From State to System - Issue 38

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015 · VOL 46, ISSUE 38 · BADGERHERALD.COM

FROM STATE TO SYSTEM Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to make the UW System a public authority has left many questioning, what does that mean?

by Nina Kravinsky

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BUDGET SERIES

Proposed budget cuts could affect tuition remission UW System may need to look for new avenues of funding under public authority model for veteran, graduate student reimbursement

by Nina Kravinksy State Editor

University of Wisconsin System’s tuition policy could see a number of changes in the coming months, as Gov. Scott Walker ’s proposal to give

the system more autonomy over a number of areas, including tuition, develops.

Currently, policies like tuition reimbursement, or special provisions for certain out-of-state graduate students and out-of-state veterans to receive in-state tuition, are written into

state statutes. With the steep cuts proposed in the budget, concern for areas like remission are starting to grow, even if there is currently little information on whether they will change.

“They use tuition remission for certain international students,

for certain academically gifted students and for student athletes,” Wisconsin Center for Advancement of Postsecondary Education director Noel Radomski said.

UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said he thinks the Board of Regents would

be responsible with tuition overall, but he is not sure how programs like the one that exists for veteran’s tuition reimbursement would be funded. He said currently, veteran tuition reimbursement is made up of both state and federal funding, but it is unclear at

this point whether it would be affected by the system changes.

According to the Legislative Audit Bureau’s most recent review of the UW System released late last week, the UW

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Female leaders at UW push girls to enter STEM

With 20.5 percent enrollment of women in engineering programs, university researches ways to draw younger generation into science fields

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

In response to stark inequalities that remain for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, female leaders at University of Wisconsin are moving forward with steps to address these issues.

According to the UW Data Digest, in 2013 only 20.5 percent of engineering students were women, although ratios varied by specialty.

In 2013, the ratio of men to women in electrical engineering was 10to-1, while mechanical engineering was 5-to-1, according to the Office of the Registrar. Some

specialties did demonstrate a more equivalent ratio, such as industrial engineering, which has a ratio of 13 women to 12 men, according to the Registrar ’s report.

At UW, organizations such as the Society for Women Engineers support undergraduate women in their professional endeavors on campus, but

are aware of the challenges for women that remain, especially after graduation.

“I think women are doing a lot better in schools now because we have these organizations, so I think our generation is more inclusive, but I think there are still areas in the workplace that need to be worked on for inclusion,” Catherine Groh, a student

in SWE said.

Mary Fitzpatrick, the director of diversity research and initiatives in the College of Engineering said representation of women in the workplace has not changed since the early ‘90s. Practicing women engineers make up only about 10 percent of the engineering workforce, which is highest at entry

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level but declines through time, she said.

To encourage more young students to consider engineering and science careers and eventually join the STEM workforce, early introduction to such topics is crucial so students can arrange high school curriculum accordingly, she

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PUBLIC AUTHORITY MODEL, GOOD OR BAD?

College Republicans and College Democrats debate the merits of Walker’s proposal to give the UW System more autonomy.

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TAA says strike against cuts ‘not off table’ Teaching assistants continue to stand against Gov. Walker’s budget proposal; legal implications remain unclear

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

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On Valentine’s Day the chant “If they don’t listen, we shut it down!” rang across Library Mall in protest of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal.

Since, Teaching Assistants’ Association leaders have said a TA strike will not be ruled out as an additional form of protest.

Michael Billeaux, TAA copresident, said “a strike is not off the table” as a measure to combat the governor’s proposed budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin System.

“There hasn’t been a strike authorization vote, and the leadership can’t just wave a wand and call a strike,” Billeaux said. “It’s not ruled

out but it’s also not happening tomorrow.”

TAA, the first teaching assistants’ union of its kind in the United States, represents over 3,000 of UW’s teaching and program assistants. The union co-sponsored the Library Mall protests Feb. 14. Although the organization was reduced to unofficial status and lost much of its funding due to Act 10, the organization still maintains a relationship with the university, Billeaux said.

According to the UW Data Digest, there were 5,379 graduate assistants on campus in 2013. The data shows 562 graduate students were responsible for lectures, 2,509 taught discussion sections, 649 taught labs and 7 headed seminars. Seventy percent of graduate assistants teach in the College of Letters and Science,

according to the Data Digest.

“The TAA has always been a strongly member-driven union, so what we’ve done over the years has been independent of our financial situation,” he said. “We’ve been successfully able to mobilize members and communicate to members about what we’re doing.”

Regarding the legal implications of a strike, much remains unclear. According to Rutgers professor Barry Eidlin, it is unclear to what extent the university would take legal action against teaching assistants if a strike were held. Since the state does not recognize TAA, he said the consequences would not amount to a cut-and-dry legal case.

For Billeaux, the legal implications of striking appear bleak. He said the university

could seek an injunction ordering teaching assistants back to work, fining them up to $1,000 per day and imprisoning strike leaders for up to a year if they do not cooperate. However, he remained unsure as to whether the university would employ such harsh measures, and said TAA is currently working with university administration to find the best way to deal with the cuts.

Eidlin said with widespread opposition to the cuts, a broad array of measures will be necessary to combat them, including the possibility of a strike.

“You need a wide array of tactics to express opposition, and so I think this is certainly a valid tactic in the arsenal of those who want to see this proposed cut not

implemented,” Eidlin said.

“Often times the only way they can be taken seriously is withdrawal of labor to show how much their labor as workers matters to the university.”

In the meantime, Billeaux said TAA is encouraging its members to combat the cuts in a variety of ways. They are organizing a phone banking session in collaboration with the American Federation of Teachers, encouraging members to reach out to legislators, and are putting pressure on administration to detail what public authority status means for them.

“The cuts will be pretty devastating for the university, but with the work that the TAA is doing, it will make us a stronger organization no matter what happens,” Billeaux said.

UW language enrollment remains strong

University of Wisconsin students stray from national decline; Spanish class sizes grow along with Russian, Korean

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

A recent report shows enrollment in academic language courses is on an overall national decline, however, University of Wisconsin students seem to remain steady.

Foreign language enrollment among university students declined 6.7 percent since its peak in 2009, according to a Modern Language Association report released February outlining data from fall 2013.

UW saw enrollment numbers for the most popular languages decline just under a percentage point, from 7,448 students in 2009 to 7,382 students in 2013. However, the statistics differ from language to language.

According to Dianna Murphy, associate director of the Russian Flagship Program, language enrollment usually goes in sharp cycles depending on popular trends.

“Going back to the ‘80s, Japanese was really trendy because of the market in Japan and the perception that Japanese was a strategic language in business,” she said. “It’s like the real estate business. The same thing has happened with Arabic, with a spike in interest that is now evening off.”

To that effect, UW students appear to be showing disinterest in the languages that frequent national conversation, notably Chinese and Arabic. For Chinese, enrollment numbers declined from 435 in 2009 to 389 students in 2013. Arabic also mirrors declining interest,

seeing enrollment drop from 224 to 122 students during that same period.

Nationally, Spanish remains at the head of the pack compared to other languages, although it too saw a 2.4 percent decline, with enrollment dropping from 790,756 to 771,423 students, according to the report.

At UW, students do not align with the national trend as enrollment has increased in the program. Enrollment inched upward from 3,283 students in 2009 to 3,737 students in 2013.

This came despite the school no longer offering Spanish 101 due to previous budget cuts.

David Hildner, associate chair of the Spanish department, attributed the increased campus enrollment to better student awareness of the wide use of Spanish in the United States, where he said

many jobs require language fluency.

Aside from the strong English standard in the business world, Spanish and Chinese are currently the most important languages due to economic contributions coming from countries in which they are spoken, according to Steve Schroeder, assistant dean of the undergraduate program in the School of Business.

“Much of the world is learning English, and so I don’t think it’s absolutely essential to know a foreign language, but I do think it is helpful,” Schroeder said.

While many students consider studying certain languages because of their application in the business world, political interests have also peaked students’ interests in certain languages, specifically Russian, where

UW has shown some of the highest enrollment in the nation, according to Slavic department chair Karen EvansRomaine.

“Russia and the Russianspeaking world remain front and center in U.S. foreign policy, and many students choose to study Russian at UW for many different reasons, from a love of Russian literature and culture to an interest in aeronautics, various sectors of business and engineering or foreign policy,” Evans-Romaine said in an email.

According to the MLA report, Russian language enrollment increased from 213 students in 2009 to 288 students in 2013. Study of Korean at UW also saw an uptick, with enrollment increasing from 74 students in 2009 to 128 in 2013, according to the report.

Kids make headlines at local free press

For two decades, community newspaper enables Madison-area children to excercise love of writing, build literacy skills

by Kiyoko Reidy Herald Contributor

For Sennett Middle School eighth grader, Adreanna Wright, the Simpson Street Free Press gives her the opportunity to exercise her love of writing.

“I love to write. It’s one of my favorite subjects in school,” Wright said. “I have always wanted to make my writing better.”

Wright works for the paper twice a week for two hours. In that time, she can write articles as well as work on homework.

Simpson Street Free Press has a calm and quiet environment for students to work in, she said.

After Dane County parents complained their students were not excelling in English, the idea for Simpson Street Free Press was born in 1992.

For more than 20 years now, the community newspaper has honed students’ communication and personal skills, as well as their interest in reporting.

“It started just like a regular neighborhood newspaper,” Deidre Green, the managing editor at Simpson Street Free Press, said.

From humble beginnings in the Broadway-Simpson Neighborhood Center with just 12 participants, Simpson Street Free Press has grown to the current involvement of more than 200 students,

REMISSION, page 1 System rewards a total of $74,659,392 in tuition remission across several categories of students, including students who are “needy and worthy,” graduate students and veterans.

UW-Madison grants $57,305,238 of the total reimbursements, a significantly higher proportion than any other campus. In fact, 78 percent of total tuition remissions

ranging from elementary to high school students.

Initially, Simpson Street Free Press focused on neighborhood issues and news coverage, but the curriculum changed a few years later to better encourage the development of student participants, Green said.

This curriculum has continued to develop over the years, focusing primarily on academic topics, and in 2008 it won the National Coming Up Taller award for innovative curriculums, Green said.

Topics on the Simpson Street Free Press webpage range from financial literacy to space science, Green said.

Writers for the Simpson Street Free Press look into a wide variety of topics and manage to make them both relevant and understandable for readers of all ages, she said.

The organization’s adult staff trains a team of teenage editors who edit all of the student-written articles, Green said.

“Our system works really well because our staff is all students who have gone through the program,” Green said.

A team of volunteers consisting of retired reporters and teachers assist the students, Green said. These volunteers are available for one-on-one writing conferences with the

students to help give them the personalized attention many of the students need, but would not get in an ordinary classroom, she said.

The volunteers show the students their mistakes and help fix them, while giving them personalized attention, Wright said.

Andy Hall, executive director of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, said he has known about Simpson Street Free Press since they began more than 20 years ago. Hall believes the organization is beneficial to the both the students involved and the

community as a whole.

“Student journalists turn out to be successful in a wide range of fields,” Hall said.

Communication, organization and teamwork skills are important regardless of whether the student chooses to pursue journalism or other interests, Hall said.

The community benefits from Simpson Street Free Press in multiple ways, Hall said. It provides the opportunity for students to prove that under the right circumstances, they are capable of excelling in English, and able to become both articulate messengers and good listeners, he said.

As passionate students and adults collide within the boundaries of Simpson Street Free Press, it is clear this innovative program has become so much more than its origins as a regular neighborhood newspaper, Green said.

granted at UW were given to UW-Madison students.

According to the Legislative Audit Bureau’s review, three campuses, UW-Madison, UWMilwaukee and UWWhitewater exceeded state statute limits of tuition remission in the 2013-14 fiscal year.

Graduate student reimbursements make up the bulk of tuition remissions. According to the review, 80.1 percent of total system remissions

were given to graduate students, whereas every other category, including “needy students and veterans,” received less than 10 percent.

Radomski said tuition remission comes into play with the proposed cuts because granting in-state tuition to out-of-state students results in a loss of tuition revenue, which is felt most heavily in times of decreased funding.

More authority with tuition remission comes

with increased autonomy for other tuition areas as well, such as the Minnesota reciprocity system and general in-state and out-ofstate tuition. This autonomy is intended to offset the UW System cuts proposed in Walker ’s budget.

“That is important because there is lost tuition revenue,” Radomski said.

“It’s a big issue.”

Gow said even with the increased autonomy over tuition, the campuses would still have trouble

making up the $300 million cuts.

John Bechtel, assistant dean of students for Veteran’s Affairs at UWMadison, said he had not heard anything from the System saying tuition remission for veterans would change if Walker ’s budget were passed.

Currently, veteran tuition remission makes up less than 10 percent of total reimbursements granted, according to the Legislative Audit Bureau report.

Photo · Since humble beginnings in office of 12 participants, community newspaper has grown to more than 200 student members.

Photo courtesy of Simpson Street Free Press

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THE BADGER HERALD · NEWS · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Confusion clouds meaning of public authority Gov. Walker’s proposal to give UW more autonomy will change the System’s control over tuition, asset management

by Nina Kravinsky State News Editor

Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal released last month includes a drastic shift of authority from the state to the UW System – especially with regard to tuition, procurement and construction – the implications of which remain unclear even to system officials.

Walker’s plan to restructure the state’s public colleges and universities would shift the ­­­­UW System campuses from a government agency to a ‘quasigovernmental’ body, giving the Board of Regents vaguely more autonomy in certain areas, Noel Radomski, director of Wisconsin Center of the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, said.

Walker’s Executive Budget bill text said the public authority would “gain increased flexibilities” in the system’s “ability to set tuition rates unilaterally,” amongst other provisions regarding construction, employee compensation and reciprocity agreements.

“This is highly unusual,” Radomski said. “No one from the UW System or UW-Madison has released any document interpreting what UW System authority means. For the life of me, I have no idea why that is the case.”

Radomski said due to the uncertainty surrounding the public authority model, he is concerned about what the model could mean for campuses.

He is not alone in expressing confusion.

UW-Madison education policy professor Sara Goldrick-Rab said she does not even think UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank or the governor can fully outline the implications of the public authority.

UW System President Ray Cross and Blank have expressed interest in the system having public autonomy.

At the UW System Board of Regents’ February meeting Cross said giving the system more authority would be the “best model.”

“In my opinion, in this state and at this time, a UW System authority is the best model to govern and deliver a public university committed to the core principles of academic excellence, access, responsiveness, and

affordability for our students, parents, and taxpayers,” Cross said at the meeting.

Photo · As a public authority, UW System campuses would no longer have to go through the State Building Commission to take out construction loans.

Tuition Walker expressed this Alex Arriaga month in a The Badger Herald conference call he would be willing to work with lawmakers to be used to cap tuition past 2017, the time meet the by which, under the public needs of authority model, the Board of students.

Regents would have complete She tuition control. highlighted However, Joe Gow, the Chancellor of UW-La Crosse, importance said tuition autonomy is a major of looking both of the part of the public authority merits and downfalls of model. Without it the university going this way. would not only be restricted “As a long time from moving forward, but advocate and supporter also struggle to protect what of greater flexibilities it has right now, he said. He for the UW System, I believes the regents would make believe that additional tuition decisions wisely and flexibilities will responsibly. provide them with Goldrick-Rab also said she greater ability to make thinks any interest in the public management decisions authority model hinges on the on the campuses and system having purview over system,” Harsdorf said. tuition.

“I have a feeling that [Blank] Construction doesn’t want public authority In 1996, UW Hospital split if she doesn’t get tuition off from the UW System authority,” Goldrick-Rab said. and became its own public However, concern regarding authority, giving it many of the tuition has resonated among same flexibilities that would Republican lawmakers who be granted to the UW System worry rates will spike if the under Walker’s budget.

Board of Regents has full Included in the increased authority. autonomy, UW Hospital Sen. Stephen L. Nass, saw bonding authority for R-Whitewater, has said he construction projects, a worries there will not be enough provision included in the checks in place for the regents, UW System public authority who are less accountable to proposal. This would mean those paying in-state tuition campuses would no longer for UW schools than state have to go through the State lawmakers.

Building Commission to take Mike Mikalsen, a out construction loans. spokesperson for Sen. Steve Radomski said he is Nass, R-Whitewater, said the concerned there is contradiction UW System has never shown with some provisions related to any like or desire to save money. construction.

“The UW System’s definition “UW-Madison would of autonomy is we want to be have to pay off bonds instead able to spend more without of transferring authority for anyone telling us no,” Mikalsen building projects to the System, said. but it’s not clear who will pay He said this usage of the the bonds. That could be a greater flexibility is what could new cost which goes against eventually lead to “nasty hikes philosophy of flexibility,” in tuition increases.”

Radomski said.

In a previous interview with The Badger Herald, Sen. Sheila Asset Management Harsdorf, R-River Falls, said Under the public authority greater autonomy for the UW model, the UW System authority System has been desired for would no longer fall under state many years as an opportunity procurement requirements. to find cost savings that would Instead, the System authority would be treated like a city or municipality and be exempt from the traditional process for state agencies, which would make purchasing easier and, hopefully, less expensive, Radomski said.

Radomski said the UW System would still have to go into agreement with the Department of the Administration, or ultimately get state approval before making purchases.

He said it is unclear how much savings this change will actually accrue,

Photo · UW Hospital has been a public authority since 1996.

Alex Arriaga The Badger Herald

especially since the System will still have to go through the DOA for any cooperative purchasing agreements.

“When you actually read the bill you’ve got all these caveats or limitations,” Radomski said. “There’s no document from the System to give us any interpretation really of any of this.”

UW System spokesperson Alex Hummel said there is still a lot to be determined in terms of the relationship the System would have with the state, but that the System would still ultimately be accountable to the state of Wisconsin.

Comparisons with Virginia In 2005, the state of Virginia passed legislation in a dramatic move to give the public universities more freedom from the state, a change reminiscent of Walker’s public authority plan for the UW System.

The Virginia Restructuring Act, which gave the state’s 15 four-year public universities increased flexibilities similar to those the UW schools would have as a public authority. Since the shift, Virginia university and college officials have enjoyed increased autonomy in areas like tuition and construction.

There are a few key differences in the structure between Virginia’s model and Wisconsin’s that Radomski said are crucial. He said the biggest difference was the diffusion of power Virginia’s coordinating board had, something he said the UW Board of Regents lacks.

“The coordinating board has less power, and therefore the campuses have more power,” Radomski said. “Every campus has its own board; that’s a significant difference, that’s why their efforts are more successful, because it’s done at the local level.”

Radomski said something else that set Virginia’s shift apart was how the state went about the change.

There continues to be large amounts of uncertainty among UW officials about exactly what the public authority model would entail, which Radomski said is worrisome. In Virginia,

Photo · University of Virginia’s system is similar to the proposed public authority model for UW. Photo courtesy of Flickr User Bob Mical

campuses were more involved in the bipartisan effort to shift the universities away from the state.

“Everything was out in the public,” Radomski said. “That’s a significant difference.”

UW Hospital as a public authority Hummel said the UW Hospital’s status as a public authority has certain similarities with the proposed model for the UW System.

One of the changes for the UW Hospital, Radomski said, was the addition of its own human resources division, a change that is already set to go into effect for the UW System this July, regardless of the outcome of the 2015-17 biennial budget.

Radomski said a similarity is the UW Hospital also got bonding authority, a provision suggested for the UW System authority. This allowed the hospital to build new clinic buildings around Madison, Radomski said.

During the UW Hospital shift, Radomski said the nurses’ unions negotiated to stay in place, but since Act 10 was passed in the last budget – effectively disempowering public sector unions – union negotiations for the UW System public authority will be less important.

Radomski said when UW Hospital became a public authority, they had to transfer around $10 million to the state of Wisconsin, but it would be unclear if something like this would take place in the System shift.

“Will there be the provision if the UW System authority passes that there would be a transfer?”

Radomski said. “I don’t know.”

Tara Golshan, Polo Rocha, Alex Arriaga and Emily Neinfeldt contributed to this story.

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Senate to hold early session on right-to-work bill State lawmakers announced Friday debate on legislation impacting private sector unions would begin Wednesday, final vote to occur in March

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Republican lawmakers announced Friday they will hold an extraordinary session to fast track legislation to make Wisconsin a right-towork state.

The legislation will be discussed in an extraordinary session, a session with a specific focus generally used to expedite a certain bill.

Lawmakers have been exploring the option of banning laws that require workers to pay union

fees — a move that would essentially dismantle private sector unions — for months.

Gov. Scott Walker has committed to signing such legislation if it arrives at his desk.

“Governor Walker continues to focus on budget priorities to grow our economy and to streamline state government. With that said, Governor Walker cosponsored right-to-work legislation as a lawmaker and supports the policy,” Walker ’s spokeswoman Laurel Patrick said in an email to the Cap Times. “If this bill makes it to his desk,

Governor Walker will sign it into law.”

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said in a public hearing that debate in the Senate on the legislation will begin Wednesday, but the Assembly will not hold a vote until the beginning of March.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said in a statement he welcomes the opportunity to take up the legislation, which he said would give Wisconsin workers the freedom to choose to join a union.

“Wisconsin should be a

right-to-work state,” Vos said. “The public widely supports worker freedom and the potential positive impact to the state’s economy can no longer be ignored.”

Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, said the decision was made simply to be a “distraction from Walker ’s budget,” which she described as ill received.

Taylor said the policies would be damaging to workers in the state and the extraordinary session was called for the sole purpose of distracting voters from the budget.

“It’s what you do when you’re losing,” Taylor said.

Fitzgerald said Friday the decision to call an extraordinary session was meant to avoid confusion and keep the focus on right to work.

“It just seemed to make sense to ... stay focused on this bill, make this what is, I would say, a very simple calendar so that there’s no confusion about anything like any other bill or any other thing that we might take up,” Fitzgerald said.

“It literally will be the only thing on this calendar.”

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Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations president Phil Neuenfeldt said previously in an interview with The Badger Herald that legislation like this is a step in the wrong direction for Wisconsin.

“This type of legislation is confusing, it’s complicated, it’s controversial, it’s wrong for workers, it’s wrong for the middle class. It puts Wisconsin on the wrong path,” Neuenfeldt said.

AFL-CIO plans to rally at the Capitol Tuesday and Wednesday to protest the bill.

Fulbright scholar studies wildlife balance in Sweden University of Wisconsin ranks fifth nationally for grant program; one recipient uses aid to observe conservation efforts abroad

by Maddie Makoul Herald Contributor

University of Wisconsin ranks fifth nationally among faculty participating in the Fulbright Scholarship Program. One recipient, UW professor Adrian Treves, seeks to bring the harmony he found between nature and society in Sweden back home.

Treves, who furthered his research and teaching in the environmental sciences in Sweden through the Fulbright program, is one of six faculty recipients at University of Wisconsin

for 2014-15. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers American scholars opportunities to do research and consultation with other scholars and institutions abroad.

Scholars usually make multiple visits to their chosen destinations for a duration of two to three years, according to the Fulbright website.

Treves visited Sweden once from September to October 2014 and plans to return in May. Treves first became interested in research in Sweden on a 2007 trip there, when he saw the way

they manage the balance between large carnivores and society, he said. While in Sweden, Treves learned how to implement various conservation models that balance preservation of nature and human welfare, he said.

Treves said even though his research is conducted in Sweden, it will benefit the United States as well.

He said his research in Sweden provides an opportunity to expand how American researchers examine coexistence between carnivores and people.

“Whether we are talking

about options in the United States or internationally, there are a limited number of solutions to coexistence and my experience in Sweden has taught me models that aren’t being tested or tried in the United States,” Treves said.

Treves said a good example of such a model is in the case of Sami reindeer herders, who the Swedish government pays to not kill wolverines. By doing so, female wolverines’ safety is increased and the herders get compensation for any losses in their herd, Treves said.

Through this process, he said the Swedish government balances their obligation to conserve large carnivores with the culture and economic needs of the reindeer herders.

This model resulted positively, as it reduced the poaching of female wolverines, Treves said. U.S. federal or state agencies do not implement a system like

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Students’ commutes stay environmentally friendly Recent figures show walking, taking bus, riding bikes make up majority of most popular ways to traverse on university campus

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

While campus transportation trends appear to reflect an environmentally and tech conscious student body, challenges remain to support the public transportation options students rely on to efficiently get around campus.

According to the 2014 biennial transportation survey report released last month, in good weather 49 percent of University of Wisconsin students opted to walk to class, 22 percent chose to bike and 18 percent elected to take the bus.

“I think the results are very positive. Given the size of this campus, we have very high [variety] of alternative modes [of transportation], and it’s something that’s been fairly consistent over the past 15 to 20 years,” Patrick Kass, director of university Transportation Services said.

According to the report, about one fifth of students currently use the Madison Metro on a given day. Last year the Madison Metro saw a record 15.2 million riders, pushing the system to capacity, Chuck Kamp, general manager for Madison Metro said.

Kamp said the caveat to increased ridership is not having enough buses to compensate for overcrowded routes. He said Madison Metro is looking for solutions like leasing and building parking garages to

house additional buses, if more are made available in the future.

Companies in Madison like Epic are contributing to an influx of young millennials seeking to use these public transportation options, he said. Kamp said he sees young professionals using transit to a greater degree partly due to new smart phone apps for buses, which make it easier for individuals to understand how the bus system works and where buses are in real time.

Campus bus routes saw 2.17 million riders last year, a 22.3 percent increase compared to the year before, according to Madison Metro’s route productivity comparison.

Students and faculty amount for about 45 to 50 percent of ridership for the bus system as a whole, Kamp said.

According to the Transportation Services website, the annual cost of campus bus routes, totaling around $1.5 million, is shared by Associated Students of Madison, UW Transportation Services and UW Housing. Free student bus passes used for non-campus routes are funded by nonallocable segregated student fees. This year ASM allocated $4,252,700 to the passes, according to their website.

The transportation report shows biking as the next most popular option. Kass said UW Transportation Services has adequately responded by putting more investment into this area, like improving the

said.

“We don’t really have to convince girls if you meet them in middle school,” she said. “Often times in high school that tends to drop off, when girls are in the mindset that tells them that they maybe won’t be popular if they do something like engineering.”

Lindy Couwenhoven, a member of SWE, said one of the main pillars of their organization is outreach to girls about a future in engineering.

She said their chapter of SWE does outreach for fifth to seventh grade girls, and also coordinates with Girl Scouts who come to campus for a themed day focusing on a specific engineering field.

Sweden’s, but his research may provide alternatives to the current model, he said.

Treves’ time and research in another country has the potential to open new opportunities for conservation and would improve the current issue of coexistence, although these ideas for alternative methods come with opposition, he said.

“A scientist can take a lot of flak from interest groups or even from the government for proposing alternatives to management,” he said.

“Proposing alternatives to management of a controversial species means we are going to make some enemies simply by reporting our scientific results.”

The international experience provided through the Fulbright program also enhances the classroom, where Treves can integrate his new international perspective, he said.

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The organization also reaches out to high school girls who have expressed interest in engineering.

Amanda Ochsner, a graduate student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is researching why women do not enter the computer science and gaming industry.

She said research shows even low exposure to computer programming before children reach high school makes one far more likely to sign up for and stay enrolled in a computer science class in the remainder of a student’s academic experience.

Ochsner said when she worked as an editor for a game design company in San Francisco, the proportion of women in

Photo · In winter, buses become crowded with UW student commuters.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald location and overall supply of bicycle racks on campus for the past six years. In addition, they are also focusing on improving walking paths, crosswalks and sidewalks for the large amount of people who walk to campus, he said.

“We’re looking to make improvements to make it a better and safer experience for people who are on campus,” Kass said.

While some projects in the university are aimed at newer alternative forms of transportation, like a program begun last year in which the university received four new miniature electric cars, these are mainly used for research, Kass said.

According to the School of Engineering’s website, UW was one of four institutions to receive the Innova Dash allelectric vehicles last summer.

The university is using the cars to promote the use of electric vehicles and to better understand their optimal usage, project leader Suman Banerjee said in the statement.

“We continue to look at [alternative] modes and what we can do to improve, but right now we have fairly positive results,” Kass said.

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Photo courtesy of Adrian Treves the international content of my classes,” he said. “[My classes] will benefit from what I’ve learned, and maybe they will get the urge to visit somewhere like Sweden too.”

game development at the time was close to between 11 and 15 percent. Of these, she said most women work in public relations and publishing in the industry, not game development.

In the wake of Gamergate and other sexist issues related to the gaming and computer design industries, Ochsner urges caution for women entering those fields, but nonetheless encourages girls to consider it.

Photo · Representation of women in science-based workplaces have not changed significantly since the ‘90s.

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Will the public authority model help the UW System or destroy it?

Long sought-after flexibility will make up for Walker’s cuts

Proposal will result in loss of shared governance, essential programs

Gov. Scott Walker proposed his budget plan for the next two years earlier this month, and the reaction on campus has been overwhelmingly negative so far. Mass email messages sent out to the student body by both University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank and the Associated Students of Madison have primarily focused on only one aspect of the budget proposal – the proposed cut.

However, they have lacked substantial information regarding the proposal for public authority, more autonomy for the UW System and protections from future tuition hikes.

In 2011, former UW Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin also proposed a plan that offered more flexibility to UW. In addition to receiving support from the governor in his 201113 budget proposal, the student government agreed with her plan.

As the College Republicans, we believe Blank and ASM should be in favor of, and spread more positive information regarding, the current proposal for public authority and more autonomy for the UW System.

Public authority for the UW System will allow for the system to streamline costs in construction, purchasing, compensation and other areas. To be free from the burdens of state government is something leaders and supporters of the UW System have wanted for years.

The proposal for a public authority will ultimately

About a dozen College Republicans attended a student government meeting Feb. 18, at which the Associated Students of Madison voted on a resolution to formally oppose Gov. Scott Walker’s budget. The meeting began with a College Republican speaking in opposition of the resolution on the grounds that there are, in fact, students on campus who support the budget.

After his speech, an ASM member asked, “Much of our resolution is focused on the threat to shared governance. Do you have any opposition to that particular piece of the resolution?”

After looking confused and glancing over to his fellow College Republicans for help, the speaker stumbled through a clunky answer. The College Republicans were clearly neither well versed nor familiar with shared governance, and what is at stake should it be dismantled with the passage of the governor’s budget.

So what exactly is shared governance? Shared governance is a hard-fought student right that gives us a voice in our university’s administrative decisionmaking process. Under the current system, students retain this right by virtue of a state statute, which means legally we must be involved in this process. However, this might change as a result of Walker’s proposal. We, as students, will, for all intents and purposes, lose this unique empowerment should the governor’s budget pass, as the University of Wisconsin System would transition to public authority status and power would instead go largely to the Board of Regents.

allow the entire system more efficiency, as it is similar to the authority that currently runs the UW Hospital and Clinics.

Basically, the UW System will receive a permanent block grant from the state government that would be adjusted for inflation each year.

A legitimate concern, given this new autonomy, is the possibility of the university enacting massive tuition hikes.

However, the current budget proposal extends the current freeze on tuition for in-state undergraduates across all UW System schools for another two years. To ensure affordable quality education into the future following this two-year freeze, the governor supports a permanent cap on tuition tied to inflation.

For those of us who remember when former Gov. Jim Doyle was in office, he cut $250 million (almost $322 million in today’s value) from the UW System but did not provide tools for the UW System to make up for those cuts. In contrast, Walker has provided the UW System a tool to save money. This tool is a public authority model.

Without such a tool under Doyle, the UW System raised tuition an average of 18 percent in the 200304 school year when he made cuts. With Walker ’s proposal, this will not happen again.

While $300 million in cuts over two years is high, it is important to keep in mind Walker ’s budget proposal only represents 2.5 percent of the total system budget.

It is absurd to claim Walker is against higher education when he currently has two sons in college. Walker ’s ultimate goal is to make college in Wisconsin as affordable, effective and efficient as possible for students and their families.

By focusing on the cuts being “too large,” and not focusing on supporting the public authority proposal and protections against massive tuition hikes, Blank does not appear to be standing with students, even though she claimed in the past that one of her goals is to “make sure this is a university everyone in Wisconsin can afford to go to.” Blank has supported tuition increases in the past, however.

As students at UW, it is important for us to realize Walker had students in mind when coming up with his budget proposal. The governor and Republican lawmakers in this state are not against us, and their goal is not to make college more expensive or difficult for us.

Overall, the public authority proposal in the governor ’s budget plan gives the UW System the tools it needs to save millions in the future and leaves students and taxpayers in the state of Wisconsin in a better place financially.

Courtney Mullen (cemullen2@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in journalism and is the chair of the College Republicans. Ryan Grunwald (rgrunwald@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in political science and economics and is the vice chairman of the College Republicans.

Shared governance is far from the only victim of the public authority status.

Before getting into the details, let’s clear up exactly what public authority means.

The name is misleading.

Republicans in favor of the move will argue public authority grants UW more autonomy and control, creating a stronger university in the long run. However, this notion of betterment is misleading. When looking at the laundry list of vital programs that could be cut, it becomes clear that public authority status would completely transform the way our university operates, and students will bear the brunt of the cost.

Public authority leaves UW less protected in the public market, forcing it to compete more heavily with other institutions; money and profit will take precedence.

Important UW programs like mandatory sexual assault education, professor tenure and recruitment programs for minority and disadvantaged students risk being cut altogether. These kinds of cuts become completely permissible under public authority because the state no longer regulates university activity.

It’s like saying to Ford Motors, “It would be nice if you put seven airbags in your cars, but you’re only required to put four.” As a business, of course Ford would opt to save money. The UW System, though we may envision it to be above market pressures, would do the same.

On a campus that already struggles with diversity, professor retention and sexual assault, can we really afford to cut these programs?

There are certain aspects of our society that don’t belong

in an unregulated market, and higher education is one of them.

Let’s dispel the myths about no tuition increase: public authority means tuition will increase in 2017.

Under public authority status, the Legislature will have no authority over tuition. The Board of Regents can raise tuition as they see fit, and will have little option not to. Coupled with the $300 million in budget cuts, of course tuition will drastically increase.

Republicans will tout University of Virginia as a shining example of public authority being implemented successfully, but they fail to mention the huge tuition spikes the students incurred following the transition – 52 percent to be exact.

Applied to our tuition, that’s a $5,413.20 hike in annual tuition for in-state students and nearly $14,000 for outof-state students. In Texas, the numbers are even more astounding: tuition rose by 104 percent “between deregulation in 2003 and 2014.”

“It’s all going to be okay,” is the narrative we keep hearing from College Republicans. This is ignorant and, frankly, offensive to those already saddled with student loan debt. It might be okay for some students, but many aren’t prepared to pay thousands more for tuition.

More autonomy is in no way worth losing the brilliant minds that are attracted to this university because of its embodiment of the Wisconsin Idea.

August McGinnity-Wake (a.mcwake@gmail.com) is a freshman majoring in political science and is the press secretary for the College Democrats.

Budget proposal threatens Wis. state parks As Walker attempts to remove public funding systemwide, many begin to wonder if he has placed a price on conservation

by Alex Derr Columnist

Growing up in southern Wisconsin, state parks were a major part of my childhood. My first-ever adventure into the parks was with my Scout Troop at Mirror Lake State Park near Lake Delton, Wis. Since then, I’ve visited Devil’s Lake, Perrot State Park, Peninsula State Park and many others. All in all, the Wisconsin State Parks have always been educational and inspirational, and provide everyone affordable access to some of the most beautiful natural wonders of our state.

The park system has seen a fluctuating attendance rate over the past 10 years, according to attendance estimates from 2002-12. Over the course of the last decade, numbers rose and fell. In 2002 roughly 13.7 million people visited parks. In 2011 the number was still 13.7 million, after the number rose as high as 14.4 million in 2010 and as low as 13.1 million in 2005. That’s an unstable stream of people, and exactly the reason the state park system originally received equal funding from state and user revenue. In 1995, the legislature voted to end that requirement, and the amount of state aid has dropped continually since, now at 28 percent of its overall revenue.

Today, the Wisconsin Parks System is facing another decrease in public funding as a result

of Gov. Scott Walker ’s budget proposal. Walker ’s current proposal includes a provision that would remove all public funding from the state park system, making the system completely dependent on revenue generated from entrance fees. To make up for these massive cuts, entrance fees across the state would need to increase. Of course, this plan also assumes that park attendance remains constant. Looking at the large variability in park attendance, this plan has obvious risk, and many would even argue it is doomed from the start.

Numerous park system supporters have also expressed concern for the proposal. In an interview with the Stevens Point Journal, Steve Engler, former president of the Friends of Rib Mountain State Park, said “[If] they (the Walker administration) want us to be partners in the park, then let us be partners and not caretakers.” Similarly, Bill Herrbold, president of Friends of Hartman Creek State Park, shared his discontent over how the budget cuts will diminish the quality of Hartman Creek. “I know from my personal experience that the Hartman Creek State Park doesn’t have the funds necessary to buy essential equipment right now,” he said. “It’s not going to be a quality experience any longer.”

Even if attendance

estimates remain consistent, the system will be left with a $1 million budget cut, nearly 7 percent of their budget.

This will leave the parks with even less resources to handle their maintenance, programs and promotion.

A cut would significantly impact the quality of park programs. This threatens the entire plan, considering the system is dependent on a general increase in the amount of visitors over time.

Supporters of the cuts say they are necessary to balance the budget and share the sacrifice equally. However, they ignore the $1 billion state parks are estimated to bring into the state through tourism. Any major impact on state parks’ abilities to attract and keep visitors will hurt the Wisconsin tourism industry, killing jobs and stifling economic development around the state.

A National Conference of State Legislatures report suggests user-revenue supported state parks haven’t been particularly successful nation-wide in financing themselves.

In fact, the only parks in Wisconsin large enough to survive on entrance fees are Devil’s Lake and Peninsula State Park. The rest lack much of the infrastructure and businesses to boost revenue, like restaurants and shops.

Perhaps the worst aspect of the plan is the message it sends about the nature of state parks. A user-revenue funded system suggests

the park is only there for the purpose of human use.

However, state parks also play an important role in the conservation of natural areas throughout the state.

Their worth comes from the ecosystems, species and interwoven relationships they protect. To base the protection of those areas on the ever-fluctuating attendance numbers is not only dangerous, but ignorant of the important role these parks play in

conservation.

The evidence says this plan may fail. It may kill jobs and harm the still slow job market. It will harm our parks with additional cuts. And it sends the message that parks exist for our pleasure and no other purpose. Let’s protect the public-private partnership of our state park system, with a balance of state funding and user-revenue.

They need our shared support more than ever.

Photo · Peninsula State Park, a historic tourist destination in Door County, might be one of the latest victims of Walker’s budget proposal.

Photo courtesy of The Department of Natural Resources Alex Derr (alexmderr@ gmail.com) is a junior majoring in environmental studies and political science.

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CRASHprez turns up at Memorial Union with LP debut The Bellhops, Lord of the Fly, DJ *hitmayng opened at Madison rapper’s first headlining show at Play Circle show Friday Photo ·Michael Penn II, a.k.a. CRASHprez, focused on issues of black deaths in his upcoming album More Perfect. It will be released Feb. 27.

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by Selena Handler ArtsEtc. Editor

Chimes of classical music from Memorial Union’s upstairs grand piano rung through the union Friday night. But the galleries also hummed lightly with reverberating bass as the inside of the recentlyopened theater resounded with saxophone solos, soulful harmonies and socially-charged rap lyrics.

Nestled at the end of Memorial Union’s austere marble hallways, the Frederic March Play Circle hosted a collection of student artists performing jazz, hip-hop, R&B

and rap.

The event came in the middle of Black History month, but was centered much more around the upcoming release of CRASHprez’s latest album, More Perfect, coming out Feb. 27.

Michael Penn II, known by stage name CRASHprez, is a First Wave Scholar and University of Wisconsin senior.

Penn and his label CATCH WRECK booked the Play Circle because it is an underutilized space with a lot of potential to try new things, he said. This was CRASHprez’s first headlining show after years of opening for rappers like Lil B and Danny Brown and playing festivals. But for Penn, it is also about helping

other Madison-grown artists overcome the hump of being merely “local” or “emerging” artists. Penn said those markers demean artists like him who are making real work and building their careers.

“Student artists or local artists as a community have this influence because we are all here to learn something and we are all here to build,” Penn said.

“So look at what we have built, look at what can be built. Don’t underpay us, don’t under serve us and don’t ignore us. Lets just work together; that’s what we are here for.”

The Bellhops, a black music collective led by First Wave student Taylor Scott, started

out the night with a smoother sound. Scott, Hiwot Adilow and Eric Newble Jr. carried the sultry and bluesy vocals. Keyboards, bass guitar, violin, trombone and drums backed them up and filled the room with palpable electricity that bolstered their vocal range and lyrical themes of womanhood and male relations.

First Waver and CRASHprez collaborator, Lord of the Fly joined Scott during the last few tracks of The Bellhops’ set to add an element of dissidence to their smooth, soulful sound.

Lord of the Fly heightened the energy in the room with his rap set. His performance style can best be described as loud and bouncy; his white, heartstudded converse shone against the bobbing faces of the crowd.

DJ *hitmayng preceded the main act with a solo DJ set. *hitmayng produced the beats for CRASHprez’s album and collaborated on his last EP. CRASHprez and *hitmayng have a complex relationship that extends past the recording

studio, like many of the other performers that night.

CRASHprez’s prerogative was to perform a show worth seeing, unlike modern rappers who tend to sell expensive tickets to shows and barely engage with the audience, Penn said. Penn cites First Wave, especially artistic director Chris Walker, as major influences in adding a theatrical element to his performance.

His set included a lot of performance art from thrashing his body around stage to his interaction with fellow rappers Lord of the Fly, ComPL3xX and pizza boy. UW communication arts lecturer Aaron Granat, was live streaming the show from behind the performers, which was mixed in with a video playing continually stage right.

It included a reel of CRASHprez looking straight ahead, overlaid with images of fire, American flags and clips of President Barack Obama and Pharrell Williams. Granat, known as Kid A, has a firm grasp on CASHprez’s personal aesthetic and helps him develop that visually, Penn said.

CRASHprez performed his entire upcoming LP from cover to cover except for interludes and a particularly controversial track called “Hit That Django”

by Yung Lil Shawty. It makes more sense contextually on the album than performed live, he said.

His performance teetered from emotionally-somber tracks to “lit up,” bass-heavy ones. But the topical themes of his lyrics remained consistent throughout his performance. In two words Penn explained the main driving theme: being black, but he elaborated.

“Death is all through this album, being black and being questioned, not being secure with all the parts of myself,” he said.

Track “40, 28” whose refrain goes, “40 ounces, 28 hours, no one hand should have all that coward,” is centered on a statistic that said an unarmed black person is shot every 28 hours, which has since been discredited by Politifact.

Although Penn is aware of its inaccuracy, he kept the line for its core idea.

“I kept it the way it was because I feel like the sentiment hasn’t changed,” Penn said. “No matter what it is, if it’s 28 hours, 36, 72, the sentiment doesn’t fucking change to me.”

Penn said the song was his favorite to perform because it allowed him to really be theatrical and engage with the crowd.

The night was a smorgasbord of artists helping each other out, drawing in crowds and keeping them there with a variety of powerful musical offerings from smooth jazz to politicallycharged rap.

Kacey Musgraves puts Orpheum to sleep with lackluster set Texas country singer’s genre-defying lyrics, poweful vocals, unorthodox covers were not enough to liven up Friday night performance

by Sam Cleveland ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

The temperature outside the doors of the Orpheum Theater was hovering somewhere below zero most of Friday night. Inside, however, there was a different feel. Aided by a Wild West-type backdrop and the neon cacti of Kacey Musgraves’ stage design, it was pretty easy to forget about the barrage of cold air waiting after the concert.

Like the dichotomy between indoors and outdoors, Musgraves’ performance oscillated between two extreme poles of energy.

While there were some high points such as Musgraves’ rendition of “Mama’s Broken Heart,” Miranda Lambert’s song co-written by Musgraves, and “Merry Go Round,” there seemed to also be an equal number of songs that didn’t translate well into a live performance. Tracks like “Back on the Map” and “High Times” felt sleepy. At one point during “Back on the Map,” someone in the crowd said, “C’mon, wake me up Kacey.”

There are a few explanations why some of Musgraves’ set

felt a little tired. It could be the distinctive nature of her music; Musgraves’ songs tend to defy the current trend in country music of rollicking instrumentation and party lyrics.

Instead, she opts for songs that are more within themselves and toned down. Without complete emotional investment, which Musgraves seemed to lack, these types of songs would fall flat in anyone’s set.

Another explanation could simply be fatigue. Having toured long and hard since releasing Same Trailer Different Park in March 2013, Musgraves may just be burned out. This came through in canned banter, especially early in the set.

“I’m so excited to be here tonight,” Musgraves said unconvincingly after the first song, “Silver Lining.”

This insincere attempt at engagement came not long after she asked the crowd if they were “ready to have a good-ass time,” as if she’d uttered these same words to hundreds of crowds before them.

The set remained drowsy until the middle when Musgraves busted out a strong 1-2 cover punch in Lambert’s “Mama’s Broken Heart” and

TLC’s “No Scrubs.” Musgraves grabbed the crowd’s attention back with these two. While “Broken Heart” sounded a lot like the original, her cover of the R&B/soul group from the ‘90s was a bold move and it paid off.

Though this cover has been a part of Musgraves’ live show for a while, her immaculate voice made it sound fresh as ever.

Her voice was the most pleasant surprise of the show.

In the age of vocal effects and studio sheen, it was refreshing that Musgraves’ voice sounded every bit as beautiful in person as on her recordings. There really wasn’t a single bit she sang that didn’t sound just as good as her recorded work.

In a show that lacked a feeling of connectedness, the part of the show that resonated the most were the first two songs of the encore, “Biscuits” and “Cup of Tea,” which Musgraves performed solo. These are some of the more sentimental songs in Musgraves’ already very sentimental catalog, and she added real emotion to the show for one of the few times in the set.

The encore finished strongly with a cover of “These Boots are Made for Walkin’,” Musgraves’

biggest song, “Follow Your Arrow” and an a capella cover version of “Happy Trails.”

Musgraves, in many ways, exists in an in between state. While trying to keep within arm’s reach from the traps of modern pop country, she is still shooting for radio success, placing her in country limbo. Going against the conservative country music establishment, Musgraves is kind of out on a limb. This placelessness shows through in her live performance, which is lackluster. If she could find a little more stage presence to pair with her pristine singing voice, Musgraves could be a real force in live country music.

Photo · Kacey Musgraves’ Wild West stage design featuring giant neon cacti didn’t reflect the low energy of the show.

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Video game revamps old model with super powers, speed Re-release places gamer in virtual Matrix to take back city from aliens, features voices of Burt Reynolds, Kieth David as government officials

by Evan Conley ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

The start of every generation of game consoles usually provides a variety of new experiences and game series to play. However, in most cases the generation will come with a swath of more advanced versions of games that have already been released on older consoles. Publishers tout rereleases as the “definitive version,” not only attempting to sell more copies, but seeing if they can’t catch new customers that, for one reason or another, missed the release the first time around.

The re-release of 2013’s Saints Row IV — now rebranded as Saints Row IV: Re-Elected on PS4 and Xbox One — certainly packs a big bang for your buck. All the downloadable content released throughout the past two years for the game comes packaged together, including the new “Gat Out of Hell” spin-off game starring series-joker

“Johnny Gat.” Put together, what would have cost $135 in 2013 is available with the rerelease for $50 (or less if you find a good deal on Amazon).

The opening segment of the game alone sends the player climbing up the side of a launching nuclear warhead to Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.” Also, the player is the President of the United States. Anyway, things take a turn one mission later when aliens invade earth to abduct the cabinet, including Vice President Keith David (played by actual Keith David), throwing the player into a virtual simulation of Steelport, the city Saints Row: The Third takes place in.

The game plays off this new Matrix-esque world in quite a few ways, offering multiple improvements to various interfaces and mechanics with the simple explanation that you’re inside a computer.

However — being in the same city as the previous game — many similarities return, but almost all of it becomes

a different beast with the addition of super powers. The ability to run faster than any car or leap over any building makes most motor and aerial vehicles virtually obsolete.

By doing this, vehicular transportation is eliminated as a central game mechanic, and past issues other openworld games have from too much gameplay devoted to traveling between destinations is eliminated. But most importantly, this just makes traveling more enjoyable.

Just like in Saints Row: The Third, you slowly take over the city through completing missions, eliminating control points, taking over stores and completing side events.

But alongside that, there are also numerous “clusters” throughout the overworld used as currency to upgrade your powers. These clusters are neither hard to find, nor limited in number. One can stand on a building and see another on virtually every adjacent rooftop, meaning you’ll never really find yourself

scrambling to find more. In fact, in my play-through, there was a period when I stopped making a point of collecting them and simply picked them up as I went from one mission to the next.

Long story short, aliens have destroyed earth and the player is in the Matrix with the ability to get super powers like super speed, super jump, super glide and other more enjoyably destructive capabilities.

But most important to anyone’s enjoyment of the game is the top-notch sense of humor. From a rescue mission turning into an old-school text adventure to a rooftop battle against a giant anthropomorphic energy drink, the direction of the game is always unpredictable, but never disappointing.

The last game in the series, Saints Row: The Third, is widely known for not taking any bit of itself seriously. The game eventually reaches the

point where the player’s infamous celebrity gang teams up with Mayor Burt Reynolds (played by the real Burt Reynolds) to take down a scifi private military contractor and a luchador-mobster-run syndicate.

However, while Saints Row

IV: Re-Elected is well worth the time of anyone who missed its first release, play through Saints Row: The Third before picking up the new game, as quite a bit might be lost on the player if they haven’t played the prior game before the sequel.

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Comics show off their chops at Madison competition Thirty contestants vie for the most laughs at Comedy Club on State with three minutes of material they did not use during preliminary rounds

by Andie Burjek ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

The energy was electric at Comedy Club on State’s second round of local comedy competition, Madison’s Funniest Comic.

The room was filled with loud cheers and the palpable tension of nervous comics uneasily pacing. Wednesday night was a critical juncture for the remaining comedians, many of whom are looking to develop their comedic brands.

After two preliminary rounds weaning the competition pool from 80 people to 30, Wednesday night was the first real round of competition.

Local comedian Nick Lynch sat nervously reviewing his notebook. He was going on stage next as

contestant No. 25. Lynch has entered the competition every year since it began six years ago, he said. He is one of many seasoned competing comedians.

Comics were required to perform three minutes of material unused in the preliminary rounds. It was an event designed to weed out the fresh meat from the experienced.

Lynch said he goes to the Comedy Club’s open mic nights most Wednesdays and uses them as an opportunity to gauge interest in his new material.

“It’s where you figure out if something works or if it sucks so horribly that you should never say it again,” he said.

This Wednesday, however, eight judges – three established comedians

more than the preliminary rounds – sat in the back of the room reviewing each contestant’s performance and every audience member sat with a scorecard. At the end of the night, Comedy Club manager Joe Buettner would compile the audience members’ and judges’ scores to determine the top 20 comics who would continue on to round two.

Contestants ranged from local hopefuls to a student from Minnesota who had to travel hours to make it each Wednesday.

For Lynch watching each set was met with the nervousness of having to perform later on toward the end of the night. But for those done with their set, the anxiety came with having to wait for the results.

Contestant No. 7, Geoffrey Asmus, said that meant a night critiquing his routine and drinking.

“A lot of comedians drink,” he said, laughing.

“That’s how it is!”

But Asmus said the nerves help him with his routine, especially because his onstage persona is the nervous guy. That’s his shtick — nervous and funny.

In one of his bits, he said he loves women who still use flip phones because it shows they don’t expect much out of life and that would work in his favor.

“I always tried to be the funny man,” he said. “I won one of those stupid superlatives in high school about being funny.”

Max Giles, who went on before Asmus, had a very different shtick. Where

Asmus used nervous, selfdeprecating, girls-don’tlike-me humor, Giles performed as an easygoing, goofy and smarter version of Chris Pratt’s character in “Parks and Recreation.”

“Size doesn’t matter,” Giles said in one of his jokes, think how harmless tigers would be if they were small (they’d be cats) and how scary bees would be if they were big.

Contestant Lauren Cahillane was less certain in her stage persona. She said she hasn’t quite figured out her niche yet, but enjoys the creative liberty. She has been doing comedy off-andon for two to three years and relishes how supportive the Madison comedy scene is, especially to amateurs.

“I’m enjoying trying to find my voice,” she said.

“It’s an adventure that’s not remotely over.”

Lynch, Asmus, Giles and Cahillane confirmed, Madison’s Funniest Comic is a place for those especially committed to honing their craft through practice and gauging audience reactions to new material. Lynch has been doing comedy for almost eight years. Asmus holds both a day job and does shows six days of the week.

Giles, a senior in college, takes the bus five hours from school in Minnesota to make it to rounds of the competition.

After 45 minutes of tallying results, the competition was narrowed down to 20 contestants who square off next Wednesday at the Comedy Club on State.

UW dig tries to engage students with ancient art world Art history professor Nick Cahill traveled to Turkey leads Sardis Expedition, discovers burial ground, temple ruins, part of largest Roman arch

by Sandra Kinzer ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Usually nights of heavy drinking and friendly camaraderie go undocumented, largely forgotten by those involved and hold little historical significance. Unless said night of drinking took place between the first and third centuries A.D., and one of the partygoers etched the goings-on of that party in stone in present day Turkey.

Recently, University of Wisconsin art history

professor Nick Cahill and his team uncovered a stone statue from the ancient city of Sardis with an inscription detailing a night one woman paid for a bout of drinking and invited the entire senate.

Such unusual and culturally distinct findings characterize the Sardis Expedition, an archaeological dig in western Turkey.

Cahill and his team use these collections of ancient artifacts to better understand ancient Lydian culture, how its organization differed

from that of the Greeks and whether Lydian kings once inhabited the site.

They recently uncovered a burial ground, the base and ruins of a Roman temple and part of one of the largest arches in the Roman world.

The team found stone inscriptions in Greek and parts of human sculptures.

One frieze showed a head that looked “a little bit like Elvis,” Cahill said during his speech on their findings Feb. 19.

Part of the Roman temple’s floor had a ninemeter deep fissure, probably created by an earthquake sometime between 478 and 608 A.D. The earthquake may have also contributed to the temple’s destruction.

Another part of the project involved cleaning up some marble slabs in the nearby Temple of Artemis, excavated a hundred years ago.

Since then, lichen and a black film of cyanobacteria have covered the walls.

Workers applied biocide, which killed the organisms and restored the marble to its original condition.

At one point the team prepared for a seemingly routine excavation that would

Photo ·The dig’s findings will be catalogued online so the public, students and scholars will have ready access to it.

Photo courtesy of Nick Cahill

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reveal more of an old marble-paved road. They expected to dig down until they hit marble pavement.

“It should have been the easiest thing in the world … so we were a little bit surprised when large marble blocks started to appear out of the dirt,” Cahill said.

They had discovered pieces from a fallen arch and from the shape of those pieces they could deduce its size. Cahill doesn’t want to announce it as the largest one quite yet, but said he doesn’t know of any arches comparable in size.

Sardinian builders commonly reused material from other structures, and the arch is no exception.

Some of the column drums, which are basically circular slices of the column, were taken from the nearby

Temple of Artemis.

However, Cahill doesn’t know the nature of the relationship between these two buildings.

“Was this a deliberate and meaningful reuse of ancient sacred stones? Or did someone just get a big discount on odd-sized column drums?” he said, joking with the audience.

His questions remain unanswered, but Cahill’s rhetoric gave new life to the ancient focus of his speech, and engaged members of the community who will soon have access to the findings and will be able to explore these questions on their own. The expedition is developing a website to catalogue all of its finds and allow the public, scholars and students to view and use them.

Photo · The expedition’s findings included a stone statue with an inscription in Greek about a woman who paid for a night of drinking with the entire senate.

Photo courtesy of Nick Cahill

“We hope to dump 50-something years of results into that,” Cahill said.

Everyone from archaeologists and topographers, to conservators and seismologists worked on this excavation. Though Cahill described the dig as “relatively straightforward,” it seems that what they dig up is often far more interesting than what they had expected.

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Badgers falter in second half, get toppled by Wildcats Women’s basketball possessed 15-point lead with just 10 minutes left in regulation, but ends up losing in overtime to Northwestern, 86-83 Photo · Despite shooting 43 percent from the field Sunday afternoon, Wisconsin turned the ball over 23 times, including a gamehigh seven giveaways by Dakota Whyte (1). The ball control problems led to 25 points off of turnovers for Northwestern.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald

by Chris Bumbaca Associate Sports Editor

It was Senior Day at the Kohl Center for the Wisconsin women’s basketball team, and it wouldn’t have been more fitting for one of the three active members of the senior class to be the hero.

AnnMarie Brown had that opportunity, but she couldn’t convert a layup in the waning seconds of overtime, as Wisconsin fell to Northwestern 86-83 Sunday afternoon.

“It’s like any other shot, you have basically a 50-50 shot of making it,” Brown said. “And that one didn’t seem to go in. I can’t do anything about it. I tried. I

HALTED, page 12 rest.

Wisconsin’s next chance to get back on track will come next week when they hit the road to take on Michigan in a two-game series.

Badgers top MSU Friday The Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s win Friday night over Michigan State wasn’t pretty, but that won’t make winning two in a row for the first time all season any less sweet.

did what I could.”

The Badgers (8-18, 4-12 Big Ten) were down by eight with 59.7 seconds left during the overtime period, trailing 80-72. A layup from junior guard Dakota Whyte, followed by a threepointer from Brown and another three from fellow senior Jacki Gulczysnki off a Wildcat turnover made it 82-80 with 26 seconds remaining.

Northwestern’s Karly Rozer then sunk two foul shots to up the Wildcats’ lead to four, but Brown grabbed an offensive rebound and converted an and-one. Her free throw made it 84-83.

Junior guard Tessa Cichy immediately fouled Northwestern’s Christen

Inman on the inbound.

Inman, who had missed from the free throw line only once in Big Ten play

Wisconsin (4-19-4, 2-92 Big Ten) registered only 18 shots against Michigan State (12-13-2, 6-5-2-2), but its two goals in the second period were all the Badgers would need to grind out a 2-1 victory.

Along with Friday night’s win giving Wisconsin its first winning streak this year, Friday night’s win was also its first win on a Friday night. According to head coach Mike Eaves, those types of milestones are signs

of progress.

“It all falls in line with our second half goals,” Eaves said. “Those are all indicators we’re moving in the right direction.

Forward Kevin Schuzle, who scored the go-ahead goal, added that the level of positivity in the Badgers locker room has increased as of late, which has shown in their play.

The first period was as uneventful as they come.

Highlights were few and far between for both teams, as the entire Kohl Center seemed to be lulled asleep. Eaves attributed the lack of good looks at the net to the Spartans’ defensive style of play that doesn’t provide much space to operate in their zone.

“And

I feel so bad for AnnMarie. She’s been through so much, and to miss that shot, which she makes all the time, she doesn’t miss a lot of layups around the basket.

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Bobbie Kelsey Wisconsin head coach this season, missed her first one but made the second, making it 85-83.

“It felt like we were in control in the overtime,” Northwestern head coach Joe McKeown said. “We were up seven, eight, nine, but they kept coming back and made plays. So you gotta give them a lot of credit.”

That set up the Badgers with an opportunity to win the game, and when junior guard Nicole Bauman drove down the lane and dished it to Brown all alone on the left block, the game was surely to be tied once again.

It did not work out that way.

Wisconsin had yet another chance after Northwestern (21-6, 11-5 Big Ten) went 1-2 from the line, this time with 2.8 seconds to go. Brown had the chance to be the

Both teams were scoreless after one, but the Badgers were finally able to break through once the second period rolled around.

Wisconsin captain Chase Drake opened up the scoring six minutes into the period with a quiet wrist shot that snuck by Spartan goaltender Jake Hildebrand.

Eaves attributed Drake’s goal to working on the type of shot he scored on in practice.

“I think Chase has done a real good job keeping the ship together and we was rewarded tonight on a nice goal by what he did this week in practice.” Eaves said. “Coach Walsh and all the defensemen worked this week on faking a shot and then stepping and creating a shooting lane and that’s

hero once more with the possibility of a half-court heave to send the game to a second overtime, but couldn’t get the shot off before time expired.

“To the kids’ credit, they kept playing,” Wisconsin head coach Bobbie Kelsey said. “No one could say that the Badgers give up, or hang their heads.

“And I feel so bad for AnnMarie. She’s been through so much, and to miss that shot, which she makes all the time, she doesn’t miss a lot of layups around the basket.

Maybe she was just so wide open she couldn’t believe it.”

Northwestern tied the game with 1.4 seconds left in regulation off an inbound, when Maggie Lyon drained a 12-foot baseline jumper, the first time the teams had been tied since 1717. The possession before that Whyte made one of her two free throws, which gave Northwestern the chance it needed to tie the game without having to shoot a three. The Wildcats had originally missed two other attempts before a scramble for the ball resulted in a jump ball with the possession arrow in favor of the Wildcats.

“We’ve got some tough kids, like a Maggie Lyon or a [sophomore] Nia Coffey, who can just make a play,” McKeown said.

how he scored his goal.”

After Wisconsin gained the lead, they never surrendered it. Forward Kevin Schuzle put the Badgers up two on a onetimer that found the net with just 30 seconds to play in the second period.

The Spartans fought back in the third and brought Wisconsin’s lead to one just two minutes into the final period. While the Badgers have been prone to giving up late-game equalizer, they held strong this time around. Wisconsin goaltender Joel Rumpel made 14 saves in the final period to preserve the victory.

According to Drake, the win had the whole team fired up and encouraged things are starting to turn

Coffey led the Wildcats in scoring with 21 points, while Lyon added 15. Three more Wildcats scored in double figures: Lauren Douglas and Ashley Deary had 12 apiece, while Inman scored 11.

Bauman led the Badgers scoring attack, pouring in 22, while Gulczynski had 19, going 5-10 from three.

Senior Cassie Rochel had her fifth double-double of the season, scoring 12 points and grabbing 13 rebounds.

The Badgers led by as many as 15 in the second half, when Whyte hit a three from the far baseline. After Bauman hit a three with 5:32 remaining in regulation, the Wildcats keyed up a 8-0 run in the next two minutes and 30 seconds to cut the Wisconsin lead to 65-63.

“We just started kinda playing not to lose,” Brown said. “Rather than just keep shoving the ball down their throats and going for the win ... We’ll bounce back. We know we’re there.”

Both teams struggled offensively in the first half, particularly Northwestern, a result of sloppy play and poor shooting.

The Wildcats last field goal of the half came with 8:29 to go and their only points came from two free throws the rest of the half.

They shot 35.7 percent from the field, while Wisconsin shot 41.2 percent.

Wisconsin had nine turnovers in the half, finishing with 23 total, allowing Northwestern to score 25 points off turnovers in their seventh straight victory.

“It’s easy to get down when you’re losing, and say, ‘Let’s just pack it in,’” Kelsey said. “But we owe it to our seniors to play hard, and to ourselves, to keep fighting.

Because you can build on fighting, but you can’t build on quitting. And they didn’t quit.”

around.

“Everyone was pretty excited, Rumpel was fist pumping hard and screaming at guys so that’s always good,” Drake said.

“We’ve learned our lessons from our past games and I think it showed tonight.”

Photo · Grant Besse (12) leads Wisconsin in scoring with 21 points this season, but Michigan State limited him to just one shot on goal in Saturday’s 3-0 loss at the Kohl Center. Wisconsin had 31 total shots on goal as a team, after just 18 the night before, but were unable to score a goal.

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Offensive woes prevent series sweep for Wisconsin Badgers record more than 30 shots for just fifth time this season Saturday night, but Michigan State hands UW its 20th loss Photo · Including Saturday’s shutout against Michigan State, Wisconsin has now failed to score a goal in four games this year, and has scored less than two goals in 11 contests this season.

Kendra Lange The Badger Herald

by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

The Wisconsin men’s hockey team found itself in the midst of one of its best stretches of the season when it took to the ice to face Michigan State Saturday night at the Kohl Center.

Entering Friday night against the Spartans (13-13-2, 7-5-2-2 Big Ten), the Badgers (420-4, 3-10-4) had failed to collect a series-opening win in their previous 13 series. But thanks to two second-period goals in the first game, Wisconsin held off MSU 2-1 to secure its first winning streak of the season — a modest two games.

The winning streak

happened to come on the heels of an 11-game winless streak, which was also the longest of the season so far. The win had the players feeling as if they had emerged from one of the darker parts of the season, according to senior captain Chase Drake.

“We’ve had a tough stretch there and we’re picking up momentum now,” Drake said. “I think guys are excited to come to the rink. When you win, it always makes everything better, so yeah, there’s definitely a positive light for us now.”

It was short-lived, however, as the winning ways came to a halt in the series finale. The Spartans responded with a 3-0

victory. Scoring two times in the opening period. Michigan State didn’t look back, as the Wisconsin offense continued its season-long woes.

However, despite the loss, Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves did not view the game as a step back for his team.

“I think it was more of a litmus test of where we are,” Eaves said. “We didn’t react very well to it. It kind of let us know where we stood. I just didn’t like the number of battles we lost and the fact that our skill guys didn’t react well.”

The lost battles Eaves pointed to were also what he said decided Saturday night’s affair, along with a lack of poise

by Badgers’ skilled players.

Wisconsin was certainly not without chances throughout the series finale, and actually had 13 more shots than on Friday night, when it scored two times.

But the lack of poise prevented Wisconsin from cashing in on scoring opportunities when it had them.

On multiple occasions throughout the night, UW had passing sequences that set a player up with a good look at the net, but either the pass was not clean or the shot didn’t find the net. When the puck did go on goal, Spartans netminder Jake Hildebrand made the stop, as he earned his fourth shutout of the season for Michigan State with 31 total saves.

While Wisconsin couldn’t win the small battles and had trouble finishing the plays, Michigan State had all three of its goals come after beating the Badgers to the puck. The Spartans’ first tally in the first period resulted from a series of rebounds in front of Wisconsin goaltender Joel Rumpel that his defense couldn’t clear. Michigan State’s final two goals came by way of Spartan players securing the puck along the end boards and feeding a player in front of the net.

“It was evident that they were playing with a little burr in their bonnet that was a little bit bigger than ours,” Eaves said. “They won more races, more battles.”

The Wisconsin offense didn’t just struggle at even strength and had a great deal of difficulty on the power play, going 0-5 through the course of Saturday night. Including a power-play goal at Ohio State last Saturday night, Wisconsin has gone just 1-17 on the man advantage over the course of the last three weekends.

The Badgers had trouble entering the zone and maintaining possession once they were inside the offensive zone during the five power plays, as they managed a total of eight shots. Eaves thought the power play performed poorly enough that it even took away some of the Badgers’

momentum by the time the man-advantages expired.

“We definitely did not execute on any our power plays,” defenseman Tim Davision said. “We had limited chances, if any, got a lot of shot blocks. Our breakouts were tough. We couldn’t really establish in-zone offense. It just wasn’t there tonight.”

Wisconsin’s shot total was 31, making it only the fifth time this season the Badgers have eclipsed 30 or more shots on goal. But similar to the other four games with 30 or more shots, the Badgers failed to win, giving them a record of 0-4-1 in those contests. The shutout also marked the fourth time this season Wisconsin has failed to record a goal, and the 11th time this year where the Badgers have been held to one goal or fewer. Last season Wisconsin was limited to one goal or fewer just four times, and in the last three seasons combined it had been shutout a total of three times.

Rumpel masked those offensive woes Friday night with strong play, but there wasn’t much he could do for the Badgers on the three goals Michigan State scored Saturday night, with Eaves saying “he would have had to have pulled a rabbit out of his hat to get some of those.”

The loss may have set Wisconsin back and given the Badgers their 20th loss of the season, but taking both games from a team in the middle of a conference title race is a tall task, according to redshirt sophomore Morgan Zulinick.

“I don’t think we can look at it as a step back,” Zulinick said.

“We got to push forward no matter what happened tonight.

Sweeping is hard no matter who it is.”

UW pummels Huskies on heels of Friday defeat Women’s hockey falls to St. Cloud State 2-1 in first game of series, but responds with convincing 5-0 victory Sunday in final regular season tilt

by Chris Caporale Women’s Hockey Writer

In its final regular season home game, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team found the back of the net multiple times to get back on track.

The Badgers defeated visiting St. Cloud State 5-0 Sunday afternoon at LaBahn Arena to end their two-game losing streak.

“Especially after the loss on Friday, I think we really didn’t want to lose again,” senior captain Blayre Turnbull said. “We came here ready to work yesterday, learned a lot of things in video we could do better and we were able to transfer that onto the ice and make the most of it.”

Head coach Mark Johnson wanted to see increased intensity, especially in the first 10 minutes of the game.

The Badgers played with intensity for 60 minutes, but Johnson was only able to see the final period of the game. He was flying back from New York for a reunion celebrating the “Miracle on Ice” when the United States defeated the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympic games.

Wisconsin sophomore Sarah Nurse opened up the scoring with a goal fewer than four minutes into the game, when she skated around the net and into the right circle before taking the shot to beat Huskies’ goaltender Katie Fitzgerald high. Sydney McKibbon and Melissa Channell recorded assists on the goal.

Wisconsin dominated possession throughout the game, and didn’t allow the Huskies to record their first

shot on goal until the 9:40 mark of the game. That dominance continued into the third period where Wisconsin didn’t allow a single shot on goal.

“It was a great day for us to bounce back from the loss on Friday,” Wisconsin assistant coach Jackie Friesen said. “The girls played hard for 60 minutes, and it showed, especially in the third period not allowing them a shot. We were pretty happy with that and really happy with the effort as we move forward into the playoffs.”

Turnbull and fellow senior Brittany Ammerman each lit the lamp for the Badgers to extend the lead to three halfway through the second period.

Annie Pankowski scored later in the second when she got a rebound from Emily Clark’s shot attempt.

The fifth and final goal came from Clark as she sped past three St. Cloud State defenders before flicking a backhanded shot past Fitzgerald.

Badgers offense sluggish in Friday loss St. Cloud State handed the Wisconsin women’s hockey team its second consecutive loss Friday, a feat last accomplished by Minnesota four months ago.

An early goal put the Huskies ahead, but the Badgers dominated the pace for the majority of the game.

Wisconsin attempted 106 total shots, with 53 of them on target. St. Cloud State goalkeeper Julie Friend stopped 52, with the lone goal given up with mere

seconds left in the game.

“It’s the tough thing about our sport,” Johnson said. “Their goaltender was obviously better than any of the shots we took today.

It took us until 15 seconds to go in the game to get one. There’s not much you can say. We played a pretty good game, but we didn’t get rewarded for a lot of our efforts out there today.”

The Huskies opened up the scoring in the first period with a goal off a Wisconsin turnover.

St. Cloud State’s Alyssa Erickson scored her third goal of the season when she went top shelf on AnnRenée Erickson, who had only faced two shots before

the initial goal.

Abby Ness and Amanda Arbogast assisted on the lone first period goal.

Late in the third period, after the Badgers pulled Desbiens for an extra attacker, the Huskies forced a turnover and Payge Pena found the back of the empty net to extend the lead to 2-0.

Wisconsin bounced back just 45 seconds later with a goal of their own from Pankowski from between the circles. The Badgers went with an empty net again, so an extra attacker helped find holes in the defense. Ammerman and junior Courtney Burke recorded assists on the goal.

But it was just a little

too late, as only 15 seconds remained in the game for the Badgers to find the equalizing goal.

Johnson started the game by switching up some lines on the front end to see if they could produce against the Huskies’ defense and Friend.

Wisconsin and St. Cloud State will see even more of each other in the coming week, playing again next weekend in the first round of the WCHA playoffs.

These games may not be the best indicators for next weekend’s matchup, as both teams have solidified their position in the WCHA. Neither team may want to give away their strategies

Photo · After scoring just one goal Friday, Wisconsin exploded for five goals Sunday. Eleven different players, including Karley Sylvester (24) who had an assist, tallied at least one point in the win, with four players recording multipoint outings.

Thomas Cawrse The Badger Herald

with playoffs looming right around the corner.

“When you play this team multiple times, you have to do things over the course of those games to try to have success,” Johnson said.

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63 - 53 Badgers drop Gophers, stretch win-streak to 10 Frank Kaminsky pours in 21 points, while sophomore point guard Bronson Koenig adds career-high 17 to maintain three game lead in Big Ten

by Nick Brazzoni Men’s Basketball Writer

The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team extended its win-streak to 10 games and is off to the best start in school history, as it defeated Minnesota 63-53 Saturday at the Kohl Center.

The Badgers (25-2, 13-1 Big Ten) were victorious with senior forward Frank Kaminsky leading the way once again. The National Player of the Year candidate finished with 21 points on 9-13 shooting, five rebounds, three assists and three blocks in 36 minutes of play.

For the first time in awhile, Wisconsin was held in check to start the game. Minnesota (16-12 overall, 5-10) prevented UW from jumping out to a hot start, which the Badgers have become accustomed to doing as of late.

The Badgers and Gophers continually traded baskets to start the game, as UW was unable to build a lead greater than three points for the first nine minutes of the first half.

Kaminsky led the way to start the game, scoring 12 points on 5-6 shooting in the first 10 minutes of the first half.

Wisconsin had built their lead to seven points when Kaminsky exited the game for the first time with 9:28 remaining.

With the All-American out of the game, UW struggled to take care of the ball and allowed Minnesota to crawl back into the game. Over the course of the next 2:34, the Gophers trimmed the Badger lead down from seven to one.

At that point, Kaminsky checked back in and, despite the senior not scoring for the remainder of the period, Wisconsin finished the first half strong, going into the locker room with a 35-27 lead.

“It was just one of those games where we got the lead and never looked back and tried to grind it out,” Kaminsky said.

Sophomore guard Bronson Koenig joined Kaminsky as the only two Badgers to score in double figures in the first half, recording 10 points on

3-6 shooting from the field and 2-4 from three-point range.

Despite the first-half performances by Kaminsky and Koenig, the highlight of the first 20 minutes was when redshirt senior guard Josh Gasser hit a layup in the post with 1:15 remaining.

That layup gave Gasser 1,000 points for his Wisconsin career and made him the 41st Badger to reach that milestone.

“It’s great,” Gasser said.

“In a month or two when the season is over and I look back at everything that’s gone on, I’ll be proud if it. But right now, we got bigger fish to fry.”

Gasser joined Michael Finley as the only two players from Wisconsin to record 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 250 assists in their careers.

In the second half, the Badgers never wavered, as they held a double-digit lead throughout the frame and only saw the lead get to single digits once with 1:37 remaining in the game. But by that time, the game was well out of reach for Minnesota.

“Wisconsin does a great job of not beating themselves by

not fouling and not turning a significant impact on the the ball over,” Minnesota head game. coach Richard Pitino said.

Hollins, who came into the Over the course of the game as the Gopher’s leading entire 40 minutes Sunday, scorer, was limited to just the Badgers committed just two points on 1-8 shooting seven fouls, with Gasser with no player on him for the Key statistic: committing majority of the more than two, afternoon.

Wisconsin holds its and limited “I felt fifth-straight opponent to Minnesota to extremely 55 points or less, while just one free prepared blocking a season-high throw attempt, with what he nine shots against which they was going to missed. do and what the Gophers Saturday “When you Minnesota was afternoon. are a coach you going to do Next: Tuesday at get frustrated offensively,” Maryland with fouls and Gasser said. turnovers,” “Especially in Pitino said. the first half, I “They don’t do it, and that is felt like I was one step ahead why they win.” of what was coming. It’s Defensively, Wisconsin tough. It’s not an easy task. put in one of their best Because I felt locked in.” performances of the season.

Minnesota’s leading scorers They forced Minnesota into were Nate Mason, DeAndre 11 turnovers and blocked nine Mathieu and Carlos Morris, Minnesota shots. who each finished with 11 A big reason as to why points.

Wisconsin was able to be so For Wisconsin, Koenig successful defensively was its finished with a career-high 17 efforts in not letting Minnesota points on 4-10 shooting and guard Andre Hollins have sophomore forward Nigel

Hayes recorded nine points and seven rebounds.

Junior forward Sam Dekker struggled from the field, scoring just five points on 1-8 shooting, but he did record three blocks.

As a team, Wisconsin shot 23-49 (47 percent) from the field and 10-25 (40 percent) from behind the arc.

With the end of the regular season in sight, Wisconsin now faces their toughest stretch yet, having road games against Maryland and Ohio State and the final home game against Michigan State over the course of the next two weeks.

The Badgers will see this tough stretch as a final tune-up before they enter postseason play.

“It’ll be a good test for us,” Kaminsky said. “We are excited for the challenge and we will do whatever we can to come out on top.”

Wisconsin will travel Tuesday to College Park where they will take on Maryland for the first and only time this season. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m.

Wisconsin’s string of victories halted by Spartans UW’s 2-1 Friday night triumph against Michigan State gave it back-to-back wins for first time this year, but it falls flat Saturday in 3-0 loss

by Derek Franklin Men’s Hockey Writer

It looked like Wisconsin men’s hockey team was heading in the right direction after winning its last two games, but against Michigan State Saturday night the Badgers seemed to make a detour.

After defeating the Spartans the previous night, Wisconsin (4-20-4, 2-10-2-2 Big Ten) was no match for Michigan State (13-12-2, 7-52-2) the second time around at the Kohl Center as the Spartans put the Badgers’

two game winning streak to a halt with a 3-0 shutout.

After the game, Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves said Michigan State simply outworked them, and seemed determined to avenge their Friday night defeat.

“They battled more than we did,” Eaves said. “Give kudos to them, they came back with a fire in their belly.”

Eaves was also unhappy with the way his skill players played in the series’ second tilt, saying he was disappointed with how they responded when put under pressure by Michigan State.

The Badgers had no answer for Michigan State’s Ryan Keller in the

“They

just battled

more than we did.

Give kudos to them, they came back with

”

a fire in their belly.

Mike Eaves Wisconsin head coach first period. Eight minutes into the game, Keller put the Spartans up one with

a rebound score. About five minutes later, Keller doubled down on his goal total by making a beautiful spin move right in front of the net, and then flicking a backhand shot with his back to the goal that snuck through Wisconsin goaltender Joel Rumpel’s legs.

Five minutes into the second the period, Wisconsin forward Joseph LaBate hit the crossbar.

That was as close as the Badgers would come to getting on the board in the second 20 minutes. Despite having a couple power play

opportunities, Wisconsin was unable to crack the Spartan defense, as the score remained 2-0 in MSU’s favor heading into the third period.

Wisconsin got a pair of chances on the power play in the final period, with one almost immediately out of the gate to open the frame. But as was the case throughout the night, the Badgers failed to convert and came up empty-handed on all five opportunities.

LaBate felt lack of execution in big situations was a central issue in Saturday night’s game,

which was a contributing factor in the struggling power play.

“We just weren’t able to capitalize on our chances we had,” LaBate said. “I don’t think we had the poise and confidence that we needed tonight.”

After UW failed on its first man advantage of the third period, Michigan State’s Thomas Ebbing tacked on a third goal for the Spartans five minutes in that silenced the Kohl Center crowd and effectively put the game to

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