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UW researchers gain more insight into nervous system diseases A study conducted by UW Veterinary Medicine doctor discovers renewed myelin sheath can restore diminished neurological functions

by Emilie Cochran Campus Editor

University of Wisconsin researchers may have found a new way to understand and combat the mysterious causes of diseases, like multiple sclerosis, that impair normal brain functions.

A UW study found renewed but thin myelin sheaths are able to restore the defective nervous system for years. The myelin sheath is the protective membrane layer wrapped around nerve cells that increases response time to the nervous system. Any damage to the myelin sheath can affect and deteriorate everyday speech, cognitive awareness or the ability to move, and sometimes can make normal neurological functions impossible.

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a team of UW researchers led by Dr. Ian Duncan of the UW School of Veterinary Medicine. Duncan says their research focuses on an indicator of myelin repair, believed to be in thin myelin sheaths.

“This whole idea has been challenged recently in some papers and high impact scientific journals, to the point where we would be left without any biomarker at all of what myelin repair looks like in the central nervous system,” Duncan said.

The study focused on a genetic disorder that naturally affects Weimaraners, a dog breed whose pups develop a severe tremor and loss of coordination as early as 12-to 14-days old, according to the study. The condition in the pups is due to the delayed development of myelin sheath in the dog’s central nervous system.

“There’s only one of really telling if the brain has been remyelinated,” Duncan said. “That is to look at the thickness of the myelin sheath.”

The pups then experience loss of coordination and tremors. Most of the time in the Weimaraners, the symptoms gradually diminish and disappear completely by three to four months old.

In this particular study, two Weimaraner pups were patients at UW 13 years ago.

Duncan contacted the owners after the dog’s lives had ended so he was able to retrieve samples of their spinal cord tissue.

Even after 13 years, the dogs were deemed “neurologically normal,” Duncan said.

“13 years is a long time to remain the same, so we see that they are stable and secure,” Duncan said. “They also supported functions that animals which had the neurologic defect, to begin with, made this thin myelin which promoted recovery, they were normal up to 13 years of age.”

These findings are bringing hope to those with diseases that affect the myelin sheaths, like MS. The study was in part funded by MS Hope for a Cure, a foundation create d by Elissa Levy in 2007, who was diagnosed with a progressive form of the disease in 2002.

“[Our] goal is to fund projects where we would get the best bang for our buck. As a small organization, we’re able to do things much quicker than most large organizations. ” Elissa Levy Founder of MS Hope for Cure MS Hope for a Cure is based in New York and mainly supports local MS centers and funds research that has to do with the progressive form of the disease, like Duncan’s.

When she started the foundation, there was a lot of funding going toward remitting MS, Levy said. However, now she wants to make a push toward finding more medications that help with the progressive form of the disease since most medications help with the relapsing-remitting form.

When she was diagnosed, there were 3 FDA approved medications. Now there are 12 to help with relapsing-remitting, Levy said, but there’s only one medication that helps with progressive MS. “It would just be so wonderful to see a medication come on board that actually has been proven to show a reverse in disability,” Levy said.

Through research like Duncan’s Levy hopes to make medications like these possible to help others with the progressive form of MS. MS Hope for a Cure holds local fundraisers to help raise money for things like research, Levy said. A fear that Levy has is government dollars used for research decreasing, but she believes now is the time to invest in medical research.

“I feel really strongly that this age of technology is what is really making the next set of medical advances possible,” Levy said.

UW looks for new health leader to promote positive health on campus Successor to previous UHS chief health director has “big shoes to fill,” Dean of the School of Nursing, Linda Scott says

by Ben Safarbi Reporter

A bill introduced in the state Senate last mFollowing the departure of former University Health Services Executive Director Sarah Van Orman, University of Wisconsin begins its search for a new campus health leader.

Van Orman left the post in June after nearly a decade at UW to serve as the Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Chief Student Health Officer positions at the University of Southern California. Now, the university announced it is looking for a qualified replacement to take her place.

The committee will review the credentials of those who submit their application by Nov. 30th and conduct preliminary interviews to recommend finalists for consideration next spring.

Linda Scott, Dean of the School of Nursing, will be leading the 15-member search team and screening committee for applicants to replace Van Orman.

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about the UW community and campus needs, Scott said. The new hire is expected to lead UHS for a number of years, so she said it is important the next UHS Executive have a very particular set of skills suited for a successful transition into this position.

“A successful candidate will be a clinician who has a strong population health orientation and an interest in advancing positive health outcomes on our campus,” Scott said. “UHS serves a critical function within the larger University ecosystem and its integrated care model promotes and protects the health of the campus community.”

Scott said UHS programs and policies aim to protect and promote the overall health of faculty, staff, and students, and the next leader must be able to build and maintain those critical relationships across the university. She said the new director must be a thought leader along with being a college health expert, leverage technology for both a data and evidence-based decisionmaking approach to care and service, evaluate the optimal infrastructure and respond to campus health issues and crises as they emerge. “[UHS directors provide] leadership to maintain existing momentum and innovate new services that align with evolving the health of

members of our university community,” Scott said.

The university’s expectation is that the new executive director will assist in maintaining the UHS as a leader regionally and nationally in the area of college health.

Laurent Heller, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, said the position is crucial to maintaining the university’s success as a health care leader.

“University Health Services plays a major role in ensuring the health and safety of our campus community and has consistently been ranked as one of the best college health services in the country,” Heller said in a press release.

Princeton Review ranked UW number one for “best health services” among universities, a rank it held last year as well.

In light of all the awards, Scott said the successor to Van Orman has big shoes to fill. She said she has no criticisms of the former Executive Director.

“Dr. Van Orman advanced positive health outcomes on campus. She was an effective leader who built relationships across campus and in the community to meet our campus health needs,” Heller said.

The university has hired an out-of-state search firm, Isaacson, Miller to receive inquiries, handle logistics and process applications for review and discussion by the search and screen committee.

Scott doesn’t know the updated cost of searching for a new Executive Director, however, she said the university has been efficient with financial resources in the past and will continue that trend now.

Scott said it is standard for the next UHS Executive Director to also serve as the university’s Chief Health Officer, which is currently filled by UHS Chief Medical Officer Bill Kinsey in the interim. The additional title does not include a second salary, but the new Executive Director will receive pay that will compensate for all the responsibilities in the position.

Scott said she is ready to build a strong culture of health on campus and form a highly collaborative partnership between the new director and the school of nursing. “[The next UHS director will be] an accomplished leader with proven experience in managing a high-functioning team as part of a dynamic health setting who will also serve as a thought leader on college health issues,” Scott said.

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Small class sizes, varied teaching styles can improve learning Although learning varies by student, UW experts say employing different learning strategies, engaging students will enhance learning

by Gretchen Gerlach Reporter

When analyzing the average class size at the University of Wisconsin in comparison to the student to faculty ratio, it was perceived “smaller is better” by Karl Scholz, the Dean of College of Letters and Science at UW, but experts say it varies from student to student.

Scholz is not the only one to recognize smaller class sizes correlate to more stimulated students.

Sources show lawmakers, educators and parents alike have started believing personalized education and hands on learning increases in a smaller classroom, and benefits students.

The implementation of technology in the classroom also renders positive learning feedback.

“Essentially, we need to push back on the idea that small means good and large means bad, or any other oversimplified characterization of what makes an outstanding classroom experience,” Scholz said.

Where interactive and hands on learning may work in some classroom settings, learning via traditional lecture and powerpoint is more beneficial to others, Scholz said.

David Kaplan, a professor in doctorate

students in educational psychology agrees with Scholz. He said smaller class sizes can contribute to better learning among students.

This said, Kaplan believes smaller classes provide a “different experience” but this may not be good for every student.

“It completely depends on how the courses are structured, and the level of engagement of students,” Kaplan said. “I have taught small seminars that are deadly silent, and large classes that were quite active.”

Kaplan does not believe smaller classes are a direct link to better education. He does, however, hope to foster better education starting with UW students.

One UW faculty associate, Cindy Kuhrasch, said she recognizes the benefits of a small class size, but has seen just as high a level of participation and learning among students when different teaching styles are used in the classroom.

“I don’t know if it is necessarily class size that matters, as does the ability to use different teaching styles,” Kuhrasch said.

Kuhrasch has experience teaching in public schools and college courses with a varying number of students.

Attempting to implement hands on learning strategies or a new technology in a large lecture hall may not be as constructive for students as it would be if implemented

in a smaller, more personalized classroom, Kuhrasch said.

“Actively engaged learning strategies are undoubtedly better,” Kuhrasch said. “But such teaching methods have to be conducive to the learning environment.”

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may not be a direct correlation between class size, she believes the amount of participation and engagement in a classroom does affect a student’s education.

She said students from her smaller classes tend to be more confident in class, speak up regularly and visit office hours more often than students from her large classes.

“Of course getting to know students and speaking with them in a setting that isn’t a

100 person lecture is a great way to better tailor my teaching strategies to them,” Kuhrasch said. “It is strongly relational and pedagogical, what works for some students does not always work for others.”

Adhering to every student’s personal and unique academic needs is impossible on a college campus as large as UW’s, said Kuhrasch .

A consensus among professors is changes can be made to further the progress in creating a better learning environment for students.

“It is quite easy for students to go through their college career only knowing a handful of their classmate’s names,” Kuhrasch said.

“They are in need of connection, whether they know it or not.”

Otherwise, she argues, students fall behind without connections in their classes and feel alone. Kuhrasch believes a social bond between students will help increase their education.

Kuhrasch suggests incorporating more ways for students to get to know each other throughout the semester and allowing students in all class sizes more opportunities to engage and play with class material.

“This will only enhance learning and create smarter, discerning, and passionate students,” Kuhrasch said.

Bill removes mandate for state agencies to buy renewable energy Introduced legislation will not require purchasing 20 percent renewable energy, opposers say bill sets back Wisconsin in energy innovation

by Izabela Zaluska State Editor

A bill introduced in the state Senate last month would no longer require Wisconsin state agencies to purchase a portion of their energy from renewable resources.

Currently, the University of Wisconsin System is part of six agencies that are required to purchase 20 percent of their energy from renewable resources. If the bill passed, this requirement would be eliminated.

State Rep. Mike Kuglitsch, R-New Berlin, a cosponsor of the bill said in a statement that the bill is unnecessarily duplicative of requirements already in place, such as the requirement for utility companies to produce a certain percentage of energy from renewable resources.

“Wisconsin already has a 10 percent minimum usage of renewable resources built into the electricity market, so eliminating the 20 percent state agency mandate will save taxpayers dollars that can be applied elsewhere,” Kuglitsch said.

The bill does not change the contracts that are currently in place, Kuglitsch’s staff member Garrett Huffman said. Some of the contracts don’t expire until 2030, so this will not change anything in the short-term, he said.

“Renewable energy is the future, and it’s very important that we embrace the future for environmental reasons, climate change reasons, but also because it’s the technology of the future.”

Sarah Barry Government relations director at Clean Huffman added this bill does not stop agencies from continuing to purchase 20 percent of their energy from renewable

resources — it would just no longer be required by law to do so.

Sarah Barry, the government relations director at Clean Madison, said the bill would take Wisconsin backward. “[The bill] certainly sends the signal that we’re losing our commitment and responsibility to come up with clean energy,” Barry said.

The 20 percent mandate was established in 2005 under Act 141. Going back on an agreement made 12 years ago is a shame, especially since it would help the energyproducing sector of the economy, Barry said.

Barry said the cost of solar has gone down dramatically and the use of wind has picked up across the country.

“The sun and the wind are free, and the cost of these technologies keeps going down,” Barry said.

A U.S. Energy and Employment report found 14 percent of the new jobs created in last year were in the energy sector, especially in wind and solar. The wind and solar workforce increased by 32 percent and 25 percent, respectively, the report said.

In the future, Barry would like to see legislation introduced to make Wisconsin’s Renewable Portfolio Standard higher. RPS is the requirement where utilities get a certain portion of energy from renewable resources — which is 10 percent in Wisconsin.

“I think it would be really wise for the state to increase the RPS, but unfortunately the current legislative environment in Wisconsin is not very favorable to this proposal,” Barry said.

Wisconsin has the lowest RPS in the country, Barry said. It was just surpassed

by Michigan last year after they increased the RPS to 15 percent by 2021. Other neighboring states, like Illinois and Minnesota, have an RPS of 25% by 2026 and 26.5% by 2025, respectively, Barry said.

This signals Wisconsin falling further behind its neighbors in regards to innovation in energy and responsibility to the environment, she said.

“Renewable energy is the future, and it’s very important that we embrace the future for environmental reasons, climate change reasons, but also because it’s the technology of the future,” Barry said.

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UW’s cluster hiring initiative looks to strengthen research

12-member committee currently reviewing 48 proposals, hopes to bring professors with shared interests to research key fields of study

by Abby Doeden Reporter

The University of Wisconsin launched a new initiative to hire professors in interdisciplinary areas called cluster hiring, but it was suspended due to budgetary restraints after four rounds of hiring.

Nearly 15 years later, the Cluster Hiring Initiative is being reopened and is currently planned to undergo four rounds of hiring over the next three years, Associate Vice Provost Mo Bischof said. The goal of the initiative is to strengthen UW’s research in key areas by hiring a select few researchers with shared research interests to conduct more studies in these fields.

In her Welcome Back to Fall Semester letter, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank outlined the Cluster Hiring Program as one of the primary areas of focus this year. “[The Cluster Hiring program] is designed to recruit groups of faculty from different disciplinary areas but whose work intersects on a key area of research interest,” Blank wrote. “We’ll provide substantial central support for salaries for these individuals, hoping to deepen our research strength on central topics.”

In her letter, Blank also stated that the university plans to eventually hire five clusters per year for

the next five years. A cluster is a group of three individuals across different departments who specialize in common research topics.

Blank wrote they will being by receiving calls for proposals from faculty, research centers or departments this fall, with the goal of hiring the first cluster this spring.

Bischof said after Blank’s call for proposals, a plan for the program was outlined and final proposals were accepted until Nov. 3. There were 48 proposals submitted for the fall rounds.

Currently, deans from schools across campus as well as a 12-member committee of faculty from around the campus are reviewing the 48 proposals, Bischof said. The final decision will come down to the provost and vice chancellor, who are hoping to announce their results before the end of the semester.

“The notion of seeing 48 amazing proposals come in shows us how much the campus values this idea,” Bischof said.

According to the Cluster Hiring Initiative Criteria and Proposals on the Wisconsin Faculty and Staff website, the proposals must follow strict criteria to be considered by the committee.

Such criteria stated each proposal must include three people to hire from different areas across the university. These people should have overlapping research interests in an area of important current or

future research interest, according to the article.

The article also stated that proposals should include how the intended research is interdisciplinary, and why it wouldn’t emerge through current department structure. The proposals should have a budget of no more than $500 thousand.

Professor of African languages and literature, Tejumola Olaniyan, was hired in 1998 as part of the African Diaspora Cluster hiring process.

“ADC created a much larger circle of faculty, staff and students across campus interested in African world issues,” Olaniyan said. “In addition to creating new courses in our different departments and introducing students to broader coverage areas and newer research, we also routinely do talks, book discussions and conferences.”

When the program started, Bischof said it was funded by three major entities: the state of Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin Foundation and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

Each of these entities put in $5 million to help with the new hires, Blank said.

After the original four rounds there weren’t substantial funds, so the program was suspended.

During this time, there were very few new hires as to avoid a continuous budget deficit, Bischof said.

Now the university has the funds and will put in a substantial investment to try to fund five new

clusters.

According to the Cluster Hiring Initiative on the Wisconsin Faculty and Staff website, in addition to providing new research opportunities, the program will address complex societal programs, advance the Wisconsin Idea and build student-faculty relationships. These objectives have been the same since the beginning of the program.

Bischof also said another major goal of this initiative is to bring more diversity to the Madison campus. She expressed the excitement of this opportunity and the effect it will have on campus. “[The Cluster Hiring program] is an exciting time for campus to have an opportunity to hire amazing interdisciplinary faculty to boost research and education,” Bischof said.

According to the website, after this first round of proposals, there will be three other calls for proposals, where this process will happen again.

Currently this will end in 2019 but if funding remains, calls will continue beyond 2019-2020. To apply for this program, an eight page proposal must be written and turned in to the Office of the Provost.

“The Cluster Hiring program will directly enhance and expand the notable research from this University already,” Bischof said. “In addition, it will grow the faculty with incredible new ideas and benefit the teaching and learning of students here.”

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Wisconsin environmental leaders address decline in bee population

Report shows Wisconsin’s honeybee population declining due to harmful pesticides, lack of food, plant diversity

by Kai Brito State Editor

Gardens and fields are a lot more silent this year with continually declining populations of honeybees and other local pollinator species, but University of Wisconsin and City of Madison officials are abuzz with new ideas to bring back these key ecosystem helpers.

UW Arboretum native plant gardener Susan Carpenter said when people think of pollinators, their minds often jump to honeybees. Wisconsin has over 400 species of bees and even more alternative pollinator species contributing towards agriculture, home-gardens and overall ecosystem health, Carpenter said.

According to the Department of Trade, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection, pollinators contribute upwards of $55 million in annual production benefits for agricultural crops in Wisconsin alone.

But despite the major benefits pollinators provide, the future doesn’t look so bright for either honeybees or local pollinators.

A 2013 report by the US Department of Agriculture found native bee populations fell 23 percent between 2008 and 2013 across the US. Wisconsin was also one of the few states to experience a honeybee decline of over 60 percent in the 2014-15 winter season according to the DATCP report.

As a public educator, Carpenter said the solution begins with a conversation on the importance of pollinators and some simple steps community members can take to both minimize pollinator loss and rebuild pollinator communities.

“My approach is helping people see things that they maybe haven’t seen before, what maybe has always been right there in front of us, but we’ve never really looked at it yet,” Carpenter said.

Carpenter finds the development of community-based models of environmental protection very rewarding, but she also realizes there are much larger issues that must be addressed with a system-wide approach.

Agricultural systems are part of the problem for pollinators, Carpenter said. She believes pollinators need a mix of land cover types to create the right habitat conditions.

“Basically you need to have a landscape that can support life,” Carpenter said. “If it’s just agricultural crop as far as the eye can see, then there really isn’t a place for pollinators to live.”

Carpenter said other issues bees face are habitat loss, natural predators, earlier growing seasons, and pesticides, which have become a hot-button issue for farmers, lawmakers and environmental groups alike.

UW professor of entomology Claudio Gratton also echoed Carpenter’s concerns over the issues big agriculture usage can present.

“If you really wanted to point to any one giant thing, it would be agriculture, [it’s] kind of the biggest way humans affect the globe by far,” Gratton said. “The two key things there are the lack of food, the lack of plant diversity in our landscape, and the use of pesticides, broadly, and insecticides, specifically.”

A recent study published in Science this summer highlights the harmful health effects

Photo · A 2013 report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found native bee population fell 23 percent between 2008 and 2013.

Photo courtesy of Flickr user Brad Smith bees can experience from continued exposure to neonicotinoids, a common type of insecticide used by the industry.

But Gratton and Carpenter both agree, however, the solution is to find a compromise between the needs of farmers and pollinators, whose livelihoods are so intricately related.

“I totally agree that farmers ultimately need to stay in business, but I think there’s good ways to do it that don’t hurt the environment,” Gratton said.

Dane County UW Extension Natural Resources & Community Development Educator Mindy Habacker points to a different issue for honeybee and local pollinator populations: garden habitats.

While Habecker admits there are a multitude of issues facing local pollinators, she aims to place focus on community education models to allow citizens to take an active role in an issue that has a large impact on their food and environment.

“I think people knowing that it would not take much for [community members] to do some simple things around their own home [would] really help our pollinators,” Habecker said. “It doesn’t take much effort but they can make a difference.”

Habecker’s goal is to create educational resources like display boards, brochures and informational cards with native plant seeds for educators and community members to learn

about the importance of pollinators.

This initiative is part of a much larger Madison Pollinator Protection Task Force created in 2014, inspired by national action from the federal government.

Director of Food Policy at the Madison Food Policy Council, George Reistad, said the City of Madison has made recent efforts, like the Mayor’s Monarch Butterfly Pledge and Bee City designation, to show their commitment to local pollinator preservation. “[Madison Food Policy Council] prioritizes this as something that needs to be taken on, and something we can do within our municipal boundaries,” Reistad said. “We’re just a city, but if we don’t do it, who’s going to do it? We lead by example.”

While many of these programs are still in their infancy, Reistad said these efforts are part of a larger goal of the city to increase community awareness of local pollinator issues.

Ultimately, Carpenter said the creation of these initiatives are just the first step in encouraging community members to address Wisconsin’s pollinator plight.

“Everyone seems to want to help pollinators, but people don’t know how they can help,” Carpenter said. “But what I find is if I can show them [local pollinators] in the field … people become motivated and interested in how they can help.”

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The Lab Report: Keller lab researches toxins contaminating food Dr. Nancy Keller studies fungus-produced aflatoxin, a cause of liver cancer and a serious health threat in developing countries

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Every month this semester, The Lab Report will feature a different undergraduate-research assistant on campus and their experience in the lab.

Nancy Keller Lab, Microbial Sciences Building Most students on campus walk into work everyday hoping that mold hasn’t infested their left-over dishes.

But junior microbiology student Andrew Sukowaty isn’t most students.

Sukowaty currently works as a research assistant for Dr. Nancy Keller ’s lab in the University of Wisconsin Microbiology Department studying mold that produces a toxin called aflatoxin, or as Keller describes it, “the most potent carcinogen to humankind.”

The lab specifically experiments with growing the fungus Aspergillus flavus to observe and regulate the production of aflatoxin, a poisonous metabolite that has become a rising threat to global food security.

“It’s grown on me just because I’ve been working with it for a year,” Sukowaty said.

Keller was inspired to learn and conduct more research about fungal toxins after seeing the detrimental effects of Aspergillus firsthand as a young Peace-Corps volunteer in the south-African country of Lesotho, where she taught junior high school.

“The students I taught would get food from other countries,” Keller said. “But a lot of times the food was bad and it would make the kids sick, and I realized later it’s because there was fungus growing in it and probably some of the toxins I work with now.”

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, aflatoxin affects 25 percent of the world’s crops before, during and after harvest.

The most vulnerable, however, are those living in sub-saharan Africa, where aflatoxin contaminates staple food crops such as corn, sorghum and peanuts, according to a study by the United Nations.

Keller believes this issue is a serious medical problem in the developing world.

“So many people get liver cancer from this in Africa and Asia,” Keller said. “It actually suppresses your immune system so you’re more susceptible to other immune diseases.”

Developing countries, however, are not the only ones experiencing the wrath of aflatoxin.

In the U.S. alone, aflatoxin costs the corn industry $225 million per year, according to a report in APS. Sukowaty and his mentor, Brandon Pfannenstiel, do this by experimenting with removing or keeping one of the proteins in

A. flavus called sntB, which they believe is responsible for the release of aflatoxin.

“We have an idea that [sntB] is a heterochromatin remodeler, which means basically that it’s a protein involved in unpackaging genes when needed,” Sukowaty explained, like when A. flavus unpacks the aflatoxin gene to attack another fungus. “So we’ve deleted sntB and we’ve seen differences in aflatoxin production.”

But the absence of sntB in A. flavus doesn’t just affect aflatoxin production, it also affects the fungus developmentally, he said. This means that scientists could potentially manipulate physical characteristics such as reproductive structures.

In one experiment where Sukowaty deleted sntB from A. flavus, he noticed the fungus did not form sclerotia — rounded bodies that grow on the fungus and hold sexual spores.

And, just like changing the medium on which an artist paints affects the image, changing the media on which A. flavus lives inside petri dishes affects its growth.

“We’re constantly changing what media we grow stuff on to see what works and what doesn’t,” he said. “I recently did potato dextrose agar [media], and flavus grew completely differently...Any time a new media is involved, something cool happens.”

Photo · Sukowaty prepares the ingredients to make potato dextrose agar, one of the media on which he grows different variations of the fungus, Aspergillus flavus.

Riley Steinbrenner The Badger Herald On these media, Sukowaty grows up his genetic variations of A. flavus, called strains.

The strains either contain or do not contain sntB — all which, depending on the media, affect the growth of A. flavus differently.

“I think the most fun part is just discovering whatever’s happening.”

By continuing to develop methods that weaken development of A. flavus and production of aflatoxin, the Keller lab hopes to lessen the toxin’s impact on food crops and people in developing countries.

Sukowaty, however, agrees with Keller that the possibility of applying their knowledge in regulating the fungus that contaminates food in these countries anytime soon will be “astronomically difficult.”

“With microbes, everything needs to be met perfectly to get a result,” he said. “Especially with flavus, which is hard to deal with in lab.

Things don’t work a lot of the time.”

Because A. flavus easily contaminates with its

airborne spores, sometimes Sukowaty has to start experiments over if he notices abnormalities in them, which takes two weeks to appear.

Sukowaty explained once he and Pfannenstiel deleted sntB from A. flavus, thinking it would prevent creation of aflatoxin, it still produced the toxin — only in small amounts, however.

“It’s definitely made me take everything with a grain of salt, where if something goes wrong it’s not the end of the world. Just try it again, try it differently. Adapt something.”

Despite the tediousness of working with fungi, the junior bacteria-enthusiast encourages younger undergraduates not to be stingy when choosing labs.

And for Keller, enthusiasm is most important in a potential research assistant.

“We’re not expecting anyone to come in with a lot of experience,” she said. “Even if someone hadn’t done any science before and they’re just really eager and convey that interest...that for me is a really big [factor] that I look for.”

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MMoCA’s fall gift fair to offer a variety of local, regional artwork vendors Along with exploring more than 90 vendor booths, attendees can listen to live music or sample different Wisconsin foods

by Morgan Grunow ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

From Nov. 18-19, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) will host its 47th annual Art and Gift Fair.

The event allows local and regional artists to concentrate their talents and also acts as the second largest fundraiser for the museum.

General admission tickets are $6 for adults, and children 12 years and younger enter for free. Such costs help keep regular museum admission free, and also funds other educational programs that the museum sponsors.

“The MMoCA Art and Gift Fair is unique in the sense that it is juried in the same way that the Art Fair on the Square is,” Erika Monroe-Kane said, the museum’s Director of Communications.

The event features a large variety of pieces and products to choose from. Ranging from highquality work produced by skilled artists to a gourmet gallery, you cannot go wrong.

Monroe-Kane remarks on one honey purveyor specifically that brings in honey that has been captured locally at different times of the year. The taste of the honey changes depending on what season it is from, according to Monroe-Kane.

While one purpose of the Fair is to provide an opportunity for holiday gift purchasing,

according to Monroe-Kane, many purchases are more than just gifts. Through a connection made between vendors and purchasers, the gift givers “have an experience and a story to tell” to the receivers.

The planning process for such an event is no small task.

“We work on [this event] for more than a year because it takes quite a bit of time to contact all of the artists so they are informed that the application process is available,” Monroe-Kane said. However, when it comes down to it, the last few months are “very intensive” in preparation.

Yet, to maintain inclusivity for all involved, the application process is more of a formality — any artist is welcomed to apply. A jurying process then takes places, which, according to MonroeKane, is in place to ensure there is a variety of artistic styles represented at the fair.

According to Annik Dupaty, the museum’s Director of Events, the prices on items range from $4 for a box of locally made chocolates to a $15 candle. Attendees can spend a little more if they are looking to make an investment in their art collection.

In addition to vendors, there are also local performers present at the fair. Most of the performers are local bands, companies and

musicians, Dupaty said. In fact, there is no performer from outside of Dane County, she recalls. Keeping the performances local is a unique part of the fair.

Dupaty also discussed the Rediscovered Treasures and Art Sale, something she compares to an “estate sale” held at the museum. This will be held on the lower level of the building, where community members can bring past treasures to be resold. Items they call “once loved” can now be loved by someone new.

A silent auction will also be held on this level, where participating artists donate their own pieces of art and all proceeds go to the museum itself. Since the auction features artwork from the artists at the fair, it acts a preview of what’s to come, according to Dupaty.

Separately, attendees can purchase reservations for the reception as a way of “elevating the art fair experience.” Taking place on the evening of Nov. 18, there will be sweet and savory treats available from the Fresco Rooftop restaurant, shopping of the MMoCA Art and Gift Fair and a lobby holiday lighting reception in tune with the lighting of State Street and Capitol Square.

“The view we have on State Street is unsurpassed. If it happens to be snowing, it’s going to amazing,” Monroe-Kane.

This ultimately makes the MMoCA the ideal place to be when the holiday lights turn on outside and in the museum. At 6:08 p.m., referencing Madison’s area code, the lighting ceremony is a celebration of downtown Madison and all of its wonderful offerings in the winter time, Dupaty said.

In addition to the fair and vendors, there will be holiday selfie booths available, a designer vignette to give advice on placement of art in buyers’ homes and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra attending Saturday morning to participate in children’s art projects and perform on the Rotunda Stage. Additionally, characters from the Madison Ballet will be in costume roaming the halls.

Overall, the event’s variety has proven to have something available to everyone.

“You get to taste chocolates, you get to taste cheeses, you’ll hear music, you’ll sample beverages, you’ll see all kinds of beautiful and interesting things inside,” Monroe-Kane said.

More information can be found at MMoCA’s website, and attendees can purchase tickets at a reduced price prior to the event.

Free orchestra concert will bring French, Hungarian sounds to Madison Conductor Blake Walter plans out literature years in advance to ensure his vision for sound becomes a reality

by Aidan McClain ArtsEtc. Editor

The Madison Community Orchestra will be having their free fall performance on Nov. 17, where they will play pieces from around the world.

Dr. Blake Walter, the group’s conductor, has held his position since 1994. The public schools he attended sparked his interest in music, and now he is sharing his experiences with the orchestra, and subsequently the Madison community. The performance will include an overture, which is the orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, and continue will pieces by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, French composer Léo Delibes and Viennese composer Franz Suppe.

Blake will open the concert with program notes. A printed program will also be available for the audience so they can have more information on the pieces.

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with the composition by Franz Liszt. This piece has been featured in the “Tom and Jerry” cartoons. In the episode “The Cat Concerto,” Tom plays Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.” It’s recognized as one of the best “Tom and Jerry” cartoons ever made.

Over the years, the orchestra has seen substantial changes in the number of players.

When Blake came to the orchestra, there were eight first violins, eight second violins, some violas and a couple cello players. Today, the group is made of over 50 string players with about 18 cello players. The group today also has a wide age variety. The youngest player is 18 and the oldest is 90, but someone as old as 96 was once apart of the group.

The group has been practicing for the fall show since the Tuesday after Labor Day and has been practicing each Tuesday since then.

This equals out to 10 rehearsals, Blake said.

“I think the program is a tiny bit above their level, and I think they’re going to rise to the occasion,” Blake said.

One of the challenges of being a conductor is picking songs that can be taught to everyone in the group. Not only does the group have a large age range, but each member has a different ability level. Finding music that everyone can learn and still enjoy was one of Blake’s problems when organizing this show, he said.

The performance will also try to keep things fresh. Many orchestras do the same thing over and over again, which Blake avoided, he said.

His plans for the orchestra reach far into the future to ensure the orchestra becomes exactly what he is envisioning.

“I have literature planned out six, seven, eight years in advance,” Blake said. “I don’t always stick with those, I’ll substitute in things, but I know where I’d like the orchestra to be in that amount of time, and I find pieces that I think will help me accomplish that.”

When reading scores, Blake tries to make the piece as similar to the original as possible.

His interpretations of the pieces are limited

because he wants to deliver the same sound that the composer wanted to accomplish. He tries to research how things in the past were, so he can better understand how a piece would have been performed if the composer were there. Blake is not a creator, but a recreator, he said.

The performance will only last for 45 minutes, but Blake is looking forward to seeing the accomplishments of the orchestra.

The orchestra has come a long way in performance ability, Blake said. For Blake, the best part of any performance is seeing everyone’s hard work come to fruition, and performing live while being in tune with the musicians is an adrenaline rush. After the performance, there will be snacks and treats offered to audience members.

Following the fall performance, the orchestra will continue to practice for their Holiday performance, which will take place on Dec. 16 at the Capitol.

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Barrymore to welcome psychedelic rock band Chris Robinson Brotherhood Once focused mainly on sound, band members have shown maturation over time with more purposeful lyrics

by Jillian Kazlow ArtsEtc. Associate

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood will deliver a smorgasbord of sounds to the Barrymore Nov. 19 with music that cannot be simply categorized into one genre.

Their music contains elements of R&B, folk, jazz, funk, psychedelically-influenced rock and even country.

“There’s a lot going on with us,” said band member Neal Casal after describing the band’s unconventional style.

In terms of creating such unique music, the band travels to a mythical place called the “Brotherhood Arts Laboratory,” where their creative process takes place. It is there, within their own minds, where ideas come together.

With five active band members — Chris Robinson, Neal Casal, Adam McDougall, Jeff Hill and Tony Leone — the brotherhood still manages to cooperate in terms of songwriting, yet it’s not always peaches and cream.

“Chris is the main engine for songwriting and I’m kind of second in command... The main ideas start with Chris and the rest of us all chip in until it turns into something,” Casal said.

“There’s disagreement sometimes. I don’t think it would be worthwhile music if it was all just moving calm all the time. There’s disagreements

and discussions and haggling it out until it all ends up in the right place.”

In the past, the band would focus their songs on the psychedelic sounds, but they have changed over the years. Today, the band is more focused on the songwriting aspect of making music, according to Casal. The band’s rhythm section has also changed.

These five musicians don’t love anything more than creating a new project. The group seems to always be putting out new music, which is a lot of work, but Casal claims it doesn’t feel overwhelming. He asserts making music is a fun thing to engage in.

Opportunities to travel the world, meet new people and play in different locations are the highlights of touring, according to Casal. Their current tour will feature songs from their most recent album, Barefoot in the Head, along with old tunes, as they like to stay true to their roots as well as introduce new material.

This is not the group’s first time playing in Madison, and they are excited to be making their return.

“It’s a good crowd there and it’s a good vibe for us always,” Casal said. He is expecting

every fan to get up on their feet and dance throughout the duration of two sets, which typically amount to a total of three hours.

Casal offered some encouraging words to aspiring musicians and singers. If you really want to do it, you have to stick with it. If making music is someone’s dream, they should put all of their energy into it. This means not having a backup plan.

This upcoming performance has been highly anticipated by fans, both new and old, who have been listening to the recently released album.

“I would say this is our best album. It’s all of our favorite,” Casal said. “It’s our best songwriting and it’s certainly Chris’s best singing and our best ensemble playing for sure.

I think that there’s a lot of growth on this record that’s evident.”

Photo · The group is constantly putting out new music, with four project releases over the past two years.

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Madhatters to perform at Capitol Theater in front of more than 1,000 people Group chose contemporary selections including some by Justin Bieber, Calvin Harris to attract broader audience

by Jillian Kazlow ArtsEtc. Associate

The Madhatters will perform their annual fall performance on Nov. 18 at the Overture Center ’s Capitol Theater, singing for more than 1,000 people.

As campus’s first ever a cappella group, the Madhatters have seen growth and change over the year. The group was formed in 1997, and has since grown its numbers and even released three projects on Spotify.

“We’re really lucky to have the experience of going into a recording studio, record all of our songs and be able to put it on Spotify and Apple Music, Gregory Halstead said, the group’s publicity manager. “That album that we have out is also for sale at the concert as well.”

Their most recent album, All on Red, was recorded on Madison’s west side at Blast House Studios. One of the group’s current goals is to a release a deluxe version of the album.

According Halstead, the group is about more than just the music. It’s a close-knit community that has existed for more 20 years.

really lucky to have the experience “ofWe’re going into a recording studio, record all of our music and be able to put it on Spotify and Apple Music.

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“I was in choir in high school and I was hoping to find an outlet to continue my singing while at school,” Halstead said.

“This is a really cool way to do it, to be able to perform and make friends.”

Although it may sound like all fun and games, these singers could not be more serious about improving their skills and working together to create music. Practices and auditions start just as soon as each semester begins. According to Halstead, the group then practices for three days each week, with each rehearsal lasting about two hours. They have their own practice process down to a science at this point.

The rehearsal process begins by picking a song. Each member is welcomed to pitch ideas, but the group was more focused on recent hits for this semester ’s show.

This was done because the group thought recently released music would go over well with the audience.

Songs for the fall show include music by Justin Bieber, Maroon 5 and Calvin Harris.

After song selections have been made, the group divides into their voice parts,

which can be tenor, baritone, bass, etc.

After each individual group learns the song, the group comes together as a whole.

With help from the music director who works on rhythm and style, the song and sound become finalized.

Besides standard vocal groups, the Madhatters also have a beatboxing section, where the singer uses his voice to replicate percussion noises. The beatboxer will have his own VP, or vocal percussion, segment during the show that will last for 15 minutes.

“The show should be about two hours long with intermissions,” Halstead said.

“I’m most excited to perform on stage with my friends. It’s really exciting.”

More information can be found on the Madhatters’ website, and tickets for the fall show can also be purchased on the group’s Facebook page.

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A cappella group ‘Pitches and Notes’ to continue humorous rivalry for fall show New York-based music company A Cappella Productions will come to Madison to work performance’s sound production

by Molly Miller ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Pitches and Notes is an all-women’s a cappella on the University of WisconsinMadison campus, and they’re preparing for their fall show on Nov. 17.

The group is usually made up of 15-20 girls, and this year there are 18 members, Jordan Gerlach co-music director of the group said. The group was founded about 10 years ago by a group of choir girls who wanted to start their own group. They are newer compared to other groups on campus which they say offers them a unique opportunity.

“We’re pretty new... and it’s kind of cool to be able to shape ourselves that way,” Gerlach said.

They are currently the only all women’s group on campus that is competitive and one of three on-campus groups that compete in the ICCA which is the International Championship of Collegiate a cappella.

As the group’s name hints to, the girls are actually split into two teams, the pitches and the notes.

“The last few years, we’ve used that for our fall show and it’s been a theme we’ve been able to perpetuate,” Gerlach said. “People tend to develop a pretty strong connection to the teams.”

The way they decide who is on what team is similar to a team captain picking their players. There is always some sort of athletic competition before the show, and the Pitches have been on a losing streak for the past few years, Gerlach said. This year, the Pitches tried

to pick group members with athletic ability who would help them pull off a win while the Notes focused more on musical ability.

For the entire semester, the girls work toward their big final show. The group puts on one show per semester.

The group started rehearsals the second week of the semester after they’ve held auditions and have their new members.

“We rehearse seven hours a week, every week for the entire semester leading up to our show,” Gerlach said.

The preferred genre of the group is pop, but the group occasionally throws in classics as well as country. Ballads can also be heard at the fall show.

The girls arrange almost all of their own music. Any group member who wants to arrange can pick the song they want the group to consider. Members can also suggest songs and have another group member arrange it.

After all the suggestions have been made, the group votes on all the songs and picks the songs they will perform, Gerlach said.

Each semester, the group picks anywhere from five to eight new songs that they will cycle through for the next two semesters. This way they always have new songs as well as songs they’ve done in the past. Their shows usually feature around 15 of their arrangements.

One of the most exciting things about the show this semester is that the group is going to be working with a professional sound company called A Capella Productions.

“They are going to help us take our sound to a really cool new level,” Gerlach said.

A Capella Productions is from New York City, so the group is looking forward to the company making the trip out to Madison. The group has worked with the production team in the past, but only when they were guests for another show. This is the first time Pitches and Notes will be using the company for their own use.

Midnight Voices is the act that will open the fall show. They are also an all-women’s group made up of high school girls from Madison West and Madison Memorial. They are also an auditioned group and have many similarities to Pitches and Notes.

The group will have the opportunity to perform alone as well as with the Pitches and Notes for a collaborative song. Gerlach was involved with Midnight Voices’ rehearsal process, so she’s looking forward to seeing them perform at a larger venue for a larger audience.

Pitches and Notes has a different opener for each show, which is usually an on-campus group. Having Midnight Voices isn’t the only time the group chose to have a non-student org open the show. The group has featured State Street performers in the past.

Last semester, there were no openers at all, but emcees instead. No matter what the act is, the group likes to bring something new and exciting to each of their shows.

Aside from on-campus acclaim, the group

has won several awards. For the past two years, they have placed third overall in the ICCA quarter-finals which is difficult for an all women’s group. They have also won titles such as outstanding choreography and outstanding vocal percussion at ICCA competitions as well.

The group has also been very lucky to have had the opportunity to release two studio albums.

“I think the biggest thing with our albums is that you’re able to see the evolution of Pitches and this huge growth curve we’re on,” Gerlach said.

They were able to do almost all of the mixing themselves on the second album which is something they had never done before.

Currently, the group is in the process of recording their third studio album. This album is being professionally mixed and mastered, Gerlach said. The group hopes this new album will be another stepping stone for Pitches and Notes.

The Pitches would be open to doing a competition show between themselves and the Madhatters, an all men’s a capella group on campus. The two groups rehearse at the same time and are always checking in on each other’s progress, Gerlach said.

“One of the most fun things about a cappella at UW is getting to interact with all other groups,” Gerlach said.

To get information and purchase tickets to the Pitches and Notes fall show, you can message the group on Facebook or email them at pitchesacapella@gmail.com.

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For two local game designers, success depends on a Kickstarter campaign Created in July 2017, Thorny Wench Game Studio hopes to create their four games on a mass-production sized level

by Aidan McClain ArtsEtc. Editor

Two local game designers are in the process of creating four new games which they will showcase to the public on Nov. 18 at Pegasus Games.

This is the third time the duo, Jacob Schenk and Naomi Bielefeldt-Schenk, has collaborated with Pegasus, in hopes of increasing publicity for their projects and their Kickstarter campaign.

The campaign, which ends on Nov. 20, would allow for the mass production of the games and get them in stores in early 2018. The games are “Dragoonium,” a fantasy card game, “Stellar Express,” a pick up and delivery game where players try to hit a target, “Corruption,” a political satire game and “Wacky Willy’s Word House,” which is similar to “Mad Libs” or “Apples to Apples.”

The couple have always been game players, but it wasn’t until they were rained out during a camping trip that they started to form ideas for their own game. After 10 hours of playing the card game “Rummy,” things started to get boring, so the couple thought of ways to make the game different.

“We created one game, ‘Dragoonium,’ on the camping trip,” Jacob Schenk, one of the game developers, said. “A lot of it was us just sitting down and going, ‘Well this is fun, but what if?’

Eventually, when you’ve added enough what ifs, you realize that this is a totally different

game.”

The game developers carry a notepad with them so they can write down their thoughts and begin the creative process of creating a new game. Though their company, Thorny Wench, was only established on Jul. 20, the duo has been making great progress in creating prototypes of the games. Their backgrounds help with this — Schenk has a background in product development and sourcing while BielefeldtSchenk has a background in marketing and publishing.

Bielefeldt-Schenk also has a background in art, which allows her to create the theme and art for most of the projects. This process takes place after a test-run has been made on card stock paper. The couple creates their games on card stock and plays with their friends to get feedback, and then the art process begins.

Once a prototype is created, the couple can make small changes and get ready for fullproduction, but this is only possible if the Kickstarter campaign is successful. If enough funds aren’t raised, the process of distributing the games on a large scale is delayed. The games will hit retail stores late 2019 or early 2020 if the Kickstarter fails, Schenk said.

If someone supports the campaign, they will receive a subsequent reward. Pledges to Thorny Wench can range from $25-145, and rewards depend on how much someone pledges, Schenk

said. The couple is enticing people to donate by offering donors a game before the general public gets access. The Kickstarter prices are also between 30-50 percent off retail value.

“If the Kickstarter is unsuccessful, nobody’s money gets taken out, so we also don’t get anything either,” Bielefeldt-Schenk said. “So then we have to try to find other ways to get a mass inventory. There’s a lot of steps involved.”

The couple hopes that the event at Pegasus will also create buzz about their business endeavor. Attendees will get the chance to play all four games with the designers. The couple will answer questions about the games and show people how to play.

The game designers are putting a lot of energy into their four games, but they’re planning for the future too. One goal of the company is to release extension packs for the games. This includes updated cards and characters. About three extensions will be added each year. An entirely new game will also be released every year. The couple has about five or six new game ideas in mind, but the current four games are the priority, Bielefeldt-Schenk said.

Dragoonium is the first game the couple created and may hold some favoritism because of this. In this two-nine player game, players play as either a champion of the realms or a dragon. The deck is different depending on what character someone is playing as, Schenk

said. The main objective is to collect as much gold as possible. Players can accomplish this by getting three-of-a-kind or straight flushes, Schenk said.

“Stellar Express” is the largest game there is.

This game board is the size of four “Monopoly” sized boards pushed together. The objective of this game is to move objects across the board.

“You’re basically taking stuff from one place on the map to another place, but you’re always trying to hit a moving target, so it makes it a little more complex,” Schenk said. “Each person has a ship that they’re using to haul the cargo and that will have different stats based off of how they’ve modified the ship and what crew they’ve hired.”

A completely different game is “Corruption,” where players play a corporation and try to influence politicians to vote, Bielefeldt-Schenk said. The couple realizes that their games are all different from one another, but this allows them to reach a wider audience.

Finally, there is Wacky Willy’s Word Warehouse. Players use a “wordagram” and select the best choice card to earn points and win.

These games can be in Madison stores and on the internet if the Kickstarter campaign reaches the goal of $12,000. Even if the campaign fails, the couple will continue working until their products can go public.

Chazen will feature collector’s original sci-fi artwork spanning two centuries Though each piece features different styles of painting, they share common themes of science fiction, fantasy

by Kristin Washagan ArtsEtc. Editor

The Chazen Museum of Art is set to bring fantasy and science fiction works from the Korshak collection to the Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries on Nov. 17.

The Chazen’s own Drew Stevens served as curator of this exhibition, after working with collector Stephen Korshak to select works that reflect prevalent themes and periods.

“He offered us anything out of his collection to construct an exhibition with, so I was able to choose those things that I thought would make a coherent exhibition,” Stevens said.

Stevens sought to show the development of illustration over centuries through the diversity of works from Korshak’s collection.

The works seen in the final exhibit descend from Europe and America spanning from the beginning of the 20th century through this century, Stevens said.

The exhibit also features diversity in mediums and features works including oil paintings, watercolor paintings, ink drawings and charcoal drawings.

“They’re thematically related, but the styles change a lot depending on where and when they were made, and who they were made by,” Stevens said.

While Stevens expressed that Korshak’s collection was strongest in American science fiction art from the 1910s-1960s, he said it was noticeable that Korshak put care into having a diverse collection.

Korshak’s admiration for science fiction and fantasy art stemmed from his childhood roots, Stevens said. Korshak’s father was a publisher in Chicago for Shasta Publishers — a small, emerging company centered on science fiction literature. Because of this, many of the first pieces of his collection were pieces his father published.

“It starts with the experience of having these things hanging in his bedroom, and become interested and seeking them out and developing this collection over quite a few years,” Stevens said.

Korshak’s inclination towards American sci-fi of that period may be in large part him

paying homage to his father, and the original copies of works his father passed down to him.

From the illustrations that lined his bedroom walls to an extensive collection of original works spanning centuries, Korshak paid tribute to an art style often seen in niche books or comics as opposed to galleries. The exhibition shows the ways in which fantasy and science fiction act as serious art forms, through their development and history.

“This is art that’s rarely seen in museums.

And yet, it’s art that a lot of people are actually quite familiar with,” Stevens said.

The familiarity in the works feels welcoming to viewers of all backgrounds, in a way that mystifies and enchants. The exhibit provides a visual landscape for onlookers to experience generations of imaginative characters and scenes.

The works from the Korshak Collection are all original pieces of both popular and rare works. This provides attendees the unique opportunity to view these original

pieces they otherwise may not have been able to see.

“Again, they reproduce some of them hundreds and hundreds of times, but these are not reproductions,” Stevens said. “These are the things the artists made that the reproductions are made from.”

Due to this fact, Stevens encourages students to take advantage of this opportunity to view glimpses into the past, and the development of science fiction and fantasy illustration at large.

The exhibition will debut following an opening lecture and reception on Thursday.

The lecture, held by Department of English assistant professor Ramzi Fawaz, will address superheroes, comic illustration and American culture starting at 5:30 p.m.

The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m., and provide attendees with refreshments, live music and a cash bar.

“Fantastic Illustration from the Korshak Collection” can be viewed at the museum until February 4.

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Though student athletes face common obstacles like schoolwork, balancing schedules, they also encounter difficulties exclusive to them such as treatment considerations or stigmas around vulnerability UW Athletics Department of Clinical and Sports Psychology is dedicated to helping studentathletes deal with mental health concerns that might arise during their time at Wisconsin. Kristine Eiring, the director, said there are several things student-athletes and their non-athletic counterparts have in common.

“In many ways student-athletes are similar to their non [athletic] counterparts on campus,” Eiring said. “They have similar issues of adjusting to college, stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, family concerns and other challenges that are common to the college population.”

Wisconsin women’s hockey captain and senior Baylee Wellhausen said a lot of the stress that she experiences in school is the same as her peers. Dealing with midterms, stress and still managing to take time for yourself are things Photo · UW athletes in all sports endure a range of mental health issues ranging in severity, such that all college students face as as stress or depression. disruptions for their mental health.

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After 20 hours of practice, 15 hours of class and a four hour game against a tough competitor, Olive Sagopolu finds he needs to just sit down and play his ukulele.

This is how senior University of Wisconsin defensive tackle Olive Sagapolu prefers to unwind when life as a student-athlete gets frantic. The native Samoan learned to play the ukulele when he was 6-years-old and has not stopped since. Most of what he plays is from his childhood in Pago Pago but sometimes he treats his roommates to more familiar selections like Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On.” College can present a variety of stressors, causing many students to experience mental health issues or disorders, and student athletes are no exception. Whether it be anxiety, work overload or depression, student athletes face many of the issues non-athlete, UW students encounter.

There are also issues that primarily or exclusively affect student-athletes. This includes the treatment options Kristine Eiring available to athletes and the impact of athletic life on one’s UW Athletics Department of Clinical and Sports Psychology mental health and performance.

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“In many ways student-athletes are similar to their non [athletic] counterparts on campus. They have similar issues of adjusting to college, stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, family concerns and other challenges that are common to the college population.”

Athletes experience a lot of familiar problems

Despite the differences between their everyday lives, there is a lot of overlap between UW student-athletes and regular students, particularly around their school work and social lives.

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Athletes face unique obstacles

While many student-athletes do experience the same issues as non-athlete students during their time at UW,

there are different pressures and obstacles that set athletes’ encounters with mental health apart.

University Health Services’ sports psychiatrist Claudia Reardon said athletes face stigma around receiving help for or even talking about mental health issues due to the “tough-it-out attitude that is prevalent” throughout athletics.

“Given the culture of toughness that exists in sports and the need to not show weakness on the field, it can be really hard to turn that off when they get off the field,” Reardon said. “Being able to say ‘Wow, I’m feeling depressed or I’m feeling anxious and this is not OK. I need to get help for this,’ can be a big grey area for people.”

“I have to be aware of the safety issues that can arise. There are some medications where, if the athlete is slightly dehydrated, the medication can become fatal. It can become toxic in their bloodstream.”

Claudia Reardon UHS Sports Psychiatrist For athletes who require medication for their illness, Reardon has to consider a unique set of standards and considerations have to be considered before an athlete may receive their prescription.

Due to NCAA regulations and the physical rigors of highlevel athletics, UW athletes can only be prescribed certain medications because some could impact their performance or their physical health. As a result, student-athletes may not have access to certain types of medicine, such as ADHD stimulants. that are standard for treating certain mental health disorders.

“I have to be aware of the safety issues that can arise,” Reardon said. “There are some medications where, if the athlete is slightly dehydrated, the medication can become fatal. It can become toxic in their bloodstream.”

Whether it is because pressure and critiques, or a specific sport’s ideal body type pushing an athlete to try and gain the perfect physique, Reardon said playing a sport collegiately might lead to an athlete developing a mental disorder.

For example, if someone is participating in a sport where there is extreme pressure to maintain a very low body mass index, they could develop an eating disorder as a direct consequence of playing the sport Reardon said.

The public exposure student-athletes face can also manifest as mental health stressors, whether in real life or online. wGardner said living in the spotlight is tough but dealing with criticism is something she signed up for when coming to a Division I university.

“You have to draw the line between your personal life and your athletic life,” Gardner said. “Who you are on the ice is not who you are off the ice. You just have to say, ‘That was aimed at how I play and not a personal attack.’”

While this separation might appear easy in theory,

Communication Arts Professor Jason Kido Lopez agreed college athletes are put in a difficult position and are often held to the same standards of professional athletes.

Lopez said there is something odd about using discourses used for adult professional athletes on younger, collegiate ones.

“They end up getting yelled at on Twitter for their performances and you can have a talking head on ESPN talking about how a college player choked, just like you would a professional athlete,” Lopez said.

“You’ve gotta draw the line between your personal life and your athletic life. Who you are on the ice is not who you are off the ice. You just have to say, ‘That was aimed at how I play and not a personal attack.’”

Mikaela Gardner UW women’s hockey player

Long-term injuries

acquires the same injury multiple times, it can impede their recovery due to the mental stress that often surrounds the injury.

“Understanding the frequency, rate and severity of overuse injuries is an important first step for designing effective injury-prevention programs, intervention strategies and treatment protocols to prevent and rehabilitate athletes with these types of injuries,” Covaissen wrote.

Reardon also said injuries and mental illness go hand in hand most of the time. Some athletes who are going through an injury also experience an accompanying mental illness, usually anxiety or depression.

But while there may be a lot of negatives that come with an injury, there can be some benefits as well. For Sagopolu, his 2016 injury presented him with a rare break to fully focus on schoolwork.

“Your mindset is definitely a big thing when getting hurt.

You have to try and stay positive, no matter the negative outcome,” Sagopolu said. “When I got injured, it taught me to focus on school more. Yeah football was done, but I did the best I could to try and get back as fast as I can.”

Another positive thing that can come out of an injury is it provides a common ground for athletes.

Orr now helps his fellow teammates who have shared the tough process of recovery. When teammate and friend Jack Cichy sustained an ACL injury during practice in the summer of 2017, Orr immediately stepped in, offering words of support for Cichy as he began his own recovery journey.

Orr said that Cichy can confide in him thing he might not feel comfortable telling around other teammates.

“I’ve just been trying to be there for him, listen to him and help encourage him along the way,” Orr said.

One of the most common issues student-athletes experience during their time in college are mental health concerns surrounding injuries and vice versa. Mental health issues can make an athlete’s recovery from certain injuries more difficult, just as injuries can affect an athlete’s mental health.

Long-term injuries can be particularly devastating to athletes, especially in how it leads to them missing valuable playing time. With collegiate careers usually lasting four years, injuries can drastically shorten the already brief careers of UW athletes.

Wisconsin junior linebacker Chris Orr suffered a ACL injury in 2016 and spent the rest of the season watching from the sideline, wearing a headset to communicate with coaches or players during the game.

His experience made him feel as though he was not contributing to his team, with the feeling worsening as the season progressed.

“I’m never wearing that headset again,” Orr said after recovering from his injury.

Recurring injuries caused by the strenuous repetition standard to athletics can also be linked to mental health. A study done by Tracy Covassin, an athletic trainer of Michigan State University, found that 30 percent of the injuries student-athletes face are from overusing muscles during Photo ·UW athletes endure mean tweets like the one above on a regular basis. workouts and practice.

These injuries then tend to happen multiple times to an athlete in their career, which can impact them physically and mentally. Covassin said when an athlete

“When you see guys getting hard on themselves you tell them ‘Hey, it’s football man, have fun! No matter what it is, crack a joke, act weird, make them laugh. Just doing silly things like that can help lighten the mood.”

Olive Sagopolu UW Defensive Tackle

Athletes find ways to cope together, individually and through athletics

Orr knows that part of being a teammate is trying to help whenever you can. Whether it means offering an ear to someone going through a tough time or telling someone you understand what they’re going through, it can be smallest things that make the difference to someone.

Wellhausen said telling someone you understand what they’re going through is a “big thing.” Just letting someone know they’re not alone and someone understands them can be the best type of support, especially for younger players.

In addition to his ukelele, Sagapolu also finds other methods to help himself and his teammates deal with stress on and off the field, usually through a good laugh.

“When you see guys getting hard on themselves you tell them ‘Hey, it’s football man, have fun!’” Sagapolu said. “No matter what it is, crack a joke, act weird, make them laugh.

Just doing silly things like that can help lighten the mood.”

This type of support and self-awareness of one’s own mental health is something Eiring and her staff are working to encourage among all athletes on campus through classes offered to athletes or through individual counseling.

Eiring said good social supports, quality and quality of sleep, proper nutrition and effective coping strategies are the basics for buffering mental health problems.

“We hope to be part of teaching [studentathletes] the importance of self-care that will help them for life,” Eiring said.”

Sometimes these coping strategies manifest in individual ways as well. Gardner and her teammates also know everyone needs their alone time. She said sometimes she and her roommates, also hockey players, will all go into their own rooms, shut their doors and watch Netflix by themselves.

Though college athletics can cause or exacerbate athletes’ mental health issues, Reardon said there are many positives that come with playing sports, especially for those with mental health issues.

“In general, sport and exercise are a very healthy thing and they are conducive to mental health and mental well-being,” Reardon said.

“Just like with anyone else things can go awry and athletes are not immune to that.”

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Mueller’s special investigation damning, Republicans remain eerily silent Republican silence from prominent WI representatives a common pattern, more worrying on heels of Manafort indictment

by Aly Niehans Opinion Editor

On October 30, special counsel Robert Mueller announced charges against three of President Donald Trump’s campaign advisers, offering the most explicit evidence to date that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian sources to derail the campaign of Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. One of the three charged was Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman who resigned in August of 2016 following a New York Times report citing ledgers that revealed undisclosed cash payments from a pro-Russian party for Manafort’s work for them between 2007 and 2012.

The charges against Manafort, which he has pleaded not guilty to, also include money laundering of millions of dollars through overseas shell companies, using the money to finance personal expenditures such as cars, real estate and antique furniture. Potentially more damning for Trump’s administration is former foreign policy advisor George

Papadopoulos.

Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to the charge that he had lied to the FBI about his Russian contacts and his now cooperating with Mueller’s investigation into the Russian intermediaries who used Papadopoulos as a way to gain influence with the campaign, offering dirt on Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.”

Mueller ’s charges against Manafort and Papadopoulos, as well as Papadopoulos’ admission and relinquishing of emails related to the Trump campaign, cement the collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, who was willing and eager to accept the help offered by the Russians. The United States has reached the conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election to tip the scales in favor of Trump through the release of a trove of embarrassing and politically damning emails related to the Clinton campaign.

Among threats by officials in the White House, led by former chief strategist Steve

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Bannon, to take a harder line against the Mueller investigation, including threats to cut his funding and insisting he limit the scope of his investigation to presumably exclude investigation of the president, the response of Republican officials has been abysmal at best.

Speaker of the House and Wisconsin native Paul Ryan said he hadn’t even read the indictments when questioned about how they will affect the administration’s agenda.

“It’s big news, but this is what you get from a special counsel. They’ve made an indictment,” Ryan said. “I really have nothing to add because I haven’t even read it, so I’m not going to speculate on something I haven’t even read.”

Trump, sticking with what he does best, took to Twitter to defend his White House, tweeting that “there is NO COLLUSION”, as allegations against Manafort extend prior to his involvement with the Trump campaign. Trump also attempted to refocus the attention to Clinton and the never-ending email scandal; “Crooked Hillary” and the Democrats are obviously more pressing an issue than, at this point, what is evidence of real Russian interference swaying the 2016 presidential election.

It does not bode well for the future of this country and the democratic systems that are so enshrined in both legal documents and public understanding of American politics if the leaders of the nation respond in such a flippant manner to some of the most severe allegations of collusion in history.

For a party that insists on upholding the sanctity of the democratic process through Voter Identification laws that are allegedly put in place to protect against voter fraud, lest Americans become disenchanted with voting in a corrupt system, but in actuality pad the vote in Republicans’ favor, the overwhelmingly blase attitude taken towards tangible evidence of mass disruption and muddling of an election is about as hypocritical as it gets.

Then again, maybe it shouldn’t surprise Wisconsinites that Ryan reacted this way to evidence of an election being tampered with, as the Republican gerrymandering of Wisconsin has ensured his victory and fast tracked his ascent to Speaker of the House.

Regardless of Ryan’s personal gains from election distortion, his response to Mueller’s investigation and its findings is pitiful, and reiterates the party politics that run rampant in Washington D.C. Ryan also made it a point to comment on the government’s commitment to pushing policy through in the wake of the indictments.

“I really don’t have anything to add other than nothing is gonna derail what we’re doing

in Congress because we’re working on solving people’s problems.”

While a government shutdown in the midst of an investigation into the legitimacy of the election that lifted the Republicans into the White House is a recipe for disaster, it is very problematic that the leaders of the party are refusing to address the potential consequences the investigation has on their ability to accomplish policy goals.

Considering the lassitude and confusion with which Congress has responded to most any major legislation that Trump has wanted passed, it is unrealistic for Ryan to promise that Congress will make progress under the duress of an investigation into their party leaders.

Senator Ron Johnson, R-WI has taken a more concrete stance on Mueller ’s first indictments, but it’s a stance that will absolutely do more harm to the United States, and potentially to the Republican party, than good. Johnson called for the resignation of Mueller and claimed there is no need for a special counsel, as Congressional committees have been set up to investigate any Russian interference that occurred.

There absolutely is a need for a special counsel, as Congress is dominated by Republicans who remain tepid about insinuating their own party may not have won a fair and free election, and who undoubtedly would attempt to remain as farremoved from any investigation of Trump himself as possible. Additionally, if Trump and his associates are as innocent as Trump and the rest of the party maintain, Mueller shouldn’t find anything incriminating and the faster the special counsel is able to work through all of the evidence, the quicker the party can return to its policy agenda.

The failure of Republicans like Johnson and Ryan to see the enormity of Mueller ’s indictments and findings thus far raises concerns moving forward with both basic governing and with the investigation and its conclusions. How will Congress function with a president who could potentially be indicted in the very near future? Will a Trump indictment spur any Republican admission of collusion, or will leaders like Ryan remain detached and uninterested?

The answers to those questions will be revealed with time, and through the work of Mueller. Hopefully for the future of this country, the answers don’t push the government even further into a downward spiral of denial and impotence.

Aly Niehans (aniehans@badgerherald.com) is a sophomore majoring in international studies and intending to major in journalism.

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Condemning artists accused of sexual abuse not a matter of convenience Giving confirmed sexual criminals platform to continue their work reinforces idea those with power will never be held accountable

by Lucas Johnson Opinion Editor

Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Cosby, Louis C.K., the list goes on. Hollywood is in the midst of a shameful new era, one characterized by accusations of sexual abuse that took far too long to arrive. Since accusations of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, abuse and harassment arose, victims of Hollywood sexual abuse have bravely come forward to hold their aggressors accountable.

What’s troubling is that this pattern is new to Hollywood, generally this is a sector of society kept under wraps, a very hush-hush sort of environment. As such, the fact that a space in time where victims speaking out warrants a supposed shift in Hollywood culture is deeply disturbing, given the fact that there are an unknown number of silenced victims who don’t yet feel comfortable holding their powerful aggressors accountable, just ask Anthony Rapp, who took 31 years to decide to take his Spacey acc usation public.

In essence, the fact that Hollywood culture had to change from an environment where sexual abuse went unaccounted for to an environment where criminal activity is reprimanded speaks volumes about the moral standing of the industry.

There’s no doubting that the actions of the accused are condemnable on a legal level, but given that most of them are performers who are present in each of our lives, many wonder what the moral standard should be in terms of consuming their products post-accusations. With a question as multifaceted as this, there are four main questions each individual should consider. First, what is lost or gained by not supporting said artists?

An obvious first step for those deeply impacted by the unfurling of Hollywood accusations would be to refrain from supporting any work with one of the accused’s names attached. Walking away from House of Cards or changing the channel when The Cosby Show airs are both effective ways to fight the egregious wrongs committed by these individuals. You wouldn’t economically enable a rapist in any other circumstance, so why put more money into their pockets by supporting their work.

Many will suggest that instead of jumping the gun to cut out all forms of entertainment associated with these individuals, we should instead evaluate their art void of their personal conduct. I argue the contrary because their title gives them immense social capital, it doesn’t grant them immunity from the standards of basic human conduct. Also, if cutting out House of Cards from your repertoire of entertainment is a big enough challenge to warrant genuine moral quarrel versus personal entertainment

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Second, what precedent are we setting for future generations by supporting their art?

The role model argument is not one to be taken lightly. Generally scoffed at and seen as something without real implications, the image of a prominent public figure greatly influences a child’s worldview. As such, giving such sexual criminals a platform to continue performing reinforces the idea that, given enough power, your actions more or less do not matter. Make enough money, do whatever you please.

Some may argue the concept of economic power correlating to freedom of action may go directly over the heads of America’s youth. However, the concept of action and consequence is among the most prevalent in a child’s mind, and suggesting the child is too naive or ignorant to understand drastically underestimates their ability to process information.

If we continue to give support individuals who do not set an acceptable example to the next generation, we are reinforcing a system that suggests people are held accountable for their actions, unless they’re movie stars or

some comparable title.

Third, where do we draw the line?

“The fact that Hollywood culture had to change from an environment where sexual abuse went unaccounted for to an environment where criminal activity is reprimanded speaks volumes about the moral standing of the industry.”

A kneejerk reaction to suggesting a boycott is that drawing a proverbial line as to when the boycotting stops is nearly impossible. The reality of the situation is that there will never be an absolute solution to this problem. Never will there be a system that both effectively and wholly accounts for all wrongdoings of public figures, because the reactions to such actions are subjective.

Rather, it’s up to the individual to evaluate where their moral standards lie, and whether or not they’re willing to shell out $15 dollars at your local AMC to see a film starring an alleged sexual abuser, it’s that simple.

Finally, is another moral argument something our society needs right now?

In a time of intense division, moral qualms feel almost unavoidable. As such, it’s understandable to feel exasperated when the entertainment industry --- something that acts at times as solace from the havoc raging outside --- comes under fire.

Entertainment is meant to be enjoyed, characters are relatable, stories are compelling. However, the true identities of the people portraying the character should never be forgotten. The moment we start ignoring clear moral problems to preserve their source as relief from what we portray as more serious issues will be the moment we excuse such behavior as minor.

Lucas Johnson (ljohnson52@wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in journalism.

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Don’t put too much weight on implicit biases, the science isn’t explicit Ultimately, Implicit Association Tests produce unreliable results with answers that are hard to interpret, respond to

by Amanda Love Columnist

Since their introduction almost twenty years ago, implicit association tests (IATs) have become fairly well known as a tool that attempts to measure a person’s unconscious or unrevealed biases. Such unconscious biases are sometimes explained as the cause for discrimination, stereotyping and inequality.

Many large companies now have some sort of unconscious bias training program in place, and the number is expected to grow.

One way that many students often become aware of unconscious bias is through being directed to Harvard’s Project Implicit website, maybe through a class or other activity. There you can take an IAT on your own, which shows you images and words and has you quickly categorize them by pressing certain keys, and based on timing differences, suggests that you might unconsciously associate certain images with certain words. I had tried one of these a few years ago regarding Asians and being American versus being foreign, which told me that I moderately associate Asians with being American — apparently an uncommon result.

I understand two East Asian languages to

some degree though, so perhaps that’s not too surprising.

So I decided to try another one recently, the more famous race IAT, which shows white and black faces, along with positive and negative words. I expected this one to be fairly neutral based on my beliefs and interests. After going through several screens of the different combinations, I was presented with a results screen that stated “your data suggest a slight automatic preference for African Americans over European Americans.”

That is also uncommon. Further down on the page were the statistics: 68 percent of results showed a greater preference for white people, compared to 14 percent showing a greater preference for black people, with the rest showing no preference. That’s a rather large disparity, so surely this is evidence of a widespread problem that needs to be addressed, right? Well, not so fast.

Despite the marked results for a large population of test takers, IATs are actually fairly unreliable at the individual level, with statistical measures of test validity falling far short of the standard for psychological tests

— in other words, your results are somewhat random. That’s bad news if you end up in a company or organization that conducts unconscious bias training and tries to give personalized training based on your results, or even if you just take them too seriously yourself. Furthermore, there is now some evidence that training people not to stereotype others might actually make the problem worse.

It also isn’t entirely clear what these tests measure. There is no good evidence that they actually predict discrimination or that systematic efforts to change implicit biases will affect people’s actual behavior. People are not automatons who just react to unconscious stimuli, after all. Other researchers have proposed alternative explanations for the difference in reaction times, such as empathy and familiarity.

Since we don’t know what they’re measuring, it’s too easy to project assumptions onto the statistics. If you’re looking for a way to confirm a preexisting belief that most of America is still deeply discriminatory at the very depths of our soul, these numbers and the fact that individuals can do little to influence

them might seem compelling. IATs have now been in the public eye for so long that people have actually built careers around them, with unconscious bias training serving as a kind of modern day exorcism for unseen demons of racism and sexism. We should be more skeptical than that.

We also shouldn’t forget that unfair discrimination still occurs because of explicit biases. American society has come a long way since racial discrimination and limitations on women’s rights were written into law, but some people have misguided beliefs about others.

There actually is evidence that explicit biases exist and affect people’s actions. Challenging those would likely be more productive than hunting down invisible demons.

Additionally, if you want to make an effort to improve yourself and treat others better, that’s an admirable goal. Just don’t trust a computer program to tell you that you unknowingly believe something so you can try to fix a problem that isn’t there.

Amanda Love (alove2@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in mathematics.

Minorities, not conservatives, should be focus of recruitment efforts Rather than focus on recruiting more conservative voices on campus, UW should focus on wellbeing of minority population

by Will Maher Columnist

Inside Higher Education recently released its 2017 survey of college admissions counselors.

The survey included questions about whether colleges increased their efforts to recruit politically conservative or rural students after President Trump’s victory in 2016.

The questions themselves fit into a larger narrative which developed after the election. In this understanding, the “real Americans” living in states like Wisconsin taught rich, out-of-touch elites a lesson.

White males, the long oppressed minority of America, were finally heard.

Self identifying, rich, out-of-touch elites have pushed American universities to do more to attract this overlooked minority.

In this spirit, Inside Higher Ed asked colleges what they were doing to attract conservative students. As it turns out, admissions offices didn’t do all that much to expand the amount of conservative students. This failure prompted the predictable amount of hand-wringing in the New York Times --- apparently the demographic colleges need to recruit is Trump voters.

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While this issue may be relevant for other universities, it’s not what Madison needs to focus on. Wisconsin recently released its campus climate survey which should be a wake up call for people who don’t experience harassment on this campus. Students of color and transgender students report feeling welcome at far lower rates than their peers. In contrast, politically conservative students “were significantly more likely to feel respected, welcome, and like they belong compared to other students.”

Conservative students might feel a little weird when they hear classmates making Trump jokes, but the survey results are telling. At the end of the day, they still feel like they belong at this university.

This is good. I’d hate for anyone to feel unwelcome because of their political views.

But, the campus climate survey suggests that, in this case, the administration can pat itself on the back. Conservative students still feel accepted and comfortable living and learning in this community.

Unfortunately, many students don’t feel welcome.

Our admissions process shouldn’t be focused on bringing in more conservative students, especially when our community is failing students of color and transgender students. The fact that certain groups feel significantly less welcome should be an immediate and pressing concern. The current situation is shameful.

The university has been going through the motions for the last several years, trying to make the community more inclusive for traditionally marginalized groups. The voices of fellow students, numerous hate and bias incidents, and the Campus Climate Survey itself shows that previous efforts haven’t done enough.

Our community continues to fail students.

Inside Higher Education’s survey may be applicable to other universities, but the University of Wisconsin needs to focus on the results of its own survey. The story in Madison is not about liberal intellectuals hopelessly out-of-touch with the “real Americans” in rural Wisconsin. It’s about a university continuing to fail traditionally marginalized students.

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Republican Tax Reform: Needed change or same old harmful story?

College Republicans: Tax reform will revitalize American economy

College Democrats: Too many downsides to the Republican tax plan

Republican parents often tell their children that while their friends may think they are Democrats when they’re young, just wait until they have to start paying taxes. Once you see significant portions of your paycheck disappear into the abyss of bureaucracy and waste, you begin to vote for the party fighting for lower taxes.

The GOP tax reform was long-anticipated and it contains tons of great policy that is pro-growth and pro-worker. The plan does many things but primarily works to simplify the tax code, lower rates for individuals and lower the corporate rate. Bear in mind that tax reform itself is complex and I tried to simplify many of the intricacies.

The current tax code burdens too many Americans with overly complex rates and deductions. The new proposal will simplify the current seven rates down to four and nearly doubles the standard deduction.

Doubling the standard deduction will alleviate the encumbrance of itemizing for approximately 22 million Americans.

With the new tax rates of 12, 25, 35 and 39.6, most Americans will see a tax cut, especially the lower and middle class.

According to the Tax Foundation, those with incomes up to the 80th percentile will see after-tax income increases between .8 to 2.4 percent. That’s real money in the pockets of hard-working Americans. Little is given to the top 1 percent who pay nearly half of all tax revenue. Nearly half!

Lastly, the reform will lower the corporate tax rate and the rate on pass-through entities. The corporate rate, currently the highest in the developed world at 35 percent (39.1 percent when state taxes are factored in), will be lowered to 20 percent, below the OECD average of 25 percent.

Our friends across the aisle will certainly give the same line that we’ve heard from the left forever, that corporate taxes are a tax cut for the rich. That’s simply not true.

Let’s first and foremost not forget that the corporate tax is a double tax. The business collects income and it’s taxed, and then that income is either invested, paid in the form

Once again, Donald Trump falls short on his grandiose promises. This time he swore to provide a tax code created to help the middle class, yet the plan unveiled by the Republicans simply benefits big corporations and the ultrarich, leaving the majority of America empty handed.

Trump’s current reforms, which closely mirror those made during the Reagan administration, hinge on the assumption that wealth will inevitably trickle down to the middle class. There was a boom in the ‘80s but by the end of the decade, middle-class incomes were stagnant and the poverty rate had actually risen. The same applies to President Bush’s tax reform which cut taxes for the rich and only to be followed by a recession.

In a quick economics overview, there is a parabolic graph that represents revenue with income tax, as there is a fine line between too high of taxes causing less revenue because of less spending or too low of taxes which results in too little revenue. The elephant in the room is that Republicans think that the tax is too high and we must lower it to see more growth and therefore more revenue. But this is not the case, as demonstrated by Reagan and Bush’s unintentional role in economic recessions and increasing the poverty rate.

Back to the current Republican tax code proposal, referred to as “MAGAnomics” (which yes, is as scary as it sounds), which will cut the top rate that large corporations pay from 35 percent to 20 percent, the biggest one-time drop in the big-business tax rate ever. This is great news for businesses, but in the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution’s Tax Policy Center’s analysis, they found that Americans among the top one percent of earners would see the bulk of the plan’s benefits, while lower and middleclass Americans — even most upper-class people — would see few benefits.

In the American system of government, our elected officials are supposed to pass legislation that will benefit their constituents, yet this bill will benefit only the one percent, leaving out the remaining 99 percent. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering the President of the United States is among the top 0.000001 percent in America and half of those in Congress are millionaires themselves.

Republicans are well aware of polls showing that voters are not particularly concerned

of wages or is passed to the shareholder who took the risk. The income and capital gains taxes tax that money a second time.

The government is double dipping.

Second, workers benefit the most from an increase in wages. Adam Michel of the right-leaning Heritage Foundation did a great literature review of all the studies done on tax incidence (the amount of the corporate tax that falls either on capital or labor in the form of wages) and came to find that the vast amount of research shows that workers bear the burden of the corporate tax.

Theoretical research concludes that when an economy is open (like today’s free-trade environment) businesses will move elsewhere or pass off the cost of an increase in taxes to their labor, not their shareholders.

Most empirical studies estimated that labor bears 75 to 100 percent of the corporate tax. One study even proved that a $1 increase in the corporate tax leads to lost wages of $4-5. Tax reform is ultimately even better for the worker than it is for the corporation and the rich. A Boston University study estimated that the effect of this specific plan will increase wages four to seven percent, previously stagnant under President Obama.

Tax reform will catapult the American economy. The Boston University model points toward the sustained growth of 3 to 5 percent, at a time when economists were fearing low growth was the new normal.

The Democrats will ultimately point the finger and say we’re blowing the deficit. I say let’s cut spending in equal amount. I’m guessing they won’t like that answer.

Get ready for a new period of economic boom as wages, growth and employment soar. College Republicans can’t wait for tax reform to revitalize the greatest economy in the world!

Jake Luebenow (gopbadgers@gmail.com) is a senior majoring in finance, investment and banking and political science.

with corporate taxation and that historically Congress has only cut business taxes when they also pose comparable cuts for individuals.

Yet, they are going through with their plan nonetheless.

The bill will also eliminate the federal estate tax by 2024, meaning wealthy families would be able to pass on lavish estates and trust funds to their heirs tax-free. This is hardly even an issue for the majority of Americans, as currently only estates worth over $5.49 million face the estate tax. The estate tax is not only a source of revenue for the country, but it also reduces the concentration of wealth in just a few hands.

Estate taxes are seen in almost all developed nations in the world and eliminating it is foolish.

For years, Republicans have lamented about the skyrocketing national debt, urging to cut spending and putting up with the facade that they are the more fiscally responsible party. Yet, the tax cuts will take on new debt that will add up to $1.5 trillion.

The code will also halve the mortgage interest deduction used by millions of American homeowners, changing the deduction rules for new mortgages. This will discourage individuals from buying new homes, as they will no longer be able to deduct as much from mortgages. Home-builder stocks are also plummeting as a result.

Lastly, perhaps the most damaging cut of them all will cut some portions of charitable deductions. Because there would no longer be itemization of deductions, many middle and upper-middle-class families would no longer get the charitable donations tax break. There will also be new requirements for tax-exempt organizations such as churches and charities.

Overall, the winners of the new tax code will be large corporations and the superrich, while the losers of the code will be home builders, small-business owners, charities, and the working class. If that doesn’t reveal the priorities of the Republican party then I don’t know what will.

Claudia Koechell (ckoechell@wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in history and political science.

She is the press secretary for UW College Democrats.

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UW benefits after crazy weekend Other college team’s struggles become asset for Wisconsin

by Brice Schreter Sports Editor

It was a wild weekend in the world of college football. The Badgers easily disposed of the Iowa Hawkeyes despite two big interceptions

by Alex Hornibrook. While it was a big win for the Badgers it wasn’t a huge surprise.

Wisconsin now moves to 10-0 and they have officially clinched a spot in the Big Ten Championship game. While the Wisconsin win was notable it was fairly predictable.

Everything else that happened this weekend in college football, not so much. And the best part about it, it seems to all be working in our favor.

SEC Lets start with Georgia getting blown out

by Auburn. This was huge because as long as Alabama handles it business in the SEC championship game it all but guarantees that the SEC won’t vulture a playoff spot away from a hypothetical Wisconsin Big Ten champion.

With Alabama barely squeaking by Mississippi State it was a rough weekend for the SEC as a whole and it is now difficult to imagine them getting two teams into the playoff. Georgia and Alabama will likely play each other in the SEC championship (barring some more shenanigans from Auburn) and the winner should get the SEC’s only spot.

ACC

Now let’s move over to the ACC where undefeated Miami pulled off a stunningly convincing upset over previous playoff favorite Notre Dame. The game was a blowout from the beginning and Miami controlled it the entire way.

This loss by Notre Dame eliminates them from playoff contention and all but guarantees that no independent school will steal a playoff

spot from the Big Ten. The ACC will almost surely get a team in and it will likely come down to their championship game between one-loss Clemson and undefeated Miami.

Big 12

In the Big 12 Oklahoma took care of business against TCU. While the two are likely to rematch in the BIG 12 Championship game this victory make Oklahoma the BIG 12’s only playoff contender. If they win out they’re almost certainly in, but a loss in the next two weeks would further complicate the playoff picture.

PAC 12 The Pac 12 looks to be in deep trouble as they have no team with fewer than 2 losses remaining. It would take chaos and absolute mayhem in the final two weeks of the season for them to get a team to crack the playoff.

This leaves the Big Ten and undefeated Wisconsin in an awesome position to make the playoffs. It appears that, barring any craziness, all the Badgers need to do in order to qualify for the playoff is win their next two games.

That’s easier said than done though as next week Michigan comes to town for a showdown that will be the centerpiece for ESPN’S Emmy winning College Gameday programming.

Assuming the Badgers can take care of the Wolverines they will then likely take on the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Big Ten title game.

The Buckeyes are coming off a resounding 48-3 victory over Michigan State so that will be no easy task either.

While Wisconsin’s strength of schedule remains a worry at this point it looks incredibly unlikely that an undefeated Badger team would be left out of the College Football Playoff.

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A brief history: One century of Camp Randall Evolution of Civil War training camp to football stadium reflects growth of key UW traditions from 1917 to 2017

by Stephanie Browne

Associate Editor

Beneath the layers of concrete where spectators “jump around,” and below the turf where Badgers play football, lies the grounds of a former Civil War training camp for the Union Army. After Union forces surrendered to the Confederates at the Battle of Fort Sumter near Charleston in 1861, Abraham Lincoln urged the northern states to mobilize troops.

Governor Alexander Randall, Wisconsin’s first wartime governor, created what is now called “Camp Randall” to train Union soldiers in Wisconsin. This land was donated to the wartime cause from the State Agricultural Society, who had used the land to host the annual Wisconsin State Fair.

The camp accommodated and trained more than 70 thousand Union Army recruits from all over Wisconsin from 1861, until the end of the war in 1865. Starting in 1862, over a thousand confederate soldiers were kept at Camp Randall as prisoners of war after having been captured in the Battle of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi River.

The Board of Regents purchased the site of Camp Randall for $25 thousand in 1893 from a group of businessmen, and then granted the

property to the University of Wisconsin. The football team and baseball team did not use the location until 1985. In the interim, it was used by the university as an athletic facility for the the track and field team.

The iconic arch on the east side entrance of Camp Randall was installed by the state in 1911, and the cannons were added to the historic scene in 1913. This six-acre area of foliage is known as Memorial Park.

This athletic facility featured wooden bleachers, but three sections of the bleachers collapsed during a football game on November 20, 1915 while the Badgers were playing Minnesota. The state then provided funding to the university to build a concrete stadium, which was complete in 1917. 7,500 concrete seats were added, but there were still thousands of remaining wooden seats in place. In 1922, the wooden bleachers burned down after a fraternity game.

The Wisconsin Badgers have been the tenants of the location from November 3, 1917 to the present.

Camp Randall hosted its first home game on this date, when they played Minnesota in a 10-7 victory. There were only 23 players on the school’s football roster for the 1917 season, due to World War I and the Selective Service Act. The 1917 construction of the stadium designed

by Arthur Peabody cost $15 thousand, which is approximately $280 thousand now. The original

stadium had a maximum capacity of 11,900 people. By 1924, Camp Randall expanded and could accommodate 33 thousand people. This was the first time the stadium had seats surrounding all four sides of the field.

Initially, Camp Randall had a natural grass field that was played on through 1967. Beginning in 1968, artificial grass called “Astro Turf” was used on the field up until the early 2,000s. This surface was replaced in 2003 with a different brand of turf, “Field Turf,” which is still used to date.

Over the course of the 20th century, Camp Randall underwent a series of expansions to accommodate more people in the space. Beginning in 1926, 38,293 people could be seated at Camp Randall. In 1940, 45 thousand could be hosted in the sports complex. And in 1951, 51 thousand people could partake in Badger game day. In 1958, this number jumped to 63,425.

In 1966, Camp Randall Stadium achieved a capacity above 76 thousand people and lasted for a few decades until further construction.

Pink Floyd held a concert at Camp Randall in 1988 in front of a large ground. Four years later, Phil Collins performed with Genesis at Camp Randall. That same year, U2 went to Camp Randall before a Badger football game, and performed “Where the Streets Have No Name,” the legendary song featured at every Wisconsin home game. In 1994, Pink Floyd returned to Camp

Photo · Commencement is just one of the many events that takes place in Wisconsin’s famous Camp Randall Stadium Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald

Randall to perform, and U2 returned to Camp Randall for their tour in 1997. At the Purdue game on October 10, 1998, “Jump Around” was played after the third quarter, marking the beginning of a longstanding Wisconsin football tradition.

Camp Randall Stadium underwent a major renovation beginning in 2001 and ending in 2005.

As a result, the stadium’s capacity spiked up to what is now 80,321 people. Among the significant changes, new scoreboards were installed, box seats were added to the east side, the restrooms and concession stands were upgraded, a third level concourse was built, “Badger Alley” was introduced and a five story building for the athletic department was constructed. This price of this renovation was about $110 million.

Today, Camp Randall is the 41st largest stadium in the world, and the fifth largest stadium in the Big Ten conference. Camp Randall is the oldest stadium in the Big Ten and the fifth oldest stadium in all of college football. Only Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State and the University of Cincinnati have older football stadiums.

From its origin, Camp Randall has been a signifier of success. Whether it’s for earning first place in a harvest competition at the State Fair, maintaining national unity in wartime, or Badgers coming together in a homecoming football game, Camp Randall has been the place for Wisconsin to win.

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Football: Wisconsin struggles against Hawkeyes as injuries mount Badgers win despite two interceptions from Alex Hornibrook, as defense shoulders load once again

by Kristen Larson Sports Editor

The University of Wisconsin football team won 38-14 Saturday afternoon against the Iowa Hawkeyes thanks to another highlight reel worthy performance from the defense The Badgers started the game off on a sour note, with Iowa managing to score off of an interception from Wisconsin quarterback Alex Hornibrook’s arm. Joshua Jackson would see a lack of coverage on Hornibrook’s right side, catching the ball with ease and running for a 43-yard pick six.

All of the points that Iowa would manage to earn would actually be via Hornibrook, who seemed to be having an off game Saturday. The interception prone quarterback has been struggling with ball placement this season, but it really came to a head against Iowa.

Even with all of the mistakes made by

the Badger offense, the defense managed to perform a miracle tonight. Not only did the defense manage to score a touchdown, but they also managed to hold back Iowa to only 66 yards.

It would be Leon Jacobs who would manage to make the determining play of the game during the second quarter of the game. Jacobs was behind the play when he noticed that the Iowa quarterback had been stepped of the ball.

Jacobs scooped down, making sure that his knees didn’t touch the ground, and proceeded to return the ball 21 yards for a Wisconsin touchdown. Jacobs’ return would allow the Badgers to finally pull ahead of the Hawkeyes, with a ten point margin separating the two teams.

The Wisconsin defense has been outstanding this season, managing to pull out impressive performance after impressive performance. Some worry there

might come a time when the defense will not be able to make up for the offense’s mistakes.

Wisconsin is up for their largest test of the season next week against Michigan.

While the defense is certainly capable of holding back Michigan’s offense, whether or not the offense will be able to outsmart the Wolverines defense remains a question.

With their victory against Iowa, the Badgers clinched the Big Ten West title for the season. The Badgers will face off against the Big Ten East champions at Lucas Oil Stadium on Dec. 2nd.

Post-game sounds

-Chryst on Hornibrook’s struggle to place the ball well: “Those are hard to overcome, and I thought he did a nice job of continuing to play and making some big throws. We need him, and he’s the first one that doesn’t want

to do it. We just need to help him.”

-Chryst on the decision to keep Hornibrook on the field: “You always trying to find out how can you help [Hornibrook]. He’s certainly made a lot of really good plays, really big plays for us. There’s certainly a theme with the turnovers, and each one is a little difference. There’s a lot of really good things happening offensively, but when you have big turnovers, that makes it hard to overcome.”

-Kendrick Pryor on getting his first (and second) goal of his career: “We always talk about be ready for your name to be called. Just because [Quintez Cephus] is down we can still go out there and still make big plays. We just preach about being dominant in the receiver room.

Men’s basketball starts year with win against South Carolina State Badgers blanked Bulldogs 85-50 during season opener as promising young players contribute in dynamic pairing

by Matthew Ernst Men’s basketball beat writer

University of Wisconsin men’s basketball started their season on Friday night with a dominant 85-50 win against the South Carolina State Bulldogs.

Wisconsin hardly missed their four recently graduated starters from last season as they had many different players step up in their absence. Forward Andy Van Vliet from Belgium, who barely played both of the last two seasons, took a massive step forward in his development this offseason and proved himself tonight with an impressive 18 points, eight rebounds, and two blocks. The 7-footer also made four out of his five three-point attempts.

In addition to Van Vliet’s performance, the Badgers win was aided by star forward Ethan Happ, who did not disappoint with 20 points, 11 rebounds and eight for 11 inside the arch. He made plays on the defensive end as well by making a couple of steals as well.

Happ’s only shortcoming on Friday night was his free throw shooting, where he made only four out of his nine free throws. This is one area of Happ’s game that has been an issue in the past and could potentially hold him out of National Player of the Year conversations if it continues.

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against the Bulldogs and made Koenig and Showalter ’s absences hardly noticeable.

D’Mitrik Trice had a solid 13 points and five assists and made three out of his six three-point attempts while fellow sophomore Brevin Pritzl had 17 points and two steals and made three of his six threes as well.

The ability to shoot the ball from deep and stretch the floor has been key for the Badgers success in the past and it looks like this group will be able to do just that.

Three of the Badgers five starters made at least three three-pointers in the opening game, which is a sign of great things to come. If Happ can add a consistent threepoint shot, this starting unit could be deadly come Big Ten play.

To complement their hot shooting performance, the Badgers also came to play on defense. They managed to hold the Bulldogs to a mere 33 percent shooting from the field and did not allow any individual Bulldog to score more than 13 points. If the Badgers continue to play this good on defense throughout the season, they are going to be very tough to beat.

Up next for the Badgers is a game against Yale on Sunday afternoon at 5 p.m. at the Kohl Center. The game will be shown on the Big Ten Network. For those without tickets, tune in to watch the Badgers play a rare game against an Ivy League opponent.

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