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BATTLE AGAINST BIAS Racial disparities challenge Madison and Dane County’s criminal justice system, MPD looks inward to address the issue.

by Riley Vetterkind

PAGE 3 Jason Chan The Badger Herald

When Greek life is put on hold Officials say reports of hazing are rare, but recent allegations are cause for concern

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

The hazing allegations surrounding University of Wisconsin’s Chi Phi fraternity chapter are the worst in years, leaving university officials hopeful fraternities will take this moment to reconsider their standards.

Associate Dean of Students Kevin Helmkamp said reported

instances of fraternity hazing are rare. As it stands, beside Chi Phi, the university has only terminated one other fraternity, Sigma Alpha Mu. When the university terminates a fraternity, they require the Interfraternity Council to cut ties as well, Center for Leadership and Involvement Director Eric Knueve said.

“Chi Phi is a good reminder for all of our students that personal, organizational and

university values are critical as to how students represent the university,” Helmkamp said.

“Chi Phi fell a bit short, but I’m confident others will pick up the slack.”

However, oversight of fraternity activity requires constant vigilance due to the fact that, by their nature, fraternities are isolated from the university, Helmkamp said.

In addition to terminations, the university has put Alpha

Epsilon Pi and Sigma Delta Tau fraternities on suspension.

According to CSO, a university suspension entails the loss of all the organization’s privileges for a specified period of time.

Suspensions are limited to a two year maximum. Knueve said during the suspension, organizations are allowed to meet once a week to prepare themselves to reenter the campus

GREEK, page 5

CONDUCT VIOLATORS Terminated Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Chi Phi Fraternity

Suspended Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity until December 23, 2016 Sigma Delta Tau until June 1, 2015

On probation Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, alcohol probation until June 1, 2015 Sigma Chi Fraternity, alcohol probation until May 8, 2015 Designed by Alix DeBroux

Chance the Rapper to headline Revelry music festival The Chainsmokers, AlunaGeorge will also perform at third annual Revelry Music and Arts Festival on Library Mall; more acts to come

by Audrey Piehl ArtsEtc. Editor

The line-up for Revelry 2015 has arrived.

Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment will headline the third annual Revelry Music and Arts Festival, in addition

to The Chainsmokers and AlunaGeorge, Revelry Music and Arts Festival Committee organizers confirmed Sunday.

Until the Ribbon Breaks, Mick Jenkins and Nick Hakim will also perform. Other acts will be announced closer to the festival.

Revelry is scheduled for Saturday, May 2 from noon

to 10 p.m. Tickets purchased between March 16 and March 22 are $5 for students, $25 for non-students; tickets purchased between March 22 and May 1 $10 for students, $30 for nonstudents; and day-of tickets will be $15 for students and $35 for non-students.

The festival will feature two

stages. The main stage, which will be bigger than past years, will be on Library Mall; the back will align with Langdon Street, the area between Memorial Union and the Wisconsin Historical Society left open for general admission viewing, according to the press kit.

The portion of Library Mall dedicated to general viewing will comfortably house around 10,000 patrons, Revelry Music and Arts Festival Committee Marketing Director Ronan Daly said. Langdon Street held roughly 6,900 in 2014, and roughly 2,100 at Union South in the festival’s inaugural year,

INSIDE

he said.

The second stage will be on the Memorial Union terrace. This terrace stage will complement the acts on the main stage -- if the main stage features rap, the terrace may feature rock as a contrast --

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A bill banning microbeads is making its way through the Legislature. If it passes, you may need to give up your favorite exfoliating face washes.

The Wisconsin men’s basketball team took care of Oregon in the Round of 32 for the second straight year to advance to the Sweet 16.

Madison hosted a beard-off this weekend displaying the state’s most voluptuous facial hair stylings. The event’s mission: drink beer, judge beards.

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Election review board could see partisan shift

Republican lawmakers consider new model for Government Accountability Board to address alleged ‘bias’

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

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Wisconsin’s one-of-a-kind Government Accountability Board could see changes this session if a bill written by Republican lawmakers passes through the Legislature.

The GAB is a nonpartisan review board that oversees state elections, campaign finance, ethics and lobbying law. Established in 2008, the GAB became and continues to be the only such body in the country. Most states have similar review boards, but are made up, at least partially, of partisan elected officials, Common Cause Executive Director Jay Heck said.

Heck said the proposal to create the GAB passed overwhelmingly in the Wisconsin Legislature in 2007 because a wide majority of lawmakers thought the former state elections board was too

partisan.

The GAB was created in response to widespread illegal activity in the early 2000s on the part of top legislators and staffers that plagued the state’s elections and campaigns, Heck said.

“The GAB was established to be more effective,” Heck said. “And it has been effective over the last number of years.”

University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden said driving forces behind upcoming changes to the GAB are Republican legislators who say the body is biased and unaccountable.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has pledged the GAB will look differently after this session, Burden said.

Notably, the board assisted with the John Doe investigations that famously investigated the actions of aides to Gov. Scott Walker in two separate investigations,

one during his time as Milwaukee County executive and another related to his 2012 recall election.

Many Republican legislators considered the GAB’s succession of investigations a “partisan witch-hunt” against Walker.

“They are all interrelated to the witch hunt that occurred on Governor Walker and his staff over the course of the past three years by rogue prosecutors doing things that any of us would consider unfair if you actually read the record,” Vos said during a conference on campaign finance regulation at Marquette University Law School.

The previous state elections board had more representation from political parties and was less independent, a model to which Burden said lawmakers will likely try to return.

The current model brings together the elections side

and the ethics side into one regulatory body with no political appointees, which Burden said is rare among states.

“It was heralded as a model for the rest of the country,” Burden said. “It still is.”

Republican lawmakers have been dissatisfied with certain decisions the GAB has made in recent years, which Burden said is the main reason for the proposed changes.

But Burden said the GAB’s intention is to investigate political leaders and their actions, so the investigations into Walker’s office, which have not found anyone from Walkers office guilty thus far, are appropriate.

Heck said Republican lawmakers would like to see a more partisan GAB, which would benefit the currently Republican-controlled legislature and protect Walker — who is currently mulling a

2016 presidential bid.

However, Burden said these worries are more likely the result in legislators wanting more control over the GAB than any actual bias.

“I have a hard time seeing evidence of bias,” Burden said.

“It has had the same director for about 40 years, only has been accused in last few years.”

The GAB currently has independent authority to investigate state elections, a privilege that would likely disappear under the proposed changes, Burden said.

Heck said the elimination of independent investigations would lead to an inherent flaw in the board.

“Without that independent ability to initiate an investigation, the GAB would have to basically get permission from legislative leaders to investigate political corruption,” Heck said.

Supreme court strikes down abortion law

Legislation requiring doctors to get hospital-admitting privileges considered unconstitutional; Gov. plans to appeal

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

A federal judge ruled a Wisconsin law requiring doctors performing abortions to get hospital-admitting privileges unconstitutional Friday.

U.S. District Judge William Conley concluded the measure was enacted not for the purpose of women’s health, but rather to create an unnecessary obstacle for women seeking abortions in Wisconsin. This is an “improper purpose” of the law, according to Conley’s decision.

The ruling came after Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Affiliated Medical Services sued the state. They argued the law

would force Wisconsin’s largest abortion-offering clinic to close since their doctors are unable to get hospital-admitting privileges. Conley put the law on hold in 2013, but did not make a decision about its constitutionality until Friday.

Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, said the closure of this large Planned Parenthood clinic would be harmful for women and create too much burden for Wisconsin’s remaining abortion-offering clinics. There are currently only four clinics offering abortions in Wisconsin, so the overflow to remaining clinics would be massive, Taylor said.

“This decision is critical for women to continue to have access safe, legal abortion services,” Taylor said.

Taylor said there was evidence from the start that the main intent of the bill, for which Taylor sat on the health review committee, did not consider women’s health.

Taylor said the bill’s authors wanted to shut down abortion services in Wisconsin and would do “whatever it takes” to achieve that goal.

Gov. Scott Walker’s spokesperson, Laurel Patrick, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Walker believes the hospital-admitting law is constitutional and plans to appeal the judge’s decision.

“Our office will work with the attorney general to appeal this ruling, and we believe the law will ultimately be upheld,” Patrick told the Sentinel.

The bill also included other

provisions that Conley did not strike down, including requiring abortion-providing clinics to display an ultrasound of the fetus, which has sparked much debate in the years since its original suggestion.

This portion of the law was not included in Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit.

Walker — who signed the bill into law in 2013 — also said he would sign a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks if it were to reach his desk in an “open letter on life” earlier this month.

This letter was a more conservative stance compared to his refusal to declare whether or not he would sign such a bill during his gubernatorial reelection campaign in 2014.

His more religious stance on

abortion has been speculated to be a move to impress Iowa conservatives before the presidential caucus, as Walker appears to be considering a 2016 presidential bid.

Appealing the judge’s decision would be in line with the conservative tone of this open letter.

Taylor said she does not think this will be the last move by the state’s Republicans to limit access to abortion in Wisconsin. She said she does think the judiciary will continue to rule these future laws unconstitutional.

“Unfortunately, women are really dependent right now on having a judiciary to allow them to make their most personal health care decisions,” Taylor said.

Commencement falls on last day of finals With all but one exam moved, university officials are confident graduating seniors can receive diplomas conflict free

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

This year ’s spring commencement ceremony is set to take place on the last day of finals, but according to university officials, graduating seniors need not worry about missing their chance to hear Katie Couric and receive their diplomas.

University of Wisconsin will hold spring commencement for undergraduates, Master ’s degree and law students at noon May 16, posing a possible conflict with graduating seniors who might have finals at that time.

“It’s an unfortunate lineup of dates,” Allison Golden, a spokesperson for the chancellor’s office, said.

But according to Scott Owczarek, the university registrar, the university has managed to move nearly all finals that would have affected approximately 650 graduating seniors this spring.

He said his office is working to move one last final and is confident they will be able to do so. They are currently in talks with the professor and department of that class, and are waiting

REVELRY, page 1 and will include more familyoriented, local acts, Daly said.

“Throughout our event, we [will] showcase local and student music and artistic groups, providing an outlet for these acts to perform,” a mission statement from the Revelry Committee said.

Parts of Library Mall, between general admission viewing and University Club, will also house art installations, a silent disco and various sponsors. State Street mall will also have eight to 10 food carts,

to hear back from the teaching assistant, he said.

“It’s not every year that commencement falls on the last day of finals,” Owczarek said. “We were able to move [those finals] and are really excited because everybody now will be able to participate.”

Final exams for lower level classes, not affecting graduating students, are still scheduled for Saturday.

Golden said commencement scheduling conflicts are nothing new for the university.

When Chancellor Rebecca Blank decided to hold one single graduation ceremony at Camp Randall for all undergraduates, it too came into conflict with finals. The shift was made to attract bigger names for the keynote speaker.

Although the Office of the Registrar schedules finals for lower level courses Saturdays, Golden said it is an imperfect system.

She said the university is looking to make changes to scheduling in future years, but due to university bureaucracy changes do not always occur quickly.

However, Owczarek said, for graduating seniors next year, the university

has already arranged for no finals to take place during the commencement ceremonies in December and May. The planning of the academic calendar is subject to the Secretary of the Faculty, Board of Regents, Faculty Senate and Wisconsin legislation. Every five years, the faculty senate approves a new calendar for the following five years. The current calendar expires in 2016 with the following five

year calendar expiring in 2021.

Owczarek said conflicts between commencement and finals can occur because the legislative mandate requires the university to start classes after September 1 in fall and after Martin Luther King Jr. Day in spring. Consequently, he said commencement scheduling conflicts usually occur once or twice in a decade.

In addition to this spring’s undergraduate

Daly said.

Sponsors are intended to enhance and broaden patrons’ experiences, Daly said. For example, transportation service Uber will provide free rides to concertgoers, he said.

There will also be a lounge area on Library Mall intended as a picnic spot for patrons to relax and eat, Daly said. “[Revelry] is the largest student-run event on this campus, and as such strives to uphold student representation, campus involvement, and a rich display of what it means to be a student on this campus,”

according to the mission statement.

The expansion of festival grounds is one of the new initiatives for Revelry -symbolized by the re-design of their logo -- in addition to student involvement and community-orientation, Daly said.

Student interaction and community engagement was emphasized from the start. The line-up booking process began in October 2014 when an open survey was sent out to the student body, asking for acts people would like to see at the

festival, Daly said. Based on the responses, Frank Productions worked in conjunction with the Revelry committee to look for appropriate acts, planning around tours and other constraints.

“One thing we really value ourselves on is having a diverse range of acts,” Daly said. “We have a bunch of different genres. [When booking] we wanted to see who’s relevant, who puts material out before the festival.”

The majority of Revelry’s funding (25.7 percent) came

Photo · The Faculty Senate plans academic calendars five years in advance, which sometimes leads to overlaps.

The Badger Herald File Photo commencement on Saturday, doctoral, Master of Fine Arts and professional degree candidates will participate in a Friday commencement at the Kohl Center.

from the Wisconsin Union, according to the press kit.

Wisconsin Union Directorate and Innovative Fund both funded 18.3 percent, Memorial Union Building Association funded 14.7 percent and the chancellor funded 7.3 percent.

Sponsors including University of Wisconsin housing, Division of Student Life and City of Madison contributed to the remainder of the budget.

Keep up with The Badger Herald, partner of the Revelry Music and Arts Festival, for future news.

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COVER STORY

MPD acknowledges bias in criminal justice system, seeks improvement With a focus on community involvement, redefining stereotypes, Madison police bias training aims to enforce with cultural competency

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

In the wake of the tragedy of Tony Robinson, community members have increasingly expressed frustration at institutional racism in the justice system. In the midst of this, Madison Police Department continues its initiatives in attempt to be ahead of the curve in the way it handles issues of race and diversity.

Community leaders, such as M Adams of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, have been outspoken about holding Madison City Police Chief Michael Koval and Mayor Paul Soglin accountable for the shooting of an unarmed Tony Robinson, who was killed by MPD officer Matt Kenny earlier in March.

“The community and young people are not going to wait until DCI [Division of Criminal Investigation] and MPD decide to be different,” Adams said.

A leader in cultural competency For its part, MPD Captain Tom Snyder said Madison’s police force has been a longtime leader in steps taken to build a diverse and culturally competent force. According to a report in August 2014, slightly more than 10 percent of MPD sworn officers were African American, about six percent Hispanic and about 30 percent women.

“We take hiring seriously,” Snyder said. “We go to six different states. We go to large cities where it’s likely we’ll find a diverse population [of recruits].”

Additionally, Koval recently mentioned implicit bias and cultural competency training as ways in which MPD has proved itself a progressive organization.

Implicit, or unconscious, bias is any bias of which one is not aware. It is common in people who are opposed to discrimination, but treat specific individuals differently according to social group, University of Wisconsin psychology professor Markus Brauer said.

In 2006, MPD began the first of its efforts to address unconscious bias in the department.

Upon meeting UW psychology professor Patricia Devine at a Stanford University conference for social scientists, police and legal professionals, former police chief Noble Wray requested she provide formal training to police officers on implicit bias especially related to shootings.

But before the introduction of implicit bias training, MPD had required other cultural competency training for new officers since the late ‘80s, MPD Captain Tom Snyder said. He said currently MPD requires officers in their preservice academy to undergo at least 50 hours of training focused on cultural competence, implicit bias and serving the mentally ill.

“If we don’t know how to understand others, we are ineffective,” Snyder said.

Devine said when she first led the training in 2006, she informed each MPD officer about the current research surrounding unconscious bias and aimed to increase awareness of racial issues. She said since the initial training, all new officers have received the training as well.

“I would say the vast majority of [the officers] were very interested, engaged and open to learning what [we] had to say,” she said.

Devine said in 2006, she was not able to offer specific strategies to address implicit biases because she had not yet done research on their effectiveness. She later shared new findings with MPD however, officials said they have yet to share these strategies with officers.

Strategies she shared included stereotype replacement, an approach in which an individual takes note of instances of stereotypic responses and mindfully replaces them with non-stereotypic ones.

“When you think about blacks you might think they’re lazy, criminals or not intelligent,” Devine said. “But surely we can think of examples of people who are not consistent with stereotypes. You could think about Barack Obama, who is intelligent, hard working and successful.”

She also recommended avoiding generalizations by focusing on the individual as opposed to making assumptions about a person based on stereotypes. She said the best approach is to simply get to know specific details about an individual before making judgments.

Devine said simply increasing contact with those of other races and ethnicities would go a long way to addressing implicit bias as well.

Photo · While MPD continues its efforts to be more culturally aware in its enforcement, high disparity rates continue to challenge the city and county.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald

To this effect, Synder said MPD has taken various steps to reach out to minority communities. He said MPD has continuously met with religious leaders as well as community development organizations, such as Nehemiah, which aims to alleviate spiritual, economic and academic issues in the black community.

He also said MPD has worked with the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which the UW Law School founded to educate students and reform the criminal justice system to identify and remedy wrongful convictions.

In 2014-15, MPD featured a diversity training class called “Judgement Under the Radar,” which MPD will again offer in fall. Also in fall, MPD will create another cultural competency training required of all officers, Snyder said.

Kymtana Woodly, a detective for MPD, said they will soon offer implicit bias training to which the public is invited.

Challenges in racial disparities remain But even though MPD has offered cultural competency training for years, racial disparities, especially in the justice system, have stubbornly remained.

The 2013 Race to Equity report outlined some of these racial disparities in Dane County.

These include an arrest rate eight times higher for blacks than for whites, a 54 percent black poverty rate and a black unemployment rate 5.5 times higher than whites.

With knowledge of gaping disparities and the proposal of the anti-illegal immigration law Arizona SB 1070, which led to racial profiling among officers there, MPD reflected on its own obligation to better connect with Latino and other minority communities, Woodly said.

While MPD had already created the “Amigos en Azul” program in 2004 — a grassroots effort dedicated to eliminating barriers between MPD and the Latino community — the national conversation surrounding the Arizona antiimmigration law worked itself into Woodly’s future plans for officer training.

In 2010, after attending “Tools for Tolerance,” a program in Los Angeles to help officers create diversity education programs for their home departments, Woodly and MPD worked to create an officer diversity training similar to the type that MPD had set up for years.

“How are we recognizing that everyone has biases?” Woodly asked. “If we as police officers aren’t mindful of the biases that may impact people, especially people of color, if we’re not aware of that, we can get into some major problems.”

In 2012, Woodly and MPD finally implemented a cultural competency program she had begun to formulate in Los Angeles.

At the MPD training she headed, Woodly said officers received film scenario training to encourage officers to act in non-aggressive

ways toward people.

At the 2012 meeting MPD also invited advocates in the African American community such as Richard Harris, the executive director for Vision Beyond Bars, a crime prevention organization.

Harris helped demonstrate to officers the many misconceptions and biases the African American community holds toward the police, which he said may contribute to increased violence in their interactions with officers.

“My world had been shaped by slavery, segregation and mass incarceration,” Harris said. “But when I started thinking about training, [MPD] needs to know how we are arriving at [negative] conclusions so the police can understand when they are stopping us what is going on.”

Woodly said to solve this issue, communication between MPD and minority communities is vital.

“We talk about it, we work together,” Woodly said. “In the past couple years our department has gotten better at saying what we do to connect with various communities. We need to continue to do that.

“If we don’t know how to understand others, we are ineffective” MPD Captain Tom Snyder

Photo · MPD strives to reach minority communities with different initiatives such as ‘Amigos en Azul’, (pictured below) or ‘Friends in Blue’ who are involved in Madison’s Latino communities.

Courtesy of Madison Police Department

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Gov. open to raising funds for police investigations In light of Tony Robinson shooting, Walker’s switch comes after rejection of previous DOJ requests to expand officer-involved shooting probes Photo · Gov. Scott Walker is now considering adding investigators to DOJ after 19-year-old black man, Tony Robinson, was shot and killed by a Madison police officer.

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Walker ’s office said he is open to funding five new positions that would address officer-involved deaths at the request of the Department of Justice.

Walker ’s reconsideration

by Margaret Duffey Herald Contributor

After it was previously not included in the biennial budget proposal, Gov. Scott

comes following the death of 19-year-old Tony Robinson in an officer-involved shooting, sparking protests across Madison. If the request is fulfilled, the positions would be added to the Division of

Criminal Justice.

Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, said it was a “shame” that Walker did not originally fulfill the funding request in the biennial budget proposal.

Taylor said additional staff would have no bearing on the Robinson case since the budget has not been finalized, but she had a positive outlook on its effect on future investigations. “[The DOJ] will have more staff to cover these investigations in the future, which would be beneficial,” Taylor said.

Taylor authored the bill that made Wisconsin the first state in the country to require independent investigations of officer-involved deaths.

This bill was signed last April.

Attorney General Brad Schimel said in a testimony to the Joint Finance Committee earlier this month that having five additional positions would make implementation of the law both more efficient and precise.

“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.”

Laurel Patrick, Walker ’s spokesperson, said in an email to The Badger Herald after Taylor ’s bill passed that the DOJ did not anticipate a fiscal impact. She said Walker ’s office is willing to reevaluate the budget to address the DOJ’s request.

“If DOJ feels as though additional funding is necessary to address these

cases, we are willing to work with them and the State Legislature to ensure adequate funding,” Patrick said.

Schimel said to the Joint Finance Committee the new legislation has made the DOJ the “go-to investigative resource” for officer-involved shootings that result in death or serious injury.

Taylor said she authored the bill because she believed the investigation process for officer-involved shootings needed to improve. She said the law aims to make investigations as unbiased as possible and to increase law enforcement accountability to the public.

“I think that in any profession it is difficult to investigate your own colleagues,” Taylor said. “So for police departments to be expected to investigate members of their own departments while having relationships with those members could not be the best way of carrying out an investigation.”

The state budget will be enacted July 1.

Wis. public school integration program could be cut Milwaukee program aimed to make districts more racially diverse could be eliminated; experts say minority students would feel impact Schools spokesperson Tony Tagliavia said the program is one of the oldest of its kind in the country.

This year, Tagliavia said there are 215 suburban students attending Milwaukee public schools and approximately 1,456 Milwaukee residents attending suburban schools districts. The integration program provides free transportation for these students, Tagliavia said.

The move to eliminate the program could redirect $60 million in school funding. It could also have significant impacts in the state with the country’s largest achievement gap between white and minority students, University of

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Gov. Scott Walker ’s 2015-17 biennial budget proposes the elimination of an integration program that currently buses over a thousand minority students from Milwaukee to white majority public schools in the city’s suburbs.

The Chapter 220 integration program — which started in the 1970s to promote diversity in Wisconsin’s public schools — gives white students the option to attend mostly minority schools in the city as well as allowing minority students to attend suburban schools. Milwaukee Public

Wisconsin educational policy professor Peter Goff said.

Goff said not much research has been done examining the exact effects of Chapter 220 on Wisconsin’s public schools, so the implications of the proposed elimination give rise to concern.

“In some ways you’re operating blind, and I think that’s always dangerous,” Goff said.

Madeline Hafner, executive director of UW’s Minority Student Achievement Network, said racially integrated schools bring a host of benefits to students who attend them.

The purpose of the integration program was

to create racially diverse schools, which Hafner said research has found is beneficial both to students of color and to white students.

Hafner said the main challenge for minority students attending segregated schools is the unequal distribution of resources, primarily good teachers.

High poverty schools, which tend to teach higher proportions of minorities, have less qualified teachers, which Hafner said is a significant factor in Wisconsin’s achievement gap.

Hafner said schools with high proportions of minority students also tend to have higher teacher turnover and substandard materials.

“When you have an integration program like the Milwaukee one [Chapter 220], you’re eliminating some of these challenges that are associated with segregated, high poverty schools,” Hafner said.

Additionally, students of color who attend racially diverse schools are held to higher academic expectations, Hafner said. She said all racial demographics engage in increased communication when schools are more diverse. This translates into conversations about race in the classroom, Hafner said.

The same types of issues that drive the push for more diverse institutes of higher learning — such

as increased civic and communal responsibility and decrease in racial prejudice — are important at the primary school and high school levels as well, Hafner said.

But Goff said affluent students would feel less of the burden if the program were eliminated. He said in terms of winners and losers, minority students would feel the brunt of the program’s deletion.

“We’re in a situation where Wisconsin has the largest achievement gap in the country and this isn’t a fleeting occurrence, it’s been sustained for many years,” Goff said.

Walker ’s office did not respond for comment.

Explained: ASM leaders’ positions, stipends A breakdown of student government’s managing positions, their duties, their pay funded through segregated fees ASM Chair $10,593 toward tuition

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

Only seven percent of the student body showed up to vote in last Wednesday’s campus wide Associated Students of Madison election to elect student representatives — many of whom can get partial to full tuition remission if appointed to leadership positions.

With 19 ASM members receiving a tuition stipend of some kind, according to the ASM internal budget, elections not only allow the student body to choose its representatives, but allocate where a portion of their segregated fee dollars go as well.

Vice Chair $8,475 toward tuition

The chair, vice chair, student services finance committee chair and the student judiciary chief justice positions all receive over half of their year ’s tuition in a university stipend, according to the ASM bylaws. They are elected internally.

Chair: $10,593 According to current Chair Genevieve Carter, her role deals heavily with internal relations at the university. She said she deals mainly with communicating to administrators and student employees as well as handling the internal budget.

Carter said her internal role makes her the touch-

point for a lot of ASM’s interns as well, making sure they are staying on track with campaigns.

If Carter takes her full stipend each month, she receives 100 percent of in-state tuition, or the equivalent of that, spread out over the course of the year.

“I would say I easily work 50 hours a week, if not more,” Carter said. “It’s one of those things where you never really stop working.”

Vice Chair: $8,475 Vice Chair Derek Field said his primary role is to assist and support the committee chairs.

He tends to handle more external affairs, he said.

Student Judiciary Chair

SSFC Chair $9,370 toward tuition For example, Field is responsible for maintaining ASM’s relationships with student governments at other UW campuses and with national organizations, like the United States Student Association.

Field also manages the travel portion of ASM’s internal budget, he said.

This budget allocates funding for attending conferences or going to Board of Regent’s meetings, he said.

He works an average 40 hours a week, but it can be substantially higher than that during busy weeks, he said. According to the ASM constitution, Field receives a stipend of 80 percent of state tuition.

$6,766 toward tuition

Student Services Finance Committee Chair: $9,370 According to Student Services Finance Committee Chair Devon Maier, he is in charge of the allocation of student segregated fees on campus.

“We helped raise around $45 million this year to groups like the Wisconsin Union, University Health Services, Rec Sports, ASM budget and student transportation,” Maier said.

He also does a lot of management work with leaders from those organizations to make sure things run smoothly, he said.

Maier said he works 15 to 20 hours per week and

receives a stipend of 90 percent of tuition that is divided monthly.

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According to the ASM constitution, the chief justice receives a monthly stipend valued at 65 percent of state tuition.

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Your go-to exfoliator could be banned if bill passes Legislation prohibiting microbeads in face scrubs, toothpaste moves through Wisconsin Legislature after studies show damage to Great Lakes

by Brenda McIntire Reporter

Your favorite revitalizing face wash may disappear from shelves if the state Legislature approves a new bill banning microbeads.

The bill, which passed unanimously in the state Senate last week Tuesday, aims to make Wisconsin the third state to ban the use of microbeads.

Microbeads are tiny plastic particles, about the width of five human hairs, that are sometimes put into products such as face and body scrubs, hand soaps and toothpaste, Sarah Yang, a toxicologist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said.

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Knueve said organizations that undergo suspension usually return to campus as more positive contributors to the Registered Student Organization community.

He said a year ago the university created the Greek Recruitment Advisory Committee to better oversee how Greek chapters choose their members.

“If you choose a member who believes in the stated values, it’s much more likely they’re going to live by those values,” Helmkamp said. “If you choose a member who is there for the stereotypical Greek experience that is so often portrayed in media, chances are that is the experience they’re going to create for themselves.”

The third category of sanctions is probation with restrictions and currently includes Beta Theta Pi

Usually they are added in lieu of other natural alternatives such as oatmeal, fruit pits, sea salt or silica to help scrub dead skin, dirt or oils from the skin, Tyson Cook, the director of science and research at Clean Wisconsin, said.

After studying microbeads’ effects in the ocean, scientists have begun to look at the Great Lakes and found microbeads either in the water or on the beaches of all five lakes, Cook said.

In Lake Michigan, scientists found an average of 17,000 micro plastic particles per square kilometer. In another study, which looked at Lakes Superior, Heron and Erie, microbeads were detected mostly in urban

and Sigma Chi fraternities.

Until June 1 of this year, Beta Theta Pi may not serve or allow the possession of alcohol at any of its events. Until May 8, Sigma Chi may only serve alcohol at fraternity events held at third party vendors.

In assessing reports of possible fraternity misconduct, Knueve said if he and the CSO chair determine the organization has broken any of the 12 codes of conduct, the university has 20 school days to perform an investigation.

The 12 codes of conduct include those against discrimination, non-compliance with state or federal law, noncompliance with university regulations, damage to property, violations of alcoholic beverage or narcotics laws and hazing.

He said if there is enough information proving a violation, the university requires a hearing

areas downstream from wastewater treatment plants, Yang said.

Although microbeads are intended to be rinsed down the drain, they are not easily captured by sanitation systems and water treatment plants and are nonbiodegradable, Cook said.

Treatment facilities typically remove solid material prior to release into the environment through flocculation, the processes of clumping particles together, he said. This makes the particles easier to screen out or causes them to sink so they can be scraped off the bottom, Cook said. Microbeads do not coagulate easily, are relatively buoyant and are very small, so none of the normal

processes work well, he said.

“At the end of the day after you get done scrubbing your face with a microbead containing face scrub, those microbeads go right down the drain and they can make their way straight through those treatment facilities and out into the environment,” Cook said. “There is no efficient way to get them out of the water once they’re out there, so that’s why it’s so important to have these solutions that keep them from getting them out there in the first place.”

Because microbeads resemble food, like fish eggs, small aquatic species ingest them and the beads physically take up space in their stomach, Cook said.

This can cause species to

suffer deficiencies because they feel full without ingesting any nutrients, Kate Morgan, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin water policy director, said.

Microbeads can also soak up other chemical contaminants or pollutants that are floating in the water, Cook said.

These predominantly organic pollutants attach to microbeads, which absorb these chemicals at high concentrations, Morgan said.

When aquatic organisms eat microbeads they get exposed to these chemicals, and it begins a process of biomagnification, Cook said.

This occurs when toxic chemicals get into fish or other organisms at a low

level in the food chain. Then another animal higher up on the food chain eats them and gets exposed to a higher level of that pollutant causing the concentration of chemicals to be magnified up the food chain, Morgan said.

Although much still remains unknown about microbeads, preliminary studies have caused several international companies such as Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Colgate and Dove to pledge to remove microbeads from their products.

“What we can all do is become really informed consumers and not only read the labels on our food products [but also read] the labels on our cosmetic products,” Morgan said.

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“I hope [the Chi Phi termination] gives all fraternities reasons to pause and reflect on whether they are living up to the standards they have agreed to,” Knueve said. “If anybody does hear of any hazing going on or has been a victim of hazing, please let us know because it has no place on our campus.”

The Interfraternity Council did not respond for comment.

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Should Wisconsin require drug tests for public assistance applicants?

Proposal fosters individual freedom, workforce development The United States is founded on freedom, where everyone has an opportunity.

It is a place where success and happiness are attainable through one’s own will.

Seizing opportunity and gaining success is the rewarding principle of the American dream.

Gov. Scott Walker and the state Legislature hope to preserve this principle through their proposal of drug testing public assistance applicants. Drug testing public assistance applicants not only helps ensure that the unemployed are eligible for employment, but also promotes constructive behavior that is desirable in the workforce.

A proposal to implement drug testing for applicants for programs such as FoodShare and BadgerCare Plus was proposed as part of Walker ’s biennial budget.

Drug testing would be administered specifically for childless adults on BadgerCare and able-bodied adults without dependents (not children or the elderly) for the FoodShare employment training program. If the individual tests positive, the state then provides treatment and job training at no cost for their benefit.

The idea behind drug testing is to help the unemployed recover from their financial misfortunes and to help prepare them for Wisconsin’s workforce.

According to a Department of Workforce Development report, Wisconsin’s unemployment rate is down to five percent as of January 2015. The good news? Not only is Wisconsin’s unemployment low, but there are still an estimated 67,000 jobs to fill. However, Wisconsin

employers lack qualified workers to fill these jobs.

Many of these Wisconsin employers subject their employees to random drug tests. Those who are seeking work should be held to the same standards that an employer would deem necessary for hire. A qualified employee would certainly be drug free.

Many opponents to drug testing public assistance applicants argue drug testing is unnecessary because many applicants are not drug users. The Substance Abuse Policy Research Program reported 20 percent of welfare recipients admitted to using illict drugs. The idea behind drug testing is to lower the number of recipients who use illegal drugs or those who are dependent on them. One cannot become independent from the federal government if he or she is dependent on an illegal substance.

Those opposed to the drug testing proposal also believe this new program will cost millions. However, as Medicaid Director of the State Department of Health Services Kevin Moore explained, it is “premature” to say how much drug testing might cost. The actual costs of drug testing cannot be determined yet, not only because the state biennial budget has not yet been passed, but also because the state of Wisconsin needs to apply to the federal government for waivers. It is important to keep the budget and policy for drug testing flexible in order to negotiate with the federal government.

The drug testing policy could actually save money. Identifying drug

users and providing them with treatment prepares individuals for the workforce and financial independence. This could potentially lead to fewer individuals dependent on government aid and could ensure that only those who truly need the aid receive it.

Additionally, a drug testing policy also creates more savings, as more people are more likely to stay out of jail when they are off drugs.

The policies on drug testing differ from state to state, but Wisconsin’s proposed program is unique in that it is not punitive.

Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have proposed this plan not with the aim to punish, but rather to empower people to become independent from the government. Without this plan in place, drug users would otherwise be dependent on government for most of their lives, which is not fulfilling.

Drug testing public assistance applicants in Wisconsin would promote constructive behavior among the unemployed.

This constructive behavior begins to shape individuals who have potential to not only be eligible employees, but also reliable ones.

This proposal promotes the American dream among the unemployed.

It helps them become qualified workers who can seize one of the 67,000 job opportunities our state has to offer, and truly enjoy their independence.

Emelia Rohl (erohl@wisc. edu) is a freshman majoring in political science and creative writing and is a freshman representative on the College Republicans executive board.

Legislation would be unnecessary, waste of taxpayer dollars After trumpeting the tuition freeze during his campaign as a commitment to college affordability, Gov. Scott Walker announced cuts to the University of Wisconsin System that will inevitability result in tuition increases after the election. After dodging questions about controversial right-towork legislation during the campaign, he came out in full support of the policy afterwards.

However, Walker is finally following through on one campaign promise. He promised to drug test public assistance recipients during the campaign and has now included those provisions in his biennial budget.

There’s a big problem, though: drug testing people on public assistance has been proven again and again to be immoral, unfair and a waste of taxpayer dollars.

When speaking in favor of this policy, conservatives play into the poverty and public assistance stigma, but the statistics contradict their blatantly false narrative.

The numbers speak for themselves: in states where this policy was put into place, it was found that the number of people on public assistance using drugs was marginal. In Florida, for example, only 2.6 percent of the applicants tested positive for drug use. In addition, the most common drug used was marijuana, not hard drugs, such as heroin or methamphetamines.

In Tennessee, another state with a drug testing policy, only 1 of the 800 people who applied for welfare tested positive.

According to the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 1 in 10 of the general population aged 12 and older had used illict drugs in the last month. This is a dramatically higher percentage than those on public assistance.

In fact, the percentage of drug-positive public assistance recipients was so low that the testing ends up costing the government more than the amount of money that would have been given in aid.

In Florida, drug testing applicants ended up costing $45,780 more than the state would have given benefits.

One can’t help but notice the stark double standard Walker has when it comes to trusting the people who receive public funds. In reference to drug testing families and individuals using public assistance, Walker has stated, “We need people who are drug free.” However, a much higher percentage of government money goes to contractors and CEOs in contracts and subsidies than to those on welfare.

One of innumerable examples of this double standard is Walker ’s collaboration with a private prison company, the Corrections Corporation of America.

During his time as a state legislator, Walker got thousands of Wisconsin inmates shipped to private prisons in different states, taking jobs away from correctional officers in the state. In addition, taxpayers ended up paying around $45 million to the unchecked and unregulated private company. Contracts like

this vastly eat up more in taxpayer dollars — often costing hardworking Wisconsinites jobs in the process — than public assistance recipients ever will. If companies are going to use our hard earned tax dollars for private enterprise, shouldn’t they be drug tested too?

Families on public assistance are already stigmatized. Our system socializes those on public assistance to feel humiliation and embarrassment. We don’t need another government policy based on stereotypes that just aren’t true to further dehumanize them.

Furthermore, Wisconsin ranked 38th in job creation and was ranked 10th in student loan debt in late 2013. We have numerous other issues in this state that are more pressing than carelessly throwing money at a policy for which every argument in favor of it has been debunked. The argument that it saves money to drug test people on public assistance has been proven false every time it’s been tried.

Those who argue that this proposal protects the sanctity of our tax dollars follow a clear double standard and only apply that logic when it’s to the detriment of Wisconsin’s most vulnerable families.

The verdict is clear: drug testing people on public assistance isn’t moral, fair or economical.

August McGinnityWake (a.mcwake@gmail. com) is a freshman majoring in political science and economics.

Campus diversity: Effort is there, but results are not Despite UW’s long history with well-intentioned minority outreach, our campus lacks meaningful, tangible progress

by Megan Stefkovich Contributor

The University of Wisconsin is a campus where racial slurs and prejudices permeate Yik Yak, the UW-Madison Confessions Facebook page circulates vicious and cruel posts about the circumstances of Tony Robinson’s death and microaggressions constantly remind students of color of the rampant ignorance and sometimes unbridled racism of their peers.

It’s no secret UW is a predominantly white campus.

Look at any classroom — it’s common to look around and see only one or two students of color. This lack of diversity has been extremely detrimental to student life on campus, not only for students who feel underrepresented, but also for white students who are left ignorant and uneducated (despite a 3-credit ethnic studies requirement).

Initially, I began with the intention to soundly roast UW’s diversity initiatives.

Armed with my frustration, I was prepared to call the Office of the Vice Provost on Diversity and Climate and demand what progress had been made with their lengthy, complex resolutions that, as of yet, have not seemed to make waves of any kind in a long-stagnant sea of overwhelming whiteness.

Thirteen percent of students and 17.6 percent of faculty at UW are ethnic minorities.

These facts

seem to suggest to me the university had, until recently, not taken diversity seriously. After looking into the university’s history of diversity initiatives, however, I realized that despite their lack of progress, UW has not been idle.

I can’t commend them for their success, but I also cannot condemn them for what I thought was an apathetic and ignorant attitude toward minority experiences on campus. Only just recently looking at UW’s diversity initiatives in-depth, I cannot justly present my outright criticisms of their effectiveness. I can break down Madison’s history of diversity initiatives to begin determining if Madison’s most recent efforts can bring about substantial progress in diversity.

The first serious diversity plan was the Holley Report, created in 1987 due largely to the student protests of the 1960s and onward. Next came the Madison Plan of 1988, which resulted in a four percent increase in faculty of color and a six percent increase in women faculty members over a ten year span. However, it was criticized for an “assimilationist perspective.”

Plan 2008 was drafted in 1998 as a new ten year plan striving to establish an inclusive and diverse academic environment. It was not successful in its goal to significantly reduce the gap in the graduation rates between majority and minority students by 2008.

Looking at statistics from 2004 to 2008 alone, four-year graduation rates of the “targeted minority groups” increased from 27.2 percent to 33.8 percent, with white student fouryear graduation rates increasing from 53.8 percent to 59 percent.

Minimal progress did occur. However, the statistics demonstrate the gap did not decrease as desired.

This brings us to the current initiative, the Diversity Framework.

An offshoot of a 2013 plan to address historically low percentages of underrepresented demographics among UW faculty and staff, the Office of the Vice Provost on Diversity and Climate engaged in “long-term activities designed to create an ‘OVPDC’ divisional identity, culture, mission, vision, plan, principles of practice.”

From there, they completed a comprehensive Diversity Framework in 2014, titled “Forward Together” that extensively delineates 30 recommendations to be executed in the next ten years.

I applaud the Diversity Framework in their determined initiative to tackle such a prevalent, deeply-rooted issue in our campus. Their drafted plan is extensive and the recommendations made

to ensure greater diversity and a more inclusive climate on campus have the ambition necessary to enact great change. The effort is there. The evidence of planning, strategizing and discussing how to make UW a university where all students can excel is present and accessible through the Framework’s thirty detailed recommendations.

However, we need tangible

evidence that progress is being made. Listening sessions for campus and community are a start.

However, initiatives mean nothing without action, and they certainly mean even less for the marginalized students on campus who need inclusivity the most.

Megan Stefkovich (stefkovich@wisc.edu) is a freshman majoring in biology.

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Wisconsin Beard-Off celebrates eccentric bristles Madison Beard Wearers Union encourages beer drinking, camaraderie in six-part facial hair competition Friday night at High Noon

by Tia Hagenbucher ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

With a four-inch gray handlebar beard extending from his face, Chris Kriskovic — known as Xtopher Grey in facial hair competitions — gathered with his (also bearded) friends at the High Noon Saloon Friday night.

They each sipped their craft beers, collectively representing the four-yearold elite Madison Beard Wearers Union.

According to Kriskovic, who recently opted for judging over competing, the purpose of the group is to “drink beer and share camaraderie.”

In reverence of this purpose, hipsters, bikers and microbrewers alike came together Friday night for the much anticipated 2015 Wisconsin BeardOff. This competition is put on by novelty event coordinators from the organization Modern Antics.

Art Allen is the creative mastermind behind this Midwest competition. The idea was cultivated in 2009 when Allen discovered

that beard and mustache competitions were rising in popularity, but noticed that there were none near his hometown of Minneapolis.

He started collaborating with his friends and ended up expanding these competitions to Madison and Des Moines.

The majority of the audience, surprisingly, are women looking for bearded men. When it comes to choosing judges, he likes to choose men with expertise, such as Kriskovic, and always aims to select one woman who is particularly fond of beards.

Allen explained that the judges critique the overall quality of a beard including its length, thickness and originality. It’s serious business.

“We’ve got a guy tonight who’s wearing a fake beard in the freestyle category and I don’t think the judges will look too kindly on that,” Allen said.

The Wisconsin Beard-Off was in six parts: mustaches, ladies, full beards, short full beards, partial beards and free-style. A final round picked the ultimate champion from the six

winners of the respective parts.

The first part, mustaches, pitted a man with a top hat against a redhead whose mustache extended down the length of his neck. As each contestant was brought on stage the emcee asked them creative questions and turned them to the judges who often stroked the facial hair and took photos.

Then came time for the ladies to show off their most creative beard concoctions.

The first woman had a paper beard made out of pictures of brunette hair cut out from magazines.

The second woman, who ended up winning, named her pseudo-beard “Beards In Bloom,” which featured a blonde wig with pictures of colorful birds in it. The third contestant was actually two females who braided their hair together underneath their chins. They answered their questions in unison and said they were only planning on staying conjoined “for the next three minutes.”

The third part of the competition was “Duck Dynasty’s” wet dream: full beards. This included a

group of men ranging from a man named Rhino to a man who said that not a week has gone by since he hasn’t gotten a compliment.

The winner from this section was a man named Mike whose beard, which extended past his groin, swayed along while he walked.

The fourth part was for short full beards. One man has been growing out his beard since “No Shave November,” while another claimed to be the only bearded person in his family. The winner from this group wore a shirt with a large grizzly bear on it, who proclaimed that he firmly believes being bearded is the best way to be natural and live life to the fullest.

The fifth part of the competition featured three men competing for the partial beard title. The emcee jokingly asked the first contestant if he had any experience on the Oregon trail, to which the man replied, “dysentery.”

The second man humbly said he joined the competition to make friends, while the third man, who was also the

winner, walked on stage chanting his own name and then began dancing to Dropkick Murphys. When it was announced that he won, he picked up the emcee, grabbed the microphone and proclaimed: “I finally fucking won!

Impeach Scott Walker and make marijuana legal in the fucking state of Wisconsin!”

The final section of the Beard-Off was the freestyle category. The first contestant, Greg, sported spirals in his beard and ripped off his shirt on stage, boasting that he styled his beard for two hours and has been growing it for two years. Greg won, attributing a lot of credit to his girlfriend who gives him ideas and puts on the fine touches to his freestyle looks.

The second competitor, Dennis, had a beard made up of figure-eights who said he styled his beard like that every Friday. Dennis later said that this Beard-Off was the second time he had run into Greg.

“The first time, it was kind of like, who is this guy? Why is his beard so glorious?” Dennis said.

The third competitor took on a Jack Sparrow persona.

The man wore a wig full of dreadlocks and a large full beard covering his entire face. When inquired about what he does for fun, Jack said, “Sailing the black sea, looking for oysters.”

Finally the ultimate bearded champion was to be chosen from the six remaining winners. The Beard-Off official champion Mike — the man with the beard who extended past his groin — was brought up on stage to receive his second plaque, a bundle of Beard-Off apparel and a bag of coffee beans.

In past events, the Madison Beard Wearers Union donated their proceeds from events like these to local charities including Porchlight. They anticipate their union to continue to grow from such large-scale events.

Krikovic’s personal goal for the club is to eventually establish a symbiotic relationship between microbrewing and bearding for years to come. As they seek this goal, it is needless to say shaving cream will be kept at a safe distance.

UW alum looks to joke his way to a Wikipedia page Madison’s Funniest Comic winner Geoffrey Asmus’ comedic goal is to make history jokes funny with low-key, topical humor

by Audrey Piehl ArtsEtc. Editor

In a 140-character world of Netflix specials and cat YouTube videos, stand-up comedy still prevails under spotlights across Madison, providing laughter without a screen.

University of Wisconsin alum Geoffrey Asmus is on the frontlines of this classic medium. Earlier this month he won the Madison’s Funniest Comic open mike competition at the Comedy Club on State, after five gruelling rounds and endless nerves.

A Twin Cities-native, Asmus began dabbling in comedy as a defense mechanism against serious conversations, and a childhood neighborhood without many, well,

neighbors. After his high school superlative dubbed him “has them all fooled,” he embarked to UW and earned degrees in history, religious studies and Asian culture.

But about two months before graduating, Asmus entered the realm of standup.

“They have the open mic night on Wednesdays at the Comedy Club and I used to go there a lot as a normal human being and I thought it looked really fun,” he said.

“My friends kind of goated me into doing it. I spent six months saying nervously I would do it before I finally did it.”

Two years later, Asmus has scoured the many open mic nights found in bars across the Isthmus. Though the weekly tour of standup can be daunting, Asmus tries to write jokes everyday,

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describing himself as a “quantity over quality” joke writer. The nearly constant flow of material has allowed him to edit through the flops before big nights at the Comedy Club.

This process was particularly difficult for the Madison’s Funniest Comic competition; in the first four rounds, performers couldn’t even repeat a joke, making forming a routine all the more difficult.

“The hardest part [was] picking which jokes to tell every week. You don’t want to use all your good jokes the first round and then you don’t want to also not tell good jokes and not make it, because then you feel like an idiot,” Asmus said. “My strategy was … It only really matters what you’re first and last jokes are. No one really remembers what happens in

the middle.”

But despite the challenges, Asmus emerged victorious in the eyes of the audience and judges, winning the title of Madison’s Funniest Comic. In addition to a few Badger jokes about football games and the insane ability to name any country’s capital, Asmus’ success likely came from his relatable, enjoyably weird humor.

This approach reflects his two biggest comedy idols: Bill Hicks and Brian Regan. Hicks — described as “George Carlin on steroids” — was renowned for ranting social commentary cloaked in dark humor. On the other hand, Regan is known for mundane self-deprecation, free of controversial subject matter and profanity.

Asmus is not afraid to tackle sticky topics like religion or even history.

In fact, his main comedic goal is to make history jokes funny. But overall, he keeps a low-key demeanor and refrains from exclusive humor.

“It’s important to relate to people,” he said. “I try to be normal because people can’t relate if it’s too weird ... I think sometimes comedy can be too high brow, ivory tower-type stuff. Like, ‘Oh this joke is about the ‘Brother ’s Karamazov,’ you don’t know the ‘Brother ’s Karamazov?.’

I’m pretty honest. I’d say honesty is probably the biggest part of my comedy.”

Asmus’ development

is also the product of his environment: Madison, and more specifically, students.

The student population is a strong indicator of what mainstream comedy will be in five to 10 years, he said.

While the current “comedy boom” revolves around Twitter and other mediums, millennials traversing campus are putting Madison comics ahead of the curb for the future. “[Madison has] a really good comedy scene for the size of the town,” Asmus said. “There are a lot of really funny comedians in Madison. It’s more alternative comedy, because college kids are more open to doing weirder things. It’s

Photo · Asmus grew up in a Twin Cities neighborhood without a lot of young neighbors - so naturally he developed a vast imagination and sense of humor.

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As for his own future, Geoffrey Asmus plans to move to Chicago in the fall. Though he may be temporarily leaving the Dairy State, his start in Madison will be forever solidified upon accomplishing his ultimate goal: his own Wikipedia page.

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Kendrick Lamar’s latest is divisive tour de force

Three years since last LP, To Pimp a Butterfly evolves from banger-ridden Compton narrative to genre-defying, exploratory masterpiece

by Jake Rickun ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

In the words of “Holy Name of Mary Choral Family” in 1986 (recently popularized

by Kanye West’s “On Sight”’ from 2013’s Yeezus), “He’ll give us what we need, it may not be what we want.”

After an interminable three years since his universally acclaimed good kid, m.A.A.d. city, Kendrick Lamar is back.

In those three years following good kid, m.A.A.d. city, with car-bumping tracks such as “Backstreet Freestyle,” “Money Trees” and “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe,” Lamar quickly garnered one of the most enthusiastic followings in modern hip-hop and left his fan base watering at the mouth for his next release.

It’s finally here: To Pimp a Butterfly. And it looks like he’s about to irritate a sizable chunk of his fanbase; if you were expecting good kid, m.A.A.d. city 2, you will be extremely disappointed.

To Pimp a Butterfly is reminiscent of what Radiohead did with Kid A, what The Beatles did with Sgt. Pepper and what Kanye did with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It is a benchmark release, a rubber match between Lamar and the hiphop genre, an album which entirely dismantles how hiphop — and Lamar himself — will be examined for years to come.

Greater than Sum of its Parts This is Lamar’s most divisive effort, but it’s a musical tour de force nonetheless.

Comparing Butterfly to his other albums is like trying to compare Android to Apple; Android does more but Apple is more fun. It goes without saying that good kid, m.A.A.d. city has more bangers and standalone tracks with high replay value — sure, it may be more fun.

But To Pimp a Butterfly simply does more; it’s musical complexity and lyricism has

ostensibly more depth than its predecessor.

TPBF is more a slowbuilding artistic exhibition than it is a mere compilation of stand-alone tracks. It’s evident that on good kid, m.A.A.d. city, which traced a similarly compelling narrative, there were tracks that were complete bangers. But Butterfly is a more captivating series and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. As such, Butterfly is not dissimilar to an avantgarde jazz arrangement, so no, you won’t “get it” by parsing through tracks, looking for bangers to play at a party; Butterfly’s magnificence reveals itself more with each dedicated cover-to-cover listen.

New Kendrick, New Sound TPBF is a chaotic, demanding album that fuses many foundational elements of hip-hop and rap — jazz, blues, soul, Jamaican dub and Afrocentric rap — with Lamar’s increasingly virtuosic vocal deliveries and narrative —building capabilities.

But Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly incarnation does not come without friends. Flying Lotus, who collaborated with Lamar last year on FlyLo’s “Never Catch Me,” lends his hand to album opener “Wesley’s Theory” and starts Butterfly with an eruption of horns, snares, synths and theremins. Although FlyLo only features his beats on “Wesley’s Theory,” his influence seems to re-emerge throughout.

The contributions don’t stop there. Butterfly’s production and writing credits reveal the myriad hands that sculpted its sonic backdrop: Terrace Martin and his speckled horn and saxophone arrangements; Soundwave, who’s been married to K-Dot’s production process since Kendrick Lamar EP; Grammy winner Robert Glasper and his smoothjazz keys; and of course, the amorphously full-bodied electric bass contributions of

Thundercat.

Every keyboard chord, saxaphone run-off and bass wobble comes from a different artist with a different background. This approach would have likely failed with any other artist.

So is it G-Funk? Is it jazz-rap? Hip-hop? Soul?

Afrocentric-rap? None of them, specifically. But with Lamar at the helm, there’s a rare unification that makes TPBF feel like a musical history book filled with the very best sonic archetypes of “black music.”

Compton: Just one head of the Hydra The album traces his internal narrative, detailing his metamorphosis from an insular Compton caterpillar into a global, massively famous butterfly. Leaving Compton allowed Lamar opportunities for fame and success, but after returning to his home, Lamar experienced an overwhelming survivor’s guilt and a realization that his world was just as disastrous as it was once before.

Only in a conversation with 2Pac himself on the final track, “Mortal Man,” does Lamar reach catharsis, putting words to his caterpillar-butterfly metaphor. “Although the caterpillar and the butterfly are completely different, they are one in the same. What’s your perspective on that? Pac? Pac? Pac?!” Sadly 2Pac’s life was cut too short to answer that question. Fittingly, as Lamar calls out to his deceased muse, To Pimp a Butterfly ends.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Lamar spoke about this metamorphosis.

“There’s some stuff in there, man. It’s a roller coaster. It builds.”

He speaks the truth. This is a poignant and mental experience. To Pimp a Butterfly is like Dante’s “Inferno” told through a black man’s idea of the “American experience.”

It’s the sound of treachery, heresy, anger, greed, lust and violence. It’s the sound of a

black man’s departure from Compton, his subsequent selfresentment, reconciliation and psychological restoration. For Lamar, it’s his most organic and raw record yet.

And while his previous work used Compton’s menacing environment as a structure for Lamar to craft his narrative, To Pimp a Butterfly sheds those restrictions and reveals that Compton is just one head of the Hydra, a microcosm of a nation that is exponentially more claustrophobic and racially divisive.

“The funk shall be within you” To Pimp a Butterfly is the sum of Lamar’s work on a grander scale. Whereas good kid, m.A.A.d. city allowed Lamar to cultivate his own idiosyncrasies as a rapper, To Pimp a Butterfly finds Lamar unable to use that safety net to say what he wants to say.

With To Pimp a Butterfly, the sheer gravitas of his message cannot be spoken through the sounds of his prior work.

Here, he’s a conduit for black empowerment; Lamar ventures beyond Compton, digging as far back as he can and speaking for AfricanAmericans’ ceaseless historical

struggle.

“Well this is my explanation straight from Ethiopia/NE-G-U-S definition: royalty; King royalty - wait listen/NE-G-U-S description: Black emperor, King, ruler, now let me finish,” Lamar says on the album version of “‘i.”

But ultimately, it’s the listening experience that only gives complete understanding of how important this album is. Lamar’s communicating with us in a way that’s perplexing, maybe even stressful.

To Pimp A Butterfly is going to be stressful for fans who expect continuations of Section.80 and good kid, m.A.A.d. city.

However, debates on it’s standing as “hip-hop” or “rap” (how radio friendly it is, how much you can “turn up” to it) undoubtedly dichotomizes fans into the very groups Lamar denounces.

But through listening to Butterfly, no matter which way you take it, Lamar’s damage has already been done. His track “King Kunta” says it best, “By the time you hear the next pop, the funk shall be within you.”

Lamar is doing this for himself because he thinks — no, he knows — that

Photo · With tracks like “King Kunta” and “The Blacker the Berry,” Lamar expresses survivor’s guilt and social commentary toward the black community.

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons following his internal artistry is what he needs to do. It just so happens that Lamar pulled off To Pimp a Butterfly with extraordinary finesse. But he’s also doing it for his fans, the world. It may not be what some of us wanted, but it is surely what this world needs.

To Pimp a Butterfly, with all it’s proselytization and grandeur, is sure to make quite the mark.

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Secondary plan: McEvoy moves back to safety Fifth-year senior switches from quarterback to defense during spring practice with Stave projected to start at signal caller come fall

by Chris Bumbaca Associate Sports Editor

The coaching staff wasn’t the only thing that changed this offseason for the Wisconsin football team.

Several Wisconsin players had already undergone position changes this season, most notably Tanner McEvoy.

The redshirt senior earned the starting quarterback job out of training camp last season, but never started again after getting pulled in the middle of the Northwestern game on Oct. 4. After utilizing his mobility and stature in the option game for the rest of the regular season, McEvoy started practicing at safety again, a position he played during the 2013 season.

When McEvoy originally came to Wisconsin as a junior college transfer in the spring of 2013, he was part of a wealth of quarterbacks that included returning starter Joel Stave after a strong freshman year. But in the ensuing fall camp, McEvoy ended up getting injured, spent some time at wide receiver and then made the transition to defense and the saftey position.

In the 2013 season, McEvoy made three starts

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Injuries Redshirt senior wide receiver Travis Frederick and sophomore linebacker D’Cota Dixon both will not participate in spring ball as they recover from postseason surgeries.

Sophomore offensive lineman Jaden Gault, who

was away from the team for personal issues, is listed on the roster. Chryst said Gault’s focus right now is on school and not football at the moment.

Extracurricular Activities The mild March weather has allowed the Badgers to practice outside at Camp Randall, after the first two

practices were scheduled to take place inside at the McClain Center.

Austin Hudson, a sophomore safety, has transferred.

Running backs coach John Settle said Dare Ogunbowale will remain in his unit as the second-string running back for spring practices.

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run around and catch the ball,” Stave said. “I thought he looked really good doing that. He’s a big, athletic guy. He’s fast.

I think he’s someone who can help us in a lot of different places.”

Other position changes included redshirt sophomore Connor Senger, who moved from quarterback to wide receiver, and former wide receiver Natrell Jamerson, who practiced with the defensive backs and will move to cornerback.

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at safety and helped give the Wisconsin secondary some much needed size with his 6-foot-6 frame. He finished the season with playing time in 11 games and made 27 tackles with one interception.

McEvoy now finds himself at that safety spot again, and has already caught the eye of his new head coach, Paul Chryst.

“In the short time that I’ve been with him, I think he understands the game,” Chryst said. “Mentally I think we can do some things without putting too much on his plate and he can contribute in a number of different ways.”

And although it didn’t work out under center for him, Chryst knows it’s better for McEvoy to use his athleticism on the field than keeping him on the bench, saying that he can contribute in a variety of ways to the team.

Chryst added that McEvoy isn’t finished on the offensive side, with the possibility of him seeing playing time at wide receiver. Quarterback Joel Stave worked with McEvoy during the winter, throwing to him and other receivers.

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SWEET, page 16 Young scored 14 of Oregon’s 19 points over the final 9:22 of the first half and finished the game with a game-high 30 points on 12of-25 shooting, including a 2-for-6 mark from beyond the arc. Young also had four assists and three rebounds as the Ducks were down by

just three, 31-28, going into halftime.

Jalil Abdul-Bassit (12) was the only other Oregon player in double figures Sunday night.

The Ducks outshot the Badgers, going 26-for-59 (44.1 percent) from the floor as a team while the Badgers went 22-for-51 (43.1 percent).

Oregon was also 8-for-19 (42.1 percent) from threepoint range, with Wisconsin going 7-for-23 (30.4 percent) from deep.

The Badgers were also outrebounded by the Ducks, 34-32, but in the end, it didn’t matter as Wisconsin will keep dancing, just two wins away from back-to-

back trips to the Final Four.

Wisconsin will now take on the Tar Heels Thursday with a spot in the Elite Eight and West Regional final on the line. The winner of Wisconsin-North Carolina will take on the winner of No. 2 seed Arizona against No. 6 seed Xavier Saturday in Los Angeles.

North Carolina advanced to the Sweet 16 with a second round win over 13seed Harvard on Thursday before knocking off fifthseeded Arkansas Saturday.

The Badgers and Tar Heels last met in the NCAA tournament in 2008 in the Elite Eight. No. 1-seed North Carolina defeated

No. 6 Wisconsin 88-82, as the Tar Heels moved on to the Final Four where they eventually won the National Championship.

The two schools most recently played together in 2011 in Chapel Hill as part of the Big Ten-ACC Challenge.

The No. 9 Badgers fell to the fifth-ranked Tar Heels 60-57.

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Wisconsin’s dismal season put to rest by Wolverines Men’s hockey falls 5-1 to Michigan in Big Ten tournament quarterfinals, ends worst campaign in program history with 26 losses

by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

At long last, it’s finally over.

The Wisconsin men’s hockey team limped into the Big Ten tournament Thursday, and absorbed the final blow that put its season down for the count.

Michigan scored late in the first period of the quarterfinal at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit and then added two more quick tallies early in the second period to dispose of the Badgers (426-5), who ended the worst season in program history on an eight-game winless streak.

“As disappointing as it is to end the season, these young men, they earned the right to walk out of the rink with their heads held up high because they could have folded. They didn’t,” Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves said. “They kept battling and we were there knocking, hoping for another goal late in the game.”

Wisconsin brought the deficit to just two goals a little less than halfway through the third period when Jedd Soleway stuffed home a rebound at the 9:14 mark to make it 3-1 in favor of the Wolverines.

The Badgers got a jolt of life back in them when Michigan (22-15-0) took back-to-back penalties that gave UW slightly more than a minute of a 5-on-3 power play opportunity.

“Team morale was definitely up with that,” senior captain Brad Navin said of what ended up being the Badgers’ lone goal. “We hadn’t scored a goal in a while. That was huge for

[us].”

But on the ensuing twoman advantage, Wisconsin failed to record a single shot on goal, as the Wolverines killed off both penalties to shift the momentum back in their favor. Michigan killed off all six penalties during the game, including four in the third period, against a Badgers’ power play that has converted at just an 11 percent clip this season.

With the momentum back on its side, Michigan scored less than a minute after it got back to full strength, putting Wisconsin on the ropes. The highest scoring offense in the country tacked on a fifth goal with a little less than three minutes to go to seal Wisconsin’s fate.

“We just didn’t have that spark tonight,” Navin said. “But I thought our energy and our consistency was there. It was just our execution wasn’t.”

However, for the first 15 minutes of the game, Wisconsin stuck with the Wolverines as the two teams remained scoreless.

Michigan held a slight advantage in shots on goal in the first period (9-5), but it was a tough bounce that put Wisconsin down for good.

While on the penalty kill, an initial shot from the right wing glanced off of UW defenseman Kevin Schulze’s skate and found its way to the stick of Michigan’s Zach Hyman, who continually haunted Wisconsin throughout the season.

Hyman converted the rebound 14:45 into the first period for his first of two goals during the game, and tallied six goals and 13 total points against Wisconsin this season in five games.

The trio of Hyman, Justin Selman and Dylan Larkin

combined for nine points Friday and had 33 points total against the Badgers this year.

“They have things you don’t teach,” Eaves said of Larkin and Hyman. “They have abilities you don’t teach.

“You try to limit what they can get done. But in the end they’ve got some things done against us tonight.”

However, after getting outshot in the first period, Wisconsin equaled the effort of Michigan with 12 shots on goal in the second stanza. But UW couldn’t find the back of the net as the Wolverines capitalized twice to take control of the game.

Badgers’ goaltender Joel Rumpel made 10 saves in

the second period, but the bounces continued in the Wolverines favor resulting in their second goal. Andrew Sinelli’s shot deflected off of Ryan Wagner ’s stick and Rumpel couldn’t get to the redirected puck as Michigan went up 2-0. About four and a half minutes later, Hyman struck again to make it 3-0.

The Wisconsin offense had scored the most goals in second periods this season, but Michigan’s Steve Racine made 23 saves on 24 Badger shots over the final two periods to keep them at bay.

UW ended up with a 2928 advantage in shots on goal, just the fifth time this season it has had more shots than an opponent. But for the fifth time, Wisconsin still

lost despite having more opportunities.

Rumpel (23 saves) finished his Badger career with his lowest save total since late November, and his fewest since he had 14 in a 4-1 loss to Northern Michigan.

Outside of Rumpel, Wisconsin graduates just five other players on this year ’s team and has a contingent of 17 freshmen and sophomores returning next season.

Eaves hopes the wealth of learning opportunities, and losses, this year will help that young group push forward to a better campaign when next season rolls around.

“They will come back and they’ll have a whole year under their belts and

Photo · Wisconsin finished its season Thursday in Detroit with its 26th loss of the season, which is the most losses for any UW team in the modern era of the program. It also set the record for fewest wins, with only four all year.

Cody Schwartz The Badger Herald File Photo they’ll understand quickly what we’re trying to get done from a firsthand standpoint,” Eaves said. “So this year it seemed as we started at A. Next year when we come back maybe we’ll be in G or H in the alphabet and continue forward as we build.”

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UW’s strong effort in crunch time keeps season alive Junior forward Sam Dekker leads charge over course of 20-13 Wisconsin run in last six minutes to put away Ducks, get back to Sweet 16 Photo · Big Ten Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky scored 27 points to lead all players in Wisconsin’s Friday night win over Coastal Carolina and added 16 points Sunday night against Oregon, with 19 total rebounds over the weekend.

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It was Wisconsin’s first double-digit lead since 9:54 in the first half.

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It wasn’t pretty, but the Wisconsin men’s basketball team gritted its way to a 7265 victory over Oregon to advance to its fourth Sweet 16 in five seasons.

No other team has gotten there as often in that time span as the Badgers.

Wisconsin never trailed in the game, and it seemed as if they could cruise against the Ducks, getting out to an 11-point lead (20-9) 10 minutes into the game. That lead quickly dissipated before halftime, as the Badgers carried a slim 31-28 margin

FROZEN, page 16 get one of those it might change the momentum of the game,” Johnson said.

“Their goaltender was able to make the saves she needed to, they blocked the shots that they needed, and capitalized on the opportunities when we presented them.”

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into the locker room.

The teams battled back and forth in the opening minutes of the second half, and then UW redshirt sophomore guard Zak Showalter rattled off five points in a row to give his team an eight-point cushion (45-37) with 10:46 remaining.

Then, it was Oregon’s turn to deliver a punch. The Ducks went on a 10-3 run to cut the Badgers’ lead to one. With 5:54 left, Oregon Dwayne Benjamin nailed a threepointer to tie the game at 52.

Five straight points from junior forward Sam Dekker put the Badgers back on top for good, as the Badgers clutch free throw shooting

in the final minute sealed the win. In the final 1:03, Wisconsin made 10-of-12 from the charity stripe to silence any chance for an Oregon rally.

playing on very familiar ice at Ridder Arena, were able to create energy in their home arena after the goals. That was something the Badgers could not do, despite outshooting Minnesota 35-23 on the night. But Leveille made 34 saves to keep the Gophers in the game and in control of it near the end.

“All the credit in the

world to that goalie; she played a great game, but her team played a great game in front of her,” Pankowski said. “It’s just the little bounces that didn’t go our way that could have changed the game. I think we had the opportunities, we just didn’t get our bounce.”

In the other net, Wisconsin’s Desbiens

Turning Point With the game tied at 52 and fewer than 62 minutes left, Oregon had the Badgers backed into a tight corner. But there to deliver the pivotal punch was Sam Dekker.

With 5:02 left, Kaminsky — from the high post — found Dekker cutting along the baseline. Dekker avoided the oncoming, potential shot blockers with a sweet upand-under and a kiss off the glass.

On the next possession, which followed a Wisconsin timeout that negated a Dekker alley-oop, Dekker drained a three with four minutes to go, making it 5852 Wisconsin.

When You Knew It Was Over As Wisconsin found out the hard way, there was simply no way of putting Oregon away for good Sunday night.

But Badgers fans were finally able to exhale after Kaminsky swallowed an offensive board off a Nigel Hayes missed free throw and laid it right back in. The bucket gave Wisconsin a 66-56 lead with 47 seconds

finished with just 20 saves and had to make just three stops in the final period when UW outshot Minnesota 10-3.

Coming into the game, the Badgers and Gophers were the top two in the country in shots on goal per game. However, UW held Minnesota to a seasonlow 23 shots. Desbiens, who had 14 shutouts this

Wisconsin Player of the Game: Sam Dekker When Wisconsin needed a boost, Dekker was there to provide it. He scored a teamhigh 17 points, 14 of those coming in the second half.

Dekker shot 3-of-8 from three-point range, but his shots from behind the arc came at pivotal points in the game. Dekker finished the game 6-of-12 from the field, demonstrating his ability to score inside and outside.

Dekker also pulled in five rebounds and added a block in 33 minutes.

Oregon Player of the Game: Joseph Young It was a one-man show for the Ducks. Young poured in 30 of the Ducks’ 65 points on 12-25 shooting.

Young was instrumental in bringing the Ducks within striking range at halftime, scoring nine of the final 14 Oregon points before the half.

Had another Duck emerged as a scoring threat Sunday night, there’s a real possibility the Ducks would have knocked off the Badgers.

The only other Oregon player in double-digits was Jalil

season, couldn’t stop the Gophers high-powered attack.

The senior class of Brittany Ammerman, Blayre Turnbull, Karley Sylvester, Katy Josephs and Katarina Zgraja leave Wisconsin on this note, not having defeated the Gophers in 18 straight games, dating back to 2011.

The younger players

Abdul-Bassit (12).

But Young couldn’t do it alone, and his team’s season ended at the hands of Wisconsin.

Next Up: North Carolina The Tar Heels advanced to their first Sweet 16 in two seasons, having been bounced in the Round of 32 for two consecutive seasons.

The four-seed in the West Region, UNC got there after pulling out a nailbiter against thirteen-seed Harvard, 68-66, in the Round of 64 and an 87-78 win against Arkansas in the next round Saturday night.

Led by junior guard Marcus Paige (14.9 points per game), North Carolina (2611) finished fifth in the ACC regular season standings and was the runner-up in the conference tournament, falling to Notre Dame in the championship game 90-82.

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With the 11-minute mark looming, Kaminsky fired a pass from the left wing to Showalter at the top of the key. Wide open, Showalter pulled the trigger and drilled a three-pointer to make it 4337. During the next offensive possession, Showalter hit a layup to increase the Badgers lead to eight.

Until that point, the Badgers and the Ducks had traded points coming out of halftime. The push from Showalter gave Wisconsin enough cushion to stave off the final Oregon push for the win.

The three was Showalter ’s second made attempt from downtown and his first make from beyond the arc since Jan. 20 against Iowa.

could see how those players felt, something they can use as they begin to prepare for next year.

“I think in the locker room you could see on the faces of everyone, even the seniors that this was not enough for everyone,” Pankowski said. “It’s going to be that bitter taste that’s in our mouth that’s going to drive us next year.”

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Badgers shoot down late comeback attempt by Oregon, defeat Ducks in Round of 32 for second straight season to advance to Sweet 16

by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

Just six minutes stood between the Wisconsin men’s basketball team and what could have been a disappointing end to one of the best season’s in program history.

After holding the lead for the entire game against eighth-seeded Oregon in the third round of the NCAA tournament Sunday, No. 1 seed Wisconsin suddenly found itself tied with the Ducks at 52 with just under six minutes left in the game.

A return trip to the Sweet 16 in Los Angeles, and a second straight defeat of the Ducks in the third round of the tournament – wasn’t going to come easy.

But Wisconsin never hesitated with its back against the wall, going on a 10-2 run after Oregon had tied it, to pull ahead 62-54.

The Badgers never looked back from that point on en route to a 72-65 win over the Ducks Sunday in Omaha to advance to the West Region semifinals.

A trip to Los Angeles was in the cards.

Wisconsin will take on the four-seed, North Carolina, at 6:47 CST Thursday night at the Staples Center.

With 5:56 left in the game, the Ducks’ Dwayne Benjamin tied the game at 52 after he nailed a 3-pointer.

But the Badgers (33-3) scored the next six points to take a 58-52 lead.

Sophomore guard Bronson Koenig broke the

tie with a free throw and outscored the Ducks 20junior forward Sam Dekker 13 over the final 5:56 of the followed that with five game. straight points The including Badgers Key Stat: Wisconsin a three sealed the had four players score with 4:01 game after Big in double figures, led remaining in Ten Player of

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16 points, going 6-for-13 from the floor, with seven rebounds and two assists while Hayes (14) and Koenig (12) also scored in double figures for the Badgers Sunday night.

Hayes led the Badgers in the first half, scoring 12 of his 14 points in the opening 20 minutes of play. Koenig was just 2-for-7 from the field Sunday but went 7-for8 from the free-throw line.

Wisconsin also got a big boost from someone outside the starting rotation.

Redshirt sophomore guard Zak Showalter came off the bench and scored five points with five rebounds and two assists in 15 minutes of action.

Earlier in the second half, Showalter scored on back-toback possession with a layup

and a three – just his second of the season – to extend Wisconsin’s lead to 45-37 with 10:45 left in the game.

To start the second half, the Badgers scored the first five points of the final 20 minutes to push a threepoint halftime advantage to eight at 36-28. But they followed that by scoring only four points over the next five minutes and seven seconds. Showalter then sparked the Badgers’ scoring efforts with his lone three of the game.

Similarly, Wisconsin struggled to score to finish the first half, tallying only two points over the final four minutes and 23 seconds of the opening half. Pac-12 Player of the Year Joseph

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Minnesota stones Wisconsin cold in Frozen Four UW’s winless streak against Border Battle rival runs to 18 straight games, as season comes to close in national semifinal

by Chris Caporale Women’s Hockey Writer

It was a new year and a new venue, but that didn’t help the Wisconsin women’s hockey team get a different result at the Frozen Four.

Facing arch rival Minnesota for the second straight year in the national semifinals, the Badgers (29-7-4) scored first, but then allowed three goals in the second period as they fell 3-1 to the top-seeded Gophers (33-3-4).

Minnesota went on to the National Championship Sunday afternoon where it knocked off Harvard 4-1 to win its sixth national title.

Just like last year ’s Frozen Four semifinal, the Badgers held the lead over Minnesota, but gave up a few goals and let the chance to play in the National Championship game get away.

“I told our team that we left everything on the ice,” Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson said.

“We had our opportunities, we didn’t capitalize on the opportunities that we had.

It wasn’t due to a lack of effort or commitment. The team was happy with the way we played.”

Wisconsin lost 5-3 to the Gophers in the same game a year ago, and this year it scored just five total goals in five losses to a team it

hasn’t beaten since 2011.

“The tough part is you come up short again, similar situation that we were in last year,” Johnson added. “You can taste the championship game and you’re one step away. It’s disappointing for anybody when it’s your last game and you don’t get to practice tomorrow and don’t get the opportunity to play Sunday afternoon.”

Freshman Annie Pankowski lit the lamp under a minute into the second period when the puck slid to her after freshman Emily Clark won

team that “weI toldleftour everything on the ice. We had our opportunities; we didn’t capitalize on the opportunities that we had.

”

Mark Johnson UW head coach the faceoff. Pankowski put the puck top shelf past Gopher goaltender Amanda Leveille.

Pankowski scored 42 points on the season to the lead Badgers. This was the first time a freshman has led Wisconsin in scoring since the 2003-04 season.

The goal created some energy for the Badgers, but they were not able to find

Photo · Courtney Burke (6) and her Wisconsin teammates were shut down once again by the Minnesota defense Friday afternoon, as the Badgers scored just one goal. In all five games against the Gophers this season, Wisconsin tallied just five goals.

Alex Tuthill-Preus Minnesota Daily the back of the net again.

Minnesota quickly answered with a goal halfway through the second period. The puck escaped from a scramble in front of the net, and Hannah Brandt stuffed a shot behind Wisconsin netminder Ann-Renee Desbiens at the 8:53 mark of the frame.

“Their elite players, their go-to players always seem to come up big in the big moments,” Johnson said.

“When they needed a boost in today’s game Hannah [Brandt] stepped up and scored and she set up a couple more plays.

That’s why she’s so special to them, and that’s one of the reasons that for three years they’ve been pretty tough to defeat, especially for us.”

Less than two minutes after the equalizer, the Maryanne Menefee scored her goal on a rebound to give Minnesota the lead for good.

Minnesota finished off its second period flurry with the final goal of the game on a power play. Kelly Pannek grabbed a rebound and lit the lamp to give the nation’s best power-play an insurance tally against the nation’s best penalty kill in Wisconsin, which had only allowed four power-play tallies all year before that

score.

“After we scored and made it 1-0, we had some good shifts after that. They capitalized on a play and energized it and within two minutes they got a second goal, and then they capitalized on a power play later in the period,” Johnson said.

Wisconsin and Minnesota

both had 13 shots in the middle period, but the Gophers were the ones who took advantage of the potential scoring plays.

“Again, the chances we had in the second period, two or three golden opportunities, even if you

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