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TO MAKE UW ABOUT RACE As race-relations continue to spark national debate

students organize to shed light on UW’s diversity issues

by RILEY VETTERKIND

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MPD sees decline in recruitment pool post-Ferguson Media emphasis on militarization leaves law enforcement candidates hesitant; Koval concerned about police force diversity

by Marigrace Carney City Editor

In the aftermath of Ferguson, the Madison Police Department is having trouble finding law enforcement candidates.

A direct correlation

between the two isn’t concrete, Sgt. Tim Patton, MPD personnel and training recruiter said, but recruitment numbers are down and Patton is concerned that the events in Ferguson, Missouri regarding police brutality, is causing some hesitancy

among candidates.

The post-Ferguson discussion is creating doubt among recruitment candidates, Patton said, adding that he is confident numbers will increase due to strong community ties through policing.

A lack of understanding

about the job is one of the biggest reasons recruitment numbers are low, Patton said.

“The aspects of the job that are most [prominent] in the media have to do with the militarization of law enforcement,” Patton said.

“It has to do with writing

tickets and taking people to jail, but the majority of the work is simply relational skills.”

Issues of diversity and a post-Ferguson setting can also be attributed to the decrease in interest.

People are conflicted because of how police

around the nation are being represented in the news, Police Chief Michael Koval said. However, there will be people who see through what they view on the news and realize the MPD is made up of selfless public officials,

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UW System split rumored as budget release nears Chancellor Blank denies claims of UW-Madison’s separation from system; details to surface with release of 2015-17 Capitol plan February

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

University of Wisconsin might receive more legislative power and general autonomy if Gov. Scott Walker’s considerations to split it from the UW System become reality.

The concept would be a part of the 2015-17 budget plan, which is to be introduced Feb. 3. The last budget in 2011 contained such a proposal but ultimately failed and led to the departure of former UW Chancellor Biddy Martin.

Professor Barry Burden in the UW political science department said it is unclear what exactly the proposal would entail at this point.

“We don’t know whether it would mean really separating UW from the system or whether it would just mean a new set of rules or requirements for Madison versus the other campuses,” Burden said.

Burden said one possibility is UW would become a public authority model, much like what happened with the UWHospital in 2011. Prior to 2011,

the hospital was much like any other government agency.

Changing to a public authority model meant the hospital gained non-profit status but still receives some public funds. This gives it more freedom in things like hiring and retirement, Burden said.

Other states have given this kind of status to their flagship universities, including Virginia, Michigan and Texas.

“It wouldn’t be unprecedented,” Burden said.

Burden said a complete decomposition of the UW System is possible, but unlikely.

Before the system merger in 1971, there were two state systems in the state. Going back to this model will mostly likely not happen, Burden said.

“At this point it’s hard to know what will happen for tuition rates or anything else.

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This is a conversation that’s been happening for a while, especially as long as Walker’s been governor,” Burden said.

Within UW administration, officials maintain that conversations about the system split are only focused on the whole system and the state, not UW-Madison and the UW system.

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For University of Wisconsin sophomore Kristen Kelly, a recent volunteering trip abroad allowed her to help those in need and immerse herself in a new culture, reflecting common benefits of volunteering for college students.

Kelly went to Mexico over winter break through the UW student organization, Alternative Breaks. She spent two weeks helping out a local daycare.

Alternative Breaks, a student volunteering organization run by the Wisconsin Union, is one of numerous organizations at UW that bridge the gap between university and community, even if it lies in a different country.

Because of UW’s engagement with local, regional and global communities, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently awarded it the 2015 community engagement classification. According to a UW statement, the university originally sought classification in 2008 and aimed for renewal for 2015.

According to the Carnegie Foundation’s website, institutions interested in receiving the award were invited to apply. Doing so

required each institution to send in their own respective materials.

Jeffrey Russell, the vice provost for Lifelong Learning and dean of continuing studies, was one of the university officials responsible for completing the submission to be considered for the classification, which required him to look to the ways in which UW engages with Madison, the Midwest region and the rest of the world. To him, the Morgridge Center for Public Service, in charge of organizing Badger Volunteers, set UW apart when applying for the classification.

“The banner of having well over 700 students engaged in community-based projects is very significant,” Russell said.

“The big thing is that it shows and demonstrates that we’re committed to engaging the community and working with the community to explore and solve problems.”

According to Badger Volunteers coordinator Kari Temkin, the large organization requires participating students to gather in teams and volunteer at the same non-profit or governmental agency each week during the semester. Volunteering in such organizations helps students live out the Wisconsin Idea,

Temkin said.

“We take our students and put them into the community outside of our campus to utilize their skill sets and their passion, to impact the needs of our community,” Temkin said.

Steven Cramer, vice provost for Teaching and Learning at UW, sees the university moving toward offering an education involving more active learning, such as the practical application of a university education in a volunteering setting, for instance.

Community participation, in

which a student can apply his or her knowledge to the real world before graduating, goes hand in hand with good citizenship and embodies the Wisconsin Idea, said Cramer.

“Opportunities for our students to apply what they are learning in class continue to grow at UW-Madison,” said Cramer. “The Wisconsin Experience should be about, and is about, knowledge engagement and participation in your learning.”

For Kelly, it was easy to make the decision to donate

Photo ·Kristen Kelly, UW sophomore, never secondguessed her choice to volunteer abroad, what she saw as a staple of the Wisconsin Idea.

Courtesy of Kristen Kelly her winter vacation time as she said she’s always valued volunteering. “[Volunteering] is about broadening your horizons and getting along with people who aren’t the same as you,” Kelly said.

Vet school focuses on animal shelter med UW raises $1.3 million in grants, donations for new program focused on ‘giving back to the community’

by Brenna Koeneke Herald Contributor

In an effort to further research in veterinary medicine, the University of Wisconsin is looking to expand a newly created animal shelter medicine program with a newly acquired $1.3 million in funds.

The program, through the School of Veterinary Medicine, which raised $1.3 million in grants, gifts and pledges aims to minimize animal deaths and raise awareness for the poor treatment of animals, according to a UW statement. The money also goes toward intensive shelter medicine training camps that local shelters can participate in, professor Sandra Newbury said, the

new director of shelter medicine.

“Being in Wisconsin makes [the program] unique,” Newbury said.

“There are very few shelter medicine programs.”

Newbury said the program involves the training of veterinarian students and shelter staff, consulting with animal shelters via email and phone about their standards and research, and assisting shelters in dealing with outbreaks of infectious diseases.

According to the Humane Society of the United States, homeless animals outnumber homeless people five to one. Newbury said she has been working in animal shelters since the 1980s, when she first recognized the lack of

involvement in animal shelters. Her work at the University of CaliforniaDavis has helped establish a sister program at UW when she joined in November 2014, she said.

Newbury said the grants are going toward a program manager and outreach veterinarian as well as three fellowships that are year-long trainings for vets practicing shelter medicine.

“We’re not just thinking up ideas,” Newbury said.

“We are in shelters really working through problems and looking at solutions and looking at what works and what’s not working. We can figure out where we need to apply ourselves and think of a better solution.”

According to Mark Markel, the dean of the School of Veterinary

Medicine, the program is very much focused on giving back to the community as well as other regional communities in order to spread more expertise about improving animal care.

Markel said Newbury is nationally-recognized as an expert and that she, along with others, will advance the state-of-the-art shelter medicine stemming from the university.

The UW veterinary school has had a more indirect role in shelter medicine in the past, developing vaccines for shelters nationwide, according to Markel. With the new shelter program, Markel hopes that UW will establish itself as a national leader in the field.

“I think [the program] does two principle things,”

Markel said. “One is that it allows our students to gain an appreciation and understanding of shelter medicine and the benefits that course of study has on millions of animals like dogs and cats and others.

In addition, it will provide them significantly more hands-on clinical training and make them, I believe, much better veterinarians when they graduate.”

The program is working with the Dane County Humane Society as well as other local animal shelters.

Newbury said there are very few animal shelters available to animals in need, and that the people involved have been incredibly supportive and committed to the community service that the outreach program is trying to accomplish.

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Madison B-cycle sees record use in 2014 Local bike sharing company cracks 100,000 rides, increased ridership; credits success to community outreach Photo - Madison B-cycle has close-ties to UW with roughly half of their membership composed of campus affliates.

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Madison’s bike sharing company, B-cycle, saw a milestone year in 2014 with more than 100,000 rides taken on their bikes.

B-cycle users made a total of 104,274 trips in 2014, according to their annual report. Ridership increased by 28 percent or almost 22,000 rides from 2013, as stated in the report. After opening in 2011, ridership has increased with a snowball effect, B-cycle’s field operations manager Claire Hurley said.

“We’ve had pretty steady growth of ridership in the past four years of operation,” Hurley said.

“Once people see that

other people are using it, it becomes a little less intimidating. It becomes more normal to take a B-cycle, for commuting or just to take a short trip during lunch.”

B-cycle has about 2,600 members, roughly half of which are affiliated with University of Wisconsin in some way, including students, faculty and staff, Hurley said. However, the other half of B-cycle’s ridership comes from young professionals, commuters and recreational riders.

By charging half-hourly rates, B-cycle is best used for short trips, Hurley said.

“It’s similar to a bus and a bus stop,” Hurley said.

“You take [the bike] from one station, check it into

another station close to your destination, and when you’re ready to come back you just take another bike out.”

Hurley credited some of B-cycle’s increasing success to its partnerships with organizations within the community. B-cycle added four new stations in 2014 with the help of sponsors such as UW Hospital, UW Credit Union, Hilldale and others, Hurley said.

B-cycle has worked closely with community over the years and has conducted various community building events, Hurley said. Most notably, B-cycle teamed up with the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County.

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of bikes for us a couple of years ago,” Hurley said.

“For every ride each of the painted bikes took in 2012 and 2013 during the month of August, one dollar was donated by Metcalfe’s to the Boys and Girls Club. ...We ended up raising almost 4,000 dollars.”

B-cycle has seen the community embrace the bike sharing company and be respectful to their bikes, Hurley said. Because of this, theft is a little to nonexistent issue. Each B-cycle bike is also associated with a credit or debit card upon its checkout, which also discourages theft.

Bike theft is a mostly seasonal issue and B-cycle bikes generally do not come up on their radar Joel DeSpain, Madison Police Department spokesperson, said.

“We see all different kinds of bike thefts,” DeSpain said. “Sometimes we see very high-end bikes being stolen off of people’s porches ... however, at various times we’ll see a significant number of bike thefts and then they drop off.”

Hurley hopes to get more people on bikes in 2015 and look into the

possibility of adding more B-cycle stations. Working with community partners has been crucial to B-cycle’s success and she hopes to continue that into the future, she said.

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Students take charge in race conversation UW administration and faculty show support for campus diversity, students demand results

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

The expression of racial frustration in University of Wisconsin’s black students was at its peak at the Black Lives Matter die-in demonstration during finals week in December. As a new semester starts, students and university officials seek to keep momentum going in the movement to change race relations on campus.

After national episodes of racial injustice entered mainstream American conversation, students of color at UW are seizing the opportunity to make their demands known as a national conversation is brought to the campus realm.

Rosalind Dawson, a graduate student in the English department, said she has had her own struggles as a black student as well as those she has heard through students crying in her class expressing their experiences of racism on campus.

“There’s no acknowledgement of the racism, of the pain,” Dawson said. “The feeling of exclusion, I’ve known quite a few people who have completely left campus.”

Taking Notice The first day of the semester was symbolically used by university administration to kick-off the conversation with a Union South event “UW Voices,” a forum that welcomed students and faculty to openly discuss diversity problems on campus.

Along with other students at a discussion led by the newly formed “About Race UW” group Tuesday night, Sangay Sirleaf said she got involved in the movement to bring her struggles as a black

student at UW to the attention of university officials.

“The fact that it took students marching in the streets and protesting silently for the university to finally realize that this is an actual big deal to students is unfortunate,” Sirleaf said.

The event hosted 400 students and members of the campus community, with the administration aiming to include those not adversely affected by acts of racism and discrimination.

Interim Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims said that most discussions centered around the first question posed: “What brought you or enticed you to participate in the conversation?”

Sims said he heard a desire from students of color to be acknowledged and recognized, something that hit home for him, an African-American man who had felt their pain during his own undergraduate experience, he said.

“I know for a fact that my colleagues and I are scrambling like crazy to figure out what to do differently to create an environment that makes all students welcome and included,” Sims said.

Into Student Hands Students who led the catalyst die-in event also stepped up at the start of the semester with a meeting of “About Race UW” to discuss plans on moving forward to make real demands from administration.

DeShawn McKinney, a black student at UW who organized the Black Lives Matter die-in demonstration, was also a leading student facilitator of “About Race UW” and its

discussion that took place after the university forum.

McKinney, along with other students involved in the student-led movement, expressed frustration with

a conversation and was subject to change. Some of the ideas included on the list were the adoption of a zero tolerance policy for acts of racism, the creation

the fact that university administration did not put enough effort to reach out to students involved in the organization of the die-in.

“It’s like them using us as university propaganda,” McKinney said. “I don’t know if they realize the irony and hypocrisy in it.”

Some organizers from the student group “About Race UW” asked the campus community not to attend the university-sponsored forum at Union South via Facebook post because of this “irony.”

At the “About Race” discussion, flyers containing a provisional list of demands were handed out for students to add on to and critique. McKinney emphasized that the list of demands was only to spark

of a UW Race Relations Committee composed of students and faculty of color and the preservation of UW ethnic studies departments.

Other items on the list served more as food for thought, such as removing the statue of President Abraham Lincoln from the top of a Bascom Hill—a demand which was brushed as too extreme within the black community at the event.

Sirleaf, who attended the “About Race” discussion, had some of her own ideas to improve the lack of understanding among white students toward their peers of color. She suggested making the ethnic studies requirement larger and more engaging, making intercultural dialogues a requirement for all students and implementing a program similar to AlcoholEdu to make students aware of the struggle and experiences of students of color on a college campus.

Dawson said with these issues being so close to students personally, administrators could benefit from letting students take the lead.

“We’ve got a crop of young people rising up who are not interested in just putting up and shutting up,” Dawson said. “They are claiming and owning and demanding. The old people need to step aside and let these young people

Photo · Student’s marched around campus, garnering attention in their stand for racial equality and social justice.

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have their day. We did that in the 60s, now it’s their turn.”

Moving Forward Chancellor Rebecca

Photo · Students exercised their free speech last semester with the Black Lives Matter die-in protest in UW’s Helen C. White Library.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald Blank said the university is dedicated to addressing issues of diversity. One issue is the the disparity between the percentage of black students attending UW, 2.3 percent in 2013 being the most recent data, with the percentage of black residents in Wisconsin stands at 6.5 percent.

While the university is working on programs and policies aiming to address diversity, larger societal issues of race, like the K-12 education system in urban neighborhoods, are also complicating the university’s efforts, Blank said.

“One of the things we’re very actively doing is a series of pipeline programs in lower income Madison and Milwaukee schools and some of the tribal areas where we’re trying to identify students in the 8th and 9th grade and give them support and tutoring so that in four years they are ready to apply to some of the top colleges in the state,” Blank said.

Dawson said after years of diversity forums, she is uncertain that anything different will come from another. Still, she said seeing the chancellor at the event was a surprise to her that showed UW’s dedication to the issue.

“She came, and she stayed. I was at one of the tables she sat at and she listened very carefully,” Dawson said. “Maybe we are turning a page, or at least getting to the bottom of the first page.”

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Low HPV vaccination rate in county raises concern

Health officials in Dane County worry lack of education about the virus, its link to cancer prevent people from vaccinating their kids

by Marigrace Carney City Editor

Low vaccination numbers in Dane County are indicating a lack of awareness and education about Human papillomavirus, experts say.

Diane McHugh, coordinator of the Dane County Immunization Coalition, is concerned young people do not realize how important the vaccination is. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted virus and is attributed as a cause of several types of cancer, according to the Center for Disease Control. Almost

every sexually active person will contract HPV in their lifetimes, the website states.

The vaccination could prevent dozens of women’s deaths from cancer if kids are vaccinated at a young age, McHugh said.

Parents do not see their 11 and 12-year-olds at a sexual risk so they do not complete the series of three vaccinations, McHugh said.

However, once they become sexually active they are at risk of exposure, she said.

What most people do not know is the antibody response is stronger in younger people, which is why the vaccination

is recommended at such a young age, McHugh said.

If a person has the opportunity to prevent cancer, there is no reason they should not, she said.

“If a lot of people just treat it like standard vaccines, [but] it could prevent so much disease,” McHugh said.

Dr. Noelle LoConte, associate professor of medicine at University of Wisconsin, said she thinks one of the reasons people will not get their children vaccinated is because the HPV vaccination is seen as a way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, rather than cancer.

Another stronger reason is due to a provider or physician not strongly recommending the vaccination to patients, LoConte said.

The amount people research the vaccine is unknown, McHugh said. If a physician recommends a vaccine, a parent will have their child vaccinated.

Most people do not realize there are two forms of the vaccine with different benefits.

While the immunization’s main goal is to prevent cancer, the Gardasil vaccine can also protect a person against genital warts, LoConte said.

“The importance of this

vaccine is going to be realized when these people are in their 40s, 50s and 60s, which is when they would develop HPV-related cancers,” LoConte said.

Health care providers play an important part through recommending vaccinations to parents of patients, LoConte said.

Providers need to be educated on how low the vaccination rates in Dane County actually are, McHugh said. Getting a patient vaccinated is partially due to how the provider presents the immunization to the parents, she said.

“Many providers do not know that [parents] are not getting their kids fully immunized,” McHugh said.

“By helping them understand that they can do better as well and different ways to prevent [HPV] so that they can improve their rates of immunizations in their own practices.”

Researchers play a part as well. The UW Health system is trying to have all the researchers at the UW Carbone Cancer Center studying HPV-related cancers join together to spread the word about their research, LoConte said.

Walker’s EPA lawsuit ‘untimely’ according to experts Governor cited undue costs to Wisconsin industries in legal action against Obama administration’s new carbon emissions regulations

by Gokulananda Nandan Herald Contributor

Gov. Scott Walker ’s announcement to prepare a lawsuit over carbon emissions regulations by The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, unveiled during his 2015 State of the State address, has seen some criticism from experts in the field of public policy and environmental studies.

The original concern, expressed by Walker in his State of the State address, is the new regulations would put undue costs on industries, especially

Photo - Experts say Walker’s lawsuit preparation comes at “odd time” because finalized legislation won’t come until midsummer.

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The Obama administration announced earlier this month it will delay publication of the final rule on carbon emissions from power plants until midsummer of 2015.

Keith Reopelle, senior policy director of Clean Wisconsin Inc., said many states will likely sue EPA over carbon pollution rules once they are finalized, but this is “strange timing” to start preparing a lawsuit. He said the lawsuit has to be on the final rule which is yet to be announced and unlikely to be similar

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UW SYSTEM, page 1 “There are no separate conversations with UWMadison,” Chancellor Rebecca Blank said to The Badger Herald. “The system is negotiating with the governor about the budget.

There is no discussion about splitting Madison off. I do not know where those comments are coming from, they are not coming anywhere from here in Bascom Hall.”

Even with the budget plan not yet being released, student leaders on campus have already begun to express their opinions about the system split, whether it be

to the proposed rule on which Walker is working at presently.

“The state has been critical in their comments on the proposed rules of EPA, but those are the proposed rules,” Reopelle said. “We don’t know what EPA is going to say in the final rule. So, to start preparing a lawsuit before the final rule is finalized is strange. It’s bizarre.”

Steve Hiniker, executive director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin also said Walker’s reaction to the proposed rule

by EPA on carbon emissions from power plants is strange as the final rule is not yet been published by EPA. “It’s very odd and bizarre that he [Walker] is suing now because the rules haven’t been developed,” Hiniker said. “So it makes good political theatre, but there is nothing to sue yet that we are aware of.”

The biggest concern Walker has addressed on EPA’s proposed carbon emission guidelines, based on the report of Public Service Commision of Wisconsin, is the threshold of carbon emissions set by EPA for Wisconsin. It is 1,203 pound per megawatt-hour of total energy produced, 34 percent less than what it was in 2012, which would be a costly encounter for the manufacturers and thereby result in raising the electricity rate by 29 percent.

In his State of the State address, Walker said topdown regulations like those from the EPA would hurt Wisconsin manufacturers.

“Instead of fighting with states like Wisconsin, the federal government should work with us to find

from the state or UW from the system.

Gen Carter, chair of Associated Students of Madison’s Student Council, said rumors regarding either version of a UW system split would negatively affect the student body. She said a system split would prevent UW from collaborating with other system schools, receiving funding from the state and operating under shared governance practices.

In the light of possible budget cuts to UW, College Republicans eye efficiency as a path to dealing with the prospect of operating a university with less.

reasonable alternatives,” Walker said. “We can be both environmentally and economically sustainable.”

Gregory Nemet, an associate professor in the LaFollette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin, wrote in an email to The Badger Herald he worries more about local air pollution and climate change than momentary rise in energy cost for Wisconsinites.

According to Nemet, there could still be costs imposed on Wisconsin energy users from these new rules, but citizens also must realize there are very real costs associated with climate change and local air pollution.

While Hiniker is critical of Walker ’s approach to EPA’s proposed guidelines on climate change, Reopelle has expressed a different perspective about the concerns of Walker on EPA regulations.

Reopelle cited a bipartisan study which found 57 percent of Wisconsin voters approve the proposal requiring manufacturers to reduce greenhouse gases that causes global warming at the cost of higher utility bills that they need to pay for the changes.

Hiniker said either Walker should propose something to tackle the issue of climate change in Wisconsin if he doesn’t like EPA’s recommendations or consider how to incorporate it in the state policy despite the cost because climate change is an issue of utmost importance for future generations.

Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce did not respond for comment.

“The problem with higher education in Wisconsin is the fact that we have so many schools that try to specialize in everything,” College Republicans President Courtney Mullen said. “If we had budget cuts, we [might want to make] programs more specialized at certain UW schools.”

Alex Schultz, a spokesperson from College Democrats, expressed his concern over any possibility of a split. “We could definitely see tuition costs skyrocketing which would only allow those who have the money to attend here being able to do so,” he said.

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Legislature to highlight state’s mental health care Assembly Speaker Vos announced improved access, reduced negative stigmas to be at forefront in upcoming legislative session

by Vidushi Saxena Herald Contributor

MPD, page 1 Koval said. “[Madison has] a fundamentally more healthy environment, which is characterized by people with phenomenal education, phenomenal life, work and volunteer experiences and a background which is diverse as diverse can be,” Koval said.

An average academy class in Madison is comprised of 30 percent women and 20 percent people of color, which exceeds the national average — the typical makeup of a wellrounded, well-educated law enforcement agency, Koval said.

However, connecting recruits of color to policing has been a challenge for MPD even before the Ferguson events, and it has continued through this year,

Patton said.

“The bigger challenge for us moving forward after this last year is in continuing our efforts in terms of diversity and that we may see reductions in those numbers even further,” Patton said.

“That would be certainly troubling because one of the important principles of the Madison Police Department is that the police force represents the diversity of our city.”

The hope of MPD is for the graduating class from the academy each year correctly represents the diversity of Madison, Patton said. If they cannot represent the diversity of the city, that causes problems connecting with the citizens of Madison, Patton added.

Whether or not those connections are damaged by a lack of diversity will

Photo · MPD Sgt. Tim Patton said he thinks the post-Ferguson discussion could be causing doubt in recruitment candidates.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald not be determined until the end of this year, Patton said. The number of recruits and their diversity and education levels will be closely monitored in order to enhance recruiting efforts for the future.

“It is worth talking about in terms of the impact of this last year and continuing to bring the best police officers to the city of Madison and to [University of Wisconsin Police Department] and all the other agencies that interact with the student population in and around campus,” Patton said.

Mental health care in Wisconsin may be receiving more attention in the upcoming legislative session, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester announced late January.

The Associated Press reported Vos introduced a committee in an earlier session that has carried out assessments of mental health needs in Wisconsin.

Vos also recently created a new Assembly committee to instigate mental health care development, which will begin this fall.

Julianne Zweifel, a clinical psychologist in the University of Wisconsin’s Medical Foundation, said social and cultural perceptions deeming mental health problems to be a sign of weakness is one of the factors creating a lack of services for those in need.

“People in Wisconsin have what I would call a very German kind of attitude, which is grit your teeth, put your head down and plow through problems. Don’t get help,” Zweifel said. “This social stigma is the biggest barrier to mental health care in Wisconsin.”

The AP, reported Vos too,

is trying to tackle the issue of social stigma through this legislation.

Ryan Herringa, UW associate professor of psychiatry, said integrating mental health care into schools and ordinary health care services such as internal medicine could reduce the prevalence of such stigma and help people receive routine care.

He said having a mental health care worker within the medical clinic would both improve access and reduce stigma. He said it would be ideal if people could go to their regular doctors’ offices and get mental health care there too. He said this would reduce the stigma of seeking out mental health care, because it would be seen as more routine, necessary and universal.

Along with providing improved access to mental health care, Vos’ legislation would also aim to create higher quality mental health care facilities in Wisconsin. Zweifel said this could assist people in receiving the right kind of treatment from the right people.

“People are not given an opportunity to seek appropriate care for their mental health problems so they’re likely to try to

get that care through other means and that’s not as effective,” Zweifel said.

Herringa said time and money play crucial roles in determining accessibility to mental health care facilities as well and need to be factored into the legislation. Such factors include transportation costs, work hours and the time it takes to complete psychological treatments, Herringa said, all of which can cause people to stop seeking treatment. He said these issues tend to hit low-income individuals the hardest.

“Even if you are able to get into a clinic, there is often a long wait time and when people are struggling with severe depression or suicidal thoughts or PostTraumatic Stress Disorder they need treatment as quickly as possible,” Herringa said.

Zweifel said social stigma about mental health is strongly prevalent in Wisconsin and this legislation could assist in changing the public’s perspective on mental health issues by simply emphasizing this point.

“Mental health problems are just as substantial and in need of treatment as medical problems,” Zweifel said.

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State of the State versus State of the Union: which vision leads to better governed America?

Walker’s solutions prove to be more effective than federal initiatives

Gov. too distracted by presidential aspirations to focus on students

In the last couple of weeks, we have heard how our state and country are doing through Gov. Scott Walker ’s State of the State address and President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. The state of Wisconsin and the country are being led down different paths. Both the governor and the president touched on some major policy areas such as education and the economy but took different approaches on the issues.

One of the main focuses from Walker ’s State of the State address with regard to education was school accountability. Currently, there are two bills being proposed by the Wisconsin Assembly and the Wisconsin Senate that would create a process for turning around perpetually failing schools. Walker called for the Legislature to pass one that leaves choices to local governments and parents.

“No need for bureaucrats or politicians to make that choice — I trust parents,” Walker said in hid address.

“Give them access to objective information and they will make the choice that is best for their children.”

Walker continued his common theme of trusting parents with regard to Common Core.

High standards are needed in order to prepare the next generation of this world’s leaders, but who should be trusted to set those standards? Walker says, “I call on the members of the state Legislature to pass legislation making it crystal clear that no school district in the state is required to use Common Core standards.”

Walker believes that those interacting with schools at the closest levels are the best option to turn around perpetually failing schools and set high, realistic standards. Obama also touched on education, saying, “I am sending this

After watching last week’s State of the Union address, the contrast between President Barack Obama and Gov. Scott Walker couldn’t be clearer.

While Obama spent his time calling for legislation to help students and middle class families, Walker continued to ignore both, pandering instead to far right presidential campaign donors and Iowa caucus voters.

In his State of the Union address, Obama highlighted the nation’s improving economy and called for “middle class economics” to ensure that all Americans have a fair shot at success. As Obama pointed out, the state of the union is strong; 2014 had the best job growth since the Clinton administration, consumer confidence is at its highest since 2007 and more and more Americans are getting health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Despite this, Obama recognized that many Americans are still struggling to make ends meet. As a result, the president proposed policies to strengthen and expand the middle class, such as tax cuts and an increase in the minimum wage, which polls show 76 percent of Wisconsinites support.

Obama proved to Wisconsin students that he still has our back by making college affordability a centerpiece of his address. His plan to make community college free for two years would allow hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites to gain the skills they need to succeed. This is especially significant considering by 2020, twothirds of all jobs will require some kind of higher education.

A state-level version of the plan has already

Congress a bold new plan to lower the cost of community college — to zero.”

He wants “free” community college. This sounds like a fantastic idea, except that “free” really isn’t free. Under this plan, only 75 percent of the lost tuition will be from federal taxes while the remaining 25 percent will be the burden of the states.

In Wisconsin, instead of just throwing money at the system in order to prepare more students to fill highpaying jobs, we have seen more than $100 million put toward worker training, partially through initiatives for technical schools.

Overall, in regard to education in Wisconsin, Walker said, “Over the past four years, graduation rates are up. Third grade reading scores are up. ACT scores are up — and Wisconsin now ranks second in the country.”

Alongside education, both leaders touched on a variety of issues regarding the economy. As far as Wisconsin’s economy goes, Walker said, “We finished each year with a surplus ...

Wisconsin’s pension system is the only one fully funded in the country. The state’s pension and debt ratio is one of the best. Our bond rating is positive. And the rainy day fund is the largest in state history — 165 times bigger than when we first took office.”

Walker also outlined details to merge two state entities which deal with economic development — the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority — into one.

Again, shrinking the scope of government to make it more efficient.

In his speech, Obama touched on a couple “big ideas” he has for the economy. If you listened to the speech, you heard

Obama say, “middle-class economics” about a million times.

“This country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules,” Obama said in his speech.

Basically, this translates to increasing the scope of government to be more involved in our daily lives — more government oversight, more government rules and less economic growth.

Here in Wisconsin, Walker says there are now 7,600 more private sector jobs in Wisconsin than there were before the recession. In addition, the unemployment rate peaked at 9.2 percent in January of 2010 and now is down to 5.2 percent.

That’s not government growth. That’s pure, natural growth.

If you compare the two speeches, both leaders will tell you there have been successes. They will say they have helped education and they have helped the economy. They differ on how they measure these successes and how we continue these successes.

Walker said it best: “More people are working, while fewer are unemployed.

State government is more effective, more efficient, and more accountable . . .

Budgets are set based on the public’s ability to pay, instead of the government’s hunger to spend.”

While Walker and Obama disagree and the College Democrats will disagree with us on how we should best achieve successes, we all agree on one thing — freedom is the best form of governance.

Anthony Birch (abirch@ wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in political science and strategic communication. He is the media director for the College Republicans.

proven incredibly successful in Tennessee (a state which is not exactly a bastion of liberalism), with 90 percent of high school seniors deciding to enroll. The president also called on Congress to finally work to reduce the burden of student loan debt, which has restricted our generation’s economic freedom and made college unaffordable for far too many Americans.

If implemented, free community college and student debt reform will be investments in the future — an educated nation will be better able to innovate and compete in the global economy.

At the heart of Obama’s vision for the next year is the American ideal that if you work hard, you can get ahead. It’s a nobrainer that every student, regardless of income, should get the chance at a quality education as long as they are willing to put in the effort. Obama showed us that he understands the concerns of the middle class and recognizes the importance of making college affordable.

The State of the State address, on the other hand, made it abundantly clear how low “middle class economics” and college affordability are on Walker ’s list of priorities.

His speech was low on policy specifics and high on broad presidential campaign rhetoric, with Walker dodging any discussion of Wisconsin’s poor job creation numbers and $283 million deficit.

Despite the passage of 13 referendums around the state to raise the minimum wage, Walker still strongly opposes any increase and predictably did not mention it at all.

Although student debt has reached crisis proportions in Wisconsin, Walker continued to refuse

to address the problem.

Unlike Walker, Wisconsin students can’t afford to ignore the issue. We’re currently 10th in the country in student debt, with 753,000 Wisconsinites holding student loans. The average Wisconsin student graduates with $22,400 in loans, paying almost $400 a month for roughly 19 years. If only Walker spent as much time talking to students in Wisconsin as he does talking to Republican campaign donors in Iowa.

Unfortunately, it’s clear that Walker ’s priorities aren’t here in Wisconsin.

As Walker ’s presidential campaign rhetoric and jabs at 2016 rivals in his address made clear, we’re stuck with a part-time governor.

Above all, Obama and Walker ’s respective speeches showed two very different visions for the future. In Obama’s vision, every American will have the chance to get ahead through hard work.

Hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin students will be able to attend college regardless of whether they were born wealthy or working class.

In Walker ’s vision, those who are struggling, like the 753,000 Wisconsinites with student debt, will be left to fend for themselves. The concerns of middle class Wisconsinites will take a backseat to the governor ’s presidential ambitions.

Walker clearly wants to be giving his own State of the Union address in a few years, but as long as he continues to ignore the needs of students and middle class Americans, he shouldn’t count on our support.

Joe Waldman (jawaldman@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in political science. He is the communications director for the College Democrats of Wisconsin.

Free community college should be bipartisan effort in Wis. Republicans’ incentivization of technical, vocational schools not far off from President Barack Obama’s revolutionary education proposal

by Adam Johnson Columnist

When President Barack Obama proposed free community college Jan. 8, he set forth a bold vision for the future of American education.

In stark contrast with the usual headlines about declining state support for public institutions, or increasing homelessness among college students, free community college for two years is a proposal that can inspire progress on an issue that has stagnated in recent years.

To avoid confusion, I do want to be clear that when I say “free” community college, I really mean tax-supported community college. Like your Associated Students of Madison bus passes or gym memberships, “free” is not really free. That being said, there’s a lot to like about the proposal.

Opponents swiftly decried the president’s proposal as based in fantasy instead of reality.

As expected, conservatives lambasted the proposal as too expensive or unnecessary. Despite the fact that research and data simply do not support most of the arguments against this proposal, there is some merit to a few general criticisms.

Funding is hard to come by in a tax-resistant country, and higher education is not a magical cure-all that clears all social ills. Even with free community college, we surely have many miles to go toward achieving real equity. However, we should not hold out on this bold solution in the hopes that such a remedy will appear.

Free community college is simply the next step for education in the United States. This latest proposal is for 2015 what taxsupported high school was to 1915 — controversial, but transformative. Prior to 1910, only 10 percent of the population attended high school. High schools underwent a transition from college preparatory institutions to a place to acquire the skills to succeed in a new economy which required different skills than the previous generations. This transition, along with various child labor restrictions in the early 1900s, caused a tremendous increase in the number of high school graduates and contributed to America’s surging economy in the early 20th century.

In Wisconsin, free community college should be a bipartisan idea. I wrote earlier last semester about how Wisconsin Republicans should support a “Wisconsin Promise” of

free community college.

In short, legislative Republicans have talked for years about getting more students into vocational and technical schools as a means of getting more educated workers into Wisconsin’s workforce. This proposal is a great way to accomplish one of the core tenets of the conservative education plan while showing some bipartisanship. If you are looking for education initiatives to work together on, it won’t get much better than this.

For Madison specifically, this seems like a winning proposal. In a city of “two Madisons” as described by mayoral candidate Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, it is important to increase access to higher education for marginalized communities to help turn the two Madisons into one. Free community college would go a long way in realizing these goals.

Certainly, there are details to be worked out.

How we pay for both tuition and the infrastructure to ensure that there are adequate resources for the flood of new community college students are key components that need to be solved. However, questions about funding should not derail the discussion of the idea.

Even with the traditional, but questionable Walker

“Cut-taxes-in-the-face-ofa-budget-deficit strategy,” we could find funds to cover Wisconsin’s 25 percent contribution to the proposal. Budgeting is a matter of expressing priorities and this is something I think many legislators could prioritize.

But the key here is not in the details. Free community college is important, not because of the nitty gritty details, but because it sets up the framework for debate. The president may not have free community college passed in his term

— in fact, it likely won’t come to the floor in either house — but the debate is now around how to get to free community college that is not stuck in the muck of subsidized federal loans or micromanaged research.

Big ideas lead to big results. I applaud Obama for setting the stage for a major economic progression.

Now, I challenge leaders at the state level to take this proposal and find a way to make it work for Wisconsin.

We have historically been a leader in education

Photo · If Obama’s proposal is adopted, Madison Area Technical College, a local community college, would provide tax-supported education to Wisconsin residents.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald innovation, and we can do so again.

Adam Johnson (amjohnson25@gmail.com) is a Master’s candidate at the La Follette School of Public Affairs.

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Munchies Delivery: champions of late-night snacking Housed out of Capitol Centre Market, employees of local nighttime food delivery service look to expand business past usual stoned, drunk customers

by Katie Caron Digital Managing Editor

It’s about 10 p.m. on a chilly December Friday, and James is buzzing the front door of an apartment complex on Spring Street. Out emerges a grinning, boyish student whose dustyblonde hair almost covers his drooping eyes.

“Hey dude, great smile!”

James jokes, chuckling as he notes the massive grin on his face. “You’re at $20 even.”

“Thank you. Thank you sooo much dude,” the boy says earnestly, fumbling to retrieve cash from the pocket of his grey sweatpants. “Here’s $20, I’ll grab you a tip.”

“Alright man, I appreciate it,” James says as he hands over the delivery of fresh-baked cookies and milk in exchange for the cash. “You have a great night.”

Over the course of the night, this will become a routine

Photo · Ken is the head manager. He works alongside assistant managers Chris and James, students at University of Wisconsin.

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interaction for James, an employee of Munchie Delivery, a service that delivers snacks to hungry patrons within a three-mile radius of the Capitol building between the hours of 6 p.m. and 3 a.m.

The Munchie Delivery men James is a part-time University of Wisconsin student studying computer science. He works about 40 hours a week as an assistant manager of Munchie Delivery, which operates out of a small office tucked in the back of Capitol Centre Market.

Co-assistant manager, selfdescribed nerd and UW legal studies student Chris works about 25 hours per week, and the head manager Ken works long hours and “gets the least sleep” of the three, Chris says.

Despite odd working hours, the guys seem to have fun on the job, cracking jokes and poking fun at one another.

They also have an amicable, faux-rivalrous relationship with some Capitol Centre employees—at one point, one pops his head in and says with a smirk, “it must be hard to write an article about people at work when they’re not actually working.” James and Chris laugh.

“You can also write in the article that the people who work at Cap Centre are very jealous and that they are mad bro,” Chris jokes. “At least you get to leave here at 11 p.m., we’re here till 3 a.m.”

“I also got here at 3 p.m., so…”

“I may have still been in bed,” Chris retorts.

“In yo face!” James says, laughing.

“I’m going to go do some work now,” the Cap Centre employee says as he leaves the room, chuckling.

“What’s that like?” Chris sarcastically calls after him using a healthy sense of humor to fill the time on slower nights like this one.

In addition to James, Chris, Ken and the owner living in Chicago, the company also includes an Israel-based web developer. He recently overhauled the Munchie Delivery website, which hosts about 1,000 items for customers to choose from when placing orders for delivery.

The most common request?

Milk and fresh-baked cookies, Chris says, estimating that 20-25 percent of orders include the variety of cookies they bake from frozen in a convection oven in the back of the market.

“They’re almost as good as my mom’s,” he says. “Which is saying something.”

Other popular orders over the course of the night include ice cream, chips and hummus, frozen pizza, various kinds of candy and energy drinks and an inordinate amount of 32-oz bottles of Frost Glacier Freeze Gatorade.

When an order is placed on a given night, James and Chris receive a notification on the company computer and head off to the floor of the grocery store to retrieve items before scanning and bagging them.

Munchie Delivery pays the grocery store wholesale for each item and marks it up for sale, and the company gives Capitol Centre a fixed percent of its total profits in exchange for the provided space. After orders are scanned, they’re delivered on a schedule of 15-minute increments. The company uses an electric Nissan emblazoned with the yellow and orange logo to deliver orders, which James said is perfect for zipping around town.

The average amount of orders per night is 25, with

the busiest nights by far being Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays.

The goal is to eventually increase orders to 100 per night. Chris said business has been steadily increasing since September when Munchie Delivery reopened with a new name and structure after a few months off.

Revamping as Munchie Delivery Owner Jeremy Neren, who also went to UW and now lives in Chicago, revamped his business this fall when he moved it into Capitol Centre.

The business was called Madtown Munchies since it opened in 2006, and it used to operate out of a warehouse off-campus. Neren said the new set-up allows for faster delivery, more delivery options (the warehouse used to offer about 100 products) and a mutually beneficial relationship with the grocery store.

“It was a pretty dramatic shift for us,” he said. “It really allows us to focus on the service we provide and it increases the amount of products we can offer. Also just practically speaking, Cap Centre is really centrally located so it’s a good point for us to be leaving from.”

James said while the changes have been beneficial, business was slow to start this fall. An average night in September brought in just 10 orders, which the company has now more than doubled.

“Word is spreading in some way, shape or form,” he said, adding that word of mouth is a big way Munchie Delivery gains business.

Neren noted that each fall, the business takes a hit as UW seniors have graduated and left Madison and incoming freshmen don’t yet know of Munchie Delivery. Business tends to trend up in the winter, especially during finals and when weather is bad, which Chris said has made for some slippery, rain-soaked delivering experiences.

The clientele The most common delivery area is the Henry Street/ Langdon neighborhood, home to most of UW’s Greek system, James said. One apartment building off Langdon, which James says “functions more like a frat,” houses Munchie Delivery’s top customers. The foyer is scattered with trash — both inside and outside of bags — and the entire building reeks

of marijuana. On this night, James will deliver orders to this building five times, three of which are to the same specific apartment.

As for the typical customer of the business, Chris outlined his estimate.

“I call it 40-40-20, where 40 percent are drunk or stoned, 40 are not intoxicated and another 20 percent are not students and are older,” he said.

He said he sees a “good mix” of clientele, and it’s not uncommon to deliver to students studying late at night at places like College Library, especially during finals and midterm season. James and Chris both said they get to know certain repeat customers on the job.

“There’s this one guy, he always orders three things of ice cream,” Chris said as he clicked through the website’s back end. “Nice guy.”

Customers over the course of this Friday night range from cheerful, probably high students who say “thank you” profusely to not-so-cheerful, definitely high students who emerge from darkened apartments and snatch their deliveries and quickly retreat without saying a word. Other customers, like one girl in Equinox seem to be studying or having a movie night in with friends.

James said it’s not unusual to deal with customers who take a while to figure out how to count cash. He laughs as he remembers how Ken recently was invited into a customer’s apartment because they needed a few minutes to count out 20some singles.

Chris said he enjoys

Photo · Working out of Capitol Centre Market, the delivery system serves the Madison area. Most of their clientele live in the downtown area, especially on Langdon Street.

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delivering to older customers because they’re always shocked at the delivery speed and are “super friendly” and usually tip well, unlike some of the UW students who might be more entitled.

Sticking to hot pockets and ice cream for now As for the future of the business, Neren said he is hoping to expand to other cities and is currently at the “ground floor” of this process. But for now, James, Chris and Ken will continue to hold things down at Cap Centre.

The last order of the night comes in at 2:30 a.m. and is comprised of a pint of ice cream, Gushers, Goldfish and two kinds of Lean Pockets. No cookies this time.

“Lean pockets and hot pockets scare me,” James says while packaging up the order.

“But the customer is always right!”

Now tired from the long night, James heads out into the cold to deliver the last order, bringing the total to about 20 deliveries for the night. While this is low for a Friday, he doesn’t seem too worried. The ice cream, pizza, chips and energy drinks lining the shelves of Cap Centre will live to fight another day.

Joey Bada$$’ breakout LP channels old-school inspirations

Brooklyn-based artist escapes ills of modern hip-hop, borrows musical production techniques from rappers like Biggie, Tupac

by Aaron Hathaway ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Hip-hop has transformed dramatically in the last decade.

Emerging from the burnt husk of early-2000s bling rap (sorry Soulja Boy), the new era of hip-hop is expanding the genre’s boundaries. Rappers and producers are toying with avant-garde beats and branching out into different genres, experimenting with sounds and style. But this innovative trend comes with risk: losing touch with hiphop’s rooted history.

Cue Brooklyn-based leader of the Pro Era (Progressive Era), rapper Joey Bada$$, whose debut full length album B4.DA.$$ delivers a refreshingly old-school sound with masterful instrumentals and astounding lyricism. Swinging back from his 2013 mixtape

Summer Knights, B4.DA.$$ climbs past the high bar he set with his 2012 premiere mixtape, 1999, Joey’s acclaimed entrance into the hip-hop scene.

With beats made by such respected producers as DJ Premiere, The Roots, J Dilla, Statik Selektah and Pro Era mates Kirk Knight and Chuck Strangers, Joey Bada$$’ debut album varies in tone, subject and theme. However, all tracks remain united under an overarching 1990s boombap throwback sound. Varied instrumentals and Joey’s adaptable flow ensure that B4.DA.$$ delivers a delightful array of songs for a variety of niches, from jazzy, smooth times such as “Like Me” and “Piece of Mind” to aggressive, driving tracks like “No. 99” and “Christ Conscious.” For the most part, the album leans toward a Joey’s customary mellow vibe.

Notable above all else is Joey’s talent for writing verses. He delivers wordplay more advanced than his previous releases, saturating his sentences with alliteration, assonance and metaphor to create poetically rich, multifaceted verses. His layered lyrics conceal subtle references for the attentive listener, playing with his words like girls play with Drake’s fragile heart.

Joey makes frequent homages and tributes to hiphop legends like the WuTang Clan, Biggie, 2Pac, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and other icons who laid the foundation for his flourishing career as an independent artist. Joey Bada$$’ sound, style and substance champion the revival of the timeless hip-hop era that these genre luminaries helped create. Yet Bada$$ also, somewhat hypocritically,

criticizes rappers who he suspects may be stealing his style. On the third track, “Paper Trail$”, he raps, “I swear these niggas love to copy, thanks for listening.”

“For a genre that is constantly re-contextualizing other things, hip-hop is very much obsessed with originality,”online music critic Anthony Fantano said in his review. “And maybe that’s something that needs to be kind of re-examined as we have more artists like Joey Bada$$ who are so heavily influenced by the old school.”

Like his old-school counterparts, Joey Bada$$ crafted a thematically diverse album. He jumps from soberly recalling his childhood in the projects, and the racism and class struggles to eagerly proclaiming the triumphs of his ascending career and projecting his future successes.

The immortal words of the Wu-Tang Clan, “Cash rules everything around me,” ring true as Joey analyzes the impact of money on all aspects of life.

He explores wealth across the album’s 17 tracks.

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Pankowski leads charge in Badgers’ series win Freshman phenom records her second hat trick of season in UW’s 4-0 victory, as Mark Johnson records his 350th win as head coach

by Eric Goldsobel Women’s Hockey Writer

The Wisconsin women’s hockey team earned an important non-conference victory Sunday afternoon when it took down No. 7-ranked Clarkson at LaBahn Arena for the Badgers’ first win over a ranked team since Nov. 1.

Wisconsin won the second of a two-game series, 4-0, following a 1-1 tie Saturday afternoon. Freshman forward Annie Pankowski tallied her second hat trick of the season with three indelible goals against Clarkson’s goaltender Shea Tiley.

Twice, she picked out the top corner of the net to beat Tiley, once over the blocker and once over the glove hand. Her goals ignited the team’s offense en route to four total goals.

After a very open and quick first period, in which the Badgers held the puck for most of the duration, things began to settle down when Pankowski opened scoring early in the second. She glided to the right of the net and unleashed a quick wristshot across her body and over Tiley’s blocker which rang off the post and in.

“Our team was rolling on all cylinders and I was just the person there to finish the plays,” Pankowski said.

It was a truly distinct goal to start one of the more signature games Wisconsin has had thus far. Aside from only Minnesota and North Dakota, the Badgers haven’t faced another highly ranked team all season. Moreover, the Badgers haven’t beaten a ranked foe since Nov. 1, placing emphasis on boosting their stock in the rankings.

“It’s been six straight really good games,” head coach Mark Johnson said. “The two at Minnesota were good, we had a lot of opportunities in

the second night. The two games at Bemidji State were very similar to these games.

Tight, blocking shots, playing well.”

Having dropped to No. 4 in the rankings after losing and winning against Bemidji State last weekend, the Badgers played with a chip on their shoulder to regain momentum as they close in on the end of the season.

With only eight regular season games remaining and the WCHA Tournament beginning in a month, every game holds more value as a last ditch attempt to improve the team’s standing.

Sunday’s game certainly achieved that goal. The win was not only by a margin of four, but done quite convincingly as well.

Wisconsin held Clarkson to just five shots in the first period and the Golden Knights never tallied more than 10 in a single frame.

The Badgers have developed an identity built around a strong defensive unit with a powerful attack.

Goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens has proved to be a brick wall in net, solidifying the team’s defense, which has played a strong complimentary role to the offense.

Desbiens and her defense added another shutout to their record Sunday, and the offense played an ever-present role in aiding them. Time of possession in Clarkson’s zone played an important part in keeping Desbiens from being overworked.

“It’s a team effort, we need to find a way to put pucks in the goal,” Desbiens said. “We just need to focus on what we can do and keep putting pressure on their end, which goes a long way too.”

Clarkson rolled out a very large lineup, seemingly towering over some of

Photo ·After scoring just two points in her last seven games without any goals, Annie Pankowski (19) tallied her second hat trick of the season Sunday afternoon to lead Wisconsin over Clarkson.

Cindi Venters The Badger Herald the players skating for Wisconsin. The mismatches kept it close through the first period, but the Badgers held their ground and weren’t dismayed with the prospect of defending against larger opponents.

“I think our defense stepped up this weekend,” Desbiens said. “They made sure I was able to see the puck, pushing them to the side and tapped their sticks away so they weren’t able to get any deflections.

I have my hat off for them.”

The win was not only a milestone in that it showed the Badgers were able to beat a talented team in a convincing fashion, nor because Pankowski was able to secure a hat trick with two dazzling goals, but because the win was also Johnson’s 350th career victory.

“I didn’t even know that until the locker room after the game,” Johnson said. “I’d say it’s not about me, rather the kids in the locker room coming together and developing as teammates.”

Johnson’s comments reflect his humility, and show his feelings about his job, in which he believes in and puts his players first. He will look to add to his already impressive legacy at Wisconsin when his team takes on Minnesota State next weekend.

UW starts slow, finishes strong against Clarkson After seven straight games with two goals or fewer, Wisconsin erupts with four scores in Sunday’s finale for convincing triumph

by Chris Caporale Women’s Hockey Writer

The Wisconsin women’s hockey team finally broke out of a scoring slump in a 4-0 victory against visiting Clarkson Sunday afternoon.

Annie Pankowski’s hat trick led the Badgers, scoring two, second-period goals.

The Laguna Hills, California, native’s initial second period goal started the scoring, as she took the puck and circled around the offensive zone before finding her spot in the right circle. She ripped a shot high on the stick side and past Golden Knights’ netminder Shea Tiley.

This was Pankowski’s second hat trick of the season, but Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson has seen her improving in more ways.

He has been working with Pankowski on improving her accuracy and reads of the defense over the past weeks, while also trying to keep getting her more familiar with the college game and speed.

“As she improves in those areas, I would anticipate the puck going in more,” Johnson said. “She’s doing well, and in these types of games, you need someone to step up.”

For Pankowski’s second goal, she took a shot from the same circle, but put it glove side and made it past Tiley. Senior winger Brittany Ammerman blocked Tiley’s view until the puck was almost in the net.

Against a taller goalie, Wisconsin planned to attack the goal with top-shelf shots, as Tiley was likely to drop down on each shot.

“Our coaches have been telling us that the goalie is big and gets down low, so fire it up top if we get in close,” Pankowski said.

The final two goals of the game came in the third

period, as the momentum was clearly in the Badgers favor.

“It was kind of the simile of the dam breaking,” Pankowski said.

“We needed to get the first one and get rolling from there.

We were able to take a little bit of a breath after the first one and get a little more bounces our way.”

The Badgers had not scored more than two goals in a game since Nov. 29 against North Dakota.

The goals helped take some pressure off Wisconsin goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens, who has been forced to make big saves in close games over the past month.

“Just being able to put in more than one was a relief for everyone,” Desbiens said. “We were working hard, doing everything, but getting unlucky bounces.

I was just happy for my teammates to put a couple in today. I was super pumped about it; they deserved it.”

Although this was the first time in awhile that goals came in bunches for the Badgers, Johnson believed the performance was a culmination of six games of consistent play.

“The pace in all six has been strong,” Johnson said.

“Now you have eight games left, and the main thing is to maintain what you’ve done the past three weeks and try to make some improvements in some areas where you need to improve and get yourselves ready for the playoffs.”

In Saturday’s game the power play sparked the offense and shifted momentum in the Badgers’ favor, which is how they scored their one goal. In Sunday’s game, the offense came out firing, with seven shots on goal before the Golden Knights were able to attempt one.

Wisconsin took 150 total shots over the weekend

with five finding the back of the net.

The goals were much needed, as the Badgers needed something to go their way leading into the final stretch of the season.

This rare, midseason nonconference series against the defending National Champions was a good break from familiar foes.

Clarkson’s top line features some bigger players than the Badgers are used to.

Wisconsin was able to use their quickness to find holes and shooting lanes to pepper Tiley with pucks.

“We had quite a bit of offensive time and moved the puck well,” Johnson said. “Again, you are trying to get opportunities, trying to get shooting lanes, trying to get pucks in the net with a purpose.”

As Wisconsin moves back into conference play next week against last place Minnesota State, it will need to keep this offensive rhythm going.

In the past three weeks, the Badgers went from first in the WCHA standings prior to their match-up against the Gophers to start the new year, to falling behind Minnesota.

Wisconsin plays on the road against Minnesota State Jan. 30 and Jan. 31 before returning home the following weekend against the third ranked team in the WCHA, Minnesota-Duluth.

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McMorris eyes future of women’s basketball program

Highly-touted true freshman has played sparingly in her first season, possesses talent to help spark turnaround for UW in coming years

by Chris Bumbaca Associate Sports Editor

With only 31 wins to show for three seasons, Wisconsin women’s basketball head coach Bobbie Kelsey went to go find a program changer.

And that’s exactly what freshman Cayla McMorris is here to do; to turn the tide of a program that has struggled under Kelsey over the course of her tenure in Madison.

McMorris most definitely has the game and track record to back her “program changer” label up.

“I’m used to being a program changer, I guess,” McMorris said. “Because in high school, we weren’t really that good, and then my senior year we ended up winning state. I’m used to being at schools like that.”

The allure of changing the culture is a challenge McMorris relishes, and a primary reason why she chose Kelsey’s Badgers over other schools like Iowa, Illinois and Colorado.

“I really believe in going to a school and trying to change it,” McMorris said.

“And not being like a lot of other girls and going to top schools with a lot of good players and winning programs.”

The Brooklyn, Minnesota, native was a standout recruit coming out of high school, ranked 84th in the country

by ESPN, and as high as 48th

by Prospect Nation.

McMorris was the first top-100 recruit signed by Kelsey, and the latest top100 recruit to sign with Wisconsin since Taylor Wurtz did so six years ago.

Bringing in a recruit of that caliber makes UW a more attractive destination for future recruits, according to coach and player, and is just one of many steps in transforming the program.

“If they see that freshmen are playing, that means that gives them an opportunity,” McMorris said.

“That’s something a lot of recruits want to do as a freshman, so ... I really think that helps them in coming to school [here].”

Kelsey said “people want to play with her,” but only time will tell whether or not that changes recruiting.

On the court, McMorris said it’s her versatility that makes her a threat. Whether it’s being able to take a defender off the bounce, step back and drain a three, or post up a smaller player, she can do it all.

The foundation is there for McMorris. But she and the coaching staff know that only one player isn’t going to change everything overnight.

This season, she averages 20.1 minutes per game as the eighth player in the rotation, and averages 6.4 points and 3.2 rebounds per outing.

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“Cayla’s still finding her way,” Kelsey said. “She’s still trying to transition from high school to the college game. Everything is a little faster.”

Regardless, McMorris has shown glimpses of that highpowered scoring potential.

In two games this year, in wins against Marquette and Oral Roberts, she scored 17 points in each.

For McMorris, the most difficult thing about transitioning to college ball has been the height and strength adjustment.

McMorris said she has already gained 15 pounds of muscle. At 5-foot-10, she was almost always one of the tallest on the court in high school. Now, she’s on the shorter side, which means she can’t always use her speed to get to the basket for layups without getting her shot blocked.

“She’s gotta develop that mid-range game,” Kelsey said. “She’s probably had her shots blocked this season more than she’s had them blocked in her entire career.”

Kelsey mentioned that junior guard Dakota Whyte suffered from the same problem when she was young, but has become a consistent and reliable jumpshooter.

Despite the increased

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McMorris quickly realized that playing collegiate basketball levels the playing field; nearly all of the players were once the best individuals on their high school teams.

During situation drills in practice, McMorris will stop and ask questions.

“I’m a freshman and still learning,” she said.

“But I’m getting better.”

During those same drills, Kelsey told her that she could get away with not going to the ball in high school, but that won’t cut it at this level.

“From day one when she started recruiting me, she’s been real,” McMorris said. “And that’s exactly how she

Photo · Cayla McMorris (23) has averaged 19.2 minutes per game this season, as she awaits her turn to help lead Wisconsin to a winning campaign under fourth-year head coach Bobbie Kelsey.

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“She expects a lot out of me.”

That’s just one of the many examples the program leader is trying to make sure her program changer has the tools to do so.

“By this time next year, she’ll be way better,” Kelsey said.

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Kaminksy helps Badgers outlast Wolverines in OT Michigan ties game in final second of regulation, but senior scores 8 of his game-high 22 points in extra session to propel UW to road victory

by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

It took an extra five minutes and the first overtime game of the season, but the No. 6 Wisconsin men’s basketball team came away with a 69-64 win over Michigan Saturday night at the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The Badgers (18-2, 6-1 Big Ten) blew an 11-point second half lead and went to overtime after Michigan (128, 5-3 Big Ten) sophomore guard Derrick Walton Jr. hit a game-tying three-point shot with 1.3 seconds left in regulation.

But behind the efforts of preseason Big Ten Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky, University of Wisconsin prevailed in the overtime period to stay atop the Big

Ten standings and win their third consecutive game after a loss to Rutgers more than two weeks ago.

Kaminsky opened the overtime period with a three-point play and senior guard Josh Gasser followed with a three that put UW up for good, 63-57, more than a minute into overtime.

Wisconsin did not relinquish the lead the rest of the game.

Seven-footer Kaminsky scored eight of Wisconsin’s 12 overtime points and finished with a gamehigh 22 points and nine rebounds.

Sam Dekker added 15 points and four rebounds while guard Bronson Koenig chipped in 13 points, four assists and had just one turnover in 40 minutes for Wisconsin.

But it was Kaminsky’s

performance in overtime that showed people why he’s one of college basketball’s best, as he helped keep Wisconsin in first place in the Big Ten. ‘’[Kaminsky]’s one of the best players in the country,’’ Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan said. “I don’t say that very often because I let other people judge. Frank means a lot to this team.”

With 30 seconds to go in regulation, the Badgers held a 54-50 lead but a layup and two free throws from Walton Jr. cut the Badgers’ lead to 55-54.

Two Koenig free throws made it 57-54 before Walton Jr. caught a pass from Aubrey Dawkins and hit the game-tying three from the left wing.

Ryan said his team was thinking of fouling Michigan

to prevent a game-tying three, but that the situation played out in a way that did not allow that to happen.

“We have a philosophy.

There’s a time when we will [foul],” Ryan said. “We never got into that situation, we were trying to set it up, and we were just a little late. But that’s still a tough three.”

Playing without preseason All-Big Ten selection Caris LeVert, who is out for the season with a foot injury, the Wolverines were led by Walton Jr. who had a team-high 17 points and four rebounds. Guard Zak Irvin was the only other Wolverine to score in double-figures, adding 12 points, two assists and two rebounds.

Despite Walton Jr.’s efforts Saturday night for Michigan, ultimately it was the Wisconsin frontcourt that was too much to handle for the Wolverines. Along with Kaminsky’s 22 points and Dekker ’s 15, forward Nigel Hayes added 10 points, five rebounds and three assists for UW. “I just want to credit their bigs,” Walton Jr. said. “They did a great job of showing one thing and doing another. Kaminsky and [Nigel] Hayes got into the sweet spots and found their shooters. The first couple of times we could discourage them, but as the game went on they found some weak spots.”

UW opened up their lead to 11 at 38-27 after a Dekker dunk with 16:04 left in the second half before Michigan went on an 11-0 run to tie the game at 38.

Despite the 11-0 run, the

Photo · Preseason Big Ten Player of the year Frank Kaminsky (44) went to work inside for Wisconsin in overtime against Michigan Saturday, leading the Badgers to their third straight conference victory.

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Wolverines could not take the lead and only held the lead three times in the first half.

Wisconsin took a 30-23 advantage into halftime, using a 9-0 run over the final 2:50 of the half to pull ahead. The run was aided by a ferocious dunk from Dekker who drove the lane and took a no-look pass from Koenig for the flush.

Dekker cut his finger on the dunk, forcing him to miss the rest of the first half and the final four minutes of the second half after Ryan saw him grimacing on the court. However, he did play

in the overtime period.

The Badgers shot 50 percent (12-of-24) in the first half including 4-of-9 from beyond the arc. Overall, UW went 24-of-51 (47.1 percent) from the floor and 7-of-21 (33.3 percent) from threepoint range.

Michigan shot 42.6 percent (23-of-54) from the field and 35 percent (7-of-20) from three for the game.

The Badgers don’t return to the court until next Saturday when they travel to Iowa to take on the Hawkeyes. Tipoff is scheduled for 11 a.m. Jan. 31.

Poor defensive play, mistakes spell doom for UW After 4-1 deficit in first game Friday night, Wolverines capitalize on Wisconsin miscues, score 12 unanswered goals in series for pair of wins Photo · Wisconsin’s first line of Adam Rockwood (11), Joseph LaBate and Grant Besse accounted for three of the Badgers’ four goals Friday night before they went scoreless in the final four periods of the weekend series.

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by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

David tried to fight Goliath this weekend at the Kohl Center, but this time David didn’t have a sling shot to shoot with, much less any pebbles.

The Wisconsin men’s hockey team played the role of David, and looked to be the aggressor for the better part of one period in its series’ opening game Friday night against Michigan.

But then the sleeping giant awoke and the Wolverines scored a dozen straight times between the second period Friday night and the final horn that ended the series Saturday night in 7-4 and 6-0 triumphs, respectively.

However, heading into the first intermission Friday

night with a 3-1 lead, University of Wisconsin had just completed one of its best offensive 20-minute sessions of the entire season.

Wisconsin had scored more than two goals in an entire game only two times before entering the series with Michigan and had surpassed that in just 22:21.

And the Badgers would add to that lead to start the second period with a goal

by Jedd Soleway for their largest advantage in any game this season.

But UW could only hold the nation’s top scoring offense at bay for so long, and Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves felt the threegoal lead was too precarious to stand strong.

“I think it was great to get the lead,” Eaves said.

“That was something we talked about this week. But,

being around the game long enough, we as a coaching staff saw things that were indicating that in our own zone, we were not doing the things we needed to shut them down and get possession of the puck. I certainly didn’t feel like we were in control.”

Michigan had tallied 17 goals in its previous two games, and after the quiet first period, the Wolverines found their footing in the second period before putting the Badgers away in the third. That offensive binge continued into Saturday and between the third period of the first game and period one of game two, Michigan lit the lamp eight times in 29 minutes and 41 seconds.

But it wasn’t just one player doing the damage for the Wolverines. As Eaves

explained, Wisconsin had no answer for Michigan’s wealth of talent at forward during both games of the series. “[Michigan was] imposing their will in the form of their speed and skill with their forwards,” Eaves said. “We had a difficult time staying with them in our defensive zone.”

Seven different players scored a goal for Michigan, with Justin Selman and Zach Hyman doing a bulk of the damage. Friday night, Selman tallied the second Wolverines’ hat trick of the season, while adding an assist, and Zach Hyman had six total points in the series with a goal and two assists Friday and two goals and a helper Saturday night.

Michigan’s talent at forward wasn’t the only factor though, especially to

start the game Saturday.

Wisconsin made numerous mistakes in the series finale, and it started almost immediately after the opening puck drop.

Wisconsin senior goaltender Joel Rumpel tried to make a save on a shot from below the left goal line just 1:12 into the game, but instead of stopping the shot, the puck hit off his left pad and bounced into the back of the net.

After getting beat top shelf only 49 seconds later, Eaves pulled Rumpel in favor of fellow senior Landon Peterson to try to get something going, but there was little that Peterson could do. Michigan’s third goal 15 minutes and 46 seconds into the opening period again came from a sharp angle, and when Peterson tried to catch it with his glove hand, the puck trickled past him.

Peterson gave up his second goal with just a minute left in the period and made 13 saves on 15 shots, but Eaves went back to Rumpel for the remainder of the game. As was the case with the goaltenders, Eaves benched several of his skaters the rest of the way for mistakes, in an attempt to send a message about accountability to his players.

“We can’t trade for people,” Eaves said. “This is the group we have. We

have to use measures that are going to be somewhat stimulating. This is all part of the process.

“If guys weren’t doing what they needed to do they missed ice time.”

Rumpel finished the series with 56 saves on 66 shots, and has given up five or more goals in four of his last five games. But Rumpel hasn’t been the only one at fault, as Wisconsin as a team has surrendered at least 38 shots in each of the last four contests, and has been outshot in all but three games this season.

Throughout the weekend, the Badgers got heavily outshot again by a total margin of 82-37, giving both Rumpel and Peterson little off time in between the pipes.

It didn’t help that UW was without junior defenseman Eddie Wittchow for the entirety of the series due to a twogame suspension for a hit in the series finale with Minnesota last weekend.

But as Rumpel said of Eaves’ postgame speech after Saturday night’s loss to Michigan, trying to come up with reasons for the loss doesn’t change much.

“We got to quit making excuses,” Rumpel said of what Eaves told the players after the game. “Everyone’s got to bring it every night.

We just got to figure it out.”

Wisconsin will have a short turnaround to try to figure it out, as it hosts Minnesota next weekend still trying to record a Big Ten victory.

“Guys know what’s expected of them every night,” senior captain Brad Navin said. “We’ve had talks about what each guy can bring to the lineup every night. We see spurts of it here and there, but we just don’t have it consistently each night.”

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Michigan comes from behind, routs Badgers in sweep Wisconsin surrenders 4-1 lead in first game Friday night, then yields four goals in first period Saturday to remain winless in Big Ten play

by Derek Franklin Men’s Hockey Writer

After the Wisconsin men’s hockey team hung with Michigan for much of Friday night’s 7-4 loss, the Wolverines needed only two minutes to put the game away in Saturday night’s rematch.

Michigan (15-7-0, 7-10 Big Ten) appeared in complete control of the game from start to finish. The Wolverines dominated puck possession and enjoyed a 4417 shots on goal advantage en route to cruising to a 6-0 shutout over the Badgers (215-3, 0-5-1-1).

Following the loss, Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves said that after the first period, he and the rest of the coaching staff felt a need to start benching players in order to hold them accountable for unacceptable mistakes.

“If guys weren’t doing what they needed to do, they sat on the bench with the coaches and they missed ice time,” Eaves said.

“Enough is enough.”

After a slow start in game one of the two-game series, the Wolverines wasted no time getting out in front of the Badgers Saturday night.

Michigan scored two goals in the first 2:03 of the game and never looked back.

Following the pair of Michigan goals, Eaves decided he had seen enough from goaltender Joel Rumpel and pulled him from the game, inserting backup Landon Peterson in his place. According to Rumpel, it was a justified decision.

“I wasn’t playing that well,” Rumpel said. “I made a couple mistakes early and you can’t have that against a team like this.”

However, the Badgers did not get the response Eaves was looking for following the goaltender change, as

Peterson gave up two more goals in the first period.

After the first 20 minutes, Michigan was already ahead by four goals with the game essentially in hand.

Unimpressed with Peterson’s performance in relief of Rumpel, Eaves reinserted Rumpel to the start second period, who improved in his second stint on the game. Rumpel allowed a goal two minutes into the third period, but shutout the Wolverines the rest of the way not counting an empty net goal at the end to bring Michigan’s final goal tally to six.

“Whether or not Rumpel was going to go back in depended on how Peterson played and how he looked,” Eaves said of his decision to put Rumpel back in. “If [Peterson] looked sharp, we might have left him in there, but he struggled and the decision was made easy.”

Despite the loss, Wisconsin forward Joseph LaBate said after the game that they are staying resilient and hopeful to bounce back next weekend when they host the Minnesota Gophers.

“No one’s given up in the locker room,” LaBate said.

“We’re looking forward to Minnesota.”

After jumping out to a 4-1 lead against the Michigan Wolverines Friday night, the Wisconsin men’s hockey was unable to hold on to the win, surrendering six straight goals to give No. 16 Michigan a 7-4 victory.

Wisconsin forward Grant Besse, who scored twice for Wisconsin (2-14-3, 0-4-1 Big Ten), said the loss to the Wolverines was especially painful because he believes Wisconsin gave the game away as opposed to the Michigan seizing it.

“Giving up six unanswered is unacceptable,” Besse said. “As a team we kind of coughed that one up

ourselves rather than them taking it.”

Wisconsin was without junior defenseman Eddie Wittchow, who was suspended for the game.

The absence of Wittchow proved to be a tough blow considering defensive woes played a costly role in the loss.

“In our own zone, we were not doing the things we needed to to shut them down,” Eaves said.

The Badgers made good use of their power play to propel them to their hot start and opened up the scoring just three minutes into the game when forward Joseph LaBate tapped in a power play goal.

After Michigan (14-7-0, 6-1-0 Big Ten) tied the game at one on a power play of their own, Besse regained the lead for Wisconsin less than a minute later with a sensational wrist shot perfectly slotted in the top

right corner that dinged off the post and into the net.

With less than four minutes to play in the opening period, Michigan forward Tony Calderone received a five-minute major after sending Badger defensemen Tim Davison headfirst into the boards with a dangerous hit from behind. Besse was quick to take advantage of the long power play, scoring his second goal of the night. The goal was Besse’s fifth in three games and gave Wisconsin a 3-1 lead heading into the second period.

However, following an early third period power play goal by Wisconsin’s Jedd Soleway to make it 4-1 Badgers, the rest of the game would be all Michigan.

A minute later, Justin Selman scored his second goal of the night to bring the Wolverines within two. Michigan went on to

dominate the rest of the 20 minutes after they limited Wisconsin to only two shots in the second period.

Wisconsin co-captain Chase Drake said his team might have gotten too comfortable once they got up three goals.

“When we had that 4-1 lead, maybe we were a little too overconfident,” Drake said. “Maybe got a little bit back on our heels.”

Michigan put in another goal fourteen minutes into the second period and even though Wisconsin went into the second intermission with a one-goal lead, it was the Wolverines who seemed to have all the momentum.

Wisconsin held their own for the first half of the final twenty minutes, but midway into the third period, things got ugly very for the Badgers. With ten minutes to play, Michigan erupted for three goals in just over two minutes to give

Photo · Wisconsin lost 7-4 and 6-0 to Michigan this weekend, as it could not overcome several big mistakes on the way to falling to 2-15-3 overall.

Cody Schwartz The Badger Herald them a 6-4 advantage.

The three-goal rampage started with another goal by Selman, giving the Michigan forward a hat trick.

A Michigan empty-netter with just over a minute to play made it a 7-4 final and allowed Michigan to finish the game with six unanswered goals, leaving the Badgers still in search of their first Big Ten win.

The Badgers will host Border Battle rival Minnesota next Friday and Saturday night at 7 p.m. with the chance to obtain their first conference win since they won the Big Ten Tournament last March.

Showtime: Injury presents opportunity for Showalter With starting point guard Traevon Jackson out for at least one month, redshirt sophomore has assumed key role off bench for UW

by Nick Brazzoni Men’s Basketball Writer

After the Wisconsin men’s basketball practice Thursday night, redshirt sophomore guard Zak Showalter stuck around late to work on all facets of his jump shot.

Why is Showalter, who is currently averaging just 7.3 minutes per game for the Badgers, staying after-hours to work on his game?

When senior guard Traevon Jackson went down with a foot injury in the Jan. 11 loss to Rutgers,

sophomore guard Bronson Koenig was the first player who came to Badger fans’ minds as the guy who would have to step up in Jackson’s absence.

Taking Koenig’s spot off the bench: enter Showalter.

The 21-year-old redshirt sophomore from Germantown, Wisconsin, has not seen much of the court since joining the Wisconsin basketball program in 2012. Now, with the Badgers’ backcourt depth even shallower than it was before, Showalter may

finally have his opportunity.

Coming out of high school, Showalter received 15 scholarships offers including ones from UWGreen Bay, UW-Milwaukee and Dayton. Yet, Showalter had always dreamt of playing for head coach Bo Ryan and Wisconsin.

“Growing up in Wisconsin, I watched the Badgers in pretty much every game they played since I was four years old,” Showalter said. “This is the school I’ve wanted to go to all along, so I couldn’t pass

it up when the opportunity came.”

Ryan didn’t have enough scholarships to offer one to Showalter, but he still wanted him to be a part of the program, and with that, Showalter decided to be a preferred walk-on for Ryan.

In his freshman season, Showalter appeared in 22 games, but never saw the court enough to be a real contributor to the team. In anticipating his sophomore season was going to be more of the same, Showalter decided to redshirt.

Showalter was unsure of his future with Wisconsin, but even with that doubt in his mind, he was sure on staying committed to the program.

“I’m just a glass half-full, optimistic guy,” Showalter said. “You always have to look down the road, and on a day when you are maybe not feeling like things are going your way, you just have to see the bigger picture. I just need to keep working every single day. You can never get too satisfied with where you are at.”

Showalter ’s commitment to the team has led him to this moment where he will be the first and only guard to come off the bench for Ryan. While he may not see the same minutes Koenig did coming off the bench,

Photo · Guard Zak Showalter (3) scored five points against Iowa last Tuesday, and despite not factoring into the box score regularly, his presence and energy off the bench has aided Wisconsin’s defense and rebounding efforts in the absence of Jackson.

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Showalter is still sure to see more minutes than he ever has in his tenure at Wisconsin.

The first big increase in playing time came in Wisconsin’s blowout win over Iowa last Tuesday.

Showalter played 18 minutes, recording five

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Zak Showalter Men’s Basketball Guard points, three rebounds and two assists in that time.

While his numbers don’t jump out of the box score, his coach said it is merely the energy and toughness Showalter can bring off the bench that allows him to have a positive impact on both ends of the floor.

“I think he is figuring out what he can do and play to his strengths and not get out of what he’s good at right now,” associate head coach Greg Gard said. “I just thought his overall presence and demeanor on the floor was much more relaxed.”

Saturday’s overtime victory against Michigan might have been an even bigger testament to the importance of Showalter, and even though he only played 10 minutes, a majority of those minutes came during the most important moments of the game.

Ryan decided to defer from going deep into his bench Saturday, which resulted in Koenig and redshirt senior guard Josh Gasser playing nearly the

entire game. But, when Koenig was in foul trouble and ultimately fouled out late in the overtime period, Ryan turned to Showalter to close things out.

Showalter took fulladvantage of his time, grabbing two defensive rebounds with Michigan threatening to crawl back into the game and showed great hustle when he forced Michigan sophomore forward Zak Irvin to knock the ball out of bounds off a Wisconsin miss, giving the Badgers a fresh shot clock late in the game.

Showalter didn’t attempt a field goal or a free throw, but he showed that he doesn’t have to stuff the stat sheet to make his presence on the court known. Junior forward Sam Dekker said Showalter has a “bulldog mentality,” and is exactly the type of player Ryan loves to have on the team.

“He’s obviously a guy who is going come in and do his role and not care how many points he puts on the board, not care about the box score,” Dekker said.

“He just wants to go out there and work hard, be a defensive stopper and play with energy. He’s not afraid to take an elbow, not afraid to get on the floor, and you have to love it and expect it out of him every night.”

With Jackson out for what should be at least a month, Showalter is done watching the games from the bench-the redshirt sophomore is looking to leave everything he has on the court.

“I’m just trying to make the most of my opportunities,” Showalter said. “I know what it’s like to not see the floor now, so I just have to make the most of what I can every time I get in there.”