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STILL ON DECK Wisconsin is the only Big Ten school without varsity baseball, but UW’s club team has tried to keep the hope of reviving the program alive.

by DAN CORCORAN

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ASM recommends university pay students living wage

Student government looks to spark discussion with administrators to extend pay raise past classified staff, recognize challenge with budget cuts

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

University of Wisconsin’s student government passed a resolution Wednesday recommending the university pay a living wage for all student employees

to send a message to administration.

The legislation, which ASM passed 15-1-3, serves as a recommendation to university administration to increase all student worker pay despite some ASM representatives’ concerns that it comes at an

inconvenient time of budget cuts.

Nominations Board Chair Megan Phillips, the sponsor of the legislation, said student wage increases are long overdue.

“A lot of people on campus have been discussing how to make

college more affordable through not-so-traditional methods, and I think raising wages is a good way to achieve that,” Phillips said.

The tenets of the legislation outlined the idea that for a student to pay for the cost of tuition, an individual would have

to work 15 hours a week making $21 per hour.

The minimum wage is currently set at $8.50 at the Wisconsin Union and $7.25 for all other campus entities.

According to the legislation, ASM members argued the recommendation to increase all student wages will be a

step toward affordability and accessibility for all students.

Instead of listing a specific recommended wage, Phillips said she simply recommended a living wage to help spark a

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Experts say rise in out-of-state admits not off table UW administrators claim Wisconsin still priority, but those on outside see ‘market demand’ to increase nonresident enrollment cap

by Riley Vetterkind Campus Editor

University of Wisconsin’s System has a cap on how many out-of-state students can enroll each year. The cap is set at 27.5 percent.

But when the UW System’s governing body passed a $10,000 tuition increase for out-of-state students over the

next four years at their April meeting, experts say raising the cap on out-of-state acceptances is likely to be next.

UW administrators have not been so forward. They overwhelmingly have said Wisconsin residents are their first commitment.

But how the System will compensate for the nearly $300 million in proposed cuts to the UW System in Gov.

Scott Walker’s biennial budget proposal is still in limbo.

If the state’s priorities remain in K-12 education and transportation, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank could likely request that the Board of Regents raise the current 27.5 percent cap on non-resident student enrollment at their July meeting, Noel Radomski, director of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of

Postsecondary Education, said.

The current cap covers all UW System schools, but mainly applies to UW-Madison because of its higher rate of non-resident enrollment. Minnesota residents do not count as out-of-state students under this quota.

For the last couple of years, admission rates for Wisconsin residents have been more than 70 percent, according to Steve Hahn, the vice provost for

enrollment management.

Raising the current cap has not traditionally come up in the chancellor’s announcements as an option yet, however, Radomski argued since tuition rates for out-of-state students will soon see a dramatic increase, the university now has a reason to increase nonresident enrollment.

“There is a market demand,” Radomski said. “Therefore,

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there will be a financial incentive to increase the number and percentage of non-resident international students because they bring in more money.”

Nicholas Hillman, UW professor of educational leadership and policy analysis, said while he understands the university increased nonresident tuition because those

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THE BADGER HERALD · NEWS · THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015

City looks to diversify businesses on State Officials concerned downtown resembles ‘food court,’ commission study to find ways to increase foot traffic

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The city is worried State Street has become too much like a “food court.”

City officials are gathering data for an upcoming City Council study designed to look deeper into revitalizing the State Street area to bring a wider variety of businesses.

The council passed a resolution to conduct this study on March 3 with results to come in the upcoming months. It has opened up discussion on State Street’s role as an economic and cultural resource, Bill Fruhling, a Planning and Development Office principal planner, said.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, whose district includes State Street and who cosponsored the resolution, said this recent push can be at least partially attributed to Mayor Paul Soglin’s worry that State Street may be lacking a traditional mix of businesses.

“The main concern is that slowly over time we’re losing more and more traditional retail to a large percent of coffee shops and restaurants,” Verveer said. “State Street is becoming more of a food court kind of area.”

Soglin’s recent statements indicating concern about the influence of bars in downtown Madison are

largely tied to his call for a greater variety of businesses, though safety concerns following last weekend’s shooting at State Street Brats are also a factor, Verveer said.

In an effort to encourage a better experience along State Street, lawmakers are also considering making State Street friendlier to foot traffic.

Civilian motor vehicles are currently barred from driving on the street, but the ban could expand to public vehicles to convert the space into an entirely pedestrian-oriented mall.

This would involve rerouting Madison Metro lines to prohibit bus traffic on the street, an option that has been considered in the past, Fruhling said.

“Removing the buses probably comes up about once every ten years, and has certain groups consistently for and against in each discussion,” Fruhling said.

“It’s a complicated issue, but it’s one we’re looking at moving forward.”

Aside from a new layout, increasing population density in downtown Madison may also create a hospitable environment for local retailers by boosting existing businesses and creating openings for new ventures, Ald. Zach Wood, District 8,

said.

The growth of Madison’s downtown area comes with certain expectations from new residents, Wood said.

“Right now we don’t have a lot of people who are working down here, living down here and essentially existing entirely downtown and around State Street, but I think there’s a market for that,” Wood said.

The discussion is ongoing, but planning has begun and will continue through the summer, Verveer said.

Student voices will be welcomed in the fall as

planning intensifies, Verveer said.

“We hope to have a very engaging, open participatory process,” Verveer said. “All of the stakeholders, in which students are a very big part, should get involved to share their hopes and dreams for what the future of State Street will look like.”

This emphasis on open air pedestrian areas is part of a broader push throughout the city of Madison. Continuing progress at Hilldale Mall near the University of Wisconsin campus is focused on converting the complex

Photo · Mayor Paul Soglin has voiced concerns that the dowtown area lacks traditional business variety in the past, but now city officials are trying to set plans in stone.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald back to its original open air design in the hopes that shoppers will view it as more of a “destination,” rather than a collection of stores, according to the shopping center’s website.

Historic City Council sworn in this week Madison made strides in this year’s election, voted in diverse group of representatives in race, gender, age

by Kiyoko Reidy City Editor

Tuesday afternoon, arguably the most diverse City Council in Madison’s history was sworn into office.

Seven new alders were sworn in; two of them are Madison’s first AfricanAmerican women to be elected to the council.

Additionally, nine out of 20 members are women, a two person increase since last term.

Ald. Sheri Carter, Disctrict 14, is one of the first two AfricanAmerican women to serve on Madison’s City Council.

Carter has been involved in various forms of community activism for many years, and wanted to talk her contribution to the next level by serving on the

council, she said.

Carter served as the president of Arbor Hills Neighborhood Association, the board president for Porchlight and the chair of South Metropolitan Planning Council, she said.

Her ties to District 14 are well planted in her grassroots work with different neighborhoods through her community leadership, she said.

Carter did not view her decision to run as a historic event — in fact, she did not even know that she became one of the first AfricanAmerican women to serve on City Council until after she was elected.

“I just assumed, like everybody else, that there had been one or two before me,” Carter said. “There comes a responsibility, being one of the first. It’s

so humbling, and such an honor.”

Not only did Carter make history as one of the first two African-American women to be elected, but she is also helping to improve the council’s ratio of men to women.

Electing women into office isn’t as much of a problem as getting them to run, Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, said. Despite this challenge, attaining female representation on the council may be becoming an easier feat.

“I looked at the women I saw on the council in years past, and I admired them,” Carter said. “I didn’t really think about whether or not this would be hard to do.”

A City Council that is an accurate representation of Madison’s demographic allows elected officials to

work together in a way that encourages progress from all angles, Bidar-Sielaff said.

In terms of representation, the City Council is already fairly unique compared to other legislative bodies, she said.

“An experience as a woman in the city is different than the experience of a man,” Bidar-Sielaff said.

“The priorities, challenges and opportunities that we see as women are through a different lens than men, and we can bring that force to the council.”

As race and gender become more accurately represented on the council, so has the large population of young people. Madison’s median age in 2013 was 31 years, according to the City of Madison’s Economic Development website. In the new term, there are four

alders who are either at or below the median age of Madison.

One of these millennial alders, Ald. Zach Wood, District 8, oversees a district that is almost completely comprised of University of Wisconsin property and student housing.

UW enrolled over 40,000 students in fall 2014. The student voice in downtown Madison, and especially in District 8, is not one that should be overlooked, Wood said.

“Young people on the council are important, especially because of how directly some of the things the council deals with impacts young people,” Wood said. “Having a council that represents the composition of the community in every sense is important.”

Flu the coop: Avian influenza lands in Wis. Gov. Scott Walker declared State of Emergency earlier this week when National Guard was called to fix damages

by Tanisha Sabhaney Herald Contributor

As bird flu spreads in the state, there’s no need for people to flock to the doctor ’s office.

Four cases of avian flu have been detected in Wisconsin in the past 10 days, causing Gov. Scott Walker to call a state of emergency to deal with the outbreak, but experts say humans have no reason to worry about getting sick.

H5N1 avian influenza virus, or “bird flu,” has affected approximately

1.2 million birds in Wisconsin across four counties, Raechelle Cline, spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, said.

Keith Poulsen, diagnostic case and outreach coordinator of Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, said the virus is highly pathogenic — or capable of causing disease — among birds. The virus has a significant impact on chickens, turkeys and several other bird species, Poulsen said.

This virus is easily transmitted from farm to farm via migratory birds, Poulsen said. He said the mortality rate for birds that contract the virus is 98 to 100 percent.

But humans have less to be worried about, UW professor of veterinary

medicine Christopher Olsen said. There is a specific strain of this influenza that affects humans, but the one reported in Wisconsin does not, he said.

“The virus does not pose a public health risk at this point,” Olsen said.

Poulsen said although the virus is not a threat to humans, people should be aware of the risk it poses to the poultry they consume. Misconceptions about bird flu can cause mass hysteria, Poulsen said.

“Educate yourself, your families. Understand what is going on,” Poulsen said.

There is a wide array of influenza viruses and they vary according to the proteins on the surface of the virus, Olsen said.

Cline said although the virus is highly destructive in avian populations, poultry at the grocery

store does not pose a threat to humans.

“Any poultry products available in the market place is safe to eat as long as it is cooked at the proper temperature and handled properly,” Cline said.

Chad Gregory, president and CEO of United Egg Producers, said in a statement, U.S. egg farmers have significantly increased biosecurity measures on their farms to protect their flocks from the virus.

Even though the threat to public safety is minimal, the state has taken significant steps to protect Wisconsin’s poultry industry. Walker has tapped in the National Guard to help clean and disinfect the large trucks at Jefferson County site, where the virus was first seen, Cline said. According to state

law, the governor must call a state of emergency if the National Guard is employed, Cline said.

Currently, there are five different responses in five different areas, Cline said.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service division of the United States Department of Agriculture website has provided a list of measures that people can adhere to in order to protect smaller flocks.

Poulsen said although the outbreak poses a serious threat, state and federal officials are well equipped to handle it.

“Influenza cases happen regularly and the United States Department of Agriculture and Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Monitoring Lab deal with such outbreaks on a regular basis,” Poulsen said.

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Down, not out: American national pastime lives on After varsity baseball got cut in midst of budget deficit in 1991, UW club team started in 1999, has eye on return of Division I program

by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

An unprecedented crowd of 1,200 fans packed Guy Lowman Field on a Friday in early May of 1991, but it was for all the wrong reasons.

The University of Wisconsin varsity baseball team split its doubleheader with Purdue that afternoon, with a 1-0 loss in the night cap putting the finishing touches on a season that saw the Badgers win just 16 games while compiling 36 losses.

But it wasn’t just another subpar season ending when John Vanden Heuvel’s fly ball was caught for the final out at 5:32 p.m. on May 10.

Instead, more than a century’s worth of history of UW varsity baseball came screeching to a halt.

America’s national pastime was one of the first organized sports on UW’s campus, even older than football. The first baseball game was April 30, 1870.

But 19 days before the final game, 121 years after the first game, the Wisconsin athletic board had voted 10-7 to cut baseball, along with four other varsity sports, in hopes of combatting a $1.9 million budget deficit. That deficit was brought on by poor financial management under previous leadership and a consistently futile football program.

“The last moment … I think everyone knew that this was it,” former player Rob Andringa, who was a junior during the final season, said.

“From there, all you can hang onto are your memories and the friendships and the things that you’ve built up during your years at Wisconsin.

And hopefully take those with you and turn them into a positive somehow.”

Although the board had made a necessary decision to try to help balance the athletic department as a whole, it came as a shock to the players like Andringa, who participated in four years of varsity hockey along with his three years of baseball.

Despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars that flowed annually into the athletic department surrounding Andringa and his teammates, the monetary aspect of playing baseball wasn’t something that had crossed their minds.

“We just play,” Andringa said. “Athletes just go out and they either have success or failure...When it got into the political realm and people talking the business side of it, it was hard for people to imagine why this was really happening.”

After Vanden Heuvel’s final swing, organized baseball at UW disappeared for eight years. In the meantime, the football program became a regular Big Ten title contender, advancing to three Rose Bowls under new head coach Barry Alvarez, who almost singlehandedly turned around the athletic department’s fortune. At the same time, the typically mediocre men’s basketball team also began to turn into a winning program, helping form the basis for what is now the second-highest revenue-producing athletic department in the nation, according data compiled by USA Today for the 2012-13 school year.

However, newfound winning ways and new money streams didn’t incite Athletic Director Pat Richter to bring back baseball. Instead, Wisconsin added women’s lightweight rowing, softball and women’s hockey as varsity sports throughout the latter part of the 90s to adhere to Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.

Baseball’s humble return With the UW athletic department reluctant to revive baseball, the matter fell into the hands of a group of students who simply wanted to keep their baseball careers going for just a little bit longer after high school. The group included Jeff Block, who banded together with several other former high school players to jump start the UW club Baseball team in 1999.

Now, 14 years later, Block still plays a key role on the team he helped start, serving as the head coach of the program which fields Division I and Division II club level teams.

“For the most part, guys are just out here trying to play baseball at a competitive level for as long as they can,” Block said. “They’re part of a league where they can have a conference championship, a chance to go to regionals, a chance to make the World Series. It’s one of the reasons I’m still around it. That competitive drive, that edge. It’s a lot of fun to continue to compete in that way.”

As Block explained, the club team has become much more organized over the course of his tenure, along with improving the crop of talent present on both teams, which together include around 40 total players.

Those players range in ability, but most of them, like club president Billy Calawerts, could have played NCAA baseball at either the Division III or Division II level.

Almost all of them, according to Block, were the better players on their respective varsity teams in high school, not just students who had dabbled in the sport.

“When people hear club, they might think intramurals and they won’t really know what the level is. We saw that in the early years of tryouts,” Block said. “Anyone who ever played baseball would try to come out. You’d basically fear for their safety at certain points. We never see that anymore really.”

Without a permanent home But while the program has expanded with more players and another team – the Division II team was added in 2002 – not all aspects of the club baseball program have improved: namely, the facilities.

But a lack of a permanent home for games or practices hasn’t stopped the program and its players, including Calawerts.

“It’s discouraging at first. You wish we had better equipment, better facilities,” Calawerts said, noting that he and other players have to provide transportation for practices, which are almost always off campus at places like Monona’s Ahuska Park. “But, now I’m just so used to it.

We’re all doing it because we love baseball.”

However, the practice regiment and scattered locations of the practices certainly take some getting used to. Because there is no facility on campus dedicated to baseball, the team cycles through a carousel of practice fields throughout the area, including several in Madison and outlying suburbs like Monona and Verona. With no field, home games turn into claiming whatever space is available to use for relatively cheap rental fees.

One of the toughest parts comes when the cold weather appears.

There are relatively few facilities on campus that a baseball team can use, and the ones available, like the McClain Center attached to Camp Randall, are typically in use by other athletic teams.

The club baseball team resorts to non-traditional alternatives like the Stock Pavilion on the west side of campus, hitting in batting cages and throwing off temporary mounds in a space typically occupied by livestock.

Although the cows aren’t usually present during the practices, the smell and feel of the Stock Pavilion doesn’t exactly give off the vibes of a baseball-friendly facility.

Uphill battle The club is still pursuing a restoration of baseball as an NCAA Division I sport at UW. With Wisconsin trailing only Texas in total athletic department revenue – it generated $149 million during the 2013 fiscal year – UW has the monetary leverage to finance another sport.

But the general trend around the rest of the Big Ten conference is that baseball does not make money.

According to data from the Office of PostSecondary Education, all of the other 13 schools in the Big Ten have baseball, but all have expenses exceeding their revenues.

Not including operating expenses, that deficit ranges from a little more than $500,000 at Illinois to almost $2 million in losses at Michigan for the most recent year of data in 2013.

That formula has played a pivotal role in current AD Barry Alvarez’s and the rest of the athletic department’s choice to hold off on

“Athletes

just go out and they either have success or failure. When it got into the political realm and people talking the business side of it, it was hard for people to imagine why this was really happening.”

Rob Andringa Former UW baseball player

baseball for the time being. When Alvarez first took over as athletic director in the mid-2000’s, talk of a baseball team resurfaced, but he quickly quieted the hope of a comeback, saying it was mere talk and hardly a realistic possibility.

However, the problem isn’t solely about baseball. It’s also about balance. If Wisconsin were to bring back baseball, it’d almost certainly have to introduce a women’s sport along with it to provide the same amount of opportunities for men and women and stay compliant with Title IX. Simply put, it would take double the

Photo · The last varsity baseball team in 1991 at Wisconsin(pictured above) finished with an overall record of 16-36. The first official game for the program came in late April of 1870, and was one of the oldest sports on campus before it was cut.

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investment of a baseball team to actually bring about a baseball team. And with the fact that there’s no baseball facility, money would also have to be put up to build a stadium for the new baseball team.

In the eyes of Steve Land, who was the final head coach of the UW varsity team when it was cut in 1991, there’s really only one way for baseball to make a return.

“I wish that all of a sudden there were somebody that wanted to endow two sports and would present that to the athletic department and force them to turn it down,” Land said.

“That would be the only way to get the athletic department to genuinely look at adding two sports. It’d be hard for them to say no.”

That happened at Penn State in 2011, when businessman Terrence Pegula donated $100 million to start the men’s and women’s varsity hockey programs.

Such a donation, unprecedented then, would be unprecedented now, especially when it comes to investing in a sport that would inevitably lose money.

But even without an NCAA Division I baseball program, the sport of baseball is still very much alive at Wisconsin, even though some might not know it.

And when the players cross the lines onto the field, it takes the game back to its roots.

“When you step onto that field, and you’re outside on a perfect day, regardless of whether it’s practice or a game, there’s still that element of being a kid again,” Andringa said. “That’s one of the gems about baseball that people don’t understand.”

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But the passion for baseball hasn’t stopped the program from utilizing what limited resources it has, as the two teams have combined to make it to the Club Baseball World Series in each of the past four years.

Winning is only one part of the game, though.

“In high school you wanted to win the state championship so bad. It was more like life,” Calawerts said. “Club baseball now, we’re competitive and we want to win the World Series, but it’s not the most important thing we go after.”

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THE BADGER HERALD · NEWS · THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015

LGBT nightclub regulars unite to save treasured spot When financial woes loomed over Five Nightclub’s owner, frequent customers joined together to protect venue that holds cherished memories

by Kiyoko Reidy City Editor

When the owner of a south Madison night club announced its impending closure earlier this month, he experienced an unexpected outpouring of community support to try and keep the nightclub open.

Five Nightclub has been serving Madison’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community since 1998. Dave Eick, the owner of Five Nightclub, recently announced that the nightclub could no longer continue to cover expenses and would likely close the weekend of April 26.

After construction in 2013 made it more difficult for customers to get to the building, Five Nightclub’s sales suffered major losses for nearly eight months, Eick said. The nightclub was behind on rent and bills.

As Eick faced a rent increase this summer, he believed that the nightclub would not be able to gain back enough of the lost money to continue business, despite a regular crowd of loyal customers, he said.

“It’s home. That’s what this place is to a lot of people,” Eick said.

Members of the community immediately began reaching out to Eick and Five Nightclub

with donations to help the business. They also shared personal stories detailing what Five meant to them, Eick said.

For many people, it’s where they met their friends or partners, he said.

Social media has played a central role in the changing LGBT bar scene in Madison, Eick said. Online dating applications have taken the place of bars for straight people and members of the LGBT community alike, he said.

“People don’t go to bars to meet people anymore. They just strike up a conversation online,” Eick said.

Historically, the LGBT nightlife culture was focused

on finding places that were safe for members of the community, Jason Rae, executive director of the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce, said. The use of the internet as a new safe space for meeting people has been detrimental to many Wisconsin LGBT nightlife establishments, he said.

LGBT bars in the Madison area have been effected by this shift in dating culture, along with an increased acceptance of LGBT folks by the larger community, Eick said.

People within the LGBT community are starting to feel more accepted by the larger community, which is making LGBT-focused bars

less popular, Eick said. Many bars that were previously “gay bars” are becoming popular for all members of the broader community, he said.

“As LGBT acceptance and inclusion is happening more and more, people aren’t necessarily choosing specific LGBT establishments, but really looking at places to visit that share their similar values,” Rae said.

LGBT people frequently want to support businesses that are willing to publicly endorse inclusion and diversity, Rae said. Eick has worked to build this support and foster a strong sense of community among those who visit, he said.

Fundraisers are held regularly for causes that various customers are involved in. This dedication to building a strong community surrounding the nightclub helped to change the announcement of impending closure to just a possibility.

With the help of the local community, as well as past visitors to Five Nightclub, over $31,000 has been raised to benefit the business, according to the Five Nightclub website.

“When I first walked into this building, I felt comfortable,” Eick said. “I want to keep giving others that same experience.”

Bill would require photo IDs for food stamp recipients Legislation creates division between advocates who say it would minimize fraud, opponents who say it perpetuates ‘cycle of shaming poor’

by Nina Kravinsky State Editor

Requiring food stamp recipients to use photo identification with their purchases: a safeguard against fraud, or a way to shame the poor?

A new bill requiring photo identification for food stamp recipients proposed by two Republican legislators, has drawn a line between those that believe it is simply antifraud protection and those that feel it perpetuates a sense of poverty.

Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, introduced

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Phillips said even though the university will most likely not heed the recommendation this semester, she hopes it will urge parties across campus to continue having the conversation about student wages.

“It’s on us to fight for affordability and accessibility,” said Finance Committee Chair Madison Laning. “We can tell the

OUT-OF-STATE, page 1 applicants tend to be wealthier, he echoed concerns their increased enrollment could reduce the acceptance rate for Wisconsin residents.

the bill and is currently circulating it for cosponsors in the Assembly. If passed into law, electronic benefit transfer, or EBT, cards issued to FoodShare participants would include photo identification.

Rep. Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, is the chair of the Assembly Committee on Public Benefit Reform. He said the main purpose of the bill, like other bills reforming public benefits, is to highlight fraud in public assistance programs like FoodShare. Photo ID would help “crack down” on those using cards that are not theirs, Born said.

“The bill would help in our efforts in Wisconsin and I think across the nation to stop waste, fraud and abuse in these public benefits systems,” Born said.

Born said the bill is simple and short, just a page and a half of instructions for the Department of Health Services, including the submission of an implementation plan for the photo ID plan to the United States Department of Agriculture. The bill’s Senate co-sponsor is Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater.

Mike Browne, deputy director of liberal group One Wisconsin Now, said the

bill does nothing to reduce poverty and contributes to a culture of shaming the poor.

“Putting additional hurdles in people’s way or shaming people for having lost their job through no fault of their own and having to be on public assistance doesn’t help them find a job and it doesn’t make them any less poor,” Browne said.

Browne said he understands the desire to make sure people who are on public benefits are getting the assistance they need and those who do not need assistance are not exploiting the system.

But Brown said requiring photo identification on EBT cards is not a move toward that ideal.

“Singling out folks with different and harsher treatment is not going to help solve any problems,” Brown said.

The most recent fiscal estimate projects an estimated $7 million, split between state and federal funds, to start the program. Born said he does not expect the bill to face a lot of opposition in the Legislature, where Republicans have a majority in both the Assembly and the Senate.

Born said the plan might face obstacles when DHS goes to the USDA to get a waiver to implement the project. The federal government must approve the program and agree to partial funding before the program can go into place.

Browne said this bill is not the only of its kind — Republicans also recently pushed a bill that would require passing a drug test to be eligible for certain public benefits. He said the bill is a distraction from Walker ’s budget, which Browne said is flawed in its severe cuts to state strongholds.

university that this needs to become a priority and that this is something for which they need to move their budgets around.”

In a statement responding to the proposed legislation, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Darrell Bazzell said while the university appreciates ASM’s interest in paying all student workers a living wage, in the face of budget cuts, the university must focus on its current efforts of raising wages for classified

staff.

With the implementation of its new personnel system July 1, the university will raise wages for classified staff to meet the living wage of $12.45 an hour currently set for the city of Madison.

“Extending the living wage to student hourly employees would carry additional costs in the range of $12 million to $13 million,” Bazzell said.

“Because many of these wages are paid with funding from student fees, we would

need a thorough discussion with students about potential implications for programs and services.”

While nearly all ASM representatives agreed raising student wages ought to be a priority, some members echoed concerns the recommendation was not practical given the fact student segregated fees would need to increase $10 per student per semester for the next four years to fund the higher wages.

However, representatives

including Jessica FrancoMorales argued funding for wage increases could come from other sources beside student segregated fees.

Some solutions members suggested included redirecting funding allocated for campus construction projects and new staff at the Wisconsin Union. Some even showed interest in reducing the pay of certain members of university administration.

However, representatives such as Student Service

Finance Committee Chair Devon Maier called for restraint, arguing that such reallocation is not within the jurisdiction of ASM. “I’m all for steady wage increases, but we have to be pragmatic,” Maier said.

“We have to realize that unless we have full control over our segregated fees, we’re not going to have the opportunity to redirect funds from totally separate budgets coming from donors.”

Currently, 59 percent of enrolled UW-Madison students come from Wisconsin. The percentage of enrolled first generation students, which currently stands at 16.8 percent in 2014, has already declined

from 19.5 percent in 2005, according to a University of Wisconsin report.

However, Radomski said a hypothetical increase of outof-state enrollment would lead to an influx of less qualified non-resident and international students to UW and a decline in native Wisconsinites and firstgeneration students.

However, Vice Provost for Finance and

Administration Darrell Bazzell said Blank is not committed to making any decisions regarding the enrollment cap and that she is only obligated to reflect on whether she has enough resources to manage the budget situation.

Hahn said if the Board of Regents increased the cap at all, it would be a minor adjustment.

“We are still overwhelmingly, via our enrollment, our mission and position in the UW System,

a Wisconsin serving institution,” Hahn said.

However, Radomski said tuition increases for nonresident students will already cause the most talented individuals to go elsewhere, which could cause faculty to leave with them due to a lack of qualified students, eventually lowering our prestige compared to our peers.

Regarding concerns over a decline in applicant quality,

Hahn said a hypothetical increase in the cap on nonresident students would not lead to an influx in underqualified students, specifically because the university in recent years has seen a significant increase of high quality non-resident applicants.

“I do not have any concerns about the quality of the class if we raised the resident rate in the future,” he said.

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Current diversity plan is just another dead end University continues to spin its wheels, offers self-congratulatory statements with little connection to past and ongoing efforts “You’ve told us about the 18 initiatives and the 40 or so metrics in the diversity and inclusion implementation plan. What should I tell my colleagues about how to focus our individual and group efforts? Which five initiatives should we concentrate on?”

That is the essence of the question I heard posed by a department chairman at the first of the eight recently scheduled listening sessions on the new University of Wisconsin diversity framework.

The chief diversity officer’s response did not answer that question. The department chair did not press for an answer.

Nobody else did either. Next question, please.

The new diversity implementation plan document is the product of intensive labors over the past few months by eight committees/ groups composed of 112 individuals: 35 academic staff, 18 administrators, 18 classified staff, 14 undergraduates, 10 faculty, seven LTE (limited-

term employee) administrators, four graduate students, three administrators-faculty, two community members and one LTE-faculty-administrator.

What began with a list of 70 initiatives was eventually pared down to 18 initiatives.

These initiatives are to be implemented in phases, with some already underway and others to be started in the coming years.

What is sadly missing are connections to past and ongoing efforts to push forward on the goals of diversity. More attention is given to the cosmetics of the document, as evidenced in its too-clever title: “Affecting R.E.E.L. Change (Retain, Equip, Engage, Lead) for Diversity and Inclusion.”

What is the direct connection between the new report’s 18 initiatives and the May 2014 approved report of the Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee?

That report, “Forward Together: A Framework for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence,” listed 30

recommendations that would involve almost 80 campus units and approximately 175 “partnerships” to push forward its recommendations.

If anything looked like an implement plan, this was it. But how these 30 recommendations and the 18 implementation initiatives are linked remains a mystery.

Then there are the between 50 to 60 long-established Minority and Disadvantaged Student programs. Every year the Office of Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer prepares a spreadsheet indicating the sources and dollar expenditures for each of these programs, the FTE (fulltime equivalent) employee count, and the allocation of these resources to promote recruitment, retention and graduation of minority students. Again, how these programs are linked to the new implementation plan receives no attention.

Next is the “UW-Madison Strategic Diversity Update” (Draft 1.0 July 2013) prepared

by former Chief Diversity Officer Damon Williams and circulated only days before he resigned. That 198-page report describes 181 “University Department/Organizational Program Initiatives” that are identified by an alphabet soup of acronyms. The content of this report, compiled by the CDO staff, described programs and initiatives “to provide the campus community with a broad look at the numerous activities taking place institutionally. It is truly impressive!”

Impressive?

Perhaps. But, again, what is the connection?

Despite the “absence” of a formally-adopted diversity plan in the five years following the end of Madison’s previous diversity plan, called Plan 2008, an open records request turned up some interesting information.

It revealed that then-Chief Diversity Officer Williams, working quietly behind the scenes, with the support of thenChancellor Biddy Martin and then-Provost Deluca but

without informing the faculty, began implementing several key goals of the Inclusive Excellence Diversity plan that had been “endorsed” by the UW System Board of Regents in 2009.

So, what does the campus have to work with? The new 2015 implementation plan’s 18 initiatives and approximately 40 metrics, the 30 recommendations plus the many involvements and partnerships identified in the May 2014 Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee, the 181 programs and initiatives from the 2013 Strategic Update report, the more than 50 long-standing Minority and Disadvantaged (M&D) Student Programs, plus the uncounted Inclusive Excellence programs initiated beginning in 2009.

How do all of these efforts fit together? No hints can be found in any of these documents. It is as if each group that worked on these various plans felt, to use the old phrase, that they needed “to reinvent the wheel.”

Unfortunately, the “wheels” don’t match. Despite a constant “spinning of the wheels,” there is little forward progress.

What are we left with? Five unrelated reports that would be the laughing stock if put forth by effective leaders in business and public agencies. That some legislators wonder about UW’s spending of taxpayer funds should come as no surprise.

Particularly embarrassing are the self-congratulatory statements found in these reports, for example, through implementing this new plan UW can become “a leader in the state and nation in fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion through active participation of all constituents of the UWMadison community.”

Let’s cut out the bragging about what could happen.

Better to toot our horn after we have something substantial to show for it. Modesty is a much neglected virtue.

W. Lee Hansen (wlhansen@ wisc.edu) is a professor emeritus of economics.

State Uber, Lyft regulations fail to address discrimination Proposal would streamline innovation, modernize transit industry, but does not offer enough protection for less affluent neighborhoods

by Adam Johnson Columnist

Nice cars, convenient technology and seamless service are the calling cards of the ridesharing services Uber and Lyft. Across the U.S. and overseas, Uber and Lyft have entered markets and immediately ruffled the feathers of traditional transit companies who have seen the new companies take some of their market-share. However, despite the commotion, Uber and Lyft continue to expand, falling into consumers’ open arms. Madison, like many cities, attempted to curtail their operations, but even the threat of police crackdowns has done little to curtail demand for the services.

Now, the state of Wisconsin will likely preempt local municipalities from regulating ridesharing companies on their own

in favor of comprehensive statewide standards. This proposal, which passed the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly, would require licensing from the state, insurance, background checks and would ban discrimination based on religion, sex, race or disability. While a large burr in the sides of cities like Madison, who have large and powerful taxi interests, this proposal will streamline innovation in personal transit options.

Overall, I support the bill. I don’t have a problem with surge pricing — pricing differently depending on demand — because everything from movie theaters to subways already does that. I don’t have a problem with cities being unable to self-regulate because outside of Madison and Milwaukee, few cities would have the capacity to

do it anyway. However, I do wish the bill provided stronger enforcement mechanisms to protect against discrimination.

When asking someone why they don’t like Uber or Lyft, the answer is often based on concerns over equity, or otherwise “playing by the rules.” In Madison, the existing taxi companies follow strict regulations on hiring practices, insurance requirements and discrimination policies. They also are bound by Madison’s 24 hour rule which requires taxi companies to offer service around the clock with pricing that doesn’t vary depending on the time of day.

Critics of Uber and Lyft claim allowing ridesharing companies to flout these existing regulations would be unfair because they offer substantially similar services and should therefore follow the same rules. While I agree

the services are similar — to the consumer, it’s a car that gets you from Point A to Point B — by allowing ridesharing companies to operate separately and encouraging communities to reevaluate existing taxi cab models, consumers and residents will benefit.

As I mentioned before, my biggest concern in the rise of companies such as Uber and Lyft is that lower income individuals and perceived “bad” parts of town will get left behind. Uber and Lyft operate on credit cards only, facilitating a seamless and quick experience, but one that caters only to individuals with these cards.

Madison certainly has many residents and families that do not utilize plastic cards on a daily basis and the death of traditional taxi services would be devastating.

Similarly, critics claim Uber and Lyft drivers won’t

pick up riders in “bad” neighborhoods and instead cherry-pick from more affluent areas. While the statewide language prohibits discrimination on a number of factors, neighborhoods aren’t one of them and it is likely some areas of Madison will see reduced service from this change.

These concerns shouldn’t just be waved away — they are worth vigorous debate and policy solutions.

However, the solution is not to bind the hands of companies that are trying to reduce costs and expand the traditional model to new areas. The solution is to allow existing companies to innovate and compete.

Madison can loosen its grip on the taxi cartel and still provide services.

I wrote in September about former mayoral candidate Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, and his plan to regulate

ridesharing companies and change Madison’s taxi service, which I believe still contains good reforms Madison needs to enact.

Eliminating the 24 hour rule and replacing it with a more flexible framework would be a welcome change to reduce costs.

Uber and Lyft are easily characterized as the personal shuttles of affluent, sprinting women in heels and men in collared shirts from hot spot to hot spot, but their core model has touched on a trend that will not be reversed.

Madison should take this opportunity to look at what we currently have and how we can help modernize a stagnant industry to face the world as it exists now and how it will exist tomorrow.

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

Madison College should sell its downtown campus While closure of DTEC would inconvenience some students, it could help close city’s socioeconomic divide, rejuvenate south Madison

by Megan Stefkovich Contributor

It’s been said many times and in many ways: education is the path out of poverty. Dr. Jack Daniels, president of Madison College, also known as Madison Area Technical College, references this wellknown mantra in support of his recommendation to close the college’s Downtown Education Center (DTEC) and open a comprehensive campus in south Madison.

Twenty-seven percent of south Madison residents are below the poverty line, more than double the rate of the Madison Metro area. These residents face unemployment, low educational attainment and socioeconomic disparities.

Daniels believes the presence of more inclusive services and programs will foster the job training that, in theory, will give way to lower unemployment rates and reverse the effects of poverty.

Recognizing the need for greater educational development in south Madison, I’m wholeheartedly in favor of Dainels’ proposal.

His three recommendations are as follows: to secure a site in south Madison to construct the comprehensive campus, headed by a task force that will complete its work by Aug. 1; to end the lease at

West Campus in June 2016 and create a transition plan for students and faculty there; to sell DTEC after securing a new site, create a transition team and complete the sale over a two to three year period.

It’s undeniable something must be done to counteract the disparities the residents of south Madison face. Poverty is aggravated for people of color living in Madison, with unemployment almost at 27 percent for African Americans, 27.3 percent for Asians and 21.76 percent for Latinos. Furthermore, educational attainment for 46 percent of this population is topped off at a high school diploma. Fifty-eight percent of south Madison residents are people of color.

I’m not a student at DTEC, thus I cannot personally speak to the inconveniences those students would face if it were to close. Much of the opposition to Daniels’s plan is due to the fact not as many bus lines service Truax or south Madison as they do the downtown area (there are 27 lines leading downtown while only two head to Truax).

Furthermore, because the greatest number of transfers to the University of Wisconsin come from downtown, its proximity to the university is essential to the students’ academic success.

For me to try to debunk

these arguments would be ignorant. They’re valid.

How can I justify closing a campus in the hub of Madison that could force students to travel as long as two hours by bus (changing routes) to get to their classes, keeping in mind many of these students work several jobs to fund their education? Their schooling is just as important as the residents in south Madison.

However, the statistics of south Madison’s situation must be addressed, and I appreciate Daniels’ focus.

Because of south Madison’s proximity to the downtown area, DTEC students would not have much longer of a commute to a comprehensive south campus.

If a central campus was created in south Madison, while maintaining the already well-established Truax campus, transportation issues would have to be addressed in terms of the limited bus routes. As is, the city of Madison is considering consolidating bus routes. However, once forced to contend with this dilemma, investment in these projects will serve to further rejuvenate south Madison.

From a monetary perspective, Daniels’s numbers supporting his proposal make sense. It would cost $30 million to meet the downtown campus’ infrastructural and classroom needs, which

have a $940,000 annual operating cost to begin with, not including instruction and student services.

Additionally, concurrent enrollment between DTEC and UW decreased from 48 students last year to 14 this year, belying claims of the importance of a campus close to UW. The south campus has limited space, low enrollment and limited credit courses, all while still costing $225,000 in fixed costs annually, not including instruction and student services. Looking at these facts, Daniels’s proposal makes all the more sense.

Gov. Scott Walker ’s budget proposal, seemingly

always lurking behind every education decision these days, has the potential hurt minority students — exemplified with the proposal to end Chapter 220, the state’s racial integration program for K-12 schools. Now more than ever we need to end racial disparities in Madison.

If that requires inconveniencing students in their morning commute to class, it’s worth it to bring quality education to historically underrepresented students.

A lot has been said in the name of improving the experiences of minority students, but Daniels’s proposal makes an effort at

Photo · President of Madison College Dr. Jack Daniels has recommended closing the Downtown Educational Center and West Campus in favor of a comprehensive campus in south Madison.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald reshaping the statistics of the south Madison area and his actions speak volumes. I can only hope this development is carried to fruition.

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

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WISCONSIN FESTIVAL OF IDEAS APRIL 26, 2015 - 10:00am to 4:00pm The Wisconsin Festival of Ideas is a one-day multidisciplinary conference event featuring UW-Madison’s top faculty and students as speakers. Our university is pushing boundaries in education and research, and the Wisconsin Festival of Ideas seeks to showcase some of the best and brightest ideas and collaborations happening on campus!

Join us on Sunday, April 26 in the Frederic March Play Circle on the 2nd Floor of Memorial Union! This event is free and open to the public. Lunch and dinner receptions are provided. The conference will run from 10 AM to 4 PM, but feel free to come for any sessions you can. See wisconsinfestivalofideas.com for more details!

SESSION 1: 10.00am-11.30am

- Elliott Sober: Simpson’s Paradox – Sex Discrimination, Altruism, and Smoking - Catalina Toma: Self Presentation and Deception in Online Dating Spaces - Student Speaker: Eric Weinlander on the Placebo Effect in Clinical Medicine

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- Francis Halzen: Ice Fishing for Neutrinos – The IceCube Project - Gretchen Schwarze: It’s Better to Die Trying – High Stakes Surgical Decisions and Unwanted Care - Student Speaker: Charlie Chang on A Data-Driven Approach to Dam Disasters

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National Butt Tap Day flounders Blank’s expulsion plan leaks online

Follow-up to National High Five Day, campus sees event as uncomfortable failure In the wake of last week’s National High Five Day, celebrated by many by giving high fives to each and every person, National Encouraging Butt Tap Day has been found to be much less popular. While the public has met National High Five Day with an overwhelming wave of support, National Encouraging Butt Tap Day has been called “awkward” and “unsettling”.

“I had a great time on National High Five Day,”

local Madison resident Dave Johnson said. “Then the next day this guy on the bus slapped my ass and told me to ‘Go get ‘em Tiger’. It was really weird.”

Many young people see National Encouraging Butt Tap Day as a failure. However, it is extremely popular with high school football coaches, politicians and overly-friendly CEOs. “I just like to give my players that extra boost, ya know?” local football head

coach Larry Tate said. “It let’s them know that I’m behind them, both literally and figuratively. Mostly literally.”

Though polls showed public moral to break several records during National High Five Day, National Encouraging Butt Tap Day has broken records in a different category.

“We saw a record number of sexual harassment complaints, especially from nervous baseball players and low level secretaries who

didn’t even think their boss knew their name,” Dane County police spokesperson Jennifer Hutton said. “In response, we are asking the public to just show their support verbally, rather than smacking the ass of someone they barely know.”

Though some view National Encouraging Butt Tap Day as a failure, experts predict that National Unprovoked Sensual Massage Day will be lauded as a great success.

Opinion: The Hub ‘just too much’ ‘I can’t live in the Hub, so I’m gonna talk shit about it’ opines student who cannot afford it Like many students at the University of Wisconsin, I come from a middle class family that can afford many things. While I can attend this fine, reputable university for a number of years, buy new clothes every once in a while and take my girlfriend out to dinner occasionally, there remain a few unattainable luxuries for our tax bracket.

One of them is a grandiose, indulgent campus apartment. I don’t wanna name names and comprise the integrity of a certain new apartment high rise, but I just couldn’t make ends meet if I lived in the Hub. A marvel of modernity and well-heeled breeding, The Hub will be one of the

most enviable places to live once it’s finished, and rightly so; with a Colectivo Coffee on the ground floor and the amenities of a five-star hotel, who wouldn’t want to live in such an establishment? The problem is, however, most people couldn’t muster up a fraction of what it costs to live in such a fashion statement.

And so because I don’t have the means to live comfortably in The Hub, I’ve decided to take it upon my own to bitch about it in every possible way.

It’s giant, it disrupts the cityscape, it’s brick, what have you. The bottom line is, its mere existence founded in affluence violently shoves me into one category: the

have-nots. And while I may not have my own room and a butler to wipe my shitty ass and vacuum up my crumbs, I have free speech.

I’m gonna exercise it just as much as I wouldn’t exercise in the Hub’s state-of-the-art fitness center.

Don’t get me wrong. I would love nothing more than to see the look of fellow plebeians when I tell them I live in the Hub. Compared to the dilapidated, vomitridden shantyhouses of the sophomore slums and Bassett Street, where one too many sweaty bodies is enough to land tenants in prison, The Hub is the St. Regis of UW. I know what’s good for me, so I’m not gonna sign a lease at Madison’s

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Rather, I’m just going to sit back, crack open a can of PBR and get high with my fellow poor college friends while discussing cultural appropriation. My life is ripe with joy and contentment. Why should I sell my third soul (I sold the previous two to Madison Property Management) for something that wouldn’t do the same for me?

There may never be a day when I see myself looking down at my peers as they shuffle to various frat parties ten stories below. I guarantee you, life doesn’t get better with each floor below you, but with each insult hurled at the otherwise innocent, degreeseeking tenants of The Hub. Here’s to the good life, defined by the opposite of each aspersion I cast at The Hub.

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Chancellor’s plan to overhaul, expel outof-state students prematurely released An anonymous member of the Board of Regents has shared with the Madison Misnomer, Chancellor Blank’s five-step plan to expel out-of-state students and make the University of Wisconsin student body filled only with Wisconsinites. The plan is as follows: Attn: Board of Regents Governor Walker ’s actions have put the entire Wisconsin Idea in jeopardy, and all our economic issues are obviously the fault of our out-of-state students. We need to take the following steps in order to preserve the Wisconsin Idea and solve this Out-ofState Question.

Increase out-of-state tuition by $10,000. Any resistance seen on social media will be met with witty retorts and pretty graphics from our official Twitter account.Make separate higher costs for out-of-state students for school functions, including food prices at Gordon’s, books from the bookstore and tickets to events like Mifflin Make them pay to go to the Spring football game.

Close them all out of publics dorms. If you are from out of state, you will have the choice to either pay to live in Statesider

or Towers or sleep on the ground between them.

Force them all to wear “Not Sconnie” shirts so that they can be identified in public as foreigners.

Finals Solution: Reschedule all of their finals for after they have travelled back to their

home states resulting in 0’s on all exams and expulsion from the school.

Most out of state students were shocked to hear the news. “I can’t believe it” Minnesota native and UW student Theodore Hertz said.

“I just did not see this coming.”

Hertz, who is leading a campaign to encourage all out-of-state students to leave and return to their homelands, penned the following poem: “First they came for the Coasties but I didn’t speak up, because I am not a coastie.

Then they came for the rest of them but I didn’t speak up, because I have reciprocity Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up Because it was a gameday and everyone was drunk or at the game so I was kinda screwed.”

Chancellor Blank has yet to comment on the poem.

Minnesotan likes New Glarus Polite Minnesotan commends quality, culture behind illegally obtained lager Hi there! My name’s Tom Olsen and I just wanted to give my two cents on a nice little beer that made its way over here to the great State of Minnesota last week. Did you know that Minnesota is home of the world’s first shopping mall? Isn’t that a hoot, there? But I digress!

On to my thoughts on that New Glarus Spotted Cow. I ordered myself a pint of Spotted Cow at a nice little establishment called Maple Tavern over there in Maple Grove. A real friendly waitress by the name of Peggy offered it to me, sayin’ it was a thing that they had over there from Wisconsin, and I thought hey, why not give it a shot!

We here in Minnesota love to share. So it was nice that those folks across the Mississippi decided to share their beer with us. Did you know Minnesota residents share the most of their own belongings per capita? Isn’t that a hoot? But I digress.

That server Peggy told me that she loved drinking that Spotted Cow with her Aunt Deb’s hot dishes and I’d have to say I’d agree.

Now I don’t know her Aunt Deb but I bet that hot dish was real tasty.

I’d give the Spotted Cow a 4.5/5 lakes. Get it? It’s

‘cause we have the most lakes here in Minnesota!

Anywho, Spotted Cow tastes real nice and smooth, but a fella sitting next to me at the bar bumped into me a little bit and I got the dang beer all over my Minnesota Wild jersey. Aw, shucks!

I’m sure he didn’t mean anything by it though.

Anyways, I woulda given it a full five lakes if it weren’t all the toiling my wife Lisa’s going to have to go through to get that stain out! She almost had a heart attack when she saw it! I almost had to take her to the Mayo Clinic. Thank goodness we have such a nice hospital like the Mayo Clinic. Coulda saved my Lisa’s life, if she needed them to.

But then I heard that drinking that New Glarus beer is illegal over here in Minnesota. And was I bothered? Yeah. Did I say anything about it? Nope!

We here in Minnesota just like to let little issues like these run their course. No need for me to get involved!

Anyways, I’d like to give a thanks to the kind folks over in Wisconsin for sharing their nice beer with us for a short time, even if it broke the law. That was real nice of ya!

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THE BADGER HERALD · NEWS · THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015

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Behind vault doors city houses world’s rare film treasures Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research preserves thousands of classic movies, television shows in Midwest’s biggest collection

by Erik Brown Photo Editor

“The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this one alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life.”

These are the words author B. Traven used to introduce his 1927 novel “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” made famous by John Huston’s 1948 film of the same name.

There is a place where you can find the book’s first edition, the various drafts of its screen adaptation and even the transcript of its promotional trailer, all tucked neatly side by side in a folder that’s hand delivered to you.

It’s not in the vaults of Warner Bros. Studios.

It’s not even within the jurisdiction of Hollywood.

The folder is in Madison, in the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.

“I think it’s a really special part of Madison,” the center ’s head archivist Amy Sloper said. “We’re preserving very important parts of film culture for the world.”

Housed within the Wisconsin Historical Society,

the WCFTR is a treasure trove of film history that’s working behind the scenes to keep film culture alive and available to the public, both in Madison and around the world.

While its existence may come as a surprise to many, the WCFTR has been on campus for over five decades and has a rich history of its own. By the end of the 1950’s, the Historical Society – a separate entity from the university – had acquired an extensive collection of mass media materials.

Feeling the archives could be expanded to areas of media other than mass communication, University of Wisconsin’s Speech and Theater department (now known as Communication Arts) formed the WCFTR in 1960, deciding the center would be owned by and funded through the university, but share space with the Historical Society as an archive devoted solely to the performing arts.

Over the course of its 55 years, the WCFTR has risen to prominence as one of the world’s largest archives of research materials relating to the entertainment industry, and patrons travel from far and wide to browse its collections. But with

Wisconsin being so far from the bright lights and red carpets of Hollywood, the center ’s success is likely to raise some eyebrows.

It’s a reaction Vance Kepley, the WCFTR’s director, gets often.

“To this day, there are major archives on either coast that are actually bigger than ours, but they kind of formulated themselves later,” Kepley said, laughing. “We just took the initiative.”

At the time of the center ’s formation in 1960, the idea of film as an art form worthy of critical analysis was just beginning. As a result, most archives hadn’t considered opening their vaults to the medium.

The WCFTR capitalized on this, marking the beginning of what is now considered “The Golden Age of Collecting” for the center.

Because of this initiative, the following decades saw the acquisition of both the United Artists and Kirk Douglas papers, which to this day remain the WCFTR’s most significant collections.

These two collections not only expanded the areas of research the WCFTR could offer, but also gave it the footing needed in the

archiving world to further its collections despite its disadvantageous location.

Today, the WCFTR possesses collections from more than 300 notable playwrights, television and motion picture writers, producers, actors, designers, directors and production companies.

Its film collection contains prints of virtually every feature title released by Warner Bros., RKO and Monogram Pictures between 1931 and 1949.

And that’s not even counting the promotional materials, photographs, corporate documents, written correspondences and scripts housed within the WCFTR’s vaults.

But what really makes the WCFTR unique is its willingness to share the collection with the public. In the digital era, physical film is becoming

Photo · After capitalizing on “The Golden Age of Collecting,” the center was left with extremely valuable artifacts, like original Kirk Douglas papers.

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Jay-Z’s Tidal to flop with integrity A-list rapper tries to fight free streaming services with pay-only, high quality platform

by Nichalous Pogorelec ArtsEtc. Editor

In your car, in your house and even clandestinely in class, streaming services have changed the way we listen to music. But not everyone is pleased with the music market’s speedy — and often free-of-charge — evolution.

Jay-Z is embarking on yet another business venture, taking over the Swedish music streaming outfit Tidal along with a slew of A-list musicians, including Beyonce, Rihanna, Kanye West and Madonna, among others.

The high-fidelity streaming service’s intention is to pay higher royalties to musicians, producers and songwriters, taking aim at the popular streaming services Spotify and Pandora.

Although the team spearheading Tidal’s rebranding is star-studded, the company has had a hard time persuading users to buy into its pay-only listening service. The team’s relative success has also garnered criticism, claiming Tidal is just another business project Jay-Z and company are using to line their already full

pockets. Even Mumford and Sons blasted the Tidal crew last week, calling them “new school fucking plutocrats.”

Tidal’s critics may have a point, but the problem certainly isn’t Jay-Z playing his capitalist game, it’s the underpayment of artists.

Remember the hit song “Wake Me Up” by Avicii? Aloe Blacc, a vocal supporter of reform in the music industry, cowrote the song and as of November 2014, he’s received only $4,000 domestically from Pandora, which spun the song more than 168 million times since its release. If “Wake Me Up” was one of the most commercially successful songs of 2013, then imagine what songwriters of lesserknown tracks receive for their work.

Spotify has 15 million paid subscribers, but they only make up 25 percent of Spotify’s total users, a figure which has held steady since the streaming service’s launch. The other 75 percent of users enjoy their music free of charge, with interrupting advertisements being the only caveat. Spotify has claimed it paid more than $2 billion in royalties since 2008, but the figure would be much higher

if the company was able to increase its share of paid subscribers.

Tidal looks to sidestep this by eliminating the free tier from its service. The base cost for subscribing to the service is $9.99 a month, the same rate as a subscription to Spotify’s paid tier. If listeners want to experience Tidal’s highfidelity uncompressed files, the user must pay $19.99 a month. Jay-Z and his business partner Vania Schlogel told The Fader Tidal’s aim is to see a higher percentage of streaming revenues reach the pockets of artists and their creative partners at the studio.

The rapper claimed with a free tier, five paid subscribers out of 10 listeners to a song would put the artist at negative five. But on pay-only Tidal, the artist always starts at one.

But despite his seemingly earnest intentions, Jay-Z seems like an unlikely Robin Hood for producers, songwriters and musicians.

The artist has become quite wealthy since the debut of his first album Reasonable Doubt in 1996, accumulating a net-worth of $560 million.

However, Jay-Z often reminisces about the days when he’d sell his first albums out of his trunk on the streets of Brooklyn, attempting to show solidarity with artists who may be in the same boat today.

Photo · Jay-Z is bringing all his friends to Tidal, including wife Beyonce, to offer exclusive music, while also paying musicians decent royalties.

Photo contributed by Adam Glanzman Photography

All of this is well and good, but Tidal will most likely fail. The music streaming service has already fell below the top-700 apps in the Apple Store. Why is the A-List artists’ streaming venture flopping so badly? Two reasons: online music streaming is a market where business models go to die, and many music consumers do not believe they ought to pay for music online. Tidal was not the first outfit to challenge Spotify; Daytrotter and Beats Music are among those who have also dived into the market, but like many streaming services they fail to surface. And even though downloads are down considerably since streaming became a major player in the industry, the culture of torrenting and listening to music for free has not gone away.

However, Tidal has accomplished something.

It has brought a problem that has been ravaging the music industry to the forefront: the swindling of money from artists.

Although many believe the company can’t deliver on its promise to pay artists a heftier sum, its mantra is something worth fighting for. Many people who work behind the artists who take the stage make their livelihoods from producing and writing the hits we love.

Recorded music is an art form which takes a considerable amount of time and money to create, so we should not only pay for it, but pay a fair price.

Anything else falls under the definition of theft.

increasingly rare and many archives are reluctant to risk lending out their materials to inexperienced hands.

“Here, the collection’s open to anybody,” Sloper said. “We’re very liberal about who we loan to because we’d like to keep the exhibition alive.”

Although the center requires proof of research from anyone wanting to view film prints, the multitude of promotional materials, scripts and legal papers in the Historical Society’s fourth floor reading room are up for grabs. Make a request, and a staff member will disappear momentarily into one of two locked vaults and return with a box full of history.

But the WCFTR’s outreach extends to the UW community as well. Because the center is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives, it has the ability to borrow film prints from other federationapproved institutions. The WCFTR often uses this privilege to contribute to the programming for the Cinematheque, a university organization devoted to showcasing rare cinema.

“Our partnership [with WCTFTR] allows us to

Photo · Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research fosters film reels dating back to the early 20th century, including classics like “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and “It’s a Wonderful Life. “ Erik Brown The Badger Herald borrow from archives around the world that we probably wouldn’t be able to get otherwise,” Cinematheque director of programming Jim Healy said.

At the moment, the WCFTR is not accepting any new collections. The archive holdings have outgrown the original storage space available in the Historical Society, and the two organizations are moving forward on plans to build a new storage facility on state land in east Madison.

Construction is expected to be completed in 2018.

Until then, the treasures of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research will remain buried within the WHS, waiting eagerly to be discovered by anyone who believes they are “worth taking trouble and pains to find.”

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Passion Pit’s latest is drab reboot of past work Despite frontman Michael Angelakos’ improved mental health, Kindred fails to innovate with lackluster, occasionally quality tracks

by Nichalous Pogorelec ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Sleepyheads around the world have been setting their alarms every three years to indulge in another synthpop masterpiece from the Massachusetts indietronica outfit, Passion Pit. Gossamer, their sophomore release, became one of the most popular albums of 2012, and their new LP Kindred has ended the wait for their highly anticipated follow-up.

The progression from their debut Manners to Gossamer proved Passion Pit was able to refine their craft into pop anthems fit enough to crossover, giving Kindred big shoes to fill.

Unfortunately, their new release will have to find a smaller pair of shoes — because it failed to live up to its expectations.

This feeling doesn’t come right away. The opening number, “Lifted Up (1985),” is a fun, energetic song that harbors the masterful pop sound that made songs like Gossamer’s “Take A Walk” such a hit. However, this energy turns out to be a fleeting characteristic of only a few songs on Kindred.

“Whole Life Story” followed the fun intro with Passion Pit at their most subdued.

The ballad’s production is noticeably uninspired and drawn out, toeing the usually avoidable line between ballad and lullaby. Lead singer Michael

Angelakos’ vocals match the droll nature of the tune he carries, making no efforts to ornament a rather basic vocal progression.

Not all the ballads on the album are lackluster.

“Where The Sky Hangs” has a pleasant, relaxing feel.

Angelakos’ vocals ice the dream-pop slow jam with the subtle improvisations he’s known for, creating a Beach House-like feeling of euphoria. “Dancing In The Grave” sounds unlike any other Passion Pit song, with a slow building progression into its flashy, droning end.

Alas, these quasigroundbreaking moments prove to be transient. Even the album’s faster tracks lack the dynamism that makes Passion Pit’s indie

pop sound so electrifying.

“Five Foot Ten” is catchy, but employs the same song structure as the songs prior to it. The band overuses heavily chorused bridgedramatic finale structure throughout Kindred, making the album feel banal at points.

“My Brother Taught Me” slightly strays from this recurring theme, but the lyrics are unbelievably corny. Kindred is all about growth from childhood, through adolescence and into adulthood, but the songwriting seems to become more mundane as the album nears its close.

One track saves the album from its overall monotony. “We Can’t (Let’s Go )” is pleasantly loud and

rowdy when it reaches its chorus. The synth sounds — unpolished at times — haven’t been a feature of Passion Pit’s production since their breakout single “Sleepyhead,” but they freshen up Kindred like an old trick. It’s a fun song that’ll induce toe tapping during the verses and head banging during the chorus and its climactic outro.

Although Kindred certainly has moments where it outperforms Gossamer, it was a regressive album that casts doubt on whether Passion Pit has the gusto to produce a jam that bangs harder than “Take A Walk” and a ballad that rocks steadier than “Constant Conversations.”

Kindred may produce some

songs that gain airplay and become relatively popular, but it seems like Angelakos and his crew have hit a creative wall.

2.5/5

KINDRED PASSION PIT

What’s On Tap: WI Brewing Company honors badass birds Brewmaster Kirby Nelson ‘fucking means it’ with Sconnie pride, traditional brews like Civil War-inspired IPA Yankee Buzzard

by Garth Beyer ArtsEtc. Columnist

A beer’s name and label can either harm or help a brewery, and the results are regularly polar. It’s not often you think of a name or label as “eh” because even “eh” is bad compared to the imagination out there.

For example Crowdsourced MobCraft brewery depends on collaboration for catchy titles, whereas St. Francis Brewery in St. Francis, Wisconsin names each brew after one of the seven deadly sins.

In this competitive craft beer climate, a traditional brewery can have a tough time making an impact with their beer branding.

And in terms of Wisconsin, you can’t get much more traditional than the Wisconsin Brewing Company. To start, no catchy, topical labels don their beers; they assign each brew a simple number before they name it. Each beer goes through trials until brewmaster Kirby Nelson gives it his approval, after which they begin ramping up excitement for their new brew. This is odd compared to other breweries who wait to announce a new beer until the name and label are decided on.

In addition to the traditional, simple and

Sconnie naming, Nelson made sure to tell me a German engineer in Wisconsin built their brew house, the kegs and hops come from Wisconsin and nearly everything at WBC is connected to the wonderful state of Wisconsin.

“When we say Wisconsin Brewing Company, we fucking mean it,” Nelson said.

But after originally labeling their beers with just their name (Wisconsin Brewing Company) and style (IPA, Pale Ale, Stout), WBC recently decided to do things differently.

They decided to name and design each brew with a specific and unique story, more often than not richly rooted in Wisconsin. Take for instance their Chocolate Lab label. What better dog to symbolize Wisconsin?

Though they embrace evolving their brand a bit, WBC aims to keep theirs short and packed with Wisconsin heritage.

“It’s getting tougher to break out,” Nelson said.

“Good god, beers are coming out faster and faster and are getting longer descriptions.”

According to him, the problem with producing a new brew is finding a fresh, relatable, unique name.

“Someone is always using the term. It makes you dig deeper for cool,” Nelson said, still noting that beer naming is becoming more interesting as

time goes on.

He chuckled while telling stories of breweries clashing over names.

“While there is certainly great new beer getting brewed, people need to know what brewery is producing it.”

WBC connects all the dots with a label that has you asking, “What’s all this about?” and getting an answer that is memorable and only relatable to WBC. Appropriately, for this week’s column I poured a glass of Yankee Buzzard, but before I dive into my tasting notes, I wouldn’t do this column justice without sharing the story behind the name and label.

Old Abe is the name of the bald eagle that was part of the Eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He was a rallying point for the troops and a reminder of what they fought for. However, for the Confederate soldiers, they called him “Yankee Buzzard” because he would screech at all them.

Heck, the Confederates even set bounties on him to no prevail; they merely added to the buzzing with bullets.

STYLE American IPA, 7.1 ABV percent

AROMA Light citrus, even lighter malty scent topped with a fresh bread smell

APPEARANCE Slightly hazy, but ultimately golden pour with retaining near-white head

TEXTURE Medium-bodied, balanced

TASTE Light caramel sweetness, almost vanilla, mixed with a floral, tropical and pine combination from the four varieties of hops used

RATING: 4/5

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Q&A: Rock author Susan Masino rings hell’s bells with AC/DC Madison resident, journalist details wild antics, like surprise guitar solos backstage, behind legendary Australian band

by Courtney Hollis ArtsEtc. Contributer

Against the loud, overdriven backdrop of 1980s hard rock covers, the Madison resident and I opted to chat in a corner booth, slightly away from the stage. We strained our voices against the music of Denim N Leather, a local cover band that took the stage at Bowl-A-Vard Lanes in Madison promptly following Susan Masino’s book signing Saturday, April 18 for her latest publication, “AC/DC FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the World’s True Rock ‘n’ Roll Band,” which hit shelves March 31.

“It’s been a long road, and I’m still not a millionaire, but I like my work,” rock journalist and author Masino said.

We spoke about the book — named the “AC/DC Bible” by Terry A. — which spans decades of the band’s climb to the top, colored with their wild antics.

Following her previous publications, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy and AC/DC: Let There Be Rock,” AC/DC fans can expect to find more details and juicy stories this time around, filling in gaps and offering readers

a full spectrum view of the Australian rockers’ legacy.

This interview has been edited for clarity and style.

How did this whole relationship start out with AC/DC in the first place?

Honestly, I became pen pals with the drum roadie.

His name was Barry Taylor.

He’s now a reverend in L.A., he’s written a couple of books — a brilliant man — and he was on their, well,

“[Being

around AC/ DC] is never like ... servants and food and champagne ... it’s just like a cup of tea and a cigarette.”

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it was his first time in the States as a roadie.

And we hit it off by actually. I was listening to them: they were setting up, and they were slagging on the U.S., you know? And I finally got close enough where he turned around and looked at me. He was the youngest, he had long hair, very cute, very cute — sweet man.

And he turned and looked at me, like, “What do you want?” And I leaned over and I said, “You know the airport’s not that far away, I could give you a lift?” He looked at me and he’s like, “Who are you?” And I said, “Psh, I think you ought to identify yourself first.” And we just struck up this friendship, and he started calling and writing me every week for three years. So we stayed in constant contact.

What kinds of things do you touch on in this book that you haven’t necessarily touched on in your previous ones?

I got into a lot more detail, and I was able to include a lot of stories that were not included in the “Let There Be Rock” book … With the “FAQ” book, I covered all of their albums, producers, studios, tours — you know — awards. It’s almost like an encyclopedia, and then the fun part is that I got to throw in some personal stuff that didn’t make the other books.

So what kind of “personal stuff” are we talking about here?

Oh, you know, just partying with the band, you

know, and hanging out with Bon Scott backstage, and some of the funny things he tried to pull on us. One night I got to watch the band behind the road cases on the stage, and [lead guitarist] Angus [Young] was out on the walkabout, but then [singer] Bon [Scott] came back, and Angus didn’t. And I’m behind the road cases, you know, on the stage hearing the band play, and I can hear Angus wailing, but I don’t know where he is. And all of a sudden, I feel a little tap on my elbow, and I turned and looked, and Angus is right next to me, crouched down, just playing his heart out! ... I looked at him, and he went like this to me (nudges) and I leaned as far as I could to the left, and he shot out on stage, and the crowd just went crazy. And it was so funny.

[drummer] Phil [Rudd] and Bon jumped out and threw [guitarist] Malcolm [Young] out at me and grabbed my girlfriend Terry — who is here tonight — threw her in the cab, and they took off!

And Malcolm’s like, “Oh! I guess I’m supposed to show you to the hotel!” And I said okay. And so he came with us, and he was in the backseat behind me, and my girlfriend was next to me, and he spent the whole ride with his hands over my eyes, or him trying to drive the car — from behind me. [laughter] So it was a long ride to the hotel.

they wear the same clothes, even! I’m not kidding; it’s hilarious. It’s never like, you know, the servants and food and champagne and all this high-brow stuff; it’s just like a cup of tea and a cigarette.

Do you have any final remarks about your book? Anything you would like to say?

What’s one of your favorite little stories that made it in then?

Having known AC/ DC, and knowing that they are something else — I mean, they are probably the rock band of the generation, can you still look at them the same, or do you get star-struck?

It’s kind of like growing up and being Michelangelo’s buddy, like wow, you’re good! You know what I mean? It’s like, I know that they’re good, that they’re, like, superstars, but it’s hard to see them that way when I hang out with them because they’re just the same guys that they’ve always been —

Probably the night after I did an interview with all five of them, and … nobody knew who they were. And we were gonna go to their hotel afterwards, and I had my two girlfriends, and the band pulled up in a cab, and — I think it was

Who exactly is your target audience? Who did you write for?

The AC/DC fans, because there’s billions of them, and they’re very dedicated, and they’re very supportive, and there’s a lot of great Facebook pages for the band. And I’m a fan, so it’s for me, too.

You know, I’m very honored to be able to do another book on one of my favorite bands in the whole world. They’re incredible, they deserve all the success that they have, and my book is a fun series of history and events —some of it I was lucky enough to be a part of, and if the fans are happy with it, and the band is happy with it — and if they’re not, I will definitely hear about it — I’ve done my job.

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THE BADGER HERALD · SPORTS · THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015

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Men’s, women’s tennis travel to B1G tournaments Wisconsin teams head to conference championships as eight, ten seeds with hopes of pulling off first round upsets in Illinois Photo · The Wisconsin men’s tennis team will open up the Big Ten tournament as the ninth seed. UW will take on eighth seed Iowa, who they narrowly lost to earlier in the season.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald

by Eric Goldsobel Tennis Writer

The Wisconsin men’s tennis team will have their sights set on redemption when they take to the courts this Thursday in the Big Ten tournament.

Renewing their rivalry with the neighboring Iowa Hawkeyes, a team which Wisconsin narrowly lost to 4-3 earlier this season, the Badgers have the chance to face a strong Illinois team who they had on the ropes this past Sunday should they beat Iowa.

The pressure is on for Wisconsin though, as they have only won three matches

OFFENSE, page 16 Jersey native will need to be bigger and better in his third season at Wisconsin. As in the past, the offense will roll through the running back spot and Clement will be carrying the load.

Behind Clement there are two viable options in redshirt junior Dare Ogunbowale and rising redshirt freshman Taiwan Deal.

Ogunbowale made the switch from defensive back to running back before the Bowling Green game last season and surprised everyone with 94 yards in his first appearance on offense. Ogunbowale ended the season with 193 yards on 34 carries (5.7 average) and a touchdown. Ogunbowale has more confidence now in his first full season at running back and is the leading candidate to back up Clement this season.

But pushing hard for the second running back spot is Deal, who has had a strong ending to spring practice.

Deal was battling for the third

since the loss to Iowa, going 3-10 in that span.

“The men are playing hard and looking to improve,” Wisconsin head coach Greg Van Emburgh said. “With the Big Ten tournament this weekend, hopefully we can win some matches and look to stay competitive.”

With desperation kicking in, it might be time for the Badgers to step their game up to keep their season alive.

Illinois delivered an outstanding performance keeping the Badgers at bay this past Sunday, but the effort and skill the players exerted to stay in competition may have elevated Wisconsin to a

running back spot as a true freshman last season before he injured his right hand in September, forcing him to take a redshirt. Because of the injury, Ogunbowale moved to running back, and both are battling for the second spot on the depth chart.

Redshirt freshman Caleb Kinlaw, redshirt sophomore Austin Ramesh and redshirt freshman Mark Saari fill out the rest of the running back unit for Wisconsin.

Fullback After missing part of last season with an injury, redshirt senior Derek Watt is back on the field for the Badgers at fullback.

In addition to his usual blocking duties, the versatile back can slide out to tight end to catch some passes. In his career, Watt has 15 receptions for 170 yards and a touchdown, but his most important responsibility will be paving the way for Clement and company in the backfield.

Ramesh will back up Watt at fullback along with redshirt

level of play that will allow them to defeat a tough Iowa team.

“I thought we were really competitive in doubles and in a couple of singles spots,” 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 right now.”

Coming off that 4-0 defeat to the No. 3 Illinois Fighting Illini, Wisconsin will look to recapture the confidence they exhibited in the game when they play in Thursday’s match.

senior Derek Straus and redshirt sophomore D.J. Spurling.

Wide Receiver Undoubtedly, the positon with the most question marks is at wide receiver. The wideouts struggled to show any signs of consistency last season, with now-redshirt senior Alex Erickson leading the way with 772 yards and three touchdowns on 55 receptions. After Erickson, tight end (Sam Arneson) and running back (Gordon) rounded out the top three receivers for the Badgers. Of the top six pass catchers last season, only Erickson and Kenzel Doe were wide receivers.

Erickson is back for his final season, and once again will hold the top wide receiver spot for the Badgers, as he did last season.

Behind Erickson, it’s up in the air — to say the least.

Junior Rob Wheelwright will be one player the coaching staff will call upon to step up next season. At 6-2, 201 pounds, Wheelwright has a good size for a wide receiver. He made the

Iowa finished the season at 13-10, going 4-7 in conference play, but are fresh off a 7-0 win against Chicago State.

“Wisconsin is a deep team that is very experienced and we expect another close match,” Illinois head coach Ross Wilson said.

With both teams expecting a close match, similar to the one earlier in the season, extra emphasis will be placed on Wisconsin’s top players Josef Dodridge and Jakhongir Jalalov to lead from the No. 1 and 2 spots.

Dodridge, a freshman, will be in his first Big Ten tournament, as will four of his fellow teammates. With a relative lack of experience on the Badgers’ side, only Thursday will tell if the team is ready to handle the pressure of these big matches.

The ninth-seed Badgers will take to the courts at the Atkins Tennis Center in Champaign, Illinois against the eighthseed Hawkeyes at 10 a.m.

Thursday.

Women’s Tennis

most of his one catch last season, hauling in a 17-yard touchdown pass against Minnesota.

Alongside Wheelwright is redshirt junior Reggie Love, who is even bigger than Wheelwright at 6-3, 214 pounds. Love is most remembered for his 45-yard touchdown run against LSU in the season opener last season, but then went on to catch only two passes for 15 yards the rest of the season.

Redshirt sophomore Jazz Peavy has made a name for himself in spring practices and is pushing for playing time at wide receiver. With no clear-cut favorite behind Erickson, the opportunity is there for Peavy to get into the rotation.

Redshirt senior Jordan Fredrick, who is better known for his blocking ability on the outside, reached the 100-yard plateau last season for the third straight season, with 12 catches for 117 yards.

As a freshman last season, George Rushing saw the most playing time at wide receiver among the freshman wideouts,

After ending the season with a tough loss to Purdue this past Sunday, the Wisconsin women’s tennis team will have a chance to redeem themselves at the Big Ten tournament at Northwestern as the 10th seed.

Through a hectic last day of regular season matches around the conference, it was decided that the Badgers and No. 38 Boilermakers will meet again this Thursday in the first round of the tournament.

“In a way, it’s annoying because we just played them,” Wisconsin head coach Tina Samara. “But at the same time, we just played them and we know exactly what to expect. We know what we’re up against, and I think we’ll do a better job.”

However, translating knowledge into success might be an uphill task.

The Badgers are just 1-8 on the season against ranked teams, consistently struggling against some of the NCAA’s best. Yet it’s noteworthy that four of the losses suffered in those matches came by margins of just 4-3 in the team score.

With such close defeats against similarly ranked opponents, the Badgers could prove to be very dangerous in this weekend’s tournament, despite holding the worst seed in the tournament.

But their first task at hand is the Boilermakers, and Wisconsin does not want to get ahead of itself.

Samara is looking to her older players to lead the team and regain their winning form, hoping that it will spark some of the younger players to follow suit. “[Lauren Chypyha] again did a great job at No. 1 this Sunday” Samara said. “I was really happy to see that and for her to play the game that she has had success with just being more aggressive and being more like herself.”

If Chypyha, who won her singles match in two sets (6-2, 6-3) against Purdue, can repeat her singles performance and then provide a better doubles showing, the Badgers will have a legitimate shot to win.

Doubles play will be key this weekend. While Wisconsin lost both the first and third matches in Sunday’s meet, if the Badgers can build upon their performances and win just two of those matches to secure the doubles point, it could inspire the form needed to win the meet.

If Wisconsin wins against Purdue they will then matchup against the No. 2 seed Ohio State Buckeyes, who are currently ranked No. 18 in the nation.

“We’ve struggled together and now we’re starting to build up. Hopefully we’ll do some damage,” sophomore Sydney Rider said.

Wisconsin and seventhseed Purdue will play at 2 p.m. at the Vandy Christie Tennis Center in Evanston, Illinois.

and had five catches for 62 yards. Sophomores Krenwick Sanders and Rushing are both promising wide receivers, who could push for added playing time with solid spring games and fall camps.

Wisconsin, Chryst heavily relied upon his tight ends to catch passes, which barring any sudden changes, shouldn’t change this season with Stave under center and Chryst calling the plays.

Tight End Wisconsin loses senior tight end Sam Arneson after he was the second-leading wide receiver on the team, with 29 catches, 387 yards and four touchdowns.

Filling in at starting tight end for Arneson will be redshirt sophomore Troy Fumagalli and fifth-year senior Austin Traylor.

Fumagalli will look to build on last season when he had 187 receiving yards on 14 receptions.

He has good size, standing at 6-foot-5 and 246 pounds. Traylor, the smaller of the two, had just three catches for 24 yards last season, but should complement Fumagalli nicely at tight end.

Regardless, the tight ends should see an increase in receptions this season with Chryst leading the offense.

As offensive coordinator for

Offensive Line The offensive line loses three starters from last season with the departure of right tackle Rob Havenstein, right guard Kyle Costigan and left guard Dallas Lewallen.

Returning to the offensive line is redshirt junior center Dan Voltz and fifth-year senior Tyler Marz. Entering last season, both Voltz and Marz were preseason all-Big Ten selections and will be relied upon to pave the way for Clement and keep Stave standing on his feet.

Filling in for the departed seniors is redshirt freshman Michael Deiter and fifth-year senior Ray Ball at guard and redshirt freshman Hayden Biegel — Wisconsin linebacker Vince Biegel’s brother — at right tackle.

Players to watch in Wisconsin’s Spring Game

by Dan Corcoran Sports Editor

In the grand scheme of things, the Wisconsin football team’s spring game Saturday is just a glorified practice.

But there will still be plenty on the line as the limelight shines on the Badgers for the first time leading up to the fall season.

With an influx of younger players, including several talented early enrollees, some players have more to prove come

Saturday than others.

Here’s who The Badger Herald sports department is keeping an eye on for the spring game, as players who could stand to gain or lose ground based on their performances Saturday.

TAIWAN DEAL | running back Deal is yet another of the redshirt freshmen making gains, as he has his sights set on the number two running back spot behind Corey Clement.

Deal certainly has the ability to be a top tier running back in a program known for turning out elite rushers.

He ran for 1,200 yards and

JOEL STAVE | quarterback

Stave has had a whirlwind

experience at quarterback since he first arrived on campus in the spring of 2011, and his starting spot looks like it could be under siege for the second straight season. Stave looks to be in line as the first string signal caller come next fall, but there are several other viable options behind him should his throwing issues from last season resurface.

That’s not to say Stave has to

have a breakout performance Saturday, but if he’s going to retain the top spot, he has to prove to new head coach Paul Chryst that he can be a reliable and efficient option under center. He’s shown he can throw the deep ball, but can he complete the short throws?

D.J. GILLINS | quarterback Speaking of threats to Stave, DJ Gillins might be the most likely candidate to do that. After sitting out last season, the redshirt freshman has spent most of his time this spring with the second team offense and

has shown some flashes of what made him a four-star recruit out of high school. If he showcases his dual-threat abilities Saturday, he could make a serious case to be in the starting quarterback conversation.

T.J. EDWARDS | linebacker Deal is yet another of the redshirt freshmen making gains, as he has his sights set on the number two running back spot behind Corey Clement.

Deal certainly has the ability to be a top tier running

back in a program known for turning out elite rushers.

He ran for 1,200 yards and 18 touchdowns as a senior and finished with more than 3,100 yards in his high school career, as the 2013 Maryland Gatorade Player of the Year.

18 touchdowns as a senior and finished with more than 3,100 yards in his high school career, as the 2013 Maryland Gatorade Player of the Year.

TANNER MCEVOY | safety Unlike last spring, McEvoy will not competing for a starting quarterback spot come Saturday. However, the question remains where exactly McEvoy will be used and how much he will be used. Most

of his time has been spent at safety, where he will most likely start this fall, and his 6-foot-6 frame will give much needed size to UW’s secondary.

He also could see some time at wide receiver where he has

already made an impact in several practices.

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UW looks to get back on track against Nebraska After two losses to Illinois last weekend, Wisconsin softball returns to Goodman Diamond for three-game series with Cornhuskers

by Jamie DeGraff Softball Writer

Following two consecutive narrow defeats to Illinois over the weekend, the Wisconsin softball team had to put their shot at redemption on hold until the weekend, after weather concerns cancelled Tuesday’s home doubleheader against Western Illinois.

In an attempt to ascend from the bottom of the Big Ten standings, Wisconsin (19-25, 3-11 Big Ten) will host power-heavy Nebraska (26-19, 12-5 Big Ten) in a three-game weekend series.

For Wisconsin to make a charge and better position themselves for a deep run in the upcoming Big Ten tournament, it will need an offensive jumpstart to help end their recent inconsistencies at the plate.

In the past 12 games, the Badgers managed to score 10 runs or more in three of their victories. In their defeats, however, they failed to bring home more than five runs on four different occasions.

Well aware of Nebraska’s offensive threats, Wisconsin head coach Yvette Healy emphasized the need for power hitting against the high-scoring competition

this season.

“People are scoring six plus runs a game in the Big Ten right now, which is crazy, I think, if you look at numbers,” Healy said.

“It used to be a two-toone ball game world, and now you’ve got to score six, eight, 10 runs to win a game, and you’ve got to hit the long ball, and that’s something that we’re committed to.”

Certainly not helping the cause for Wisconsin’s sporadic offense has been the lack of a power-hitting game. In their 44 games this season, the Badgers have only hit seven home runs combined with a measly .382 slugging percentage.

While Wisconsin boasts six players hitting .300 or higher to complement a team on-base percentage of .403, the lack of extra base hits has left the offense prone to stranding base runners and leaving scoring opportunities off the board.

On the contrary, Nebraska’s top power hitter alone, Kiki Stokes, already has 10 home runs.

Side-by-side with fellow slugger Marjani Knighten, the team’s leading hitter with a .439 batting average, the duo anchor a team with a formidable offensive lineup and a team-slugging percentage of .524.

Nebraska’s power-hitting prowess combined with Wisconsin’s vulnerability to the long ball (41 home runs allowed this season), could turn this weekend’s series into a slugfest for the Huskers if the Badgers’ pitching staff is off their game.

Wisconsin junior TaylorPaige Stewart is the probable starter for game one Friday. Appearing in 27 of 44 games, Stewart has thrown 52 percent of the team’s total innings of the season. While Stewart was rattled to the tune of 12 runs in her previous road outing, she has thrived at Goodman Diamond recently, including a two-run, 11-strikeout performance against Valparaiso earlier in the month.

Likely taking the mound against the Badgers in game one will be Emily Lockman, who has delivered a season very similar to Wisconsin’s Stewart up to this point.

Taking control as the team’s workhorse, Lockman has pitched over half of the Huskers’ total innings.

Despite racking up 12 losses, she has consistently done enough to support her offense and keep her team in games this season, tallying 14 victories in the process.

If the Badgers can find a

way out of their season-long power slump, Nebraska could be vulnerable, being a team that has given up 45 long balls already this season. If UW’s leading hitter Maria Van Abel (.393) and the rest of the starting lineup can continue to get on base consistently, opportunities to produce a game-changing home run should be plenty for Wisconsin this weekend.

Freshman Kelsey Jenkins could provide major problems for the Huskers’ pitching staff, as she finds

herself in the middle of an eight-game hitting streak. In the Illinois series alone, she totaled seven hits in three games, and has raised her average up to a respectable .322 on the season.

Healy believes it is all coming together for Jenkins, whose plate discipline has allowed her to reach major improvements at the plate.

“She is really coming along,” Healy said. “Kelsey has been a kid that has benefited from that, but now she is starting to swing the bat as well.”

Photo · Wisconsin junior pitcher Taylor-Paige Stewart will take the mound in Friday’s game against Nebraska, looking to get the Badgers back to their winning ways.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald The three-game series will begin Friday at 5 p.m. from Goodman Diamond.

Saturday’s game is at 2 p.m. before the series finale starts Sunday at noon.

Jenkins makes strides in first season at Wisconsin With loss of seniors, freshman infielder is in midst of strong debut year with power, good plate vision for struggling Badgers

by Derek Franklin Softball Writer

While this season has not proved as triumphant as last year for the Wisconsin softball team, the Badgers have many reasons to be optimistic about their future.

The biggest reason, however, is freshman Kelsey Jenkins.

After losing four key seniors from last year ’s team that recorded the second-most wins in school history, the 2015 Badgers have had to rely on multiple freshman to take on big roles — with Jenkins carrying possibly the heaviest load of them all.

The freshman third baseman has emerged as one of the team’s most dangerous hitters and has had a stellar first season at the plate thus far, hitting for a .322 batting average and leading the team in home runs with two.

As good as she has been all season, she has been even better as of late.

Jenkins was red hot last week against Green Bay and Illinois, hitting .500 with two home runs and nine RBIs over five games.

Following her hot hitting, Jenkins moved from second to cleanup in the batting order. Jenkins said that the move was a big confidence booster, but felt weird at first because she was never a power hitter in high school.

“I’ve never really hit fourth batter before,” Jenkins said. “It’s kind of like a confidence booster to stick a little five-five freshman in the four-hole and think that she’s going to do something. It’s been fun transforming into a power hitter.”

Wisconsin head coach

Yvette Healy spoke earlier this week of how impressed she’s been by Jenkins and how much potential for greatness the Tucson, Arizona native has.

“She is really coming along,” Healy said. “This weekend at Illinois she had a couple of home runs and she has really been on a tear the month of April — knock on wood — but it has been fun to see her come along and come into her own, and I think she is going to break

“ Kelsey is swinging a

really hot bat and I’m really proud of her.

Everything is mental and she has so much potential, and I know she’s going to do great

”

things at Wisconsin.

Marissa Mersch Wisconsin outfielder

a lot of offensive records.”

Healy also noted that when she recruited Jenkins out of Arizona, she was drawn to her eye at the plate in addition to her slugging ability.

Jenkins leads the team with 36 walks this season, 11 more than Chloe Miller, who is second on the team with 25 walks.

“She just looked like a freshman that knew how to take a lot of walks early in the season,” Healy said of Jenkins. “She has got a great eye.”

Jenkins said Healy and assistant coach Randy Schneider ’s positive coaching style played a big role in her decision to go across the country to come play softball at Wisconsin.

“Coach Healy and Coach Schneider are so positive

and fun, and it’s great to play under coaches who always believe that you’re the best player,” Jenkins said.

“They’re always chanting like, ‘Come on!

You’re the best! You’re the best!’ and it’s very positive hearing that when you step in the batter ’s box.”

Jenkins is also fortunate to have senior star outfielder Marissa Mersch as a teammate who she can learn from. Mersch, who is second on the team this year in RBIs and batting average, was a large contributor as a freshman as well.

Back in 2012, Mersch started 32 games for the Badgers, stealing seven bases and tying for first in triples in Big Ten single-season play.

According to Mersch, the biggest difference she noticed between high school and college games was how much work was needed in order to be successful.

“Coming in freshman year is a lot different than high school ball and travel ball,” Mersch said. “You have to put a lot more work into it, doing film, meeting with coaches, doing all those extra things.”

However, if anyone can handle that

Photo · After losing four key seniors from last season’s team, Kelsey Jenkins has stepped up as a freshman for the Wisconsin softball team. The Arizona native is currently batting .322 with a team-high 36 walks.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald

transition, Mersch believes it’s Jenkins. Mersch agrees with her coach, saying that Jenkins has what it takes to be special.

“Kelsey is swinging a really hot bat and I’m really proud of her,” Mersch said.

“Everything is mental and

she has so much potential, and I know she’s going to do great things at Wisconsin.”

As Jenkins continues to draw high expectations, the grounded freshman is still concerned about improving at “the little things,” which

would explain why one of her goals this season is to bunt for a hit at least once.

While she’s is still aiming to master a bunt, it’s safe to say that she has certainly gotten the whole college softball thing down pretty quickly.

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Wisconsin’s Shelton ‘back to having fun’ in third season UW cornerback struggled through sophmore slump, ready to come back strong, take more risks under new head coach Paul Chryst

by Chris Bumbaca Associate Sports Editor

Sojourn Shelton wasn’t having fun anymore.

In fact, the 2014 season wasn’t fun for him at all.

Last fall, the rising junior cornerback for the Wisconsin football team underwent what everyone had warned him about and what he had feared most: a sophomore slump.

In preparation for the next season, Shelton is back to focusing on what made him fall in love with the game in the first place.

“I think I got away from that last year, and that’s what I’m back to doing now,” Shelton said. “Just back to having fun, understanding this is what I love to do and I’m happy to be out here.”

Shelton, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida native, broke out in a big way during his freshman

Photo · Wisconsin junior cornerback Sojourn Shelton has found renewed confidence with a new coaching staff after struggling last season as a sophomore.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald

season. Following the 2013 season, he earned Honorable Mention all-Big Ten honors from the conference’s media members after finishing third in the Big Ten with four interceptions.

His impressive first season landed him on the cover of Varsity Magazine last August with volleyball’s Lauren Carlini and men’s basketball’s Nigel Hayes, two other sophomore stars looking to repeat their success. The magazine’s title was “What’s Next.”

What was next for Carlini? Big Ten Player of the Year honors. What was next for Hayes? Being the third-leading scorer for the national runner-ups.

What was next for Shelton was less than ideal. Just as quickly as he shone, he faded.

That fall season Shelton intercepted zero balls, got beat deep a few too many times and committed a slough of penalties.

“I just had a lot of things cluttering my mind last year,” Shelton said.

There was a lot of hype to live up to.

“Coming off a strong freshman year, hearing everybody say, ‘Sophomore slump this and that,’” Shelton said. “I think, more than

anything, that I didn’t know how to handle that. You come in as a freshman and kind of have the season that I did have, you don’t know how to handle criticism.”

Shelton is the first to acknowledge the regression from his freshman campaign.

The lowest point for Shelton was the Bowling Green game on Sept. 20 last season, when he was beat over the top several times. He said that game was the worst game of his entire life.

“I had to sit there and that [criticism] and continue to improve,” Shelton said.

“But Bowling Green was that game where I said, ‘Oh no, this isn’t what I imagined at all.’

“I’m happy I went through it. And I’m happy to be where I’m at now.”

The change in coaching staff has helped Shelton as well. Now, Shelton and the other cornerbacks are in the same meeting room as the safeties - something they didn’t do last last season and it’s given him a renewed confidence this spring.

It also helps that the secondary is returning nearly every starter, as fifthyear seniors safety Michael Caputo and cornerback Darius Hillary are back and fifth-year senior Tanner McEvoy, who’s played in the secondary before, is expected to start at the other safety spot, Shelton said.

His defensive coordinator, Dave Aranda, said Shelton’s confidence is visible on the field, but stressed his currently high caliber of play

must translate into the season and the big moment.

“This is three weeks of spring ball. At his position on this team, that doesn’t make a hill of beans right now, and he knows that,” Aranda said.

“It’s a work in progress, but he has played really well, so I’m happy for him. There’s a confidence and a swagger coming back to him.”

The defense, and specifically Shelton, has been given the green light to make aggressive plays on the ball this spring.

“We’re taking risks, but we’re taking smarter risks and we know when to take them,” Shelton said. “We’re just making plays on the ball, which is great to see.”

Shelton brought up two plays: one on the road at Iowa and one at Northwestern, where he dropped potential interceptions. He said he hopes his aggressiveness will bring back trust in his abilities to allow him to make those plays on the ball.

When the secondary unit concluded its cool-down exercises after practice last Friday, its members shouted one word.

“Ballhawks!”

“Our whole motto is ... overall is just about getting the football, attacking the football,” Shelton said.

Photo · Shelton, who has practiced in spring as the team’s punt returner, is ready to bounce back in his third season at Wisconsin.

Erik Brown The Badger Herald Shelton’s contributions to the team may not solely be on the defensive side of the ball this upcoming season.

At the end of practice, Shelton began fielding punts, something he did in high school. With the departure of Kenzel Doe, who returned punts for Wisconsin last season, Wisconsin is in the midst of finding a new punt returner.

“People haven’t seen what I can do with the ball in my hands,” Shelton said with a grin on his face.

Shelton’s step back last season opened his eyes to the broader life lessons football instills in young men.

“It’s going to teach how to handle when things aren’t going your way, how you keep continuing to press forward and do your job?”

Shelton said. “I think that’s what my learning experience has been so far.”

If anything, Shelton plans on smiling a lot more this season.

Spring Game: What to watch from UW’s offense In post-Melvin Gordon era, Wisconsin offense looks to address questions at quarterback, wide receiver with new face to lead running backs

by Eric Kohlbeck Sports Content Editor

One of the best players in Wisconsin football history is gone.

After his record-setting junior season, Melvin Gordon is left for the NFL, leaving behind a huge shoe to fill for running back for Wisconsin.

Additionally, the Badgers are looking to see improvement at the quarterback position and the wide receivers are also continuing to search for the next playmaker.

All of these additions and subtractions are getting ironed out in Wisconsin’s spring practices, which will come to an end Saturday with the annual Spring Game.

Here’s what to expect from the offense in Wisconsin’s Spring Game: Quarterback In terms of numbers, the quarterback position for Wisconsin is one of the deepest on the team. As far as talent?

Well, that remains to be seen.

Fifth-year senior Joel Stave was named the starting quarterback at the beginning of spring practices and it’s his job to lose. After an early battle with the “yips” last season, Stave came back to start the final nine games at quarterback, throwing eight touchdowns and seven interceptions with a 53.4 completion percentage.

The backup spot behind

Stave is less clear and far less experienced.

Two quarterbacks, redshirt freshman D.J. Gillins and earlyenrollee Alex Hornibrook have been most impressive through spring practices and are certainly in the mix for the second-string quarterback spot.

Gillins, who enrolled early last season as a true freshman, has shown an increase in velocity and precision on his passes and the continued ability to escape the pocket and run.

Hornibrook, who originally was committed to Pittsburgh, but came to Wisconsin once head coach Paul Chryst signed on, has been a surprise this spring. Many didn’t expect the left-handed pocket passer to contend for the backup spot, but Hornibrook has shown the ability to compete at the collegiate level early on, and is pushing for more reps.

Redshirt junior Bart Houston may be the most intriguing option in the quarterback group.

A four-star recruit out of high school, Houston has yet to find playing time while in Madison.

But with Chryst at the helm — who recruited the Californian to Wisconsin – Houston has seen some first team reps in practice.

With a strong spring game and fall camp, Houston could find his way toward the top of the depth chart as well.

Arguably the most prized recruit in the 2015 class is Utahnative quarterback Austin Kafentzis. The 6-foot-1 true

freshman, like Hornibrook, enrolled early to get a feel for things at the college level.

While Kafentzis might be lower on the depth chart once the season begins, the promise and talent is certainly there for the dual-threat quarterback.

Breaking numerous Utah high school records, Kafentzis threw for 13,079 yards and 115

touchdowns, and ran for 6,942 yards and 103 touchdowns in his career at Jordan High School in Sandy, Utah.

Redshirt sophomore Thad Armstrong and redshirt sophomore Connor Senger round out the seven-man quarterback group.

Running Back

The post-Melvin Gordon era is officially underway at Wisconsin with junior running back Corey Clement leading the charge. It’s no secret that Clement has big shoes to fill in Madison and after a 949-yard, nine-touchdown sophomore season, the Glassboro, New

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Photo · After a strong sophomore season, Wisconsin junior running back Corey Clement is taking over for the Badgers with the departure of Melvin Gordon to the NFL. Herald File Photo The Badger Herald