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GIVING UP THE GAME Student athletes face internal challenges when they are forced to leave the field. page 14

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University lacks full data on academic misconduct More than 150 cheating cases were reported to Dean of Students office in 2014-2015, but real number might be much higher by Anne Blackbourn Campus Editor

Each year, more than 100 students at University of Wisconsin are caught and reported for academic misconduct. While this number may seem small, an even larger percentage of student academic misconduct remains unreported and unaddressed.

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According to the Dean of Students Academic Integrity report, in 2014-15, a total of 148 students in 151 cases of academic misconduct were reported to the Dean of Students Office. Out of those 151 cases, 55 were College of Letters and Science students, 36 were engineering students and 30 were undecided. The number of cases of academic misconduct reported that year was disproportionately higher among male students, who accounted for 60 percent of the total number of incidents that occurred. Noreen Siddiqui, UW student conduct coordinator, said cases of academic misconduct are reported to the Dean of Students Office only if the faculty member is planning to make a sanction that will affect the student’s grade, or if the faculty member would like to file a formal reprimand for the student’s misconduct. Because only some incidents are reported to the university, the number of actual cases of student academic misconduct remains unknown. For example, a student may have plagiarized a piece of work for a paper, but a faulty member may decide not to report the incident because they believe the student did not intentionally try to be dishonest. The faculty member can choose rather to give a warning and allow the student to rewrite the paper, Siddiqui said. Under university policy, faculty are not required to report academic misconduct, Siddiqui said. But there is no way to track cases of academic

misconduct that occur if they are not reported to the Dean of Students Office, she said. “We know the reports that we receive are just a part of the misconduct that faculty are seeing. Unfortunately we cannot give an idea of what the full picture looks like,” Siddiqui said. The university is trying to increase outreach efforts to ensure faculty and staff are aware of their responsibilities to identify and report cases of misconduct, she said. This past fall, 77 cases of academic misconduct were reported, and this spring a handful of cases have already been reported as well, Siddiqui said.

A matter of student perspective, faculty action

Educational psychology associate professor James Wollack said academic misconduct is a big problem across the country. He said most commonly, cases include students working together on homework or tests, and incidents of plagiarism. In the 151 cases of academic misconduct that occurred in 2014-15, the top three types of academic misconduct reported included 55 cases of plagiarism, 48 cases of students inappropriately collaborating on assignments and 23 for students who used unauthorized materials in class. On at least two of the 23 cases in which students had been caught using unauthorized materials in class, two separate faculty members caught the students by taking pictures of them with their cellphones. Because the pictures were helpful in determining if the students had cheated, the Dean of Students Office has started recommending faulty members take pictures of students cheating if circumstances allow. Wollack said many incidents of student misconduct are solved long before they reach the Dean of Students Office, and there are plenty of incidents where the professor may choose to turn

a “blind eye” to academic misconduct to avoid the hassle of reprimanding a student. But Wollack said there are steps faculty should take to deter cheating in classes. “There are things instructors can do ... they can be talking about [cheating], they should talk about it in their syllabus — read through it prior to their exams just to make sure they [demonstrate they] have a zero tolerance policy,” Wollack said. But even if professors take the necessary steps to discourage cheating within the classroom, students may still cheat because their definition of what qualifies as cheating does not always line up with their professors’, Wollack said. Studies have shown some behaviors professors

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Katie Cooney The Badger Herald consider to be cheating do not line up with what students believe qualify as cheating. Wollack said this can be confusing for students, and they may not be able to determine the line between what is plagiarism and what is original work. Additionally, technology has given rise to a new set of problems. The Dean of Students Office recently received a report that students in a class were accessing online websites that advertised themselves as educational resources for students, when in reality they were providing tests and papers for students to copy and use, Siddiqui said. The alleged misconduct is currently being investigated, Siddiqui said. The university is currently looking at one particular website that has 347 university department listed that can the be searched by individual classes. Whether knowingly or unknowingly, such websites facilitate academic misconduct. UW plans to reach out to the authors of these sites and ask them to stop sharing tests and papers with students, Siddiqui said. Students who are reported and found to have committed a first offense of academic misconduct are required to pay $55 to take Raising Academic Integrity Standards in Education, or RAISE, Siddiqui said. RAISE is an online program meant to educate students against academic misconduct, Siddiqui said. Only introduced a couple years ago, in 2014-15, 123 students were assigned to take RAISE. “I think for [UW], we want to be focusing on not just what would be seen as a punitive outcome, but an educational one as well, that’s where RAISE allows us to be able to say that these are the expectations and make it very clear in writing [these are UW’s expectations],” Siddiqui said.

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UW professors examine how Americans understand science

Two faculty members to sit on panel to produce report on science literacy, evaluate how politicization of issues shape public’s perspective by Kayla Zacharias Science Writer

Due to controversy surrounding topics like climate change, evolution and vaccination, researchers and citizens alike are becoming increasingly concerned about science literacy. To figure out just how science literate the American public is, two University of Wisconsin professors are serving on a National Academy of Sciences panel, and helped produce a report on the current state of science literacy. The panel is using existing, peer-reviewed studies on science and health literacy to develop the report. They consider support for and attitudes toward scientific research, perception of the United States’ international standing in science, how science literacy in the U.S. compares to other nations, how science literacy has changed over time and more within their report. Following their results, the committee will make recommendations on how to improve Americans’ understanding of science. UW education professor, Noah Feinstein, and life sciences communication professor, Dominique Brossard, are members of the panel. “People use the phrase science literacy a lot and they make claims about what science literacy means and why it’s a good thing to be science literate, but there isn’t always a lot of evidence to back up those claims,” Feinstein said. “For instance, you’ll often see the claim that if people just knew more about science, they would be more supportive of aggressive policy on climate change. But in this country, there’s some evidence that the more educated you are, the more polarized you are about climate change, depending on your political affiliation.” Defining science literacy has proven to be a daunting task, and one that the panel will likely devote a large part of the report to, Brossard said. As for what prompted the study, even committee members are unsure. “We have some guesses,” Feinstein said. “We think that there were people in Congress who were curious about the relationship between what Americans know about science and whether they feel supportive of scientific research, but that’s just speculation.”

The source of that curiosity remains a mystery. Despite a recent surge in concern about science literacy, it seems support for research in the U.S. remains high, Feinstein said. A 2015 study by the Pew Research Center and the American Association for the Advancement of Science found that support for government funding of scientific research “tends to be widespread across the demographic spectrum.” According to the study, 74 percent of women and 68 percent of men said government funding of basic science pays off in the long run. Feinstein noted the politicization of

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scientific issues — like evolution, climate change and vaccination — may be the cause of increased concern over public support for research. “I think that there’s a lot of anxiety among scientists and decision makers that concern certain sections of the public about those issues, and the controversy over [them] is indicative of a larger trend,” Feinstein said. “So I think people look at the controversy over evolution and climate change and ask, ‘Wait a minute, does this mean that Americans don’t like science anymore?’” The panel has been charged with answering this question. To do so, they’ve

enlisted help from scholars with a wide range of expertise: scientists, theoretical physicists, doctors and experts in science and health communication. Panelists believe this will allow them to reach an objective conclusion on the current state of science literacy. “The final report has to be approved by all of us, which means I’m not going to be signing off on one piece and someone else on another,” Brossard said. “We all have to agree on all of it, so it really is a consensus report.” The report is expected to be published in early to mid-2017, according to a UW statement.

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UW professor trains tribal youth in digital media Summer camp empowers native adolesents to tell stories in their own voices, grows next generation of storytellers by Cadence Bambenek Reporter

A University of Wisconsin summer camp in northern Wisconsin teaches video and audio technologies to tribal youth, building on the oral tradition of storytelling to amplify native voices in the digital age. The idea for the Tribal Youth Science Media Camp hatched from a conversation. Aware of the lack of opportunities on reservations for young people, UW life sciences communication professor Don Stanley recalled similar programs attempted in several native communities out West and suggested starting something similar in Wisconsin to his co-worker, Patty Loew. Stanley noted that while native communities deeply value storytelling, some of the programs out West ran into difficulty because elders refused to be interviewed digitally. “[I thought,] is there a way that things could be done in a respectful way?” Stanley said. Teaching tribal youth how to tell stories through video has been an opportunity to respectfully tap into the rich tribal knowledge of elders and teach the youth translatable skills, Stanley said. Loew, a former journalist and member of the Bad River Band reservation, said she sees the media camp as uniquely successful because it engages community resources and tailors the program to serve the designated community’s expectations. For the last few years, the media camp has run for four weeks every summer in the Bad River Band reservation on the shores of Lake Superior, Loew said. The camp is the same for the first three weeks. Ten tribal youth, aged 14 and 15, spend a week learning how to write, shoot and edit video footage. They interview scientists and tribal elders on a topic that interests them, and then produce and share the resulting video with their community come at the end of the week, Loew said. For week four, Loew combines the camp with a UW Global Health Field course. She brings 10 undergraduate students to the reservation and pairs them with the media camp students. Together, the students explore a topic and create media together centered around health. The media camp blends traditional and scientific knowledge by teaching students about the science behind the natural world around them, and then encourages them to listen to the stories of their elders, Stanley said. The students begin to see an overlap and alignment between the two sets of knowledge, Stanley said. With these tools, the students can translate science through

their own cultural context and tell stories in their own voice. That’s a powerful ability, Stanley said. “Being able to tell your story in your own voice is incredibly important to getting people to understand and listen to you,” Stanley said. Beyond teaching kids video and audio skills, Stanley said the camp gives the tribal community a voice. Multimedia storytelling complements the Native American oral tradition by allowing students to tell stories visually and orally — an approach closely aligned with how they learn best culturally, Loew said. “[I want] to let them know there are different ways to communicate, there are different ways to learn and what they know and what the people around them know is just as valuable,” Loew said. Some of the students have taken the skills they’ve learned at camp and applied them in school, submitting video assignments in lieu of essays, allowing them to flourish in their classes, Loew said. In 2013, Loew took a sabbatical to work with three 14-year-olds from the Bad River Band. Concerned about an iron ore mine

Photo · The four week camp runs every summer in the Bad River Band reservation on the shores of Lake Superior. Ten teens learn how to write, shoot and edit their own video footage. Courtesy of Patty Loew proposed at the head of the Bad River, the three teenagers sought out to create a longer form documentary to advocate against the potential threat to nearly 75 acres of wild rice beds downstream from the proposed site of the mine. The students interviewed scientists, homeowners and tribal members to illustrate what environmental damage from the mine would mean for the community, Loew said. The documentary went on to be shown at more than 30 film festivals across the country and won several of them. Arizona State University even paid the students’ transportation costs so they could present their film at The Human Rights Film Festival in 2014. Before creating the documentary, Loew said one of the students who she saw a lot of potential in had, at the advice of their guidance counselor, intended on becoming an auto mechanic. “[But] somewhere between the beginning

of this experience and the end of it, the student decided that they weren’t going to become an auto mechanic, they were going to [go to college],” Loew said. After seeing this empowerment, Loew said she is committed to growing the next generation of tribal storytellers and scientists. Loew wants to see the native nations in Wisconsin serve as an epicenter for native communication around the country. She noted that the pieces are already in place. Each native community has their own media outlet, whether it is a newsletter, paper or radio station. But for now, Loew and Stanley are dedicated to working with tribes at a micro level — with their youth. “I see students empowered in this process, doing better in school and gaining confidence ... [they’re] flourishing,” Loew said.

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UW scientists compete for sustainable support through NASA funding Government organization gave $108,921 to several university space projects in 2014-15, including Venus Express EPO by Xiani Zhong Campus Editor

Hundreds of millions of dollars flow into University of Wisconsin each year for research on planetary and Earth sciences, as a part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s support to research institutions in the nation. According to Wisconsin’s 2014-15 Single Audit report, which came out in March, NASA dedicated a total of $108,921 to several UW projects, most of them from the school’s Space Science and Engineering Center. One of the projects is Venus Express Education and Public Outreach, which is dedicated to educating students about Venus’ atmosphere and its implications to cloud dynamics on Earth through an online application, Rose Pertzborn, space science education director at the Space Science and Engineering Center, said. Venus Express EPO is part of a larger project called Venus Express, an international mission the European Space Agency started more than a decade ago to study weather and

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climate patterns on Venus, Pertzborn said. UW scientists were among the 11 American scientists in the mission and received funding from NASA, she said. “Venus, with its damp atmosphere, is a really good example of the way greenhouse effects work,” Pertzborn said. “Due to the comparability to the greenhouse effect’s potential consequences here on Earth, Venus is a natural planetary laboratory to study that particular phenomenon.” Venus Express ended in December 2014, after receiving the last signals from the spacecraft, Pertzborn said. It received additional funding for another year, however, because a Japanese Venus mission, Akatsuki, was about to go into orbit when Venus Express ended, some scientists on Venus Express continued to work with the Japanese team to further gather data about the planet. Venus Express is lucky because it was a NASA-commissioned flagship mission that lasts for a long time, Kevin Baines, senior planetary scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center who also worked on the project, said. UW scientists usually write proposals to join those missions to secure

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funding for a long time. “Those missions last well over a decade and once you get selected, there’s a lot more guaranteed, so we all try to get on these missions because we have guaranteed support for many years,” Baines said. Getting funds from NASA, however, is no easy business, Baines said. If scientists want to do their own projects, there are mainly two ways they can receive money from NASA: through research and analysis proposals or individual, competitive space missions. The research and analysis projects usually take one scientist or a small team to draft a proposal and apply for around $150,000 a year from NASA, Baines said. Baines himself just submitted an initial proposal to use telescopes in Hawaii and New Mexico to get a wholesome view at Jupiter. Juno, the spacecraft on its way to Jupiter, will arrive in a few months, Baines said, and his team will submit a formal proposal in June. From a scientist’s point of view, $150,000 is not a big amount considering all the money that goes to management and bureaucracy in the school before it gets to the people actually doing the research, Baines said. “When you have three people on the team, it’s really not that much money when you throw out the overheads,” Baines said. “So many people don’t realize that typically when you write a proposal to NASA funding, you don’t just ask for your own salary, you don’t just ask for your own travel money, but you have to ask for twice as much money because of those overheads.” The second way to get money is from NASA’s space mission for planetary exploration, the Discovery program, Baines said. This program allows scientists from across the nation to submit proposals for whole space missions and only one team can win $400 million in funding. The opportunity comes every three to four years. NASA selects five finalists from all the proposals and goes through a thorough review process to pick out one lucky winner, Baines said. It can take up to three years to actually receive the money, he said, and the majority of the $400 million does not go to scientists, but to the project managers at NASA centers that help build the spacecraft. Therefore, scientists like him are constantly writing proposals and relying on NASA to support them financially. Unlike professors, who get 75 percent of their salary from teaching classes, scientists don’t have steady incomes from the university, Baines said. Baines said what the scientists at the Space Science and Engineering Center earn is “soft money,” which dries up if

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they don’t receive NASA funding. Then, they are basically out of a job, which is why he and his colleagues try to engage themselves in multiple projects, especially flagship projects like Venus Express. “It’s a very tough business, and luckily, most of us try to keep enough irons in the fire,” Baines said. “We were involved with other people in their proposals and running around doing enough different things that between them all, we do get the money that we need to survive.”

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Walker moves towards workforce development to fill skilled labor gap Some argue governor’s shift away from job creation will leave Wisconsin’s economy lagging by Vidushi Saxena State Editor

In hopes to “move Wisconsin’s economy forward,” Gov. Scott Walker has implemented more workforce development programs and shifted his focus away from job creation. But some say these actions are still not enough. The demand for skilled labor has increased among state employers, Department of Workforce Development spokesperson Ethan Schuh, said. Employers across the state have job openings, but cannot find qualified workers to fill them, he said. Schuh said Walker’s initiative to move toward expanding workforce development programs instead of focusing on job creation would help meet this demand. “Under Walker’s vision and leadership, at DWD, we have redoubled our focus on talent development,” Schuh said. “We are more focused than ever on ways we can develop the talent needed to keep Wisconsin employers competitive.” But some legislators have argued in Walker’s increased focus on workforce development programs, job creation initiatives have fallen to

the wayside.

Creating programs to develop talent

Schuh said Walker has collaborated with a number of organizations to create more workforce development programs in the state. One such program, the Youth and Registered Apprenticeship program, was created in collaboration with DWD and targets high school students. These students partake in “hands on learning” at a worksite alongside normal classroom instruction, Schuh said. Another program called Wisconsin Fast Forward works with higher education institutions including those part of University of Wisconsin System. It provides grants to businesses and workforce training organizations so they can train students and workers to develop useful skills, Schuh said. A bill Walker signed April 5 will also increase funding for workforce development programs in Wisconsin. It will give DWD more flexibility to fund programs it thinks need the most funds and have the highest demand. Walker said in a statement that this would allow programs to continue outside the budget cycle as well. “The future of Wisconsin’s workforce and

economic success depends on our youth,” Walker said. “To ensure Wisconsin maintains a strong workforce, we continue to invest in programs like Youth Apprenticeship, which provide our students with hands-on training in high-demand fields, like manufacturing.” Walker’s college affordability package has a law that requires the DWD to make more internship opportunities available to students. In an earlier statement, Walker said students represent Wisconsin’s “future talent pool” and the law will allow them to try working in their field of choice. He said it will help them develop professional skills, network and learn tactics to be more successful in the future. Schuh said some programs, such as Wisconsin Promise and Project SEARCH, under DWD’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation also accommodate and train people with disabilities. “These talent-development programs will ensure that Wisconsin has the workforce needed to thrive not just in the U.S., but in the global economy,” Schuh said.

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development programs, Democrats in Wisconsin believe he is not doing enough. Assembly minority leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said Walker has an “abysmal record” on job creation. Because of this, Wisconsin’s economy is lagging, Barca said. Barca said it is important legislators focus on both job creation and workforce development instead of forgoing one for the other. He said the two “go hand-in-hand” and are priorities for Democratic legislators. This past legislative session, Assembly Democrats initiated the Economic Opportunity Agenda, which focuses on both job creation and workforce development through job grants, minimum wage increments, tax credit provisions and small businesses. It encourages buying local and from small businesses, thereby stimulating the state’s economy and growing jobs and workforce development, Barca said. Barca argued Walker should be doing more to create jobs in the state. “The governor shouldn’t be throwing in the towel on job creation — he should be working with [Assembly Democrats] on improving economic opportunity for workers and families across our state,” Barca said.

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Walker signs bill cutting $7 million from energy efficiency program Program encourages renewable projects for businesses, homeowners while proponents said it will save companies money by Emily Hamer State Editor

Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill into law March 30 that will result in a $7 million cut to Focus on Energy, a statewide energy efficiency program. The cut will save energy companies money, but opponents say that Walker’s actions follow a trend of disinvestment in renewable energy in Wisconsin. We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service — which is owned by We Energies — and Alliant Energy will all save $2 million per year, Matt Landi, a Clean Wisconsin science and policy associate, said. While the aim of the law is to save money, Landi said the loss of funding for Focus on Energy will result in a net loss of money for Wisconsin. Andrea Hansen, Focus on Energy spokesperson, said Focus on Energy is one of the most cost effective programs in the country. For every $1 that is spent on Focus on Energy, $3.33 is returned back to Wisconsin in the form of customer savings from using renewable energy sources, Hansen said. “At one point, Wisconsin was really a front runner in leading on the national landscape, the charge in energy efficiency and renewable energy progress,” Hansen said. “To have this [cut] be a blow for the program is really tough.” The $7 million cut is about a 7 percent cut to Focus on Energy, Tyler Huebner, RENEW Wisconsin executive director, said. If Focus on

Energy could still use that money, it would leave to around $60 million in energy bill savings over the next 10 to 15 years, he said. Focus on Energy installs energy efficient and renewable energy projects for homeowners, Hansen said. They also help provide engineering expertise and financial incentive to encourage businesses across Wisconsin to implement energy efficient practices. Lucas Vebber, environmental and energy policy director for Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, said the law fixes a problem where companies once had to pay into the Focus on Energy program twice. Electric companies sell power to other suppliers who then resell that same power to residential customers, Vebber said. Electric companies had to pay into Focus on Energy for both of those sales, even though it was the same power. Under the new law, companies now only have to pay into the program when selling power to consumers, not to each other. Landi said this cut comes at a bad time given the climate change conversation happening in the country right now. He said this lack of support for Focus On Energy sends the wrong message. “What it ultimately does, is send businesses and companies that are in the industry of providing renewable energy management services and renewable energy technologies … the wrong signal that Wisconsin isn’t supportive of their industry,” Landi said. Landi said this continues a trend of lack of

support in Wisconsin for renewables, pointing to the opposition toward the Clean Power Plan, which would work toward cutting back on carbon emissions. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to temporarily block the plan in February. Vebber said the costs of the Clean Power Plan would be too great. If the Clean Power Plan is implemented, it would result in tens of thousands of jobs lost, he said. Huebner, however, said investing in Focus on Energy can create jobs. He said Focus on Energy is driving up Wisconsin’s economic value. “We think it’s a little short sighted that [lawmakers] would cut this program at a time when our economy is still struggling and this is a proven way to increase jobs,” Huebner said. Focus on Energy creates around 2,000 jobs per year, Hansen said. Hansen said Focus on Energy is trying to figure out what the ramifications of the cut will be. She said the group is working to minimize its effects. “We’re going to continue to do our best to ensure that people across the state of Wisconsin can continue to take advantage of the program,” Hansen said.

Photo · The legislation will result in about a 7 percent cut to the state program, Focus on Energy. Katie Cooney The Badger Herald

UW freshmen entrepreneurs encourage students to ‘Smile On’ More than just a clothing company, founders said Smile On is a lifestyle choice, promotes student positivity on campus by Danielle Schmitz Reporter

Four University of Wisconsin freshman are looking to give back to their community and promote happy and healthy lifestyles through their startup and hope to put smiles on people’s faces in the process. Their business, Smile On Clothing, works to spread a positive message to students in addition to giving back through selling clothing. Matthew Schlidt, Smile On founder, said he began Smile On in October 2015 with the hope it would help to spread good energy around campus. The name Smile On was chosen as a way to encapsulate that message. Schlidt originally started Smile On completely on his own before enlisting the help of his brother, Joey Schlidt, and two of their friends. All the members of Smile On are currently freshmen at UW who are studying business. Smile On refrains from assigning anyone titles 10 • badgerherald.com • April 12, 2016

so that all members are equal and everyone works together collectively as a team, Matthew Schlidt said. So far, Smile On has created two t-shirts, a long sleeve pocket t-shirt and a women’s black racer-back workout shirt. Smile On has already managed to sell about 500 shirts, Matthew Schlidt said. As part of their positive lifestyle message, 10 percent of the profits Smile On makes goes to the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin to provide dental care for adolescents who do not have the resources for what they need, he said. Timmy Bishop, a Smile On member, said he joined Smile On because he felt that the positivity that the company promotes matches his own mindset in life. “We don’t just say we are a t-shirt company,” Bishop said. “We are a lifestyle choice and we want to represent this message through any way. The goal is to spread it as far as possible, impact as many lives as possible and create a sustainable business in the process.” One of the ways Smile On is working

to promote happy and healthy lifestyles is sponsoring events on campus. The group will host a yoga event outside of Gordon Dining and Events Center April 24 in conjunction with Breathe for Change, Matthew Schlidt said. Charles Jessup, a Smile On member, said while Smile On is currently only supporting the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin through donations, in the future, he hopes to be able to interact with some of the children they help and foster a deeper connection with the community and the kids themselves. In addition, Smile On is also hoping to plan organize a 5K run to encourage better lifestyles for students, Joey Schlidt, a Smile On member, said. “A lot of people love the message and what we have noticed is that people seem really happy wearing our clothing and once they understand the company, they are promoting this happy, healthy lifestyle,” Joey Schlidt said. Smile On hopes to continue to expand beyond Wisconsin to other campuses. The company is working on creating a campus

representative program so that students from campuses across the U.S. can host a branch of the Smile On company, Joey Schlidt said. Both Joey and Matthew Schlidt are currently leaning toward finance and real estate majors. Apart from Smile On, both serve as co-marketing directors for the student organization Madventures. Bishop plans to major in marketing and entrepreneurship. He is currently involved in club basketball and Humorology, a club that performs musical productions to raise money for charity. Jessup also plans to major in entrepreneurship and is thinking of double majoring in marketing. He also participates in Madventures. “To me, Smile On means trying to spread smiles and really present positivity no matter what your positions are,” Joey Schlidt said. “Smiles are super contagious and we think we can spread that and promote happiness around campus.”

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For Madison-based platinum producer, hip-hop is more than just music Pacal Bayley, also known as DJ Pain 1, fully immerses himself in city’s music scene, education, activism For multi-platinum producer Pacal Bayley, making his own music, educating kids and helping promote hip-hop in Madison are all part of the same process. Bayley, who might be better recognized by his artist name DJ Pain 1, is a lifetime Madison local and also an University of Wisconsin alum. As a result, he has been able to bear witness to and participate in all of the challenges and surges that hip-hop has seen in Madison throughout the years. Bayley first started making his own music when he was in the eighth grade. He recounts listening to music all his life, but was particularly enamored with hip-hop. He first began making his own music when he realized his friend’s keyboard could be used to make hip-hop music. In the years that followed, Bayley continued to make music, but never believed it to be something he could seriously pursue as a career. “I never thought it could be a viable career path for me until I suddenly realized it could be,” Bayley said. This moment of realization came when Bayley’s manager told him that a production of his would appear on rapper Young Jeezy’s 2008 project The Recession — an album that Bayley said was able to catch the tail end of hip-hop, as it sold millions of copies worldwide. For Bayley, being a part of an album that was an international triumph was a good

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enough indicator that making music was something worth further pursuing. Nowadays, Bayley continues to collaborate with artists such as Sole or Royce da 5’9” and release solo projects. Making music, however, is far from the only thing that occupies Bayley’s time. As one of the founding members of the non-profit organization, Urban Community Arts Network, Bayley works with others to help professionally develop Madison’s hiphop artists. He also uses hip-hop as a tool to help educate Madison youth. Collaboration plays a large role for Bayley. Through organizations like UCAN, Bayley works with teachers at schools throughout Madison at every level of education. At Lakeview Elementary School, he is teaching hip-hop and mathematics classes. At Madison West High School, where Bayley attended, he assists in teaching a hip-hop studies course. Since he works 10 hours a day most days, these various projects definitely keep Bayley’s life busy, albeit interesting. For him, it’s more layered than just time consuming, since it would be impossible for him to educate without also making music.

“If I had never made any music on any sort of successful level, I wouldn’t be qualified to provide education on the subject,” Bayley said. Another effort of Bayley’s, as well as that of UCAN, is to provide Madison’s hiphop artists with the resources they need to succeed, even in spite of the challenges that Madison may present. These challenges, Bayley said, are largely due to hip-hop being de facto banned in Madison, such as police wanting to break up artists’ concerts or venues being reluctant to book a local hip-hop act. Bayley said these issues go much deeper than just being about hip-hop, and have much to do with conceptions about race and status in Madison. “The real conversation about the real root of the problem still hasn’t happened,” Bayley said. “Until that conversation is had by all necessary components, the unfortunate situation we have now is never going to change.” Reflecting back on past negativity that is still relevant today, Bayley also uses his own positive experiences in Madison as a budding artist to help current ones. At 15 years old, Bayley attended the nation’s first ever national hip-hop conference, “Hip-hop is a movement,” which was held and organized by UW students. That conference was instrumental to the growth of Madison’s hip-hop at the

Photo ·Bayley channels his own negative experiences as well as positive ones to inspire his current endeavors. Courtesy of Pacal Bayley

time, Bayley said. Nowadays, that conference is longgone. But through efforts of UCAN such as “Level Up,” where they provide professional workshops to Madison hiphop artists, Bayley hopes to capture the conference’s spirit and impact — albeit with the resources of a non-profit. Aside from helping them succeed, Bayley also believes the current generation of Madison hip-hop artists are more poised for success than his generation by their own merit. The key, for Bayley, is to build a local infrastructure of support and think outwardly towards national audiences as well. “They’re doing it way better than we did because they’re acutely aware of the opportunities on the Internet,” Bayley said. “They’re building a local infrastructure while branching out globally, and that they have both is really the right energy.” As of right now, Bayley believes that Madison is widely viewed as a stepping stone for hip-hop artists — a place artists can go to build momentum to carry themselves into a city with a larger hiphop presence. And in spite of current challenges, Bayley believes that one day Madison can have a hip-hop setting in which both current and new artists can thrive.

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State Street shop scours globe looking for fresh, interesting goods In its new location, boutique Art Gecko remains as unique as ever by Tia Hagenbucher ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

A passion for artistry, uniqueness and world travel-inspired local store Art Gecko to open its door on State Street 20 years ago. Co-owners Marcel Colbert and Nosheen Ajmal officially began offering Madison their unique goods then, but the story of Art Gecko began a few years before that. Ajmal and Colbert started traveling the globe in their 20s and loved what the items they found in their travels on both a spiritual and physical level. The two would often buy these items from vendors abroad and sell them to stores in the states. This still rings true today, as many of Art Gecko’s current items come from Nepal, Indonesia and India, tracing back to some of the original connections the two made years prior. These places, particularly Indonesia and the traditional Gamelan music that is played there, had a strong influence on the store, including its name. “The places that we go to, it’s the land of the gecko,” Ajmal said. “The music of the Gamelan

reflects a lot of sounds of the rice fields and of the environment, so a lot of it sounds like a gecko.” Having authentic and fair trade items is extremely important to Art Gecko’s overall philosophy. Ajmal said any item up for retail is something she would feel good about wearing or putting in her house. Every item comes directly from a person who the owners and customers can put a face on. With such a close relationship to the artist also comes the individuality and uniqueness the store is known for. Many, otherwise similar items found in the store can vary from one another based off of environmental factors from the place they were made. Adding to this uniqueness, Art Gecko also features a new stone of the week every week. Choosing the stone can vary based of a birth stone for the month or simply just by season. Every time a stone is chosen, products made with it are 20 percent off for that week. This worldly component that manifests itself in the store’s operation is also designed to influence the customer. Colbert and Ajmal want their merchandise to inspire others to travel and learn more about different parts of the world.

“We want to give customers a warm welcome, as if they’ve been transported into another world such as India or Bali,” Ajmal says. “I also like to bring the vibe of the people there. From the places that I’ve gone to the people are really warm and friendly.” After reorganizing and refreshing the layout of their store, Art Gecko is now located on the sunny side of State Street, opposite of their original location. In 2005 they also opened another location on Monroe Street, having more room for furniture displays. In all, what makes Art Gecko leap out from other shops is not just their passion for their customers but their relationships with the artists. Both owners traveled and lived in the places their merchandise comes from and continue to do so. “It’s working with artists and seeing what they’re excited about, what they have just created,” Ajmal says. “I like seeing how I can incorporate that into something people in Madison would like.”

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Songwriter Caroline Smith attributes personal success to her mother Coming to High Noon Saloon on April 13, singer wants fans to know that life is too short to not accept yourself by Celeste Benzschawel ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Inspired by a mother who showed her how to be confident, Caroline Smith has carved herself a place in pop music. Taking the message she learned from her mother, Smith urges her listeners to stop wasting the time they’ve given and to start accepting ourselves for who they are. Native to a small town in Minnesota, Smith found her place in music early on in life. Unlike most young people who would write in diaries or journals, Smith chose to write songs, without realizing she was doing so. But her rising talent did not go unnoticed — Smith’s mother later prompted her into trying her hand at music. At around 16-years-old, Smith’s mother started forcing her to play in public once they realized her proclivity for songwriting, Smith said. It must have paid off because a few years later, she began her professional career with a band named Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps. Eventually, Smith found the fun, happygo-lucky parts of her voice muffled, she said, and she branched away from their indie folk sound and found herself writing pop songs. “It was a totally unconscious decision I think I made — it all just kind of happened organically,” Smith said. “I realized that I was evolving and writing more for myself —

the part that is just me.” As a result of being raised by her single mom and migrating to a small Lutheran town, Smith and her family faced certain challenges growing up, particularly judgment and ridicule directed at her mother from members of the community, she said. Something good, however, emerged from that experience — it brought Smith’s family closer together, and her mother became a symbol of strength, Smith said. The circumstances Smith grew up in have greatly influenced her music. She said being raised in a small town taught her how to be an individual. Furthermore, her mother taught her confidence. “It was bred into me,” Smith said. “I think that one of the biggest themes in my music is being a woman that’s proud, and being a woman and acknowledging what is different for us than it is for men. I think that’s totally and singlehandedly my mother ’s handiwork.” Her last album, Half About Being a Woman, extends that message to her listeners. Her hopes for the album were to spread a message of pride across her fans, believing that life is too short to not accept yourself for you are. Smith’s other inspirations include other women who have created a unique style and personality for themselves that step outside the realm of today’s society. Whether or not

Photo · Aside from spreading positive messages, Smith also believes in importance of having fun with fans. Courtesy of Caroline Smith Smith realizes it, she sure as hell fits into that persona, and serves as an example to her listeners. What Smith loves about pop music and R&B is its lightheartedness. She’s the kind of person that likes to have fun and to help other people have fun — and pop and R&B allow her to share this with her fans. In that regard, if there’s one thing listeners

can expect from her live show at the High Noon Saloon on April 13, it’s a guarantee they will leave feeling good. Smith has given another voice to empowerment for women by being a role model herself. She’s sure to amaze and inspire with her sultry voice, soul and confidence.

With frites for days, Brasserie V revels in European culture Restaurant in Monroe neighborhood features rich meals with sizable portions by Meghan Horvath ArtsEtc.Staff Writer

Cozy, inviting and reminiscent of a modern wine cellar, Brassiere V continues to bring inspired Belgian and French cuisine and an impressive wine collection and tap list to the Monroe neighborhood. Since opening in August 2007, Brasserie V proceeds to recreate Belgian frites arguably like no other restaurant in town. On their own, an order of the regular frites is served with a simple aioli that expertly compliments the crunch and flavor of the freshly cut and fried potato. For an even more indulgent frites experience, Brasserie V serves truffle frites that are enhanced with truffle oil and parmesan in addition to aioli. Rest assured, either option will be promptly devoured either alongside an entrée as an

appetizer, or enjoyed as one sits along the front counter of the restaurant while waiting on a table — and almost certainty on busy weekends. A seemingly lighter choice, yet incredibly satisfying is the Belgian salad. The dish is a combination of frisée, grilled endive, crumbled egg, apple, almond, warm bacon and an apple cider vinaigrette. The frisée and grilled endive sound bizarre for a simple salad, but there’s a reason these greens are used. The fluffy texture of the endive is ideal for soaking up the warmed grease of the bacon and the tang of the vinaigrette. These elegant greens are also extremely popular in France, which echoes the European brasserieinspired menu. Flavor abounds in spite of its ‘salad’ label. The steak frites entrée is another winning pick given its incorporation of what Brasserie V does best — frites. The plate of frites shares the

spotlight with a 12 oz. flat iron steak, soaked in a cabernet pan sauce atop a parsnip puree and braised onion. The dish is indulgent, but very much worth it. A more Wisconsin-traditional option is the V burger that strays from conventional in its use of Madison Sourdough bread in place of a bun. The Highland Spring Farm Scottish highland beef is topped with beer battered onion straws, spinach, tomato, classic aioli and muenster cheese. This list of ingredients shines alongside the beef thanks to the lightness of the bread component, proving a wise opt in favor of local sourcing as well. Also unique is the smoked salmon BLT, which adds a touch of more substance to the typically only bacon filled original. Brasserie V’s rendition uses spinach as the lettuce and packs in avocado and chipotle-lime aioli as well to prove that aioli has a place on the menu that’s

not limited to frites-dipping. Another star on the menu and a French classic is the croque monsieur, which is served as a browned and buttered bread sandwich stuffed with Nueske’s smoked ham and lots of cheese. Brasserie V fills theirs with gruyere and a rich béchamel sauce for a sandwich that’s creamy, yet “crunchified” from the griddling of the bread. To pair with their sandwich board, Brasserie V offers either a spring onion soup or a rotating soup du jour. The soups are a welcome option to pair with the half sandwich option offered at lunch, as they’ll effectively lighten up a full portion of, say, the croque monsieur without compromising flavor. The meals at Brasserie V can prove rich, yet portions are just sizable enough to echo the European sentiment that quality beats quantity. Oh, and don’t forget the frites. April 12, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 13

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University of Wisconsin redshirt senior offensive lineman Ray Ball was nowhere to be found after he suffered a right arm injury at the end of the Badgers’ 2015 fall camp in August. Week after week, when asked about Ball’s health, offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph kept saying Ball was being evaluated throughout the week. It turned out that Ball’s injury was a lot more serious than originally perceived, and after he wasn’t listed as one of the seniors who would be honored before the team’s final home game on Nov. 21 against Northwestern, head coach Paul Chryst revealed that Ball hadn’t been with the team since the third week of the regular season. For Ball, the injury that he had been intermittently dealing with for nearly two years worsened to the point where his arm and a couple of his fingers would occasionally go numb. At those times, he couldn’t even grab the ball. Football became too much of a risk, and ultimately, he decided to walk away from the sport he had played since he was five years old. It was a decision that left Ball reeling. “The hardest thing I’ve ever done was step away from the game because that was your hard work, your blood, your life and soul,” Ball said. “You lose that sense of purpose just because of the fact that you lose that interaction with those 100 or so guys and the coaches.” Ball described the feeling of having to walk away from the sport he loved as heartbreaking, and while Rudolph remained supportive and allowed the lineman to stick around and help out the team in the film room, it still wasn’t the same as sharing the field with the other 10 members of the offense. Ultimately, Ball’s first-born son, Otho Raymond Ball VI, who was born during the summer before Ball’s injury, helped give him a new purpose: being a father. “My son was definitely my motivation

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because my fiancé and I put him in this world,” Ball said. “It was something that I had to step up and take care of.” The events surrounding his injury took both a physical and mental toll on Ball, however, the birth of his son coupled with the support he received from his family, teammates and coaches helped him cope with that stress. Photo ·After suffering a severe injury to his right arm, former Badgers offensive lineman Ray Ball football career was cut short. Unfortunately, not all He relied on the support of family and the birth of his son to regain a sense of purpose. student athletes have that level of support or Courtesy of Ray Ball external motivation when their playing careers come to an end — and the depressive disorder the following their teammates and they are hardly even consequences can be devastating. According December. exercising.” to a January 2016 study by the British “There was a period of time where I That identity crisis was something both Medical Journal, 6.3 percent of all Division I student athletes had symptoms of moderate really struggled to get out and do stuff in Fischer and Ball said they dealt with when general — even going to class,” Fischer they walked away from football. For both, to severe depression. This is not a far cry from the 5.4 percent said. “It was pretty demoralizing. It’s kind football was such a huge part of their lives of the general population diagnosed with of hard to understand what it’s like unless that it defined who they were. depression, according to the Centers for you’ve experienced it.” Disease Control. Fischer believes the symptoms of his Student athletes struggling with mental depression came as a result of football The hardest thing I’ve ever done health issues is a real and prevalent issue being such a huge part of his life and then both at UW and colleges across the nation. having it abruptly taken away. Helplessness was step away from the game The reality that some of the most physically because that was your hard work, healthy members of a college campus can pervaded his thoughts. His interest in sports diminished to the your blood, your life and soul. be some of the most mentally fragile is something the general population, along point where attending UW football games with the athletes themselves, struggle to or even watching football on TV were no Ray Ball grasp. longer appealing. Even things Fischer had Former Badgers offensive lineman enjoyed doing his entire life, like playing The struggle of identity loss video games, were no longer fun. Among the 6.3 percent of athletes with Dr. Alison Brooks, a sports medicine “That was who I was,” Ball said. “I was depressive symptoms is former Wisconsin specialist at UW, said there is a high linebacker and current UW sophomore correlation between serious injuries and developing and building this identity, and because of an injury, I can’t be that person. Ben Fischer, who made the decision to depression among student athletes. walk away from football after he suffered “Some athletes get depressed because It’s just like, who am I?” Dr. Claudia Reardon, an expert on sports the third major concussion of his career in the injury is a huge, life-altering change,” August 2014. Brooks said. “They’re struggling with psychiatry at UW, said there is a major connection between a student athlete’s After suffering from the concussion, that loss of identity, as in they aren’t an Fischer was diagnosed with major athlete right now. They aren’t around identity and his or her mental health.

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Percentage of college athletes who experience clinically relevant depressive symptoms

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Graphic · Depressive symptoms measured by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Scores of 16 or higher indicate clinically relevant depressive symptoms. Scores of 27 or higher indicate moderate to severe depressive symptoms. can say that they are having thoughts that life isn’t worth living. They can say that they feel helpless and worthless and hopeless. And it’s not easy. It is not easy for them to change.”

Photo · After suffering his third major concussion, former Wisconsin linebacker and current UW sophomore Ben Fischer was diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Marissa Haegele The Badger Herald The more a student athlete’s identity is tied up in his or her sport, the more likely he or she is to suffer from symptoms of depression after their playing days are over, she said. “If you haven’t developed your identity within your major or thought about other potential career paths, or if your social life is very limited or only includes things that relate to your sport, suddenly your identity is gone,” Reardon said. One thing many sports psychologists do with student athletes suffering from depression, Reardon said, is find what their other interests are. While the doctors want student athletes to keep sports a part of their lives, they also know that there are other things that will spike their interest in the meantime. For Ball, that interest was becoming a

dad, but for Fischer, who underwent counseling following his diagnosis, it was playing the piano. “I used to play the piano a lot when I was younger and I took lessons,” Fischer said. “I started doing that again, which I think helped a lot. I was also just searching within myself, just trying to find everything I enjoy doing.” Ultimately, both psychiatrists and psychologists encourage focusing on an area away from the playing field where athletes can release their emotions. Student athletes are moving from a setting where they feel they can’t show any signs of weakness to one where they can be at their weakest. Reardon said it’s a crucial, yet difficult step for them to take. “In the doctor ’s office, they can cry, they can say they’re sad,” Reardon said. “They

The first steps toward recovery But mental health struggles among student athletes can arise from far more than just quitting sports. Reardon highlighted that, among other reasons, student athletes specifically suffer from mental health issues because of performance failure and a phenomenon called overtraining syndrome, where too much exercise can cause excessive stress, leading to depression-like symptoms. Regardless of the cause, the need for support remains the same, as it does with all victims of depression. In the sports world, however, it starts with the physicians dealing directly with the student athletes. They are typically the first to notice any signs of mental illness, Reardon said. Reardon added she gets plenty of referrals from team doctors and trainers for athletes who are in immediate post-injury state, so she believes those working closely with student athletes often notice the proper things. For Fischer, as soon as he was in a post-injury state and beginning to show symptoms, he was immediately recommended to a therapist and given

seven free sessions to help him cope. But his decision to see someone was definitely not an easy one. “It was a difficult decision at first,” Fischer said. “I wanted to see how things went and if I could adapt pretty quick and get back to normal. But that didn’t happen.” This again stems from the desire to maintain that strong, tough facade as a student athlete at a prominent university like UW. Ball and Fischer, as well as plenty of other student athletes from all sports across the country, are having a major part of their lives taken away from them without notice. The consequences can be devastating, even for the seemingly strongest of people. “Just the fact that you have this big football player in your office and they are three feet taller than you and really strong, and they are the star of the team,” Reardon said. “And you think there is no way they are depressed.” But there is a way. There is a way for someone so physically strong to feel so emotionally fragile on the inside. “The general public perception is that athletes are relatively immune to these problems,” Reardon said. “They think if you look physically strong and tough on the outside, that equates to everything on the inside being way more stable than everyone else. It is not true. What is true is that athletes are just as susceptible to depression as anyone else.”

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NOTICE Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Public Meeting Witte and Sellery Halls Renovation University of Wisconsin – Madison DFD Project #14E2O A public meeting to present the Draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the proposed UW-Madison Witte and Sellery Hall Renovation project is scheduled for April 28, 2016, at 5:30 p.m. in the Sonata Room within the Gordon Dining and Event Center located at 770 W. Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53715 on the UW-Madison campus. Parking is available in nearby Lake & Johnson Ramp (Lot #46), located across West Johnson Street from Gordon Dining and Event Center. A description of the project will be presented, and all persons will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to identify both orally and in writing any support, issues, or concerns they believe should be addressed as part of the EIA process for this proposed project. The EIA has been prepared in accordance with the Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act (WEPA), Wisconsin Statutes 1.11, and University of Wisconsin System Administration (UWSA) guidelines. The project manager is the state Department of Administration’s Division of Facilities Development (DFD). Ayres Associates has been retained to prepare the EIA on behalf of UW‐Madison. This project proposes renovations and suggests additions to Witte and Sellery residence halls, located at 615 and 821 West Johnson Street, respectively. In both buildings, a new connecting link will connect the towers. The link will consolidate four new, faster elevators at a central location and will provide new floor lounges and provide space for new/expanded resident floor bathrooms. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems will be replaced/upgraded, adding individual heat controls in rooms and air conditioning throughout the halls. Windows will be replaced and the seams between the exterior precast panels will be resealed. Resident rooms will be painted and doors/ locks will be replaced. Resident floor hallways will be upgraded with modern finishes and lighting. Interior stairwells will receive selective upgrades, including painting, flooring, and lighting as required. There will be select finish upgrades and remodeling conducted on the first floor and basement. A new resident floor will be added to the top of each building to maintain bed counts. Outside areas around the halls will be landscaped to provide passive and active recreation, pedestrian/ vehicular circulation, and dock area screening. Future construction in Sellery Hall, currently scheduled for 2022-2024, also includes the construction of a main entrance onto the East Campus Mall and the creation of a live-in staff apartment. This project was enumerated in the 2013-15 UW System and State of Wisconsin capital budget with an estimated total cost of $46,950,897, related to the Witte Hall planning and construction only. This cost will be supplemented in part by Housing Program Revenue cash and part Housing Program Revenue Supported Borrowing (Witte Hall Only). At this time, only the Witte Hall project is moving forward for design and construction approval. This EIA, however, will cover upgrades in both facilities. The purpose of the Draft EIA is to define the project and identify potential impacts of the project on the physical, biological, social, and economic environments. The Draft EIA is being made available to the public and to appropriate federal, state and local agencies for a 15‐day review period, which begins on April 13, 2016, and concludes on April 28, 2016. Copies of the document will be available on April 13, 2016 for review at the UW‐Madison Helen C. White Library and the City of Madison Central Public Library, or on the following project website: www.AyresProjectInfo.com/WitteAndSelleryHalls‐EIA Comments and inquiries raised during the Draft EIA comment period will be used to develop the Final EIA. If you are interested in this project or have any information relevant to it, we welcome your comments, suggestions, or other input. Please attend the public meeting to present oral comments or submit your written comments no later than April 28, 2016 to: Neil Carney, PE Ayres Associates 5201 E. Terrace Drive, Suite 200 Madison, WI 53718

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Across campus, students continually get shitfaced at the prototypical sports bars and traditional underage bars. While it’s cheap and affordable, many students might be wondering, “Where are all the trendy and high-end places to go out?” The short answer? Willy Street. Gib’s Bar, a trendy cocktail lounge that will celebrate its one year anniversary on April 14, is an amazing and visually-appealing place that draws in people of all ages, easily found right off campus on Willy Street. Filled with sleek furniture and interesting knickknacks, as well as amazing cocktail, beer and food options, Gib’s Bar is a place those looking to get off campus can enjoy. I stopped by Gib’s Bar on a Saturday afternoon with a friend of mine and had no idea what to expect upon arriving. Placed right next to Grampa’s Pizzeria in an old residential house, it can be easy to skip right over the cocktail lounge. Out front, it still looks like a traditional house. Upon entering, however, you’re immediately immersed in an interesting pseudo-speakeasy type place, with movie theater seating located in the lobby and encompassing window seating across from the bar on the ground floor. Upstairs, a second bar with a completely different menu is surrounded by bar seating, plus some old church pews and other old relic-style furniture. Walking up to the bar on the first floor, my friend and I were introduced to a bartender who explained the menu and some of the peculiar options Gib’s Bar featured. I also learned a lot of what is featured on the menu is actually made in-house, as Gib’s Bar uses many of their own personal recipes. After getting a rundown of all the drinks featured at the downstairs bars, we each had our choices set. I decided to try the Red Yellow Tonic, an interesting blend of Death’s Door Gin, house-made Bell Pepper Mescal and tonic. My friend went with the Yirgacheffe, a blend of bonded bourbon, Coffee Cinzano and Grapefruit Oil. What made the Yirgacheffe even more interesting was that it was poured over a handmade ice cube the size of a fist. Now, I’ll be the first to admit — I love my beer. Rarely do I ever shy away from grabbing a craft or draft beer out at the bars. With that being said, I was completely taken away by these drinks. The Red Yellow Tonic was a perfect blend of bell pepper aroma and taste, as well as a sweet smokiness. Never would I have thought gin and mescal would pair well together, but the bell pepper flavors really gave the drink an amazing taste. I’ve never had a drink like this before, and don’t know if I will anywhere else.

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Photo · Bar in Willy neighborhood offers pleasant break for students tired of getting absolutely shit-faced. Katie Cooney The Badger Herald The Yirgacheffe, meanwhile, was incredibly smooth, and the Coffee Cinzano had amazing flavors. The bourbon hit immediately on the first taste, but through the finish, there was a very smooth and refreshing coffee flavor. Additionally, the people at Gib’s Bar are almost as important as the drinks, given the wide variety that we had seen there. When we first arrived, there was just a young 30-something couple sitting against a window, playing some cards. There was group of a dozen 20 and 30-year-olds enjoying a day on the town, as well as a small group of elderly people out exploring Madison. Usually, I’d be surprised to see these groups of people in the same bar, but it’s easy to see the mass appeal of Gib’s Bar to people of all ages. If you’re looking for a change of pace from campus, and want to see what else the city of Madison has to offer, take a short trip over to Willy Street and check out Gib’s Bar. It’s an incredibly sleek and modern space that offers a much more relaxed and enjoyable environment than typical campus hangouts.

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Walker should not have such It’s time for governor to focus more strong influence on UW System on job creation for Wisconsinites UW is supposed to give well-rounded learning experience by Phil Michaelson Associate Opinion Editor

It’s cool that Gov. Scott Walker wants to focus on improving public higher education, but he needs to slow his roll when it comes to his overall impact on University of Wisconsin System policies. With as many changes to UW System policies he’s made over the last few years, it’s not hard to see Walker has a substantial influence over higher education in Wisconsin. He’s slashed state funding of the UW System to shreds and has been scaring off top-notch professors through his tenure changes, all while constructing an A-team governing body with his appointees taking up almost all of the seats on the UW System Board of Regents. Some of Walker’s latest schemes include trying to reduce the amount of time it takes students to get career-ready so the amount they pay for school is reduced. He also wants the UW System to prioritize preparing students for the workforce rather than focusing on a broader education. But, apparently, all of these shenanigans are meant to ensure the UW System ultimately works for the betterment of the Wisconsin economy: an economy primarily rooted in agriculture and manufacturing. I love my Wisconsin dairy products as much as the next guy, but the fact of the matter is the majority of students here at UW are not majoring in something directly related to agriculture or manufacturing. For example, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences only offers 24 majorsout of the 232 majors and certificates that UW offers as a whole. Along with that, one of the biggest reasons UW even has its name on the list of top national colleges is because of its groundbreaking research, which is something that might not

necessarily prepare students for the state’s workforce in the most efficient way. But hey, I guess we’re really only here to prepare for entering the Wisconsin workforce. Granted, Walker is trying to make public higher education more affordable and kudos to him for that. But in all honesty, he should really just stay on the square when it comes to running UW System policy at this level. I mean come on, Walker didn’t even finish college. He dropped out of Marquette University about a year before his graduation. Sure, he’s pretty well off now, but the fact he has significant control of the UW System without an actual college degree is rather ironic. Furthermore, great technological and societal advancements that benefit the lives of everyone stem from innovation, and innovation is the result of being able to think outside the box and solve problems in creative ways. The purpose of college, and the reason we as undergraduates take all these seemingly pointless classes, is to allow us to develop that innovative creativity. We are here to learn how to solve problems that have not been solved before, or at least work towards a solution. Walker’s grand scheme to turn Wisconsin public universities into glorified technical colleges that fold students into nothing more than agents of the Wisconsin workforce and pump them out in as little time as possible sounds like a recipe for societal stagnancy. Everyone has a role in society and every role is just as vital as the next. Some will work the jobs that drive Wisconsin’s labor-based economy, and some will work towards advancements and innovations that can improve society as a whole. We need to value each equally, and Walker is not doing so with his current public higher education plans. Phil Michaelson (pmichaelson@badgerherald. com) is a sophomore majoring in biomedical engineering.

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Photo · Not all universities in the state are technical colleges that mold students into nothing more than agents of the workforce. Marissa Haegele The Badger Herald

Future of economy depends on high-skilled workforce by Aaron Reilly Opinion Editor

It’s time to move from job creation to job training, according to Gov. Scott Walker. “Anything that can help us find ways to get people the skills, and the education, the qualifications and incentives they need to get into the workforce in key professions that are in high demand in this state,” Walker said. What Walker describes is called a skills gap, and the thing about that is a skills gap doesn’t exist in Wisconsin. As a 2013 La Follette School of Public Affairs study points out, “only a few occupations may see a skills shortage in coming years.” There will be more educated people — people with associate’s, bachelor ’s and master ’s degrees — than jobs tailored to those with higher education. If anything, there will be a skill surplus, but not a gap. Furthermore, a study conducted in 2013 by Marc Levine of the Center for Economic Development at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, found “beyond the anecdotes of local employers, the Wisconsin … labor markets show no statistical evidence of a skills shortage.” The doomsday prediction that Wisconsinites of the future will not have the skills to fill future jobs seems to be misleading, especially considering, as this study notes, 22 of the 25 jobs predicted by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development to experience the highest growth do not need more than a high school diploma. Of all the annual job openings that will occur through 2020, 70 percent will call for a high school diploma or less. While both of these studies were conducted in 2013, the latest data proves there is still no statistical evidence of a skills shortage. Referenced in Levine’s research, The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine Data Series tracks vacancies online for positions in states across the country. In Wisconsin, according to data collected by HWOL from March 30, there are 1.32 people unemployed for each advertised vacancy, which is better than the national average of 1.51. But this still suggests Wisconsin is affected by underemployment, meaning workers are becoming too skilled for the jobs

available. Two areas requiring higher education are prone to grow though. According to the La Follette School of Public Affairs study, workers skilled in computer and informational systems and human resources are of a rather significant need. The study predicts by 2020, at best, an 11,520 person skill gap in computer and informational systems jobs and 2,350 person skill gap for jobs requiring human resources. What can be done to promote these areas of employment? Instead of offering job training programs and worker development programs, Wisconsin should focus on moving toward a highly-skilled economy or easing the current transition from being a student to entering the workforce. Promoting a highly-skilled economy means investing in venture capital firms and startup businesses, providing earlystage loans to startups. Additionally, programs that target and encourage adults already in the workforce and high school students to enter these fields can help to reduce the size of the gap. Additionally, a higher-skilled workforce would call for more technical workers in general, think workers in the STEM field. To ease the transition from high school student to worker, the study suggests policymakers “could encourage school districts, potentially through relatively small grant programs, to expand their experiential learning initiatives. These programs could include expanded vocational for-credit classes, field trips to worksites, job-shadowing and apprenticeship programs.” Flexibility of curriculum and changes to the curriculum should be more to help ease the transition from student to professional. Walker and Wisconsin would be best off with training more high-skilled workers if and only if there can be jobs requiring a higher education created within the state. Otherwise, we just create an underemployed population. Aaron Reilly (areilly@badgerherald. com) is a freshman majoring in comparative literature and Russian.

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POINT COUNTERPOINT Poverty rates on rise but left, right offer differing solutions College Republicans: Government programs are not cures

College Democrats: Policies should empower those struggling

There are two ways of looking at illness: either treat the symptoms or find a cure. In this case, poverty is a disease. An illness for which a cure is yet to be found. Both Democrats and Republicans agree that poverty is an issue. The point of difference, however, occurs when it comes to the policies trying to fix this issue. Democrats are focused on treating the symptoms. Republicans desire to find a cure. The amount of money spent on government programs aimed at helping those in poverty is astronomical, and let’s face it — the War on Poverty hasn’t worked. Rather than pouring money into government dependency, let’s work together to find a cure for poverty in the first place. One of the more commonly held notions of the Republican Party from those on the left side, is that we blame the poor, that we hate the poor — that we don’t stand up for those in need. This statement is bred from a misunderstanding of the GOP’s mindset toward poverty. Yes, we want to reform the welfare system because there are better ways in dealing with the issue of poverty than simply throwing money at the issue One way of dealing with poverty at its core is through job creation. The Joseph Project, based out of Milwaukee, is a program aimed at decreasing unemployment. Led by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, and Elder Jerome Smith Sr., a pastor from the Greater Praise Church of God in Christ, the Joseph Project is a job-training program. Potential employers, facilitated by Johnson, are connected with citizens who are serious about obtaining a job. The participants are then taught the skills necessary to attain the jobs available. After their week-long session is over, the employers are then reconnected with the participants and interview them for potential jobs. The project has found full-time employment for citizens who would have never dreamed of working where they are today. Preparing citizens for the workforce and providing them with opportunities to gain employment is one of the more efficient ways of eliminating poverty — preventing the issue before it even occurs. By providing citizens with jobs, the cyclical nature of poverty can be halted.

On April 5, over two million Wisconsinites turned out to vote for president, state Supreme Court and numerous local races. The turnout in this presidential primary was the highest it has been in Wisconsin since 1972 when Richard Nixon ran for re-election against George McGovern. You turned out to vote last week for a variety of reasons; I’m sure all of you had your own issue that was most important. For a lot of you, that issue was poverty and economic injustice. Today, over 45 million Americans live below the poverty line, which is $24,230 for an average family of four. Working to lower and eliminate poverty is an issue of morality, economics and racial equity. How to tackle poverty tends to be one of the most classic examples of conservative versus progressive ideals. Conservatives continue to tout “limited government” as a solution to poverty, yet to achieve smaller government, they cut the very programs that assist those living below the poverty line. Progressives champion the utilization of government as a productive tool to help communities that our society has left behind and empower those who are struggling. Here in Wisconsin, poverty hits a little too close to home. Over 20 percent of people live in poverty in Milwaukee County, and poverty rates in Dane County are over 13 percent. And that’s not all. In Wisconsin, the racial divide of poverty is strikingly higher than the national average. Nationally, black Americans live in poverty at about twice the rate of white Americans. While this national average is disheartening enough, the poverty rate for black Wisconsinites is nearly four times higher than the poverty rate for white Wisconsinites. This goes to show that poverty in America, and especially Wisconsin, is an extremely intersectional issue affecting people of every race and gender. Meanwhile, as Wisconsinites and other Americans (chiefly those of color) barely make it paycheck to paycheck, the Republican-controlled Congress cut billions

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One of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s top policy issues right now directly deals with combating poverty. He wants the issue of poverty to be at the forefront of the legislative agenda. Ryan focuses on empowerment and sending power back to the local level of government. Poverty is as much a conservative issue as a liberal one. Ryan, along with the rest of the GOP, believes the federal government is inefficient when it comes to dealing with poverty. The welfare programs that currently exist are huge burdens on our economy and don’t address the root causes of poverty. They may provide short-term solutions to a long-term problem. Instead of merely accepting that people will be dependent on the government for the rest of their lives, Republicans believe people are capable of getting out of poverty. Currently in our nation, progress is measured by the amount of welfare programs that exist and the amount of spending that goes into them — not by the amount of people who no longer need those programs. The best way to deal with poverty is at a local level. The communities where these people live are best suited to dealing with these problems. Ryan wants to focus on getting people out of poverty. People aren’t meant to live on social welfare programs permanently. We should be encouraging people to want to get off welfare, not leading them on a life of government dependency. Providing short-term funds, without providing long-term skills to get a job doesn’t solve poverty, it prolongs it. These programs aren’t meant to live on permanently, only temporarily. Ultimately, they’re meant to get you back on your feet. Instead of solely treating the symptoms, the Republican Party is working to find a cure. The party of empowerment and opportunity believes in the individual. Every American is capable of rising up out of poverty and living the American Dream — and they can do it without lifelong government dependency. Kennedy Borman (gopbadgers@gmail.com) is a freshman majoring in political science and legal studies.

from food stamps and eliminated extended unemployment assistance. In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker has spent years slashing property taxes only to benefit wealthy Wisconsinites with large homes and areas of land at the expense of cutting programs which assist the poor to make up for the lost state revenue. Then late last year, Walker signed a bill creating a very expensive program to drug test recipients of public assistance. Not only does this perpetuate the stigmatization of those living in poverty, but it is a solution for a problem which has been proven time and time again to not exist. In Tennessee, only one of the hundreds of public assistance recipients tested positive for drug abuse, and in Florida, only 2.6 percent tested positive. This wildly expensive testing is embarrassing and unnecessary, but it is surprisingly the opposite of the usual small government mantra conservatives constantly trumpet. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, does it? Perhaps this era of Republican ridiculousness around policy for the poor is coming to an end. At least one high ranking Republican seems to be coming around. Recently, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan apologized for the way he has been speaking about the “makers” and “takers” in society over the course of his career and acknowledged that those living in poverty are actually struggling Americans trying to get back on their feet and feed their families. Welcome to what the Democratic Party has been saying for decades, Speaker Ryan! I would be hopeful this apparent change of heart will be reflected in implementation of new policy actually aimed at assisting those living in poverty, but judging by the do-nothingness and obstructionism of the Republican Party, as of lately, I find it difficult to take his word for it. August McGinnity-Wake (a.mcwake@gmail. com) is a sophomore majoring in political science and economics.

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Letter to the editor: Enbridge pipeline should not expand into Wisconsin Piping responsible for 800 spills, touts ‘dirtiest oil on the planet’ by Adeline Wells

As many may recall, President Barack Obama struck down the proposed additions to the Keystone XL Pipeline in November 2015, much to the relief of many local districts, various cross-sector coalitions and the vast environmental community. While Obama’s veto of the Keystone addition was definitely a strong statement against fossil fuels, the fight against oil pipelines is far from being won for us Wisconsinites. The Enbridge pipeline system is currently pending further expansion, posing a significant threat to Midwestern states. Approval is delayed on the president’s desk, likely adding one weighted issue to the plate of the next person in the Oval Office. Like the Keystone XL, Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper is another pipeline a Canadian company built to run across borders. This pipeline, built 2010, carries crude oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin, and into other pipelines traveling throughout the

Midwest. Often dubbed home to the “dirtiest oil on Earth,” tar sands oil releases 20 percent more carbon dioxide than conventional oil, and over five times the amount of lead and nitrogen. The tar sands region spans across the states of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and it harbors heavy bitumen, which can be refined into usable fuel when mixed with numerous chemicals and known carcinogens. The region is also located in the center of the Canadian Boreal Forest. It is the second largest carbon sequester in the world and home to a vast array of diverse flora and fauna. Drilling for this oil destroys diverse habitat, releases copious amounts of carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere and poses a risk for toxic material spilling during transport. The tar sands industry is clearly wreaking havoc on the climate, forest and biota in Canada, but it also directly impacts Wisconsin. Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper currently runs from Alberta to Superior and connects

to Line 61, a pipeline traveling through Wisconsin. This pipeline already transports over 400,000 barrels of tar sands oil to our state on a daily. Enbridge applied to expand the line back in 2012, as well as several other lines in its network. These expansions will increase tar sands oil flow by an additional 1.1 million barrels, daily encircling our beloved states and Great Lakes — a huge risk to our valuable waterways with little reward for our state. Enbridge is responsible for over 800 spills since 1999. This includes the largest tar sands spill in the United States, when Line 6B burst and spilled into Michigan’s treasured Kalamazoo River six years ago. If Enbridge gained permission to expand their system, our local communities will be subject to the risk of this irresponsible company’s transporting practices. Spills release a wide host of known pollutants as well as carcinogens like benzene and styrene, which are associated with tar sands oil, into the air. The expansion project runs directly through the majority of the state. A vast

number of Wisconsin neighborhoods, universities and communities would need to evacuate in the event of a spill. All of these risks would pose significant environmental, structural and economic costs to the state. Since the Enbridge expansion includes the portion of the Alberta Clipper that crosses the Canadian border, the project will require presidential approval to move forward. In light of the massive amount of opposition and criticism surrounding the veto of Keystone XL, speculators agree it’s unlikely President Obama will make a decision on the Enbridge project. This means that this is yet another issue where the outcome depends on the upcoming presidential election. For Wisconsinites and other members of the Great Lakes community, it’s an important one. Adeline Wells (ajwells3@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in political science and environmental studies.

Ryan’s push for criminal justice reform offers hope in Congress Refocus on overdue legislation can potentially provide pathway to compromise in federal legislature by Luke Schaetzel Opinion Editor

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, recently said it is time for Congress to take up criminal justice reform and while it is very much overdue, it is a welcome change of pace. Currently, the bills addressing criminal justice reform would reduce the sentencing for nonviolent offenders and raise funding for services dedicated to finding steady jobs and housing for those coming out of jail. But Ryan’s change of tone is not what is most promising — it’s what he said in his speech announcing the change. He took ownership on himself and the way he and his party had acted on the issue, taking blame for the prior failed policies. He explained how the War on Drugs and overly harsh sentencing policies of the ‘90s had failed and that it had destroyed lives.

Criminal justice reform is the perfect way for Ryan to start getting Congress to work together. Both parties largely agree that criminal justice inequalities are a huge problem. Out of 100,000 African Americans, 2,207 are incarcerated — alarming compared to the 380 white people incarcerated for every 100,000. So, despite what some political commentators may argue, this is not a partisan issue and is a great way to get Congress to start working for the American people again. “We need to make redemption something that is valued in our culture and our society and in our laws,” Ryan said. Ryan is proposing taking up bills that should be passed with bipartisan support, which in today’s America, is rare. But again, the real amazing thing is the way in which he did it. “We’re going to bring criminal justice reform bills, which are now out of the Judiciary Committee and advance this,” Ryan said. “Because what we’re

learning is, and what I learned — I didn’t necessarily know this before — is, you know, redemption’s a beautiful thing.” Even more of a rarity, Ryan is adapting on the job, learning as he goes and not “sticking to his guns” because maybe one of those guns isn’t actually so great. In a time when politics has been totally and absolutely polarized and uncompromising, Ryan is beginning to lead the charge in the opposite direction. Speaking on another contentious issue, social welfare, he kept true to his new form. He cited a time in which he and his Republican colleagues had separated people into “makers” and “takers,” labeling those who take welfare as takers. But he said recently he came to the understanding that most people don’t want to be dependent, that most people don’t want to be reliant on the government. Most striking in his speech, was the phrase, “I was just wrong.”

Let that sink in. When was the last time you heard a politician, especially one as powerful as Ryan, say they were wrong? He wasn’t only admitting being wrong on an issue as nonpartisan as criminal justice reform, he was admitting it on one of the most partisan issues. In the political climate we are in today, it is refreshing to see a politician buck the trend within his own party and stick his neck out for the American people. Maybe Ryan is just trying to be the polar opposite of Donald Trump, realizing that in the next election cycle that the opposite of Trump will be very appealing. Maybe he’s using some political savvy. But I’ll hold out hope, and I hope we can all hold out hope that a promising politician actually has a heart and can have empathy for the people he represents. Luke Schaetzel (lschaetzel@wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in political science and journalism.

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New group of Wisconsin defensive backs staying ‘hungry’ in spring Former UW standout, new assistant coach Jim Leonhard takes over unit with only one returning starter

by Ben Cross Staff Writer

The Wisconsin men’s football team approaches the end of spring practice this year with plenty of question to answer. Of all the uncertainty, no position holds more up in the air than the defensive secondary. One of the more dominant set of defensive backs in all of college football last year will enter the 2016-17 season with a new defensive coordinator in Justin Wilcox, a new defensive backs coach in Jim Leonhard and only one of four returning starters in 5-foot-9 senior corner Sojourn Shelton. Shelton has been a starter since late in his freshman year and leads the defense in previous experience this season with more than 40 games played at Wisconsin. “You’re talking to a guy that didn’t play many games as a freshman,” Shelton said. “I was able to go out there, have some fun with it and do some really good things. That’s the kind of thing I expect out of the young guys this season.” Former legendary Badger safety and now coach Leonhard has his pick of young talent this spring with so many new and returning bench players competing for spots. As many as nine guys in the secondary will be battling for only a few starting spots, leaving the impression that subs will be frequent and often for this young squad. “I’ve got a lot of guys that want it right now, which is perfect,” Leonhard said. “They’ll be pushing each other all spring, all summer and all fall camp; we’ll have a better picture then of what’s going on, but I like where we’re at.” The newcomers will look to replace the likes of redshirt-seniors Tanner McEvoy, Darius Hillary and captain Michael Caputo, a group that led the Badgers to having the top scoring defense in the NCAA a season ago. At this point in spring practice, the two candidates that seem to be breaking out as potential fill-ins are fifth year senior Leo Musso and junior D’Cota Dixon. “Musso and I being the guys that are coming back as people that have played, it’s our responsibility to get some of those younger guys ready to play,” Shelton said. “We both know that we’re not doing it alone and we know that we can lean on the coaching staff and other teammates to get this team prepared.” Musso has been vying for playing time since his freshman season, but finally looks to be making a case for the starting job after the three key departures in the back end. He showed glimpses of potential last year, most notably against Miami (Ohio) where he recorded two interceptions in the team’s second outing of the season. Dixon also showed flashes of potential in the team’s very first game of the 2015 season, when he recorded eight total tackles against Alabama. 20 • badgerherald.com • April 12, 2016

Photo · Senior cornerback Sojourn Shelton (above), who has started in 37 of 40 career games, is poised to have a strong senior season as the undisputed leader of Wisconsin’s secondary after recording just one interception in 2015. Marissa Haegele The Badger Herald He also grew up in the same area as Shelton in northern Florida and has developed a good relationship with him and the coaching staff over their three seasons together. “Even with me being a senior, I know I can count on these guys,” Shelton said. “There are so many guys on this defense that are willing to learn and I know that when little things occur I can teach and mentor them knowing that they listen to me.” Despite the young talent still surrounding the normally dominant backfield core at Wisconsin, the group will be under a lot of pressure to perform this season with the hardest schedule the Badgers have faced in years approaching fast. In just the first seven weeks of the regular

season, the Badgers are scheduled to play five of the top 16 ranked teams in the ESPN projected preseason power rankings, including a fourgame stretch against Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and Iowa. With still so many question marks surrounding the unit and a difficult schedule, the Badgers have to answer those questions quickly. Leonhard is confident they’ll be able to do so. “I know we have a lot of questions, but I’m very pleased with our backfield, especially in the first group,” Leonhard said. “The communication is there and these guys understand the defense, now it just comes down to cleaning it up.” One thing the secondary can bank on this season is an experienced line-backing core,

poised to be one of the best in the nation for yet another year. Six of the seven starters on the defensive front are back and should get some good pressure on opposing offenses, forcing earlier passes and less time to dissect the secondary. And even with all the transition for the secondary, optimism is high amongst the coaching staff and the returning players that turnover will be limited. Leonhard and Shelton look to be leading the defensive backfield in the right direction. “A lot of guys are hungry, they want to get on that field,” Leonhard said. “That’s a beautiful thing as a coach, to not have guys waiting a year, two years to try and wait for a spot. These guys want it right now and that’s great.”

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Gentle Clowns to send Dirty Birds back to rent-free nest in tears Revamped Herald squad looks to hand phony flappers another ‘L’ for second straight year by Carl Golden Staff Writer

Coming off an upset victory over the Dirty Birds just a year ago — and it is only referred to an upset simply because the Birds were so upset over their loss that they decided to throw entire pitchers of beer at the opposition — the Gentle Clowns are more than ready to defend their title in the annual softball game Saturday. While the Dirty Birds went through a brief era of success, the Gentle Clowns finally managed to breakthrough in last year ’s event, but with the majority of the talent from last year ’s squad doing bigger and better things, the Clowns will look to revamp the roster to assert that last year wasn’t just a fluke. This year ’s squad will be captained by sports editors Nick “I’m two degrees of separation from Mark Cuban” Brazzoni and Eric “Goldy the staff turkey” Goldsobel. In last year ’s outing, Goldsobel played prolifically in center field while Brazzoni was a late scratch from the outing because he got too drunk and refused to leave the keg alone. “I don’t understand why Nick is listed first,” Goldy whined as he talked about how the FBI is recruiting him to be a secret agent. “It was the CIA,” he corrected. Rounding out the infield will be the power arts duo of Henry “Where is the closest Urban?” Solotaroff-Weber and Frankie

“Where’s my bunny?” Hermanek, along with catcher Yusra “Yurso dumb B.o.B.” Murad, who plans to distract the Dirty Bird batters with her wit as she compares their body types to the animals at Henry Vilas Zoo. Her partner in crime, Aaron “Crapz ‘N’ Carrotz” Hathaway is listed as questionable, as he may be out searching for castles and bomb shelters somewhere in Madison or a bathroom to analyze. Among other team leaders will be the powerful upper management trio of Aliya “EVERYONE TAKE A SHOT” Iftikhar, Rachael “When the fuck is Beyoncé’s album going to be released I’ve already used up two free TIDAL trials” Lallensack and Briana “I really don’t like this opinion story” Reilly. A fourth member is potentially set to be added to the trio, as Hayley “I went to space last summer, what did you do?” Sperling is set to take over The Badger Herald as the new Editor-in-Chief. While she has been practicing her chugging for weeks now, she has also been working to get the game broadcasted in space because she swears she is an astronaut. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZ and NAAAASSSSAAAAAAA,” Sperling said while chugging a Kül Premium. Luke “Pretzel” Schaetzel swears he’ll be in attendance but it’s more than likely he’ll show up 30 minutes late due to a hangover after a late night out with his buddy Ron (Diaz) because that is

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literally his only friend. “But dude, you should have been at my party,” Pretzel said as he knocks all the doorknobs off of Goldy’s doors. “Every single athlete that ever existed was in attendance — I swear!!” Should Schaetzel fail to show, Aaron “Luke put these stories in here” Reilly will be sure to fill in and take all the blame for Schaetzel’s miscues as he has grown used to doing on a regular basis, while Phil “I manage to never get yelled at” Michaelson will quietly prove he’s actually the best player on the team...by far. Rounding out the dangerous Clown squad outfield will be Teymour “Take you out” Tomsyck, Riley “I’m running out of cover ideas” Vetterkind and Connor “One time I lit myself on fire” Dugan, while Saturday’s inactives will include video editor Nyal “Still looking for a new house to film a BH Cribz at” Mueenuddin, banter associate Nolan “Still trying to find out what the difference between a JPG and a JPG 2000 is” Ferlic and social media coordinator Kevin “Can’t risk missing the surprise release of TurboGrafx 16”

Castro. Self-Proclaimed Old Guy Polo Rocha will probably show up unannounced. “Branding and stuff,” Polo said as he is seven beers deep with a bacon costume on counting his gray hairs It’s most likely that photo editors Marissa “Are these pics good for Instagram?” Haegele and Katie “Wearing a cool hat in a canyon” Cooney won’t be able to take pictures come Saturday seeing as though no one put in photo requests in the Google Doc. With this mighty of a squad, there is no doubt the Gentle Clowns will send the flying phonies back into the dirt for the second straight year behind power hitting, tremendous base running and headlines that aren’t diagonal. And while the final outcome of the softball game will be very important, it will not be as important as the postgame dance off, as Lallensack and copy chief Amy “Don’t write an Oxford comma or I’ll put you to” Sleep look to defend their title for the second and final year.

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Despite rough end to season, Hayes’ NBA potential remains intriguing

While junior’s draft stock plummeted, there remains optimism with his ability to play at next level by Nick Brazzoni Sports Editor

In the final four games of his junior season, forward Nigel Hayes took a total of 54 shots — he made only 11. That’s a grand total of about 20 percent shooting from the field in the four most important games of the season. It was win-or-go-home time for Hayes and the Badgers, and the first-team All-Big Ten performer was reluctant to show up. After shooting 2-15, his worst shooting performance of the season, in the loss to Nebraska in the Big Ten Tournament, fellow juniors Vitto Brown and Bronson Koenig bailed out Hayes in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, where he shot a combined 5-27. In the Sweet 16 game against Notre Dame, Hayes did manage to put up his best performance of the four games — a measly 4-12, which included two threepointers. But there was no one to bail him out, and the end of the season could not have gone worse for the junior. But despite the poor performances and the criticisms that came as a result, Hayes is still testing the NBA waters, even if he is just dipping his feet in. Last Tuesday, head coach Greg Gard announced they were going to submit Hayes’ name to the NBA advisory committee, and he will then make his decision regarding the NBA draft. This means that Hayes will submit his name for consideration and have the ability to rescind his name up to 10 days after the NBA Draft Combine May 15. Given the way Hayes’ junior campaign ended, it’s more than likely he won’t garner much interest from NBA teams until maybe the end of the second round of the draft. But there is a reason this was initially thought to be Hayes’ final year at Wisconsin. There is a reason he was thought of a potential top-20 pick. There is a reason Hayes is even bothering to submit his name for consideration. Hayes is a very talented basketball player whose skill set is made for today’s NBA. After playing power forward for his first two seasons with the Badgers, Hayes made the move to small forward this season to make room for Brown and redshirt freshman Ethan Happ in the frontcourt. That move alone allowed Hayes to display

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Photo · After leading the team in points and assists per game this season, Nigel Hayes stands as an NBA prospect, but struggles towards the end of the Badgers’ tournament run may leave him with an undesirable draft stock. Marissa Haegele The Badger Herald his versatility on both sides of the ball and ultimately proved his ability to be viable two-way player at the next level. At 6 feet 8 inches tall, Hayes would

be undersized as a power forward in the NBA, but an above-average height at small forward. These types of players are usually referred to as “tweeners,” as they

are floating somewhere in between two positions. These types of players are usually seen as risks at the next level, but the way Hayes showed his play on the wing as a small forward should have removed a lot of doubts in terms of what position he should be playing. He’s a small forward, and when on the wing, Hayes is likely to be a mismatch for the defense on nearly every possession. This was on display in Wisconsin’s final game of the season against Notre Dame, where the already undersized Fighting Irish had no choice but to give 6-foot-5inch guard Steve Vasturia the assignment of defending Hayes. While Vasturia is the team’s best perimeter defender, three inches is a lot to give up to a player with Hayes’ strength and finishing ability. Unfortunately, Hayes did not take advantage of this matchup, appearing reluctant to take Vasturia down to the block, where he has found the most success this season. But it won’t be the last time Hayes finds himself with that kind of matchup offensively, and it will only make it easier for him to both score and distribute. Hayes’ versatility also allows him to excel defensively, as his prowess on the defensive end never wavered even when the success rate of his jump shot did. His ability to defend three different positions is intriguing enough, but his ability to be successful in doing so is what is most intriguing about the junior ’s defensive prowess. On the short list of players Hayes defended this season for extended stretches, are two national player of the year: Michigan State’s Denzel Valentine and Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield, along with Iowa’s Jarrod Uthoff, Indiana’s Troy Williams and Illinois’ Malcolm Hill. That’s two shooting guards, two small forwards and power forward, and Hayes managed to defend all of them admirably. His length combined with his lateral quickness for someone with his size is something that NBA teams will most definitely find valuable. But that said, it is still clear that Hayes is not yet ready to take the next step. That doesn’t mean that he never will be. He struggled in the final stretch, which may even be an understatement, but those struggles don’t take away Hayes’ potential. He may be one year away still, but there is no doubt he’ll be ready.

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Students create national powerhouse on waters of Lake Mendota Without school funding, Wisconsin Sailing Team has risen to high-standing in realm of college sailing by Eric Goldsobel Sports Content Editor

To most University of Wisconsin students, Lake Mendota is just an aesthetic perk of campus — a place where you can drink a beer on the terrace during summer, or walk across its frozen water during winter. But to a select group of students, it is the birthplace of a national powerhouse built by their own hands. That group comprises the Wisconsin Sailing Team, which can be seen practicing on Mendota each Tuesday and Thursday throughout the spring and fall. In its fleet of 18 dinghy-sailboats, the team spends upwards of a few hours each practice preparing for regattas across the United States against some of the best collegiate sailors in the country. Yet there is a stark distinction between Wisconsin’s sailors and those of the elite sailing schools from the East and West Coasts — Wisconsin’s sailors are not varsity sailors. The team recruits almost exclusively from a regional pool of sailors, raises its own funding and is completely student run. To bring the program to its current level of success takes not only personal dedication, but a large time commitment from members as well, Soren Walljasper, sailing team co-captain, said. “There’s a lot of facilitating work that not only I, as a co-captain, have to do but we have an entire board of 15 people helping as well,” Walljasper said. “On that board, we all have specific roles —

there’s a fundraising chair, a regatta-coordinator chair. The captains and board members are really in charge of the team.” At schools such as Harvard, Yale or the U.S. Naval Academy, these jobs are usually filled by the school’s athletic department staff. For members of the Wisconsin Sailing Team, it is nothing short of astonishing to secure the necessary funding and coordinate event planning on their own. But looking at race finishes, the story becomes even more incredible. At the Navy Spring Women’s Regatta in Annapolis, Maryland, Wisconsin finished in eighth place out of 19 teams, ahead of several prominent programs that included Brown, Harvard and the U.S. Naval Academy. To top it off, the team’s travel is also handled on their own, Laura Wefer, coed and women’s A-Division skipper, said. “We’re one of the only club teams in the country that is able to compete at a varsity level,” Wefer said. “Our funding is not the same as other teams that we’re competing against. We don’t have the same travel which they do. Most of those teams will fly to events whereas we’ll be driving 18-plus hours depending on where we’re going.” A grueling ride from Madison to the East Coast is a draining affair, so for the team to place as well as it did is just another testament to their skill. But while many of these aspects seem like potential drawbacks, Walljasper, Wefer and the team’s coach David Elsmo all agree that they only serve to strengthen the bond between sailors and their love for the sport.

With the time commitment and dedication to the team, Wisconsin Sailing Team members are more invested in the outcomes of races and the work necessary to get there. “People are really here because they want to be here,” Walljasper said. “I haven’t heard of anyone on this team getting burnt out of sailing. A lot of my friends who I sailed with in high school, who went out to East Coast programs, have told me ‘Yeah, I’m pretty burnt out of sailing.’ I find that our members are really focused and committed because no one is making them do any of this. We’re all here because we want to be.” The team’s unique blend of top-flight sailing, mixed with a club-level atmosphere, allows sailors an inviting environment. From running the team to competing in national events, Wisconsin Sailing Team members get a full experience, and draw a wide variety of interested students. Wefer, whose family has a long history of collegiate-sailing, has been on the water since she was a child and knew she wanted to sail in college. Walljasper has been sailing since middle school, but also knew that he wanted to continue the sport in college. Yet, not every member of the team has such a strong-rooted background in the sport. “It’s an entirely different process for everyone,” Wefer said. “Some people on the team grew up sailing and knew they wanted to be on the team because they’d heard about Wisconsin sailing for a while. But then we have people who see us at the student-org fair and decide they want to join the team. Some of them and come out here

and are now some of our best sailors. The girl I currently sail with had never sailed before getting to college.” With all of the hard work and dedication put into the program, Wisconsin Sailing Team has become one of the predominant sailing schools in the country. Due to the reputation the program has earned, and the quality sailing afforded by having Lake Mendota in its backyard, the Midwest coed and team race qualifiers for ICSA Nationals will be hosted by the team from April 15-17. Both of Wisconsin’s coed and team race squads are expected to qualify for nationals, held in San Diego this May. Through all of its hard work and dedication, the team has performed admirably and its homegrown identity makes reaching this level all the more special. “What we have here is unique, without question,” Elsmo said. “On a personal level, I have a lot of pride in being given the opportunity to work with these sailors. Every result they get shows their excelling nature, and that they deserve to be where they are. They did it.” With only a week separating the team from qualifying for nationals and the prospect of again sailing against elite programs, the Wisconsin Sailing Team’s sights are set on San Diego. But a problem only a club team could have reminds them of just how far they’ve worked to reach this point — the team will spend its remaining week putting its dock in place in Lake Mendota. April 12, 2016 • badgerherald.com • 23

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‘Having sex with Bucky’ crowned best UW experience of 2016 Tom’s grandparents, biggest fans still coping with emotional loss to seductive powerhouse in Finals Four The tournament to decide the best University of Wisconsin experience has ended with an overwhelming victory by “Having sex with Bucky” over “Not living in the Hub.” Of the 32 original experiences that were competing for the title, “Having sex with Bucky” has officially been named the best, and most UW students agree that this honor is well-deserved. “I knew the whole time ‘Having sex with Bucky’ would win. That badger is as feisty in bed as he is on the field,” sophomore Brenna Malone said. “It didn’t surprise me that ‘Having sex with Bucky’ won,” senior Connie Coleman said. “I do enjoy not living in the Hub, but Bucky was easily the best lay I’ve ever had. He kept holding up these really encouraging signs during the whole thing that said things like ‘Noise,’ ‘Let’s go Red’ and ‘Healthy Choices.’ I never truly understood the last one.” Though there is a lot of happiness surrounding the victory of “Having sex with Bucky,” there is also a good deal of disappointment from supporters of “Not living in the Hub.” “I live in the Hub, and I can tell you that I want to be anywhere but here. I can only imagine how wonderful it would be to escape this hell hole. Seriously, I will pay you to live in my apartment,” Hub resident Donald Jorgensen said. This year ’s tournament was filled with iconic upsets, total blowouts and dominant top-seeds. Many have already begun to think about who will emerge as next year ’s champion, including former UW basketball star Frank Kaminsky. “I think next year ’s tournament is going to be even closer,” Kaminsky said. “To be honest, I don’t see why ‘Having sex with Bucky’ can’t win it all again. It’s got all of the components to be the best UW experience two years ago. To be honest, though, I’m pulling for Tom. That dude is the shizznit!”

“Tom is taking the loss to ‘Having sex with Bucky’ really personally, but I know it will motivate him to do even better next year. The last I talked to him, he was considering competing as ‘Having sex with Tom.’ What a guy!” Tom supporter Grant Hogan said. Tom’s loss in the Final Four upset many brackets accross campus. Experts estimate over $3 million were at stake in local player pools. Over the course of the tournament, wagers on individual matchups were a major source of income for the local HoChunk Gaming casino.Veronica Wilson, a senior tuba player in the marching band won $500 in the pool through her work. “I knew ‘Having sex with Bucky’ would win. I haven’t personally had the privilege of waking up next to Bucky after a night of sex, but many of my friends have. No one I work with lives in the Hub, so that was definitely the most popular pick,” Wilson said. Though “Not living in the Hub” has been a UW experience since the creation of the university, it only gained prominence this year after the construction of the Hub. “I can see ‘Not living in the Hub’ as a strong contender for many years to come,” junior Cole Rawnling said. “I have a few friends who live in the Hub and some of them even supported ‘Not living in the Hub’ because the experience is so popular. Bucky is likely to celebrate the victory by having sex with students, faculty and anyone else who catches his fancy. Though the exclusivity of “Having sex with Bucky” was a main factor that contributed to its victory, analysts predict the experience will remain successful as Bucky has more sex because of his extreme talent. The end of the tournament comes just in time for students to begin studying for finals and make up for all the classes missed to watch UW experiences go head to head. For many students, it is too late to perform well on midterms.

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