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KRISKOVA KEEPS “KILLING” IT Following a bike accident that required a year of recovery and rehab, redshirt junior Romana Kriskova is finding success on the court for the Wisconsin volleball team.

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Madtown Crier Madtown refuses to slow down. Here are some upcoming events The Badger Herald recommends to keep you up to speed.

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Friday 10/16

DIIV at Majestic, 8 p.m., $15

Peaches at Majestic, 9 p.m., $18 in advance

The Pine Barrens at High Noon, 6 p.m., $5

Houses in Motion — Talking Heads Tribute at High Noon, 10 p.m., $7

Wednesday 10/14 Disclosure at Orpheum, 8 p.m., $35 in advance

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Corb Lund and The Hurtin’ Albertans at High Noon, 8 p.m., $15 in advance

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Thursday 10/15 The Underachievers at Majestic, 9 p.m., $18 in advance

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Lecture series brings George L. Mosse’s voice, passion back to UW The Humanities Building namesake studied, taught about ideology, mass movements, foundations of facisism, modern anti-Semitism

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When he died in 1999, George L. Mosse’s friends and colleagues wanted to name the Humanities Building after him — even if he wasn’t known to like the building very much. But the chairman of the University of Wisconsin history department at the time knew Mosse appreciated a good joke, Mosse’s friend and UW history professor emeritus Stanley Payne said. And so the UW System Board of Regents approved dedicating the building after him, honoring the legacy he left behind as a professor with personality and a big voice. Mosse, a “legendary professor” and historian, will be honored again through an online course that will focus on the rise of mass movements and fascism in the 20th century, John Tortorice, director of the George L. Mosse program at UW, said. The courses will simulate what it was like to be in one of Mosse’s classrooms. Tortorice said the “What History Tells” lectures, offered through the Division of Continuing Studies, are a series of lectures on mass movements and how ideology works, ideological foundations of fascism, modern anti-Semitism and racism. Mosse was born in 1918 to an affluent, uppermiddle class Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. Tortorice said Mosse’s parents owned a good

portion of the media in Berlin — something Adolf Hitler despised — leading to his denouncing of the Mosse family 14 times before becoming Chancellor. In 1933, the Mosse family was exiled and forced to leave Germany. “He really wanted to forget Germany and, in a sense, de-Germanize himself and to immerse himself in British history,” Payne said. “This [Britain] was his new home. So he worked the field of early modern English cultural and intellectual history for the first 10 years of his active career.” After leaving Germany, he attended a Quaker school in England before enrolling in Cambridge University, Payne said. But while visiting his sister in 1939, Mosse got news of the war breaking out in Europe, which Payne said conflicted with his educational aspirations since German nationals like Mosse weren’t allowed in the UK. So Mosse moved to the U.S., finished his bachelor’s degree at Haverford College near Philadelphia and completed his graduate degree at Harvard University. Payne said Mosse began his teaching career at University of Iowa in 1944. Continuing to distance himself from his German ties, he worked in the field of early modern English history. Mosse developed his reputation as an outstanding teacher at Iowa where he was one of the most popular professors in the history

Photos · After the legendary professor’s death, his family and friends decided to name a campus structure after him. Right: Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons Katie Cooney The Badger Herald department, Payne said. It was when he came to UW in 1955, Payne said, that Mosse began wanting to look more toward his roots. Mosse wanted to go back into German history to investigate German culture and what made the rise of Nazism possible. “I think what the course does well is highlight the passing of a generation,” course instructor Skye Doney said. “This sort of idealistic, European generation whose idealism comes into conflict with this extreme violence of the First World War. So it’s a society that’s reeling in the midst of financial, ongoing conflict, and domestic violence. There’s something to that today.” Tortorice said Mosse viewed history as a method that was most real in its teaching. But he also had great belief in the power of history to transform people’s lives to help them shape

their future. Mosse viewed teaching history as a way of bringing awareness and sparking students to engage in the world, Tortorice said. Payne said Mosse didn’t mind when his student disagreed with him. In fact, usually Mosse’s students were not all of the same political opinion. “Above all, he wanted to get them in the habit of asking questions — questioning established practices and prejudices and learning to think for themselves,” Payne said.

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Scientists develop brain-like material to improve drug testing safety UW researchers produce structure that has potential to replace animal experimentation, replicate toxicity to make tests more realistic by Kiyoko Reidy City Editor

University of Wisconsin scientists have created a structure that mimics brain function and may be used to determine the safety of pharmaceutical drugs and industrial chemicals. Using a hydrogel, a gel-like substance that readily absorbs water and stem cells, UW and Morgridge Institute for Research scientists have been able to successfully create cellular structures that mimic how brain tissue functions, Michael Schwartz, an assistant scientist in biomedical engineering at UW, said. The program is called the “Tissue Chip” program, and in addition to UW, there are 10 other universities working on the project. The goal is to create various types of human tissues in order to create better methods of screening pharmaceutical drugs, William Murphy, co-director of the UW Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, said.

This research is part of a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, Murphy said. “The goal is to create various types of human tissues and then connect them to one another in a way that would be similar to how they connect in the body,” he said. Scientists know very little about what chemicals are toxic to the human brain, and even less about how various chemicals affect a developing human brain, Schwartz said. Since tissues cannot grow independently, there was no way to study neurotoxicity in a lab. Much of the research done in the past was on those who had already been unwittingly affected by toxic chemicals, he said. The new process will allow scientists to test drugs that are undergoing screening as well as industrial chemicals — many of which are never tested for toxicity on the developing human brain. The structure created at UW is superior to previous structures because

it is reproducible, Schwartz said. In past experiments, many of the tissues had to be kept in very specific conditions and would often not form the same way every time. In order for the tissues to work well as part of a drug testing process, all of the tissue samples needed to be uniform. “Our procedure was developed to overcome this,” Schwartz said. “We are using a synthetic material that we know is chemically the same every single time, and we can make hundreds of tissues.” In order to test their structure in terms of how well it can reveal neurotoxicity, Schwartz and his team gathered 70 different chemicals. Some of these chemicals were known to be toxic, and some were nontoxic. They used 60 of these chemicals to build their model, by exposing the tissue to them and then looking at the tissue’s responses. They used the final 10 chemicals to test the accuracy of their model. Based on the response from the tissue, they were able to correctly determine the toxicity or nontoxicity of nine out of the 10 chemicals. “We are very happily surprised. Our

initial goal was 70 percent accuracy,” Schwartz said. “We never had any expectations one way or the other whether we’d be able to achieve that. We were shooting for 70 percent because that’s about the level of prediction that you can get if you use multiple animal studies.” This type of drug testing could eventually appease those against the experimental use of animals by replacing animal testing during drug screening processes, Murphy said. Though the initial testing has offered encouragement, the testing and development is far from complete, Schwartz said. Currently, the team is still working to validate this test as a model. Creating larger systems where different types of bodily tissue is connected would give scientists a better idea of how toxins affect the body holistically, Murphy said. “These applications are really exciting and could be enabling in a variety of ways,” Murphy said. “There’s a whole lot we can understand by creating tissues in a dish.”

Experts weigh in on use of defendent-risk tool for sentencing Instrument uses variety of factors to determine person’s risk to society, professors say it may put right to due process in jeopardy by Margaret Duffey State Editor

The Wisconsin Supreme Court may review the constitutionality of a tool used by state judges to help determine the level of risk a defendant poses to a community. After receiving a six-year prison sentence for stealing a car and fleeing from an officer in his 2013 case, Eric Loomis appealed because the judge sentencing him cited a Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanction assessment that deemed him likely to commit another crime — making him a poor candidate for pro bation. The appeals court struggled with two areas where it thought the instrument may infringe on the rights of defendants and requested the state Supreme Court rule on its constitutionality. First, defendants currently cannot challenge the scientific basis of the conclusions the assessment reaches. Additionally, it uses gender as a determinant of risk level. Jeremy Newman, University of Wisconsin Law School professor, said in an email

to The Badger Herald that technically, COMPAS is not meant to sway a sentencing decision by a judge. Instead, the riskassessment tool was designed to help the Department of Corrections determine what level of supervision a defendant should receive. But he said the findings may impact a sentencing when a judge fears exposing communities to a danger. “A main factor at sentencing is protection of the public and if judges think the COMPAS results show that an offender is ‘high risk,’ it’s not a stretch to think that judges are sentencing people more harshly than necessary based on a software tool that isn’t designed to be used by judges to sentence people,” Newman said. UW Law School professor Michele Lavigne said in an email to The Badger Herald while there is “nothing wrong” with helping judges make informed decisions, COMPAS relies on “static factors beyond the control of the defendant” when determining appropriate prosecutions. She cited the parents of the defendants’ education and imprisonment records as examples. Lavigne said the assessment often favors

wealthier people while it is “suspected” to over-label minority citizens as high risk. She said the use of factors like gender and socio-economic status by COMPAS are “unconstitutional” under federal law. According to Lavigne, the use of these guidelines impact “individualized sentencing.” “What we’re talking about is sentencing a human being based on some kind of statistical analysis that supposedly tells us whether the individual is likely to re-offend,” Lavigne said. “And that determination is based on characteristics of other people (those in the study group).” She said Northpointe, COMPAS’ owner, refuses to release the risk-assessment tool’s “underlying methodology.” While other companies have provided the background for their risk-assessment tools, Wisconsin uses COMPAS without it. Lavigne said this means it fails to abide by “psychological principles and ethics,” even though it has been administered 50,000 times for both the Department of Corrections and courts. “This means we have no idea about the validity of the methodology and no idea

whether the risk classification is in any way reliable,” she said. Lavigne said COMPAS was introduced only two years ago and its use has spread across the state. She said currently the question is whether or not Northpointe will release its methodology and if it does not, what instrument may replace it. Donald Downs, a UW political science professor, said discontinued use of COMPAS will likely not have a major impact on the state unless it came with retroactive effects. He said if the invalidation of the assessment tool leads to retroactive effects, outcomes of cases that used the instrument in the past two years could be altered by the change. Downs said while COMPAS is meant to function as a guide for judges by limiting the ability of defendants to question the viability of the assessments, judgement may also be swayed to rely more heavily on them. “You want this sort of software to be a guide,” Downs said. “You don’t want it to direct outcomes. You want it to inform outcomes.” Editor’s note: Donald Downs has served as a Badger Herald adviser. October 13, 2015 • badgerherald.com • 7

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Garage Physics helps undergradutes become inventors, innovators Program offers tools, materials, guidance to help students gain needed skills for graduate school, future professional work by Teymour Tomsyck City Editor

In lab B613 beneath Sterling Hall, dozens of students are working to create their own experimental machines with the help of physics professor Duncan Carlsmith and the Garage Physics program. Supported by the University of Wisconsin physics department, Garage Physics provides an unstructured lab environment with the necessary resources students need to create their very own prototype. The program has facilitated a range of projects, from a balloon measuring cosmic radiation and a mind-controlled quadcopter, to more practical ones such as a device to monitor weightlifting form. Brett Unks, a program facilitator, said the Garage is currently working on projects including a watt balance with an extremely precise scale and an advanced tool used to cut material. Unks procures material and equipment for Garage users. The Garage is a dense sprawl of

workbenches, tools and wires attached to a neat office with chalkboards and desk space for project planning. Ian Wisher, a graduate student and lab assistant, said that unlike Carlsmith, he focuses more on developing useful skills students will need to create devices later on. Wisher focuses on the technical skills students need if they wish to become graduate students in the physics department or plan on working on projects following graduation. So, students participate in workshops where they learn soldering techniques, wiring skills and mathematical projections. Wisher said right now, students are working on a Fizeau-Foucault apparatus, a device used to measure the speed of light. He said the project is useful as it has many different components requiring different skills. “There’s a data acquisition part, an optics part [and] a mechanical part, so it has the range of different skills required to actually build a full experiment,” Wisher said. Any UW student can use the facilities

to pursue any project they wish and are also encouraged to form interdisciplinary entrepreneurial teams, Carlsmith said. The program provides research and development support leading up to possible business opportunities for these teams, he said. Some of the projects that have come out of Garage Physics have already evolved into viable business endeavors. Daniel Litvak, a senior majoring in computer sciences at UW, used Garage Physics to help him realize his idea for a workout monitor. He said he joined the program in January by himself and was able to create a working prototype for his startup business, Weightup Solutions. Through the program he was awarded a $1,000 grant to help acquire the material he needed. Having a prototype helped Litvak get accepted into the gBETA program run by the startup accelerator Gener8ator, which provides free mentorship to early stage Wisconsin startups. Litvak said the equipment and space provided by the program were helpful, and he met with Carlsmith almost weekly during development. “He provided guidance on different ideas on how to accomplish tracking weightlifting,” Litvak said. “[There are] different ways of going about it, from using an Xbox Kinect, accelerometer or magnetometer.”

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He said his product provides information on how form changes during different points of a weightlifting workout through wearable hardware. It can also track balance information, such as which arm is being favored during a benchpress set. Two companies were launched through Garage Physics last spring, according to Carlsmith. He said they were supported through mini grants, such as the one received by Litvak from VentureWell, which works to promote science and technology inventions. Other projects facilitated by Garage Physics include a high altitude balloon which used an app to measure the flux of cosmic radiation, 3D printed instruments, a methane digester and a 3D scanner. The program started in 2014, and current projects underway include cell phone-based virtual reality and a smart mirror. “Teams explore a project and not just try to build something fun, but also see what kind of value it has,” Carlsmith said.

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Pharmacy garden repurposes old curriculum for modern pursuits Pharmacists today study plants in plot created 125 years ago, compare current medicine with botanical remedies by Anne Blackbourn Campus Editor

More than 100 years ago, eager young pharmacy students cultivated medicinal plants for the purpose of analyzing and studying their pharmaceutical properties. Now those same plants serve a different purpose. Just outside the Pharmacy building sits a little garden that almost looks like its part of the landscaping. But this garden isn’t just meant to be aesthetically pleasing. Instead, it’s meant to signify a connection to the original botanicallyfocused foundation of pharmaceutical studies. While medicinal plants in gardens may have been used for students to study in the past, today’s medicinal gardens like University of Wisconsin’s showcase medicinal plants that have become commercial products, former UW School of Pharmacy Dean Jeanette Roberts said. The garden signifies much older days of studying medicinal plants, Roberts said. “The history of pharmacy is in large part linked to medicinal plants, we wanted to honor that history as well as provide a teaching tool for students about that history,” Roberts said. Some of the plants that may be seen displayed

in the garden include prescription drugs, and others are plants that may fall under the dietary supplement category like black cohosh, Roberts said. These days, the garden provides a way to give students a chance to understand and investigate the history of pharmacy and these plant’s uses in the past, Gregory Higby, executive director of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, said. Students may investigate the history of the plants and understand their purpose, Higby said. Some of the projects students have been working on in the pharmacy school also deal with natural products, he said. Higby said students can use these medicinal plants to compare herbal remedies to prescription drugs. “One student came up with a guide to herbal remedies that was completely in Spanish and gave it out for free,” Higby said. “It’s important to have a guide like this to know how herbal remedies and prescription drugs may affect one another.” Previously, pharmacy students used to actually conduct studies of medicinal plants as a mandatory part of their education.

About 125 years ago, students collected medicinal plants from the wild and would study them to make sure they knew what they looked like, Higby said. Students would also often use these plants in experiments to make fluid extracts, as well as view slices of the plants under microscopes. But over the years, pharmacy schools shifted from studying these medicinal plants to studying more pharmaceutical drugs. Only a few medicinal plants remain relevant and important to studies conducted today, Higby said. “The transition away from these kinds of drugs started about 100 years ago, then really picked up speed in the 1930s,” Higby said. “By the ‘40s, there are very few medicinal plants that are used anymore and after World War II, [students] pretty much stopped learning this.” Though times have changed and pharmacy studies have shifted away from studying medicinal plants, around 12 plants still continue to be important in today’s research, offering a glimpse of what once was the focus of pharmacy studies.

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Neutron accelerator’s versatility will make for better patient care Phoenix Nuclear Labs president, alum Ross Radel said UW professors inspired the idea by Gerald Porter Campus Editor

With the power to create nuclear fusion as well as breakthroughs in the medical field, engineers at Phoenix Nuclear Labs look to make a difference with their high power neutron accelerator. PNL — created by University of Wisconsin graduate Gregory Piefer — has already begun to sell their systems commercially, delivering their accelerator this past April to the UK, PNL president Ross Radel said. This accelerator was in the works for five years, with its first patents submitted in 2008. Piefer, PNL’s founder, said the idea for a high power accelerator such as this one first began when he was in his Ph.D. program at UW. “I had some really inspirational folks

teaching me,” Piefer said. “They taught me you can use nuclear fusion to make money today and by making money today you can use it to make better technology tomorrow.” What makes their accelerator unique is its power, Radel said. This technology accelerates deuterium ions to 300,000 volts, smashing those ions into other ions that then produce a neutron. Radel said one of the aspects of the accelerator that differentiates it the most is its ability to utilize an accelerated ion beam that runs into a target, which creates nuclear fusion. This, in turn, creates neutrons. For a better understanding, Piefer said this process can be compared to alchemy, which turns lead into gold. Like alchemy, this accelerator causes nuclear fusion, turning elements into neutrons, Piefer said.

“Neutrons have a lot of value, so effectively it’s allowing us to make raw materials that are here on earth and turn them into neutrons to make something more valuable,” Piefer said. One example of how this technology is used in the field is to take images — much like x-rays. But unlike rays, it sees light material buried within heavy material, Piefer said. This is called a neutron radiograph, which is used by a wide range of industries for the inspection of composite material, Piefer said. But one of the uses that Radel said could have the most impact is as a medical isotope. Shine Medical Technologies, a spinoff of PNL also based in Madison, is using the accelerators built at PNL to make these medical isotopes. Radel said the isotopes Shine produces can be used to do cancer screenings, heartrelated screenings and medical diagnostics.

“We are doing something that is actually going to help people in the real world, and not every engineer gets to do that,” Radel said. Currently, Piefer said, there is an old reactor in Canada, which produces a large amount of medical isotopes used to meet the needs of U.S. patients for procedures such as stress tests and bone scans. But in the next couple of years, this reactor will be shutting down and Phoenix technology will take its place. The accelerator created in PNL has the ability to meet the needs of millions of patients in the U.S., Piefer said. This technology allows for mass quantities of isotopes to be created without the need for a reactor, thus ensuring that patients’ needs are met. “I always hoped it would succeed and that’s why you do this stuff; you dream big and go after it,” Piefer said.

On brink of flu season, lawmaker challenges required vaccinations Republican-proposed legislation would make it illegal for employment to be contingent on influenza shots by Vidushi Saxena Contributor

While many students are rushing to receive their free shots from University Health Services before they are hit by the brunt of flu season, one Wisconsin lawmaker is putting his foot down against required vaccinations. Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R-Fond du Lac, proposed a bill that will make it illegal for employers to fire employees for not getting a flu vaccination. The law states an employer can mandate their employees to get the flu vaccine or fire them for not doing so, Hariah Hutkowski, Thiesfeldt’s spokesperson, said. Currently, only people with medical and religious excuses may be exempt. The bill states people should be able to choose if they want the vaccine or not, without being fired for their decision, Hutkowski said. “We have to remember every person should have the personal freedom to make their own health care decisions,” Hutkowski said. Getting a flu vaccination is a condition

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of employment at some organizations, making it a legitimate reason to fire someone for not doing so, Hutkowski said. This means the individual cannot claim unemployment if they are fired. Currently, only health care organizations have made flu vaccinations mandatory for employees and in some cases, employees of associated businesses, Hutkowski said. Agnesian HealthCare is one such organization. Steve Little, president and CEO of Agnesian HealthCare, said 99.5 percent employees get the vaccine because of this. Agnesian HealthCare made the vaccine mandatory because more than 10 percent of its employees elected not to get the vaccine unless their employment depended on it, Little said. Up to 60 percent of employees would voluntarily get vaccinated during this time. After making the vaccine mandatory, the organization made the vaccine available for free to employees, increasing the rate of vaccinated employees to 99.5 percent. “We made it available for free, and they took it upon themselves because they

believed it could help to do that,” Little said. Some health care organizations such as Meriter, University of Wisconsin Health and ThedaCare allow exemption based on personal reasons, Hutkowski said. The bill does not condemn organizations that encourage — but do not force — their employees to get vaccinated. It also targets all kinds of organizations and employers, he said. Hutkowski said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the flu vaccine was only 23 percent effective in 2014, and even in years when the correct strain is predicted, the vaccine is only 60 percent effective. But Little said there is data indicating otherwise. There were fewer influenzarelated deaths in Fond du Lac County, where Agnesian HealthCare is based, as a result of the mandatory vaccinations. The vaccine is far from perfect and has different levels of effectiveness each year, he said, but not having it at all could make everyone more susceptible to contracting influenza. “If we saved one life as a result of

[mandatory flu vaccinations], then we believe that that’s worth some of the consternation that it causes with some of our associates,” Little said. Hutkowski said mandating vaccinations could create a hole in the workforce for organizations because some people do not want to take them. He said it is also not possible for such organizations, especially hospitals, to control every visitor to their patients. Hutkowski said the bill is moving ahead in state Senate discussions this year and has been discussed with Wisconsin Hospital Association’s representatives. He said these representatives will hopefully try to persuade their members not to mandate flu vaccinations, but simply encourage them. “Essentially, it’s a personal liberty discussion that everyone should have the ability to say, ‘No, I don’t want that medical treatment on myself to keep my job,’” Hutkowski said. Lawmakers involved with the bill are currently waiting for the Wisconsin Hospital Associations representatives’ response.

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WUD Film committee to bring socially conscious films to UW’s cinematic desert Directors of student-run organization hope to expand line-up with movies featuring cultural diversity, fishnets by Fiona Beamish Crouthamel ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

The isthmus can often seem like a desolate wasteland for good films. The last freshly released film to play near campus showed in 2009. But budget-conscious film buffs need not fear, WUD Film committee has compiled a fall lineup that will bring cultural diversity, fishnets and sneak previews to campus this year. The student-run committee is working to yet again enrich the University of Wisconsin campus with free films that are guaranteed to facilitate deep discussions about race, stimulate the viewer ’s inner cinephile and test the societal norms of how best to rock six-inch heels. It all starts Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m., when WUD Film will screen their free sneak preview of Aaron Sorkin’s much anticipated film, “Steve Jobs.” Associate Director of HollyWUD programming Elliot Poh takes a large part in bringing the lineup together. He is

charged with talking to big name media corporations to bring films and sneak previews to the Union. “Historically, we’ve been working with studios to get the sneak previews,” Poh said. “So they already know that we have the ability [and] we have the experience.” It’s this type of collaboration that has made WUD film a successful and wellknown platform for cinema, and it’s why Poh urges getting to the theatre more than half an hour before show time, to ensure a sneak preview seat. Cinema, contextualized Sophomore James LaPierre, the associate director for Alternate Programming, loves watching all types of movies. He’s part of a Facebook message group that organizes movie outings in Sun Prairie, and last week they saw Denis Villeneuve’s “Sicario.” But his interest this season focuses on the committee’s push for diversity in their film selection.

“This year our big focus in the entire committee is implementing diversity into our programming,” LaPierre said. “So not only picking films that we really like or want to see, but films that represent all gender, sexuality, race [and] religion.” Diversity in terms of race is something the committee addressed at their meeting Monday night, when “Straight Outta Compton” was brought up for a group vote. “We try our best to show films that are diverse,” Poh said. “Although researching it, I’m really uncomfortable with the idea of celebrating a group that has such a misogynist history.” Poh was referring to the film’s omission of Dr. Dre’s history of violence and abuse against women he’s been involved with. But the full committee decided to add the film to their lineup, opting to add a discussion portion to the showing on diversity and give the film a cultural context. Bring out the fishnets

And it wouldn’t be a fall lineup if the film committee didn’t include any horror cult classics. Austin Wellens, director of WUD Film, has been working to bring a big production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” to campus — and it looks like he’s going to pull it off. Wellens has been collaborating with “Performing Arts,” the Union Theatre and Sex Out Loud to turn the “Rocky Horror” screening into a big event — and hopefully a tradition — on Halloween weekend. “I couldn’t be more excited about it, because we’ve got a shadow cast and we’ve got the big theatre, so we can actually make it a big event,” Wellens said. Those looking for some whacky, raunchy fun this Halloween weekend are encouraged to join Wellens and other members of the film committee at the “Rocky Horror” showing. He’ll be the one wearing a corset, fishnets, heels and tuxedo, he said.

Sci-fi podcast leaps from headphones to stage ‘Welcome to Night Vale’ brings bizarre to life, denounces murderers in interactive performance by Alice Vagun ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Listeners of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale can usually remove their headphones when events turn spooky. But for the Barrymore audience of the show’s live performance Oct. 8, their only option was turning to their companions. A podcast narrated as a radio show, Welcome to Night Vale reports bizarre events that occur in the fictional community of the same name. Created in 2012 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, it has since garnered a strong following, becoming one of iTunes’ most downloaded podcasts. According to Night Vale’s narrator Cecil Baldwin, the creators took a lot of inspiration for the program from listening to late-night community radio shows and hearing about the weird incidents that were occurring around the country. Baldwin found the lack of visual elements from the podcast as a way to invest more in the words. “The idea is to look at a town where the people look at everyday objects like everyday

things, and make them bizarre,” Baldwin said. “We desensitize ourselves to really strange things that occur in our own communities, accepting them as what they are, thus creating a parallel to illuminate our daily lives.” Night Vale’s spooky aura has created many comparisons to other horror or sci-fi classics, such as “The Twilight Zone” and Stephen King’s novels. Baldwin believes these genres give insight into our own lives in a more subtle way, without being labeled as “preachy” or pandering to a certain demographic. At the live reading of Welcome to Night Vale, the portable podcast became an increasingly sensory experience. “[The live reading] allows people to experience [the program] in a collective setting, rather than an individual setting,” Baldwin said. “It’s different sitting in a theater with 500 people, than plugging in your headphones at home.” Within 30 minutes of opening the doors to patrons, the theater was nearly filled with fans across all age groups. From fans wearing ball gowns and twinkle lights to portray the ominous “glow cloud,” to painting on eyes and tentacles all over their bodies, the podcast had clearly

created both a committed and creative fanbase. The live reading was preceded by a musical performance by artist Dessa featuring Aby Wolf. Dessa created a strong stage presence with her chilling, smooth voice and constant movement around the stage. Baldwin came onto the stage after Dessa, accompanied by a warm and enthusiastic welcome. He had an engaging performance, encouraging patrons to interact with one another, often asking them to make eye contact with complete strangers and point at each other. Throughout the show, additional characters from the podcast were brought onstage, such as Meg Bashwiner, Dylan Marron, Kevin R. Free and Symphony Sanders. Dispiration, creator of the music for the podcast, supplied the trademark soundtrack. At the climax of the show, Baldwin picked on one audience member and accused him of being the murderer from the storyline. The audience member readily confessed to the crime. Consequently, Baldwin asked everyone to point their fingers at him and say, “Please never murder again. Welcome to Night Vale, which was meant to

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illuminate our desensitized society, translated the same message on stage. But this time there was no hiding behind headphones. From the audience’s reactions, it was clear that Night Vale isn’t a dark, twisted society — it’s a reflection of our own. Madison might do well to heed Baldwin’s haunting advice on the program: “Remember, citizens of Night Vale: If you see something, say nothing and drink to forget.” October 13, 2015 • badgerherald.com • 11

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Go to any campus that experiences fall weather and it’s easy to find pumpkin spice lattes and crisp fall leaves. But only at University of Wisconsin will students find giant pumpkins bred specifically for racing on water. The annual Pumpkin Regatta, held Oct. 10 on Lake Mendota, was all thanks to one UW plant geneticist and professor: Jim Nienhuis. The Department of Horticulture and UW’s Hoofer Sailing Club have jointly hosted the Pumpkin Regatta every fall for the past decade. Hundreds of people show up to the shores of Lake Mendota both to race and cheer on competitors as they paddle along in enormous, hollowed out pumpkins specifically bred for this event. Like some of the world’s greatest innovations, the Pumpkin Regatta began as an accident. Known commonly as,“The Vegetable Guy,” Nienhuis and a colleague of his were jointly teaching Horticulture 370: World Vegetables 10 years ago. The end of October was the course’s unit on pumpkins, and Nienhuis had been growing an array of both pumpkins and squash for class demonstrations. But some of these pumpkins were too large and cumbersome to transport to class, so Nienhuis decided to dump them into Lake Mendota in front of the UW Hoofer building, and thus the Pumpkin Regatta was born. But the Regatta’s beginnings were not all smooth sailing. Nienhuis recalls the Pumpkin Regatta’s first event as “The Incident.” “We were out on the pier with these hundreds of people and we were cheering on our pumpkin racers, and the pier collapsed and everyone got dumped into Lake Mendota,” Neihuis said. “That was kind of a shocker.” Shortly after, Nienhuis received a call from risk management, warning Nienhuis to take further precautions with future pumpkin-related festivities. Nienhuis decided to place the pumpkins on top of old tractor tire inner tubes to add stability to the pumpkin boats. Since then, interest in the Pumpkin Regatta has rapidly grown. Because Nienhuis grows the pumpkins himself, there’s no cost to the public, so anyone can come and join in on the festivities. Nienhuis describes the event as “a hoot.” “If you win the pumpkin race, your prize is that I hug you. That’s pretty much it,” Nienhuis said. “It’s odd, eclectic and spirited, and people get wet and get pumpkin goop all over them. And everyone’s smiling… except for the people who get dumped in the lake. Well no, even they smile.” When asked if he had anything special in store for the Regatta this year, Nienhuis brought up the genetic design of the pumpkins. The pumpkins in the past have always been huge and irregularly shaped. Nienhuis is certain he’s found the solution: cross breeding gourds to create a more hydrophilic pumpkinesque watercraft. By taking the Atlantic Giant Pumpkin’s large size and crossing it with the Pink Banana Squash’s elongated, sleek frame, Nienhuis said he is confident he has created the ultimate racing canoe with his new breed of gourd: The Sleek Sailing Squash. This year, 350 people signed up through Hoofer ’s to take 12 • badgerherald.com • October 13, 2015

part in the Pumpkin Regatta action to race, drink beer and delight in Wisconsin’s fleeting fall weather. The turnout is all thanks to one man and his love for plants, and — most certainly — giant pumpkins.

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What’s on tap: BREAKDOWN OF WISCONSIN’S BEST FALL BREWS

by Bryan Kristensen What’s on tap columnist

Ahhh, the fall season. It’s a time of getting drunk at 8 a.m. on game days, weather suddenly dropping 30 degrees over night and of course, pumpkin spice lattes that make white girls everywhere rejoice. Luckily, it’s also a time of some pretty great fall seasonals in the beer game, too. We’ve decided this week to give you a breakdown of some of the different options you have for this autumn to try from some of the top breweries in Wisconsin and the Midwest.

LEINENKUGEL’S

MILWAUKEE BREWING COMPANY’S

HARVEST PATCH SHANDY

STYLE

AROMA

APPEARANCE

Pumpkin Ale, 9.5 percent

AROMA

Caramel and brandy notes come strongest, with subtle oak and vanilla notes as well

TASTE

Deep brown with a small, caramel head

Golden orange with a solid white head

TASTE

First dominated by the caramel, but the ﬁnish is where this beer really hits with brandy and vanilla coming through strongest

Combination of the pumpkin and sweet potato hits instantly, as chocolate malt dominates the ﬁnish

Not as strong of a pumpkin ﬂavor, with the spices dominating the taste, but very sweet and reminiscent of Leinie’s other shandies

ROOM TEMP. TASTE

If you’re not much of a beer drinker and prefer things like Straw-Ber-Rita’s or other Leinenkugel shandies, then this is the fall seasonal for you. If you’re a craft beer fan, you can do much better.

STYLE

Malt notes come through strongest, with chocolate and coffee notes following; faint smell of pumpkin.

Very sweet smell with only a slight hint of pumpkin, with malt and spice notes coming through much stronger

CONSENSUS

IMPERIAL PUMPKIN

American Porter, 5.0 percent

Shandy, 4.2 percent

Stays relatively the same, though malt notes dominate the ﬁnish as the beer sits more

LAKEFRONT BREWERY’S

SASQUASH

Vanilla flavor comes in even stronger on the finish, creating a slightly subtler flavor

Remains fairly strong throughout, with the coffee becoming a bit more noticeable as the beer sits

3/5

CONSENSUS

This is one of the most interesting fall seasonals I’ve tried. The beer is an interesting spin on what we usually see during autumn, and a great porter that combines a range of ingredients together for a unique taste.

3.75/5

CONSENSUS In true Lakefront fashion, they have one of the better pumpkin beers on their hands. With a 9.5 percent ABV, this is a great beer for fans of Imperials to try out.

NEW GLARUS’

BELL’S BEST

BROWN ALE

STAGHORN OCTOBERFEST

KARBEN4’S

OAKTOBER ALE

STYLE

AROMA

Oktoberfest, 5.7 percent

Brown Ale, 5.8 percent Toast and caramel notes come off fairly strong with a slight earthy hint, presumably from the hops

Strong oak and toffee malt notes with slightly sweet, vanilla notes adding to it

Faint overall smell, with bread and caramel malt notes having the most dominating aroma

Deep copper, with a small, tan head

Red-copper with an off-white head

Oak and vanilla from the aroma comes through fairly well and combines with a strong bread-like ﬂavor throughout

Bready malt notes transfer well to the ﬂavor, and there is great balance between the caramel and slight cinnamon that comes through

Bread flavor remains strong as the oak and vanilla flavors start to fade at first sip

Stays well-balanced throughout and doesn’t lose any of the caramel or cinnamon touch

APPEARANCE

TASTE

Deep, rust-brown

TASTE

Toast stays through strongest from smell, with hopiness emerging much stronger than the smell

TASTE

ROOM TEMP. TASTE

ROOM TEMP. TASTE Becomes slightly more bitter as the beer begins to sit

Not exactly my top choice for a beer, but for fans of Brown Ale’s, it’s another solid seasonal from Bell’s.

Oktoberfest, 6.25 percent

APPEARANCE

CONSENSUS

4.25/5

3.75/5

CONSENSUS

Deﬁnitely an interesting Oktoberfest taste coming from one of the best local brewers we have in Madison. Pretty impressed.

ROOM TEMP. TASTE 4.25/5

CONSENSUS

Never doubt New Glarus. No matter what style they make, it is always high-quality and well balanced. Great take on the Oktoberfest style.

4.5/5

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Nineteen years later, Hotel Washington leaves LGBTQ legacy few can match With something for every niche of the community, the social hub was more than a gathering place; patrons and staff found family when their own had turned their backs

by Selena Handler ArtsEtc. Associate Editor by Riley Vetterkind ArtsEtc. Editor

An unassuming Cafe Palms employee allegedly emptied the evening’s cigarette butts into the trash the night of Feb. 18, 1996, not realizing the mistake would lead to the destruction of nearly a century old Madison landmark. A few days later, after the embers had burned out, the rainbow colors of a lone gay pride flag were the only features distinguishable from the rubble. Almost 20 years after the demise of this local LGBTQ mecca, the owner of Hotel Washington looked over the gas station that had once been his property. It was a place of refuge and community building for Madison’s gay population and would never be replicated again. Now, the Hotel has become something of an enigmatic LGBTQ legend. Customers and employees remember it fondly, and the new generation of Madison LGBTQ looks back with reverence and longing for a place as diverse and inclusive. A place for all, every night Consisting of a few bars — two gay oriented (Rod’s and The New Bar) and one straight (The Barber’s Closet)— a music venue (Club de Wash), a cafe (Cafe Palms) and guest rooms, the Hotel was more than just a physical gathering place. For many, its patrons and staff served as a family when their own had turned their backs.

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Steve Starkey, executive director of Outreach LGBT Community Center and former customer, frequented the hotel and said it fulfilled every niche of the gay community at the time. “Because it was such a big complex ,there was something for everyone. If you wanted to go out dancing, you could do that,” Starkey said. “If you wanted to go to a leather bar, you could do that. If you wanted to hear music, you could do that. If you wanted to go out and eat, there was the Cafe Palms. It was one-stop shopping.” The Hotel was open 365 nights of the year and hosted events on holidays like Thanksgiving and New Years. Students and Madisonians whose families did not accept them at home for the holidays came to Rod’s and the New Bar for Hotel traditions. They hosted turkey bingo on Thanksgiving where a whole turkey was dropped onto a giant bingo board. Each business in the Hotel had special event nights at least once a month. Greg Scheel, who took over the Hotel after his brother, Rodney Scheel, died of AIDS in 1990, said the events ranged from formal drag competitions to adaptations of classic plays, like “Wizard of Rod’s.” Most of the proceeds went to nonprofits like AIDS Support Network. The Hotel also participated in Chicago and Madison’s pride parades each year with ostentatious renderings of the Hotel built onto the sides of trucks. By the ‘90s, thanks to Rodney Scheel’s relentless promotion, the complex gained esteem across the Midwest. One of their biggest events was a yearly gay field day called the MAGIC Picnic. It started as a small picnic for customer appreciation but by the end it hosted thousands of people. Non-profits worked the beer and food tables in exchange for all the funds earned. The era of leather chaps and disco dancefloors The history of the Hotel complex would not be complete without rewinding

Photos · The Hotel contained two gay-oriented and one straight bar, a music venue, a cafe and guest rooms. Now Plan B, a gay bar on Williamson Street, hopes to fill in some of the cracks and reunite Madison’s LGBTQ community. Courtesy of Greg Scheel to the disco era of 1972, when the Hotel’s first owner, Rodney Scheel, opened The Back Door. The Back Door was an underground bar on Park Street that was the first in Madison to call itself a gay establishment. Not surprisingly, the hostile climate toward the LGBTQ community manifested itself just outside the bar’s premises. Rodney Scheel often found himself defending the very patrons who came to his establishment for acceptance and gained quite a few black eyes warding off belligerent men

from the bar across the street in the process, Greg Scheel said. Working off the success of The Back Door, Rodney Scheel soon had his eye on the dilapidated Hotel, which at the time was comprised of about 60 boarding rooms. Rodney Scheel purchased the Hotel in 1975, renovated it and opened The Barber’s Closet, a straight bar hidden behind what looked like a barber’s closet, that same year. Four years later, Rodney Scheel opened Rod’s in the basement. It was

a leather-levi bar that proudly proclaimed itself a “gay bar.” Greg Scheel described the bar as having an “old basementy feel.” “If you did come in [to Rod’s] and you had underwear on, you would probably have them torn off and they would get tied up on the pipes,” he said. In the next few years, Rodney Scheel worked tirelessly to renovate and open The New Bar, followed shortly by the Club De Wash music venue and Cafe Palms. It became a network of nightlife that drew people from across the Midwest and attracted all types of LGBTQ and straight people. Many of the customers were students and people in their formative years coming to terms with their identity, who took refuge in the complex’s maze of stairs. “If you were gay and you didn’t want anybody to know you were gay, you went into one of the straight clubs and then you would sneak into the back staircase to go into one of the gay clubs,” Greg Scheel said. In February 1990, Greg Scheel and his parents returned home from vacation to find Rodney Scheel in the hospital with AIDS. He passed in July of the same year. Rodney Scheel was part of a contingent of Hotel clientele and employees who succumbed to the AIDS epidemic around that time. When each passed, friends and staff from the Hotel made them a panel for the Names Project memorial quilt. Employees who fell ill and could not support themselves anymore moved into the Hotel rooms. Rodney Scheel had traditionally been the catalyst of community gathering, organizing special events and bar crawls across the Midwest. But when he passed, his legacy continued. A non-profit housing option for people living with AIDS opened in Madison called the Rodney Scheel House and the Hotel continued to give funds from special events to gay rights groups in Wisconsin. Staffers carried on Rodney Scheel’s tradition for years successfully. Until the fire in 1996. The fire that began in a wastebasket in Cafe Palms destroyed the entire building. Students gathered to watch the flames fizzle out and after the damage was done, the community mourned the loss of its central hub. “There were large memorials that sprang up at the Hotel, flowers and sympathy cards,” Greg Scheel said. “Thousands and thousands of people have come through the Hotel and most of them were young and just coming out in very formative years. I think so many had fond memories.” From one big family to a disjointed community Within two years, the MAGIC picnic ended and Hotel customers scattered to gay establishments across Madison in small groups and cliques. Many went to Club Five off the Beltline, but it was more inaccessible to students and it mostly served just one niche of the gay community like most other bars in Madison. “Now it seems like people connect to a bar or a church or a theater group or a sports team,” Starkey said. “Then there is such a diversity of organizations and groups that it’s a little bit fragmented.” Amber Halverson, bar manager of Plan B, a gay bar located on Williamson Street, remembers driving all the way from Baraboo on 18+ Tuesday nights because it was the only place they could go. When she moved to Madison, she felt excluded by the tightly knit cliques in the community and struggled to find friends in such a disconnected landscape. But Plan B hopes to fill in some of the cracks and unite all kinds of LGBTQ people together under their roof, Halverson said. They recently added drag king shows, male and female go-go dancers, safe zumba and a comedy show hosted by a transgendered woman in an attempt to make a more inclusive environment. They are also planning on opening a dance floor upstairs to let more people in. But Halverson still looks back on the Hotel with longing. “It just seems to be another one of those stories we’ll hear about the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s,” Halverson said. “It seemed like the crazy time when anyone could be a rockstar.” October 13, 2015 • badgerherald.com • 15

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Students who have embarked on a juice cleanse might be ahead of the curve, after all. Juicing, which first became a popular alternative to eating fruits and vegetables on the West Coast, has begun crowding the Madison market. With places like Portage Pi and Green Life Café already established, the market for vegetable products in Madison has potential, creating room for new restaurants like Forage Kitchen, a new juice and salad bar that opened Oct. 9. Doug Hamaker, the owner of Forage and Roast Public House, said he knows juicing has its benefits — he’s made his own for years. But, he said he isn’t under any false illusions it will forge people into super-humans. “I don’t think juicing is the be-all end-all health cure, but when added to proper nutrition and [sufficient] sleep, it helps a lot,” he said. But while the juicing trend has garnered a lot of buzz, it begs the question: Is it really worth all the hype? Cassie Vanderwall, a UW Health clinical nutritionist, said fresh juices can be a significant source of vitamins A, C and B, as well as potassium and other minerals. She said they also may have phytochemicals — nature’s antioxidants — thus supporting the body’s immune system. But juices also come with a big drawback: Fruit is high in sugar. While the sugar is natural, drinking more than one cup of fresh juice per day will quickly exceed one’s daily sugar allotment, Vanderwall said. Still, Forage will offer alternatives to those who’d rather not partake in the juicing trend. Aiming to Photo · To provide less sugary options alongside its signature fresh juices, help his patrons achieve a well-balanced life, Forage Forage, which opened Oct. 9, will also serve specialty salads. will serve up specialty salads in addition to juice. The salads are certainly novel — they’re inspired by different world regions and incorporate inventive Marissa Haegele grain options. The Badger Herald Hamaker said customers have the option of adding in rice to the bottom of their salad, transforming it “A lot of places use high speed blenders — around into a creative “green and grain” bowl. These can also be 10,000 RPMs — and it spins so fast it oxidizes [the fruit converted into wraps. or vegetable] so it loses some of the nutrients,” Hamaker Additionally, Forage will offer acai bowls with honey and house-made cashew milk over granola. All these said. “Cold press spins about twenty RPMs and extracts options will be 95 percent organic and local, perfect to almost 100 percent of the juice’s nutrients, so it’s super pair with arguably healthier cold-pressed juice for a well- healthy.” With Roast’s reputation to back him up, Hamaker said rounded diet, Hamaker said. “The nutritional benefits of juicing depends on the he knows what his Madison clientele likes; he claims to method,” Vanderwall said. “Fresh juices made with a know his juicing facts as well. With a convenient location on State and Lake Streets pulper may contain greater amounts of phytochemicals, and some real health benefits to back it up, stop in with or plant-based antioxidants.” The alternative would be using a high speed blender friends and grab a juice. Just remember, when embracing or juicer, leading to a supposedly less nutritious end the juicing trend, do so in moderation — like all good things. product.

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Letter to the editor: ‘Eat shit, Fuck you’ must go to maintain UW reputation Thirty-five percent of season ticket holders said it disrupted their experience; chant gives outside community negative impression Photo · Comments made about the shout at football games range from making Badgers look “unintellegent” to “we are the spawn of Satan.” Marissa Haegele The Badger Herald

The costs of the “Eat Shit, Fuck You” chant outweigh the benefits. Before you spam my email inbox with death threats, at least hear me out. This is my fifth and final year at University of Wisconsin. It’s also my fifth and final year as a student-section, season-ticket holder, and I consider myself lucky to be able to say that. During my college career, Badger game days have been the source of some of my favorite memories. I feel there are very few experiences that can top the excitement of Saturday football games, so I’m not surprised that the NCAA recently ranked Madison as the best college football town in the country. The trouble is there are still people who question our right to that title. When I talk to fans, alumni or others outside the student body, I’m often shocked that some fail to mention how much fun Badger game days are because they’re fixated on their memory of the “Eat Shit, Fuck You” chant, which is something we rarely

discuss as students. People from the university have tried to talk to us about the chant before, but they’re so out of touch with what it’s like to be a student that they completely miss the point. Of course university officials want the chant to end; they’re the ones who actually have to deal with the complaints. I’ve heard countless arguments from former chancellors and people like Barry Alvarez that essentially boil down to “Think of the children!” But what I have yet to hear is students talk about how the chant can affect us personally. I think it’s fairly self-explanatory that the main reason we participate in the chant is because it’s fun. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that college students enjoy being a little rebellious, especially when most of us are at least four beers over the legal limit. From our perspective, the chant is such a tiny fraction of our daily lives that we don’t think it’s worth getting worked up about.

What a fan sees, though, is a different story. When they attend a football game, that’s one of the few interactions they have with students. They don’t get to see all the awesome things we do on a day-to-day basis, and they don’t understand what it’s like to be a part of the student section. All they see is a single event in our college career and sometimes they draw conclusions based on that. I’m not saying that’s always the case, but I do think it can dramatically change how we’re viewed and how we’re treated. To give you an example, I asked UW Athletics for all the feedback they had on file and read through every comment submitted last fall. Here’s one I found particularly interesting: “Not sure why the student section does the swearing back and forth at each other. Makes them look unintelligent to outsiders.” That quote is pretty mild compared to the one that implied we’re the spawn of Satan, but I

think it demonstrates how the chant can alter a fan’s perception of us. But, these comments aren’t just anecdotal. According to a survey at the end of last year, 35 percent of season ticket holders said the student section disrupted their experience in some way. Expanded to the entire stadium, that means roughly 23,000 fans each game, or more than 100,000 people each year, are inclined to view us less favorably. Based on what I’ve seen and heard during my last five years here, I think the chant is one of the primary factors contributing to this negative perception of us. It’s not hard to imagine an out-of-state employer forming a negative first impression of us because she went to one Badger football game and now thinks we don’t understand social norms. Also it’s not unrealistic to assume that the citizens who already think we’re a waste of their taxpayer dollars see the chant as justification for their views. Similarly, it’s possible some alumni have second-guessed their decision to establish scholarship funds because they think we’re an embarrassment. I admit I’ve participated in the chant before, so I’m not saying we should judge those who still do. I’m also not suggesting we need to be some squeaky-clean student body that does exactly what the university wants. Anyone who suggests we stop pregaming on Breese Terrace or stop chanting “Asshole” at the opposing team’s fans when they’re in our student section shouldn’t be taken seriously. What I am saying is the costs of the ESFU chant outweigh the benefits. I would argue we have more clever chants. Hell, even the “Shoot him like a horse” chant at least makes sense in the context of the game. It’s also not like the chant is some longstanding tradition either. The earliest acknowledgement of the chant I could find was from 2003, which means it’s only been around for a little over 10 years. Unless we’re talking about our winning streak against Minnesota, I don’t think many would say 10 years is very long at all. So I challenge you to ask yourself why the next time you hear the chant and decide on your own if you want to join in. Samuel Schmitt (stschmitt@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in industrial engineering.

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POINT COUNTERPOINT What would an increase in minimum wage mean for the nation? College Republicans: Layoffs would follow wage increase

College Democrats: Hourly pay should meet cost of living

McDonald’s is a staple of American fast food. We’ve all enjoyed a juicy Big Mac or savored those delicious salt-covered French fries. Imagine going up to the cashier and placing your order to a smiling face. Now imagine that smiling face isn’t a smiling face at all. Instead, it’s a screen and you’re ordering from a kiosk. In some cities with raising labor costs, this imagination is becoming a reality. McDonald’s franchises across the U.S. are starting to plan ahead as cities like Los Angeles, New York and Seattle plan to raise minimum wage in the coming years. McDonald’s has unveiled their plan to replace cashiers with order kiosks, which will ultimately be more cost effective to build and maintain the skyrocketing minimum wage of $15 per hour that some cities have passed. This is one of the main arguments for those of us against raising the minimum wage; when you raise the minimum wage, you have to make cuts to keep your bottom line. Contrary to what the left believes, many small businesses are not raking in major surpluses and will not be able to sustain doubling their labor costs without cutting some of their employees’ hours and even jobs. When a minimum wage of $10.10 per hour was suggested in 2014, the Congressional Budget Office predicted the result would be 500,000 lost jobs. Democrat lawmakers and gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke proposed the same minimum wage increase in 2014, even though the Employment Policies Institute estimated Wisconsin would lose over 27,000 jobs. Thankfully, Gov. Scott Walker was re-elected and our economy was not crushed by unsustainable labor costs. The bottom line is raising the minimum wage will raise labor costs and in turn, employers will reduce their workforce. Raising the minimum wage will increase unemployment. Another argument for raising the minimum wage is that it will decrease the amount of people living in poverty. But studies have found

The reality of minimum wage jobs today is that people have to work two jobs for nearly 100 hours per week to get by and be able send their children to college. Raising minimum wage will help spur further economic growth. It will also lift millions of Americans out of poverty and give them the chance to succeed at their full potential. At this point, the minimum wage fight has been battled at all levels and has been a hot-button issue among Americans for years. It is a perpetual fight, and currently a minimum wage worker makes less than $14,000 per year working 40 hours per week without any holidays off. When you consider that student loan debt and minimum wage are inseparable issues, the situation looks even worse. If you work 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, you have just enough money to cover average student loan payments. That is without money allocated for food, rent, shelter or other basic needs; you wouldn’t even be able to stay above water. Unlike many national issues, this one is not terribly convoluted or complicated. There are numerous easy fixes, and this is why the perpetuation of the issue is so frustrating. One method to “cure” the minimum wage problem was particularly successful in Oregon. The state passed a bill in 2002 that tied the minimum wage to the cost of living. Similar bills have been introduced at the federal level, but have failed to pass in the shadow of loud, blustering conservative voices. The idea is every state and region have different costs of living, so different wages would constitute a living wage. Conservatives should be lining up behind this legislation, as it remedies

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raising the minimum wage does not reduce poverty. In fact, in many ways, raising the minimum wage will hurt millions of Americans living in poverty. It’s estimated that less than 15 percent of the total increase in wages resulting from a minimum wage increase would go to those living below the poverty line. Meanwhile, it would lead to layoffs that would send more Americans to the unemployment category. Roughly 60 percent of those considered poor do not work, and therefore would not see the benefits of a minimum wage increase anyway. A minimum wage increase would only increase the number of people not working, as more lessskilled workers would lose their jobs and move below the poverty line. While they wouldn’t reap the benefits, they would feel the negative impact when they decide to go look for a job and employers are no longer hiring. Among the largest supporters of the minimum wage increase are unions. One in particular is Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, which led the charge for the $15 minimum wage. But they subtly requested an exemption from the increase to protect themselves from the consequences of a drastic wage increase of this kind. The exemption would mean their union would be the only way to hire employers for less than the $15 minimum wage, monopolizing the hiring community to one union that wishes to be exempt from the very law they lobbied for. Ultimately, minimum wage jobs are meant to sustain young people as entry-level experiences, not life-long careers. We’ll let the Democrats talk about how low they want to set wages. Meanwhile, Republicans will be working to give people the tools and education they need to succeed in jobs that pay far more than the minimum wage. Alex Walker is a junior majoring in political science and Ryan Karow is a senior majoring in accounting.

their argument that a standard minimum wage does not take into account varying costs of living. Not only should conservatives be lining up behind this piece of legislation, they should be championing the cause to raise the minimum wage in any way possible. Their vehement opposition to raising minimum wage — or even having minimum wage at all — increases and entirely contradicts their much stronger opposition to the welfare state. Our unusually low minimum wage of $7.25 places a much heavier weight on the need for a welfare state. Families cannot live on $28,000, let alone $14,000 per year, without needing assistance from the government to cover their basic needs. Even a modest raise in the minimum wage would lift millions of Americans out of the welfare state. Finally, increasing the minimum wage will not lead to increased unemployment. On the surface, this idea is flat out wrong. Washington State has the highest minimum wage in the country, and their unemployment rate is below the national average. On a more nuanced level, employers want workers who can comfortably pay rent and do not have to work an extra job or two just to support their family. Workers who can focus on one job and not worry about paying the bills every month simply perform the best for their employers. Raising the minimum has no devastating economic impact. It is the right economic thing to do, but more importantly, it is the right moral thing to do. August McGinnity-Wake (a.mcwake@ gmail.com) is a sophomore majoring in political science and environmental studies.

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Government assistance programs ‘kicks poor while they are down’ Time to revisit 1990’s welfare reform, which saved budget but simultaneously increased poverty and child homelessness by Nichalous Pogorelec Columnist

In a time when misleading information is abundant and truths are scarce, one fact certainly holds weight: Child poverty is an expanding problem. Organizations that are meant to help struggling families and children are, in fact, harming them. The Urban Institute says almost 40 percent of children spend at least one year in poverty before they reach the age of 18. Racial disparities persist, as black children are four times more likely to be impoverished than the average child in the country. Children who experience persistent poverty are 13 percent less likely to finish high school, and 43 percent less likely to finish college than their counterparts.

What happened? When former President Bill Clinton signed Republican-supported welfare reform into law, it was meant to raise families out of poverty by ending a culture of dependency which was attributed to the former welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Welfare reform ushered in a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and Wisconsin was one of the first states to implement the new requirements for welfare. The state program, Wisconsin Works (better known as W-2), set work or work-related requirements for applicants seeking to receive cash benefits, and the program is in its 19th year of operation. But it depends what your definition of “success” is when assessing W-2’s triumphs. If you believe the goal of welfare reform was to decrease government spending,

then W-2 and TANF are wild successes. Unlike AFDC, TANF’s funding is based on a federal block grant, meaning its funding in the federal budget is fixed. In reality, the program’s funding has decreased over time because the block grant isn’t tied to inflation, which means the value of the program’s funding has decreased as inflation rose. Also, the number of welfare recipients decreased dramatically after the implementation of W-2. In 1996, when AFDC was in its twilight, 35,000 Wisconsinites were receiving welfare benefits, but in 2001 that number had dropped down to 7,000. These numbers do not mean less people are impoverished, but that less impoverished people are receiving assistance. In 2010, only 27 percent of impoverished Americans were on welfare, meaning 73 percent of impoverished Americans are experiencing poverty without any assistance. If you believe the goal of welfare reform is to reduce poverty, then the new programs have been a massive failure. According to a study done by the Center for Community Economic Development, nearly two out of three former welfare recipients had a lower income during the three months after leaving W-2 then while they were enrolled. In one Wisconsin county,

child homelessness increased by 50 percent after reforms were made. If the prior information was not damning enough, the percentage of children in extreme poverty quarterly — those living on or below $2 per day every three months — increased by 127 percent between 1990 and 2011 according to the National Poverty Center. It seems as if the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s, D-New York, ominus statement about TANF came true, which was “the most brutal act of social policy since reconstruction.” For Wisconsin and America’s poor, TANF has been a failure, but for America’s impoverished children, it has been devastating. AFDC was a program in need of reform because it victimized the poor, casting them into a surreal world of dependency where remaining a recipient was a better means of survival than looking for work. But TANF penalizes the poor for being poor. It forces them into jobs where they often make less when they were on welfare, and it forces parents to spend outrageous amounts of time working minimum wage jobs in order to receive benefits, leaving their children parentless at home. It is time we once again reform welfare, with the main focus being the children enrolled. The most important thing a child can have in life is not bonds from their grandfather, a scholarship to the local preparatory academy or good healthcare, but two parents in the home who love, worry for and look after them. Although it is impossible to put two parents in every home, we can mitigate this unfortunate truth by implementing subsidized income policies, public day care and expanding mentoring programs. AFDC hurt the poor, but TANF is kicking them while they’re down. The state can reduce poverty if it wants to, but it has to stop worrying so much about the budget and more about its families, especially its children. Nichalous Pogorelec (nichalouspogo@ gmail.com) is a junior studying sociology.

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quarterbacks in September or October. This time, he benched sophomore Austin Appleby in favor of redshirt freshman David Blough after the third game of the season, a 51-24 loss at Virginia Tech. Since taking over, Blough has thrown for 694 yards and four touchdowns with five interceptions. Purdue’s passing offense ranks sixth in

the Big Ten with 228.7 yards per game, but its rushing offense is second-tolast in the conference (148.2 yards per game). The defense also leaves little to be desired. The Boilermakers rank 13th in scoring defense, allowing an average of 34.3 points per game. They also rank last in rushing defense, allowing a conference-high 215.2 yards per game.

Designed by Julia Kampf Written by Chris Bumbaca Things aren’t looking better off the field either. Since the summer, five Purdue players have been suspended for facing misdemeanor arrest charges. Recent meetings against Wisconsin haven’t gone well for Purdue. The Badgers have won the last 10 matchups dating back to 2004, with a margin of victory of 29.6 during the last seven games.

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Bumbaca: Badgers step up with backs against wall Rafael Gaglianone, offense, came through clutch in waning moments at Nebraska by Chris Bumbaca Sports Editor

Redemption is best served piping hot, and Rafael Gaglianone served a steaming plate of it to a crowd of 89,886 fans at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska Saturday evening from the right hashmark of the 36-yard line. With nine seconds to go, the wind at his back and the Wisconsin football team trailing 21-20, Gaglianone — and possibly the football gods — pushed his 46-yard attempt just inside the right upright, the very post his 39-yard kick had hit one minute and 17 seconds prior. For every inch the ball moved through the fall air, the Badgers’ season hung in the balance. If it was good, Gaglianone would take their season off life support for the time being and keep their goal of a Big Ten West title alive. If it was no good, it would take a great deal of fortune to reach Indianapolis. So when the ball crossed the threshold to put Wisconsin up 23-21 with four seconds remaining and Gaglianone leaped in the air, pumped his fist and ran down the field in celebration with the special teams unit behind him, he became the face of the dramatic comeback victory to keep the Badgers’ season afloat. That truly is the beauty of sports. One minute you’re the goat, and the next, you’re the hero. There aren’t many other facets of life where that’s possible. But Gaglianone wasn’t the only one redeeming himself. Joel Stave, no matter how much UW fans wanted his head after the loss to Iowa, led the Badgers on two potentially game-winning drives — and one winner. He dropped back 50 times

— he probably doesn’t even throw that much in practice — and despite completing only half of his passes for 332 yards, he stepped up on the final two drives of the game when his team needed him most. Most of all, Stave proved once again that he can come in clutch. Like he did in the Outback Bowl against Auburn on Jan. 1, he exuded poise and confidence from the pocket, leading his team downfield twice and proving that Wisconsin doesn’t win without him. Dare Ogunbowale rushed for a career-high 117 yards on 18 careers, with 83 yards coming in the fourth quarter. This came after rushing for only 113 yards in his last two games. Ogunbowale’s performance served as an example of several other offensive players stepping up. An already-beleaguered offense without Austin Traylor and Corey Clement suffered another blow when Taiwan Deal exited the game in the first quarter with an ankle injury. Enter Alec Ingold, who as a true freshman moved to running back from linebacker just three weeks ago. He scored the Badgers’ second touchdown of the game, and the first of his career in the third quarter, putting Wisconsin up 17-14. Troy Fumagalli, a redshirt sophomore filling in for Traylor, caught his first career touchdown in the second quarter to give UW a 7-0 lead. He served as Stave’s primary target over the middle, like Traylor did, and had an impressive afternoon, catching six passes for 60 yards. Fumagalli redeemed himself as well. He was one week removed from being Stave’s target on the pivotal 4th-and-2 late in the Iowa game, but ran a poor route and couldn’t get his hands on the pass.

Alex Erickson didn’t have a full week of practice because of a concussion. He still led the Badgers with seven catches and 113 yards, including a pivotal 31yard catch down the right sideline with the Badgers backed up at their own nine-yard line and less than a minute remaining. Right behind Erickson were Robert Wheelwright (five catches, 81 yards) and Jazz Peavy (four catches, 44 yards). Stave targeted Wheelwright seven times, with all five completions going for first-downs. Peavy drew a pass interference call on a 3rd-and-11 in the beginning of the fourth quarter. The drive ended with Ingold’s touchdown. In the midst of all the offensive bright spots, the defense once again came up with a stop with their backs against the wall. Had Nebraska gotten a first down after Gaglianone’s miss, the game would’ve been over. But the main goal of this Photo · Rafael Gaglianone (10) proved against Nebraska you can defense is to get the ball back to go from goat to hero in a mere minute. the offense. They did, and this time, the offense didn’t disappoint. Joey Reuteman This whole “coming up clutch” The Badger Herald thing isn’t necessarily a typical Wisconsin football trait. Wisconsin could be 6-0 if it were not for four plays — too often finds itself on the other maybe there’s something different about these side of games like Saturday’s. And though it’s just one game — one Badgers. Maybe. comeback win against a Nebraska team that

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Captain Conner: Midfielder has seen share of success, failure at UW Men’s soccer senior fights through adversity on pitch while professional aspirations await on horizon by Matt Foster Men’s Soccer Reporter

There are certain intangibles a coach expects of their team’s captain on the field. For Wisconsin head coach John Trask, his captain - senior midfielder Drew Conner - has all the necessary characteristics that make up a great leader on the pitch. “Quality, heart, work-rate,” Trask said. “[Conner]’s got a great engine, a special engine in comparison to most college players.” Conner, a Cary, Illinois native, has had a difficult start to the season, Trask said, but that doesn’t negate Conner’s influence in the UW program during his four seasons in Madison. “[Conner] came in and had an immediate impact as a freshman,” Trask said. “He was a part of a very good team in 2013, and an integral part. It wasn’t like he was a young member of the team. He was a big key.” Conner admits that his career has been up and down, especially in the beginning of this season, but he has his sights set on what the team can make happen during the second half of the season. The role Conner played during his freshman season earned him the honor of a spot on the 2012 Big Ten All-Freshman team due to his two goals, one assist and domineering work ethic in the midfield. The Wisconsin captain has picked up other accolades during his time at UW. Following a one goal, seven assist sophomore season, Conner was selected to the Second-Team AllBig Ten. Conner was also ranked the 73rd best player in the nation by TopDrawerSoccer for his junior year. Coming into the 2015 campaign, and Conner’s senior season, TopDrawerSoccer rated him the 17th best player in the Big Ten. Perhaps the most impressive feat of Conner’s Wisconsin career is that he has started every game of every season. That’s rare for mosts collegiate soccer players, but not for one with professional aspirations like Conner, Trask said. “We feel good about [Conner]’s opportunities to move on in the game to the next level, whether it’s Major League Soccer or potentially overseas,” he said. “There are parts of his game we’d like to continue to see him move forward, but he’s still got over half a season left with us.” Conner has continued maturing during his time at Wisconsin, and Trask said the coaches are still figuring out the best way to utilize his talents while also allowing Conner to continue his development as a player. Something that really helped Conner in his progression as a player was training with professional players during the summer. “I think it did more for my confidence than

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Photo ·Drew Conner came into 2015 ranked the 17th-best player in the Big Ten, and head coach John Trask says he’s confident Conner can play at the next level one day. Jason Chan The Badger Herald anything else,” Conner said. “The pro game is definitely just as demanding on the mental side of the game as it is the physical.” While Conner continues his development, he’s also had to provide guidance to the younger guys on the team. Trask says Conner’s dedication to prepare, especially by being the most fit player on the team, sets an example for the rest of the players, both young and old, of how to take care of their business on the pitch. “[Conner] sets the standard on things like the beep test, our fitness test,” Trask said. “He has a hunger to be a good player and what that takes and how he goes about it.” Conner said he’s been trying to get the younger players to be more involved and instill confidence in them, which former UW standouts A.J. Cochran and Tomislav

Zadro did with him during his freshman and sophomore years. “I think recently it’s just been trying to get certain guys to feel out the game and sense when they need to take over and get on the ball,” Conner said. “Sometimes as a younger player, you hesitate to get involved when things don’t go perfectly from the start.” The senior midfielder is grateful to have had the opportunity to wear the captain’s armband for the Cardinal and White, but Conner acknowledged that he couldn’t have gotten to be where he is today without some help. “I could never find it alone,” Conner said. “Adam [Lauko] and Carl [Schneider] have done awesome, not to mention many of the other upperclassmen who have stepped up.”

Conner was a key piece in the 2013 team that made a magical run into the NCAA tournament. But even though he said it was a great ride during his second year, there’s been one game that has been imprinted into the captain’s memory. “The Rutgers overtime win this season,” Conner said. “That was just ridiculous.” With a little over half of the season left, there’s still time for Conner to leave a significant impact on the Wisconsin soccer program, and Trask has been pleased with what one of his first high-end recruits has done on the pitch for the Badgers. “[Conner’s] had a great career for us,” Trask said. “Now we’re hoping for a lot more this next half-year.”

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Injuries yield to production for volleyball’s Kriskova in 2015 After a bicycle accident, two knee surgeries, redshirt junior outside hitter having breakout season for Badgers by Zac Hepps Volleyball Reporter

Over the past few weeks, a new star has emerged from the nationally ranked Wisconsin women’s volleyball team. Redshirt junior Romana Kriskova has allowed the Badgers’ top notch attack to reach another gear and is hoping to help push Wisconsin to another Big Ten title. Averaging 2.36 kills per set and ranking third in hitting percentage, Kriskova is not afraid to take matters into her own hands on the court. But the 6-foot-2 outside hitter from Bratislava, Slovakia knows that though she may be soaring above the net now, she could barely walk 10 months ago. Kriskova’s collegiate career started at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she was an immediate presence for VCU’s volleyball team. After a sensational freshman campaign, Kriskova took flight her sophomore season, ranking fifth in the nation in kills and winning the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year. But because of her success, Kriskova knew she needed a step up in competition. “The reason that I transferred was that I wasn’t getting challenged and I want to play professionally,” Kriskova said, “So I needed to get challenged so I can be better.” After competing against Wisconsin in her first two seasons, she knew greater pastures were available and following a meeting with head coach Kelly Sheffield, Kriskova saw an opportunity at UW.

“I came to visit and I just fell in love with the campus, coaches, players and everything else,” Kriskova said. But her path to success did not come without a few major bumps along the way. After making the move to Madison last summer, her volleyball career was jeopardized when she was struck by a car while riding her bike to a volleyball camp. In addition to her completely uprooting her academic and social life, Kriskova faced a yearlong recovery that would test her love for the game. “It was hard; I’m not going to lie,” Kriskova said. “I transferred here in the summer and the injury happened and I had to change my major so that was frustrating too. When I got here I didn’t know anyone and I didn’t know the area so I basically came to the unknown.” After a second surgery following a brief comeback last season, she laid the foundation and worked hard to reach where she stands now. Kriskova knew the process would not be easy. “I remember it was Christmas time and I went home and I was relearning to walk,” Kriskova said. “I had to start with little steps and then I was able to keep adding more. This summer I was finally able to add jumping, and then I could play at full speed so it was really just going one day at a time.” Those little steps have been building since last December, and Kriskova has become an integral part of one of the top front lines in the nation. Her improved play gives Badgers setter Lauren Carlini a wide variety of options to use when attacking the opposing defense, and

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Sheffield has certainly noticed the improvement. and completely earning her spott, it makes it a “[Kriskova] and [Carlini] are starting to get a lot easier on me to get the kills when I need to,” better connection,” Sheffield said. “I think she sophomore Kelli Bates said. is hitting with better range because she is a lot But even as she is finally playing to her full more confident.” potential, Kriskova still remembers what it felt The redshirt junior’s confidence and strong like to watch from the sidelines. play on the court have grown from a youth “It was hard to sit and watch volleyball career that involved representing her home because I am one of those kids who can never nation of Slovakia in various international sit and just watch, so it was hard mentally,” competitions. Kriskova said. Now, Kriskova has translated the pride she With the way she is spiking the ball now — gained from wearing her national team’s colors she had a team high 15 kills against Illinois — into an unabashed love for all things cardinal Kriskova shouldn’t have worry about her view and white. from the sidelines any longer. “I love playing at javaden-badgerherald-2015.pdf 3 9/2/15 4:43 PM the Field House, and it is really loud here and people come to every game,” Kriskova said. “We always have around 5,000 people and it is just insane. I love it.” The Grateful Red aren’t the only ones taking notice of Kriskova’s game; her teammates are also On campus. In Grand Central. thrilled by the way she’s playing. 1022 W. Johnson St. Sophomore outside hitter Kelli Bates said Kriskova’s progress is not just good for her own confidence, but also the betterment of the team. “With [Kriskova] getting all of these kills

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saying it frequently. Sometimes Olson will send out a “Feel The Bern,” to his Facebook friends, exclaim it in lecture halls to get the room going and will occasionally whisper it into the ears of his female friends to make things intimate, he said. “I’m so social now,” Olson said. “So social that people have started calling me a socialist, its truly incredible.” According to Olson’s friends, Olson is not familiar with the current Democratic candidates for President, but this seemingly empty endorsement has been quite effective for Olson. “It’s amazing how a seemingly meaningless political sentiment can get someone so far in Madison,” friend Mike Atwood said.

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