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From the desk of the editor: The Badger Herald will continue to thrive in year 47 by Hayley Sperling Editor-in-Chief

In our 47th year of uninterrupted production, The Badger Herald made some big plans. We sought to bring content to the campus community that not only mattered, but resonated with people. We sought to connect with our audience and community through social media and event planning. We’re working to bridge gaps between our newsroom and the communities that we cover, both in the city of Madison and campus itself, to create a more impactful

and more informative experience, while better serving our readers. We’ve already started working toward creating a more informed student body at the University of Wisconsin through our news, arts and sports coverage. But our coverage doesn’t stop in Wisconsin. Our opinion and news sections have gained national attention through their coverage of a recent sexual assault case involving a UW student, for example. We’ve expanded our social media team and have begun experimenting with new platforms. Through Snapchat we’ve brought our audience music festivals and

distinguished lecturers, and Facebook Live has brought them everything from sports commentary to vice presidential speeches. At the Herald, we strive to be more than just a news organization. This year, we’ve placed an increased emphasis on truly connecting with the community we serve. That’s why we’ve partnered with local coworking space, 100state, as well as the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. These partnerships have allowed us to foster real relationships with the Madison community and professionals in the industry. While we’re more than proud of what

we’ve accomplished this year, we’re ready to set our goals higher and reach farther. Thanks to the 56 people who collectively donated more than $7,500 to our organization, there is no question we’ll be able to achieve our goals. To all of our donors past and present: Thank you. Thank you for supporting us. Thank you for giving us a sense of certainty when the future of the journalism industry has never been less certain. Thank you for helping us. And, most importantly, thank you for believing in what we do.

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Community clashes on freedom of speech after costume controversy Minority students say they don’t feel safe, welcome on UW’s campus; law expert claims incident is ‘grey area’ of First Amendement rights by Dana Kampa State Editor

A controversial free speech dilemma has bubbled up on the University of Wisconsin campus after two people attending a Badger football game over Halloween weekend wore racially charged costumes and were not ejected from the game. One of the people was dressed as Donald Trump and the other President Barack Obama wearing a noose and dressed in prison garb. Attendees alerted UW police and athletic officials and the authorities asked the person wearing the costume to remove the noose. The people were not seated in the student section and officials do not know if they were associated with UW. Donald Downs, a retired UW political science professor and free speech law expert, said the costume is “sort of a grey area” when it comes to free speech. “Hanging in effigy” has historically been used symbolically to show constituents’ displeasure with a political or public figure’s time in office, Downs said. But the fact that Barack Obama is black brings in the history of lynching, Downs said. Downs said the overall message sent could be construed as a political statement, racially motivated sentiment or some combination of the two. But Downs said the costume would ultimately fall under speech that’s protected from the law. “If they wore a costume like that around town or on the street corner, that’s going to be protected speech, unless they confront somebody with it, face to face in a threatening manner, in which case it could be construed as a threat,” Downs said. Ricardo Rangel, a UW junior and member of the Multicultural Greek Council, said he didn’t think it was correct to call the incident free speech because he views it as an act of terror. Rangel said he was frustrated the administration and authorities pursued the incident as free speech without fully understanding its historical context. “They didn’t do anything to help the people of color who have fear for their own lives here because of all these actions,” Rangel said. Hate speech is not expressly excluded from free speech protection of the First Amendment, Downs said. Only speech like threats, child pornography Feb 18: University of Wisconsin students tape swastikas and a picture of Hitler on a Jewish student’s door in Sellery Hall.

and “fighting words” — words likely to draw someone into a fight — are unprotected. Hate speech alone may be protected, but hate speech aimed at a specific person, for example Obama, would not necessarily be. But because the football game was a special university event and not a public venue, the university could restrict certain activities and speech. Downs said the noose fit into a category the university could ban, but was still an ambiguous symbol. Downs said the university found a middle ground in the tension between protecting free speech and preventing hate speech by asking the person to remove the noose. The day following the incident, UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a statement the political message, though hateful, constituted free speech. “As offensive as this costume was, I believe our university must resist the desire to outlaw forms of speech and political dissent with which we disagree,” Blank said in the statement. Blank also said the incident is a further reminder more work needs to be done to build a stronger, more inclusive community. At a Faculty Senate meeting Monday, Blank further apologized for the university’s handling of the incident, announcing UW has since revoked the attendees’ season tickets. UW will also unveil new carry in policies by the end of the week. UW Athletics also said in a statement while they consider the costume “repugnant,” the costumes are still an exercise of the individuals’ free speech. In a letter to Blank, Associated Students of Madison Chair Carmen Goséy and three other ASM members said they disapproved of initial statements from UW Athletics addressing the incident. “This image incites violence and carries a dark history of oppression and terrorization from white supremacist groups,” they said in the letter. “This is hate speech that continues to ostracize Black people on campus, instill fear, and threaten safety.” The representatives criticized the university for claiming to support diversity and inclusivity but choosing “not to uphold these values at a time of need.” They said short-term diversity initiatives were not enough to stand in for more sustained efforts.

April 21: Anti-semitic grafﬁti was found spray-painted in UW’s Greek Life community.

March 11: Students yell stereotypical “war chants” at a Native American healing ceremony on campus. March 13: Student spits on and insults UW first Wave Scholar with racist and sexist language in Sellery Hall. March 16: Graffiti depicting a person hanging from a tree was found in the first floor bathroom of The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. March 31: UW student finds note underneath her door with hateful, racist rhetoric directed toward her and her friends.

Blank and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez said in a later statement Camp Randall will review its policies “with the goal of ensuring that symbols of this type are not displayed in our stadium again.” Aria Bryan, a UW junior and member of the Black Student Union, Wunk Sheek — an organization for students of indigenous background — and Mixed Race Student Union, said she was initially confused when she heard about the costume incident. “Mentally, I was trying to get around the fact that this was a racially-charged costume,” Bryan said. “I was just kind of confused and trying to process what angle this was coming from.” Bryan said when she fully understood the implications of the costume, she felt anger and shock. She said she appreciated the university’s efforts to look forward and make sure oppressive events don’t go unpunished. “It’s good that they’re taking steps toward ensuring this doesn’t happen again in the future, but I want them to do more with regards to this specific case, because I don’t want there to be a set precedent that people can get away with things like this,” Bryan said. But Bryan said as a Native American and African American student, she is no stranger to seeing culturally offensive images for Halloween. It is disheartening to still see racial bias after eight years of what was supposed to be change under the country’s first African American president, Bryan said. She said the costume incident is not reflective of the Madison community, but of a society that needs to be more racially and historically aware. “I’m not naive enough to think that it doesn’t happen,” Bryan said. “I hope that students and teachers and anyone that’s been affected really understand that there’s a huge difference in trying to make a political statement or trying to make a joke or funny costume than completely insulting somebody’s identity.” Vershawn Hansen, a UW freshman and first year ambassador for Wisconsin Black Student Union, said when he saw Blank’s statement he didn’t understand her interpretation of free speech. “As a freshman, I was shocked that it was handled that way,” Hansen said. “It almost ...

Photo · Football game attendee dressed as President Barack Obama dressed in prison garb and with a noose around their neck. Photo Courtesy of Twitter user @woahohkatie

covered up and swept under the rug by calling this free speech.” Hansen said as a member of the black community, he doesn’t consider Blank an ally at the moment. But he appreciated the national spotlight on the incident as a way to encourage action on the part of the institution. Hoyon Mephokee, a UW senior, former Asian American Student Union president and current senior advisor, said the university hasn’t taken the incident as seriously as she would have hoped. “It’s not just this event,” Mephokee said. “I think it reflects a trend that many people of color and other socially or economically disadvantaged people feel that their very legitimate struggles and concerns aren’t being taken seriously by the administration.” Mephokee said students are leading much of the action to counter these types of incidents, including cultural competency initiatives. He said it is not enough for the administration to issue statement after statement when events like this occur. “I’m not saying the administration isn’t taking any action,” Mephokee said. “The administration certainly is responding to these events, as are students on ASM and other leadership positions. I just think that the fact we’re seeing this sort of behavior continue — it’s indicative that clearly more can be done.” Sept. 13: Swastikas found drawn on Programs to encourage better cultural three whiteboards of dormitory doors in understanding could be effective given Sellery Hall. enough time and focus, Mephokee said. He said while changing Camp Randall’s costume policies will help, it alone won’t get to the heart of the problem. Rangel said the university was more concerned with preserving its reputation Oct. 12: UW Bias Response Team releases report that ﬁnds students than the lives of students on campus. reported triple the number of hate and bias incidents in the ﬁrst half He said it is frustrating to deal with of 2016. From Jan. 1 to June 30 there were 66 bias incidents reported. these issues on a day-to-day basis and all minorities see and have a voice in these Oct. 29: Fan attends Badger football game in costume of President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck. situations. “Racism is racism, regardless of what your ethnicity is,” Rangel said. “We should all be united in order to fight racism.”

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Local organization seeks to empower Madison’s black community Freedom Inc. wants to implement national platform in city to address racial disparities, create more inclusive campus for students by Nicole Ki Reporter

As both cities and college campuses nationwide move forward to promote inclusivity and equality within their respective communities, an organization wants to implement policies from the national platform aimed at addressing disparities in the black community in Madison. Movement for Black Lives, a national campaign that contains about 50 organizations advocating for black empowerment, released a comprehensive platform in August called “Vision For Black Lives,” which addresses solutions to issues in the black community. M. Adams, Freedom, Inc. co-executive director and member of the leadership team at Movement for Black Lives, helped construct the national platform. In a meeting last month, she announced Freedom, Inc.’s intent in implementing

Photo · The national campaign Movement for Black Lives contains more than 50 groups across the U.S. Riley Steinbrenner The Badger Herald

some of the policies locally in Madison. M4BL’s proposed platform contains policies and solutions that target six “buckets,” or categories — including economic justice and political power — to improve racial disparities and the social, economic and political status of black people, Adams said. “The platform is one piece in addition to the fabric and vision towards black liberation, freedom and dignity,” Adams said. “The way to really understand what the platform is is to see it as a way of

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articulating what we want, targeting who should be doing these things and where we should be getting these things from.” Each of the six categories has a collection of proposed actions which target how they plan to implement M4BL’s vision both locally and nationally. One central part of the Vision For Black Lives is the intersectional framework it is constructed on to include all different identities, Adams said. “We work with folks who are queer, LGBTQ, working class, women, [people who have] disabilities and have been incarcerated,” Adams said. “We work with a whole bunch of different people, so we really embody the principles that are talked about.” One policy Freedom, Inc. wants to focus on is more community control of the police. According to M4BL, this will give direct control to communities most affected by police brutality over law enforcement practices and policies. The investment in this particular category came as a result of the shooting of unarmed 19-year-old Tony Robinson by a Madison police officer, Adams said. Freedom, Inc. heavily supports the campaign “Justice for Tony Robinson,” which was created in response to the shooting. Many of the outlines in the platform could also be applied to universities and black students to foster a culturally competent staff, curriculum and safe environment for students of color. One important issue for the University of Wisconsin campus is preserving the ethnic studies

requirement and implementing more cultural competency requirements to educate the majority white student body, Adams said. Anti-blackness is present in academia, said Marquise Mays, UW junior and president of Wisconsin Black Student Union. He said he feels he can only fully express his black identity in classes focused on race. Having a platform like M4BL’s on campus is important because it allows people to realize there must be a “vision for students of color on a predominantly white campus,” Mays said. “I feel like when people think about Black Lives Matter, they are so quick to look at the language of it instead of the actual things we are requesting for our lives to matter,” Mays said. “I think that the Vision For Black Lives is directly hitting those institutional systemic barriers that continue to hold us back.” Setting out to provide a welcoming environment for black students on campus, WBSU recently held a workshop for students of color focused on healing, meditation and how to preserve a healthy mind. Mays said WBSU is focusing on providing a sense of community to black students and preserving their livelihood. Moving forward, Adams said he believes the platform is an important way for the university to implement a more educated and racially competent atmosphere. “You cannot expect to have black students strive and do well while they don’t feel welcome on campus,” Adams said. “There are many pieces of the platform that the university should take in order to create a climate in the educational system in which black students can do well.”

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Tech on Deck Researchers’ new ‘green’ flooring generates energy with every footstep

UW material engineers step into future by using wood pulp, static electricity to produce power, Madison campus to be used as test site by Amos Mayberry Reporter

New technology developed by University of Wisconsin material engineers enables floors to generate electricity by doing what they do best — getting stepped on. Associate professor of material science and engineering Xudong Wang and his team have

developed “green” flooring made from common materials that can generate electricity with every footstep. This flooring is inexpensive, renewable and made from the waste of other products. This new technology harnesses a simple source of energy that is all around us: static electricity. The flooring materials have tiny fibers that are combined with a chemical treatment that attracts electrons, Wang said. When a walker steps on the “green floor,” these fibers come into contact with fibers that are not treated to generate a charge. The electrons are converted from one type of fiber to the other, which creates electricity. A triboelectric nanogenerator, or TENG, generates electricity from the vibration of atoms, Wang said. While TENG technology is used in energy generating flooring, it is also the same phenomena that allows static electricity to form on clothing. Electricity collected from the fibers is then converted into usable energy that can power lights or be stored in batteries for later use, Wang said. There are existing flooring materials that are able to capture energy from footsteps, but this new flooring is able to use less expensive and more eco-friendly materials. “This flooring is cheap, recyclable and strong which meets the needs of regular manufacturing that won’t raise cost,” Wang said. Green flooring is made from wood pulp, a material that is already commonly used in standard flooring. Wood pulp is a byproduct of other products and is inexpensive and abundant, Wang said. By using wood pulp to create energy, flooring that can generate electricity may actually be more affordable then flooring that doesn’t. Electricity generated by footsteps can be converted into usable energy that can power lights and be stored in batteries. Wang said the prototype of the flooring he powered could power LED lights. The possibilities for energy

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generating floors are endless. Wang said any area with high foot traffic will be able to generate usable energy. Stadiums, malls and any public place will be able to implement this flooring and use it to power lights in the building. Mary Blanchard, Associate Director of the Wisconsin Energy Institution, said it is important to take advantage of all ways to renewably generate energy. Technologies like Wang’s can be used in collaboration with other ways of generating energy like solar and wind energy to reduce the use of fossil fuels. “[Technologies] that enable us to take advantage of new sources of energy are ways to improve the environment,” Blanchard said. Wang and his team published their research on flooring that generates energy in the Nano Energy Journal Sept. 24, and they have been been

researching the technology that makes generating the energy from footsteps possible. Now that it is possible to generate energy through footsteps, Wang plans to use UW as a test site. Wang said he hopes to create a largescale model to demonstrate the potential that green flooring has. Since UW has many areas with high foot traffic, Wang said they want to see just how much power can be produced with this new technology. Blanchard said the world uses a large amount of energy, and if there is any way to reduce the use of fossil fuels, it is beneficial. “We really need all [alternative energy sources],” Blanchard said. “We need a strategy that uses as many different types of renewable and non-carbon sources to help address [our] energy needs.”

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Street team initiative aims to relocate homeless into permanent housing Soglin’s 2017 operating budget looks to invest $170,000 into downtown-focused group that will build trust with struggling individuals by Alice Vagun City Editor

In an effort to address issues among the homeless population, Mayor Paul Soglin’s 2017 operating budget will invest further funds into a downtown-focused street team. The program works by establishing relationships with homeless people who are living on the streets, Soglin said. Qualified individuals build trust with a homeless person by talking through their issues, and then work toward getting them into permanent housing. Similar programs have had success in the past. Soglin said there was one case in which a member of a team took a homeless man every morning for breakfast for 14

months. Finally, after a rapport and trust was established, the homeless veteran agreed to permanent housing, Soglin said. After seeing success elsewhere, Soglin said it made sense to bring a similar program to Madison. In the past, Soglin has introduced controversial proposals regarding Madison’s homeless population. At a late September City Council meeting, he proposed an ordinance that would ban homeless people from laying on the sidewalks from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the central business district of Madison. The ordinance, many city council members argued, would not solve the underlying issue of homeless, but would just relocate it. While the ordinance ultimately failed, city council members did agree they need

to start looking at other means of solving the homeless problem. The current budget looks to invest $170,000 into the street team program. The city balanced the funds for it by increasing fees for patients who require ambulance transportation to the hospital, said Tiffany Kenney, executive director at the Business Improvement District. Within the downtown area, the city is looking to fund more outreach workers, Kenney said. “The city, as well as the BID, believes this program — among other things to address the issue of homelessness in the downtown area — is important,” Kenney said. Soglin said he tried to get budget support for the project two years ago, but those efforts ultimately failed.

After the opening of the Rethke homeless housing complex, however, the city got approval to start funding street teams to work with prospective residents of that facility. Since then, Soglin said the program has placed about 50 homeless individuals into permanent housing situations. “We want people out who understand and can talk through the [homeless people’s] challenges, particularly because there is often mental illness or substance abuse problems that need to be addressed,” Soglin said. At the moment, the program is running on a temporary basis. With the support of the City Council, Soglin said he hopes to make it a permanent program when the budget is finalized next year.

Rainbow project takes ‘holistic approach’ to treating childhood trauma Individualized, creativity-based healing replaces psychotherapy in clinics, helps children develop coping mechanisms by Gabby Ortiz Campus Editor

The Rainbow Project in Madison is taking a different approach to treating children who have experienced trauma. The Rainbow Project’s main goal is to work with young children and families by helping them overcome the effects of exposure to trauma — like abuse, neglect or witnessing domestic violence. Their hope is to help children better interpret their narrative and develop coping mechanisms. Samantha Burr, Rainbow Project therapist, said they uphold a more “holistic approach,” where they work with caregivers and teachers. This is different from a more “traditional approach” of clinic-based psychotherapy, in which kids see a therapist for an hour a week. “Our work is a lot more creative,” Burr said. “We have a lot of play, art and storytelling in our intervention so it’s not like your traditional sit-down and talk kind of therapy.” The project started in 1980 through the Red Caboose Day Care Center with a grant from the Department of Justice, said Darren LeCount, Rainbow Project clinical manager. At the time, the daycare was noticing intervention programs for kids whose parents were domestically violent were not successful. Though children also receive clinic-

based psychotherapy, the project advises caregivers and teachers based on the individual child. They learn how to interpret their child’s behavior to see it through a “trauma lens.” LeCount said they coordinate with a school or daycare center because there can be triggers in environments where children spend the most time. “We are trying to figure out what behaviors are reactions to the trauma versus maybe something else,” LeCount said. The process begins by forming a trusting relationship with the child and their primary caregivers, LeCount said. While doing that, they are also completing an initial assessment by talking to multiple sources close to the child who can describe the child’s experiences and behavior. From there, the child is slowly worked into the treatment process, which looks to develop skills around feeling identification and expression and coping with stress and anxiety, LeCount said. Staff then work to desensitize the child in a therapeutic environment, helping them understand and reframe the narrative of their trauma. “They have the ability to put their traumatic experience into more of a healthy context,” LeCount said. In situations where the child lives with the offender, the project works with parents to ensure there is a reasonable degree of safety and stability at home, LeCount

said. When a parent has a substance abuse problem, therapists will talk to that parent about the effects their substance abuse has on their children, Burr said. The Rainbow Project serves families with young children, primarily ages 10 and under, in Dane County and the surrounding areas. Rainbow Project staff are also actively involved in various local and state-wide committees and task forces, such as Children of Violent Homes Project, Dane Photo ·The organization, which started in 1980, serves families with young County Children children, primarily ages 10 and under. & Youth Mental Health Consortium and Wisconsin Photo courtesy of Darren LeCount Department of Justice Children in Need Task Force. “It’s a process and I think it’s important to work with the LeCount said. “Once you intervene early, kid in the context of their families and the you can really have a radical, positive impact on a young child’s life.” other important individuals in their lives,”

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UW to launch new post-graduation survey, streamline data collection

Simplified questionaire will cut questions about educational outcomes, help departments gather employment information by Cadence Bambenek

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At the end of November, the University of Wisconsin will launch its pilot of a shortened version of its post-graduate plans questionnaire to better gauge where students land immediately after completing their undergraduate degrees. In 2008, the Office of UW Academic Planning and Institutional Research started giving graduating students a survey to collect their post-graduation plans to comply with national standards set forth by Voluntary System of Accountability/College Portrait, Sarah Lazenby, vice provost and director of APIR, said. The university is moving away from that survey in hopes of curbing the number of surveys schools and colleges within UW individually send out to collect information on their grads. The goal is to create a more cohesive data set on UW’s grads, Lazenby said. “Not everybody was asking the same types of questions, some schools and colleges didn’t really have a survey,” Lazenby said. “So we all sat down and said how can we do this better?” In the long run, Lazenby said the new survey will streamline the collection of information across schools and colleges within UW by eliminating the need for any school or college across campus to send out surveys of their own.

For students, Lazenby said, the new survey will reduce the number of survey requests they receive upon graduation. Past versions of the survey have included questions to measure educational learning outcomes, but with the effort to simplify the survey, Lazenby said that component has been eliminated. “We really wanted to make it pretty streamlined,” Lazenby said. “We came to an agreement that let’s get this as short as we can, really get it narrow and focused to immediately after graduation.” Because the new survey is being modeled after an exit survey developed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, an organization of career service professionals, the portion of the questionnaire dealing with international engagement has been cut as well. Lazenby said the school still values information about international learning outcomes and is looking into other ways to collect it. But the newest version will afford students the opportunity to return to the survey to update their graduation plans all the way until six months after graduation. “Say in December someone is still looking for employment or they’re not sure what they’re going to do, they can go back in and update that information up to six months out after graduation,” Lazenby said.

For the College of Letters and Sciences, Rebekah Paré, executive director of the L&S Career Initiative, said she hopes this new survey will help measure the first destinations, which are typically either employment or further education, of its graduates. Several schools, Lazenby said, like the College of Engineering and the School of Business, have made more concerted efforts for many years to track where their graduates take jobs, predominantly because each’s accreditation is dependent on reporting that information. It wasn’t until the College of Letters and Sciences launched a career initiative in 2014 that it started tracking student employment after graduation, Paré said. As part of that career initiative, the College of Letters of Sciences issued two surveys in the fall of 2015. The first measured where Letters and Sciences graduates landed professionally one year out of school and the second reported where graduates were eight and ten years out of school. Paré said about 87 percent of Letters and Sciences graduates secure jobs, enter grad school or both within one year of graduation, with low rates of underemployment. Without conducting another comprehensive survey like the one that was done in 2015, Paré said Letters and Sciences doesn’t currently have the infrastructure to report where graduates land beyond their initial jobs. “We have the data, but have not been able

to produce that in a comprehensive way [for students],” she said. She’s hopeful student advising might hire staff to potentially allocate time to an initiative to make that information accessible for students. For now, she said Letters and Sciences is also waiting to see what data comes out of the streamlined campus-wide survey. “We’re watching now what’s happening on campus with the change of the post-graduation questionnaire because that data we think will end up being a lot more useful with the changes that they’re making,” Paré said. By standardizing the questions across schools and colleges as well as expanding the survey window to six months after graduation, Lazenby said it will be easier to compare and contrast reports between colleges and get a better snapshot of post-graduation plans across the entire campus. For this first year, Lazenby said some students will still receive surveys from their respective schools or colleges so the university doesn’t lose any data through the survey’s pilot phase. But come fall of 2017, any college-specific questions will be integrated into the generic questionnaire. “A couple of schools and colleges have added in questions specific to their grads,” Lazenby said. “But by and large, it’s the NACE questionnaire.” The streamlined survey will be sent out to students graduating this December on November 28.

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Encouraging civil discourse in high school can help prevent political polarization later on, open students up to diverse perspectives by Amos Mayberry Reporter

In today’s world of heated politics, it can be hard to understand how to talk about controversial issues, but one book seeks to bring open debate and civil discourse to the classroom. “The Political Classroom,” which won the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award for 2016, was written by Paula McAvoy and Diana Hess to help teachers show students how to discuss diverse political perspectives. McAvoy, program director for the Center for Ethics and Education, said deliberation and discussion about political issues in the classroom help students be open to other points of view. Understanding dissenting opinions as teenagers is important to creating a thriving democratic society. “Ideally you’re not thinking about what is the best solution for me, but thinking about which way should we go if we care about the common good,” McAvoy said. The Center for Ethics and Education is a collaboration of UW and University of IllinoisChicago’s philosophy departments, UW Education Policy Studies and the Wisconsin 10 • badgerherald.com • November 8, 2016

Center for Education Research. The center uses tools from contemporary moral and political philosophy to solve problems in educational policy. The study in the book is based on one of the largest democratic education studies in the nation. By looking at data from the study, McAvoy and Hess looked to determine how high school students learn when they discuss controversial topics in social studies courses and whether these discussions affected students’ political participation after high school. Hess, Dean of UW’s School of Education, said the study combined quantitative and qualitative data by surveying, interviewing and observing participating students and teachers from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. More than 1,000 students from diverse backgrounds participated in the study. CV Vitolo, UW Debate Club debate director, said students commonly develop their political view based on their parent’s beliefs. Vitolo said if students talk about these personal beliefs in their high school classes, they can better understand why they support certain stances before they get to college. Most classrooms had students that agreed with both sides of the aisle, McAvoy said, but some classrooms were politically homogenous. The polarization seen in the classrooms reflects

polarization throughout the country, McAvoy said. To foster a society that understands opposing viewpoints, it is important to teach kids early on how to think critically about issues that are facing the county today so they can actively participate in democracy after school. For the classrooms that leaned to one political stance, the challenge was to help the students understand other viewpoints, McAvoy said. For the classrooms that had a balance of perspectives, it was important to provide students a structured discussion. “The teachers don’t want things to get so ideologically heated that people can’t discuss with each other,” McAvoy said. Some teachers try to stay away from discussing controversial political topics out of fear of being misunderstood as biased, McAvoy said. In order to prevent misunderstanding, teachers need to make sure these discussions are structured in a way that promotes civil conversation. This can be achieved by teaching students about different perspectives on the topic before the discussion. Vitolo said discussion about political topics is especially important during a presidential election dominated by “half-truths,” like 2016’s. When facts are in dispute, it can be hard to get students on the same page, McAvoy said. When students have a teacher to guide them through difficult topics, students are able to get past the

strong rhetoric of political candidates and focus on policy decisions. McAvoy said promoting structured conversation is important when talking about controversial topics. As the current presidential election exemplifies, a controversial conversation can become negative if there is not structure. Hess said schools are nonpartisan places but can teach students to be politically active. Teaching democracy in schools has long been one of the reasons why there are public schools in America, Hess said. “You can teach students to talk about an issue that is highly partisan, but you can do that in a way that’s fair and not partisan,” Hess said. Schools, Hess added, often serve as a place for students to develop the structure to talk about their own political views later in life. To help today’s students develop critical thinking skills, schools need to promote healthy conversations about the political issues that will impact the future of our county, McAvoy said. By having a space to talk about controversial topics, teachers can give students the tools they need to discuss and deliberate with one another. “We need to support teachers when they want to bring politics into the classroom,” McAvoy said. “We need to get good materials to teachers so they feel comfortable taking these things on.”

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Binnu Palta Hill encourages inclusivity in Business School, voices 14-year-old AJ Carr started his own business to connect concerns for lack of cultural understanding among students, staff low-income, minority students with entrepreneurial leaders Hill and her office host monthly “Lunch & Learn” sessions, which focus on different City Editor topics like microaggressions and redefining gender norms in business. She said through Binnu Palta Hill is working hard for a more the forums, everyone can get a better diverse School of Business. understanding of individual experiences, Hill is University of Wisconsin School of creating a healthier environment. Business’ director of diversity and inclusion “If we can have that level of understanding and a recent winner of the UW 2016-17 about each other, we are much more forgiving, Outstanding Women of Color awards, which we are much more empathetic,” Hill said. are presented to women making outstanding When it comes to issues of diversity, contributions in social justice issues, scholarly Hill said the university has a long way to research on race or ethnicity or community go in multiple areas, but specifically with building. representation in students, faculty and staff. Hill said it’s humbling and rewarding to She said UW needs more cultural dexterity. receive the award because she feels like her The football costume incident, where a Badger work on diversity and inclusion is valued. fan dressed up in an Obama costume with There are a lot of barriers in the workplace a noose around his neck, exhibits a lack of and even more for women of color, and cultural understanding. recognition of these smaller populations is The fact that we still see racially insensitive important, Hill said. incidents occur on campus shows there is a “It’s symbolic of the kind of leaders and lack of understanding of historical context and what our future will look like,” Hill said. empathy, Hill said. “Through recognition, I think we signal as an For students, Hill said it is important to institution that we value the diversity within understand diversity and inclusion impacts our community.” everyone, and it is important to recognize She said there is still a long way to go when “visible” and “invisible” diversity. it comes to improving diversity on campus, “The way we look and the unconscious but having awards like this one can reaffirm biases we all carry about how we appear has the university’s commitment to diversity. a lot to do with how people perceive us and In the School of Business, she said, they how we behave,” Hill said. “If you make those focus most on inclusion because it could lead unconscious biases conscious, you can begin to to greater diversity. do some work.” Hill said there has been progress in certain pockets, but many areas still need to improve diversity. When looking at the business school, Hill said the business school has increased its faculty member of underrepresented minorities to 19 percent, which aligns with averages across the university. While she said that’s still not good enough, it shows the university is moving in the right direction. Hill said as a university, we can’t advance unless there is an environment open to talking about the issues. “Civility and respect Photo · Business school director of diversity and inclusion is a have to be the underlying recent winner of the UW 2016-17 Outstanding Woman of Color characteristics of any kind award. of discussion,” Hill said. “I think we still have work to do in that space.” by Maija Inveiss

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Not everyone starts an incorporated business at 13. But AJ Carr, a now-14-year-old living in Fitchburg thought that would be the best way to face challenges he and his peers struggle with head on. More specifically, he decided to establish a business dedicated to spurring other middle school students to pursue business ideas of their own. Building Bosses, which Carr started this past summer, looks to create productive members of the community. The business is currently morphing into a nonprofit with a focus on connecting kids with opportunities. Carr said Building Bosses’ mentorship program, specifically, will connect minority and lowincome students with members from the professional entrepreneurship community. Through the program, which is slated to start sometime in January, Carr said he wants to target 10 to 15 students from various middle schools across the greater Madison area to pair with mentors. Carr said he wants to target students who have potential, but aren’t necessarily getting the attention from their teachers they need to succeed. “I have friends who are struggling in school and ones that don’t care about it at all, and one of them just told me that they don’t feel supported in the classroom, period,” Carr said. “They don’t feel like the teachers care about them so why should they care about what they are going to do with school?” Carr said he believes a big component of these students feeling held back in the classroom comes down to race. Because these students attend predominantly white schools, a tension dynamic develops when the black students see that they’re not being treated the same a their white counterparts. If the students don’t feel valued in the classroom, Carr said, how can they be expected to learn? Creating a sense of self-worth is a large part of what Carr said he hopes Building Bosses will give to these youth. “I think that self-worth is very important,” Carr said. “How do you know what you’re going to do or how are you going to execute it if nobody teaches you that you are important or nobody teaches you what you can do?” It’s also integral to combating the negative stereotypes and low expectations society can sometimes set for these lower income or minority students, Carr said. For these students, Carr said dealing with those negative stereotypes is a part of their

Photo · AJ Carr’s organization, Building Bosses, is starting a mentorship program this upcoming January. Photo courtesy of Dorecia Carr daily life, not just something they might see on TV. “This stuff doesn’t just start when you’re older, this stuff starts immediately,” Carr said, “When we come into this world, people will make their assumptions. That kid isn’t going anywhere, because look at his background, look at his family’s background.” To build up to the launch of the mentorship program, Carr said he is focusing on hosting community events, where everyone can participate in Building Bosses’ mission: to encourage people to be more productive members of their own communities. In September, Carr hosted a community field day at Warner Park where residents competed in relay races with police and firefighters to build trust between the two groups. In October, Building Bosses hosted a safe alternative to trick-or-treating with Community Halloween Event at Winnequah Park Shelter, with all proceeds benefiting Tiny Houses. Once the mentorship program begins, the kids will be organizing community events and taking on initiatives that interest them, just like Carr is doing now. “I think a lot of people overlook the youth when it comes to different issues, but really we have to be the people that change this stuff because we’re going to be the people who have to grow older and live with this,” Carr said. November 8, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 11

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Lady Laughs Festival aims to create spaces for women in comedy Spearheaded by Dina Nina Martinez, event is inclusive, open to all, places the spotlight on female comics by Edith Block ArtsEtc. Contributor

Women aren’t funny. At least that’s what the public generally believes when they see one take the stage and perform stand up. Dina Nina Martinez is ready to change that belief with Lady Laughs Comedy Festival, a performance that promotes inclusivity of all genders and people of all backgrounds. Martinez is a transgender stand-up comic of seven years from Los Angeles currently residing in Wisconsin. After parting from her career as a showgirl, she was inspired by one of her friends to try stand up. Since then it has been her life. She cannot imagine doing anything else, nor would she want to. Being a woman as well as transgender also presents Martinez with an important opportunity to be activist for transgender people who so often lack a role model in the media to look up to. “I get to talk about being me and my life and a lot of people who have never met a trans person get to get a different perspective that’s not like what you see in the media normally.” For Martinez, not only is it important

to introduce a new perspective and act as a role model for the trans community, she believes that comedy is influential in creating conversation about generally uncomfortable topics. In her opinion, comedy is a catalyst for people to break down barriers through laughter and a mutual entertainment. It is aso a way for people to express themselves and disclose information that might not have been easy for them to do initially, but with the added lightness that comedy creates, it becomes almost easy. Breaking down barriers between people is as difficult as it is important, but Martinez does not stop there in her journey towards progression. Her current cause is trying to carve out more opportunities for women in comedy. Despite her appreciation for her fan-base, she has found there to be disparities among people’s reactions to male comics compared to herself and other female comedians. She recognizes that more often than not, if she shares a stage with a few men the audience often favors the men initially, even if she has better material and more experience. She said that it often takes some additional charisma to win the crowd in her favor. “I think that when people an audience [hears] a bunch of men who are funny and then a woman is really funny like they just get this

like excitement about them they are shocked and excited about it,” Martinez said. This is why Martinez decided to put on The Lady Laughs Festival in the first place. She is aiming for the festival to counter the general public’s expectations that women are unfunny. In fact, she would like to prove that women are downright hilarious. She also seeks to re-create the camaraderie and communal aspects of all-female festivals in the past. Contrary to the festivals she has performed in the past, the Lady Laughs festival will consist of both female and male comics. Martinez is not interested in discriminating. Instead, she wants to bring everyone together to increase the sense of community she has found in female festivals and spread it to the whole comedian population, she said. In fact, in order to get into the festival, all anyone had to do was send in an application. She figures that if someone has dedicated a lot of time to put together their application, they deserve stage time. Martinez has a lot of plans for the future, but none of them are by any means unattainable. Her first goal is to have the festival come back each year, bringing funny women to Madison on

a consistent basis. After this is achieved, the ideal outcome is that the impact of providing funny women to the public will result in the fall of the stereotype that women cannot be downright hilarious. “I would love everyone to come and be like ‘Oh my god this is hilarious - vicarious women can tell their stories and be funny,” Martinez said. The majority of the comics, however, are female with the spotlight focused mostly on them. Men, will play more of a supplementary role. Thus reversing the dynamics of most stand-up bills. Martinez has high hopes for the festival and what it could mean for the progression of women’s roles in comedy. She says exposing more people to hilarious women will give them necessary recognition in a field that is often dominated by men. For Martinez, in short, women can be funny, really funny, and it’s about time people noticed that. “Everyone’s like women aren’t funny… we’re fucking hilarious,” Martinez said.

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Hernán Díaz of Gloss Coats looks to bolster local music scene by Henry Solotaroff-Webber ArtsEtc. Editor

Madison’s music scene has, for a long time, been seen as a stepping stone to the spotlight. With its proximity to Chicago and the University of Wisconsin’s ability to bring in listeners from all over the country, Madison has been a prime spot for emerging musicians to develop and foster the growth of a core fanbase. For Gloss Coats’ Hernán Diaz, however, this simply is not good enough. After bringing his project The Dagger Complex from his native Santiago, Chile to Madison along with Michaela Boman, changing its name and linking up with new bandmates, Gloss Coats have become one of the 608’s most polished groups. They have won multiple opening slots from groups like Jimmy Eat World and The Staves. He believes if the local music scene, from talent to management to production, were to truly link up, Madison could quickly become a part of the national music conversation. For this week’s Conversation Starter, The Badger Herald talked to Diaz about his musical origins, Gloss Coats’ direction and his aspirations for Madison’s music scene in general. The following interview has been edited for style and clarity.

You just opened up for The Staves by their selection. How are you all feeling a few days removed?

Pretty great. It feels like this is us stepping into the direction that we would like to be going, but not just in Wisconsin, and then hopefully not just in the United States — if you know what I mean?

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Yeah definitely. Was it pretty simple how it all went down? Did you just send them a recording, they liked you and that was it?

Yes, kind of like that. We sent an email. I just looked at it and [I thought] this is something that I should be doing. This is also not the first time that we’ve had something like this happen to us. It’s actually happened quite a few times now.

BH HD

In terms of an artist selecting you? We’ve played shows of that same nature, where the artists themselves get to choose the other supporting artists.

It’s happened to us with the band Warpaint [back in Santiago], who we really, really like. It’s happened to us with Jimmy Eat World at the Barrymore Theater here in Madison.

What led you to move to Madison in the first place?

Mainly because one of us got a job here and we also, we were looking to move to not a gigantic city. We wanted to make it comfortable. We wanted to make it more organic and Madison was one of the choices. Although I, of course, I’m a city guy. I come from Santiago, it’s five point something million people. I really, really love Chicago. I’ve been there quite a few times and have friends from there, and being here, playing music and going to shows I’ve made friends that are actually touring the world and that are in bands from Chicago and stuff like that. In the end, we chose Madison because we thought it was a balance of music scene and there was room for us to be doing things. Yeah, so far it’s been great and we love it here. I’m happy that we can now call this place our home.

I imagine this led to changing up the band’s lineup?

That’s right. As far as musicians go, as far as the lineup of the live band goes, yes. [The] difference between [the former] lineup and now is just people play differently and they express and translate the music differently. But originally this is my project and Michaela [Boman’s] as well. She has to do more-so in the lyrics with her songs. Then the rest is just the music that I make the most and that was the same case with the other band back in my country.

make. I understand that there is a lot of styles and each song is almost like a trip of, traveling through different places. I think it’s mostly because we are always listening to different kinds of music and we have our ears very open. We’re just like sponges, you know?

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BH: What was the creative process like for your LP Vibrant, which you released over the summer?

HD: When it comes to writing for Vibrant, it was mostly me. I started recording with my acoustic guitar on Garage Band and then everything developed from that. From not knowing what was going to happen, one thing led to another, I started adding more things and I brought more people to see how it sounds live. It worked out. As of now, we have a different writing process. I’m letting the band become what I always wanted it to be. I would have hated for the project to be a solo thing. I’m a believer of bands. Two heads think better than one, and three better than two, and so on and so forth.

What are your goals for the upcoming months?

I would say that I would love for people to be more involved when it comes to [the music scene]. Even more so than they are already now. If we all come together for it, as listeners, as supporters, as musicians, as producers, as promoters, as venue owners, as everything, if we come together more and try to do something as a collective. It’s a new project of mine that I’m trying do, and I’ll be working side-by-side with other people that have been in bands from here in town as well, where we make a bigger voice for all of those bands here in Madison. Even if you’re not part of the band or part of the show team, even if your friends of some of us or you go and listen to the songs and you go to the shows, you are still part of this scene and this collective of great artists around town and in Wisconsin. If we came together, we would have a bigger chance to get a lot more hype or a lot more noise out there for them to be able to do what they want to do. It’s more-so for the city itself to do more things that local bands and bands from outside of the state are involved in.

Photo · Artist said the many different styles in their art can be attributed to the rapid production and consumption by artists and listeners. Henry Solotaroff-Webber The Badger Herald

Let’s get into the music itself. What struck me the most about your music is that you mix different styles, mainly psych pop and alt rock, really well. How do you account for the diversity of your sound?

To tell you the truth it’s just that we go through phases and the world is going so fast when it comes to music. Everybody’s releasing records like it was nothing almost. The people digest those records like a pill and you swallowed it in that bit. Super fast. It’s out there, you know about it really fast. Somehow that filters through the music that we November 8, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 13

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Bien Bien use free-flowing songwriting to craft groovy sound Local band takes influence from a wide variety of sources, working on upcoming LP with Anderson .Paak’s producer by Tia Hagenbucher ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

A man-crush on Mac Demarco, good vibes and the Spanish language created an instant musical chemistry between the three members of local band Bien Bien. While studying abroad in Spain, an exchange of texts with various band names ended up creating something innovative, in fact, something “Bien.” Mixing Spanish romanticism with undertones of hip hop, jazz and indie rock has proven to be successful for the Madison band. The band members, who prefer to go by their stage names, consists of Javi on vocals and rhythm guitar, Marshall Arts on lead guitar and Coniferous Wallace on drums. Marshall has a love for indie rock and Coniferous, hip hop. One of Javi’s duties is to infuse them both together creating

something self-described as groove hop. Other than Mac Demarco, the band has influences ranging from the soaring soulfulness of Led Zeppelin, the experimental hip hop of J Dilla, the gracefulness of Sam Cooke, all the way to the intimate croons of Bon Iver. A consistent theme throughout their music is the beauty of the human element. Their beat rhythms strive to be off beat and not perfectly aligned in order to mirror the unsteadiness of being human. Their upcoming self-titled album is one of spontaneous creating. They would often go in to record a certain song but end up creating something better just from jamming out. These impromptu beats ended up making it on their upcoming album versus the original pre-planned ones. These songs are less radio friendly and more of an ode to vinyl. Feeling grooved and moved is more important to Bien Bien

than just being catchy. Their single “She Grooves Me” is about being in a relationship for a long time. With lyrics like “She grooves me, she moves me, she uses me, but in the end she still grooves me” show that this band likes to focus on the good things in life, and to keep moving forward. Performing music in Madison has trained the band to become more comfortable playing with each other, as well as with with being on a stage. Other local bands, including Me n You, Son! have proven to be a major part of their support system. “When they hear music or see a friend that is making music they like, they immediately will jump and take any chance if they believe it,” Javi said. Bien Bien’s success has grown rapidly over the past year. Their first house show was organized by Brennan Haelig and Danny Schwartz of Strange Oasis

Entertainment and J. Scott Kunkel of Collaborate Forever, resulted in a turnout of about 100 people packed into a tiny living room. After falling in love with Freakfest headliner Anderson .Paak’s album Malibu, the band saved up money to get his producer, Josh Hirshland for their upcoming album. Staying true to their roots, however, the album is still being recorded in Coniferous’ bedroom. A decision made to have the perfect balance between DIY authenticity and professional polish. Javi hopes the decision will pay off when the album drops sometime in Spring 2017, and that it will appeal to a diverse audience. In the end, Bien Bien just wants people to feel grooved and happy. They remain loyal to their music and their mission of creating feel-good music. “In the end you win some, you lose some, it’s all good. It’s bien bien,” Javi said.

Locally signed electronic artist Seafarer seeks to take next step A member of Madison label Vesten Kolekive, Menominee-based Ben Green balances school, musical passions by Matthew Cejka ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Sometimes all it takes is a little break to become completely reinvested in one’s passions. Menominee-based producer Ben Green, also known as Seafarer is hoping his distinct, diverse sounds and captivating live performances might earn him a full fledged career in music. Throughout his life, Green has maintained musical interest by playing piano and drums, as well as through picking up production briefly during middle school and revitalizing that interest in college. His Soundcloud has continuously flourished with diverse originals and inventive remixes garnering thousands of plays. When he started college, the young artist was forced to ditch drums and piano and return to the only instrument that fit in his dorm room, a laptop. The hectic pace of college currently restricts his career in music to the form of a large scale hobby. However, he has continued to progress in his creative techniques and production skills. One week ago, Seafarer released an original song titled “Lungs,” through the renowned artist agency Wanderlust, which boasts several prominent and upcoming artists in the electronic field. The song’s lighthearted nature, immaculate production 14 • badgerherald.com • November 8, 2016

and complex mashing of sound and style is a supreme representation of the young musician’s musical style. Green explained that his music completely envelopes his daily environment and frame of mind. Seafarer originals follow no specific set of guidelines or genres. Each song is completely distinct and follows its own creative path. Some are soft and ambient while others are overt and contain abrasive sounds. Above all, The artist simply seeks to convey his surroundings through musical expression something that he explained as “making music for the moment.” “I think that a lot of my sound really comes from listening to a ton of different styles,” Green said. The Seafarer remix of “Hear the Bells,” done originally by Porter Robinson, perfectly exposes the young musician’s talent of reinventing sounds and synths to give songs a fresh, original perspective. At this point in his journey, it would appear Green has taken steps in the right direction in hopes of advancing within the industry. In addition to earning notice on Soundcloud, the artist has signed with the Madison-based label Vesten Kollekive, a move that has helped in his production as well as his career. “They’ve definitely helped guide me in a direction of professionalism and consistency,” Green said. “You can really

tell they’re in it for the love of music, and that really helps to redirect me back away from getting only publicity.” For Seafarer’s live shows, viewers should expect an elaborate combination of originals and remixes, complete with live elements played through his continuously growing collection of launchpads, keyboards and Musical Instrument Digital Interface controllers. Though the young artist has gained mild success thus far in his musical expedition, Seafarer has been limited mostly to DJ sets at house parties or smaller venues. After perfecting all aspects of the live performance, the artist will seek a larger platform in the Midwest area to unveil his vastly anticipated live show. “I think that as my music comes out it will progress in many different ways,” he said. “Which is a really fun part of the process”

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(ST)Investigation: HPV is most common, but among hardest to detect by Meredith Head Hump Day Columnist

Globally, one sexually transmitted infection rules them all in terms of prevalence: Human Papillomavirus or HPV. Lovingly nicknamed “the common cold of STIs,” nearly every sexually active individual comes into contact with HPV at some point in their lives. Luckily, 90 percent of bodies work HPV out of their systems in eight to 13 months, but HPV can also hide for years without detection or symptoms. In fact, most people who have HPV are unaware of their status. HPV might also lie dormant for years before one develops symptoms. This timeline makes it difficult to ascertain when the infection was passed along or who may have shared the virus. Fortunately, most HPV infections are harmless. Media focus on HPV as the cause of cervical cancer, along with initial recommendations to only vaccinate girls against the infection, have framed HPV as an STI exclusively among those with vaginas. Most countries only fund HPV vaccines for “females” (their binary language, not mine), but many have approved the shot for “males”— except for Australia, which funds the HPV vaccine for teenage boys. People of all genders and sexualities, however, can carry or exhibit symptoms of HPV. Today, all genders are recommended to receive the HPV vaccine. Passing Along HPV Typically, individuals pass HPV along via prolonged and direct skin-to-skin contact. Vaginal and anal sex are the most common routes, though HPV may be

passed along through oral sex or from a mother to her baby in rare cases. Risk of testing positive for persistent HPV infections automatically increases if one smokes cigarettes or has a compromised immune system. Even when folks display no signs or symptoms of HPV, they can still pass the infection along to their partners. Using condoms lowers risk of HPV transmission significantly, but it remains far from perfect. Partners pass HPV along by means of skin contact, and condoms do not cover the entirety of skin vulnerable to HPV infection. Common items such as toilet seats and hot tubs do not have the capacity to pass along HPV. Symptoms Among over 170 strains of HPV, two types exist: “low-risk” and “high-risk.” Low-risk HPV causes warts located both on genitals and other parts of the body, while high-risk HPV results in precancerous lesions. These lesions increase risk of cancer of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, anus, mouth and throat. Indeed, HPV causes nearly all cases of cervical cancer. Despite these undesirable results, most people feel perfectly fine even once HPV begins to cause cell changes in the body. Remember that most cases of HPV are asymptomatic and work themselves out of the body within a year. Also keep in mind that STIs present no greater misfortune than other infections — negative public perception of HPV arises purely from the stigma our society attaches to sexuality.

Testing and Treatment Though doctors rarely perform HPV tests, they do conduct cervical testing in order to check for abnormal cells that accompany cervical cancer. People with vaginas can get a Pap smear, in which a doctor takes a peek at the cervix and scrapes a few cells off of its surface for testing. Research studies currently in the process of developing testing for general screening prove difficult, since testing is generally inconclusive and considered medically unnecessary. Doctors will, however, freeze warts off. In spite of HPV’s habit of clearing to undetectable levels, these screening procedures routinely save lives, at least in the developed world. In 2012, about 85 percent of HPV cases occurred in the developing world. The West is privileged enough to enjoy technology and medicine that hasn’t yet reached many communities all over the world.

show that the vaccine is more effective in younger kids than in older teenagers. The vaccines are delivered in three shots spaced out over six months and can be obtained from any healthcare provider: Gardasil is covered under most insurance. Those with SHIP insurance at University of Wisconsin can visit University Health Services for the shot, but without insurance the vaccine costs approximately $150 per shot. Individuals without any insurance can visit Dane County Health Department for a shot free of charge, but they must prove Madison residence. It is so rare that we have a vaccine for an STI — something concrete to protect against such stigmatized and misunderstood health issues. Yet people neglect to take advantage of this opportunity, believing the shot to be too troublesome or unnecessary given their gender. In the fight against HPV, we have a solid weapon for once — so get vaccinated.

Get Vaccinated! Unlike most other STIs, folks fortunate enough to have access to affordable health care can protect themselves against HPV by getting vaccinated. Vaccines currently available protect primarily against cancercausing strains of HPV. The most powerful vaccine available is Gardasil 9, which protects against nine types of cancercausing HPV. People of all genders have potential to carry HPV and should get vaccinated as soon as possible. Studies

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Wisconsin continues to find success in alumni hires UW football coach Paul Chryst was paid 43rd highest in 2015-16 season, but Badgers rank No. 8

by David Hayes Sports editor

There is something unique about the nature of Wisconsin athletics. It’s not the iconic “Jump Around” celebration after the third quarter at Camp Randall Stadium or the atmosphere of the Kohl Center for a Big Ten rivalry game — it’s that if you look on the sidelines, there’s a good chance several coaches, across multiple sports, went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And the Wisconsin athletic department shows no signs of deviating from its current formula of prolonged athletic achievement through previous Badgers and in-state coaching staffs. Look, for example, at the recent alumni coaches that were hired for the men’s hockey team. Wisconsin athletics are far from flashy, but the success of their results across numerous varsity sports has been unparalleled.

Wisconsin finds success on its own

After being hired this spring, Wisconsin men’s hockey head coach Tony Granato became the fifth head hockey coach to have attended UW-Madison and the seventh former UW System student head coach. “When I came here I knew I wasn’t just coming here to coach a team,” Granato said last month. “I didn’t realize all the things that come along with it, and every one of them is exciting. It’s being part of somethings that’s bigger than just coaching hockey; it’s being party of a community, a university and the city of Madison.” Granato isn’t the only former Badger who is part of the team’s coaching staff. He is accompanied by two new assistant coaches — his brother Don Granato and Mark Osiecki. “I get the opportunity to come back to the program that

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means a lot to me and gave me a chance to have a life after college,” Tony Granato said. “I never really left the program.” Wisconsin Athletic Department spokesperson Justin Doherty said there is a certain type of success that in-state or alumni head coaches bring to Madison that others who are not familiar with the program simply can’t emulate. “Take any organization, any school, any professional team, any company — you want people working there that want to be there, that are passionate about your organization, that are good fits for your culture and, in our case, this university, for the city, for the campus, for the athletic department,” Doherty said.

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The massive sum of revenues recently generated through college football and the bright lights of the national stage may lead some to believe that all head coaches are paid somewhere in the ballpark of University of Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh’s $9 million annual total — but this isn’t the case at UW-Madison. While the title of twelfth-highest revenue generating athletic program in country — with a grand total of nearly $124 million in 2014-15 — can carry a negative stigma, Wisconsin’s success on the field in different varsity sports is a financial feat unlike almost any other program in the country. Take, for example, Wisconsin football head coach and UWMadison alumnus Paul Chryst and the success of his Badgers compared to other football programs around the country. Chryst came into the 2015-16 season as the 43rd-highest paid coach among all NCAA Division I programs. Yet, his Badgers currently sit No. 8 in the College Football Playoff Poll. Chryst makes $2.7 million a year, the eighth-highest salary in a Big Ten conference that averages $3.28 million salaries for its coaches.

There are only four schools ranked in the top 25 that pay coaches less than UW-Madison pays Chryst, and Wisconsin is ranked higher than all four of them, with No. 17 Western Michigan University coming closest to the Badgers. When it comes to men’s basketball, Wisconsin’s triumphs are perhaps even more striking. According to USA Today’s list of NCAA men’s basketball head coaching salaries, head coach and UW-Platville alumnus Greg Gard is the 43rd-highest paid head coach among the 68 total teams that participated in this year’s March Madness Tournament. “It’s an honor and a privilege to be named the head coach at the University of Wisconsin,” Gard said in a statement announcing the hire. “I’m extremely thankful to Coach Alvarez, the Athletic Board and the Board of Regents for this incredible opportunity to lead my home-state program into the future.” Of the 68 teams that made last year’s post-season tournament, 20 returned to the AP Poll’s NCAA men’s basketball top 25 preseason list for 2016-17. With this season’s tipoff only weeks away, Gard and his Badgers head into the year as the No. 9 spot in the country. “I’m looking forward to building on the great tradition at Wisconsin and representing my home state in a manner that can make Badgers fans proud,” Gard said. Compared to these 20 returning ranked teams, Wisconsin boasts the lowest head coaching salary of all 20. Wisconsin’s Gard was also the lowest-paid head coach of all seven Big Ten teams to make the 2016 tournament, and the margin wasn’t even close. The next closest annual salary to Gard was the University of Iowa’s head coach Fran McCaffrey, who ranked 20 positions higher than Gard with an annual total that tripled Gard’s.

Doherty said having UW-Madison alumni as head coaches can help them make a unique connection with potential recruits, bringing up their own experiences on campus while they were students. This especially rang true when it came to hands-on knowledge of the school itself. “These [alumni coaches] are guys that can speak to that intimately because they have experienced it themselves, so I think just having had the same or a similar experience to what a future student athlete here might have just gives you a real leg up and a real boost to be able to speak from their own experience,” Doherty said. Nearly 50 percent of Wisconsin’s football roster is comprised of in-state players too. The most recent venture where Wisconsin strayed from this mold was when the football program hired Gary Anderson as its head coach in 2013. Anderson had success on the field, who won 73 percent of his games at UW-Madison, yet disagreements with the culture here quickly turned to conflict. Though there were other factors involved, the brevity of his tenure in Madison was in part due to a frustration with the school’s elevated academic standards for student athletes. Specifically, Anderson found

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UW-Madison’s refusal to budge on academic exceptions for competitive recruits who could not make the minimum scores expected for enrollment difficult to work with. Anderson decided to part ways with UWMadison before completing his second season with the Badgers to become the head coach of Oregon State University. Both Wisconsin football and basketball have made a living off developing talent through dedication and commitment over four or even five-year periods. Many other programs around the country cultivate athletic success through the consistent pursuit of immediate, high-powered talent acquisition, although most of the players that fit this kind of label often leave for professional leagues as soon as that becomes an option. But Wisconsin’s alternate approach has proved to be more effective at times. Look, for example, at the football team’s improbable victory over Louisiana State University. Or the basketball team’s triumph last year over the University of Kentucky, which had three of its freshmen leave for the NBA that year after getting drafted in the first round. While this opposing strategy has proven successful for numerous schools, Wisconsin’s alternate approach has shown its ability to be even more effective at times. There is something to be said about the longevity of athletic success Wisconsin has maintained in

recent years. UW-Madison alumnus and former Badgers men’s hockey star, Mark Johnson, has established one of the most dominant women’s hockey programs in the country at UW-Madison. Since taking over the women’s head coaching position in 2002, Johnson has a total record of 395-95-75 — he’s one close to 82 percent of his games. Johnson also comes from a family of Badger greats. He is the son of Hall of Fame coach Bob Johnson, UW-Madison men’s hockey coach from 1966-82. Through four different head coaches, Wisconsin men’s basketball has earned a spot in the last 18 “March Madness” Tournaments, while its football team has made 14 consecutive bowl appearances. UW-Madison currently holds the longest-active streak for most NCAA football bowl and men’s basketball tournament appearances at 14 years. At the moment, Wisconsin is also the only school in the country who can boast a men’s basketball, football, volleyball and women’s hockey team who are all ranked in the top 10. “They might be alumni, they might have played here, they might have lived here, but I think you can’t forget that in addition to that, they’re talented coaches,” Doherty said. “These are people that have been very successful wherever they have gone.”

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Consent, Amplified seeks to create safe musical spaces for all Paneled event to feature only women in order to give voice to those most affected, most often ignored in conversations about assault by Kristin Washagan ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Madison is home to a vast music scene, consisting of a variety of genres and venues ranging from The Orpheum to the High Noon Saloon to The Frequency. Music lovers in Madison are sure to visit at least a handful of shows — if not many more — throughout their time in Madison, whether they’re University of Wisconsin undergraduates or locals. For some, however, these concerts come with an added risk. Some, like Emily Mills, a Madison-based journalist, have observed the music scene and its various shows have proven to be not the safest space for women, gender non-conforming individuals and people of color. Concert attendees and musicians alike are subjected to many issues regarding equity, from issues of safety and harassment for fans at shows or unfair treatment for musicians at certain venues, Mills said. Enter Consent, Amplified, a project to be a part of an ongoing conversation on safety, equity and harassment and to try to actively change how the music scene in Madison addresses these issues of discrimination. Mills, one of the organizers and its mediator, said the project is split into two parts. One is a panel discussion, aimed as a presentation to actively discuss issues surrounding harassment and inequality and find concrete solutions. The other is an online survey for members of the Madison community to either anonymously or publicly share their own life experiences before and after the event takes place. Mills said the panel will consist entirely of women from different backgrounds in order to ensure women are at the forefront of the conversation about an issue that highly affects them. “There have been so many panels where there’s like a token woman, or a token person of color, and it’s usually a bunch of guys having this conversation,” Mils said. “[The event] doesn’t discount the experiences of people who are not [women], by any means, and I want everybody to show up and be a part of the conversation, but we’ve centered men’s voices for so long.” Scott Gordon, editor of Tone Madison

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and co-organizer, and Mills also sought to include a diverse assembly of women to include varying, unique perspectives and a more representative viewpoint of the crosscutting inequalities that affect individuals’ experiences in the same space. This event aims to be inclusive, by revealing inadequacies in safety and equity at music shows in regards to not only the perspectives of women and femme-presenting individuals, but also in regards to the unique experiences of gender nonconforming individuals and people of color. Through this, Consent, Amplified aims to provide a safe space for many individuals to share these experiences of discrimination, and acknowledges the importance of intersectionality, or the crosscutting of identities. “From just listening to these people tell me things over time, that the amount of harassment and misunderstanding that they face is much, much greater than pretty much anybody else,” Mills said. The panelists will also be Madisonians who are more than familiar with how the city operates in terms of its entertainment, Mills said. As moderator, Mills hopes to include the survey submissions, in order to both include participants in the conversation and to show that they’re not alone in their experiences, leading to a more open, safe space once the panel discussion ends and a Q&A session begins. This Q&A session provides a space for the audience to discuss and reflect on their own experiences, and center around people whose voices rarely are heard. Mills’ main goal as moderator of this event, however, is to not only facilitate

Photo · Many Madisonians attend concerts, some doing so at a risk to their mental, phsyical well being, Mills said. Photo courtesy of Emily Mills conversation, but facilitate openness and honesty. She wants people to feel comfortable sharing stories that might be traumatic in nature not only without fear of a negative response, but with the expectation of a positive one. “I want this to be a place where people can come and hear these stories and sort of commiserate and know that one, you’re not alone, two, it’s not your fault when this stuff happens to you and, three, that

we shouldn’t stand for it,” Mills said. “It shouldn’t just be the status quo that you just have to deal with when you’re at a show.” The discussion will take place on Nov. 15 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Arts & Literature Laboratory, a venue for many art exhibitions, discussions and even music events.

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Letter to the editor: Diversity Forum conversations should happen everyday Lack of communication led to insufficient amount of student attendance at meeting, missed opportunity to talk about important issues by Kaitlynne Rolling

As I walked up to Varsity Hall in Union South Tuesday morning, I was put into a state of discomfort — a state that I would realize was the theme of the day. As I peered into the room, I scanned the faces of the participants. I fell short of what I was eager to see. I did not recognize many student faces. I did not see my colleagues. I only saw faculty and community members. This is a Diversity Forum. This is the place to discuss the community and campus diversity, a discussion so layered that it needs to span from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. the next day. Why was I one of the few students there? Where were the people who are directly affected and experience everyday life on campus? I know students feel strongly about the matters discussed throughout the day, but why weren’t they there? Lack of communication. Students, community members and maybe even some faculty were not made aware of this crucial event, is my conclusion. I think this lack of interaction and communication with administrators on campus goes to show the relationship between them and us. We as students are distant and unable to communicate our opinions and ideas to the people who have the power to implement them on campus. An underlying tone I picked up on throughout the forum was communication. Why was it that I, a student who considers myself very involved with campus especially when dealing with diversity, have to go on a hunt to find the information about these events and discussions? Every student should have the opportunity to have information easily and effectively communicated to them. Maybe this event was so undercommunicated because it is for a group that already feel like they aren’t a part of campus — minority students. Students of color feel distant from the “Wisconsin Experience” we always hear about. This topic was brought up in one of the breakout sessions I attended, “Strategies for Resilience for Women of Color.” Now in this session, the energy was amazing. You have five strong women of color, from all over this country and the world, describing their experience with the University of Wisconsin. They all have been here for at least years now, and yet continue to stay. They have stayed because they recognized that Madison needed change, and continues to need change. These strong, resilient, adaptive women stayed, not because they felt like they belonged but because they want this change. In other breakout sessions, strong and

passionate speakers also had their moments to shine. Speakers like Brandi Grayson and Christopher Walker were not only necessary at the forum, but inspiring. Their voices may have been received as rageful and violent, but they weren’t. They were just voicing their experiences and opinions. The common stereotype of “angry black people” isn’t really anger. It is just perceived as anger due to passion. A white woman in the audience addressed this “rage” and brought up a quote from Michelle Alexander: “The rage may frighten us. But we should do no such thing. Instead, when a young man who was born in the ghetto and who knows little of life beyond the walls of his prison cell and the invisible cage that has Photo · People are, purposefully of not, having discussions about racist incidents that occur all too often on this campus against become his life, turns to us in bewilderment members of the minority community or women. and rage, we should do nothing more than look Joey Reuteman him in the eye and tell The Badger Herald him the truth.” This comment they will resemble each other. Why haven’t we was in response to Grayson, member of the people uncomfortable and end in tears. I am a mixed-race woman and I was on learned, as a country, to take a step back from panel, who was in her “preacher” mode and interrupted by a white woman in the back of the brink of tears at the end of the day, not our self-righteous ideology and listen? Just because I was uncomfortable, but because I listening is sometimes all you can do and all the room disagreeing with Grayson. At the was witnessing a conversation that needs to that is asked. end of her argument, she claimed Grayson At the end of the day, though, I left it on a as being racist because Grayson had called happen everywhere, not just with my friends positive note. I recognized I had more selfher out on her white privilege the instant this of color, and my other ally friends. This conversation I was waiting to happen with a examining to do, recognized that the campus woman interrupted her. has more work to do and recognized that Grayson then also dismissed the primarily white audience. These are conversations that have to communication and education need to be commenting audience member quoting happen, but people are not, purposefully or more of a topic. Alexander, with the argument of comfort. The I left the day tired, yet energized. Left argument that white people strive for comfort, not, having them. You don’t have to agree especially in situations and conversations like with what we’re saying, but you do need to it content, yet unsatisfied. The day was realize the importance of these words. Words emotional for all who attended, which proves this one. people of color, people within the LGBTQ to show how important days like that day are These conversations, ones that were likely community and women have been saying for this campus and community. to happen at the Diversity Forum, should be since the beginning of time. conversations that happen in our everyday If you compare the issues of today with Kaitlynne Rolling (kroling2@wisc.edu) is a lives, not only in our ethnic studies classes. those in the 1950s, with those in the 1800s, sophomore with an undecided major. They should be conversations that make 19 • badgerherald.com • November 8, 2016

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Future is in jeopardy if Wisconsin doesn’t plan for smarter education With few college-educated people moving here, economy producing low-skilled jobs, state is primed for challenging years ahead by Aaron Reilly Opinion editor

There is no question the recovery from the 2008 Great Recession has been sluggish, and Wisconsin has not been immune to this phenomenon. In September 2016 after eight long years, our state finally matched prerecession job levels. While this is a good sign, more good news is not in store. A recent University of Wisconsin Extension study found that with few college-educated people moving into our state and an economy that is generally producing low-skilled jobs, Wisconsin is primed for a challenging future. This is caused by, in my estimate, a lack of education funding and unpreparedness for Wisconsin’s and America’s economic future. The Center for Regional Development came out with a report in 2014 that illustrated the changing nature of the Midwest’s economy from 2000 to 2013. In Wisconsin, the sectors that had the highest employment gains were in natural resources and mining, education and health services and professional and business services. These industries increased by 45.1 percent from 19,085 to 27,693 Wisconsin jobs, 21.4 percent from 501,242 to 608,425 Wisconsin jobs and 21.3 percent from 246,687 to 299,130 Wisconsin jobs, respectively. Education and health services and professional and business services accounted for nearly 160,000 new jobs. These are service-based industries that require a college education.

Over this same time period, the biggest job loser was in manufacturing, where there was 23.3 percent job loss. This moved the total employed in that field from 593,539 to 455,399, a loss of nearly 140,000 jobs. The share of employees in Wisconsin working in manufacturing went from 21.7 percent of the workforce to 16.7 percent. This is just proof the nature of employment in Wisconsin is changing from a blue collar workforce less dependent on a college education to more of a skilled-based workforce. But we have not been preparing for this. The UW study notes, “Particular attention is paid to the notion of the ‘brain drain’ where it is believed that Wisconsin is disproportionately losing more highly educated people. We find Wisconsin suffers from the lack of a ‘brain gain’ or more highly educated people are not moving into Wisconsin at rates comparable to our neighboring peers.” So, our problem is not losing our educated people, it’s not getting particularly educated people to move to our state. If we cannot attract educated people into our state, we must educate our own state’s citizens. Since 85 percent of Wisconsin residents who enroll in a UW System school stay in Wisconsin, it’s a pretty safe way to increase the skills of the average Wisconsinite. The UW and UW Extension report makes a point to say that in Wisconsin’s future, there may be a skill mismatch and job polarization where every job will either require no secondary education or at least a bachelor’s

degree worth of education. But this is only due the workforce that is college-educated. This to the state’s current policies. alone may be concerning if the goal is to train What the study suggests, and I fully agree workers for stable, high-paying jobs with with, is analyzing more fully what the growth opportunities for advancement.” sectors in the state are, where specifically do we see these sectors of growth and how we Aaron Reilly (areilly@badgerherald.com) is a can incentivize our college students to go sophomore majoring in social work and economics. into such a field or work at such a place. This can be accomplished through surveys and open dialogues between high schools, twoyear programs, four-year institutions and Wisconsin businesses to get a sense of what employers need. One way to make this more appealing for students is through the implementation of sponsored education, where employers pay, either partially or entirely, for a student’s higher education. In turn, this student must work for the employer for an allotted amount of time. Not enough Wisconsinites with skills Photo ·Far from a “brain-drain,” the Badger state is experiencing a lack of is not the only problem. We “brain gain,” which means we aren’t attracting the same amount of talent need to make sure we have as our Midwestern peers. the right skills. As the study states, “Wisconsin does show signs of a troubled education Sarah Godfrey pipeline that has resulted in The Badger Herald a relatively small share of

Juvenile offenders deserve second shot to benefit society Wisconsin criminal justice system needs parole reform, especially people who committed crimes as children by Phil Michaelson Associate opinion editor

People who committed crimes before they could legally drive a car should not be spending the rest of their lives behind bars. There are currently 68 juvenile offenders serving life sentences in Wisconsin. These offenders are doomed from the beginning. Coming from a family with little structure and short on means, the children fall in with a bad crowd. And when they get into trouble, does the court system try to help them, rehabilitate them? No, they cast them away. Out of sight, out of mind. The unfortunate truth in all of this is that sometimes this trouble results in criminal convictions. To be honest, the criminal justice system 20 • badgerherald.com • November 8, 2016

should be trying its best to keep kids out of the system in general unless it is absolutely necessary to criminally try them in court. I’m not saying these crimes deserved to go unpunished just because the people who committed them were young. The fact alone that these crimes earned a life sentence in the first place paints a clear picture of just how heinous these acts were. But at the same time, the idea of spending the rest of your life in prison because of a mistake you made as a teenager sounds pretty brutal. I’m sure I’m not the only one who can say they’ve matured a bit since they were in high school. I’m currently only a junior in college, and I know for a fact that I’m far more aware of my decisions and the consequences of those decisions than I ever was even as a senior in high school.

This isn’t just my conjecture. Science has implied that a minor ’s brain is not fully developed, and a juveniles have a better chance of rehabilitation than adults. So after spending a few years in the clink, one would think this hypothetical teenager would have had a chance to mature mentally and would also be more rehabilitated than an adult in a similar situation. Yet, there are people in the Wisconsin criminal justice system who have been behind bars for crimes they committed years ago when they were only minors and may continue to stay behind bars for many years to come. The real issue in all this is the fact that the lack of people who are granted parole in state of Wisconsin is borderline criminal itself. Apparently, the number of prisoners granted parole dropped from 2,325 in 2000

to 172 in 2014. That’s more than a 90 percent decrease in just 14 years. First of all, Wisconsin needs to address this lack of parole granting. Whenever the state criminal justice system finally gets their stuff together, those eligible for parole who are serving large sentences for crimes they committed as kids should be first in line. At the end of the day, the criminal justice system in total could really use some work, but ultimately, the people in their 30s who have spent almost half of their lives behind bars for crimes they committed while they were teenagers deserve to get a second shake at life. Phil Michaelson (pmichaelson@badgerherald. com) is a junior majoring in biomedical engineering.

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Media often describe white shooters’ ‘brilliance,’ athleticism while As details unfold, bravery of victims coming forward using more derogatry, stereotypes when talking about minorities sends powerful message about combating rape culture by Yusra Murad Opinion editor

My heart sank twice late Monday night as I scrolled by a Facebook status linked to a story about a University of WisconsinStout student dying after a violent assault. It sank first for the life of the student, and second for the repercussions this would have on Middle Eastern students. The mugshot-like photo of the victim, a Saudi student, could prompt further profiling of Muslim students on the UW-Stout campus and potentially here at UW-Madison. It took me a moment to realize the face I was looking at belonged to the victim, rather than the assailant. The fatal assault claimed the life of Hussain Saeed Anahdi, a 24-year-old student from Saudi Arabia, who lost his life within a day of being found unconscious and bloodied outside a Toppers Pizza over the weekend. But when glossed over, grim headlines paired with a stoic photo of Anahdi’s face against a blue background, featured in dozens of articles, Facebook status’ and tweets, anyone could be fooled into believing they had just seen the face of the assailant. Media and journalism have yet to face their addiction to the character assassination of men of color. Disproportionately subject to hate crimes, police shootings and violence, black and brown men who are victims in these situations find themselves painted as the criminal in television segments and newspapers. If they cannot be referenced in the context of unrelated past crimes, news outlets seem to make a hobby of scouring the Internet for the most intimidating, hostile or “thug-like” photos of them they can get their hands on. Consider how a local Alabama news outlet ran their story about Derrick Varner, a 25-year-old black man shot and killed in Montgomery: “Montgomery’s latest homicide victim had history of narcotics abuse, tangles with the law.” Then there’s the Omaha World Herald piece on Julius Vaughn, a 19-year-old killed in Nebraska, whose mugshot from a prior arrest was used in a story days after his death, USA Today’s piece on Trayvon Martin’s history with suspension from school, a CBS piece titled “Michael Brown Struggled With Office Before Shooting,” among dozens of other articles referring to black victims in the context of their history with violence when it had no place in the moment of their death.

Perhaps this would be a bit more justifiable if it were a phenomenon observable for white victims as well — but of course that isn’t the case. In fact, white shooters are time and again described by their academic “brilliance,” athleticism and soft-spoken demeanor. In the wake of the Colorado theater shooting, US News published a piece titled “Colorado shooting suspect: People remember shy, funny, smart ‘Jimmy.’” Implicating violence and crime with men of color, even in the wake of their death, is an astonishing injustice. It seems as though even when they are killed — and wrongfully, at that — the media thirsts to keep them alive for a moment longer, just until they can shoot their reputation to death with them. Normalization of violence in the context of people of color normalizes violence against people of color, something UWMadison should have considered before their pathetic response to fans dressed as Republican nominee Donald Trump holding President Barack Obama in a noose at Saturday’s football game. Though these events in Madison and Stout seem entirely unrelated, they are painted with the stroke of the same brush. Using pleasant photos of white mass shooters is not necessarily wrong, but it is a fatal double standard. In the wake of the Boston marathon bombing, a USA Today piece justified a Rolling Stone cover featuring a grim photo of Jahar Tsarnev saying, “Americans need that picture and story. Because Jahar is what bombers look like.” When we consistently send the message that a brown or black face should warrant concern, we cannot be surprised by racial profiling at the airport or absurd stopand-frisk legislation in New York. When we imply that thick eyebrows or full lips are the face of danger, we would be foolish to wonder why Anahdi is no longer here. Perhaps it’s unfair, but journalists must be cognizant of the complexities of implicit bias and stereotype when they pledge to deliver the truth, untainted by personal opinions, ensuring to the best of their ability that readers will walk away with a full picture. And that means being extra careful when reporting on people of color. Because we can’t afford missteps. It’s costing lives.

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There are a lot of issues the University of Wisconsin campus community has been able to ignore. Up until mid-October, sexual assault was one of them. Since news of 20-year-old UW student Alec Cook’s alleged sexual assaults broke, we have been forced to acknowledge the pervasive role of rape culture on this campus. Cook was formally charged Oct. 27 with 15 counts of various charges, 11 of which were related to sexual assaults, along with two counts of strangulation and suffocation and two counts of false imprisonment. Since Cook’s initial arrest, increasingly horrendous details have surfaced, including the recovery of several notebooks detailing, officers said, “grooming” and “stalking” techniques for several women. One page of a notebook was released to the public, with the word “killed?” written at the top. Cook’s case is further evidence of the prevalence of rape culture on this campus and in our community. Even though this case is exceptionally horrific, the reality is that sexual assault is quite common. Association of American Universities data released in September 2015 shows that since starting at UW, almost 28 percent of women said they were sexually assaulted. But this time, victims have refused to be silent. After the first victim came forward in midOctober, four more followed, one explicitly telling investigators she felt “empowered” after learning another victim had reported to police. This is the kind of campus climate we should strive to foster, one that supports rather than doubts victims. The very basis of thoroughly investigating a crime after it’s committed comes down to believing the person who reported it. If police didn’t believe someone when he or she reported a robbery, there would be no point in reporting stolen items. But the reality is other crime reports come with the benefit of the doubt — from the police and the public.

Sexual assault still isn’t one of those crimes. Victims are too often met with suspicion. But in cases like Cook’s, where victims are encouraged and met with receptivity, we must continue to support and trust them. Unfortunately, UW has proven time and again that this support and trust for victims is not the norm on our campus. Of the 172 sexual assaults reported on campus in 2014, 87 percent were not investigated. From Jan. 1 to Dec. 4, 2015, there were 203 reports, but only 5 percent were investigated. Of these, some were reported confidentially to University Health Services, or other resources, which the university can’t follow up on. Other reports didn’t meet the required standard of proof, as reported by The Cap Times in 2015. While there are legitimate reasons that sexual assault cases cannot be investigated, the culture of skepticism and victim blaming will certainly influence who victims choose to report to, how investigators proceed and whether victims report at all. In the case involving Cook, the combination of exceedingly brave victims, cooperative police departments and university administration have assured support for victims and justice for the alleged assailant. The university in particular was quick to issue a statement announcing Cook’s suspension three days after police released the first report of sexual assault. While the narrative focuses on the atrocities of Cook’s alleged actions, let’s instead focus on the bravery of the victims who have come forward to report. There are other women on this campus that have not received the same support we’ve given to these victims and continue to be stifled by the pervasive rape culture here. Though we may never read other sexual assault victims’ stories or hear their names, their experiences are important, and we can foster a more positive campus climate for them by continuing to believe and encourage victims, whether they come forward or not.

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Letter to the editor: Shared governance students to shape campus Concept, in principle, means students are active participants in collaborative university decision-making process by Omer Arain

I want to start by saying University of Wisconsin is an extremely competent institution. I do appreciate the many educational opportunities and multitude of programming this university provides — not to mention the friends I have made in my four years here. All the same, like any institution, UW has significant shortcomings that must be addressed. There are imperative issues like the prevalence of sexual assault on campus coinciding with multiple ongoing federal investigations of UW for their handling of sexual assault cases. It’s on every member of UW to be cognizant about these systemic, alarming issues. Then there are the less pressing concerns, like food preferences and prices in dining halls, that someone may like to improve, but cannot visualize how that is accomplished. The concept of campus community is certainly ambiguous, but no doubt incorporates the mutual pursuit of learning, respect for individual identities, sense of safety and active communication among members of the university, namely students, faculty, staff and administrators. Each stakeholder plays their irreplaceable role in advancing the mission of university and so their interests must be considered and reflected in decision making. Students have a right, uniquely enshrined in state law, to shared governance and a free right to organize. Though the actual language was diminished in the last state budget, shared governance, in principle, means students are active participants in the collaboratively-designed university decision making process. Just as faculty should retain primary control over their research and curriculum, students need some autonomy to shape their campus experience. In practice, there are four shared governance groups — students, faculty, academic staff and university staff — that all have established governance structures to advocate on their behalf. Because who better to define what students need than students themselves? Grueling all-nighters at Helen C. White College Library are no thrill, but at least students once advocated for creating that agonizing, though sometimes necessary, 24-hour study space. When 333 East Campus Mall was built, students championed the inclusion of a grocery store that could serve the central campus area, leading to Fresh Market. Whether it is directly apparent or not, previous efforts by students have helped shape the campus around us. The role for shared governance is simply demonstrated in the recent contention regarding the university planning to upend Red Gym space for an Amazon package pickup location. The strong sentiment against this decision was not recognized by the university because students,

faculty, staff and units of the Red Gym were not actively involved in the considerations. With that spirit in mind, an Associated Students of Madison response and letter from UW’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, among other things, strongly urged reconsideration — and the location consideration was then revoked. Decades of shared governance advocacy at UW nets over 200 students on 70+ campus committees that collect stakeholder input and influence university decision making. They may be reviewing documents, negotiating with administrators, or simply engaging in informed conversation on improving campus life. These committees range across nearly all corners of campus: the Wisconsin Union, campus transportation, University Health Service, libraries, misconduct panels, advisory committees for deans and provosts and RecSports, just to name a few. Currently, two Photo · Decades of once state-ordained policy has resulted in UW netting changes in Wisconsin Union, campus transportation, UHS, students sit on the search libraries, misconduct panels, advisory committies, among many others. committee, which selects candidates to interview for Riley Steinbrenner the next chief of the UWPD — a standard process for The Badger Herald hiring any administrator, including the Chancellor. Wisconsin Union, UHS and RecSports to the initiatives that, if deemed successful, would Ad hoc groups are constantly created to address Chancellor. The university’s first food pantry, The become permanent fixtures on campus. specific events on campus. Open Seat, was created just last year. With or without changes in state statute, With roots dating back to addressing a typhoid The spirit of shared governance is not limited to shared governance is something of a robust epidemic in 1910, student fees are a mechanism the institutional mechanisms of budget allocation culture or set of norms. There is a mandate that to cover significant components of campus and representation. Grassroots advocacy in ASM students actively shape and improve the campus programming and student services not otherwise — through Sustainability, Equity & Inclusion and experience of the future. provided by the university. State law empowers Legislative Affairs Committees — are constantly Shape it we will — now more than ever. students to allocate nearly $50 million in student advocating for student interests, whether that Perhaps the silver lining in what seems like fees through the ASM — the shared governance be supporting marginalized communities or unending consecutive weeks of tension and body for students. lobbying legislators on the upcoming state disunity is that we are uniquely motivated to Student segregated fees now cover services like budget. make a difference. grants for student organizations, the bus pass, Currently, the Sustainability Committee is disability services and the Rape Crisis Center. retooling the Green Fund, which will make Omer Arain (oarain@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring ASM’s Student Service Finance Committee $50,000 in grants available for sustainable in political science. reviews and recommends budgets for the

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No. 1 Wisconsin sets record in weekend shutout of Bemidji State Desbiens now holds the NCAA career shutout record Sunday with her 44th career save and secured two more big wins by Kristen Larson Beat Writer

With their second weekend at home in the books, the No. 1 University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team victoriously slid past the Bemidji State University Beavers, sweeping them 5-0 and 6-0. This weekend’s sweep was predominately due to the efforts of Wisconsin goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens. Desbiens not only earned two more shutouts this weekend, but with her 44th shutout Sunday, officially clinched the NCAA career shutout record of 43. Desbiens blocked 36 attempts at goal this weekend, helping her team remain scoreless through six intense periods of play. She also managed to hold down the net while the Badgers killed nine penalties between the two games.

This accolade for Desbiens will complete a phenomenal series of accomplishments that the Badger goaltender has made since coming to Wisconsin. It is not something that Desbiens had planned from the beginning, and it is still something that shocks her when she looks back at it. “It’s kind of impressive,” Desbiens said. “It not something I would have thought about when I got here four years ago.” Desbiens’ team couldn’t be more proud of her at this moment, especially her head coach Mark Johnson. Johnson took a few minutes to compliment his star goaltender on her efforts. “Last year was a real special year for [Desbiens] as an individual,” Johnson said. “She did things that I’ve never seen

in the game of hockey from a goaltending standpoint. Again, I credit her for not living on her laurels this past summer and continuing to work. She’s got bigger things ahead of her, and so she continues to work and continues to stay focused, she’s got a bright future.” Of course, Desbiens had a tough road to get to this accomplishment. Just this weekend alone, Desbiens defended nine penalty kills, which isn’t the usual number that she is used to facing on a weekend, and made it tough to secure two more shutouts. To help secure her net, Desbiens relied on both the Wisconsin penalty kill unit and on her defensive unit to help her out during these intense times. With penalties becoming more common in women’s hockey this season, senior defensemen Jenny Ryan knows that penalty kills are one of the most important things the

Badgers need to work on. “We take pride in our penalty kill, and we’ve worked really hard on it,” Ryan said. “We try to play off each other, and we know where the other ’s going to be. Ann takes charge back there, and we can count on her to do more things than a normal goalie would do.” Despite incredibly high preseason expectations as number one, the Badgers have stepped up to the challnege and are dominating their schedule. Look for Desbiens to set more records going forward as one of the best in the sports in her final year. The No. 1 ranked team gets to take a break from playing for a week. Their next series against the University of Minnesota-Duluth is Nov. 18 in Duluth. Until then, the Badgers have a lot to celebrate.

Badgers split NMU series 1-1, continue dominant start UW’s prolific offense is held to two scores as they fall 5-2 but rebound in 2-0 win Sunday against Wildcats to reach 5-3 by Ben Pierce Beat Writer

Coming off a successful 2-0 road trip in New York, the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team were stifled by a hungry Northern Michigan team Friday before battling back to even the series 1-1 Sunday. The Wildcats (3-6-1) jumped on the Badgers (5-3-0) 33 seconds into the opening period of Friday night’s game to score their first of five total goals. The Badgers answered ten minutes later when star freshman forward Trent Frederic took it himself from center ice to net a top-shelf power play score to put Wisconsin on the board. The Wildcats scored three unanswered goals after Frederic’s effort, shutting the Badgers out in the second period. Northern Michigan set the tone physically from the opening face-off, allowing their defense to hold the prolific Badger offense to just one score through two and a half periods. Head coach Tony Granato said postgame the team missed some important chances. 23 • badgerherald.com • November 8, 2016

“We couldn’t capitalize on our chances,” Granato said. “We had some power play chances at pivotal points of the game where we could’ve got back in the game and didn’t.” The Badgers final goal of the game came on a penalty shot after sophomore forward Seamus Malone was hooked on a breakaway following a steal from Wisconsin’s blue line. Other than Frederic and Malone’s individual efforts, the previously-prolific Badger offense could not seem to get past the brick wall led by Northern Michigan’s sophomore goalie Mathias Israelsson. The young goaltender had an impressive 34 saves and held a Badgers team who has averaged 4.3 goals a game to just two scores. Wisconsin’s goaltender made some plays too, but not the kind anyone wants to be remembered for. Five minutes into the second, following the Wildcats third straight score, freshman goaltender Jack Berry replaced the struggling Matt Jurusik who allowed four scores in his 25-minute stint on the ice. Jurusik started almost every game last season as a freshman, but slowed down with a tough schedule in the final

stretch of the year. Doubts over his status at the starter didn’t begin until the season began this year, and is certainly a headline to follow going forward. “I’m fine,” Jurusik said. “Next time I get the net I’ll be better.” Jurusik’s younger replacement, Berry, kept the Badgers in the game, shutting down all six Wildcat shots on the net and giving the coaches a decision to make regarding the starter for game two. “That’s not an easy situation to come in because if you give up another goal the games over, and he’s done it twice for us against good teams and gave us that chance,” Granato said. “We’re going to make a decision on whether or not he’ll start tomorrow. There’s a good chance he’ll start.” The Badgers took another loss as senior forward Grant Besse slammed into the boards after willing his way to the net in effort to get his team going. “Obviously, he hit the boards hard, and that’s a scary part of the ice,” Granato said. “You’re going to the net, you’re off balance a little bit and you get bumped. There’s not a whole lot of chance to recover, so hopefully it’s not too bad.” A frustrating night and a key injury

will prove to be a real test for this young Badger team. Despite the loss in injuries and the scoreboard, the resilient Wisconsin squad rallied and took down NMU Sunday behind a shutdown defensive effort. Berry stepped up in his first career start and recorded 22 saves on the day. Regular suspects sophomore forward Luke Kunin and junior forward Cameron Hughes notched two to give the Badgers the lead before dropping back and securing a huge win for the team. Granato has done an unbelievable job this season as a new coach with a young team that finished last in the Big Ten a year ago. While the squad has yet to play any games in conference, the non-conference slate has produced some impressive wins that bode well for the later part of the year. Wisconsin now takes an extended break, waiting to play Merrimack University at home on Nov. 18 and 19. The Badgers will look to keep the momentum going with another tough foe in front of the home crowd of the Kohl Center.

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Badgers fall short in Big Ten tournament before NCAA event Despite strong showing in later part of the season, UW was unable to build solid offense to propel them through to promised land by Nolan Beilstein Beat Writer

When the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team took the field for the first time in the 2016 season, something was different. The team that won the regular Big Ten Championship just a year ago was missing something. That something, or some things, was seven starters. Graduation was not kind to the Badgers last spring, leading many to believe repeating the feats of last season would be a long shot. Wisconsin started the season off on the right foot taking the first game against Illinois State University, 1-0. The unlikely hero in the victory was freshman forward, Dani Rhodes. In her first game as a Badger, Rhodes scored Wisconsin’s first goal of the season 2:21 into the game, which eventually proved to be the game-winner. The Badger offense was held in check for that game and scoring struggles would loom over Wisconsin as the season went on. After their 1-0 season opening victory, the Badgers went on a five-game winless streak, which gave them a record of 1-2-3 with only four goals in the fivegame span. Even without a great start, Rhodes picked up on the team attitude that seemed to spread through the locker room and transferred to the field. “We were really resilient this year,” Rhodes said. “No matter what, our team never got down on ourselves and we always pushed and always wanted to be better. We were able to come together.” Maybe it was the Badgers’ lack of scoring, but it is entirely possible that the schedule had something to do with Wisconsin’s early struggles. In both nonconference and Big Ten play, the Badgers faced numerous ranked opponents including No. 1 Stanford University, No. 5 Notre Dame University and No. 22 University of Minnesota. Despite the difficult schedule, Wisconsin stayed in every game, not losing a single match by more than one goal and eventually started to gain momentum and get in a winning rhythm. “I was really happy with their progression,” Paula Wilkins, Wisconsin women’s soccer head coach, said. “The early games against Notre Dame and Stanford really helped us evolve. This team always trusted the process and what we were trying to do.” Winning their last two non-conference

games in shutout fashion, Wisconsin went into Big Ten play with a record of 3-2-3. The Badgers started conference competition 1-2-1 in their first four games losing to No. 16 University of Penn State and tying No. 19 Ohio State University. That stretch would be the last difficult stretch for Wisconsin. The very next game, the Badgers took to St. Paul University and bested thethen No. 8 Minnesota Golden Gophers, winning 1-0 in overtime on another Dani Rhodes game-winner. For the rest of the regular season, Wisconsin did not lose a game. A big role in UW’s seven-game lossless streak in which they went 4-0-3 was goalkeeper Caitlyn Clem. Having played every minute this season, Clem recorded a phenomenal season. Allowing an average of .77 goals per game, Clem posted a .795 save percentage along with 62 saves and eight shutouts. Four of those shutouts from Clem came during the streak. Another key component in Wisconsin’s success came with senior midfielder, Rose Lavelle. Prior to the start of the season, Lavelle was named the number one player in the country by Top Draw Soccer. Lavelle led the team in goals with five and was second in assists with four. Tied with fellow senior midfielder, Micaela Powers, with 14 points, Lavelle rattled off 69 shots this season, which is 30 more than any other player on the team. Lavelle’s 29 shots on goal also lead the team. “Being one of the best players in the country, if not the best, she stepped up as a big leader,” Rhodes said. “She had the motivation that we always needed to have.” The Badgers earned the five seed for the Big Ten Tournament after defeating then-No. 23 Rutgers University at home. Wisconsin would see the University of Michigan Wolverines in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. In their previous meeting this season, the Badgers forced a 1-1 tie in Ann Arbor when Michigan was ranked 25th. The game went into overtime tied at one apiece and would have to go to penalty kicks to decide the winner. In the shootout, Wisconsin eventually fell to the Wolverines 4-2, resulting in elimination from the Big Ten Tournament. In a surprise turn, the Badgers got

Photo · Wisconsin had a good year, but was unable to get over the expectations of last year’s dominance and lost early in the conference quarter final. Jason Chan The Badger Herald a bid to the NCAA tournament Monday for the first time since 2014. UW-Madison will host in-state rival Marquette University in the first round at home on Friday. “We’re training as we normally would be,” junior forward Sydney McGinnis said. “We’re in the mindset right now that we’re going to make the tournament. I think it’s important that we are maintaining that sense of readiness.” The game with the Golden Eagles kicks off at 7 p.m. at McClimon Soccer Complex in Madison on Friday.

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With the regular season in the books, the No. 20 University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team looks toward their second post season game, a match up in the Big Ten Tournament after beating sixth seeded Ohio State University 3-0 Sunday, a team they beat also 2-1 in their last home game Sunday. The Badgers dominated most of each game, scoring both of their goals in the first half and, while the Buckeyes had a rejuvenated second half, the Badgers countered and let up just a single goal in the final minutes. The impressive shutout of the Buckeyes at home on Sunday was a statement win for a Badger squad that is playing with house money this season. After winning only a single home game a year

ago, Wisconsin has long since surpassed that mark and doing it with a mostly underclassman lineup. Coming into last year ’s tournament, Wisconsin had only three wins and had a matchup with Rutgers in the first round, and lost 5-2. Due to the loss, the Badgers didn’t qualify for the NCAA tournament and ended their season short. This year has been much better for the Badgers, garnering a number three seed in the conference tournament and tying for a second place finish to regular season in the Big Ten. The Badgers will probably qualify for the NCAA tournament this year, but a good showing in their conference tournament could not only give them a better seed, but propel them forward with confidence. The Badgers made the National Tournament only two years ago, the first time since 1995 when they took home the national title. Wisconsin men’s soccer

has not been accustomed to postseason success and will look to set a new standard this year. The Badgers will look to keep their great defensive play going, the constant of their season that has kept them in or won most of their games. The leader of that defense is Sam Brotherton who was named Second Team All-Big Ten this week, an award he shared with teammates Mike Catalano and Mark Segbers. Christopher Mueller was awarded first team All-Big Ten, the 19th player in UW’s history to be named to the First Team. Freshmen Elan Koenig and Noah Leibold both were named to the All-Big Ten Freshman Team as well. The Badgers have surprised much of the Big Ten soccer scene this season, as they came in second place in the conference and nearly beat the two other top teams in the Big Ten. If the Badgers

can make a deep run in this tournament, they will likely have another chance at one of those teams, a win that could push them towards another run in the National Tournament. The Badgers travel to play Indiana University on Friday in the semifinals. One of Wisconsin’s standout performances this season came against the then-No. 4 Hoosiers only two weeks ago at home, tieing them 0-0. Defense will be a big factor that they’ll need to continue to be aggressive on if they want to knock off Indiana. With a strong showing last time, however, the squad has confidence that they can come out with an upset this week. The game kicks off in Westfield, Indiana at Grand Park on Nov. 11. The time and network to air the game have yet to be set and will be released later this week.

Nurse looks to form own legacy at UW behind large shadows The Nurse family has produced some of the best in college athletics, including the women’s hockey team’s senior point leader by Kristen Larson Beat Writer

When someone comes from a family of successful professional athletes, trying to find time in the spotlight can be difficult. Just ask University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team senior forward and current point-leader, Sarah Nurse. Many people might not know that Sarah Nurse is only one product of a family full of athletes, with Elijah Nurse playing for the Dundas Blues in the Provincial Junior Hockey League and Isaac Nurse playing for the Hamilton Bulldogs. The Nurse family roster also includes cousins Darnell Nurse, a defenseman for the Edmonton Oilers, Kia Nurse, who plays basketball for the University of Connecticut and Tamika Nurse, a former basketball player for the University of Oregon and Bowling Green State University. The Nurse kids didn’t just get their talent out of thin air. Richard Nurse, Sarah Nurse’s uncle, played in the Canadian Football League, and Cathy Nurse, Sarah Nurse’s aunt, played basketball in college. Sarah Nurse’s other 26 • badgerherald.com • November 8, 2016

aunt, Raquel Nurse, played basketball in college and would go on to marry former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. Sarah Nurse, who was recently selected eighth overall by the Boston Pride in the 2016 National Women’s Hockey League draft, will be the next of her family to join the professional sports world. Following the completion of her senior season with the Badgers, Sarah Nurse will be eligible to join the Pride for the 2017-18 season, or she may choose to enter free agency. The formation of the NWHL in 2015 allowed players like Sarah Nurse to continue playing the sport that they loved, while getting paid to do so. This new opportunity opened a new door for Sarah Nurse — one she had not considered in the past. “[The NWHL] is a very cool opportunity,” Sarah Nurse said. “I’ve seen so many players from here, so many of my friends that are playing in that league, and I think that it is just an amazing opportunity. It’s changed the way that I’ve looked at things. It’s still so new, and I am still learning about it, so we’ll see.” The senior Badger is also able to draw

upon the experiences that her cousin Darnell Nurse has had since joining the NHL in 2014. While there might be some fundamental differences between the NHL and the NWHL, Sarah Nurse still gets to see a glimpse of what being a professional athlete will be like. “[Darnell]’s having a great time in the NHL,” Sarah Nurse said. “He gets to see amazing places and gets to play in front of thousands of fans, and he’s really having a great time with that.” Darnell Nurse also knows how lucky he is to have such a talented family of athletes behind him, both to inspire him and to support him as he continues his successful career. Sarah Nurse talked to the Chicago Tribune last November about the benefits that come from being a part of such a driven family. “It’s great to kind of look around and know I have their support but to also be a fan of them,” Sarah Nurse said. “I’ve really been blessed to have not only the support but also have the ability to go out and see the people in my family do what they love too.” The many hockey players in her family inspire the Badger standout. With two younger brothers who also play hockey and a cousin in the sport as well, there

was always someone to look at for inspiration. Sarah Nurse said it is this kind of competition that not only allows for her to improve her game, but also keeps motivating her to do better. It is this family dynamic that helps to bring out the best in all the Nurse children. “We all want to be successful,” Sarah Nurse said. “We all want to be the best possible players that we can be. So if I see my brother doing something awesome, I am so proud of him but I also want to do the same thing.” Don’t think you’ll see all the Nurse children facing off against one another on the ice anytime soon, though. If this family full of accomplished players did finally get together to see who was the best athlete, Sarah Nurse said they would stay far away from the rink, just to make things even. “I think I would have us do something that none of us do because then true athletes come out,” Sarah Nurse said. “I would have us do something like volleyball, something that nobody does, so that we’re all starting with a blank slate”

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DIVERSIONS

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THE LEAP YEAR GAMES

DIVERSIONS

JOSH DUNCAN

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Editor’s note: This week’s crossword is a correction from last week’s issue. ACROSS 1 “Come again?” 10 They’re put in for work 15 Brand whose first commercial featured a cable car 16 Large-scale detail 17 Trust issue? 18 “Bleeding Love” singer Lewis 19 Non-humanities acronym 20 When repeated, spouse’s complaint 21 Walter ___, Dodgers manager before Tommy Lasorda 22 “The Fox and the Hound” fox 23 Dish that often has pea pods 25 Medium for many 13-Down 26 Emmy-winning Susan Lucci role 28 “On the hoof,” in diner lingo 29 “Yeah, why not!?” 30 Kim Jong-un, for one 32 Gendered “Seinfeld” accessory 34 Shake off 36 Sticky stuff 37 Person with a lot on his plate? 41 [I find this mildly amusing] 45 Confederate 46 Rush, e.g. 48 Corners 49 Federal div. concerned with gas consumption 50 They may be settled over drinks 52 Burn 53 Shakes off 55 “If you ask me …,” for short 56 Give a Yelp review, say 57 Hometown of Columbus

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58 “Let’s do this!” 60 Secluded spaces 61 “Let’s do this!” 62 Yom Kippur War leader 63 America, informally DOWN 1 Took by force 2 Done for 3 Was on the cast of 4 ___ U.S.A. 5 Sr. stress source 6 Reznor of Nine Inch Nails 7 What blowhards blow 8 On end, to Donne 9 Concert needs, for short 10 Good for sledding, say 11 Gender-neutral possessive 12 Entertainment for general audiences? 13 Collection at the Musée d’Orsay 14 Nonactor with cameos in more than 20 Marvel movies

21 Playground comeback 23 ___ Fierce (onetime Beyoncé alter ego) 24 Certain grenade, for short 27 Batman? 29 “Neat-o-rific!” 31 Aquarium fish 33 People thinking on their feet? 35 Road sign silhouette 37 No-goodniks 38 Song that starts “Hate New York City / It’s cold and it’s damp” 39 Slowly picked up 40 Comeback 42 Battled 43 Model 44 Early Judaic sect 47 End 50 The Antichrist, with “the” 51 They may grab a bite 54 Lisbon lady 56 Beatles title girl with a “little white book” 58 Boring thing 59 Came down with

The Leap Year Games is a science-fiction action comic telling a contiguous story. This is page 5. You can follow this comic online at facebook.com/joshthecartoonguy and joshthecartoonguy.tumblr.com. Josh’s twitter handle is @josh_cartoonguy. November 8, 2016 • badgerherald.com •29

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