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ONE YEAR LATER After the death of Tony Robinson, a look at the city’s response to demands for reforms in its police force, judicial system and local governments page 10

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Moving forward: leaders on campus discuss increasing inclusivity, accessibility University students who have been some of strongest advocates for diversity look to create new perspectives, changes to improve UW practices, climate for minority students

by Anne Blackbourn Campus Editor

After mobilizing to protest racial issues on campus in 2015, students have combined their efforts to work alongside the university to improve diversity and inclusion on campus.

Student leaders of the University of Wisconsin Blackout Movement share their personal experiences with diversity at UW and discuss their plans and hopes to change campus diversity in 2016.

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Uniting to face fear

Living in the sprawling city of Los Angeles, Kenneth Cole never thought about the cultural norms he practiced or even the language he used in his everyday life — until he attended UW. A senior and primary organizer of the Blackout Movement at UW, Cole’s transition from a diverse city of 3.8 million people to UW’s approximately 43,000 students — of which only 2 percent are black — was an eye opening experience.

In Madison Cole said he learned there is an ideology that if a person speaks in slang or if a person behaves in a certain way, it is a sign they are from a certain socioeconomic status and are inferior.

It can be an isolating experience, Cole said.

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But Cole doesn’t place the burden of creating a more integrated and inviting campus on majority students from less diverse backgrounds, or on the shoulders of minorities who might be from more diverse backgrounds. Cole believes in educating and teaching students to become more culturally competent.

“Everyone comes from where they come from, so I would advocate for an openness and an understanding on both parts, [for minority and majority students] to try to learn and think and do new perspectives,” Cole said.

This year, Cole said the Blackout Movement received confirmation from the UW administration that they are planning to hold discussions about race to educate students so they can become more “culturally competent.”

But while Cole is excited for these conversations, he said there is still work to be done. To increase recruitment and retention rates of students of color, Cole said it is important UW hire more faculty of color and more mental health staff who understand students of color issues.

“A lot of the mental health offices on this campus aren’t directed toward students of color when students of color need those the most because of how they feel when they come to campus,” Cole said.

If more faculty are capable of understanding students of color issues, they could help improve their emotional and psychological states and increase retention rates for students of color, Cole said.

Several years ago, Sophomore Tyriek Mack had never heard of UW. Originally from Washington D.C., Mack received a POSSE program scholarship to attend UW. Though Washington D.C. is a diverse place to live, Mack said a fear of minorities still exists. But this fear was not as prevalent as it is at UW. During Mack’s freshman year, he frequently worried about how people might judge him.

Sometimes people would cross to the other side of the street when he was walking on the the sidewalk, and when he went to the dining hall he would be afraid to order fried chicken because of the stereotype surrounding the types of food black people eat.

Because of these experiences, Mack said it has affected the way he builds relationships with people on campus. Though he said

he retains a respectful attitude toward the people he interacts with, it is hard to take what a person may say at face value because the way someone acts may not be parallel to how they truly feel, he said.

Despite the difficulties he faced, Mack said it has helped him develop his character and learn to love himself for who he is as a person.

Mack said if students want to make UW more inclusive, they have to realize how the words people use can be harmful to minorities. He said students must stop being afraid of standing up for their minority counterparts when they hear others using hurtful words.

It all starts with fear, he said. People have to be able to sacrifice the fear they feel toward minorities and overcome the fear of admitting they may have been racist in the past.

“If you are not racist and you once were racist and you were afraid to say that you could have been racist in the past, then nine times out of 10 you still are racist,” Mack said.

“If you aren’t able to except the realities, then how do we move forward?”

There may be a “color line” that distinguishes people from one another, but in the end everyone faces the same problems, like student debt, Mack said.

UW needs to make a better effort to become more accessible to students from economically-challenged backgrounds, especially if they want to remove institutional barriers Mack said.

“For our campus to move forward we have to figure out a way to unite together,” he said.

“We have a lot of problems that all of us face.”

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Ella Sklaw: Fighting hate with love

Ella Sklaw went to high school on Wall Street.

Growing up in Brooklyn, she was constantly surrounded by a diverse group of students from different socioeconomic backgrounds and different countries.

A sophomore at UW, Sklaw said coming from a diverse background has enabled her to join and become good friends with members of the Blackout Movement and All Minds Matter.

But Sklaw said just because someone like herself has been exposed to diversity, does not mean they may not be prejudiced. To understand the diverse society of today’s world, she said it is important to know what it actually means to

interact with other groups of people.

This level of interaction and understanding toward other groups of people like students of color, Sklaw said, is an “icebreaker” UW should take on. She said UW should make more of an effort to increase cultural competency on campus.

One of the ways Sklaw said UW should do this is by teaching the value and importance of love for other people.

“We are fighting against hate interpersonally, and we are fighting hate personally, and this school doesn’t do what it should do to fight the hate that lives and breathes on this campus,” she said.

In addition, Sklaw said if the university wants to encourage a more diverse group of students to attend UW, they need to make UW more accessible — both financially and academically.

Many students are often discouraged from attending UW because of how expensive it is.

If the university wants to recruit more diverse groups of students then that means they need to recruit more students from different socioeconomic backgrounds, Sklaw said.

UW needs to do more than just uphold an image, Sklaw said. It needs to shift its efforts toward increasing diversity to make education more accessible.

“We don’t want this place to feel like yet another place where you feel privileged to get an education — education is a right,” she said.

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Unlike several of his other fellow Blackout Movement members, Ian Oyler did not come from a large city, but a small town in Wisconsin of about 10,000 people.

Growing up, the only diversity Oyler knew was the small Native American

population that lived in his hometown, and the variety of army and air force families that lived at a base nearby.

In Tomah, Wisconsin, Oyler said he lived in a “bubble” of predominately white families, and it was not until he lived with Mack his freshman year in the dorms that he said became more aware of the types of issues minority people are affected by.

After an act of racism occurred on their dorm floor, Oyler and Mack co-founded All Minds Matter, a space that invites all students to talk about issues of diversity and inclusion on campus.

“It’s important to emphasize that diversity helps other students as well because it allows them to learn and connect about other groups of people,” he said.

To make UW more inclusive, Oyler said UW should have more inclusion trainings, and go beyond the ethnic study requirement.

UW needs to listen to students on campus, Oyler said. Students know more about issues of diversity and inclusion because they are the ones that are frequently affected by them, he said.

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Petition for Hmong American studies certificate gaining momentum Student-led initiative seeks to provide education on largest Asian American group in state

by Xiani Zhong Campus Editor

An online petition for University of Wisconsin to create a Hmong American studies certificate has gained traction on social media lately, receiving more than one thousand signatures within a few days.

The Hmong American Studies Certificate petition, or #MakeHASCHappen, is the collective effort of four first-year Hmong American students on campus.

Myxee Thao, chair of the group, said the goal is to educate people at UW about Hmong culture.

“We came up with this idea that we want to have a certificate to educate our peers, and as an opportunity to also learn about ourselves,” Thao said.

The four students started planning the petition during their first semester on campus, Thao said.

They felt people do not know enough about Hmongs, which is the largest Asian American population in Wisconsin.

After extensive research and information collection, the petition went live on Feb. 8. It asks

the UW community to sign and support the effort to broaden the reach of Hmong culture and history.

The group’s original goal was to collect more than 500 signatures. Within a few hours of its launch, the petition gained great momentum and far exceeded the goal, Pangzoo Lee, representative of Hmong American Studies Certificate, said.

“The only reason we got the petition is because we want to show [university administrators] that this is not just a few of us who are into this, but a variety of students who are supporting us and are interested in pursuing the certificate,” Lee said.

The larger UW community, especially faculty members involved in Asian American studies and Southeast Asian studies, is supportive of the effort.

Eric Baird, UW professor in the Department of Geography, is affiliated with the Hmong Studies Consortium, a group UW and University of Minnesota founded to offer expertise and promote research in Hmong studies.

Baird said there has been a longstanding interest within the Hmong community on campus to promote its culture. Though he didn’t know who was behind the petition first, he was not surprised.

“I signed the petition the first day I saw it,” Baird said. “I put my name on it right away.”

Baird said there have been many other advocacies for the Hmong community in the past. UW offers six semesters of Hmong language courses, which was the result of community advocacy and lobbying.

The majority of Hmongs in the U.S. are refugees from Laos, Baird said. Since the Hmongs sided with the U.S. during the Vietnam War when Laos became a communist country in 1975, they fled to the U.S., he said.

Originally they were spread around the country, but over time they resettled and congregated, and now Wisconsin has become a central point of the Hmong population, Baird said.

Nearly all central cities in Wisconsin, like Milwaukee, Wausau, Green Bay and Eau Claire, have large Hmong populations. Because there are close to 60,000 Hmong people in the state, Baird said it is crucial the university show support to the Hmong community on campus.

“UW-Madison is the leading flagship institution within the state, so it would be symbolically important to Hmong community, to making clear that the state takes Hmong people seriously and wants to support them,” Baird said.

Despite his full support for the effort, Baird

said he is not sure whether the proposal will pass under current budget situations. He specifically noted faculty hiring would pose a challenge for the university.

“The more difficult thing, and the more important thing, would be to get more faculty hires so that people could teach the courses that would be necessary to make that a vibrant and viable kind of prospect,” Baird said.

In the meantime, Baird said he and other faculty members are willing to advocate for the certificate, and help the four students in any way they can.

Thao said the four of them contacted faculty members on campus to write a proposal to present to UW administration, but they have not yet looked for faculty who can teach the courses offered as part of the certificate.

Moving forward, Thao and the other group members want to keep collecting signatures.

UW has 40,000 students, Thao said, and it would be great if they can get around 10,000 people on board.

“The university said they support diversity, and they support inclusion,” Thao said.“So if they do, and they stand by their word, we hope that they would support our certificate as well.”

Wrongful conviction compensation bill would seal court records

Advocates say legislation will give ‘fresh start,’ while critics argue it will make Wisconsin judicial system less transparent

by Vidushi Saxena State Editor

A bill to increase compensation for wrongfully convicted persons and allow them to seal court criminal records has raised concerns about its potential impact on the transparency of Wisconsin’s government and justice systems.

The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Gary Hebl, D-Sun Prairie, and Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, would increase compensation for wrongfully convicted people from $5,000 per year with a cap of $25,000 to $50,000 per year with a cap of $1 million. The bill would also give those exonerated of crimes they did not commit the option to seal their court records.

Lindsey Cobbe, clinical instructor at the Wisconsin Innocence Project, said Wisconsin’s compensation statute is one of the “most insufficient” in the country and this bill would help remedy that.

But Bill Lueders, president of Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, said it is important for the records to be publicly available for educational reasons and to help prevent wrongful convictions in the future.

A fresh start for the exonerated

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because of their criminal records, even if the record is wrong. This limits opportunities for wrongfully convicted people, he said.

Hebl said allowing court records to be sealed would give the exonerated person a fresh start in life.

“We feel it’s only fair that [wrongfully convicted people] have as fresh a start as possible and we want to make sure they have every opportunity to go to school and become a professional in whatever career they decide,” Hebl said.

Cobbe said there are few resources available for exonerated people when they reintegrate into society. She said they often encounter obstacles when reintegrating and this bill would give them access to social services such as counseling, vocational assistance, housing assistance and access to health insurance.

Cobbe said wrongfully convicted people also lose out on earning potential and personal freedom when they are in prison, and the small sum of money currently given as compensation is not enough to make up for that.

“A lot of times exonerees come out with nothing and they really have to rebuild their lives from scratch,” Cobbe said. “No amount of money can really compensate someone for a wrong and unjust conviction.”

Making courts ‘secret’

Lueders said he was concerned with the language in the bill, which states that the

wrongfully convicted person can ask for all court records to be sealed for only his or her access.

He said allowing a single individual to seal and have sole access to all court records should not be allowed.

“We don’t have secret courts in Wisconsin,” Lueders said.

Lueders said it is important that such records be publicly available because they would help educate those in the justice system and law enforcement agencies about what led to the wrongful conviction. He said some records could also have evidence of serious errors in judgment or misconduct on the part of these agencies the public should be aware of.

Lueders said keeping records public would increase transparency, which is key to ensuring the wrongful conviction never happens again.

“Transparency is one of the only checks that exists on the power of prosecutors who have the ability to charge people, disrupt their lives and when they consent to the judge or jury deprive them of what they need,” Lueders said. “I think it’s important that the house puts on a brake on this [bill].”

It would be difficult to prove the police or prosecutor wrongfully convicted someone without the original records, Howard Schweber, University of Wisconsin political science professor, said in an email to The Badger Herald. Sealing records would make it difficult to claim misconduct on part of law enforcement agencies, he said.

Blemish vs. transparency

Hebl said he strongly supports open records but believes wrongful conviction creates a blemish on an innocent person’s record.

Schweber said unsealed records of wrongful conviction are accessible in public searches, but not everyone can make the distinction between convicted and unfairly convicted. This leads to a discrepancy in employment and educational opportunities for those exonerated.

“The important thing would be to craft such a rule carefully, to ensure that records would not be available to casual searches but would be open where access is important to preserve transparency,” Schweber said.

Records are available to the public until a person is exonerated for wrongful conviction.

Therefore, the public can still access them for the period of time until the person is exonerated, Hebl said.

The claim that sealing records would prevent law enforcement agencies from learning about their errors is not true, Hebl said. Anyone who is wrongfully convicted would do everything to ensure it never happens to someone else regardless of whether or not the records are sealed, he said.

Legislators have been working on this bill for several years, Cobbe said, and hope to raise awareness about the needs of those exonerated.

The Senate is scheduled to discuss the bill March 15.

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Landlords could evict for ‘criminal activity’ under proposed legislation Proponent says bill will increase safety, but alder, lawyer argue broad language could pose problems for college students

by Tanisha Sabhaney Reporter

A bill that would allow landlords to serve tenants eviction notices for criminal activity is headed to Gov. Scott Walker ’s desk, but some some say it could lead to more evictions for college renters and contribute to student homelessness.

The bill includes a one-strike provision, in which landlords could serve five-day eviction notices for anything considered “criminal activity.” Landlords must specify the grounds for eviction in the notice, and tenants would have the right to contest the eviction in court.

But Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the definition of “criminal activity” in the bill is too broad and would allow landlords to evict tenants for whatever they deem to be “criminal,” even if it is as minor as a noise complaint. For college renters, common activities such as noisy parties or smoking weed could be grounds for eviction, he said.

“Many college students engage in the recreational use of certain illegal drugs, specifically weed,” Verveer said. “In an extreme case, if landlords are able to see a bong or a pipe in plain view or smell it, this automatically means someone is engaged in illegal activities and could be evicted for it.”

The change in eviction law is particularly concerning for University of Wisconsin college renters, because it is typical for students to move out of residence halls past freshman year, Verveer added.

But Rep. Allen Scott, R-Waukesha, said the bill will ensure a safe community by tightening up laws and allowing landlords to evict dangerous tenants. Scott said the bill’s biggest advantage is it relates to criminal activity.

“The bill is a good faith effort to help people comply with the law,” Scott said.

“If there are one or two people engaging in criminal activity in an apartment building, it can make the whole building feel unsafe.”

Under current law, landlords are only allowed to present tenants with a warning to stop engaging in criminal activities for 14 days, Scott said. In those 14 days, the tenant has a “right to cure” the behavior.

If the tenant commits the crime again within those 14 days, Scott said, it is grounds for conviction, but tenants can

Photo · The bill includes a one-strike provision in which landlords could serve five-day eviction notices for anything they deem “criminal.”

Riley Steinbrenner The Badger Herald engage in the same dangerous activities again once the 14 days expires. Landlords have no way to kick out dangerous tenants, he said.

But Heidi Wegleitner, Legal Action Wisconsin attorney, said the bill would make it too easy for landlords to evict tenants. The five-day eviction notice with no right to cure means the tenant has no right to fix the alleged lease violation and must leave the premises, she said. This could contribute to student homelessness, she added.

“I think this could have large impacts on homelessness for students, families and children,” Wegleitner said. “We already have a serious homeless problem in the state and you know this is certainly going to make it rise in my opinion.”

This provision also has consequences for victims of domestic violence, stalking or sexual assault because the state of Wisconsin does not provide legal protection for their family members, Wegleitner said. If a sexual assault incident were to happen to an individual at their relative’s house, victims would have to choose between themselves being helped or their relatives getting evicted, she added.

The bill would also address “squatters” who live in landlord’s properties without permission by allowing landlords to classify them as trespassers and kick them out. Wegleitner said this could lead to guests getting kicked out of their friends’ apartments when the tenant is not present.

There has been a large influx of bills changing landlord-tenant laws in past years, Ald. Zach Wood, District 8, said.

He said it is “unreasonable” to expect students and other Wisconsinites to keep up with the changes. Wood said this also erodes local control by preventing cities and towns to have their own ordinances over rental properties.

But Scott said it is more important for landlords to be able to keep their apartment buildings safe.

“Everyone requires a safe and secure environment to live in,” Scott said.

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‘Mojo and the Sayso’ gives audience raw glimpse into family coping with grief By going into heart of tragedy, director hopes play will propel audiences not just to action, but empathy Photo · Jessica Lanius chose to direct the play after being inspired by the buzzing media response to Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson.

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Tony Robinson was 19-years-old when he died at the hands of a Madison police officer’s gun. And while protests and activism prevail almost one year later, a family still picks up the shards of a shattered reality.

In mid-February, the Overture Center showcased “The Mojo and the Sayso” — a play that, for this community, hit close to home.

Founder of Theater LILA and play director Jessica Lanius selected “The Mojo and the

Sayso” in January 2015 for their current season.

Inspired by the buzzing media in response to the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Lanius was compelled to direct Aishah Rahman’s play about a family in the wake of their son’s death.

Rahman, a black woman who grew up in New York City in the late ‘40s, based her play off the real-life case of Clifford Glover — a 10-year-old black boy shot by a white New York City police officer in 1973. Lanius said the cop responsible for Glover’s death faced murder charges, but was acquitted.

In “The Mojo and the Sayso,” however, Rahman opted to focus on the family’s raw experience in their conscious nightmare, rather than highlighting the associated protests and activism so prevalent in today’s media.

“The play doesn’t talk a lot about the shooting, or who was guilty,” Lanius said. “It doesn’t even talk about anyone being black or white in the language of the play. I think [Rahman’s] response to this was wanting people to go beyond the headline and into the heart of this family.”

As a director, Lanius aims to stir audiences

to become passionate about the community and those affected, whether or not they can resonate with the family’s suffering. She discerns the role of theater in combating social and political issues, emphasizing its live elements. Someone in the flesh conveying an emotional story for a live audience is a valuable “human exchange in the moment,” she said.

Through emotive physical choreography and delving into heavy questions, Lanius urges her actors to imagine their own life as one laden with grief. The key, Lanius said, is to allow authentic emotion to morph the body and spirit into an expression of truth. And with the “Mojo and the Sayso,” Lanius hopes this helps the play in propelling audiences not just to action, but also to empathy.

“It’s a great and beautiful reminder to us all when we hear these cases, and we see these protests, to remember there’s a family at the heart of all of this,” Lanius said. “There’s a community at large, depending on where it happened, and this ripple effect. There’s this depressed feeling of having an injustice, but having nowhere to turn for justice.”

Everyone Orchestra brings one-of-a-kind musical experience to Madison Unconventional traveling band of rotating musicians doubles as improv group; conductor aims to bring ‘organic’ music

by Tia Hagenbucher ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Between festivals, theaters and concerts all over the world, the unconventional Everyone Orchestra has one goal — make both the audience and the musicians live in the moment.

This rotating orchestra is always keen to up the ante, since they double as an improvisational group. Creator and conductor Matt Butler said he sees the audience as “an extended chorus” and tries to feed off of their energy as much as possible during these improv shows.

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conducting the audience. Sometimes he will ask for volunteers to pick a word or a song title and the band will perform a piece based on that. For many performances Butler can be seen with a whiteboard or using hand gestures to change the pace of the song.

“There’s moments of people looking around,” Butler said on what it’s like watching the musicians improvise. “They’re human, they’re looking at what they’re going to play next.”

By creating a safe and comfortable environment for their musicians, Everyone Orchestra also opens up that space to vulnerability. Butler describes the sound as more organic than EDM, creating an aura similar to gospel music.

But worrying about genre is besides the point for Butler. He wants people to avoid

wondering cliché things about songs, such as the meaning or who wrote what, and instead just have fun listening.

Aside from being an orchestra that doubles as an improv group, the Everyone Orchestra also has the unique facet of rotating musicians — meaning unlike most traveling bands, it is rare for the same group of musicians to perform together twice.

The members, instead, vary based on the city Butler is in and who asks to collaborate with them. Past members have also even consisted of famous bands including members from The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and Phish. By having such a dynamically changing set-up, it helps the group challenge their musical abilities and keep their music fresh — which is what they aim to do in the first place.

This is not to say the Everyone Orchestra

is simply haphazard; Butler is seeking to build a community. In the future, Butler is aiming to organize workshops and retreats to encourage creativity and community amongst musicians. Also in the works is a video experience project to tell the band’s story.

“What we purvey is not the end result,” Butler said. “It’s the process.”.

When they perform at the Majestic March 6, the band’s current iteration will have already played three shows on their tour — bringing them into “the honeymoon of a band” as Butler calls it.

Despite their relatively short time together, Butler anticipates the band will be a fine-tuned machine by that time and will blossom during the show. It is bound to be a one-of-a-kind performance and an experience of spontaneity at its finest.

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Madison Gay Hockey Association offers supportive arena for LGBTQ community President David Hafner strives to eliminate stigma surrounding queer players in sport, nurture inclusiveness

by Jake Mellor ArtsEtc. Contributor

Most hockey players in their sixth year are still mastering the art of the slap shot, not running the largest gay hockey league in the country. But David Hafner has accomplished both, and is providing immense support for the LGBTQ community at the same time.

Hafner is the Madison Gay Hockey Association’s current president and has been part of the league for more than half its existence. He, along with others in the Madison community, recognizes the need for a local LGBTQ-specific hockey league.

“Hockey is a very physical, aggressive sport to a certain degree, and there’s a stigma for LGBTQ players and queer players in those environments,” Hafner said. “It’s easier to learn the sport and feel welcomed in a space that’s designed for our particular players.”

Patrick Farabaugh, now a local

newsmagazine editor, established the Madison Gay Hockey Association in 2006.

He got the idea after seeing a similar league while living in New York.

Hafner, however, is quick to point out the association’s uniqueness. Whereas other cities such as Chicago and San Francisco have one LGBTQ team representing the entire city, the Madison Gay Hockey Association is made up of several teams, creating a self-contained league.

The association is a 150-player league based at Hartmeyer Ice Arena in the Maple Woods neighborhood of Madison. It has grown from its original four teams in 2006 to 10 teams this season.

Focusing more on fun than competition, the Madison Gay Hockey Association has had great benefits for players on and off the ice.

“A lot of our players develop a huge sense of confidence in themselves they didn’t know that they had,” Hafner said.

“The majority of our players like playing together because it pushes them to keep

up with the other players, and they get mentoring from the other players.”

In addition to his presidency, Hafner is team captain and center for Agent Orange, one of the 10 league teams this season.

Throughout his six years, Hafner has played wing and defense. He said the league is always flexible if players want to dabble with a different position, allowing them to become familiar with the game in varying ways.

While the league is open to people of all sexualities, including those of heterosexual orientation, Hafner said recruiting is mostly focused on the LGBTQ community.

Hafner became involved in the league when he felt he needed more than a bar scene to meet others in the LGBTQ community — a sentiment many of the league’s players share.

“I knew a couple people that played in the hockey league, so I went to games and I watched,” Hafner said. “I said, ‘That doesn’t look terribly frightening. I think I could do that.’”

While at first Hafner was mostly unfamiliar with hockey, he didn’t let his lack of skill stop him from joining. He stresses that potential players considering the Madison Gay Hockey League should not be scared away by their own inexperience with the sport.

The association takes this into consideration; they offer skill clinics for new players. Among teaching players how to hold and tape a stick, the league also assists them in finding their own hockey gear.

For anyone considering the league or simply looking for something fun to do on Sunday nights, Hafner invites fans to Hartmeyer Arena to catch one of the games.

“It doesn’t cost anything to come watch us play,” Hafner said. “You can get an idea of who we are and what we do, and see a variety of skill levels from people. Maybe you’ll identify with some of them. We’re very friendly, we sit in the stands, we cheer each other on and we always welcome new people.”

Photo · The association is a 150-player league based at Hartmeyer Ice Arena in the Maple Woods neighborhood of Madison.

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Madison activists continue to work toward ‘Justice for Tony’ Local law enforcement emphasizes efforts to build trust with community members of color

Photo - Candles and flowers still lie at the Robinsons’ doorstep on Feb. 28, 2016.

Photo · Protesters marched on Willy Street after Tony Robinson’s death in March 2015.

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Hayley Sperling The Badger Herald by the police. But the incident, he said, should not overshadow MPD’s extensive efforts at keeping instances like Robinson’s to a minimum.

“You cannot say the narrative of what happened on one day in March is emblematic of a police department out of control,” Koval said. “We’re very professional and very much concerned with building trust.”

Koval said for years his department has met and exceeded industry standards for responsible policing, and added radical change for change’s sake is likely not in the department’s cards. Still, Koval said his police force continues to assess and compare itself with national departments.

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life was more than 20 seconds ... It’s worth more than ... a moment. When somebody loses their life it’s a movement.

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Jerome Flowers Robinson family friend

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Twenty seconds passed from the time Madison Police Department officer Matthew Kenny arrived at the scene and became involved in an altercation that resulted in the death of 19-year-old Tony “Terrell” Robinson on March 6, 2015.

Those 20 seconds transformed the city, inciting a fire of outcry from Madison activists who called for an end to the systemic racism and gaping racial disparities that, for them, Robinson’s death made even more real.

One year later, Robinson’s family and friends are still coping with the pain of loss. Robinson’s friends, like Jerome Flowers, hope his legacy does not become forever attached to the amount of time it took for his life to end. Flowers served as the Robinson family’s spokesperson in the months after Tony’s death.

“The people in the community that love him will continue to fight and bring the issues forward, to make sure that people know his life was more than 20 seconds,” Flowers said. “It’s worth more than … a moment. When somebody loses their life, it’s a movement. People are committed to that movement.”

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The movement for “Justice for Tony” was spearheaded by local activist groups like Black Lives Matter and the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition.

It was built upon a foundation of frustration toward systemic racism underscored by the highprofile, police-involved deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York.

The officer-involved shooting of Robinson led local activists to demand broad reforms among the Madison police force, the judicial system and city and county government. For those close to Robinson, his life became critical in a broader movement for justice.

“Tony’s life sacrifice was the fight for humanity of people of color,” Flowers said.

But as he achingly recounted the pain felt by Robinson’s mother, Andrea Irwin, Flowers said Robinson’s legacy is one that will help spread knowledge of policies and procedures that govern police interactions with its community.

For Flowers, the night of March 6, 2015 showed a world unwilling to condone the missteps of a young person of color — an idea that, for him, is what “Justice For Tony” is all about.

Robinson’s autopsy found that on the night of his death, he was under the influence of marijuana,

mushrooms and prescription medication.

“Justice for Tony is a symbol of state violence and the vulnerability of not being able to make a mistake, and have time to even correct it,” Flowers said. “[Justice For Tony] is about creating an environment where young males of color can make mistakes.”

Toward more responsible policing

Despite its national reputation as a progressive and forward-thinking police department, Robinson’s death led local activists to seriously call into question the integrity of MPD in its interactions with minority communities.

Before Robinson’s death, leaders from the YGB Coalition had called for MPD to leave communities of color to establish control over their own neighborhoods. They called for this despite recognizing MPD’s efforts toward building community trust. Mayor Paul Soglin, however, contends community policing is effective.

“The evidence of community policing is so overwhelming that the demand to remove police officers from patrols and neighborhoods is a nonstarter,” Soglin said.

For MPD Chief Michael Koval, Robinson’s death was regrettable — a young man of color was killed

“MPD will never remain status quo,” Koval said.

“We’re constantly evaluating what’s being done nationally.”

What the incident did highlight, Koval said, was MPD’s need to have a greater sense of outreach and understanding of police practices in the community.

Part of this outreach, Koval said, is relaying knowledge to community members that MPD has long included a number of de-escalation and disengagement initiatives to prevent police use of force.

He said MPD, in its focus on transparency, has even brought this training into neighborhoods to show residents how their de-escalation, cultural competency and anti-bias training works.

But MPD’s emphasis on community policing does not sit well with Flowers. He said the idea of police officers doubling as social workers is a good idea, but given MPD’s track record, the practice has not aligned with the theory.

“His friends actually called under that mindset, thinking they would get a social worker who would help,” Flowers said. “Then they saw the result, and a lot of people see [community policing] as a way to punish more so than to help. Communities of color feel officers are there to build a case, not to help.”

Various task forces on police policy at the city, county and national levels have been formed to further evaluate best practices and relay findings back to departments.

The groups include a 2015 city task force on body cameras, a United Way sponsored task force that released 60 recommendations for Dane County police forces Feb. 20 and a December 2015 committee initiated by Soglin and City Council to evaluate police force policies.

MPD has either already met or is working toward meeting the general recommendations these groups are calling for, Koval said, but he

still welcomes the community dialogue they help foster.

An exception, however, is MPD’s use of body cameras. The body camera advisory committee in September voted 4-2 against their use.

In a measure of self-evaluation, MPD responded in a report on Jan. 20 to recommendations in the Obama administration’s March 2015 “President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.”

In response to the report, MPD will implement a variety of new measures. Beginning in 2016, MPD will begin posting arrests on their website on a quarterly basis, including those that involved

use of force, and will break them down by race, gender and charge.

MPD will also mandate the chief or highest ranking officer available to provide a press conference within four hours of a case where officer actions result in the great bodily harm or death of a community member.

To better gauge trust of MPD, the department, in addition to its annual trust survey, will administer a survey on a monthly basis to a random sample of individuals who were contacted by MPD officers.

And while MPD generally reflects Madison’s ethnic makeup and has the highest percentage of women officers in the U.S., Koval said they still need to work on hiring greater numbers of Latino and Hmong officers.

MPD’s use of force policies are based upon employing force in the manner most reasonable given the totality of the circumstances. For MPD officers, this means only using deadly force when defending themselves or another person from death or great bodily harm, or preventing a suspect from escaping and causing bodily harm or death. Their standards remain consistent with the State of Wisconsin Law Enforcement Standards.

One of the Obama recommendations calls for police training that emphasizes de-escalation techniques. While MPD currently does emphasize de-escalation and alternatives to arrest in training and practice, MPD plans to call for more emphasis to the instructional methodology in the sphere of de-escalation.

MPD additionally received a grant to hire a use of force coordinator, who will review all use of force reports, identify training needs for individuals and respond to community inquiries about use of force.

Since last year, MPD has focused new efforts on dealing with mental health. MPD in 2015 initiated a mental health officer who will work alongside field personnel in each district.

MPD also just finished administering another round of its unconscious bias in-service training to all officers.

University of Wisconsin Police Department has also implemented changes since Robinson’s death.

UWPD Chief Susan Riseling said they’ve emphasized the importance of the 21-foot rule, fair and impartial police training and will begin reporting police use of force beyond handcuffing on their website.

UWPD also started using body cameras in October 2015, which Riseling said has been

successful.

“For the most part, it’s been a pretty flawless rollout,” Riseling said.

Focus on the courts

Soglin, however, thinks the court system is in greater need of reform than the police force.

One of the chief causes of disparities in arrest rates and recidivism among young people of color in Dane County is not MPD, but the criminal justice system in how it deals with youth cases, Soglin said.

First offenses rarely end in incarceration, but this is where the paths of white youth and their counterparts of color diverge, Soglin said. After a first offense, white youth usually receive attention and treatment to prevent recidivism, but youth of color rarely receive such attention, upping their chances of eventually becoming incarcerated.

The Dane County District Attorney’s Office, Soglin said, has nearly the same size staff as it did 20 years ago, leading it to deal with petty crime among 14 to 19-year-olds through plea deals.

“What we have is a significant number of young people, who in their first minor offenses, slip in and out of the system without any consequences, and more importantly, without any treatment,” Soglin said.

He said the recent establishment of peer courts on Madison’s south side can help reduce rates of recidivism by addressing offenses before they become far more serious.

Continuing Robinson’s legacy

A year since Robinson’s death and the overwhelming community response that followed, Flowers said he doesn’t worry Robinson’s legacy will fade among those who he touched.

The real challenge, Flowers said, is making sure the community’s political response continues.

“Madison likes its advocacy to be from a distance,” Flowers said. “In the political sphere in Madison, it’s one of those things that people have looked to move past.”

Bridging the conversation between the campus and community, Flowers added, can provide the leverage to reiterate Robinson’s legacy.

As Flowers prepares to take part in the upcoming week’s Awareness March for Tony, he looked to a recent demonstration — Day Without Latinos — for inspiration.

“I want to make sure that action is what speaks louder than words,” Flowers said. “People need to know in sheer numbers what they’re up against, just like Day Without Latinos — 20,000 people came together. People got that message.”

YGB Coalition did not respond to requests for comment.

Emma Palasz contributed reporting to this article.

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What’s on tap: Campus Craft Brewery collaboration to craft summer wheat ale After last year’s success, Wisconsin Brewing Company, students seek to sustain partnership for even more beer-making

by Bryan Kristensen What’s on tap Columnist

Last year was all about the Inaugural Red, but this year, Wisconsin Brewing Company and students at University of Wisconsin are looking to produce something completely different.

After the successful Campus Craft Brewery collaboration between students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the brew-makers out of Verona have tasked students this year with crafting a summer wheat ale for the second brew in the series.

Wisconsin Brewing Company President and CEO Carl Nolen said after a great year working with UW students, he’s more than excited to be at it again.

“Last year was a fantastic experience for us,” Nolen said. “We were a little rushed last year, and we’ve had more time this year to plan out the brewing and marketing process. The students have been wonderful to work with once again.”

The students have a heavy hand in the project, and have been working tirelessly to see it through to completion. This year, Nolen said students have done much work

on the marketing side of the campaign.

They’ve promoted the Campus Craft Brewery program across social media channels and have excited consumers about the impending product launch.

Currently, the group is working on the name of the beer, but also on the design and solidification of the logo and packaging.

Once five choices for a name have been selected, Nolen said UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank will help determine the final selection.

The Inaugural Red was immensely successful, and Nolen said he has no doubt this new summer wheat ale will be any different. The Inaugural Red was bottled and in circulation by June, and by this past fall, Nolen said it was the No. 1 selling product for Wisconsin Brewing Company.

After Inaugural Red’s notable progress, and with high expectations for this year ’s beer, Nolen is hoping to build and foster a great relationship with UW students for years to come.

“It’s tough with just one product to call Campus Craft Brewery a program, but that’s what we’re hoping it becomes,” Nolen said. “We don’t want this to just be a onehit brewery. We’re ready to make this a

consistently successful project.”

Students involved in the program could even find themselves having more opportunities with Wisconsin Brewing Company down the line as well. Nolen said the program will soon be offering several students the opportunity for internships with the brewery. One will be on the marketing side of the business, and the other will be in brewing science.

Nolen hopes these internships will lead to students aiming at potentially staying in the field long term, and ideally with Wisconsin Brewing Company.

“We’re happy to give these students opportunities to see what brewing is all about, and give them chances to succeed,” Nolen said.

“This partnership is as beneficial for us as it may be for some students.”

The name for this year ’s Campus Craft Brewery will be released in about two weeks.

Photo · UW participants have held responsibilities including marketing, logo design and, of course, brewing within the collaborative effort.

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Green Life Cafe brings sunshine to Monroe Street with fresh smoothies, crepes Juice bar, creperie fosters welcoming environment where visitors’ happiness considered just as important as sustenance Photo · Highlights, like the Sassquash, light up the cafe’s menu, in addition to salads, sandwiches and juices.

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The sun gleams through the many windows of Green Life Cafe, highlighting colorful plates and vivid mason jars of smoothies and fresh juices.

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to plate” motto, opting for local and organic ingredients as much as possible.

Replacing the former location of Matcha Tea House at 1934 Monroe St., Green Life Cafe offers a bright space to sip on refreshing, customized drinks and made-to-order dishes.

Walking off Monroe and up the entryway, Green Life already feels cozy. Tiny porch, front lawn and all, the shop appears more like someone’s house than a business — in a good way. Welcoming and emanating a neighborhood feel, the cafe’s façade proves promising.

Staff promptly greet new guests, offering menus while allowing diner’s their pick of seating options. The tables on the main floor

are supplemented by upstairs dining in various rooms that are cleverly converted from what had clearly been second floor bedrooms and closets.

The cafe is consistently colorful in décor and brilliantly illuminated from the sun. Green Life is simply charming overall.

Coloring books are offered throughout the cafe and the staff is generous in their hospitality.

Unlike typical cafes rushing to serve customers so they leave, the Green Life staff genuinely invites guests to stick around for as long as they’d like.

And with such enticing menu options, the offer to stay and chill a while becomes hard to resist. The dishes and drinks at Green Life are just as bright as the sunny atmosphere.

Nutrient-dense, vegan dishes shine at The Green Owl Cafe Crepe options range from both sweet to savory. The Sassquash is a savory crepe that’s not only interestingly named, but also creatively concocted. The buckwheat crepe is stuffed with roasted squash, dried cranberry, walnut, wild rice, kale and fall spice gastrique. Flavorful and generously sized, this crepe is a winning option for an appetite seeking healthy flavors.

Aside from crepes, Green Life Cafe also serves an array of salads, sandwiches and wraps, and each is brighter than the next with their emphasis on colorful vegetables and bold ingredients.

The cafe has a specials board as well, which most recently featured a vegan-veggie curry.

Lest the special disappears soon, rest assured there is also a savory curry-themed crepe on the menu. I can vouch for this crepe. It’s studded with yellow curry tinted potatoes and brilliantly reminiscent of real deal curry.

While drinks can be customized from the ground up, the cafe also provides a menu of signature smoothies with expertly matched ingredients.

The Kombucha Berry smoothie, for one, is incredibly refreshing and visually stunning in its deep purple color from the combination of berries. Crafted with strawberries, blueberries, Nessalla kombucha and coconut water, the smoothie is ideal for those looking for something thirst-quenching and lightly sweet, but without the heaviness of traditional yogurt-based smoothies.

The cafe also recently featured a turmericinfused smoothie made with primarily banana and pineapple. Thick from banana, the smoothie holds chia seeds interspersed throughout, which makes for an exciting visual. The drink is certainly refreshing and representative of the cafe’s quirky appeal.

Good vibes shine strong at Green Life Cafe.

Sunny, fresh and relaxed, Madison locals embittered by cold could use some of Green Life’s energy and cheer.

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UW continues to pander to privilege as it considers increase to merit-based aid University getting caught in boosting school’s academic influence at expense of lower-income students that truly deserve help in college, but it misses the social constructs that allow certain groups — the affluent — to be more successful at college preparedness measures and standardized tests than other groups — the poor.

Time Magazine reported the test gap between rich and poor students has grown by 60 percent since the 1960s. This systematically excludes poorer members of society from receiving scholarships for high achievement.

The reason for lower-income students performing poorly is not the student’s fault.

Wealthy parents spend 1,300 more hours on their children’s education from age zero to six than their low-income counterparts.

Additionally, the achievement gap between wealthy and low-income precollege students is 37 percent the fault of differences in curriculum.

UW should not be punishing the truly needy because the system of education has failed lower-income families, but this administration continues to construct barriers to creating a more diverse atmosphere. Instead, they’ve been forging a path that creates a monolithic student body consisting of the privileged.

Previous pandering to the privilege include ending the out-of-state acceptance limits, allowing the university to target wealthier individuals that can manage to pay for the $10,000 tuition increases levied upon out-of-state individuals.

UW’s diversity efforts will surely be hurt by a move to merit-based need. I vehemently believe members of UW’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement truly abide by their goals “to create a diverse, inclusive and

Photo · Chancellor Rebecca Blank believes offering more aid for high achievers will make UW a more viable option for top students.

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by Aaron Reilly Opinion Editor

University of Wisconsin is considering a move from need-based scholarship to merit-based scholarships, signaling a major shift in terms of what kinds of students are going to attend UW. Need-based aid is exactly what you think it is — need-based. Whoever needs money to pay for college should get it. Merit-based aid is given to high achieving students who have special talents, such as high intelligence or the ability to play basketball really well.

Currently, UW offers half the merit-based aid as University of Iowa, University of Michigan or Ohio State, the top schools in terms of merit-based aid in the Big Ten. UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank believes offering more aid for high achievers will make UW a more viable option for top students.

But UW is merely getting caught in a wave of boosting a school’s academic influence and prestige at the expense of admitting lowerincome and diverse students.

The Atlantic reported most aid that is not based strictly on need goes to high-income families, usually in a money-making scheme. The philosophy is that either a university can offer to pay $20,000 for a needy person’s full tuition or the university can provide four $5,000 meritbased scholarships to wealthier individuals, thus bringing in $60,000 into the university. So instead of paying for a lower-income student’s entire tuition, a university can give partial aid to wealthier candidates and can make money off the wealthier admits.

Of course, the argument could be made that offering merit-based aid rewards the people

excellent learning and work environment for all students, faculty, staff, alumni and others who partner with the university.” The only group against this mission statement seems to be UW itself.

I’m certain minority students will be the most affected by the changes in aid awards. In 2005, SAT data was analyzed and showed that, overall, white kids outscored black kids on the SAT by 204 points. When comparing white children whose families earned less than $10,000, they outscored their black counterparts, who made between $80,000 and $100,000 annually, by 61 points.

Even affluent black people do not achieve at the same level as low-income white people, probably because standardized tests are designed to have white students succeed. A 2010 study found the verbal section of the SAT favored white test takers due to its language. Additionally, ACT language was found to be biased against nonwhite students because of the use of idioms not present in minority cultures.

I’m sure some people are OK with these developments, agreeing with Blank when she said, “I’ve got to keep some of those top students in Wisconsin.”

But I cannot. The traditional metrics used to evaluate prospective students, a standardized test score and grade point average, are already disabling to underprivileged youths. Adding an end to out-of-state acceptance and moving aid from need-based to merit-based is the signal of what Blank and this administration want from UW — prestige at any cost.

Especially since this is a public university, I cannot align with this ideology.

Aaron Reilly (areilly@badgerherald.com) is a freshman majoring in Russian.

Letter to the editor: We must reason with bigots, not shut them out Response to anti-Semitic events at UW should have involved Gandhi’s principle of ‘love force’

by Daniel North

I attended the town hall on anti-semitism held in response to the plastering of swastikas and pictures of Hitler’s face to the door of two residents, at least one of who was Jewish, in University of Wisconsin’s Sellery residence hall by some of their neighbors.

I am motivated to write this letter by my severe disappointment in several UW employees who were panelists at this event.

These individuals’ job responsibilities include spearheading UW’s team response to incidents of hate and bias and to create a campus where all community members feel welcome and safe.

When the panelists and UW employees, including Multicultural Student Center Director Joshua Moon Johnson, Vice Provost

for Diversity and Climate Patrick Sims and Dean of Students Lori Berquam, finished detailing the sequence of events, they opened for questions. I listened as others offered thoughtful critiques of the university response, such as the fact only members of one Sellery tower were notified after the incident report. Only after a Facebook post on the event containing a picture of the door questioned the quality of the university response did UW send a campus-wide email.

The official event ended, but the panelists remained to address the numerous remaining questions. I spoke with the panelists, and the Rabbi and Hillel representative impressed me.

The campus officials did not.

I referenced Satyagraha — which is what Gandhi named the non-violent noncooperation strategy he developed from Tolstoy’s theoretical pacifism and is variably

translated as “insistence upon truth” or “loveforce” — because I expressed concern so many of the proposed solutions were compulsory participation in diversity programs.

Social sanctions don’t work. Banishing bigots only ensures nobody will be around to challenge their bigotry as they nurture hatred.

Satyagraha is the solution. Love is the answer.

Love is the sole force powerful enough to overcome hate. We should embrace bigots so we can reason with them. The consequences of forgoing opportunities to insist upon truth are apparent in the Charleston Emanuel Church shooting and the Sikh Temple shooting.

Loving bigots today can save lives tomorrow. Johnson asserted there is no solution to anti-semitic moments before admitting he wasn’t familiar with Satyagraha.

Most people aren’t, but most people aren’t paid to respond to hate and bias.

I took Economics 101 on this campus, and let’s not kid ourselves. The problem with paying people to solve problems is employees know as soon as they develop solutions, their new problem is unemployment. Think pharmaceuticals. But I also took Criminal Law and Justice on this campus, and I presume innocence. I cannot sufficiently evidence if the people we are paying to solve this problem are or aren’t committed to solving this problem, but I am willing to question the competency of anyone compensated to combat hate and bias who has not investigated one of the all-time most famous and successful warriors against hate and bias.

The word Satyagraha appears 39 times on Gandhi’s Wikipedia page alone.

Daniel North (dnorth@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in political science and zoology.

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Proposed bill gives lawmakers authority on judicial side of government, breaching separation of power

by William Malina Columnist

Law enforcement has been placed under unprecedented scrutiny in the past few years and while oversight is necessary, a new bill proposed in state Legislature takes it to an extreme.

Republicans in the state Legislature have proposed a bill that creates a new committee to regulate technology used by law enforcement. This committee is intended to serve as a law enforcement watchdog with unilateral subpoena power and the ability to access police investigation records and John Doe proceedings. Additionally, the committee will monitor the transfer of surveillance technology and military weapons between law enforcement agencies.

Supporters of the bill claim the committee will ensure law enforcement properly conducts surveillance and investigations. The new committee is intended to protect citizens’ civil liberties by assuring surveillance technology used in investigations does not infringe on their privacy. Rep. David Craig, R-Big Bend, author of the bill, said “the rapid expansion of technology is something we have to be very, very vigilant on.”

The underlying argument behind the bill seems to concern the protection of civil liberties against law enforcement and the technology it employs.

Despite these arguments, the new committee is unnecessary given the facts surrounding surveillance conducted by law enforcement.

To start, the proposal suggests unlawful surveillance by law enforcement is a common issue in Wisconsin and thus needs regulations. This simply is not the case.

Improper use of surveillance technology is a rare occurrence and the lack of any lawsuits against law enforcement on these grounds emphasizes just how unnecessary the new committee is.

The bill’s supporters could argue the committee is currently unnecessary, but that does not mean the committee won’t fulfill its role in the future. In this sense, the committee is more of a proactive measure to monitor law enforcement rather than a reactive response to violations of liberty.

Despite the possibility of the committee being necessary in the future, the powers granted to it pose a much greater risk to civilian liberties than the imagined threat it is intended to prevent.

Providing the Legislature with access to records of law enforcement’s investigations is especially dangerous considering this power extends to John Doe cases.

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John Doe cases also encompass political corruption, meaning the new committee could subpoena access to records that may potentially relate to corruption cases involving the Legislature. Unlike normal subpoenas issued by the Legislature, subpoenas of this sort would not require the approval of the chief clerk of the Senate. The committee would thus be a mechanism for the Legislature to suppress dissent and defend itself from investigations targeting corrupt lawmakers.

This exemption, along with the new committee proposal, provide the Legislature with powers that should be exclusive to the judicial branch and its subsidiary law

enforcement elements. The distinction between legislative and judicial powers is crucial to maintaining a functioning government, allowing the different branches to check one another. The new committee would further immunize the Legislature from investigations into its potentially unlawful actions. Such immunity contradicts basic principles of American democracy, granting the state Legislature unnecessary powers that should be exclusive to the judiciary.

Lastly, the proposed committee would infringe on the liberties it was intended to protect. Until there is substantial evidence that demonstrates law enforcement’s technology has infringed on civil liberties, the committee’s

power to access private records will pose a much greater threat to an individual’s privacy.

Despite the dangers of law enforcement surveillance technology, creating a committee with subpoena powers that require no outside authorization and access to previously private records is significantly more dangerous. The committee is an unnecessary solution to an imagined problem, overstepping the limits of legislative power and essentially immunizing the Legislature from investigations on its behavior.

William Malina (wmalina@wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in philosophy and political science.

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Lamar Remy uses lack of racial representation in tennis as motivation As lone black tennis player at Wisconsin, sophomore is inspired by Arthur Ashe, wants to give ‘something different for people to see’

by Nick Brazzoni Sports Editor

Sophomore Lamar Remy is standing in the huddle with his teammates at practice. His teammates have their heads down, waiting for the uncomfortable situation to end.

Remy, in disbelief of what he just heard, speaks up.

“I shouted at him that he didn’t have to say it like that,” Remy said. “I looked around knowing that it did not sound like it was acceptable to say, especially in front of the entire team.”

One of Remy’s coaches on the men’s tennis team had just said something that Remy referred to as “along the lines of being racist,” and he had done so in front of all of his teammates.

At the time, Remy had maybe wished someone else would have stepped up, but looking back to last season when the situation occurred, he understands why everyone else tried to avoid the situation.

“I feel like sometimes the bystander effect kicks in,” Remy said. “You think someone else is going to step in, so you don’t, but no one at the time stepped in and did anything. I guess I can say at the time, I didn’t expect anybody to step in.”

Remy is the lone black player on the UW men’s tennis team, and in a sport that is dominantly white in its racial demographics, the sophomore has used the lack of representation in tennis as motivation as he pursues a professional career.

The racial disparity is nothing new for Remy. He grew up in Roslyn, New York, a city that is 76 percent white and just 2 percent black.

Remy has been playing tennis since he was six-years-old, and while it wasn’t the most popular sport in his hometown, he preferred it to all the other sports he played. He was exposed to the sport at a young age thanks to his father.

“I think [tennis] just started becoming more oriented towards younger kids a few years ago only,” Remy said. “I was taking lessons with my dad, and he had a coach he would always hit with and he would just bring me along.”

Growing up, Remy looked up to former world No. 1 player Arthur Ashe, the only notable professional black tennis player at the time, but he had not played professionally since he retired in 1979. Remy’s family also lived just 20 minutes from Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, where he said he went to the U.S. Open on a yearly basis until he was about 14.

Photo · Remy’s doubles play has made him a fearsome opponent. Playing in the first doubles spot, he and partner Josef Dodridge are 7-1 this spring and defeated the No. 33 doubles pairing in January.

Jason Chan The Badger Herald Today, there is currently only one active black professional tennis player: 26-year-old Donald Young. But he has not held a ranking higher than No. 38, nor has he made it past the fourth round of any major event.

Instead of the lack of racial representation in the sport discouraging Remy from playing the sport he loves, he’s using it as motivation and a source of pride.

“I wanted to be like [Ashe],” Remy said. “I wanted to give something different for people to see because the sport of tennis is predominantly white.”

Remy maintained that mindset growing up, going to boarding school in Florida, and now, in his short time at Madison, where he has experienced many of the same things he did back home in New York.

When he walks down the street, he sees predominantly white people, and given his 6-feet, 170-pound frame and race, he said people just tend to assume he is a football player.

“I can see the resemblance, as I’m a pretty big guy, but there’s definitely a notion that you’re either a football player or a basketball player here if you’re black,” Remy said. “I think if you’re black here, everyone just assumes you are an athlete already.”

Remy understands why people have these preconceived notions, especially on a campus like UW’s, but he doesn’t let those notions affect him.

The sophomore acknowledged that race isn’t always the easiest or most comfortable topic to discuss, and despite the troubling experiences he’s had, they’ve been minor bumps in the road as he continues to strive to join the small group of professional black tennis players.

“I know there aren’t many AfricanAmericans playing tennis at the time,” Remy said. “I definitely feel a sense of pride.”

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Game theory: Breaking down secret to Wisconsin’s recent success How Ethan Happ, Vitto Brown saved Badgers’ NCAA tournament hopes, helped bring team to second place in Big Ten COMBINED AVG. USAGE 19.88 26.58 23.49 19.76 25.1 30.24 25.4 32.51 22.31 21.86 21.56 16.31 27.28 25.55 28.18

by Eric Goldsobel Sports Content Editor

College basketball does not play nicely with statistics.

According to Nate Silver, founder of fivethirtyeight.com, there is a one in 1,610,543,269 chance of predicting a perfect March Madness bracket, and the odds of correctly predicting the entire tournament field are even lower.

Still, there are reasonable outcomes to expect, which is why Wisconsin now finding itself in the tournament picture is so surprising. But looking carefully at the numbers, it actually isn’t actually astonishing.

Outside of Wisconsin’s big three, Nigel Hayes, Bronson Koenig and Zak Showalter, who provide steady production, the duo of Ethan Happ and junior Vitto Brown have saved the Badgers’ 17-year NCAA Tournament streak.

When the two click at the same time, Wisconsin as a whole clicks big time.

Excluding the teams wins over Iowa and Michigan, Wisconsin was 10-5 up to that point under head coach Greg Gard and in those 10 wins, excluding the team’s big three players, Happ and Brown were Wisconsin’s leading scorers 60 percent of the time. While in losses, Happ and Brown were never the next two highest scorers.

They’ve played significant roles in point production, but what is most striking is how much more efficient Wisconsin is offensively when Happ and Brown touch the ball.

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MARGIN OF USAGE 8.26 25.11 6.02 1.35 0.6 14.86 27.39 0.84 7.21 2.15 14.13 0.02 3.42 15.55 5.39

UW EFFICIENCY 113.1485 98.7843 113.3657 122.5588 127.7147 102.5521 113.3784 107.9015 129.7587 106.2069 95.5384 95.0176 120.4621 106.5053 107.9973

than in losses on average, and this pattern correlates with a higher offensive efficiency for the Badgers as a whole.

In wins, Happ and Brown’s average usage is about 25, meaning they individually use possessions about 25 percent of the time during play and the average margin, the difference between their individual usage percentage, is a meager 2.28 percent.

But in losses, Happ and Brown’s average usage drops to 22 percent and the average margin between their individual usage is a staggering 11.39 percent.

Simply put, when the tandem are in sync with each other and use equal amounts of possessions, it spreads the floor.

They draw defenders to them, who may have to mark them manto-man, which can open up space for other players to drive or find open shots. When this happens, the natural result is more points, higher field-goal percentages, higher efficiency and a higher chance of winning.

But when one’s production drops off the other must make up for it and tries to do too much offensively, which has the opposite effect.

Usage, however, only calculates the percentage of how many possessions each uses during their time on the court, so if a player sees miniscule playing time, a high usage doesn’t necessarily have a large effect on his team’s efficiency. To make sense of usage, how many possessions they use relative to the team’s total possessions has to be calculated based off of the player ’s usage, minutes played and pace of the

Wisconsin offensive efficiency

OPPONENT % OF PLAYS USED Illinois 14.73 Mich St. 10.13 Maryland 14.18 Nebraska 12.43 Ohio State 13.41 Illinois 10.11 Indiana 16.42 Penn State 15.73 Mich St. 14.18 Northwestern 9.72 Maryland 10.77 Indiana 9.46 Rutgers 10.65 Purdue 9.26 Green Bay 9.897

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Happ and Brown’s usage correlates to using 13.2 percent of team’s total possessions in wins and 9.9 percent in losses, the difference of which can amount to a large disparity in possessions over the course of a 40-minute game and explain why the amount of plays they use is so closely linked to team efficiency.

This speaks to a much larger narrative at play though, as Brown can be an inconsistent player and his performances are typically what makes or breaks Wisconsin. His average usage is 24.27 percent in wins, close to Happ’s 26.55 percent, but in losses, Brown drops to 16.68 percent while Happ rises only slightly to 28.07.

Correlating the percentage of total team possessions used to Wisconsin’s efficiency during those games shows that the higher amount of possessions used, the better the Badgers perform. The results of which are statistically significant.

From this correlation, Wisconsin’s offensive efficiency would amount to a baseline offensive efficiency rating of 83.5047. Meaning that without either Happ

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or Brown playing in the game, Wisconsin’s offensive efficiency would result in that measure.

During the 15-game span, the Badgers’ average offensive efficiency was 115.88 in wins, which coincides with a higher amount of plays used by Happ and Brown, 14.36 percent to reach that exact result, and less disparity between their individual usage. So when they play well together, Wisconsin’s offensive efficiency can rise by 32.38 points on average.

While in losses, average offensive efficiency is 100.41 and Happ and Brown only provide 16.9 points of offensive efficiency.

That drop in offensive efficiency also means the team scores 11 less points on average, which can be devastating since Wisconsin’s average margin of victory has only been 7.9 points.

But this is also a simplified model, and of course there are many other factors at play that can affect these numbers.

Players can have off-nights, get into foul trouble or get injured, but when production from Happ and Brown so readily correlates with a victory, it makes for a delicate balance.

For now, Gard has to manage a happy medium of productivity between these two rising stars while a recent trend of points from the bench, from players such as Jordan Hill and Alex Illikainen, can hopefully supplement the duo if one is having an off night.

But then again, this is college basketball, and college basketball does not play nicely with statistics.

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Remembering last season’s heartbreak, Badgers on mission for title With two trips to Frozen Four in the past two years, UW players are hungry to return

by Kristen Larson Women’s Hockey Writer

Last March, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team was sitting in a locker room, their heads down and their season over.

It is a feeling most of them can’t forget, watching the season come to a brutal end during the semi-final round of the NCAA Frozen Four tournament.

While the team’s defeat was a bitter pill to swallow, it also gave them something to focus on, both during the summer and the beginning of the season. If anything, they were determined to make sure they never felt that way again.

Sophomore Annie Pankowski, who leads the team in points this year, admits the events that happened in the locker room were enough to motivate her to do better in the next season. “[The Frozen Four loss] has been the driving force,” Pankowski said. “I still remember exactly what it felt like in that locker room, exactly what coaches said and not wanting to take your equipment off for

the end of the season. Once you feel that, you work as hard as you can to not feel that way again.”

So Pankowski and the rest of her team pushed themselves to be the best athletes they could be, keeping that semi-final defeat in the back of their minds. When it came time to start the season, they worked harder than they ever had, and it started showing both on and off the ice.

Starting with a shutout streak that lasted longer than anyone predicted when the season started — nine games — and a defensive average of .76 goals allowed per game, it is not hard to see the motivation to do better was paying off.

As they approach this playoff season, the Badgers know they have to be meticulous if they want to find themselves back in the Frozen Four tournament. Even though their first games of the series are against Minnesota State, a team they swept twice this year, junior Sarah Nurse, who is the team’s top goal scorer, knows they cannot underestimate any team if they want a chance to go back to New Hampshire.

“We’re ready to play any team that we have to play,” Nurse said. “Regardless of what happened in the regular season, it’s playoffs now. There’s more on the line and teams are fighting for the rest of their season so they’re going to come out really hard. It’s just going to be a matter of how we respond.”

As three of the main scorers for Wisconsin, Nurse, Pankowski and sophomore Emily Clark are definitely the players that fans and teams alike have their eyes on. Pankowski knows she sometimes feels the pressure to score, but then reminds herself to take a step back and rely on the rest of her teammates.

“I know how great of a team this is,” Pankowski said. “I know that there are people on this team that can put the puck in the net, and I have all the faith in the world that [goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens] is going to keep them out of the net.

“You do kind of get into that ‘I need to put the puck in, I need to score, I need to produce’ [mentality], but I need to step back and realize that there’s so much talent

around that it doesn’t need to be just me.”

One of the beneficial things about this season is that the Badgers are currently the No. 1 seed in the WCHA, which means their first rounds of playoffs is in LaBahn.

Clark knows having that home support system behind the team is an invaluable confidence boost.

“I think that it is definitely in our favor to have [the first round of WCHA playoffs] at home” Clark said. “We haven’t lost a game at home yet this season, and I think that a huge factor of that is the home ice. Our fans are amazing and we get so much energy from them.”

If there is one thing still motivating this team to make sure they do well this playoff season, it is that they don’t want to be the proverbial bridesmaid anymore.

Nurse, who has lost in two Frozen Four semi-final games during her years at Wisconsin, finally wants her chance to play in that cherished game.

“We’ve made it to the semi-finals twice now, [in her career],” Nurse said. “Now I think it’s time to make it to the real game.”

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