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SAFETY FIRST Crime notifications from UWPD can bring students anxiety but with crime rates on the decline programs seek to make campus feel safe.

by Jennifer Anderson and Alex Arriaga

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Alex Arriaga The Badger Herald

Records detail allegations Chi Phi fraternity hazing Messages from Kappa chapter’s group texts reveal actions of some active members were ‘egregious in nature,’ targeted injured pledge

by Rachael Lallensack News Editor

One allegation of hazing at Chi Phi was so traumatizing, it left some new members “so shaken up that they were crying,” records obtained by The Badger Herald show.

The ceremony in question, called “Eye of Chi Phi,” convinced pledges they would have to “stick their finger in [an] active member’s anus.”

An active member stood before the pledges with his pants down as pledges were blindfolded. Active members then put the pledges’ fingers

in a jar of Nutella, leading them to believe they would carry through with the sexual act.

Chi Phi’s actions were “egregious in nature” and caused “serious physical, psychological and emotional injuries,” the University of Wisconsin Committee on

Student Organization wrote in its decision to terminate the chapter.

Chi Phi’s Kappa chapter did not appeal UW Committee of Student Organizations’ decision to revoke the fraternity’s status as a registered student organization. The fraternity’s

national organization has since suspended the chapter’s charter.

UW provided documents of its investigation through an open records request, which detailed and confirmed numerous allegations one pledge brought against the chapter.

The documents cited messages from a group text as evidence that an active member targeted the pledge who suffered a concussion during an initiation ritual involving a coffin.

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Tuition hike would set UW at market value in Big Ten Experts question whether increases to university’s price tag will impact out-of-state enrollment numbers, demographics, revenue base

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Chancellor Rebecca Blank and other University of Wisconsin System officials say increasing non-resident tuition will bring UW’s rates up to “market value,” but some experts worry the spike will decrease enrollment.

UW System President Ray

Cross said at April’s Board of Regents meeting — where outof-state tuition spikes were finalized — the increase would bring in revenue while keeping system tuition up-to-date with competing public universities.

“The increases are about market value,” Cross said.

“We’re losing out because we’re ahead in rankings but are charging less.”

Non-resident tuition for

some other Big 10 schools towers over that of UW, which was $26,660 including fees this year. Out-of-state students at Indiana University pay $30,228 a year and undergraduate nonresident tuition and fees at University of Michigan totaled $41,906 for the 2014-15 school year.

But compared to other Big 10 schools, UW non-resident undergraduates paid more.

Out-of-state students at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities paid $20,810 for tuition and fees this year and $21,990 was the cost at University of Nebraska.

Non-resident undergraduate tuition at UW will likely be over $36,000 in the 2018-19 school year if the Board of Regents approves the second installment of Blank’s tuition plan in two years. The regents voted to

increase out-of-state tuition by $3,000 each of the next two years and expressed support for plans to raise it $2,000 for two more schools years after that, adding up to a $10,000 spike over the next four years.

Andrew Reschovsky, a professor of applied economics at UW, said he thinks UW will remain an attractive choice for non-residents, even with the spike.

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“There is little question in my mind about whether raising tuition for non-residents will increase tuition revenue for the university,” Reschovsky said.

Noel Radomski, director of the Wisconsin Institute for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, said this thinking made sense from a market economist’s perspective,

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Madison’s own Ian’s Pizza will now serve downtown party animals from drunchies to brunchies.

Gentle Clowns halt Daily Cardinal in Saturday afternoon softball affair, then out drink, out dance, out write the Dirty Birds.

In antcipation of the District Attorney’s verdict, family and friends gathered in Tony Robinson’s memory Sunday afternoon.

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Community celebrates Tony Robinson’s life Family, friends gather at James Madison Park Sunday, Robinson’s aunt Lorien Carter performs spoken word

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Music, spoken word poetry and comforting conversation filled James Madison Park Sunday as members of the Madison community gathered to celebrate Tony Robinson’s life.

On March 6, Madison Police Department Officer Matt Kenny shot and killed 19-year-old Robinson.

Sunday’s event, held on the shores of Lake Mendota, brought together a diverse crowd to celebrate Robinson’s life, Lorien Carter, Tony Robinson’s aunt, said.

“This is a coming together of everybody.

We have all different nationalities, all different walks of life,” Carter said.

Carter was also one of the spoken word performers at Sunday’s gathering, and said she began writing poetry at a young age.

Poetry has continued to play a role in her life since her nephew’s death, both as a means of expression and as a way of uniting the community, she said.

Carter performed two poems she wrote, titled “Where I’m From” and “My Nephew was not a Victim.”

“I want every body to feel the passion and the fire that I feel,” Carter said.

“I want people to relate to me on a personal level. The

only way that I can think of to do that is through poetry.”

Carter ’s poem “Where I’m From” was written when she was 13 years old and living in New York City, she said.

The poem depicts the violence, police based and otherwise, that surrounded her.

Though the inspiration for her poem was New York City, the poem has become relevant in the wake of her nephew’s death, she said.

When Carter ’s microphone stopped working during one of her poems, she continued her performance with just her voice, earning an enthusiastic crowd response.

“My nephew was not a victim. Simply put, victims do not survive.

He is our own martyr who dwells forever in our lives,” Carter said during her performance of “My Nephew was not a Victim.”

Whiteboards and markers were placed for visitors to write messages to the Robinson family.

Tyedyed cloth stretched across tables where hand written

messages read things such as, “rest in power baby boy,” and “#Justice4Tony.”

A donation box was also available for those wishing to make a donation in support of the Robinson family.

Many members of the community unrelated to the Robinson family also appeared at the event to show their support.

Erin Grueter, a teacher at Wright Middle School, has been involved in various forms of social action as a part of the Middle

School since the Robinson shooting.

The event served as a means for spreading awareness within the community, Grueter said.

Grassroots gatherings like this celebration help to show there is a community available for those who wish to show support, she said.

“I’m hopeful that this will expand people’s thinking and expand dialogue so that this doesn’t happen in the future,” Grueter said.

The Robinson family

Photo · Food, music and memories brought people together to honor Tony Robinson’s life.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald announced at the event that the family will be gathering at the Social Justice Center on Williamson Street when the District Attorney Ismael Ozanne’s decision is released and invited any members of the community to join them at that time.

ACLU looks to expand acceptable voter IDs Wisconsin group aims to make two-year technical college IDs, veteran IDs acceptable identification at polls

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Following the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear Wisconsin’s voter ID law, thereby upholding it, the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin aims to expand the list of identification acceptable on Election Day. Chris Ahmuty, executive director of ACLU of Wisconsin, said ACLU is focusing on two forms of ID in particular: two-year technical college student IDs and veteran IDs. Under the current law, student IDs from four year universities are acceptable while student IDs from two year colleges are not, even though it takes similar

documentation to obtain both, Ahmuty said.

This means that a student from MATC could not use his student ID, while a student from UW could.

Since both IDs represent essentially same thing, Ahmuty said it makes sense to expand the list of acceptable voter IDs to include those from two-year technical colleges.

Conservative politicians, who tend to support requiring photo identification to vote, lauded the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the voter ID case. Gov. Scott Walker called the law “common sense.”

“This is great news for Wisconsin voters,” Walker said in a statement.

“As we’ve said, this is a common sense reform that protects the integrity of our voting process, making it easy to vote and hard to cheat.”

Currently, a federal appeals ruling refusing to block the statute is in place.

Additionally, a federal district court is reviewing part of the case. The law was not implemented for the election April 7, but will be in place for future elections.

ACLU hopes the state will also accept veteran IDs, Ahmuty said. Currently, U.S. military IDs for serviceman on active duty are acceptable forms of voter IDs while veteran IDs are not. Ahumty said this seems “irrational”

since both have contributed service to the United States and because both IDs require nearly identical documentation and security to obtain.

“Here are people who have served their country, but they may be older, and because of their age their veterans ID may be the only one they have,” Ahmuty said. “There’s also a significant group of people who can vote even though they don’t have a mortgage or a lease; they’re essentially homeless, but they’re also veterans.”

Ahmuty said expanding the list of acceptable voter IDs would “take a while” and he does not expect the list of acceptable IDs to change right away.

However, he said he is optimistic about the ACLU’s chances in the next legislative session.

In September, an appellate panel removed a block on the voter ID law.

This was after the law had been on hold since 2012.

The Supreme Court then called an emergency ruling to suspend voter ID, under the pretext that polling places would not have enough time to implement the changes before the November general elections.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said in a statement the law will help protect against voter fraud in Wisconsin’s elections.

“The common sense law will help ensure honest and fair elections,” Vos said.

Ethnic Fest honors diverse student scholars Powers-Knapp, Chancellor’s Scholars touch on issues of race in campus community at annual celebration

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

Student scholars at this year ’s Ethnic Fest centered discussions of race and identity on one question: Who am I? Powers-Knapp scholars senior class addressed this question in a poem during the event, an opportunity for nearly 500 scholars of racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds to meet and learn from each other ’s experiences.

The Powers-Knapp and Chancellor ’s scholarship programs are privately funded and distributed to academically outstanding University of Wisconsin students from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds.

The programs cover resident and non-resident tuition for students and also include stipends for books.

Veronica Cox, one of two persons responsible for compiling the 15 voices in the poem title “I am myself,” is a senior in the Powers-Knapp scholarship program, which along with the Chancellor ’s program.

The event, which took place Saturday evening, commenced with a nearly two hour series of presentations put on by each scholarship class in both the PowersKnapp and Chancellor ’s

scholarship programs.

Many audience members, consisting entirely of members in these scholarship programs, arrived with outfits reflecting their own cultures, including Vietnamese traditional dresses, Hmong casual clothing and formal boots worn in Mexico.

Dominic Ledesma, associate director of the Chancellor ’s Scholarship program, said Ethnic Fest serves as the one event during the year when members from both scholarship programs join together. Because of the diverse array of identities represented in these programs, he said the event, in its 12th year, provides an opportunity for these students to learn with and from each other.

Ledesma said one of the solutions to mitigate barriers preventing the underrepresented students who make up the two programs is to identify with peers with the same experiences.

“There are limited actual times when people are together, so we put a high emphasis on relationships,” Ledesma said. “This event is supposed to facilitate relationships among fellow scholars.”

In a series of videos, skits and poems, this

years’ scholars not only celebrated their diversity, but also addressed some glaring issues of race they face on a day-to-day basis.

With the opening remarks addressing the Tony Robinson shooting, Melanie Kirkwood, this year ’s master of ceremonies, emphasized the importance of the relationships the scholars forge with each other.

Many students spoke on the theme of taking ownership of their own identities, which

stereotyping often skews.

When presenting on double standards, some students even spoke about the scholarship program itself, and how students are often accused of receiving it simply because of race and not merit.

For many students such as Cox, the camaraderie and a sense of belonging justifies membership in the program more than money ever would.

“It’s about embracing who you are and the experiences you’ve

Photo · A group of 15 scholars collaborated on a poetry performance that embodied the message of the festival.

Riley Vetterkind The Badger Herald learned and being able to talk about it,” Cox said.

“Not being afraid of fitting into molds people think you are and flourishing and taking those experiences and using them positively more than negatively.”

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Programs work to strengthen sense of security at UW Abiding by Clery Act may spark anxiety among students, but services like SAFEwalk work to build safer community

Photo ·SAFEwalk escorts see the job as more than getting a student from point A to point B safely, but as a Badger to Badger experience.

Design · Emily Shullaw Photos · Alex Arriaga The Badger Herald

by Jennifer Anderson Herald Contributor

by Alex Arriaga Feature Editor

“It’s not just about getting to where you’re going. It’s more about walking, talking and

getting to know someone.

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Nathan Acevedo SAFEwalk escort

Receiving safety warning notifications from the University of Wisconsin Police Department puts some students on edge. But as crime numbers fall, campus and city officials are looking for ways to make campus feel safe.

Marc Lovicott, UWPD spokesperson said any increase in safety warnings has to do with the careful compliance with the Clery Act and not with an actual upsurge in crime. In fact, UW is at a 40-year crime low as of last year, he said.

Lovicott said there was especially concern during last school year due to an increase in crime alerts–but that is only because UWPD is working hard to keep up with federal laws.

In the case of sexual assault crime reports, Lovicott said the law can get especially confusing. Even when an incident is not reported to the police, any campus official is required under the Clery Act to report it.

With an incident that was reported just this past weekend and what may seem like a rise in assault cases, Lovicott said some students may respond with fear.

Facing fear of assault “We believe more and more people are reporting sexual assaults, which can be a little scary when we see the increase in warnings coming out,” Lovicott said.

However, UWPD sees an increase in reported assaults as a sign that people are not as afraid to come forward to campus or police officials, Lovicott said.

Last year, the police department initiated the “Tell Us” campaign which encourages sexual assault victims to report to the police. Since the campaign launch, the number of reports doubled.

“We need more people to talk about this, to tell us so we can do our jobs,” Lovicott said.

With national statistics reporting that 20 percent of college-aged women experience sexual assault, women can feel especially vulnerable. That is where SAFEwalk, a program through the university’s transportation services that gives walking escorts to students on campus, comes into the equation.

Becca Wanta, a UW sophomore who works with SAFEwalk, said while the program is

available to everyone, women are more likely to use the service.

“We’ve seen a lot of talk in the past year about sexual assault and for the university as a whole we need to make sure people understand it is not a tolerable offense,” Lovicott said.

Walking to SAFEty But Nathan Acevedo, a UW junior and SAFEwalk escort, said SAFEwalk is a more a community building program; it is about Badgers walking Badgers.

“It’s not just about getting to where you’re going. It’s more about walking, talking and getting to know someone,” Acevedo said.

Acevedo said SAFEwalk does much more for campus safety than just offer walks from one location to another. From time to time, SAFEwalk escorts will help find places around campus that are poorly lit due to burnt out bulbs, or they will find residents who need help and haven’t had the opportunity to call SAFEwalk services.

Acevedo remembers a specific walk when he built a strong relationship with the student who called on the service.

When Acevedo and his team member found the student, she was crying, Acevedo said.

“She explained her issues to us … By the end of the walk, she was definitely calmer. We tried talking to her, and we slowly got to her,” Acevedo said.

During times like these, Acevedo says SAFEwalk benefits the students in deeper ways than just safety. SAFEwalk is a tool for reaching out to students as a peer mentor for those who need it. “[We] lend an ear if you need someone to talk to,” Acevedo said. “Lots of people will tell you [their] life stories if they get the chance.”

Sometimes, however, Acevedo said he speculates there is a reputation amongst freshman that SAFEwalk is not “cool.” This idea could explain why the service isn’t used as often as it should be, Acevedo said.

Alissa Valeri, a junior who works as a SAFEwalk escort said on a typical shift from 8p.m. to 1a.m., she will go on one or two walks.

Occasionally, she won’t have to walk anyone.

Wanta said SAFEwalk is always present on call or in person at College Library for students who want to use the escort service.

She said the program involves two escorts who are connected to the same walkie-talkie

radio wave as UWPD. Kate Moran, SAFE Nighttime Services Coordinator, said a previous security service,SAFEride, disappeared after the summer of 2012, when UW Transportation Services discontinued the program.

One day, Moran said, she read in the newspapers that ASM was disappointed by how SAFEride was managed and some believed that students were abusing the service.

Moran said the issue was a very sensitive topic and there were many factors that went into the final decision. Debates over creating a library night time shuttle or other means of transportation tailored off over the past few years and discussions on bringing back such a service seemed to stop, Moran said.

Lovicott and Moran agree that although the current services on campus do a great job at providing safety for students, conversations like these could lead to ideas about more campus safety programs to develop in the future.

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Non-Resident Undergraduate Tuition $41,906 $34,965

$33,241

$36,660 $30,452

$30,228

$29,721

$28,804

$28,591

Tuition with increase

$27,409

$26,660

University of Michigan

Michigan State

Indiana University

TUITION, page 1 but from the perspective a behavioral economist, UW could face problems raising non-resident tuition.

Radomski said UW might have trouble attracting nonresident students into the undergraduate program, given the size of the tuition increases.

Pennsylvania State

University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Decreased enrollment could render UW System officials’ revenue projections inaccurate, he said.

“When you look at the research literature, what happens at public research institutions that increase tuition in these different categories [out-of-state, international], questions arise about whether

University of Maryland

Purdue University

or not those revenue projections are accurate,” Radomski said.

Radomski also said research shows the tuition increases could change the type of nonresident students that will elect to come to UW, Radomski said.

Students with high tests scores and GPAs might choose other public research universities, he said.

Rutgers University

University of Iowa

“It’s likely that you’ll see less qualified non-resident students enrolled on the UW-Madison campus,” Radomski said.

Radomski said likely there would be fewer lower-income and middle-income students at UW, because non-resident students that fall into those categories will stay in-state or go elsewhere.

University of Wisconsin

$26,537

$27,409 $20,810

Ohio State University

Radomski said the problem with comparing tuition at UW to tuition at a more expensive public research university, such as University of Michigan, is the relatively small size of UW’s endowment. Unlike University of Michigan, which has a much larger endowment, UW is not able to give as many grants to non-resident students, he said.

University of Nebraska

University of Minnesota

“We’re going to be increasing tuition but not increasing aid,” Radomski said.

The non-resident tuition increases come hand-in-hand with Blank’s decision to reduce the budget by $36 million Friday, also a response to the $300 million state funding cut outlined in Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 biennial budget.

Student designs plan to create Ho-Chunk park trails Dane County Parks Division looks to encourage appreciation of Native American culture in development of interactive self-guided tour

by Molly Daugherty Herald Contributor

Inspired by the prairielined boundaries of a Dane County park, a UW student had the vision to create an interactive trail focusing on the local history of the HoChunk Nation.

Amanda Depagter, UW senior, developed the idea for the interpretive trail and brought it to the attention of the Dane County Parks Division.

“This will add a little twist on your typical park planning,” Depagter said. “It is intended to be a resource for the community that encompasses everything

about the Ho-Chunk tribes.”

McCarthy Park Youth and Conservation Park contains 220 acres of land.

The park, located in Cottage Grove, currently has areas for horseback riding, hiking and group camping areas, according to the Dane County Parks website. The interpretive Ho-Chunk trails will be incorporated into these existing trails.

The park will incorporate a self-guided tour. The tour consists of signs throughout the city that have a specific phone number listed. When the number is called, the listener is provided with an oral story specific to that location. The Ho-Chunk

people pass down their traditions and history orally, so incorporating this idea within McCarthy Park is a culturally accurate way to provide information to visitors.

Traditional recreations of Ho-Chunk seasonal villages are being planned for the park, such as the large domed buildings called “wigwams.” The HoChunk’s close relationship with the land will be modeled both through the incorporation of these villages and information provided about the native plants they frequently used, Christopher James, park planner for the Dane County

Parks Division, said.

“In Dane County, there is a need for something more because there is an incredible amount of history here,” James said.

McCarthy Park is intended to be used by the public and the Ho-Chunk nation, instead of just being set up as an exhibit. The interactive elements are designed to encourage a better appreciation for the native customs of the land.

Bill Quackenbush, a tribal heritage preservationist with the Ho-Chunk tribe, has played a large role in the park’s development so far, Depagter said.

Quackenbush’s knowledge

about the land and its connection with the Ho-Chunk people has been instrumental to the interactive trails’ completion, James said.

“What we’re hoping it’s going to be for the HoChunk nation is a place where they can bring their youth for many years to come to learn about the past lifestyle,” James said.

The park is home to the annual McCarthy Park Snow Day, which consists of various activities and games designed for public participation. This year ’s snow day took place in early February and included the first introduction of Ho-

Chunk history to McCarthy park. A ciporoke, a lodge specific to the Ho-Chunk tribe, was built for guests to experience during the snow day, Depagter said.

To tie in Ho-Chunk history with modern viewers, McCarthy park will take the interpretive trail a step further than other cultural exhibits in the area by including an interpretation of what it is like to be a HoChunk person in today’s society, James said.

“We’re pretty excited about it,” James said.

“It’s a great opportunity for our park system, and is something that is long overdue.”

UW joins program to increase grad school diversity Midwest research universities partner with liberal arts schools as part of $8.1 million donation for seven-year initiative to attract PhDs

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

University of Wisconsin and other Midwest research universities are strengthening their relationships with liberal arts colleges to both increase diversity in graduate programs and attract newly minted PhDs to teach in smaller colleges.

The Undergraduate and Faculty Fellows Program for a Diverse Professoriate, a seven year initiative, will receive $8.1 million in funding from the Andrew W.

Mellon Foundation to address the demographics of the professors in the humanities and social sciences.

The program’s first component will provide students from liberal arts schools the opportunity to explore graduate programs at research institutions, while the second component will encourage new PhDs to consider positions at liberal arts schools through temporary fellowships at those institutions.

Elaine Klein, UW assistant dean and director of university general education, said since coming to

a large research institution for graduate school is often a difficult transition for students from liberal arts colleges, the program will help those students understand student life at large institutions.

“I think it stabilizes a relationship that has long existed and creates opportunities for students to help make their future here at the university more successful,” Klein said.

To accomplish its goal of increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in academia, the program will strengthen the network between the 14 liberal arts colleges in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the 15 research universities affiliated with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, to which UW belongs.

The program will especially aid students in liberal arts colleges,

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hard,” one active Chi Phi member wrote in a group text message to his fraternity brothers.

Another group text said, “Really I just want him to suffer.”

The pledge was laying inside the coffin when one active member stomped on the casket, subsequently breaking it and sending the pledge to the hospital with head injuries. The active member, who was drunk during the incident, would have had to take “great force to break the coffin,” the UW investigation found, citing national office members who saw the coffin.

Christopher Welna, president of ACM said. While liberal arts students traditionally go to graduate school in greater numbers than non-liberal arts students, the initiative will provide an opportunity for first generation and minority students from these institutions to become more familiar with a large university setting.

“It will indeed help students from liberal arts colleges to make the transition to graduate school by gaining some familiarity beforehand with things that might already be familiar for students at research universities,” Welna said.

More specifically, because there are not many research opportunities available for liberal arts undergraduates, the initiative will over the course of seven years provide about 280 liberal arts undergraduates at ACM colleges with mentoring, career development and a paid summer

It’s unclear which of the chapter’s active members sent the group texts, as UW redacted the senders of each text, citing federal privacy laws protecting students.

The coffin ritual goes back at least four years, and 17 pledges and 11 active members participated in this fall semester’s ritual, with the active members wearing masks, according to UW’s findings.

Prior to the coffin incident, new members were “hooded” for as long as eight hours.

The pledges were confined in the chapter house’s attic for part of the ceremony, the UW investigation found. In a group text, one member told others to “give them bins to

research internship at a CIC school.

Amber Cox, associate director of the CIC, said while institutions will technically compete for the $8.1 million in funding, where the money is allocated is more a case of whether a student has the right credentials to work with a faculty member at a CIC institution.

“There may be some campuses that only have a couple of the students, there may be a campus that has several,” Cox said. “It’s not really a competition [among universities], it’s really about fit.”

The second component of the program will offer 30 new PhD graduates, preferably from CIC research institutions, with faculty fellowships at ACM liberal arts colleges with the hope of increasing diversity among professors at those institutions as well.

Welna said since liberal arts schools are much smaller

poop and per [sic] in and they can’t leave the attic.”

Interviews with members revealed pledges were then forced to sleep in the “tight space” restricted behind orange fencing.

Pledges were given only bread and candy canes to eat during one night confined in the house. On other occasions they were forced to eat “unpalatable food at Gordon Commons,” such as cereal with hot spices.

In a group text, one member wrote, “I had to remake his Gordon’s surprise that ungrateful shit.”

The national Chi Phi fraternity said in a March 25 “condemn hazing of any kind.” The organization added UW’s chapter’s incident “is not a component of our National Ritual, and the two should not be linked.”

“We support the University’s decision to suspend the Chapter and terminate its status as a recognized organization on campus,” the organization said in the statement.

Two days later, Chi Phi’s national organization voted unanimously to suspend the chapter’s charter, effectively withdrawing

than research institutions, the composition of their faculty matters greatly, especially for increasing numbers of minority undergraduate students.

“It makes a difference if you see professors who are like you and who have had experiences like you’ve had and can serve as role models in life after school,” Welna said.

Klein said the program will additionally help strengthen PhD graduates’ resumes with teaching experience in small college settings. She said having experience with the different philosophy of teaching in liberal arts colleges will ultimately diversify a candidate’s portfolio and will boost job prospects.

Cox said the program includes a one year planning process in which participating institutions will identify contacts to help match students from ACM schools with CIC faculty.

national affiliation, according to an April 1 statement. The Kappa chapter is now in the process of removing the letters from its house.

The Kappa chapter has been sent a notice to appear before Court of Grand Council June 19, 2015 in San Francisco to review the suspension.

In an email interview with The Badger Herald, a UW sophomore and chapter member said the chapter is “seeking to find ways to make amends with the campus community.” The member spoke on condition of anonymity and noted he wasn’t in a leadership role when the incident occurred.

He would only respond to emailed questions.

The member said “some of the allegations are exaggerated or untrue” but acknowledged “multiple University codes of conduct were broken.”

“The chapter is taking this as an opportunity to learn from our mistakes and become better men,” he said.

“We are disappointed by the recent happenings, but we realize our wrong-doings and are prepared to handle the consequences in a positive and productive manner.”

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Josephine Lorya-Ozulamoi achieved her ‘American dream’ to attend college through University of Wisconsin’s Odyssey Project

by Catherine Guden Herald Contributor

For an immigrant with dreams of a college education, a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and help from University of Wisconsin’s Odyssey Project made it a reality.

Josephine LoryaOzulamoi immigrated to the United States with her family as a refugee from South Sudan. She then moved to Wisconsin where she first heard about the Odyssey Project while working at a salon braiding hair.

Unsure how she would be able get an education because of the struggles she had faced, she took a chance and applied.

UW’s Odyssey Project is a program helping adults facing economic barriers to pursue a college degree through a series of humanities classes. The program allows 30 students every year to receive benefits such as free tuition, textbooks and meals.

Additionally, it provides extra support if students decide to continue their education.

“The program has instilled a lot of hope in me, that you can come from nothing and make yourself into something,” Lorya-Ozulamoi, a student in the 2008 Odyssey class, said.

While she had the full support of her family, Lorya-Ozulamoi said she faced many barriers along the way.

Growing up, her dad had always emphasized the importance of receiving

an education, something they would find in America.

“We left everything behind to pursue our American dream,” she said.

She said knowing she has an opportunity that many people like her cousins in Sudan do not have motivates her to keep following her dreams.

Lorya-Ozulamoi said she desires to be a social worker because she has always wanted to help others. She is focused on helping immigrant refugees like herself.

She said she wants to help them to become self-sufficient and also promote social justice in

The program has “instilled a lot of hope

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Josephine LoryaOzulamoi Odyssey Project graduate the world.

“Every little thing I can do to help, I will,” she said. “I want to put my practice into action.”

Lorya-Ozulamoi will be honored April 28 for continuing her education in UW’s Master of Social Work program.

For her perseverance since entering the Odyssey Project, she will receive the $1,000 from the Lisa Munro Next Generation Scholarship.

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“I am honored to have this scholarship so she will see what I am doing, and hopefully give her the motivation to keep going like I have,” she said.

The Odyssey Project director Emily Auerbach said the program seeks those who have faced some kind of adversity that has kept them from pursuing a higher education, whether it is economic or personal.

Above all, hunger for change is the defining applicant characteristic, she said.

“We have helped people go from homelessness to earning college degrees,” Auerbach said.

The next steps for the program involve starting an Odyssey junior program for children ages 10 to 17, along with expanding the number of adult students they can provide full scholarships for, she said.

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Do school vouchers help or hurt Wisconsin’s education system?

Private schools spur competition, increase education quality

Voucher system siphons much-needed funds from public schools

Every year, each school in Wisconsin must submit a report to the Department of Public Instruction regarding their students’ performance on standardized tests, graduation rates, attendance rates and gap closure. This past year, the Milwaukee school district scored in the lowest bracket of state standards, utterly failing to educate our state’s youth.

Inner-city public schools have struggled for years across the nation, and both parties have drastically different ideas of how to solve the problem.

Democrats want to continue to pour money into failing public schools and hate seeing money follow the students to private voucher, charter and virtual schools.

Republicans, on the other hand, want to put the power to determine a student’s education into the hands of parents in order for students to obtain the best education possible.

The Assembly’s, Senate’s and governor ’s budgets all reflect the newest plan to help solve public education for those in low performing districts.

Our state government is attempting to put the power over students’ education back into the hands of parents. The new school accountability legislation and the removal of the cap on school vouchers will help us achieve this goal.

Assembly Bill 1 and Senate Bill 1 have been the subject of controversy recently.

AB1 has strict sanctions for public schools that do not meet expectations and do not have a viable plan for improvement, as determined by the governing board.

However, SB1 and the governor ’s budget plan do not place such sanctions, nor do they have a governing board.

Whether these controversial policies will be taken up by the Senate and eventually signed by the

Our public schools have always been the cornerstone of what makes Wisconsin great. We have consistently invested in our public schools, supported our students and valued our teachers. Recently, however, lawmakers at the Capitol are tearing down more than a century of pro-education policy by syphoning funding to vouchers for private schools. Assembly Bill 1, or AB1, was the first bill introduced this session in the Wisconsin State Assembly. The bill puts in place a state oversight board for public schools, pilfering oversight ability for local districts and centralizing it to politicians at the Capitol. Most drastically, the bill allows public schools with low test scores to eventually be converted to private voucher schools. Vouchers undermine our historically excellent public education system by raiding funding for public schools for private schools at the expense of students and taxpayers.

Private voucher schools do not outperform public schools – they have either kept pace or underperformed their public school counterparts.

Let’s keep in mind that in every legislative session since Gov. Scott Walker ’s administration, the voucher program has been expanded.

State standardized test scores between 2011-14 show that in Racine and Milwaukee, the two cities where vouchers have been most widely implemented, public school students have consistently outperformed private school students every year. A Public Policy Forum study came to same conclusion. This is an especially remarkable feat, considering that we

governor is yet to be seen.

All three plans keep an accountability system similar to what is currently used, ditch Common Core standards in favor of a standardized testing system not tied to highly controversial standards and find new ways to tell parents about their school’s performance and alternatives if the school is underperforming.

This is a giant step for parents around the state, as the DPI will no longer hide low performing schools from parents, but rather let those parents in the district know that there are other options for their student such as private voucher, virtual and charter schools.

Another controversial part of Gov. Scott Walker ’s proposed primary education appropriations was the lack of an increase in funding to schools around the state. The problem with this criticism is simple: Per-pupil education spending has increased significantly over the last several decades without substantial increases in scholastic performance.

Look to Washington, D.C., where funding per pupil is higher than in any state. However, D.C. is also notorious for their atrocious public schools.

In a metastudy conducted by education experts, D.C. ranked lower than all the states, as well as having the highest dropout rate, lowest math and reading scores and some of the least safe schools in the country. Beyond that, the Heritage Foundation, CATO Institute and the Center for American Progress all agree there is little to no correlation between funding and achievement.

Walker has also proposed in his latest budget to remove the cap on vouchers. A school voucher is essentially a way for a student at or below 300 percent of the poverty line

to attend a private school.

School vouchers have been a way for students in failing public schools to find haven in a better educational environment. In Milwaukee, parents with school age children favor school vouchers by almost a twoto-one margin because they value a better education for their child.

Democrats will consistently make the argument that this takes money away from public schools, which makes struggling public schools worse. Aside from the fact that there is no correlation between funding and achievement, this argument is still misguided.

Funding for public schools is not assigned to the school in districts with vouchers, but rather to the students.

If a student attends a public school, the funding is allotted there. But if that student would rather have a voucher and go to a better institution, the money should follow him there. Even at that, the public school will still receive partial funding for that student for three years after the student has left. A case study in Milwaukee also found achievement actually went up when school vouchers were more heavily embraced in the district.

The current proposed versions of school accountability legislation and the removal of the school voucher cap will help students achieve all that they can, and take the power to choose what school a student attends away from the government and back to the parents.

Jake Lubenow (jlubenow@ wisc.edu) is a freshman majoring in political science and finance, investment and banking and he is a freshman representative on the College Republicans Executive Board.

have cut the most amount of education funding per pupil since 2008, next only to Alabama. Our investment per student has dropped an astonishing 15.3 percent since 2008.

Additionally, the vast majority of taxpayer dollars for vouchers go to students already in private schools — more than 80 percent of students receiving private school vouchers had already been attending those schools before receiving vouchers.

Private schools become problematic when we subsidize them with public funding because there is little oversight of private schools – they adhere to fewer regulations than public schools do. For example, they can hire whomever they please to teach, even if they have no training. It is nothing short of disturbing that Walker has slashed public assistance across the board, but has found a way to subsidize private schooling for the most wealthy.

The voucher program deepens disparities in achievement by favoring certain students over others. Private voucher schools often include entrance exams, mandatory fees, uniforms and more.

Even with voucher money for tuition, private schools are not necessarily a feasible option for all Wisconsinites.

The voucher programs also disproportionately affect young minority students.

Last year, the net number of minority students in public schools in the United States surpassed the number of white students. That means that as we divert more money from public schools to fund private school vouchers, minority students are affected at a higher rate, and this rate will only

increase in coming years.

These disparities are so great, in fact, that the ACLU in Delaware filed a lawsuit against its state’s voucher policies as causing “resegregation.”

It’s ironic that Republicans argue the need to decentralize government and give power back to localities, but when it comes to AB1, they are eager to centralize power to politicians in the Capitol. Local administration members in school districts are educated experts on policy and their specific local district, and there is no evidence to support that giving a state committee the ability to standardize oversight is beneficial to students. The committee is largely made up of partisan lawmakers, with the governor getting two appointments and leadership from the state Senate and state Assembly each getting one. There is absolutely no justification for coopting public education into partisan politics.

Private school vouchers are one piece of a much larger systemic attack on public schools. It is sad and distressing to see our strong public schools that have been the envy of the nation dismantled with funding cuts, vouchers and a devaluation of teachers.

This should not be a partisan issue. Investing in public schools has always been a priority of lawmakers on both sides of aisle, but Republican lawmakers now seem to value private schools’ success over the success of Wisconsin students.

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

Domestic violence prevention requires early action Although Wisconsin has strenghtened domestic abuse enforcement, it is time focus on a way to stop violence before it begins

by Mackenzie Krumme Contributor

In 2012, Radcliffe F. Haughton took a taxi to Azana Salon and Spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin. He went to see his estranged wife, Zina Haughton while she was working. Around 11 a.m., Haughton entered the building and fatally shot three women before killing himself.

This occurred only two weeks after Zina Haughton placed a temporary restraining order against him. The Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus said it appeared the fatal shooting was rooted in domestic violence.

Tragic acts of violence, as well as domestic abuse charges against professional athletes, have increased public awareness of domestic abuse in the United States.

In Wisconsin, the increased awareness has led the Legislature to pass several bills over the past two years that strengthen domestic abuse laws. These laws can potentially prevent future domestic abuse. However, as important as these laws are, we must now look to the future. We should start to implement programs and policies that prevent domestic violence before it occurs.

Before we start to focus on what we can do in the future to stop domestic abuse, we should look at some recent policies that have had an important impact on holding

abusers accountable in Wisconsin.

For example in 2014, the Wisconsin Legislature passed the SAFE Act (Stopping Abuse Facilities through Enforcement). This bill put an enforcement mechanism in place to help ensure domestic abuse violators do not own firearms.

According to Tony Gibart, the public policy director for End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin in the late 1990s, the nation enacted a law requiring anyone with a domestic abuse restraining order to surrender his or her firearms. However, there was nothing put in place that would ensure the abusers actually did give up their weapons.

“The abusers were left up to the honor system. There wasn’t a check to make sure the order was complied with.

The [SAFE Act] is that check.

It is that process to make sure the law is complied with,” Gibart said.

Gov. Scott Walker recently signed another legislative bill into law this year on April 8. This bill expanded the jurisdiction of the courts in domestic violence cases.

The bill clarifies courts’ jurisdiction in order to help domestic abuse victims, child abuse victims or harassment victims who are being harassed and threatened from out of state.

In addition to the legislative bills passed, in August of 2013, the Domestic

Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS) opened a new domestic abuse shelter. According to Emily Barnes, the director of Development and Communications at DAIS, the new shelter on Fordem Avenue offers 56 beds, in comparison with 25 at the older shelter.

In addition to the new space available for clients, the facility now has the ability to house eight crisis intervention programs in one place. These programs include legal advocacy, children programs, support groups and a 24-hour help line.

Although these invaluable domestic abuse laws and shelters demonstrate that Wisconsin is working hard to protect victims and hold abusers accountable, there still remains one important unanswered question: How do we stop the violence before it begins? It appears the answer, like most things, is in education.

Gibart discussed educating at the middle and high school levels. Kids need to learn about domestic violencerelated issues, such as teen dating violence. They need to talk about it in their

classrooms and with their peers. This will make the problem easier to recognize and address.

In addition to educating kids on domestic violencerelated issues, Gibart suggests training teachers and staff on how to address victims of abuse. For instance, when a victim of abuse seeks out help from a teacher at their school, how should the teacher address the student? Is there specific language the teacher should use in order for the student not to feel that it is his or her fault? And who should

the teacher report the incident to?

Again, recent Wisconsin legislation on domestic abuse is important. Helping victims and holding abusers accountable is necessary. But where can prevention play a role?

Gibart said we need to create a culture where abuse is less likely to happen.

I agree. We need to start looking to the future. We need to start educating children on the dangers of domestic violence in order to prevent tragedies — like the one that

Photo Gov. Scott Walker has signed several antidomestic violence bills, but Wisconsin needs to put more preventative measures into place.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald

occurred at Azana Salon — from ever happening again.

Mackenzie Krumme (krumme@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in international studies and journalism.

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Breakfast lovers rejoice: Ian’s adds early morning menu Sweet Potato and Kale pizza, Just Coffee Cooperative brew, “The Mifflin” oatmeal Saturday morning are sample of new, diverse options

by Meghan Horvath ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

I love oatmeal and I love Ian’s Pizza, but I never thought I’d eat oatmeal at Ian’s Pizza. Indeed, this is now an option for general consumption on Ian’s new breakfast menu. Saturday, Ian’s opened shop bright and early to introduce their take on breakfast to the world. With a steelcut oatmeal and yogurt parfait bar along with nine

Photo · Ian’s State Street location is now serving oatmeal Saturday mornings between 7 and 11 a.m.

During that time they swap out the staple salad bar for a mix of steel cut oats, yogurt and a wide array of toppings.

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breakfast pizza options, Ian’s Pizza crosses into new territory as a destination for the early birds as well as the night owls.

Given Ian’s affinity for concocting wacky flavor combinations, the intrigue was high for what ingredient pairings would make up their nine breakfast pies. Workers were spinning out Denver omelets, huevos rancheros and chorizo or roasted vegetable hash, all placed atop classic Ian’s crust.

For folks who crave an injection of something sugary for their morning fix, Ian’s slice of sweet apple cobbler pizza is a perfect substitute for the typical syrup soaked pancake or French toast.

On my Saturday morning excursion, I indulged in the sweet potato and kale slice.

From the trusty crispness of Ian’s crust and the generous layer of cheese to the

flavorful additions of sweet potato and seasoned kale, this is a smashing pie.

On top of the hearty handful of creative pizza varieties, Ian’s is also looking out for those with the more traditional breakfast options on their minds. They transformed their salad bar into an oatmeal and yogurt station to please any breakfast fanatic. With over 15 topping options — the likes of granola, dried and fresh fruit and a handful of different nuts — the flavor combinations are endless.

As having so many options can be too overwhelming for many weary breakfast travelers, however, Ian’s has also created a list of their signature favorites.

With a base of Sugar River Dairy yogurt and house-made oats, it’s hard to go wrong. And however delicious the pizzas are, ‘The Mifflin’ Oatmeal I

feasted on was what really had me swooning. In this signature flavor, Ian’s steelcut oats are topped off with honey, fresh strawberries, toasted coconut, dried cherries, a splash of almond milk and — wait for it — chocolate chips.

The heartiness of the oats acted as the perfect base for this delicious party of ingredients. The almond milk and honey added a delicate sweetness, while the strawberries contributed a refreshing taste. The crunch of the coconut and chewy bite of cherries were both just the right toppings. Add a sprinkling of melting, rich chocolate chips to this already beautiful (and ginormous) bowl and Ian’s has attained oatmeal nirvana.

Thank goodness Ian’s decided to team up with Just Coffee Cooperative for

their breakfast days. This is coffee so great that even sugary latte addicts will prefer to drink it black.

There is no bitterness to the roasts.

In time for the special 7 a.m. opening, an impressive line formed outside the doors of Ian’s State Street location with customers eager to experience this iconic pizza joint’s conception of breakfast pizza. In an offer posted on their Facebook page the day before the launch, Ian’s made the promise of awarding the first 50 customers an impressive collection of goodies. If the draw of pizza first thing in the morning wasn’t enough, all the free handouts just about did the trick. These lucky first 50 loyal patrons received free pizza for the summer. This translated into 16 free breakfast slice

Photo · On April 18, Ian’s added nine pies as part of the new breakfast menu including heuvos rancheros, Denver omelets and chorizo or roasted vegetable hash.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald cards, as well as an Ian’s Pizza gift bag, a t-shirt and a coffee tumbler. The tumbler coincides with their new breakfast beverage option, Just Coffee Cooperative’s breakfast blend. This sweet deal coupled with the mass droves of people flocking to Capitol Square for the first farmers market of the season, fueled the success of Ian’s launch this weekend.

They’re only serving breakfast Saturdays from 7 to 11 a.m. at the state street location.

Band concert adds more pyrotechnics, theatrics in 41st year Michael Leckrone, his UW Varsity Band improved annual show with sparklers, fireworks, cohesive theme inspired by Wizard of Oz

by Selena Handler ArtsEtc. Editor

University of Wisconsin band director Michael Leckrone started flying through the Kohl Center arena about five or six years ago. This last weekend, the UW band legend soared over the crowd, flipping and bouncing as the 250-member Varsity Band played on.

Leckrone is continually evolving the annual UW Varsity Band Concert to fit audience expectations for outrageous and daring performances. Sparklers, fireworks and high flying acrobatics served to impress longtime patrons and new attendees, but the most significant difference this year is the band’s focus on performing better, Leckrone said.

The flying tradition really began when the band concert was held in the field house. Before the days of the jumbotrons’ aesthetic addition, before the intense

pyrotechnics lit up the arena, Leckrone still sought that outrageous element to bolster what could be a very typical concert. During the concert’s early years, Leckrone was dropped from the ceiling of the field house on a single wire.

“It all started more or less when people started expecting the drama and we just try to provide it for them. And it’s a lot of fun,” Leckrone said.

When Leckrone introduced the band concert in ’74, just five years after becoming UW’s band director, he said it was much like what you would expect from a band concert. Aside from crowd participation, the concert lacked the signature “wow” factor that brings families and alumni back each year.

Less concerned with safety and more about satisfying the crowd’s thirst for the outrageous, Leckrone dangled above the crowd.

Now Leckrone works on building other elements of

the production in addition to theatrics. He said he wanted to create a sense of cohesion with this year ’s Wizard of Oz theme. With local guest artists and arrangements from Wizard of Oz and its prequel Wicked, the show focused on the last line from the Wizard of Oz, “There’s no place like home.”

“We were looking for something to tie the whole concert together in a very loose form and that line sort of stuck out to me as something we could do with local talent,” Leckrone said.

“Stressing the fact that this is the last time the whole group will be playing in the Kohl Center together.”

The Wizard of Oz theme has particular significance this year.

Seventy-five years ago, the Wizard of Oz premiered in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Leckrone said he is always looking for anniversaries and events to celebrate, there was a lot of talk about its 75th anniversary and it was the

natural choice for him.

Elements of the theme dotted the production. In addition to crowd favorites, like a medley of Camp Randall sing along songs, the band played medley arrangements from Wizard of Oz and Wicked while local singers Amanda Poulson and Jamie Pitt crooned on vocals.

UW trombone professor Mark Hetzler and local trumpeter John Schipper added passionate solo performances to break up the big band intensity. Their accompaniments also added texture and professional quality musicianship to the production. Hetzlers trombone rendition of Queen’s classic singles amplified the already exciting medley.

Leckrone said he appreciates the professionalism the guest artists bring to band practice, saying their work encourages students to follow their lead. Junior trumpet player Amanda

Carrizales explained the nature of spring semester weekly practices.

“We cram 300 kids in one small room in Humanities once a week and for two hours with just him telling us what to do,” Carrizales said. “It’s a little overwhelming at first. It feels like, ‘How are we getting this done if we are only practicing once a week,’ but we always get it done.”

Carrizales knew she wanted to be a part of the band after seeing the concert for the first time in seventh grade. She said Leckrone continues to outdo himself with a show that grows bigger and bigger each year.

The end sequences of the performance culminated in loud blasts form the upper decks, fireworks, sparklers and costumed Wizard of Oz dancers who flailed and flipped about as the band played. It was the spectacular sensory overload the crowd has

come to expect.

Long time patron and UW band alum Joe Muehlenkamp came to the performance with his wife and daughter, fellow Badger alums. They have been coming since 2000 and seeing the Varsity Band Concert has become a yearly family ritual. Muehlenkamp and his family are part of a large contingent of loyal band followers who come back year after year. Leckrone said these avid fans approach the performance like most families would celebrate a Super Bowl party.

With Leckrone at the helm, the annual performance will only grow in theatrical quirks that mirror his legendary personality.

“Its always exciting, we have to come every year,” Muehlencamp said. “We don’t know when Leckrone is going to retire, he has been here since 1969. But he is still the crazy old guy he always was.”

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Illini overwhelm Badgers in regular season finale Men’s tennis rounds out campaign with pair of home losses to Northwestern, Illinois with conference tournament looming this weekend

by Eric Goldsobel Men’s Tennis Writer

In its final home meet of the season, the Wisconsin men’s tennis team delivered an exuberant performance Sunday at Nielsen Tennis Stadium, but it wasn’t enough to compete with one of the best teams in the country.

Illinois, which came in as the third-ranked team in the U.S., proved to be too much for the young Badgers to handle. The Illini took all points in a shortened meet, ultimately triumphant by a score of 4-0.

“I thought we did a really good job in doubles today,” UW head coach Greg Van Emburgh said. “We played with great energy and enthusiasm, so I was excited to see that.”

Freshmen Josef Dodridge and Jose Maria Martin De Oliva Carranza performed valiantly to open doubles play, as the No. 76 pairing in the country facing the No. 60 pairing of Jared Hiltzik and Tim Kopinski of Illinois.

After taking the first game in all three of the doubles matches, the Badgers rallied to force point-for-point play in first and third doubles.

Dodridge and Carranza narrowly lost by a margin of 8-5 while Lamar Remy and his partner John Zordani fell by the same score in their match.

“I thought we were really competitive in doubles and in a couple of singles spots,” Van Emburgh said. “We left a couple of matches on the court, and guys were fighting and competing in those spots.

To give credit to Illinois, this is probably one of their best teams in 10 years, and they’re playing some great tennis

BASKETBALL, page 12 Sweet 16 against North Carolina when he scored six points and sparked Wisconsin to victory over the Tar Heels.

In the third round against Oregon, Showalter added another five points and five rebounds.

Hill, a 6-3 guard from Pasadena, California, was regarded as one of the players who improved the most this season while he took a redshirt. With the second guard spot wide open, Hill could easily be the top candidate to start alongside Koenig next season should he have a strong summer and preseason.

Arguably Wisconsin’s top recruit for the class of 2015 is Pritzl who is ranked as the 50th player in his class by Scout.com. Pritzl came on this past summer after signing with the Badgers last May. The 6-3 guard is known for his ability to shoot the three which is something Wisconsin will need next season with the departure of Gasser. Pritzl competed in the American Family Insurance 3-Point championship earlier this month against some of the nation’s top 3-point shooters and placed second.

Koenig, Showalter, Hill and Pritzl should round out the guard play next season with redshirt sophomore Riley Dearring competing for minutes as well.

Forwards Who Started Last Season: Sam Dekker (40), Nigel Hayes

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From then on, the charging Illini continued to hold off a Wisconsin team that tried to keep up.

Jakhongir Jalalov, Dodridge and Carranza each could not finish their singles matches resulting in DNFs for all three, in matches already squarely in Illinois’ favor.

Illinois followed up its doubles domination by sweeping the Badgers in singles play, winning all six matches and deflating a Wisconsin team that had hung around against a very talented Fighting Illini squad.

Of the singles matches that ran through to completion, the closest one was the No. 3 singles match between Illinois’ Kopinski and Wisconsin’s Alexander Kokorev.

Kopinski disposed of Kokorev relatively easily in the first set by a score of 6-1, but then Kokorev responded in set two. The second set was almost equal the entire way, and required a tiebreaker to eventually decide it.

Even the tie-breaker went down to the wire, but Kokorev couldn’t muster enough to take down

“To

give credit to Illinois, this is probably one of their best teams in 10 years, and they’re playing some great tennis right now.”

Greg Van Emburgh UW head coach

Kopinski, as he fell 7-5 in the tie-breaker and 7-6 in the second set. That was the

(40), Frank Kaminsky (39) Who’s Leaving: Frank Kaminsky, Sam Dekker, Duje Dukan Who’s Coming Back: Junior Nigel Hayes, junior Vitto Brown, redshirt freshman Ethan Happ, redshirt sophomore Aaron Moesch Who’s Coming In: Khalil Iverson (6-5, Delaware, Ohio), Alex Illikainen (6-9, Grand Rapids, Minn.), Charlie Thomas (6-8, Clarksville, Mary.)

2014-15 Recap Wisconsin was dominant in the frontcourt in most games this season, which was no surprise with two likely mid-first round draft picks in Kaminsky and Dekker leading the way. The trio of Kaminsky, Dekker and Hayes were the top three scorers for the Badgers this season.

Kaminsky (18.8), Dekker (13.9) and Hayes (12.4) were the only players to average double-figures for Wisconsin this season while all three were the top three rebounders on the team, averaging 19.9 rebounds combined per game. Only twice in 201415 did somebody other than Kaminsky, Dekker or Hayes lead the Badgers in scoring for a game and only once did another player grab the most rebounds for the game.

The National Player of the Year, Kaminsky, had perhaps the best season in Wisconsin program history and led the team in nearly every offensive category. He held team highs in points (18.8), rebounds (8.2), field goal percentage

closest the Badgers would come in singles to a set victory though, as they lost the other singles matches in straight sets.

Not only are the Illini the No. 3 ranked team in Division I play, but they boast some of the best individual players in the nation as well.

Sophomore Hiltzik currently sits as the No. 23 ranked player in America and was a highly touted prospect coming out of high school.

Hiltzik was the No. 1 player in the 2012 recruiting class and a 5-star, Blue Chip prospect. Coupled with the No. 56 Kopinski and No. 57 Aleks Vukic, Illinois’ rounded out line-up boasted too much strength for Wisconsin to handle, culminating in the

(54.7), assists (103) and blocks (57). Kaminsky tallied 732 points for the season, which set a new school record.

Dekker was hobbled by an ankle injury earlier in the season but came on strong in the final half of the season and in the NCAA tournament. He reached double figures in scoring in 17 of Wisconsin’s 21 Big Ten games this season (including the Big Ten tournament) and shot less than 40 percent only four times in those 21 games.

Dekker stepped up the most in the NCAA tournament scoring career-highs in backto-back games in the Sweet 16 (23) and Elite Eight (27) against North Carolina and Arizona respectively.

2015-16 Outlook Obviously it won’t be easy for Wisconsin to return to a third-straight Final Four, but the youthfulness and lack of depth in the frontcourt could cause the Badgers some troubles next season.

After he was named the Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year as a freshman, Hayes improved vastly from year one to year two, averaging 12.4 points and 6.2 rebounds per game, shooting 49.7 percent in 201415. The 6-7 forward added another dimension to his game with a 3-point shot, knocking down 40 of his 101 attempts from the beyond the arc after not attempting a single 3-point shot as a freshman. Hayes will be relied upon heavily to carry the Wisconsin frontcourt next season as a junior.

lopsided match points-wise.

The loss pushed Wisconsin to 7-17 overall with just a 3-8 record in Big Ten play.

However, the Badgers are looking at this season as a building block, and a very important one at that. With the Big Ten tournament approaching and five freshmen on the roster, these matches serve as learning experiences according to Van Emburgh.

“The guys are playing hard and looking to improve, and with the Big Ten Tournament next weekend, hopefully we can win some matches and look to stay competitive,” Van Emburgh said.

The final match

Hayes is the lone starter that returns with Kaminsky graduating to the NBA and Dekker forgoing his senior season to follow Kaminsky to the pros. Fifth-year senior Duje Dukan will also be gone.

Along with Hayes, Brown is the only other forward who saw meaningful playing time in 2014-15 and he’ll have to improve his play in his third season as a Badger if Hayes is going to receive some help in the frontcourt.

Redshirt freshman Ethan Happ should compete for a starting job next season after he elected to redshirt this past season. Happ, who was Wisconsin’s top recruit for the class of 2014, impressed in preseason practices and the coaches were impressed with how much he improved over the course of the season. Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports says Happ is “primed to have a major role” for Wisconsin next season. The Badgers will need Happ to step up, and if he does, he could provide Hayes and the Badgers with a nice addition to the frontcourt.

Incoming freshman Khalil Iverson is an athletic wing and could push for playing time as a freshman. Iverson averaged 17 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists as a senior and was a first-team all-state selection in Ohio.

Iverson is only 6-5 which could lead to both Alex Illikainen and Charlie Thomas seeing time on the court should Wisconsin need to put guys with some height on the court behind Hayes, Happ and Brown.

of the home season also served as Senior Day for the lone Wisconsin senior Michael Sinha. But in the sixth singles match, Illinois’ Blake Bazarnik beat Sinha decisively, 6-1, 6-2.

Wisconsin looks to wrap up a difficult season this weekend in the Big Ten Tournament at Illinois, which starts this Thursday.

Photo · Josef Dodridge (above) and his doubles partner Jose Carranza fell in No. 1 doubles 8-5 to Illinois’ Tim Kipinski and Jared Hiltzik. Wisconsin failed to record a doubles victory in three different matches and was also swept in singles.

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Spring game: What to watch from UW’s defense Badgers will have to replace two inside linebackers, one defensive lineman from last season, but bring back wealth of talent in secondary

by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

The Wisconsin football team is closing in on the first real test of how far it has come in the transition to new head coach Paul Chryst.

With only two spring practices left before the annual Spring Game on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium, the team is putting in new players, switching others to new positions and getting a feel for the team before a three-month layoff prior to fall practices.

Defensively, the Badgers return around half of their starting unit from the 2014 team that finished 11-3 with an Outback Bowl win over Auburn.

The secondary is filled with experience, but youth will take over on the front end of the defense, especially at linebacker after the departure of both inside linebackers.

Here’s what to expect for the defense in Wisconsin’s Spring Game: Defensive Backs The Wisconsin defense finds its most experienced unit in the secondary with the return of starting cornerbacks Sojourn Shelton and Darius Hilary, along with safety Michael Caputo. The three have combined to start 73 games over the past three seasons for Wisconsin.

After a promising freshman season in which he had four interceptions, Shelton struggled at times last season as a sophomore. He was susceptible to getting beat on deep throws in 2014 but has shined through spring practices so far with a renewed sense of confidence.

Hilary, a fifth-year senior, has started the last 25 games for the Badgers at cornerback.

Last season was his best, as he recorded a career-high 41 tackles and three tackles for loss. He broke up five passes over the course of the season, including two against LSU to open up the season.

Another fifth-year senior, Caputo returns to the Wisconsin secondary after leading the team in tackles last season with 106. He also had one of

Wisconsin’s six interceptions on the season. Caputo showed his ability to stop opponents in the backfield with six tackles for loss in addition to a team-high four fumble recoveries and two forced fumbles. Caputo had a career-high 15 tackles in the season opener against LSU. The lone addition to the starting secondary is another fifth-year senior in Tanner McEvoy. McEvoy comes over to the defensive side of the ball after failing to produce as a dualthreat quarterback last season.

McEvoy saw time at safety in 2013, his first year at Wisconsin, before playing primarily on offense in 2014. But now, with Joel Stave named the starting quarterback, McEvoy will fill the final starting safety spot for the Badgers, and so far he’s impressed in spring practices.

Standing at 6-foot-6, McEvoy has been able to show his athleticism in the secondary and only adds to an already experienced defensive backfield for the Badgers.

Backing up the starting secondary will be sophomore safety Lubern Figaro who started five games as a true freshman last season, sophomore Natrell Jamerson who switched from wide receiver to cornerback for spring practice, sophomore cornerback Derrick Tindal and fifth-year senior Devin Gaulden who was the team’s nickelback in 2014.

Linebacker The Wisconsin linebackers made a name for themselves last season with Marcus Trotter, Derek Landisch, Joe Schobert and Vince Biegel leading the way. Each one was in the top six on the team for tackles and all four combined for 23 sacks and 58 tackles for loss.

Trotter and Landisch have both graduated and left the inside linebacker spots open, while Schobert and Biegel return on the outside for Wisconsin.

A redshirt junior, Biegel came on strong last season in his first full season as a starter, logging 56 tackles with 16.5 tackles for loss and 7.5 sacks. His tenacity and high energy will be needed once again next season for the Badgers.

Photo · The Badgers’ defense returns an experienced secondary that includes Michael Caputo (on ground), who played in all 14 games last season and made 106 total tackles at the safety position.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald Schobert is opposite Biegel, who like Biegel, became a fulltime starter for the first time last season. He had 69 tackles, 13.5 tackles for loss and three sacks as a junior. Schobert improved as the season went on and recorded a career-high 11 tackles against Nebraska.

At inside linebacker, junior Leon Jacobs and redshirt freshman T.J. Edwards have taken over first-team reps in spring practice to replace Trotter and Landisch. Jacobs saw action in 11 games in 2014 and made a name for himself in Wisconsin’s game against Illinois when he recorded a career-high 12 tackles, two tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks.

The Santa Clarita, CA, native played in 13 games two seasons ago as a freshman, but should take over as a starter for the first time in his career this upcoming season.

Edwards did not see playing time as a true freshman after he decided to redshirt last season. The 6-foot-1, 229-pound linebacker from Lake Villa, IL, was a three-star prospect coming out of high school and should see his first playing time at Wisconsin as a starting linebacker.

Defensive Line Wisconsin graduated two starters, Warren Herring and Konrad Zagzebski, from the 2014 defensive line. Fifth-year senior Jake Keefer, redshirt junior Arthur Goldberg, redshirt sophomore Chikwe Obasih and redshirt sophomore Alec James return to the defensive line with a combined 15 starts among the four of them.

Both Keefer and Obasih are projected to start at the defensive end for the Badgers and have been thus far during spring practices. Keefer, while not starting a game last season,

played in all 14 games after suffering a season-ending knee injury in 2013. Obasih has arguably the most potential on the Wisconsin defensive line. The 6-foot-2, Brookfield, Wisconsin native recorded 21 tackles last season including a career-high six against LSU. Goldberg will anchor the defensive line on the inside for Wisconsin after starting five games last season. Standing at 6-foot-3, 290 pounds, Goldberg saw playing time for the first time in his career at Wisconsin

after Herring went down with an injury in the season opener against LSU. Goldberg set a career-high with five tackles against LSU after he replaced Herring.

James started two games for Wisconsin last season after redshirting his freshman season.

A four-star prospect out of high school, James is an athletically gifted defensive end who should see playing time on the edge with both Keefer and Obasih.

Sophomore Connor Sheehy and fifth-year senior James

Photo · Cornerback Sojourn Shelton had a down year as a sophomore, but has made steady gains in spring practice so far. He intercepted four passes his freshman season but failed to record an interception all of last year.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald Adeyanju will add depth to the defensive line behind the starters.

Gentle Clowns crush balls, Dirty Birds’ sense of reality The Badger Herald dominates Daily Cardinal in annual softball game, student journalism, drinking, dancing, literally everything Photo · Keeping in line with their forward thinking initiative in the newsroom, Heralders celebrated their win Saturday over the Dirty Birds by storming the field and taking a team selfie.

Not pictured: Depressed Dirty Birds.

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by Carl Golden Softball Writer

In the wake of defeat Saturday, the Dirty Birds’ “newspapers” finally came to some use: as tissues to wipe away their staff ’s unusually salty tears.

Unfortunately, the sheets couldn’t handle

the Cardinalistas’ bitter emotions brought on by the 4-3 loss to the Gentle Clowns, as the two-page pamphlet became filled with more tear drops than content.

There was just no consoling the feathered failures, who had come in with heads larger than their Managing Editor Jonah

“Silly Boy” Beleckis’.

“Wait, who told you I had a big head?” Beleckis questioned repeatedly after the game to no avail.

When Herald Sports Editor Dan “Snarknado” Corcoran caught a pop out to end the Dirty Bird’s beleaguered victory attempt, the Gentle Clowns celebrated a sporting

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victory three years in the making.

“Jesus, my back is killing me,” Corcoran muttered as he nursed a warm Hamms. “I think I’m going to go home and ice.”

The humble Heralders had allowed two runs in the bottom half of the first inning, permitting the Dirty Birds to go home with at least some sense of self-worth.

But it was all Gentle Clowns from there, as rising star and Copy Associate Amy “I’m Wide Awake” Sleep put together the game of her career. Although Sleep’s day ended with her only empty trip to the plate, she drove in the winning run on the same play

thanks to a DC error. After retiring Sleep, Dirty Bird first baseman and Sports Editor Jim “SPF Still Not High Enough” Dayton tried to nab Corcoran advancing to third but threw the ball away, much like UW students are accustomed to throwing away the DC’s paper, which tumbles around in the elements for several days before finding the nearest sewer.

Despite being a seemingly close contest, the Gentle Clowns could have easily put the game to bed much sooner, which they actually did with Dirty Bird pitcher and EIC Jack “Five More Minutes” Casey when he had to take a nap during the third inning.

“Some of their players were just really grumpy, and I think they could have used a nap too,” explained Herald EIC Tara Golsan, who helped corral Casey and quiet him down after a 20-minute tantrum.

But even with wasting multiple scoring opportunities, the Gentle Clowns pitching and defense were just too much for the Cardinalistas to overcome. Ads Director

Nick “Every Day Is Leg Day” Rush and Business Manager Tyler “Silent Assassin” Lane patrolled the outfield with an unforeseen ease, while Herald Sports Editors Eric “Where’s My Clipboard” Kohlbeck and Chris “Yo” Bumbaca locked down the left side of the infield.

“We got some tremendous work out of our starters today,” Kohlbeck remarked while trying to put back together his shattered clipboard. “Kudos to the Birds, they prepped well, but when we tried to let them get back into it, they just folded their cards.”

The legacy of this Herald crew will live on for quite some time, and if you’re in Vilas Park late one night, you still might be able to hear the next in-line Herald EIC Aliya “Spell My Last Name Right” Iftikhar shouting in jubilation, “YAAAAASSSS, NOOOOOOZZ.” The Herald thanks umpires professor Lucas “Is that the 4th strike?” Graves and Dave “Do you listen to WSUM?” Black for their fair and balanced calls.

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Junior college transfer Trezy back back in familiar role Redshirt junior started career at Eastern Arizona, has returned to running back role at UW after time on defense this spring

by Nick Brazzoni Football Writer

Wisconsin redshirt junior Serge Trezy was stuck in a state of limbo for most of spring.

Being at a new school on a new team and with a position change to top it all off, Trezy was searching for what exactly his role on the football team would be after initially putting in work as a cornerback.

Now, with spring practices wrapping up, the speedy Trezy is making the transition to running back, a position he feels much more comfortable being in.

“I am more comfortable at running back,” Trezy said.

“When you are at running back, you have to go based on me and my moves. With cornerback, I have to go based on their moves and how they break down the offense.”

Photo · Trezy (below) takes a handoff in a recent spring practice at Camp Randall Stadium. The redshirt junior began at cornerback during spring ball, but has flipped to running back where there is a wealth of options behind projected starter Corey Clement.

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On top of dealing with changing positions, Trezy, a junior-college transfer from Eastern Arizona, is dealing with a whole other kind of transition – one that involves learning to mesh with new teammates, new coaches and an overall new scenery at a larger Division I school.

So far for Trezy, the lone JUCO transfer in this UW class, the changeover has been relatively easy. He realized early on that he had no other choice but to buy into the Wisconsin program and new head coach Paul Chryst.

Whether it was a smooth transition or not, this was his new team.

“The transition has been pretty smooth,” Trezy said.

“These guys are my family now, so we need to click together and I really needed to get to know everybody as soon as possible.”

Fifth-year senior Tanner McEvoy has had experience with everything Trezy is going through.

After enrolling at South Carolina, McEvoy transferred to Arizona Western College, where he played quarterback for a season before transferring once again to Wisconsin.

Now, at Wisconsin, McEvoy has not only dealt with the transition from JUCO to Division I, but also with changing positions.

In his first two seasons at

UW, McEvoy has stepped on the field as a wide receiver, quarterback and safety, and struggled to find his niche both on the field and within the culture of the team.

But even with some of the struggles and challenges that came with being a transfer, McEvoy is continuing to look forward.

“You have to learn from what you do, so I’m not going to go back and try to change anything,” McEvoy said. “I just have to roll with the punches and take advantage of every time I am out here. I just got to keep going and keep doing what they want me to do.”

In terms of advice for other JUCO transfers, like Trezy, McEvoy kept it relatively simple: “Listen to the coaches, as they know what’s best,” he said. “Do what they ask and do it as hard as you can.”

Now, as he starts to get his first few reps within the Badgers’ offense, Trezy will continue do just that — work hard and continue to look forward — just as McEvoy did.

He understands that trials and tribulations of the transition are all part of achieving a greater goal.

“It’s been hard work and dedication that’s really gotten me where I’m at now,” Trezy said. “It’s been my dream to be playing Division I football and going

to the next level. I’m just trying to accomplish my dreams.”

The positional transition

was a rough start for Trezy.

In his first two touches as a tailback, he was stopped behind the line of scrimmage and fumbled the ball away, but he eventually was able to effectively display the quickness that made him an intriguing prospect out of high school and junior college.

In three years at Agape Christian Academy in Orlando, he rushed for 4,164 yards and 54 touchdowns.

In his 2013 season at Eastern Arizona, he rushed for 814 yards and six touchdowns to earn first-team all-Western States Football League honors.

So despite some early struggles, the potential is definitely there.

“He didn’t take care of the ball real well, but it’s the first snaps,” Chryst said. “He did alright. We are really early in it.”

Along with Trezy, the team is very early in it as well, and with there being about four months between now and when the regular season gets into full swing, Trezy has plenty of time

Photo · Serge Trezy (above) played running back in high school at Agape Christian Academy in Orlando, and rushed for 4,164 yards and 54 touchdowns in just three seasons, giving him a good deal of experience in the position.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald to not only become more comfortable as a piece of a Division I program, but also fight for a position on the field.

With the running back position fairly deep behind starter and junior running back Corey Clement, Trezy knows he has a lot of work ahead of him. Redshirt junior Dare Ogunbowale, redshirt freshman Taiwan Deal, along with incoming freshman Jordan Stevenson and Bradrick Shaw will all be fighting for playing time behind Clement.

“There’s a lot of competition,” Trezy said.

“You just got to buckle up and get ready to roll.”

Badgers faced with uphill climb in off-season Loss of starters Frank Kaminsky, Traveon Jackson to graduation, along with Sam Dekker to NBA, presents several large roles to fill

by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

In perhaps the best season in Wisconsin men’s basketball program history, the Badgers marched to the Final Four for the second-consecutive season before falling to Duke in the national championship game.

Wisconsin earned its first No. 1 seed in program history and won a school-record 36 games. It was the first time the Badgers had played in the national championship since 1941 when UW took home its only national title.

But with the departure of Wisconsin’s top two players to the NBA, the 2015-16 Badgers won’t have an easy task in getting back to the Final Four.

Wisconsin will rely upon younger players to step up, while only two players from last season’s starting lineup return next season.

Here’s a look at Wisconsin’s roster for next season: Guards (listed year is for the 2015-16 season) Who Started Last Season (number of starts in 2014-15): Bronson Koenig (24), Traevon Jackson (17), Josh Gasser (40) Who’s Leaving: Josh Gasser, Traevon Jackson Who’s Coming Back: Junior Bronson Koenig, redshirt junior Zak Showalter, redshirt sophomore Jordan Hill, redshirt sophomore Riley

Dearring, redshirt senior Jordan Smith, sophomore Matt Ferris, sophomore T.J. Schlundt Who’s Coming In: Brevin Pritzl (6-3, De Pere, Wis.) 2014-15 Recap The Wisconsin backcourt was forced to play promising sophomore guard Bronson Koenig when senior Traevon Jackson went down with a foot injury in January.

But Koenig turned that promise into a reliable skill set that the Badgers rode through the rest of the season en route to two Big Ten championships and another trip to the Final Four. In 23 games as a starter, Koenig averaged 11.6 points per game at point guard, taking over, and even improving on the play of Jackson.

“Captain America” Josh Gasser was as reliable as ever for Wisconsin this season, starting all of Wisconsin’s 40 games last season. He leaves Madison having played in 16 NCAA tournament games and complied a 13-3 record. Gasser averaged 6.6 points and 3.5 rebounds as a senior and owns the Wisconsin record for career starts and minutes played. He is one of two Wisconsin players to post 1,000 rebounds, 500 rebounds and 250 assists for his career.

Missing half the season with his injury, Jackson came back in the NCAA tournament to play spot minutes in Wisconsin’s last four games. He finished

the season averaging 8.5 points and 2.6 assists per game and started 84 games in his career at Wisconsin.

2015-16 Outlook The Wisconsin backcourt is in much better shape than the frontcourt heading into next season with Koenig anchoring the group. If Koenig continues

to improve, he could end up as one of the better point guards in the Big Ten and will be heavily relied upon to lead the Badgers in his junior season.

Jackson and Gasser won’t be easy to replace at guard but redshirt sophomore Jordan Hill, redshirt junior Zak Showalter and incoming freshman guard Brevin Pritzl

should all compete to fill the two-guard position next to Koenig.

Showalter saw playing time once Jackson was injured and showed sparks with his high motor and energy that he brought off the bench. His best performance came in the

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Photo · Nigel Hayes (left) will be one of Wisconsin’s key players come next fall, as he is the leading returning point scorer, averaging 12.4 points per game this last season. Hayes also averaged the second-most rebounds per game.

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