these images,” Ozdogan said.

“Every 16 days we make 20 or so observations and do this over the course of the year.

Because of cloud and other issues, we have to compile data from at least two or more years so that we can build a full record.”

Urban and suburban areas will like be the most affected, Ozdogan said. While some land used for agriculture is reverting back to forest or grassland, he said other land is being changed by cultivation.

However, he said the underlying part of this project is about deer management.

Photo · Deforestation and reforestation call for updates to University of Wisconsin’s map project.

Courtesy of Mutlu Ozdogan

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UW admissions diversity remains an unsolved problem Madison’s student population remains predominantly white, despite chancellor’s efforts to encourage greater minority enrollment

by ADAM JOHNSON Columnist

The admissions process at the University of Wisconsin is an annual punching bag. Year after year, we see some bitter soul slam the university for being too favorable to minorities, or for calling Minnesota students “Wisconsin students” for the purposes of in-state enrollment numbers. When it isn’t being threatened by white suburbanites who are not academically qualified to attend the UW, the admissions office is often the subject of internal discussion and reform, usually trying to increase minority enrollment. Most recently, Chancellor Rebecca Blank called upon the university to attract more low-income and minority students to improve

diversity on campus that, if you’ve taken a look around Bascom recently, is sorely lacking.

Blank’s aims are admirable and we need to find solutions, but this is not a new issue and we continue to dance around the proverbial bush instead of getting to the root of the problem.

At its core, UW is not representative of students from Wisconsin. The median family income for admitted students from Wisconsin is $80,000, where the median family income for a family in Wisconsin is $50,000. That isn’t an accounting error or an anomaly; it is a systematic problem in attracting lowincome students, which in Wisconsin typically means rural and minority students.

Milwaukee County, the most populous and poverty-

stricken county in the state, has sent fewer students to Madison each year since 2007. Milwaukee County is also home to nearly 70 percent of Wisconsin’s black citizens. Each year in the Milwaukee Public School system (and to a lesser extent Madison Metropolitan School District), which is the most racially diverse district in the state, we are seeing that students are underprepared for college, and the many who are prepared often don’t even apply to UW fearing it to be too expensive or out of reach.

Some critics argue that it’s okay that UW’s student body is only 2.9 percent black students because Wisconsin as a whole is not a terribly diverse state. While true that Wisconsin is not a bastion of ethnic diversity,

UW’s student profile is a perversion of reality. With Wisconsin’s black population over 10 percent, UW has done a woefully inadequate job of reducing the racial achievement gap in the state.

As it often does, this most recent fight over the “right” amount of diversity at UW comes down to money. We need to increase financial aid for low-income students to make college education attainable and, as we’ve done before, we will probably increase outof-state tuition to cover the gap. As Blank notes, many students from outof-state apply to Wisconsin in addition to other, more expensive schools and many of them choose the more expensive school. This won’t negatively impact our diversity and will be a tool

to improve the current state through additional funds for financial aid.

We can all agree that diversity in education is a good thing. I grew up in rural Wisconsin. Without exposure at the UW, I honestly would be unaware of the vast majority of issues in our state unrelated to rural poverty, hunting licenses or when I can or cannot drive a snowmobile on the road.

In a world increasingly requiring interactions with vastly different communities, diversity is not just a component of education, it is education.

Blank is right in that we need to do better outreach to low-income and minority populations in Wisconsin, but that is the same tired refrain we’ve heard for years. I sincerely hope Blank

can inspire change where previous chancellors’ efforts have languished, but this goes beyond putting up motivational posters and distributing pamphlets.

We need clear, decisive policy and strong leadership to extend the university’s beneficent influence to every family of the state in practice instead of rhetoric.

If you want your say in this process, join the campus community either Tuesday, Oct. 14 from 5:30 to 7 p.m at the Multicultural Student Center in the Red Gym or Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 11 p.m. to 12:15 a.m in Room 1306 Health Sciences Learning Center.

Adam Johnson (amjohnson25@wisc.edu) is a graduate student at the La Follette School of Public Affairs.

College Republicans: Wis. women should support Walker’s re-election Nov. 4 I hope Wisconsin women aren’t fooled into thinking that the best gubernatorial candidate in the upcoming election is Democratic nominee Mary Burke, just because she shares our gender.

Sure, abortion rights groups such as Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List are backing Burke for governor, but as a conservative woman, I hate it when politicians pander to women only on issues concerning abortion rights.

Most women care about a lot more than getting things for “free,” and it is time that politicians start to realize that women are not one homogenous group defined by body and gender.

Like many Wisconsin women, I am a hardworking, intelligent individual who is attentive to current events.

When it comes to politics, I don’t let my gender and my body define me. I consider all the issues and look at how they affect society as a whole.

The gubernatorial race in Wisconsin is less than a month away, and Democrats are perpetuating the myth that Burke is the better choice for women.

Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Cecile Richards, are publicly supporting and/ or campaigning for Burke and her male running mate, Wisconsin state Sen. John Lehman.

While Burke has brought in big name Washington

Photo · First Lady Michelle Obama’s public support for gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke should not blind voters as they choose between Gov. Scott Walker and Burke in the upcoming election; big-name backing is a nonessential.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald

Democrats to campaign for her, they seem to forget all the work that Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch have done for the women of this state.

How Walker Stands with Women, Reason #1: He has poured millions of dollars into domestic abuse shelters.

Since Walker has been governor, he has spent almost $15 million toward domestic violence prevention and protecting victims of domestic violence. He also has signed multiple bills into law that help victims of domestic violence, such as increasing penalties for repeat offenders.

Teri Jendusa-Nicola, a Wisconsin woman who was almost beaten to death by her husband in 2004, is featured in the governor’s latest campaign ad since she believes, “It’s important for the people to know what he is doing for women and the victims and all of the families of Wisconsin.”

I agree with her. It’s important for women to be aware of the positive steps Walker has made for victims and potential victims of domestic violence in our state.

One in four Wisconsin women have been beaten, raped or stalked before, but with Walker’s reforms, more resources have been created to help these women cope with their terrible situations.

How Walker Stands with Women, Reason #2: He fights to make abortion safer.

It’s no secret that the governor is pro-life, but in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, he’s clearly stated that “there’s already a decision that is far from being changed in terms of the Supreme Court in terms of Roe v. Wade,” and at no point during his term as governor has Walker used his personal position to fight for an elimination of abortion.

In fact, Walker and the Republican legislature have passed laws to make abortion safer for those who make this

decision.

Walker recognizes that sometimes complications can arise during abortions and to ensure a woman’s safety, he passed a law that ensured that abortion doctors have admitting privileges within 30 miles of where the abortion is performed.

This law did nothing to restrict abortion. Instead, it made sure that those choosing this procedure would be safe in case a problem arose.

How Walker Stands with Women, Reason #3: He believes in women’s abilities to be financially independent.

The mainstream media likes to frame Walker as being against equal pay for women. This is completely false, because in the state of Wisconsin it is illegal to discriminate in the workplace based on race, gender and other criteria. This was illegal before Walker took office and it is still illegal today.

In addition, Walker has cut taxes, lowered unemployment rates and created over 100,000 jobs in the state of Wisconsin.

The positive trend for the Wisconsin economy is helping women statewide earn a salary and keep as much of their salary as possible.

Also, for me as a female college student who has two part-time jobs to pay for my tuition, Walker has helped me save money due to the UW tuition freeze.

Walker has made positive strides for domestic abuse victims, made abortion safer and has allowed women to be more financially independent.

He has done all of this with two influential women by his side – the First Lady, Tonette, and Kleefisch.

Don’t be fooled by misleading attacks from Democrats – Walker has and will continue to stand with women.

Courtney Mullen (gopbadgers@gmail.com) is a senior majoring in journalism.

Social media an important resource in every campaign

by AUTUMN LINSMEIER Columnist

“Had a wonderful day campaigning in Madison today,” “Sat down with constituents in Milwaukee” and “Great morning spent at the local Farmer ’s Market meeting voters” are all common posts found on the daily newsfeed of a political junkie.

With the advancement of technology, we are now living in an era where 74 percent of internet users now have at least one social media page, ranging from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram. With such a progression in the use of internet and social media, it is evident why political campaigns are tapping into this resource.

According to Ben Van Pelt, the Region 9 director who is in charge of the state Senate race for District 9 of the Democratic Party, having a social media presence is a wonderful resource “not only for a campaign, but also for the voters.”

Posting regularly on social media allows people “to learn useful information and get constant updates on a candidate’s journey from their announcement to Election Day,” and those potential voters are able to see how a candidate spends their time while campaigning, and who they are campaigning with. Not only is social media an excellent tool to reach voters and constituents, it can also be used “to communicate your message, raise awareness and name recognition, gather support, recruit volunteers, raise money, advertise an event or even

to just say thank you to all your supporters.”

Utilizing social media for methods other than conveying your message to potential voters is very useful and it is free. Additionally, using social media to recruit volunteers is beneficial because, obviously, you can’t have a campaign without volunteers and they are crucial in the election process. The race in Region 9 is an open state Senate seat, so it is pretty competitive and the way that this campaign, specifically, is utilizing social media, is definitely helping them out.

Social media isn’t just being used at the state level. I still read the newspaper from my hometown of Manitowoc and times are clearly changing; everything and anything is available online. According to Justin Nickels, the youngest mayor to be elected to the City of Manitowoc at the age of 22, social media is a “cheap and easy way to get your message out to people today.” For candidates and elected officials, money is always of concern, and to have the opportunity to get their message out there for free, candidates definitely take advantage of that. Utilizing social media is also “a quick and easy way to reach voters,” according to Nickels, “especially the younger generation” who don’t turn out in the highest numbers to vote. In 2012, of voters between the ages of 18 and 24, only about 41 percent voted.

Using social media to reach that age group will hopefully increase their voter turnout because that is the age group that

Photo : As more and more candidates, running for all positions, are turning to social media as a platform for free public campaigning and voter outreach, young people are being reached in ways that are entirely new to this century.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald is oftentimes critical in determining the winner of an election.

With that being said, 98 percent of 18-to-24-yearolds use social media on a regular basis — it’s no wonder why candidates and elected officials use it.

Young people are always on it and that age group is the one that is usually targeted by candidates.

Even though majority of people do not use social media for politics, the heavy users of social media tend to use it to be more politically active, which benefits candidates and elected officials. I, personally, use social media to stay updated on the various elected officials around the state of Wisconsin, as well as the United States. It is important to be an informed citizen, especially nowadays.

We have 24-hour news, constant postings on Facebook and Twitter, so it’s next to impossible not to be in the loop.

Times are changing, and if you are a candidate or an elected official and you do not have at least one social media account, you are missing out on a free and easy way to connect with your constituents.

Autumn Linsmeier (alinsmeier@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in political science.

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Flying Lotus finds keys to eternity on ‘You’re Dead!’

L.A.-based producer takes listeners on jazz fusion-influenced journey through death, afterlife with help from music veterans, rap superstars Photo · FlyLo’s latest LP proves to be his most experimental yet. With kaleidoscopic instrumentation and short, fragmented songs, the album is a dizzying but beautiful sonic experience.

Courtesy of flickr user Dave Walker

by CAM ARIANA ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

An exclamation point almost always signifies a statement—but Flying Lotus’ new album title, You’re Dead!, is more so posed as an honest question. He seems to make the point that what it means to “be dead” is up for interpretation. FlyLo’s music is often reflective of his emotions and his latest

work mirrors his sheer uncertainty on the afterlife.

The jazz-infused, 19-track album tells an open-ended story that comes together to be both beautiful and thought-provoking.

Spastic jazz piano ascensions and jungleesque tom-tom drums build on each other in the album’s first four songs leading up to “Never Catch Me,” featuring rising rap superstar and apparent existentialist Kendrick

Lamar. The track is a cool, up-tempo culmination of previously introduced sounds, with drumbeats reminiscent of older Flying Lotus songs.

Kendrick speaks for both himself and Flying Lotus when he willfully admits: “They say that Heaven’s real / Analyze my demise, I say I’m super anxious.”

It becomes evident to Kendrick that to live forever is to have his legend and legacy live on— an inspiring viewpoint for

any performer to take on.

Not to be overlooked, Snoop Dogg drops a verse on “Dead Man’s Tetris,” as does Flying Lotus under the moniker Captain Murphy.

The song is true to its name, with bouncing Tetris synths that leap over an ominous bass-line and even darker lyrics. If the album so far was questioning whether or not you were truly dead, this song provides the clear answer — you are most certainly dead.

Snoop, best known for his straightforwardness, gives you the prognosis: “Beep beep flatline / Gotta get yours, I been had mine.”

The brilliant wordplay feeds back into Kendrick’s epiphany, reasoning that Snoop’s career has been so successful, he has already in theory died and knows his legend will carry on.

If you’ve just died in

“Dead Man’s Tetris,” “Coronus, the Terminator” is the exact moment the angels (or demons) come for your soul. When releasing the song as a single, Flying Lotus tweeted that he was “singing about the end of mankind” in “Coronus.” The harmonious gospel verse offers a paradoxical solution to the downfall: “The days of men are coming to an end / So come with me, if you want to live.” The track is strangely relieving. FlyLo takes a weight off your shoulders and you’re lifted up to Heaven.

It doesn’t come as a surprise Flying Lotus is well-versed in a wide variety of music genres, as the jazz fusion/hiphop combination on You’re Dead! is complex, if at times scattered and unconnected.

But he receives guidance from extremely talented musicians such as Herbie Hancock, who co-produces “Moment of Hesitation,” which features an eviscerating jazz sax solo, and Thundercat, who lays down funky, offbeat bass on several tracks. These two combine with FlyLo’s experimental synths and innovative beats to become one succinct, stunning idea time and time again

throughout the album’s 38 minutes.

You’re Dead! wraps up with “Your Potential/The Beyond” and “The Protest” - two songs that seem to conclude Flying Lotus’s thoughts on death. That is, they seem to signify his coming to peace with the differing physical and supernatural conceptions of death. “The Protest” repeats FlyLo’s ultimate goal: “We will live on forever.” And if eternal life is guaranteed by building a legacy, the man is well on his way.

Flying Lotus continues to progress his sense of self by paralleling his understanding of the world in the music he composes.

As soon as he asks unfathomable, existential questions, he answers them.

4.7/5

YOU’RE DEAD FLYING LOTUS

Weezer’s latest LP fails to recreate former glory After more than a decade of sub-par albums, band attempts to revitalize itself only to create a work of scattershot themes, boring music

by SELENA HANDLER ArtsEtc. Editor

Weezer ’s last few albums have often felt like the Monty Python-esque skits I used to perform at camp: pithy, satirical and highly unoriginal. Rather than using innocent (and admittedly unfunny) word

play as a mode of comedy, Weezer used their albums to pick on different music genres, emulating and amplifying their flaws in predictable caricatures.

In Weezer ’s new album Everything Will Be Alright in the End, lead singer and front man Rivers Cuomo hopes to fight this devolving image. Instead, it feels more

like a desperate attempt to channel the success of their first few albums, and it ends up being a cynical and self-deprecating plea for relevance two decades after their popular first fulllength LP. Rather than trying to time travel to the ‘90s, the band would have benefitted from developing their rock or, even better, their grunge sound in a more modern context.

Musically, repetitive guitar hooks mark the album, and boring and steady rhythms plague it with unabashed averageness.

There is nothing to break

Photo · Rivers Cuomo and company attempt to channel their past success on Weezer’s latest album, but what it results in a sad, self-deprecating plea for relevance.

Courtesy of Weezer

up the melodic monotony except for some syncopated percussion beats and voice samples at the beginning of a few tracks.

The album as a whole is disjointed and painstakingly familiar. If Weezer is trying to communicate a singular theme, it is lost among their deeply remorseful and cheesy lyrics like the chorus of “Da Vinci” which begins, “Even Da Vinci couldn’t paint you/ Stephen Hawking couldn’t explain you/ Rosetta Stone could not translate you/ I’m at a loss for words…” Seriously?

What happened to the quirky and unapologetically honest lyrics of the “Say It Ain’t So” variety?

The lyrical mood throughout most of the album, however, is incredibly dark and regretful, especially for a band that reached critical fame with songs like “Buddy Holly,” “My Name is Jonas” and “Undone Sweater Song,” the last of which playfully uses an

unraveling sweater as an extended metaphor.

Pinkerton, their second LP, was also morbid and dark but in a distinctly grungy and honest way. The album told a comprehensive story with a rough and edgy sound that matched the tone of the lyrics. In contrast, Everything Will Be Alright in the End lacks any clear focus. There’s some love, some anger, some regret.

They are all over the map.

“Eulogy for Rock Band” may be an ode to the band’s now-distant and distinct sound, and it is one of the strongest tracks in terms of musical variety. But in their attempt to connect with the Weezer of the past, they end up sounding campy and sardonic, betraying the integrity of the Weezer (Green Album)-era, of which they refer to in the song.

“The British Are Coming” is similarly hokey but has an obscure focus. It begins with snare percussion that is distinctly reminiscent of the American Revolution

and opens with the line, “Welcome to the first level liberati/ our mission is to keep the tradition alive.”

The song feels more like it should accompany the battle scenes of “The Patriot” rather than in an alternative rock album. The rest of the album follows in this scattered vein.

Weezer has so much pure rock potential, but they squander this album on phony lyrics and perfectly average musical production.

1.5/5

EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT IN THE END WEEZER

Drake trumps Fab Four on Hot 100 Despite their drastically different musical styles, Drizzy, The Beatles have some similarities

by LOUIS JOHNSON ArtsEtc. Writer

Aubrey “Drake” Graham has now surpassed The Beatles for most singles appearing on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 list.

Drake holds 72 appearances on the list compared with The Beatles’ 71 appearances.

This rapid climb to the top of the commercial music industry started in 2009 when Drake took over the radio waves with his first hit single, “Best I Ever Had.” You could hardly walk down the street that year without hearing the words, “Sweatpants, hair tied, chilling with no makeup on / That’s when you’re the prettiest I hope that you don’t take it wrong.”

Since then we’ve been creating our own visual odes to Drizzy, dropping the acronym YOLO like it’s going out of style, captioning our success stories with, “started from the bottom” and letting “Marvin’s Room” hit us right in the feels when no one is looking.

Many may be quick to

say Drake is nowhere near as talented or important to music as The Fab Four.

After all, The Beatles have 10 Grammy Awards to their name, an Academy Award and have sold over 600 million albums to date, dwarfing Drake’s one Grammy Award and 5 million albums sold.

Despite the difference in numbers, there are actually quite a few similarities between the two music giants.

Both Drake and The Beatles had been in the music game for years before they made it “big.”

Before Drake’s arrival on the national stage in 2009, he dropped his first mixtape Room for Improvement in 2006, featuring the now mainstream sensations Trey Songz and Lupe Fiasco. This release came out while he was still acting on the hit Canadian show “Degrassi: The Next Generation.”

In 2007, Drake dropped another mixtape, and even had a video on BET, while still unsigned.

The Beatles formed in the late 1950s, played shows

throughout Hamburg, Germany, in the early 1960s and were quite successful in the U.K. before they ever made it mainstream in the United States. It wasn’t until their 1964 appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” that the Beatles became a mainstay in American popular music.

Additionally, both Drake and The Beatles were incredibly young when they started in the entertainment industry. Drake was only 15 years old when he started acting. John Lennon was 16 when he met up with a then 15-year-old Paul McCartney to form a group. George Harrison joined a year later at age 14.

Drake’s musical genius can be attributed to the fact that he can rap, break into a melodic falsetto on queue and pair those exploits with instrumentals that make you feel the mood he is speaking about.

Many attribute those same dynamic qualities to The Beatles and their ability to vary between the rock ‘n’ roll, skiffle, hard rock, beat, psychedelic, blues, folk and

pop genres.

What made The Beatles so iconic was their ability to connect with the younger generations during the most volatile era in recent history. Not only were they incredibly gifted musicians, but also humanitarians, comedians, philosophers and actors. Their music embodied the sociocultural atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s alike.

In that sense, Drake has been successful on a grand scale for his ability to capture the convoluted sentiments of younger generations during an era of war, economic instability and changing social dynamics.

Pairing his uncanny star value as showcased on his appearances hosting the ESPYs and “Saturday Night Live,” along with his ability to seemingly manufacture hit records, Drake may be well on his way to becoming a young “Beatle.”

Drake will never be as great as The Beatles. No one will. At 27 years old though, he is already one of the most accomplished artists in the history of recorded music.

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Freshman fucked for midterm Fraterity summit talks conformity

Student blindsided by Calculus 222 test, unprepared for rigor of non-high school classes

National Greek conference meets to discuss popular issues, drink cases of Natural Light

Sources reported Wednesday that freshman Cory Rollins is just now realizing how absolutely screwed he is for his Calculus 222 midterm tomorrow.

“Holy shit, I haven’t been to lecture in like three weeks,” Rollins said. “I am Fuuuuhhh-cked.”

While Rollin’s absences have gone unnoticed by both his professor and TA, a fellow Calc 222 student, sophomore Andrew Barre, claims he is astounded as to the sheer amount of material Rollins has missed.

“We learned like eight

new formulas, and we did one problem with so many variables we ran out of letters of the alphabet,” Barre said.

“The professor started using the alphabet from his native language, and we had a hard time distinguishing numbers from letters.”

The midterm exam is scheduled for 8:50 a.m. Friday and will be worth 30 percent of the class grade. The 15-question free response exam is expected to absolutely burry Rollins in neck deep shit for the remainder of the semester. Following the

exam, Rollins is expected to collect his belongings before making a long, cold walk of shame back to his dorm room.

Rollins was reported to have been frantically trying to condense three weeks of complex mathematical theories into several illegible sentences on the palm of his hand, while simultaneously watching two different Khan Academy videos on his computer and his phone.

Experts agree that, due to the time constraints and lack of mathematical skill, Rollins will be completely bent over and

Photo · Cory Rollins (pictured) questions the existence of God and whether He is really able to help him pass his examinations.

Meg McMahon The Madison Misnomer fucked by the upcoming exam.

Following the exam, it is expected that Rollins will find that he is even more fucked than previously thought.

“I wonder if it would be too much to ask the exam to take me out for a nice seafood dinner?”

Rollins said. “I like to have a nice meal before I’m fucked.”

Roommates strike ‘fair deal’ Kronshage residents’ contract agreement ‘upholds’ Mormon values, value of recyling It was reported early Monday morning that Jones Kronshage residents, freshman Paige Adams and sophomore Trisha Schmidt, are both completely satisfied with the agreements made in their Roommate Agreement Contract.

“Paige and I were paired up randomly but we ended up being super compatible. We both love Imagine Dragons,” Schmidt said.

“And we made sure to make certain agreements before our meeting just so we were prepared. I made one with my roommate last year, and Paige is just a freshman, so I kind of had to explain to her how things work around here.”

Adams agreed to do the laundry, vacuum, dust and make both beds, while Schmidt agreed to take out the recycling.

“But not the trash!” she added.

“I feel very lucky to have found a roommate with whom I’ve struck a balance with not only personalitywise, but also in distribution of chores.” Adams, looking Schmidt directly in the eye, said.

The two girls also discussed their feelings on overnight guests. Schmidt checked off “Okay, in my absence,” while Adams checked off “Okay.”

“Honestly, I don’t have that many overnight guests but it’s really nice when Paige

gives up her bed completely willingly so that I can create one big bed,” Schmidt said.

“I’d do anything for my roommate,” Adams said, after a slight nudge from Schmidt.

“And I really appreciate that Paige could compromise with me on the whole alcohol thing,” Schmidt remarked.

“Because I’m a heavy drinker and I didn’t know how my roommate would feel about that.”

“I mean, I’m a Mormon, so I don’t really agree with drinking,” Adams said. “But I’m totally fine with Trisha’s drinking! I have no problem scrubbing her vomit out of our shag carpet,” she quickly added after a stealthy underthe-table-ankle-kick from

Schmidt.

We contacted their House Fellow senior Emily Jenkins for input on the two girl’s agreement.

“Well, it was technically required that both roommates talk during the meeting,” Jenkins said. “But Trisha assured me that the two had talked before the meeting and all the agreements were mutual, so I was okay with it.”

“I’m just so thankful that I got paired up with someone who really respects me and knows how to compromise!”

Schmidt said.

“Yeah,” Adams said through gritting teeth.

The two girls have already made plans to room together next fall.

This past weekend, the popular University of Alabama bar “White’s House” hosted the annual National Fraternity Summit. Fraternities from all over the nation gathered to discuss this year’s hot topic: conformity.

“Conformity is more than just acting and looking the same. It’s about creating a succinct bond between brothers,” University of Wisconsin junior Steve “Dickcheese” Wilson said. “I believe it was Martin Luther King, Jr. who said, ‘We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.’”

The various chapters came together in hopes of restoring any lingering doubts that their members were not fully committed to adapting the exact same lifestyle as one another.

Madison Misnomer investigators caught up with UW senior Martin “Rooskie” Tanner to hear his thoughts on this year’s agenda.

“I can’t help but feel like this summit was needed now more than ever. The changing social climate in this nation demands individuality, and that’s something we simply can’t allow.”

The meeting continued late into the night as each school’s representative delivered eloquent, honest speeches

explaining what conformity means to them.

Ending the ceremony, NFS director Matt “Dog Pound” Williamson slammed the Ace Ventura-themed gavel.

“Gentleman, I’d like to first thank you all for coming, as we all herald from the many universities of this great nation,” Dog Pound said, “But remember, we must leave this establishment with a richer understanding of what it means to embody one image. For if we cannot accomplish this great task, what purpose do we serve?”

As Williamson finished his speech the room fell into a silent contemplation, letting each word soak into the ether of their collective spirit.

Around 2 a.m., the leagues of college-aged men stumbled out of the bar filled with alcohol and the warm feeling of solidarity, eager to embody their reaffirmed attitude.

“We did it. We..uh..we fucking did it, man!” UW senior Randy “Stinger” McCeegan said, before running down the street towards no certain destination.

The rapid flapping of McCeegan’s flip-flops against concrete cried out a song of brotherhood as his chorus of friends flocked to catch him before he strayed too far from the flock.

What your ATM funds could buy UW students reflect on ‘atrocities’ of nominal fees, all the McDonalds they could buy instead Recently, the ATM fees in Madison spiked up to $4.35. This has been met with upheaval by a majority of citizens.

Just this morning, the Coalition Against Banking Surcharges released a statement of what they would prefer to be spending $4.35 dollars on instead of transaction addendums.

-Four $1 McDouble hamburgers, with tax included, from McDonald’s -$4.35 checks every 6 hours for 30 days to cover rent -One hit from Stingy Joe’s peace pipe -54.443% of a Netflix monthly membership Like, a metric shit ton of paperclips -Four $1 Sweet Tea beverages, with tax included, from McDonald’s -435 pieces of penny candy -A grande half-caff soy almond latte with two shots of vanilla and a shot of oganji berry -Food for your pet cat,

but she can last another two weeks without food, right?

-2 ATM fees from another ATM in a different city -Four $1 Side Salads, with tax included, from McDonald’s -Zebra Cakes -A nice Hallmark card for Grandma, but because she’s in the hospital, she might never know you loved her before she goes -Four $1 McChicken sandwiches, with tax included, from McDonald’s -A cheap blow-job in a dark, dark alley -A lot of hair -13.4 gum-balls -Chalk to draw a pentagram that will summon a demonic beast able to bypass ATM fees -Four $1 Apple Slices packages, with tax included, from McDonald’s.

Seriously, ATMs, you fucked up my entire lunch and dinner plans! Fuck you! Now I’m just sitting at McDonald’s with no food and poor WiFi connection.

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Badger Fan Bus hopes to bring UW spirit on the road Volleyball faithfuls try to gather students, other supporters in effort to bring Wisconsin’s cheer section to away matches around Big Ten

by Chris Bumbaca Associate Sports Editor

Andrea and Corey Singletary were thrilled to fly out to Seattle to watch their beloved Badgers participate in the National Championship Game last December. What they weren’t pleased with was the lack of Wisconsin red in the stands.

After planning a road trip to the NCAA Regional Tournament in Champaign, Illinois, the couple was disheartened to see the lack of Badger support. When the team advanced to the national semifinal and final matches in Seattle, they contacted University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Athletic Department to help them get fans to Seattle.

The endeavor didn’t pan out the way the couple hoped, so the Singletarys took it upon themselves to ensure road support for the Badgers this season. This has all been without financial backing or sponsorship from the UW volleyball program or the university.

The Badger Fan Bus was born.

The Badger Fan Bus is a simple idea that hopes to bring UW volleyball fans, both students and non-students, on road trips to cheer on the volleyball team. After consulting with the Wisconsin Athletic Department, Badger Fan Bus decided to lease from Badger Bus because of its WiFi capabilities and DirecTV

subscription on select buses.

This is so fans can keep up with other Badger games, such as football, while traveling to away matches, Andrea explained.

Based on a preseason survey on likely travelers conducted by the couple, they decided tickets would not sell for more than $60. However, tickets can drop as low as $30 per seat if the bus fills up, Corey said. Badger Fan Bus is a non-profit group.

The first trip for the Badger Fan Bus this season was to Northwestern Oct. 1, when 19 rowdy Badger fans made the trip on the bus to Evanston, Illinois. The Badgers won the match in a three-set sweep.

“It was a small but energetic group,” Corey said. “Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun.”

Terry and Marie Adams have had season tickets for all but three of the last 15 seasons, and after taking their kids to games, they now take their grandchildren. They were among the group that went on the maiden voyage to Northwestern.

“It appealed to us right away,” Terry said of the Badger Fan Bus. “When we heard about this, we jumped on the bandwagon. When we can, we want to make these trips. It was fun!”

For Marie Adams, the bus allows for a social environment without the stress that comes with driving when fans take to the road to follow the UW volleyball team.

“You don’t have to worry

about the driving. It’s all taken care of,” Marie said.

The next trip for the bus was scheduled for Illinois this past weekend. However, due to lack of participation, the trip was cancelled, although Wisconsin would take the match in four sets.

That lack of participation stems from a variety of circumstances, one being little student participation. The ultimate goal would be to have the students involved traveling to away matches, just like the University of Illinois’ “Spike Squad” does, Andrea said.

Seeing other student sections passionate about volleyball was another driving force for the creation of Badger Fan Bus. Rewind to Oct. 27, 2013. It is the day after Freakfest, and UW students are either nursing hangovers or still asleep.

Opposite the nearly empty Wisconsin student section is a large group of Illini students at the UW Field House who harassed the Badgers the entire match. Wisconsin ended up losing the match in four sets.

“We felt like it would be great, especially if we could get student involvement, and bring [students] along,” Andrea said.

“Students like road trips.”

“I think that if we could get some students who were interested in helping us out, that would give us the ability to market to that core audience,” Andrea added.

The Singletarys are doing everything they can to engage students, but have hit a

roadblock because they are considered an athletic booster club. The only sports that permit boosters are men’s basketball and football.

The booster label has greatly inhibited advertising efforts.

For example, the Wisconsin volleyball Twitter handle (@ BadgerVB) cannot retweet or promote the Badger Fan Bus (@BadgerVB_FanBus) on social media. And since the group is not considered a registered student organization, they are prohibited from posting fliers around campus or in residence halls.

Andrea said the last thing the Singletarys want is for the team or the Wisconsin Athletic Department to get in trouble.

In order to even sign up for a trip, fans must sign a waiver stating they acknowledge the bus is in no way affiliated with the volleyball program and the Wisconsin Athletic Department, Corey said.

“We try on our end to make it very easy for the athletic department to not have to worry about what we’re doing,” Corey said.

Another cause of limited participation is conflict with UW football games. That was the case this past Saturday when many fans made the trip to Evanston to cheer on the Badger football team, instead of Champaign for the volleyball game. The longer trips will only logically occur on weekends.

For example, the next trip, planned for Iowa on Saturday November 15th, is the same day

Wisconsin takes on Nebraska at Camp Randall.

Corey, 36, grew up in Hawaii where volleyball games on Friday and Saturday nights were must-see events.

“When I came up here for college, I just brought that with me,” Corey said.

He said the Wisconsin volleyball team deserves the same recognition and following as football and men’s basketball, since he said he feels it is one of the more elite programs on campus.

Corey convinced Andrea, 33, to go to a game with him Halloween 2006. That night, the Badgers swept Penn State in front of a rocking UW Field House — and she was hooked.

Corey and Andrea have already had positive feedback from people within the program, such as head coach Kelly Sheffield and Director of Operations Jessica Yanz.

Propelling Wisconsin volleyball into the category of “mainstream” on campus will be a challenge. But for people like the Singletarys and the Adamses (and many more), volleyball already lies in the forefront of popularity.

“It’s addicting,” Terry Adams said. “Most people come back because it’s just something you like to watch.”

The best-case scenario for the Singletarys?

“The dream scenario in our mind is that the university sees enough interest here that something happens [within the Athletic Department],” Corey

Photo · Members of the first trip aboard the Badger Fan Bus pose for a picture before heading to Northwestern Oct. 1. were their spirit was rewarded with a UW win over the Wildcats.

Courtesy of Corey Singletary said.

Another favorable outcome would be the formation of a student organization on campus, much like the “Spike Squad.”

“That would be great to just have that kind of organic support at the university and in the community,” Corey said.

With volleyball being a momentum-driven sport, crowd support, even on the road, is necessary for a team’s psyche and success.

“The teams feed off it,” Corey said. “The elite teams in the Big Ten feed off that energy.”

Seeing the player’s appreciation for the devoted fan base makes all of the planning, trials and traveling all worth it for the Singletarys.

“Seeing them look up to see that sea of red behind their bench, and you see the smile on the player’s faces,” Andrea said.

“They know we got their backs on the road.”

Andrea’s final message to fans?

“Come try it out. You won’t be sorry.”

Glass half full of youth for Wisconsin men’s hockey Despite lack of experience, UW to take ice for opening series in Alaska with hopes of once again returning to NCAA tournament

by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

Half of the members of the 2014-15 Wisconsin men’s hockey team have yet to play in a collegiate game, but that won’t exempt them from playing early and often this season.

After losing a core group of nine seniors to graduation and two others to the NHL following the conclusion of last season, the Badgers have a daunting task ahead of them this season as they look to return to the NCAA tournament for the third-straight season.

UW officially began practice this past Saturday and will head on the road

to Alaska for its first two contests of the season, a very quick start for a team that features 11 true freshmen.

“We’re going to find what kind of group we have,” assistant coach Gary Shuchuk said.

“Our young guys are going to be thrown in the fire. They’re going to be in every situation – power play, penalty kill and regular shift. They’re the ones that have to come up and do it.”

Of the 339 points scored during 37 games last season, fewer than 100 return — 99 to be exact — or just slightly below 30 percent. A year ago, now-senior forward Joseph LaBate finished

with 22 total points, half of what team-leader Mark Zengerle scored, giving LaBate the sixth-most points on the team. He now finds himself as the leading returning scorer this season.

With just nine total upperclassmen this season compared to the nine seniors from a year ago, LaBate recognizes that the underclassmen and large group of freshmen will play a much bigger role than in years past.

“We need all 11 freshmen.

We have two guys that haven’t played games yet that redshirted,” LaBate said of Corbin McGuire and Tim Davison, two of just five freshmen a year ago.

“That’s half our team right there. We as an older group, the five seniors and juniors, we know that we need them on our team.

We don’t have a complete team unless we have all those freshmen.”

Wisconsin is especially young offensively after losing seven forwards from last year ’s team, including the entire first line of Nic Kerdiles, Mark Zengerle and Tyler Barnes.

No forward line remained intact, and Shuchuk said the lines could fluctuate for much of the beginning portion of the season.

However, with the large exodus of upperclassmen forwards, both younger players and others like senior co-captain Brad Navin, have the opportunity to step into a bigger production role.

“We have a lot of catalysts, a lot of guys that can score goals,” Shuchuk said, pointing to Grant Besse and Morgan Zulinick as two players who will be crucial scorers besides LaBate.

“Last year, they were kind of on the back burner because of the guys we had. Well, now they’re in the forefront. It’s time for them to take the reigns

Photo · An inexperienced group of Badgers will have to do their best to replace the likes of Nic Kerdiles (17) and Michael Mersch (25) this season for men’s hockey.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald

and see what they can do.”

But there is certainly nothing wrong with Wisconsin’s young players. As Shuchuk and LaBate both pointed out, the freshmen have instilled a very strong energy in their first few weeks, or the “freshmen giddies” as LaBate referred to the group’s demeanor so far.

The freshmen contingent has also brought with them an eagerness to learn their new surroundings, as they embrace playing in a new system at the college level while trying to get up to speed as quickly as possible.

“Our young guys have been asking a ton of questions. It’s almost overwhelming to us coaches,” Shuchuk said.

“But it’s great because they want to learn. They want to get on the same page as us as fast as possible.”

What Wisconsin lacks in experience on the forward lines, it makes up on the back end, starting with senior goaltender Joel Rumpel. After a leg injury and split time with fellow senior Landon Peterson to start last season, Rumpel ran away with the starting job between the pipes for UW and compiled a 21-6-1 record, his best for a single season in his three years.

The team starts the season ranked 10th in the USCHO poll and a lot of that has to do with the steadiness of Rumpel, who has a career 2.16 goalsagainst-average.

“I think just his mindset knowing he was going to be the number one goalie — he likes that. He wants to prove to a lot of people that he’s one of the best goalies in college hockey and I think that he should.

He’s up there with those guys,” Shuchuk said.

Besides Rumpel in net, Wisconsin returns three starting defensemen from a year ago, including the oldest of the bunch and the other captain for UW, Chase Drake. Drake, a fifth-year senior, was part of the second defensive pairing for much of last year and should be a big part of the defensive unit this year. The other returners include juniors Eddie Wittchow and Kevin Schulze, while redshirt freshman Davison and freshman Jack Dougherty could also play big roles.

Regardless of the year in school for those players filling the key roles, the expectations for this year ’s Badgers have not decreased even though half of them haven’t played a game at the college level.

“We’re just trying to do our best to play championship hockey every time we go on the ice,” Wittchow said.

“We have a goal set of a National Championship every year and hopefully at the end of the year, if we play championship hockey every game and by the end of the year hit on all cylinders, I think that’s a reasonable goal for us.”

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Football has opportunity to bounce back against Illini Wisconsin enters Saturday game against Illinois with plenty of questions on both offense, defense as they look for first Big Ten win

by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

For the second-straight year under head coach Gary Andersen, the Wisconsin football team has started the season off with a 3-2 record including a loss in the first Big Ten game of the season.

The losses to start the Big Ten season both came on the road, last year at Ohio State and last week at Northwestern. But this Saturday, the Badgers have the opportunity to rebound at home for the second consecutive year, as they host Illinois.

But unlike last season at this juncture, when redshirt junior Joel Stave had solidified his spot as starting quarterback and the offense as a whole had relatively

few questions, this season’s week six brings about many possibilities.

Those possibilities include, but are not limited to, both Stave and redshirt junior Tanner McEvoy playing quarterback against the Illini (3-3 overall, 0-2 Big Ten).

Andersen said he is now a “firm believer” in the offense as a whole, particularly in their ability to support either McEvoy or Stave. He added the offense would be “best-served to be able to play both quarterbacks.”

After McEvoy started in the 20-14 loss to the Wildcats this past Saturday, Stave came on in as relief in the second quarter, finishing 8-19 for 114 yards with one touchdown and three

interceptions.

Although he struggled in his first game back, and what was his first full week back after being sidelined with throwing issues, Stave said that getting his first game action of the season proved beneficial.

“I think that helped a lot, just getting back in there in a game, getting the feel for the speed of the game and everything like that again,” Stave said. “Just getting those first couple snaps for this season under my belt really helped.”

Despite Andersen disclosing that both quarterbacks will see the field Saturday, Stave admitted that he doesn’t know how exactly he or McEvoy would be used throughout the game.

Regardless of how the two are used and how their time on the field is split, Stave and McEvoy will both need to be ready to go. Both Andersen and Ludwig said this past week the quarterback with the hot hand could receive the majority of the snaps against Illinois.

The quarterback position isn’t the only one in flux right now. At the beginning of the week Andersen said that younger players on the offensive side of the ball could see more playing time, specifically wide receivers.

Through the first five games, only Alex Erickson, Kenzel Doe and Jordan Fredrick have more than two catches in the group of wide receivers. Doe has five grabs with four of those coming against Northwestern, while Fredrick has just two all season. Meanwhile, freshmen George Rushing and Natrell Jamerson have one total catch combined, and sophomore Reggie Love’s only big play was a 45-yard run against LSU with no receptions yet this season.

Andersen didn’t point to specific players, but did say

Photo · Averaging the most rushing yards per game in the nation, Melvin Gordon will do his best to hide what has been a shaky passing attack for the Badgers.

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younger players could contribute more this weekend.

“It is a complex offense, but these kids should be in a spot to where they know the offense now and they should be able to get out there and be involved,” Andersen said. “It’s getting better. I said it a week ago, you’ve got to show it in practice to get on the field, and that is improving. So our ability to get those kids in those moments ... Saturday is hopefully close to [that] happening. I like them.”

As far as the defense is concerned, senior inside linebacker Marcus Trotter will miss Saturday’s game after suffering a groin injury against Northwestern.

Cornerbacks Devin Gaulden and Derek Tindal are questionable for Saturday, sustaining injuries against Northwestern as well.

With those three players out against the Wildcats, the Wisconsin defense suffered through its worst performance of the season, allowing 385 yards of total offense while having their worst tackling game of the season, according to Andersen.

The absence of Trotter, and possibly Gaulden and Tindal, will certainly hurt Wisconsin as they try to slow down an Illinois offense that is averaging 28 points per game.

“He’s one of the key assets of our defense now,” safety redshirt junior Michael Caputo said of Trotter.

“Nothing to take away from the guys who came in

and played their hearts out, came in when he went out, but he’s a very good player.

He always communicates.

He knows what he’s doing out there. It definitely hurt us when he was missing.”

Injuries have been an issue for the Illini as well, who this week lost their starting quarterback Wes Lunt to a broken leg. If there are any positives from the situation, it’s that backup quarterback Reilly O’Toole has played in all six games this season. But O’Toole has thrown only one touchdown this season against four interceptions and has a completion percentage of 52.6 in limited time this year.

However, the big weakness for the Illini is its defense that, outside of allowing over 35 points per game, has been torched by opposing rushing attacks.

Illinois has surrendered almost 250 rushing yards per game, including 349 to Purdue last weekend.

That’s good news for Wisconsin’s star running back Melvin Gordon, who rushed for 142 yards and three scores a season ago in a win at Illinois.

Regardless of the shaky quarterback situation, Gordon will dictate much of what happens Saturday at Camp Randall, and most likely, the outcome.

“I’m sure there’s more to come. [I’m] excited about the level of play and where he is and the situations that he’s putting us in to be able to have an opportunity to win games,” Andersen said of Gordon.

Volleyball to host Big Ten newcomers this weekend Rutgers, Maryland to come to UW Field house as they seek first conference victories against sixth-ranked Wisconsin team

by Elise Romas Volleyball Writer

Coming off of two road game wins against Northwestern and Illinois, the Wisconsin volleyball team returns to the UW Field House this weekend to take on the two new editions to the Big Ten: Rutgers and Maryland.

The No. 6 Badgers (122, 3-1 Big Ten) are riding a three-match conference win streak with the wins over Northwestern and Illinois, added with a win over Ohio State two weekends ago.

Wisconsin has not won four conference matches in a row since 2008. UW will look to match their conference win streak from 2008 this weekend as they face the Scarlet Knights and the Terrapins.

Opposing the triumphant weekend that Wisconsin experienced on the road, Rutgers (7-10, 0-4 Big Ten) inherited two losses to both Purdue and Indiana at home.

Not only was the loss to Indiana the Scarlet Knights’ fourth loss in a row, but it was already their fourth loss in conference play.

Maryland (7-8, 0-4 Big Ten)

presents a similar case, as they have also lost all four of their Big Ten matches so far this season. The last loss to Purdue gave the Terrapins a sevenmatch losing streak.

Although Maryland has faltered as of late, Wisconsin head coach Kelly Sheffield expressed his interest in keeping a watchful eye for the Terrapins at the net.

“We’ve seen Maryland play a couple times,” Sheffield said.

“They’re very athletic. They’re talented, especially in the middles. There’s talent there, so we’re going to have our hands full with that.”

Maryland’s fierce middle blocker, freshman Hailey Murray, currently ranks third for total kills on her team (104) and has the highest kill percentage with a .284 mark.

She also leads the team with 60 blocks this season.

Wisconsin’s setter, sophomore Lauren Carlini, says that in order to take on these two teams, the Badgers have concentrated on the nittygritty details during rallies.

“One thing we’re really focusing on is our part of the game and just being able to excel at the little things and be consistent all the way

throughout matches,” Carlini said.

According to Sheffield, one of the key areas he has been working on with his team this week is consistent and accurate ball handling on first contact.

“We want to be a team that dominates the first contact,” Sheffield said. “So we’re trying to be better with our serve and pass game.”

The Badgers have also practiced making the most out of a bad first contact and turning any type of pass into a positive play - even if they are not able to set up their offense.

“We’re trying to be a better ‘out-of-system’ team,” Sheffield said.

“When we don’t have the pass that we are still being able to get a good swing on that and be able to score.”

Improvement on this aspect of Wisconsin’s game has the potential to quicken its offense. The keys for a successful rally lie with communicating on the court, being aggressive and never letting up until the play is over.

“All of us are trying to work really hard on our communication,” senior defensive specialist Deme Morales said. “We’re working on embracing each other and bouncing back to adversity and being extremely resilient.

When we’ve been punched, we punch back.”

The 2013 NCAA

Championship AllTournament honoree also mentioned her anticipation for being back on Wisconsin’s home court, surrounded by Badger fans.

“I think our crowd is going to help us a lot too. I don’t know if Maryland or Rutgers are used to this type of crowd yet,” Morales said.

Playing at home has the potential to contribute to the Badgers’ performance this weekend. Ever since the season began, Wisconsin has played in front of enormous crowds. This includes selling out the Field House during the Wisconsin’s first Big Ten game of the season against Penn State Sept. 24.

“We’ve been close to filling the Field House almost every night,” Sheffield said, “And so I think we’ve created one of the best home court environments in the country.

It’s a difficult place to come in and play.”

Wisconsin will welcome Rutgers to the Big Ten Friday at 7 p.m. before closing out the weekend against Maryland at 1 p.m.

Photo · Senior outsidehitter Courtney Thomas hopes to send the Badgers to their fourth and fifth Big Ten wins this weekend against Rutgers and Maryland.

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Badgers force tie with Iowa Despite double overtime, UW women’s soccer ends in scoreless draw

by Jamie Degraff Women’s Soccer Writer

In a chippy match, the No. 12 Wisconsin women’s soccer team (11-2-1, 5-2-1 Big Ten) fought the Iowa Hawkeyes (9-4-1, 4-3-1 Big Ten) to a double overtime 0-0 tie.

The first ten minutes consisted mostly of the Badgers’ offense dominating possession on the attacking half. The Hawkeyes, however, were ready to pounce on any errant pass, and did an effective of job of taking the opportunities they had to create a breakaway chance for themselves.

The first legitimate opportunity for Iowa came 10 minutes in when a header on a breakaway chance soared into the box, but despite the promising look, redshirt senior goalkeeper Genevieve Richard was quick to get to it first and squander any potential knockin. It was one of the many times Iowa required Richard to be on her toes in the first half, but despite the multiple chances to score, the Hawkeyes failed to truly test the keeper with a close shot in the first half.

Wisconsin’s first big scoring chance came soon after in the 13th minute on a shot from an unlikely boot by junior defender Molly Laufenberg. Despite shooting it from long range, her shot from the left side crossed through the defense, catching Iowa goalie, junior Hannah Clark, off guard, but the ball barely missed and hit the top post.

Richard tallied three saves on the night in addition to recognizing and eliminating several passes that Iowa could’ve fired dangerous shots off of. On corner kicks, Iowa struggled to find a spot in the box that Richard couldn’t get to first,

Photo · Neither the efforts of Kodee Williams (22) nor Kinley McNicoll (13) could push the Badgers into the goal colum against the Hawkeyes on Wednesday.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald

and Richard commented on the effectiveness of Wisconsin’s defense on set pieces.

“When you see that teams modify their corners when they play against you, that’s always a good sign,” Richard said. “We’ve been pretty solid so far defensively, and if teams are saying not to shoot up top, that’s great because it means we proved a point.”

The remainder of the first half consisted of squandered opportunities by both teams, most notably by the Badgers after multiple free looks in the box were off target. An almost certain goal by Wisconsin came in the 28th minute after a cross from sophomore midfielder Rose Lavelle connected with redshirt junior midfielder Kodee Williams in traffic, but Clark narrowly saved the shot off the foot of Williams.

The half ended with a close call for the Badgers after a long pass connected with Iowa’s Cloe Lacasse and beat the entire UW back line for a one-on-one shot that found the net, but the line referee called her offside, nullifying the goal. The first half ended with a 0-0 tie, extending the Badgers’ scoring drought to three halves of play.

Despite their struggles, Williams thought the team kept up a high intensity on offense, and for the most part, did what they could with their chances to score.

“I think we followed up some good shots. I think sometimes we don’t take our half-chances if we’re around the top of the box, we’re waiting for that perfect opportunity where we can see the goal,” Williams said. “We need to just take every chance we have because they’re pretty rare.”

Both teams began the second half with the same aggressive approach, looking for chances off of long crosses. The first close opportunity for either team in the second half came when a shot by UW freshman forward Becca Harrison from 20 feet out on the left side was barely knocked away from the diving Clark.

After a series of missed

opportunities by both sides, the last major chance for a Badgers goal in regulation came in the 78th minute. After a steal by senior forward Cara Walls, she misplaced a pass to Williams who could not put a good foot on the ball and her shot was easily saved.

Neither team could convert a goal in the final 12 minutes and the two teams went to overtime.

Desperation for a defining goal showed for Wisconsin at the start of overtime, as Lavelle almost ended the game two minutes into the period with a long-range shot that sailed just over the net to the disbelief of the UW bench.

After dominating possession in Iowa’s half of the field, the Badgers eventually gave the Hawkeyes a breakaway on offense, which ended with a closely contested, but deflected shot that forced an unsuccessful corner. Neither team could find the net at the end of ten minutes, pushing the game into a lastchance double overtime scenario.

Head coach Paula Wilkins said she believes the lack of goals came from an inability to capitalize, but the offense otherwise hasn’t missed a beat in recent games. Wisconsin’s offense fired off 18 total shots on the night compared to Iowa’s 10.

“I thought they were creating it, we just have to be a little more desperate,” Wilkins said. “I think just a little bit of a slide, a little toe-poke, a little something here is going to make a little bit of a difference.”

Just like the first overtime period, the Badgers started out with their foot on the gas. In the opening minutes, the Badgers thought they had a game-ending score from Walls, but the referee ultimately called it offside to the dismay of Wilkins. Despite dominating the last 10 minutes in shots and opportunities, the Badgers ultimately failed to score. Iowa was unable to connect for a score in the 110 total minutes as well, resulting in a tightly contested 0-0 draw.

The Badgers will be back on the pitch Oct. 12, as they hit the road to take on Northwestern at 1 p.m.

UW snaps winless streak Badgers shutout Green Bay in second win of season Tuesday

by Nick Brazzoni Men’s Soccer Writer

After suffering from a seven-game winless streak, the Wisconsin men’s soccer team finally found a way to victory in a 1-0 win over in-state rival Green Bay Tuesday night.

The team’s effort ended up being more defensive than offensive, as freshman forward Tom Barlow scored early for the Badgers (2-71, 0-3-0 Big Ten) in the 22nd minute and the team was forced to hold the lead for the next 68 minutes.

The goal, Barlow’s third of the season and first in five games, came off of a great pass through the Green Bay back line from fellow freshman forward Mark Segbers. After a favorable deflection, the ball found the back of the net for Barlow.

This wasn’t the first time the two freshmen from St. Louis hooked up this season, and it won’t be the last, as the two have great chemistry on the field.

“Mark [Segbers] is so fast and he did a great job of beating a couple guys and sliding a nice ball into me,” Barlow said.

“I got a bit lucky on the shot with the deflection, but a goal is a goal. Although it wasn’t the best goal, I think we are just relieved the ball finally rolled our way.”

Despite UW scoring a goal in the first half, the Badgers were still sluggish while the Phoenix were on the attack. In the first half, Green Bay outshot Wisconsin 8-2.

Even with the lead heading into halftime, UW head coach John Trask was not happy with the team’s performance.

He let them know that, and despite not scoring in the second half, the

team adjusted, and the Badgers finished the match much more aggressively.

“In the first half they were taking it to us. We kind off got to a slow start and coach got on us at half time,” Barlow said. “He talked about being the aggressor. We came out in the second half with a little more intensity, and I think we did a better job coming out firing.”

In the second half, Wisconsin was able to find six shots on goal, and their offensive pressure was rewarded with five corner kicks after just two in the first half.

However, with the Badgers not being able to extend their lead in the second half, it was the defensive effort that ultimately helped hold the lead and carry them to a much-needed victory.

That second-half defensive effort was without senior defender David Caban, as Trask and his staff decided to give Caban the second half off to give some freshmen the opportunity to log their first minutes of the season.

“We really needed to give some live action to these guys,” Trask said. “It was always our plan to play [redshirt freshman defender] Zacc Roelke and I thought he was pretty solid today as a left back in his second half performance. We have to continue to bleed in these young guys. It’s not just Mike Catalano, Mark [Segbers], and the guys that are starting.”

Replacing Caban on the back line was not going to be easy, especially with how important the defensive effort was going to be in the second half. Coming into this year, Caban had appeared in 57 games in three years for this Wisconsin team, and

Photo · Midfielder Mike Catalano was one of many freshmen who saw valuable time on the pitch against the Phoenix Tuesday.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald experience cannot be easily replaced.

But Roelke stepped in and gelled with the Badger back line.

“It was tough, but we were able to help Roelke out a lot and he was able to help us,” junior defender Adam Lauko said.

“He’s a redshirt freshman, but he’s been around and he played a lot last spring. He has experience and it showed tonight.”

Along with the backline play, the shutout would not have been possible without superb play from the goalkeeper, as freshman Adrian Remeniuk recorded three saves in a his shutout performance.

“I thought Adrian was exceptional,” Trask said. “It didn’t seem like we were really at the races when the game started, but I thought Adrian kept us in the game, which is the job of a goalkeeper.

Compliments to him, because there were a couple of tough situations for him to deal with in the first half, but he made the saves and gave us a chance.”

With the win, Wisconsin sees an opportunity to turn this season around, but they also know that they still must take it one game at a time. Still, the win still offered a big psychological boost.

“It was much more important for the players,” Trask said.

“We know what we are going through as a coaching staff. But hey, let’s be honest, winning is a hell of a lot better than losing.”

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THE BADGER HERALD · SPORTS · THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9,2014

Badgers ready for unique offense under McEvoy, Stave With an ineffective pass attack through seasons’ first four games, Wisconsin is set to roll with two quarterbacks to take snaps under center

by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

“If you have two quarterbacks, you have none” is one of the most well-known clichés in football. However, the Wisconsin football team is trying to put an end to the negativity surrounding the cliché beginning this weekend against Illinois.

University of Wisconsin head coach Gary Andersen said he will use both Tanner McEvoy and Joel Stave at quarterback this weekend after McEvoy – who started the team’s first four games – was benched in place of Stave just before halftime against Northwestern.

Through four and a half games this season, McEvoy is 55-for-96 with five touchdowns and five interceptions, while throwing for only 629 yards. “[McEvoy and Stave] could possibly both be on the field at the same time,” Andersen said. “I’m hoping that happens because I think that opens up a little can of worms for people to wonder what’s going to happen. So we’ll see if that takes place for a couple plays.

We’ll also play them in different situations.”

However, Stave – who was essentially unable to play the first four games of the season

with what can best be described as the “yips” – did not impress in his only half-game of football this season against the Wildcats last weekend. He was only 8-for-19 for 114 yards with one touchdown and a dismal three interceptions. Stave’s struggles certainly did not settle the

challenge “to..Itstayis ina rhythm if you’re in for a series and you’re starting to get the hang of it and the next guy goes in.

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Tanner McEvoy Quarterback situation at quarterback, and has turned the position into one of the biggest question marks for UW as they head into week six of the season.

In order to highlight the talent of both quarterbacks, Andersen has decided to play both quarterbacks this Saturday, even possibly at the same time, and go forward with one of the most risky strategies in football.

But how can a twoquarterback system possibly work?

Offensive coordinator Andy

Ludwig thinks he has the answer. Ludwig ran a twoquarterback system while an offensive coordinator at Utah in 2007. Quarterbacks Brian Johnson and Tommy Grady combined for 1,822 yards with 12 touchdowns and eight interceptions, while averaging a 121.95 quarterback rating. The Utes finished with a 9-4 record and ended the season with a win over Navy in the Poinsettia Bowl.

When using two quarterbacks in a game, Ludwig sees the position as one that fits into the larger scheme of the offense. The offense doesn’t need to rely solely on the quarterback, but on all ten of the guys on the field in order to compose an offensive unit as a whole.

“It’s a real delicate balance,” Ludwig said of using two quarterbacks.

“The most important thing is to stay within yourself and stay within the strength of the entire unit. Not deviate to match one player or the other. Just do what you do to put those quarterbacks in the best possible position.”

Based on what happened at Northwestern, both Ludwig and Andersen showed that they are willing to pull a struggling quarterback, as they did with McEvoy.

While the official starting

quarterback is unknown, what is known is that whoever is playing better, whether it’s McEvoy or Stave, will likely take over and receive the bulk of the snaps.

“You’re going to play the player with the hot hand,” Ludwig said. “[Does] the course of the game, the course of the season dictate that? Absolutely.

We want to put our best players on the field right now. We’re trying to figure out who is the best player at [quarterback].”

However, switching to the quarterback with the hot hand can force both quarterbacks into a sense of urgency, both on and off the field.

For McEvoy, it can be tough to stay on the sidelines – which he experienced this past Saturday – but it’s simply a matter of staying focused and being ready to go when the coaches put him in.

“I mean it is a challenge to stay in rhythm if you’re in for a series and you’re starting to get the hang of it and the next guy goes in,” McEvoy said. “But you just have to stay focused, stay loose and just keep watching the game and be ready when your numbers called.”

Much like McEvoy, Stave sees the sharing of snaps at quarterback as one where you have to stay ready. Although recognizing that it may be

“tougher to get into a rhythm,” Stave said it will just be about making good use of your limited snaps.

While McEvoy and Stave will both certainly play quarterback at some point in Saturday’s game, Andersen has also alluded to the idea of both playing on the field at the same time with what will likely result in McEvoy lining up at wide receiver – a position he is familiar with. Andersen seems willing to try, especially with the lack of production out of the wide receivers so far this season.

The most important “thing is to stay within yourself and stay within the strength of the entire unit.

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Andy Ludwig Offensive Coordinator “Yeah, that’s also something to sit back and discuss,” Andersen said of playing McEvoy at wide receiver.

“The knowledge base and the ability for him to get out there [at wide receiver], there is a learning curve, again. But it’s a possibility. Let me put it that way.”

This would not be McEvoy’s

first time at wide receiver with the Badgers. Last season, McEvoy played snaps at wide receiver in the opening game against UMass, before injuring his wrist and switching over to safety for the rest of the season.

Although he didn’t catch any passes in his short stint at the position, it’s one McEvoy is comfortable with.

“I used to play [wide receiver] back in high school and I used to love the position,” McEvoy said. “If that’s what [the coaches] want, then I’ll go out there and try to execute whatever they want me to do.

But whatever it takes to win, I’m on board.”

The bottom line is that the success of a two-quarterback system might just come down to the talent of the two quarterbacks. While McEvoy and Stave have their own strengths and weaknesses, Stave believes the pieces are there to make this old football cliché successful.

“I think we have great players,” Stave said. “I think me and Tanner [McEvoy] can both do a lot of good things and we’re both very different quarterbacks. I think if used correctly, and I can’t say I know necessarily how that is or how it’s going to work, I think we have the players in the system that can make it work.”