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UW System to face $300 million cut

By Andrew Hahn and Ellie Herman THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison students might face tuition increases and less oversight of the UW System if certain provisions of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal, announced Tuesday, are approved by the state Legislature.

The plan would give the UW System a grant totaling $300 million less than what the System received in the last budget, and reorder the System under a public authority model, allowing the Board of Regents to set policy that would otherwise require approval in the Legislature.

“Reforming the partnership between the state and the UW System will save money and allow the UW System the flexibility to better serve those seeking higher education,” Walker said in a

statement.

“The people of Wisconsin deserve a government that is more effective, more efficient, and more accountable, and this plan protects the taxpayers and allows for a stronger UW System in the future.”

The announcement drew immediate concern on both sides of the aisle that autonomy measures would prompt massive tuition increases across the System once the current state tuition freeze ends in 2017.

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“Come 2017-’18 … whatever [the UW System] has lost, they’re authorized to collect that in tuition and fees,” Mike Mikalsen, aid to state Sen. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, said. “They would certainly have the authority to start grabbing that money back, but the only way they can do it is with tuition and fees.”

Mikalsen said Nass could not support the proposal because it removes decisions made by the Board of Regents from legislative oversight.

U W- M a d i s o n Chancellor Rebecca Blank, Mikalsen continued, would especially use the changes as an opportunity to raise tuition at her university.

Blank said last semester that, while she supports the current tuition freeze for Wisconsin residents, raising out-of-state tuition would keep UW-Madison competitive among schools of its caliber.

“Chancellor Blank is supportive of a two year freeze for resident students, and increasing non-resident and professional student tuition,” John Lucas, executive director of UW-Madison communications, said in an email. “She has expressed deep concern that cuts, coupled with a tuition

freeze could have a devastating impact on the education students receive and the value of a UW degree.”

Currently, state law allows shared governance a number of rights, including the autonomy to work with staff, students and faculty on various topics concerning the UW-Madison campus.

The proposed budget would potentially remove power from shared governance, eliminating a spot for student voice, Associated Students of Madison Chair Genevieve

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Carter said.

Carter said she expects the Board of Regents to create a new governance policy that would replace shared governance to assure student interaction in case of its demise.

“The [shared governance] removal would be incredibly detrimental,” Carter said. “At that point, it would really be about UW System ensuring and promising to students that their shared governance rights would not be taken away. That’s definitely something we will be asking as we move forward.”

In addition to the state Legislature, ASM shared concerns about the potential tuition spike for students after 2017, according to an ASM release.

“The future of affordability at UW is very unclear,” Carter said.

“That’s incredibly concerning to us, as we are very thankful for the tuition freeze and we are continuously advocating for lower affordability and tuition.”

Carter said the next step is to meet with Blank to further discuss students’ involvement with the System.

Newly-tenured UW professor strives to be a mentor for students

By Laura Grulke THE DAILY CARDINAL

Being one of only 40 female Hispanic-American management professors in the country is a prestigious accomplishment, but what newly-tenured Wisconsin School of Business professor Maria Triana values even more about her position lies in her ability to act as a leader and mentor for all kinds of students.

Upon earning tenure in the summer of 2014, Triana readily embraced the role of advisor for students studying strategic human resource management, keeping in mind the importance of faculty diversity at UW-Madison.

Triana explained that one way to address diversity is to think about faculty demographics, emphasizing that if

instructors resemble minorities they may encourage a diverse student population to succeed.

“If [faculty] do [reflect minorities], then the philosophy is they suddenly have a role model, they have someone that demonstrates to them that they can finish school, that they can go on and get an advanced degree,” she said.

Triana was tenured in the summer of 2014 and said the biggest impact for her was not that she represented a small demographic but that she embraced a bigger service position at the university. This obligation allows time to advise and mentor students studying strategic human resource management.

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Maria Triana joined a small demographic of business professors in the U.S. when tenured at UW-Madison in the summer of 2014. She strives to mentor students and encourage success.

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Terry ‘T.A.’ Olivier: Private Eye: No. 5: Flight of the bull crane

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omething terrible had happened after my first spot of luck in a long while. I, Terry Olivier—English TA, private eye and erstwhile golden boy—had gotten my first case in over a year. From a series of telegrams from a Finnish company, no less. But nonelethess, I had a case: to find the increasingly mysterious Tenny Bros.

And for the record, it’s “Tenny” like “Tennyson,” not “Ten e.”

I was in business; I had my assistant Schlep doing all my teaching for me. I had access to Schlep’s mythic Party Directory in order to fish for clues. But something had gone awry.

Now I was standing over the body of my former professor, Graham B.D. Rice, resting in a gory hammock in the back of the Memorial 4M stacks. And someone was laughing.

It was one of those awful percussive laughs you hear in movies, usually before the villain reveals him or herself. I wasn’t gonna stick around for something so clichéd.

But before I could leave, I had to do one last thing. Rice was clutching a piece of paper in his cold, bony mitts. Surprisingly, it was easy to tease out of those rigid fingers. I left quickly.

I may have tripped over my coat as I was dashing out.

When I got back to the office, I found Schlep asleep in a pile of essay sheaves. The glue from his fake mustache had trickled down and was staining the cover to a piece entitled “What The Dickens?! A Catalogue of Suspense In ‘Great Expectations.’”

Poor, poor Schlep. He’d been marooned here in Humanities when two unfortunate events occurred: 1) his girlfriend kicked him out of their shared efficiency and 2) his scholarship money mysteriously vanished.

Homeless, sans degree, I found him in a cocoon he had made out of discarded newspapers, by one of the heating vents in Mills. I admired his ingenuity. I offered him an unpaid internship and use of my office when I was away.

I had no right to do this, but Schlep’s case really resonated with me. For I live in waking goddamn fear of peripeteia.

I made my way to the mini fridge and pulled out my tub of mozzarella pearls and my jar of giardiniera. They had both been gotten into. There were only three pearls bobbing, a few stinging ribbons and coins left in the giardiniera. I was almost ready to shake Schlep from his slumber and give him the what for, but I stopped myself. It’s bad luck to wake an intern.

With what was left of my food, I went to my desk to examine the piece of paper practically burning a hole in

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my coat pocket. I hadn’t bothered to even look at the thing, what with the laughing and the bloody mess. It flashed in my mind that I might be blamed, that someone may have seen me. But I didn’t have time for suppositions anymore.

I unfolded the paper. It was mostly negative space, cut by blue notebook lines, except for a small drawing that was at first wholly indiscernible. It was twodimensional, like some kind of cave drawing. It wasn’t until I stared at it long enough that I realized what it was: a penciled crane sporting two huge, curving horns on top of its head.

There was no indication what the hell this was supposed to be.

A crane… bull? A bull crane?

What kind of Moreau madness was this? Did it have anything to do with the Tenny Bros?

Well, I thought, it doesn’t matter. Terry: you’re in deep now.

You’ve got a case and a dead body and you don’t know if they go together. You’ve got a crappy line drawing, and you don’t know what it has to do with anything.

You’ve got a fire in your belly.

Wait, that’s hunger. You should go eat Terry. Go eat and find some parties. Leave the Schlep; take the drawing.

Tune in two weeks from now for the next Terry Olivier story.

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On this day in history...

1521—The Diet of Worms is held in Germany by the Holy Roman Empire.

If you think that’s bad, afterward, they drank the blood of Christ.

1754—In a letter to Horace Mann, Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity. Isn’t this all coincidental?

1813—Jane Austen’s classic literary work “Pride and Prejudice” was first published. People still talk about it to this day.

1878—Yale Daily News becomes the first ever daily university newspaper—fuckers.

1887—At 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, the largest snowflakes ever are recorded in Montana. Everyone wishes they were there.

1965—The Canadian Parliament approves the current Canadian flag, featuring a red maple leaf. There were lots of important things going on in Canada.

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Students question bill promoting fiscal autonomy

By Andrew Hahn THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Handmade clay bowls are on display at Memorial Union before they will be sold in a fund-raiser for the Habitat for Humanity UW Campus Chapter this Saturday during their 19th annual Souperbowl event. + Photo by Thomas Yonash

Walker launches campaign committee Gov. Scott Walker launched a 527 leadership organization Tuesday, which would allow him to spend virtually unlimited money on what many predict will be a 2016 bid for the oval office.

The organization, Our American Revival, “encompasses the shared values that make our country great,” Walker said in a Tuesday statement. “To move this country forward we need

new, fresh leadership from outside Washington.”

Rick Wiley, the former political director for the Republican National Committee, will be the organization’s executive director.

“This country needs leaders with records of accomplishment,” Wiley said in a Tuesday statement.

“Governor Walker has demonstrated bold leadership, something that’s sorely lacking in Washington.”

Walker’s latest moves added to speculation in the media about whether he will run for president in 2016. Last week, the governor spoke in front of national Republicans at the Iowa Freedom Summit along with former Republican presidential candidates. He then attended a California fundraiser hosted by David and Charles Koch, two big Republican political backers.

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and organizational behavior and helped push her to receive her doctorate in management at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University in 2008, making her the first person in her family to earn a Ph.D. But she did not do it alone.

Triana said information she

received from the PhD Project, an organization dedicated to recruiting minority professionals to doctoral business programs, largely motivated her to get a Ph.D. in management.

Triana described her tenure as relief after years of hard work.

“You work for something

interested in organization and what makes people tick. While working in Silicon Valley she noticed employee behavioral patterns and responses.

This observation led to Triana’s interest in management

A bill being considered by Republican lawmakers could require chancellors of UW System schools to approve every decision made by student governments that use segregated fees.

State Sen. Rick Gudex, R-Fond du Lac, is seeking coauthors and student input on a bill he says would “clear up” state law that should allow students on UW campuses to make decisions about where their fees go, although it has been interpreted in other ways.

“You could interpret the statutes to say ‘no the chancellor should be figuring this out and the students can tell him if they like it or not,’” Lance Burri, a staff member in Gudex’s office, said. “What we’re trying to do is just clarify that, for fees that have a direct impact on student life, students figure it out first, and students have the primary responsibility for figuring it out.”

Student government leaders across the System agree with the motive behind the bill, but the current language in the bill could produce the opposite of the intended effect, according to UW Eau Claire student senate President Samuel Fish. for a long time, and in the end you feel like… very satisfied and relieved that all that work paid off,” Triana said.

Originally a part of the PhD Project as a student, Triana said she has volunteered for the organization for seven years and represents UW-Madison at the

The problem, says Fish, is the bill would rewrite the statute to make finance decisions “subject to” approval of System chancellors, rather than made “in consultation with” chancellors, as the current law reads.

“We are very concerned, because although the intent was to help students, it’s actually going to hurt students,” Tom Gierok, chair of Associated Students of Madison’s Legislative Affairs Committee, said. “We just want to make sure that students have the final say.”

Gierok and Fish say they hope to work with the bill’s authors to change the language and would support the bill if changes were made.

“It definitely does need to be addressed, that line that they’re changing has been an issue for many many years,” Gierok said. “That line is definitely a problem.”

Burri said he does not believe the bill in its current form would “dilute the students’ authority,” but added his office is willing to work with students to work through their concerns about the bill.

“We’re trying to do something here for students,” Burri said. “If we get a lot of disagreement from students, we’ll make a change to the bill.” annual PhD Project conference in Chicago, recruiting prospective minority Ph.D. students.

She said her volunteer efforts are a way to appreciate the people who motivated her in the past.

“It’s been rewarding and it’s an opportunity to give back,” Triana said.

UW-Madison College Democrats endorse campus alder, mayoral hopeful Scott Resnick at forum event

By Jen Wagman THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison College Democrats endorsed Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, in a Tuesday forum with all five mayoral candidates.

Candidates touched on racial disparities. The candidates, although ideologically similar, emphasized their differences as being representative of Madison’s diversity.

“I don’t want to claim to be the youngest person in the room and I’m not going to claim to be the most experienced person running,” current Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said. “But I build systems that solve problems for equity, poverty and social justice.”

Soglin argued that the controversy generated by the recent Race to Equity report is being adequately handled by his administration.

“The [2013] Race to Equity study is data based on 2011,” Soglin said. “Since that time, there was significant growth made and we’ve been successful in regards

to cutting the unemployment gap, in terms of the income gap and you’ll see significant changes in terms of academic performance in the last few years.”

Former Dane County Supervisor Richard Brown, coming from both public and private sector backgrounds and as the only African American in the race, countered Soglin’s views.

“To tell the truth, I lived this,” Brown said. “Racial disparities exist today and get worser and worser all the time. If we don’t solve this, if we don’t address it, we’re going to see more crime.”

UW-Madison graduate Christopher Daly argued policing efforts factor into the racial discussion as well.

“I think we need a lot more control, a lot more oversight [on police],” Daly said.

In addition to racial contention, housing costs and conditions crossed student and candidate minds.

“You see these [high rise] projects as they leak through, and what

it’s going to take is a real strategy, a long term vision of what campus is going to look like to make sure that the affordable housing on campus is protected,” Resnick said.

Echoing Resnick, former Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, vocalized concerns with current rent rates.

“The federal programs are not eligible for [student housing].”

Maniaci said. “Grad students, undergraduates are not [included]. So the city has to step up for that gap.”

Maniaci, having represented a portion of Langdon Street and the Greek system during her tenure on City Council, emphasized student needs including safety.

“Even if the lighting is there, that doesn’t mean [women] are not assaulted,” Maniaci said.

Organizers were enthusiastic about the event’s success, hosting all five candidates and large attendance from the club.

“I think it’s a really impressive turnout,” College Democrats of Wisconsin Communications Director Joseph Waldman said.

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Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, stresses the necessity of affordable housing for students and city residents alike.

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By Suma Samudrala The Daily Cardinal

Starting from scraps, material scientists search for raw materials that can be innovated or substituted to increase the functional efficiency and flexibility of the appropriate technologies. The idea behind the field stems from the notion that the efficiency of a product can be compromised by the choice of material used to construct such devices even with the best abilities of an engineer.

Two members in this field from UW-Madison include Associate Professor Michael Arnold and Professor of Material Science and Engineering Padma Gopalan.

Arnold’s research group focuses on finding materials with use for the future in areas such as applications of semiconductors, optoelectronics or energy sources such as solar cells. Gopalan’s group focuses on polymers and photonic materials and devices. As a collaborative project, the members from both research groups have discovered carbon nanotubes as a possible replacement for siliconbased semiconductors.

Working with minute electronic materials, the researchers focused on carbon nanomaterials.

An example of such material is graphene, a thin sheet of carbon that is one atom thick. A carbon

nanotube can be described as a sheet of graphene rolled into a tube where it is only a nanometer in diameter and can span thousands of nanometers long. “These are some of the best electronic materials that have ever been discovered.

But, they are very tricky to work with,” said Arnold.

Many of the consumer gadgets today such as our phones and laptops have chips made from silicon, a semiconductor. The circuit boards of these gadgets are built from semiconductor chips holding millions of circuits that are linked to the substrate. These circuits are like switches turning on and off, initiating and carrying out computations such as transmission to a tower or over Wi-Fi. With continuous research and effort over the years, silicon chips have become smaller, faster and better. “That has been going for 30+ years, but we are reaching a limitation now where you cannot make a silicon computer chip any smaller or any better. So we need more strategies and more materials that could work better than silicon and one option would be carbon nanotubes,” said Arnold.

Carbon nanotubes are not currently used but research by Arnold and Gopalan has shown that they could be applicable and an appropriate substitute for silicon in the future.

Since carbon nanotubes were discovered in the early 1990s, many experiments focused on a single nanotube’s properties and researchers noted their extensive abilities. However, there are two main challenges to using these nanoparticles. One is directing the particles and building them in a coordinated placement on a circuit.

And the other challenge lies with how we can grow the nanotubes.

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For the carbon linkages to form, the atom needs a starting clutch.

An iron nanoparticle can serve as the baseline and by adding a carbon containing gas such as methane, carbon can accumulate around the particles and grow. And during this process, the carbon linkages are forming on several different iron particles a trillion times over

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and building off of them.

“Every time it happens, the nanotube diameter is slightly different and the bonds might have a different angle. The properties of the carbon nanotubes … and how they conduct electricity is [thus] slightly different from nanotube to nanotube,” said Arnold.

So of all the growing nanotubes, only about two-thirds are the desirable product. As previously stated, silicon is a semiconductor and the unique property of semiconductors is their ability to switch between being a conductor and an insulator, and thus acting as a switch to turn on and off functions. Semiconducting carbon nanotubes can do this same process more efficiently.

However, a third of the mix of nanotubes are metallic, similar to copper wires, and are resigned to their native metallic state. “So, what our research is focused on is the two things then, one getting rid of those metallic nanotubes and two, once you do that, getting all of those tubes to line up on the substrate,” said Arnold.

Arnold began with researching how to separate the metallic nanotubes from the other utilizable portion and discovered an effective method by placing them in an organic solvent such as toluene. This extracts molecules that are semiconducting because they

stick to the solvent, leaving behind a solid metallic mixture which can be easily removed.

The next step in establishing the process was to somehow align the “ink” of semiconducting tubes. Arnold and Gopalan developed a process that involved the spread of ink on water. As the ink doesn’t readily mix with water, a thin layer of film develops on the water. The researchers can then take a substrate such as a silicon wafer and pull it through this mixture to coat the substrate with a coordinating alignment of the carbon nanotubes.

As the ink prefers the substrate over the water, it is drawn onto the substrate wherein it evaporates and forces the nanotubes to line up. At the end, once it evaporates, you are left with nanotubes stuck onto the substrate in the desired arrangement. By repeating this process of adding ink onto water and pulling the substrate through several times, layers of nanotubes can be coated.

The next step in this research is transferring this to make a transistor, that is, to make one chip.

“By aligning the nanotubes and getting rid of the metallic ones, we have been able to make very efficient nanotubes. And we feel that this technology that we invented could be scaled industrially and it could be the way to start using nanotubes,” said Arnold.

Ask Ms. Scientist: Mickey Mouse measles and runny nose weather Dear Ms. Scientist, What makes the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland so contagious?

—Nick S. All it takes is one person standing in line who couldn’t stop coughing and sneezing to infect 90 percent of those susceptible also standing in line. The virus is contagious for two hours in the air, like in an enclosed ride such as It’s a Small World, or on the surface of an object, like a seat of a ride.

Measles is also most contagious days before the hallmark rash appears. The virus is transmitted by aerosol droplets or direct contact and infects the respiratory tract, causing fever, coughing, sneezing and itchy eyes, before disseminating around the body which causes the extensive rash. Therefore, the first case at Disneyland may not have known they had measles and instead just the flu. The live attenuated measles vaccine has higher effectivity than any other vaccine. Therefore, if you are vaccinated, it is safe to visit Disneyland. However, unimmunized Disneyland guests are at risk, like infants who are too young to get vaccinated and international travelers from places with unsuccessful vaccine programs.

Dear Ms. Scientist, Why do our noses run when it’s cold out?

—Tia D. There are two parts to these nasal waterfall spectacles. The first part is the body’s response to cold air. Since cold air is typically dry, the nose needs to optimize it before reaching the lungs by warming and humidifying it.

Reflexes in the nose respond by putting the gas on fluid production so the air can pick up more moisture. The second part is while exhaling. As the warm, humid air from the lungs reaches the colder tip of the nose, the air cools and cannot hold as much moisture. So the water condenses inside the nose before being released into the environment. Don’t forget your tissues on your way around campus today!

Ask Ms. Scientist is written by Corinne Thornton. If you have a burning science question you want her to answer, email it to science@dailycardinal.com.

Unexpected finding leads to a possible cancer treatment

By Michael Frett The Daily Cardinal

When graduate student Xiaojun Tan first noticed the epidermal growth factor receptors within the cancer cell, he was surprised.

These receptors always branched off the cell’s surface, and had never been observed within the cell quite like this before. Yet, here in these chemically starved cancer cells, an inactive collection of these receptors had accumulated.

“I was very excited,” Tan said of the discovery. “But at the same time, I also doubted it.”

The EGF receptor is a protein receptor that is generally located along the cell’s membrane, or outer wall. There, it plays a role in cell communication that eventually leads to the growth and division of a cell.

In cancer cells, the EGF receptor is often overexpressed, or more present and active. This leads to unregulated growth among cancer cells and, ultimately, the spread of cancer.

Drug treatments often try to target the EGF receptor.

Pharmaceutical companies have invested billions of dollars in treating and inhibiting the EGF receptor according to Professor Richard A. Anderson, Tan’s mentor and a co-author of his research paper. The treatments have largely been unsuccessful.

Almost by accident, Tan may have found why these treatments weren’t working. While looking to observe the relationship between the protein LAPTM4B and EGF receptors, he found treated and inactive EGF receptors collected within a part of the cell that triggered a “self-eating” mechanism called autophagy.

Most cells use autophagy as a survival mechanism to get them through hard times. By recycling proteins, autophagy allows the cell to maintain energy levels through starvation. In cancer cells, this means treated cells have a way to hold out through treatment.

According to Tan, cell starvation promoted the interaction between LAPTM4B and the EGF receptor, which led to the inactive EGF receptor being used to initi-

ate autophagy.

“That has never been published before. I was very surprised,” said Tan. His skepticism and surprise were shared by his mentor.

“When [Tan] first showed me this, I said ‘No, I don’t believe that. That’s weird. And that’s a tough thing for a mentor to say to a student,” said Anderson.

“Enjoy dfficult or unexpected situations. That is when we make more progress”

Xiaojun Tan graduate student and researcher UW-Madison

Yet, rather than brush off the observation, Anderson allowed Tan to pursue it further.

“I had my own predictions, and I’m often wrong. So I said, ‘Yeah! Go ahead and work on

this!’ … There should be a lot of freedom to explore new ideas for students,” said Anderson.

According to Anderson, it is possible that Tan’s findings could lead to a new approach to treating epithelial cancers.

The National Library of Medicine attributes roughly 30 percent of epithelial cancers to mutations in the EGF receptor.

Epithelial cancers account for 80 to 90 percent of all cancers, according to the National Cancer Institute.

While using EGF receptor inhibitors has been a research focus for a while now, Tan’s findings show that inhibiting EGF receptors alone won’t work. On the other hand, according to Anderson, pairing the EGF receptor with an autophagy inhibitor or something that targets the LAPTM4B protein could lead to a different story for a patient.

It’s only a matter of time before the results of Tan’s discovery begin to manifest themselves in clinics, according to Anderson. Inhibitors for autophagy already exist in the form of chloroquine, a drug dis-

covered in 1934 whose derivatives are used to treat malaria.

Anderson attests this discovery to the nature of basic science labs, labs where studies range from cell structure to mating flies.

“I think it’s a great example of how basic science can impact the human condition,” said Anderson. “In the long run, I think it’ll have substantial impact in the way cancer treatment is studied.”

Tan, who began his research with the ultimate goal of improving cancer treatment and diagnosis, reflected on his surprising discovery. “Enjoy difficult or unexpected situations,” he said. “That is when we make more progress.”

Tan’s research, co-written

by Anderson, Narendra Thapa and Yue Sun, was published earlier this month in the scientific journal Cell. This research was conducted with support from the National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowships and the American Heart Association.

opinion Walker’s higher office hope has grounds Max Lenz Opinion Editor

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ell, it’s official. I mean, maybe it’s kind of official.

Scott Walker is running for President. This should come as a surprise to no one who has been paying attention to the Governor over the past few months, whose rhetoric and travel schedule has been littered with higher office hopes.

Today’s news begs a question,

though: can he do it? Does he have the political power to become the Republican nominee? Short answer: absolutely he does.

Here’s a list of reasons why.

One: he’s an incredible politician. Walker is a talented speaker (mostly) who knows what babies to kiss and what hands to shake. This should shock no one. After all, he’s been in public office virtually his entire adult life. Some would say that this could hurt him, as he will inevitably be hit with the “career politician” jab multiple times throughout his campaign. In my opinion,

however, this insult will probably prove ineffective as the Republican base would put up with much worse if they were excited about his policy

Walker is a talented speaker (mostly) who knows what babies to kiss and what hands to shake.

preferences. This leads me to reason two: the Republican base will be excited about his policy preferences. The man’s

record speaks for itself. He took down the unions for God’s sake! Beyond this, his other budgetary moves have positioned him nicely for a run.

The most recent being his huge cuts to education and, more specifically, the UW System.

For some reason, conservatives love making cuts to education.

This makes total sense. Who needs school, right? Certainly not Walker. Which brings me to my third and final point: Scott Walker does not have a college degree. This is not to say he did not go to college, he did, but I’m sure that won’t be in the stump speech. A lot of you might be confused by this.

Shouldn’t this be a detriment?

Not right now. Right now, a lot of conservatives, including some who went to college, are painting universities as places full of haughty elites. Walker certainly won’t say this, as he has children currently in college, but he should have no problem preaching his down home, small town values.

Let me just ask you this: do you want the first President from the state of Wisconsin to be Scott Walker?

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at the Presidency. Let me just ask you this: do you want the first President from the state of Wisconsin to be Scott Walker? So far, the state’s only connection to national political office is Dick Cheney, who was a graduate student here in Madison in the late 1960s. I know what you’re saying: can’t get much worse, right? Let’s not find out.

Say what you want about Walker, I certainly have, but don’t underestimate him.

I’ll leave you with this. Say what you want about Walker, I certainly have, but don’t underestimate him. The man has made a living in recent years shattering expectations. Don’t shrug him off as a noncontender, because he’s running, and he’s for real.

Max is currently a junior majoring in political science and pursuing a certificate in educational policy studies. Do you agree with his take? Can Scott Walker win the Republican nomination? If so, would his political acumen make him the right person for the job? We want to know what you think.

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College is difficult, chorus of complaints unneccesary Owen Desai Opinion Columnist

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n middle school and high school, the state and your parents forced you to attend school and do your homework.

Completing the basic 12 years of schooling has become a norm and whether you liked it or not, you were expected to maintain fairly good grades and graduate with a high school diploma.

Along with taking classes, you were a part of many extracurricular activities and had to deal with countless instances of petty drama. So, it’s safe to say that this was an extremely stressful time and there were enough things to complain about. I think it was justifiable to complain that you had a lab report, three papers and a research report all due Monday, as well as not having first hour open like you really wanted. You were trying to deal with your situation and venting was, and is, an appropriate way to deal with this.

Now this is what bothers me: college students who consistently complain about being in college.

Both of my parents went to college and a while back we decided that I would do the same. Now that I am here, I do what is expected of me, all in an effort to get an education. And to do that, I have to attend class. People are free to do whatever they want with

their money and time, but it’s just my opinion that if you decided to go to college you should actually make an effort to get up and go to your 7:45 a.m. class no matter how much you dislike that it is so early. You should then come back after class, sit down in your room or go to a library, do your homework and study for your exams. Come prepared to class, and when you are in your lab or discussion, fully participate.

The reason this annoys me so much is because I decided to go to college and do my best. I am assuming that everyone else who decided to go to college is trying to do their best as well. This is an expensive opportunity that you didn’t have to participate in.

Yes, your parents could possibly be forcing you to attend college as well, but for the majority of us, this was a decision we made ourselves. Complaining about working in a group project or the fact that you have a big research paper due next Monday baffles me. What were you expecting you were going to do when you signed up to go to college? Once again, I do believe it is necessary to vent every once in a while about your new stressful, and sometimes stress-free, life, but if it is about the basic structure of college life, ask yourself if you should really be here.

Owen is a freshman that is intending on majoring in journalism. Do you share Owen’s frustration? We want to know what you think. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com

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Yonder Mountain String Band set to play Barrymore Saturday

By Brian Weidy The Daily Cardinal

After years of reliably playing the Orpheum Theatre on State Street at the beginning of February, the month on the calendar is not the only thing changing when Yonder Mountain String Band comes to Madison on Saturday night.

Shifting to the cozier confines of the Barrymore Theatre on the east side, Yonder is also trotting out a new lineup this year after the seemingly sudden departure of founding member and mandolin player Jeff Austin last April.

Lineup changes have hardly derailed this veritable jamgrass titan of a band, who have nary skipped a

beat thanks to new mandolin player Jacob Jolliff and fiddle player Allie Kral—formerly of Cornmeall.

With traditional bluegrass instrumentation—an upright bass, an acoustic guitar and a banjo— played by Ben Kaufmann, Adam Aijala and Dave Johnston respectively, Yonder has fused those bluegrass sensibilities with a bevy of influences, ranging from hard rock to folk, to make a sound that is distinctly their own.

Since their last album, The Show, which came out in 2009, Yonder’s perpetual touring schedule has opened up endless possibilities for what they’re going to play on any given night.

Mixing in material from each of their five studio albums, in addition to covers from any of their many influences, Yonder has built a dedicated fan base, many of whom travel from show to show on their extensive and geographically dexterous tours.

Joining Yonder for their show at the Barrymore is special guest Drew Emmitt. Emmitt is the lead vocalist and mandolin player for one of the other pioneers of jamgrass, Leftover Salmon and will be joining Yonder for the entire show.

The show is set to start at 8:30 p.m., with Horse Feathers opening and tickets are still available.

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Caféïne brings New Love on fifth record CD REVIEW

Caféïne New Love

By Michael Street The Daily Cardinal

With little experience in the punk music genre I wasn’t sure what to expect from Caféïne’s upcoming album, New Love. After listening through the 11 track album I was pleasantly surprised. A playful, energetic and hopeful tone is

established during the first track, “New Love,” and the album rarely deviates from this likable formula. Although the melodies are fun and grab your attention, I wish there were more tracks like “Black Swans” to provide something with a different tone from the rest of the album. If the fast-paced “Love is a Riot” ever has a music video it could only be visualized as items being smashed in slow motion. It’s a good time.

When the instruments blast it is difficult to understand the lyrics, but for a number of the songs you aren’t missing too much.

Having said that, it doesn’t detract significantly from the experience because of Caféïne’s fantastic mel-

odies and vocal talent. The song “Lettre d’amour” demonstrates this because it’s sung in French, which I regrettably cannot understand.

Regardless, without knowing the lyrics, it was one of my favorite tracks on the album because of the well-performed vocals and fitting instrumentals. On other tracks such as “F****** Time,” the lyrics take a refreshing turn away from his girlfriends and offer insight into his relationship with his parents.

In the end, New Love is fun ride from start to finish. You may not be dazzled by deep lyrics, but you will dance like a happy idiot to the extremely catchy tunes.

Rating: B-

love being alive i cant wait to hug you -Lil B,” read the tweet that The Based God himself posted on January 21st. The replies section was a digital church, with various users professing allegiance to the Berkeley rapper who has been producing music for over 11 years. He had just escaped a fire in his apartment and, to his dismay, was written up in the Contra Costa Times as an “aspiring rapper.” Many have written off Lil B as a gimmick rapper and some categorize his music as meme rap, the internet-born buzzword to connote music with the sole intention of going viral.

It’s not too hard to slap the label on him; just look at any one of his music videos and you’ll be wondering how the poor production quality and overly praising video titles could be anything other than satire.

After watching clip after clip of Lil B rapping everywhere from basketball courts to pet stores, one has to wonder if there isn’t a gimmick. The evidence stacks enough for me to understand Lil B as less of a cartoon character and more as a hip-hop vigilante. He’s an artist who dedicates himself to his fans and his craft through releasing new material and keeping true to the morals Based God sets out to preach.

You’d be hard pressed to find someone who wouldn’t be able to decipher the TYBG acronym as the one phrase to embody Lil B’s career: “Thank You Based God.” Lil B has assumed a deity-like role in modern internet culture, and as the phrase would entail, followers of Based God have a lot for which to be thankful.

Not only does he have over 100,000 tweets dedicated to loving his fans (and sometimes himself), but he’s also released several dozen mixtapes, with one sporting a mind-boggling 855 songs. I always felt that a gimmick was a shortcut, a multiple-use trick to put out the same material that people will still love.

Without a doubt, Lil B has a certain language and style that’s consistent throughout his songs. For most musicians, this is a natural part of developing as an artist. Even through clipping vocals and unmixed beats, Lil B is able to show us the world as he sees it, and there doesn’t seem to be anything gimmicky about that.

Perhaps it’s helpful to compare and contrast the Based God with a musician I truly believe to be a gimmick. RiFF RAFF shares many characteristics with Lil B and has even collaborated with him on a song. Both rappers are heavily tattooed and have cult-like followings. The differences begin to show when comparing lyrics side by side.

It’s more likely than not for a Lil B song to have the word “Based” in it, just as RiFF RAFF is very keen on sprinkling Aston Martin and Dolce & Gabbana

throughout his verses. Based is a mode of thought that Lil B developed as his own: to be Lil B is to be Based. In comparison, RiFF RAFF’s repetitious lyrics rely on name brand products to the point that his songs have more proper nouns than improper. Whereas Lil B is dedicated to staying independent and keeping the majority of his music free and accessible, RiFF RAFF has taken his talents to Mad Decent records, who have used his image and personality to turn out a healthy profit, if the ability to meet RiFF RAFF for a price at his slew of concerts is any indication. Here, the gimmick is bling, the jewelry and fashion accessories shining so bright that you have no choice but to gape at it. RiFF RAFF is the unholy union of consumerism, lean and the modern turnup mentality. Lil B is Based God.

It’s clear that Lil B, ironic or not, has a portfolio that transcends the creativitykilling genre names that are applied to it.

Various other artists have fallen into the catch-all term of meme rap. Hip-hop artists with iconic styles like Lil Ugly Mane, Yung Lean and Le1f have the misfortune of trying to introduce their sound into a community known for excessive categorizing and pigeonholing. Songs inspired by the lightning fast data-filled atmosphere of the internet shouldn’t be mistaken as songs abusing it.

A key topic when it comes to discussing such rappers is irony. Irony has almost become a buzzword itself, due to the Internet having the tendency to favor “low effort” content based off the constant desire for new and relevant media. I would argue that artists like Yung Lean are most definitely irony-driven; music videos showing a poorly green-screened Pokémon trading card next to a hand giving the finger are clear jabs at the Internet’s tendency to overly worship outdated technology and media.

Even heavy-handed social commentary is, in the end, social commentary. Lil B has lectured at New York University, published two books, and released I’m Gay (I’m Happy), a concept album that was his attempt to highlight modern social injustice. While some of his songs are intentionally hilarious with completely out of place adlibs and coughs in the middle of verses, it’s clear that Lil B, ironic or not, has a portfolio that transcends the creativity-killing genre names that are applied to it. To accept Lil B with all his flaws is the first step to creating a healthier music culture, where the norm is to listen to and understand musicians before writing off their careers based off of their symbols or style.

Are you a member of the Church of Based God? What are your thoughts on meme rap? Email Jake at jakey.witz@gmail.com

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Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Bucky and Becky

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ACROSS 1 Regrets 5 Emirate inhabitants 1 0 More than diet 14 Dreaded character 1 5 Not secure, as a gem 1 6 Handbag for needles 1 7 Hunter’s prey, sometimes 2 0 Cold pie 2 1 Cozy place on a winter’s night 2 2 “___ Island” (2008 film) 24 Conger 2 5 Flanders on TV 2 6 A 2 may stand for it (Abbr.)

2 9 Military vehicle 3 1 Make a decision 3 3 Car part 3 5 Raze (with “down”) 3 7 Big fuss 4 1 What some take on a tough issue 4 4 It’s just part of an act 4 5 A deadly sin 4 6 “Or ___!” (veiled threat) 4 7 Commercial come-ons 49 Period of service

1 Archer’s wood 5 5 2 Dec. 24, for one 5 5 “___ be an honor” 5 7 “... as bad as they ___” 59 They’re used to pitching 6 2 Buy in a hurry 6 6 Yellow-and-ebony flowers 6 8 English river to the Trent 69 Blender setting 7 0 Baby foxes 7 1 Dandelion, for one 7 2 Go on a spree 7 3 Money swallower DOWN 1 Baseball’s “Schoolboy” 2 Expressions of disdain 3 “CHiPs” star Estrada 4 Arrive, as darkness 5 Robots 6 Some strands in a cell 7 “___ I care!”

8 Be in contradiction with 9 Like most new TV’s 1 0 Some badge flashers

1 1 Had a homecooked meal 1 2 Fancy leather 1 3 Ready to crash 1 8 Send forth 19 Oracle site 2 3 Fishhookattaching line 2 6 Team supporters 2 7 Business bigwig, briefly 2 8 Melancholy 3 0 Not fixable 3 2 Bag type 3 4 Catania’s volcano 3 6 Fragrant flowers 3 8 Well-lubricated 3 9 Sprinkler hookup 4 0 Over again 4 2 Debts, ledgerwise 43 Ready for a vacation?

4 8 Brews, as tea 5 0 McDonald’s board 5 2 Bend like an arch 5 3 Worth 5 4 Cover your tracks?

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Badgers face threats through Big Ten play

By Jack Baer, Zach Rastall and Brian Weidy the daily cardinal

Almost a month into Big Ten play, the Badgers have moved in to sole possession of first place even after their baffling loss at Rutgers. Now, we take a look at the teams right behind UW in Big Ten contention, and the next few who are definitely still in the conversation. Sorry, Minnesota.

The Contenders: Maryland

College Park, Maryland, home of a proud hoops tradition that is completely unknown in the Big Ten. The Terrapins were considered one of the better programs in the ACC, and, at its worst, still dangerous to any conference elite when playing at home.

This team wasn’t considered one of the major contenders in their inaugural Big Ten campaign because they were a team filled with question marks, due to five players transferring from the team before the season began.

Take that lack of depth and add in a freshman point guard with no real backup, and the Terps were living dangerously.

Then, Maryland started the season 14-1, with that one loss to current No. 2 Virginia. How? Well, that freshman point guard turned out to be Melo Trimble, who currently leads Maryland in scoring and is a frontrunner in the Big Ten Freshman of the Year race.

The Terrapins sit at second in the Big Ten race, right behind the Badgers. More importantly, Maryland’s only regular season matchup with the Badgers is in College Park, giving them a possible leg up if the race comes down to a tiebreaker.

Indiana

Heading into this season, Indiana head coach Tom Crean sat firmly on the hot seat after a disappointing 2013-14 campaign and a myriad of off-court issues leading up to this year.

Now, three months later, Crean looks like one of the frontrunners for national coach of the year.

Despite injuries to a frontcourt that severely lacks depth, the Hoosiers sit at 15-5 overall and 5-2 in the Big Ten, one game back

of the Badgers.

There have been a few bumps in a row, including an early-season loss to Eastern Washington and a 20-point beatdown at the hands of Michigan State.

However, Indiana also has picked up several impressive victories, including a 19-point win over No. 13 Maryland last Thursday at Assembly Hall.

The Hoosiers have overcome their frontcourt deficiency and a lackluster defense with an uptempo offense that ranks 13th in the country at 81.4 points per game and seventh in adjusted offensive efficiency, per kenpom.com.

They’ve also been solid from beyond the arc, shooting 41 percent from 3-point range, good enough for eighth in the nation.

Though tough road tests against Wisconsin and Maryland remain on its schedule, Indiana looks poised to finish near the top of the conference standings.

Michigan State

When Michigan State started the season 5-3, few red flags went up. They were a young team and their losses came to top teams (Duke, Kansas and Notre Dame). However, losing to Texas Southern a few weeks later made the concerns in East Lansing go from mild to maniacal.

Yet, despite sitting at 4-3 in the Big Ten and two games back of Wisconsin, Michigan State will still likely find themselves in the Top 4 of the Big Ten come March for reasons they’ve been able to rely on for years.

Let’s start with Tom Izzo.

Izzo took over at Michigan State in 1995. The Spartans made the NIT for his first two seasons at the helm and have since steered the team to 17 straight NCAA Tournament bids, and has led the team to a Top-Four finish in 14 of those 19 seasons as head coach.

However, coaches don’t win games, players do, and the Spartans have plenty of them.

Travis Trice is the Spartans version of Traevon Jackson, if Jackson could shoot the lights out. Branden Dawson and Denzel Valentine are two of the best forwards in the conference with Bryn Forbes, X-est of factors, shooting 46 percent from three on 87 attempts.

The Threats: Iowa

The last week has been brutal for the Hawkeyes, who sit at 4-3 in Big Ten play, as they were trounced

by Wisconsin and followed that up with a loss to Purdue.

To make matters worse, senior forward Aaron White, who leads the team in scoring, rebounds and steals, suffered a shoulder stinger against the Boilermakers and may be unavailable for Iowa’s rematch with the Badgers.

All that being said, the Hawkeyes’ schedule gets much easier after they face Wisconsin and Maryland at home in two of their next three games. If Fran McCaffery’s team is able to upset either the Badgers or the Terrapins, it could provide a spark that allows them to catch fire and finish in the top four of the conference standings by the end of the regular season.

#Nebrasketball

Last season, Nebrasketball started Big Ten play 0-4 and then 1-5.

This season, they began 0-2 and currently find themselves 4-3 with some good wins including against the aforementioned Michigan State.

The Cornhuskers have one of the strongest home court advantages in the Big Ten, even if it hasn’t really shown this year.

Furthermore, Terran Petteway is one of the best scorers in the country and Shavon Shields is an excellent compliment to him.

The Cornhuskers have a difficult road slate and will likely need to hold serve at home and steal a couple games on the road in order to sneak into the Top 4.

t’s not exactly a secret the Badger hockey team has been bad. The question is: How do you react to a season like this when many players, freshmen and sophomores, still hold promise?

GS: Hey Sam, did you see Hockey give up 13 goals this weekend? How hot do you think Mike Eaves’ seat is?

SC: Clarification: 13 unanswered goals. I would say that calls Mike Eaves’ future with Wisconsin Hockey into question. While Eaves has had success and great teams during his tenure, he hasn’t produced great teams consistently.

He definitely has the individual talent with many of his players, including offensive weapons Grant Besse and veteran Joseph LaBate, but he seems to be having trouble harnessing the individual talent for the betterment of the team.

GS: Two wins on the season will certainly speak to the trouble of harnessing talent. But when the question comes to firing up the coaching search committees, it’s hard not to look at an entire body of work, rather than 60 percent of a season with a rag-tag batch of freshmen.

This team is less than a year removed from a rather impressive Big Ten Championship. It’s hard to give up so quickly.

SC: The real issue I have is that right now people are losing faith in this program—and fast.

Season ticket sales have plummeted in the last two years, down almost 1,500 season ticket holders last year alone.

I honestly think a fresh face could be a good step toward renewing interest and support in a lagging program.

GS: I think that point was made obvious when this year’s student ticket prices dropped significantly. As a consumer I’m not complaining, but it speaks to

your point that athletics is trying everything they can to revitalize interest in this program. I think it’s also interesting considering interest in the NHL is on the rise. I see fresh Blackhawks and Wild gear with the tags still on it around campus.

But back to the real issue at hand, I think it’s up to Eaves to find new ways to refigure this team. Whether it be switch up practice schedules, or changing up some of the assistant coaches. Whatever is going on right now isn’t working.

SC: That’s a definite.

Some real change is desperately needed, and ASAP. The Badgers have had some glimpses of playing well and playing together that kept them close in competitive games like the first against Boston University and Minnesota.

I think a first step is going back to the basics and finding out why teams are able to get into Wisconsin’s zone with so little effort and why Rumpel seems to be all alone on defense.

I still believe a fresh face in the coaching staff would be able to identify these issues right away since they haven’t been staring at the same game film and stat sheets all season.

Regardless, Eaves isn’t going anywhere before this season is over, he still has Barry on his side, but he definitely needs to step it up and start showing signs of improvement if he wants to stay in Wisconsin.

GS: Well he obviously wants to stay in the Badger state. He played on the team for four years, was a two-time All American and won a national title in 1977. It’s safe to say he’s a good fit for the program.

I’m glad you think Eaves should stick around through the end of the season, but you’re right, showing signs of improvement is mandatory, and what a perfect weekend to show it against your biggest rival in the Gophers. To some fans, a win at home against Minnesota would almost make the season salvageable.

Ohio State

Remember how Aaron Craft was the college basketball’s best player in the gospel according to Dan Dakich? Who knows how you replace that.

Oh wait, Thad Matta knows.

With D’Angelo Russell, who is currently averaging 19.4 points, 5.2 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game, with several of those passes currently archived in gif form (“Russell spin pass,” Google it).

When you have a player like that, have just defeated Indiana and get to play your only games against Maryland and Wisconsin at home, you can be a contender.

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It’s not often you see a former national champion coach on the hot seat, but the Badgers have been miserable so far.