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Stepping Up In the wake of the 2016 election emerged a series of young leaders determined to reshape American politics. Following in their footsteps are two University of Wisconsin freshmen seeking to continue Madison’s history of student representation in local government.

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Survey ranks UW sixth in research expenditures, retaining 2016 rank After losing top five survey ranking in 2016, UW placed highly in overall research expenditures despite one decline in local, state funds

by Azul Kothari Reporter

For the third year in a row, the University of Wisconsin placed sixth in the National Science Foundation’s 2017 Higher Education Research and Development Survey, a ranking that tracks total research expenditures by universities across the country, the university announced in a press release.

UW saw a 3.1 percent gain in research expenditures overall, with 0.6 percent gain from federal funding, a 7.3 percent gain from businesses, an 8.8 percent gain from non-profits, and a 9.1 percent gain from institution funds. One decline, however, came from local and state expenditures, which dropped by 11.3 percent. Expenditure categories were labeled based on the source of their funds.

The interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education Norman Drinkwater, believes the future for research and development at UW is bright.

“Our robust research culture makes it possible for us to attract the best and brightest scholars from students to staff and faculty,” said Drinkwater in the release.

At $1.19 billion dollars, the UW’s 2017 research expenditures are the largest the university has ever reported, Office of Research and Graduate Education spokesperson Natasha Kassulke said.

The previous largest research expenditure came in 2012, when the university spent almost the same amount, and ranked third in the HERD survey, according to a 2013 university press release.

Two years ago, UW lost its top-five survey ranking, a position it had previously held since the rankings started in 1972, Kassulke said.

“I hope we continue to see an increase [in research expenditures],” Kassulke said. “It would be nice if we could see it in all areas, including state funding. I think it’s a goal for all of us to strive to get back into the topfive.”

According to the public NSF data, a little over half of the research expenditures came from federal funding, which includes funding through research grants. Another $394 million came from institution funds.

The data also showed the important role nonprofits have in enabling research at UW. In 2017, nonprofits including the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the UW Foundation contributed a total $104 million towards research. WARF acts as UW’s official patent licensing arm, while the UW Foundation handles donations to the university.

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Robertson, Senior Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer at the UW Foundation.

“Our goal is really to work with alumni and other donors, who are interested in making gifts to support either the research or educational mission of the university,” Robertson said.

Sometimes a donor will set up a professorship as a means of recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty members conducting research in a particular field, Robertson said.

Robertson said other times, donors will support specific projects.

“Maybe there’s a faculty member who’s working on really interesting research, but their research isn’t far enough along to apply for one of these grants that come from a government agency,” Robertson said. “A donor may provide a sort of Photo · UW research expenditures overall increased by 3.1 percent, but local and state expenditures decreased by 11.3 percent. seed funding, as a gift to help that Marissa Haegele researcher get their The Badger Herald findings a little along so that they’re Local industries have also donated to in a position to apply for a federal developing of alternative fuels, to studying neurodegenerative diseases such as the university. Wisconsin’s potato industry grant.” recently committed $5 million toward UW’s The competitive nature of federal grants alzheimer’s, Kassulke said.

“We’re seeing really big grants come vegetable research program, a testament to often forces researchers to get creative. This strong relationship between the two. has led the office of research and graduate through that haven’t even been reflected yet in the rankings,” Kassulke said, referring “When industry partners come in, they education to bring together researchers from to how HERD rankings only track money obviously have a particular area of interest, different fields to look at complex problems, and we would be building our research in Kassulke said. Promoting interdisciplinary that’s already been spent.

While funding at the federal level is those areas,” Kassulke said. research is one way UW’s grants remain growing, the same could not be said about Kassulke noted that the rankings do not highly competitive. state and local funding. The decline in always show the whole picture.

In recent years, the university has taken that category has led UW-Madison to seek Survey results can be skewed by changes steps to reduce the administrative burden more funding from industry, Kassulke said. in how data is reported. Kassulke brought on faculty so that they can spend more time The agrochemical company Monsanto’s up the case of Penn State, which jumped into conducting research and writing grants, recent donation of their local $10 million the top-five research rankings right after Kassulke said. plant laboratory and the tech giant they began including research expenditures UW has recently secured funding awards form their school of medicine in their total. for a diverse spectrum of research projects, Foxconn’s recent $100 million research “There are many rankings,” Kassulke ranging from from detecting neutrinos, to investment illustrate this trend.

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UW Office of Sustainability starts recycling campaign in College Library University hopes to improve recycling practices through waste receptacles influencing proper disposal of paper, plastic goods

by Lena Simon Reporter

Plastic straws, plastic cutlery and paper coffee cups are three common things that can’t be recycled — but often are put in recycling bins.

A new program at the University of WisconsinMadison College Library is trying to change that.

A nearly year-long collaboration between the Campus Office of Sustainability, College Library, Professor Bret Shaw’s senior Life Science Communications capstone class and graduate design student Brooke Weiland has recently come to fruition.

Students who have spent time at College Library in recent weeks might have noticed signage for a new recycling campaign called #RecycleRight.

New table tents at the library will rotate, with each rotation breaking down a common misconception about what can and can’t be recycled. The pervasiveness of this campaign makes it unique, Shaw said, and hopes are high for purifying the library’s waste stream.

The library, a favorite study spot for many

campus-goers, is frequently packed with students.

That, combined with the library’s permissive attitude about bringing in and ordering food, can result in a lot of waste production, Carrie Kruse, director of College Library, said.

The problem arises when the waste streams are contaminated, Nathan Jandl, the Communications Director for Madison’s Office of Sustainability, said, and #RecycleRight is aimed at educating students on how to avoid it.

“Recycling is not the answer in the final sense,” Jandl said. “However, it is an important tool.”

Shaw has done several environmental behavior change campaigns with his senior capstone classes over the years. He believes this one might end up being the most successful one thus far.

Shaw worked closely with Jandl and Kruse to coordinate the implementation of #RecycleRight.

He had his capstone class performs observational research, qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys at College Library to figure out how people behaved with and thought about recycling and waste.

The students’ research reflected that many students, when unsure whether something is

recyclable or not, performed something called “aspirational recycling.”

“It’s widespread that people tend to put things in the wrong place with the best intentions,” Jandl said. “It’s a great impulse, but it’s not the correct impulse, because there are too many non-recyclable items going in recycling.”

Jandl said the sophisticated sorting machinery that recycling plants employ still isn’t enough to keep smaller things like plastic straws and cutlery out of the recycling stream.

Oftentimes, entire loads of recycling need to be thrown in the landfill because of contamination. If there is too much trash in the stream, it isn’t worth it to spend time fishing out the recyclable items, Shaw said.

With this issue in mind, Shaw’s students formed research reports around their discoveries. They then were split into competitive teams with the goal of pitching the best campaign to their client, College Library, to reduce waste stream contamination.

“People want to recycle, and they want to get it right, but there are common mistakes that we should fix,” Kruse, who is enthusiastic about the campaign, said.

While confined to College Library, the campaign is part of a larger approach that the country is taking to purify its waste stream.

The recycling market has become tenuous for the U.S. since China has begun to refuse to refine materials from the U.S. due to high levels of contamination, according to Slate.

On campus, work has been done at other locations to implement more sustainable practices.

Shaw has worked with Union South to improve waste management in the past and the building has recently begun to compost along with a few of the university’s dining halls.

It’s a hope for the future that composting becomes more common on campus, and the #RecycleRight campaign is a good start on getting students to be more mindful about their waste, Jandl said.

Shaw emphasized the campaign is ongoing because he does not want to overload students with all of the information at once.

“Waste contamination is one of the impediments to a fully-functioning recycling system,” Jandl said.

“It takes work. We’re trying to make it as easy as possible.”

UW, gener8tor cultivated environment for success, EatStreet CEO says

Vice Chancellor of University Relations hopes EatStreet’s success, Entrepreneurial Achievement Award inspires current students

by Nuha Dolby Reporter

Three University of Wisconsin alumni and founders of EatStreet, a food delivery company, were presented with the 2018 UW Entrepreneurial Achievement Award Nov. 14.

According to their website, EatStreet serves more than 250 cities and has partnerships with more than 15,000 restaurants.

As reported by the Milwaukee Business Journal, EatStreet raised $12 million in equity as of Oct. 2018. $6.09 million of that was sold to eight different investors.

According to the Journal Sentinel, the food delivery business has raised more than $38.5 million in venture capital funding since its founding.

CEO Matt Howard said the founding of EatStreet was a response to the unreliable food ordering system many restaurants had in place. He and his partners created EatStreet as a solution.

The students started in their dorm rooms and worked their way up.

“Working from our dorm rooms, Alex Wyler and Eric Martell developed the original platform, while I hit the pavement to recruit restaurants,” Howard said.

“We continued to hustle, add restaurants, improve the customer experience and grow.”

He added that UW supported them regardless of their individual majors.

Howard cited mentorship, advice and networking opportunities as resources the university provided him with while developing the platform.

Howard described current efforts to expand locally. He said the company employs about 150 people at its Madison headquarters and is working to expand instate.

“This fall, we launched a statewide expansion to many of the major markets in Wisconsin,” he said.

“We’ve really committed to bringing our online ordering and food delivery services to our home state that has supported EatStreet for so long.”

One of their earliest supporters is a startup accelerator called gener8tor, Howard said. The company currently operates by investing $90,000 in five companies, three times a year. These companies are provided with hands-on mentorship and funds, in exchange for equity.

Gener8tor offers mentorship programs in Madison, Milwaukee and Minneapolis, along with additional programs in northeast Wisconsin.

Howard said the visibility the award provides is a welcomed bonus, but not the key takeaway.

“It’s such an honor to win any award, but to receive recognition from our alma mater makes it truly special,” Howard said.

Charles Hoslet, vice chancellor for university relations at UW, said the award was created eight years ago and designed to honor UW alumni and faculty for successful entrepreneurial and business ventures.

When determining candidates for the award, Hoslet said the university looks for alumni and faculty who have made a significant impact with their entrepreneurial work, in terms of company growth, job creation, local economic impact and other factors.

“ It’s such an honor to win any

award, but to receive recognition from our alma mater makes it truly special.”

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Beyond their economic success, Hoslet said many other factors made EatStreet an obvious choice for the winner of the award.

“I think the thing that is particularly exciting about EatStreet is the fact that you

had three undergrad students who took what they saw as a problem, turned it into a business opportunity and have pursued that with relentless passion,” Holset said. “Out of their dorm room came a company that now spans cities across the U.S., has several hundred employees and has raised millions of dollars in investment funding: All before they hit the age of thirty.”

Their age has not gone unnoticed. Howard and CTO Alex Wyler, recently earned spots on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list, in the category of Consumer Technology for 2018.

Hoslet also pointed out that none of the three founding students — Howard, Eric Martell and Wyler — were business majors.

“It goes to show or suggest that entrepreneurship isn’t just for business majors,” Hoslet said. “Anyone can be an entrepreneur, and anyone can have a good idea. Through relentless pursuit, they can be successful.”

Hoslet said his hope is that the award inspire students at UW. The reason for such awards is not only to recognize individuals for their good work, but to also inspire students through real-life examples of success, Hoslet said.

“These are folks who recognized opportunity, took advantage of resources, pursued a passion, and have built these companies and organizations,” Hoslet said.

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THE SEMESTER THAT WAS From Title IX policies to the midterm elections and everything in between, there has not been a dull moment of reporting this semester. Here are the biggest stories from the fall of 2018.

UW reviews DeVos’s proposed changes to Title IX law The University of Wisconsin made the decision in November to examine Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s proposed changes to how schools should address sexual assault and misconduct.

DeVos narrowed the definition of on-campus sexual harassment from one provided by former President Barack Obama, who classified it as “unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature.”

Outlined in the proposal, DeVos’s definition divided harassment into three categories: Unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe it denies a person equal access to an education program or activity, harassment in the workplace or classroom and sexual assault.

DeVos’s suggested changes included allowing those accused of sexual misconduct to crossexamine their accusers using a representative and measures to help support the accused, such as course adjustments and counseling.

ASM approves new window signage bylaw The Associated Students of Madison passed a new bylaw requiring signage placed in the windows their office to be approved by a student council vote after the removal of a large Black Lives Matter sign from the office sparked debate.

Equity and Inclusion Chair Agalia Ardyasa, Rep. Paul Jackson II and Rep. Jared Lang proposed legislation that would reintroduce the BLM sign to the ASM office window and create a procedure for introducing new signage. The legislation was introduced in response to the removal of a BLM sign, which was taken down from the window during a cleaning of the office.

ASM Chair Billy Welsh said the sign was removed because it was in disrepair. Some of the sponsors of the legislation said the council should have had input in the decision.

“For me personally, if [the sign] ever had to be taken down, it would have to be through a vote of the student council,” Ardyasa said.

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“Every survivor of sexual violence must be taken seriously, and every student accused of sexual misconduct must know that guilt is not predetermined,” DeVos said in a statement to USA Today.

The Madison Rape Crisis Center issued a statement following the proposal that opposed the suggested changes, stating that new rules would negatively impact sexual misconduct and assault survivors.

The RCC objected that the proposal granted accusers new rights and seemingly would make sexual assault or misconduct even harder to prove.

The UW System released a response to the proposal as well. Spokesperson Heather LaRoi explained that the UW System would be reviewing DeVos’s proposal using their existing Title IX task force.

LaRoi said the task force wanted to fully examine what the proposed changes would imply.

The UW System said they are committed to preventing sexual harassment and violence through the upholding of policies that would allow them to do so, LaRoi said.

“It should be a vote of you all and a representation of the whole school community.”

The BLM sign had been a point of controversy since it was introduced two years ago by former ASM Chair Carmen Goséy and former Vice Chair Miriam Coker. ASM received complaints from several individuals who said they perceived the sign as a partisan stance, despite the fact that ASM is a nonpartisan body.

Welsh said the moment was a good opportunity to get input on the sign and set up a procedure for handling the situation in the future.

In the following meeting, ASM introduced a bylaw amendment which would require signage to be voted on by the council before being displayed. After two unanimous votes, ASM approved the bylaw change.

The BLM legislation was tabled indefinitely because half of the proposal was made redundant by the new bylaw.

No legislation to replace the BLM sign was reintroduced during the ASM fall session.

Soglin to run for another term Despite claiming he would not seek re-election in the next campaign for mayor of Madison, Soglin is doing just that.

Some political opponents of Soglin urged for change in the wake of this decision, though.

Despite her support for him over his many years as mayor, Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, said Soglin should not have changed his mind about running for another term.

Instead, Berceau endorsed Satya RhodesConway, a former alder and the current managing director for the Mayor’s Innovation Project at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.

“I have been a big supporter of [Soglin] over the years and he’s been a great mayor,” Berceau said.

“I think he’s left us with a good foundation to remain a vibrant city, but that I do think that there are others who should be given the chance to take the helm.”

Soglin said he felt emboldened to run again after he began to see better consensus amongst the city council in terms of how to best deal with problems in the city — poverty and inequality being the

biggest two.

Soglin said it took a while for City Council to understand where progress was needed for lowincome neighborhoods, rather than just funding public works projects. Proposals that Soglin introduced in the past are beginning to pass now.

“We’re finally getting this movement, and I would like to make sure that we get this institutionalized,” Soglin said. “I’d like to make sure that it becomes a permanent fixture in our community.”

Soglin criticized six of his opponents who said they want change, saying they need to be specific about the kind of change they are looking for if they want to replace him.

Soglin said he has brought change to Madison by putting it on the map as one of the best tech cities, reducing violence and arrests and improving the housing situation.

“Change can be a hollow word — change in what way?” Soglin said. “When I said I would bring change to the city of Madison eight years ago, I kept that promise.”

UW freshmen declare candidacy In November, two University of Wisconsin freshmen declared they are running for the campus district in the Madison City Council.

Their announcement came shortly after incumbent Ald. Zach Wood said he would not seek reelection.

“I have always believed that representation matters, especially in government. That’s why I ran for this seat in the first place,” Wood wrote on Facebook. “I no longer believe I am the person to best fill the role, and I have no qualms about stepping aside and creating room for new, young leaders in our community to step up.”

Avra Reddy, 19, and Matthew Mitnick, 18, announced their candidacy and stated their hopes of change within the Madison community.

Inspired by various political campaigns and the recent record-breaking number of women who ran for office, Reddy decided she wanted to run.

“These women have inspired me to make a difference in a new way,” Reddy wrote on Facebook. “Together we will fight for more affordable housing, and increased safety on campus; we will fight for student rights and change in our community.”

Mitnick, on the other hand, cites his experience in politics, which made him want to run.

In addition to interning with the Associated Students of Madison and the Wisconsin League of Conservation, Mitnick founded a student chapter of the International City/County Management association. This chapter is a professional management and education organization which advocates for effective local government.

With his previous experience and from watching his parents who were both public servants, Mitnick says he knows what it means to be in local government.

“Students should have the ability to express their opinions to enact change,” Mitnick said.

“As my constituent, you will be my boss — I will work for you to make our community better and stronger.”

Mitnick would like to see affordable housing, student engagement, flood prevention, safety and social justice in Madison. According to his press release, he has been endorsed by Dane County Board Supervisor Tanya Buckingham.

The District 8 seat covers most of UW’s campus, including all of university housing. The primary for the seat will be held Feb. 19, and elections will be held April 2.

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Wisconsin voters express majority approval of marijuana legalization in Nov. 6 referendum On Nov. 6, the majority of voters in 16 Wisconsin counties and two cities approved of marijuana legalization in their responses to referendum questions that appeared on election ballots.

More than 81 percent of people voted in favor of medical marijuana, while more than 644,000 voters approved of recreational marijuana to the nearly 281,000 who did not.

The advisory referendum was essentially a “glorified straw poll” and had no direct legislative impact.

But Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, believes the results could influence policy change. Taylor, a strong supporter of medical legalization, expressed pride in college-aged voters, who she believes had a significant impact on the governor ’s race.

Taylor sought to legalize medical marijuana back in 2017 with Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, through The Compassionate Cannabis Care Act. “Everyone has somebody who’s had a debilitating disease in their life,” Taylor said.

“It is well past time to legalize medical

marijuana for the sake of these suffering families and suffering patients.”

Taylor supports recreational legalization as well, but passing laws on medical use is her priority.

Alan Robinson, the communications director for the Madison Chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, is an outspoken proponent of total legalization. He believes marijuana is only dangerous because it is illegal, explaining that a friend of his consumed marijuana that was laced with fentanyl, something he said would not happen if cannabis was legalized and regulated.

In addition to safety concerns, Robinson said total legalization would benefit Wisconsin, and Madison specifically, similarly to how it benefited Colorado, which was one of the first states to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes.

“I think [recreational marijuana legalization] would absolutely change the face and the complexion of Madison,” Robinson said. “We would absolutely see a revolution of industry.”

Blue Wave hits Wisconsin While the November election wasn’t the expected nationwide blue wave, Wisconsin voters gave Democrats two big wins with the election of state Education Superintendent Tony Evers as governor and the reelection of incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. After a close race for governor, Evers won Wisconsin’s gubernatorial election by a 1.1 percent margin.

Evers bested Walker by more than 180,000 votes in the Democratic stronghold of Dane County. Throughout the state, Evers performed well in Milwaukee and the southwest corner of the state, while Walker found most of his support in the state’s northeastern counties.

Ever ’s will be sworn in as the next governor of Wisconsin in early Jan. 2019.

The office of governor will be on the ballot

again in 2022.

Baldwin’s win, on the other hand, was by a much larger margin, defeating Republican competitor Leah Vukmir by roughly 10 points.

Baldwin commended Vukmir on her 16 years in the Wisconsin state Legislature and commented on how Democrat’s work is not over.

“In order to fix what is broken with Washington, and in order to fix what’s broken with our divisive politics, you all need to stay engaged,” Baldwin said.

“You cannot stop with this victory. You cannot stop because I assure you the special interests won’t.”

Baldwin’s Senate seat will be on the ballot again in 2024. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin is up for election again in 2022.

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Railroad courses for nontraditional students may bridge generational gaps Department leader emphasizes importance of training next generation of employees, maintaining infrastructure in Wisconsin

by Ellie Colbert Reporter

On the morning of Nov. 29, 14 students sat in front of a lecturer in the Pyle Center.

This wasn’t an unusual sight to see on the University of Wisconsin’s campus, but these students weren’t the typical UW undergrads — straight out of high school and living in dorms.

Rather, they were professionals in the railroad industry — safety coordinators, foremen, track inspectors and engineers — participating in courses as a part of the UW Engineering Professional Development department, led by Dave Peterson.

John Zuspan, president of Track Guy Consultants in Pennsylvania, taught the Nov. 29 course, Understanding and Complying with Federal Railroad Administration 213 Track Safety Standards. The course covered how to apply FRA track safety standards to railways, including skills to inspect railroad material such as cross ties and look for deterioration.

“You can’t learn railroad engineering or railroad work in school,” Peterson said.

“So a lot of the learning is on the job, and we provide a classroom experience for learning to contribute to their on-the-job learning.”

Railroad courses like the one offered Thursday are a subset of the 200 courses offered through the EPD department, a branch of the College of Engineering. EPD serves 6,000 professionals in the industry each year from all over the country, providing them with the opportunity to receive certificates and licensing credits.

Mark Miller, vice president of operations at Mississippi Export Railroads, has been to three courses taught through EPD over the past five years. For Miller, the network of railroad industry workers that he meets through these courses is one of the most beneficial aspects.

“Sometimes a problem will come up at work, and you remember someone who worked in a different field, and you can call them up,” Miller said.

Miller is trying to build up that network himself. At this year ’s course, Miller brought with him several younger workers in an attempt to bridge the age gap between older and newer railroad employees. Peterson also noted this gap, pointing to a 20-year period in the 1970s and 1980s when there was very little hiring in the railroad industry, which has resulted in a gap between people now retiring and younger professionals in the field.

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Wisconsin, Peterson said.

Wisconsin has more than 3,600 miles of railway, and most of the cream produced in the state is transported by railway to the rest of the country, Peterson said. It is also a growing field, with a new resurgence due to millennials opting to live in cities and rely on public transportation rather than cars, Peterson said.

EPD is part of a campus-wide emphasis on reaching out to students outside of the traditional college demographic. This has been a part of UW’s history since 1890, when UW began correspondence courses to students who were not able to attend classes on campus, Marty Gustafson,

assistant dean for academic affairs at the Division of Continuing Studies, said.

DCS partners with EPD in their attempts to increase access by providing services and funding for their programs. DCS also houses many other programs for nontraditional students, including career counseling for adults, online, summer and virtual courses, and funding for programs like The Odyssey Project, which provides adults facing economic barriers an opportunity to start college at UW for free.

Students like Miller and the 13 other attendees of the Nov. 29 course provide a different set of needs, experiences and perspectives than undergraduate students,

Gustafson said. These may be raising kids or holding down full-time jobs while taking these classes, and UW must offer resources to support these experiences, such as specialized career services, Gustafson said.

For Gustafson, connecting these experiences with those of undergraduates encourages lifelong learning, and this happens in a handful of EPD courses that are offered to both sets of students.

“Lifelong learning is really important to a lot of people,” Gustafson said. “Lots of other points in people’s lives could be met with education, and it’s important that once they have a relationship with UW, they keep coming back.”

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Boygenius, Bon Iver top list of best concerts this fall semester End of 2018 marked by strong local concert lineup, proving Madison continues to be a hub for live rap, indie music

by Marko Uzeirovic ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

2018 will forever be cemented in the memories of Madison music lovers. The isthmus welcomed plenty of blockbuster names, including a show from Metallica.

Madison also opened two new concert venues – The Sylvee and Communication.

Unfortunately, this year also brought the closing of a beloved venue, The Frequency, in the spring.

The tumultuous and exciting changes of Madison’s music scene made plenty of impacts on concerts this fall. The following shows stick out as some of the past most memorable.

Father John Misty Father John Misty returned to Madison for the first time in three years this fall.

The polarizing indie star released two albums in that period, and in his show at The Orpheum, Mr. Tillman had plenty of material to choose from. Opening with “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings,” Tillman proved himself as a showman as he passionately sang about graveyard intercourse.

His latest release, God’s Favorite Customer, details his collapsing marriage.

These songs showed the audience a more vulnerable side of Tillman. The show did a wonderful job of playing songs from his entire catalog. “Holy Shit” followed by “Pure Comedy” and “I Love You, Honeybear” highlighted Tillman’s range as a performer more than any other portion of his set. Hearing him on a record alone is not enough to experience Father John Misty, as Tillman’s appeal is one that must be witnessed live.

Joyce Manor The Californian pop-punk rockers brought their two-minute long anthems to the High Noon Saloon at the height of midterm season. A crowd of angst-filled college students moshed and shouted along throughout the 22-track set that even included a cover of “Video Killed the Radio Star.” This show proved to be more stressrelieving than any cup of tea or long walk.

Just like Father John Misty, Joyce Manor succeeded in having a set that kept all fans happy, new and old alike. Their set covered their early EP’s and their latest LP’s that shifted to a more of a pop sound. It is also worth noting that Vundabar, a group that has toured with Joyce Manor, played one of the best opening sets of this semester filled

with a goofy stage presence and high-energy from all members.

Bon Iver x Baldwin To cover this past semester without a single mention of politics would feel wrong.

With the immense pressure surrounding the midterm elections, politics felt unavoidable this semester, even when talking about music. No better show represents this than Bon Iver ’s collaboration with Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, for their fundraising event at The Sylvee.

In Bon Iver ’s first show in Madison since 2011, Vernon and company played a concise ten-song set. Unlike most shows where Justin Vernon sits behind his OP-1 with his face obscured by his hat and headphones, Vernon seemed to feel comfortable and passionate at The Sylvee. Between songs, Vernon interacted with the audience in his friendly Northwestern Wisconsin manner, even asking for the Milwaukee Brewers Game 7 NLCS score at one point.

The show ended with a cover of Bob Dylan’s “With God on Our Side” which poignantly gave closure to the special night and gave audience members a dark reminder of the consequences of staying home on Election Day. Boygenius (Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus) All of the members of Boygenius made a stop in Madison in the 12 months before their return as an indie rock supergroup.

Surpassing the three-hour mark, this show felt like a once-in-a-lifetime moment for the audience as well as the performers on stage.

Each woman played a shortened version of their solo sets, as they “opened” for Boygenius. The unique identities of each artist were displayed in these solo sets, prior to performing their EP as Boygenius.

In their performance as Boygenius, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus breathed new life. The show brought three immensely talented songwriters on the stage together, and each artist shined brightly. The performance as Boygenius showed a fun-loving side to the trio that their somber solo performances did not.

Wearing nearly-matching suits and adding performance flair, like Bridgers and Dacus bowing down to Baker during a guitar solo, the set shed new light on the young artists. Boygenius’ show was unforgettable, and one that will likely never happen again, sadly.

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Nintendo Switch officially most superior console going into 2019 Other platforms compete, but Wii, GameCube successor becomes a must have console compared to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, who are no match

by Montana Leggett ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

The Nintendo Switch is the console needed by gamers, they just don’t know it yet.

The combination of a nearly unmatched game lineup and unrivaled portability has set it up for success beyond most gamer’s imagination.

Many longtime Nintendo fans and college students have — and continue to be — happy with new classics like “Super Mario Odyssey,” “Super Mario Party” and “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.” These games may not be the “Super Mario 64,” “Mario Party 3” or “The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask” that most people remember in their childhoods, but they have shifted with the times and are what gamers need today.

Nintendo fortunately did not stop these modern-day productions of classic characters with just Mario and Zelda. Gamers have also been given “Pokémon: Let’s Go” with Pikachu and Eevee versions respectively. “Kirby Star Allies” is another great take on worlds and characters that have been held dear to people’s hearts for decades.

All of these games have moments that bring players back to their childhoods around the TV with friends and family racing around in “Mario

Kart: Double Dash” which in itself is magical, but also goes to show why having a Switch is the right call. Playing “Halo” with friends can be fun and may bring back memories but they are not always as heartwarming. It is hard to convince parents that ripping someone’s head off is the same as winning a beating a “Legend of Zelda” game with a sibling.

Getting back to the present, games like “Super Mario Odyssey” and “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” have amazing open-worlds that actually feel like they need to be explored. They make players want to turn over every rock they encounter and explore every cave for those moons or Koroks. Their stories are also told in ways that keep players coming back through brilliant character design and overall narrative.

This success can also be seen in games like “Super Mario Party” where each piece of the game is strong, but when combined it becomes something so great.

The best part about all of this is that Nintendo is not stopping with major franchises like Mario, Zelda, Pokemon and Kirby. They are continuing into 2019 with passion.

“Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” is coming out before the end of 2018 and a relatively unknown “Animal Crossing” game is set to release in 2019,

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which both have fans more than a little excited.

The new “Smash Bros.” game includes more than 70 characters, maps spanning the entire “Smash Bros.” lifetime, classic fan-favorite game modes and even new modes that play off of past mechanics added to the “Smash Bros.” series over time.

This is likely to throw more than enough people back to the days of late nights around a GameCube, only this time it is bigger and better.

“Animal Crossing” may not have many details out yet, but the series has not disappointed fans.

Some releases may have been weaker than others over time, however, fans are looking forward to this release as the last “Animal Crossing” release was “Animal Crossing: New Leaf” on the Nintendo 3DS in 2012.

Aside from the nostalgia trips that many fans have when it comes to these new spins on classic characters and worlds, the games themselves are works of art. The unrivaled game selection expands well beyond these classic characters with others like “Octopath Traveler” and “Xenoblade Chronicles 2” which are also incredible and may be well on their way to becoming classic Nintendo characters.

Many games give nods to their predecessors, but this should not put off gamer’s interested, considering they are easy to pick up for anyone.

There is no convoluted history of “The Legend of Zelda” people are required to know before they pick up “Breath of the Wild.” Having knowledge of prior games in the series may help pick up on references or jokes but it will not hurt the gaming experience. The games also lend themselves to

new gamer’s curiosity, alluding to past games.

Even enjoying the current game while longing a similar experience can lead people to play the wonderful games that came before in the series.

It can be hard to return to previous titles in long-running series such as “Kingdom Hearts” for a variety of reasons, so having games that make people want to go back and play the classics is an amazing concept.

Having a just as amazing game lineup is not quite enough to pass giants like the PlayStation 4, but the ability to play that game lineup anywhere is what blows the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC out of the water. People can scream all they want about graphics and hardware and whatever they want to, but life is busy.

Being able to run around different worlds in “Super Mario Odyssey” while riding back home on a bus makes life much better and its mobility is not just limited to bus rides. The apartment TV being used? No problem. Just grab the Switch from its dock and keep playing without the blink of an eye. Don’t even have a TV? Never even needed one.

The Switch is so versatile and fits the busy lifestyle that many college students have that it is a no-brainer to own one. Being the god of war may be fun, but it’s hard to bring a TV and a PlayStation 4 on a bus. It’s definitely not fun trying to finish the campaign while roommates complain because they can’t watch the Badgers game.

The PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC are never bad ways to game — but when compared to the Switch’s incredible lineup and mobility — they are seriously falling behind.

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‘Houston, we have a painting’ dazzles viewers on Madison campus

Advanced Painting Workshop represents Midwest identity, generational culture through impressive exhibit during fall show

by Adi Dina ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

The Advanced Painting Workshop hosted a reception for their fall show “Houston, We Have a Painting” Dec 5. Friends, professors and fellow students filled the intimate gallery space on the seventh floor of the George L. Mosse Humanities Building, generating a welcoming environment for the attendees and artists alike.

The dazzling show was curated by and features the work of Alyssa Ackerman, Mia Boulukos, Lena Carlson, Alice Hennessy, Shelby Kahr, Heide Knoppke-Wetzel, Rachel Miller, Nicole Rosenbaum, Emma Santoianni, Raja Timihiri, Zixuan (Shirley) Yang and Tiannan (Sylvia) Zhang.

When entering the gallery, the first thing visible is a collaborative piece made by Carlson, Kahr and Santoianni. Displayed on top of a white painted dartboard cabinet are six miniature replicas of the paintings the artists exhibited in the show.

Underneath this scaled down curation are small plastic animal figurines.

“Our collaborative piece at the beginning of the show was purely spontaneous but also reflective of our pieces in a voyeuristic form that explores how the miniaturization of a work changes its perception through scale and irony,” Kahr said.

By simulating a smaller scale version of what the audience will see at the show, the three artists activated an interesting viewership experience that forces the awareness of their role as a spectator.

Further, the addition of plastic figurines to the work revealed a desire to simulate and make small that comes along with the process of creating.

“We wanted to combine humor with intentionality in a subversive way that comments on the structures that make up the expectation of the exhibit,” Kahr said.

The collaborative work is both untitled and without an author — which forces the viewer to actively search the gallery to figure out who the artists of the smaller paintings are. This interesting synergistic project generates a playful game for the attendees.

The work also points to conventions of museum and gallery spaces, authorship and originality, along with voyeurism and surveillance. “[I am] inspired by rural Midwest identity and the visceral effect of color on the viewer,” Kahr said. “My work, and many others’ work in the show uses the vehicle of portraiture to explore the construction of identity — whether that be through people in our early childhood or our current existence today in processing the world.”

One of Kahr’s most incandescent paintings in the show, a work titled “:(,” illustrates an unrealized portrait of a distressed girl playing with her phone. Situated on top of an idealized

flower patterned background, the subject is wearing a trendy Nike t-shirt, track pants and white Converse shoes. Her body hair is especially overt, mirroring the pattern of the painting’s background.

Kahr’s brilliant use of orange and greens allows the figure to glow and emerge from the canvas. “[The work is] trying to manipulate the figure in a way that mirrors internal emotions and also draw attention to the way our emotions, communication, and relationships are processed through screens,” Kahr said. “I wanted to create a disjunctive flatness and perspective where you can’t tell if the figure is jogging or lying down, if the leaves are falling or resting, just as texting disorients our sense of self and authenticity in such an online age. I was breaking up with someone via text while lying down on Bascom Hill, and that was also the main inspiration.”

This painting, as well as Kahr’s oeuvre at large, uses monstrous-like figures to confront ideas of the internet and contemporary culture overall. This act of crafting monsters parallels a long tradition of producing images and texts about monsters

in both visual and literary culture. Typically, this points to ideas of self vs. other, artificiality versus performance and repressed desire. The monster is that which we construct as “other,” but is truly a production of ourselves, according to Kahr.

Kahr’s diverse collection of art can be found on her website shelbykahr.com.

Boulukos, a fellow student in the Advanced Painting Workshop, developed a series of paintings based off nude selfies various friends sent her. She explained once she began posting the progress of her work to her Instagram account, @ artbybobo, more women began to reach out and send her photographs of themselves for her to paint.

“Anyone is welcome to participate in this ongoing project,” Boulukos said. “It has made me really interested in the various different poses people were sending.”

After the photographs were sent, Boulukos would ask the participants to explain why they chose to send her an image of themselves.

Displayed next to Boulukos’ series is a piece of paper with the anonymous responses to these

questions.

One subject stated they felt comfortable knowing something they felt vulnerable about was going into the hands of another woman who can empathize. Sending nudes is considered by some to be an act of trust. Some people who worked with Boulukos felt empowered as an actual piece of art instead of a picture in a phone.

Now they get to see themselves in paint, feeling “beautiful and sexy.”

“The cool thing about the show is that this is the first Advanced Painting Workshop that features solely female artists and I think you can easily identify a lineage of work responsive to the female experience,” Kahr explained. “Whether through titty empowerment or other physical empowerment that engage nostalgia or current internet culture.”

Considering the long history of men dominating the institution of the museum and the field of art at large, it is still a revolutionary concept to enter a gallery space that is filled with paintings solely made by women — that in it of itself made the show compelling.

Photo · “Houston, We Have a Painting” on display in the George L. Mosse Humanities Building.

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UW students set their sights on local elections to bolster campus representation in city government Affordable housing, sustainable transportation among issues raised by student candidates looking to bring fresh perspectives to the eighth district

by Matt O’Connor Editor-in-Chief

It was a year destined to be seared in our national memory.

Defined by a wave of protest movements, 2018 was a year of grappling for many — grappling with how to navigate the post2016 political landscape, how to respond to a seemingly endless series of mass shootings, how to survive when everything from nature itself to your elected officials seemed to threaten your livelihood.

But that’s not the only reason 2018 will be remembered. In the wake of these new challenges emerged America’s youth, invigorated by the urgency of the moment and ready to claim a seat at the table.

From Parkland, Fla., to our nation’s capital — and, truly, everywhere in between — young Americans this year organized a mass movement for change and placed themselves at the center of the discussion — from conversations about gun violence and civic engagement to those about sexual assault and climate change.

But this year provided more than just an opportunity for young Americans to protest. It also opened the door for them to flood the ballot box as we decided who would lead us forward.

And when that door swung open, young Americans everywhere swarmed through it.

The results affirmed the intensity of the moment, as youth voter turnout increased as much as 188 percent from the last round of midterm elections in 2014. Wisconsin was no exception, as the University of Wisconsin campus saw a surge in youth participation compared to recent electoral memory.

That the UW campus was a national leader in civic engagement shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to those who

know their Badger history, as student protesters here led one of the largest anti-war movements in the 1960s.

It’s from this history of youth engagement in and leadership of political activity that this city has developed a proud record of electing young people to public office.

In 1986, a 24-year-old Tammy Baldwin, still a UW law student, was elected to the Dane County Board of Supervisors. Thirty years later, 23-year-old Hayley Young would be elected to the same body, where she currently represents campus and the surrounding area.

Preceding Baldwin’s run was that of Paul Soglin, Madison’s current mayor, who has left an indelible mark on city politics.

After leading much of the anti-war protests during his time at UW, a 27-year-old Soglin was elected mayor of Madison in 1973, shortly after his first bid for the city council in 1968. The district he represented is currently held by Ald. Zach Wood, who was first elected as a UW senior. And next year, that seat will be contested by two UW freshmen.

Those UW freshmen — 19-year-old Avra Reddy and 18-yearold Matthew Mitnick — now join a long tradition of young candidates in Madison responding to nationwide calls for change and carrying forward the proud tradition of student activism at UW.

The race for the eighth I met Mitnick and Reddy at Peet’s Coffee in Memorial Union.

Despite falling days apart from each other, both meetings were conducted at the same table. Their similarities, I would discover, wouldn’t stop there.

They both told me stories of how local government is important and stressed that getting undergraduates involved with and interested in it is something they’re both dedicated to.

They identified shared goals and similar policy positions in confronting Photo · Avra Reddy (center), a UW freshman from the suburbs of Chicago, is running to represent Madison’s eighth some of the eighth aldermanic district in the City Council next year. district’s most pressing issues.

But most Anna Walters importantly, they both The Badger Herald insisted that the eighth aldermanic district, which includes 19 UW residence halls and the immediate surrounding area, must be represented by a student or a recent graduate.

“You need somebody who can fight for you, who is like you and who has an understanding of what everybody else is going through,” Reddy told me. “People are less likely to fight for something if it’s not directly impacting them, so that’s why I wanted to run — because I wanted to provide a voice for everybody in this district.”

Mitnick echoed that sentiment. He said tragedies in his hometown of Thousand Oaks, California — namely, two massive fires and a mass shooting — showed him how important good leadership and representation can be in local government.

“Seeing those tragedies occur and what my family and friends have had to go through really proved to me that you need to have strong leaders to prevent such issues first and foremost, but also to navigate the communities around what the issues entail,” Mitnick said.

It’s that connection with one’s constituents — a student’s connection to their fellow students — that both Mitnick and Reddy believe to be the foundation of their plans to tackle issues facing Madison’s eighth aldermanic district.

Reddy said her campaign is focused on four major points — affordable housing, public safety, sustainability and combating homelessness. She acknowledged that a crucial part of achieving the goals she outlined will involve working with other members of the council, the mayor and community leaders.

And while she admitted it can be nerve-wracking to work with more experienced and established public figures, she described it as a “good type of nervous” — the type of nervousness she suggested incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, might be feeling as she arrives in Washington. It’s the type of nervousness which gives way to an educational opportunity from those who are admittedly more educated on how to navigate the city council and affect change within its institutional parameters.

“When we’re learning about how to fix problems from people who are more experienced, then we get a sense of, ‘Okay, how can we take this and turn it into something that is our own, and make it new, and instill our new ideas into this?’” Reddy said. “I think that’s why young people need to be brought to the table more, because we’re not going to learn unless we’re given the opportunity to learn — because we’re not the future, we’re the present.”

Mitnick agreed that working with older, more traditionally experienced officials presents a learning opportunity on how to represent the district better in the future and deliver on his campaign promises.

Reddy and Mitnick, then, have outlined similar policy positions and similar ways of achieving them. Similar still is their long and admittedly impressive records which have led to their decisions to run.

While Reddy is from a suburb of Chicago, the start of her freshman year didn’t mark the first time she’s lived in Madison.

In 2016, at age 16, Reddy moved to Madison for the summer to work for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin at the height of what she described as an increasingly alarming Republican presidential primary.

When she returned to Madison this year, she again worked for Democratic Party candidates up and down the ballot as the 2018 midterms approached. It’s this record of working to elect progressive candidates that led Reddy to throw her own name in the ring.

As for Mitnick, he cited a passion for local government instilled in him by his father, a county administrator and former city manager, and his mother, a local public school teacher.

Growing up, Mitnick recalled going to countless city council and county board meetings, where he saw firsthand the real impact local government can have on its constituents.

“Local government is in our lives in so many ways that we don’t even know or don’t always realize. That kind of behind the scenes work to benefit our lives is very inspiring to me, and seeing the work that my parents did for 18 years showed me the importance of public service,” Mitnick said. “ … So as a student representing students, I want to advocate on behalf of my peers.”

Throughout his time at UW, Mitnick has worked closely with the Associated Students of Madison and plans on modeling his campaign on the “phenomenal” student representation he’s seen from that body.

Clearing the way for both Mitnick and Reddy’s candidacies is the incumbent, Wood, who was first elected to represent the district as a UW senior in 2015. Inspiring his own run was a deeply held belief in the value of representation and that he could be a good voice for the UW community at that time.

Prompting his decision to step down next year are many of the same factors that led to his initial run — namely, the importance of representation.

“I think I am no longer the best voice for the eighth aldermanic district,” Wood said. “I’ve always been annoyed by folks who stick around longer than they should. I’ve always said I’d rather leave a term too early than stick around a term too long. I think that transition is important.”

Wood’s decision to step away isn’t commonly seen in American politics. Incumbents are often in office for decades, prompting debate over the ability of representatives who are largely dissimilar from their constituents to effectively advocate for them in any representational body.

Among the issues, Mitnick said he will be focusing on throughout the campaign are affordable housing, transportation, social justice, civic engagement and public safety. He plans to empower district committees, neighborhood associations and other arms of the local government to draw UW students into the decision-making and deliberation process — a crucial part of democratic, representational governance, Mitnick said.

Representation matters Issues of representation in Madison go back a long way — all the way to the anti-war movement of the 1960s, which found a restless home at UW. Leading that movement was Soglin, then a UW student unaware that he’d spend the next five decades at the helm of Madison’s political scene.

Driving Soglin’s first run for the city council in 1968 was what he described as a disconnect between Madison’s residents at-large and the student anti-war protesters. Then a member of a panel of university, student, community and governmental leaders who would travel around the city conducting townhall type meetings, Soglin said he came to the conclusion that by “getting on the city council, there’d be an opportunity for the city residents to get a better understanding of student needs.”

Those needs, Soglin said, expanded beyond the anti-war demonstrations that dominated the headlines at that time, and largely included many of the same issues being debated today — transportation, affordable housing and public safety.

By being elected to the city council, Soglin, then just finishing his undergraduate education, hoped to advocate for these issues on a more foundational, institutional level.

“The condition of being a student was challenging in that there weren’t a lot of opportunities to exercise influence.

Students arrive, most are gone after four years, and so there was no institutional memory — there was no continuity — in terms of dealing with those issues,” Soglin said.

Soglin said his election to the city council, along with those of other students in other aldermanic districts, had a “profound influence on city law and city policies.” He cited a growth in affordable housing and the improved relationships between student tenants and their landlords which developed as a result of his and other student alders’ work.

Soglin’s experience on the city council is a testament to the argument that leaders largely representative of the constituents they serve are able to affect greater change and deliver on their

campaign promises.

It’s a political point many have pointed to as young, upstart candidates sprout across the country, oftentimes challenging older, more established incumbents.

But it’s not just younger candidates taking center stage. Inherent to strides for greater representation are women and candidates of color.

Kat Kerwin, a UW student who moved back to her hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, to run for the city council there, said it’s important to have “non-traditional” and “diverse candidates at all levels.”

Kerwin, who won her election, said serving in government as a young woman has shown her that Photo · Matthew Mitnick (center), from Thousand Oaks, Calif., said his parents instilled a passion for local governpeople’s preconceived expectations rarely ment in him from a young age. transfer over to reality.

“People are often Hibah Ansari surprised when things The Badger Herald come out of my mouth because a lot of the old, white, rich, traditional politicians — they don’t really expect To 2019 and beyond that they’re going to be challenged, and when they are, they Next year and the ones that follow it, then, will serve as a think that you’ll back down because they perceive you as more testing ground for whether this youth activity is sustained in vulnerable,” Kerwin said. future elections.

Back in Madison, Reddy echoed Kerwin’s sentiments, and In Madison, the mayoral race has become a local rendition of stressed the importance of her would-be constituents seeing “a what we’ve seen elsewhere — a contest of an established, longwoman canvassing and wanting to earn this seat because there serving incumbent against upstart candidates who think it’s time are so many female students.” for a change.

Reddy said her experience as a woman gives her a unique Also on the April general election ballot will be the eighth insight, which she believes would be valuable for the eighth district alder. If all goes as planned, two UW freshmen will be district’s constituents if she were to take office next year. on that ballot, adding their names to the already long and ever“Traditionally, this seat has not been held by a woman for growing list of young people who have thrown themselves into years. Not only is this the ‘year of young people,’ people are electoral politics. also tagging this the ‘year of the woman,’” Reddy said. “We But regardless of whatever happens in Madison next year, just elected more women to the House of Representatives than 2018 marked, for many, a shift in our politics — away from ever before. I think that being a female and being a minority, I arguments that limit possibilities, that keep young people locked do have insight in what it feels like to have to fight harder each out, that passively allow a troubling status quo to continue. day.”

Leading that shift was a series of young leaders who refused At the heart of this strive for greater representation are young to accept those arguments at face value — who took them and voters and, oftentimes, young candidates — something which stomped them underfoot as they marched into elected office.

UW professor Barry Burden said is due in large part to the 2016 Perhaps the best way to characterize 2018 and the leaders it election, which showed many young people that “there’s more at introduced to us, then, are the words of Hayley Young, a young stake than they realized.” elected official herself who represents the campus district on the Burden said most young voters and candidates favor the Dane County Board of Supervisors.

Democratic Party in this political moment, which benefits them “They’re incredible, they’re amazing and they’re doing the in competitive races. UW College Democrats Chair Eliana Locke damn thing.” said her party has been able to bring young people under its wing in large part by “giving those individuals a voice in the party and its opportunities.”

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Fundamental values of checks and balances justify treasurer’s small role

Voters may have preserved the office of treasurer, but an activist role is unnecessary because the office has such little power

by Lianna Schwalenberg Columnist

Though election results have solidified Wisconsin’s desire to keep the position of state treasurer, don’t lose sight of fundamental values of checks and balances. The state treasurer position remains intact, but we should not be quick to give back any power.

Over the last 20 years, Wisconsin has been gradually diminishing the Office of the State Treasurer ’s powers, moving the bulk of its responsibilities to the Department of Administration and the Department of Revenue. Their most recent move eliminated the position of Assistant State Treasurer in 2015.

In terms of keeping the legislature “and executive branchses’ powers in check, she’s literally on her own.”

But, in April of this year, 62 percent of Wisconsin voters rejected a constitutional amendment to eliminate the State Treasurer, and in the November midterms, they elected Sarah Godlewski, arguably Wisconsin’s greatest advocate for the expansion of the office, to fill it.

It seems like Wisconsinites are signaling that they want to keep the 170-year-old office — comprised of its sole member, the treasurer — intact. There are two big arguments for keeping the office alive — fiscal accountability and the potential to revert the spread of power back to an elected official. But taken together, Wisconsinites should be careful clinging on to a position that is unnecessary and has no power.

Some fear that eliminating the state treasurer would undermine checks and balances, citing the treasurer ’s role as an elected financial watchdog over the executive and legislative branches.

One problem with this argument is the unfortunate truth that the office no longer looks the way it did prior to 1995. Slowly but surely, the legislature stripped the office down to a single person and a single task of sitting on the three-person Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, not on accident because this is the only job of the treasurer specifically enumerated in the State Constitution. Wisconsin’s oldest state agency, the BCPL oversees the disbursement of funds generated by the sale and management of trust lands, the

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Marissa Haegele The Badger Herald largest beneficiary of which are K-12 public school libraries.

When Godlewski is sworn into office, she is not going to have much to work with. Granted, it’s a large fund, roughly $1 billion, but by the Constitution, she is not even allowed to change where those funds go. In terms of keeping the legislature and executive branches’ powers in check, she’s literally on her own.

The strongest argument for putting power back in the office appeals to checks and balances in a more big-picture approach. Many people, like former Republican State Treasurer Jack Voight, Secretary of State Doug La Follette and State Sen. Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield were against eliminating the office because of the fact that is held by an elected official. If the position had been eliminated, its last areas of traction would get swallowed up like rest of the treasurer ’s old jobs inside unelected administrative bloat, and the third seat of the BCPL would have been given to

the lieutenant governor. Having an elected state treasurer ensures at the very least the people have a figurehead responsive to the people and can potentially lobby the legislature to reclaim old duties back from the DOA and DOR. One response to this argument is an appeal to the original desire for a watchdog — namely, having someone who can make financial assessments and freely censure public spending when the moment arises. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau and the Legislative Audit Bureau, both nonpartisan, do just that. Together, they keep both the legislative and executive activities in check. Another response, presented by the outgoing treasurer himself Matt Adamczyk, is that many of the old functions of the office went to agencies that are able to streamline the requests.

For example, oversight of the unclaimed property program went to the DOR, where they were able to return about $20 million back to the rightful owners using social

security numbers and tax information, regardless of whether a claim was filed.

One final argument for keeping the office is the quick and simple fact that the voters have already spoken — the state had their chance, at least twice now, to eliminate the treasurer and they lost it or chose to ignore it. The state followed all the procedures for changing the constitution, and ultimately, it failed at the final referendum stage. But this argument is a paradigmatic dismissal of public-sphere debate. Of course, citizens have had their say, but as long as there are disagreements, the question remains open.

The incoming treasurer has a lot of decisions to make, and as the people who put her in office, it is our responsibility to keep her in check and keep her “activism” to balanced levels.

Lianna Schwalenberg (lschwalenber@ wisc.edu) is a fifth-year senior majoring in communication arts and philosophy.

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College Democrats: Reflecting on statewide progress in 2018

The College Republicans of UW-Madison are happy to report many successes from the past year, both as a student organization this semester and a greater part of the Republican Party this past year.

It is no secret that the University of Wisconsin’s stereotypical breakdown of student political affiliation on campus remains liberal.

But that did not keep our chapter from growing.

This semester, we tallied 147 dues-paying members on our roster and 11 executive board positions.

We’ve also expanded our chapter events.

We brought major candidates directly to our members including Gov. Scott Walker and Leah Vukmir. Our event with Walker marked more than 200 in attendance. We also hosted a new member bonfire, Get Out the Vote events and two events ringing bells for the Salvation Army, to name a few.

Regardless of which party is in power, bipartisanship is important for a civil government. Our organization continues to lead by example by pursuing bipartisan events on campus. This semester, we co-hosted our annual 9/11 event, a debate watch party, a debate with the College Democrats and a Veterans’ Day event.

In addition, our organization worked to promote voter turnout on campus by partnering with UW and the Big Ten Voting Challenge to promote voter registration. Every vote counts, and we ensured every student on campus knew exactly that.

But success is not exclusive to our chapter of College Republicans. The Republican Party as a whole has a lot to be proud of this year. As one of the most important accomplishments of 2018, Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court as an associate justice Oct. 6. Kavanaugh was touted by many with his superb record, experience and qualifications.

Kavanaugh’s addition to the high court marks a step forward for America and the court.

It is without question that Democrats have accomplished so much to be excited about in the year 2018. As it stands, Democrats in the House of Representatives have gained 40 seats — and won the House by the largest margin of victory in a midterm election for either party. Voters have chosen to elect more women and representatives belonging to minority communities than ever before. Clearly, 2018 has shown that representation is a key component of a healthy and functioning democracy.

In Wisconsin, Democrats were elected to the U.S. Senate, and the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, treasurer and secretary of state.

Right here in Madison, nearly 70 percent of eligible voters showed up to cast a ballot on or by Nov. 6. In short, College Democrats have been deeply encouraged by the promising results of the 2018 midterms and look forward to making real progressive changes to, among other things, lower the cost of higher education and expand access to affordable healthcare.

With all of that said, months before the midterm election, Democrats enjoyed several major accomplishments in Wisconsin. This year, the people of Wisconsin resisted Scott Walker ’s attempts to waive three special elections.

As a result, Democrats Patty Schachtner, District 10 and Caleb Frostman, District 1 were elected to the Wisconsin Senate.

Both of these Senate districts swung Republican in 2016 by double-digit points. These victories prove that Democrats can organize and win in rural districts across the state moving forward.

Additionally, Tuesday, April 3, Judge Rebecca Dallet was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, helping to bring balance to a conservative-leaning

Furthermore, America’s economy has continued to grow. In fact, throughout 2018, most economists never thought the economy could grow as fast as it has. In 2018, Wisconsin saw unemployment at or below 3 percent for nine straight months — a state record. The U.S. GDP growth outpaced 4.2 percent in quarter two of 2018, marking the fastest rise in nearly four years. Our policies work, and they work well.

On another note, the national opioid epidemic continues to take the lives of many Americans, and the Trump administration along with Republican lawmakers have led the fight to end the epidemic this year. In their first step, the Republican-led House and Senate passed a comprehensive relief package which was later signed by Trump. Our own Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, praised the package noting its prospect to “combat the opioid epidemic on multiple fronts.”

Do you remember hearing about the blue wave set to arrive in the U.S. Nov. 6? It never came. In a historic event, the party of the president added seats in the U.S. Senate as a result of this year’s midterm election. There have only been five times in the last 105 years that a sitting president has won seats in the Senate in the off-year election. Not only did the blue wave fail to hit the U.S. nationally, but it also subsided in Wisconsin. Republicans maintained control in both state legislative chambers, sending a message to Wisconsin that they won’t stop fighting to keep Wisconsin moving forward.

As a chapter this semester and as a party in 2018, we are proud of our accomplishments and we are excited to continue our progress into 2019.

Let’s get to work.

Alec Bukowiec (abukowiec@wisc.edu) is a sophomore studying marketing and information systems with a certificate in digital studies. He is also the Social Media Director for College Republicans of UW-Madison.

state Supreme Court. Dallet’s victory marks the first time in 23 years that a progressive candidate was elected to a vacant seat on the state’s highest court.

Our student organization is overjoyed to have a progressive voice like Dallet on the Supreme Court for the next ten years.

These Democratic victories in Wisconsin helped to put progressives into office and build momentum approaching the midterm elections.

Nov. 6, the people of Wisconsin made their voices heard at the ballot box.

Democrats reclaimed the office of the governor, treasurer and attorney general while also securing the secretary of state and Senate elections. While we as College Democrats are clearly excited about sweeping statewide elections in the midterms, we detest current Republican efforts which seek to severely limit the powers of the incoming governor and attorney general. These attempts, being conducted in a “lame duck” session, are undemocratic and in stark contrast to a peaceful transition of power and that which voters have asked for.

Overall, College Democrats are pleased with the results of the 2018 calendar but recognize that there is still much work to do going forward. We thank you for your support this year and encourage students of all backgrounds to get involved through legislative advocacy in the upcoming semester.

Sam Schwab (sschwab2@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in political science and English. He is also the press secretary of the UW College Democrats.

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2018 FALL HEADLINERS At the close of each semester, The Badger Herald Editorial Board awards those people, proposals and policies which have dominated the news cycle across the University of Wisconsin campus, city of Madison and state of Wisconsin. Below are your Fall 2018 victors.

Midterm recap: Who’s the new guy? award The midterm elections this year were the first major test for Democrats following President Donald Trump’s win in 2016. Despite falling short of “Blue Wave” expectations nationwide, Democrats performed well, retaking the U.S. House of Representatives and winning several governorships. In Wisconsin — a state which has voted for a Republican governor three times, a Republican U.S. Senator twice and a Republican president once in the past eight years — Democrats performed well, ousting the once invincible Gov. Scott Walker, replacing Attorney General Brad Schimel and re-electing Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. In Madison, incumbent U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, faced no challenger and will represent Wisconsin’s second Congressional district for another two years. At the state Capitol, state Reps.

Chris Taylor and Melissa Sargent faced no challenger and will continue to represent their Madison-

lame-duck session: “fair election? never heard of her” award In a 2018 midterm election that saw a resurgence of Democrats elected statewide, namely to the offices of governor and attorney general, Wisconsin Republicans took unprecedented measures to curb the power of the incoming administration.

Nov. 30, over 140 pages of extraordinary session bills were released to the public just as business hours waned to a close. By Monday, lawmakers were expected to vote — a laughably weak exercise of democracy considering the Legislature is securely controlled by Republicans and the bills targeted incoming Democrats. The timing of the bills’ release was no accident either — they were to be rushed through the Legislature before Evers took office.

The first session meeting Monday was drowned out by hundreds of protesters intent on being heard as the Legislature moved to limit the influence of incoming Democrats in determining the future of the state government. Republicans’ actions were motivated out of a desire to salvage the power they fairly lost to make governance harder for Evers and Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul.

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Despite public opposition and fierce condemnation from Wisconsin Democrats, the fast-tracked legislation passed. A reduction of the early voting period, the limitation of Evers’ ability to appoint individuals crucial to shaping Wisconsin’s economy and limitations on the governor ’s power to enact rules which prescribe how state laws are enforced are now one Walker signature away from becoming law.

For Kaul, the story is much the same.

Pending Walker ’s approval, legislators sued in their official capacity can now hire private attorneys at the expense of taxpayers rather than be represented by the Department of Justice, which Kaul will oversee. With a Democrat set to lead the DOJ, Republicans have made sure their influence will be reduced.

This last-minute session is not a measure to enforce checks and balances on the executive branch independent of Evers’ presence, as Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has suggested. It’s rather a greedy misuse of representative power which should be addressed as such.

area constituencies. Joining them and replacing outgoing Rep. Terese Berceau is Shelia Stubbs, a Dane County supervisor who received national attention after a local resident called the police on her, her young daughter and her mother for what was wrongly believed to be drugrelated activity while they canvassed. The most exciting moment of the night for Democrats, however, came when state Education Superintendent Tony Evers defeated Walker. After hours of waiting for results to be finalized, thousands of Milwaukee County absentee ballots broke heavily in Evers’ favor, pushing him over the edge and to victory.

The next morning, Walker tweeted a photo of a Bible quote with no caption, which many took to be an acknowledgment of his loss. Prayers, however, proved to be insufficient for Wisconsin Republicans as they licked their wounds following their election night losses. Sometimes getting over a breakup requires the subversion of electoral democracy, right? More on that below.

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mayoral election: guess who’s back, back again? award Just a few months ago, this board wrote that “Madison will bid farewell to longtime Mayor Paul Soglin next year, who announced this summer he will not seek reelection.” We’ve since had to eat those words because Soglin has rescinded that announcement and is again running for mayor.

Soglin, who was first elected in 1973 and will have served as mayor for a grand total of 22 years by the time of next year ’s election, will be up for a tough battle to retain his position. He faces a long and growing list of challengers, including Ald. Mo Cheeks, former Ald. Satya Rhodes-Conway, Tenant Resource Center Director Brenda Konkel, River Alliance of Wisconsin Executive Director Raj Shukla, City of Madison Racial Equity Coordinator Toriana Pettaway, school board member Michael Flores and

local comedian Nick Hart.

With the February primary and April general elections quickly approaching, the race is sure to heat up in the coming months. An obvious question heading into next year is how these candidates, all with strikingly similar policy platforms, plan on sufficiently differentiating themselves. Will Soglin’s clout, gained from his decades of experience, be enough to win him another term as mayor? Or will one of his challengers add his name to the growing list of long-serving incumbents ousted by younger, less experienced candidates?

Stay tuned. It’s absolutely going to be messy.

Freshmen city council candidates: best new star of the year award From the March For Our Lives movement to the surge in youth voter participation to the high number of millennials elected to office, 2018 was a big year for young people and their impact on American politics.

Madison, home to almost 50,000 college students and thousands of young professionals, is certainly no exception to this national trend. Ald. Zach Wood, who has represented the campus district on the City Council since 2015, was first elected as a college senior. Next year, he’ll be stepping down, paving the way for a competitive election to replace him. UW freshmen Avra Reddy and Matthew Mitnick have announced their candidacies for Wood’s seat, which encompasses most UW residence halls and the area surrounding campus.

While the campus district has traditionally been represented by a younger

councilmember, Mitnick, at 18, and Reddy, at 19, would be some of the youngest elected officials in City Council history. While neither hail from Wisconsin, both have been quick to highlight their accomplishments and stress that their young age is not an indication of a lack of experience.

Mitnick, the son of public servants in California who has worked closely with the Associated Students of Madison during his time at UW, and Reddy, who has cultivated experience with progressive political campaigns since she moved to Madison for the summer at age 16, have identified transportation, safety and affordable housing as some of the most pressing issues facing UW students.

As Reddy and Mitnick are likely to be the only candidates for the race, the fate of the campus district will be sealed in the April 2019 general election.

quintez cephus trial: least valuable player In the era of #MeToo, thousands of women have shown solidarity and strength by coming forward after sexual assault.

Though we should focus on the bravery of the survivors, one can’t help but notice the ferocity and frequency of such reports — and how they seem to permeate every facet of our culture, Wisconsin included.

As Badger fans geared up for another football season at Camp Randall, news broke on Aug. 20 that wide receiver Quintez Cephus was charged with second and third-degree sexual assault after an incident which allegedly occurred in April.

Cephus had taken a leave of absence two days before he was charged. Fellow player Danny Davis was also implicated but only faced a two-game suspension.

In early October, Cephus filed a lawsuit against the University

of Wisconsin, claiming their disciplinary investigation violated his constitutional rights. The suit was filed with the U.S. District Court, seeking an unspecified amount of money for damage to Cephus’ reputation, past and future economic losses, and emotional and psychological harm.

Following the brief sentencing of former UW student Alec Cook who plead guilty to sexual assault charges involving multiple women, the trial and sentencing of Cephus still looms in the minds of the UW community.

Whether justice will be served — and whatever form it takes — remains to be seen.

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Rhodes earns Wisconsin record with four goals in NCAA Tournament Wisconsin ended season strong, making Sweet 16 appearance in NCAA Tournament, finished No. 15 in final coaches polls

by Matthew Ernst Associate Sports Editor

The No. 15 Wisconsin Badgers women’s soccer team fell 1–0 to then No. 1 ranked Stanford just before Thanksgiving. With that, their season was over. They made it to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament, which was one round further than last year, which is certainly something to be proud of.

They also improved their record from 14-6-2 to 14-4-4, which was only a slight improvement, but an improvement nonetheless.

Coach Paula Wilkins was very proud of how her team showed up toward the end of the season.

“We played some very good soccer at the end of the year,” Wilkins said. “We were strong both offensively and defensively. I have talked all year about putting together a complete game together and we finally managed to do that in the first two rounds of the tournament.”

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Wisconsin dominated their first two opponents in the NCAA Tournament, Memphis and Hofstra, 3–0 and 6–0. They struggled to score goals all season, which was the most disappointing part of the season, Wilkins said, but their offense came to play come playoff time.

Wilkins also felt very positively about the team’s progress made this season.

“I think our experience finally started to pay off,” Wilkins said. “Last year ’s postseason game against South Carolina and playing Florida State early on gave us some real challenges and it prepared us for our tough competition this year.”

There are a couple players in particular that Wilkins was especially impressed by this season, and new goalie Jordyn Bloomer was one in particular.

After former goalkeeper Caitlyn Clem graduated, Wilkins said Bloomer “stepped up” to the task.

“She did everything we could have asked her to do,” Wilkins said.

Usually occupying the midfield, Claire Shea also managed to step up in replacement of defender Sammy Kleedtke.

Kleedtke occupied an important role on a staunch Badger defense. Though she doesn’t often appear in the box score, the sophomore started all 22 games her freshman year in 2017 and played 11 this year before going down with an injury. “[Shea] did a really good job of bringing in some consistency in the back and on 1-on-1 defending,” Wilkins said. “She was a big difference maker for us.”

Though the 2018 season may be over, this vast majority of this group’s time at Wisconsin is not.

Though she started off slow, Dani Rhodes ended the Badgers’ season on a tear, leading the team in goals with 10. A large sum of those scores came from her four-goal performance in the 6–0 rout over Hofstra during round two of the NCAA Tournament. Rhodes’ performance was the

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most goals ever for a single game among Badgers and also puts her in a tie for the Big Ten single-game record.

With Rhodes and other key contributors returning in 2019, Wilkins feels optimistic about the upcoming soccer season.

“I’m excited for next year,” Wilkins said.

“We are returning 10 starters and will have even more experience next year. It hurts losing Alexis Tye and Emily Borgmann, but I feel really good about our defensive development and with Dani Rhodes and Cameron Murtha on offense, we should have no problem scoring goals.”

These are promising words for Wisconsin women’s soccer fans who hope to advance even further in the Tournament next fall. With a few exceptions, the team is returning nearly all of their players and will be hungry for success after a heartbreaking 1–0 result to Stanford.

Tune back in next August to watch the Wisconsin women’s soccer team get back after it.

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Football: In dismal Badger offense, Jonathan Taylor shined all year On heels of Dayne, Gordon, Taylor will look to finish historic season and eclipse 2,000 yards in Pinstripe Bowl Dec. 27

by Ben Kenney Sports Writer

If I told you before the season began that Jonathan Taylor would be entering the Badgers’ bowl game with 1,989 yards, 15 touchdowns, an average of 7.1 yards per carry and 7.5 yards per reception, you would probably assume that the Badgers would be fresh off a Big Ten championship victory against Ohio State, and looking forward to an Orange Bowl date with No. 1 Alabama.

Well, sitting after the regular season at 7-5 overall, 5-4 in Big Ten play and waiting to play Miami (again) in the Pinstripe Bowl, it’s clear that those dreams didn’t come to fruition. Despite falling short of preseason aspirations, do not let the disappointing year overshadow how truly remarkable Taylor has been this season.

Graduating high school in 2017 as the 18th best player at his position, and only fielding offers from Wisconsin, Boston College, Virginia Tech and other lower Division I programs, Taylor entered school without the

high expectations associated with being a top recruit. But it took him only two weeks to earn his spot in the national spotlight, rushing for 223 yards and three touchdowns against Florida Atlantic. He then continued to back up his breakout performance by rushing for 249 yards and two touchdowns against Nebraska, 219 yards against Purdue and 149 yards against rival Minnesota.

Taylor’s freshman year as a whole was as impressive as they come, rushing for 1,977 yards and 13 touchdowns at an impressive clip of 6.6 yard per carry, good enough to break Adrian Peterson’s record for the most rushing yards by a true freshman in NCAA history.

Seven months later, getting ready for the 2018 season, expectations were sky high for him and his team, with many analysts pegging the Badgers as high as fourth their preseason top 25.

As the 2018 season unfolded, despite a lackluster passing attack to complement Taylor’s proficiency on the ground, Taylor surpassed all expectations and then some, and is line to finish with one of the greatest running

back seasons in Wisconsin history. Specifically, Taylor will enter the bowl game 11 yards short of 2,000, and only 120 yards short of Ron Dayne’s mark of 2,109 yards in 1996, the second greatest season a Wisconsin running back has ever had.

“It means a lot to be mentioned with those guys,” Taylor said. “[Melvin Gordon] is one of the best to ever run the ball here so to be mentioned with him, it’s something you kind of dream about.”

Taylor’s 2018 record breaking campaign began with a 145 yard, two touchdown performance against Western Kentucky in week one. He then continued with a 253 yard, three touchdown game against New Mexico in week two, and proceeded to rush for over 100 yards in all but one game during the season, that performance coming the only time he did not carry the ball at least 15 times.

His season also received a bow tie Thursday night, as he was presented with the Doak Walker award, the trophy awarded to the nation’s best running back. Taylor is the fourth Badger to receive the honor, coming

after Dayne in 1999, Montee Ball in 2012 and Gordon in 2014.

“I’m just appreciative of what my teammates do and what my coaches do each and every week to put us in the best opportunities to be successful,” Taylor said.

Taylor will return to Madison for at least his junior season. Now with 3,966 yards and counting through his first two seasons, Taylor has a chance to make history, as he’s currently on pace to break Ron Dayne’s career rushing record of 7,125 yards. Yet, despite his collegiate success, Taylor recognizes where his game will need to grow as he eventually transitions to the NFL. “One of the biggest things you have to look at is consistency,” Taylor said. “What the coaches do to prepare us here is teaching us how to be consistent every single week, and I’m going to take that moving forward and use that to try to help me further my career” Taylor will look to continue his dominance as the Badgers finish their season Dec. 27 when they take on Miami in the Pinstripe Bowl in New York City.

Forward Madison FC ready to bring soccer to Madison community Team will play in USL League One as Minnesota United affiliate, home stadium set to be at Breese Stevens Field

by Harrison Freuck Sports Writer

The Forward Madison FC soccer team was announced as the newest professional sports team in Wisconsin May 17. Playing in the U.S. League-League One, this is the first professional soccer team to ever call Madison home.

The team will kick-off their inaugural season against the Chattanooga Red Wolves SC April 6. The club’s first home game will take place April 2 against the Greenville Triumph at Breese Stevens Field.

The team was founded by the ownership group Big Top Soccer, which includes Steve Schmitt, Vern Stenman and Conor Caloia. The group also owns Big Top Baseball and the Madison Mallards, and along with Jim Kacmarcik, the owner of the Lakeshore Chinooks and a minority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, they will bring a professional soccer team back to Wisconsin for the first time in 15 years.

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USL-League One is a new league in American soccer, one tier below the USLChampionship League, founded in 2010.

The new league will feature ten teams in their inaugural 2019 season, and hopes to have 24 teams for the 2021 season. Most teams are located in markets similar in size to Madison, such as Chattanooga and Richmond.

FMFC spokesperson Jason Klein said the team hopes to have a full roster of about 23 players, with four players having officially been announced at this point, including Josiel Nunez (Panama), Don Smart (Jamaica), Danny Tenorio (Ecuador) and Jeff Michaud (Florida). Smart and Michaud both previously played in the USL-Championship League.

Klein also said the franchise’s goal is to “cultivate a local audience and community,” specifically with regards to University of Wisconsin students. With the team starting play in late spring and the season going through mid-fall, students from UW will have the opportunity to witness the first professional soccer team

ever to play in Madison live and in-person.

The franchise is already deeply rooted in UW, with their logo featuring the infamous “Bascom Hill flamingo” from the 1979 prank planted by the Pail & Shovel Party.

The team will play their home games at Breese Stevens Field, the home stadium of the UW men’s and women’s soccer teams until the early 1990s.

Breese Stevens Field has major renovation plans that are already underway with the season just a few months away. The renovation, which will cost approximately $2.4 million, includes installation of bleacher seating as well as field-side suites. According to the FMFC website, Breese Stevens Field will be the most impressive soccer-specific venue in the entire state of Wisconsin.

It was also announced that there will be an affiliation with Minnesota United FC for the 2019 season, according to a FMFC press release. This agreement will allow for Minnesota to loan players to Madison, and will also set up the potential for an exhibition match between the two teams.

Minnesota United Sporting Director Manny Lagos said Minnesota will likely use the agreement to loan talented prospects and starters coming back from injury to Madison.

When asked about the hopes and expectations for FMFC in 2019, Klein explained the franchise’s ultimate goal is to win the league. But Klein also wants to integrate the soccer team within the greater Madison community.

“The focus is on getting a solid footing, both in the community and in the soccer league.” Klein said.

Forward Madison FC will hopefully provide new excitement in the Madison community, specifically among UW students.

You can purchase season tickets now on the Forward Madison FC website. Singlegame tickets will range in price from $16$45 and will be available in early 2019.

As soccer continues to grow among a younger demographic in the U.S., Madison and the urban Midwest just may be a new hotspot for the sport.

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The semester that wasn’t: A look at all of the headlines you missed

As semester draws to a close, Banter examines less appreciated storylines involving bad ghosts, student coffee routes

by Angela Peterson Banter Editor

While there might be more accurate and thorough recaps of what happened this semester elsewhere in the paper, pivotal storylines on the University of Wisconsin campus have yet to receive their shining moment in print.

Let’s take a look back on the semester to see what our readers may have missed.

In late July, reports circulated pertaining to spooky ghosts found within the walls of Science Hall. Noted for their elegant slimy green trails of dust, the ghouls spoke of wrecking havoc on the school this semester.

Most mortals paid little attention to this threat. The specters continued to haunt the campus throughout the semester and caused numerous unforeseen circumstances.

Football outcomes became the first victims of the ghosts’ tirades. A spiritual force moved the football on all of Rafael Gaglianone’s kicks in the game against Brigham Young

University, setting off a series of haunted events some schools were already aware of: losing multiple games of football. The ghosts even made Paul Bunyan’s Axe disappear from Madison.

Athletes were not the only students affected. Coffee lovers, after carefully scheduling their 13 alarms to wake up to grab their favorite cup of joe, were dismayed as they arrived to their classes still 12 minutes late. Surely, it was the ghosts who made the coffee take too long to roast and made the journey from Lakeshore to Grainger all the longer.ar without him, someone’s gotta step up and I think I can fill that role.”

Aside from ghosts, the newly implemented meal plan for all incoming students shifted many standards on campus. Students began to actually have to eat at the dining halls and stay there since most could not be bothered to remember their green take-out chip.

The wonders of Buona Cocina were finally recognized as being only slightly worse than Olive Garden, and most students found

their bellies kind of filled, but kind of not.

An uptick in Ian’s Pizza sales was noted to coincide with the meal plan implementation.

The Herald was also hard at work this year investigating seedy issues and unique perspectives to bring to light on campus.

In September, after a significant portion of our team was hit by a bike, we uncovered a loose journal on the side of the road. This journal contained precious musings on the life of a TA which could only be written by a TA themselves. Giving great insight to the deep seeded regrets and sighs only a TA could have, this discovery made strides in TA research which can only be matched by sociology students straining to find a thesis for their last-minute research paper.

We explored all corners of Madison with our scenic bus routes suggestions, finding tourist destinations like Wal-Mart and a real live airport around the city. While Madison is now looking to make buses “faster” and “more efficient,” we’ll always have a spot in our heart for the scenic rides which made us

almost late to our jobs several times.

Professors also were able to make several headlines this semester. First, in a rare translational piece, we learned what exactly professors meant when they said they weren’t sadistic. Sadly, this piece proved to be incorrect as the semester went forward, as those same professors gave their students quizzes where every question had the same answer. Professor Ida Hilde also splashed into the scene this semester with a new mixtape after spitting out a semester’s worth of content in 10 minutes. The mixtape was met with mixed reviews, but it will always hold a special place in the hearts of her students.

Here in our newsroom, well, we’ve been through a lot. We got hit by bikes, we cried a little bit when we didn’t get a graphic of a mitten we really wanted and we got hit by more bikes. Now, it’s time for dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets and rest. Don’t fear, we’ll get back to you with more real news shortly.

Hard Lives: Student finds peace, solace in entire bag of Dino Nuggets Student describes pain, ultimate tumult associated with large influx of stegosaurus-shaped chicken nugget consumption

by Angela Peterson Banter Editor

One may think they lead a hard life. Tests, papers and the water which consistently spills from one’s Cup Noodles when trying to microwave the supposedly non-microwavable styrofoam cup plague the lives of many students daily.

Hard Lives, The Badger Herald’s newest column, seeks to put one’s troubles in perspective by showcasing the plights of various lives being lived, especially as lives get harder closer to finals.

This week, we turn to Tina, a University of Wisconsin sophomore battling an all too common addiction: The tasty appeal of dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets.

Q: So how’s the end of your semester going Tina?

A: Badly. *silence* Q: Uh, care to elaborate?

A: I wrote two papers today while aiding my friend through a mental breakdown.

Not to mention, I went through two boxes

of Kleenex to calm my runny nose. I really hope I don’t come down with the flu during finals.

Q: Do you ... do you need a moment to cry? I’m here for you.

A: No, no, that’s not necessary. I have my vice with me anyhow.

Q: What’s that?

A: See this bag here? This is my second pack of chicken nuggets on the day. I’m addicted to the nugs.

Q: What got you hooked on nugs?

A: I was raised in a nug-free household.

My siblings made it clear to me the expectation was to have a diet full of fruits and vegetables. Up until I graduated high school, I had never even used a microwave.

I came to college and everyone seemed to be using the dorm’s community kitchen to heat up something which smelled delicious, irresistible even. I asked my roommate what was heating up, and she described to me these peculiar bits of chicken shaped like tyrannosaurus rex.

She offered me a nugget and I was hooked.

After stealing from her pack for a solid

week, I went to Fresh and got my own.

Q: What’s your typical nugget consumption?

A: Usually, I go through about a package every three days, but lately my habit has been spiraling out of control. I pulled an all-nighter the other day to write a rough draft of a research paper and I swear I went through an entire package in one night.

Q: Wow, how’d you get those all to cook evenly?

A: You just put them on a big tray in the oven and hope for the best, heating them up for a long time. It’s not as efficient as microwaving them, but I am in too deep for quick fixes now.

Q: Have you tried kicking your dino nugget habit?

A: Yes, many times. I tried at first to return to the vegetarian diet of my youth, yet the cravings were so bad I honestly couldn’t make it until lunch without a nugget. Next up were the fake chicken nuggets, plant-based substitutes. Honestly, Tofurkey tasted better than those wannabe nugs. Even the cheaper chicken nuggets

at Fresh couldn’t suffice. I need those stegosaurus-shaped bites of delight all day.

Q: Yikes, have your friends tried to intervene?

A: It’s tough to see them try to support me through this time when they’re the ones who got me hooked in the first place.

It’s not fair they can enjoy the nuggets in moderation while I sit here slowly crying into a newly emptied bag every night. Of course, they tell me I can quit, but the next moment I see them munching on a nugget as well. It’s so discouraging.

Q: What would you like our five readers to know so they may avoid nugget addiction?

A: Don’t stay in a dorm community kitchen after 1 a.m., nothing good happens.

Also, remember to keep your workload in check so you do not need a vice to turn to every day, all day. Keep those things in mind, and I swear I will remain the only nugget addict on this side of campus.

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