2014 03 10 by The Badger Herald

VOLUME 45, ISSUE 42

Monday, March 10, 2014

VENEZUELA in PROTEST Joey Reuteman

Venezuelan students reflect on clashes back home, community shows support at the Capitol Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor The underlying fear that the next victim of the ongoing conflict in Venezuela will be a friend or a loved one is affecting Venezuelans pursuing life in Madison and sparking action in the city. Joining together in solidarity for fellow Venezuelans seeking economic opportunity and security within their own country, dozens of Madison residents congregated at the state Capitol Sunday, waving flags, beating drums and singing their country’s national anthem, “Gloria al Bravo Pueblo” – Glory of the Brave People. Fueled by social and

economic problems, studentled protests began in Venezuela last month and are calling for increased security measures, an end to goods shortages and protected freedom of speech, a CNN article said. The protests turned violent and clashes between protesters and government forces continue, having already claimed the lives of up to 20 protesters and leaving hundreds of others injured and jailed, Reuters reported. Venezuelan students in Madison expressed the internal struggle they are faced with living here in America as many of their friends and family fight against continued government oppression, lack

of basic security and economic opportunity, as well as hyperinﬂation in Venezuela. Adriana Velasco, a senior at University of Wisconsin, who protested in Venezuela against the Chávez administration in 2002, said she wished she could return to fight again now. “We need a total shift in the current government as well as a shift in the current political system,” Velasco said. “How can we strive for a true democracy when we are totally oppressed?” Velasco’s said her sister’s apartment building was tear-gassed and shot at by government forces during recent clashes. Giuliana Gonzalez, a sophomore at Madison Area

Technical College, arrived in Madison to attend university almost three years ago. She said one of the central reasons she left Venezuela to attend university in America was the extreme violence and lawlessness seen across her country. In the first two months of 2014, 2,841 people have been murdered in Venezuela – the third highest homicide rate in the world, according to the World Bank Venezuela Violence Observatory. A concern among protestors in Venezuela is that 91 percent of these murders go unpunished. “Can you imagine sitting here, in class, thinking about your friends and family that are fighting in the streets, and no one around you even

knows?” Gonzalez said. Venezuela’s inflation rate is another point of concern among anti-government protesters, which currently sits at 56 percent, according to the Central Bank of Venezuela, the highest inflation rate in the world. This extreme inflation rate triggers other frustrations among protesters, namely skyrocketing prices and overall shortages of basic staples, ranging from flour and milk to electricity and medicine. “Ultimately, the only ones that can help us are

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shooting at us,” Gonzalez said. Gonzalez’s friends, who she says are on the streets protesting now, have become fearless in their fight against the government, as they “have nothing left to lose.” According to the New York Times, a group of United Nations human rights oﬃcials raised concerns Thursday

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SSFC to decide funding criteria Proposed amendments would lower probation period, direct service rule Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Since the program began in 2008, students involved in the dance marathon have raised more than $300,000, though UW leaders hope to increase participation.

UW hosts sixth dance marathon Twelve-hour celebration raised $49,644 for American Family Children’s Hospital Morgan Krause and Rachael Lallensack Herald Contributor and Print Campus Editor Featuring Dean of Students Lori Berquam’s hot pink hair, the sixth annual madiTHON brought students and campus community members together to “dance because they can and stand for those who can’t” Saturday at Memorial Union. The 12-hour celebration, presented by the Wisconsin Dance Marathon, challenges students to stay on their feet, dancing and engaging in the numerous activities to raise money for patients and families at American Family Children’s Hospital. The event raised $49,644.92 in donations. Jeff Poltawsky, administrator and vice president at the Children’s Hospital, has worked with the marathon since it began

and said over the years the group has begun integrating patients and their families into the event. The year’s featured family was Madison natives, David Mahoney and his daughter, Lulu. Lulu, now five years old, was diagnosed with liver cancer when she was three. David Mahoney said he and his wife never left Lulu the entire week she spent at the Children’s Hospital undergoing tests and eventually receiving surgery. Poltawsky said the hospital relies on donations from the marathon to fund various services that directly impact families who stay at the hospital for long periods of time, like the Mahoneys. Some of the services include a meal program and comfort kits to distract the children during treatment, he said. Students involved in madiTHON have been working since fall to be sure

the night would run smoothly, planning activities down to a five-minute increment, Shannel Gaillard, the Dance Marathon entertainment director, said. One of the first events of the night included the highly anticipated revealing of Berquam’s temporarily pink spray-dyed hair. According to Operations Facility Manager, Jonah Grant, the new look was the result of a deal the two had made prior to the event. “After I had reached my goal, I wanted to raise more money so I made a deal with my peers that if I raised $500 I’d die my hair pink,” Grant said. “I contacted Lori through email and made a proposition that if I raised $1,000 she would die her hair pink.” Grant said he met his goal and Berquam came through with her side of the deal Saturday. Berquam said madiTHON

demonstrates the willingness UW students have to donate time over the weekend to a healthy fundraiser for a good cause. “It’s a selfless action that brings to the forefront an opportunity for students to be here together,” Berquam said. One of the executive board members, Meredith Wesley, has a long history with the marathon. Her father, Kirk Wesley, said their family has been involved with the marathon since 2000 when they were the featured family at Iowa University’s Dance Marathon while their youngest daughter Abigail was receiving treatment at the university hospital. Both Meredith and her older sister, Olivia, have served on the executive board for Dance Marathon at UW, Wesley said. They were excited to ﬁnd out UW hosted

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A committee tasked in late September to review the funding eligibility criteria for registered student organizations on campus will present amendments to a body of the Associated Students of Madison Monday. Committee members will detail changes to the rules for RSOs to receive General Student Services Funds before the Student Services Finance Committee, which is in charge of allocating these funds. Specific changes the group made up of ASM representatives looked at include the revision of the “50 percent +1” rule and a possible reduction of the two years probation period after a serious violation to one year, Devon Maier, SSFC representative, said. The “50 percent +1” rule means the primary focus of a group must be direct services. Furthermore, the majority of the group’s resources must be dedicated to the educational support of the students. The committee is looking at ways to clarify what defines “primary focus” and possibly lower the percentage of the direct services rule, SSFC Chair David Vines said. Maier said the proposed changes would make access to receive funding easier. “Right now the 50+1 is a barrier of entry and makes it diﬃcult for groups to get access to a lucrative pool

of money,” Maier said. “My biggest concern is that we will get too many groups applying for access to the money.” Secondly, the reduction of the probation period after a policy violation may be changed from two years to one year, Vines said. The probationary period bans a group from applying for eligibility for two years after if they intentionally violate ASM or University of Wisconsin policy, Vines said. Supporters of the amendment see the ban as a “death sentence” for the group, Vines said. He said this side argues that a twoyear probationary period gives groups permanently bad reputations that take away from incoming students’ opportunity to participate or beneﬁt from an RSO group even after the violators have been removed. Others argue that the proposed change to one year is not strict enough, Vines said. Those opposed to the policy argue that the disconnect between incoming students and graduating students is not that strong and does not affect the fact that the RSO violated policy, he said. Vines said they made general language changes to the readability of the document in order to close loopholes and ensure compliance to the policy. “Our goal is to give these groups ﬂexibility for them to engage the campus, to eliminate loopholes that would otherwise inhibit that and create criteria that could withstand the

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A bill would exempt electronic cigarettes from the statewide indoor smoking ban adopted in 2010, allowing people to smoke e-cigarettes in areas such as bars, restaurants and lodging establishments. Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, the bill’s author, said it is doubtful that the bill would be taken up before the end of this legislative session, but he predicted it would pass without much opposition in the next session, after this fall’s

elections. “I don’t know about any action this year, but I’d be surprised if it doesn’t pass next year,” Grothman said. Several health organizations have spoken out against the bill, including the American Heart Association and Health First Wisconsin, saying the health concerns of e-cigarettes are still unclear. A central concern of the organizations is that the bill would only serve as a state endorsement of e-cigarettes as a safe alternative to conventional cigarettes, Chris Kline, government relations director for the American Heart Association, said. “E-cigarettes are already exempt from the statewide smoke free law, so the bill wouldn’t change anything in law at all other than to send

the message that the state of Wisconsin’s Legislature thinks that these are safe,” Kline said. Grothman said the bill would help to address the ambiguity regarding the use of e-cigarettes in public spaces and said they are an effective means to quit smoking conventional cigarettes. As the popularity of e-cigarettes rises, studies from the World Health Organization have shown major increases in e-cigarette use among people of age and minors. A study from Legacy Health showed e-cigarette use among middle school and high school students increased from 3.3 percent in 2011 to 6.8 percent in 2012. Most of these students were smoking conventional

cigarettes in combination with e-cigarettes, the study said. “There’s a dramatically increasing number of children who are starting to use e-cigarettes, so there’s a concern that they might serve as a gateway to using nicotine,” Dr. Michael Fiore, tobacco expert and founder of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, said. Another concern raised by public health advocated involves the lack of regulation and transparency in the production of e-cigarettes. According to the World Health Organization, many e-cigarettes have been found to contain propylene glycol, which is a respiratory irritant.

“There are more than 250 different brands of e-cigarettes out there. Many of them are from foreign countries, including China, and most of them are available on the net,” Fiore said. “There’s no quality control with these small manufacturers, and for that reason, as with virtually every aspect of e-cigarettes, we just don’t know.” Fiore said while there is a general consensus among health experts that e-cigarettes are better for one’s health than smoking conventional cigarettes, he said this doesn’t necessarily mean they are entirely safe. Fiore said the FDA is preparing to take targeted action regarding e-cigarettes and will likely release some guidance on their health effects within the next year.

UW student hopes to create school in Africa Kabre aspires to return his studies back home, speaks on ASM campaigns Emma Palasz Herald Contributor Ousmane Kabre, a University of Wisconsin junior and recently elected Business School representative for the Associated Students of Madison, has plans to make waves outside his time at UW. Kabre was born in the West African country Burkina Faso and came to the United States threeand-a-half years ago. He is currently studying accounting in hopes of one day going back to Africa to build a private university accessible to low-income families. “Accounting is just my career,” Kabre said. “My interest is in education and politics.” After graduation, Kabre said he wants to work in accounting for a few years in the United States before returning to Africa. After that, he said he hopes to make his dreams to start the university a reality. “I want to help people in Africa, not only people in my country,” Kabre said. “One country cannot

do better without the neighboring country also doing better.” Kabre said he is already networking with contacts in the country, mainly at UW, to help him reach his goal. Attaining an accounting degree from UW, he said, will be “extremely beneficial” for his plans and connect him to some of the top accounting ﬁrms in the country. “If you want to undertake a huge project like this, you have to know numbers, and you have to know people,” Kabre said. After coming to the United States, Kabre first attended the Wisconsin English as a Second Language Institute in Madison for four months before earning an Associate’s Degree in science at Madison Area Technical College. Kabre said he was drawn to UW because of its accounting program, which appealed to him because the Integrated Master of Accountancy Program allows him to get his master’s degree in ﬁve years. Kabre is also involved with the international honors organization for accounting professionals called Beta Alpha Psi on campus and works as a financial analyst through

Photo via Ousmane Kabre Kabre said his intended ASM agenda includes lowering textbook costs and rising tuition and increasing diversity.

an American Family Insurance internship . Kabre said his interest in politics and prior involvement in student government at MATC motivated him to run for ASM office. He was elected to represent the Business School on ASM after receiving 355 votes in last week’s spring election. He will also serve on the

Student Services Finance Committee next year after receiving 2,580 votes, the highest total votes of the three elected students. Kabre has plans to improve the university as he serves his term as a student representative for ASM. The main priorities of his intended agenda, he said, are to lower textbook costs, increase diversity at

UW and lower rising tuition. Kabre maintains an optimistic perspective about his speciﬁc goals. “My nickname is ‘flexible.’ The future is uncertain. People make plans, but plans may not go well in the future,” Kabre said. “I may have those plans in mind, but I might change my mind. It’s part of life.”

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40/29 VENEZUELA, page 1 regarding human rights violations committed by the Venezuelan government, including excessive use of force against antigovernment protesters, media censorship and allegations of “severe torture.” Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, took part in the Madison rally and said it was vital that people use their ability to speak freely here in America to support those struggling for the same right in Venezuela. “I think for a lot of the Venezuelan students here, it’s a very stressful time because they have family back home,” Bidar-Sielaff said. “It is so important for us to show our support for the Venezuelan people who are trying to make a peaceful change, while having their human rights violated.”

Oﬃcials focus on new homeless initiatives In response to lack of daytime shelter, city increases access to restroom facilities Alex Arriaga Print City Editor While the search for a permanent daytime shelter in Madison continues and the city and county create temporary solutions for the city’s homeless, officials are focusing on access to restroom facilities. Over the past month, the city installed Porta-Potties at locations on State Street and by the Capitol Square. Jim O’Keefe, director of the Community Development Oﬃce, said the portable toilets are part of several temporary solutions

FUNDING, page 1 test of time,” Vines said. The two changes under examination arose from the Board of Regents versus Southworth Supreme Court trial of 1999, involving a few UW students who were opposed to segregated fees being used to fund programs they personally did not support, Vines said. The Supreme Court ruled that SSFC cannot take into consideration the group’s political affiliation or other viewpoints when making

to concerns regarding Madison’s homeless population until the permanent daytime shelter can open later this year. O’Keefe said there are also plans to eventually build permanent public bathroom facilities. He said plans were in place to have that happen by the end of February, and while that deadline has passed, city staff are still working on it. Access to bathroom facilities has been more diﬃcult for homeless people in Madison since the closing of the resource center and daytime shelter last spring, O’Keefe said. People are increasingly getting turned away from businesses, he said. “Frankly it’s a fundamental, basic human right to have some private

funding decisions, according to the official case report from UW website. However, when rules like “50 percent + 1” and “two year probation” were amended after this ruling, it led to a more passive approach to RSO involvement with the student body, Vines said. “For example, a speaker series isn’t considered a direct service because it’s not request-able and tailorable — and should not be the only thing they do. We are trying to make sure

accommodations. What people were ﬁnding was the case in the absence of other alternatives, people were forced to use alleyways or behind buildings,” O’Keefe said. “There were public health issues or just basic human rights kind of concerns.” As temporary ways of dealing with the lack of a daytime shelter, O’Keefe said people have been using the Madison Central Library, the City County Building and Bethel Lutheran Church as places to seek shelter during the daytime. Leland Pan, Dane County District 5 supervisor and a member of the Homeless Issues Committee, said the most common way the homeless population has been able to use bathroom facilities has been through

that groups aren’t using this passive engagement as their core curriculum,” Vines said. GSSF groups currently receiving funding include Sex Out Loud, Greater University Tutoring Services, Badger Catholic and 13 others. After the GSSF review committee meets with SSFC to finalize amendments Monday, they will present the revised policy to ASM. If it is passed it will be reviewed to ensure it abides by Board of Regents policy.

businesses, however many businesses do not allow for bathroom use unless someone is a paying customer. Another problem for the homeless, Pan said, is access to bathroom facilities at night when many businesses are closed. He said he has heard complaints from businesses about public urination, but it is a diﬃcult issue because often there is no other option for homeless people. “Not only is this really about providing services for homeless folk, to provide them with some level of dignity and provide them with restroom facilities they can depend on but also it’s about ensuring that our community is wellkept,” Pan said. “It can be something that is beneficial

to downtown businesses and folks who live downtown as well.” O’Keefe said a lot of attention was placed on how the city might provide different services to the homeless during the city budget process late last year. These included bathroom accommodations, storage space, somewhere to do laundry and shower facilities, he said. Pan said plans are in place to select a location for the permanent day shelter and have it ready by June, or at the latest before next winter. “I think it’s vital that we provide services for homeless folk not only for their dignity and safety but also it benefits the whole community for everyone to have the services they need,” Pan said.

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million thus far. Berquam challenged students in attendance to bring 10 friends to next year’s event in hopes this will become an event that students anticipate going to in the future. “If you can commit with me, I will commit to be back here in whatever color hair you want me to have so that we can really make madiTHON the best in at least the upper Midwest,” Berquam said.

the program, he said. Since the program began in 2008, students involved in the marathon have raised more than $300,000 through the 12-hour dance-a-thon. Grant said madiTHON is striving to attain the same kind of success Dance Marathon has had on campuses like Northwestern and Penn State, noting that Penn State has raised $13

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Redistricting reform unlikely despite eﬀorts Two legislators want to give nonpartisan agency responsibility for redrawing areas Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor Democratic lawmakers and advocacy groups are continuing their push for redistricting reform even though they recognize it is unlikely their proposal will pass as the legislative session comes to a close. The advocates include two retiring lawmakers, Sens. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, and Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center. They have said it is important to move the

responsibility of redrawing electoral districts — a process that happens in states every 10 years after the U.S. census is out — away from politicians themselves and turn that responsibility over to a nonpartisan agency. “[The] reason why we’re striving to do this now for 2021, which is when the next redistricting process occurs, is because it just becomes so much more difficult the closer you come to it,” Common Cause in Wisconsin Executive Director Jay Heck said. With no action on the issue from Republican leaders in the Capitol, where Republicans have an 1815 majority in the Senate and a 60-39 majority in the Assembly, Schultz and

Cullen held their own public hearing on their proposal. Schultz and Cullen’s proposal is similar to Iowa’s system, where the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency draws the maps and sends them to a vote in the Legislature. If lawmakers vote the maps down, the LSA redraws them. Upon the third rejection of the maps, they would be sent to the Supreme Court, except that has not happened since Iowa has had that process in place. “This system does tend to resolve the redistricting issue quickly,” Ed Cook, legal counsel for Iowa’s Legislative Services Agency, said. “We’ve never had any litigation rising out of a plan that was ultimately adopted.”

Republicans have refused to hold a public hearing on the redistricting proposal despite pushes from various groups for reform, including the editorial boards at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal. In a meeting with the WSJ editorial board, Vos said he was opposed to holding a public hearing on the topic, adding that “nobody cares” about redistricting. In a column for the Wisconsin State Journal, Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, who chairs the Senate’s elections committee, said lawmakers should remain in charge of redistricting so they can be held accountable to their voters. “Granting redistricting

power to an unelected, appointed board would do little to remove the redistricting process from the political realm,” Lazich said in the column. “Rather, it would merely move the political maneuverings to an unaccountable board, beyond the reach of the electorate.” The Democrats had the chance to change the redistricting process before Republicans took control of the Legislature following the 2010 elections, but they did not move fast enough to push reforms, Rep. Penny Bernard Schaber, D-Appleton, said at a news conference last year. “We made the mistake of not moving it faster,” Schaber said. Kenneth Mayer, a

University of Wisconsin political science professor, said nonpartisan redistricting has proven to be a successful process for deciding redistricting maps in other states. He said both parties, if they control the process, often redraw electoral boundaries for political purposes. “What happens [with nonpartisan redistricting] is that the districts are more regular, you tend to get more competitive races and there are fewer districts that are overwhelmingly Democratic or Republican,” Mayer said. “It has become a clear pattern that in the states in which the Legislature draws the lines, the majority party invariably draws the lines to their partisan advantage.”

East Campus Mall could be extended to Lake Monona Alex Arriaga Print City Editor After being chosen to receive funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, the City of Madison is beginning to develop plans to extend East Campus Mall to Lake Monona. Plans to use the funding from the EPA’s Greening America’s Capitals Program include significant changes for pedestrian and bicycle improvements, the addition of green infrastructure and other changes to the Triangle Neighborhood, according to a City of Madison statement. The plans to extend East Campus Mall to Lake Monona would also further plans to extend it to Lake Mendota, which is part of the Master Plan for the East Campus Gateway, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said. Verveer said the development of the Triangle Neighborhood could be a possibility because housing in the area is public, cityowned property. Housing in

the triangle between Park Street, Regent Street and West Washington Avenue is for individuals on fixed incomes and there is a mix of family housing that is primarily cityowned, he said. “We have the possibility through the use of this federal grant money to plan that whole area,” Verveer said. He said the University of Wisconsin has budgeted and is currently planning the conversion of Parking Lot 1 between Memorial Union and the Red Gym into what will be called Alumni Park. Verveer said it is possible that East Campus Mall could be “bookended” by both lakes. “Ultimately, someday, East Campus Mall could literally connect Lake Mendota to Lake Monona, from Memorial Union all the way past the Kohl Center across Regent Street to the city’s public housing on the triangle to what we call Brittingham Park on West Washington Avenue on Monona Bay,” Verveer said. Ald. Scott Resnick, District

8, said he sees several concerns with the project. He said it will be interesting to see what residents have to say and that he expects a great deal of public input because of the low-income housing neighborhood that the plan would go through. Resnick said the plan creates a walkable path between the neighborhood that surrounds UW and UW itself, a connection which has not always been present in the history of the university. However, that would come at a price to the residents of the area, and the borders could become convoluted between where the university ends and the city starts. “The history of East Campus Mall is actually a very miraculous and visionary idea; that we’re going to build a path all the way through campus,” Resnick said. Mayor Paul Soglin said in the statement that the federal program will bring in experts to work with residents in the Triangle Neighborhood and city staff.

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald Plans for the fund include pedestrian and bicycle improvements and the addition of green infrastructure.

He said the collaboration can benefit the entire area and knowledge gained from these developments can improve other parts of Madison as well. Ald. Sue Ellingson, District

13, said this was “wonderful news” for her district in the statement. “The targeted area houses a diverse population and landscape and I look forward to working with

federal experts, city staff and residents of the area to develop a greener and healthier neighborhood,” Ellingson said. “We have some great projects in place and I hope we can build on them.”

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Madison food culture inspires culinary expert Alex Arriaga Print City Editor For many, Madison’s food culture can be identified by its easy access to local foods and the way it fosters a community connected to food—but not just for food’s sake. Terese Allen, a Wisconsin food expert, said the city’s food culture comes from the unique integration of the area’s agriculture and the diversity that comes from having university students coming in and out, bringing their backgrounds and cultures in food with them. “We’re importers of culture but we’re also exporters,” Allen said. Terese Allen went to cooking school in

Philadelphia after working at the University of Wisconsin, and eventually came back to work at the Ovens of Brittany restaurant. Allen said she believes the Ovens of Brittany restaurant began the food culture in Madison. She said when she first began working there, it was the only place in Madison that was “really trying to do something special with food.” The restaurant was cooking from scratch and although it was French cooking based, Allen said it also incorporated a lot of other international cooking, and was especially famous for its croissants. “For me it was an excellent place to start because there weren’t a lot of places in Madison

that were doing anything special,” Allen said. “The Ovens of Brittany is one of the big reasons Madison moved as far as the whole food scene. Out of those restaurants many people came and eventually opened their own places.” Allen wrote her first cookbook about the Ovens of Brittany restaurants. Since then, she has written many others as well as columns in Edible Madison and Edible Door. Currently, Allen said she is working on a book that will be a combination of a memoir as well as a study of local food history. Allen also spends time in the Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin as well as a culinary book club. “That’s the other thing, I’m in a food book reading club, where else

will you find people that are so nutty about food that they’ll join a book club about it? Only in Madison,” Allen said. Allen is a past chair and board member of Research Education Action and Policy Food Group, an organization she said broadly encompasses much of what the food culture of Madison is about. The Dane County Farmers’ Market is also at the core of Madison’s food culture, Allen said. It creates a community of producers and consumers that gather together on Saturday mornings, she said. “The Dane County Farmers’ Market is one of my top places on the planet and I’ve been going religiously since I was in my 20s,” Allen

Photo via Terese Allen Allen cites the Ovens of Brittany restaurant as starting food culture in the city.

said. “It feeds me in so many ways beyond just what I eat, it’s a creative thing for me, it’s a social thing for me, I feel so

tied to my culture there and my community there. I feel lucky to be in the middle of this fantastically rich culture.”

Wis. resident runs for multiple sclerosis awareness

Photo via Jeﬀery Van Dyke Van Dyke will take on 351 miles and 13 days of continuous running April 13.

Aaron Drews Digital State Editor While many struggle to fit a trip to the gym into their schedule, Fond du Lac resident Amy Van Dyke will take on 351 miles and 13 days of continuous running in this year’s MS Run the US

relay to raise funds and awareness for multiple sclerosis cure research. The relay will begin April 13 in Los Angeles and end when the last runners cross the finish line in New York City five months later. Van Dyke has chosen to run two back-to-back segments

of the relay, starting in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and finishing at the Nebraska border. “I just saw it as an opportunity to use the gift of running, something that I enjoy to do, to help other people,” Van Dyke said. “It gives me purpose in my running so that I can help others in the process.” Van Dyke has only been running for the past four years, but she said she sees this as a benefit because she was able to stay healthy and did not wear out her body when she was younger. The first time she ran with MS Run the US last year felt really great, Van Dyke said, and her positive past experiences in the relay are what pushed her to double her

commitment this year. “What I did find out last year running the six marathons is that I felt really great the whole time, and every day got easier,” Van Dyke said. “After the six days I felt like I could have kept running.” Such ease of running does not come without rigorous preparation, and Van Dyke said she is following the running program provided by MS Run the US four days of the week and crosstraining at a local fitness club on other days to keep the rest of her body in shape. The training program provided by the nonprofit organization gradually adds miles each week to help build up to the relay, but Van Dyke said she

was still nervous before beginning the run her first time. “You’ve done the training, but you really don’t know if you can do it,” Van Dyke said. “You hope you can do it, and you hope you’ve done everything you can do for training. But until you actually do it you just don’t know.” Van Dyke will travel to Colorado with her family a week ahead of the run to relax and acclimate to the higher altitude. She said she is motivated by her family, including her four teenage children, and the many individuals with multiple sclerosis whom she has met through her involvement in MS Run the US. “The big thing I’ve

learned is not to limit yourself,” Van Dyke said. “Anything is possible. If you have that motivation and drive you can achieve anything.” In addition to MS Run the US, the relay has a partnership with celebrity Montel Williams, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. He will travel to multiple locations over the course of the run to raise awareness and promote fundraising. Each runner is expected to raise $10,000 for their segment of the run, Van Dyke said. Because she is running two segments, she will need to raise double that amount. According to her fundraising website, she has raised $11,300 of the $20,000 so far.

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Herald’s ed board should support the student voice The Badger Herald editorial board recently criticized the usefulness of the Associated Students of Madison candidate matrix as well as the responses given by several ASM candidates. While I think we can all agree that the candidate matrix could be improved to provide students with better information about candidates, the criticisms of candidates and of ASM as an institution only serve to further disengage students from our campus community. Instead, we should be promoting constructive alternatives that provide greater opportunities for students to take an active role in improving our campus. ASM is fundamentally an opportunity for students to take action to improve our campus community. While the candidate matrix is certainly not an optimal

way to learn information about candidates, I am disappointed that The Badger Herald’s editorial board did not promote any constructive alternatives. I believe the best way to evaluate a candidate is to be able to meet them in person and ask questions specifically about how they will make our campus better. That is why College Democrats invites ASM candidates to speak before our general membership, providing our members with the opportunity to meet and evaluate candidates in person. The student body would greatly benefit from increased opportunities to hear from candidates directly and to be able to ask questions about how ASM representatives can help us improve our campus. I would love to see ASM organize a debate for all candidates where students would have

the opportunity to directly pose questions to the candidates. The piece also leveled specific criticism at Representative Megan Phillips, a candidate that College Democrats has endorsed. Instead of criticizing candidates, we should be celebrating students who are passionate about making a difference on our campus. While Megan’s campaigns to increase textbook affordability and raise the campus minimum wage will require hard work and persistence to achieve these goals, dismissing them as unrealistic only diminishes the student voice. ASM is a vehicle to guarantee that students have a seat at the table in making decisions that impact our lives. As a student newspaper, The Badger Herald and its editorial board should be actively

promoting student interests, not dismissing them. The fact that ASM provides students with an outlet to take local action on a national issue such as the minimum wage right here on campus provides an opportunity to demonstrate the grassroots power that we as students have over our own campus community. Students are clearly passionate about utilizing ASM as a vehicle to increase campus wages and control textbook costs. In fact, Phillips’ 2,488 votes received in last week’s election is the highest number of votes received by a Student Council candidate going back to 2006, the earliest year when election data is posted on ASM’s website. ASM provides an important vehicle that empowers the student voice to take action to improve our campus community. By dismissing

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald Student tournout was a striking 34.4 percent in last week’s ASM elections.

candidate proposals and the institution as a whole, The Badger Herald’s editorial board is only diminishing our collective power as students and allowing other actors, such as the UW System and State Legislature, to make decisions for us. As a component of a student

newspaper The Badger Herald’s editorial board should be doing everything in its power to capitalize on the passions of students and maximize the student voice. Austin Helmke (austin. helmke@gmail.com) is the chair of the College Democrats.

Generation gap intensified by Canning’s lawsuit Allie Ebben Columnist Rachel Canning, aka the most spoiled brat in America, has recently sued her parents for immediate financial assistance. The 18-year-old New Jersey resident claims to have left her parents’ residence due to severe verbal and physical abuse. Her parents, however, said otherwise. They claimed that Rachel left home because she didn’t want to obey their rules. Soon after, she moved in with her boyfriend for a few days and then to a friend’s house, where she has been staying since the incident.

James Inglesino, the father of Rachel’s friend Jamie, has not only been giving Rachel a place to stay, but at this point is also funding Rachel’s legal battle. Judge Peter Bogaard gave Canning the rudest awakening of her life when he denied any claim she had for financial assistance from her parents. He had some very harsh words for her while discussing Canning’s complete and utter disrespect for her parents. He then later explained that he didn’t see this as an emergency situation and that he would make his final decision at their second hearing. Canning seeks $5,306

for her Morris Catholic tuition bill and an additional $12,597 in legal fees from the current lawsuit. Canning was also suspended from school for truancy after skipping several days. Soon after, her parents cut ties with her boyfriend and she had then decided to run away. At this point, her parents cut off her high school tuition and any future of college financial assistance. It seems as if the perfect honor student isn’t so flawless after all, and she has really just dug herself a deep, deep hole. Following this case has made me feel as if the

generation gap of our time has greatly increased, now more than ever. It is often that adolescents and young adults today are labeled as “ignorant, spoiled and disrespectful” and I don’t think Rachel Canning’s case is going to help our cause out one bit. In this specific case, it comes down to a lot of “he said, she said.” However, at the end of the day, it is completely absurd that one would ask their own parents to pay for their lawsuit expenses, especially when her parents are the ones she is suing! Wasting money to get money seems like a perfectly good explanation for the lawsuit at this point.

Furthermore, public opinion backs up my above argument. One follower of CNN commented on the article, “Expect this from all generations that are under 21 from this century. They think they are entitled to everything.” Although this is only one comment, in just four short days it earned more than 1,400 likes. Additionally, here were numerous tweets and comments about the lawsuit, mostly painting the honor student as a spoiled, selfish child. However, her father had different things to say... even after she continues to sue him for nearly $20,000. In

an article by USA Today, Rachel Canning’s father spoke out about his current legal situation with his daughter. He even went to lengths to explain that he is upset that his daughter is publicly perceived as a spoiled brat. (LOL, right?) At this point, both parent and child have some rethinking to do. Even we, as young members of society, can take a lesson away from this screwed-up lawsuit and work to fix our distressing reputation. Allie Ebben (arebben@wisc. edu) is a freshman majoring in nursing with a certificate in gender and women’s studies.

Addressing poverty and homelessness in the U.S. College Republicans Lyndon B. Johnson stood in front of America, and he called for the end of poverty in this great nation January 8, 1964. While many do not agree with how he went about solving the problem, almost everyone can align with his goal. Since the beginning of Johnson’s war on poverty, a ton of legislation has been signed into law and trillions of dollars have been spent with the hope of alleviating the pain of poverty. Despite these efforts, our country’s poverty rate has only dropped from 17.3 percent to 15 percent since 1965. Looking at these failed policies of the past 50 years, politicians from both sides of the aisle have been promoted to take action to make life easier for those who are stuck beneath the poverty line. On the left side of the aisle, many politicians led by President Barack Obama have presented many of their solutions in the president’s draft of the 2015 budget. Their solution includes increased spending for programs like Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. While this may seem like a decent idea, it does not attack the true root of poverty in America. In fact, throwing money at the issue might actually intensify the

problem instead of making it better. This sounds unbelievable, but these “solutions” might actually discourage people from benefiting themselves. Let’s take the state of New York as an example. In a recent article released in the New York Post, Michael Tanner reported that the average welfare recipient in New York is given nearly $38,044 in benefits each year. This may not seem like a lot, but Tanner continued by stating that since this income is untaxed, this would be the equivalent of someone working for $21 per hour. Considering that not many entry level jobs would pay more than $21 per hour, many would be better off if they just stayed on welfare programs rather than going out and working themselves. Realizing this problem, prominent Republicans have decided to attack it at its roots. After visiting many troubled neighborhoods, Paul Ryan has come up with a counteroffer to President Obama’s ‘throw money at the problem’ solution. Paul Ryan has proposed that Congress should take a long look at these programs and determine which ones help and which ones do not. Those that do not fit the right criteria would be cut and replaced with wage enhancements programs that would be designed to

give more compensation to those who are working and still remain under the poverty level. Rather than encouraging long stays on welfare, these programs would encourage people to better themselves and eventually live without government assistance. However, this does not mean that all programs would be cut, and there would still be a safety net for those who cannot work. In addition to looking at wage enhancements instead of increases in welfare increases, other prominent Republicans, like Marco Rubio, have proposed more solutions. These solutions included job training programs that would help people develop skills that they can use to get a job and relocation vouchers that can help povertystricken families move to areas with more jobs and opportunities. Innovative solutions such as those proposed by Ryan and Rubio will change the poverty situation in America. Rather than just dumping more money on the problem, these solutions attack the issue at its roots. Perhaps eventually through these ideas we will be able to win a new battle with poverty and give many Americans a chance that they would never have had before, the chance to live the American Dream.

College Democrats At the Conservative Political Action Conference last Thursday, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan recounted a personal anecdote in which he described a federal program which provides free school lunches to poor children as an “empty soul,” arguing that these programs do not provide incentives to parents from exercising personal responsibility. What Ryan didn’t realize was that his account of this story was misconstrued and extremely inaccurate. Regardless of Ryan’s severe misrepresentation of the facts, this type of rhetoric which demonizes the poor and characterizes the lower class as “takers,” or “the 47 percent” is nothing new for the Republican party. That party has a proven track record in decimating funding for programs which often serves as an important lifeline for poor families. Ironically, the GOP often makes these cuts in the name of “small government,” while providing massive tax cuts for the rich and large subsidies to big business also known as “corporate welfare.” But instead of using overblown rhetoric and exasperating a growing problem, Democrats at all levels of government have taken action to address the issue of poverty. Recently, for instance, President

Barack Obama announced plans to expand the earnedincome-tax credit (EITC) to more than 13.5 million low-income and middle class Americans. Currently, the EITC gives workers 7.65 cents for every dollar they earn up to specified amounts which allows workers to make a maximum of $1,006. Obama’s new proposal, however, increases the amount workers receive for every dollar to 15.3 cents up to specified amounts, allowing workers to make a maximum of $2,010. This proposal provides incentive for workers while putting more money in the pockets of lower and middle class Americans. At the state level, Wisconsin Democrats have advocated to reduce the effects of poverty by raising the minimum wage. The current minimum wage in Wisconsin is $7.25 per hour, meaning that a family of four making the current minimum wage lives below the poverty line. Wisconsin Democrats recently introduced a bill which would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 which would have an immediate impact in increasing the wages of workers across the state. However, Republicans have shown significant opposition to this bill and any efforts to combat poverty through an increase in the minimum wage.

In Madison, Democrats on the Dane County Board have been extremely proactive in addressing the issue of poverty. For instance, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi recently introduced a series of initiatives to expand access to Early Childhood Education in Sun Prairie and Verona as a part of the County’s budget for 2014. High quality early childhood education programs have demonstrated a return of $7 for every dollar of public investment according to longitudinal analyses by the Nobel prize-winning economist James Heckman. And when considering that low-income families begin school, on average, 12 to 14 months behind their peers in literacy skills and language development, this long-term investment by Democrats on the Dane County Board signifies an important step in combatting the effects of poverty. Democrats on the Dane County Board have also started to address the large homeless population in Dane County. This is evidenced by the more than $600,000 the board has invested to purchase a permanent day center which would provide much needed shelter to the homeless in Dane County. Thus, in all levels of government, Democrats are working to address the issue of poverty to provide more equitable opportunities to all Americans.

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MARCH

The awards season has passed, and films are arriving in theaters with no main purpose other than to entertain. For the next month, here are some of the films keeping audiences heading to the theaters. March offers an unusual bunch of films telling creative, quick-paced stories. While the release list is small, there are

MOVIE PREVIEW

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, in theaters now After great success with “Moonrise Kingdom,” director Wes Anderson returns with another colorful, artsy and comical film that continues to revel in the quirkiness of his filmmaking. Ralph Fiennes (“Skyfall”) plays a hotel manager mentoring anew lobby boy, played by newcomer Tony Revolori. Of course, what’s a Wes Anderson film without an adorable young romance story? Saoirse Ronan (“The Host”) plays the romantic interest for Revolori’s lobby boy. As they have their adventures at the legendary European hotel, they encounter several other characters, including former “Moonrise Kingdom” stars Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray and Edward Norton. Although released in the U.S. but not currently in Madison theaters, this looks to be one of the most promising films of this month.

NEED FOR SPEED, March 14 “Need for Speed” stars Aaron Paul as Tobey Marshall, a street racer just released from prison after being set up by a business associate. To get his revenge, he joins a cross-countr y race, and when his enemies gather word about Marshall’s return to driving, it becomes an intense race. While there’s no Br yan Cranston (“Argo”), the f ilm should fulf ill that void “Breaking Bad” audiences may be feeling since the series f inale. The f ilm also stars Imogen Poots (“That Awk ward Moment”), Dominic Cooper (“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”) and Scott Mescudi, also known as Kid Cudi.

still gems. Here is The Badger Herald’s March movie preview.

By Bess Donoghue, ArtsEtc. Staff

BAD WORDS, March 14 Directed by and starring “Horrible Bosses” actor Jason Bateman, “Bad Words” tells the story of a spelling bee loser who seeks to claim the grand prize as an adult by f inding a loophole through the rules. Bateman’s character is greedy and desperately looking for the win after a long-time grudge. While on his journey to victory, he meets young spelling bee candidate Rohan Chand (“Lone Survivor”), who sees a friend in Bateman, and the two star t a friendship of words and laughs. The f ilm also stars Kathryn Hahn (“We’re the Millers”), Beth Grant (“The Mindy Project”) and Allison Janney (“The Way, Way Back”). “Bad Words” should provide many comical moments and an impor tant lesson about moving on from the past.

DIVERGENT, March 21 The latest fantasy series to hit theaters, “Divergent” illustrates a divided world based on individual vir tues. When Beatrice Prior, or “Tris,” played by Shailene Woodley (“The Spectacular Now”) looks to be assigned, she learns that she is considered “Divergent” and cannot be placed into a particular faction. On the clock to find out why Divergents are so dangerous, Tris looks to save herself and others just like her. The film also stars Zoe Kravitz (“X-Men: First Class”), Kate Winslet (Labor Day”) and Miles Teller, who shared the screen with Woodley in “The Spectacular Now.” Similar to “The Hunger Games,” the release of the first film in a trilogy in March should provide a good star t to the series’ impending success.

NOAH, March 28 The f irst f ilm from Darren Aronofsky since his success with “Black Swan,” “Noah” shares the story of Noah and the ark in full adventure mode. The oft-told story has been heard before: rain is predicted to come, and Noah, played by Russell Crowe (“Man of Steel”), must take measures to protect his family and animals by building an ark. The f ilm also includes “The Perks of Being a Wallf lower” stars Emma Watson and Logan Lerman, as well as Anthony Hopkins (“Thor: The Dark World”) and Crowe’s “A Beautiful Mind” co-star, Jennifer Connelly. The cinematography and ar tistic design for the f ilms looks beautiful and should tell this wellknown story in a way never quite seen before.

InterMission Theatre wows with latest production ‘Broadcast: The Musical’ expertly crafts technologybased messages Virgina Harris ArtsEtc. Writer The Bartell Theatre hosted a startlingly original and relevant new musical this week. Produced by the University of Wisconsin’s student-run InterMission Theatre, “Broadcast: The Musical” takes place during the dawn of radio, a time of innovation and growth affecting all areas of society, from inventors to salesman to the military and people at home. The musical explores

the relationship between the human connection and technological development, positing questions relevant to today’s society in the process. The show featured an impressive set design, bringing the audience to a time before our clean, sleek technologies. The periodic transformations of the actors into new characters demonstrated impressive acting skill and allowed the play to span across a wider timeline, exploring the different ways society was affected by the breakthrough of radio. However, this technique also led to the play feeling somewhat fractured, and made it difficult to connect to a central protagonist. At times, different storylines became

diﬃcult to follow, as separate plots happen concurrently on stage, and conversations stop, start and overlap in confusing ways. Still, a variety of entertaining and poignant scenes made up for these slight narrative drawbacks. In one, two women set a dinner table and passiveaggressively argue about which of their husbands made a larger contribution to the advent of radio, singing about “polite society” while seemingly fighting the urge to ﬂip the table over in anger. In another, a woman is being wooed by her boyfriend over the radio. She wants to respond and tell him how she feels and comically attempts to talk through her speakers. Unable

to be heard, she departs. The singer proposes marriage following her departure, and ends up doing so, purportedly, “to the whole community.” Scenes such as these demonstrate the ways in which people are forced to change with the advent of new technologies. The limitations of human interaction through one-way communication platforms are clearly evident, as the characters struggle to make sense of each other in new media. Although the singer in this scene was able to reach an entire community through live broadcasting, the meaningfulness of that interaction was lost, shall we say, in transmission. Just as people originally

saw the Internet as a democratic and equalizing form of communication, “Broadcast: The Musical” places an emphasis on the people’s belief that with radio, everyone’s voice would be heard. This theory becomes negated when they go on to show NBC taking over the radio business and moderating the new technology. In one of the final scenes, a woman is shown glued to an early television set. She struggles to peel her eyes away to respond to her son, foreshadowing the possible negative implications of future technological development. At its heart, “Broadcast: The Musical” raises important questions. Rather

than being a feel-good, “driving off into the sunset in Greased Lightning” kind of play, it addresses issues of communication and technology we’re still trying to answer today. Do we participate in technological progress, or are we subject to it? In extending our communicable reach, do we lessen its meaningfulness? Entertaining and enlightening, modernly poignant and historical, “Broadcast: The Musical” exceeds expectations. With any luck, Madison theatergoers will be granted the opportunity to attend the show in future productions. If not, at least InterMission Theatre will be around to provide the best in studentrun theatrical entertainment.

HUMP! Tour shares fun, sex-positive experience Majestic shows 15 independentlymade porn films to ecstatic crowd Selena Handler ArtsEtc. Staﬀ Writer The screen went up and the lights went dim in the Majestic Theatre last Friday and Saturday nights. It was a different kind of crowd than the usual melee of college students sweatily anticipating an indie dance pop group to come onstage. The crowd that entered the Majestic Friday evening was, for the most part, no younger than mid-twenties and all anxiously awaiting 90 minutes of “sex-positive” and independently-

made porn as part of sex columnist and media pundit Dan Savage’s 2014 HUMP! Tour. The HUMP! Film Festival is an outlet for those fed up with the stagnant idea of sexuality in porn: being homogenous, degrading or unrealistic. HUMP! is honest, made by ordinary people representing the gamut of sexuality. HUMP! is an annual event in which amateurs can be porn stars for the weekend, but just in the confines of your local alternative theater. Dan Savage hosts the film festival, where regular people submit their independently-made porn. Fifteen of the most hilarious, clever, uplifting, satirical and sexy ﬁlms from the festival were shown at

the Majestic this weekend. As Savage’s video clip warned before the show started, no cameras or cell phones could be used to record the films, and no “Rocky Horror Picture Show”-style cat calling and obscenity were allowed. It was a community event, but one meant to be respectful and positive. The theater goers obliged and stuck to hoots, hollers, whistles, screams of affirmation or hearty laughter. This was the complete opposite of the nervous laughter I was expecting from an event so honest and films so true to life. The ﬁlms struck a chord with the audience who were enfranchised by the variety of sexuality. A HUMP! bingo board jested that the viewer might

see a friend/relative or coworker on the screen or in the audience, as well as a “lesbian knife party” and God. This year’s tour did not explicitly feature any of the latter options but the introduction by Savage warned the audience to look for packing peanuts, Hilary Clinton and various other ironically-used inanimate objects and cultural objects you would not expect in such as context. Of course, being a Dan Savage event, many of the videos were politicallycharged and would likely be considered controversial in the socially-conservative world, not in the sphere that populated the Majestic. One poked particular fun at the conservative right and played to Savage’s

very public nemesis, Rick Santorum; the video involved a dolphin and a unicorn fornicating and a crab filming the event, which was eventually viewed by Rick Santorum who very clearly enjoyed the ﬂick. The show started with a short animated film of isolated genitals and mouths and hands all interacting with each other without restraint and to an upbeat tune. This sexpositive message set the tone for the rest of the festival and worked to lighten the spirit of the crowd, who immediately began hooting at the caricatured penises moving and ejaculating in a way that then resembled synchronized swimmers.

The next clip was slightly more graphic and eased the audience into the more intense nudity that would ensue. It was a comedy about a legendary man who worked on porn sets helping supposedly straight actors remain hard during their performances. Eventually the man died due to complications from his work, but the overall mood was raunchily comedic and light. It segued nicely into a clip in which a game of Dungeons and Dragons took a quick left turn and ended up being a massive orgy with the players of the game. The rest of the videos varied in message and graphic intensity, but each brought something new to this incredibly unique experience.

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Real Estate’s ‘Atlas’ provides spring break soundtrack New Jersey band’s latest LP blends soothing guitars, nostalgic lyricism Nathaniel Scharping ArtsEtc. Staﬀ Writer There’s a Corona commercial that instructs us to “find our beach” amid the noise and commotion of our everyday lives. That’s a pretty tall order even with a beer in hand, but after listening to Atlas, the new album from New Jersey indie rock band Real Estate, I think I might have come close. Real Estate makes surftinged psychedelic rock that evokes a subtle sense of nostalgia, although for what, it’s hard to tell. A vague sense of something lost permeates the songs, which are driven by pretty guitar lines and soft percussion. Where they’re driving we don’t know, but sometimes it’s more about the ride anyway. Opener “Had to Hear” establishes the sleepy ambiance present

throughout Atlas. Guitarist Matt Mondanile’s lead guitar glows softly while Jackson Pollis’ steady percussion provides just enough backbone to keep the music upright and moving. The laid-back vibes continue uninterrupted through the rest of the album. Songs pass in a hazy blur, like nameless towns on a sunset drive through the Midwest. Guitar licks repeat throughout tracks and the rhythm section proceeds at what feels like the same BPM for the whole album. The broad similarity of the songs ends up being both a strength and a weakness for Atlas. The meticulous arrangements and skillful instrumentation ensure that each song is good, at the very least, but the repetitiveness starts to become numbing. It’s good that the album is kept to a relatively trim 38 minutes; any longer and it would start to make us feel a little bit woozy. The lyrical content tends toward the simple

and the repetitive, referencing vague yous and somethings. The nonspecificity keeps the sense of longing at a comfortable distance; blurred and obscured by time, it’s more of a comfortable companion than an antagonist. Tropical flourishes on “The Bend” in the middle of the album pairs troubled lyrics like “I’m just trying to make sense of this / before I lose another year” with liquid lead guitar that promises our worries will disappear if we just forget about them. Letting it all go is an oft-visited theme on the album. Lyrics about loss and worry fade into the gentle sway of the music, Photo courtesy of ﬂickr user phudson1442 providing us with a space Real Estate’s Atlas proves to be their most mature eﬀort to date, a complex blend of lush instruments and longing lyrics. to just lay back and enjoy the ride. to reality with sharper taken as a whole rather The lone instrumental percussion and clearer than picked into individual track “April’s Song” vocals. “Just over the pieces. Its beauty comes provides a nice sense of horizon / that’s where I from the feelings it evokes pacing, but doesn’t do always think you’ll be,” — or rather the feelings it enough to distinguish vocalist Martin Courtney pushes away. Real Estate itself from the rest of the sings, pointing our gaze creates pleasant aural album, making it feel a bit forward once again. spaces for us to inhabit ½ unnecessary. With gradual curves and where the harsh edges of Penultimate track even-tempered rocking, reality are sanded into ATLAS “Horizon” brings us back Atlas is an album better gentle curves. REAL ESTATE

Cherub gets hips moving at Majestic mystery show After venue sells out with promise of dancing, band makes crowd jump Cam Ariana ArtsEtc. Staﬀ Writer “It’s good to be back, Madison!” Cherub singer Jordan Kelley gleefully shouted to the sold-out Majestic Theatre as they took the stage late Friday night. For the second time in six months, Kelley and guitarist Jason Huber filled the Majestic to capacity

and put on an entrancing show with their timeless, contagious, dance-inducing music. In what was originally billed as a “mystery event,” Majestic Madison withheld the identity of the act scheduled to perform the Friday night show for nearly a month. The Majestic dared concertgoers to take a leap of faith on the basis that the scheduled act had sold out the Majestic before and would surely make the audience dance. It didn’t take long for many to figure out Cherub was

the most likely performer, and after Majestic Madison confirmed Wednesday that it was indeed Cherub, all remaining tickets sold out in less than 24 hours. Chicago native rapper ProbCause kicked off the show at 11:30 p.m., spitting his signature fast-paced rhymes over original tracks and covers. His set featured frequent calland-response — “When I say MAD, you say TOWN!” — and some back-andforth beatboxing with his drummer. Cherub emerged around 12:30 p.m., eager to get

the party started. Their feel-good vibes resonated throughout the Majestic, led by infectious synths, dance-pop beats and Kelley’s falsetto crooning about living promiscuously free. During “Lifesaver,” Kelley defiantly sang, “I just want to let you know / I’m glad to finally see you go.” Most of the performed songs were Cherub originals, but the duo slipped in an astounding cover of Calvin Harris’s “Feel So Close” that got the entire audience jumping in unison. Despite the

concert’s late start, it was clear that everyone in attendance was committed to going all-out the entire show, which lasted past 2 a.m. The set ended with their woozy track “Hold Me,” but the relentless crowd demanded an encore. Predictably, they returned to the stage to perform their breakout song “Doses and Mimosas”, the epitome of what Cherub stands for: giving a middle finger to the haters and doing what makes you happy. Before plunging into the song, Kelley led the crowd in a

broken-down singing of the chorus: “To all the bitch ass hoes that hate me the most / Oh yeah, I hate you too.” They closed the encore with a funky Gramatik track, “Obviously,” that features Cherub vocals, jumping around and stagediving in the process. Once again, Cherub proved why they are one of the most entertaining, unique talents in electronic pop. It’s no wonder that they regularly sell out venues when they come through Madison – Cherub brings the goods time and time again.

Time for ‘New Girl’ to get new everything Hit show needs to step it up in next season after recent lackluster plotlines Hayley Braun ArtsEtc. Staﬀ Writer It was announced Friday that “New Girl,” the FOX sitcom starring Zooey Deschanel, will be back for a fourth season next fall. I was glad to hear the news, but it made me

think about how much of a disappointment this season has been. Don’t get me wrong, “New Girl” is still one of my favorite shows. I wanted to love this season so much. I wanted it to be as good as the middle and end of season two. I declared to everyone I knew after the “Virgins” episode aired last spring that it was the greatest half-hour of television ever. I still stand by that, but this season has broken my heart. There have been some

great moments, but most of my favorites were appearances by guest stars like Taye Diggs, Adam Brody and Mary Elizabeth Ellis. My favorite episode of the season, “Birthday,” was one of the only episodes where I did more than half-heartedly giggle at something besides Schmidt’s oneliners. The Coach and Winston’s cake-baking storyline in that episode was especially great, since one of my biggest complaints with this season is that the writers seem to have no idea what to do with either of those characters. I was so excited when it was announced that Damon Wayans Jr. was coming back to the show as Coach. He was absolutely hilarious on the prematurely cancelled “Happy Endings,” and I was glad he would join Winston in the apartment, since the other roommates’ storylines were mostly based around their love lives. Unfortunately, the addition of Coach hasn’t added much to Winston’s character or the show in general. Thankfully, at least the writers didn’t pursue the idea of him having a relationship with Cece. Their friendship has been the highlight of the last few episodes. Poor, underused Winston is another reason why this season has been the worst so far. I knew it was a bad sign when his storyline in the season premiere was based around

a jigsaw puzzle. What irks me most about this season though is that Winston has become creepy and ridiculously stupid instead of the witty, harmless weirdo he used to be. He is apparently in a relationship with Kylie, who he met when he was trying to hook up his exgirlfriend’s cat. (Yes, you read that correctly. He was trying to get some for his ex-girlfriend’s cat.) In the latest episodes, they’ve made him so irrationally dumb and socially inept that it’s just awkward to watch. My biggest complaint about this season is Nick

and Jess. I thought they were meant to be the new Jim and Pam, but now I almost wish they never started dating at all. How many times can we see the same storyline: Nick feels like he’s not good enough for Jess and she’s trying to change him, so he gets in some sort of wacky situation only to be shown that Jess loves him for the crazy-old-man-ina-30-year-old’s-body that he is? Their characters are perfect together, but the situations they’ve been put in have just seemed endlessly repetitive. One final bummer of this season: endless

and terrible product placement. If I hear any more cheesy, forced dialogue about how convenient it is that you can open the trunk of the newest Ford SUV by waving your foot around it, I might tune out for good. Please, “New Girl,” get your shit together for the rest of season three. Go back to what made the series so great from the beginning — the friendship of this random group of roommates. And please, more True American. New Girl airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. on FOX.

Photo via FOX ‘New Girl’ has been renewed for another season, and while this is exciting the show has some redeeming to do.

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Big Ten Tournament set to begin Thursday Indianapolis will take center stage this week with NCAA tourney bid at stake Spencer Smith Sports Editor The Big Ten regular season schedule came to a close Sunday night in Lincoln, Neb., with Nebraskaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upset win over No. 9 Wisconsin finalizing the Big Ten standings and setting the Big Ten Tournament bracket. The conference tournament will start Thursday, March 13 at

Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis with a matchup between Indiana and Illinois at 11 a.m. Michigan clinched the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament last week after winning the Big Ten regular season title outright for the first time since 1986. The Wolverines will take on the winner of Indiana and Illinois at 11 a.m. Friday. Along with the Big Ten Champions, Wisconsin, Michigan State and Nebraska all earned first-round byes in the tournament by finishing in the top-four of the

conference. Wisconsin finished with an identical conference record as Michigan State, but owns the head-to-head tiebreaker with the home win over the Spartans in February. UW will take on the winner of seventhseed Minnesota and 10thseed Penn State at 6:30 p.m. central time Friday. The Badgers split their season series with the Golden Gophers and won their only matchup with the Nittany Lions this season. The Cornhuskers are the biggest surprise of the Big Ten season, finishing fourth in the conference

after being picked to finish last in the Big Ten before the season started. Nebraska will play the winner of fifth-seed Ohio State and 12th seed Purdue after Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quarterfinal game. The Cornhuskers split their season series with both the Buckeyes and the Boilermakers. NU will be playing for its first NCAA Tournament birth since 1998. Many believe a win in the conference tournament would lock up a berth in the big dance for the Huskers after taking down ninthranked Wisconsin in its regular season finale at home.

Minnesota is the only other Big Ten team whose postseason fate is yet to be determined. The Golden Gophers will need to pick up a couple of wins in Indianapolis if it wants to make it to the NCAAs. Minnesota will start the tournament with a rematch of its regular season finale with Penn State that it won by 18 points. The Gophers would have to go through Wisconsin and then most likely Michigan State or Iowa in the semifinals. Michigan and Wisconsin will be playing for their chance at a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Wisconsin

has the slightly stronger case with a better strength of schedule and fewer losses, but both the Wolverines or the Badgers will most likely have to win the Big Ten Tournament Title if it wants to be tagged as one of the top four teams in the field of 68. The two teams could pontentialy meet in the championship game that could act as a play-in game for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. The Big Ten Tournament Championship Game will take place Sunday, March 16 at 2:30 p.m. on CBS Sports.

The Badger Herald | Sports |Monday, March 10, 2014

Wisconsin’s rushing success in good hands

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald Junior Melvin Gordon and Sophomore Corey Clement are the new one-two punch of the Wisconsin running attack.

Eric Kohlbeck Spring Football Writer Melvin Gordon thrust himself onto the national stage last season with a sophomore campaign

that earned him a spot on the Heisman watch list midway through the year. With that success came the possibility of playing at the professional level sooner rather than later. Much

to the delight of those involved with the Badger football program, and the fans that cheer for it, Melvin Gordon decided to return to Wisconsin for at least one more season.

The redshirt junior running back who amassed a team-high 1,609 rushing yards, averaged 7.8 yards per carry and scored 12 touchdowns last season, Gordon will enter the 2014 season as one of the nation’s top backs. His performance throughout last year put a lot of potential NFL buzz around the running back, even as he shared the backfield with senior James White. The buzz was strong enough that Gordon considered leaving for the NFL, prompting him to request a draft evaluation. The evaluation would give Gordon a general sense of where he would be selected in May’s draft. It came back saying Gordon would be a second-round pick and Gordon felt with a strong combine and offseason, he could even bump himself into the first round. There were reports that claimed Gordon could even be the first running back off the board come May. But that is all speculation and Gordon said he made up his mind to return to UW even before he received the evaluation back. His quickness and agility will be back in a Wisconsin backfield for at least one more season. With the first week of spring practice in the books, Gordon, who head coach Gary Andersen said won’t be tackled at all in spring practice, is looking to round-out his game in the next few weeks. “My goal is to just get better on everything,” Gordon said. “And I want to work on everything, as far as blocking, catching, getting better on cuts and recognizing defenses. That’s my focus. So I’m just trying to better myself out here, so come game time, I’ll be ready.” This upcoming season will usher in a new era for college football, as the highly-ridiculed BCS system is out the door and in its place is a fourteam playoff that will be used to determine a national champion. Gordon says the focus in spring practice has to be getting everybody better on the field, knowing that teams will have to play well throughout the whole season to earn one of the coveted spots in the playoffs. Individual goals for Gordon are in

DERAILS, page 12 in Wisconsin’s last four games has gone on to win the game, as is often the case in playoff hockey. Once again that was the case Friday afternoon. One thing you learn in the playoffs and the NCAA [tournament] games, the goals, especially the first ones, create a lot of energy,” Johnson said. “When they scored the goal, certainly they get excited then.” Wisconsin tried to mount a comeback in the third period and, like the first period, the Badgers outshot North Dakota, this time by a margin of 11-6. But just as she had done in the other two period, Amsley-Benzie shut down the Badgers time and again coming up with saves on all 11 shots. Wisconsin pulled

the back of his mind, but most recent formidable are certainly far behind backfield duo of Gordon the main goal of reaching and White. It’s something the playoffs at the end of that Clement believes the season. they can achieve with “My focus is just getting the work that they’re to the playoffs,” Gordon putting in right away in said. “There’s four teams. spring practices. It will be difficult this “I’m not a stingy year. You have to play person but we’re all good football to get there. about the one-two The individual goals, you system here,” Clement know I’m not worried said. “Melvin and I can about those. Those will do a great job, tandem come. If we get to the wise. No disrespect playoffs, to James you know [White], he somebody’s was here I’m just trying to doing good. better myself out last year, I So that’s believe we my main here, so come game can do a lot focus right day I’ll be ready. better. Not now, getting trying to Melvin Gordon downgrade those guys Running Back [White] at all there.” As is but you have usually the to improve case with every the Badgers, Gordon season. So with the work won’t be carrying the we’re putting in this load in the backfield season, I believe we can by himself this season. do a lot better.” Sophomore running Despite having a back, Corey Clement, proficient one-two will look to build on combination, Gordon a strong freshman will likely be the feature campaign in which he back at Wisconsin this ran for 555 yards and season and garner the seven touchdown. He most attention from sees spring practice as a opposing defenses. If the chance for himself and past is any indication, he Gordon to compete with will continue to improve one another and make and amass even larger

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each other better. “What I’m looking forward to most is just competing with Melvin,” Clement said. “He’s my biggest competitor in here so I just have to grind. Me and him both want the number one spot and it’s just not going to come easy. So I have to push him, he has to push me. That’s one of my biggest goals in spring ball, to make sure we push each other.” Both Gordon and Clement see themselves as being the next exciting one-two running back combination at Wisconsin. Clement wants to see himself and Gordon improve upon the

numbers than he did last season. After this season the NFL buzz will likely return to Gordon and he will have to make another decision. But for now, Gordon says he isn’t thinking about that at all. Right now, his focus on getting better and preparing for the highly anticipated season opener against SEC foe, LSU, Aug. 30th. “I’m not even focused on that, leaving right now,” Gordon said. “It’s a long season and we have a lot of work to do. Leaving and all that stuff right now is not even my focus. Right now I’m just worried about LSU.”

Rigsby for 1:16 in the final stages of of the third period but it couldn’t get a good look at the net and AmsleyBenzie held onto the puck one more time, the final horn expired. Throughout the game only two penalties were whistled , and both of them came at the same time with matching minors in the early stages of the third period. So with no power plays during the game, the power play for Wisconsin — one of the best in the nation — never got a chance to come onto the ice. “You end up with zero on the scoreboard-you’re best chance to score is on the power play. If you don’t get any it makes it a little more challenging to score,” Johnson said. Fortunately for Wisconsin, as it came

into the game the second team in the pairwise rankings, it will have at least one more game this season in the first round of the NCAA tournament next weekend. Even though the Badgers still have life left in them in the postseason, they will have to learn from their mistakes to make a run in the NCAA tournament. “I’m OK with the way we played, but if we want to move on at this, you need to play better. If they take that away from the game, that’s a good lesson to learn. We’re fortunate to get another opportunity but that doesn’t mean we’ll be successful unless you can continue to learn,” Johnson said. “Hopefully some of the lessons we’ve learned the last couple weekends will make us a tough out.”

The Badger Herald | Sports | Monday, March 10, 2014 SEEDING, page 12 teams, Wisconsin is 5-1 while Villanova is 1-3. This can be looked at in two ways. First, all three of the Wildcats’ losses came against pretty good

champion (Green Bay) on the road. To go with all of that, Wisconsin has beaten 11 teams that have a strong chance to be in the field of 68 in late March. Villanova’s resume comes nowhere close to

Record: 23-8 | RPI: 3 vs. RPI Top-50: 12-7 Last 12: 8-4 Record: 28-3, 16-2 Big East RPI: 4 | SOS: 45 | vs. RPI Top-50: 5-3 | Last 12: 11-1 Record: 25-5, 16-1 ACC RPI: 8 | SOS: 29 | vs. RPI Top-50: 4-4 | Last 12: 11-1 Photo Courtesy of Rock Gjermo Wisconsin’s women’s apline ski team is headed to the United States Collegiate Ski Association 2014 National Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Alpine ski team set for nationals For 3rd time in 5 years, Wisconsin’s skiers are headed to championships Nick Daniels Senior Sports Writer For the past five years, the Wisconsin women’s alpine ski team has been in a rut of sorts — but if you ask them, it’s probably the best problem they could ever have. After finishing second in their regional qualifier Feb. 16, the Badgers landed a berth in the United States Collegiate Ski Association 2014 National Championships. The qualification marks the third time in the last five years that the team has made the trip to the National Championship — each trip separated by two years from the previous one. Still, even for members of the team that made the trip last time they qualified, going to Nationals doesn’t get old. “I’ve been skiing for forever and I love it,” junior skier Brenna Murray said. “So to get to continue doing it in college and to get to compete in Nationals again will be the best competition I’ve ever seen. I’m excited to go again.” Captained by Murray, the women’s alpine team will send a total of seven women, including Murray, Olivia Raedeke, Becca Frenz, Isabelle Cooperstein, Abby Noonan, Katie Rayer and Britta Gjermo, to the competition at Lake Placid, N.Y., on their quest for a National Championship. Lake Placid, located in the northern part of New York, once played host to the world’s best alpine skiers in the 1980 Winter Games. For the six Wisconsin women lucky enough to compete there this March, the competition may very well be on the exact same course that was used more than 30 years ago. While that prospect is more than enough motivation for Wisconsin as it hits crunch time in its preparation for Nationals, the difficulty that comes with a much more challenging, much longer course makes extensive preparation a must. “The courses will probably be very steep and depending on the conditions, it’s been a cold year, they’ll probably be pretty icy too,” head coach Dakota Dux said. “We’ll be practicing hard to make sure we are ready.” At the collegiate level, alpine skiing competitions take the form of two different events — Slalom and Giant Slalom — with the goal being to reach the bottom of the course as fast as possible, while also making sharp turns around poles, or “gates,” along the way.

But while the challenges the sport presents begin and end there for many of the teams that Wisconsin will face when it arrives at Lake Placid, it is only just the beginning for the Badgers. More than just a club At many of the top alpine skiing schools in the country, teams are funded — at least in part — by the school that hosts them. This means that the program covers travel, competition fees and many other intangibles, which in turn allows the athletes to focus on one thing: winning. “It usually allows teams to have a contingency of foreign racers,” Dux said. “When I raced here years ago, as an example, there was a guy from Sierra Nevada that I competed against, who graduated, and the next year he won a World Cup race. “These are serious, serious racers.” Competing as a club-level program, Wisconsin is faced with the difficult task of not only preforming at a high level when competition day comes, but also making sure that the team is able to compete in the first place. Each year the competitive season is kicked off with the Hoofers Annual Ski and Snowboard Resale — the first, but certainly not the last, fundraiser of the season — before they even hit the hills at nearby Tyrol Basin for the first time in December. Once the competitions begin, skiers have to cover the costs of their lift tickets at practice, as well as pay a large membership fee to help cover competition costs such as transportation, hotels, race dues and registration fees. For a successful team, as is the case this year, a berth in the National Championships alone can cost upwards of $400 per competitor. And yet, despite only being a club sport at the University of Wisconsin, Dux and his skiers don’t see the lack of funding as a hindrance — but rather a distinct advantage in helping the program to accomplish its biggest goal: to build a large UW community interested in the sport of alpine skiing. “One of our goals is to make skiing accessible to anyone and everyone,” Dux said. “Whether they have raced before or not, it is really fun seeing some of the best racers in the world compete and train with some people that have never raced before. Both groups really get a lot from the other group.” Even just two years ago — the last time Wisconsin qualified

for the National Championships — the alpine ski team consisted of nearly 40 skiers. Now, the team boasts a squad of 63 members, dwarfing in comparison the 12 racers that schoolfunded teams might have. For Murray — a competition skier since age six — it’s the camaraderie and different skill levels that you get on a big team, like Wisconsin’s, that makes the experience so unique. “I think it’s really fun to have the biggest team in our region,” Murray said. “Even though there are a lot of us, we get

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along really well.” Athletes covered in tradition Take a peek at the team’s Facebook page and its hard to miss — the worn out pink ski suit is in almost every picture. Held together by what appear to be safety pins and sporting large tears in the right leg and other rips everywhere else, the pink ski suit is also the oldest member on the team. Not even the coach, who competed at Wisconsin more than a decade ago, can remember where it came from. Senior Liv Raedeke wore the pink suit during Wisconsin’s regional at Marquette Mountain in February. Photo Courtesy of UW

Alpine Ski Team Senior Liv Raedeke wore the pink suit during Wisconsin’s regional at Marquette Mountain in February. where it came from.“It’s just one of those long standing traditions,” Dux said. “I’ve been with the team since 1999 and the suit’s been around since before me.” “It’s just one of those long standing traditions,” Dux said. “I’ve been with the team since 1999 and the suit’s been around since before me.” Acting like a trophy of sorts, the suit is worn during a day of competition by an athlete that suffered, what some might call a “blonde moment.” Some of the reasons might be as simple as losing the car keys to the team van, while others are deemed a bit too embarrassing to repeat out loud. “I remember, at one of the races we were trying to go to our team dinner and we had to spend an hour or two looking for a pair of van keys,” UW alpine director Mike Schrager said. “We had this bright science guy, who majored in physics and all this stuff, and he had the keys in his pocket. He wore the pink suit for that.” “There are lots of different ways to get the pink suit.” Regardless, the suit has become a symbol of just how close-knit the team is year in and year out. After all of the hard work and countless hours spent in Wisconsin’s polar vortex, it is these lasting friendships and memories each year that keep the skiers coming back for more. Well that, and another National Championship to qualify for.

Photo Courtesy of Rock Gjermo The pink suit is one of the oldest traditions that the club team honors.

Record: 25-6, 12-6 Big Ten RPI: 5 | SOS: 4 | vs. RPI Top-50: 8-3 | Last 12: 9-3 teams, which helps their case a little. But, in the four games against top25 teams, Villanova has struggled while Wisconsin has exceled. Wisconsin’s resume speaks for itself. The Badgers have beaten the ACC regular season champion (Virginia) on the road, the SEC regular season champion and No. 1 team (Florida), the Big Ten regular season champion (Michigan) on the road and the Horizon league

the accolades Wisconsin boasts. It beat Kansas and Iowa — both games played in November. Those two teams are a combined 11-9 in their last 10 games. Not so impressive any more. Whether Wisconsin wins the Big Ten Tournament or not, it is clear the Badgers are a legit threat for the No. 1 seed. So, maybe less time should be spent looking at bubbles and more time looking at one of the most impressive resumes in the country.

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‘Husked’ Away Nebraska puts an end to Wisconsin’s 8-game winning streak in 77-68 upset Spencer Smith Sports Editor The Nebraska men’s basketball team has been making its case as a legitimate threat in the Big Ten all season. Sunday night it made its biggest statement of the year in the Pinnacle Center with a 77-68 win over Wisconsin and very well may have punched its ticket to the NCAA Tournament. Terran Petteway and Shavon Shields combined for 52 of Nebraska’s (1911, 11-7 Big Ten) 77 points as the sophomores would score 26 apiece. Petteway picked up a double double with 10 boards. Wisconsin (25-6, 12-6) would get production out of its frontcourt as Frank Kaminsky led the Badgers with 14 points and eight rebounds while Nigel Hayes pitched in with 12 points. Four players scored in double figures for Bo Ryan’s club, but it would not be enough to stifle the Cornhuskers’ offense that shot 52 percent from the field. When time finally ran out on Wisconsin, the sellout crowd would pour from the seats to the court to celebrate the program’s most significant win since joining the Big Ten. Before the Badgers had their eight-game winning streak snapped and were swallowed by the Nebraska faithful, they owned a seven-point lead early in the second half

and looked to be on their way to put the game out of reach. But Shields and Petteway would put the Cornhuskers’ postseason hopes on their shoulder, scoring 14 and 17 secondhalf points respectively. With 9 minutes and 14 seconds left in the game, Wisconsin would own a 52-48 lead, but Nebraska would go on a 19-5 run that would put the Badgers in a hole they would never be able to dig out of. A large part of Nebraska’s late-game success came from the free-throw line where it would go 19 for 25 after failing to make a trip to the charity stripe the entire first half. The Cornhuskers would feed off the home crowd’s energy early and often, jumping out to a sevenpoint lead in the first half. A majority of Nebraska’s offensive success came off dribble penetrations to the basket that Wisconsin could not find an answer for. But, Wisconsin would battle back with a mix of long-range shots and slashes to the basket and would own a 35-33 lead heading into the locker room at halftime. Through the first 20 minutes, senior guard Ben Brust led the Badgers with eight points while UW would shoot 54 percent from the field as a team. In the second half, Wisconsin’s shooting would go cold, converting

Jennifer Gotrik The Daily Nebraskan Josh Gasser did his part with 11 points, 9 rebounds and ﬁve assists.

just 34 percent of its shots while Nebraska would continue to stay hot with its dribble penetrations resulted in a 50 percent shooting effort in the second half. It was an uncharacteristically sloppy game that would result in 11 turnovers from a Wisconsin team that averages just eight turnovers per game. Nebraska would take

advantage of the visitor’s mistakes converting those turnovers into 17 points. With the win, Nebraska clinched the fourth seed in the Big Ten Conference standings and ensured itself a bye in the conference tournament. Wisconsin had already sewed up the second spot in the Big Ten, but the loss will put a dent in its chances at a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

It’s that time of year again. The big dance is only two weeks away. Teams are trying their best to polish their resumes for the NCAA tournament selection committee and grown men suddenly have an insatiable fascination with bubbles. Wisconsin fans thankfully don’t have to sweat it out until selection Sunday to find out if they need their dancing shoes, but something much bigger is at stake for the Badgers next week. For the first time since the NCAA started seeding the tournament in 1979, Wisconsin can be a No. 1 seed. And they should be. But first, why does it matter if Wisconsin is a No. 1 seed? Aren’t we just splitting hairs between a one and two seed? Well, No. 1 seeds historically fair much better in the tournament than two seeds. Six of the last seven national champions have been a one seed and only three times since 1979 has there been a Final Four without a No. 1 seed. No. 2 seeds have won the National Championship just five times in the last 35 NCAA tournaments. And in the past 10 years, 15 No. 1 seeds have made the Final Four while 10 No. 2 seeds have made it to that third weekend. So, it is clear Wisconsin’s Final Four chances would significantly increase with a nod by the committee. Three of the four No. 1 slots are considered to be locked down by Florida, Wichita State and Arizona. The fourth and final spot is still wide open with three to five teams posing serious cases to fill it. Kansas, Villanova, Virginia, Duke and Wisconsin are seen as the major contenders to nab the last No. 1 seed. Kansas and Duke may have played their way out of the discussion over the weekend as the Jayhawks have lost two of their last three games and the Blue

Devils fell to Wake Forest a week ago. Virginia was starting to put some separation between it and the other potential No. 1 seeds, winning 13 games in a row, beating then-No. 4 Syracuse and taking the ACC regular season title. But the Cavaliers hurt their case Sunday, losing at Maryland in overtime. Meanwhile, Wisconsin has put itself square in the conversation for the final No.1 seed after a record-breaking start, grueling nonconference schedule an eight-game winning streak at the end of the season. The stretch where the Badgers lost five of six games in January including losses to Northwestern and Indiana hurts some, but that was more than a month ago and have gone on to beat three ranked teams — including Big Ten champion Michigan on the road — since that slump. Villanova has become Wisconsin’s biggest competitor now for the final No. 1 spot as the Wildcats have lost just three games all year and ended their regular season on a six-game winning streak. But, the Villanova plays in the new-look Big East Conference where quality opponents are few and far between compared to conferences like the Big Ten and Big 12. The Wildcats breezed through their conference schedule going 14-2, but both losses came to only other ranked team in the conference, Creighton. In fact, Villanova hasn’t beaten a top-25 team since Nov. 30 when it beat No. 23 Iowa in overtime at home. Since then it has played just two ranked opponents and lost both times. Villanova is ranked 4th in the RPI — an index used by the selection committee to evaluate teams — and has a strength of schedule that comes in at 45th. Wisconsin is 5th in the RPI rankings and owns an impressive strength of schedule (4th). But perhaps most telling is the Badgers success against ranked opponents versus the Wildcats’. Against RPI top-25

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North Dakota derails Wisconsin in WCHA semis UW blanked in 1-0 loss to UND in Final Face-Oﬀ in Bemidji, Minn. Dan Corcoran Sports Content Editor It only took a handful of seconds and with two swipes of her stick, Meghan Dufault ended Wisconsin’s hopes of going to the championship game of the WCHA Final Face-Off. Dufault’s late second period goal proved all North Dakota would need as goaltender Shelby Amsley-Benzie stopped all 35 shots she saw in UND’s 1-0 triumph over Wisconsin in the semifinals of the WCHA playoff tournament Friday afternoon at the Sanford Center in Bemidji, Minn. After the game Badgers’ head coach Mark Johnson called the game disappointing and although they played well

at times it wasn’t good enough. “Overall I thought we played OK, but this time of year OK isn’t good enough,” Johnson said. For almost the whole first period, Wisconsin (27-7-2) actually dominated outshooting North Dakota (20-11-4) 15-8. Of those 15 shots on target, several were quality scoring chances. With just about three minutes to go in the first period Wisconsin got what was one of its best looks at the net of the whole game when Madison Packer sent a centering pass from the right halfboards to Karley Sylvester point blank in front of the crease. Sylvester one-timed the pass but Amsley-Benzie slid from left to right in her crease and stopped Sylvester in her tracks. Another great chance for Wisconsin came in the first period when Ammerman broke in on net on a breakaway but

again, Amsley-Benzie came up with a huge save to keep the game knotted at one. With Amsley-Benzie standing on her head in net, it only took the one chance from Dufault with 3:14 to go in the second period to provide UND with enough to win the game. After Wisconsin turned the puck over at its own blue line, Dufault steamed in on net and fired at Badger goaltender Alex Rigsby who managed to get a piece of the original shot. Unfortunately for Rigsby and Wisconsin the rebound came right back to Dufault and from left of the goal, Dufault shoved the puck home for the only goal of the game, which helped sway the momentum almost completely in North Dakota’s favor. “We kind of played like we were defeated for a bit. There was a change of momentum and we tried to regroup

Chris Lotten The Badger Herald Wisconsin junior forward Karley Sylvester tied for a team-high 6 shots as UW outshot UND 35-24 Friday.

in between periods and come back and try to gain momentum back to our advantage,” Rigsby said.

As has been the case for Wisconsin in its last four games now, that first goal has been of

crucial importance. The team that has scored first

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