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Monday, April 7, 2014

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Wisconsin’s run to the Final Four for the first time in 14 years ended Saturday in a 1-point loss to a young Kentucky team. With only one starter graduating and a taste of play on the big stage, the Badgers are already eyeing next year’s tournament.

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Fans take State; MPD arrests few Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor

City police arrested about a dozen people in what they called a fairly tame night following a devastating Final Four loss Saturday.

Last weekend’s events led Madison Police Department to increase its forces in preparation for the outcome of the game against University of Kentucky, Joel DeSpain, MPD spokesperson, said. However, the magnitude was not comparable to last weekend, he said.

DeSpain said about a dozen people were arrested Saturday for various reasons, including for starting small fires and fights.

A suspect who attempted to set what appeared to be a Kentucky jersey on fire was arrested at the scene, and several other cases of fires were reported around campus although DeSpain said he was unsure of the specific locations at the time.

University of Wisconsin Police Department made no arrests directly related to the incidents following the game, UWPD spokesperson Marc

Lovicott said.

“There were a few incidents, but overall we were really happy with how fans reacted,” Lovicott said.

Lovicott said at least two suspects were arrested by MPD, cited and released on the State Street area for fight-related incidents.

Lovicott said few injuries were reported.

After a few patrons began throwing cans in the crowd in front of State Street Brats, a person was struck in the head with a beer can, DeSpain said.

He said another person cut their hand on broken glass, but those were the only two patients cared for by Madison Fire Department. Both were taken away by ambulance, he said.

For the first time this year, MPD engaged their mounted unit on horses, which was helpful in clearing the street, DeSpain said.

“So by and all, it was a fairly successful night,” DeSpain said. “If you take a look at the thousands of people in the area who didn’t cause any trouble, we were very pleased by the way things went when you look at the big picture.”

Courtesy of Lukas Keapproth Zac Court reacts on State Street after the Badgers’ loss against the Kentucky Wildcats. In the game’s aftermath, police arrested about a dozen people.

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State ranked worst for Black children Report shows low levels of opportunity for youth of color seeking financial and educational equality in Wis. Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor

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Several recent reports have highlighted the vast inequalities children of color face in Wisconsin, and a new national report ranks Wisconsin the worst place to live as a Black child seeking financial and educational equality.

The report, compiled by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, titled “Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children,” measured children’s opportunities in 12 distinct areas including education, financial security and home life.

In the areas measured, Wisconsin ranked 50th

for Black children, 37th for Asian children, 17th for Latino children and 10th for white children in terms of overall opportunity.

Linda Hoskins, president of the Madison NAACP chapter, said the issues encountered by minority children need to be addressed in homes and in schools.

“There are major issues that need to be looked at, and it all starts in the home itself,” Hoskins said.

Family issues such as unemployment, crime and mental health are at the root of many longterm issues for children of color, and Hoskins said services must be created to provide for a strong

and financially-stable household. These services include access to job training for parents and affordable health care for the entire family, she said.

The report found that 70 percent of white children in Wisconsin live in households with incomes at or above 200 percent of the poverty level, while 20 percent of black children have that level of financial security. This lack of basic economic stability can be a trap for individuals working to make it out of poverty, Hoskins said.

Outside of individual families’ economic situations, the report showed problems in Wisconsin’s education

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“When you scale it all back, this doesn’t shock people who live in poverty — it shocks those who don’t,” Johnson said.

“I get tired of hearing these numbers. We have the data, we know what the issues are but now what are we going to do to address them? We have a lot of children that are struggling in this community and we need a bold and ambitious plan to address the disparities that exist.”

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According to the report, white middle school students are six times more likely to be at proficient math levels by eighth grade than Black students, and white fourth graders are three times more likely to be at proficient reading levels than Black children.

Hoskins said many of the issues children of color face are in the classroom. She called for a total reframing in the way Wisconsin’s education system deals with minority students, calling for a solution that approaches the problem with “pride, dignity and respect.”

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Powwow highlights city’s native culture Andrew Newman Herald Contributor

In a celebration of traditions, students and community members were able to experience authentic Native American culture at the annual University of Wisconsin Spring Powwow this weekend.

The event was hosted this weekend by Wunk Sheek, a UW Native American student organization, and featured performances by several members of local Native American tribes.

Nichole Boyd, the student services coordinator at the UW Center for Academic Affairs and one of the planners for this year’s powwow, said a lot of effort was put into ensuring that local tribes in Wisconsin would be invited and able to attend.

The head staff of the event is composed of members of the attending tribes and includes a head man, head lady, head veteran or spiritual leader, color guard, arena director, emcee, host drum and invited drum, Boyd said.

Many institutions at UW help coordinate the annual powwow, Boyd said.

“This is about the

44th year of the Spring Powwow at the UW,” Boyd said. “It used to be coordinated by the Native American student org… [but] my department decided that it should be the university’s responsibility to take on the logistical tasks of planning a powwow.”

Boyd said there was an achievement gap regarding academic success when the student organization was solely responsible for coordinating the event.

By taking over the basics of the event planning, Boyd said her department hoped to take pressure off the students. The students are still heavily involved in the planning, but now the department handles all of the logistical tasks, she said.

Dylan Jennings, Wunk Sheek former president, said the logistical tasks include writing grants and money requests, contacting numerous department heads and staff and finalizing location, food and vendors.

“They really did a lot and ... people will see all of this work and how positive of an event the powwow is,” Jennings said.

The event seeks to educate the greater

population about Native American powwow culture, Jennings said.

At the event, vendors sold hand-made art and traditional foods, he said.

This event is important to Madison’s historic culture and powwows are meant to generate healing and positivity through dancing, traditional ceremonial items and the native languages being spoken, Boyd said.

“This is something the students take great pride in,” Boyd said. “It’s a chance for them to bring their family down to their university and an opportunity to share the UW community with the Native American community.”

Jennings said events like this force people to learn and internalize different aspects of another culture.

When people attend the event, stereotypes and misconceptions about native people are diminished upon sitting in the crowd and learning from the experience, Jennings said.

“It has always been very important to make the greater campus and community aware of the existence and strength of our Native peoples and our culture,” Jennings said.

After noticing a lack of support for foster children on campus, University of Wisconsin student Beau Vande Walle decided to take action and create Together We Rise this spring.

Together We Rise is part of a national nonprofit organization, for which Vande Walle previously interned. He said he, along with his roommate Ben Rangel, founded the organization on UW’s campus this semester.

At a national level, the nonprofit organization provides solutions to address the needs of children in foster care programs in America, Vande Walle, the current president of the UW chapter, said. “‘We are an American family, and we rise or fall as one nation and as one people’ is a quote that the national [organization] uses,” Vande Walle said.

As a national organization, the group’s aims to improve the lives of foster children in America so they do not feel forgotten or neglected by the public as well as transform their foster care experience, its website says.

Until the UW chapter of Together We Rise started, Vande Walle said there was not an organization on campus that specifically provided aid to children in foster care.

Because the organization is so new on campus, most of their activity contributes to the larger Together We Rise program through fundraisers, Daniel Roque, the organization’s recruitment officer, said.

In the future, Roque said they hope to hold events that will bring some foster care kids to campus and show people the effects not having a parent has on these children. The

group also hopes to plan events where students can volunteer at local foster care homes next semester, he said.

“We started the org because we noticed foster care was an area that was overlooked when it came to helpful organizations on campus,” Roque said.

Although the profits being made by the organization currently benefit the larger national group, Vande Walle said the organization plans to get involved with local foster homes in Dane County.

Vande Walle said the group has a diverse membership base with many different backgrounds and majors.

He said all the members are united by their shared attraction to the philanthropic cause of benefiting foster children.

Roque said he has a cousin who was adopted, which helped him realize how different lives of children in foster care are and how fortunate his cousin is.

“I have a soft spot for kids,” Roque said. “I truly believe that given the right environment, any kid can excel and live up to their true potential.”

Vande Walle said besides creating a sense of self-efficacy by helping children in need, Together We Rise helps members with professional skills like planning, organizing and executing fundraising events.

Currently the group’s numbers are only in the 20s, but Vande Walle said the group plans to increase recruitment efforts next semester.

Although it is currently a small organization, it is benefiting an important cause, Roque said.

“Foster care itself is extremely important and as UW students we should show support for the town and its future,” Roque said.

Future of Bucks’ stadium must be addressed by 2017 Charlie Burnett

Herald Contributor After almost a year of debate, little progress has been made toward building a replacement arena for the aging BMO Harris Bradley Center, home of the Milwaukee Bucks.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced in September that the current arena does not meet the league’s stadium standards. The Bucks’ lease on the Bradley Center expires in 2017, which has become the de facto deadline to have plans in place for a new arena.

“Silver has declared that the Bucks’ situation has to change.

Otherwise, there could be future ramifications. Basically,

there has to be considerable progress or at least a plan in place by 2017,” Paul Henning, spokesperson for the organization Save Our Bucks, said.

The Bradley Center, which receives state funding through grants, brought in $20.7 million in state revenue in fiscal year 2013, according to a statement released by the Bradley Center.

As far as basketball stadiums go however, the Bucks’ stadium is a “senior citizen,” Steve Costello, president of the BMO Harris Bradley Center, said in the statement.

“It is becoming more and more difficult to maintain the building — and a stable fiscal position — amid the challenges that we face,” Costello said.

“The uncertainty surrounding the Center’s future adds to our challenges, and we are trying to do what we can with extremely limited resources.”

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce is overseeing the planning of the new arena, which could cost anywhere between $400 and $500 million, Ted Kellner, MMAC chair, said.

Wealthy Wisconsinites have pledged private funding, including team owner Herb Kohl, but Henning, Kellner and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett agree that a certain amount of public funding will be necessary for the completion of the project.

“Right now [the MMAC] is

still trying to come up with a plan to fund this complex.

There have been conversations about different funding sources that can be very controversial,” Barrett said. “My perception is that [they hope] they can come up with something that will be palatable for people from many counties in southeastern Wisconsin.”

Given Wisconsin’s recent history with similar projects, Barrett said acquiring public funding will take a lot of work and compromise.

When Miller Park was built in Milwaukee in 2000, revenue was created by a 0.1 percent increase in sales tax for Wisconsinites living in surrounding counties, an increase that is still in place.

Former Sen. George Petak, R-Racine, voted positively on the tax and was recalled as a result, Henning said.

Kellner said the arena is relevant beyond keeping the Bucks in Milwaukee, as the stadium will have major economic benefits for the surrounding communities.

“Most [stadium projects] take place with development around them, and that’s what we’re focusing on — not just the [BMO Harris] Bradley Center, but development that might be an offshoot,” Kellner said.

Henning pointed to a recent NCAA basketball tournament game at the Bradley Center as evidence of economic benefits.

He said 6,000 hotels rooms

were rented, contributing to the combined $5 million of revenue created in one weekend.

However, Henning also said drumming up support for a new arena is difficult because the current arena is still functional.

The main issues with the current arena are a leaky roof and a water system that is in need of replacement, Henning said. The BMO Harris Bradley Center is the 29th oldest arena in the NBA. Beyond funding, few details of the new arena have been discussed. Decisions yet to be made include where the future site of the arena will be located as well as its size and amenities, Kellner said.

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Study shows caloric reduction may lower mortality Primates not under restricted diet show greater age-related disease probability Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor

A University of Wisconsin study goes beyond implementing calorierestricted fad dieting as a way to stay fit and takes a deep look into the origins of agerelated disease susceptibility.

The recent primate study suggests mortality reduction is related to restricted caloric intake, according to the latest results of a 25-year study of the effect of diet on the age in primates, Ricki Coleman, a senior scientist at the Wisconsin Primate Center and lead researcher of the study, said.

Wisconsin’s study of 76 rhesus monkeys analyzed each individual specimen’s eating habits over a period of three to six months prior to beginning dietary restriction, Coleman said. After the initial period of observation,

38 monkeys experienced a caloric reduction of 30 percent, and the remaining specimens were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, she said.

Monkeys that were not under restriction showed risk of age-related disease 2.9 times greater than their counterparts who experienced caloric reduction, Coleman said.

The results UW researchers found contradict those of a previous study conducted by the National Institute on Aging that found no correlation between caloric reduction and age, Coleman said.

So far experts established that the studies diverged in the categories of study design, genetics, age of specimens and composition of the diet, she said.

Rozalyn Anderson, corresponding author for the study and assistant professor of geriatrics, said the proximity of the Primate Center to the William S. Memorial Veterans’ Hospital made Madison the ideal location for using rhesus

monkeys to conduct a study on aging.

The ongoing study has been conducted at Wisconsin National Primate Research Center since 1989, according to a statement from UW. A major contribution to the study’s success was the expanse of knowledge on the topic of caloric restriction, Anderson said.

Robert Weindruch, another lead researcher of the study who has been working with the project since its origin, said he has studied caloric reduction since 1975.

His original study focused mainly on rodents and he said as time progressed and technology advanced, his research was made more applicable to other species.

This included Anderson’s previous work with singlecelled organisms, he said.

Throughout history, people have been interested in ways to dodge aging and caloric reduction is one of the few interventions that seems to work in multiple different species, Anderson said.

Anderson said it is difficult

Courtesy of University Communications The research has garnered interest from many news outlets, including Fox News, the New York Times and Cosmopolitan.

ethically to apply the study directly to humans, but there are ways the specific mechanisms of their results can be used in practice and are being considered.

“By finding a model for human aging that is as good as the recent monkey one

is, we’re going to open up avenues for investigation,” she said. “It gives them the place to start looking for how to delay aging or agerelated disease in humans.”

Interest in the study ranges from coverage by Fox

Television, a spread in the New York Times and even interviews from Cosmopolitan, Anderson said.

Although the study focuses primarily on the prevention of age-related diseases, Anderson said the results attract a broad audience with

varying interest.

“Basically, it’s of interest. It means by changing eating habits you can change the rate of aging,” Anderson said. “In maintaining youth as age advances, that’s the holy grail for places like Cosmopolitan.”

Madison resident aims to marathon in all continents Eden Finer

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Courtesy of Kelly Parish Parish needs to run marathons in Asia and South America to complete her goal.

After finishing a marathon raising money for animal rescue in Antarctica, a Madison runner has now completed marathons on five different continents in pursuit of her long-term goal to run a race on every continent.

Kelly Parish, a Madison resident and technical writer at Epic, recently traveled to Antarctica to run a marathon, which raised money for Heartland Farm Sanctuary.

Heartland is Wisconsin’s only sanctuary dedicated to farm animal rescue and a resource of animalassisted therapy programs for children with special needs, at-risk youth and vulnerable populations, a statement from Heartland said.

Parish has done community service with Heartland and said she

chose to donate the money she raised to them because of the work they do not only with animals but with special needs children as well.

“They rescue neglected and abused animals without homes and then they also have therapy animals for kids. They have a lot of programs, like summer camps for kids, and take animals to nursing homes and things like that,” Parish said. “They are a great operation, and I thought they really deserved the fundraiser.”

So far Parish’s fundraiser has raised $1,863. Her original goal was $1,000.

Parish said the marathon in Antarctica consisted of two different groups of 100 runners each.

Parish faced many challenges upon arrival in Antarctica, mainly regarding the muddy terrain and bleak weather.

Even though Parish had

trained on snow and ice in Madison, she said the mud was a surprise.

Parish said she was not sure what weather to be prepared for so she packed for a range of zero to 40 degrees and was met with muddy, sleety and windy weather, which was not ideal for marathon running.

On top of the weather, Parish said it was more hilly than she had imagined, with a number of short steep hills. Because of all these factors, she said the runners’ times were all about an hour slower than they normally would be under ideal conditions.

“It ended up being quite muddy, as well as sleety and rainy and really windy, obviously not ideal conditions for a marathon,” Parish said. “It took me four hours and 54 minutes [to complete the race] and my normal time is about three hours and 51 minutes, so it

was about an hour slower like they said it would be.”

Traveling was an additional challenge for Parish. Getting to Antarctica required flying to South America and then taking a boat for two-and-a-half days to the final destination, she said.

Because of the long travel time, she said she did not have a chance to acclimate to the location or continue to physically prepare during the days leading up to the race.

Despite the conditions, Parish was able to take second place in her race group.

Parish said she is unsure whether she will run again in support of a fundraiser, but wants to continue running marathons and half-marathons.

“I’d like to keep doing marathons and traveling,” Parish said.

Only Asia and South America remain for Parish.

Plants use calcium in stress response Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor

While plants and humans have little in common, a team of University of Wisconsin Department of Botany researchers were “astonished” after accidentally discovering calcium plays a similar role in each.

A new form of probe technology was used as a constant to study how plants react to stress and surprised a team of researchers led by professor Simon Gilroy when it began displaying rapid calcium transmission waves, similar to calcium’s role in neurotransmission.

“The microscope we work with is on the other end of the building, and this was one of those times when they came down to this end of the building and said, ‘You’ve gotta come and have a look at this,’” Gilroy said. “Because it was absolutely awesome when we saw it.”

The sensor changes color from green to red when calcium is present, according to a UW statement. When the team applied stress to the plants, the sensor would repeatedly emit a wave of red traveling rapidly from the roots to the top of the plant, Gilroy said.

The research team believes the evidence of calcium waves produced by the new machinery suggests plants use the chemical to transfer sensory information quickly over long distances, for example, from root to shoot or an injured leaf to a healthy leaf, Dirk Spencer, a sophomore studying genetics at UW who has worked on the study for more than a year, said.

“If an insect starts nibbling on one leaf of a plant, very quickly, the whole plant starts switching on defense responses,” Spencer said.

“We’ve known about those phenomena for a very long time, but we didn’t really have any of the machinery regarding how that local thing that’s happening to the plant gets transmitted to the rest of the plant.”

Gilroy and his team will study the specifics about which molecules and genes cause these signals, he said.

After they establish this, he said they think they will be able to determine how reactionary systems in plants work.

The team hopes to determine what this means in regards to the plant deciding what specific reaction processes to employ after these signals are sent, Gilroy said. However, he said these questions are far from being answered.

Spencer said his procedural responsibility in continuing the study includes inserting sensory protein into plants, identifying the plants exhibit the protein in the most efficient way and then adding different stimuli to the plants and observing the plants reaction.

By determining which genes are active in these reactions, they are trying to connect specific calcium signals to certain stimuli, Spencer said.

As the study progresses, Spencer said the Global Health Institute on campus could benefit from this connection between understanding how plants cope with a stressful environment because it could be helpful in regards to food security around the world.

Courtesy of City of Madison Arts Commission Planning for the park began in the 1970s as a way to revitalize the area, and about $4.3 million has been contributed to its development.

Central Park set to open this year Chantal Cowie

Herald Contributor After more than 40 years, plans for Madison’s Central Park on the near East side have gained momentum with the possibility of opening the park later this year.

The planning for the park first began in the 1970s when city planners wanted a way to revitalize the area, located six blocks east of Capitol Square among historic residential neighborhoods and an employment center.

The Urban Open Space Foundation designated the development of Central Park as the centerpiece of its open space initiative in Madison, according to the city’s website. The city created the Central Park Design and Implementation Task Force in 2007 to make the park a reality, the website said.

While the Center for Resilient Cities started the process more than

20 years ago, much of the land they bought was eventually turned over to the Madison Parks Division, Laura Whitmore, division spokesperson, said. The division acquired the two acres of land that is expected to open by the end of the year for $1.6 million, she said.

The city has collected $3.1 million in federal funding and has contributed $1.2 million to the development of the park, Whitmore said.

The first phase of the plan includes grading the pathways and building a restroom, Whitmore said. A second phase includes the creation of a crossing, with an entrance to the park that crosses a railway track and a skate park, she said. She said the plans also include the eventual building of a skatepark.

Whitmore said the budget for the features was $750,000 dollars including $300,000 from the city and $450,000

from donors. City planners envisioned 10 acres of land for the master plan of the park, but they currently only have two, she said.

Once the park is complete, Whitmore said the Eastside Farmer’s Market may move to it. The park will be used for music festivals and local food events featuring local chefs, she said.

“I think it will be a fabulous venue for a number of things,” Whitmore said.

“We’ll just have to see how it goes, but given its location, it certainly has the potential to hold a lot of events.”

Along with a local chef event, a concert series three Thursday nights in July was also discussed in the planning process, she said.

Kay Rutledge, City of Madison parks development manager, said commercial city facilities surround the park to the west while residential neighborhoods are to the east. She said she anticipates positive reactions

from the public.

“I hope it will be wellutilized and well-loved by the city,” Rutledge said.

The park went through a lengthy multiple task force planning process to decide on the park’s amenities, and city planners are currently moving toward the execution of the long-term plans, Rutledge said.

The city website said the plans for the park will transform the area and encourage creative economic development.

“We believe Madison can serve as a national example of a mid-sized city using healthy, sustainable place-building to support economic and neighborhood development,” the website said. “For the first time in almost 40 years we are in a position to design, engineer and build Central Park. We believe it will be an exemplar for placemaking where people can play, learn, grow and are inspired to create.”

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Badger fans win with class, lose with dignity Nolan Beilstein Columnist

Due to the insanity that occurred last weekend as University of Arizona students rioted angrily in the streets after their loss to the Badgers in the Elite Eight game, the Tucson Police Department decided to take action by seeing how other campus police officers handle the post-game action. The TPD sent an officer from its command staff to four cities total: Mansfield, Lexington, Gainesville and Madison. The officer in Madison was able to observe how our campus police handled the action on State Street.

After Wisconsin defeated Arizona last week, angry students flooded the streets at the University of Arizona as their team’s hopes of a NCAA championship were shattered. Rioting students were especially angry about a certain call that went against Arizona in the final 2.3 seconds, giving Wisconsin the ball and a sure spot in the Final Four.

According to the UA newspaper, The Wildcat, the police declared the mass of students, “an unlawful assembly” and set about dispersing the crowd.

Numerous sources, including the Associated Press, ESPN and Fox News provided details and eyewitness accounts about that night.

However, unlike the calm behavior by our police on

State Street, the Arizona police, possibly preparing for the worst, arrived in riot gear and found it necessary to clear the streets, reportedly using pepper spray, pepper canisters and pepper balls. A video of an officer “knocking down a young woman merely walking with friends” has circulated, no doubt causing the TPD untold grief and angering students and citizens. In all fairness, some of the Arizona students threw beer and sparklers at law enforcement personnel creating a more violent and hostile environment than we experienced here. Nobody died, but injuries and arrests happened.

It was a different story in Madison as more than 10,000 Badger fans erupted out of different venues and campus locations and headed to State Street to celebrate the team’s first qualification to the Final Four in 14 years. All of those students and probably a few non-students arrived and not one sign of violence, not one arrest, not one serious injury occurred; only some citations were handed out. University and city police were on hand and visible, but our police chose to handle the situation in a much more peaceful and, compared to TPD, passive manner.

As a student who went to celebrate on State Street, I can honestly say that “amazing” describes the sight I saw.

Everywhere you looked there were ecstatic, cheerful

Andy Fate The Badger Herald Students congregate on State Street following the Badger’s victory last week, a peaceful gathering compared to that of the University of Arizona.

students celebrating a victory. I observed police exhibiting concern for student safety as they cleared people off of the overhead construction walkways.

When the celebration began to wane, the local authorities used bullhorns and general comments to clear people off of the street and send them home.

And even though the Badgers could not pull out the victory this past

Saturday, the sights on State Street that night did not even come close to the scenes in Arizona last weekend.

Although students did make the trek to State Street Saturday, and some minor incidents occurred, overall the scene was calm. Even though the masses did not go to celebrate, and anger and disappointment were tangible, the majority did not let those feelings

result in violence or anything that would require the police to take action (such as gathering around a burning couch, as the victorious Kentucky fans did following the Elite Eight victory).

I have come to the conclusion that we, Badger students and fans, simply have too much pride to stoop down the levels of fans that treat games more than what they are

and let a loss affect our maturity and sanity.

Of course, we would have loved to see a championship, but we have made it clear that, as Wisconsin fans, when we win, we d0 so with class, and like on Saturday, we lose with dignity.

Nolan Beilstein (beilstein@wisc.edu) is a freshman majoring in journalism and math education.

ACROSS PARTY LINES Groups united in support of Responsible Action Bill College Republicans and College Democrats Imagine you are Jason, an economics major at University of Wisconsin.

Your friend Jack is visiting from UW-Whitewater and you are determined to show him a good time.

So far tonight has been pretty fun, filled with lots of laughs and catching up on high school drama. You start out with a few beers in your dorm room, then hear about a party off campus in the infamous “sophomore slums.” You arrive at the party and decide to play a few drinking games, and suddenly you both become a lot more social. The host of the party tells Jack that if he can finish six shots in a row, he’ll invite him to another party tomorrow

night. Of course, Jack could not turn down the offer, and down went the six shots.

Ten minutes later, the police arrive and the night takes a turn for the worse. The excessive amount of alcohol finally hits your friend and he begins vomiting on your way out of the party.

Then, he passes out on the sidewalk.

You try everything you can to wake Jack up, and you are extremely worried about him, but he will not move. You consider calling an ambulance for Jack, but since you’re still off-campus, you could get an underage drinking ticket from the Madison police. There’s also the chance that you and Jack could get arrested. Out

of fear and helplessness, you decide to leave Jack.

Luckily for Jack, the police that arrived at the party soon find him and bring him to Detox, but the situation could have been much worse. Jack could have died.

Many college students refuse to realize the dangers of drinking, and like Jason, assume their friends will sleep off the effects of the alcohol and be OK in the morning, without police or medical intervention.

The truth is that people can and do die from alcohol poisoning. As students at UW, a school found at the top of almost every “party school” ranking, many of us have found ourselves in situations similar to the

hypothetical one above, playing either the role of Jason or Jack. While we, the College Democrats and the College Republicans, are not trying to discourage drinking altogether, we are instead making a stand for the safe consumption of alcohol.

In order to do this, safeguards for underage students who choose to drink are necessary to ensure collective safety at UW. All too often, students drink too much and are therefore in need of medical assistance. When drinking with friends, this can lead to an uncomfortable situation, ultimately ending in a friend having to make the challenging

decision whether or not to get the police involved. If a friend does call and the Madison police answer the call instead of UW Police Department, the friend that called in could also face consequences, usually in the form of an underage drinking ticket.

In order to avoid the difficult choice between ensuring a friend’s safety and looking out for oneself, both the College Democrats and College Republicans of UW have come out in bipartisan support for a Responsible Action Bill that was presented by the Associated Students of Madison. This bill would prohibit Madison police from arresting and ticketing

a student who is intoxicated alongside a friend that is in need of medical intervention and calls for help to protect their friend from alcohol poisoning. While the UWPD already has these restrictions, the Madison Police Department does not.

The Responsible Action Bill does not intend to incentivize underage drinking or create a loophole for irresponsible students, but instead encourages and helps students to make collective safety a priority.

The College Democrats and the College Republicans agree that passing legislation that saves lives and makes our campus a safer place is vital to an enjoyable experience here at UW.

Fort Hood attack could have been prevented Theresa Cooley Columnist

Fort Hood. If you’re in the army, you pass through the base at some point in time.

And many of us, especially those who have loved ones currently serving or now retired from the armed forces, are still reeling from the news of the most recent attack on Fort Hood.

On April 2, Spc. Ivan Lopez opened fire on other soldiers at Fort Hood, which operates under regulations that prohibit soldiers from bearing arms. Thus, Lopez’s attack on the base was uncontested until the military police could be called in to subdue Lopez.

In the meantime, 16 were injured and three soldiers slain. The names of the three soldiers were Sgts.

Daniel Ferguson, 39; Carlos Lazaney-Rodriguez, 38; and Timothy Owens, 37.

One of the attack’s most disturbing elements is that these men, because of U.S. regulations, had no weapons to defend themselves, and that these precise circumstance also led to the deaths of 13 unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. In that year, Nidal Hasan opened fire during the first attack on Fort Hood in what would become the single largest act of terror executed on a United States military base. Hasan’s slaughter of American soldiers was atrociously labeled an act of “workplace violence,” however, rather than an act of terror. As a result, not only were Hasan’s victims powerless to fight back,

but those who survived were unable to claim compensation for living through an act of terror.

“Workplace violence” is also the status being given to Lopez’s attack on Fort Hood. Imagining our respect-worthy, welltrained soldiers running for cover because they cannot retaliate. However, I cannot agree that either massacre qualifies as “workplace violence.” Soldiers are trained to handle weapons, and they should be given the respect to carry the weapons they’ve earned the responsibility of bearing.

Instead, their weapons are stripped and they are left vulnerable to anyone who, like Lopez, would have the audacity to smuggle illegal weapons for an assault on the base.

Lopez knew he could take advantage of our unarmed soldiers, and he did, but according to Fox News, military leaders are standing firmly beside the policy of forbidding personal firearms on bases.

To this extent, I do not disagree; personal firearms can be required to be registered upon entering a military base. But complete disarmament of soldiers or forcing soldiers to leave their weapons in their trucks? Even before these attacks, such absurdity cannot be justified.

No one has more right to argue this point than 2009 Fort Hood attack survivor, retried Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford.

Lunsford, who was shot

by Hasan seven times and survived, was interviewed

by TheBlaze following the

April 2 rampage: “TheBlaze: ‘You were shot in that ‘workplace violence’ … Is there any reason you can think of that’s reasonable that you weren’t allowed to have a gun?

Lunsford: I think that, well I know, had I had a gun that day, Major Hasan would not be at Fort Leavenworth right now.

TheBlaze: So if you’re sitting there at Fort Hood, and this happens a second time, what are you thinking?

Lunsford: I’m thinking that someone needs to wise up. We in the military have a thing that they say, ‘lessons learned’ … if it happened one time, odds are someone’s gonna get brave enough and try it again … How many times are we going to exercise

the fact that we are expendable and just let these things happen and in the aftermath say, ‘Well, I’m sorry for your loss?’

That doesn’t cut it because people die. Give us the right to defend ourselves because that’s what we’re trained to do.”

Our troops should be armed. Of all people, how can we not trust our troops to bear arms? Our soldiers’ safety is our priority as much as ours is their priority, and our troops need to be able to protect themselves.

We all know the adage, but maybe it’s time to relearn it: Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.

Theresa Cooley (tcooley@ wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in English.

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bellydancing finds home at UW Nathaniel Scharping ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

The seven dancers stride confidently across the floor, brightly colored veils billowing regally behind them. They stop and twirl, once, twice, before launching into an intricately choreographed routine of sinuous hip movements and undulations.

Led by instructor Mona N’wal, the members of Bellydancing UW are in Union South practicing for a show later this April. The club, which is in its 14th year on campus, offers lessons to interested participants, as well as an opportunity to perform at one of its many community appearances.

Originating in the Middle East, bellydancing was first popularized in the United States during the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 when traditional dancers were hired to perform. The dance style gained popularity in the U.S. as a cabaret and nightclub attraction and has remained relevant to this day.

Bellydancing is an amazingly versatile form of dancing, Bellydancing UW president Audrey Marquardt said. Although routines are traditionally performed to classical Oriental or Middle Eastern music, the club

frequently choreographs routines to modern music, such as Ellie Goulding or world fusion group Beats Antique.

“A lot of bellydancing is about hitting a beat,” Marquardt said. Give them a song with a strong beat, like “Burn,” and the club members can create a bellydance routine around it.

Sharp, staccato movements like hip drops and shimmies emphasize the beat of the song when performed in time, while fluid, joint-defying undulations involving the whole body fill out slower or more rhythmic sections.

The music selection for their upcoming spring show April 12th illustrates how flexible bellydance routines can be.

The playlist is composed of a surprising range of genres, with everything from classical Oriental songs to ’50s pop to the Sleigh Bells represented.

This adaptability is one of bellydancing’s greatest strengths, according to Marquardt. Not only can they perform to a wide range of music, the compositions themselves are receptive to many styles of dance. Elements of jazz, ballet and even hiphop dancing appear in their routines.

The club members are open to incorporating other styles of dance into their

routines. N’wal said she even has to occasionally hold the members back from straying too far from authentic bellydancing.

Marquardt said that the openness and inclusiveness of bellydancing are what appeal to her most.

Bellydancing is bodypositive, she said, due to its low impact and emphasis on controlled movements.

“It’s different than ballet where you need to be railthin to look good,” she said.

Instead of demanding a specific kind of dancer or dance style, bellydancing draws much of its strength and appeal from including a wide range of people and styles.

Many members have dance experience in jazz or ballet, Marquardt said, and their training comes through in their dancing. “Everyone’s dance background influences how they perform,” she said. In addition, everyone finds moves and routines that appeal to them individually,

she said. Personally, she prefers Mayas, fluid lateral movements of the hips that draw their name from the Egyptian word for water.

How do you go about making a bellydancing routine? Marquardt said that it all starts with the song. She begins by listening to a song over and over again “like 50 million times.”

Dancers must approach a piece with an emotion or feeling, Marquardt said. “I try to put my personality into a piece,” she said.

Moves with names like hip drops, chest lifts and shoulder shimmies reveal the percussive nature of bellydancing. Performed in time with the music, the sharp movements add a visual element to the beat that elevates the impact of the music. Dancers repeat and embellish moves much like musicians use repetitive phrases in their music.

Bellydancing costumes are another way for dancers to make a statement. The traditional costume is

composed of decorated tops and flowing skirts, leaving the stomach bare to show off the unique shimmies, rolls, lifts and drops that define the dance style.

Flashy coins and bangles on skirts and tops add sparks of color and bright jingles to the movements. According to Marquardt, Bellydancing UW makes the majority of their costumes, adding colorful fabric, coins and decorations to tops and skirts. It is a chance for individual dancers to define their style, Marquardt said.

The skirts function both as an accessory that emphasizes spins and turns and as a means of concealing some of the “magic” behind bellydancing, Marquardt said. Many of the hip and stomach motions are actually created by moving the knees, so concealing them adds to the mesmerizing effect.

Bellydancing UW’s biggest performance is the Spring Show, going down

April 12th at the Monona Terrace at 7:30 p.m. The event includes a cash bar and raffle. It also features workshops during the day and performances in the evening by the club and featured performers. This year’s headliner is Isidora Hart, an internationally recognized dancer and instructor. The show is an opportunity to showcase a broad range of bellydancing styles, Marquardt said.

The club has been hard at work preparing for the show. Marquardt said she has been practicing three or four days a week to get ready. The practice is demanding, but at Thursday practices the members smile and laugh as they perform, breaking into spontaneous dance breaks between songs. This enthusiasm for joyful movement is what unites the members of the club with each other and with bellydancers across the world.

“It just feels good,” N’wal said.

Photo courtesy of Bill Tricomi Hours of practice will culminate in Bellydancing UW’s Spring Show on April 12, which will feature colorful skirts and mesmerizing dance sequences.

Gramatik returns with vengeance Cam Ariana

ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Electronic DJ and producer Gramatik is bringing his signature funky tunes to the Majestic Theater Wednesday for a show that’s been a long time coming.

Gramatik was forced to cancel his highly anticipated show at the Orpheum last November because his tour bus had issues handling adverse weather conditions on the road. Now, he’s returning

with an arsenal of new songs off his new album, The Age of Reason, and he promises it’s going to be epic.

His Twitter bio says he is a “part-time musician and a full-time comedian,” but Gramatik has some serious ability to produce mega-catchy tracks. The Slovenianborn producer has been putting out sample-based electronic music since 2008, and his style has greatly developed over the years.

Gramatik blends smooth guitar

licks, synths and hip-hop beats to create a soulful, original sound that’s practically a genre of its own.

He is joined on stage by guitarist Eric Mendelson, who frequently performs live alongside Gramatik and lays down impromptu jams. Gramatik said the multi-instrumentalist Russ Liquid will also be playing with him throughout the night.

Gramatik has released two albums on fellow electronic producer Pretty Lights’ label, Pretty

Lights Music. Recently, Gramatik split from PLM to form and run his own label, Lowtemp.

He released the 15-track The Age of Reason on Lowtemp January and kicked off his spring tour on March 31.

Performing with him on tour and at the Majestic will be BRANX, Gibbz and Russ Liquid, all having released music on Gramatik’s label in the past several months.

It’s sure to be a groovy Wednesday night in Madtown.

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The post-awards season slump is starting to pass, but it’s not quite time for the craziness of a blockbuster summer. April offers an interesting mix of many exciting independent films, some of which were even screened this past weekend during the

MOVIE PREVIEW

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, in theaters Since “The Avengers,” audiences have been treated to a third “Iron Man” film and a second “Thor” film. In this new Marvel production, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) returns with his patriotic shield to fight the Winter Soldier, played by Sebastian Stan (“Gossip Girl”). This time, the Avengers leader is getting even more of a fight than he previously bargained for. Along the way he receives help from Nick Fury and Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow), played by former Avenger cast mates Samuel L. Jackson (“Django Unchained”) and Scarlett Johansson (“Her”). The film also brings Hollywood icon Robert Redford (“All is Lost”) to the Marvel family. As production begins for 2015’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” you can catch the latest stepping stone to that story.

JOE, APRIL 9 Two words: Nicolas Cage. He returns for a serious role in this adaptation of the 1991 novel of the same name directed by David Gordon Green, whose previous work includes “Pineapple Express” and last year’s indie success, “Prince Avalanche.”

Cage plays Joe, an ex-convict looking to stay out of trouble.

When he comes across a young boy, played by Tye Sheridan (“Mud”), who faces many threats at home, Joe must decide whether to stay out of the way or make an effort to help the young boy and his family. A film of morals and ethics, “Joe” received its premiere at the 2013 Venice Film Festival and additionally screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Also one of the audience favorites at the Wisconsin Film Festival, it is a new Nic Cage film all fans and cinema enthusiasts should see.

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Wisconsin Film Festival (which continues through this Thursday, April 10) and were well-received by audiences. Here is the The Badger Herald’s April film preview.

By Bess Donoghue, ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

DOM HEMINGWAY, IN THEATERS In this comedy-crime drama film, Jude Law (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) is far from the heart-throbber golden boy that audiences swooned over in previous films. Instead, he’s just coming out of prison and, after keeping his mouth shut, is starting to collect what he deserves. Bringing tons of energy and partying to the streets of London, he is often a hot mess, wandering around with blood on his face and missing his clothes. The film also stars Richard E. Grant (“Downton Abbey”) and Demian Bichir (“Machete Kills”) in this colorful, actionpacked film. The film is also directed and written by Richard Shepard who previously directed and wrote “The Matador.”

“Dom Hemingway” is one of the most exciting and daring indies of this film season and definitely worth seeing.

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BEARS, APRIL 18

In this World War II drama film from the Weinstein Company, Colin Firth plays Eric, a veteran struggling to move forward from the horrors of the battle. The film presents his story as a young British soldier forced to surrender to the Japanese and help build a railroad.

The memories of trying to survive continue to haunt the later Eric and damage his relationship with his wife, played by Nicole Kidman (“Stoker”). However, when he eventually learns of the Japanese soldier who tormented him the most during his imprisonment, he seeks out the soldier for revenge and answers. Based on a true story, this film looks to offer superb acting and innovative storytelling that all audiences will enjoy.

From the Disneynature label comes another Earth Day special. After great success with other films such as “Earth,” “Oceans,” “African Cats” and “Chimpanzee,” the studio is now releasing “Bears.” This documentary follows a bear family from Alaska, demonstrating the growth of young cubs as they start to navigate their way through a new world. The film is also narrated by popular and comical film and voice actor John C. Reilly (“Wreck-It Ralph”). The film is beautiful and offers great visuals of the bears in many different habitats. It’s the perfect film for all audiences, especially young children who want to discover parts of the world they’ve never seen before, all from the safety of their local movie theater.

Video game films always fail Spencer Semonson Class Critic Columnist

Video games are probably the single-hardest product to put out in the marketplace.

They’re extremely expensive, but have the greatest yield when fans adore them, almost always spawning sequels. This art form has been around for more than 40 years, and in that time we as players have become plumbers, assassins and thieves with just the touch of a joystick (or A and B buttons on our controllers).

When it comes to adapting these stories to the screen, it can get a little tricky. Video game films are usually the most obvious adaptions, behind classic sitcoms and films concerning classic toys. You can’t be the rogue with serious powers or the endowed sleuth in the Aztec temple when watching a film, so the story has to be the thing that entertains.

When adapting something, the story becomes compressed, and therein lies the problem with video game adaptations: The grand story that players have taken hours and hours to see to the end is fl attened so an audience can take it all in.

The trend of the video game adaptation started some 20 years ago, with varied success. The first American-released video game adaptation was sadly the critically panned and not-easy-to-forget “Super Mario Bros.,” a film that literally had nothing to do with racing around a track, saving Princess Peach from Bowser or the Mushroom Kingdom. Instead the film was set in a subterranean world that looked nothing like the original game and had a plot that made little to no sense. The movie was a serious flop, and the chance to make another

sellable adaptation really wouldn’t materialize until “Mortal Kombat” several years later. It formally kickstarted the trend of making films based on video games and did so while tying in with the game and creating an original storyline. The trend also produced films that featured female leads, such as “Resident Evil” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” though they wore skimpy outfits to fight zombies and steal artifacts, unlike their male compatriots. In recent years the genre has waned in popularity thanks to critically-panned films such as Uwe Boll’s “Alone in the Dark,” the adaptation of the popular video game franchise “Max Payne” and the always creepy “Silent Hill.” Lately though, there has been a massive call for adaptations of popular games such as “Assassin’s Creed,” “Metal Gear Solid” and “Sly Cooper.”

When it comes to novels being adapted into films, the qualms are quite clear and are often the same every time: They changed what happened to these beloved characters that viewers had bonded with for all those hours. There’s also the chance they leave something out or meld characters in order to take the large events of a 200page tome and shorten it for the viewing pleasure of a theater-going audience.

In contrast, there’s so much more that fans can be upset about when adapting video games. A book’s events, though sacred in my own opinion, are usually changed for the better of the film and are somewhat unavoidable.

We also imagine everything that happens in the book, in our own minds, while video games have visual imagery that supersedes imagination for the player. The player has already seen what the

main character looks like, what will happen in the game, what the villain’s plan is or what the main objective is. When it comes to certain fi lms, fi lmmakers will make unavoidable mistakes or changes will be made that will upset the fans. This can be how the setting looks in contrast to the game, what the story is when there’s little to none in the game or how a character’s personality is constructed.

While some games have rich back stories and plenty of original content for workable scripts, some smaller games are simple to understand and play without narrative.

These games are also sometimes adapted into either short films done by the studios that make the games themselves or feature-length films for a large audience through major studios. This trend is relatable to film adaptations of popular toys such as the “Transformers” franchise and “Battleship” because they don’t possess any storyline or memorable imagery for the audience to confer with the likes of their experience. The upcoming “Temple Run” film faces the problem of having no narrative voice or storyline that can be adapted for a feasible script. The same can be said for a planned “Angry Birds” film and maybe even the upcoming “Mortal Kombat” reboot.

Still, though many of these films have been subjugated to either being hated or being compared to the original game, they entertain because they can’t be good. Some stories are just better understood through gameplay and some are better on the screen, where we can’t be the hero but we can empathize with them and their violent tirades.

Jen Small The Badger Herald File Photo Rapper Dessa will bring her unique, genre-bending hip-hop to the Majestic for the first time ever Thursday.

Hip-hop queen returns Louis Johnson

ArtsEtc. Contributor Rapper, essayist, philosophy major, Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial writer and public speaker.

This is just the start of Dessa’s impressive résumé. She’s also a tremendous live performer who emits her humorous and matter-of-fact personality on every piece of art that she produces, and she’ll be bringing her massive stage presence to the Majestic Theatre for the first time ever this Thursday.

The Minneapolis native and Doomtree veteran will be on stage along with special guests Caroline Smith and J. Dante.

Known for her intellectual wordplay, fiery stage presence and down-to-earth personality, Dessa is touring the Midwest to connect with her fans and to live-play her new album, Parts

of Speech. The new album spans multiple genres and attempts to grasp a persona rather than master one type of music.

“I wanted to stay more focused on creating a voice or a tone and a feeling or a personality, and I wanted to be more mindful of not limiting it to one particular genre,” Dessa said.

Dessa herself has visited Madison many times, but this will be the first time she and her compatriots have played at the Majestic.

“We’ve been performing in Madison for a long time now, so I think it’s just the familiarity of the venues,” Dessa said. “This will be our first time playing at the Majestic; we’ve played at the High Noon Saloon before, so for us I think it’ll just be the big lights that’ll make it fun.”

Being part of a collective like Doomtree, Dessa has always toured with

up-and-coming acts that radiate raw, natural talent but lack household celebrity.

“I’ll be arriving with a full band, so I’ll be on stage with Paper Tiger,” Dessa said.

“And I’ll be bringing Aby Wolf, who is another local artist.

She’s got an incredible voice. We have a really large range and we do a lot of harmonies together.”

Never one to shy away from being herself, Dessa wants her words to ring true with her audience as well as herself.

“I feel like if I write the best music I can and I tell true stories and I work hard at my craft, that people will recognize that,” Dessa said. “Sometimes I want people to be really moved by the authenticity, but then there’s other times when I say, ‘You know what, that’s bullshit.’

I just trust my intuitions and hope people realize that I mean what I say.”

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Badgers split series in border battle with Gophers UW Softball bests U of M 2-1 in game one defensive battle this past weekend Meghan Eustice Softball Writer

After snow earlier in the week forced Saturday’s doubleheader to move back 24 hours, the Wisconsin softball team split the series with a ranked No. 15 Minnesota Sunday afternoon, each adding a win to their records.

Wisconsin came away victorious in the first game of the doubleheader, knocking off the Gophers in a 2-1 defensive battle.

The first half of the first game proved to be a pitcher’s duel, with the only two hits coming in the first and third inning for Wisconsin until the Badgers finally landed on the scoreboard in the top of the fourth. Junior Marissa Mersch singled to left field, found her way around the bases on a couple groundouts and finally made it home as teammate Ashley Van Zeeland reached first on an error by Minnesota shortstop Tyler Walker.

Minnesota responded in the next half inning with a pair of hits of its own but was unable to get any runners across home plate.

However, the next inning the Minnesota defense was able to keep the Badgers’ bats at bay, and finally earned a run of its own when catcher Taylor LeMay homered over the left field wall, tying up the score at one with her team’s sole run of the game.

Wisconsin didn’t waste any time in pulling ahead again, as third baseman

KENTUCKY, page 12 Dekker would get the Badgers off to a quick start in the second half, hitting a threepointer on their first possession, but Kentucky would come roaring back answering with a 15-0 run that would put the Wildcats up by eight, 51-43, with 15:33 remaining.

“Good thing was I didn’t tell them that they had just scored 15 in a row on us,” Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said.

“That might have made our guys nervous.”

Wisconsin showed

Michelle Mueller reached first on a second error

by Walker in the top of the sixth. Sophomore Katie Christner pinch ran for Mueller, eventually finding her way home on yet another Minnesota error.

The bottom of the final inning saw Minnesota load the bases with two outs, making it look like the Gophers might make a last-minute comeback, only to have No. 3 batter Kaitlyn Richardson fly out to left field and leave all three on base, leaving the score at 2-1.

On the mound for Wisconsin, Taylor-Paige Stewart allowed six hits and four free passes on a walk, three hit batsmen and threw two strikeouts.

Minnesota’s Sara Moulton fanned four batters, did not walk a single one and allowed for six hits.

After a short break the Big Ten rivals were back at it, starting off the second game at a much different pace with Minnesota pitcher Sara Groenewegen striking out all three Wisconsin batters she faced in the first inning.

In the bottom of the fist inning, the Minnesota offense began hot as well, hitting two infield singles off of UW pitcher Cassandra Darrah.

The Gophers finally found their way onto the scoreboard in the bottom of the third when LeMay batted in two RBIs on a single up the middle, her second and third of the day. An inning later, Richardson picked up the final RBI of the game when she doubled to left field.

Wisconsin didn’t go down without a fight though, seeing two more hits in the bottom of the seventh coming from fifth and sixth hitters

no signs of nerves or backing down, responding with a 15-4 run to take back a threepoint lead.

The bench again would give the Badgers a lift as junior guard Duje Dukan scored eight points — six coming from behind the arc — in less than three minutes to help put Wisconsin back in the game.

“The bench picked us up,” Ryan said. “Some guys made some plays.

We got some stops.

That’s the only way you can come from behind.”

But the Wildcats would exploit the

Jill Peter The Badger Herald File Photo Wisconsin came out swinging against No. 15-ranked Minnesota, winning the first game of the doubleheader 2-1. They will face North Dakota this Wednesday.

Van Zeeland and Chloe Miller. In the end though, the Badgers closed out the inning with a runner left on base and no runs, allowing the Gophers to

Badgers down low all game long, outscoring Wisconsin 46-24 in the paint and winning the rebound battle 32-27.

Kentucky grabbed 11 offense rebounds and converted those into 23 second chance points compared to Wisconsin’s 10.

“That’s the way they play,” Ryan said. “That’s something that we had to try to answer and we’re like a lot of teams, we didn’t get that part done…they impose their will that way.”

Wisconsin was able to draw fouls on Kentucky and get to the free throw

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald Frank Kaminsky (44), drives to the lane, managing to elude one of Kentucky’s star freshmen, Julius Randle.

shut them out 3-0 and split the series.

But no one can say the Minnesota win wasn’t earned.

Groenewegen struck out nine batters

line. The Badgers set a Final Four record for free throw percentage at 95 percent (19-20), but the single miss would prove to be fatal.

The loss marks the end of senior guard Ben Brust’s Wisconsin career.

Brust is the all-time leader in three-point field goals made with 235.

“It’s the seniors last go around, the last time we got to suit up with those guys,” Gasser said. “That’s why it’s tough and you lose a one possession game, that’s not easy.”

With the exception of Brust, Wisconsin will be

as opposed to Darrah’s total of five and allowed only two hits. Meanwhile Darrah surrendered a total of nine hits to the Minnesota offensive

returning every player that averaged at least seven minutes a game.

While the team is still recovering from the loss Saturday, expectations have

attack.

The Badgers will play again this Wednesday afternoon when North Dakota (8-24) comes to town.

already been set for next season.

“We got a taste of what it’s like to play at this stage and we’re going to be back.

I know it,” Kaminsky said.

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Early enrollee in mix for Badgers’ quarterback Freshman D.J. Gillins getting early start, adjusting to practice, classes and the cold Eric Kohlbeck

Football Beat Writer Freshman quarterback and early enrollee D.J. Gillins vividly remembers his first cold weather experience in Madison.

A Jacksonville, Fla. native, Gillins found out just how cold Wisconsin can be in January when classes were cancelled early in the semester until noon due to the cold temperatures and wind chills that approached negative 40 degrees.

Gillins had been in Madison for just a few weeks at that point and had yet to figure out the bus system. He braced himself for a 45-minute walk across campus in negative 20 degree temperatures while wearing less an than adequate amount of clothes. It was a tough task for native Wisconsinites, but almost unbearable for a Florida native experiencing that kind of cold for the first time. Nearly an hour later, Gillins had conquered the cold and made it to his class, only to find out he had walked all that way for nothing. The class was cancelled. Gillins waited an hour in the building before deciding to make the return trek home.

The cold weather has been just one of the challenges that the freshman quarterback has had to face as an early enrollee.

While most people his age are finishing their last semester of high school deep in the perils of “senioritis,” Gillins has begun life as a quarterback at Wisconsin.

Gillins, standing 6-foot-3 and weighing 185 pounds, comes to Wisconsin as one of Gary Andersen’s prized recruits in his first official recruiting class at the helm of the Badgers.

At Ribault High School in

NCAA, page 12 back to the un-glory days of Wisconsin basketball, became teary eyed last weekend — something my friend hadn’t seen before — after the Badgers had secured a spot in the Final Four.

Remember, it took Wisconsin 47 years just to secure a berth in the NCAA Tournament when it finally broke the almost halfcentury drought by going to the Big Dance in 1994.

For those loyal, lifelong fans who suffered through those arduous unsuccessful years, going to the Final Four is the crowning achievement of Badger basketball fandom.

Beating Kentucky and going to the National Championship would have been much more desirable, but for those of us who weren’t alive when a Final Four was just a dream, making such a deep run in the tournament is hardly an end result to sulk about.

Outside of the historical context of what this season and tournament run mean in the grand scheme of things, this season in and of itself was something special. Wisconsin finished the season with an overall

Jacksonville this past fall, Gillins threw 2,371 yards and 22 touchdowns while also running on the ground for 602 yards and eight rushing scores. He received all-state honors and was a fourstar recruit, according to ESPN, and the 17th rated dual-threat quarterback overall. Gillins committed to the Badgers this past summer, choosing UW over Boston College, Arizona, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt.

But despite his high accolades and talent, Gillins admits that his first few weeks of practice at the college level have at times been overwhelming. However, the reason Gillins decided to enroll early is to get these bumps out of the way early in the lessstrenuous spring practices.

As any freshman, athlete or not, knows, there’s an adjustment period to college life. Gillins is adjusting now, as opposed to in the fall, so he can have a leg-up and better understand the Badgers’ playbook come August.

“At times it does [get overwhelming],” Gillins said.

“That and adjusting to this college system. You have class, then you have practice, then you have to study, then you go home and go to sleep. It’s a lot different than high school.

“I have the ups and downs.

It’s a learning experience but I’m glad that I’m here to be honest.”

However, with the Badgers finishing up spring practices in the next week, closing with the Spring Game this Saturday, Andersen has seen plenty of improvement from his only quarterback. He said Gillins is ahead of where he expected him to be at this point in the season as he improves every day. “[Gillins] continues to get better every single day,” Andersen said. “The way he handles the amount of offense coming at him. He improves daily and he studies hard at it and it means a lot to him, which is a good sight for him.”

record of 30-8, which is the third time in school history the Badgers have made it to the 30 win plateau. Along the way, Wisconsin reeled off 16-straight wins to set the school record for most victories in a row.

There were team efforts in the 30 wins, and there were also some impressive individual efforts during the season.

Frank Kaminsky, who’s become better known as Frank the Tank, went unconscious against North Dakota when he went off for a career-high 43 points. Then, just last weekend, Kaminsky had a 28 point, 11 rebound performance in the Elite Eight matchup with Arizona to carry Wisconsin to the Final Four.

But it wasn’t just Kaminsky this season and it wasn’t just any one player who was the storyline for Wisconsin. In one game, it was one player or one set of players and in another game a different player or group stepped to the forefront. At a time in college basketball when players are playing to become the highest pick in the upcoming NBA draft, Wisconsin played as a team. In a team sport, you wouldn’t think it’d be rare to

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald File Photo With spring practices already underway, freshman D.J. Gillins is joining veterans Joel Stave and Tanner McEvoy on the field as he adjusts to collegiate football.

As a freshman, Gillins has a lot of people to look up to, especially at the quarterback position. Currently in the midst of a competition for the starting job, Joel Stave and Tanner McEvoy take snaps ahead of Gillins as upperclassmen. Combined with the help Gillins has received from offensive coordinator, Andy Ludwig, he has had the chance to see how things should be done at the collegiate level.

“I’ve been holding up pretty well,” Gillins said. “Coach Ludwig

see teamwork and a group of guys coming together as one for the greater good, but the Badgers became an exception to what has become more and more of an individual-focused game.

At the same time, Wisconsin became more personable to all of us. We saw a side of Ryan many people might not have thought existed. It almost felt like we became part of one big family watching as the team came together throughout the year.

All the pieces just seemed to fall into place this year.

The pieces meshing together didn’t result in a National Championship, but is that all that matters?

As I left AT&T Stadium Saturday night feeling empty inside, a fellow student turned to me and told me to enjoy the moment because it doesn’t happen often. A season with so much success doesn’t happen often, but even rarer is having a team, and not just a group of individuals, like this.

The season might be over and the direct relationship may have ended as well, but the memories from this season will last much longer and mean a lot more than wins and losses.

always helps me go through [the offense]. And I have players in front of me, like Joel Stave and Tanner [McEvoy].

That always helps; [they’re] probably some of the nicest guys I’ve ever met.”

Adjusting to the college lifestyle and football experience isn’t easy, so Gillins has confided in freshmen Keelon Brookins and Sojourn Shelton, who enrolled early last year and went through the same process.

Another player who Gillins has looked to is senior wide receiver Kenzel Doe. Doe has taken Gillins under his wing from day one as an older player, giving him a familiar face to talk to and to share his

experiences with. Doe was also an early enrollee with the Badgers four years ago.

Despite having just 12 practices together, Doe can already see improvement from Gillins, and just how much of a weapon his running ability is.

“I feel like D.J. is handling it well,” Doe said. “He’s right beside me in the locker room, so I ask him every day, ‘How are you doing?’. I’m just trying to keep that comfort zone so he won’t over think stuff like that.

But he’s impressed me so far.

Especially with running, taking off sometimes and throwing the ball.”

It will be tough for Gillins to crack into the starting job at quarterback with McEvoy,

Stave and even Bart Houston in the mix this season. Although it’s still early, Gillins said that redshirting isn’t out of the realm of possibilities and he will accept whatever the coaches think is best for him in his freshman season.

“If I redshirt, I’ll be satisfied.

It doesn’t really matter,” he said. “I wouldn’t want the coaches to throw me out there if I don’t know what I’m doing.

Whatever coach Andersen and coach Ludwig have for me is fine with me.”

That sense of maturity may be Gillins’ most valuable attribute and should help him as he navigates his way through his first season of collegiate football.

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73-74 Big Blues: Badgers fall in semifinals

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald Wisconsin point guard Traevon Jackson takes a quiet moment after missing the game-winning shot in the final seconds in the NCAA semifinal. Jackson had also given the Badgers a two-point lead over Kentucky with only 16 seconds remaining.

Spencer Smith Sports Editor

ARLINGTON, Texas — The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team made just two three-point shots in the NCAA semifinals.

The second came with six seconds left to push the Wildcats into the title game, beating Wisconsin 74-73.

Kentucky freshman forward James Young led all scorers with 17 points.

Julius Randle pitched in with 16 points and five boards.

Sam Dekker and Ben Brust picked up 15 points each for Wisconsin while Frank Kaminsky was held to eight points after averaging 18.5 points per game in the NCAA Tournament entering the Final Four.

With the game tied at 71 and 16 seconds left, Kentucky’s Andrew Harrison fouled Wisconsin point guard Traevon Jackson behind the three-point line to give the Badgers a chance to, at worst, essentially guarantee an overtime period with three shots at

the free-throw line.

Jackson missed his first attempt, but would recover to sink the next two, giving the Badgers a two-point advantage.

On the ensuing possession, Andrew Harrison passed the ball to his brother, Aaron Harrison, on the right elbow and Aaron would sink a step-back three with Josh Gasser’s hand in his face to give Kentucky a one-point lead.

“Aaron has been doing that all tournament,” Dekker said. “He’s got that clutch gene and props to

him for hitting that shot.

You got to tip your cap when credit is due.”

Aaron Harrison has now hit three-straight game tying or go-ahead 3-point shots in the final minute of the game in the tournament.

Wisconsin owned possession with six seconds left on the clock, down one, with a chance to walk away winners at the buzzer.

As it has all year long, Wisconsin put the ball in Jackson’s hands with the game on the line.

Jackson drove the

length of the court and jump stopped just right of the free throw line to get a look at the basket. The junior pulled the trigger and the ball banged off the backboard and over the hoop to mark the end of Wisconsin’s run in the tournament.

“I got hit on my arm and I had to kind of adjust in the air, that’s why I hit the backboard,” Jackson said. “I can’t make any excuses, you got to make better plays with that opportunity.”

Wisconsin gained control of the game early,

building a nine-point lead seven minutes into the first half off of a 10-0 run.

The Badgers received a spark off of the bench from freshman guard Bronson Koenig who scored all 11 of his points in the first half.

After opening the game 8-for-15 from the floor, Wisconsin’s shooting would go cold, hitting just one of its eight field goal attempts in the final 7:07 of the first half, allowing Kentucky to cut its deficit to four, 40-36, at halftime.

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NCAA run ends special season for Badgers Dan Corcoran

Sports Content Editor ARLINGTON, Texas — When a relationship comes to an end, it can be tough to see the positives in the situation.

When Wisconsin’s season ended Saturday night, it felt much the same way. But even with all the negative emotions, plenty of positives still surround the Badgers’ season and return to the Final Four, even though it might be hard to conjure them up right now.

As I watched students around me at AT&T Stadium Saturday night after the final buzzer sounded on Wisconsin’s season, most of their faces were clad with looks of disbelief, disappointment and, in many cases, just sheer heartbreak, mirroring the Badger players on the court.

After coming back from a second half deficit, Wisconsin led by two with only 16 seconds left to go in the game, and it was hard to think that the Badgers could lose the

game. Then the rising hope was shot down with Aaron Harrison’s three-point dagger, and for just the eighth time this season the Badgers were faced with the task of dealing with a loss, only this time that loss carried with it a finality of a season’s conclusion and the end of three players’ careers.

I was fortunate enough to experience the game as a fan along with several hundred other UW students, and I can only imagine what it was like to be in the players’ shoes and endure such a gut-wrenching loss. Even as just a bystander, the loss felt a lot like getting broken up with after a long, successful relationship. In the hours following the game, I went through a myriad of emotions and it’s safe to say I’ve gone through the five stages of mourning.

Reality can be hard to accept and regardless of whether I’ve reached that point yet, what’s worth accepting is that this season wasn’t just any ordinary season in Wisconsin’s terms — or in any team’s for that matter. Maybe that’s why the emotions have been so much stronger this time.

For starters, the obvious is that Wisconsin made it all the way to the Final Four for the first time under Bo

Ryan and for just the second time in school history. If you told a Badger fan 25 or 30 years ago that Wisconsin basketball team was in the Final Four, he or she would have probably laughed in your face. Wisconsin was just plain bad at basketball for quite a long time. Besides hockey, before our generation came about, Badger athletics were nowhere even close to the level of success that have been experienced as of late.

To say that we’ve been spoiled would be putting it lightly. The senior class of the UW student body has witnessed three Rose Bowls and a Final Four, a success only rivaled by the senior class of 2000, which was treated to back-to-back Rose Bowl victories and the 2000 Final Four that ended just as this one did.

I won’t belabor the point of how we’ve been spoiled, but the fact remains that the success of the basketball program, especially under Ryan, would have been unprecedented 30 years ago. The success has been so moving that a close friend of mine’s father, who has owned season tickets dating

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Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald Frank Kaminsky, who scored 28 points in the Elite Eight and helped carry Wisconsin to the Final Four, is only a part of the Badgers’ story.

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