Path to Justice - Issue 43

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THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015 · VOL 46, ISSUE 43 · BADGERHERALD.COM

E C I T S U J O T PATH Tony Robinson’s death continues to spark protests.

The state will now determine what lies ahead.

by NINA KRAVINSKY

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Deans engage ASM in revising sexual assault code Officials from dean’s office aim to ‘fight hard’ for inclusion of student voice during complex Chapter 17 revision process

by Catherine Guden Reporter

With University of Wisconsin’s student conduct code regarding sexual assault undergoing major revisions, the dean’s office looked to student government’s largest governing

body for support Wednesday.

Associate Dean of Students Kevin Helmkamp and Assistant Dean Tanya Schmidt met with Associated Students of Madison’s Student Council to address the need for student voice in discussions of upcoming policy changes.

Chapter 17 is the student

non-academic misconduct policy upholding university standards dealing with issues of violence, discrimination and sexual assault.

Helmkamp said Chapter 17 is currently undergoing a complex revision process that will improve the code and also lead to students playing a more

active role.

“Looking through the student perspective and having that lens is important, rather than just hearing from faculty and staff,” Helmkamp said.

Both Helmkamp and Schmidt have fought hard for the use of student panels in sexual assault cases.

Schmidt said the panelists are selected from ASM, Faculty Senate and the Academic Staff Assembly. Anyone who is trained to serve on the panel can be selected for a case. The ratio is one student and two faculty or staff members, with all votes weighed equally.

Schmidt emphasized the

entire UW System needs to weigh in and receive feedback for the revisions of the code.

She said it is important for all students to understand the code because they need to know the expectations for themselves.

The last time Chapter 17 was

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Explained: why school voucher debate is ideological

Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal has experts, lawmakers talking separation of church and state, private school versus public school

by Brandon Maly Herald Contributor

Gov. Scott Walker plans to expand the statewide K-12 private school voucher program in his 201517 biennial budget proposal. The program will include more students than ever before, a proposition which has lawmakers and education experts questioning ideology.

The program was previously

expanded in Walker’s 2013-15 biennial budget as a statewide trial that was capped at 1,000 students, 31 private schools and set voucher amounts.

In his January budget address, Walker unveiled his plan to lift this voucher cap. He said every family is different and deserves a choice in what school best fits their student’s needs.

“Overall, we want to provide the best education possible for every

child in this state,” Walker said in the address. “For many, like my sons and me, it will be a traditional public school. For other families, it will be in a successful charter, private, virtual or home school environment.”

Julie Mead, a University of Wisconsin professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Department, said these would all change if Walker’s expansion proposal were passed.

“The expansion will remove

program caps on both student enrollment and the number of private schools allowed, as well as change the way the program is funded,” Mead said.

The funding currently involves a complex equation that shares costs between public schools and general state revenues. Now the funding will come from a “convoluted” state aid pool to be divided among students accepted into the programs, Mead said.

Mead said removing the cap and changing the funding would actually result in less tuition being available for each student. This debate, Michael Apple, a UW educational policy professor, is deeply ideological.

Apple said the funding will affect public schools.

“Every dollar that is given to a voucher program takes away from funding to public schools,” Apple said.

Apple said public schools are

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being starved for money right now, adding that this creates a crisis for schools in high-need areas. He said Walker’s expansion proposal is a tactical move to try and make Wisconsin a private school system.

In a recent statement about Walker’s proposed budget and voucher expansion, Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R-Fond du Lac, said it is not about taking away from public

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Regents ‘too busy’ to hear student concern ASM leaders say UW System officials lack accessibility in communicating about prospect of public authority model

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The Associated Students of Madison said Tuesday that its requests to speak at University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meetings have been denied because the regents have been “too busy.”

In a joint interview with The Badger Herald and The Daily Cardinal, ASM leaders expressed concerns over the regents’ accessibility, especially as Gov. Scott Walker’s budget seeks to expand their power.

Walker’s biennial budget proposal creates a UW System “public authority” that would have more autonomy than other state agencies, although some have raised concerns that Walker’s proposal gives too much power to the regents.

ASM Legislative Affairs Chair Tom Gierok said ASM’s requests to speak at regents

meetings have been met with replies that the regents are “too busy.” To ASM, Gierok said, the Board of Regents “isn’t being accessible.”

“They’re going to have to increase [student accessibility] if they expect to get the power that they’re going to get,” Gierok said. “How do you hear the student voice? That’s what we’re trying to face. There’s no clear way. Because there’s no precedent, we’re trying to figure out where to go.”

Two students sit on the 18-member Board of Regents, including UW-Madison student Nicolas Harsy.

Among ASM’s top concerns, its leaders said, is that Walker’s proposal eliminates the shared governance language that currently exists in state statutes.

They also raised concerns that once the UW System has more autonomy, it could spike tuition rates dramatically,

in part to deal with the $300 million in cuts Walker has proposed for the system.

The regents have promised that they’ll keep that shared governance language if the UW System does become a public authority and maintain affordable levels of tuition. But Gierok cautioned that ASM isn’t sure it should fully trust the regents.

“Students don’t get floor time [or] talk time,” Gierok said. “The power that we’re handing over to the Board of Regents won’t be the most efficient if students are not further included.”

ASM Chair Genevieve Carter said more study is needed before the UW System becomes a public authority, calling the task an “enormous undertaking.” At other institutions, she said, similar transitions occurred after months, if not years, of

studying the potential impacts.

Carter said she would like to see an effort from the Board of Regents to examine the impacts before a public authority is implemented.

“If the Board of Regents really wants this transition to happen, I think it’s their responsibility to be engaging stakeholders, not just faculty and staff, but students as well, to say how will this actually impact your campuses, how will this actually impact your educational experiences,” Carter said.

ASM is trying to juggle both the proposed budget cuts and the public authority at the same time, and there has not been enough time to have a comprehensive conversation with the student body, Gierok said.

Madison Laning, ASM Finance Committee chair, said students need to know sooner

rather than later if a raise in out-of-state student tuition will occur to make up for budget cuts.

ASM over the years has repeatedly sought more control of the allocation of segregated fees, which students pay each semester to fund campus services, activities and groups.

Carter said UW System President Ray Cross has raised the possibility of freezing segregated fees, but she called the “unprecedented scrutiny” on the fees concerning.

“One of the most important abilities students have is to fund student groups on campus,” Carter said.

“If there are limitations placed on our abilities to regulate segregated fees, that’s hugely concerning, especially because of the important services we’re able to fund.”

UWPD advises precaution after bike thefts Students, locals encouraged to be more aware after hundreds of bikes were recovered in recent investigation

by Emily Skorik City Editor

The University of Wisconsin Police Department is warning students to take precautions against bike thefts — a week after recovering 600 likely stolen bikes.

The exact number of bikes stolen is uncertain, although UWPD found more than 1,000 bikes in four different locations around Madison, with 600 of them having serial numbers, UWPD Chief Susan Riseling said in a news conference Tuesday.

It will be easier for UWPD to determine the charges against the suspects, Duane J. Tessmer, 53, Town of Madison, and Michael J. Bingen, 57, Village of Muscoda, as soon as people reclaim their stolen bikes and UWPD knows how many were actually stolen, Riseling said.

UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott said he sees bike theft as a major issue in some areas surrounding UW’s campus.

“We’ve seen a really big increase, luckily not here on campus, but on the

outskirts of campus where there’s drug use,” Lovicott said. “People need money to feed those drug habits and oftentimes they turn to theft.”

Stealing a bike is usually a crime committed with little to no planning, as some see it as an easy opportunity, Lovicott said.

UWPD has been conscious of reminding people to take precautions and securely lock their bikes up, especially around this time of the year when the weather warms up, he said.

“I would say it’s very common for us to deal with [bike theft] even more than once on a daily basis when the weather gets nicer and more and more people are using their bikes,” Lovicott said.

Lovicott said he believes the number of bike thefts on campus has remained steady over the years. One of the reasons theft has stayed so low, he said, could be due to the Bike Bait program, which has been prevalent on campus for the past few years, he said.

The program is designed to catch bike thieves as well as prevent thefts.

UWPD places dummy bikes in areas where they see frequent theft, Lovicott said. GPS units are attached to the bikes and an alert is sent to officers’ phones when the bikes are moved. The department can then track movement in real time on a map, he said.

The Bait Bike program has attracted attention across the country from other police departments, Lovicott said.

“We’ve led the way in this effort,” Lovicott said.

“Other police departments have looked to us in guidance on how to start their own Bait Bike program.

It’s clear that it works, and it’s something that we will continue to improve upon.”

It is also important for bike owners to take precautions and register their bikes, Linda Pergola, bicycle registration coordinator for the city of

Madison, said.

“If you have a current registration and the bike is stolen and the bike is recovered, we can get it back to you,” Pergola said.

UWPD also distributes stickers to pedestrians for free that read, “This could be a UWPD Bait Bike,” and encourage people to stick them on their bikes in hopes they will deter criminals, he said.

“It’s not like we’ve got a thousand bike thefts out there. There’s a handful of

Photo · Two suspects are awaiting charges after more than 1,000 bikes were found in different locations across Madison.

Courtesy of UWPD people that are out there that are responsible for a large number of bike thefts and our goal is to get to those people and hopefully it brings the number of thefts down greatly,” Lovicott said.

UW cultivates next generation of farmers As state loses 500 farms per year, owners increasingly reach retirement age, university program offers hands-on training

by Jolene Anders Herald Contributor

Amid a statewide decline of dairy farms, the University of Wisconsin is aiming to provide programs to assist young and aspiring farmers.

Wisconsin loses about 500 dairy farms a year, Joe Tomandl III, program director for the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship of Grassworks, Inc., said. The current number of dairy farms in the state is about 12,000, and a continuation of this trend would eliminate the industry in one generation, he said.

The average age of farmers in the state is 58, right around many people’s typical retirement age. Several have no determined successor, and seeing fresh faces in the farming community is not

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Schmidt said one change includes using state definitions for words like “stalking,” “rape,” “consent” and “domestic violence.” The code also lacks specificity and does not have a section on dating violence, Schmidt said.

Schmidt also addressed the mandatory reporting obligation for sexual assault. She said

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“It is parents’ duty to make sure their children are educated, and they need viable alternatives suited to their needs,” Thiesfeldt said. “It is the state’s duty to

incredibly common, he said.

“If you’re outside of a farming family, you need that pathway,” Tomandl said.

“What the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship has done is created that pathway.”

The apprenticeship is a two-year, 4,000 hour program that has been around since 2010. With just under 300 hours of classroom work, the apprenticeship provides extensive hands-on training and a “learn while you earn” bonus.

It tends to be easier for aspiring farmers to simply take over the family farm, so the apprenticeship acts as a large networking tool for those without a farming background.

“If you’re looking to become a farmer, the apprenticeship program can get you out there in

the country, on a farm and meeting people,” Nadia Alber, outreach coordinator for the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers said.

Alber likened the apprenticeship to match.com, saying those interested fill out an application online, and “master farmers” reach out to schedule visits to determine a good mentoring match.

The apprenticeship works with Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers because it is housed with UW’s Farm and Industry Short Course and the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Students have options to complete the classroom portion through Farm and Industry Short Course or online through Center for Integrated Agricultural

Systems.

FISC has been generally successful and will see its 130th class graduate this year.

“It’s been successful because of the hands-on learning students get who are interested in agriculture, and the schedule meets their needs,” Jessie Potterton, director of FISC said.

The Short Course program takes one or two years, depending on how many certificates a student chooses to complete. The program offers six different specialties and a general certificate which combines classes from multiple certificates.

Potterton said the program begins in November and ends in March to accommodate for planting crops, harvesting and cattle breeding. Therefore, students receive the desired education while caring for the

family farm.

“Agriculture programs are very common, but agriculture in a shortened time frame is very unique,” Potterton said.

Some students decide to transfer from FISC into the four-year program at UW or another college; however, the opposite scenario also happens. Typically, students transferring into the Short Course program are from other schools within the UW System.

Potterton said most FISC students are from the Midwest, but the program is gaining momentum nationally.

A majority of students go to work on their family farms, but the program also provides tools for other jobs in the agriculture industry.

“It’s not what people think, there are a lot of opportunities in agriculture,” Potterton said.

when a student comes to the Dean of Students Office, staff members are obligated to report the assault if they receive information about who may be involved or where the assault may have happened. If a student does not have to move forward immediately with a case, they can go to places such as the health center or EVOC, which are not obligated to report. Schmidt said this helps

students to examine all of their options fully.

ASM Chair Genevieve Carter posed a question regarding how the interactions between the complainant and the respondent would be.

Schmidt responded, saying the only interaction required is in the hearing.

She said complainants have the decision to participate however they want to. They can

choose if they want to attend the hearing in person, or call in using a phone or Skype. This is important so the complainant and respondent do not have to be in physical proximity with each other, she said.

She also clarified the choice to not attend the hearing in person does not negatively affect the outcome of the panel’s decision, and described how the panel is specifically

trained on how traumatic this experience can be for individuals involved.

She said this training has a strong focus on confidentiality.

She said each member on the panel goes through a misconduct training process before they can participate in a case. She also said they have the option to excuse themselves from the panel if they feel uncomfortable being involved.

provide access to these viable alternatives.”

The first publicly funded private school voucher program was the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program in 1990. Its purpose was to provide private school education for students coming from low-income families with public subsidies as

tuition.

Thiesfeldt said the state should be working toward a student-centered education system and not blocking students from attaining the best education possible due to socioeconomic status.

However, Rep. Lisa Subeck, D-Madison, said funding these private school programs,

which are often religious, is unconstitutional.

“These private, religious programs are a violation of the constitutional separation of church and state and the government should not be funding this,” Subeck said.

Republicans believe religion is good and public schools are bad, Mead said.

She said private schools actually yield no better results compared to public schools.

“Walker has no justification for privatization,” Mead said. “They are not going to produce better educational results and Walker hasn’t thought enough about how expansion will ultimately affect public schools.”

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Photo · Tony Robinson’s death followed last year’s high-profile death of Dontre Hamilton in Milwaukee, which once again put scrutiny on officer-involved shootings in Wisconsin.

Top · Photo courtesy of Hamilton family Bottom · Photo courtesy of Robinson family Right · Jen Small · The Badger Herald

Robinson death tests new investigation process Wisconsin law requiring independent investigations of officer-involved shootings will be put to test; law’s author was close to site where officer killed 19-year-old Tony Robinson

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, layed sideways in her car Friday night as she was within hearing distance of the multiple shots that killed 19-yearold Tony Robinson.

That night, Madison Police Department officer Matt Kenny, a 12-year veteran of the force, fatally shot an unarmed Robinson after responding to calls of a disturbance. The death has sparked protests throughout the city that continued Wednesday, with protesters heading to the governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff.

The state’s Department of Justice, rather than MPD, is now investigating the shooting, which is required under a law Taylor introduced last year that mandates independent investigations of officer-related shootings.

The law, which she coauthored with former Rep. Garey Bies, R-Sister Bay, made Wisconsin the first state in the country to pass a law like this, with Connecticut soon following.

The Robinson case does not stand alone. The high-profile shooting last year of Milwaukee’s Dontre Hamilton by a veteran officer helped to once again bring officer-involved shootings in Wisconsin into the spotlight.

Taylor said she was inspired to take on this legislation when a Madison police officer fatally shot Paul Heenan, 30, after he drunkenly entered a neighbor’s home in 2012. That officer was cleared of charges after an internal investigation.

Bies, meanwhile, said constituent Michael Bell, whose son was killed by an officer in 2004, contacted him in an attempt to change the way these types of cases were handled.

“Bell’s son was killed while in police custody, and there was a lack of an open, transparent and proper investigation,” Bies said.

Bies is the former chief deputy sheriff of Door County’s Sheriff Department.

Taylor said the new process of investigating officer-involved shootings will help improve accountability in these kinds of deaths.

“This is a tragedy,” Taylor said. “The question is how do you move forward and make our laws even better? How do you move forward and guarantee justice for people and families and fairness to the officer at the same time?”

The bill also includes requirements for families of those killed or hurt in officer-involved incidents to be fully informed of their options for litigation, Taylor said.

But while the bill will help improve justice in these cases, Taylor said, other parts that were originally part of the bill did not pass.

That includes a provision that would have created a review board made up of people in law enforcement fields examining these investigations, Taylor said. The board would

have had the power to make recommendations for more evidence, and even suggest different training for units where an officer is under investigation, Taylor said.

“We took a really good first step with the independent investigations bill,” Taylor said. “But it was just the first step.”

More positions in DOJ As Taylor’s law adds responsibilities to the state’s Department of Justice, Attorney General Brad Schimel asked the Joint Finance Committee last week to add positions to DOJ to investigate officer-involved deaths.

Schimel had asked Gov. Scott Walker to add five new positions in his budget, but Walker did not include those positions in the biennial budget proposal he introduced last month.

Laurel Patrick, Walker’s spokesperson, told the Capital Times that the governor’s office thought DOJ did not receive enough requests to add additional funding but that the governor would be “willing to work with [DOJ] and the state Legislature to ensure adequate funding.”

In Schimel’s testimony, he highlighted the difficult nature in the investigation of these incidents and how they are often accompanied by open records requests, which require substantial manpower on the part of the agency. He said the creation of the five new positions would expedite these cases.

“Officer-involved death cases are very timeconsuming,” Schimel said. “It is critical to public confidence in law enforcement that the investigations be conducted expeditiously and capably.”

Former Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, however, had called the law “unnecessary.” Van Hollen and Schimel are both Republicans.

Next steps Schimel released a lengthy statement Monday outlining the next steps in the Robinson investigation.

Schimel said DOJ has assigned teams of agents from the Division of Criminal Investigations office across the state to work on the case.

“The Wisconsin Department of Justice is expeditiously working to complete the investigation,” Schimel said.

Schimel said Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne will review the facts provided by the DOJ and release a public statement with his conclusions.

MPD, meanwhile, will stay out of the investigation unless it’s asked to cooperate, MPD Chief Mike Koval told reporters Saturday.

In an interview with CNN this week, Koval said he hoped the case would not define the department.

“I’m hopeful that when given an opportunity, the community, the family and their friends

… will forgive us and that we can move on constructively and reestablish that trust we need to do good community policing,” Koval said.

Robinson’s uncle, Turin Carter, said at a news conference Wednesday he trusted the state to investigate the case thoroughly and transparently.

“We’ve spoken to investigators from DCI, we trust them and we trust them to handle this with integrity and to treat it as it comes,” Carter said.

“We don’t want our biases involved, we don’t want anybody else’s. We want them to act strictly as fact finders. And that’s what they’ve ensured us and we believe in, we have confidence in that.”

Bies also said he was satisfied with the way MPD and the state have been handling this investigation so far. A blood test was taken from Matt Kenny, the officer who shot Robinson, after the incident. This was a part of the original bill that did not get passed, Bies said.

Taylor, whom DCI interviewed as a witness,

said from what she can tell, the state is doing a good job being thorough and transparent with the investigation so far.

“I think what we need to do now is make sure the investigation is done in a way that is in accordance with the law,” Taylor said.

But the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, which organized Wednesday’s protest, said it is on the community to demand justice.

“We know Ferguson because people got involved in the rebellion,” Adams said. “We know Ferguson because people organized in an order to get justice here we need to do just that. We’ve got no shortage of people who can talk the talk. We’ve got no shortage of people who ‘care.’ But there is a shortage of pressure from people impacted, pressure from the community to change quickly.”

We don’t want our biases “involved, we don’t want anybody else’s. We want them to act strictly as fact finders.

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Turin Carter Tony Robinson’s Uncle

Photo · Robinson’s family told reporters they trust the state’s Department of Justice investigation into death of Sun Prairie High School graduate.

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RePower finds irony in MGE’s ‘green’ promise Madison Gas and Electric company reaches compromise with nine shareholders over increasing use of renewable resources

by Paige Scobee Herald Contributor

Madison Gas and Electric promised to take steps toward using renewable energy sources this week, while some energy advocates believe this measure is still not enough.

MGE pledged to work to increase use of renewable resources in coming years, according to a statement the company and nine shareholders released Monday.

The statement included an ongoing commitment from MGE to increase renewable energy in the future, conduct studies regarding the addition of renewable energy to MGE’s supply mix, continue its biennial environmental responsibility report and support community energy conversations.

The agreement was negotiated in response to two resolutions from shareholders late last fall, MGE spokesperson Steve Schultz said. One would have required MGE to conduct a study on how it could achieve use of 25 percent of renewable energy by 2025, he said. The second would have tied executive compensation to sustainability, meaning CEO pay packages would

be determined based on MGE’s reduction of fossil fuels.

The statement addressed these resolutions, stating MGE would continue to progress toward meeting its goal of considering “environmental stewardship” in executive pay packages and that the study and community conversations would, in general, help transition MGE to cleaner energy in the future.

MGE, which already works with groups like Clean Wisconsin and the Citizens’ Utility Board, started conversations with shareholders almost immediately, Schultz said, and an agreement was finally reached last week.

Schultz said both sides were pleased with the final compromises.

“Both MGE and shareholder groups view this agreement as positive,” he said. “I think both the company and the shareholders are looking forward to moving forward.”

However, not everyone is thrilled with the results of the compromise.

Although RePower Madison, which defines itself as an organization “expanding clean energy options in the community,” views MGE’s agreement as a step in the right direction, RePower

spokesperson Mitch Brey said it lacked a clear commitment to the clean energy goal.

“This is a clear victory for clean energy,” Brey said. “However, it doesn’t get to the heart of the issue.”

RePower Madison is most dissatisfied with MGE’s new billing policy which passed in January, Brey said. The new policy charges customers a higher up-front fee for electricity and natural gas, while it lowers the price for each unit of electricity or gas used.

So in short, these policies effectively lower bills for people who use more electricity and raise bills for those who use little electricity, making investments in renewable energy less attractive, Brey said.

“This deal is good news,” Brey said, “But I’m still dissatisfied with MGE, and I won’t be satisfied until we see them reverse the billing scheme.”

RePower Madison plans to participate in the community energy conversations MGE has promised to host, Brey said. It will also encourage Madisonians to attend, as well as stress the importance of MGE hearing citizens’ voices advocating for clean energy, he said.

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UW alum, ‘Spider-Man’ writer returns to campus Screenwriter, director David Koepp of Hollywood blockbusters like ‘War of the Worlds,’ ‘The Paper’ shares inspiration, challenges of job

by Jolene Anders Reporter

“Were you on that plane?”

“No.” “Too bad. It would have made one hell of a story.”

The dialogue above comes from the movie “War of the Worlds,” written by University of Wisconsin alum David Koepp.

In the movie, a plane taking down a deadly alien “tripod” may have been considered a pretty big deal, and at UW, a visit from Koepp, a successful screenwriter and director, may be considered an equally big deal.

UW professor David Bordwell and the UW Cinematheque invited the Pewaukee native and UW alum to Madison to screen three of his films, during which he discussed his inspiration and challenges throughout his career.

As a successful screenwriter, Koepp boasts a résumé that includes “Jurassic Park” and “Spider-Man.” He has also made the transition to director with films such as “Ghost Town” and an upcoming untitled animated movie.

Koepp took time for discussion both before and after the showing of “War of the Worlds.” Koepp and David Friedman wrote the

film in 2004, which included references to the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001 and the U.S. involvement in Iraq.

“We tried to bear in mind that this is a summer popcorn movie,” Koepp said. “If people want a downer, they’ll go see a downer. It infused a lot of what we did, but I don’t think it overwhelmed the movie.”

Bordwell said this movie is somewhat unique because the main character does not save the world. Rather, he only manages to survive the horrific situation.

Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” and “Glory Days” provided inspiration for the main character Ray Ferrier, played by Tom Cruise, Koepp said. He joked about an in-depth discussion between himself and Springsteen about copyright law after he shared this inspiration.

“I wanted to write a guy who was a bit of a disappointment to himself and others,” Koepp said.

“I wanted to write this guy who wasn’t going to save the world.”

Ferrier, a divorced man, is supposed to care for his two children over the weekend while their mother visits her parents in Boston.

This is complicated by the sudden rising of giant alien tripods from within the earth.

However, a spoiler to

Photo · Koepp named Bruce Springsteen, experience with divorce and Iraq War as inspiration for his films.

Jolene Anders The Badger Herald those who have yet to watch the movie: Cruise’s character succeeded in not messing up. Ferrier is able to keep himself and his children alive.

The idea to portray a divorced family actually came from Koepp’s own life.

“I was recently divorced at the time and had two small kids with shared custody,” Koepp said. “I looked at [Steve Spielberg] and said, ‘You’re going to love this.’”

In response to a question on the writing process, Koepp said he was once told that one must fill themselves with “things” to be a great writer. While learning to be a writer, exposure to a variety of music, movies, books and art is necessary for inspiration.

“You need input before you can have output,” Koepp said.

Koepp showed “War of the Worlds” and “The Paper” on Wednesday.

He’ll show “Ghost Town” at 7 p.m. Thursday evening in the UW Cinematheque screening room, 4070 Vilas Hall.

Deadly abuse of narcotic drug increases statewide Officers report most cases occur in bigger cities where users can access hospitals, pharmacies, rehab centers more easily

by Samantha Becker Herald Contributor

Fentanyl, a particularly deadly opiate narcotic, can be linked to several deaths in Milwaukee and Dane County this year, and the frequency of abuse is intensifying as heroin becomes more popular.

Fentanyl is an extremely powerful version of synthetic heroin, which is medically prescribed in cases of intense, long-term pain. Typically, it is only found in hospitals, nursing homes or rehabilitation facilities, but as heroin use has become more widespread, fentanyl abuse has increased.

“You get people who are addicted to painkillers, and some of them will use fentanyl as a painkiller much like others would use other opiates,” Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said.

In a few cases, pharmacies have been broken into and fentanyl patches stolen, DeSpain said. Although abuse of fentanyl is not as common as heroin, the drug is extremely dangerous, Lieutenant Jason Freedman of the Dane County Narcotics Task Force said.

Freedman said many people who use fentanyl

for non-prescribed purposes are unaware of how deadly the drug really is.

“Fentanyl is very powerful and very easy to overdose on,” Freedman said. “It’s even more potent than heroin.”

Fentanyl is a synthetic opiate analgesic similar to morphine, but more potent, according to the National Institutes of Health. The drug is typically used to treat severe pain for those recovering from surgery in a hospital setting, and it’s sometimes prescribed to those with chronic pain who are physically tolerant to opiates, according to the NIH. Freedman said that fentanyl is controlled even more than other prescription opiates and is difficult to find outside of a hospital setting. The NIH website says fentanyl is sometimes mixed with heroin or cocaine, amplifying these drugs’ potential dangers.

“We come across it infrequently,” Freedman said. “Devices, patches and other things that contain fentanyl are not as available on the open market as prescription opiates or heroin.”

Despite this, fentanyl has become increasingly prevalent in Dane County,

Freedman said.

Cases involving fentanyl are more common in cities like Madison and Milwaukee, likely because there are so many facilities in the large cities that have the drug, Freedman said. He said fentanyl is typically abused less in more rural counties or counties with fewer healthcare facilities because there is less access.

Freedman said the abuse of all types of opiate products, including fentanyl, has increased in the last few years.

“With the heroin epidemic, all opiate-type products, whether they’re legal or illegal, prescribed or stolen, manufactured or cultivated, are increasing,” Freedman said.

According to the Wisconsin Heroin Assessment, drug deaths have hit all-time highs in recent years. Heroin, fentanyl and other opiate overdoses make up a large percentage of those deaths.

The assessment found heroin’s biggest users in Wisconsin were white males between ages 21 and 25, with the drug getting to Wisconsin by way of Chicago and Minneapolis.

Madison Police Chief Mike Koval has said Madison saw 50 percent increase in heroin deaths from 2011 to 2012.

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Far from post-racial society, march for justice continues Ferguson, Staten Island, Madison: Tragedy on Williamson Street should force city to rethink discussion on police brutality

by Naman Siad Contributor

On Friday night, Madison police officer Matthew Kenny shot an unarmed black 19-year-old on Williamson Street. As students here at University of Wisconsin, this incident wasn’t something we watched unfold in a different city like Ferguson or Staten Island. This incident was minutes away from our campus.

Tony Robinson was a teenager in this city we share. He went to a high school many UW students graduated from. Loved by family and friends, he was on his way to starting college. To all those who looked at other incidents as distant from our “liberal town,” Robinson’s death was a wake up call.

Many individuals will try to look for something to demonize Robinson. From racially-charged labels such as “thug” or “gangster,” the discourse on the identity of the victim is almost always negative. People seem eager to start blaming the victim for their death.

Just last semester, a large group of students had a vigil for victims of police brutality outside the Kohl Center. In a time of much pain and sorrow, other students walking out of

the building said offensive things and slurs at the peaceful assembly. Our campus is not exempt from dismissal and ignorance.

This tragedy should force us all to rethink the discourse on police brutality and race.

Ferguson, Staten Island, Milwaukee, Madison and countless other cities — all similar incidents that are not coincidences but linked signs pointing to a systemic problem in police systems.

This conversation needs to be had on local and national levels.

Too many individuals in our nation think the color of your skin determines the value of your life.

While it’s obvious that all lives matter, these ongoing patterns of police brutality speak to a history where black lives didn’t matter in the eyes of the law. In our present day, the black lives matter movement fights those who would label a dead teenager as simply a “thug.” It’s a reminder that this country still hasn’t lived up to its pledge of ‘liberty and justice for all.’

On the day of the 50th anniversary of the Selma March to Montgomery, a mother was mourning the death of her dead son. We are far from a post-racial society and our march is still going on.

How many more black bodies on the street will it take? How many more weeping mothers and fathers? How loud will we have to yell to tell the world that black lives indeed matter?

Here in Madison we have to ask ourselves these questions.

This tragedy was minutes away from our own bubble of a campus. It was heartwarming, however, to see the immediate community responses.

From prayers and meetings to rallies at the Madison Police Department, the support for Tony’s family and the call for justice are overwhelming. Our city has lost a life and it is up to us to stand up for justice and stand up for Tony.

Rest in Peace and Power, Tony Robinson.

Naman Siad (nsiad@ wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in community and environmental sociology.

Photos · Protests continued through Wednesday after a Madison police officer fatally shot 19-year-old African American Tony Robinson last week.

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Men, don’t be apathetic toward sexual assault UW’s campus would be a safer, more welcoming place if all genders get informed, advocate for change in disciplinary policies Women have reason to feel unsafe on campus and men, we have reason to care. Whether you know it or not, you almost certainly have friends, girlfriends or sisters who’ve been sexually assaulted (and odds are you know men who’re survivors, too).

The problem of sexual assault should hit close to home for us, but for whatever reason, it hasn’t yet. In our student body, at the very least, women, gay and transgender people are far more vocal about campus sexual assault than straight cisgender men.

If I sound like male apathy somehow confounds me, it doesn’t; when I was a freshman, none of the discussion about campus sexual assault was on my radar.

I came to college with the idea that men and women experience life basically the same. It’s not that I was completely ignorant of

the differences — I knew, for instance, that society expects women, more than men, to not walk alone at night — it’s that I took for granted the impact those differences made in our day-to-day and night-tonight lives.

A highlight of my college experience has been making friends with a lot of strong women. Freshman year I took a First Year Interest Group with more women than men, joined a coed sports team and lived on a mostly female floor in Witte. I first reexamined my ideas about gendered college experience when I heard those women talk about walking at night and watching out for each other at house parties.

A typical night out here for them looked totally different from the same night out as a dude; women plan for things we don’t usually even think about. I’d make no plans

before going out, walk to a party alone, get drunk, talk to whoever I wanted and stumble home alone.

Women I knew might plan to go to the party with a friend, plan to stay with the friend the whole night, plan to have the friend get her out of any situation with creepy dudes and plan to walk home with the friend.

My women friends were alert to the threat of sexual assault in a way I wasn’t. A 2010 Gallup poll found, when accounting for different income groups, women are about 20 to 30 percent more likely than men to be “afraid to walk alone at night near their home.” Part of the reason is we men don’t usually see ourselves as vulnerable to sexual assault (though about 17 percent of college sexual assault victims are male).

Another part of the reason is that our culture holds women responsible

for their own safety in a way it doesn’t for men.

As men, we’re never told to walk with a friend, or watch how much we drink or do up another button on our shirts, lest we somehow invite sexual assault. But when women are sexually assaulted, people often blame the victim.

If someone assaults a woman walking alone, people blame her for walking alone instead of the assailant for attacking her. If someone takes her home from a party and rapes her, people often fault her for drinking too much or dressing the way she did before we blame the aggressor for raping her.

All this contributes to a culture of shame that effectively encourages sexually assaulted women to feel bad for something that wasn’t their fault, to not report it and to let perpetrators get away to do it again. Maybe more

importantly, it lets the rest of us men get away with not caring about sexual assault. Because we’re not expected to have to deal with the threat of sexual assault every time we go out, we’re often quick to dismiss the sexually assaulted because we think they were just drunk or just flirting and it went too far. But it’s happening all around us and to people we care about. The safety we enjoy as men allows us to ignore the danger women deal with all the time.

Last week at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin professors Claudia Card, Anne McClintock, Cecelia Klingele, and UW senior Natalie Weill took part in the “Confronting Campus Rape” panel. In the H.F. DeLuca Forum, which easily seats 200-plus people, only around a dozen audience members

were men. The panel outlined the need to revise Chapter 17 policies, which govern the university’s disciplinary process for rapists and sexual assaulters on campus.

Tonight at 6 p.m., there is a meeting to hear input from students on the planned revisions to Chapter 17, in the Sonata room of Gordon Commons.

Rape isn’t a problem just for rape victims.

We’re all worse off the more prevalent sexual assault is.

We’re all worse off if our friends, girlfriends and sisters can’t feel safe in social settings.

We’re all worse off if a disciplinary system that’s supposed to protect them is ineffective. Men, let’s take an interest in this and show up.

David Meyerson (dmeyerson@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in history and computer science.

Shooting offers glimpse of deeper divide in Madison Racial disparities shatter illusion of Madison as ‘liberal paradise,’ solution will require strong leadership, communal effort

by Adam Johnson Columnist

Friday’s tragic shooting of Tony Robinson on Williamson Street sounded like yet another refrain in an already horrifying song.

Again, a white police officer had a confrontation with a black youth and once again, the police office shot the black teen. I don’t know if it was justified or not.

The state is investigating, and I eagerly anticipate their findings. Regardless of whether Madison Police Department officer Matt Kenny was put into a terrible position or if he acted unnecessarily aggressive, the shooting offered a glimpse into the deeper problems in our community. For many, the shooting death of Tony Robinson was a deeply saddening reminder that

Madison, like cities across the country, has a race problem.

The problem isn’t that we have a diverse population; it’s that we pretend that the core problems don’t exist or we as a community are uncomfortable with potential solutions.

In 2013, the Race to Equity report held a mirror up to Madison, and we saw how ugly some parts of our city can be. Madison may consistently be rated as one of the best places in the country to live … unless you happen to be black. The report brought forth glaring and widening divisions between black residents and white residents in Madison. Across the board, Race to Equity highlighted widespread and pervasive differences between racial groups that are lasting across generations.

While arrest rates have dropped for black residents over the past 10 years, poverty is still crippling.

Black residents in Madison are between five and six times more likely to be poor than white residents and have a similar level of unemployment disparity.

If we look just at black children, nearly 75 percent live in poverty compared to 5 percent of white children.

Our community perpetuates this cycle of poverty and unintentionally creates this clear and obvious schism. Our education system disproportionately punishes black students, suspending a black student 15 times more often than a white student even as black students only make up 20 percent of Madison public schools. Additionally, our Child Protective Services

system is 6.6 percent more likely to refer black children to foster care than white children, and while our black youths make up 10 percent of the Dane County teenage population, they comprise more than 60 percent of our detention population.

Placing these horrifying Madison statistics into the national context, the situation is grim. National research reveals that black teens are 21 times more likely to be shot in a confrontation with police than a white teen. Yes, I said 21 times more likely.

Earlier this week, the Race to Equity group specifically highlighted that the recent death of Robinson “is not disconnected from our community’s inability to assure a level playing field for all our children and

families.”

Therefore, we must focus on improving our communities to alleviate the disparities in Madison.

We need more efforts from the city, especially in light of Robinson’s death. Efforts to build trust between the police department and marginalized communities through initiatives like community-based policing teams and the potential implementation of body cameras will be essential in this process, but there are numerous other policy areas that the mayor and Common Council need to address. Food deserts, poorly maintained public facilities, limited public transportation and the growing digital divide are only a few of the many policy issues that face marginalized communities where the city can — and

should — provide solutions.

We have a lot of work to do as a community, but if we recognize and accept our problems, we can address them.

Pretending Madison is a liberal paradise is a gross mischaracterization. To get there, we need leadership from the mayor ’s office, sound policy from the Common Council, constant participation from our communities and unwavering transparency and engagement from our police department.

Madison can, indeed, be the best place to live for everyone, but it will continue to take a communal effort.

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

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What’s On Tap: IPAs convert Sconnie drinkers to craft beer Madison-based brewery Ale Asylum offers variety of hoppy delicacies, including newly released IPA Velveteen Habit

by Garth Beyer ArtsEtc. Columnist

“Keystone, Keystone, Keystone light! Worst beer, worst beer, worst beer ever!”

Regardless of the men’s hockey game score, hearing the student section chant their disapproval of cheap Keystone light puts a smile on my face every time.

Like the chant seems to insinuate, I’ve noticed more college students ordering and drinking craft beer at bars and breweries. It’s exciting to see students becoming interested in the world of craft beer, a world that’s void of Bud, Rolling Rock and, yes, Keystone light.

Overall beer sales have gone down the last few years, but the purchase and consumption of craft and locally brewed beer has risen, according to the Brewers Association. I like to think college students have played a role in this statistic.

Within the spectrum of beer enthusiasts, we have a rise of hopheads in Wisconsin.

Craft

beer drinkers are crazy for IPAs, according to Hathaway Dilba, director of promotions at Ale Asylum.

Although IPAs date back to the mid-18th century, they recently began flooding the market in the latter half of 2014, especially in Wisconsin and Madison.

Any beer drinker in Madison has certainly heard of Karben4’s bottle release of Fantasy Factory, a pleasantly hoppy IPA. It’s the beer with a cat holding a golden handgun while riding a unicorn that breathes out fire with a rainbow in the background.

Yeah. Badass.

When I think of local hoppy beers, however, I immediately think of Ale Asylum. My first beer of theirs was the furiously hoppy amber Ambergeddon, a wordplay off Armageddon to emphasize the seriousness of the flavor.

On a side note, let’s be forward. How else do we rationalize buying beer we haven’t tried before than with the fact it has an awesome label (Fantasy Factory) or an awesome name (Ambergeddon)?

Regardless, Ale Asylum pulled me in.

On Saturday, March 7, Ale Asylum invaded Dexter ’s pub on the East Side with a complete tap takeover of more than 20 Ale Asylum beers. In the first flight of beer you could order, five were experimental brews using different hops to promote their upcoming High Coup IPA release.

There were supposed to be six, but after opening that sixth batch early and taste testing it, Ale Asylum decided they wouldn’t be selling the beer. Dilba explained this last minute change by simply saying “something wasn’t right.”

It’s that specific pickiness that craft beer lovers appreciate, and exactly why so many are IPA enthusiasts, and moreover, why so many go to Ale Asylum for their fill of hops.

It’s my pleasure to welcome you to my beer column, “What’s On Tap.” I’ll be writing weekly on the beer industry trends, local brewing news and offering beer reviews of local craft beer.

Ale Asylum’s Velveteen Habit IPA.

STYLE American IPA, 7.5 ABV%

AROMA Assertive resin, strong fresh pine smell due to dry hopping followed by the floral aroma of the citra hops.

APPEARANCE Pours bright, tan and bubbly, then settles with a golden copper color and a light beige head.

TEXTURE Heavy middle-class, slightly watery but crisp with pine all the while.

TASTE The tropical citrus of the hops works its way to balance smoothly with the bitterness, leaving a fruity pine aftertaste.

ROOM TEMP TASTE While the citrus flavor tones down, the tropical flavor increases. If you don’t mind losing some carbonation for a tad more variety in flavor, it might be worth letting this beer sit for a bit.

RATING: 4/5

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Heems’ new LP tackles race in post-9/11 America With Eat Pray Thug, Himanshu Suri defies Das Racist’s comic nature, focuses on innovational beats, hard-hitting themes

by Sam Cleveland ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Many will remember that classic, obnoxious rap from the middle school years, “I’m at the Pizza Hut, I’m at the Taco Bell, I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”

For some time, this hook from Heems’ former rap group Das Racist summed up his rap career. Known for their comic nature and off-kilter lines, Das Racist’s work often sprung discussion of whether the group was serious or not.

On his latest LP, Himanshu Suri — popularly known as Heems — has taken a bit of a different path. His last two solo projects, both mixtapes released while still with Das Racist, felt more like extensions of the group’s style and structure. Eat Pray

Thug, on the other hand, has a feel that is all its own.

The production is better than ever and has a more comprehensive, thought out and focused feel than anything that came before it in Heems’ discography.

Another notable departure from past works is the lyrical focus. While Heems has always been a provocateur in matters such as race relations and U.S. government missteps, it has always seemed like something that he casually yet frequently peppers into his lines. On Eat Pray Thug, it is the main focus. Hardhitting songs like “Flag Shopping” and the closer “Patriot Act” demonstrate this the best.

“Flag Shopping” features an eerie piano instrumental alongside a pervasive industrial buzz that aptly frames the serious subject

matter of the song. Heems vividly outlines the effects of Post-9/11 Islamophobia.

“They’re staring at our turbans / They’re calling them rags / They’re calling them towels / They’re calling them diapers / They’re more like crowns / Let’s strike them like vipers,” Heems raps.

The song elaborates on the irony of purchasing American flags to prove their allegiance to the United States. The most chilling part of the song (and maybe the entire album) is the father ’s imagery who lost his clients due to Islamophobia, taking his frustrations out on his son with a belt “big like Orion’s.

But the emotional and topical songs by no means end there. “Patriot Act” compares the song’s namesake to a “privacy

prison,” and the premise of “Suicide by Cop” is police brutality. “Al Q8a” calls attention to unpopular actions from the U.S. government and hints at the notion that the United States may deserve actually some of the foreign policy quagmires it gives.

Heems doesn’t solely touch on racial and geopolitical strife, but the turbulence that can occur within his own head as well. “Home, ”which features production from Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes, presents the struggle of trying to forget someone after a breakup.

Even “Sometimes,” the album’s most danceable track, has darker lyrical content. Heems addresses the dualistic nature of his existence in terms of personality, race, class and even female preferences by

rapping sequential lines of his contrasting traits.

If you can ignore the sobering rhymes, this album absolutely bangs. Most of the instrumentals are complex in an enticing way.

These aren’t just cookiecutter hip-hop tracks.

Serious work went into these beats — and it shows.

The one blemish in the series of good production is the midpoint of the album, “Pop Song (Games).”

Taking into consideration Heems’ satirical disposition, outrageous overproduction and the vapid lyrics, it’s safe to say this is a poke at contemporary Top-40 music.

As unconventional as he may be, Heems is a unique and necessary voice in contemporary hip-hop. Who else can rap firsthand about the struggles of being a brown American post-9/11 this well?

Eat Pray Thug shows Heems as a type of old friend who has since grown and matured. No longer can anyone make fart jokes with him and laugh at slapstick humor, but will instead discuss politics or science at length. This friend is markedly less fun, but on a whole other level, more satisfying to be around.

3/5

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‘Helldivers’ combines complex gameplay with satire Arrowhead Game Studio’s latest may not live up to predeccesor ‘Magicka’ for funny writing, but stands alone as engaging game

by Jake Stroth ArtsEtc. Contributor

Arrowhead Game Studios, the developers of the newly-released “Helldivers,” are most famous for their 2011 indie game “Magicka.” A crazy multiplayer action game where players control wizards in a Medieval fantasy world, players use a complicated spell system to fight enemies in increasingly ludicrous scenarios (one of the DLC packs took the wizards to the Vietnam War).

Everything about the game is hilarious, from the Swedish Chef-inspired voices, to the insane combat that often results in players killing each other on accident.

“Helldivers” (developed for PlayStation 4) is a game constructed in a similar vein, albeit one with an entirely different setting that makes the gameplay simpler but unfortunately loses a lot of the charm and

hilarity that “Magicka” had.

The gameplay is where “Helldivers” really shines.

Rather than a traditional linear mission structure, the game is organized around a galactic war that progresses in real time. As players complete missions in a sector, they gain points that go toward sector control. Once the sector is captured the players move on to the next one, slowly working their way toward the enemy home world.

Enemies can counter attack as well, forcing the players to defend captured sectors.

There are three enemy factions to fight: the Bugs, Cyborgs and the Illuminates.

Each race has its own unique units, strengths and weaknesses.

In the face of these threats, the player takes the role of a Helldiver, an elite soldier tasked with defending Super Earth and spreading democracy (usually via copious amounts of explosions and bullets).

The game does a great job of making the player

feel part of an ongoing war effort thanks to the appearance of other player ships in orbit around planets and a simple, but effective, galactic map.

The action is fairly simple in structure: a traditional top-down dual stick shooter with a neat twist.

The player can call down stratagems via a series of directional inputs specific to each stratagem. Depending on the type of stratagems, they can provide a variety of bonuses. These can be anything from heavy weapons, to turrets, walkers or airstrikes.

The depth of the game comes from tailoring weapon, stratagem and perk loadouts for the specific mission at hand.

Did the leader of your party decide to drop you right into a bug nest? Better grab an auto-shotgun and some heavy armor. Going to be fighting a bunch of armored enemies? Better drop the flamethrower and add a rocket launcher. This strategic depth is part of

what makes “Helldivers” such an interesting game.

Once on the planet the players (there can be up to four in a party) are tasked with accomplishing a series of objectives. These objectives can be pretty varied in name, but almost always force the players to defend an area while a device sets up, destroy an enemy installation or find an object and bring it to a location. Once the objectives are complete, the Helldivers must hold off the enemy while they wait for a shuttle to come rescue them.

As a result, the game can become quite difficult very quickly and the higher levels will require coordination and preparation to complete successfully. The actual mechanics of playing Helldivers are clunky but adequate, and combat is fun.

Like its unofficial predecessor “Magicka,” “Helldivers” tries its hand in hilarity. The game takes

liberal and unapologetic inspiration from the film “Starship Troopers.” The game itself is a similar tongue-in-cheek satire of a jingoistic government that tries to paint itself as the offended party when it begins an aggressive war and executes political dissenters.

“Helldivers” doesn’t really explore these themes too deeply or take itself seriously, the overthe-top nature of the game and propaganda making it fairly silly.

While this joke is all well and good, it’s pretty much the only joke that “Helldivers” has.

The laugh-out-loud hilarity of “Magicka” isn’t anywhere to be found. The game is more satire than out-right comedy. It would have been nice to see Arrowhead explore some other science fiction sources for their comedy and also to include more jokes, especially since their main joke is basically one that a well-known movie made 17 years ago.

Overall, “Helldivers” is

an interesting game. The persistent nature of the war and challenge of the missions are excellent and entertaining. Playing the game is fun too; conquering planets with friends, or even perfect strangers, is a great experience.

A concern, however, is what the game will be like in the future. Since so much of the game is communitybased, a lack of players will severely impact the experience. In addition, it’s unfortunate that the game’s humor is lacking and that the world established is not nearly as entertaining as “Magicka.”

Despite the potential multiplayer misgiving and disappointing comedy, the gameplay is solid and will more than make up for these faults.

4/5

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Netflix sitcom from creator Tina Fey is delightful binge Despite racial misrepresentation, ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ starring Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess remains hilarious

by Audrey Piehl ArtsEtc. Editor

A young woman moving to New York City in the hopes of a bigger, better life is a familiar trope; Frank Sinatra croons in the background while she is disillusioned by the Big Apple’s grisly realities and her provincial past suddenly appears more enticing than ever.

This may have also been true for Kimmy Schmidt, if she hadn’t spent the last 15 years kidnapped in a bunker.

Welcome to Netflix’s latest sitcom, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which stars Ellie Kemper (known for her role as Kelly Erin Hannon in “The Office”). The show opens with Schmidt and her three companions being liberated from a 15-year imprisonment.

The foursome was kept captive

by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”), an apocalyptic cult leader. After an interview with Matt Lauer and her fellow “Indiana Mole Women,” Schmidt opts for a life in New York City over her hometown of Durnsville.

The 29-year-old Schmidt embraces her independence with a middle school education and intense gusto, becoming roommates with the dramatic Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess, known as D’Fwan from “30 Rock”) and nanny for the “One Percent” family of Jacqueline Voorhees (Jane Krakowski, “30 Rock”).

Schmidt’s unbridled optimism and cheery disposition would edge on

irritating if not for two factors: the humor associated with creator Tina Fey and Kemper’s performance.

The latter naturally leads to many comparisons to Fey’s last sitcom juggernaut, “30 Rock.”

Her dry, clever and often surreal humor is obvious from the premise itself; a young girl escapes a decade-and-a-half of misery, then hustles through New York with an optimism only someone would have if, well, they had lived in a bunker for half their life.

The subsequent juxtaposition between Schmidt’s ignorance of modern zeitgeist and her “unbreakable” scrappiness is a perfectly balanced concoction. Kemper manages to convey endearing naiveté, determination and intelligence with humorous physicality and great delivery.

But if Kemper is “the straight man,” then it is appropriate for Burgess to be her comic opposite. Burgess’ Titus is unapologetically flamboyant. He is a washed up singer and Schmidt encourages him to pursue his dreams, a failed endeavor made even more hilarious by Burgess’ impressive Broadway background. His comedic timing is impeccable, providing quick quips while occasionally throwing in out-of-place theatrics. Perhaps even more importantly, Andromedon’s sexuality is more a personality trait than a punchline.

Burgess described this in a recent interview with Out Magazine.

“Well, it’s kind of the least of the things they play

up,”Burgess said. “It’s more his entitlement, his delusional way of thinking, in terms of thinking he should be a star.

It’s more about the random situations he finds himself in. ... This is not Kimmy Has a Gay Best Friend. It’s Titus FullThrottle 3-D. And his sexual orientation is not a thing.”

Rather, Andromedon’s race is the primary platform on which “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” launches its most biting social commentary. For example, in “Kimmy is Bad at Math!” Andromedon discovers he is treated better dressed as a werewolf than a black man.

But “Unbreakable” still struggles with race, particularly when compared to other hit sitcoms such as “Fresh off the Boat” and “Black-ish.”

The most alarming subplot is that of Voorhees, a privileged housewife who is secretly Native American, despite being played by a very white Krakowski. It is revealed that Voorhees dyed her hair and put in blue contacts as a teenager to pass as “white.”

The plot-line is thinly veiled under commentary on white oppression of minority culture, but falls short of politically correct.

It is difficult not to criticize Voorhees’ physical changes, nor the arguably offensive characterization of South Dakota reservations. While the plot arc is somewhat redeemed by the end of the season, it remains an unfortunate detour in judgement from “Unbreakable.”

A second misstep in racial depiction is Dong Nguyen

(Ki Hong Lee, “The Stanford Prison Experiment”), a Vietnamese immigrant Kimmy meets in a General Educational Development (GED) class. While fulfilling a slew of stereotypes (good at math, poor at English, delivers Asian food, constantly sought by immigration police, etc.), Nguyen is also contrasted to Kimmy’s first love interest, Logan Beekman (Adam Campbell, “Hello Ladies: The Movie”).

Beekman is an incredibly wealthy and educated heir from Connecticut who eventually battles Nguyen for Kimmy’s affection. Though depicted as ridiculous, Beekman appears to represent class and status as compared to Nguyen.

This lazy development is unfortunate, as Nguyen

is otherwise an extremely charming character representing an atrociously overlooked demographic. And despite the show’s misgivings, it still addresses white ignorance of Asian culture.

For instance, after laughing at Nguyen’s first name in “Kimmy Goes to School!” he is quick to inform Kimmy that her name in Vietnamese also means penis.

In addition to diversity, another issue with “Unbreakable” is the storylines. While writers often spend first seasons cycling through fundamental narratives, the “Kimmy does a new thing while Titus tries to become a star” formula could quickly falter. Hopefully in the second season — the first of which was filmed for NBC before being

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“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is no “30 Rock,” but that is exactly why it is so great.

In place of a cynical Liz Lemon is the “unbreakable” Kimmy Schmidt, a happy-go-lucky protagonist with everything to prove. Despite the sitcom’s faults, watching the world through her eyes is almost always a comedic delight.

Tuba Skinny enchants High Noon with smooth blues New Orleans-based brass band brings impressive repertoire of classic, original tracks to swingin’ performance Monday Photo · Tuba Skinny boasts a large selection of songs to choose from, between numerous classics and their six studio albums.

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The street band Tuba Skinny from New Orleans brought a unique crowd to the High Noon Saloon last Monday. Rather than

a young, drunk crowd of college students with no sense of personal space, an older audience took over the dance floor.

They casually sipped their beer and proceeded to waltz and swing along to Tuba Skinny’s jazz and

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blues melodies with their dance partners. The scene resembled the lighthearted, fun, flapper vibe of party scenes in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris.” This makes sense, as Tuba Skinny’s music is very much like jazz in the 1920’s, reflecting the musical heritage of New Orleans.

To evoke that rich, musical heritage, the members of Tuba Skinny have found inspiration in a variety of styles of music, including spirituals, calypso, ragtime and Depressionera blues, according to the band’s website. The instruments involved in making this sound include a tuba, bass drum, cornet, trombone, washboard, clarinet and guitars.

None of them grew up in New Orleans, but they all went there around 2009, were charmed by the music and culture and began their career together by playing on the streets for money.

The opening duo Boo Bradley (a popular act at the Madison Farmers’ Market) warmed up the audience with its folksy, bluesy music, reminiscent of early 20th century jug bands.

Around 9 p.m., headliner Tuba Skinny took the stage. At first, audience members were apprehensive to be the first ones on the dance floor, but then a couple of brave couples began dancing

to some instrumental blues.

Slowly but surely, more and more couples joined them swinging and dipping.

Throughout the night, the musicians revived plenty of old songs from their impressive repertoire of more than 200 songs, such as Jelly Roll Morton’s “Sidewalk Blues” from 1926.

Other revivals included Mandy Lee’s “Somebody’s Been Lovin’ My Baby” from the 1920’s, Bo Carter ’s “How Can It Be” from 1931, Lonnie Johnson’s “Sweet Potato Blues” from 1927 and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s “Dangerous Blues” from 1921.

Although it has mastered a large repertoire of jazz and blues classics, Tuba Skinny has also written and composed their own music, such as “Owl Call Blues,” on their most recent album of the same name.

Part of the charm of Tuba Skinny’s set at the High Noon Saloon was the individual performances each band member gave.

Erika Lewis’ vocals were

strong and powerful, such as during Mandy Lee’s soulful “Somebody’s Been Lovin’ My Baby.”

Also impressive was John Doyle on the clarinet, Todd Burdick on the tuba and the rest of the ensemble who brought these old tunes and New Orleans traditional style of jazz to Madison.

“It’s a very strong and vibrant culture,” Lewis said about New Orleans. “And it’s centered around music and celebration and family.

As far as I can see, that doesn’t exist anywhere else in this country.”

And there was a particular sense of celebration at the High Noon Saloon, too. The crowd wasn’t huge, but it was happy. People switched dance partners and taught newbies (like me) how to waltz and swing dance.

Dancers who missed a step laughed, smiled and continued to not take any of it too seriously. When a particularly talented pair began dancing, everyone else stopped, admired them and cheered them on.

A lot of people stumbled, but no one let that ruin the celebration.

Tuba Skinny played until just before midnight, and by then even the younger members of the audience were exhausted from dancing all night. Tired

dancers occupied most of the tables and bar stools while their more energetic audience members finished the night swinging, finding new partners if necessary.

After sufficient cheering, Lewis asked the audience members if they wanted a happy or a sad song for the encore. In the spirit of the night, most people asked for the happier song. Of course, the band performed both as the people in the audience ignored their exhaustion for just 15 more minutes.

For me, it all ended with the only successful dip of the night, and it looked like everyone else had a similar experience. The big-band vibe infiltrated the atmosphere of the High Noon Saloon. New Orleans has a vibrant heritage and culture, and Tuba Skinny shared that with Madison for one night of traditional 1920’s music and dancing.

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UW to host fundraiser, ‘Walks of Shame for a Cure’

School officials create event to utilize ‘the awkward morning after jaunt back on home’ to help raise money for a good cause In an effort to raise money for a good cause, the University of Wisconsin is holding the first annual “Walk of Shame for a Cure” event.

The event will consist of participants engaging in consensual sexual relations with random strangers the night before shamefully walking home the next morning to raise money for STD research. The recommended donation is five dollars for every mile participants walk, after collecting what little clothes

they can find before hastily leaving before the stranger wakes up. Organizers expect the event to last from 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, depending on whether or not participants expect their one night stand to cook breakfast.

“I’m very excited,” freshman Rachel Osbourne said. “I get to do two things I love: Helping a good cause and making strangers feel good.”

While criticized as “flagrant prostitution” by some, event leaders say they believe the

walk will do wonders for a worthwhile charity.

“The walk is expected to raise $10,000 for STD research, as well as increase STD prevalence on campus by 3 percent,” event leader Alex Klang said. “So overall, I think it’s a pretty good trade off.”

The event has received an enormous outpouring of support from every key demographic, excluding relatives of participants, however.

“I asked my dad if he would pledge $50 for me

to blow some guy and then walk three miles back to my apartment, and he just gave me this horrified look,” sophomore Johnny Thompson said.

“Parents are sooo stingy.”

Senior Justin Laridaen had a similar story.

“I asked my mom if she would pitch in $5 for me to fuck a girl and then walk home half naked because I left my t-shirt at her place,” said Laridaen. “But she just flat out told me no. I guess people just don’t like helping out the

needy anymore.”

As with most charity events, participants will also be allowed to form teams to support a certain victim. These teams will also be encouraged to go out and have mass orgies before walking (as a full team) back to their various places of residence the next morning.

“My friends Jeff, Kristin, and I are all forming a team in honor of my brother Devin, who has gonorrhea,” junior Brian Erickson said. “We’re not really sure who’s going to be in to our package deal, but

we’re hoping to raise at least $100.”

All in all, the organizers say they expect a large turnout of students, as well as many university professors. Even UW Chancellor Becky Blank has volunteered to get in on the action, along with the entire board of regents.

“We want to show everyone how committed this university is to making the world a better place,” the board of regents president Ray Cross said.

“Also, I’m going to go get some sweet, sweet action.”

‘ConservaCare’ How to use a Taser against foes bill proposed Tips and guidelines on subduing unarmed assailants with non-lethal, practical force Photo · A wise cop (left) uses a Taser stun gun to demobilize an unarmed attacker (on ground), while a second officer (right) stands grateful he didn’t have to use excessive force against the person. Crisis averted!!!

Republicans seek right-wing alternative to ObamaCare healthcare reform plan In light of recent controversy about Obamacare, Republican congressmen Paul Ryan, John Kline and Fred Upton teamed up to propose an alternative healthcare reform plan, which they outlined in the Opinions section of the Wall Street Journal this week.

“Making insurance more affordable” and “supporting Americans in purchasing the healthcare coverage of their choosing” were among the congressmen’s top priorities.

Under ConservaCare, Americans would be able to choose their own insurance plan. ConservaCare harkens back to the pre-ObamaCare healthcare system; affordability by omission.

For those whose employers do not offer healthcare, Republicans suggest, “work harder and earn yourself a better job if it’s so important.”

“Affordable healthcare has been a major concern for the Republican Party for a long time,” Paul Ryan said. “Washington mandates put too much control in the hands of the government.

We [Republicans] hate the government. If it were up to us, we would fire all the Democrats to cut costs.”’

Fred Upton shared similar sentiments regarding the proposal for reform.

“Look, I am very sympathetic to the financial difficulties of the average American,” said Congressman Upton, who is also a Whirlpool heir.

“I come from a family of small business owners. My relatives and I have worked at my grandfather’s humble washing machine shop for over a century now; this hard work has not only allowed us to easily pay off any healthcare bills, but is (arguably) the source of our

good health.”

When asked about systemic issues, like the expense of healthcare in America, Upton remained unsympathetic.

“You think $25 for an ibuprofen is expensive?

I used to earn that in 5 minutes at my grandpa’s wash machine shop,” Upton said. “If you ask me, it’s too cheap for an addictive drug.

We can’t allow hospitals to degenerate into drug dealers!”

In a joint statement, the Republican congressmen explained that it’s a matter of simple economics.

“If we continue on this track toward socialized medicine, patients and their families will lack an incentive to work. Studies have shown, thousands of dollars in debt are integral to convincing the terminally ill and their families to be productive members of society. Luxurious hospital stays and cheap healthcare will just lower work ethic while encouraging people to act recklessly.”

In efforts to help all Americans—“even the poor and lazy”—better their health, Republicans are creating a video series titled, “Right-Wing Fit” free to the public. They say the goal should be to render health insurance unnecessary, not free.

The video series features Upton’s niece, supermodel Kate Upton and congressman Ryan sharing their workout regimens and health tips while discussing the importance of capitalism in a democratic society.

“Our health regiments on ‘Right-Wing Fit’ will prevent America’s leading killers— obesity, heart disease, cancer, and laziness,” said Ryan.

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Contrary to popular beliefs, Tasers work during combat and non-combat situations.

So if you find yourself ever being confronted by an unarmed criminal, a Taser is a great, non-life ending choice of self-defense. Here’s a very simple step-by-step how-to guide on using a Taser yourself.

Step 1. Grab whatever type of Taser you may own (or have whenever you are on the clock at work) out of your utility belt, or holster, if you will.

Step 2. Aim your Taser at any ne’er-do-well assailant.

Even if they’re, say, in an upstairs apartment, you definitely have time to

prepare your aim before you get up there. But there’s still time to pull out that Taser even if you were to be in the midst of a struggle with this unarmed attacker in closerange combat.

Here’s a simple trick to remember this - if you have the time to pull out a gun, you definitely have time to pull out that Taser!

Step 3. Click the release button and fire away. Your target will be hit with a conducted electrical current that will disrupt their muscle control, stopping them dead immobilized in their tracks. Zounds, man, science rules! So that sounds simple enough, right?

Okay, I hear you, readers.

You might still be wondering, what happens if the attacker is really up in your space?

Can you still you the Taser in this scenario?

Of course you can! The Taser can also be used as a direct contact stun gun, allowing for closeproximity self defense. Talk about a handy-dandy, nonmurderous weapon!

Time for a Fun Fact! - Any standard Taser with far-range capabilities, say one that would be used to serve and protect yourself, will offer a safe 15 foot zone of protection with 50,000 volts of power being delivered through two probes that can penetrate up

to 2” of clothing.

Wow! You would have to wear a whole lot of clothes to have it be 2” thick. With a Taser you’d have no problem subduing an unarmed teenager, even with our colder temperatures.

And that should do it!

With just these few easy steps, you have potentially changed the outcome of what could have been a tragedy of excessive and unwarranted force that stems from a much larger, systematic race problem into a simple case of doing your job right. Nobody would find you at fault for detaining an unarmed suspect of probable cause when you subdued him with a non-lethal Taser.

Heck, you would barely make the local/national/ global media circuits papers about it.

If you have any further questions on proper Taser use, be sure to ask your local law enforcement the Justice Department.

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UW to take on Boston at home in NCAA quarterfinals After WCHA championship, fourth-seed Wisconsin women’s hockey team to battle Terriers at LaBahn, hope to advance to Frozen Four Photo · Redshirt senior forward Brittany Ammerman tallied five shots and an assist in the WCHA Final Face-Off last weekend. Ammerman and the rest of the Badgers will look to skate past Boston into the Frozen Four Saturday in Madison.

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The Wisconsin Badgers are WCHA women’s hockey champions for the first time since 2012, and with it comes some much needed momentum heading into the NCAA Tournament.

After riding out a somewhat shaky regular season, Wisconsin (28-6-4, 19-6-3 WCHA) is en route to its first conference title in three years, dismantling Bemidji State 4-0 in the

championship game after knocking off North Dakota in the semifinals.

“We’re riding a high,” sophomore forward Sarah Nurse said. “If we continue that, don’t take anything for granted, and just keep bringing the energy every day during practice, all that, I think we can do very well.”

The Badgers earned the No. 4 seed in the NCAA tournament and are now focusing their efforts back in Madison on their newest challenge: the Boston University Terriers.

The Terriers (25-8-3, 155-1 Hockey East) are fresh off of their fourth straight Hockey East title and will face Wisconsin in the opening round of the NCAA tournament this Saturday at 2 p.m. at LaBahn Arena.

Having not faced BU all season, a unique task will be at hand for the Badgers.

“We’ll be watching a lot of video,” Nurse said. “I think it’s really exciting to play a new team. We play the same teams all year, and I think that a new opponent will really bring us to a

new level. It will be a good experience for us.”

The Badgers are looking to begin their National Championship campaign similarly to last year. Last season, Wisconsin took on Harvard for the first time all season in the NCAA quarterfinals, winning 2-1.

“It’s going to be huge,” sophomore forward Sydney McKibbon said. “We’re expecting a sellout so the fans will definitely be there.

Our fans are great, and the band will be there too. It’s going to be a very exciting

atmosphere, and we’re very happy to be hosting this game.”

Defense will be critical for the Badgers, who haven’t had much experience facing teams with offensive capabilities comparable to their own, besides Minnesota.

Boston University averages 3.9 goals and 32.7 shots per game, .4 more goals but exactly nine less shots than the Badgers per game, who average 3.5 goals and 41.7 shots.

Wisconsin’s defense has sparked some anxiety in isolated moments, but is an extremely formidable unit and has surely proven so this season. The Badgers’ opponents this year average only 1.1 goals and 19.4 shots per game. Wisconsin is first in the WCHA in goals against average (1.08) and penalty kill percentage (96.5).

“I think it starts with the kids understanding what the other team is trying to

do,” Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson said. “With that hockey sense, that willingness to do some of the things as far as blocking shots, winning face offs … do some things right off the bat you can create some turnovers and get an icing.”

Winning the championship has been the focus all season for captain Blayre Turnbull and her fellow seniors, who are looking to finish out their careers at Wisconsin on top. Turnbull, along with Britttany Ammerman, Katy Josephs and Karley Sylvester, have been making tremendous efforts to educate the younger players on how different and challenging the upcoming games will be.

“We want to win,” Turnbull said. “Everyone in that locker room wants to win. I think that we’re doing everything we need to do to prepare ourselves to win that game, and that starts with working hard in the weight room, on the ice and buying into the team’s systems. I think everyone is prepared mentally and physically to get back there.”

The winner of Saturday’s game between the Badgers and Terriers will advance to the Frozen Four in Minneapolis to take on the winner of top-seeded Minnesota and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Record-setter Lihrman continues to dominate field Wisconsin men’s track and field senior thrower has set new marks in Big Ten, NCAA weight toss after rare jump from D-III to D-I

by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

Michael Lihrman lost 80 pounds his junior year of high school and took on track and field to keep up a healthy lifestyle.

Six years later, he’s on the verge of a world record, but he’s not even done yet.

“I like to snatch up records,” Lihrman said. “I only have a couple more to break: I’ve got the world record and I’ve got the NCAA meet record. I missed that last year by a couple of feet, so two more records, and I’ll hold them all.”

The senior thrower for the Wisconsin men’s track and field team has broken the school record for a weight toss five times, won two Big Ten individual championships in the weight throw and won an individual NCAA championship in the same event.

Lihrman, who redshirted the 2013 spring season, also has the collegiate, Division I and Big Ten records for the weight throw and a Big Ten and school record for the outdoor track season in the hammer throw.

But his journey to success didn’t take place overnight.

After high school, Lihrman spent his first two years at UW-Stout while pursuing a degree in hospitality and restaurant management to continue in the family business. At the same time, he continued to compete in track and managed to have a fair amount of success, placing in the top 15 in Division III outdoor meet his first season.

But according to Wisconsin assistant coach

Dave Astrauskas, the jump Lihrman made to Division I after his sophomore year was hardly typical.

“It doesn’t normally happen,” Astrauskas said.

“There’s a big discrepancy between the talent levels between Division III and Division I.” Lihrman focused more on throwing after his freshman year at Stout, finding a coach near his home of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, to help him improve. The coach pushed him to try to make the jump to Division I, but Lihrman wasn’t quite at the Division I standard at that point.

Following his sophomore season, when he finished fourth in DIII in the hammer throw during the outdoor campaign, Lihrman met the DI standard and requested his release papers from Stout to transfer to UWMadison.

“I remember meeting the athletic director there, and he told me you can stay here and continue to be good or you can go to the Division I level and be just OK,” Lihrman said.

Although he may have lacked throwing experience at the time of his transfer, he left a strong first impression on the staff at Wisconsin, including Astrauskas, who coaches the throws.

“After I saw him here whenever he visited, saw his size, I thought, ‘Wow, we have a special thrower here,’” Astrauskas said.

But Astrauskas and even Lihrman himself couldn’t have anticipated what was to come in the following three years.

“As a coach, it’s tough to ever expect someone to be the best there ever was in the NCAA. I definitely didn’t see that,” Astrauskas

said. “I saw him being somebody that could make it the national meet a couple times for us.”

But then the breakthrough came for Lihrman after

he told me “you...and can stay here and continue to be good or you can go to the Division I level and be just OK.

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Michael Lihrman Wisconsin track & field thrower his fall season, when Astrauskas knew that there was something big on the

horizon.

“We were just kind of getting back into weight throwing after throwing the hammer all fall and he’s throwing the weight.

I thought he was throwing the 30-pound weight and he was actually throwing with the 35,” Astrauskas said.

“And I screamed as loud as I possibly could. I’m sure Michael remembers that.

And that’s when I knew we had something special.”

He started slowly in his redshirt campaign, competing unattached in several meets for Wisconsin during the indoor season. Then in the USA championships in early March of 2013, he broke the school record with a toss of 20.87 meters.

After his redshirt season, when he began to officially compete for Wisconsin, the records have continued to fall.

His current record for the weight throw stands at 25.58 meters, but that’s taken a lot of individual breakthroughs, according to Lihrman, which he said happen every couple of

months.

“It’s a sport that you have to perfect,” Lihrman said.

“You have to repeat it over and over again. You’re never going to hit perfect, but it takes tens of thousands of throws.”

On the heels of a second straight Big Ten individual title in the weight throw two weekends ago, Lihrman heads to the NCAA championships this weekend looking to reclaim his weight throw title from a year ago and set the NCAA meet record, which currently stands at 24.02 meters.

Lihrman can’t get the world record until the outdoor season, but that doesn’t mean he can’t break his own record again this weekend and set another one in the process.

Lihrman and the Badgers won the NCAA meet as a team last season, but the chance to get back to the top again individually and set another record after he came up less than a meter short a year ago gives him a chance to validate his effort over the last 12 months.

“It’s kind of like a second

Photo · Wisconsin men’s track and field senior thrower Michael Lihrman transferred from UW-Stout to Wisconsin and has found unprecedented success as a Badger.

Walt Middleton UW Athletics opportunity to win at something,” Lihrman said of competing in an individual event like the throws inside of a team sport. “It’s cool to have both, but it’s cooler, I’d say, to win on your own because it’s all on you. It’s all up to you and how much work you put into it the entire year.”

In a little less than two seasons with the Badgers, Lihrman has managed to set nearly every possible record individually. It’s something few might have expected him when he first started, but he has only continued to improve to the point where he’s chasing the world record in the outdoor hammer throw.

“I had no clue at this level, but he surprises me every day,” Astrauskas said.

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Around the Big Ten: Tournament preview

Writers from across Big Ten give their opinions on what each team needs to do to bring home conference championship

Wi t h the Big Te n tournament a l re a d y a d a y o l d , 1 2 t e a m s re m a i n in play for the coveted B i g Te n m e n ’ s b a s k e t b a l l

1 - Wisconsin 28-3, 16-2 Big Ten Big Ten Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky and all-Big Ten selections Sam Dekker and Nigel Hayes will need, and will likely, continue their effectiveness from the regular season into tournament time. If the backcourt duo of sophomore guard Bronson Koenig and redshirt senior Josh Gasser can consistently hit some threes, that will help to take the full scoring load off the shoulders of the frontcourt and will only help UW. But for Wisconsin to win its second conference championship of the season, they’ll need the bench to step up. With the potential for games on three straight days, the Badgers’ starters won’t be able to play 30-plus minutes each game and hope for fresh legs come Sunday.

Zak Showalter, Duje Dukan and Vitto Brown will need to come off the bench and give head coach Bo Ryan valuable minutes. If they can do that, you have to like Wisconsin’s odds of bringing home another Big Ten championship.

- Eric Kohlbeck, The Badger Herald

5 - Iowa 21-10, 12-6 Big Ten If Iowa wants a chance to win the Big Ten Tournament, it needs its best players to play like its best players.

Aaron White has been on an absolute tear during Iowa’s current six-game winning streak, averaging 21.2 per contest. Jarrod Uthoff has been fairly steady all year, and his 12 point average has helped the Hawkeyes a lot. (Sorry, Wisconsin fans.)Contributions from Anthony Clemmons, Mike Gesell, Adam Woodbury, Gabe Olaseni and Peter Jok have been huge too. Even Josh Oglesby’s jumper has show up lately.

If these guys keep playing the way they’ve been playing during Iowa’s hot streak, the Hawkeyes aren’t the team I’d like to square off with if I’m an opposing coach.

The bottom line is this: Iowa has looked strong to end the season on the offensive and defensive end of the ball.

As long as there isn’t a let down, head coach Fran McCaffery and company have a nice future.

- Danny Payne, The Daily Iowan

tournament championship and an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.

Wi t h M a rc h M a d n e s s u n d e r w a y, t o p s e e d s c a n

fall at any time while c i n d e re l l a s e m e rg e looking for an NCAA bid of their own.

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4 - Purdue 20-11, 12-6 Big Ten

The same problems that reared Michigan State their head at the beginning of the season — untimely fouls, an inability to get defensive stops with a lead and three minutes left and the lack of a consistent crunch time scorer — remain an issue today. These three issues nearly cost them the No. 3 seed-clinching win against Indiana last Saturday.

MSU could have won four additional games this season had they drained more free throws in the last two minutes. It’s true. A few lucky bounces could go a long way in the tournament.

It’s tough to bet against a team led by Tom Izzo, even if critics will say this is a down year for him. The Spartans are as formidable as anyone when their big three — Travis Trice, Denzel Valentine and Branden Dawson — are locked in.

And despite all of the frustration, it says something that despite their struggles, they still emerged as the third best team in the conference behind two top-10 teams.

- Omari Sankofa, The State News

Purdue had a rough start to the season, going just 8-5 in non-conference play, including a three-game losing streak right before Big Ten play.

However, the Boilermakers found their stride in conference play earning four wins over top-25 teams in the process with back-to-back wins over then No. 25 Iowa and No. 22 Indiana. Despite losing two of its last three games to finish out the regular season, Purdue still ended up with the No. 4 seed and double-bye.

The Boilermakers are led by sevenfoot center A.J. Hammons who averages a team-high 11.5 points per game in addition to 6.5 rebounds and 2.8 blocks.

Purdue will need Hammons to perform at an all-Big Ten level with two potential difficult matchup ahead should the Boilermakers get to the championship game.

Fifth-seed Iowa could potentially play Purdue Friday and if it can get past that one, top-seeded Wisconsin awaits in the semifinals.

- Eric Kohlbeck, The Badger Herald

7 - Indiana 19-12, 9-9 Big Ten

8 - Illinois 19-12, 9-9 Big Ten

Indiana has been a lot like an unlit firework.

The potential for an explosion is there. The Hoosiers are equipped with more shooters than just about any team in the country and regularly put four guards on the floor more than capable of letting shots fly from beyond the arc.

But then there’s the chance the firework that is the 2014-15 Hoosiers is a dud. The offense, when clicking, can cover the sins of a poor defense, lack of height and youth sometimes too prone to making mistakes.

When it’s not clicking, IU can lose to just about anyone.

IU will go as far as the offense will carry it in the Big Ten Tournament.

The only way IU stands a chance is if sharp-shooting guards like Yogi Ferrell, James Blackmon Jr. and Nick Zeisloft get hot from beyond the arc and hit around 15 3-pointers to make up for a sometimes non-existent defense.​ - Sam Beishuizen, Indiana Daily Student

There is a pretty good chance Illinois senior guard Rayvonte Rice never gets a chance to play in the NCAA tournament.

The Champaign native transferred to Illinois after two years at Drake and has become one of the Big Ten’s most feared scorers. After the Illini lost to Purdue in West Lafayette last weekend, their NCAA tournament hopes took a big hit. The Illini sit at 19-12 entering the Big Ten tournament with a game Thursday morning against Michigan.

The Illini probably need at least two wins in the Big Ten tournament to go dancing. Illinois has some talented players on their team, but their X factor is Rice. He knows this is his last chance to make the NCAA tournament. Down the stretch, Rice has started to lock in, averaging 20 points in his last five games. We’ll see just how far Rice can carry his hometown team in the Big Ten tournament.

- Sam Sherman, The Daily Illini

6 - Ohio State 22-9, 11-7 Big Ten For the Ohio State men’s basketball team to be successful in the upcoming Big Ten Tournament, it will need more than just spectacular play from freshman guard D’Angelo Russell.

While the Buckeyes typically go as Russell goes, the Louisville, Kentucky, native is in uncharted waters as a college player.

He has never played in a postseason game in college, but is surrounded by teammates who have played in two Elite Eights and a Final Four.

OSU will need consistent play from senior forward Sam Thompson to help stretch the floor for Russell and will need senior center Amir Williams to be the dominant center everyone thought he could be coming out of high school.

If the Buckeyes can give Russell any kind of help, they have a chance to surprise a few people and make a late run in Chicago.

- James Grega Jr., The Lantern

9 - Michigan 15-15, 8-10 Big Ten

10 - Northwestern 15-16, 6-12 Big Ten

11 - Minnesota 18-14, 6-12 Big Ten

According to Michigan head coach John Beilein, the Wolverines “have a chance against everybody” if they can play like they did against Rutgers. If Michigan can have 20 assists, a 30-point scorer and another player post a double-double, it might be possible to win the Big Ten Tournament and steal an NCAA Tournament bid.

While that’s certainly possible, it’s very unlikely.

Michigan will need everything to go its way to win the Big Ten Tournament. It’ll need great shooting from deep and for its bigs to contain the opposition down low to stay in games.

Just like they did earlier in the season against Wisconsin, the Wolverines will need to fight as long as possible and hope the ball bounces their way in the end to squeak out the win.

Michigan will have to play a complete game all tournament long to have any chance to win it all.

- Dan Feldman, The Michigan Daily

If Northwestern is going to make a run in the Big Ten Tournament, it needs a lot to happen.

Bryant McIntosh was an all-Big Ten Freshman Team selection, but he seems to have hit the proverbial “freshman wall” in recent games, particularly with his scoring.

In the final five games of the regular season, McIntosh averaged 6.4 points on 28.9 percent shooting, although he was also dishing out 6.2 assists per contest.

The Wildcats will need McIntosh and leading scorer Tre Demps, a junior guard, at their best when going up against talented backcourts from Indiana and Maryland just to reach the semifinals.

Freshman wing Vic Law has been an X factor for Northwestern in the team’s late season surge. He scored in double figures three times in the final five games after just one such scoring effort previously in Big Ten play.

- Jesse Kramer, The Daily Northwestern

Minnesota winning the Big Ten tournament won’t be easy. The Gophers have lost five of their last six games, but could definitely surprise some teams if a few things go well.

Andre Hollins has to be on fire. He scored 41 points at Minnesota once and has been streaky all season. Mo Walker needs to build off his 26-point, 11-rebound performance that closed out the regular season. It also wouldn’t hurt if freshman guard Nate Mason, who’s been coming on lately, broke out in late-round games that could potentially see him defending D’Angelo Russell and Melo Trimble.

As a whole? Minnesota needs to limit secondchance points.

The Gophers are terrible rebounders and every possession at the tournament will be critical.

- Jack Satzinger, The Minnesota Daily

13 - Penn State 16-15, 4-14 Big Ten The Nittany Lions have a winnable game against Nebraska, but after that it gets tough.

Fifth-seed Iowa awaits Penn State, should it beat the Cornhuskers, and after that would be Purdue. Now, head coach Patrick Chambers’ squad actually showed well against both the Hawkeyes and Boilermakers (PSU lost to each in overtime by four and seven points, respectively), but Iowa and Purdue will both benefit from byes.

In both of those close, overtime losses, the Lions were unable to close the door down the stretch — something

B i g Te n a n d a s k e d t h e m , “What does your team have to do to win the Big Ten tournament?”

Here’s what they said:

3 - Michigan State 21-10, 12-6 Big Ten

2 - Maryland 26-5, 14-4 Big Ten Through their resurgent season, the No. 8 Terrapins have employed a constant formula in games that go down to the wire.

Head coach Mark Turgeon puts the ball in the hands of Melo Trimble or Dez Wells and lets one of his two stars go to work on the most crucial possessions of contests. If the Terps play through Wells on backto-back trips down the floor, they’ll often run an isolation for Trimble, the crown jewel of a four-member freshman class, on the next play. It works vice versa, too.

So in an attempt to win their inaugural Big Ten tournament, the Terps will lean on Wells and Trimble. It’s a tactic that’s worked well this season — the Terps are 10-0 in games decided by six points or less — and it’s clear that Turgeon’s willing to take his chances living and dying with the two all-Big Ten performers.

- Aaron Kasinitz, The Diamondback

Te n t e a m ’ s c h a n c e s a re i n t h e B i g Te n t o u r n a m e n t , The Badger Herald re a c h e d out to each student newspaper in the

D.J. Newbill was able to do against Minnesota Saturday.

But if Newbill and Penn State find a way to pull off three straight wins (something the Lions weren’t able to do against Big Ten teams in the regular season), the run would surely end there. Barring a shocking upset to Illinois/Michigan, top-seed Wisconsin would be the next challenge for the Lions.

Newbill and Penn State’s Big Ten Tournament ride is likely to last only one or two games.

- Garrett Ross, The Daily Collegian

Note: No. 14 Rutgers and No. 12 Nebraska both lost in the first round of the Big Ten tournament Wednesday

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Northwestern (10)

Wisconsin (1) Illinois (8)

Indiana (7) Maryland (2)

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Badgers hungry for three more wins in Chicago With Big Ten regular season already won, Wisconsin men’s basketball looks for second championship with conference tournament title

by Nick Brazzoni Men’s Basketball Writer

After a 28-3 record and the program’s first Big Ten regular season championship since 2008, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team is out to accomplish their next goal: a Big Ten Tournament title.

The tournament kicks off Wednesday afternoon, but the Badgers will have a double bye as the No. 1 overall seed. The double bye comes as a result of this Big Ten Tournament being the first with 14 teams.

UW’s first game will be Friday morning against the winner of No. 8 Illinois and No. 9 Michigan.

This tournament not only serves as a final tune-up for Wisconsin as they head into the NCAA Tournament hoping for a return trip to the Final Four, but also as a way to secure their position as the best team in the Big Ten. A regular season championship is nice, but for

redshirt senior guard Josh Gasser, it is not enough to be considered the best team in the conference.

“There are two champions, so you don’t really want to split it,” Gasser said. “We would like to win this one by ourselves, but that’s a tough thing to do. It’s going to be a tough journey.”

But tough may be an understatement. Since senior guard Traevon Jackson went out with a foot injury, Gasser and the rest of the UW starters have had to log plenty of minutes as a result of the lack of depth and production off the bench.

The starters for Wisconsin have all played at least 30 minutes each in 11 of the team’s last 13 games. The two games they didn’t were double-digit wins over Ohio State last Sunday and Northwestern on Feb. 7.

Now, with postseason tournaments and playing multiple games in a short amount of time, those minutes

may start to catch up to the players. However, Gasser, who holds the Wisconsin record for most minutes played at 4,411, says this team knows how to take care of their bodies and will be ready for the challenge.

not playing “forWea are No. 1 seed, we are playing to win a championship.

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Frank Kaminsky Men’s basketball player

“The national championship is in four weeks, so if we can’t handle four more weeks, then we don’t deserve it,” Gasser said. “We’re young kids, and we can play hard every night if we need to. We are taking care of our bodies, resting a lot and doing all the little things like that to make sure we are okay.”

An impressive showing in

the tournament, with a little bit of outside help, could assist in Wisconsin landing a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

The No. 1 seed would be the first in UW basketball history and help the Badgers avoid a potential matchup with undefeated Kentucky in the Midwest Regional Final.

However, according to senior forward and Big Ten Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky, that No. 1 seed is not exactly what is on this team’s mind.

“We are just trying to go out there and win,” Kaminsky said. “We are not playing for a No. 1 seed, we are playing to win a championship.

“We just want to make the tournament,” he joked. “I think we have made a strong case to make the tournament so far.”

The Badgers have made quite the case, as their 201415 campaign could end up as the best campaign ever by a Wisconsin team.

A majority of the players

on this team have played and grown together over the years, and to be the best Wisconsin team ever is something that is definitely on their minds.

But this team isn’t going out and playing well just to be considered the best.

“We just want to be good for each other and we take good pride in that,” junior forward Sam Dekker said. “We want to win for each other, and if we end up doing that, then I think we could be regarded as the best team ever at Wisconsin.

But we aren’t going to look right now at ourselves as the best ever. We still have a lot of work to do.”

Dekker ended up putting it even more simply, as nine straight wins and a national championship will be the ultimate criteria if this team is going to consider themselves the best.

“You’re not the best ever if you lose,” he said.

The Badgers will continue their journey to be the best Friday, with tip-off for their

first Big Ten Tournament game scheduled for 11 a.m. at the United Center in Chicago against either Illinois or Michigan.

Potential matchups for Wisconsin: Quarterfinals - 11 a.m.

Friday, ESPN: (8) Illinois, (9) Michigan Semifinals - Noon Saturday, CBS : (4) Purdue, (5) Iowa, (13) Penn State Finals - 2:30 p.m. Sunday, CBS: (2) Maryland, (3) Michigan State, (6) Ohio State, (7) Indiana, (10) Northwestern, (11) Minnesota

Photo · Senior forward Frank Kaminsky (left) and junior forward Sam Dekker (right) hope to give the Badgers another championship and even more momentum heading into the NCAA tournament. with a Big Ten tournament title.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald