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Five years later: The impact of Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10 Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Controversial union reform passed in 2011 decreased taxes, but some say education system has been weakened by Amos Mayberry Contributor

Five years ago, around 100,000 protesters flocked to Madison in opposition of Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10 education reform, a “budget repair bill” that has reportedly decreased taxes, but lead to a “mass exit” of teachers from the educational field in the state. Act 10 requires most government employees, including teachers, to contribute more money to their retirement pensions and health insurance. State and local employees used to negotiate with unions about these costs through collective bargaining, but Act 10 eliminated most of these interactions with unions. The bill caused months of protests at the Capitol and still today has received mixed reviews. Laurel Patrick, Walker’s spokesperson, said in an email to The Badger Herald that the goal of Act 10 was to fix the $3.6 billion deficit in Wisconsin’s budget in 2009. Economic impact Proponents of the measure, including Chris Rochester, Maclver Institute spokesperson, said Act 10 has saved taxpayers $5.24 billion. These taxpayer savings come from government employees putting more money into their own retirement and health benefits, of which taxpayers previously pay a significant portion, Rochester added.

“Act 10 asks for relatively modest contribution to one’s own retirement — kind of like what most people in the private sector have to do,” Rochester said. But Christina Brey, Wisconsin Education Association Council spokesperson, said even before the 2011, reform teachers and other government employees still contributed funds to their health care and benefits packages. She said the reason teachers had less expensive benefits than those in the private sector was to make up for the fact that teachers were paid less in salaries. Effects on education system Act 10 has affected teachers in a negative way, not just economically, but also in the classroom, Brey said. “We have seen some of the largest cuts to public school funding in the nation,” Brey said. “Wisconsin has fallen below the national average in per pupil spending for public school students.” But according to the MacIver Institute’s Feb. 11 report, Act 10 has saved school districts money. Milwaukee Public School saved $1.3 billion and Neenah saved $97 million in long-term pension liabilities alone. Teachers, however, are not making enough money in public education and are being forced to work in the private sector, Brey said. This is threatening the quality of education that Wisconsin students are receiving, she added. “More educators are leaving the field,” Brey

said. “We saw a mass exit of educators retire in wake of this policy as well as a lot of turn over in our public schools, especially in rural communities.” Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin educational policy studies professor, said people have moved out of the field of public education because of the state’s lack of support for teachers. But Patrick said Act 10 improved Wisconsin’s education system by giving schools more freedom. “Schools now have the flexibility to hire and fire based on merit, they can pay based on performance, which means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms and pay to keep them there,” Patrick said. Schools now have the ability to manage their budgets on their own, improve education and keep teachers in the classroom, Patrick said. Apple said teachers act as far more than just educators for students and deserve more support from the state. “We are asking teachers to be surrogate parents, health care workers, social workers, psychologist at the same time school districts are letting many of these people go, because they can’t afford them,” Apple said. “So teachers feel over burdened, increasingly disrespected and people staying in teaching is at great risk.” Disagreement over unions While some educators think the elimination of unions has had largely negative effects, there is

still a divide on the issue. Alexandra Freeze, Association of American Educators spokesperson, said allowing teachers the freedom to have the choice of whether or not to join a union is a good thing because unions no longer have control over teachers. From the perspective of AAE, Freeze said, forcing teachers to be a part of a labor union limits freedom of teachers. Labor unions do not always align with the opinions of teachers and the freedom to choose is important, she said. Brey, however, said unions help both teachers and students. “We are proud to say that we have regrouped, and we have learned to work in different ways,” Brey said. “We have learned that politicians in Madison are being influenced by folks who have more money then us.” Continued support for education Brey said Wisconsin Education Association Council is focusing on grass roots local level by partnering with parents in new ways to promote students needs. Many schools are participating in a “National Walk in for Public Schools.” Brey said events like these show support for public schools and prove that teachers are the biggest advocates for public education. The MacIver Institute has called supporters to celebrate the deficit reduction and funding cuts by introducing “Wisconsin Taxpayer Appreciation Month,” which runs from Feb. 11 to March 11. February 23, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 5

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New amendment would set term limits for governor, Legislature

Some say change will make state government more effective, others argue length of time in office is not problem by Tanisha Sabhaney Reporter

Wisconsin’s governor and members of the state Legislature might have to start counting their days in office as a proposed bill would impose limits on their terms. The bill, proposed by Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville and Sen. Terry Moulton, R-Chippewa Falls, would create a constitutional amendment that would limit the term the governor and lieutenant governor serve to only two four-year terms and would limit members of the legislature to serve 12 years in the senate and the assembly, Rep. Bob Gannon, R-Slinger, co-sponsor of the bill, said. As of now, there are no term limits in Wisconsin. This bill would create a greater sense of urgency to meet goals, which would help make the government more efficient, Gannon said. Currently, certain topics that require immediate attention are not treated with enough urgency and this bill would help change that, he added. “I don’t believe the founders of the country and the writers of the constitution ever expected our servants to be in office forever,” Gannon said. “The idea was that you pass laws, serve for a period of time and then go back and live in those communities and live under the laws you had passed.” Gannon said in a statement, 75 percent of Americans support the idea of term limits. These people believe lobbyists and special interest groups control legislators who have served for long periods of time, he wrote in the statement. Fifteen states have term limits for their legislators and 37 states have term limits for their governors, Gannon said. These limitations will allow new individuals to be elected to the government, which brings fresh ideas to the chambers, he added. “The statistics out there show that legislatures up to their 12th year of service are more active in introducing legislation than they are after 12 years of service and part of that is because you have used up your best ideas,” Gannon said. John Witte, professor emeritus of public affairs and political science at the La Follette School of Public Affairs, said this bill’s proposed two four-year term limits is most commonly used among states with term limits. These term limits have been implemented to restrict governors from being re-elected, Witte said. This has been effective across many states, he said. But, Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, said this bill is too extreme a measure to address the government’s problems. The problem, she said,

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is not term limits, but the influence that lobbyists and funding from external special interest groups have on the government. Sargent said the government should instead depend on and be influenced by relationships that are built between the legislators and their constituents over time. She said it is not good for the people if legislators are gone by the time these relationships are built. If these relationships are not maintained, special interest groups stay and exert their influence on the government and public servants do not. Money will continue to have an undue influence and the groups will continue to rule the roost as opposed to the people, Sargent said. “There is a lot that we have to do to fix the government so that it is actually working for the people,” Sargent said. “We need to empower the people and take away some of that power from special interests groups as opposed to reducing term limits.” Witte said term limits were most popular and more likely to pass in southern states, where people did not want their governors staying in power forever. An example would be Bobby Jindal, who was limited to serving only two four-year terms as governor of the state of Louisiana, Witte said. The bill would not affect legislators and executives currently in office, Gannon said. This would give the bill a better chance of passing, he added. Gannon said for this resolution to pass, it would have to be passed by the Senate and the Assembly in two consecutive sessions. The bill was passed in the Senate but not the Assembly this session and would have to start over, he said. Gannon aims to reintroduce the bill in the next session. “But my intent is to bring it up again next session if I get re-elected,” Gannon said.

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Students leaders aid in UW’s search for vice chancellors

Every individual on campus can provide input on selection after hearing public presentations from finalists by Xiani Zhong Campus Editor

Though they might not know it, University of Wisconsin students have some say on who will be their administrative officials. As the search continues to fill two vice chancellor positions, university officials gathered input from a search and screen committee with shared governance group members on campus. Three finalists for the vice chancellor for university relations position are giving presentations to the public in February where all students are welcomed to listen and provide feedback. Meanwhile, UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank is also seeking a new vice chancellor for finance and administration to take the place of Darrell Bazzell, who is leaving for University of Texas-Austin in March. Student voice John Lucas, UW spokesperson, said selected students, faculty and staff can provide input and represent the perspectives of their different groups when the university is searching for leadership or senior roles like vice chancellors and academic deans. The shared governance group asks for nominations for people to sit on a search and screen committee, Lucas said, where committee members review applicants’ credentials to narrow the pool down to three finalists. “The committee sort of works together as a team to review the applicants,” Lucas said. “They have discussions and usually move forward to a consensus about the best candidate for a role, and students are providing input to the chancellor based on the performance of the finalists.” The search and screen committee includes at least one student, who usually comes from Associate Students of Madison, he said. Laning said they select the student nominees strategically to make sure they understand the responsibilities of the specific candidates they will be screening. Laning said they solicit students who work in the office of university officials to make sure they know what’s going on because they will be involved in the reviewing process from start to finish. “Getting students to have the knowledge of what the position does and why it’s necessary to have a student-centered candidate is really important,” Laning said. Finalists Charles Hoslet, the current interim vice chancellor for university relations, will be one of the finalists competing for the permanent position. Hoslet served as the associate vice chancellor for government and corporate affairs for the last several years, where he was the deputy under

the former vice chancellor. His duties as an interim now, he said, are what a full-time vice chancellor would do. “The vice chancellor for university relations oversees and is in charge of communication, marketing, government relations, corporate relations, community relations — things like that,” Hoslet said. “Essentially the external relation functions of the university.” The role of vice chancellor for finance and administration, oversees the finance and operational aspect of the university, which means everything from the university budget and housing to facilities, parking and recreational sports, Hoslet said. Blank has recently appointed an interim vice chancellor, Michael Lehman, to fill in Bazzell’s shoes temporarily before the role is permanently filled. Lehman is on the board of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking in the Wisconsin School of Business, and served as the former chair of the Dean’s Advisory Board as well as Board of Visitors for the Department of Computer Sciences. Since Lehman is from outside the university and not very likely to apply for the permanent position, Laning said there will likely be many different candidates applying. But she said it doesn’t mean the university will only select internal candidates. “Sometimes there is an internal candidate, but there isn’t really any biases towards hiring an internal candidate versus an external candidate,” Laning said. “It’s definitely based off of the expertise of the individual and how people think that they’ll do in the position.” Selection process The selection process for both vice chancellor positions is the same, Laning said. Shared governance selects a search and screen committee to review candidates’ résumé and cover letter, and decide on three finalists. Lucas said he is unsure whether Lehman will even apply for the permanent position. “He’s had a really lustrous career on the private sector, so I really have no idea if he would be interested in a role in the university,” Lucas said. The final decision, Laning said, will be up to Blank. Until then, Lucas said students have other opportunities to provide input on the finalists. Anyone who comes to the public presentations of finalists can provide feedback on a survey posted on the Provost’s website, Lucas said. “We try to advertise as widely as possible the time that you can go and submit feedback for these candidates, ask some questions and hear them speak about why they want the position,” Laning said. “So that’s a point where every single student on campus could attend and have their voice be heard.”

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To be more like us: Using robots to enhance human interaction Robotic technology simulates social encounters to communicate with, work alongside people to complete tasks by Anne Blackbourn Campus Editor

A robot communicates with a young boy through different colored cards to help him to read. It’s not able to respond to him as he speaks, but the interaction with the robot is enough to keep the boy motivated to continue reading. This robot’s name is Mini, and Mini is one example of how University of Wisconsin computer scientists in the Wisconsin HumanComputer Interaction Laboratory have been working to program robots to communicate and interact socially with humans. Think about an iPhone or computer, computer science professor Bilge Mutlu, said. It completes a series of tasks like downloading a file before communicating to its user that it has finished its task — it’s a similar concept researchers want to do today with robotic technology. Like iPhones and other electronic devices, research on robotic technology is very task driven, Mutlu explained. The research Mutlu and his lab conducts is centered on programming robots to complete tasks. For example, a robot could participate in activities where they would communicate and coordinate with humans to complete those tasks, he said. “Robots are a particular complex technology, the design of the communication for that is also very complex” Mutlu said. “One of the things that robotic technology allows us to do to give us interaction paradigms that resemble human interactions ... it does [tasks] similar to how a human may do it.”

In the case of Mini, UW researchers are trying to give human teaching techniques to robots, so robots can motivate children to learn more, he explained. Similarly, robots have also been used in social therapy to communicate with children who have autism, Sean Andrist, computer science graduate student said. There is something about robots that, for some children, makes them easier to interact with than other people, Andrist said. They create a low stress situation that allows children interact with them in ways they may find difficult with other people. Andrist’s current work focuses in part of a motivational factor through a subgroup of robotic technology research called “social gaze,” and how a robot might use similar social cues humans use to look different places at different times when communicating with someone. “There’s a million ways you can do it, how [a robot] can be more motivating,” Andrist said. “Maybe if it’s [the robot] matching your personality it could be more motivating [for a person] to keep working with that robot and do [a] rehabilitation task longer.” Imagine, Mutlu said, if a patient should need hours and hours of therapy, but a human therapist couldn’t always be there to motivate them to do it — a robot could potentially be beside them, helping complete their rehab. Though it is true there are areas in which human interaction may be better than robotic

Photo · Robots can be used to help children with autism deal with social situations. They can create a low stress environment and some have been used in therapy practices to help practice communication skills. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Human-Interaction Laboratory interaction, robots could even be beneficial as a source for people to disclose information to when they don’t want to say it to people, Mutlu said. Configuring how all of the major comments of robotics will fit together and operate smoothly is something that will take years to

develop, just like it took years for computers to develop, Mutlu said. “It’s going to take us a while for us to working through the kinks of getting this complex technology into the human environment,” Mutlu said.

City seeks equitable, environmental change through Green Power program More than 90 applicants are competing for 15 solar panel installer training positions by Teymour Tomsyck City Editor

Two electricians will receive paid solar panel training and work experience from the City of Madison as part of a broader local push toward renewable energy. The Green Power program will train 15 candidates of which the top two will have the opportunity to work for the city as solar panel installers. City officials said the initiative is a unique way for the city to promote carbon efficiency while achieving equitable outcomes. The city believes demand for renewable energy such as solar power will grow, Matt Parks, city master electrician, said. Green Power hopes to feed this growth, he added, while also pulling candidates from low income advancement programs, such as Operation Fresh Start — which connects youth with education and employment opportunities.

“We’re hoping to get trainees from targeted neighborhoods and increase solar collection on our buildings,” Parks said. According to a statement, 30 applicants will be chosen for further testing, of these 15 will be eligible for 3-day training starting March 28. Parks said so far he has received more than 90 applications and as master electrician he has significant authority in determining what criteria candidates must meet. Parks will train the final two candidates and work with them to install panels on city buildings through programs focused on increasing solar production on city buildings such as MadiSUN. On top of learning how to install solar panels, Parks added that trainees will be taught state electrical codes and basic electrical work. He said training will also adhere to Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety guidelines, such as when a hard hat is needed and the proper use of a harness.

“It’s basically a pre-apprenticeship program, the idea is that after this they will have some skill that will place them higher on apprenticeship selection,” Parks said. In addition to fitting within clean energy programs, Green Power also has hopes to further the city’s push toward racial equity, Tariq Saqqaf, neighborhood resource coordinator, said. The training hopes to educate several applicants from communities with particularly high barriers to entry, Saqqaf said. “It’s a priority across efforts that we reach out to the folks who are most in need and providing that opportunity for them,” Saqqaf said. The program will be the first time the city has used practical departments to combat racial disparities. The parks department and city engineering has historically worked with at risk youth through programs like Operation Fresh Start, Saqqaf said.

Saqqaf said the city’s engineering department has pioneered programs when it comes to equity. Engineering was the first to independently seek out youth interns from the surrounding community, he added. The engineering department laid the ground work for broader internship programs later introduced by Mayor Paul Soglin, Saqqaf said. In 2014, the community development division, at request of the mayor, had 20 students work within different divisions of the city. Saqqaf said the push for providing opportunity to young people in the community has continued to grow. In the summer of 2016, he said the city expects 50 new interns. As for the Green Power program, Parks said he believes the program will be a great chance for students. “It’s an absolutely one of a kind training, I don’t know any other city where they’ve done this,” Parks said. February 23, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 9

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Madison’s Moth StorySLAM winner Alexandra Rosas moves crowd to tears Seeking inspiration, aid in animated series, poet recounts raising three children with tribute to late mother by Grace Ferolo ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

She began the evening with a story about a “Little Bear” DVD and ended it with an audience in tears. Alexandra Rosas arrived at the first-ever Madison Moth StorySLAM a seasoned storyteller, and ended up winning the entire event. From its start in 1997, The Moth has presented over 450 shows per year around the country and abroad. The Moth Radio Hour airs on over 400 public radio stations across America and its podcast boasts more than 30 million plays a year. All stories are all told live and without notes. Although Feb. 15 was Madison’s first StorySLAM, it was not so for Rosas. Having participated in the Milwaukee Moth numerous times, she takes every opportunity that she receives to tell a story. “I just love what storytelling does,” Rosas said. “It just makes you feel like you’re not alone and you’re a part of something.” When Rosas heard that this particular StorySLAM’s theme was “Love Hurts,” she knew needed to bring into the light the one person she loved most — her mother. From the moment she faced the crowd, it was clear she didn’t just want to tell her story — she needed to tell it. Rosas once read an article that explained how our parents’ experiences are engrained in our own DNA — but she believed the reverse was true as well. Following the death of her mother, Rosas believed the love she gave to her own children bounced back to their late grandmother. “I realized when I read that article that, if she is in my DNA, then I must be in hers,” Rosas said. “Together, she can be a part of this whole dream she could have had if it wasn’t for life twisting the other way for her.” Rosas’ mother was a Colombian immigrant who feared deportation the most. As a single mother with six kids, she worked countless jobs to give her children a comfortable life and to stay in the country. Although Rosas adored her mother, she was never home. As a result, Rosas did not have a model of how to mother her own children. She, however, sought inspiration through a lowly “Little Bear” DVD, an animated show, and would play it for her children. “Every day, whatever Little Bear ’s mother did with Little Bear, I would do that same thing with my three boys,” Rosas said. “If Little Bear played in the woods, we would play in the woods. If Little Bear had

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a birthday cake party, we would have a birthday cake party. My mom and I both needed Little Bear to teach us what to do.” Despite the family’s struggle, Rosas can attribute her happiness to her mother ’s tireless work to provide for her family — and is now able to understand her mother ’s trial to be fully present with her children. With this, Rosas ended her story with, “Love may hurt, but love also heals.” Rosas’ win has fueled her fire to continue telling stories and experiencing the sacred storyteller-audience relationship The Moth provides. “There is nothing like the sound of people listening to a story — it’s a different kind of a quiet,” Rosas said. “It is such an electrified energy.When you tell a story, they really want you to make it. They’re not looking for you to bomb. You look out and everyone is listening because they want to learn what you’ve learned.”

Photo · Storytellers take center stage to narrrate their various experiences adhering to the Moth StorySLAM’s theme of “Love Hurts.” Top: Photo Courtesy of Sarah Stacke Right: Photo Courtesy of Roger Ho

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Mad Gaffers invites call to action with blown glass artwork Organization’s president’s upcoming showcase has fierce message for audience regarding gender, sexuality by Frankie Hermanek ArtsEtc. Editor

Practical items — a standard vase or a drinking glass, for example — are typically associated with glass blowing. Their design lies in the hands of the gaffer, the one who asserts the creative decisions as a small team spins molten glass. And while the practice allows for some decorative household commodities, it can also generate art to communicate a message. Through their state of the art glass lab, University of Wisconsin allows the student organization Mad Gaffers to manufacture both generally proficient products and visionary pieces. Heather Sutherland, Mad Gaffers president and UW graduate student, crafts glass for reasons beyond practical decoration, she said. Through her lustrous art medium, Sutherland invites her audience to mull over the human condition, particularly what she describes as its “duplicitous and symbiotic nature.” Sutherland protests the way the media enforces the perception that everything is binary. She instead holds dear the unifying power of the human condition and its ever-changing fluidity. She encourages a dialogue surrounding gender and sexuality.

Her passionate views are a threshold for her art, and her current showcase seeks to prompt this mode of thinking. “I feel like I should be able to wake up in the morning and just decide — instead of creating this performance of what these culturally invented society constructs are telling me I have to be,” Sutherland said. With the aid of an old professor, Sutherland unearthed her passion for glass blowing at an art conference during her undergraduate years at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Though she originally had not intended to pursue this line of work, she gravitated towards the practice immediately and found herself studying within UW’s glass department years later. Now a graduate student, Sutherland attributes her success to Harvey Littleton, the man behind the UW Glass Lab’s furnace that facilitates the Gaffers’ efforts. She said in 1962, Littleton founded the American Studio Glass Movement, allowing aspiring glass blowers to affordably pursue what used to solely be an industrial practice. “He basically was able to bring glass to the people,” Sutherland said. “So, he brought it to the artist’s studio instead of just to this big industry.” Sutherland’s showcase, running from Feb. 21 to Feb. 25, incorporates her fervent message about the human condition with

three tents, each approximately 10-by-6feet tall, sheltering her glass art within. In addition to a hefty amount of neon and lights to accentuate her work, she turns to materials outside of the glass realm to diversify her project. Thanks to niche pioneers like Littleton, the Mad Gaffers and other practicing art organizations allow passionate folks to delve into what fulfills them and propel it into something tangible. For Sutherland, with the sheer heart behind her method, she is able to drive her message of sexuality forward — and encourage fearlessness in doing away with gender constructs. “I think the only way we can make that happen is for other people to create their own authoritative

voice,” Sutherland said. “You can see that’s starting to happen. But in order for that to happen faster, we need to make a louder voice.”

Photo · University of Wisconsin Glass Lab gives Mad Gaffers state of the art tools to create atypical pieces. Marissa Haegele The Badger Herald

Old-fashioned Church Booty to make Madison groove at The Sett Original, yet nostalgic group will perform their funky, laid-back music Feb. 26 by Dan Chinitz ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

It’s not everyday that a band with the amount of soul that Church Booty has struts through Madison with their horns ablaze. But come Feb. 26, The Sett will be in for such an experience when the Illinois-based band comes through to deliver the groove that will make you want to move. The Badger Herald got to converse with saxophonist and bandleader Dan Hinze to talk about what Church Booty does best — making some damn soulful tracks. These tracks, though, are not emblematic of the Kanye/Just Blaze hip-hop beats that define 21st century neo-soul. Rather, Church Booty is about the inspiration behind the genre giant of original funk.

Recognizing the influence of legendary bands like Chicago and Earth, Wind and Fire, Church Booty takes that large fusion sound and moves it one step further into this modern day and age, similarly to bands like Snarky Puppy or Sidewalk Chalk. The soul collective originally met through the jazz program at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, where they played in separate small groups until they joined forces to perform for a private party. It was at that event where they first saw the potential to become something bigger and funkier. There are 10 members that created Church Booty and according to Hinze, each one has their own ideas that they throw into the mix. This, at times, can be a little overwhelming, however, Hinze said they “use all of the voices to our advantage”

and notes that “the more we can define our individual roles the better we will sound as a large group.” Church Booty released their first full length record Turn The Other Cheek on Bandcamp and Spotify, and each track gives a taste of the feels and solos to expect during their live show. The jams on Turn the Other Cheek compile into some interesting grooves, particularly on “Rush,” where they break down into an electro-groove with vocal harmonies that should give EDM producers a few new ideas. Their diversity shines on “Deep in the Soul,” where their vocal duet sparks some serious feels. The album is solid, but according to Hinze, “we’re always going to be a better band live than on record” and adds “that’s our element.” Bands that groove this hard need that live atmosphere to shine because

you can’t grasp the true musicality until the experience of listening in person. Church Booty is on a mission for originality and Hinze says “every show, I want a different highlight.” Church Booty’s pride is based on playing aspects they didn’t anticipate and seeing where that leads. As an act, Church Booty is one that will be sure to get some feet moving on the dance floor when they start feeling their funky tracks; it’s also recommended to bring a significant other because this is some feel good music. Like Hinze said, “there is always going to be another thing that makes me bust out smiling any given night.” Who know what will bring a smile to Hinze’s face when Church Booty rolls into Madison on Feb. 26. February 23, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 11

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In ‘the middle of where they want to be’: What rural students contribute to Wisconsin UW programs provide learning opportunities for students, teachers from sparsely populated areas of state by Emma Palasz Features Editor

In high school, Zach Meyer knew he wanted to apply to University of Wisconsin to pursue his undergraduate degree. It would provide him with the best opportunities to succeed at whatever career path he chose, he said. Meyer is from Reedsburg, Wisconsin, a rural city 15 minutes west of the Wisconsin Dells. His mother’s family is made up of farmers; his father’s side primarily works in a car factory. Meyer’s graduating class had 200 people, which isn’t as small as some rural Wisconsin schools, but when he got to Madison, he realized some of his peers often had more academic opportunities than he did in high school. Meyer took three Advanced Placement courses — psychology, biology and physics — but he soon found out many classmates at UW had been able to take much more, and came in with more college credits than he had. Meyer is currently a second-year medical student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. But he’s enrolled in a unique program — the Wisconsin Area for Rural Medicine. WARM trains future physicians to be re-entered into rural areas of Wisconsin once they complete their training. Meyer said he was lucky

his parents emphasized the importance of education, otherwise he may have followed his father’s career path. But not all rural area students come from situations exactly like Meyer’s. Rural challenges Currently, 43 percent of K-12 public school students are in rural areas or towns more than 10 miles from urban centers, according to 2014-15 data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Thomas McCarthy, DPI spokesperson, said he doesn’t think rural students are at a disadvantage in getting into schools like UW. “I think a lot of rural communities are focused on providing the highest quality of education that they can,” McCarthy said. According to a 2014 map by DPI, students in rural areas of northern Wisconsin are less likely to be enrolled in an AP course than those from southern, more urban parts of the state. Laure McCloskey is a science teacher in Mellen, Wisconsin at Mellen High School, which serves middle and high school students in far northern Wisconsin. She is the sole science instructor for all 80 high school students grades six through 12. While she enjoys the challenge, McCloskey said her job presents extra demands. At Mellen, AP courses are only offered online, so McCloskey tries to take materials from AP

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practice tests and insert them into her higherlevel courses. McCloskey said finances are an issue for many rural high school students. McCloskey used to work in urban New Orleans, and said she sees similar financial struggles between low-income rural and urban families. When McCloskey posts summer learning opportunities in larger Wisconsin cities on a board in her classroom, she said her students are immediately concerned with the price tag associated with them. But last summer, McCloskey discovered the Rural Summer Science Camp through the Morgridge Institute for Research, which brings students and teachers from rural areas to UW to teach them about subjects they normally aren’t introduced to in their hometowns. McCloskey said without the camp, some of her students would not have even applied to UW, but are now enrolled today. Learning opportunities The Rural Summer Science Camp introduces students to stem cell sciences with hands-on learning, something McCloskey said her students never would have been introduced to. In far northern Wisconsin, students mostly learn about environmental sciences and the outdoors, but rarely do they receive in-depth education about biology and molecular-based

sciences, she said. “You don’t want to just do complete outdoor education,” McCloskey said. “You need to have a balanced approach in science, in any class. You learn how to be something by being exposed to it, so I want to expose the kids to all the different opportunities there are in science.” Giving back to rural communities Through the WARM program, UW trains future physicians to work in rural settings. Byron Crouse, WARM director, said it began in 2007 to address a growing shortage of physicians in rural communities throughout Wisconsin. The first two years for WARM students are exactly the same as other medical students at UW. But in their third year, they spend clinical training time in either La Crosse, Green Bay or Marshfield to learn specialty skills, and are placed in a rural community for their fourth year for general practice training. While some students from rural areas may go to college to get away from a small town upbringing, Crouse said the idea of returning to a rural area excites WARM students. “They don’t see it as the middle of nowhere — they see it as the middle of where they want to be,” Crouse said. During the admissions process, Crouse said WARM looks at not only a student’s academic record, but whether they are likely to return to a rural

Photo · The Morgridge Institute for Research Discovery Outreach team keads the Rural Summer Science Camp with help from volunteers, UW graduate and undergraduate students. Courtni Kopietz Morgridge Institute for Research

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area depending on where they grew up, their personal passions and their involvement in their community. Crouse said practicing medicine in rural areas is unique because students have to be prepared to handle all issues that come their way, rather than focus on a particular field of medicine, as many urban physicians do. In medical school training, Crouse said the WARM program allows students to be the only student in training at a particular clinic, rather than one in 150. For Meyer, who wants to be a family physician, the prospect of getting more one-onone practice in the field is motivating. “We get a lot more hands on with procedures or just our patients directly, which is awesome,” Meyer said. “That’s kind of what you need to be in a rural community. You need to know a little bit of everything and learn how to improvise, so I find that [hands-on experience] to be extremely valuable.” Helping students succeed Vice Provost for Enrollment Management Steve Hahn said in an email to The Badger Herald that the Office of Admissions and Recruitment does not have a specific policy relative to students from rural communities. “Instead, in line with the university’s commitment to serve our citizens from all corners of the state, we actively recruit, admit through a holistic review and attempt to enroll as many rural students as possible, either at the freshman or transfer point of entry,” Hahn wrote. But UW offers several opportunities for students of unique backgrounds, including those coming from rural areas. The LEED Scholars Program within UW’s College of Engineering is a merit-based program that recruits women and minorities. Assistant Director of Undergraduate Retention for the College of Engineering Brian Nunez said the program is beneficial for students coming from rural areas because they are immediately involved in a community once they set foot on campus. “The LEED Scholars Program is a living example of the Wisconsin Idea — to take university resources and make sure they reach all parts of the state and country,” Nunez said. Williams said the Center for Educational Opportunity assists students from both rural and urban areas from anywhere in the U.S. in equal parts. One of the programs within the Center for Educational Opportunity, Student Support Services, recently received a grant specifically for students interested in STEM fields, in order to better tutor and mentor those students, Williams said. For students who have no expected family contribution, the FASTrack program accepts students solely based off whether they fit into a particular income bracket on their FAFSA application. Currently serving 1,300 students, FASTrack guarantees costs for four years of attendance as long as the student’s financial situation doesn’t change, Joselyn Diaz-Valdes, senior financial aid officer of Office of Student Financial Aid, said. But she said for the past few years, it’s been difficult to even fill the program. She said FASTrack didn’t even have enough

Map - Students from rural areas enroll in AP courses less than students from urbanized areas in the state. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

students to fill its spring 2016 limit, a trend that has been present for the past three years. “What I would love for students who are coming from incomes where they think, ‘My family is never going to be able to afford UWMadison,’ is that UW-Madison is a possibility,” Diaz-Valdes said. “I would hate for any student to erase UW-Madison because of the financial barrier.” At the state level, several Republican legislators helped introduce the Rural Wisconsin Initiative in January, designed to persuade Wisconsin workers to stay in rural areas. The

bill package includes an expansion of broadband grants, loan repayments for college graduates who relocate to rural areas and new STEM grants for rural schools. Crouse said he hopes the bills pass through the Legislature. Returning to rural roots Meyer did not need to be convinced to return to a rural community after he completes his education. In fact, he wants to return to his hometown Reedsburg to be reunited with his family and his fiance.

In July, Meyer is headed to La Crosse to begin specialty training for his third year of medical school. He is proud of the WARM program and believes it is recruiting the best physicians the state can ask for. “My fellow WARM students — you just would want them to be your doctor,” Meyer said. “They’re able to step into someone’s shoes and experience what they’re going through. They look at how they can best help them in their health and their lives.” February 23, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 13

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Madison’s hidden gem lies in zealous student musician Bear in the Forest UW was host to Alberto Kanost’s transition into college along with his indie folk music debut by Hunter Reed ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

In the heart of Madison resides Bear — but instead of sharp canines and long claws, he’s armed with a killer voice and a passion for emotive folk music inspired by the natural world around him. Eighteen-year-old musician Alberto Kanost has adopted a musical persona based off of his lifetime nickname — Bear. “People started calling me Bear from middle school and all throughout high school,” Kanost said. “It kind of just stuck because teachers couldn’t pronounce Alberto without saying Al-Bear-Toe. So people called me Bear.” Kanost’s passion and natural talent has humble beginnings. After listening to Mumford and Sons’ “The Cave” in middle school, he started teaching himself guitar. After that, there was no looking back. Late in high school, Kanost said he became involved in several bands, eventually naming the collaborative process as Bear and the Forests. The name stemmed from a fascination with the animal itself, but also a passion for the natural world and its elements. Bear In the Forest, as a solo venture, is the perfect name that encompasses Kanost’s acoustic, raw and spiritual sound. Within that sound, he wants to express his love of nature and the personal stories he’s collected throughout his young life. Kanost will narrate the first collection of these stories in his upcoming EP, aptly titled Fickle Young Mind. The six-song project will feature tracks that explore the angst and emotional immaturity of adolescence. The songs were some of Kanost’s first experiments with creating his own melodies and production. With the help of local talent scouts and producers, the songs are being remastered and reinterpreted to create a polished product. With the tracks already released on his SoundCloud, Kanost has already established a unique identity. The simplistic and intimate fretting of the guitars laced with his looped and reverberated vocals create a hypnotizing atmosphere inspiring nostalgia with every word. Songs like “Shine” and “Dancing With Moon” showcase not only Kanost’s emotive delivery, but his creative lyricism. On the latter, he sings a haunting melody and coos like a wolf howling at the moon — the embodiment of his folk sound and love of nature in beautiful union. Even though most of his songs have been heard through recordings and digital downloads, Kanost wants to be a live

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Photo · Residing in Sellery Residence Hall’s “The Studio,” Alberto Kanost records his own music for upcoming EP under his solo name, Bear in the Forest. Top, bottom: Katie Cooney Badger Herald performer above all. Throughout his teenage years and transition to Madison, he’s developed an intense love for singing real-time for folks. “I think I was always just inspired by the passion in live performing and putting yourself out there,” Kanost said. “It’s always different every time you do it. It’s really a two-way street with people giving you their focus and you entertaining them. It’s just really intimate to play music for people and have them listen and vibe to it.” As Kanost lands more gigs and releases his EP, people will start to recognize him and understand what he’s about. He put his main goal as simply and as eloquently as his music: “In a world where our love and care for nature seems to become more and more irrelevant, I want to keep my love for it alive as well as my style and acoustic sound. ”

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Wisconsin primary lacks true impact Letter to the Editor: Finding work State is afterthought, not ‘turning point’ during presidential elections Temp agencies hurt chances of getting full-time employment Photo · Problem is growing as

Photo · Superdelegates will push Hillary over the top for the Democratic primary, while the Republican side will come down to favorability.

temps account for 2.1 percent of the U.S. workforce — an all-time high, according to the Department of Labor.

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by Aaron Reilly Opinion Editor

Political analyst and urban planning professor at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Mordecai Lee, said Friday, Feb. 15, Wisconsin’s late April 5 primary would play an important role in this year’s primary season. While I think Wisconsin is important, its primary is not. Lee thinks Wisconsin’s role will be especially important in this presidential primary bout, calling Wisconsin a possible “turning point” in the primaries. I don’t see this being the case at all. Starting with the Democrats, I see that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in a commanding lead over U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, after the so called “Super Tuesday” night, March 1. On that night, 12 states will be holding their Democratic primaries, with 1,017 delegates up for grabs, almost half of the delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination. Two factors indicate this conclusion: superdelegates and southern states. Superdelegates — the Democratic party establishment — are clearly in Clinton’s favor, seeing as she is the candidate most representative of the establishment’s views. She leads Sanders among superdelegates 362 - 8. That’s only the superdelegates that have pledged to a campaign; there’s still 300 superdelegates up for grab, and if this trend continues, they’ll side with Clinton. Southern states, on the other hand, are traditionally more conservative than their northern counterparts. Both primaries, Iowa and New Hampshire, where Sanders has done surprisingly well are above the Mason-Dixon line. Conservative states will, naturally, go for the more conservative candidate. Poll data confirms this assumption: Clinton leads Sanders in Texas with 50 percent to 15.5 percent in a Jan. 28 poll, she leads in Georgia with 63 percent to 21 percent in a Feb. 4 poll and she’s ahead in Oklahoma with 41 percent to 28 percent according to a Feb. 9 poll. Each of these southern states, plus four more,

vote on Super Tuesday, constituting 693 delegates, plenty of delegates for Clinton to assert a large enough lead to make Sanders and Wisconsin obsolete in the Democratic primary. The Republican side is a little more likely than the Democrats to matter in Wisconsin. But still, Wisconsin’s primary will be little more than a formality. This is a year of turmoil for the Republican establishment, with Washington outsider Donald Trump and self-proclaimed outsider U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leading in delegate count. Then comes U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, a man of the establishment. I see these three candidates being the only ones left after Super Tuesday, seeing as they are the three clear leaders in recent national polls, with Cruz and Trump as the favorites and Rubio taking up third. Sure, money might keep around candidates, but when there’s a large field, a good indicator of who will prevail in the primary is to look at the preferred second choice — the indicator of staying power in an election cycle. In New Hampshire and Iowa, Rubio and Cruz were Republicans’ top second choices. Another important indicator of primary success is favorability rating. Both Cruz and Rubio are seen as more favorably than not; Cruz is viewed favorably by 58 percent and unfavorably by 28 percent of Republicans compared to Rubio’s 64 to 21 percent. Of the top three candidates mentioned, Trump has neither a top staying power in the form of being a second choice (only the second choice of eight percent of Republicans), and he isn’t viewed too favorably, with 48 percent viewing him favorably compared to 41 percent viewing him unfavorably. Without this base, he cannot continue to win a race with more agreeable candidates. With three candidates, and only two of them with potential to win the Republican primary, I see 2016 as a repeat of the 2008 primary, where U.S. Sen. John McCain won the primary on March 4. Someone will pull away, leaving the Wisconsin primary as unimportant as ever. Aaron Reilly (areilly@badgerherald.com) is a freshman majoring in comparative literature and Russian.

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I’ve signed on with temp agencies twice in my life: once in New York City and now in Wisconsin. The temp agency I worked for in New York was as corporate as they come, complete with the high-ceiling office, the arbitration clause, the low hourly wages and that helpful 180-day non-compete clause. Yes, that means unless the staffing agency places you in a temp-to-permanent position, you’re not allowed to immediately apply for a job at the company where you’ve been making connections and gaining experience. A lot of us fail to read this small print. This temp agency placed me at HarperCollins doing administrative work for two months. It was great: I got to meet a lot of book-wormy types and fish around on the bookshelves for galley copies. Sure, there were plenty of downfalls, too. For example, I didn’t get paid much, I had to clock out for my lunch break and I was treated like a temp — I never felt included in the department. Still, particularly as a recent MFA graduate, I loved publishing. The moment my placement was up, I applied to Harper, hoping they might let the temp agency rule slide. Nope. When I got ahold of someone in human resources, I learned they wouldn’t consider hiring me for a full year to avoid paying the temp agency a referral bonus. So much for all that schmoozing. After that, I avoided temp agencies for a long time. But after finding myself stuck between a dead-end job and some sporadic adjunct teaching this year, I found myself lured again by the bottom feeders with promises of a stimulating, well-paying job that (of course) would want to hire me permanently after my temp placement. This time around, the temp agency insinuated this placement would let me write their newsletter, that I wouldn’t

“just be doing administrative work” and the organization would have a full-time position with benefits opening up soon. Unlike the temp agency in New York, this agency’s non-compete clause is only three

months long. Still, the position pays low wages, there’s no guarantee of full-time employment and I don’t get to write the newsletter. I mostly do boring administrative work. And simply for processing payroll and mailing me a check, the temp agency takes 30 percent of my paycheck. While this isn’t advantageous to me, “this industry of middlemen provides huge savings for … companies,” Adam Satariano and Spencer Soper wrote in Bloomberg Businessweek. Then there’s me, the temp, puttering away at the front desk, barely making ends meet. At staff meetings, I get to hear about the raises the permanent employees are getting and how many paid holidays they enjoy. I’m not sure if my coworkers know how different my experience — and pay — is. Almost anyone who has job searched in recent years knows where to look — there’s Monster.com, Idealist.org, Indeed.com, LinkedIn and Craigslist. In the online age, temp agencies should be obsolete. Instead, they’re proliferating at a frightening pace. Companies are “institutionalizing a permanent tier of temporary workers.” “The problem is growing as [temps] account for 2.1 percent of the U.S. workforce — an all-time high, according to the Department of Labor,” Satariano and Soper wrote. What’s the answer? We can’t stop the demand, but we could temper the supply. After this last stint as a “variable cost” to help “improve operating margins” — as one recruiting agency describes temps — I’m done. Sara DeGregoria (s.degre1@gmail.com) is a UW graduate, blogs regularly at Prog Chik progchik.com and tweets @ProgChik.

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POINT COUNTERPOINT With mounting costs, rising debt college students search for answers College Republicans: Addressing symptoms, ignoring root cause will not help pay for higher education

College Democrats: Gov. Scott Walker’s affordability plan is band-aid solution for larger issue

It’s stereotypical for a college Republican to blame government for a problem. It’s also stereotypical for a college Republican to quote former President Ronald Reagan when discussing how government is to blame for a problem. But stereotypes are grounded in some truth, right? “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,” Reagan said. Over the past 35 years, tuition at public universities has quadrupled. In fact, according to Paul Campos in the New York Times, if this increase in price was applied to the average cost of your brand-new, base-model Chevy Cruze, it would cost $80,000. University of Wisconsin and public universities across the country will tell you the same thing. Cuts to higher education by states have forced them to make up for that “budget hole” by doing one thing: raising tuition. As a function of that rising cost of tuition, students have been forced to take out student loans, thus leaving us in our current situation. College costs keep rising and student debt keeps racking up. Imagine going to the doctor with a really bad stomach ache. In the examination room, the doctor tells you the root cause of your stomach ache is an all too common disease called government intervention. This government intervention leads to higher tuition and in turn a bigger stomach ache because you have to take out more student loans He tells you the best way to combat this disease is to go after the root cause — government involvement. Instead, you ask him to just treat the stomach ache, which is a symptom. In the short term, taking the Democratic endorsed Tums, which allows you to refinance your loans, the stomach ache becomes less painful. In the long run, the disease festers and gets worse. Tuition continues to increase as government involvement continues to persist. Democrats in the state and across the country have endorsed ideas that would address these symptoms. The root cause is good-intentioned, government intervention. The idea behind this operates on the Economics 101 idea of incentives.

If you caught our most recent “Point counterpoint” column, I argued the election this year is the most important of our lifetimes because of the focus on the student debt crisis. I supremely believe this is true. In 2013, 155,000 seniors over the age of 60 had their Social Security garnished because of student loan debt. About 75 percent of college graduates from Wisconsin graduate with student debt currently averaging more than $28,000. There are more than 800,000 Wisconsin residents with federal student loan debt and another few hundred thousand with private student loan debt. Wisconsin has jumped to No. 3 in the country for students graduating with debt. Now this all sounds bleak. There are, however, legislators who are working to ease this burden on students. Right here in Wisconsin, Democrats in the Legislature have proposed the Higher Ed Lower Debt bill, which would allow more than 500,000 student loan holders to refinance their student loans in the same way a mortgage can be refinanced. In an unprecedented move, every single Democrat co-signed the bill. The Marquette Law Poll included a question about the bill in their polling and found Wisconsin residents overwhelmingly support it. For some reason, though, Gov. Scott Walker continues to oppose this simple refinancing bill. If the Higher Ed Lower Debt bill would be a common sense bill to ease the burden of student loans on a vast majority of loanholders, Walker’s plan to tackle the student loan debt crisis is anything but. The cornerstone of his proposal, a lift on the $2,500 cap for tax deduction of student loan increases, would help a meager 3 percent of loan holders. That’s 36,000 students to the more than 500,000 Higher Ed Lower Debt would help. Furthermore, this tax deduction would only amount to savings equal to about a textbook. That pales in comparison to the thousands students would save if Higher Ed Lower Debt passed. His proposal to employ loan

As the government increases access to student loans and increases access to aid, state schools operating on incentive raise tuition to capture more of this available government money. Then, they tell the story that they have run out of money and need to raise tuition. When they raise tuition, government increases access to loans and students take out more loans, thus starting the vicious cycle of rising tuition equals increased loans. But some will say, the rising tuition is because the evil Emperor Scott Walker cut state funding. Shockingly, inflation-adjusted government money for college affordability reached a record high of $86.6 billion in 2009. The money, instead of going towards granting more access to higher education or into the pockets of highly-qualified professors, went elsewhere. According to The New York Times, salaries for full-time faculty are barely higher than they were in 1970, on average. While professors and students aren’t seeing the money, college administrators are. Between 1993 and 2009, administrative positions grew by 60 percent — 10 times the growth rate of faculty positions. In addition, according to a California Polytechnic State University professor, between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew by 8,383 positions — from 3,800 to 12,183, a 221 percent increase — while full-time faculty only grew by 405 positions. To Democrats, college affordability means more government intervention and more government money. To Republicans, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” To Republicans, we’d like to address the root cause of our student loan disease. We need radical ideas that will change the relationship between government and universities in order to benefit students. And as a student loan voter (yes, I have about $35,000 in student loans), I appreciate and expect ideas that actually address the root — not ideas that are used to win my vote. Anthony Birch (gopbadgers@gmail.com) is a senior majoring in political science and strategic communications.

counselors for students through the state is nearly laughable. UW System schools could employ their own loan counselors trained specifically in the loan policies of their school until Walker gutted funding from the UW System. Walker ’s third proposal — $1 million in technical college emergency grants — is another case of too little too late. Considering the governor cut technical colleges by $70 million, or 30 percent, in the 2011-13 budget, $1 million is pocket change. Wisconsin touts the oldest technical college system in the country and the governor ’s 30 percent cut to this system happened to occur on the centennial anniversary of this system. Talk about adding insult to injury. Walker ’s plan is a band-aid solution that’s not even big enough to cover the whole wound. The deeper problem at play here is the systematic divestment from higher education. And we wonder why tuition keeps skyrocketing? In 2000, the state spent 10 cents per General Purpose Revenue dollar on higher education. Today, that is down to 4.7 cents. The corrections budget has officially eclipsed how much we spend on higher education. This is despicable. While Walker shames the university for raising tuition and goes on to freeze it, he guts UW System funding. This leaves the university in a stranglehold. We either need to fully invest in our higher education system, or we need to accept skyrocketing tuition and oncampus fees. I think one of those options is far superior. This student debt crisis demands more than nibbling around the edges. We need big, bold legislation. Walker always campaigns on his “big, bold reforms,” so I challenge Walker to pass Higher Ed Lower Debt — a big, bold bill aimed at tackling student loan debt — and start to actually value our higher education system. August McGinnity-Wake (a.mcwake@ gmail.com) is a sophomore majoring in political science and environmental studies. February 23, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 16

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Photo · After reaching double digit scoring in 10 straight outings, junior forward Nigel Hayes managed to score just five points on 1-of-13 shooting from the field.

Photo · While Thursday’s loss to Michigan State wasn’t pretty, Greg Gard still holds an impressive 9-5 record since taking over as Wisconsin’s interim head coach putting the Badgers in good standing in the Big Ten.

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Trip to East Lansing caused Badgers’ season-long issues to resurface Offensive approach, Hayes’ inconsistencies need to be addressed as postseason play approaches by Nick Brazzoni Sports Editor

Entering Thursday’s showdown with No. 8 Michigan State, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team had the fates of two different streaks hanging in the balance. The Badgers were riding a seven-game win streak — the longest active streak in the Big Ten — and were seen as one of the hottest teams in the country. Conversely, the Badgers were also riding a losing streak, one reaching all the way back to 2004, as the team had not walked out of the Breslin Center in East Lansing with a win since that time. Unfortunately for Wisconsin, history repeated itself Thursday. The Badgers fell hard to the Spartans in a game that was never close, which not only ended the team’s seven-game win streak, but extended their eight-game losing streak in the “Izzone.” But while Thursday’s result is disappointing given the roll this oncefailing Wisconsin team was on, now is the time to remember: streaks in any form are meaningless. The Badgers were not expected to win Thursday. They were 10-point underdogs

against a team that matched their size and overmatched their talent with future AllAmerican Denzel Valentine leading the way. Just as their hot shooting streak had to end — the team hit 36 threes in three games — their winning streak ultimately had to as well. And the takeaway from Thursday should not be about any kind of streak. Rather, Tit should be how many of the Badgers’ glaring weaknesses, which seemed to be fixed during their sevengame win streak, were exposed once again. And with an NCAA tournament still not guaranteed, fixing these weaknesses is still a work in progress. The biggest thing Tuesday’s game exposed was that the Badgers still aren’t a very good three-point shooting team. They shot 51 percent in their last three wins, an aberration of sorts. And while it appeared no Wisconsin player could miss during that stretch, the team had shot at or less than 40 percent from behind the arc in 16 of their first 22 games, which included 12 games where they shot at or below 33 percent. The 30 percent (6-of-20) the Badgers shot from behind the arc against Michigan State ends up being more normal than one might think. This doesn’t mean UW should stop

launching shots from the outside, but it does mean they should, for the most part, return to what works best for a team like the Badgers: working from the inside-out. That inside-out method, however, becomes troublesome to execute when one of your two most effective scorers on the inside looks completely checked out of the game. Junior forward Nigel Hayes looked disinterested and disengaged Thursday and put in an overall disappointing performance in a game against one of the country’s best players on one of its biggest stages. Hayes had a matchup with Valentine that gave him an opportunity to assert himself as one of the Big Ten’s best, and he simply couldn’t pull through. And this isn’t the first time this issue has been observed this season, making it the more pressing issue the Badgers need to address as postseason play rapidly approaches. During the team’s seven-game win streak, Hayes looked as if he was inching closer to playing at a level that matched the preseason All-American expectations the junior had coming into this season. His mid-range jumper was unguardable, he was getting to the free-throw line at will and he was hitting three’s when he had to.

But before that, Hayes’ performances had been rather inconsistent. He’d look engaged one night and disinterested the next. He would shoot more than 50 percent one game and then miss 10 of his 13 shots the next. Simply put, UW has seen their best player at his best and at his absolute worst. But for a team like Wisconsin, that’s already light on talent, they cannot afford many more poor performances out of Hayes. And the issue isn’t just Hayes is missing shots on his worst days, it’s the manner in which he is doing so. On the nights where the junior is shooting around a poor 30 percent from the field, he’s forcing jump shots, and instead of attacking the basket, he continues to try and get into a rhythm from the outside. It’s a vicious, neverending cycle, and it’s one that Hayes needs to get himself out of. Because when Hayes is at his absolute best, Wisconsin has the ability to take down any team in the country, and at this point, these Badgers can’t afford anything less than that out of their best player. One slip up from Hayes in these final four games of the regular season could put an end to yet another streak: 17 consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament. February 23, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 17

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This week in Wisconsin men’s basketball: Iowa, Michigan

Two-man game

Iowa’s Jarrod Uthoff and Peter Jok are the focal points of Iowa’s offensive gameplan, as the two have commonly combined for at least 50 percent of the team’s output on a given night. Overall, the two have combined to score 44 percent of the team’s points throughout this season.

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Key Reserves - F Dom Uhl (6.8 P, 3.8 R, 0.8 A), F Nicholas Baer (4.7 P, 2.7 R, 0.6 A), F Ahmad Wagner (2.6 P, 2.5 R, 0.2 A)

Iowa The Hawkeyes have been the surprise team in the Big Ten this season, winning 10 of their first 11 conference games and leaping into a top five national ranking as a result. The team, however, has slipped up as of late, losing two of their previous three games. Iowa now holds a conference record of 11-3 and a 20-6 record overall, leaving them just a half-game behind Indiana for first place in the Big Ten. They are led by potential All-American and former Badger Jarrod Uthoff, who transferred from the University of Wisconsin to Iowa in 2012, is having a breakout year with the Hawkeyes, averaging 18.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game this season.

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But while Uthoff is in the national spotlight, the Hawkeyes have another star in junior guard Peter Jok, who is averaging 16.3 points per game this season. He and Uthoff are the only Iowa players that are averaging double-digit points on the year. As a team, the Hawkeyes rely on their highpowered offensive attack, as they are currently second in the Big Ten in scoring, averaging 80.1 points per game this season. They’re effectiveness on offense is a result of how well the team takes care of the ball, as they boast the best turnover margin and second best assist-turnover ration in the conference.

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Michigan’s success this season has been largely independent of their performance from behind the arc, and that has been on display in their previous five games. The Wolverines have managed to win while shooting well below 30 percent from deep, but have also lost shooting nearly 50 percent from 3-point range.

Key Resrerves - G Aubrey Dawkins (7.8 P, 2.8 R, 0.6 A), F Ricky Doyle (4.0 P, 2.3 R, 0.0 A)

It’s been an up-and-down season thus far for the Wolverines as they continue to fight for a NCAA tournament bid, and right now, they are on the downfall, losing four of their last six games. Nevertheless, at 9-6 in the Big Ten and 19-9 overall, Michigan is still very much alive in terms of qualifying for postseason play and are doing so without their best player. Senior guard Caris LeVert suffered a lower left leg injury at the end of December that caused him to miss 11 games before returning to play against Purdue last Saturday. LeVert, however, is now dealing with a setback and has missed

the previous two games as a result. He is also reportedly at risk of being shut down for the remainder of the regular season. Without LeVert, the Wolverines have been riding on the coattails of junior guards Derrick Walton Jr. and Zak Irvin, who are averaging 12.1 and 11.5 points per game respectively. The battle on the boards will be something to watch in this matchup, as while Wisconsin is currently the worst defensive rebounding team in the Big Ten, Michigan is the worst offensive rebounding team. The Badgers will look to take advantage come Sunday, as they have struggled to limit teams’ second-chance points all season.

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Sisters share unique bond despite different journeys to Wisconsin program Michala, Malayna Johnson have faced similar walls of adversity, still determined to unite on court eventually by Zac Hepps Associate Sports Editor

Michala and Malayna Johnson are not your typical college sisters. The two have been pillars of the Wisconsin women’s basketball program for the last three seasons and have been integral parts of head coach Bobbie Kelsey’s rebuilding process. Though they both play on the same team, their journeys to Madison could not have been more different. Malayna Johnson was the under-the-radar recruit. A late bloomer in the basketball world, the 6-foot-4 junior from Illinois, not wanting to be in her sister’s shadow, did not play basketball at an early age and only started once she felt comfortable in her own skin. “When I was younger, I didn’t want to play at all because I didn’t want to be like Michala,” Malayna said. “I didn’t want people to think ‘they are the same, they are twins.’ I just wanted to be my own individual.” After stepping out of her sister’s shadow she committed to the Badgers. Michala, the older sister and current sixth-year

senior for the Badgers, was a top-rated recruit after playing her first two seasons at UConn. A desire for more playing time lead her to return to the Midwest. Though the opportunity to play with her sister for the Badgers intrigued her, she had to verify she was not overstepping any boundaries. “I wanted a fresh start and to be closer to home,” Michala said. “My sister ended up signing here and I asked if I could play with her. I told her this could be your school and I could go somewhere else but [Malayna] said ‘no come play with me’ and my family was okay with it and wanted us to play together.” The two sisters took the court together during the 2013-14 season that saw Michala lead the team in scoring while Malayna was relegated to the bench in a crowded front court. Malayna, determined to use her sophomore season as an opportunity to finally team up with her sister and create a dynamic duo, was unable to step out of her sister’s shadow when tragedy struck. Six games into the 2014-15 season, Michala suffered her third ACL injury. Now with a hole to fill in the middle, the team counted on Malayna for big minutes and she was a key contributor for

last year’s Wisconsin team. After finishing a grueling recovery process and receiving a sixth-year of eligibility, Michala was ready to join her sister in an on-court family reunion. But yet another issue arose, and as fate would have it. Malayna tore her ACL late last September as the team was preparing to start this season. “My sister has been with me since day one,” Michala said. “She has seen it all and seen me go through it and come back. Now that she is hurt, it’s different. This is her first injury. So I’ve been there for her, I’ve been helping her through the whole process because I know she helped me.” Once again, due to injury, the sisters were unable to compete on the court. But despite her injury the two have used their adversity to push each other during the recovery process. The two use their sisterly-bond to overcome the obstacles they’ve faced. “She always tells me to just take it one day at a time,” Malayna added. “Think about how far I have come since the surgery. She has been a really big help and has been motivating me every step of the way.” Head coach Bobbie Kelsey knows how difficult

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it has been for the sisters the past two seasons. “It is sad because you want to see them play together for a full year,” Kelsey said. “They can feed off one another and both do some things that we really need. It is unfortunate that they didn’t get to play with each other on the court.” As this season comes to a close and perhaps the final opportunity to play with each other passes, Malayna said she feels there may be an opportunity in the future to finally team up on the court with her big sister. This past summer, Michala received a pleasant surprise when she was notified she had been drafted to the WNBA. Now with her big sister off to the pros, Malayna has a clear goal in mind. “I would love to go to the WNBA,” Malayna said. “It wasn’t something I really thought about until Michala got drafted, but it is very exciting now because I just want to follow in her footsteps.” Though she originally did everything to avoid her sister’s shadow, Badger fans everywhere should be rooting for the two to one day reunite on the court.

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Fighting inconsistencies, Badgers continue to show signs of promise within young core In up-and-down season, UW hangs hat on strong play against country’s best programs by Ben Cross Men’s Hockey Writer

After the Wisconsin men’s hockey team lost a tough shootout to No. 6 Michigan at home Saturday, stars of the series Luke Kunin and Grant Besse seemed at a loss for words. For a team that is 6-13-7 and 1-8-3 in the Big Ten, a tie in overtime against a top-tier team like the Wolverines would normally be viewed as a success, just not for this team — not anymore. “You know, it’s really disappointing to lose games like that,” Besse said. “It was great to get chances like we have been getting, but we have to start putting some of those away.” “We got the opportunities we wanted and the goal at the end to send it to overtime, which was our goal,” Kunin added. “We just didn’t get the bounces we needed.” A big reason for the disappointment falls on how many close games the Badgers have had to fight through this season, as they have settled for seven total ties and two losses in overtime alone. The Badgers have seemingly played exactly to the skill of almost every opponent on their schedule, turning excitement around the team on its head, and back again, in only a few weeks. A 3-1 win over No. 1 North Dakota, a 3-3 overtime win over now-No. 10 Denver and losses to Ferris State and struggling Ohio State are as random as they are confusing. Promising leaders like goaltender Matt Jurusik have gone from being an upper echelon-type player to getting pulled against an unranked rival at home for letting in eight goals. On the other end of the spectrum, unassuming freshman Ryan Wagner has gone from a deep spot on the bench to the highest shooting percentage (.189) on the team and second in total points (21). The lack of success and consistency is hard to analyze from a numbers stand point, but a general overview of the season’s results reveals how truly unfortunate these Badgers have been. Their seven total ties are now two more than any other team in the Big Ten and as much as half of the total combined ties in the conference. Michigan now marks the 13th game this season the Badgers have played that finished with a one-goal margin or less, an exhausting stat for a team with 80 percent underclassmen. “That kind of trend is draining,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “But I think it also speaks to the resilience of our team and the impressive nature in which they fight back. We just keep trying new things and remind them of what we do in practice.” With a NCAA tournament bid seeming more and more unlikely, the Badgers are looking

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Photo · While the Wisconsin men’s hockey team has just six wins to show for this season, they’re competitive play against three top-10 teams in North Dakota, Denver and Michigan has given fans a glimmer of hope for the future of the program. Jonah Leurquin The Badger Herald inward to try and make something out of a year that is still pretty hard to absorb for a program so foreign to failure. Eaves has shifted his focus to forging a completely new lineup behind a cast of freshmen still adjusting to his formations. Eaves has utilized the formation for the last couple of years, but outside of a NCAA tournament first-round trip two years ago, he hasn’t seen much success from it. On the other side of that, Eaves is unlikely to change much with the building individual skill of his many younger prospects. “One thing we stressed against Michigan was our front line against theirs,” Eaves said. “I thought [freshman defenseman Cameron]

Hughes and the guys showed outstanding toughness. The second night I thought we carried the play.” Additionally, suspensions and injuries have kept out key upperclassmen that have crippled the team in the win column, but have opened the door for new guys to step up. Eaves has not been very transparent in his plans for the team, but has been slowly but surely rotating the younger guyThis into the upper lines. All eight of the top scorers on Wisconsin this year are freshmen or sophomores, and Hughes is now on the front line and one of the leaders on the team. Despite the combined 10 wins over the last two seasons, the Badgers have ample

opportunity to play spoiler in their eight remaining Big Ten games. Now three points behind Ohio State in the conference standings, their two-game away series in Columbus is crucial in finishing February strong. Other key matchups for Wisconsin include their final home series in early March with the No. 15 Nittany Lions of Penn State, right before they travel to Minneapolis for a rematch with newly ranked Minnesota. “The challenge is there for these guys and I think they’re meeting that challenge,” Eaves said. “They’re giving us a chance to win games.”

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Right-wing political meme really proves liberals wrong UW political science department scrambling to prepare graduate level ‘Facebook in Politics’ course for fall 2016 Student Kyle Anderson, a self-identified Republican and Marco Rubio supporter, posted a groundbreaking meme that has been credited with turning the tide of election to a staunchly Republican leaning Friday evening. The meme in question, portraying an excited Bernie Sanders supporter under the caption, “I don’t understand economics,” forced all 453 of Anderson’s “flaming liberal” Facebook friends to seriously question and re-evaluate their political views. “You know, I was a huge Bernie supporter,” Facebook friend Alan Watson said. “But now I just don’t know. I guess I’m just another naive liberal who never thinks anything through!” Since Friday, the meme has gone viral, sparking debates across Twitter, Instagram and Reddit. However, even the most staunch Democratic supporters eventually concede the meme’s viability. Anderson said he never doubted the impact of the Facebook post, especially as those supporting Democratic candidates rely heavily on the Internet for a sense of pleasure. “I like to keep everyone informed,” Anderson

said. “So I post Internet memes to make sure everyone has thought things through. I’m going to keep posting memes from now until election day and probably after. I’m not a hero. It’s my duty as a citizen.” The meme has led to a noticeable change in the polls, transforming many famously Democratic states, including Bernie Sanders’ own home state of Vermont, to Republican. Senator Sanders was unavailable for comment on the slandering political internet meme in Kyle Anderson’s Facebook post. “I’ve been following politics closely for forty years, and I’ve always had liberal beliefs,” friend Fern Colby said. “I thought I supported Hilary. But that meme taught me more about economics than my degree ever did.” Anderson’s meme has reached many of the frontrunners of the presidential race, and has motivated their campaigns to look into the new strategy of meme-based campaigning. The Clinton campaign recently released a meme depciting Bernie Sanders above the caption, “Old people, am I right?”

UW scientists create microscope for Martin Shkreli to see own penis Researchers, former sexual partners still unsure whether notorious former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO has testicles After hearing drug company player Martin Shkreli was on trial for exchanges fraud, a team of microbiologists and engineers at University of Wisconsin have created a new type of microscope completely personalized for the pharmaceutical executive to allow him to see his own penis. This innovation comes after news broke Monday that Shkreli’s penis is allegedly microscopic in size. Though it took some time and hard work, the

research team said they agree it was worth it just to see Shkreli smile in these trying times. “We had to invent a whole new technology to even create images of something that small,” lead scientist Emily Jennings said. “I called some friends who had some microscopes for imaging subatomic particles, but even those turned out to be too big. Still, our team all pulled together to make Martin a microscope.” Turing Pharmaceuticals has issued a public

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thank you to the UW team for the microscope, claiming Shkreli has never seen his penis even with the laboratory quality pharmaceutical microscopes on hand. Before the breakthrough discovery, the technology to see something so small was expected to be at least 30 years away. Researchers now have their sights set on more innovation in the future. They also have Shkreli’s sight set on his own, microscopic penis. “I think it really speaks to the human experience as a whole, and what we can accomplish when we see someone who has faced such adversity,” engineer Tim O’Callahan said. “We saw Martin reaching out to help insurance and drug companies make a few extra million

dollars. We wanted to do something to made sure Martin could really see all that he has done for his community. We also wanted to make sure he could see his incomparably small prick.” Shkreli received harsh criticism when his drug company raised the price of an antimalarial and antiparasitic drug used largely by sufferers of AIDS by over five thousand percent. These actions now make sense to scientists who speculate Shkreli has no chance of contracting HIV because his penis is smaller than the virus itself. Shkreli is now facing jail time for securities fraud, but government officials have assured the public not to worry. Shkreli will be allowed to bring the microscope with him to prison. 30 • badgerherald.com • October 6, 2015

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