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Faculty criticize proposed tenure policy

By Madeline Heim THE DAILY CARDINAL

At a special meeting Friday, the UW-Madison University Committee and several faculty members reviewed documents on tenure policy set to appear before the Board of Regents next week.

The policy comes as one result of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2016-’17 budget bill, which included measures to remove tenure from Wisconsin state law.

The Tenure Policy Task Force, consisting of administration and faculty from across the UW System, sought to identify important elements of tenure to be included in Regent tenure policy. Critics of the proposed policy worry, however, that it will not fully protect against faculty removal and contract-breaking layoffs.

University Committee Chair Elizabeth Meyerand asked those present for feedback on specific flaws in the document to be put together in a letter of response. She said the committee was looking to send “the strongest message that we possibly can.”

The letter ultimately released

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Several UW-Madison faculty members called for a strong response to a proposed policy on tenure, saying it does not do enough to protect tenured professors on campus from contract-breaking layoffs. will include details specific to UW-Madison, but David Vanness, an associate professor and president of UW-Madison’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said he believes other

system schools should be planning similar statements.

Meyerand stressed that the tone of the letter be as factual as possible and not include any “emotional” language, but others called

for a stronger statement.

One faculty member said after 100 years of tradition and policy being changed, releasing a polite statement would not represent how they really feel. Another urged for

the letter to describe a “loss,” and to convey that UW-Madison is a “lesser university” today than before the removal of from state statutes.

Faculty members also expressed concern about program discontinuance as a result of Walker’s workforce-oriented plan, calling his focus on the workforce in higher education “shortsighted” and saying this direction would not “produce new economies.”

UW-Madison professor Michael Bell contrasted the governor’s emphasis on job training with Einstein’s theory of relativity. “[The theory] runs our entire world economy,” Bell said. “And at the time he did it, who would have thought that was useful for workforce development?”

Vanness said the proposed policy included “telling language” that could be used to restructure system schools as more vocational institutions.

“If the Regents really do, at least a majority of them, want to reshape the university system in a new direction to reflect this ‘new Wisconsin Idea’ of training the workforce,” Vanness said. “We’ll look foolish if we don’t say something.”

College affordability, sexual assault bills clear committees

By Ningyuan Ma and Andrew Bahl THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Gov. Scott Walker unveiled the package of college affordability bills earlier at his State of the State address in January.

A package of college affordability bills proposed by legislative Republicans passed an Assembly committee Thursday, despite all five Democrats on the committee voting against them.

The bills, unveiled by Gov. Scott Walker in his State of the State address, would provide a tax break for some borrowers paying back their student loans, expand funding for technical college students’ financial aid, help connect students with internships, fund emergency financial aid covering unexpected expens-

es and require colleges provide financial literacy training.

Republicans say about 32,000 people will benefit from the tax proposal, which eliminates the $2,500 deduction cap borrowers can claim for their student loan interest. In addition, 500 technical college students are expected to become beneficiaries of the increased funding for need-based grants every year.

Democrats proposed numerous amendments to the bills, which were struck down on party line votes. State Rep. Dana Wachs, D-Eau Claire, said the Republican bills did not go far enough to address the student

debt problem, which is why no member of his caucus voted for the measures.

“Student loan debt is holding back our economy, and our proposals to invest in our students and schools—while lowering monthly payments for borrowers—will boost the middle class and small businesses by putting more money into the pockets of hardworking Wisconsinites,” Wachs said in a press release.

He also touted a Democratic proposal authored by state Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, and state Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay,

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Residence hall sexual assault reported to campus security authority A sexual assault allegedly occurred between Jan. 22 and Jan. 24 in a UW-Madison residence hall.

The victim reported being at the Red Shed bar and talking to an unidentified man. She took two sips of a drink before she began to feel “dizzy, hazy, and uncomfortable,” according to a UW-Madison crime warning.

The unknown man walked her

home, where she passed out. She reported that she woke up as she was being sexually assaulted.

UWPD learned about the reported sexual assault on Friday but, as the alleged crime was not disclosed to any law enforcement agency, no criminal investigations are ongoing.

“She chose to tell another person who happens to be a campus secu-

rity authority,” said UWPD Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott.

“By obligation, by law, that campus security authority does have to file a report with the University to disclose this information.”

The victim reported the sexual assault to campus security authority Friday, a day after a bill unanimously passed an Assembly committee that would eliminate

underage drinking tickets for victims and witnesses of sexual assaults. UWPD has had the Responsible Actions Guidelines for five years, which already enforces on campus what the bill is proposing.

Lovicott hopes the bill will remove the barrier of underage drinking for sexual assault victims choosing to report the crime.

“The bill that is going to the Legislature right now we think and we hope will remove one barrier of individuals deciding not to come forward,” Lovicott said.

“There are many reasons why someone might decide not to report. And this could be one of them that this bill addresses.”

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The herpes virus is a viral family shrouded in fear. It was named after the latin word herpein which means “to creep,” and is often reminiscent of uncomfortable grade school health classes.

In fact, there is good reason to be frightful of these all too common bugs: once you contract one, it is very likely to linger for life. Chicken pox and shingles, mononucleosis and oral and genital herpes are all diseases caused by herpes viruses that have evolved the ability to lay dormant in the human nervous system (or sometimes lymphocytes), and become reactivated at random. This dormancy stage is called a lysogenic cycle.

In order to accomplish this waiting game, a virus inserts its DNA into the nucleus of a host cell, which is copied every time that cell divides. This is the cause of reemerging cold sores and late-life shingles rashes: it is impossible to know when the virus will become active again.

Humans are not the only animals that suffer from herpes viruses. Most animals on the planet have associated herpes viruses that plague them; never causing enough harm to compromise their host and persisting steadily within a population. It is an extremely successful evolutionary strategy.

However, because of this close viral-host relationship, each herpes virus can only infect the species it evolved to plague, otherwise they are either completely

ineffective or completely lethal.

Herpes B virus is an example of the latter. Albert Sabin, a famed polio researcher, used massive amounts of rhesus macaques in order to test different vaccines.

One of his fellow researchers contracted herpes B, which affects old world monkeys in the same way oral herpes affects humans. However, when physician William Brebner became infected, the virus destroyed his central nervous system and led to his death. Brebner was a dead end host: the virus could neither persist nor be contracted by a new host and thus became an evolutionary dead end.

This example highlights an important fact about the herpes virus family: they are extremely host specific, which is an advantageous characteristic for containment. Diseases that have not become so closely intertwined with human history tend to cause a far more deadly infection - for example, the Ebola virus.

In order to keep up residual infections inside their natural host, herpes viruses have had to come up with some ingenious evolutionary strategies. The immune system, the cells and organs associated with identifying and destroying invading pathogens, is constantly on patrol for infected cells.

Normally, cells that are compromised by a virus initiate apoptosis, a programmed form of cell death. However, a long evolutionary history has allowed the herpes family to invent species-specific ways to persist,

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Human cytomegalovirus, seen here, is a herpes family virus. avoiding immune detection.

Researchers at the UW-Madison have begun to tease apart the evolutionary arms race that has evolved between cytomegalovirus (a herpes family virus) and the human immune system. Such a relationship is often referred to as the red queen effect. Every time the host evolves a defense against the virus, the virus evolves a way to evade the defense; in other words, you have to keep running to stay in the same place.

Cytomegalovirus is associated with deafness, intellectual disabilities and learning disorders in newborns. New research in this field was conducted by colead authors Emily Albright, a graduate student, Song Hee Lee, a former postdoctoral researcher, and Rob Kalejta, professor of molecular virology and oncology. Other members who contributed to the research include

Jeong-Hee Lee and Derek Jacobs.

Kalejta et al. have discovered a unique intrinsic immune response of human cells toward this virus, in which the cell secretes proteins that cause dormant virus DNA to become active. This might appear to be counterproductive, as dormant infections are agreeably less problematic than active ones.

However, this process allows the immune system to find infected cells more easily, conferring a significant advantage over the virus.

True to its evolutionary form, human cytomegalovirus has developed a way to block the cell’s signaling. The virus, along with viral DNA, injects a protein into each cell it infects, somehow blocking the cells’ defensive adaptation. Although the mechanism is not yet well understood, the team believes such discoveries are key to developing a cure.

Ask Ms. Scientist: road salt and naps Dear Ms. Scientist,

Dear Ms. Scientist,

What are the effects of road salt on the environment?

How long is the perfect nap?

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Brandon N.

Although it may give you grip when strutting down the sidewalks on your morning commute to class, road salt actually has a number of negative effects on the environment, human health, animal health and infrastructure like buildings and cars. The damage is quite visible but there are more dangerous impacts of road salt, composed of sodium, chloride, ferrocyanide and other impurities (calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron to name a few), than merely its white marks left on your black boots. Particularly, road salt washes away into lakes, rivers and streams or it leaches into the groundwater. So, those once naturally salt-free lakes are now contaminated due to road salt runoff; hence, aquatic life is put at risk. And while the water dripping out of your faucet may not only taste salty, it could negatively impact your health by increasing your sodium intake to unhealthy levels. Road salt may also damage nearby trees and other plants that animals may feed off of, similarly harming their diets. Birds, especially, fall victim to this as they feast on the over-salted vegetation. Lastly, road salt even damages buildings.

The chloride ions in it can deteriorate concrete or corrode parts of your vehicle. While the sidewalks are slippery, the salt may be the real slipup.

No judgements, we’re all quite guilty of the midday nap! Power naps, or a nap lasting roughly 20 minutes, have been shown to improve creative problem solving, verbal memory, perceptual learning, object learning and statistical learning. A quick daytime snooze may also help you in areas such as math, logical reasoning, reaction time and symbol recognition. Napping even has health benefits. The act has been shown to increase moods, and is great for the heart, blood pressure, stress and weight control.

In general, a nap should last between 10 and 30 minutes and take place between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.; naps occurring later than 4:00 p.m. may interfere with your regular sleep patterns. Any napper napping longer than a half hour runs the risk of experiencing “sleep inertia” upon waking. This is the phenomena when one wakes up and feels a grogginess that they just cannot get rid of. So go on and nap with a purpose; plan it out, strategically, to get the most out of your afternoon slumber!

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City responds to reported coyote pet attacks with video

By Miller Jozwiak THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Memorial Union hosted “We the 350,” which featured stories of poverty, drug addiction, homelessness and incarceration in Dane County, to begin Black History Month.

‘We the 350’ begins Black History Month at UW-Madison

By Jessica Dorsky THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison kicked off Black History Month Sunday night with a performance of “We the 350: Stories of Racism, Poverty and Incarceration” at Memorial Union.

“If no racial disparities existed in Madison, there would be 350 fewer Black people in the Dane County Jail on any given day,” said its playbill. “Black people are 6 percent of the county’s population, but make up about 50 percent of the 800 people incarcerated in the Dane County Jail.”

T. Banks, a UW-Madison alumnus, and Sara L. McKinnon, an assistant professor in the communication arts department, wrote and directed the show.

“These stories that you hear are straight from the words of black folks here in Madison,” Banks said. “Nothing has been

scripted, all of these words come from interviews that we did.”

The cast was made up of five actors, dressed in all black. One of the actresses had a shirt with the slogan “Black Girl Magic” on it. The set was minimalistic, including only chairs and blocks, and the actors moved on and offstage with the telling of each new story. Every seat in the audience was filled, and members contributed with snapping and vocalizations throughout the performance.

The show started and ended with the performers chanting “Free the 350” back and forth to each other, while holding signs with the same message. The stories focused on issues of poverty, drug addiction, homelessness and incarceration as they had been experienced by black people in Milwaukee and Madison.

The performances were split into seven scenes, each

depicting a separate story. One described the first time a young girl came to terms with her mother being a drug addict. In another, a high school student on the brink of homelessness was offered a free prom dress by a social worker.

“I came out to her and was like ‘yo, I don’t want to wear a prom dress.’ But she came into our session with all these racks of clothes… I thought that shit was so petty. I could be kicked out at any moment, and you trying to hand me a dress?!” the actress said.

The performance was presented by UW-Madison’s Pathways to Educational Achievement Office, the Black History Month Student Planning Committee and WUD Performing Arts Center. It will be followed by other Black History Month events throughout the month.

Hazing coyotes to ensure they keep their distance is the subject of a new video that was released

by Public Health Madison & Dane County last Wednesday.

The three-minute clip, titled “How to Haze a Coyote’” teaches viewers how to haze, or scare, the coyotes away to make them feel uncomfortable in urban neighborhoods.

“Coyotes in urban areas are not a new problem, and this video gives some concrete solutions for how we can safely co-exist with them,” said John Hausbeck, PHMDC Animal Services supervisor, in a city press release.

The video comes as PHMDC has received reports of coyote attacks in Madison and Dane County. The UW-Madison Urban Canid Project, a crowd-sourced project that has tracked coyote and red fox sightings in Madison since January 2014, has reported over 40 coyote sightings this year. “[Coyotes’] adaptability has

Schimel files brief supporting Texas abortion restriction Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed an amicus brief last week in support of a 2013 Texas law regarding abortion.

The law requires doctors hold admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where they operate in order to remain in business, and has forced the closure of multiple abortion clinics because some hospitals refuse admitting privileges to doctors who perform abortions.

Schimel filed the brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, which will determine the Texas law’s constitutionality.

Wisconsin passed a law similar to the one in question, but it was struck down by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in November. If the Supreme Court upholds the Texas law, Wisconsin is expected to ask for review of the 7th Circuit’s previous decision.

In a 2015 ruling, the federal appeals court concluded Wisconsin’s legislation could “not be taken seriously as a measure to improve women’s health.”

Schimel’s brief cites the case of Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor who violated numerous regulations, to support the necessity of

laws like the ones passed in Texas and Wisconsin.

“Underlying these new mandates, was, among other things, legislative recognition that a doctor of Gosnell’s character could never retain admitting privileges at any reputable hospital,” Schimel said in the brief.

The anti-abortion organi-

zation Wisconsin Right to Life voiced its support for Schimel’s brief, praising Texas’ law for “ensur[ing] the health and safety of women when abortion complications happen.”

Opponents, however, claim the law was designed to limit a woman’s right to end her pregnancy.

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The UW-Madison Urban Canid Project has reported over 40 coyote sightings around Madison since Jan. 1.

bills from page 1 which would create a state-run agency to help students refinance their loans.

“There is only one real solution to providing relief to the one million Wisconsinites with student loan debt – the Democratic ‘Higher Ed, Lower Debt’ proposal, a common-sense, popular plan that will grow our economy and our middle class,” Wachs said in the statement.

Both Walker and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, are confident the package of bills will be passed before legislative session ends in the spring.

Sexual assault amnesty measure also passes

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed a brief last week to support a Texas abortion regulation.

allowed them to move into urban areas where they may be seen regularly,” said David Drake, extension wildlife specialist, in the video. “On occasion, changes in coyote behavior may mean a specific individual has gotten used to human presence.

If this is happening in your community, action is necessary.”

According to the PHMDC website on coexisiting with coyotes, pet owners can use different tactics to protect their animals.

Those tactics include scaring them by making noises and throwing things, cleaning up fruit and birdseed and not leaving small pets unattended outside.

“Coyotes can be re-educated and pet losses can be prevented if we make a few changes in our behavior and learn how to coexist with them as our urban neighbors,” the PHMDC page says.

To report a sick or injured coyote, call PHMDC Animal Services Dispatch at 608-255-2345. If a coyote is unresponsive to the hazing, call 608-267-1987.

A bill that would provide amnesty from drinking tickets for victims and witnesses of sexual assault also passed an Assembly committee unanimously Thursday.

The proposal, authored by state Rep. Joan Ballweg, R-Markesan, is supported by

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the UW-Madison Police Department and state Attorney General Brad Schimel.

Ballweg said in her testimony that the bill removes a key barrier to reporting sexual assault cases.

“This is something that we need to do to find a way to help those victims feel secure in coming forward,” Ballweg said. “To get rid of that barrier … this will go a long way to help.”

While some lawmakers raised questions as to who would be considered a bystander under the bill, numerous members of the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety expressed verbal support for the bill and it cleared the committee without objection.

Ballweg added she hoped the bill would be quickly passed by the Legislature, despite the bill’s late introduction and statements

by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, that he hopes to wrap up his chamber’s session by late February.

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Between the Sheets

sex and the student body

Learning about slut shaming and how we can ‘beat it’

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et’s consider slutty brownies for a moment; craveable cookie dough on the bottom, warm and gooey brownie on the top, with a layer of still-crunchy oreos in between—a combination so unforgivingly delicious it makes people feel guilty about enjoying it.

Whoever named this dessert had the right idea about what it means to be “slutty”—divinely indulgent and not apologizing for it. Unfortunately, when we apply this label to people it seems to take on a different definition.

Perhaps the reason we can’t seem to shake the urge to shame women for the choices they make is because using the term “slut” to negatively describe women has been ingrained in our culture since 1450.

By scrolling around on the good ol’ Oxford English Dictionary, one can find delightful definitions for “slut,” such as “kitchen-maid” or “drudge,” “slut-hole” meaning a literal hole for garbage and, my personal favorite (and the future name of any business I might own— hopefully a pub or tavern), “slut’s corner” which is “a corner left unclean by a sluttish person.”

While other definitions of “slut” may come and go, the tried and true 1450 definition never leaves us, “A woman of a low or loose character; a bold or impudent girl; a hussy.”

It says quite a lot about the way we feel about sexuality— specifically female sexuality— that “bold” women or women who enjoy sex are, by definition, “loose” or of “low character”—no matter if they’re from 1450 or 2016.

While the word itself has a troubled past, it’s the way I hear it used constantly that I have a real problem with. Men say it about women, girls say it about other girls, mothers say it about other women in front of their daughters, but no matter whose lips are uttering the slur, there is a negative impact.

We cannot expect women and girls to grow into confident adults when we constantly criticize the choices they make about their sexuality. Luckily, y’all can help change it!

There are a few combative strategies I like to utilize when I hear slut shaming happening, and in order to help remember them I’ve categorized them based on musical icons.

Bieber them: Ask the person, “What do you mean?” This is perhaps the easiest and most effective way to stop slut shaming in its tracks, but it also requires careful delivery to not

come off as preachy.

how great she looked!

SHAMER: That girl is a such a huge slut.

Now Shamer Mom has to make the choice between clarifying what she meant (and looking like a jerk in the process), or realizing she was being destructive, and taking a lesson from her cool kid.

AWESOME PERSON: “What do you mean?”

SHAMER: Well, she fucks a lot of dudes (what they—probably­— really mean is “well, she enjoys sex and doesn’t think having multiple sexual partners determines a person’s character, and I find that threatening.”)

From here the conversation could go many different ways, but it’s important to stay calm and genuinely inquisitive, not accusatory.

Gently nudging the conversation forward with simple questions forces the shamer to think about what they just said, but it’s important not to tell them what they think. Saying “So you think any woman who likes to have sex is a slut?” will turn the person off from the conversation.

Run DMC them aka get tricky: Sometimes being a little tricky by flipping around someone’s words is super effective.

A mother and child are sitting at brunch, chatting it up SHAMER MOM: Did you see Sharon’s blouse this morning?

It was awfully revealing…

COOL KID: Yeah, I did notice

Adele them aka make them feel your love: For notorious slut shamers, sometimes predicting what they are going to say and allying with the potential shaming victim can shut the shaming down before it even begins.

A notorious slut shamer (Shamey for short), and their friend are watching TV when a commercial for the Shmarshmashians reality show comes on, Shmoé Shmarshmashian makes a comment about how horny she has been lately. The shamer’s clairvoyant friend (Clair for short) looks over at the Shamer and can tell they are about to be a huge downer by slut shaming Shmoé.

CLAIR: Wow I love Shmoé, I can totally relate to her!

Clair looks over at Shamey apprehensively, in anticipation of how they will respond.

Shamey thinks about commenting on the “slutty” comment Shmoé made, but now realizes that would mean offending Clair.

SHAMEY: Yeah I love that she’s so open about her sexuality…

Clair smiles triumphantly as she realizes her victory and takes a moment to bask in a successful teachable moment.

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But, Anna—one might ask— what if I don’t agree with what the person on TV is saying, what then? Find something else positive about the person to focus on before your friend can say anything uncool.

Of course, there is always a fourth option for when the slut shamer just won’t quit: Michael Jackson them aka tell them to Beat It!

Two bros are kicking it.

SLUT SHAMER: Ugh, Hillary is such a slut.

FED UP FRIEND: No one slut shames Hill-dog in my house, please leave.

Fed Up Friend walks over to speaker and begins playing Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” while staring vacantly at Slut Shamer until he uncomfortably exits the home.

This is, of course, an extreme option and should only be resorted to when the styles of JBiebs, Run DMC and Adele just won’t cut it.

I feel it is important to point out the distinct difference between calling somebody a slut (slut shaming) and claiming “slut” as a take-back term. If a person knows the history of the word and finds it empowering to subvert the original meaning by using it as a sex-positive label for themselves, that is their prerogative.

However, that does not give others the right to start using it when describing them.

Notice the difference between someone saying, “I was a huge slut freshman year, it was so fun and amazing!” and someone else saying, “She was such a slut freshman year!” Even if the person thinks they’re using it in a positive way because they have heard the person use it as a label themselves, it’s still a no-go to assert an opinion about someone else’s choices and actions.

It is also important to take a step back and recognize when the person doing the slut shaming is staring back at you in the mirror.

We’ve all been guilty of a negative thought about someone before (damn you, societal messaging), but having the maturity to shift one’s own thinking to a sexpositive ideology is the key to actually accomplishing change.

Do you have any strategies or personal anecdotes about taking down slut shaming? Also, if you were to stumble upon a tavern called “Slut’s Corner,” would you stop in for a brew? Anna would love to hear about it at sex@dailycardinal.com!

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Bad Bad Hats opened for Hey Marseilles to a welcoming crowd.

Hey Marseilles energizes crowd

By Ellie Herman The Daily Cardinal

There’s nothing quite like the smeary ink stamps and thick Sharpie Xs haphazardly tattooed onto the hands of myself and fellow under-21 concertgoers. With an occasional warning from a bouncer telling me not to wash my hands until the ink dries, I’m pretty used to the fine art tradition of hand stamping. Thankfully, I wasn’t the only one showing off some fresh ink Thursday night at High Noon Saloon, where the Minnesotan band Bad Bad Hats opened for Seattle natives Hey Marseilles.

While I’d like to say my friends and I stood front row during both performances, we were slightly barricaded by piles of winter coats lining the stage: a true mark of a concert during a Wisconsin winter. The hill of jackets continued to rise as Bad Bad Hats took the stage, capturing the attention of the growing crowd.

The members of the indie-rock band, composed of lead singer Kerry Alexander, bassist Noah Boswell and drummer Chris Hoge, all met at Macalester College in Minnesota.

Bad Bad Hats released their first EP It Hurts in early 2013, followed by their debut LP Psychic Reader in July 2015, under the Minnesota label Afternoon Records.

“I feel like [going from the EP to the LP] is different, but I don’t really feel like we approached it too differently, at least I didn’t from a songwriting perspective,” Alexander said. “A lot of the songs on it were written around the time that the EP was written. I just think we had more tools at our disposal, we were working with a producer, so that was helpful. We had more to work with, to make our sound bigger.”

Their second stop of a 21-concert tour with Hey Marseilles, the band is traveling the country in a Toyota minivan with upcoming shows throughout the Midwest, New York, and a Valentine’s Day show in Chattanooga.

“Making music is fun, and playing shows is fun, but there’s nothing like crawling into a warm minivan at the end of the night, knowing that sleep is coming soon,” Alexander said about tour life. “It’s a comforting space to me now.”

Alexander entertained Thursday’s crowd with anecdotes of a past Madison show, where the

crowd was more excited over a fisherman catching a fish in the background than of the live performance.

This time around, Bad Bad Hats didn’t seem to have any problems as the crowd nodded and tapped their feet along to the band’s catchy beats and lyrics. The band played a mix of songs off the EP and LP, and energized the audience with a couple new, unreleased tracks.

Bad Bad Hats’ powerful vocals and enticing lyrics mixed with strong drum beats and intricate melodies provided the perfect transition for Hey Marseilles to take the stage.

The band demonstrated their musical diversity, keeping the audience on their toes as they switched from slower songs featuring soft guitar melodies to upbeat songs, full of maracas and fast tempos.

Hey Marseilles perfectly fit the genre of chamber-pop music, as the six-piece band crowded the entire stage with an eclectic spectrum of instruments including guitars, two keyboards, a cello, drums and a viola.

Lead singer Matt Bishop perfectly delivered lyrics as member Samuel Anderson switched from playing bass to cello mid-song, without missing a beat. The band seamlessly transitioned from genre to genre, sounding like a full orchestra one moment to indie rock just seconds later.

The group played old tunes and songs off their latest self-titled album, giving a shout out to their homeland of Washington through the song “West Coast.” Bishop joked with the crowd between songs about the low temperatures of Wisconsin, but how nice and happy Midwesterners always seem to be. Crowd members started singing along to Hey Marseilles’ cover of the late David Bowie song “Heroes,” performing a strippeddown rendition that the group put their own, honorable spin on. The audience broke out into applause, cheers and eardrum-shattering whistles after Hey Marseilles performed their final song, continuing until the band came out and performed two additional songs.

While I spent the rest of my postconcert night scrubbing my under21 stamped hands, hoping the ink would fade before a 10 a.m. job interview, it was clear through Thursday’s passionate performances that Bad Bad Hats and Hey Marseilles aren’t fading away anytime soon.

his past month will perhaps be hailed as the month of many deaths. People lose their battle with life every day all over, many of them famous and beloved. But the rapid succession with which the world bid farewell to iconic people this January was entirely unprecedented. And while I mourned the loss of many of them in solidarity with the world, I shall always remember Alan Rickman the most. His brilliance as an actor is sometimes reduced to the sum of just one character, but what a portrayal it was. I am cognizant of the talent with which he flawlessly executed each new character in a movie, but, I also consciously choose to only remember him as the epitome of all antiheroes, Severus Snape.

Harry Potter very acutely defines the majority of us who grew up with it and, while I always had my disdain for the movies, I knew from the moment I saw Rickman look down his large, hooked nose through the curtains of grease around his face that he had done the impossible.

Alan Rickman had brought a character to life; he had actualized the very essence of Snape that had only lived on paper and made it even more real for us.

Our relationship with Snape has always been as complicated as Harry’s, if not more. Voldemort always bored me as a villain, with his straightforwardly evil ways. He was almost too simple. But Snape

was a complex character who loved and hated, and perhaps played with our emotions the most throughout the series. He is flawed, the most excellent of antiheroes and will be part of Rickman’s tremendous legacy. In remembering Alan Rickman and the brilliance of his Snape, I bring you some of literature’s beloved antiheroes.

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” I always saw Jay Gatsby as not a lovestruck romantic hero, but an antihero. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” he is the protagonist who seems to be a dreamer on the surface but courts nothing but tragedy. It’s a classic rag to riches story of someone who saw the shiny veneer of all that glitters and hungered desperately for it; so much so that he got there only with lies and by being an imposter. But all the power and glam can not fill the void created by never being able to be with the woman he loves. His charm and self-deprecation pulls you in, but his flaws and imperfections remind us of the eventual downfall that awaits him just around the corner.

While Holden Caulfield was an offensively scandalizing character back in the 50s when J.D. Salinger penned him in “The Catcher in the Rye,” I imagine he would sound like every other whiny teenager in this decade. The trick then is not to view him with the weary eyes of 2016, but the wholesome goodness of the 50s.

Caulfield is then revealed to be the tragically phony character that he truly is. Convinced of his superiority above everyone else for possess-

ing the desire to be authentic and honest, he reduces himself to just another one of them by rebelling so hard. Apathetic to a fault, he rebels more so for the sake of rebelling than for a cause. But he still inspires understanding in us, as someone who is being hurled to a level of corrupted adulthood that is bleak and depressing. We can even find sympathy for him when we remember what it was like to have mounds of terror and the world against us as a teenager. “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

Alan Moore constructed another one of history’s most complex characters in “V for Vendetta,” by leaving the decision to embrace V as a hero or a villain up to us. Does revenge motivate him to set off a chain of events that, in this fictional world, inspire a revolution by putting the power rightly back into the hands of the people, or is he motivated by more grandiose ambitions of justice and giving a voice to the people? We are left tormented over whether we should even question him for the motives that achieve what we rooted for the whole novel, wondering whether if he has just cause to possess nefarious motives against a government that stripped him of his identity. “Behind this mask there is more than just flesh.

Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”

Who is your favorite antihero? Do you think antiheroes can be more powerful than heroes?

Let Maham know at arts@dailycardinal.com.

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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, is a militant group of Islamic fundamentalists.

In recent years, the United States and its allies have been at constant conflict with this group.

Striking ISIS is not the best path to peace sebastian van bastelaer Opinion Columnist

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espite the best efforts of the United States and its allies, the Islamic State remains a legitimate threat to the peace and wellbeing of the world. In recent months, some of the nation’s leading politicians have endorsed taking drastic (and violent) measures to stop their gains. This “bomb first, think later” strategy—which has been proposed by politicians and analysts on both sides of the aisle—will never succeed.

What so many leaders and pundits fail to acknowledge is that the geopolitical crisis in Iraq and Syria is far different from any the world has ever seen and, therefore, requires a different line of thinking.

It’s time for a plan that will work—and more importantly, one we can live with.

Since the San Bernadino shootings shook California in December, politicians have intensified their rhetoric against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh). Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX., vowed to “carpet bomb [ISIS] into oblivion” until “sand glows in the dark.” Donald Trump’s bluster was—predictably—even more excessive, as he revealed his plan to “bomb the s--- out of ‘em.” Even Hillary Clinton, running on the other side of the political spectrum, called for an escalation of the coalition bombing campaign.

These strategies, however, are fatally flawed. The practice of carpet-bombing ISIS in an attempt to break its will, one that is already in effect under the Obama administration, shows a misunderstanding of the situation as a

whole. Though the strategy has worked against enemies in the past, it revolves around an incorrect assumption: that ISIS territory is populated almost exclusively

by ISIS sympathizers, whom the Islamic state wants to protect.

In World War II, mass bombing campaigns against the Germans and Japanese were effective. The leaders of the Axis nation saw their civilians die, their food sources burn, and their weapon-making abilities disintegrate. As their territories shrunk and their citizens were killed, they had to eventually surrender so as to protect their people from horrible punishments.

We have since learned, however, that stopping belligerent nations—which are clearly defined by borders—and stopping the spread of radical ideas require very different strategies.

The vast majority of people living in an ISIS-controlled territory aren’t sympathizers or collaborators; they’re essentially hostages.

There are between 2 and 8 million people living in ISIS territory, and probably only 20,000-30,000 of them are militants according to NPR. The vast majority of people in the region are essentially held there against their will, and the leaders of the Islamic State have little desire to protect them.

By carpet-bombing the territory, we are only feeding antiUS sentiment. Drone strikes and bombs are nondiscriminatory; they don’t choose to only kill enemy combatants, they kill anyone within range. Many strikes have been successful in killing ISIS leaders and soldiers, but many of the approximately 10,000 strikes have effected collateral damage as well.

Strikes that harm innocent civilians and their loved ones help turn U.S. sympathizers and supporters into ISIS sympathizers, feeding the “us against the world” philosophy that is a pillar of the Islamic State’s values. By killing the people who have done nothing wrong, we only create more

problems for ourselves.

Other strategies need to be employed in order to put a halt to ISIS’ military and propaganda campaign. Many people drafted into ISIS are young and impressionable, and many know little about Islam other than the radical views that have been imposed upon them. A counter-propaganda campaign would help alter many of their views.

In both World Wars, “leaflet propaganda” strategies were used to inform and warn people living in enemy territory. By dropping leaflets on towns, the U.S. could spread information and teach people about why the views of their leaders and nations are wrong, and exactly why war is being waged upon them. The strategy has mostly become obsolete due to the advent of satellites and the Internet, but those technologies are limited in the embattled region ruled by ISIS. Trying to educate members of the Islamic State and fight the unfettered propaganda flowing throughout the region could put a halt to their holy war.

The fiery bombast shown by politicians has succeeded in riling up the nation and creating a hawkish fervor to punish every single person in a region that is being compromised by a select few people. It is time, however, that people realize the region is less of an enemy state full of only bad guys and more of a hostage situation in which bad guys, and a far larger number of innocent bystanders, reside. Trying to defeat the Islamic State by bombing the whole region into oblivion is like trying to defeat a bank robber by killing everyone in the bank. It’s time for a plan that will work—and more importantly, one we can all live with.

Sebastian is a freshman majoring in environmental studies and history. Do you agree with Sebastian? Do you disagree? Let us know what you think. Please send all comments and concerns to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

n America, it seems as if the National Football League owns a day of the week.

Every Sunday, our lives are put on pause so that we can don our jerseys, start up the grill and watch our home team get a win. Players become household names and heroes. But over the past few years, incidences of NFL players abusing their wives and girlfriends have become more and more common. However, it was only recently that league officials began to punish players for such actions.

In March 2014, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Rice was arrested for aggravated assault when he punched his thenfiancée (and current wife) in the face, knocking her unconscious.

Initially, he was only suspended for two games by league officials.

However, when gossip website TMZ released a gory surveillance tape of the altercation, public uproar ensued. Did the NFL see the tape before it was released to public? And if so, why did they only punish Rice with a two-game suspension?

The league quickly backpedaled, suspending Rice “indefinitely” and completely overhauling their policies regarding players accused of domestic abuse.

People began to fall back into their fandom, cheering for their players and teams with the same zeal as before. However, did the NFL change?

Viewers, young and old, look up to NFL players with the highest levels of admiration and respect.

Just this past Saturday, Cleveland Browns’ quarterback Johnny Manziel was questioned by the police for domestic abuse for the second time since last October. According to ESPN, the police report for Manziel’s October incident quotes his then-girlfriend as saying Manziel “pushed her head into a window.”

According to the revised physical conduct rules released

by the NFL, a first-time offender of domestic violence is subject to an unpaid suspension of six weeks. However, Manziel started for the Browns against the St. Louis Rams only two weeks after

Abuse is never OK, even if it could be the difference between a victory or defeat.

the altercation.

According to ESPN, he was not punished or fined in any way. The officials of the NFL should be ashamed by their lack of morality. Viewers, young and old, look up the NFL players with the highest levels of admiration and respect. However, when the NFL greenlights behavior such as domestic violence and aggravated assault, they are sending the message that this behavior is not worthy of punishment and is socially acceptable.

This is not the kind of message that needs to be sent by such an influential company. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a woman is beaten or assaulted every nine seconds. The NFL should be using cases of violence committed by its players as a way to exhibit how this kind of action is intolerable.

However, they are only concerned with the business side of the deal.

If the loss of a player could affect the team’s performance, will the player be suspended?

With Super Bowl 50 looming, the NFL is expected to bring in over 100 million viewers for the much-anticipated showdown between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos. But, if the NFL does not become more consistent with its rulebook, it will lose the respect and admiration it currently has. Abuse is never OK, even if it could be the difference between a victory or defeat.

Samantha is a freshman planning on majoring in communication arts and journalism. Has your perception of the NFL changed? Will you continue to watch NFL football games?

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Badgers push winning streak to four

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Khalil Iverson was a key factor in Wisconsin’s win over Illinois. The freshman set career highs in points (10) and minutes (30) as the Badgers won their fourth straight game.

By Zach Rastall the daily cardinal

On a night where early foul trouble kept a couple of key players sidelined, the Badgers needed someone to step up from the bench and make a major impact.

Luckily for them, Khalil Iverson was ready to answer the call.

The freshman scored a careerhigh 10 points on 3-of-4 shooting and added five rebounds, two assists, a block and an assist to help power Wisconsin (5-4 Big Ten, 13-9 overall) past Illinois (2-7, 10-12) 63-55 for its fourth consecutive victory.

Iverson’s contributions were especially pivotal in the first half,

where redshirt freshman forward Ethan Happ and junior guard Bronson Koenig both sat out a significant portion of the half after picking up two fouls apiece.

Despite losing two starters to foul trouble and trailing 18-10 midway through the first half, Iverson and Co. picked up the slack, finishing the half on a 23-10 run to take a five-point lead into the locker room.

The second half was more of the same for Wisconsin.

Though the Illini were able to cut the deficit to three early in the half, the Badgers kept them at bay and their lead was never really seriously threatened

down the stretch. After attempting zero free throws in the first 30:35 of the game, Wisconsin got to the line consistently over the final 9:25. The Badgers sunk 17 of their 20 free throws, allowing them to endure an 8:04 stretch without a field goal and not allowing Illinois to get within striking distance.

Iverson made all four of his free-throw attempts after coming into the night 7-of-12 from the charity stripe this season. In total, Wisconsin was +14 when the freshman was on the floor.

Iverson saw 30 minutes of game action Sunday night after playing for just a total of 29 minutes over

the previous five contests. He was the spark that the team desperately needed after a slow start.

Once they got rolling, the Badgers found plenty of success inside the arc. UW shot 44 percent from the field despite going an abysmal 2-of-14 from 3-point range. Illinois, on the other hand, only shot 36 percent from the floor, including a 32 percent mark in the second half.

Junior guards Malcolm Hill and Kendrick Nunn combined to score 37 points, but no other Illini player scored more than seven.

For the Badgers, junior forward Nigel Hayes led the team with 17 points and Koenig added 11.

An upper-body injury kept Vitto Brown out of the starting lineup for the first time all season, but the junior forward scored nine points off the bench.

The win was Wisconsin’s ninth straight against Illinois and marked the Badgers fourth consecutive victory in Champaign, the first time they’ve accomplished that feat in a series that dates all the way back to 1906.

The Badgers will return home to Madison for their next game Thursday against the Ohio State Buckeyes, where they’ll look to push their winning streak to five.

Tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Kohl Center.

Women’s Hockey

Clark, Wisconsin keep rolling with sweep of St. Cloud State

By Ryan Weinkauf The Daily Cardinal

It was business as usual for the No. 2 Wisconsin Badgers (20-1-1 WCHA, 26-1-1 overall) at LaBahn Arena, where they took down St. Cloud State (7-12-3, 11-13-3) 3-0 to finish off the series, and season, sweep of the Huskies.

Sophomore forward Emily Clark was pleased with the way the team performed this weekend against a much improved St. Cloud side.

“I think [the series] went well,” Clark said. “They are a tough team to play against. Our goal was to start strong and I think we did that. It was a tough weekend so I’m glad we could come away with six points.”

Unlike the game on Saturday where the Badgers got on the board in the opening minutes, chances weren’t as easily found for Wisconsin, who went into the second period still tied 0-0 today.

Wisconsin is the best penaltykilling team in the nation, but they took it one step further in the second period when junior forward Sarah Nurse won the puck near the Badgers’ own blue line and flew up the ice, eventually going top shelf

to beat the Huskies’ goalie and give UW its first goal of the game. The goal was Nurse’s third shorthanded goal of the season, tied for the second most in the country.

Finding themselves up only by a single goal for the second game in a row, the Badgers found their answer for offense in Clark. She and freshman forward Sam Cogan had a great combination to find themselves in a 2-on-1 down the right side. Cogan got the defender to commit and then dropped it to Clark in the middle who put the puck in the back of the net to give the Badgers a two-goal lead.

Not much later Clark and Cogan were back at it, as another good combination resulted in a shot on goal, with the consequent rebounded being collected

by Clark and redirected into the goal, assisted by Cogan.

After not getting any of her chances to go early in the game, Clark was happy to break through twice late in the game.

“I was struggling a little bit, I had a few chances that just weren’t going my way,” Clark said. “Those last two shifts, Sam [Cogan] made a great drop pass to me for the first one and the second

one Annie [Pankowski] and Sam did a great job and I just kind of picked up the scraps.”

Clark and Cogan are not normally on the same line, but coach Mark Johnson made some adjustments in the third period that clearly made an impact on the game.

“We made some adjustments and it paid off in the third period,” Johnson said. “Cogan set up a couple nice goals and Clark was able to capitalize on a couple nice plays

by Cogan and Annie [Pankowski].

They had a pretty good rhythm and it was just a different look that helped us out.”

The defense was stellar all game, but especially in the third period, limiting the Huskies to a single shot on goal in the period, making the job of junior goalie Ann-Renée Desbiens very easy.

“We saw it in the third period today, they only allowed one shot which was pretty big,” Desbiens said. “We came up with a lot of possession time and we were able to stay in the offensive zone. They were blocking a lot of shots and that was really big for us.”

The shutout put Desbiens in sole possession of the thirdmost shutouts in NCAA history

with 31. Johnson was naturally pleased with her performance, especially Desbiens’ ability to stay focused in a game where she wasn’t very busy.

“She’s been focused the last couple of weekends,” Johnson said. “And even though she wasn’t tested heavily today, there was some key moments, and sometimes it’s more challenging to play in a game where you aren’t get-

ting a lot of action. She seems to be comfortable and hopefully it continues on.”

The sweep gives Wisconsin 62 points in the standings, holding a five-point lead over the second place Minnesota Golden Gophers with only a few series left to play.

The Badgers are back in action next weekend when they travel to Columbus to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes.

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Emily Clark scored a pair of goals in Wisconsin’s 3-0 win over St. Cloud State Sunday. The Badgers have now won eight in a row.