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BEST FOR LAST Wisconsin overcomes its largest deficit of season to dispose of Michigan State in overtime for the Big Ten tournament title.

by ERIC KOHLBECK

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Sounds of demonstration echo at Robinson’s funeral

Hundreds gathered at East High School in a celebration of life, after 19-year-old man shot, killed by Madison police officer last week

by Rachael Lallensack News Editor

Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” resonated through a gymnasium at East High School Saturday as hundreds of people filed out of the room, some in tears and

others in embrace.

For the past three hours the Madison community had gathered to pay their respects to Tony Robinson, a 19-year-old Madison resident who was shot and killed by a Madison police officer only a week ago.

Cooke’s lyrics, and the

time old anthem for the civil rights movement, seemed particularly poignant.

The day Robinson was killed his family was not allowed to immediately see his body – it had been classified as evidence.

But on Saturday, March 14, his body rest in an open

casket. His embalmed face looked more like a mask compared to photos in a slideshow playing at the front of the room. Robinson was shot multiple times in the head, torso and right upper extremity, according to preliminary autopsy.

He rest no longer an object

under investigation, but for his friends and family as an emblem for change to come.

“Tony isn’t over there,” Robinson’s grandmother, Sharon Irwin said as she pointed to his casket. “He is rocking the universe.”

“When you feel the wind touch the tip of your ear,

that’s Tony speaking to you.

When you hear that song and you think of him, that’s Tony speaking to you,” Irwin said.

Saturday, Irwin’s song was Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” It had played on the radio at a time she yearned to

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BUDGET SERIES

Performance could determine tech school funding

Under Walker’s budget proposal, state’s 16 two-year institutions would rely solely on recieving money based on rewarding high standards

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Wisconsin’s 16 twoyear technical colleges will face a steady increase in performance-based funding over the next five years if the Legislature passes Gov. Scott Walker ’s 2015-17 biennial budget this summer.

Paul Gabriel, executive

director of the Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association, a lobbying group for the state’s tech schools, said technical colleges are flat funded. This means there is no change in the amount of money the state will put toward the campuses in the next biennial budget.

However, under the new budget, schools would receive an incrementally higher

proportion of performancebased funding each year until 2020, Gabriel said.

Gabriel said currently, 10 percent of state funding for the technical colleges is performance-based. Under Walker’s plan, this proportion would rise to 100 percent over the next five years.

This is not the first time Walker proposed an increase in performance-based funding

for the 16 campuses. In the 2013-15 biennial budget, he attempted to increase performance-based funding for technical schools to 100 percent over six years, but the Joint Finance Committee put a cap at 30 percent. Walker then vetoed the cap before signing the final budget.

Gabriel said his organization supports performance-based funding to

an extent. The colleges are for the most part performing at high standards and should be rewarded, Gabriel said.

He is concerned, however, with the magnitude of Walker’s proposal.

After 30 percent, performance-based funding becomes too volatile, Gabriel said.

“You could have real winners and losers without

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any noticeable change in performance,” Gabriel said.

“There’s too much at stake dollar-wise.”

Gabriel said performancebased funding might discourage schools from engaging in new programs, for example, because the change could affect what the state considers “high performance.”

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PROVING NETFLIX ISN’T EVERYTHING

Madison’s movie rental cooperative, Four Star Video Heaven survives in the age of streaming.

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GAZA: A PASSIVE CONFLICT ON CAMPUS?

Two guest speakers scheduled at the same time had pro-Israel and pro-Palestine student organizations locked in unspoken debate.

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Wis. lacks in transgender student support UW study, adding to the current small body of research, outlines remaining struggles for transgender students

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Once a leader in protransgender initiatives, Wisconsin is now a follower, a University of Wisconsin study uncovered.

The study on the experiences of transgender high school students revealed that despite some gains made for students in schools implementing protective transgender policies, transgender students still face challenges.

The Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools requested the study, released in February, to add to the currently lacking body of research on transgender experiences.

UW professors Maurice Gattis and Sara McKinnon co-authored the study and found protection of

transgender students varies widely among school districts. Even in schools ranked well, the protection they offer is often poorly implemented, according to the study.

While some districts are more supportive of protransgender initiatives, others are often indifferent, with some even opposing protections, Brian Juchems, senior director of education and policy at GSAFE, said. He said Wisconsin is behind other states in implementing modern nondiscrimination policies for transgender people.

“Where we once were a leader, we now are a follower,” Juchems said.

Juchems said one of the most surprising findings was transgender youth are more likely to be involved with and disciplined for fights at school. He said a number of students

identified the need to protect themselves before other people picked on them, Juchems said.

Another surprise was some transgender students, knowing they are targets for bullying, chose to bulk up to make themselves more intimidating, Juchems said.

Juchems also said there were some students who reported positive experiences within their school and community.

Juchems said the study revealed students seemed to do exceptionally well at schools which had some solutions in place.

Gattis, a UW social work professor, said he was surprised students went to great lengths to attend school despite being bullied. Gattis said the study also revealed many schools do not have the proper facilities to

accommodate transgender students, such as locker rooms and restrooms.

The qualitative study interviewed 21 transgender students from four different metropolitan areas throughout Wisconsin with the purpose of documenting transgender and gender non-conforming students, according to the report.

“We narrowed down our options and decided to answer this specific question in order to get information to inform policy,” Gattis said.

The study defines transgender as a person whose gender identity and/or expression is not aligned with the gender they were assigned at birth and people whose gender expression differs from stereotypical expectations.

Despite the relatively small sample size, Juchems

is confident the study will help organizations like GSAFE better support transgender students.

“It really helps tell the story more than just numbers do,” Juchems said.

Gattis said to continue research, the current plan is to interview high school teachers and administrators in focus groups located in both Madison and Green Bay while also expanding into rural areas.

Communities, school districts and the state government need to act to ensure Wisconsin modernizes its protections to ensure that students can learn in a safe environment, Juchems said.

The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health funded the study.

Alum brings casual Kanye vibe to fine dining

From Madison to Manhattan: Gabriel Stulman, New York restauranteur, recognized in UW “Forward under 40” list

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

Gabriel Stulman dreamt of building a restaurant which had delicious food and brought the level of service one expected at fine dining establishments, but wanted to do it wearing t-shirts and jeans while listening to the Roots and Kanye West.

A University of Wisconsin graduate recently recognized as a “Forward under 40,” Stulman brought his experience in the Madison food service industry with him on his journey through the competitive Manhattan restaurant scene.

Stulman, who graduated from UW in 2003, moved to New York to pursue his dream of entering the restaurant industry. His current collection of six restaurants and has received the attention of many publications. In 2012, Esquire Magazine named him

restauranteur of the year.

“I believed there was a whole generation of diners in their 20s who like hip hop music and who know the difference between six different kinds of mushrooms and the different varietals of grapes from the Rome region,” Stulman said. “I wanted to build a place for them.”

His passion for restaurants grew during his four years working at Madison’s Café Montmartre during his undergraduate years.

He said the café taught him the power of neighborhood institutions.

“That’s what changed the course of my life: working at that place and seeing the culture and identity and power of building a neighborhood institution; being a part of people’s lives and being part of the fabric of the community,” Stulman said.

During Stulman’s time at UW, he worked long hours

to pay for school, but doing this allowed him to eventually travel around the world and graduate nearly debt free, he said.

“Whenever everybody else was going out to bars, I was working, but I made great things happen with that revenue,” he said.

Stulman moved to New York because he knew establishing himself in such a competitive city would be a powerful motivator to improve, he said.

After initially working in Manhattan restaurants, Stulman co-founded The Little Owl and Market Table. His vision for his restaurants was to create a space for an incoming wave of sophisticated but more casual diners.

After selling The Little Owl and Market Table to his business partner, Stulman and his wife founded a seafood restaurant named Joseph Leonard. Initially, Stulman staffed Joseph Leonard

and some of the first new restaurants with college friends, leading The New York Times in 2011 to refer to the restaurant group as “Little Wisco.”

Stulman said initially his staff consisted of 85 percent former Wisconsin residents.

Forty of the original employees remain, although the name no longer carries as much weight because the restaurant group employs 300 people, Stulman said.

A strong advocate of hospitality in restaurants, Stulman said Wisconsin’s version of hospitality plays into his strategy.

“Our hospitality is a mashup of the warmth and enthusiasm in the genuine sincerity of Wisconsin hospitality with the intense, competitive nature and orientation to detail that constitutes New York hospitality,” Stulman said.

For UW students soon to graduate, Stulman urges patience in aspiring to their

Courtesy of Henry Hargreaves The Badger Herald dreams.

He said he increasingly sees young people unwilling to put in work.

“I totally support people breaking out on their own, but there is a fine balance,” Stulman said. “Everybody is just looking for the get rich quick idea. Have your dreams and pursue those, but also get into the workforce.”

Why Walker’s stance shifts matter for 2016

Governor newfound support for strict border control is latest move in effort to appeal to far right conservatives in Iowa

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Photo · Gov. Scott Walker’s attempts to appeal to conservatives follow a pattern of GOP candidates “running to the right” before primary elections.

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by Brenda McIntire Reporter

Gov. Scott Walker acknowledged his flip on immigration during an interview on Fox News Sunday this month – a move consistent with his shift toward being a model conservative.

The reason behind the change is simple, experts say; Walker is interested in a 2016 presidential bid.

Walker recently announced

TECH, page 1 Nine different criteria currently make up the performance standards on which campuses are judged, and the individual schools pick the seven most relevant.

These include job placement, workforce training and special populations.

Walker ’s budget proposes the addition of a 10th criteria, which would reward colleges

he now supports stricter border patrol and opposes “amnesty” programs which allow certain undocumented workers to stay in the United States. He previously supported creating a path toward citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

According to University of Wisconsin political science professor Kenneth Mayer, Walker’s stance on immigration is consistent with previous Republican presidential candidates.

that award course credit to students for “relevant training not obtained through an institution of higher education,” including training received during the military or in dualenrollment high school classes.

Donald Moynihan, a University of Wisconsin public affairs professor who researches performancebased funding in public

Since the majority of the Republican Party opposes immigration reform that leads to a path to citizenship, this will likely help him secure a presidential nomination, Mayer said.

Immigration is one of the most divisive issues in the Republican Party with voters in Iowa especially tending to oppose a path to citizenship in favor of stricter border control, UW political science professor David Canon said.

“There are a whole range of things where he’s taking a position that’s consistent with what conservative voters in the Republican primaries and caucuses tend to be in favor of, and immigration is a big one,” Canon said.

Republicans over the last 10 to 15 years have “run to the right” during the primaries and then back to the center in the general election, Mayer said. Since candidates must

policy, said the broad criteria make this type of funding for technical colleges in some ways different than the hotly contested debates surrounding K-12 schools.

Moynihan said additionally, attendance of technical college is not compulsory like K-12 education, which changes the argument slightly.

Nick Hillman, a UW professor in educational

appeal more to the base in the primaries, oftentimes more conservative voters have a greater pull on a candidate’s platform, he said.

Mayer said this has been true in Iowa the past two elections. The past two caucus victories have gone to Rick Santorum in 2012 and Mike Huckabee in 2008, both of whom are considered to be more conservative Republicans, he said.

Canon said this is likely a wise move for the primaries, but taking a stronger stance now could hurt Walker’s chances in the general election.

In 2012, presidential candidate Mitt Romney changed his views on immigration to support stricter border control and oppose immigration reform, which Canon said hurt him in the general election.

Mayer said the Republican Party has struggled to appeal to non-white voters in recent years, which has hurt candidates in the general election.

“The Republican Party has a big problem appealing to non-white voters, and the demographic group in the United States that is growing the fastest are Hispanics,” Mayer said. “Taking a hardline stance now will make it more difficult in the general election

to move back.”

In contrast, according to Politico, Obama’s support from the Latino community has continued to increase over his presidency. In fact, according to their findings, the next democratic nominee could potentially receive more than 80 percent of Latino votes.

But immigration is only the tip of the iceberg. Walker has recently changed his stance on other issues to appeal more to the Republican base, Canon said.

When Walker ran for governor in 2014, he cut an ad saying that abortion was a private choice between a woman and her doctor, and he recently announced his support for ethanol subsidies, which he opposed in 2006, Mayer said.

Canon said although he believes voters will respect Walker’s right to change his mind, doing so across several issues could hurt him in the long run.

“I think that once it becomes a pattern, across four or five different issues that all seem to be pointing in [a more conservative] direction, some people will question whether this is a real change or whether he will change back a couple months later if he got the nomination,” Canon said.

leadership and policy analysis, said many states are grappling with performancebased funding in higher education.

This would make Wisconsin one of the most aggressive in terms of technical schools, he said.

“There’s no rationale, there’s no rhyme or reason as to why 100 percent is a desirable figure,” Hillman said.

Allen Phelps, a UW

professor of educational leadership and policy analysis, said there is no clear benefit from performancebased funding for community and technical colleges across the United States.

Moynihan and Hillman also said little to no research supports the notion that Wisconsin’s technical schools’ performance will increase with an increase in performance-based funding.

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THE BADGER HERALD · FEATURE · MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2015

All videos go to heaven In the age of Netflix, Madison’s affection for cooperatives keeps movie rentals alive at Four Star Video Heaven

by Hayley Sperling Digital City Editor

A movie plays softly from behind the front register, which operates off of software from the ‘80s, signed posters line the walls, dozens of shelves filled with films and television shows of all varieties fill the room, and that’s just the first floor.

Four Star Video Heaven, located on 449 State Street, is one of Madison’s few remaining video rental stores.

The store, which is also one of Madison’s many cooperatives, has a long history in the community and employed some of Madison’s finest creative minds such as writer Dan Savage and creators of the the Onion’s sister publication, The A.V. Club.

“This place has a long history with The Onion,” Four Star part-owner Lewis Peterson said.

Four Star was one of the first to advertise in The Onion when it still ran print editions.

Four Star was also home to Onion columnist Dan Savage, who began writing his Savage Love column in the store’s back rooms.

Photo · It was ‘Do or Die’ for Four Star’s owners at the time when they had to decide between closing the store or buying it.

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Do or die for Four Star Four Star first opened its doors in 1985, at which time they occupied a space on Henry Street. The store remained on Henry Street for years until its relocation to its current space on State Street. In August 2014, longtime owner Lisa Brennan decided to give up the store. It was at this point a difficult decision about

the future of Four Star faced employees.

“It became obvious that the options were either that the store closes or we buy the store,” Peterson said.

The purchase of the store became a group effort.

A fundraising campaign for the cooperative began February of last year. The prospective buyers initiated an Indiegogo campaign, along with on the ground efforts which in total raised close to $10,000 of their $50,000 goal.

The total was enough for a down payment on a bank loan which would secure Four Star as a newly formed cooperative.

The owners said no one had given much thought into business ownership, but stepped up to the circumstance.

“This was a good job to have and when it came time to do or die, we did,” part-owner Nick Propheter said.

The transition between ownership into a cooperative was gradual, Peterson said. As a cooperative, the four owners make all decisions about the business as a group, Propheter said.

Also part of the cooperative function, the store offers a subscription program which allows people the become

members of the cooperative after purchasing a video rental.

While none of the new owners had much business experience when first taking on ownership of the store, Propheter said it has been a learning experience and while they have faced some challenges, overall, store operations continue to run without a hitch.

“Things are going pretty smoothly now, there were some hiccups and bumps in the road but we’ve figured it out along the way,” Propheter said.

The Madison community has

also contributed to the cooperative’s success over the years. Propheter said other local businesses and cooperatives have been major supports for the new business owners. He noted the support Four Star received in the past from local cooperatives such as Community Pharmacy, Union Cab and Willy Street Co-op. From general business to legal advice, Propheter said Four Star always has people who are willing to help.

Staying alive in the Netflix era In a time where video rental stores are virtually non-existent and most people find themselves watching content from online streaming networks such as Netflix, Hulu or Amazon, Four Star thrives with a selection of 18,000 videos.

“We have more appeal in our selection, people get stuff that they can’t get online, that’s why they come here,” Peterson said.

Online streaming platforms such as Netflix have to renew their licensing rights to videos.

If they choose not to renew that license, the video will no longer be available.

Four Star, on the other hand, does not have to worry about licensing. Once they purchase a DVD it becomes part of their permanent collection.

Their vast selection of

videos, including those no longer available on the Internet, is part of what drives customers through their doors.

“We get the students as a source of new customers who are just walking down the street and come in and are like, ‘Oh yeah, we do want to get Space Jam or Ghostbusters, or something we can’t get off the Internet,’” Peterson said.

While the top videos people rent from Four Star are always changing, the owners noted some of the most rented items include Spirited Away, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Holy Mountain and the Star Trek series.

Four Star is also known for its wide selection of foreign films. All of the owners said they consider themselves experts on the matter.

Another major attraction for customers is Four Star’s annual collaboration with WORT to host filmmakers in their store, giving them a platform to talk about their films in the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Peterson said he believes many people simply like the idea of supporting local businesses.

“As far as getting local support, Madison does definitely love its co-ops,” Propheter said. “[It’s] one of these towns that a place like this can continue to thrive unlike anywhere else.”

Photo · Four Star Video Heaven has employed some of Madison’s most creative minds, including the creators of The A.V. Club and sex columnist Dan Savage.

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Photo · The cooperative’s collection of 18,000 videos ranges from new releases to obscure foreign films .

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Tale of two talks: UW Jewish, Palestinian groups clash Passive debate about Israeli-Palestinian arose Thursday when student orgs scheduled lectures at same time rather than communicating concern

by Aliya Iftikhar Digital News Editor

Two lectures scheduled at the same time Thursday have given rise to a passive debate between student groups on campus on Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.

The University of Wisconsin Hillel and Students for Justice in Palestine each hosted different events focusing on anti-Semitism at 7 p.m. giving rise to some drama on campus, yet neither group reached out directly to the other to address concerns.

The UW Hillel, a center serving Jewish life on campus hosted Deborah Lipstadt for a talk on anti-Semitism and the Students for Justice in Palestine, a pro-Palestine student organization, hosted Norman Finkelstein for a talk on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The day before the two simultaneous events, student organizations Badgers for Israel and the Madison Israel Club put out a joint statement urging students to avoid the SJP-sponsored Finkelstein

event and to instead attend the Lipstadt event.

The statement said while they respected the free speech protections that allow Finkelstein to speak on campus, they did not support his views or respect his authority on the issue.

Finkelstein, who is Jewish and a child of Holocaust survivors, has been an outspoken critic of Israel and open about his support for the Palestinian cause.

Representatives from the Madison Israel Club declined interview requests. In a brief email, the Badgers for Israel president Lila Greenberg said the statement stood for itself and the group is always concerned about anti-Israel activity on campus.

The director of Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Society and Politics, Jack Comeau, said he received four emails that expressed concern the marketing email for the Finkelstein event did not disclose Finkelstein’s bias, and that if people attended the event thinking it would be objective they would be misled. He said there were

concerns not disclosing the bias would prove dangerous to Jewish students’ safety.

Comeau said he met with the communications director of Hillel, as well as leaders of the Badgers for Israel and Madison Israel Club, who reached out to him based on some concerns they had received from the Jewish student community.

Comeau agreed to change some of the marketing points surrounding the SJP event and to disclose that Finkelstein is a strong advocate for Palestine.

Comeau said WUD tries to portray both sides of the issue. Last weekend they co-sponsored an event with Badgers for Israel and last semester they hosted another event with Madison Israel Club, both featuring proIsrael speakers. Students had not contacted him with any concerns surrounding those events, he said.

Representatives from Students for Justice in Palestine said they were disappointed with the statement released by the two pro-Israel groups and thought

it was handled poorly.

“They clearly reached out to every other outlet except us as the organizers of the event,” SJP representative Hani Rustom said. “We would have liked to speak about any concerns they had personally as opposed to going through mediators such as WUD and social media outlets and have a discussion on it.”

SJP representatives said they sought to bring as qualified a speaker as possible.

Khalid AbdlHaleem, a representative, emphasized that Finkelstein did not represent SJP’s views, but that the goal was simply to promote dialogue from a viewpoint not commonly heard.

Hillel director Greg Steinberger said the event scheduling was coincidental and said there was no need to compare the events.

“All sorts of other things are happening at the same time and that’s the benefits of living on a great college campus is that you have to make hard choices,” Steinberger said.

The SJP representatives said they had not reached out to the Hillel, Badgers for Israel or the Madison Israel Club, saying they “hadn’t seen a need.” They said in the future it may be something they should do.

Additionally, SJP representative Omar Jandal said they became hesitant to reach out to the other organizations after the Hillel posted a video on the Facebook event page, which he said equated SJP groups to “Hamas on Campus.”

Steinberger said he did not know about the video and had not seen it when asked about it Thursday afternoon.

The post was removed Thursday evening.

UW professor of political science Howard Schweber said when Finkelstein spoke on campus a few years back, he couldn’t recall any particular concerns before his talk, though he cautioned students that many speakers tend to overstate their cause.

“If everyone would be a bit more critical about statements from people with whom they fundamentally agree, we’ll all

be better off in trying to have this conversation,” Schweber said.

Schweber said he was not concerned that Finkelstein was anti-Semitic, saying being anti-Israel does not define a person to be an antiSemite.

Dvorah Elster, the president of UW’s J Street chapter, a pro-peace and pro-Israel group, said she thought it would be beneficial to campus if the Jewish and Palestinian student organizations reached out to each other.

“I think it would really bring our community together and really provide an opportunity for people to have those more challenging conversations,” she said.

Amid the backlash, Comeau said WUD is looking to host a roundtable discussion with interested students and student groups on the Israel-Palestine issue to try to bring people together in a safe and open environment.

The groups have not made any intentions of engaging in a dialogue yet.

Professor says companies use girls as economic tool UW education policy professor Kathryn Moeller criticizes moneymaking motives behind corporate education donors like Nike

by Kiyoko Reidy Herald Contributor

A University of Wisconsin professor is on a quest to prove why some companies use girls as economic tools.

Kathryn Moeller, a UW assistant professor of educational policy, investigates the motivation behind corporate funding for girls’ education.

In early March, Moeller wrote an article in the Huffington Post arguing against the idea of prioritizing girls’ education as a means of economic change.

Instead, she advocated the promotion of girls’ education for their own intrinsic benefit, she

said.

“As a feminist I had always been concerned with questions surrounding gender equality,” she said.

Moeller is in her second year as a professor at UW. She came to campus after completing her doctorate at University of CaliforniaBerkeley and serving as a post-doctorate researcher at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society.

When she began graduate school, she started looking at literature about the crisis in girls’ education from a more critical perspective, she said.

Prior to her return to graduate school, Moeller was a high school teacher in both the United States and Honduras. She taught

in both formal high schools and out of school study programs, she said.

Since coming to UW, Moeller focused her research on girls’ education. She is working on a book titled The Girl Effect: Corporations and the Politics of Ending Poverty, due to be released in 2017. Moeller said the book looks at how and why corporations are investing in girls’ education. She said large corporations’ investments may have both intended and unintended consequences.

In several academic articles, Moeller investigated the claims she will expand upon in her upcoming book.

In one study, Moeller wrote about Nike’s program “The

Girl Effect,” which promotes interest in girls’ education.

She said through these programs, corporations like Nike support the idea that investing in poor, adolescent girls will help to reduce fertility, decrease poverty and stimulate economic growth. Moeller said this approach simply makes these girls an economic tool.

“I wanted to make an intervention in the larger discourse about girls’ education and the ways that we talk about girls,” Moeller said. “The way we talk about girls reproduces a set of inequalities surrounding their lives.”

The approach to girls’ education needs to change, Moeller said. She said

girls deserve highquality free education promoting their learning as critical learners and as citizens in a larger democracy. Education in the Global South tends to be narrow or career oriented, but critical and transformative education is necessary in any sort of democracy, she said.

As Moeller continues her research, she is preparing to travel to Brazil in the 2015-16 academic year.

Moeller plans to continue to focus her research on the effect of corporations on education, but will focus on Brazilian corporations and public education. She received the Fulbright Award for the

2015-16 academic school year in support of this research.

“I hope to turn this study into a larger transnational study which will include the U.S. and another country in Latin America,” Moeller said.

Explained: UW System’s governing body demystified If Walker’s proposal for a public authority model passes, the 18-member Board of Regents would become more powerful

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Once a month 18 individuals meet to deliberate the innerworkings of the University of Wisconsin System. They form the Board of Regents.

The Board of Regents might see an increase in power if Gov. Scott Walker ’s proposal in the biennial budget to make the UW System a public authority goes through. But for many, the board’s responsibilities and composition is not well known.

The Board of Regents is the UW System’s governing body. According to the UW System website, the regents are responsible for establishing policies, planning to meet state needs for collegiate education, setting admissions standards, reviewing and approving university budgets and establishing regulatory framework for individual campuses.

The regents are made up of 16 governor-appointed

TONY, page 1 speak to him.

As Irwin stepped away from the microphone, Collins’ song played and the hundreds of attendees put their fists into the air.

They were the same fists that had been suspended over the crowds of protesters marching in Tony’s name the week before; the fists of those who had spent a week chanting, “If you’re with us, put your fist up.”

The sounds of the demonstrations echoed through the room throughout

positions and two nonappointed positions, the state superintendent of public instruction, currently Tony Evers, and the president of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board, currently Drew Petersen.

Non-student regents serve seven-year, staggered terms, meaning the current governor appoints new regents every few years when the seven-year terms expire. Different governors appointed the mix of regents currently on the board.

The governor appoints two UW System students who sit on the board. The current non-traditional student regent, who represents students over the age of 24 with work or service experiences prior to enrollment, is UW-Madison student and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Nicolas Harsy.

The traditional student regent is UWLa Crosse senior Anicka Purath.

Walker appointed both

students to the board.

The rest of the board is made up of Wisconsin residents who are not students.

They consist mostly of attorneys and are not paid for their work as regents.

Purath said the regents deal with everything having to do with higher education and how the system operates. She said although most regents are attorneys, Regent Janice Mueller is the former State Auditor and gives a finance perspective to discussions.

UW-Madison education professor Nick Hillman said no two states govern their university systems in exactly the same way, but every state has some type of governing body in charge of the state universities.

These differences are based on history, politics and capacity of the state, Hillman said. In Virginia, for example, a coordinating committee governs the public universities, which has significantly less power than Wisconsin’s Board of Regents.

Hillman said in Wisconsin, the regents generally play a buffering role between the legislature

and the campuses.

“They can be thought of as a liaison between campuses and the legislature,” Hillman said.

Hillman said Wisconsin’s Board of Regents is comprised of a more diverse mix of representatives than most states. In most states, the governing body tends to side either with campuses or with the legislature on most issues, Hillman said.

Hillman said the regents come from a wide variety of political backgrounds because different governors appointed them, some

by Walker and some by former Gov. Jim Doyle. Of the 16 governor-appointed positions, Walker appointed 10 members and Doyle appointed six.

“You see a politically mixed group here,” Hillman said.

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the funeral.

Friends and family finished their speeches at the ceremony in call and response.

“What’s his name?” they said just as they had done at the corner of Few and Williamson Street on the night Robinson was killed and the days after.

“Tony Robinson,” the attendees responded in unison.

Irwin, who had joined protesters from the night of the shooting, expressed her gratitude for the peacefulness of protests “in respect for Tony.”

Robinson’s aunt read a poem calling her nephew a “martyr for change” not a “victim.”

Custom-made shirts read Robinson had gone too soon, reverberated through friend Jordan King, who said Robinson had just “become a man” and was making strides in his life.

His friends spoke of Robinson’s aspirations to attend Madison Area Technical College to study business.

His friend Jack Spaulding, who has been vocal in protests since Robinson’s death, said he and his friends were dreaming

of opening a restaurant one day. Now, Spaulding said if he ever opens a restaurant, he will call it “Tony’s.”

Others spoke of Robinson’s selflessness. His aunt Lorien Carter mentioned he started helping around his house more after his mother was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

His uncle, Turin Carter said Robinson idolized him as a child. At times, Carter said he felt as though he may not have deserved so much of Robinson’s adoration.

But Saturday he said he was determined to earn it in his

honor.

He said he will make it his life goal to personally expose anyone who stands in the way of justice.

The afternoon was filled with music and the music reflected the message.

“Glory,” a John Legend and Common song from the movie Selma, a Jennifer Hudson version of “Let It Be” and a somber cover of “Hallelujah” played on a loop over speakers in the auditorium before the procession began.

His friends and family said Robinson was vocal about the change he wanted to make in

the world.

On his memorial card read, his family wrote that Robinson had said: “You ever have the feeling you’re going to live forever? I mean like you’re never going to die? I’m going to be great, I don’t know how I know but I do. Just watch. I’m going to change the world.”

Below the quote read a message from his family.

“And change the world you have sweetheart.”

They said they want the world to remember his name, and to push for the change that will come because of it.

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Herald Editorial Racial division exists: Get involved to foster change A single narrative echoed through the rafters of East High School’s gymnasium Saturday: 19-year-old Tony Robinson, who died in an officer-involved shooting last week, will change the world.

Robinson’s death has led to an outpour of community support.

Madisonians have attended almost daily demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice as well as meetings to strategize next steps.

The house where Robinson was shot is not far from downtown, yet it is outside many University of Wisconsin students’ worlds. We, the students, are often content existing within our campus “bubble.” It is easy to never venture east of the Capitol, or south of Regent Street.

As residents of Madison, we are part of something much larger than campus alone. If Tony Robinson is going to change the world or create change in Madison, it is important students are involved.

Madison is a vibrant city, only part of which is visible from the windows of Bascom Hall.

It is also a city with systemic racial divides.

There are serious racial disparities in Madison. In 2011,

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75 percent of black children in Dane County were living in poverty, compared to 5 percent of white children. The Young, Gifted and Black Coalition cited recent figures indicating Madison police are 11 times more likely to arrest black adults than white adults at a community forum last week.

Although these issues have already been topics of discussion for the Madison community, the campus as a whole had not yet picked up the dialogue — until now.

If students want their UW experiences to prepare them to be better world citizens, the first step is understanding Madison’s cultural dynamics.

Robinson’s death is just the beginning of the conversation within UW — a conversation that we’ve needed to have for a long time.

The protests will eventually die out — that is their nature.

But it’s important that we keep the movement alive. We need to take the initiative to improve all of Madison for all of its residents, not just the parts of the city we see every day.

To better the city, it is crucial for all Madison residents to be actively involved in the community.

Students can become active citizens by voting,

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particularly in the upcoming mayoral race April 7.

Incumbent Mayor Paul Soglin faces Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8. Learn about their platforms and history of working to bridge divides in the city.

Bridget Maniaci, former District 2 alder, told this Board while campaigning for mayor, “[Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s] 40-year legacy: He’s built one of the most racist segregated cities.”

Of course Soglin is not single-handedly responsible.

Soglin himself acknowledged the disparities this past week during the demonstrations and made a call for action.

However Maniaci’s statement still holds merit.

Soglin has been in office for nearly half a century. As for Resnick, he has had good ideas on how to close divides in Madison, but was not wellreceived at a community meeting debriefing the shooting. He has been quiet on the issue since the incident.

It is necessary that these candidates’ opinions are heard and their ideas vetted before the election. Students must weigh in as next year’s class will not have this chance.

Tony Robinson can very well

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change the world, but only if all Madison residents, including students, continue fostering conditions for further change.

Students are stakeholders in Madison. As such, we have a responsibility to leave the city a better place than we found it.

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College Republicans

Dialogue must be factual as Walker takes spotlight Governor may not be ready to be president, but media’s libelous coverage does not give potential candidate a fair chance in vetting process Maybe he’s not ready for the spotlight. Gov. Scott Walker, current frontrunner of a kooky assemblage of potential Republican presidential candidates, hasn’t exhibited polished political savvy in recent months.

Aside from his raucous welcome in Iowa in January, Walker has swung and missed on occasion – and we’re talking fastballs, right down the middle.

Walker attempted to convince the public his recent battles against protesters would provide him with the know-how and pragmatism to take on the Islamic State.

The logic, while a stretch, could be considered relatively reasonable to those on the right. However, for Walker to believe for one second the left would refrain from clobbering

the comment is more naïve than a bright-eyed freshman searching for a house party in the Lakeshore neighborhood.

It’d be like Hilary Clinton considering herself a suitable leader in the fight to eliminate ISIS by virtue of her uncanny ability to erase things – emails, public trust, etc.

For Walker, swinging and missing is one thing. What’s troubling is at times he won’t even take the swing.

The governor declined to definitively answer whether President Barack Obama is a Christian or not. His lack of a simple, “Yes, I believe he is,” led quickly into a story that should not have been.

No, Walker has not always been sharp since stepping onto the national stage. He has survived, but now sits in a critical stage of his candidacy.

He and his team are assuredly putting together a shield of responses before the presidential campaign trulyw commences. Every possible question and corresponding answer will be deciphered and processed, creating custom fit, bulletproof media armor. Unfortunately, even the strongest political armor is vulnerable to one thing: lies.

In a recent Jezebel article, or whatever you want to call this depressing attempt at journalism, writer Natasha Vargas-Cooper accused Walker of removing a section of legislation which required the reporting of sexual assaults on campus, implicitly pushing the assumption Walker has no sympathy for victims of sexual assault.

Vargas-Cooper was not completely wrong; legislators

did, in fact, delete sexual assault reporting language.

They did not do this, though, because they hate the law, or victims of sexual assault, women or people in general. They did so because it was redundant language, already present in a federal law governing University of Wisconsin.

Another senseless, deceptive Walker-bash arose in the form of Gail Collins’ New York Times opinion column. In her February article, Collins cited examples of the governor ’s “war on public employee unions, particularly the ones for teachers.”

She brought up that one time in 2010 when Walker cut state education funding which caused teacher layoffs.

But in reality, and contrary to

Collins’ clear-cut narrative, Walker did not execute the cuts. He couldn’t have because he didn’t take office until 2011.

A damn shame, really. Maybe if Collins wished a bit harder it could have been true.

These two journalistic gaffes floated around the web, but were eventually denounced like objectivityscant nonsense deserves to be. The news organizations also followed up with some begrudged corrections and apologies.

But Vargas-Cooper and Collins aren’t concerned, and they certainly aren’t interested in the whole truth. To them, those who seek the whole truth are square, bothersome thorns in the side.

These two storytellers care, in actuality, about driving home a rough outline of

Walker hatred to their readers – fact or no fact. In their eyes, the governor would have done these things, or maybe he could have done them. That’s more than enough evidence for Collins and Vargas-Cooper.

Maybe he’s not cut out to be president. But if we really answer that question – if we, as a general public, truly want to dig, vet and test Walker ’s ins and outs – dishonest defamation must be left at the door.

Go ahead, throw your nastiest stuff at Walker for the next year and a half. But this time, I bet he’ll come out swinging.

Matthew Michaletz (mmichaletz@wisc.edu) is junior majoring in economics and political science and co-press officer of the College Republicans.

Stick it to stigma: There is nothing crazy about mental crises

Counseling may not always be necessary, but students should feel encouraged to reach out for help in times of distress

by Madeline Sweitzer Editorial Page Editor

I sat hunched over on my bed, sobs racking my body.

My boyfriend of nearly three years, who also happened to be my best friend, had just told me he wanted to “end it.” This was coming out of nowhere. The weekend before I had been at his dorm, played Xbox and left with no overt reason to suspect trouble. Suddenly, three days later, I was living my worst fear.

This wasn’t just about a

guy. It was about my life.

I saw tentative plans we had discussed – a shitty apartment senior year, a tiny house with a porch located somewhere on the east coast, where we would move after graduation, a wedding with lilies (he knew they were my favorite) – crumble. I couldn’t breathe. This wasn’t happening.

Heartbreak, grief, confusion, embarrassment and anger, along with a lovely dash of betrayal, were all coming at me at once. That night, I woke up sobbing at 3 a.m. It would be the first of a few times in the upcoming weeks I would call University Health Services’ 24-hour crisis line.

Getting out of bed was a struggle and even on days when I could get up, it was hard to get through the day without some instance of tears. Between juggling the

academic demands that come with the pursuit of a University of Wisconsin degree and the demands of my job here at The Badger Herald, I was already stressed. Every stress and criticism was now amplified as the emotional safety net his love provided me fell away.

It would all coming rushing in at once, like some invisible force knocking the wind out of me. Simple questions like, “Have you cleaned the bathroom?” seemed to tell me, “You’re incapable of taking care of yourself.” Everything boiled down to, “You can’t fucking do anything right.”

According to statistics from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four people aged 18 to 24 have a diagnosable mental illness.

However, it is important to note I currently have

not been diagnosed. While a diagnosis is not outside the realm of possibility, I experienced a mental health crisis. These experiences are distinct.

Mental illness is more related to a specific diagnosis based on certain criteria whereas a mental health crisis could be related to anything in someone’s life that leads them to feel very distressed, according to UHS Associate Director of Campus-Based Services Amanda Ngola.

I was going through an emotional and tumultuous time by any measure. Yet, what increased my anxiety more than anything was the fear I would be perceived as “weak” or “crazy” for my mental health situation.

I realized the longstanding stigma surrounding mental health was actually making my mental health

worse. I was in vicious cycle of being emotionally distressed about my emotional distress and that was simply not ok. I’m not crazy or weak. It is possible for anyone to have a crisis and that crisis may affect their emotional well being, Ngola said.

“If someone feels like they’re … not acting like themselves or are feeling … really badly about something and they perceive it as a crisis, that that’s enough to constitute it as a crisis and that reaching out for help would be important,” Ngola said. She continued on to say reaching out for help does not always mean counseling, but counseling can be a “great resource.”

For me, counseling has been a large help now and in the past. UHS offers a multitude of options. In the last few weeks, I have used

the crisis line, individual counseling and a skillsbased workshop. There has been no one-size-fits-all approach.

Right now, I am still not okay. I am stressed, sensitive and there are times when it seems like all anything does is hurt.

There are still unanswered questions for me. I don’t know what the status of my mental health is or what steps need to be taken to remedy the situation. What I do know is this: I am not weak, nor am I crazy and to remain silent due to a false preconception will only allow that preconception go unchecked.

Madeline Sweitzer (msweitzer@badgerherald. com) is a sophomore majoring in political science, history and intending to major in journalism.

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Designers steal show at UW Fashion Week finale

Models walked runway in Union South donning student, professionally designed clothes at fourth annual MODA final event

by Hunter Reed ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

The second floor of Union South turned into a mecca of electronic beats, tailored suits, high heels and red lips. Designers, bloggers, photographers and reporters flowed around the room early Friday night in preparation for MODA Magazine’s University of Wisconsin Fashion Week.

UW Fashion Week was set to kick off its finale fashion show. The student-run lifestyle magazine took over the space to create an experience that brought culture, art and most importantly fashion to campus.

UW Fashion Week has been alive in Madison for four years now, developed to give the campus an event where students could celebrate local style and fashion. The team of almost entirely senior editors has worked every year to improve the entire week and make not only an artistic impact, but a community one too. Editor-in-chief of MODA Chloe Karaskiewicz explained the improvements in style of UW Fashion Week this year.

“This year we included local designers who really produced a great quality of couture work,” Karaskiewicz said.

The team of editors at MODA discussed another facet of UW Fashion Week this year that gave back to members of the community. Wednesday MODA held its first “Shop and Swap.” More than 165 students and members of the Madison community donated high fashion garments at Union South and created a makeshift store where people can trade items. The team at MODA was able to donate a collection of items to St. Vincent de Paul’s.

Karaskiewicz described how the event was significant for the community and the magazine. “[It] is really nice for us

because we really wanted to use the magazine as a platform to promote the ideals we feel are very important,” she said.

“We’ve worked hard to expand not only the staff, but the content of our magazine to be more inclusive.”

UW Fashion Week’s finale show Friday night made it clear that fashion and couture are definitely alive and thriving in Madison. The room fell silent as the music swelled and the stage illuminated. Everyone eagerly anticipated what student and retail designers worked to bring to the finale show. They did not disappoint.

The show powered through over ten designers, keeping the energy and intensity at a maximum. The show was electric. The diverse group of models was confident and demanded attention as they strutted down the runway.

The crowd cheered and screamed for looks they found particularly praise-worthy.

The energy in the room was infectious, and it was clear that the designers, models and event planners worked hard to get the show to flow with this electricity.

However, the real stars of the night were the designers.

Their couture looks obviously took creativity, time and an impeccable eye for detail.

Although the pieces ranged from glamorous evening gowns to casual men’s jackets, all the looks stood as a symbol for the passion the designers put into their work. Madalyn Manzeck was a major voice in getting more student designers on the runway and advocating for their work.

“I was kind of flabbergasted that not more student designers were part of this,” Manzeck said when talking about UW Fashion Week in years past. “I really tried to push that because I knew people in MODA. I

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knew people in my major. I knew what designers would be good for different opportunities and events. So I just kind of tried to be the buffer and connect both of them.”

By including five student designers, compared to only one last year, the night was filled with youthful and fresh perspective.

This event is a major opportunity for students to reach out and make long lasting networks with the retailers. By combining the student and retail designs, the experience was a perfect fit for the campus and community.

The show has paved the way for future years of a rapidly growing group of students interested in design and the power of fashion.

Karaskiewicz said she wants this group to continue to expand and bring more people together. Karaskiewicz and her entire team of editors were humble and thankful for the support they received for the event.

“It is a fun event,” Karaskiewicz said. “It is work and play for us, but it should be a lot of fun for everybody else. I hope that they’re proud that we’re part of the campus. Over the past four years we’ve worked hard to make our mark on campus and it’s really rewarding to see people come out and support us like this.”

Hailee von Haden

Hailee von Haden took a more modern and casual approach in her designs. They featured pastel colors and unique prints of illustrated women’s faces. The models swapped out high heels for casual flats to add to the overall calmness of the fashion.

Lauren Lynch

The first looks to hit the catwalk were from local designer Lauren Lynch. Her pieces were centered on femininity and the use of floral patterns and flannel fabrics.

Lynch’s designs ranged from beautiful evening wear to more edgy jumpsuits and leotards.

Moda Muñeca

Milwaukee-based Moda Muñeca had the most looks of the night. Their pieces featured pantsuits, gowns, tops, skirts and other garments. Trends among the pieces included stunning teal velvet fabrics and edgy black netting.

Sarah Nasgowitz

Floral was in full bloom in Sarah Nasgowitz’s pieces for fashion week.

She focused on black, white and beige to brighten glamorous gowns and pieces. The illusion of actual flowers on her looks created an interesting aesthetic.

Caitlin Wagner

Caitlin Wagner’s designs were the next to take center stage. Her looks were classic, mostly showing black, white and red evening gowns. These pieces were clean and organized. Floral seemed to be a popular spring trend, with Wagner also featuring floral patterns.

Twigs

Twigs took a clean and elegant approach to their looks. With a variety of skirts, blazers and dresses, the looks were filled with pops of color.

Eleanor Finn

Eleanor Finn’s pieces were feminine and spring-ready. With her light pink and beige tops and skirts, the models looked comfortable and beautiful.

Jazzman

Jazzman gave the fashion show a male perspective. Ranging from casual board shorts and graphic tees, to tailored suits and dress shoes, Jazzman showed the audience that male fashion is flourishing.

Madalyn Manzeck

Student designer and UW Fashion Week planner Madalyn Manzeck gave her lovely take on women’s evening wear on the runway. Her appreciation of the feminine figure and neutral colors was apparent, especially on a beautifully crafted gold dress.

La vie Luchian

The show ended on the refreshing collection, La vie Luchian, by Sophia Luchianni. Featuring colorful anime prints, flowing kimonos and even male models with samurai-styled man buns, Luchianni drew inspiration from Japan to create her collection.

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First Wave festival raises awareness of race, identity issues Saturday night of Line Breaks featured vignettes, spoken word to communicate personal experience, spark broader conversation

by Elise Romas ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

At first, the stage was bare.

The theatre looked like any other performance space, but Saturday evening the Overture Center stage became the center of discussion about race and whiteness in the current world for the ninth annual Line Breaks Festival. Audience members snapped and cheered during the especially powerful portions as the spoken word poetry echoed through the dense crowd.

Line Breaks is a live,

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weeklong period of performances with a venue comprised of the collective works and writings of the students of the First Wave program here at University of Wisconsin. Each performance throughout the festival consists mostly of spoken word poetry, but also contains many other theatrical elements such as acting or dancing.

In 2007 the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiative at UW started the First Wave program, which provides its students a four-year tuition scholarship while simultaneously providing the opportunity to be a part of an urban arts learning community.

First Wave gives young adults like Garrett Pauli the opportunity to showcase their talent and hard work in front of an audience while also allowing them to create messages that can be used as conversation pieces to improve the community.

Pauli is a white male who

grew up in a multi-cultural and multi-racial family in Phoenix.

Having a half white, half black younger brother and a half white, half Mexican stepfather has greatly impacted Pauli and what he wants to do for his community. He credits these aspirations to his mother, who has always encouraged him to question institutions and societal norms.

“Skeletons of Silence” is Pauli’s one-man show that he performed at Line Breaks. It tells multiple stories pertaining to his personal experiences dealing with race, identity, whiteness and white silence.

“The whole point of the show ‘Skeletons of Silence’ is that white supremacy and white silence is a skeletal structure,” Pauli said. “It’s something that we don’t always see, but is upheld like bones.”

In each scene there is a moment where race is the focal point of the issue, and rather than speaking up, Pauli ends up responding to each of these situations with silence.

Pauli said his piece shows that in these instances silence is an active response rather than a passive one.

The show is broken down into four stages of his life: elementary school, middle school, high school and college.

Each vignette focuses on a racial issue that has left an impact on him.

“That’s what I’m trying to get at,” Pauli said. “These experiences [have] built on top of each other and have created the person that I am today.”

Pauli wants his message to extend past the walls of the theater. Pauli wants his audience to unpack this message and converse with one another outside the doors of the theatre.

Pauli went on to explain that silence actually corroborates with racism, discrimination and perpetuating institutions of racism. If you don’t speak up, how can one know if something is wrong or something should be done, he said.

Pauli thinks a lot of people have had experiences similar to his, and wants his performance to propose questions to viewers.

He wants to ask questions they can take out into the world, beyond the performance hall and incorporate it into their own lives.

“This show tries to get at is unpacking it for myself and from my journey and my narrative and using that in a way to have people see themselves inside of it and question their own silences too,” Pauli said.

Backstage before her show, a nervous Ajanaé Dawkins prepared herself for the first performance of the evening. Her one-woman show “Atlantic” discusses the parallels of black girls living in American to those living globally.

Photo · First Wave student Garrett Pauli used vignettes broken into four stages of his life to display how racial issues have impacted him.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald A discussion followed her performance, where the community was able to share reactions and ask questions.

One girl was so emotionally affected that she could not fully ask her question.

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Wisconsin ices Terriers to return to Frozen Four

Annie Pankowski scores in opening three minutes to set tone, UW heads to semifinals for eighth time in last 10 years with 5-1 win

by Eric Goldsobel Women’s Hockey Writer

Through the first few minutes of play Saturday afternoon, it seemed as though the Wisconsin women’s hockey team had a tough match on its hands.

But after a little more than two and a half minutes of scoreless, back and forth action, Wisconsin solved the Boston University defense and didn’t look back the rest of the way en route to a 5-1 win in an NCAA quarterfinal game at LaBahn Arena.

“We showed them that they didn’t belong on the ice with us,” freshman forward Annie Pankowski said.

As BU’s defensive pairing slid up to contest Melissa Channel, who held the puck in front of Wisconsin’s bench, Pankowski got behind and split the pressing defenders at the blue-line. Channel then fed Pankowski, who tucked the puck past the left pad of BU goaltender Victoria Hanson to put UW up 1-0.

The crowd at LaBahn erupted as Boston University’s players drooped, a foreshadowing of things to come the rest of the way for the high-powered Wisconsin attack, which has scored four or more goals in each of the last six games.

“It’s always our goal to start out strong and put our best foot forward,” Pankowski said. “We try to set the pace from the start of the game and I really think we did that today. In the first five minutes we took it to them.”

However, the Terriers weathered the storm for most of the remainder of the period. But with only four minutes left to play in

the first period, Wisconsin struck again to double its advantage.

Katarina Zgraja, the assistant captain and senior defenseman, let go a slapshot from the point that somehow found its way through a multitude of players in front of the net to make it 2-0.

“It’s been four years without experiencing that final game,” Zgraja said of failing to make the NCAA championship. “We keep talking about it, it’s not over yet but we’re staying humble and keep putting in the necessary work.”

From then on, the game turned into a wild contest.

Defenseman Mellissa Channell went down with an extremely untimely injury in an unclear fashion.

After taking a slapshot late in the first period, she began to wag her hand in visible discomfort, dropping her glove to the ice in the process.

Channell then skated back to the bench bleeding from her hand, leaving a trail of blood on the ice and halting the game for some minutes as the maintenance staff cleaned it. Channel did not return to the game and her injury remains undisclosed.

After a slow start to the second period, the Badgers picked up the pace in the final five minutes of the frame, as they tallied two more times to open a fourgoal lead.

Annie Pankowski added her second goal of the game at 15:43 when she picked out the bottom corner of the net with extreme accuracy, sniping Hanson who seemingly had all angles covered. Pankowski’s counterpart, the other freshman star Emily Clark,

sent one past Hanson as well off a rebound just over three minutes later.

With only 20 minutes separating Wisconsin from its second consecutive Frozen Four berth, the team buckled down and began what should have been an uneventful final period with a comfortable advantage.

Leading 4-0 to that point, the game continued as it had until things began to take a turn to the uglier side.

At 7:30 into the period, a scuffle erupted at center-ice after Brittany Ammerman had taken a hit from BU’s Maddie Elia. Upset, Ammerman retaliated and, although it was unclear

exactly what transpired, was then given a five minute major penalty as a well as a game misconduct for contact to the head.

The game ended with Wisconsin’s Jenny Ryan adding another goal, but BU scored its lone goal of the game with less than three minutes left to spoil Wisconsin goaltender AnnRenée Desbiens chance at her 15th shutout of the season.

But behind Desbiens 20 saves, Wisconsin held an opponent to one goal or less for the 28 time this season in 39 games.

“I think that it was a great team-effort,” Desbiens said. “Every single player

did their best to backcheck and to make sure that we contained their better players.

We pressured them and didn’t give them any space. That made us successful.”

After a hard fought season of ups and downs, the fourth-seeded Badgers will head to Minneapolis next weekend for the Frozen Four, one step closer to their goal.

It was a statement victory against the nation’s fifthbest team, and UW will carry with them the momentum into next weekend’s matchup against top-seeded Minnesota, a team Wisconsin hasn’t beaten since 2011.

“Obviously we’re very

Photo · The Badgers jumped out to a 2-0 advantage after the first period of play Saturday, and have outscored opponents 11-1 in first periods in their last five games.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald excited,” Johnson said. “We have a great opportunity in going to the Frozen Four. I’m certainly confident in our team. We had a lot of energy, a lot of electricity, even since warmups. You could feel it the second we got on the ice today. We’re excited about this win.”

Not debatable: Badgers sets record for most losses Wisconsin finishes regular season Saturday night with 25th setback to surpass 1974-75 squad for worst campaign in program history Photo · Wisconsin got shutout Saturday night at the Kohl Center, which was the fifth shutout in the last seven games for the Badgers’ struggling offense.

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periods in his last home game.

Ohio State would tack on an insurance goal with a little less than 10 minutes to play when Matthew Weis zipped a shot past Rumpel from the left wing on a sharp angle.

But despite yet another loss this year, Rumpel and the rest of the Badgers remained optimistic after the game, with their eye on the team they will meet in the first game of the Big Ten tournament next Thursday.

“They better watch out,” Rumpel said.

Wisconsin will take on thirdseeded Michigan Thursday in Detroit in the first round of the conference tournament.

by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

by Derek Franklin Men’s Hockey Writer

It took 39 games, but the Wisconsin men’s hockey team finally reached a new record low.

In a season filled with struggles, the Badgers came up empty-handed yet again, this time by way of a 2-0 defeat against Ohio State at the Kohl Center in the final regular season game of the year.

The defeat pushed the Badgers to their 25th loss of the 2014-15 campaign, surpassing the 24 losses of the 1975-76 Badger squad, which was the previous high for most setbacks in one season.

Wisconsin head coach Mike

COMEBACK page 10 “That shows…what Wisconsin basketball is all about,” Gasser said of shutting out the Spartans in overtime. “People think we’re good offensively, we can get up and down a little bit and we got some people with good talent.

But what Wisconsin basketball is all about is toughness and

Eaves said he liked the effort of his players Saturday night, but that didn’t translate into the desired outcome.

“There’s not one young man in that locker room that didn’t want to play really well tonight,” Eaves said. “But it just didn’t happen.”

Not surprisingly as the third lowest scoring team in the nation, Wisconsin (4-25-5, 2-15-3-2 Big Ten) failed to find the back of the net and got shut out for the fifth time in the last seven games.

But Ohio State (13-18-3, 8-111-1) couldn’t solve Joel Rumpel either, and the teams remained scoreless almost until the halfway point of the tilt. But before the teams reached that halfway mark, OSU struck for the only goal it needed. OSU’s David Gust slid a backhanded

centering feed to the front of the net, and Tyler Lundey slammed the pack into a vacated net with Rumpel down and out to give the Buckeyes a 1-0 lead 8:54 into the second.

Although that proved the pivotal score, Eaves said the turning point of the game came when UW’s Cameron Hughes sustained an upper body injury. Jedd Soleway had trouble getting into the bench after he had gotten hurt earlier in the sequence, and when Hughes skated by the bench with the puck, he got slammed hard into the open door.

Hughes left the game with an undisclosed injury and did not return, although Soleway did return to the game.

“I thought he broke his arm,” Eaves said. “The anguish in his face was pretty good

and that just was typical of the night.”

Already down a goal and one player, Wisconsin lost senior Matt Paape with less than five minutes to go in the second period when he took a five-minute major and a game misconduct for a check from behind.

The Buckeyes couldn’t score on the subsequent extended man advantage, but the Wisconsin offense continued its own struggles after it got back to even strength.

The Badgers managed just 17 total shots in the game, the sixth time this season they have failed to record at least 20.

According to Eaves, Rumpel was the big reason Wisconsin managed to even stay in the game, as the senior stopped 32 of 34 shots in the final two

defending.”

In the first half, neither team held more than a five-point lead as the score was tied seven times and the lead changed sides five times. Michigan State finished the half on a 10-5 run to take a 3231 lead at halftime.

Wisconsin redshirt senior forward Duje Dukan came off the

bench in the first half and scored eight points. He finished the game with 11 points, going 4-for6 overall and 3-for-5 from three for the game.

The Spartans outscored the Badgers in the paint 14-8 and shot 54.5 percent (12-for-22) as a team in the first 20 minutes of play. Wisconsin took more than

half (14) of its shots from beyond the arc in the first half, making only five, and was 11-for-26 (42.3 percent) overall from the field. In the second half, Wisconsin went 6-for-10 from three and 2-for-2 in overtime.

The win gave Wisconsin a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history.

Badgers salvage tie with Buckeyes Friday night The Wisconsin men’s hockey team played the second 30 minutes of Friday night’s game against Ohio State like there was no tomorrow after it was nowhere to be found in the first half of the series-opening contest.

But after falling down a goal twice in game one of their last home stand of the season, the Badgers never quit against Ohio State, battling the Buckeyes to a 2-2 draw and a shootout that OSU won in the tenth round.

Both teams got out to a slow start in the first period, especially the Badgers, who registered only six shots on goal in the first 20 minutes.

Fortunately, Wisconsin goaltender Landon Peterson,

It was also the team’s 31st win this season – the most in program history.

But while Wisconsin has the regular season Big Ten championship, the Big Ten tournament championship, there’s still plenty more out there for the Badgers to earn and certainly none of it is guaranteed.

who started in place of the usual starter Rumpel, played well to keep the game scoreless heading into the second.

While the Badgers finished strong, Eaves was unhappy with how his team came out to start the game.

“It becomes a balance act.

For a period and a half, we were disappointed,” Eaves said. “We looked distracted.

We didn’t look like we were ready to play in the first period.”

Wisconsin senior captain Brad Navin agreed.

“We had guys who didn’t show up until halfway through the game,” Navin said.

The weekend was also Wisconsin’s senior weekend, which Eaves said may have distracted his team a bit at the start of the game.

Wisconsin’s play improved in the second period, but that did not prevent the Buckeyes from taking the lead 13 minutes into the period.

Lundey scored on a rebound to give the Buckeyes a one goal lead that they would take into the final period.

Wisconsin seniors Navin and Peterson made their senior weekends memorable in the final period. Three minutes in, Navin connected on a power play goal to tie the game and snap Wisconsin’s 183-minute goal drought. After an Ohio State goal put the Buckeyes ahead again, Navin tied it up again for the Badgers with 3:57 to play, giving him a two-goal game. Peterson may have been the biggest hero of the night, making a brilliant save on an Ohio State breakaway that came with just more than a minute left in the game.

After a scoreless overtime, Ohio State prevailed in a shootout that does not count toward the teams’ NCAA records, but gives the Buckeyes an extra point in the Big Ten standings.

“It’s nice to have the one seed, but that doesn’t mean that we’re guaranteed a Final Four appearance or anything like that because going off of last year, there was not a one seed in the Final Four and a one seed did not end up winning, so we still have to go out there and leave it on the court,” Hayes said.

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Two for two: Big comeback gives UW clean sweep Badgers climb back from 11-point deficit with less than 10 minutes left in second half to knock off Spartans, secure Big Ten tournament title

by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

CHICAGO – Michigan State was on its way to its second straight and third Big Ten tournament championship in the last four seasons.

The Spartans could not miss as they opened up an 11-point lead in the second half over the Badgers.

Wisconsin, meanwhile, was heading toward a disappointing end to what could have been a season sweep of conference titles.

But it all changed.

A 34-12 run by Wisconsin capped a remarkable finish to a game that gave the Badgers a Big Ten tournament championship and a season sweep of conference titles. It was a game that needed

five more minutes to determine a champion, with Wisconsin emerging an 80-69 winner over Michigan State in overtime.

“To go out the way we did and fight back and really take the Big Ten title was awesome,” Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten tournament Most Outstanding Player Frank Kaminsky said.

“Our fans were great, just awesome environment to play in, and it was just a blast.”

Down 57-46 to the Spartans with 7:45 left in the game – the Badgers largest deficit of the season – Wisconsin kept plugging away at the MSU lead and after two key threes from sophomore guard Bronson Koenig, Wisconsin was still hanging around down by eight.

Then, Kaminsky drove, threw

down a dunk and drew the andone pulling Wisconsin within seven at 52-59. The momentum was officially in Wisconsin’s favor.

Michigan State then turned the ball over, redshirt senior guard Josh Gasser grabbed it, Koenig drove the lane and finished.

Wisconsin was down by just five.

After another Spartan miss, sophomore forward Nigel Hayes drove, scored and drew another and-one for the Badgers who were now down by just two at 59-57.

And then Koenig came down and hit a clutch three with 4:16 left in the game to give Wisconsin its first lead since the 15:08 mark of the second half. That largest deficit of the season was

suddenly gone.

Both teams went back and forth for the rest of the half before Michigan State’s Branden Dawson missed a potential gamewinner at the buzzer by mere inches.

Wisconsin and Michigan State were going to the first overtime game in Big Ten championship game history and it belonged all to Wisconsin.

Michigan State did not score a single point in the extra five minutes while Wisconsin started the overtime period with backto-back threes from Hayes and Koenig and the Badgers sealed it with free throws to win their first conference championship title since 2008.

“Well, we’ve done it before and we’ve been down all

tournament,” Dekker said of coming back from a deficit. “So, I guess we just kind of had to ride it out and know that we were going to make a run and we started hitting some shots.”

When it was all said and done, Hayes finished with a game-high 25 points with five rebounds, going 3-for-4 from three. Kaminsky added another 19 points with five rebounds and four assists while Koenig dropped 18 points with four threes.

Both Kaminsky and Hayes were named to the alltournament team.

Koenig scored 18 of his 19 points in the second half, adding five assists and two rebounds.

The sophomore guard took over, proving to himself, his team and

the fans at the 17,213 fans at the United Center that no lead is safe against Wisconsin.

“I saw all the Michigan State fans and their team cheering and everything – they thought they had us when we were down 11,” Koenig said. “But I just kept telling my teammates that they think they got us but just keep working, never give up and that’s what we did.”

Michigan State shot exceptionally well to put Wisconsin on the ropes. The Spartans began the second half 10-for-15 (66.7 percent) shooting 22-for-37 (59.5 percent) as a team.

But from there, the Spartans were just 5-for-15 (33.3 percent) and 0-for-6 during overtime.

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Young guns propel Wisconsin back from brink Sophomore forward Nigel Hayes goes off for career-high 25 points, while guard Bronson Koenig scores 17 in second half, overtime

by Nick Brazzoni Men’s Basketball Writer

It was a fairly even first half, as Wisconsin and Michigan State traded baskets and leads throughout the first 20 minutes of the game, and neither team held a lead larger than five points. The Spartans went into the locker room with a one-point lead following a Kaminsky three at the buzzer.

Then, the second half happened.

After trading leads once again for most of the second half, it appeared the game was all but over when a Branden Dawson steal and dunk capped off a Michigan State run and put the Spartans up 11 with 7:45 remaining. But a Koenig three and Kaminsky dunk gave the Badgers some momentum as they pulled within five. That Koenig three set off a 34-12 Wisconsin run, which included winning the overtime period 11-0. Michigan State shot just 5-of-15 from the field over that stretch, and the Badgers won 80-61.

Turning Point With 6:17 left in the second half and Wisconsin down 10, Kaminsky forced his way to the basket and rose up for a dunk plus a foul. Kaminsky hit the free throw and provided the spark the Badgers needed at that point in the game. That dunk was the start of a 31-10 run that pushed Wisconsin to an 11-point victory and a Big Ten tournament championship.

From start to finish, Hayes was Wisconsin’s best player.

His 25 points matched a careerhigh, but the most astounding part of the sophomore’s performance was his freethrow shooting, going a perfect 12-12 from the line. While Kaminsky, Dekker and Koenig all struggled at times for UW, Hayes remained steady the entire 45 minutes for Wisconsin on Sunday.

When you knew it was over A Koenig three-pointer with 2:08 left in the overtime period felt like a dagger at the time, but we really knew it was over when Nigel Hayes stepped up to the free throw line twice over a 25-second span and hit four shots at the foul line to seal the deal for the Badgers.

At that point, Wisconsin was up 10 with just over a minute remaining, and it was all but over.

Michigan State Player of the Game Denzel Valentine finished with 16 points (6-12 FG, 4-6 3Pt), eight rebounds and six assists in 41 minutes.

When Michigan State needed a big shot Sunday, Valentine was there to deliver. His biggest hoop came after Kaminsky hit a three to give the Badgers a three-point lead with 1:44 remaining in the second half.

Valentine came back down the court and hit a basket from behind the arc right over the top of the tournament MVP to tie the game. Shot after shot, Valentine was in a rhythm for the Spartans for most of the game, but it just wasn’t enough

Wisconsin Player of the Game Nigel Hayes had 25 points (5-11 FG, 3-4 3Pt, 12-12 FT), five rebounds and two steals in 39 minutes.

for Michigan State in the end.

Quotable Koenig on this being their final test before the NCAA tournament: “I thought it was really good for us to kind of have a game like this where we were behind with seven minutes left. They kind of thought they had us when we were down 11, but I just kept telling our guys, you keep fighting, never give up, and that’s what we did, and luckily we were fortunate enough and came out with a win.”

Kaminsky on the atmosphere at the United Center: “It was awesome. You could hear it. Just how many fans we had there and the different between fan bases. It was the one thing that was in our favor [to] obviously have that loud of fans when we are trying to make a run is very, very good. They do factor into the game and how the other team plays. I think without our fans there, maybe things don’t go the same way.”

Kaminsky on the play of Bronson Koenig: “I’d like to split that trophy right down the middle with

Bronson. He was fantastic.

“Bronson doesn’t get fazed very much. We all know if he misses 10, he is bound to make the next 10. We had the confidence in him, we were still passing him the ball and we were still telling him to shoot. When [his shots] did go in, we weren’t surprised at all.”

Dukan on how the team fought back: “We are a resilient bunch.

We’ve been down in this

GAME NOTES -Wisconsin’s 31st victory of the season ties the school’s single-season record -Wisconsin trailed Michigan State by 11 points at one point, matching its largest deficit this season -Wisconsin outscored the Spartans 13-0 over the final 5:43 of the game -Wisconsin’s 13 made threepoint baskets is a season best -Duje Dukan scored 11 points off the bench, which was his first double-digit game since he tallied 10 vs. Nebraska on Jan. 11

tournament already twice in the last two games. We didn’t panic.

We just stuck with it and basically chomped at the bit, slowly cutting down the lead.”

KEY STATS - Michigan State dominated down low in the losing effort, outscoring the Badgers 36-20 in the paint.

-After shooting an astounding 57.4 percent from the field in regulation, Michigan State went 0-6 from the field in overtime.

- After scoring just one point and struggling to get anything going in the first half, Bronson Koenig scored 17 points on 5-of-8 shooting in the second half and overtime.

- Wisconsin committed just seven turnovers to Michigan State’s 13, and the Badgers scored 16 points off those turnovers to the Spartans’ eight.

-Wisconsin (17-20) and Michigan State (9-9) combined to go 26-29 (89.7 percent) from the free-throw line.