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Wisconsin statute prioritizes profits instead of prisoner rehabilitation UW-Madison spends nearly $1.6 million on prisonproduced furniture and other goods in 2015 fiscal year Story by Peter Coutu and Miller Jozwiak

isconsin state statutes mandate UW-Madison and other tax-supported institutions purchase from a prison industry program that explicitly prioritizes profit over the rehabilitation of prisoners, while paying inmates a significantly lower wage than that paid in the private industry. UW-Madison purchased $1,596,515 worth of prison-produced goods—largely furniture and signage—from Wisconsin’s prison industry program, Badger State Industries, during the 2015 fiscal year. According to a Wisconsin state statute, a list of designated purchasing agencies, including UW-Madison and UW System schools, must “offer prison industries the opportunity to supply the materials, supplies, equipment or contractual services,” which the Department of Corrections lists periodically. The Bureau of Correctional Enterprises, which BSI falls under, employs roughly 600 Wisconsin inmates. BSI operates in 11 correctional facilities, where inmates produce signage, desks, tables,

seating and other office furniture that can be purchased by the state and any tax-supported institutions, according to the state statute. No maximum or minimum wage has been established for inmates who work for BSI, but they typically earn roughly $1 an hour, according to a 2013 Wisconsin Watchdog article. Though this rate is higher than most other wages for inmates employed by prisons, it is still substantially lower than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and the average rate paid in the same private industries. The statute explicitly ties inmates’ wages to the prison industries’ profits. It states that remaining profitable is a qualifier before inmates’ wages can be raised, saying “wages shall not be set at a rate such as to cause a deficit on operations.” In addition to a wage rate significantly lower than the rate paid in the private industry, the inmate workers are not directly given their entire earnings. BSI compensates employees by depositing credits to the inmates’ accounts. The Department of Corrections can also withhold a substantial portion of the inmates’ earnings, and has the discretion to determine how much, if any, of the earnings can be spent and for what purposes. The withholdings are used to

pay for several fees, including taxes, costs associated with inmates’ convictions or court-ordered payments, which often leaves them with wages far lower than $1 an hour. In 1993, five inmates from the Oshkosh Correctional Institution sued BSI over wage compensation. In the case George v. Badger State Industries, the judge ruled in favor of the defendant and justified the below-minimum-wage payment because the labor “is performed as part of a sentence of incarceration.” Wisconsin state statute Chapter 303 specifies that “the primary goal of prison industries shall be to operate in a profitable manner.” The same statute states that within this primary goal, inmates and residents shall be provided resources to help maintain employment following their release. Campus activist group BlackOut is trying to figure out how to address BSI’s impact on UW System schools while working with university officials, according to one of the group’s leaders, UW-Madison senior Kenneth Cole. “The goal of the prison-industrial complex is to be profitable, so basically we want to profit off of getting people in jail,” Cole said. “Sure you may have some programs set up to reduce recidivism, but you still have a stake having

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UW-Madison is statutorily obligated to purchase specific goods from Wisconsin’s prison industry program, Badger State Industries. people in your prison system.” Two of Wisconsin’s neighboring states, Illinois and Minnesota, also have state-established prison industries. But both emphasize rehabilitating prisoners first rather than operating in a profitable manner, which Wisconsin’s statute states as the primary goal. Minnesota aims to provide

suitable employment and educational training, while Illinois attempts to equip prisoners with marketable skills. In a 2013 info sheet, BSI states that minimal profits assures funding for inmate re-entry programs. BSI also states that they are able

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Estimated 20,000 flood Capitol for ‘Day Without Latinos’ protest By Andrew Bahl THE DAILY CARDINAL

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A light display, bonfire and s’mores helped turn Allen Centennial Garden into a winter haven this weekend. + Photo by Kaitlyn Veto

They came in thousands, from the dairy farms of Oshkosh, from the city centers of Milwaukee and Eau Claire and from high schools in Madison, all in an attempt to give Wisconsinites a glimpse at what their state would look like without Latinos. An estimated 20,000 protesters crowded the Capitol Square Thursday to protest two bills moving through the state Legislature they say are discriminatory. The first bill, approved Tuesday by the state Assembly, would cut state funding from cities that don’t enforce immigration statutes in an effort to crack down on so-called sanc-

tuary cities. The other would prohibit the issuance of local photo identification cards that citizens can show to law enforcement. That bill has been sent to Gov. Scott Walker, who has not indicated whether he will sign it. Supporters of the bills say they would increase public safety and streamline existing laws, but the opponents who flooded Madison say they are anti-immigrant and attack a population that is already discriminated against. “Most of the immigrants in this state hide in the shadows and now we would be afraid to leave our homes,” said Madison West student Michael Portillo.

Chanting “Sí, se puede” (yes, we can) and “Wisconsin is not Arizona,” referring to that state’s controversial immigration laws, the protesters represented one of the biggest movements seen at the Capitol since the Act 10 protests of 2011. Many waved flags of Mexico, Ecuador, Uruguay and other nations and played drums and noisemakers. Latin music wafted in the air outside and occasionally drowned out debate in the state Assembly chambers. The protest was entitled “A Day Without Latinos and Immigrants” and the goal of the movement was to emphasize the

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Fast Radio Bursts observed By Margaret Liu THE DAILY CARDINAL

The universe is a vast and mysterious space, filled with distant and puzzling objects, but UW-Madison physics professor Peter Timbie has played a huge role in helping to demystify it by giving us a deeper understanding of the incredibly rare cosmological phenomenon called Fast Radio Burst: a singular pulse of radio signal. Timbie and his lab work with understanding the early universe, using large radio telescopes to detect the signals emitted by distant pulsars, which are neutron stars that emit regular and repeated radio wave signals across the universe. During a radio survey using the Green Bank Radio Telescope in Green Bank, Va., they heard that a research group in Australia had detected over ten Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs. Timbie decided to analyze the data his team had already collected using the Green Bank Telescope, looking for any signs of previously unnoticed FRBs. Using a new algorithm developed by members of Timbie’s lab, they were able to find one FRB in over 650 hours of archival data. That single FRB, found using the help of the Green Bank Telescope, has provided the clearest image yet of what a Fast Radio Burst is. “What’s special about these is that they are just pulses, a single pulse,” Timbie said. “In some direction in the sky that we happen to have the telescope pointed, we see for a very short time—one millisecond—we see a little blip in the brightness of the signal. Then it goes away, and it doesn’t repeat, and even though we’ve gone back and looked in the same spot many times, they haven’t come back… It’s a lot like a pulsar that forgot to come back.” This phenomenon is rarely seen, as most objects emit repeating sig-

nals. Because of their unusualness, no one actually knows for sure exactly what is giving off FRBs. Timbie hypothesizes that FRBs may be emitted very distant pulsars. Regular pulsar signals will occasionally have phases where they become very bright, so according that Timbie’s model, it is possible that FRBs were simply not seen before because the pulsars emitting them were in their dim state. FRBs, Timbie suggests, are simply from pulsars in their brighter and more visible stage. To add to the mystery of FRBs, there is strong evidence that they are not from our galaxy. When observing the sky, scientists will divide it into the galactic plane and out of the plane. The galactic plane consists of what we see in the Milky Way, our own galaxy; this plane contains most of the stars, nebulae, planets and other objects that we can see. Outside of that plane, meaning essentially outside of our galaxy, the things that can be observed lessen greatly. Using the data Timbie’s group had analyzed, they concluded that the FRBs came from outside the galactic plane, suggesting that they originate from other galaxies in the universe. Timbie estimates that they could be as far out as six billion light years, about half the age of the universe.The gains from this detailed understanding of FRBs are very exciting and important to the field of astrophysics. The new algorithm that Timbie’s team created to detect FRBs in data can now be used as a tool for future studies of FRBs; without the software they wrote, it could have taken take years to fully sift through the data. Their research on FRBs has also helped provide insights to other research fields; the UW-Madison physics research group that uses

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Green Bank Telescope is the the largest steerable radio telescope in the world. the IceCube to detect particles called neutrinos have also started looking into the same chunk of space where the FRBs originated from, as it is a possibility that neutrinos come from the same source as FRBs. In addition, Timbie said, “if we can use [Fast Radio Bursts] as extra tools for measuring distances in the universe, that would be a strong application for mapping the universe.” Mapping the universe, and particularly the early universe, is of special interest to Timbie – he specializes in studying “the oldest light in the universe”: light that is so old that it originates roughly around the same time as the famous Big Bang itself.

In essence, it is a snapshot of the universe in its infancy – around 13.4-13.7 billion years ago. By having tools like FRBs which impressively stretch across half that immense distance and thus provide a snapshot of the universe at six billion years old, measuring huge cosmological distances becomes much easier. The discovery of Fast Radio Bursts has raised many questions, adding upon the plethora of mysteries the universe has to offer, but with the new understanding that Timbie and his team have found, Fast Radio Bursts have proven to be fascinating and important pieces of the mosaic of the universe.

Ask Ms. Scientist: sports fanatics and caffeine Dear Ms. Scientist,

Dear Ms. Scientist,

Is there any science as to why some people get so emotionally involved while watching a sports game?

What are the dangers of drinking too much coffee?

Jacob R.

Spencer O.

There aren’t many fans as dedicated to their object of obsession as sports fans. Being Badgers here at UW-Madison we can all attest to this: When the team wins, it feels like a win for all; same goes for a loss. The team is our team. There is, in fact, some science as to why we feel so attached to our teams. When one witnesses their team win, their testosterone levels spike. Increased testosterone may account for an individual’s increased aggression. Additionally, seeing your team perform well may lead to a dopamine rush. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that controls the brain’s pleasure centers. Hence, excess dopamine means excess pleasure. Most interestingly, mirror neurons, or certain cells in the brain’s premotor cortex, may ignite while watching a sports game. These mirror neurons are what cause an individual to feel empathy and hence, a fan may feel more emotionally attached to the game when these mirror neurons are activated. Specifically, fans may internalize what they see and feel as if they are playing the game themselves. Mirror neurons have memorized all of your previous actions. When you witness something familiar, they go off and you understand everything associated with that action, including all of the emotions. Watching a player score a touchdown, thanks to your mirror neurons, causes you to feel as if you are scoring a touchdown, and that’s why a fan becomes so emotionally involved.

Drink more than two cups of coffee and your body may begin to feel tricked by the effects of caffeine. Consuming excess amounts of caffeine not only stimulates your brain but your muscles and heart as well. Even before you finish your first cup, which contains 95 milligrams of caffeine, your heart rate increases. After a few more cups, your muscles may spasm and you may become restless. Vision impairment is also a symptom of high caffeine consumption. The upper eyelid may twitch, light sensitivity becomes an issue and vision may become blurred. Consuming more than 1,000 milligrams of caffeine and, well, your mind may start to become caffeine’s new home. Those who regularly consume this high amount are at risk for symptoms similar to anxiety disorders. Hallucinations and delusions are also possible for those who consume such high levels of caffeine. This is because caffeine is a psychoactive drug. However, studies have shown that consumers who have heard auditory hallucinations were quite stressed prior to drinking so much coffee; in other words, a person’s current state should also be taken into account. Long term, osteoporosis, or the weakening of the bones, may be brought on by extreme caffeine consumption. Drinking too much coffee can break down tooth enamel, dehydrate your body and affect your sleep patterns. A strong cup is a great way to start the morning or give you a boost in the afternoon, but be careful about how much caffeine you’re actually drinking.

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

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Open house update scheduled for 2015 Campus Master Plan By Madeline Heim THE DAILY CARDINAL

A public meeting will be held Wednesday at Gordon Dining and Event Center to update community members on the latest preliminary draft of the UW-Madison 2015 Campus Master Plan.

“We have to keep investing in our facilities and planning for future redevelopment.” Gary Brown campus planning director

The Campus Master Plan is created every 10 years, as required under state statutes, in a collaborative effort between the Facilities Planning & Management team and the university community. It aims to guide campus growth and development through enhancing green spaces, managing future building sites and addressing transportation, circulation and parking issues, according to its website. Wednesday’s meeting will offer

a Q-and-A session and present recent feedback from stakeholders. One goal of the current plan is to improve campus green spaces and outdoor gathering areas, according to a university release. Other recommendations include plans to add density to the south campus area and redevelop the area between Willow Creek and Babcock Drive. Campus Planning Director and Campus Landscape Architect Gary Brown described the importance of continuous improvement to the university. “The university is continuing to decompress overpopulated midcentury campus buildings and provide new facilities to support cutting-edge research, outreach and new ways of teaching,” Brown said in the release. “We have to keep investing in our facilities and planning for future redevelopment to assure the best and brightest have what they need to become productive citizens of this state, the country and the world.” This is the fourth open house held for the Master Plan. The revised preliminary plan will be released in April, and the City of Madison will review the final draft this fall.

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The Campus Master Plan is created every 10 years as a guide for university growth and development, according to its website.

Cross thanks Wisconsin state Assembly for passing college affordability package UW System President Ray Cross thanked members of the Wisconsin Assembly in a statement Thursday for passing a college affordability package proposed earlier in the year by Gov. Scott Walker. The package includes a variety of measures for decreasing student debt, including creating grants for students with emergency financial needs and increasing internship availability, as well as requiring all UW System schools to provide some type of financial literacy to students within their first semester on campus.

It also contains a component that would reduce student loan interest, which would benefit thousands of taxpayers paying off student loans, according to a January press release from the governor’s office. Cross has encouraged support for the package since its proposal and thanked the Assembly for passing it. “Improving the affordability of a university experience is critically important to our students and their families, and we greatly appreciate the Assembly’s passage of the college affordability bills,” Cross said in the statement.

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Protesters came from across Wisconsin Thursday for the ‘Day Without Latinos’ rally. The activists came to fight against what they saw as anti-immigration bills in the state Assembly.

protest from page 1 reliance the state’s economy has on those populations. Restaurants and businesses announced they would close in solidarity with staff members who attended the protest and farmers throughout the state expressed concern about the effect their

prison from page 1 to price their products competitively to save money for both taxpayers and customers. In contrast to the state statute’s primary goal, the Wisconsin administrative code does not mention profits for prison industries. Instead of profit, the Wisconsin administrative code states that “the purposes of prison industries are to provide meaningful employment opportunities, to assist inmates in reintegration into their communities and to maintain selfsupporting industries through the sale of products and services.” Although the goal of the administrative code is to provide meaningful employment opportunities, no data is readily available for how much recidivism has dropped among BSI inmates. The last time a study was done on recidivism rates within BSI specifically was 1995, and it showed a lower rate of recidivism compared to the rest of the Wisconsin prison population. UW-Madison Director of Community Relations Everett Mitchell said in a Jan. 29 memo to UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank that the BSI Transition Program has been a significant, though not well-publicized, partner to help inmates make a suc-

workers’ absence would have on dairy production. Protester Cerxio Guerrero said that most don’t understand the important role Latino workers play in the state’s economy. “Our economy would be ruined [without Latinos],” Guerrero said. “[Latinos and immigrants] work jobs that oth-

ers don’t want to.” Leaders of the movement said they were optimistic that legislators would hear their voices. “We all came out as a community,” said protester Estiven Zhen. “We think our voices will be heard.” Jake Skubish and Jason Snyder contributed to this report.

cessful transition out of prison. Of the roughly 22,000 prisoners who are incarcerated in Wisconsin, only the fewer than 600 inmates who work for BSI are eligible for the BSI Transition Program. In a 2014 inmate profile, the Department of Corrections provided information detailing prison demographics. Of the 22,596 prisoners in Wisconsin, roughly 54 percent were white and 42 percent were black. However, there are substantial racial disparities in the prison population compared to the entire population of Wisconsin. According to 2014 estimates by the census, nearly 88 percent of Wisconsin is white, while under 7 percent of the population is black. As racial disparities persist and contribute to a disproportionately large black prison population, they are still not the ones benefiting from the BSI Transition Program. “The majority of those benefiting from the resources were white inmates, who were able to secure the job while incarcerated,” Mitchell said in the memo to Blank. Wisconsin state statutes obligate UW-Madison to buy from BSI. In the 2015 fiscal year, UW-Madison purchased a total of nearly $1.6 million from the company. Despite BSI outlining a goal to reduce recidivism, Cole still objects to the uni-

versity making purchases from it. “The fact that we purchase over $1.5 million worth of goods from Badger State Industries is ridiculous,” Cole said. “It shows how much we actually don’t care about the issues that affect different communities. Of course we know that in Wisconsin, the prison-industrial complex overincarcerates black males.” UW System Associate Vice President for Communications Alex Hummel said the Board of Regents has not taken a specific stance other than complying with the state laws. UW-Madison Executive Director of University Communications John Lucas said that UW-Madison has no comment on the statute. Director of Prison Industries Earl Fischer could not be reached for comment after multiple attempts to contact him. UW-Madison has been purchasing furniture and other goods from Wisconsin’s prison industry for decades. The university’s current furniture contract has automatic renewals until Sept. 30, 2017, unless it is amended, cancelled or rebid. “We are not actually helping people,” Cole said. “We’re making people’s lives worse and we’re putting them in a perpetual cycle of the criminal justice system and turmoil.”

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UW-Madison purchases several categories of items from Badger State Industries, primarily signage and office furniture. Badger State Logistics is BSI’s primary warehouse.

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PHYSICAL TRAITS: Just a regular monkey, nothing too crazy here. CAREER GOALS: Watch me in every moment forever and ever and ever. And ever. PRIMARY FLAWS: A tad nosey. Overly sensitive about unpleasant scents.

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FULL REVIEW: Sshhh, he’s probably really close. I narrowly escaped his nosey presence just moments ago. Bob, my annoying neighbor, is a proboscis monkey who has brought deep horror and paranoia to my life since he moved in moments ago. My blood pumped and sweat pooled in my groin as he introduced himself, his voice muffled by his massive nose. “I am Bob. I heard you on the phone, how are your hemorrhoids?” My heart sank into the pit of my chest. How did he know this? Am I safe? Why does he look so much like that blue guy from Spongebob?

Wood creaked and wind howled as I cowered in my rocking chair thinking of ways to hide my life from Bob. He knew about it all: my kangaroo observations in Australia last month, my mother’s favorite flavor of ice cream and my opinions on Donald Trump’s cat (it’s adorable). The things I’ve learned about the species haunt me as I tremble in fear, reminded of Bob’s presence with every one of his loud communicative honks. The only time Bob wasn’t watching my every move was when he and his wife made sweet noisy love. Proboscis monkeys have sex in less than 30 seconds

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on average; Bob used this efficiency to ensure my every action is monitored. At one point I managed to sneak away to the bathroom to apply my hemorrhoids medicine. In that half a minute, I thought I was in the clear—I really did—but moments later his silhouette was there, standing in the shower, analyzing every little red bump in my most vulnerable moment. I screamed, ran out of my house and tore down the street. How could I be so stupid? I got lazy, I should have been more careful. He will always be there. Watching. Waiting……..He is coming.

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Lizzo brings ‘Big Grrrl’ love to the Majestic stage to inspire all women By Amileah Sutliff THE DAILY CARDINAL NIAMH RAHMAN/THE DAILY CARDINAL

Fetty Wap performed hit singles for an excited downtown Madison.

Fetty Wap performs at Orpheum By Francisco Velazquez THE DAILY CARDINAL

The first thing I see outside the venue of Fetty Wap’s concert is a blur of teenagers. I’m convinced that the rate of underage drinking at this concert is as high as the percentage of white students that attend UW-Madison. A guy cries to his friend about getting kicked out for being drunk, but what do you expect when you’re half standing and throwing up? He proceeds to blatantly curse at the security guard, then runs away, comes back and does this about four times. Inside, the Orpheum Theatre is packed to full capacity. I wonder if all these white people actually listen to Fetty Wap or if the concert is just the “move” for the weekend? I was honestly uncomfortable watching and listening to these people proclaim trivial words they would never say in a space of brown and black people. The only place where there isn’t a mob of teens is at the side bars, reminding me that everyone attending the show is barely of legal drinking age. The opening music is odd; why would Adele’s “Hello” play as an opening turn-up song? Ironically, everyone is singing along. The crowd grows tense and people begin to get pushed in the front. I make my way upstairs where the stench of alcohol and odd questions like, “Oh my gosh do you love Post Malone? I love Post Malone,” have diminished. This isn’t just a Fetty Wap show. I noticed more hype and attention when Post Malone comes on -- the last act before Fetty Wap himself. Around me, teens and adults shuffle to pull out their phones and document their night on Snapchat. I actually watched the girl next to me videotape the entire concert...that’s a lot of storage space gone. Nearby, a girl loses her phone and is in tears, asking, “Where is my phone? I need to post about Post Malone.” Post Malone opens with his Top 40 hit “White Iverson,” and the teenagers know every last word. This awkward space fills the theater when he continues to perform more of his songs, ones that people probably haven’t heard because they haven’t made the mainstream radio. I vividly remember Malone slurring a song with the chorus “wassup with that wassup” for five minutes. He performs a five-song set list and closes his set with “White Iverson” again. I find that choice to be a copout. By then, I’ve lost interest. Then again, I’ve never really found him to be a true artist, just more of a turnup performer. Finally, in a Wisconsin crewneck, Fetty Wap walks on stage. He chuckles a little before belting “1738.” The teenagers don’t seem to know more than the mainstream hits. Part of

me believes that people were more interested in Post Malone than Fetty Wap. The top level of the theater has more than half of the audience sitting down. I’m forced to watch the beginning of Fetty’s set from the phone screens of the people in front of me. Teens take videos and photos throughout the entire night. Needless to say, Fetty seems to genuinely enjoy the presence of the audience and the reciprocated adoration he receives. Fetty wastes little time before bringing one of his best friends, Monty, onstage. Of the 20 song tracklist on Fetty’s self-titled album, Monty is featured on nine songs. While onstage, they both command one side, casually switching between songs and posing for pictures in the process. The crowd is mesmerized and by the third song, phones are finally starting to disappear. At the end of “Again,” Fetty tells the crowd why he’s been a little down lately; he talks about an accident in which he broke three parts of his leg, yet no one seems to pay attention to the story. I won’t knock Fetty’s actual vocal ability. It’s actually pretty good. “I’m telling ya’ll I’m not always on that auto-tune shit, I’m the real deal,” Fetty states after an impressive vocal run. His live vocals proved why his auto-tuning on his album is by choice and not artistically necessary. His performance—eh, not so great. His stage presence comes off as uninterested, maybe disconnected. Fetty plays almost all his mainstream hits for a little less than an hour. It seems that the two opening acts and the numerous Top 40 hits took up more time than his actual performance. There’s an odd lack of communication at the end, and no one is really sure when the show ended. Fetty didn’t actually say, “this is the last song,” or “goodnight, thank you for coming.” I guess he thought it was implied. Nonetheless, Fetty closes the show with “Trap Queen,” but this time, without the original heavy beat chorus that we’ve known since 2015. This time, he closes it out by cutting the beat short, and letting the crowd sing “Trap Queen” to him a capella. As I leave the theater, everyone seems misguided and lost, looking for their friends, but probably drunk. The show wasn’t the best I’ve seen, but it was entertaining. This concert reminded me of the connection that still applies through the use of music as a communication motive. To little surprise, I don’t believe there lies any appreciation between the hip-hop music and the audience in Madison, Wis. I don’t like the idea of people at a rap concert, if they only know what’s popping on the radio.

Throughout the entirety of Lizzo’s show Friday night at the Majestic Theatre, the audience level was never less than a booming rumble, with the exception of one moment. “Where are all the Big Grrrls?” Lizzo yelled mid-show to preface her song “B.G.S.W.” A portion of the audience shyly clapped and a couple of people hollered, but there was a slight lull in the crowd’s energy. “I don’t just mean big in stature. Big isn’t just physical,” Lizzo explained. “You can be big in what you believe, who you are, your personality, your style.” The crowd went back to a full eruption. These words, and her entire performance, were a welcome reassurance in a world where both individuals and entire groups of people are frequently told to be sorry for the space they occupy, physically and otherwise. It was clear from the moment she walked onstage that this night would be a creative, contagious ode to self-love. Hot off the release of her album Big Grrrl Small World in December, her performance was transformative, and the message was clear: Lizzo isn’t apologizing for who she is, and neither should you. Madison’s own ME eN YOU took the stage first to kick off the good vibes and celebration. With their large ensemble and playful lyrics, their performance felt like more of a thought-provoking party than a show. The crowd grew as alt-rap duo Cavanaugh, composed of rappers Open Mike Eagle and Serengeti, performed witty concep-

tual pieces to experimental electronica hip-hop beats. Anticipation was building among the crowd that mingled restlessly after the openers. But if there was a single inattentive member of the audience, that was quickly remedied by the only known sound (probably) that has the power to double the human heart rate in seconds: the opening notes to Beyoncé’s “Formation.” DJ Sophia Eris was onstage and ready to slay. After warming up an alreadyjazzed crowd even further, Eris remained onstage, but was now joined by the mind-numbing presence of Lizzo and her incredible backup dancers, “Big Grrrls” Jessi Williams and Grace Holden. The duo may have been backup dancers, but they did more than just blend into the background. Throughout the whole night, they performed complex modern hiphop choreography, ranging from enchanting chair work to a full-on, ass-shaking drop into the splits at the end of an insane dance solo to Shamir’s “On the Regular.” With all that talent and “Grrrl” Power taking over the night, it was legitimately impossible not to dance and smile and just feel good about yourself. When Lizzo performed “En Love,” the tag of which repeats “I think I’m in love…WITH MYSELF,” I was fairly certain the sturdy walls of the Majestic would burst from the enthusiastic booty-shaking of a sea of confident women. So, yes, Lizzo sings like a powerful angel and effortlessly raps... anything else? Yep, turns out she

also has mad flute skills. I can probably count on one hand the number of times my jaw has uncontrollably dropped due to the sheer talent of another human being, but watching Lizzo solo on that flute definitely takes the cake. In tandem with the sheer talent on the stage, Lizzo’s extremely successful performance boiled down to one thing: the complete genuine nature of everything she did. She’s a flawless example of uplifting activism through arts. A teary-eyed Lizzo introduced the song “My Skin,” the emotional highlight of the evening, by explaining that the day had been really tough for her. But, she says the energy and love from the crowd was the reason she performed. She opened the ballad by sampling a slowed-down chorus from Beyoncé’s “Flawless,” a homage to the importance of sharing your acceptance of yourself, your body and your skin to inspire that love in others. After a number of hair-raising belts, she closed the song tenderly singing “My life matters” and “Black Lives Matter.” Through song, Lizzy had taken her moving personal narrative of acceptance and love and effectively inserted it into the context of an entire movement. During the show, Lizzy promised “hugs and kisses” to the crowd after the show, and she truly kept that promise. Despite a full-energy performance on every possible level, she stayed after to hug every fan that waited, making sure to tell each one how beautiful they really are. The entire experience was so powerful and so beautiful, I honestly didn’t see a single eye left dry.

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Letter to the Editor: Judaism is no joke Caitlin Griffin letter to the editor

hose who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” an adage recognizable to many. It calls upon humanity to learn from its mistakes to make the future a better, more hospitable place for us all. Unfortunately, we are forgetful creatures. Jewish students at the University of WisconsinMadison were stunned Thursday when a post made by a Jewish student began to circulate on Facebook. The post described an incident that occurred on January twenty-eighth in Sellery Hall in which two students pasted three images of Adolph Hitler and five of Swastikas on a Jewish student’s door. In a comment on the Facebook post the victim states that what had happened was simply a prank gone wrong and that the perpetrators were not aware of the fact that their actions were anti-Semitic. One might think that our history classes would have conveyed the fact that Adolf Hitler systematically killed over six million Jews during World War II. Despite this the University found it to be plausible that one could be unaware of how replicating images of a mass murderer of the Jewish people, and the flag that flew over millions in death and concentration camp were not to conjure a glorification of the genocide that happened just under seventy one years ago, and that producing images and pasting them to the door of a

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Judaism is considered one of the oldest monotheistic religions that is still in use to this day. Jewish student was in no way meant to portray anti-Semitism. Only after the Facebook post was circulated did Dean of Students Lori Berquam send an e-mail to students on February eighteenth, three weeks following the event, stating that “University Housing and the Division of Student Life responded to this incident immediately, providing support to the targeted students and identifying the perpetrator. After investigating, we notified the Sellery Hall community via email and organized a discussion and support group, in keep-

ing with the context of the situation and appropriate protocols”.

It calls upon humanity to learn from its mistakes to make the future a better, more hospitable place for us all.

Berquam also says that “When a bias incident occurs, our first priority is to respond immediately to the community most directly affected. We

communicate more broadly as appropriate based on the nature of the incident. All incidents are tracked but not all of them result in a campus-wide notification”. Yet, Jewish students at large, the community most directly affected, were not given information about this incident unless they lived in Sellery Hall. Students whose backgrounds are targeted in acts of hate have the right to know when it is happening in their communities. Many ponder why the issue was not publicized by the school sooner, as e-mails discussing bias inci-

dents have been sent before. These e-mails are spoken about by professors, discussed over lunch in our dining halls, and they permeate into the campus itself. When we are aware of those around us who are being unfairly targeted or harassed we garner sympathy for each other. We as a campus community must demand of our administration that all incidents of hate be dealt with in an even-handed manner, and that we hold perpetrators responsible. Thus, we must learn from our collective histories and do our best to begin dialogues about the prejudices that poison our world. As members of a generation where the world has been made smaller and more compassionate by the advent of the car, train, plane, and internet, we have a responsibility to share the messages of those who experience injustices in our world because of the nation they were born in, the religion they practice, their gender, or the color of their skin. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel once stated, “To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you”. Caitlin has been heavily involved in the Jewish community both on and off campus. How do you feel about this incident? Email us at opinion@dailycardinal.com.

New music school will take away accessibility to music Sebastian van bastelaer opinion columnist

djacent to the Chazen Museum sits a sign, the lone marker in an otherwise barren lot: “Future Home of the UW School of Music Performance Center.” In a few years’ time, the new venue— which will host a 325-seat recital hall and a large rehearsal area— will make its debut. This extravagant new complex will allow the prestigious music school to reach new heights. Its expansion, however, paradoxically worsens one of its greatest flaws: its exclusivity. The School of Music is home to a myriad of gifted musicians. Those who major in music are fortunate enough to have access to its various facilities and course offerings. Obviously, there are hundreds of other students at UW-Madison who are also interested in—and immensely talented at—making music. It’s these students that get the short end of the stick. There are around 100 different undergraduate music courses on the Course Catalog. Go to the School of Music website, however, and you’ll find a considerably smaller number of classes available to non-majors: There are only 15 of them. And

while those select classes are of excellent quality and can certainly be challenging, they seriously constrict the options of the non-major music aficionado.

One of the fundamental purposes of a music school is to foster a love for music in its community.

Granted, many ensembles do allow non-majors to audition— but they stress that most members have “significant” experience, or are music majors. Even the descriptions of the groups contain strong enough language to discourage casual musicians from auditioning. The timing of the auditions is also tricky: They are held several days into each semester. As a result, it is difficult for non-major students to plan their semester’s schedule without knowing which group they will be placed in (if any). Even those students who love making music but have no interest in joining an ensemble have a difficult time gaining access to the school’s facilities. Private practice rooms to practice playing an instrument or singing

are hard to come by on campus. Some dorms have practice rooms (most apartment complexes and houses don’t), but there’s usually only one of them, hardly fulfilling the demand for rehearsal spaces. Many of the rooms are also near common areas, such as laundry rooms, computer labs and study spaces. The knowledge that dozens of people are within earshot is enough to dissuade many people from singing (or playing) their hearts out. There are a multitude of music practice rooms on the bottom floor of Mosse Humanities Building, where the Music School hosts most of its classes. Many of them are replete with grand pianos, percussion sets, stands and other equipment. The only problem? The practice rooms need to be rented, for a price of at least $130 per year. Fees that exorbitant force many students—many of whom already have student loans or very little disposable income—to opt against playing music. Other schools, such as the University of Minnesota and the University of Washington, rent out practice rooms for more affordable rates. Although the new performance center will certainly be a huge draw for the school and allow the program to continue

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The UW School of Music is currently housed in the George Mosse Humanities building. An expansion is planned for the year 2017. its excellent tradition, it uses up money that could have also been used in making the program more accessible for all students. Investing even a tiny portion of the $22 million poured into the facility would have allowed nonmajors to also enjoy the resources that the School of Music has to offer. One of the fundamental purposes of a music school is to foster a love for music in its commu-

nity. By offering limited classes to non-majors and obliging students to pay high dues to pursue their love for music, the UW School of Music—despite all its prestige— does the exact opposite. Sebastian is a freshman majoring in environmental studies and history. Do you agree with him? do you disagree? Let us know what you think. Send any comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Thank you, Punxsutawney Phil. Today’s Sudoku

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

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ACROSS 1 Wine stoppers 6 One-pot meals 11 High-arcing hit 14 Sports venue 15 White-sale item 16 “Ciao, Brutus” 17 Cable alternatives 20 Be aware of 21 “Oh, me!” 22 San Diego player 23 Bigheadedness 24 “__ Flanders” 25 Easy to control 26 AT&T, for one 28 Coffee house? 29 Grand Coulee or Aswan 30 John Lennon’s lady 34 Drivel 35 Semi-gloss alternative 37 Is able 38 Alphabetic characters 39 Bare-bones bed 40 “___ all in your mind” 41 Playful marine mammal 45 Adjusts wheels 47 Advise caution 50 Eggs, to Nero 51 Spiral-horned antelope 52 “Art of Fugue”

composer 53 “Wheel of Fortune” action 54 Time for cartoon watching 57 Donned the feedbag 58 Really dumb 59 Tiny weight 60 Cardinal, e.g. 61 Merchant’s successes 62 Urged (with “on”) DOWN 1 Coffin 2 Certain citrus fruit 3 Come out with a modified version 4 Homophone of 46Down 5 Actor Mineo 6 “It’s ___ Rock and Roll to Me” 7 Destroy completely, as a car 8 Some meadow creatures 9 “With this ring, I thee ___” 10 Like some blouses or shoes 11 Pretentious 12 Partly coincide

13 Old-fashioned suit? 18 “7 Faces of Dr. ___” (1964 flick) 19 Cul-de-___ 24 Beside the point 25 Stingless male honeybee 27 Blue shade 28 College course division 31 Bagpipers’ garments 32 Aces, sometimes 33 O’er and o’er 34 “Do you want to hear a secret?” 35 Filled to the gills 36 Appliance for smoothing cloth 37 Assemble in proper sequence 39 Victim of Brutus 40 Short-tailed lemurs 42 Hitting the bottle 43 Demonstrate clearly 44 Traveled far and wide 46 African antelope 47 Batman Bruce 48 Apexes 49 Greek “P” 52 Canaanite deity 53 Like a bug in a rug 55 FBI evidence, at times 56 Lobster coral

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Hutchins takes plunge into unknown Junior swimmer has high hopes of making New Zealand’s Olympic team this coming spring Story by Kelly Ward

att Hutchins has traveled a bit longer than most to be a Badger—8,489 miles to be exact. The junior swimmer from Christchurch, New Zealand has made the most of his journey that’s taken him across the Pacific Ocean and 66 lengths across the pool every time he swims the 1,650-yard freestyle; an event in which he is currently ranked No. 1 in the country. In August 2013, when fellow juniors Cannon Clifton and Sean Maloney were moving into their dorms, Hutchins was back in New Zealand trying to figure out if and where he would be attending school and swimming in the United States. “It was kind of a pretty rushed decision, to be honest,” Hutchins said. “I was kind of looking around, but then Wisconsin got in touch with me. I got this email that said ‘Greetings from Wisconsin!’ and my first thought was ‘where is Wisconsin?’ I honestly had no clue where it was; I just knew New York, California and Texas.” Coming to a school and a state he didn’t know much about didn’t really phase Hutchins—he was

actually more worried about getting his visa and passport in on time so he would be able to begin school after the semester break in January. “I actually finally got accepted and enrolled in school two days before my flight left New Zealand,” explained Hutchins. “I got in on a Monday and my flight left that Wednesday.” Once he was able to move into the house he shared that year with some of the older team members—a spot in a dorm was not available at the time—Hutchins had to almost immediately turn around and travel to Hawaii for the team’s annual winter training trip. It was there where his journey as a Badger really started, and where he met Clifton and Maloney, the two teammates who would eventually become his roommates and best friends. “Freshman year, we spent a lot of time traveling and rooming together,” Clifton said. “[NCAAs that year] was where we really bonded.” That bond was on full display when the three sat down for an interview recently; constantly laughing, they made inside jokes and finished each others’ sentences. Despite their not-so-subtle jabs at each other (for instance, Maloney thinks Hutchins should work as hard at keeping their shared room

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clean as he works to get top times in the pool), the three all agree that the team dynamic and work ethic would not be the same if the Kiwi standout had not gotten his acceptance notification that Monday morning in December 2013. “In practice, I’m probably the closest to Matt [times wise] out of the distance swimmers,” Maloney said. “I’m nowhere near him, so it’s like there he is lapping everyone and I’m just struggling; then you get to racing other teams and I’ll be coming in second or third and stuff but he’s just a really long way ahead.” Clifton, a sprinter, agrees. “He’s a really good training partner and he pushes everyone to go faster,” he said. Hutchins hasn’t just had success fitting in with his team and training, he’s also surprising even himself with his times in the distance freestyle events this season. The defending Big Ten champion in the 500-yard freestyle, he has not placed below third in that event this season, and is looking for a repeat. What’s even more amazing is that he’s posted the fastest time in the nation in the 1650-yard freestyle, an event he came in 10th at nationals last year. Hutchins has rewritten the school record books in the process, posting a time of 14:38.14, which won him the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational in December. “My mile [1650] time was actually quite surprising at Texas, it was faster than my goal time I had written at the start of the year,” Hutchins said. “I think I’d written a 14:43—it was about four or five seconds slower than what I swam at that meet.” Hutchins firmly believes he’s capable of more than what he’s

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Matt Hutchins has had unprecedented success with the Badgers and will attempt to qualify for New Zealand’s Olympic team. already accomplished this season; most importantly, he’s hoping for a spot on the New Zealand Olympic Team that competes in Rio de Janeiro this summer. He’ll have his chance to find out whether he makes the team or not April 5, when he goes to Toronto to compete. “There was this whole issue with New Zealand trials starting two days after [NCAAs],” Hutchins explained. “New Zealand’s now letting all the U.S.-based swimmers go swim at Canadian trials, which is a week later and a lot closer.” “[Two hours to Toronto] is a little bit nicer on your body,” Maloney, a native of Canberra, Australia who flies home for the summer with Hutchins, joked. Hutchins agreed, saying, “23 hours on a plane going home [last summer] was the worst.” Although he sprinkles his vocabulary with New Zealand

slang such as “jandals” (flipflops) and “trackies” (sweatpants), and special-orders meat pies, a New Zealand fast food staple, to be delivered to his apartment from Los Angeles, Hutchins has made Madison, Wis.—a place he’d never heard of until two years ago—his second home and has taken advantage of everything the school and city has to offer. “Going to Wisconsin and seeing these students, parents, alum, people from all over the state supporting the Badgers, school spirit’s so high,” Hutchins said. Hutchins can surely get excited about Badger fans supporting one of their own at Big Tens, NCAAs and the Olympic trials. No matter how long and winding his path was to get to Madison, Badger fans are celebrating his unprecedented success.

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Leonhard returns to Madison as new defensive backs coach By Jake Powers The Daily Cardinal

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After a prolific career with UW as a safety in the early 2000s, Jim Leonhard returns as Paul Chryst’s (above) defensive backs coach.

Following the Feb. 9 departure of defensive backs coach Daronte Jones, head coach Paul Chryst announced Saturday the hiring of former Badger Jim Leonhard to fill Jones’ position. Jones left Wisconsin for the defensive backs assistant coaching position with the Miami Dolphins after coaching the Badger secondary for just one season following a three-year stint at Hawaii. Under Jones, Wisconsin gave up just seven passing touchdowns and allowed 173.2 passing yards per game, the seventh-best mark in the country. Leonhard will join newly-hired defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox’s staff in a hiring that is truly a homecoming for the former Badger and NFL safety. The Tony, Wis., native walked on to the football program in 2001 and excelled, playing in every game during his Badger career. Following his playing career at Wisconsin, during which he amassed 21 interceptions and established himself as one of the finest safeties in the Big Ten, Leonhard bounced around in the NFL for 10 years, playing for the Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, Denver Broncos, New Orleans Saints and Cleveland

Browns despite going undrafted. Chryst believes Leonhard developed a deep knowledge of the game during his time at Wisconsin and in the NFL, and that he will be a valuable addition to the Badger coaching staff. “I’m excited for our players and coaches to be able to work with him and learn from him,” Chryst said in a Saturday release. “What makes Jim special is his desire to teach, to help young men grow and to develop them to reach their full potential. He has a tremendous love and appreciation for the University of Wisconsin and our football program.” Leonhard was inducted to the UW Athletics Hall of Fame in Sept. 2015 and expressed nothing but love for both the university and the City of Madison. Following his retirement from the NFL in 2014, Leonard and his family moved back to the Madison area permanently in what he called an easy decision. “I’ve been fortunate to have a place here pretty much since I left, finished school,” Leonhard told The Daily Cardinal after the Hall of Fame Induction ceremony at Varsity Hall in Union South. “It’s always amazing to come back and just see the upgrades with the

facilities and the amount—what is put into the university, for one, but then the athletic programs, the big money sports and all the small sports as well. It’s amazing to see what they do and the improvement on a year-to-year basis. That’s what makes this place special, the people that back the program, the university. There is something special about this place and that’s what it is, the people.” While Leonhard faces the difficult task of guiding a secondary with just one returning starter and helping Wilcox fill the void left by former Wisconsin and nowLSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda, it’s certain that he’ll be comfortable coaching in an environment he’s so deeply rooted in. The 33-year-old has been close to the game for his entire life, and his relatability and close ties to the Badger program will go a long way in easing the transition into his first coaching position. “Jim has always been a part of our Wisconsin family and I’m looking forward to him impacting this program in a new role,” Chryst added in the release. Per the release, Wisconsin’s spring practices open March 1, and the inter-squad Spring Game is scheduled for April 23.