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ABSENT ON NATIVE LAND With decreasing Native American enrollment numbers, the local tribe, Ho-Chunk Nation, struggles to maintain a cultural presence on campus.

by Alex Arriaga

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Budget proposal could add complexity to reciprocity UW System could look to alter Minnesota, Wisconsin tuition agreement as way to compensate for $300 million in cuts

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Gov. Scott Walker ’s University of Wisconsin System budget proposal could give the UW more autonomy over a number of systems which are

currently run by the state, including the Minnesota reciprocity system, which provides residents of Minnesota near in-state tuition rates at UW schools and vice versa.

The proposal — which would cut $300 million from the system over the

next two years — could leave the UW System looking for ways to increase revenue, which potentially puts into question the longevity of the reciprocity system.

Noel Radomski, director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of

Postsecondary Education, or WISCAPE, said it is unlikely this would play out in reality. In order for UW to modify the existing system, Minnesota would have to agree with any changes.

“It requires them to renegotiate, and if you

cannot successfully renegotiate, you have to stick with the existing agreement,” Radomski said.

Joe Gow, chancellor of UW-La Crosse, said the proposed cuts and tuition freeze will pose a challenge to the

university’s budget in the coming year.

Tuition and state support are the primary sources of revenue for the campus, he said, and cutting one source dramatically and freezing

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University faculty, students protest cuts Saturday Crowds expressed worries about public authority model, shared governance uncertainty, job security at Valentine’s Day rally

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

University of Wisconsin students and faculty carried more than boxes of chocolates and roses this Valentine’s Day as hundreds gathered with signs of protest at Library Mall to speak out against the state’s proposed budget cuts to the

UW System.

The event, held Saturday afternoon, was co-sponsored by United Faculty and Academic Staff, the Wisconsin University Union and the Teaching Assistant Association in response to Gov. Scott Walker ’s proposed 201517 budget calling for a $300 million cut to the UW System in exchange for

increased system autonomy under a public authority model.

Despite near subzero temperatures, demonstrators gathered to listen to Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, UW student DeShawn McKinney of About Race UW and Brandi Grayson of the Young, Black and Gifted Coalition, among others.

“If they don’t listen, we shut it down!” shouted English professor Lane Hall of UW-Milwaukee to onlookers, some of whom were displaying homemade signs and playing instruments. Echoes of the crowd chanting “I believe that we will win,” were heard across the mall.

Featured speaker DeShawn McKinney,

who headed efforts to form About Race UW, condemned the proposed cuts as contributing to the further marginalization of minority students and urged demonstrators to continue protesting for a cause much bigger than themselves.

“Under a public authority model, shared governance will be eliminated, so there will be no place for students

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to voice their concerns,” McKinney said.

“The university will no longer have legal responsibility for recruitment of minorities and disadvantaged students — we can’t have that.

Furthermore, we can expect massive tuition increases.”

Walker ’s “drafting error” did not go unmentioned at

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Walker open to extending tuition freeze Officials worry UW System costs would rise after 2017, others more concerned with university revenue

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After Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he would be open to extending his proposed tuition freeze —currently set to end in 2017 — for the University of Wisconsin System, concerns have been raised as to how the system will balance the budget cuts.

Walker said during a conference call Thursday he was open to setting a permanent tuition freeze but had no specific recommendations at that time.

The proposition comes weeks after his proposal to cut $300 million from the UW System budget with a provision of more autonomy for system authorities.

“I don’t have a specific proposal,” Walker said.

“I’m willing to work with lawmakers on it.”

Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Derek Field said while the organization’s first and foremost concern is with the magnitude of the cuts, they are also closely watching the issue of tuition.

He said ASM is afraid that after the cuts, tuition would spike as the system attempts to make up for lost revenue. This happened after the one-year freeze ended in the early 2000s

and tuition raised 18 percent, he said.

“That would be tragic if that were to happen now, because an 18 percent increase in tuition is about $2000,” Field said.

Field said ASM is conscious of the fact that the university would only raise tuition to that extent if they needed to, and being unable to do so could leave the system scrambling for revenue.

The legislators and general public are tired of seeing and hearing how expensive college has gotten and how student loan debt is going up every year, Noel Radomski, director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, said.

“In the general public, there is anger about rising tuition, and I think that is why politicians play this up,” Radomski said. “A tuition freeze is an attractive thing to say.”

Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, said his main concern with Walker’s newest tuition proposal is what measures Walker plans to use to cap tuition. There are a different number of models suggesting how such a cap should be implemented, Murphy said.

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have money available to have cash flow, similar to a business cash flow. They need to be able to count on certain amounts of cash, and at different times.

That’s something that needs to be analyzed — are we cutting reserves to the point where cash flow will not be sufficient?”

Murphy said he sees the UW System as an asset to the state, not something that should be jeopardized. He said this vision of UW is essential as lawmakers move forward.

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Murphy said the cap could be linked to the Consumer Price Index, but the details were still unclear. Potentially, tuition could be capped at the consumer index price or at an amount above that level, Murphy said.

Murphy said he has been meeting with regents to craft a formal opinion and proposal regarding the system changes.

He said he is waiting for an analysis from the UW detailing how the cuts would affect each campus’ reserve funds.

“Campuses need reserves,” Murphy said. “They need to

by Marigrace Carney City Editor

Getting around on campus is hard for everyone, especially using a cane, said Andrew Hasley, a blind University of Wisconsin graduate, which prompted him to apply for his service dog, Fletcher.

Hasley started looking for a service animal during his senior year of high school, comparing the

experience to researching colleges.

“It’s actually a similar process to other things ... It’s like applying for anything else,” Hasley said.

“They want to know about you, and they actually come out and visit you.”

He applied for a dog from Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a service animal school in New York, after completing his first year of school at UW. Guiding Eyes followed Hasley around on campus

and at his home to see the environment his dog would be living in, he said. Six months later, Hasley was admitted to take a month-long class in New York on how to train a service dog, he said.

While he has not experienced many barriers using a service dog on campus, Hasley said there is a distraction factor.

Struggling with stress and anxiety, Delaney Sanders, a sophomore at UW, decided to look into getting a therapy dog.

Taking on the responsibility of a dog, as well as the relaxing benefits of having a companion to come home to every night, seemed like a healthy and helpful option.

Although her leasing agreement did not allow dogs, her therapist was able to write her a note stating she had health reasons for owning a therapy dog.

“All the housing complexes that don’t allow dogs have to accommodate for you if you have some sort of anxiety, stress or any other disadvantage,” Sanders said. “If you have something that a doctor prescribes you, then they have to do everything to accommodate you.”

In order to get permission to allow her dog, Rory, in the housing complex, Sanders had to first take a note to the owners of the house. The owners allowed the dog as long as she would pay for any damages it caused and all of the residents of the house approved, Sanders said.

The experience overall has been helpful and therapeutic, but taking care of Rory was a big responsibility to take on, Sanders said.

“You’re on your own, you’re thinking about a whole other life besides yours,” Sanders said. “[Dogs] aren’t just something to cuddle with at the end of the day, they have a life, and that is important to think about before committing to getting a dog.”

Service and therapy animals are welcome on campus, but there are

requirements for them.

The animals must be vaccinated, licensed, leashed and presented with an annual clean bill of health, according to the University of Wisconsin’s Americans with Disabilities Act policies.

When people look at someone with a service dog, they only see the dog, Cathleen Trueba, Director at UW McBurney Disability Resource Center, said.

It can be a distraction from the fact that there is a person accompanying the dog, Trueba said.

One of the biggest problems regarding service animals today is people using fraudulent service dogs, Hasley said.

Because there is no federal identification for a service dog, anyone can buy a harness or paperwork online and use it to pretend their pet is a service dog, Hasley said.

“It’s really a problem ...

When that dog misbehaves, when that dog hurts somebody, when that dog damages a business proprietor ’s property because it’s poorly trained, there’s backlash culturally,” Hasley said. “There’s social backlash, and that’s of the bigger worries [in the service dog community].”

Risk of measles in city hinges on vaccines Madison public health officials encourage unvaccinated students, those without access to records to get immunized

by Marigrace Carney City Editor

In the wake of a national measles outbreak, Madison public health officials are concerned about the health of students and residents who are not immunized.

The current measles outbreak originated in Disneyland in December and has spread from California to six other states as well as Mexico, according to the Center for Disease Control health advisory.

Measles is a disease with symptoms ranging from a runny nose to a rash covering the body, and anyone who is not vaccinated is at a high risk of catching it.

An outbreak could cause a public health emergency if it reaches Madison, epidemiologist Craig

Roberts said. “[An outbreak] could be a huge problem just because of the number of people who would be potentially exposed,” Roberts said.

“They all have to be tracked down, notified, assess their immune status. A single case could result in a hundred people exposed.”

Measles is highly contagious, especially to those who are not immunized, Dr. Nicole Baumann-Blackmore of Meriter Hospital said.

About 90 percent of unimmunized people who are exposed to measles will catch it, she said.

The people who are at the highest risk are unvaccinated adults above the age of 20, so an outbreak among students is plausible, BaumannBlackmore said.

While there are a lot of college-aged students who

have the vaccination, that is not always the case, Jeff Golden, spokesperson for Public Health Madison and Dane County, said.

“There are holes in the safety net of mass vaccinations,” Golden said.

“So we are in a situation now where universal vaccination against the measles is not a reality right now.”

The only prevention method is to be immunized with two doses of the vaccine and to ensure a patients vaccinations are up to date, Roberts said.

University Health Services is spreading the word by sending out an email to students about making sure they are vaccinated, Roberts said.

UHS also sent another more specific email to students whose records indicate they are not vaccinated or have not received the full dosage

of the vaccine.

As well as encouraging people to be aware of their vaccination status, Madison hospitals are taking extra measure to try and stop the spread.

“For measles, [patients with symptoms] would need to wear a mask in and out of the hospital,” Baumann-Blackmore siad.

“Providers would need to wear a certain kind of mask called an M-95 mask when they are seeing that patient, and then there are protocols that we follow for cleaning the rooms that those patients have been [in].”

These steps are necessary to keep other patients safe because the measles virus can stay in the air or on a surface for up to two hours after an infected patient has been in that area, BaumannBlackmore said.

International students on campus are at a slight

disadvantage because they do not always have easy access to their medical records, meaning they are not aware of their vaccination status, Roberts said. However, the measles outbreak could still originate from any student on campus who is not vaccinated.

“The vaccine is widely used around the world — it has been for 50 years — so most international students have had this vaccine,” Roberts said. “But there are parts of the world where measles are much more prevalent ... So students from those areas might be at more risk.”

Making sure everyone is aware of their vaccination status and convincing those are are not vaccinated to get the immunization is the most important thing right now, Baumann-Blackman said.

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Ho-Chunk struggle to maintain culture at UW University sees Native American enrollment numbers decrease, despite local tribe’s strong historical ties to campus

Photo · Ho-Chunk Nation, or “people of the big voice,” were the original residents of the Great Lakes area.

by Alex Arriaga Features Editor

Football Saturdays, pink flamingos and sitting with Abe on Bascom go back years of University of Wisconsin tradition, but the campus was built on land where traditions had already existed for generations.

Ho-Chunk, or “people of the big voice” were the original residents of the Great Lakes region. Ho-Chunks have occupied Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota, and many still reside in Wisconsin today, according to the Ho-Chunk Nation website.

Ho-chunk Nation Website The Ho-Chunk culture, while in better protection today, has been seriously threatened in the past and still has an endangered language today, although efforts to keep it alive continue through youth education. At UW, the language is still taught by an elder, but not for credit.

Aaron Bird Bear, American Indian Curriculum Services consultant, said the Ho-Chunk Nation and its relationship with the university is one of complex conflicts, understandings and reconciliations. For more than 150 years, the campus was built and expanded on Ho-Chunk lands.

Today, the university has a major role in leading Native American studies.

Director of the American Indian Studies Program Rand Valentine said in the 20 years he has been here, he has witnessed the program grow significantly from just a few people. He said when he has taught the Ojibwe language, he often starts out with a class of 50 students who are highly interested in the language, some native and some not.

Still, growth for American Indian Studies, much like other ethnic studies programs, is difficult.

Bird Bear said while these programs may not see new hires soon, professors who participate in ethnic studies classes have tenure in other departments and will likely keep the programs going.

UW, as one of the only Big Ten universities with such a strong relationship to Native American cultures on campus, stands out nationwide with its American Indian Studies Department.

“Are there any reservations in Indiana? Illinois? Ohio?

Pennsylvania? No,” Aaron Bird Bear said. “They completely ethnically cleansed those states of the Native American nations there.

So in the Big Ten, we witness and understand that we are on the frontier of ethnic cleansing, and we kind of understand that native nations still remain in our Big Ten state.”

Today’s Battle “We’re kind of in a period of conflict today,” Bird Bear said. “We had one of the largest protests since

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the Vietnam War era, Black Lives Matter. The Race to Equity Report reminds us that in southern Wisconsin, we still have a lot to work out and understand.”

According to the 2013-14 Data Digest, American Indian undergraduate enrollment in 2013 was at a total headcount of 65 students, with numbers declining over the past decade.

Valentine said he was alarmed at those numbers and speculates those decreases may be a result of the loss of past recruiters.

Janice Rice, a Ho-Chunk Nation citizen and outreach librarian at UW, said the loss of a Native American recruiter has made it extremely difficult to bring in more Ho-Chunk or other native students.

“We haven’t had a Native American recruiter for over two years,” Rice said. “Now that there is no recruiter, there is no HoChunk students — there really weren’t very many to begin with.”

Rice said that because HoChunk Nation pays for the education of its university students, UW admissions should not use budgetary cuts as an excuse to not have a recruiter or to have such low native enrollment rates.

“We’re here, we have the money to pay, does the institution care?” Rice said.

Wunk Sheek, one of UW’s Native American student groups, has prioritized low Native American enrollment in its mission to practice and celebrate Native cultures.

Dylan Jennings, 2013 graduate and former leader of Wunk Sheek, said the group’s goal is to create a secure community on a large campus that can often be overwhelming for Native American students who come from the tight-knit community lifestyle of their native tribes.

A major issue, Jennings said, is not just enrollment but retention of Native American students.

“I’ve had the privilege of being down there and

finishing my undergrad there, but it’s a sad thing because you see a lot of our Native people, the ones who you’re close to, not make it and go through hard times and have to drop out and leave,” Jennings said. “That’s a really rough thing on our population.”

Wunk Sheek also practices efforts to reach out to the larger student community for cultural education.

However, Jennings said during his time with Wunk Sheek, the group lost its status as a registered student organization and with it went funding from Associate Students of Madison.

Jennings said the group was fortunate to still have a Native house on campus, but the ability to fund all of the group’s cultural activities has been a challenge.

“We’re a very overlooked group of people. We’re one of the biggest universities around, and some people still have the mentality that Native American people are extinct and in the past,” Jennings said. “We try to deal with these stereotypes in the best way we know how — through education — to teach them and do outreach, which all comes back to funding. How can a bunch of students organizations [do] those things without having the funding to do them?”

Relative Progress Still, understandings of Native American cultures have come a long way in the state of Wisconsin, Bird Bear said.

Bird Bear said whereas once those of Native American heritage may have been ashamed, a more accepting society overall has made multi-ethnicity “cool.”

What was once prosecution and destruction of Native American people and sites has now become valuable to the state and is a major source of research at UW, he said.

Native Americans have lost many archaeological sites over the past 150 years, but shifts in

attitudes and policies keep remaining sites protected.

“We have an incredibly robust and powerful Native American nation, who have been incredibly smart and savvy the entire time,” Bird Bear said. “We are very special with that.”

Last year, Wisconsin celebrated its 25th anniversary of Wisconsin Act 31, which requires the instruction of history and culture in K-12 schools of several tribes.

Throughout campus, tributes can be found to Ho-Chunk burial sites and living regions.

Dejope residence hall, in particular, pays tribute to the HoChunk.

Located on the west side of campus, Dejope was given a name meaning “four lakes” and is the location of many archaeological sites significant to the Ho-Chunk peopl,e who have occupied the area for generations.

A fire circle facing the lake pays tribute, with bronze plaques representing different Native American Nations. The first floor is covered with symbols and artwork that depict the lakes and effigy mound groups.

The

Photo · Wisconsin remains to be one of the few states in the Big Ten with Native American presence. HoChunk Nation continues to pay for the education of its university students.

Courtesy of Ho-Chunk Nation university has grown in its acknowledgment of Native American culture, in some ways reconciling with several decades of expansion over Ho-Chunk lands.

Overall, Bird Bear said Native cultures present at UW is an attractive force to the university, and the American Indian Studies Program are not entirely vulnerable to losses in UW’s budget, although overall humanities does feel threatened.

“I’m not terribly worried about the American Indian Studies department,” Bird Bear said.

“Any openings we won’t hire, any retirees we won’t hire. There are strategies, but it will be painful no matter what.”

Riley Vetterkind contributed reporting to this article.

Photo · Built on Ho-Chunk land, many University of Wisconsin buildings pay tribute to the native history. However, the university only had 65 Native Americans enrolled in 2013.

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D2P program aids UW in commercializing patents Partnership with Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation aims to help university inventors; benefits job creation, state economy

by Juilan Newman Herald Contributor

While the University of Wisconsin recently ranked sixth among 100 universities for the number of patents issued in 2013, bringing more of these patents to market remains a challenge.

In 2013, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the nonprofit patent and licensing organization for UW, helped with the issuing of 160 patents, according to a UW statement. Yet the organization ranked 38th in how well it commercializes those patents, according to Association

of University Technology Managers data gathered by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

While the university ranks lower in patents brought to commercialization, WARF did collect over $94 million in royalties from patents, WARF spokesperson Ann Muehl said in an email to The Badger Herald.

Michael Falk, general legal counsel for WARF, noted the difficulties for Madison compared to Massachusetts and California but emphasized that UW is performing well in commercialization.

“I think it is true that in Madison it’s more difficult for people who want to start a company to sometimes find

the management talent and the money to do so, and it’s easier to do that in Boston or in Palo Alto, but I don’t think we have trouble commercializing technology,” Falk said. “We have lots of licenses.”

To help address the difficulties associated with commercializing university patents, Discovery to Product – a new partnership between UW and WARF created last year – aims to connect university inventors with outside licensing partners and resources.

John Biondi, the D2P director, said obtaining the necessary funds on the road to patent commercialization can often be an obstacle in Wisconsin.

“Wisconsin as a state typically grades out fairly low as far as our ability to obtain venture capital funding, so we’re certainly trying to work with partners in the state to obtain venture capital funds for these university projects,” he said.

He said D2P looks to provide guidance for technologies at the stage where they are proven to work but haven’t been connected with a customer segment or market. D2P chooses to help develop technologies hitting on significant financial and social issues, he said.

Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, weighed in on the economic benefit businesses connected with UW patent innovation

provide for the state.

“A huge percentage of jobs created in Wisconsin are connected to the university, so it’s an economic win when you invest in the university, and it’s a win for our kids, who are going to have more job opportunities because of the research and innovation happening,” she said.

Biondi said most innovators on campus are researchers who haven’t done the work to tailor their inventions to a specific market.

D2P provides patents hitting on significant financial and social issues with market advice, making it easier for them to survive outside of the university

environment and receive equity funding or a licensing partner, he said.

According to Biondi, D2P took in 172 submissions and decided to fund 15 of them.

Ten of the projects are on track to commercialization, eight of which are poised to become startups. D2P has been working with the project teams since early September and put them through a ten week start-up workshop program, he said.

“D2P fills this gap that hasn’t been filled before of providing market de-risking help. We’re hopefully the last money and the last help these projects get before they become commercial,” Biondi said.

Work first for semester at ‘happiest place on earth’ Nearly 4,000 students across nation can come to Disney locations on either coast to study, gain job experience while living in theme park Photo · For students staying a semester at Disney, work and school come before play.

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by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

Some students on campus

are bucking traditional internships in exchange for embracing their love of Disney through its college program.

For UW senior Joey Dabringer who participated in the program last spring, working for Disney offered him more than intrinsic

rewards.

“Going into it I was really looking forward to meeting new people, trying something new that not many people have done and moving cross-country and starting anew and seeing how a company works,” he said.

In the program, nearly 4,000 students from various places typically work in guest services, attractions, entertainment and operational roles for a semester at Walt Disney World and Disney Land Resorts. For the duration of the program, participating students have the option to live in Disneysponsored housing as well as participate in classes for credit.

According to Disney spokesperson Lindsay Broadhurst, the college program typically helped prepare students for professional internships with Disney. However,

in recent years its role has changed, with such experience no longer necessary to gain those internships, although it does help the application, she said.

Dabringer said he applied for two of these professional internships centered on safety and health and applicable to his majors in biology and global health.

While he said he enjoyed his experience at Disney, Dabringer said making arrangements with the university proved to be a nuisance.

“Disney wanted a lot of information about what forms they would be signing and what their terms are, and the university wanted more information on what they were going to have me do, so there was a lot of back and forth,” he said.

Shelbi Craig, a UW sophomore who participated in the program in the fall, also expressed her irritation with the technicalities involved in staying enrolled at UW while working at Disney.

“In order to still be enrolled at the university, I had to take an online class.

Otherwise I would have had to re-enroll,” she said.

“I know for other colleges Disney offers some classes for credit, but Madison wouldn’t accept those credits, so I had to take one through Madison to still be enrolled here.”

Dabringer, who enrolled in course through the College of Letters and Science at UW during his time at Disney, said the coursework was not challenging for him or his other UW friends in the program.

“I had to read some excerpts from a book and blog about my experiences every week,” he said. “The final project was a two or three page paper. I just did it last minute. One of my friends that did it decided not to do any of the work until the day before it was all due and then still ended up getting an A on it.”

Even though Dabringer enjoyed the perks of the park, he didn’t expect the heavy workload, he said.

He was working from 4060 hours a week, he said.

“I wish I would have known how many hours I was going to put in,” Dabringer said.

Explained: What’s next for Walker’s budget proposal?

Centralized nature of Wisconsin’s Committtee on Joint Finance has led to ‘mischief’ in the past; upcoming public hearings to happen in March

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Gov. Scott Walker ’s state budget proposal — announced late January — is set to go into review by the Joint Committee on Finance in the coming weeks, a body with a large Republican majority and considerable legislative authority.

The Joint Committee on Finance typically holds public hearings on the budget in the first weeks of March and hopes to put out a finalized version for review by the legislature by Memorial Day, Bob Lang, the director of the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, said.

“What they are doing is they craft their version of the bill, and their version of the bill will go to the floor,” Lang said.

Todd Berry, president of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, said the state of Wisconsin has one of the least fractionalized processes of any state in the country. Rather than a number of committees reviewing the budget, Wisconsin has

only one committee, which includes representatives from both parties and both houses.

This session, the Committee on Joint Finance is made up of 12 Republicans and four Democrats. Berry said these 16 representatives out of the 132-member Legislature have a tremendous influence on what changes are ultimately made to the governor ’s budget proposal.

“Compared to almost any other state in the country, it has got to be one of the most centralized systems,” Berry said.

Berry said the system as it stands is logical and efficient because eventually the Legislature has to come to an agreement, regardless of how many different committees review the budget.

At the same time, Berry said the centralized power of the committee has led to “mischief” in the past, with committee members adding amendments late on the last night of the committees last day of review — to be seen by the public only when it is essentially too late to change.

“It’s a system that makes a lot of sense because it puts a very fragmented process together, so the decisions are made balancing one another, but the result also is a concentration of

power,” Berry said.

Jon Peacock, director of the Wisconsin Budget Project, said the UW System budget proposal — which includes a $300 million cut over the next two years while granting more autonomy to system directors — likely would not come up until late in the Finance Committee’s agenda because it is such a big spending and controversial item.

High profile issues tend to be discussed at the end because the Legislative Fiscal Bureau often comes out with a re-estimate of state revenue sometime in late May, Peacock said.

Peacock said regardless of when the UW System budget is discussed, the public should go to hearings to have their voices heard. He said even though the Finance Committee’s public hearings are often long, university students can put in a slip stating their opinions.

He said students should be weighing in sooner rather than later because the Finance Committee often reacts to early indications of public opinion.

“Public opinion really does matter. It is extremely important for people who care about the university budget to weigh in with their legislators,” Peacock said.

BUDGET TIMELINE 2015 FEB

Governor’s budget introduced

MARCH

Joint Committee on Finance reviews, holds public hearings

APRIL

12 REPUBLICANS ON COMMITTEE

Joint Committee on Finance finalizes

MAY

JUNE

4 DEMOCRATS

Assembly amends and passes

Senate amends and passes

Governor signs, often with partial vetoes

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PROTEST, page 1 the protest, during which many brought light to the implications of even briefly removing “the search for truth” and “improve the human condition” from the Wisconsin Idea.

“The Wisconsin Idea talks about a search for truth being the main focus of the entire system,” McKinney said. “It talks

about how we need to [ingrain] in our students intellectual, cultural and humane sensitivities that apply to everyone, including marginalized groups.”

Ellen Samuels, an associate professor in English and Gender and Women’s Studies involved in planning the protest, expressed concern that the proposed budget

would negatively affect her students’ educational experience.

“I’m teaching over 250 undergraduates this semester,” she said. “That’s twice as high the number of students as when I started here in 2007. I value all of them, but I can’t devote the kind of time teaching them because my class sizes keep increasing, and it’s been made clear that class sizes

will continue to increase due to these cuts.”

Samuels said the university might have no choice but to turn to adjunct professors for instruction, something that, in her opinion, will decrease students’ educational experience.

She said the budget cuts will mean less contact with professors, fewer resources for students and difficulties

in recruiting and retaining distinguished faculty.

“Our stellar reputation will go away if we turn into a university that doesn’t invest in education and cares more about short-sighted ideas about training students in particular trades rather than giving them a true education that prepares them to be citizens to serve their state,” she said.

FACEBOOK.COM/BADGERHERALD BUDGET, page 1 the other will cause significant cuts to campus services.

Gow said negotiating reciprocity with Minnesota will be essentially delving into uncharted territory since individual campuses have never had to handle the exchange. He said any discussion to eliminate the agreement would not be taken lightly.

“We have a pretty good percentage of students from Minnesota because we are right on the river, and there are many people who live in Minnesota who live closer to our campus [than students from Wisconsin],” Gow said. “[Changing reciprocity] would be something we would not do casually. We’d really want to make an effort to keep it going and get it negotiated correctly.”

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time that the reciprocity agreement has been brought in to question, Gow said. In the past, both states had not been in agreement, and it looked as though the reciprocity would end, but ultimately did not.

“It is not a simple negotiation,” Gow said.

According to single year headcount reports from the UW System, in the 2013-14 school year, Minnesota residents made up at least 10 percent of the student population at several UW campuses and more than a quarter of the population at campus locations closer to the border.

At UW-Madison and UW-La Crosse, Minnesota residents make up over 10 percent and 13 percent of the student population, respectively.

At smaller campuses, the percentage of Minnesota reciprocity students jumps

dramatically. At UWStout, UW-Superior and UW-River Falls, Minnesota students make up over 28, 38 and 48 percent, respectively, of the total student body.

Making decisions to raise or eliminate reciprocity could significantly impact these campuses.

In total, Minnesotans make up 44 percent of the UW System’s out-ofstate student freshman class. Likewise, Wisconsin residents made up 27 percent of out-of-state students at Minnesota state schools in the 20132014 freshman class — the largest group of nonresident students.

Since 2010, Minnesota has seen resident undergraduate enrollment gradually decline from 292,041 to 253,029 in the 2013 academic year, while non-resident enrollment has risen from 49,391 students in 2010-11 to 56,673 in 2013.

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City should voice against UW cuts, public authority model Resnick: Mayor Paul Soglin has done little to fight detrimental proposals, local government has ample reason to fight via grassroots movement When I decided to run for City Council in the spring of 2010, I didn’t imagine that I would spend the night of my primary election sleeping on a cold, marble floor in the Wisconsin State Capitol. But after Gov. Scott Walker proposed Act 10, I found myself among a crowd of thousands of other Madisonians protesting this affront to the progressive values our city holds dear.

As I prepare for tomorrow’s mayoral primary, I am inspired by the students who gathered at Library Mall this weekend to protest the proposed $300 million cut and impending deregulation of our university. I am running for mayor because we need a leader in City Hall who knows that real change happens when the will of

our community leaders and everyday Madisonians is respected and acted upon.

I am running because I am committed to empowering each of your voices and doing whatever I can from City Hall to protect our great university.

I am a recent graduate of UW-Madison and currently serve as a member of the Associate Board of Visitors to the Political Science Department. My degree from UW-Madison has been one of the most important investments I’ve ever made, and I know the same is true for just about every student and alumnus of the university. This explains why this debate has transcended traditional partisan politics, as citizens and legislators from all political backgrounds are calling for a reinvestment in

our university.

Four years ago, I was elected as an alder to represent the campus district.

During that time I have have seen our university face some serious challenges. None, however, have threatened UW-Madison and the UW System as much as the proposed reclassification as a public authority and the $300 million cut they are facing right now. I want to make sure all students have the knowledge and the resources they need to fight back against this devastating proposal.

In the face of systemic disinvestment from both Democratic and Republican governors over the past few decades, many university administrators have advocated for some of the proposed “flexibilities”

in the governor ’s public authority model.

Unfortunately, these flexibilities amount to little more than deregulation that will make the UW System less accessible to hard-working families in our city and working-class Wisconsinites all across the state.

Reducing state oversight of the UW System means that state-mandated tuition caps or freezes that Walker cynically championed while on the campaign trail would be a thing of the past.

We need look no further than Texas, where in-state tuition has more than doubled in the decade since the state deregulated the university system. In Texas, Republicans and Democrats alike are calling for muchneeded legislative controls on rising tuition costs.

Further, under a public authority model, the state legislature can no longer mandate that nonresident students comprise no more than 27.5 percent of the student body. To recoup lost revenue, the university will inevitably open its doors to more out-of-state students, like the University of Michigan. As students and alumni at the flagship public research university in our state, we must stand together in opposition to any initiatives that make UW-Madison less accessible for the very people it was founded to serve.

We need to be looking to collaborate with both Democrats and Republicans throughout the state if we want to mitigate the damage done to our university.

When hundreds of local jobs in Madison may hang

in the balance, the city has an obligation to fight back. If I were mayor right now, I would be building a coalition of mayors from across the state to use local, grassroots power and present unified, bipartisan opposition to the cuts. So far, Mayor Paul Soglin has done nothing to these ends.

As mayor, I will continue to fight for your interests and work to amplify your voices in City Hall. I ask for your support in tomorrow’s primary because I know that Madison is a city of the future that’s being held back by leadership stuck in the past. I ask for your help tomorrow so we can move our city forward.

Scott Resnick (scott@ resnickformayor.com) is an alder for the eighth district and a mayoral candidate.

Balanced budgets cause social, economic problems To continuously operate on deficits is fiscally irresponsible, but spending in times of economic downturn can be beneficial, spur prosperity

by Nichalous Pogorelec Contributor

When former president Bill Clinton balanced the budget during his presidency, it was celebrated by economists as an exemplary show of fiscal responsibility.

However, by the 2002 fiscal year the American government was once again in the red. Although the federal government is used to running deficits, the budgets of most state governments are required to be balanced. In Wisconsin, the government is constitutionally required to balance the budget. Many consider this provision vital to keeping the state fiscally at bay, but I think to require a balanced budget every single fiscal year is unethical and economically irresponsible.

Since the Wisconsin state government provides social welfare programs to its citizens, it has a responsibility to keep these programs running efficiently and effectively.

The federal government spends a large portion of its budget on social welfare programs like Medicare and Social Security, and because cuts to these programs are politically unpopular, the government will run a deficit to keep them afloat. However, in Wisconsin the constitution

demands the budget be balanced every fiscal year, so there is no flexibility.

For instance, last year Gov. Scott Walker chose to make cuts to the state’s government-run health care plan, BadgerCare, in the same year that he cut property taxes significantly.

Many would argue that this was to maintain a balanced budget.

Here’s where the government runs into an ethical problem. Assuming the measures to lower taxes are meant to invigorate a struggling economy, the government is in a situation where having flexibility is advantageous.

However, since Wisconsin has a balanced budget amendment, a decrease in taxes must be complemented with either new sources of revenue or budget cuts. In Wisconsin politics today, many conservatives argue that this decrease in revenue from taxes should be offset by cuts to social welfare programs. However, many people depend on these programs for their general well-being, and cuts will result in lower quality of life and uncertainty for those who depend on them. Balancing a budget during economically sound fiscal years is one thing, but cutting social services during financial catastrophes is nothing but unethical.

Balanced budgets are also economically irresponsible because they leave the government with no choice but to make cuts even during times of crisis. When there is an economic downturn, it’s the responsibility of the government to draft provisions that would avert a crisis. According to Keynesian economic theory, one of the most influential economic theories in the 20th century, times of economic crisis are when the government should increase spending and cut taxes to kickstart an economic recovery. Conversely, during times of economic prosperity the government should contract expenditures and raise taxes. All in all, this theory allows for temporary budget imbalances to level off the losses and gains achieved through bear and bull markets.

In fact, this Keynesian economic theory is so effective that its concepts even helped us get through the Great Depression.

The massive government spending in World War II and the following prosperity proved that government spending can have a great impact

on the economy. Despite this, a balanced budget amendment does not allow for a Keynesian approach to economic damage control on a state level. It promotes economic policies where debt reduction in the form of either tax expansion or spending cuts is considered the key to economic recovery. For example, Kansas’ Republican controlled state government balanced the budget by cutting taxes and spending to make the state a desirable place to start up businesses and live without a large tax

burden. By the end of Gov. Sam Brownback’s first term, the state was in economic catastrophe.

Of course, running deficits every year is fiscally irresponsible, but requiring every budget to be balanced will also cause economic problems.

States need flexibility to deal with unforeseen economic downturns, and a historically proven method for dealing with difficult economic times is the Keynesian economic theory that is impracticable under a balanced budget

Photo · Wisconsin has a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, meaning legislators could be forced to cut necessary programs.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald amendment. It’s time for Wisconsin to give itself more options and flexibility by repealing the balanced budget amendment.

Nichalous Pogorelec (pogorelec@wisc.edu) is a sophomore studying sociology.

Better teachers, not vouchers, will help Wis. students Falsely billed as way to improve state’s education system, Walker’s expansion of ‘parental choice’ program only looks to increase privatization

by Aaron Loudenslager Columnist

If approved by the Republican Legislature, Gov. Scott Walker ’s proposed budget would remove the enrollment cap in Wisconsin’s statewide school voucher program.

Removing the enrollment cap in Wisconsin’s statewide school voucher program is not a viable long-term policy prescription for improving educational outcomes in the state.

In 1989, Wisconsin created the first modern school voucher program in the country. It allowed a certain amount of low-income students vouchers to attend private schools within Milwaukee. Wisconsin’s first school voucher program was limited in three significant ways. First, the school voucher program did not

cover the entire state; it only covered the geographical area of Milwaukee. Second, the program was restricted to pupils whose families had limited financial means — specifically, to those families whose incomes were less than 175 percent of the federal poverty line. Third, the program had enrollment caps.

The program was touted as a way to help enable poverty-stricken Milwaukee students obtain a high quality education and thus, hopefully, improve their economic situation as adults.

However, the purpose of school voucher programs in Wisconsin has shifted from its original purpose of helping poor students obtain better educational outcomes to promoting “parental choice.” However, the real purpose seems to be to facilitate the privatization of education. The evolution

of Wisconsin’s school voucher programs since its inception demonstrates this fundamental shift.

In 2011, Wisconsin extended the geographical scope of the school voucher program to Racine and, in regards to Milwaukee students and schools, removed the enrollment cap in its entirety. Additionally, Wisconsin “raised the income threshold” for participating in the program “to 300 percent of the federal poverty level.” But the expansion of the program had just begun.

The 2013-15 budget created a new statewide school voucher program, which supplemented the programs that already existed in Milwaukee and Racine. Like the original Milwaukee school voucher program, the new statewide school voucher program had enrollment caps. The

statewide program was limited to 500 students the first year and 1,000 students the second year.

Many speculated that the enrollment caps in the statewide voucher program would eventually be repealed. As thenstate senator Dale Schultz warned, “We are only one budget away from opening the flood gates. It’s grown every single budget. By going statewide, you sort of legitimize the concept.” I also predicted the revocation of enrollment caps in the new statewide voucher program, writing in a 2013 column, “...There is no question that the statewide voucher program will have no enrollment caps; the only question is how soon the caps will be removed.” It looks like my prediction is about to come to fruition.

Many commentators argue that school voucher

programs improve educational outcomes.

However, school voucher programs are neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for doing so.

While the removal of enrollment caps in the statewide voucher program will certainly facilitate both parents’ “choice” of which school their children will attend and the privatization of education, educational outcomes can be improved in other, more substantial ways.

It seems intuitive, but educational outcomes are better when schools have better teachers, regardless of whether they teach in private or public schools.

For example, in Finland, the process for becoming a teacher is highly competitive. Teachers are required to have a master ’s degree and, in terms of professional status, are

on par with doctors and lawyers. Because of this extremely rigorous and competitive process, teachers are better and, as a result, students have better educational outcomes.

Walker ’s proposed removal of enrollment caps in Wisconsin’s statewide school voucher program is not particularly surprising, especially given the history of the program as a whole.

Although not surprising, it will not do anything to improve educational outcomes throughout Wisconsin. Students would be better off with the state scrapping the school voucher programs and focusing on how to get better teachers who are compensated fairly into the classroom.

Aaron Loudenslager (loudenslager@wisc.edu) is a third year law student.

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‘Fifty Shades’: a frustrating, inaccurate portrayal of BDSM Movie adaptation based on best-selling novel series featuring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan is surprisingly boring, despite erotic nature

by Frankie Hermanek ArtsEtc. Contributor

With pre-release hype of earth-shattering proportions, it comes as no surprise that “Fifty Shades of Grey” was underwhelming.

Released on Valentine’s Day weekend, everyone anticipated an exhilarating glimpse into the world of BDSM. Unfortunately for the popular book franchise, it’s unlikely anyone will leave the theater in good spirits. That is, unless, they know what to expect: a mediocre, undeveloped plot with inaccurate depictions of BDSM. An adaptation of E.L. James’ best-selling novel, “Fifty Shades of Grey” is the story of Anastasia “Ana”

Steele (Dakota Johnson, “Need for Speed”), a quiet, naïve English literature major and Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan, “Flying Home”), a smoldering, handsome entrepreneur in Seattle. As the young founder of a massively successful corporation, Grey pursues Ana, who is confused by his attraction to her. Yet, he succeeds in introducing her to a world of sexual dominance and submission. Before she can realize it, Ana becomes enraptured in the fantasy of BDSM, even as it paves the way for a twisted change of events.

Given the subject matter, it was confusing to discover that “Fifty Shades” could put someone to sleep.

How in the world could this movie be this boring?

Then again, considering the story’s lack of a quality plotline, especially in the redundant, 500-page mediocrity of a novel, this is hardly shocking. The screenwriter ’s job must have been a nightmare, having to navigate around its lack of substance. That being said, Johnson and Dornan worked remarkably well with what they were given. The only positive element of this film — cinematically speaking — was its soundtrack and score.

Though “Fifty Shades” has become a nationwide obsession, people are embracing domestic abuse and childhood trauma packaged as a BDSM relationship in the movie.

Grey is depicted as an intense, mysterious man

with a terrifying need for control and a painful past. Grey uses sex as his weapon, his dark attachment, to battle his troubling experiences.

None of this should make him a desirable object of fantasy. The spineless behavior of Anastasia Steele only reinforces this idea.

She unravels before him, becoming an unhealthy version of a “submissive” that reads more like a victim.

Despite an overwhelming frustration with this aspect of the franchise, the movie did contain some actual clarity.

For example, Christian Grey gets one thing right after Ana asks him if he is a sadist: he corrects her, calling himself a “dominant.” Engaging in BDSM definitely does not

constitute sadism. In fact, its practice is not all that uncommon. Unlike the film, it’s about the consensual control that is handed off between two partners. It’s not the movie’s image of pain, degradation, contracts and constant one-sided activity.

Another moment of clarity came with Ana’s overdue revelation. She finally develops a backbone and begins to come to grips with the dire reality of her situation. Her tortured, yet necessary decision to leave Grey concludes the film, the first time during which his disturbed nature is far from glorified.

As a holistic work, “Fifty Shades” is not romantic. It is not sexy.

It is disturbing, and it is frustrating, ending up

depiction of nonconsensual, violent relations. Yet, the issues that have emerged from its criticism truly need to be discussed. This movie is not the first form of media to romanticize abuse and trauma. Perhaps the massive hype of the franchise will lead to the conversation many are too afraid to begin. But ultimately, a movie with inappropriate glorification and an absence of a comprehensive plotline does not bring anything cinematically substantive to the table. Safe to say, “Fifty Shades of Grey” just couldn’t pull it off.

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Young SNL cast member does stand-up like a millennial Through two packed shows at Memorial Union’s Play Circle, comic Pete Davidson impressed crowd with improvisation, comedic wisdom

by Andie Burjek ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

“This is a great state to murder someone in,” Pete Davidson, the newest Saturday Night Live cast member, said in his thick Staten Island accent to an audience in Madison.

“You murder someone, go ice fishing and put them in that hole.” No one would ever find out, he said.

This brand of off-color, locally-conscious humor was the theme of his Thursday performance.

Both of his two shows on Thursday brought long lines and a full house to the Play Circle in the Memorial Union: a dark, intimate venue that often hosts free comedy shows. Davidson has been doing standup since he was 16. The first time he performed, he said he felt confident.

“In my head, I [fucking] murdered it,” he said in his show.

He recently watched the tape of that first performance and realized there was only dead silence.

However, he got the exact opposite reaction at the Play Circle. As little as he seemed to appreciate

Wisconsin — or at least Wisconsin weather— Wisconsin definitely appreciated him. He related incredibly well to the crowd of mostly college students or grads. Oddly enough, most of these kids were probably older than Davidson himself, who at 21, is the youngest Saturday Night Live cast member.

In the middle of his routine, he’d interrupt his stand-up flow for a new joke and take ten seconds writing it in his phone rather than use a pen and paper. He’d test out new material, using the University of Wisconsin audience as guinea pigs.

He also took time out of his routine to read tweets that were too underdeveloped or politically correct for Twitter but perfectly ok in a stand up routine.

Davidson employed millennial-age mediums to bolster his routine, unlike the more austere comedic heavyweights who have recently graced Madison’s comedy arenas, like Jerry Seinfeld.

Davidson’s standout bits focused on timely cultural topics for the young crowd.

He parodied rising pop star Sam Smith with an

impression that was just incomprehensible wailing into the microphone.

He continued along the pop culture trend with his insistence that judges are mean to the young fragile contestants on Top Chef Kids, and he brought it close to home with his running joke that everyone in Wisconsin is a serial killer.

He also joked about how apolitical he is. The only reason he voted for Obama, he said, is because he seemed more fun to get high with than Romney. This bit seemed to exponentially endear Davidson to the young crowd at a liberal campus.

He also offered some words of advice from his short but eventful career.

He assured the audience with anecdotes about his failures.

“I’ve bombed in front of executives, in front of movie people, in front of my mom, which is the worst,” he said. “The important thing is to keep up and not get discouraged.”

His stand up career wasn’t very successful

for the first couple years, Davidson said. A lot has changed in five years. He is a series regular on MTV’s Guy Code. He has guest starred on FOX’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Now he’s a Saturday Night Live cast member in the 40th season.

As one might imagine, Davidson loves being on SNL. Naturally funny, endearing and not too self-

deprecating like some of his peers, Davidson has that millennial appeal that college kids love. He’s goofy, young and weird, but the audience didn’t seem to find fault in his style.

“I think everyone that’s kinda cool is weird,” Davidson said as a justification of his unconventional style and as a credo for all of the weirdos out there.

Photo · As a young comic on the scene, Davidson used his Play Circle performance to test out new material. In the middle of his routine, he paused to take notes on his iPhone about what parts were working.

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Local H shows 40-somethings can rock, sort of Chicago-based duo Scott Lucas, Ryan Harding’s purist rock set at High Noon Saloon proved to be high-tempo, but uninventive, monotonous Photo - With 25 years of performing around the Midwest, Local H has honed their art as pure rock musicians. However, the only innovative aspect of their performance was a cover of Lorde’s track “Team.”

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It was a little after 11:30 Friday night. The High Noon Saloon was filled with the tepid buzz of rock fans facing the cold reality of being middle-aged at a late concert. Chicago-based rock band, Local H’s delayed entrance was the only thing keeping the crowd.

Local H’s brand of high-

octane, up-tempo rock is not at all conducive to siesta-taking. As they showed Friday, they bring every bit of energy they have to their live set. It was a show for rock purists– no gimmicks, elaborate lighting or digital backing sound. But two skilled rock musicians thrashing about the stage did not make for a revolutionary show.

However, it was successful in simply being a rock

concert.

Existing stereotypes prevent most from thinking a graying, 45-year-old man in unassuming jeans and Adidas Sambas could play a livewire set that gets heads thrashing. However, frontman Scott Lucas defied all stereotypes. Armed only with a single, beaten-up, basic model guitar, Lucas covers the roles of guitarist and bassist with his single instrument. Using a foot

pedal, Lucas is able to provide a sweet bass line to the intro of a song and seamlessly switch back over and shred out a solo within the same track. Paired with Ryan Harding’s thrashing drums, the duo is able to create a very fleshed-out, complete sound without a big band accompanying them.

Lucas, who showed off his sterling sense of humor, came on stage wearing an eyepatch and said he wanted to address the elephant in the room.

“I know you all want to know what I think of the Kanye West, Beck Grammy thing,” Lucas said.

Later Lucas made a crack at soul patches.

Aside from his comical banter, Lucas stood out with his guitar work. With heavy reverb effects, he pounded

out grimey notes that fit the essence of their rock music.

Lyrics from “The Misanthrope,” played early in the set, accurately portraying the rock sentiment of the show.

“There’s nothing worse than people!” yelled Lucas.

The music isn’t angry in the conventional way a metal song may be, but it definitely isn’t feel-good music.

Most interesting in the set was the band’s cover of Lorde’s “Team.” The song’s inclusion in the set comes as no surprise — they have released a studio version and it has been a staple of their live show lately. Shrouded under the roaring guitar and drums, the structure of the song was barely detectable until Lucas got to the chorus. In many ways, Local H’s rendition of Lorde is the perfect cover. It takes a song, completely switches the genre dynamics, adds the band’s own flavor and comes away with a song that is just as good as the original.

Local H’s set Friday night was as much of a greatest-hits set

as a band like Local H could have. They included favorites such as “Eddie Vedder,” “California Songs” and “Bound for the Floor.”

Although it was fun watching Lucas bounce around the stage and thrash on his guitar, the appeal quickly wore thin for the crowd. After the first half of the set, the show felt as monotonous as Top 40 radio. Aside from some stand-out, catchy choruses, the songs became repetitive and tired, much like the audience.

Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, Local H showed Friday that 40-somethings can rock, just not in an innovative way.

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Kip Moore bares arms, spreads country love at Orpheum On Valentine’s Day in Madison, famed southern star engaged directly with packed audience, showed appreciation for Wisconsin fans

by Elise Romas ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Valentine’s Day evening and at country takeover of Madison’s Orpheum Theatre took form as Kip Moore put on a lively and energetic concert alongside a swath of talented musicians.

After Canaan Smith pumped up the crowd with a few of his own songs and a cover of Nick Jonas’s popular new song “Jealous” and an intermission

Photo - Moore spoke directly to the crowd, bantering with a section of the balcony that didn’t stand and accepting a Valentine’s invitation from a girl in the front row, to whom he said he make out with after the show.

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filled with impatience and Top 40 country songs a bright blue light emerged from a foggy haze that filled the stage.

Moore casually walked on stage with his guitar slung around his back, baring his arms in a white tank top and his signature backwards baseball cap.

He almost brought the entire crowd to its feet.

However one reticent section only stood once Moore encouraged them specifically.

“I’m not gonna let you sit your ass down the whole time,” Moore said as the crowd cheered and even the single reluctant section rose out of their chairs and began to move and groove to the music.

The southern twang and rasp in Moore’s singing voice echoed through the venue hall as he proceeded to sing “Drive Me Crazy.”

Moore dedicated the sassy track to the producers in Hollywood who he said have been preventing him from making the music

he wants to and who have delayed the release of his new album.

His blue-collar, traditionally country personality continued to shine throughout the performance with his quirkiness and his comfortable command of the stage. The country star remained lively for the duration of the concert. He constantly moved around the stage and stood on the front platforms engaging in conversation with the crowd.

A girl in the front row tossed Moore a rolled up t-shirt with a note attached asking him to be her valentine. He agreed and followed up with a teasing comment.

“We’ll make out after the show,” he said.

Moore continued his love theme with the three stages of a break-up: sadness, the pissed-off stage, and the place and time out of nowhere where you’re no longer sad or angry. He followed these points up by

singing “Fly Again.”

For his second to last song, Moore sat on a stool and played his hit from this past summer, “Hey Pretty Girl.” He ended the song dramatically by singing the final verse completely a capella with a single spotlight on him.

He wasted no time as the lights dimmed completely and the audience could only hear sounds of guitar riffs and sliding notes until the opening chords of “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck” began.

Hands waved in the air and Moore danced around the stage and held out the microphone for the audience to sing the words to his most popular song.

To top everything off, Moore even gave Wisconsin his own personalized Valentine’s Day message. He mentioned his excitement to come back to Wisconsin and perform for all of his fans because of the gratitude he holds for all of them.

“This state has got a piece of my heart,” he said.

Sexy Ester’s concious lyricism, vivacious tunes mark latest LP Madison-based, award-winning band prepares for new release in April with performance at High Noon Saloon’s Valentine’s Day rager

by Tia Hagenbucher ArtsEtc. Contributor

Amid the sounds of young musicians practicing their violins and pianos, Lyndsay Evans’ sultry voice boomed from the back room at The Madison Music Foundry, where her band practices. Compared with her strong vocals and chic stage presence, her softspoken voice and down-toearth personality present an interesting juxtaposition. As front-woman for local band Sexy Ester, Evans leaves behind her mild-mannered nature for an empowering

Photo · Sexy Ester, along with DJ $amroc and The Mustache, performed at High Noon Saloon’s Valentine’s Day rager. They played three new songs from their new album.

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presence. But this band is more than just sexy in name — Sexy Ester means sexy to the fourth power.

With Evans on lead vocals, her husband Adam Eder on lead guitar and her brother Roscoe Evans on keyboard, Sexy Ester started as a Madison-based, family affair. Eventually the group added Paul Kennedy on drums and Brad Schubert on bass guitar, both of whom have seamlessly blended in with the family dynamics.

The band’s most recent album, Monomania, released in 2013, is inspired by life under their growing spotlight and explores how performers transform with the energy that comes from the crowd. Their new wave rock album reflected this sentiment by fusing a vivacious vibe into their sound.

“For me, there was a theme in the album with empowerment, self love, acceptance and pride,” Evans said.

The music video for their single “The Hotness” particularly focuses on the LGBT community. Local drag queen and friend of the band, Natalie Saffire, portrays a woman who gets harassed by men at a bar, but Evans shows up at the end and helps her get back on her feet.

Their song “Glitter Baby” has also been a crowd favorite, winning the Madison Area Music Award for best alternative song of 2014. Evans said she got inspiration for the song inspiration from a painting that she owns

by Margaret Keane.

“The painting is called Escape” she said, “It kind of started an idea and a feeling. The lyrics just came from that.”

Sexy Ester ’s Valentine’s Day Concert at the High Noon Saloon on Saturday left fans feeling optimistic for their upcoming

self-titled album. They performed three new songs from this album, including one called “Business of Broken Hearts.” Evans’ brother, Roscoe Evans, took over lead vocals on this song while she harmonized, creating a sound similar to The White Stripes.

The band anticipates that their future songs will be faster paced with “less glitter” and “more grit,” Ebert said.“We’re trying to go for a raw, live sound.”

“But we are constantly changing our sound as we grow,” Schubert said.

All band members were actively involved with the music world throughout high school, accrediting bands from the early ‘90s era as a large influence to their sound. They mostly grew up on punk and alternative rock, also citing Gwen Stefani, Nirvana and Karen Carpenter as musical

influences.

“There’s a couple of One Direction Songs I like,” said Eder. “But when it comes to the pop thing, it doesn’t get any better than ABBA.” Evans has her share of accolades. She has won three Madison Area Music Awards for best female vocalist. She also placed first throughout the state in 2014, winning the Wisconsin Area Music Award for best female vocalist.

“I’ve been singing my whole life,” Evans said.

“At about three, I would pull out a milk crate in the middle of a family event and start singing.”

In addition, Kennedy consecutively won the Drummer of the Year Madison Area Music Award in 2013 and 2014.

At their performance on Saturday, Sexy Ester ’s color scheme of red, black, white and gray gave them a sophisticated vibe. The band blew bubbles for the crowd and performed a cover of “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand, filling the

Photo · Social awareness is a key element of their new music. The video for single “The Hotness” includes local drag queen Natalie Saffire and focuses on issues in the LGBTQ community.

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audience with an insane amount of energy. With Evans’ heart-shaped glasses, their flirty and confident dynamic on stage made for an unforgettable Valentine’s Day performance.

For the future, the release party for their new album will be at The Frequency on April 18. Along with this new album, the band also plans on playing in a showcase at SXSW. “We’re playing music to make people have fun and forget about their problems.” Evans said.

“I think that it’s a whole experience for your ears and your eyes. We like to put on a show.”

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Badgers get first Big Ten win of season against OSU Wisconsin falls to Ohio State Friday before notching victory over Buckeyes Saturday in Columbus behind late goal from Adam Rockwood

by Derek Franklin Men’s Hockey Writer

Friday night’s loss seemed to be the final straw for Wisconsin men’s hockey head coach Mike Eaves.

After another Big Ten defeat against Ohio State, the Badgers were still searching for their first conference win of the season Saturday.

In game one of Wisconsin’s two-game road series against Ohio State, the Badgers got off to a hot start when forward Corbin McGuire scored on a rebound less than five minutes into the game to give Wisconsin an early one goal lead.

While Wisconsin remained ahead by a goal one period, the second period completely belonged to the Buckeyes. A goal by Ohio State’s Tyler Lundley returned the momentum to the Buckeyes, and they never gave it back.

With two minutes to play in the period, OSU forward Nick Shilkey put the Buckeyes up for good with a wrist shot that found the top left corner of the net.

The Buckeyes entered the

third leading 2-1, and that was how the game ended following a scoreless third period. The Badgers were outshot 42-20, and after the game, it appeared Eaves had run out of patience with his young team.

“They have to start to get it going,” Eaves said.

“That’s what is a little bit frustrating as a coach, and I think it’s on them as players. After Christmas, there are no true freshmen anymore. We should be better, so we have to figure that out.”

Eaves was also critical of senior goaltender Joel Rumpel, who made forty saves in Friday night’s 2-1 defeat.

“He kept us in it, he kept it 2-1, but I’ll be the first to say he’ll want both goals back,” Eaves said. “He played like the rest of the team. He was inconsistent.”

But on Saturday in game two of the series, the Badgers seemed to take their coach’s words to heart, responding with an impressive bounce-back performance in Saturday night’s rematch that gave them their first Big Ten win of the season.

After Ohio State scored just over a minute into Saturday night’s game, Wisconsin’s Grant Besse erased the Buckeyes’ lead in the 12th minute of the period with his 10th goal of the year.

The teams remained deadlocked at one at the first intermission, but Ohio State’s Christian Lampasso opened up the scoring in the second period eight minutes to put the Buckeyes up by a goal once again.

Down 2-1 in the second period, Wisconsin was in the same situation they were in the night before. However, this time, it would be a much happier ending for the Badgers.

Four minutes after Ohio State took the lead, Wisconsin senior Joseph LaBate scored off a pass from Adam Rockwood to bring the Badgers and the Buckeyes even at two goals apiece.

The game remained tied at two until just over four

minutes were left in the final period when Rockwood and LaBate combined for a goal again. This time LaBate fed Rockwood for the late goahead goal.

Led by goaltender Joel Rumpel, who made 28 saves, the Badgers held Ohio State without a goal

in the final four minutes to escape Columbus with their first conference win.

Next weekend, the Badgers will return to the Kohl Center to host Michigan State, hoping to put together their first winning streak of the season.

Photo ·Wisconsin junior forward Sam Dekker had 10 points on five of nine shooting with four rebounds, three steals and two assists in Sunday’s defeat of Illinois.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald end, so I turned it around and tried to be aggressive defensively,” Dekker said.

“And just try to cause some havoc a little bit, and I got a few good steals there in the first half and kind of got us sparked, and then Frank [Kaminsky] took it from there on the offensive end.”

Ryan reacts to Hall of Fame nomination Saturday, Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan was announced as a finalist for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2015.

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scored six straight points.

Dekker ’s final two points of that stretch provided a huge spark for the Badgers toward the end of the first

half when he stole the ball from Illinois and took it the other way for a dunk. It put the Badgers up by four, 2622, and helped the Badgers

finish the half on a 10-2 run.

Dekker had three steals for the game.

“I didn’t think I played very well on the offensive

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Photo · Junior defenseman Eddie Whittchow battles for the puck along the boards in Friday’s loss to the Buckeyes. Wisconsin rebounded with its first Big Ten win of the season Saturday.

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He’s amassed a 727-226 record (.763 winning percentage) in his career, winning four NCAA III championships at UW-Platteville in 1991, 1995, 1998 and 1999 in addition to one Final Four trip with the Badgers.

“It would be a thank you to all the people that I’ve either played for, played with, all the administrators, all the faculty at all the schools where I were, and the players, obviously,” Ryan said on what it would mean to make the Hall of Fame.

“I said ‘thanks for making this possible’ to any of the players or coaches or people that have responded to that announcement,” Ryan said as he became teary-eyed. “But, hey, if that would put a smile on the face of the 12th man that I had at Brookhaven Junior High School, Sun Valley [High School], Platteville, Milwaukee, Madison, I’d be pretty happy. I’d be real happy.”

Ryan and the rest of the finalists – which includes current Kentucky head coach John Calipari, eighttime NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutumbo and three-time WNBA MVP Lisa Leslie, among others – will find out if they made it into the Hall of Fame Monday, April 6, at a press conference prior to the NCAA men’s championship game. A finalist needs 18 of 24 votes from the Honors Committee for election into the Hall of Fame.

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Women’s hockey splits with Ohio State in Columbus

No. 3 Wisconsin defeats Buckeyes Friday behind two-goal performance from Blayre Turnbull before dropping series finale 4-3 to OSU

by Chris Caporale Women’s Hockey Writer

by Eric Goldsobel Women’s Hockey Writer

Wisconsin senior forward Blayre Turnbull continued her hot streak Friday with two goals to lead the women’s hockey team to a 2-0 shutout of Ohio State in Columbus.

Turnbull scored a hat trick in their previous series against Minnesota Duluth and now has five goals in the past two weeks.

“Well, I think after our last game where she scored a hat trick, she left the rink a little more confident,” Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson said of Turnbull. “Certainly that confidence showed tonight as she scored the first goal and then scored a real nice power play goal in the second period.

“Hopefully it’ll continue, I think she’s been pretty consistent all year. There’s some times she was getting some chances but the puck just wasn’t going in, but she stuck with it, had a big weekend last weekend against Minnesota Duluth, which has certainly carried over to tonight’s game against Ohio State.”

The first period of Friday’s game against OSU ended scoreless, with the Buckeyes outshooting the Badgers 8-6 before the Nova Scotia native Turnbull found the back of the net early in the second period, just 97 seconds into the frame.

Turnbull’s second goal of the game came with about three minutes remaining in the second

period to extend the Badger lead to 2-0.

Turnbull’s second goal came on the power-play, something that proved to be a big factor in the Minnesota Duluth series as well, as she scored all three of her goals against UMD on the powerplay.

Wisconsin senior goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens stopped all 24 shots she faced as she earned her 12th shutout of the season, which ranks second in the country and second in program history for a single season.

Saturday Wisconsin’s eight-game losing streak was snapped in game two of the series against Ohio States as the Badgers efforts fell just short in Columbus Saturday afternoon, 4-3.

The Buckeyes, still fighting for postseason contention, were coming off a 2-0 loss to the Badgers on Friday.

Wisconsin (23-5-4, 18-5-3 WCHA) meanwhile, looked for a ninth straight win to ride out the season, but their efforts could not provide the outcome they looked for despite scoring three goals against the Buckeyes Saturday.

While the team does not need the win, and the one loss will not dramatically, if at all, change their ranking, as Johnson said, if the team does not put out their best efforts, then the dangers of complacency may set in.

Ohio State opened scoring in the first period after breaking out on an odd-skater rush, but the lead was only held for the remainder of the period.

Wisconsin tied on a Courtney Burke goal almost six minutes into the second period, but the Badgers, again, gave up a goal in quick succession on an Ohio State power-play six minutes later.

Wisconsin sophomore defenseman Melissa Channell scored off a slapshot from the left point three minutes later to quickly take away an Ohio State lead and tie the game at two.

However, once the third period came around, the Buckeyes made the most of their chances, converting twice to open up a two-goal lead, capitalizing on two

Wisconsin mistakes, one while shorthanded.

Wisconsin’s last effort came just too late, as Annie Pankowski tallied her 16th goal of the season with 1:30 left, leading to a dramatic finish as the Badgers peppered the Buckeye’s net with shots. But Ohio State’s Stacy Danczek stood firm and denied all opportunities of a late tyinggoal.

Photo · Despite a loss to the Buckeyes Saturday, the No. 3 Wisconsin women’s hockey team remains in second place in the WCHA standings with only two regular season games left.

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Cichy relishes starting role for women’s basketball Wisconsin junior guard takes advantage of extra playing time as she finds herself in lineup this season after departure of key players, injuries

showcase her aggressiveness on the court for the first time as a regular starter. In 20 starts this season, she has not disappointed, averaging just less than nine points per game, including a career-high 25 against Iowa earlier this month in the highest-attended home game at the Kohl Center for the women’s basketball team since 2010.

Having two seasons to prepare for the call-up, Cichy said she expressed no hesitation with diving right in and filling the shoes, especially after the loss of Michala Johnson, the team’s leading scorer who suffered a torn ACL back in December.

“I’ve never been intimidated really by any situation,” Cichy said. “It was my shot, so I’m very blessed to have been given that opportunity. I think I’ve just been ready for it, and I’ve embraced it.”

Cichy has now played all 40 minutes in Wisconsin’s last three games against Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska. Kelsey said that Cichy’s confidence and court awareness are only getting better with experience.

“She knows her role. She doesn’t try to do too much,” Kelsey said. “Sometimes you wonder about some of the things she’s doing out there, but when you have confidence in a player, you can live with some of the mistakes because

you know some of the other things she’s going to give you outweigh one or two mistakes here or there.”

Kelsey noted Cichy’s preparation habits as one key factor other players on this Wisconsin team should take note of as well.

“When your number is called, be ready, because if a coach calls your number and you’re not ready, your likelihood of being called again is not going to be great,” Kelsey said. “I think she was ready when her number was called, and she hasn’t relinquished that spot.”

A less noticeable aspect of Cichy’s game that Kelsey found to be refreshing is her willingness to change up her playing style and adapt to different situations as a game progresses.

While Cichy’s aggressiveness naturally gives her a score-first mentality, Kelsey said Cichy always prioritizes whatever the team needs out of her the most.

“It’s her ability to believe that she can make something happen whether we score or are defending or rebounding,” Kelsey said. “She does a little bit of everything. If she’s not hitting shots, she’s going to find another way to help the team, and you wish everybody was like that, but it’s not.”

For Cichy personally, she never imagined that she would make it this far, but is grateful for every step along the way.

“My goal was never to go to [Division I]. My goal was to be the best I could be,” Cichy said. “Whatever came along with that I was happy about.

I was just blessed to have that opportunity to go D-1, and I’m very happy with where I’m at.”

with just six games to go in the regular season, and there appear to be no signs of UW faltering down the final stretch.

“To hold a good team like [Illinois] to 49 points is a job

well done,” Dekker said.

Wisconsin will look to extend its win streak to nine games Wednesday when they travel to University Park to take on Penn State. Tip off is scheduled for 6 p.m.

Photo · In her first season as a starter, Wisconsin junior guard Tessa Cichy is averaging just under nine points per contest while playing the most minutes of her career.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald

by Jamie DeGraff Women’s Basketball Writer

Wisconsin junior guard Tessa Cichy is simply not familiar with the concept of backing down.

Since the time she first picked up a basketball during her elementary school days, little has deterred her motivation to become a starter on a Division I basketball program.

Despite being named a Miss Minnesota Basketball top five finalist coming out of high school, nothing was guaranteed for Cichy as a freshman walk-on in the 201213 season for the Badgers.

ILLINOIS, page 12 guys can make back cuts and get in position to score from 10-feet in, that’s okay by us.”

Kaminsky, after scoring 17 of his 23 points in the first half, was held in check by the Fighting Illini for the majority of the second.

However, with just under six minutes left in the game and the Badgers up 10, it was Kaminsky who ultimately put the game away, scoring six consecutive points and pushing the Wisconsin lead to 16.

Those were the only points Kaminsky was able to score in the second period, but Wisconsin’s efficiency on offense never wavered, and they never allowed Illinois to come within less than

As expected for her situation, she made a minimal impact on the court during her first year, averaging just 13 minutes per game and remaining primarily on the bench for the Badgers.

Teammate and senior forward Cassie Rochel, however, noticed Cichy’s uncharacteristically high confidence during her first practices for a player with little on-court experience. Rochel saw a sense of tenacity in Cichy that would give her the potential to transform into an impact player.

“I remember clear as day how everyone hated going against her,” Rochel said.

“She’s tough, she’s gritty and

she does the little things right.

In practice when they needed her, they put her on the scout team because she would get us really ready for our opponents.”

As a firsthand account to her progression over her years as a Badger, Wisconsin head coach Bobbie Kelsey said he believes Cichy’s dedication to the little things have helped her overcome competition that has commonly been more athletically gifted at the collegiate level.

“In spite of her maybe not being the highest jumper or the quickest player, her smarts make up for some of that. She understands angles and how to get in a spot,” Kelsey said.

As Cichy reflected on her Wisconsin career up to this point, she noted most importantly the moment she first arrived on campus and stepped on the court, fully aware of the challenge looming in front of her. It didn’t take long, however, for her to feel at home with the team.

“Once I got through that first practice, that first game, I was kind of like, ‘Well, I can do this,’” Cichy said. “It’s just basketball. It’s not this crazy thing to be scared of.”

Following the graduation of senior guards Morgan Paige and Taylor Wurtz last season, the door finally opened in the 2014-15 season for Cichy to

nine points for the final 20 minutes.

“I was able to have a pretty good stretch there [in the first half] getting the ball into the paint, but in the second half you could see they made adjustments,” Kaminsky said. “It’s just one of those things where you need to read how the defense is playing you.

To go along with Kaminsky and Koenig, Hayes (14) and Dekker (10) rounded out the Badgers who scored in double figures, as Wisconsin’s starters combined to score 65 of the team’s 68 points.

Hill and Rice were the only Illini players to score in double figures, scoring

15 and 10 points respectively.

Overall, Wisconsin shot 27 of 53 (51 percent) from the field for the game and outscored the Illini 36-14 in the paint.

The victory gives

Wisconsin a 23-2 record on the season, equaling the Badgers’ best 25-game start in program history.

The win also gives the Badgers a 2.5 game lead over Maryland in the Big Ten race

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Badgers take care of Illinois, win eighth straight No. 5 Wisconsin men’s basketball team earns double-digit win over Fighting Illini behind 23 points, 11 rebounds from Frank Kaminsky

by Nick Brazzoni Men’s Basketball Writer

Winners of four straight games, Illinois came to the Kohl Center Sunday to take on the No. 5 Wisconsin men’s basketball team as one of the hottest teams in the Big Ten. But Wisconsin cooled down the Fighting Illini Sunday at the Kohl Center, ending its four-game winning streak while extending its own win streak to eight games, dominating Illinois in a 68-49 victory.

The Badgers were once again led by senior forward and National Player of the Year candidate Frank Kaminsky, who recorded 23 points on 11 of 16 shooting (69 percent) and 11 rebounds in 35 minutes. The double double was Kaminsky’s Big Ten-leading 10th of the year.

Wisconsin (23-2 overall, 11-1 Big Ten), as the players have grown accustomed

to doing, started the game on a 10-2 run, but Illinois (17-9 overall, 7-6 Big Ten) quickly countered with three consecutive shots from behind the arc to take an 11-10 lead. The Illini started the game just 1-for-5 before Austin Colbert, Rayvonte Rice and Malcolm Hill hit the consecutive three-point shots that put Illinois ahead.

From there, the Badgers started to get in more of a rhythm offensively. Following a dunk from junior forward Sam Dekker, Kaminsky went on to score eight straight points for Wisconsin.

Unfortunately for UW, Illinois continued with their hot shooting in that stretch, matching every one of Wisconsin’s baskets over the course of the next five minutes of the game. The Badgers and Illini tied four times over that stretch.

The game was tied at 22 in the first half with six minutes remaining when the Badgers,

just as they did to open the half, went on a 10-2 run to end it.

The run was capped off by a layup just before the buzzer by sophomore guard Bronson Koenig, and the Badgers went into the locker room with a 32-24 lead. “[Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan] was pretty upset after we gave up three threes in a row, so they did most of their scoring in a very short amount of time,” Kaminsky said. “We just had to play defense, get stops and then turn that into offense.”

For the first time this season, Wisconsin went the entire first half without making a three-point shot, as they shot 0-for-5 from behind the arc in the first half As a result, UW looked to do a majority of their damage in the paint. The starting frontcourt of Kaminsky, Dekker and sophomore forward Nigel Hayes shot 13 of 16 from the field and

scoring 29 of Wisconsin’s 32 first half points. Overall, the Badgers outscored Illinois 22-6 in the paint in the first half.

In the second half, Wisconsin picked up right where they left off, but on the back of sophomore point guard Bronson Koenig.

Koenig went 3-for-4 from three in the final 20 minutes of the game en route to a 13-point second half, giving him 15 overall for the game.

Koenig’s second-half performance came as a result of Illinois doing all they could to neutralize Kaminsky, once again proving the Badgers go far beyond their AllAmerican.

“It’s a team,” Ryan said.

“If Kaminsky can bring people out with him and clear lane space, and other

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Frontcourt paves way for UW Kaminsky, Dekker, Hayes trio combine for 47 points in defeat of Illinois at Kohl Center

by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

Wisconsin’s bench did not provide many points – or minutes – for the No. 5 Wisconsin men’s basketball team Sunday afternoon at the Kohl Center.

But they, along with Wisconsin’s backcourt, weren’t always needed in Sunday’s 68-49 stomping of Illinois thanks to the efforts of the usual prolific trio of forwards Frank Kaminsky, Sam Dekker and Nigel Hayes, who once again dominated, sending the Badgers to their eighth straight win.

The trio combined for 47 of Wisconsin’s 68 points, going 20-for-32 (62.5 percent) from the floor. In

the first half, Kaminsky, Dekker and Hayes had 29 of the Badgers’ 32 points, missing just three of their 16 field goal attempts.

Kaminsky led all scorers Sunday, dropping his ninth 20-point game of the season, with 23 points.

It was the seven-footer ’s sixth 20-point performance in the Big Ten this year.

He also hauled in a gamehigh 11 rebounds for his conference-best 10th double double.

Seventeen of Kaminsky’s 23 points came in the first half as he was 8 of 9 (88.9 percent) from the floor over the first twenty minutes of play. He finished the day 11 of 16 (68.8 percent) overall.

“I thought Kaminsky was terrific,” Illinois head coach John Groce said. “I thought

that he scored it at all three levels from the court. He made very difficult shots.

He passed it well, obviously had a double double. I’ve watched him play a lot. I think he’s certainly one of the country’s best players, and today he played like it.”

Despite his strong performance overall, and especially in the first half, Kaminsky didn’t score his first points of the second half until four minutes and eight seconds were left in the game. But during that stretch, Wisconsin never wavered and let the lead dip below 10 points for just seven seconds.

“It just says that anybody can step up at any time,” Kaminsky said.

“Sam [Dekker] had a stretch, Bronson [Koenig] had a

stretch where he was scoring. Nigel [Hayes] had some big buckets, so it just goes to show that we can beat you in a lot of different ways.”

Hayes finished second on the Badgers with 14 points, scoring 10 of those in the second half while Dekker finished the game with 10 points.

Both players added four rebounds.

Wisconsin was able to take advantage of some early Illinois fouls in the first half when 6-foot7 forward Leron Black exited the game with two fouls, forcing the Illini to put a smaller lineup on the floor.

Kaminsky rattled off

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