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With the Terrace still closed and the temperatures breaking 70 degrees, students flocked to green space throughout the city and at James Madison Park to enjoy the weather and holiday weekend.

Feminist biology established at UW Post-doctoral degree will use donations to help identify, redress gender bias in science Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor

Promoting research using a feminist lens to approach biology, University of Wisconsin will be home to the nation’s first postdoctorate program in feminist biology this fall after a donation.

Approaching science with a feminist viewpoint is important because there are certain assumptions about

men, women, objectivity and knowledge that influence how science is often done, associate professor at the Center of Women’s Health and Women’s Health Research, Judith Houck, said.

Looking at science through a feminist lens allows old questions to be observed in new ways, she said.

Feminist biology attempts to pinpoint and adjust gender bias in biology.

UW was granted the opportunity by Gertraude Wittig, a German Ph.D. biologist, Janet Hyde, professor of psychology and director of the Campus Center for Research on Gender and Women, said.

Wittig suffered through bias and sexism that many women faced during that time frame, she said.

After working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture for several years, Wittig researched universities nationwide with strong gender and women’s studies programs to find one she believed had a strong emphasis on the intersection of gender and science, Hyde said.

“She concluded that ours was the best one to give the money to partly because we have a long history of representing biological research in our program, which is unusual for

women’s studies programs,” Hyde said.

Hyde said they hope to make advances in approaches to science that detect gender bias in traditional biology and also pioneer new approaches to biological research that counteract those biases.

Houck said the department has a strong history of feminist analysis of science and biology and health. The post-doc is important for the department to continue its strong, innovative legacy, she said.

“For the larger university, what this does is sends a message to the academic community that UW-

Madison cares about feminist science, they’re willing to promote feminist science and we want to be known as a university that supports and nurtures feminist science,” Houck said.

Caroline VanSickle, a Ph.D. student studying biological anthropology at the University of Michigan, will be the first post-doctoral fellow in the program, according to a statement from UW. When she begins the two-year fellowship in September, she will study the pelvic shape of female human ancestors to gain insight on childbirth anatomy over the course of human evolution, the

statement said.

Fellows working in the program will be responsible for two parts, Hyde said.

The first is conducting biological research incorporating a feminist point of view, Hyde said, and the other is instructing a course for gender and women’s studies each semester. She said they have not had a faculty member be able to teach this course because of budget cuts over the past several years.

“What we need to do is produce more feminist biologists,” Hyde said. “We’re hoping to encourage that now and to make it a much larger and vibrant field.”

Court upholds Walker’s Act 10 Unions defeated as challenge to limitations on collective bargaining rights struck down Charlie Burnett

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Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Around 15 people attended the Bipartisan Issues Group’s first annual conference Saturday, discussing the political field and current issues.

Bipartisanship focus of conference Lawmakers, students weighed in on topics including drone use, healthcare, college affordability Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor

Coming together to exchange ideas on topics ranging from college affordability to Madison’s digital divide, University of Wisconsin students spoke with local lawmakers about the political field and current events at the first annual Bipartisan Issues Group Conference.

With around 15 people in attendance Saturday, students had the opportunity to discuss current issues with speakers including Madison Mayor Paul Soglin; Minority Senate Leader Chris Larson,

D-Milwaukee; and Regional Health and Human Services Director Kathleen Falk, as well as political science professor Donald Downs and Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8.

Lawmakers and students discussed topics such as the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the continued student debt crisis, and America’s use of drones, but students also were given insights on the processes of decisionmaking and leadership in today’s political climate, known for partisanship and gridlock.

Speaking on the subject of today’s disparities in the

political realm, president and co-founder of the Millennial Action Project Steven Olikara, explained its goals. The initiative seeks to bring together millennials currently in or progressing toward political careers with the intent of envisioning a better democracy, where conversation and compromise become the norm again, he said.

He said the Millennial Action Project launched a congressional bipartisan “future caucus” to allow young congress members to come together to discuss the future of the political realm while corroding partisan

tensions.

“We need the next generation of leaders doing exactly what you are doing here today,” Olikara said.

“Chances are, all of you here are thinking about reenvisioning the future of our democracy.”

Resnick outlined how he decided to use politics to address an issue he wants to see solutions for. Resnick said he was concerned that access to the Internet in Madison was too determined by income level and wanted to make sure all Madison children had access. Resnick

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Wisconsin unions faced another defeat as the federal appeals court struck down a union challenge to Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial Act 10, upholding tight limitations on most public employees’ ability to collectively bargain.

The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the law is constitutional despite union arguments that the restrictions infringe on employees’ first amendment and equal protection rights.

“Act 10 exhibits a rational belief that public sector unions are too costly for the state. The recertification process furthers this interest by imposing a recertification burden that impacts unions’ influence over employees who are less passionate about union representation,” the court wrote in its decision.

The law limits many public employee unions’ rights to bargain anything besides base-wage increases, and splits public employees into two groups for bargaining purposes – public safety employees and general employees, according to the decision.

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen

said in a statement Friday that the court’s decision would benefit Wisconsinites.

“This is a victory for the law and for Wisconsin taxpayers. This ruling, once again, supports the rule of law and recognizes the diligence and hard work of our lawyers in defending Act 10,” Van Hollen said.

This is the second time the federal appeals court has made a ruling on the collective bargaining law.

The first appeal, made by the Wisconsin Education Association Council, was rejected because the court found there was no violation of the first amendment, according to the decision.

Following the first decision on the constitutionality of the bill, the court agreed to hear a second appeal because despite the complaints’ similarities, the plaintiffs in the second appeal presented first amendment as well as equal protection cause pleas, which was not previously argued, according to the decision.

Rep. Fred Kessler, DMilwaukee, said it was not surprising that the appeal was denied and stressed his concern with the political diversity among

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UW studies distance perception in travel Research shows people moving towards destination thought it was closer to them than if they were moving away Andrew Newman Herald Contributor

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After noticing the ways people interact dynamically with their environments during travel, researchers from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Toronto decided to explore the phenomenon.

Professor Sam Maglio of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Professor Evan Polman of the UW School of Business conducted a study which found that the way brains perceive distance and the closeness of destinations during travel may be different than people traditionally thought.

Maglio said he and Polman met at New York University, and both related to the everyday experience of moving around their environments.

The researchers were primarily interested in how far commuters thought certain places were from where they were initially located, and also took into account whether the commuters were moving toward or away from the location in question, Maglio said.

The team conducted field studies and asked regular people walking or waiting around about places they were either going toward or away from, Polman said.

The research team chose subway stations in Toronto

as an ideal location for choosing subjects to study the way people perceive distance during travel, he said.

The researchers found that people moving towards a certain destination thought the destination was closer to them than if they were moving away, Polman said.

“Subjectively, we saw big differences: If I anticipate getting closer to something in the future, it feels closer to me right now,” Maglio said. “We were a bit taken aback by how drastic the effect was.”

The effect was not limited to distortions in the perception of distance, but altered people’s perception of time as well, Maglio said.

For instance, if a person

was walking back toward a Starbucks where they had just received a mixed-up order, they thought the time they received their order was more recent than it actually was, Maglio said.

The study also found that the way people perceived the outcomes of events at certain locations was altered by whether or not they were heading toward or away from the location, Polman said.

This effect went so far as to even alter people’s perception of random events — such as the probability of winning the lottery, Polman said. People who were heading toward a lottery drawing thought there was a higher chance that someone would win that lottery

compared to people who were heading away from such a destination, he said.

Maglio and Polman said they did not run into any major complications over the course of the study.

A paper detailing the methods and results of the study will soon be published in the journal, Psychological Science.

The professors were intrigued by the results of the study and said they are going to continue looking into this phenomenon in the future.

Polman said they are currently carrying out follow-up studies.

“The next step will be to look at how these feelings of closeness shape actual behavior,” Maglio said.

Slow rise in student diversity, faculty stagnant Rachael Lallensack Print Campus Editor

While diversity at University of Wisconsin is slowly increasing, numbers released by the Office of the Provost show this increase continues to be minimal from year to year.

Undergraduate students identifying themselves as white was recorded at about 84 percent in fall 2004 compared to 77.59 percent in fall 2012 and 76.49 percent this past fall, according to a Capital Times analysis of the Data Digest.

Ruby Paredes, executive assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, said the digest distinguishes between definitions of minority students and targeted

minority students.

The targeted minority category includes students who are Hispanic/Latino, African-American, American Indian or Southeast Asian (Hmong, Vietnamese and Cambodian), as stated in the Digest’s definition. The minority category includes all targeted categories as well as students who are nonSoutheast Asians and Native Hawaiians, the definition states.

Since 1974, when race and ethnicity data was first included in the digest, the percentage of minority students at all levels, undergraduate, graduate and doctorate, increased from less than 4 percent to 14.5 percent in 2013, it shows.

In undergraduate students, the percentage of targeted minority students rose past 10 percent for the first time

in university history this year, the data digest shows.

Ryan Adserias, a Ph.D. student studying educational leadership and policy analysis and co-chair of the Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee, said this increase largely stems from efforts made by programs like Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence and Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives First Wave students, which build direct connections to high school student recruitment.

Paredes said it is important to note the retention rate of targeted minority students, which is 1.5 percent lower than the freshman average in the 2012 one-year retention rate category and 13.9 percent lower than the 2007 six-year graduation rate category.

Adserias said it is important to create a positive environment on campus for minority students.

“Students from underrepresented minority backgrounds will come to the university and experience a bad climate. They may be the only student in the classroom that looks like them,” Adserias said. “But that is something we have control over to a fairly large degree and are working toward addressing.”

Conversely, the Data Digest shows diversity in UW faculty has remained stagnant. In 2004, 54 faculty members were listed as African-American, and in 2013, the total remains the same. The total number of faculty has been reduced from 2,238 to 2,189 in that same time frame, the digest shows.

Diversifying faculty is important because it gives minority students real-life relationships and examples of role models they can identify with and who can inspire them to achieve at UW, Adserias said.

Paredes said UW administrators continue the conversation about looking for ways to increase the number of faculty and students of color.

“The larger issue is creating, in the campus and within classrooms, a diverse environment because studies have shown, time and again, that when you have a diverse group learning is more dynamic, the critical thinking skills are developed because of different perspectives and different opinions that are exchanged and included in academic discussions,” Paredes said.

Students use llama fur to create sleeping bags Morgan Krause

Herald Contributor What began as a joke between roommates became a reality when two lifelong best friends and juniors at the University of Wisconsin pursued filling a void they noticed in environmentally-friendly outdoor gear.

Jared Sandlin and Jared Burris recently created a sleeping bag named the Rama Llama using llama fur as insulation. The sleeping bag can maintain a constant temperature in environments ranging from 20 to 70 degrees, Burris said. This 50-degree temperature range is unheard of on the market right now, he said.

The project originally began with the idea to use polar bear fur to line sleeping bags, Burris said. They found that polar bears’ ability to endure a wide range of temperatures is attributed to its hollow hair fiber, and he said they discovered llamas also possess this unique type

of fur.

“After finding that out, we bought a $40 REX sleeping bag, tore it apart and bought Washington State prize winning llama fur, threw that in and tested it out for ourselves,” Burris said.

The Rama Llamas’ wide temperature range is not the only unique element of the sleeping bag, as it is also ethically sound, Sandlin said.

The current insulations used are either a synthetic petroleum polymer or duck and goose down, Sandlin said. The synthetic polymers give rise to pollution and though the goose and duck down is not inherently unsustainable, it comes from a volatile industry, he said.

Unlike these industries, the harvesting of llama fur causes no harm to the animal and the handlers of the animals take great pride in their work, Sandlin said.

Burris and Sandlin advanced their idea when they developed

partnerships with llama farmers from Bolivia, Chile and as of last week, a cooperative in Wisconsin, Burris said.

“It was a lot of research,” Burris said. “A large part of getting this started was sitting online and figuring out how to make a sleeping bag, what is currently being used to do so, and then figuring out how to do it ourselves because no one has really done this before.”

The Rama Llama surpassed its goal for money pledged on the start-up website Kickstarter, reaching the $15,606 mark from a total of 119 backers.

Burris and Sandlin named their company Deneb Outdoors, after the 19th brightest star in the universe, which is three times farther away from Earth than the average star and more luminous than the sun and visible from almost anywhere.

“In 10 years, we hope to have a full line of product,” Burris said.

“Ultimately we want to

Courtesy of Jared Burris Two UW juniors, Burris and Sandlin, are looking to create the next “North Face.”

be the next North Face and expand into a communitybased outdoors facility.”

If all goes as planned, the same technology will be used to make jackets available to students on campus in the fall, Burris said.

The next step for Deneb Outdoors is to distribute their first order of about 50 sleeping bags to testers,

professional athletes, celebrities and anyone with a large outreach in order to build a reputation in the outdoor market, Sandlin said.

“We are tremendously thankful to the UW faculty, organizations and students for all of their support,” Sandlin said. “The community here has been phenomenal.”

Racial disparity seen in county’s infant mortality rates Report reflects state, national trends; city looks to better child safety awareness Alli Rosenthal

Herald Contributor At a time when Madison has placed increased focus on solving disparities between blacks and whites in education, criminal justice and employment, infant mortality rates between black and white infants continue to show wide gaps.

A report shows that black infant mortality rates in Dane County are twice that

of white infants. This rate is similar in both Wisconsin and nationwide, according to the report.

This disparity in infant mortality and stillbirth rates of black infants versus white infants can be linked to a multitude of factors, however, Daniel StattlemanScanlan, Dane County Public Health perinatal supervisor, said this must be observed on a case by case basis.

The dramatic change in mortality rates from 2009 to 2014 can be attributed to a variety of different social and economic factors, although every case is situational, Stattleman-Scanlan said.

While the numbers

regarding the disparity are staggering, 2003 to 2007 saw progress within this field, Stattleman-Scanlan said.

Low black infant mortality rates were recorded, which can be attributed to good access to high quality prenatal care as well as a somewhat stable economy, he said.

However, in 2009 the positive rates decreased, which Stattleman-Scanlan said could be attributed to a variety of factors including the recession. Many mothers could have been stressed economically which leads to other stresses in regards to housing, healthcare and in some neighborhoods,

violence, he said.

Another factor that is causing distress within the disparity of infant mortality rates is cohabitation, or sharing the same bed as an infant, which can sometimes lead to a baby suffocating, Stattleman-Scanlan said. This trend has recently received notice and has served as the starter for a new campaign dedicated to informing mothers and fathers the safe ways for their children to sleep, he said.

This campaign will be advertised on different media including both billboards and buses to assure that every mother and father receive the same

message when it comes to the safety of their sleeping infants, Stattleman-Scanlan said. He said he is working with health care advisors to make sure that a consistent message is formed and that everyone will be told the same thing.

“What is important is that there is a consistent message being spread for all to hear,” Stattleman-Scanlan said.

Sue Marshall, spokesperson of the Women, Infants and Children Department of Public Health in Dane County, said it is important to get a healthy start for both mothers and children in regards to both nutrition and health care.

Marshall said WIC works primarily with mothers in poverty, focusing on the vitality of nutritional health of the babies, infants and children.

By providing free information in regards to food in particular, WIC emphasizes the importance of finding a consistent message that mothers can hear at clinics, hospitals and from doctors.

Hopefully with all of the proactive advertising in regards to safe sleep as well as any safe living conditions for children, Marshall said parents will be well-versed on what constitutes a safe environment.

The Badger Herald | News | Monday, April 21, 2014 ACT 10, page 1 the panel of judges selected to hear the case.

“It was the worst possible panel that you could have ever gotten from the federal circuit.

If you take a look at all three judges that were on that panel, all three were Republicans and two were appointed by [President Ronald] Reagan,” Kessler said.

Barry Eidlin, a University of Wisconsin sociology professor who specializes in labor studies, said the ruling indicates a general lack of political support for broader labor rights, citing a lack of concern among politicians or constituents.

“You have a Democratic party and a broader left wing that is not that committed to protecting labor rights, as evidenced by the fact that the Democratic candidate for governor here won’t even go so far as to call for the repeal of Act 10,” Eidlin said.

The public safety

employee unions, which include police officers and firefighters, retained their rights to collectively bargain after the passage of the law.

Previous collective bargaining laws, including the Municipal Employees Act and the State Employee Labor Relations Act, were created with the notion that collective bargaining provides an overall social benefit, Eidlin said. Act 10 contradicts that thinking, he said. “[The provisions of the act] are incredibly restrictive to what unions are allowed to do under the law,” Eidlin said. “It’s a very different approach to collective bargaining than the spirit of the laws that originally established collective bargaining.”

Eidlin said it is unclear what the next course of action will be for the plaintiffs. Kessler said the unions could request to have the case reviewed by the entire circuit.

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Larson, the day’s last speaker, spoke about higher education and its political implications in the Wisconsin Legislature. A topic that directly affects all UW students, Larson began with a discussion on Gov. Scott

Walker’s proposed tuition freeze extension, saying it is a short term solution to a long term problem.

Larson spoke on the broader picture of the nationwide student debt crisis, identifying the 2003 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which guarantees banks their money back on student loan debts, as a central contributor

to the high rates of student debt.

“Making college affordable is a way to bring talent into Wisconsin,” Larson said.

“Getting people to come here for the education but then also to stay after graduation is crucial for the success of our state.”

Larson also spoke about his concerns regarding the turnover rate of professors within the UW System, which

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is currently between 5 and 10 percent annually. He said because other universities are offering better salaries and benefits, valuable professors are being lost at extraordinarily high rates, calling for increased funding for higher education across the state.

The Bipartisan Issues Group’s has said it hopes to continue the conference in the future.

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Engineer creates partnership with local hospitals Female students will create tie blankets while networking with departments Emma Palasz

Herald Contributor After Kara Novotny attended a Society of Women Engineers event called Day on Campus while she was in high school, she knew she wanted to pursue engineering at the University of Wisconsin.

Now, Novotny is a senior studying Mechanical Engineering and is the Community Service Chair for the Society of Women Engineers. Her most recent project is putting together an event called the Tie Blanket Bash, which will take place Sunday.

At the event, female students at Madison majoring in Engineering or Computer Science will come together to make blankets for Madison-area children’s hospitals and shelters, she said.

The Tie Blanket Bash looks to serve two different purposes, she said. Besides making the blankets, the event also serves as a

networking opportunity for females in Engineering and Computer Science to come together and interact with people they might not get to talk to every day.

Novotny said the idea for the Tie Blanket Bash came to her because of obstacles she and SWE faced in the past when trying to volunteer directly with local children’s hospitals. To get volunteers into the children’s hospitals, you have to take a whole series of medical tests and it is hard to get interaction with the children, she said.

“I thought a good way to meet them halfway is to give back to them halfway,” she said. “Making tie blankets seemed like a really good idea.”

After she got the idea for the Tie Blanket Bash, Novotny realized she had no budget for the project.

Novotny then applied for a grant that was giving out $10,000 in total for projects aimed at community service.

“After I read the description, I knew that the event in my mind really encompassed what they were looking for,” Novotny said.

Novotny received a grant for $1,000 from the Suzanne

and Richard Pieper Family Foundation.

Novotny said UW student Eliana Burkoff will be speaking at the event.

Burkoff volunteers for Big Brothers Big Sisters, an organization where Burkoff is paired up with an eightyear-old girl that she will work with until the girl graduates high school, she said.

“To devote your time like that is really special,” Novotny said. “In college [most] people focus on themselves, [...] but [Burkoff ] gives up her time to help this little girl.”

She said she hopes Burkoff’s speech will inspire more students to push their limits in what they can do to involve themselves in community service.

Novotny said in fields like engineering and computer science, females are in the minority, making up only about 20 percent of the field. SWE aims to promote engineering to college students as well as encouraging high school girls to explore the field.

Novotny said she wanted to express how important it is for students to get involved with organizations that apply to their majors

Courtesy of Kara Novotny The Society for Women Engineers will host the Tie Blanket Bash Saturday and will benefit local hospitals and shelters.

early on in their college career.

Through SWE, Novotny said she was able to make an event she had imagined into a reality.

Opportunities like the

ones found in college are not always available in the real world and college organizations provide unique opportunities to make ideas happen, she

said.

“Funds are out there, and people are willing to fund a good idea — one that especially benefits other people,” Novotny said.

Artist self-promotes in Madison coffee shops After deciding law school was not for him, Bonilla focused on his expressive art Alex Arriaga

Print City Editor After leaving El Paso, Texas, to avoid rampant gang violence in the 1970s, local artist Samuel Bonilla has found a safe haven for his artistic expression in Madison.

Bonilla came from a family of musicians, a house full of guitars and four boys.

He spent the first five years of his life in Juarez with his Mexican mother and Puerto Rican father.

“I wasn’t very academically oriented in high school, so it was either stay in El Paso, get a working class job, get a girl pregnant,” Bonilla said. “I hopped on a Greyhound, one-way ticket to Connecticut.”

Bonilla said he worked as a “glorified stock boy” at warehouses in Connecticut while getting his degree in a conglomerate of political science, American history and urban studies courses that took him seven years before he decided to move on to law school at the University of Wisconsin.

He studied for two-anda-half years at the law school before realizing it was not what he was expecting and decided to leave to pursue his work as an artist.

Bonilla started by exploring Courtesy of Sam Bonilla music and Bonilla came from a family of musicians. poetry, dedicating himself to hang out at coffee meant we go and shops, determined to write observe human life,” 10 poems a day.

Bonilla said. “So I “I always felt a strong show up to my first need to be creative and life drawing class expressive. I think while I and there’s a senior was disillusioned for the law citizen butt naked, school experience, it really laying on a chair reaffirmed my personal need spread-eagled right to be expressive and free in front of me.” with that,” Bonilla said.

Bonilla is a fan A close friend of of abstract art Bonilla’s encouraged him and the way it is to pursue classes at UW in psychological and the Continuing Education emotional, although Program, so he explored it can be personally some art classes. subjective. He said Bonilla said while he took he incorporates the a couple of life drawing universal symbol of classes and still life classes, the figure to keep most of his artistic education it relatable to his came from his own research audience. and visits to museums.

Bonilla said he “I didn’t know what that has had a handful meant at the time, ‘life of coffee shop and drawing.’ I thought that just gallery exhibits

in Madison over the past two to three years, and he has recently started to explore online methods of promoting his artwork, where he has gotten collectors from New York and Florida to pick up his work.

Bonilla said he considers himself a post-modern “flaneur,” someone who spends a great deal of time at coffee shops, where people come together and have face-to-face conversations and discuss ideas.

“I do my shameless self-promoting at coffee shops,” Bonilla said. “It’s a collegiate environment, place of ideas, you get a lot of open-minded people willing to learn, talk about concepts, a lot of students, a lot of academics.”

Bonilla’s artwork has been featured in Madison’s Bright Red Studios and most recently the new Yellow Rose Gallery that recently opened on State Street, as well as at Fair Trade Coffeehouse.

Courtesy of Naomi Davis Davis will be a keynote speaker Saturday as part of the annual Isthmus Green Day at Monona Terrace.

Urban theorist looks to bring movement to city Davis helps build up self-sufficient black neighborhoods to empower residents Alex Arriaga

Print City Editor Supporting sustainable communities while incorporating her love of art brought environmentalist and urban theorist Naomi Davis to the forefront of Chicago’s movement to construct self-sufficient black neighborhoods, which she hopes to bring to Madison.

After graduating with a degree in English and theatre and going on to law school, Davis now runs the Chicago-based economic development organization, Blacks In Green.

Blacks In Green focuses on empowering residents to build up their own communities and build connections within their neighborhoods, Davis said. Building up the economy is something that should happen at the neighborhood level, she said.

Davis said she has lived her entire life on the promise that she would do the work she loves.

Following her law school education in Chicago, she tried to continue with her

love of theatre, seeking out any opportunity for performing.

“I was a law clerk by day and a singing cocktail waitress by night,” Davis said.

She said she tries to find ways to incorporate her love of theatre into the work she does to build up cities.

Part of building communities and connecting people is getting them involved in constructive projects such as art or theatre, Davis said.

One way she incorporates her love for theatre into her work is by putting together a “Migration: the Musical” project for communities.

The project involves gathering the community together to share stories in a circle about their experiences in the community, a method she said really allows the neighborhood to connect.

She said she sets up a “village handshake” to cultivate relationships within communities.

“You can’t just keep putting houses in neighborhoods and not cultivate any enterprise, not train people to do work,” Davis said.

“There are people who are not currently active as a solution in their neighborhood who can be, but we basically are trying

to shake the tree, and get people to lead where they live.”

Davis said her work can be similarly applied to Madison. Much of her work with Blacks In Green revolves around how to teach, coach and implement the principles of the Green Village Program, which proposes solutions for isolated black communities.

“When we say that we mean to say that we’ve created a system that is a culture specific prescription, but we believe that it has universal values,” Davis said. “Our work is what we call the walkable village.”

Davis theorized the “walkable village,” a concept for a community in which everything a resident needs is within walking distance.

Having the option to walk to any necessary points in a neighborhood makes living more sustainable and is a way to keep neighborhoods connected in a positive way, she said.

“Our concept for the walkable village is that every household should be able to walk to work; walk to shop; walk to learn; and walk to play,” Davis said.

Davis will be featured as a keynote speaker Saturday as part of the annual Isthmus Green Day at Monona Terrace.

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Herald Editorial Soglin’s stance on rideshare programs detrimental

Watch out, Madisonians: There’s a new outlaw in town, and Mayor Paul Soglin is determined to play sheriff.

“This is not the Wild West …

Uber and Lyft refuse to meet these standards and to date refuse to respect Madison Ordinance, choosing to muscle their way into the Madison market,” Soglin declared in a meeting early this month.

But if you’ve gotten a ride from smartphone-based Lyft or Uber in Madison, you’ve caught a glimpse of what taking a taxi should look and feel like in the near future. That is, if city officials in Madison can rework existing ordinances to foster and promote innovation.

Unfortunately, if the Soglins of the world had their way, we’d

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still be calling cabs on pay phones.

As cities across the nation grapple with how to define and regulate rideshare companies, Soglin (who drove a cab in the 1960s) has taken an uncompromising stance against the apps, refusing to even open the conversation about updating city ordinances.

Soglin has aligned himself with cab drivers, saying the services refuse to operate under the regulatory structures taxis do, which include licensing fees, availability of 24/7 service and uniform appearance for all cars in a taxi fleet.

They also object to the way in which these market entrants use “surge pricing”

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— raising fares when demand is high — whereas licensed taxicab services are required to file their rates with the city and may not charge any other rate.

While some of these regulations are essential for safe transportation in the city, others are outdated.

The antiquated 24/7 rule — implemented when the city was much smaller — is unsurprisingly one that Soglin seems adamant in his refusal to discuss. He says allowing new rideshare services to operate outside this requirement gives them an unfair advantage with the ability to work during only profitable hours.

Instead of being hopelessly obstructionist, Soglin should

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consider that while rideshare companies — and his precious cab companies — provide a quasi-public service, they are also private entities that look to generate profit. The city should do away with this regulation for cabs and peerto-peer vehicle companies alike.

There’s also a lot more room for compromise than Soglin seems to think. Companies like Uber and Lyft wouldn’t be hit too hard if they were required to obtain licensing fees, and they could easily comply with background checks.

Regardless, Soglin still clings to old regulations that protect cab companies from competition. The introduction of these services in the city won’t mean the end of

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traditional cab companies.

Some people will prefer to take a normal cab, while others will opt for more modern services like Lyft and Uber.

Luckily, not everyone in Madison’s city government is as out of touch and closeminded as Soglin. Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, has plans to propose a new ordinance by the end of the month that will hopefully establish a middle ground in regulating these new rideshare services.

Working through how to incorporate new technologies in a growing city with antiquated ordinances is nuanced and difficult. But other cities are adapting, and if Madison wants to be a Midwestern tech hub, it can’t

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afford to have its mayor taking such an uncompromising stance on new business models.

Before Lyft and Uber came to town, Madison cabs had no reason to innovate. If their monopoly in the city is allowed to continue and rideshare services are forced out, they’ll still have no reason to make updates.

If Soglin wants Madison to be a city that attracts new services for its citizens, he and other city officials must make a good-faith effort to compromise.

Soglin is clinging to the rules of old under a guise of safety and fairness.

Or maybe he just wants to have the biggest mustache in town.

Will Haynes Digital Managing Editor

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

PAVE’s commonly-asked FAQs regarding sexual assault April is Sexual Assault Awareness month (SAAM), and if what you know about sexual assault comes solely from Law & Order: SVU marathons, you might want to keep reading. Did you know that victims of sexual assault usually know their attacker?

Approximately 90 percent of assaults are perpetrated by someone the victim knows (friend, classmate, acquaintance, neighbor, etc). Sexual assault is an extremely under-reported crime, but by better educating ourselves with the accurate information we can work to change that. Here are some FAQs we wanted to address — questions our PAVE staff members and volunteers

often answer: If both persons involved are drunk, can it be considered rape?

Hookups usually require some logistics (“your place or mine?”) and one person must initiate. Sexual assault is ANY sexual contact or activity without consent.

The term includes all acts ranging from unwanted touching to rape.

Regardless of whether a person is drunk or sober, consent must be given for all acts. Consent is a clear and freely given yes, not the absence of a no. Considering that 1 in 4 women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, but only 5 percent of men are

perpetrators, it’s a very small pool of serial perpetrators ... meaning it’s not accidental. Some perpetrators even use alcohol to justify their actions. So, if you are unsure if someone is too drunk or have any doubts, you probably shouldn’t proceed.

If there is no violence or force is it still rape?

Rape or sexual assault does not always involve physical force. Coercion is the use of emotional or psychological force to pressure or manipulate someone into something, which can be done during a hook-up. For example, this could be not allowing a partner to leave or threatening to

spread rumors about that individual. Coercion can also be subtle. It can take place in relationships (by saying something like, “But don’t you love me?”) and can also be used in abusive relationships as a tool for control.

If I report an incident where alcohol was involved and I am underage will I be ticketed?

There are options when it comes to reporting an incident. If you report to the Dean of Students office, they will conduct their own investigation and will only report to the police if you consent to it. If you report to the University of Wisconsin Police Department

(UWPD), it is standard practice not to ticket for underage drinking when involved in an assault.

The UWPD follows the Responsible Actions Guidelines, which includes protecting victims of crime against disciplinary action.

Both the UWPD and the Dean of Students office strive to aid victims and encourage all students to seek help if needed. There are a variety of resources available for those affected by sexual assault including the University Health Services and the Rape Crisis Center of Dane County and its 24hour line.

Sexual assault affects 1 in 4 women, and 1 in 9 men in their lifetimes.

No one, regardless of sex, gender, race, sexual orientation, mental capacity, physical capabilities, etc. is immune to these concerns. PAVE (Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment) is dedicated to preventing sexual assault, dating violence and stalking through education and activism on campus.

PAVE focuses on primary prevention by challenging attitudes and behaviors surrounding these issues.

For more information, including how to get involved, contact chair. pave@gmail.com.

Emma McGrath is a junior majoring in communication arts and English.

Keep Easter separate from consumer culture Lauren Prazuch Columnist

We are currently in an age where holidays are rapidly morphing and evolving together.

You cannot go to a store around Halloween time without seeing Christmas decorations already on

sale; you cannot make it through Thanksgiving without news stations and commercials shoving Black Friday advertisements down your throat. And, by the time December 25th arrives, it seems as though the October and November holidays were just the insignificant pre-games

Holiday Commercialism • Average total spending around Easter this year was $15. 9 billion • Only about $200 per person is used for Easter expenses, much less than the other two major holidays, Christmas and Thanksgiving • $800 per person is spent on gifts alone during the Christmas season • $100 a day is spent each day of the week of Thanksgiving

before the frat party that is Christmas. Easter is a slightly different story though. Maybe it is the fact that Easter lies in the middle of spring with no major holidays surrounding it, or that people revere the religious sanctity of the event so highly that they would not dare transform it into a consumerist monster, but over the years Easter has proved to be one of the more respectable, independent holidays.

What began as a sacred Christian holiday commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is now brightly associated with bunnies, Easter eggs and a plethora of pastel colors. Dating back to the German immigrants of the 1700s who brought over the tradition of a large egg-laying hare named “Osterhase,” the idea of the Easter Bunny emerged.

This creature would lay its colored eggs and leave candy and other treats in children’s baskets; thus launching the newly

commercialized Easter traditions.

Another popular activity of coloring eggs originates around the 13th century and acts as another symbol of birth and new life. This shift to many more secular traditions has increased the economic nature of Easter, though it still does not rival the king and queen of all consumerist holidays, Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Though consumerism inevitably surrounds every holiday throughout the year, Easter’s average spending is much lower than most, particularly this year.

When categorized into different products, such as clothing, food, gifts, flowers, decorations, candy and greeting cards, the average total spending reached around $15.9 billion.

Of this $15.9 billion, an individual on average will spend around $53 on clothing; $50 on food; $35 on gifts; $24 on

decorations; $22 on candy; and $13 on greeting cards.

“Maybe ... people revere the religious sanctity of the event [Easter] so highly that they would dare not transform it into a consumerist monster ... ” In contrast, about $800 per person is spent on gifts alone during the Christmas season, and around $100 a day is spent during the week of Thanksgiving. These numbers suggest that Easter is far from being on the economic level of other major holidays.

The Easter season is a time rightfully less focused on presents and consumer

spending. However, it is still difficult to imagine a holiday season without large sales and designated decoration sections. As with any holiday, the purpose of Easter should be to spend time with family and friends and reflect on the year that has passed since last Easter. Whether you are embarking on an Easter egg hunt or snapping uncomfortable pictures with the Easter Bunny, remember why exactly we are celebrating.

Though celebrations like Thanksgiving and Christmas obviously still stand for the same principles and values, despite being affected by such consumer culture, there seems to be a completely different mindset during the spring.

Let’s keep it that way.

Laruen Prazuch (prazuch@wisc.edu) is a freshman intending to major in journalism and communication arts.

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IS ‘GAME OF THRONES’ THE NEXT ‘MAD MEN?

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Hayley Braun TV Columnist

The clash over the crown for Sunday night’s top television show began last week with the seventh season premiere of “Mad Men” and the much-hyped “purple wedding”on “Game of Thrones.”

However, initial ratings and responses seem to imply it might not be a hard-fought battle after all.

The heavily-promoted final season premiere of “Mad Men” aired last Sunday night to shockingly low ratings. The episode brought in 2.3 million viewers, making it the lowest-rated premiere

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since the second season’s debut episode in 2008.

Meanwhile on HBO, Sunday night’s “Game of Thrones” episode, airing an hour before “Mad Men,” brought in nearly triple the number of viewers, with 6.3 million live views.

Almost since it began in the summer of 2006, “Mad Men” has been referred to as the show that brought back the golden age of television. It’s the show that the type of people who say they don’t own a television will admit to watching and reference in conversation.

Even President Barack Obama referred to the show in his latest State of the Union

address. It’s become a part of the mainstream culture, but has that made the show lose its edge?

Many of the show’s former faithful viewers (including myself ) found the last season more slow-moving and depressing than usual.

“Game of Thrones,” on the other hand, which just began its fourth season, continues to shock viewers on a weekly basis. People STILL have not stopped talking about last season’s “red wedding,” which was, without a doubt, the most brutal and heartwrenching television scene of 2013. The episode which aired last Sunday night featured another

wedding that ended pretty gruesomely for one of the show’s main characters.

While “GoT” has one of the largest casts in television, bigger story lines and plot twists, “Mad Men” has seemingly become smaller, focusing more on the introspective and the personal journey of its characters.

I was thoroughly impressed with the premiere episode of “Mad Men,” “Time Zones.” It had a tone more similar to season three and four’s episodes rather than the aimless, irrelevant season six’s. I’m definitely excited for the next six episodes, but still think

it’s ridiculous that the final seven episodes of the series won’t air until spring 2015.

AMC chose to divide up the final season of “Mad Men” into two parts, with a year in between them, because “Breaking Bad” was so successful with the same tactic. This seems ridiculous to me, because “Mad Men” could never be “Breaking Bad.” “Mad Men” has already reached its peak. It’s not a cult hit like “Breaking Bad” was before its final season began. “Mad Men” can’t gain buzz through word-ofmouth because it already benefited as much as it could from that … back in

2010.

“Game of Thrones” is beginning to look like its on the same path as “Breaking Bad.” It started out with a relatively small audience when it premiered in 2010, but the latest season premiere brought the highest numbers ever and broke HBOGo. It continues to be the most illegally downloaded show on the internet.

While it seems like one show is slowly fading, and the other is continuously building, Sunday night might no longer belong to AMC and “Mad Men.” What will you be watching this Sunday night?

Living Statues’ debut EP harks back to early 2000s Erik Sateren ArtsEtc. Editor

Forgive me. This review is going to be unabashedly self-centered.

This is not to draw attention away from The Living Statues, a Milwaukee-based band that recently released its debut EP, Knockin’.

Rather, this is an effort to contextualize the band’s music in the greater scope of my life and explain why, for the past two weeks, their debut EP has had a profound effect on my ears, which I’ve had the same pair for 20 years.

I first “got into” music in fifth grade. The first 10 years of my life were defined by a passive enjoyment of popular music. As a seven-yearold, I’d explode with joy whenever a song by Smash Mouth or Fastball found its way onto the airwaves of the pre-set Twin Cities radio stations in my parents’ Dodge Caravan. But I never sought this music outside of the radio stations. I took what was given to me and accepted it.

As I progressed through elementary school, my close friends began to gravitate toward music. Their tastes were

primarily influenced by older siblings. Songs

by The Clash, Weezer and The Beatles found themselves regularly intermingling with the soundtrack of our lives: a lush medley of skateboard wheels on pavement, Skittles being chased by Sprite Remix and conversations about which fourth-grade girls we thought were cutest.

Then a little movie called “School of Rock” hit theaters. I saw it with a group of friends and was floored by it. It was as if I had only been using 20 percent of my ears’ full capacity up until that point. When Jack Black’s character played the riff to Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water,” my ears were suddenly operating at 100 percent.

New worlds opened.

Fifth grade became a blur of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and Metallica. I needed hard rock and I needed it now.

As I transitioned into sixth grade, I moved away from a strictly “classic” rock palette and began exploring the contemporary figures in rock — particularly indie rock —music. Life became about listening to as much new music as possible. It

was the first time I had entrenched myself in the ever-shifting current of contemporary music, but I was happy to be taken for a ride. My ears received heavy exposure to The Strokes’ Room on Fire; The Shins’ Chutes too Narrow; Franz Ferdinand’s Franz Ferdinand; The Hives’ Tyrannosaurus Hives; Green Day’s American Idiot; and The White Stripes’ Elephant. The latter album stood out among the rest, as I found Jack and Meg White to be one of the few bands so effortlessly bridging the fresh sounds of the garage rock/post-punk revival with classic rock sensibilities. They rocked, and I was into that kind of thing.

Which brings me to The Living Statues. Had I been exposed to The Living Statues’ Knockin’ EP in 2004, it would have fit in perfectly with the list of albums above. Like The White Stripes, The Living Statues ride just the right line between modern indie-rock tropes and the gritty, sex-drugs-rock‘n’-roll attitude of the hundreds of artists that attracted me so feverishly to classic rock when I was 10. On the opening title track, the guitars are

played with simplicity and urgency. The bassline crawls around as simple drum rhythms heavy on the cymbals give it a beat to circle around. Tommy Shears voice rips across it all in a snarl that recalls a Julian Casablancas or Jack White, singing “And you will likely never find / find your peace of mind ‘round here / Cause I’ve forgotten all my lines / spent them a long time ago on a girl.” These vague emotional appeals could be pulled straight from The Strokes’ Is This It. But it always feels fresh.

“Extra Day” follows with cymbal heavy percussion; unforgiving, distorted guitar; and ruminations on a girl in a photograph. “Foolin’ Around” finds the Statues at its most Strokes-like, as Shears screams, “We got no time on our hands …

You’re with me not with your man.” On “Foolin’ Around,” the band tosses in an unapologetic surfrock guitar solo. The band frequently incorporates solos into their tunes, but unlike many guitar solos these days, they don’t take center stage; they provide the perfect, sleek counterpoint to the driving instrumentation

below. those albums before I can “Time For Me to Go” completely understand might be the cheesiest the sonic context of The song on the album, but War on Drugs’ recentlythe cutesy melody and released Lost in the lovelorn lyrics make it Dream. instantly bar-ready (in The Living Statues take the Hold Steady and me back to a time when Free Energy vein). The this wasn’t how I listened five-track EP closes with to music. Between the “Not My Fault,” which years of 2003 and 2005, combines surf-guitar my ears were young and licks with biting lines excited by anything new. like “It’s not my fault / Listening to music wasn’t That I’m your type girl” about aesthetic or cultural and “I could’ve stayed context. It was about “this home, had a drink and sounds good, right now.” gotten myself some sleep.”

I’m thankful my formative Everything about Living years aligned with this Statues screams swagger. boom in garage rock acts, It’s no wonder then that because when I listen to the band lists “Leather, a band like The Living Vinyl, Women, Gin” under Statues 10 years later, I’m its interests on Facebook. instantly transported to a This band doesn’t just time when fractions were rock but also appears to difficult and my mouth live a truly rock ‘n’ roll tasted like jawbreakers lifestyle. for most hours of the day.

I was born in 1993. I was four years old when Radiohead’s OK Computer was released. I didn’t discover it until I was in high school, 10 years later. My entire approach to music consumption for the past 10 years has been dictated by a need to “catch up.” I hear the importance subscribed to albums like Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska KNOCKIN’ or Ride’s Nowhere and THE LIVING feel it’s necessary to hear STATUES

University Theatre’s fun ‘Richard III’ blends East, West Sara Lawton

ArtsEtc. Staff Writer The University of Wisconsin’s University Theatre is currently presenting a kabuki-style production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, directed by David Furumoto. The play aspires to fuse elements of Eastern and Western dramatic performance styles and does so by using the original Shakespearian text mixed with visual elements of kabuki theater. The play’s clear, artistic vision is enhanced by performances by actors such as

Daniel Millhouse as Richard and Chelsea Anderson as Queen Margaret.

The production is intensely focused on visuals: a high level of attention to detail proves rewarding in the beautiful contrast and imagery presented on stage. The set features a multilevel stony castle, with many steps that the actors’ elaborate Renaissancemeets-traditional-Japanesestyle costumes drape over as they move across the stage. Every actors’ costume is beautifully constructed, with attention to lines, layers, patterns and movement. Fabric is draped and folded expertly in pieces ranging from huge puffy pants, kimonostyle sleeves and even tall cloth headpieces. The use of

traditional kabuki makeup enhances the costuming: As the play progresses, the audience watches Richard, played by Daniel Millhouse, acquire more and more dark black and blue lines across his face.

Movement is emphasized as well; every actor is intensely aware of the space on the stage and where their costumes move.

They’re deliberate in every movement. Stiff poses are held for extended periods of time, and Richard’s limp was made simultaneously jerky and lively. The final scene in the play features fluid choreography by making use of harnesses to achieve flying motions as Richard battles Richmond (played by Kailen Fleck), complemented by

flying leaps and aerial somersaults.

The actors themselves prove capable of performing an odd vocal style that features an increase in volume and pitch toward the end of a scene, punctuated by rhythmic floor taps done with a wooden board by an offstage assistant. At first, the noise is intensely loud and unexpected. However, as the play progresses, it emerges as an interesting device used for emphasis.

Millhouse performs the leading role as Richard excellently. He appears completely absorbed in his role, and the audience can easily see — and believe — that he truly is Richard when he is onstage. His performance

encompasses many aspects of Richard’s character, such as the character’s physical deformities, occasionally slimy commentary and “plotting evil villain” tendencies.

He fluidly moves through scenes by using a varied vocal intensity and emotive facial expressions. When he “flies” across the stage wearing a gaudy blue cape and headpiece, his facial expressions are what made the scene decidedly “creepy,” while dimmed lighting and ominous organ music contribute to this effect.

Anderson performs her separate roles as Queen Margaret and the Duchess of York by using her movements to interpret the emotions of the scene.

Her posture reflects the emotions effectively.

She also performs the vocal elements of the performance extremely well by varying her pitch and volume while still consistently projecting her speech.

The University Theatre’s production of “Richard III” is a strange yet inspired interpretation of the traditional Shakespearian play. Its artistic vision and attention to visual detail form a solid foundation for strong performances.

Together, those elements merged the Eastern and Western influences, resulting in an engaging performance by the cast.

“Richard III” runs through May 3 at Mitchell Theatre in Vilas Hall.

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Wisconsin drops regular-season finale A weekend slate of 2 top-50 teams extends Badgers’ losing streak to 7 Spencer Smith Sports Editor

The Wisconsin women’s tennis team went into the weekend with the chance to match, if not exceed, its 3-9 conference record from a year ago, but matches against two top50 teams proved to be the end of that goal.

Riding a five-game losing streak going into the weekend, Wisconsin (7-12, 2-9 Big Ten) fell to No. 12 Northwestern (16-6, 10-1) and No. 43 Illinois (13-9, 6-5) to finish its regular season on a 7-game skid.

Sunday marked the Badgers’ regular season finale at Nielson Tennis Stadium in Madison where UW looked to avenge a 5-2 loss to the Illini last season.

Wisconsin has not beaten Illinois since 2011.

Illinois struck first, taking the doubles point in two close matches by a combined 3 games.

The No. 3 doubles pairing of Becca Bailey and Sydney Rider fell 8-7. The No. 1 pairing of Lauren Chypyha and Lauren Burich followed with an 8-6 loss leaving the No. 2 doubles match unfinished as the Fighting Illini clinched the point.

Illinois jumped to a 2-0 lead when Jerricka Boone beat Bailey 6-3, 6-0 in the No. 6 singles matchup.

Wisconsin picked up its first point of the match when Chypyha took down Allison Falkin

SAILING, page 10 prevent them from getting out on the water.

Starting in the second weekend of February, UW travels to at least one race a weekend, if not more, sending anywhere from six sailors to the 37 that took part in this year’s spring break trip.

Facing off against elite level talent on the east coast might be nerveracking coming from a school like Wisconsin where the sport is only at club level, but after racing against them nearly every weekend, it’s a boat (literally speaking) sailors like UW senior Michael Lee, a co-captain of the team, have been in numerous times over their careers.

“Going into your first regatta as a freshman, it’s kind of intimidating,” Lee said. “But once you get on the water you realize you can actually stay with them a little bit, it’s not that bad.”

Besides a few other Midwestern schools in Wisconsin’s conference like Michigan and Minnesota, which travel east once or maybe twice a spring, UW prides itself on making it out east upwards of five times each spring.

This gives Wisconsin’s sailors a frequent taste of top-of-the-line college racing, which other club programs don’t often get the opportunity to experience.

Even getting to the events out east is a hard enough endeavor, as the team is almost completely self-funded except for a tenth of the budget provided by the Hoofers

6-0, 6-4 in the No. 1 singles match, bringing the Badgers within one point of the Illini. With the win, Chyphyha improves to 25-9 overall in singles matches.

Illinois and Wisconsin would trade points as the Illini would take the No. 4 singles point and the Badgers would pick up the No. 2 singles point bringing the match to 3-2 mark.

The No. 3 singles match proved to be the decisive one as Melissa Kopinski would take down Burich 6-3, 6-1 to give Illinois a 4-2 lead and secure the win over Wisconsin.

The Illini would take the No. 4 singles point to bring the final to 5-2, handing the Badgers their seventh-straight loss.

In its first match of the weekend, Wisconsin faced a No. 12 Northwestern team that it has taken only two points from in regular season matches since 2004.

The Wildcats came to Madison with the No. 34, Veronica Corning, and No. 40, Belinda Niu, ranked singles players and No. 29th –ranked doubles team.

Northwestern quickly took the doubles point with 8-3 and 8-2 wins in the No. 1 and No. 3 matchups respectively to take an early 1-0 lead.

The Wildcats took the No. 6 singles point first as Nida Hamilton took care of Bailey 6-1, 6-2.

Northwestern took the No. 4 singles point next and followed up with a win in the No. 3 matchup to clinch the victory for the away squad.

In the No. 1 singles match, Wisconsin’s Chypyha put an early

program. But with fundraising and a strong alumni base, Wisconsin not only makes it a habit of showing up to the premier events, but of succeeding in them.

This weekend in the Coed Fleet Racing Qualifiers, which were supposed to be held in Madison but had to be moved to Chicago due to the slow thaw of Lake Mendota, Wisconsin took second place and for the sixth-straight year advanced to Nationals.

Although sophomore crew Katie Hall said she was disappointed with the second place finish to Big Ten rival Michigan, it gives you a sense of what the expectations are like surrounding the program — even qualifying for Nationals is not enough.

Not Just a Hobby As a mere onlooker at the terrace watching boats move slowly around the lake, it might seem like sailing is just a hobby, but that’s hardly the case. This past weekend’s qualifier went into a sailoff with Michigan, the equivalent of overtime for sailing. And a sailing weekend isn’t just a stroll around a body of water enjoying the sun and cool breeze. During a team race weekend, each team sends three boats composed of two sailors each. Over the course of the weekend the three boats will compete against other schools in three-on-three races. In a team race competition weekend there are as many as 160 races total while each individual team competes in around 20 races, making it an

scare into No. 34-ranked Corning taking the first set 4-6. Corning would respond, though, taking the next two sets both by a score of 6-3.

Wisconsin would fail to take a match from Northwestern, giving the Wildcats a 7-0 win

over the Badgers for the second year in a row.

With the regular season slate over, Wisconsin will travel to Evanston, Ill., for the Big Ten Tournament where it will take on No. 6 Minnesota. The Golden Gophers lost a three-way

tiebreaker with Illinois and Indiana to take the sixth seed.

In the only meeting between the two teams, Minnesota came away with a 4-3 win on its home court. The Golden Gophers come into the conference tournament

on a two-game losing skid.

Wisconsin will face off with Minnesota Thursday at 2 p.m. The winner will take on No. 3 seed Ohio State.

The Badgers fell to the Buckeyes 6-1 in the regular season.

arduous weekend for the sailors involved.

With the multitude of races and how much and how sporadically the weather can change, each race is an entirely new experience, something that drew Lee to the sport.

“I grew up playing basketball as well and so every single time you step on a basketball court everything is exactly the same but every time you step into a boat there’s something new, something different and challenging to try and figure out about the race course, the venue — whatever it might be,” Lee said. “From a competitive aspect, it’s always changing and you always have to adapt.”

Taking into mind how different the conditions can be, whether completely still as in the eye of a storm or hectic enough to be in the midst of the worst of the storm, a sailor’s abilities have to be quite unique as Lee

described.

“It’s having the strength of a football player but the grace of a ballerina.”

Although sailing requires both strength and agility, it also requires different mindsets for the two people on the boat, the skipper and the crew. Most of the public’s experience with sailing revolves around the higher level of sailing where the boats are much bigger and so are the crews. But at the college level the boats aren’t exactly the roomiest and there is only enough room for the skipper and the crew, underlining the importance of the relationship between the two parties.

While the skipper is in charge of driving the boat, with concentrations outside of the vessel, the crew has his or her focus on the inside, making sure all the equipment is maintained.

These differing roles

make the lives of those inside the boat much different come race time, and although the skippers on Wisconsin may have enjoyed this past weekend of team racing more, the Wisconsin crew members, like Hall, who have a tendency to like fleet racing more, will have their time in the sun this coming weekend.

“Team racing can be a little intimidating for crews just because there can be a lot of yelling, a lot of close quartered maneuvering. It’s a lot more tactical and a lot more rules-based and trying to use strategy to outsmart the other team, whereas fleet racing is a combination of that and going fast,” Kent said.

Wisconsin will head to the coed and women’s qualifiers this coming weekend and, with their finish this past weekend, UW has the chance to be the only club team to send all three teams to

Nationals for the second year in a row.

Next time you see those sails on the water, you’ll know the boats on the water don’t just represent a hobby but the passion and lifeblood of one of the more successful teams, not just on campus, but in the country.

“College sailing is one unique aspect that you can only do for four years.

It’s a lifelong thing,” Kent said. “You can sail until you can’t walk anymore and you can sail after that. It’s a sport and it’s a hobby. You can take your kids and your grandparents out and your friends. They don’t have to know how to sail to go out and have a good time.”

You can relax on a boat — or you can race.

For now, the sailors of the Wisconsin Sailing team aren’t relaxing, they’re going places. Like the team’s motto says, Go, Go Wisco.

Erin Monahan/Wisconsin Sailing Team Wisconsin’s sailing team took second place in the Coed Fleet Racing Qaualifiers for the sixth-straight year punching its ticket to nationals.

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UW wins 10th straight in series sweep of PSU Badgers allow just 5 runs as they pick up 3 road wins over Nittany Lions Meghan Eustice Softball Writer

If the Badgers didn’t have any superstitious routines 10 games ago, they probably do now.

The Wisconsin women’s softball team spent its Easter weekend in University Park, Penn., sweeping a three-game series with conference rival Penn State, stretching its winning streak to 10.

Fresh off a series sweep against Bucknell University last Wednesday, Penn State (14-26, 5-10 Big Ten) kept its momentum going Friday afternoon. In the first couple of innings, the Badgers were kept at bay failing to put any numbers of its own up.

In the top of the third inning, however, the Nittany Lions lost their hold on UW, turning the Badgers loose. After Katie Christner and Megan Tancill reached base on an error and a fielder’s choice, leadoff hitter Mary Massei homered over the center field fence for her eighth of the year, catapulting UW into the lead. As if a 3-run head start wasn’t enough, three batters later senior Stephanie Peace sent another one out of the park for her sixth homer of the season. That was followed directly by a double by freshman Chloe Miller who eventually found her way home on a single by teammate Ashley Van Zeeland, scoring the fifth run of the inning.

The bottom of the fifth saw a small comeback by Penn State when leftfielder Alyssa Sovereign doubled to left center, and eventually went on to put her team on the scoreboard after a fielder’s choice allowed her to reach home.

The ground made up by PSU, however, was taken away in the top of the next inning by the Badgers when Miller lead off the inning with another Wisconsin home run, putting UW five runs ahead again.

The Nittany Lions put everything they had in the bottom of the final inning, playing a small-ball inning and scrapping together a couple last runs on a string of infield singles, fielder’s

KOHL, page 10 Kohl told the Milwaukee Business Journal. “I’m making a pure gift.

There’s no return from it financially.

“If they named it after me, they would be forgoing naming rights money. And I wouldn’t do that because they need that money. So, no, it’s not going to be.”

While the moves Kohl made during his time

choices and walks, but in the end was unable to make up for the Badgers’ third inning as UW came away winners 6-3.

Stewart Blanks PSU The two teams were back at it the next afternoon, but Penn State was unable to get any momentum going against Wisconsin, and was shut out 4-0.

In the top of the fourth, UW centerfielder Marissa Mersch doubled to start things off, stole third when teammate Michelle Mueller lined out to the shortstop, and eventually scored on a passed ball, making the score 1-0.

The next three runs by Wisconsin were all scored in the top of the sixth, when Mersch doubled again to get things going.

Two batters later, Peace singled to left field, picking up her first RBI of the game as Mersch crossed home. Miller stepped into the batter’s box next, and picked up two more RBIs as she ripped another home run off Penn State pitcher Macy Jones for a final score of 4-0.

Hailing from Bettendorf, Iowa, the freshman powerhouse has been having a successful first season at UW, currently batting .295 (fifth on the team) with a slugging percentage of .571 (third on team).

UW secures sweep The second half of the double header started after a short break, and, similar to the last two games, took a few innings for both teams to get into the swing of things.

The Badgers were once again the first to score, putting up three runs in the third inning, consisting mainly of errors and fielder’s choices on Penn State’s part.

After reaching on a single of her own, Tancill advanced to third when Massei doubled to left field.

After Mersch reached on an error, Mueller stepped up to bat with bases loaded, but ended up reaching first on a fielder’s choice when Penn State pitcher Marlaina Laubach threw home to prevent Tancill from scoring. After two errors in a row by PSU, UW plated three unearned runs as Mueller, Mersch and Massei all crossed

home plate, jumping the score up to 3-0.

But Wisconsin wasn’t finished. An inning later, Van Zeeland kept the hot streak going as she singled up the middle, and advanced to second on a sacrifice by teammate Maria Van Abel. Tancill later reached on an error, and advanced to second on an error, pushing Van Zeeland over to third. With two runners in scoring

position, Massei was due up again, and came through for UW as she doubled to left field, sending both Van Zeeland and Tancill home.

The bottom of the same inning, the Nittany Lions finally landed on the scoreboard. After Reina Furuya was hit by a pitch to start off the inning, back-to-back singles by Kasie Hatfield and Shelby Miller loaded the bases.

After a teammate flew out

as owner to the Bucks may have left some fans scratching their heads, or worse, it cannot be denied that without Kohl the landscape of basketball in Wisconsin would much different. The Bucks may have moved to Seattle, Las Vegas or Louisville, Ky., a long time ago and the Kohl Center wouldn’t exist.

Sure, the Bucks were terrible this year, were named as the least

valuable franchise in the NBA by Forbes earlier this year and were last in attendance this season.

OK, it sounds a little bad when I write it all out for you, but the Bucks are important to Milwaukee and to Wisconsin. The franchise owns a rich tradition that others could only dream about. With names like Kareem AbdulJabbar, Oscar Robertson and Ray Allen once donning a Milwaukee

uniform, the Bucks have and always will mean a lot to the state of Wisconsin.

So, while Kohl’s generosity may fall on deaf ears at a time when the Milwaukee Bucks’ popularity isn’t exactly skyrocketing, it doesn’t diminish what he has done for the franchise and for the state. So here’s to you, senator Kohl, it’s been a hell of a ride.

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Senior firstbaseman Stephanie Peace hit her seventh home run of the season in Friday’s 6-3 over Penn State and drove in two runners in the series.

to the UW shortstop, Karlie Habitz singled for Penn State’s first RBI of the game, and a batter later, Alicia Walker grounded out to the shortstop, allowing enough time for Hatfield to reach home.

The remainder of the game brought no runs for either team, totaling out the final score at 5-2 in favor of the Badgers once again. Wisconsin pitcher Cassandra Darrah pitched

the first and third games of the series, earning a total of 6 strikeouts and allowing ten hits. Sophomore TaylorPaige Stewart pitched the middle game, averaging an impressive strikeout per inning and only allowing three hits.

The Badgers will try and continue the winning streak next weekend in a home series when Purdue comes to Madison for a three-game series.

The Badger Herald File Photo Senator Kohl donated $100 million after selling the Milwaukee Bucks.

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SAILING INTO SPRING Dan Corcoran

Sports Content Editor As you soak in a warm spring afternoon from an orange chair on the Memorial Union terrace, a thatch of white sails move slowly across the dark azure horizon of Lake Mendota like the clouds that drift lazily in the lighter blue sky above you. But besides signs of a long winter finally broken along with the ice, these sails are much more than a welcome sign of summer — underneath those sails are the faces and stories of the Wisconsin Sailing team.

But this is hardly an ordinary group of 55 sailors, the number of Wisconsin students claiming spots on the roster of the sailing team. Although that number is closer to 40 in terms of consistently active

members, together they make up the biggest team in college sailing.

Part of the reason behind that, though, is Wisconsin is not like many college sailing teams, at least not like those teams on the east coast where sailing, squash and fencing are just as much a part of the athletic cultures of the universities as football and basketball.

At eastern universities like Harvard, where there are 45 student-athletes between the men’s and women’s teams, sailing is a varsity with just as many endeavor and resources available to rosters are capped at a specific number the student-athletes as would be available of athletes. to the football or But more importantly, schools basketball teams.

But on any given like Harvard have sailing as part of the weekend during the spring, while Lake athletic program, Mendota still is meaning it’s fully enclosed by several funded by the feet of ice, Wisconsin athletic department

travels east and races right alongside those varsity programs, which is quite the serious endeavor compared to racing in the Midwest.

“Even the culture at the events [out east] is different,” junior co-captain Whitney Kent, said. “In our

conference everybody is friends. Out there, you might have known someone your whole life, but you barely even talk to them. So it’s a more intense atmosphere.”

With an unpredictable lake like Mendota and erratic Wisconsin

weather, much of the spring season for the UW sailing team takes place far away from the confines of the Madison campus.

But unlike the other teams in the Midwest, Wisconsin doesn’t let the conditions at home

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Kohl invaluable to basketball in Wisconsin Spencer Smith

Spence’s Two Cents What’s the first thing you would do with $550 million?

Travel the world? Pay off your student loans? Buy sodas for everyone? Odds are saving an NBA franchise would be near the bottom of that list. But for senator Herb Kohl, it was a nobrainer. The man who has been at the forefront of basketball philanthropy

in the state of Wisconsin for more than three decades made his latest move to ensure that the NBA stays in Milwaukee.

Kohl, the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks since 1985, announced the sale of Wisconsin’s NBA franchise last week to hedge fund billionaires Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry for $550 million.

After months of speculation about a potential sale of the Bucks, Kohl wound up selling the Milwaukee franchise for more than 30 times his initial investment of $18 million three decades ago.

But as Kohl has

demonstrated during his entire tenure as the Bucks’ owner, owning the team wasn’t about the money, it’s always been about keeping basketball in Wisconsin and in the city of Milwaukee. That is why he bought the team and that is why he sold the team.

“Being part of the effort to bring the NBA franchise here originally and then keeping it here has been a big part of my adult life,” Kohl said in a press conference Wednesday at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. “I have owned the Bucks for more than 29 years and our fans, our business partners and my

colleagues at the Bucks have been on my mind and in my heart everyday.

So I hope you understand why this process was and is so important to me and why I was not going to make a move unless I was convinced that it was the right one.”

With first-year NBA commissioner Adam Silver threatening to move the Bucks to Seattle if plans for a new arena were not in place by 2017, Kohl felt the pressure to bring in new investors or potentially new majority owners for the franchise. He found that in Edens and Lasry. But to ensure that new era of

the Bucks got off on the right foot and their roots stayed firmly planted in Milwaukee, Kohl took part of his wealth and donated $100 million to be put toward a new facility for the organization.

That’s right, after selling the franchise, the first thing the former senator did was stick $100 million right back into it.

But it was for the good of basketball in the state of Wisconsin. Without it, Milwaukee’s chances at securing a new arena would be much more bleak.

Of course this isn’t the first time Kohl has made a generous donation in

the name of basketball.

No, it’s no coincidence that the University of Wisconsin’s basketball arena is named the Kohl Center. The Wisconsin alum donated $25 million for the construction of the basketball arena that would be named in his honor.

The difference this time is that the cost is four times as high and there won’t be a Kohl Center South, as his name will not be attached to a new arena. He won’t allow it.

“They said they wanted to name (the Kohl Center) after me; I said, ‘Fine.’

Here it’s different,”

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