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Students ask legislators for UW violence prevention provisions

By Nina Bertelsen THE DAILY CARDINAL

With one in four women on UW System campuses reporting they have been sexually assaulted, ensuring resources for survivors is a priority for many leaders.

When UW System Student Representatives lobbied at the Capitol last Thursday, they took time to ask that legislators seek provisions for a Violence Prevention Specialist on each system campus.

Jacob Schimmel, president of the UW-La Crosse Student Association, said these provisions could include asking that money is set aside for these positions in the biennial budget or other legislation.

“We’ve been promoting the idea of providing confidential Violence Prevention Specialists at UW System campuses since last fall,” said Graham Pearce, president of the UW System Student Representatives. “This idea came as a response to hear-

ing from a number of student governments about how students at their campuses don’t feel that survivors of sexual or dating violence have enough accessible resources to get confidential help and advice.”

At UW-La Crosse, this position acts as a counselor and advocate for survivors of domestic and sexual violence and is not bound to report a disclosure to officials.

“At too many campuses there aren’t many outlets for them to

go because if they go to faculty there’s gonna be an investigation, if they go to an RA that’s gonna be an investigation because they’re both mandatory reporters,” Schimmel said. “This is really a safe outlet for people to go to [which] also functions as somebody to walk them through the entire process if they decide they want to proceed.”

State Rep. Jill Billings, D-La Crosse, was one of the legisla-

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Repairs for several UW buildings deferred in Walker’s capital budget

By Meredith Nesbitt THE DAILY CARDINAL

Multiple UW-Madison building project requests have been deferred, according to Gov. Scott Walker’s capital budget proposal.

The Department of Administration released the proposal Tuesday, which outlines the 2017-19 spending on public buildings. In total, Walker is recommending $803 million with roughly $450 million in new borrowing for building projects throughout the state.

The Capital Budget recommends long-range public building projects, which affect a number of communities throughout the state.

On campus, the budget deferred Slichter Hall’s $15,210,000 renovation proposal.

Slichter Hall has one of the lowest returning student ratios on campus and post-occupancy student satisfaction surveys reveal that this facility receives the lowest scores of all on-campus housing facilities.

Additionally, the building infrastructure, such as its heating system, does not have fire protection mechanisms.

Walnut Street Greenhouse’s renovations were also deferred.

According to the grant, “a recent survey of plant science faculty in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences indicated a need for additional campus greenhouse space that would support cutting edge contemporary research. With new

research breakthroughs, such as gene mapping and synthetic biology, experiments have increased in size and require space with more sophisticated environmental controls.”

The Walnut Street Greenhouse could fill this need, according to the grant.

All the campus greenhouses have been upgraded since 1983 except the ones on Walnut Street.

Additionally, the Lowell Center’s request for renovation was approved, but will fund itself with residual bonding.

Throughout UW System as a whole, however, Walker’s funding proposal has been praised by university leaders.

“We carefully developed a reasonable capital budget plan to perform a limited amount of work each year at a steady pace,” UW System President Ray Cross said in a statement.

Cross and UW-Madison spokesman Meredith McGlone mentioned that the longer maintenance in deferred, the more expensive it becomes.

The $450 million in new borrowing is different from the $500 million Walker proposed to borrow for transportation projects.

“The Operating and Capital Budgets propose the lowest combined authorizations in 20 years,” Walker said. This capital budget would be the state’s lowest in spending on building projects in 10 years and lowest amount of borrowing for projects in 20 years.

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Lake Monona ice begins to melt in the week leading up to all-time high winter temperatures in Madison, peaking at 68 degrees Feb. 22.

Madison winter temperatures reach all-time high

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Incumbent Tony Evers and former Beloit superintendent Lowell Holtz will compete for state superintendent in April.

Evers, Holtz advance to general election in April state superintendent race

By Claire Lancaster THE DAILY CARDINAL

Incumbent State Superintendent Tony Evers and former Beloit superintendent Lowell Holtz advanced to the general election in Wisconsin’s only statewide primary on Tuesday. Holtz defeated fellow Republican-backed consultant John Humphries and write-in candidate Rick Melcher.

Receiving about seven percent of votes, Holtz still trailed far behind Evers, who received 88.7 percent of votes.

Humphries polled at four percent and the write-in candidate

at .3 percent.

“The real winners tonight are Wisconsin’s 860,000 public school kids,” Evers said in a statement. “I am proud of where we are today. We have high graduation rates, suspensions are down, attendance is up, and the number of kids earning college credit in high school is at an all-time high.”

Evers, who is running for his third four-year term as the state’s highest ranking educator, faced criticism from his opponents for supporting

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Following a week of unseasonably warm weather, Madison broke the record Wednesday for highest temperature ever tracked in the city during winter.

Temperatures registered by Dane County Regional Airport peaked at 68 F around 3 p.m.

The temperature climbed several marks above the city’s previous record throughout the afternoon, officially breaking it after hitting 66 F around 1 p.m. The last winter weather record of 65 F was set Dec. 3, 2012.

Although the calendar winter doesn’t start until Dec. 21, the entire month of December is considered winter by weather analysts. The meteorological winter goes through the end of February.

Madison also saw record-setting temperatures, all hitting at least 62 F, in the five days leading up to Wednesday.

February 2017 beat the last record monthly high of 64 F, set in 2000. Until this year, Madison has not seen more than three days in February where the temperature surpassed 60 F, according to the National Weather Service.

The city’s daily temperature record for Feb. 22 was last set in 1984, after hitting 60 F. Despite a week of spring-like weather, Madison hasn’t seen the last of cold and snow—temperatures are expected to drop Friday, possibly followed by snow rolling in over the weekend, according to local meteorologists.

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School Board candidates advance to general election

By Lawrence Andrea THE DAILY CARDINAL

In Tuesday’s spring primary, candidate pools for two different Madison School Board seats were narrowed down to candidates who will advance to the general election.

Madison School Board, Seat Six Ali Muldrow and Kate Toews are set to vie for seat six of Madison School Board in the upcoming general election, after defeating Cris Carusi in the spring primary Wednesday.

Toews beat Carusi by a .3 percent margin, securing 30.2 percent of votes. Muldrow led the race, polling at 40.2 percent.

Addressing disparities and the

achievement gap in the Madison Metropolitan School District has been a focal point in the candidates’ campaigns.

Muldrow, a former student in the Madison Metropolitan School District, said the school board needs to look at how school faculty provides opportunities for people of all backgrounds.

According to Muldrow, confronting disparities head-on and advocating for the needs of students with different abilities is key to addressing the achievement gap.

If elected, Muldrow said she plans to make MMSD the “forefront of inclusion.”

Toews takes a different angle when addressing the achievement

gap. Toews, who has children in the district as well as a background in business, said her primary concern is attracting a high-quality and diverse set of teachers. Toews believes more diverse teachers will narrow the achievement gap between white students and students of color in Madison.

Carusi said decreasing the student-faculty ratio throughout the district is a priority in efforts to narrow the achievement gap.

Madison School Board, Seat Seven Incumbent Ed Hughes and opponent Nicki Vander Meulen also advanced to the April general election, where they will compete for seat seven of Madison School Board.

The two beat Matt Andrzejewski, a university professor whose campaign stressed improving teacher morale, in Tuesday’s primary.

Vander Meulen trailed closely behind Hughes, who drew in 38.6 percent of votes. Andrzejewski received 24.2 percent of votes.

The nominees for seat seven have focused their campaigns on keeping students in the classroom by addressing behavior issues, as well as the prevalent achievement gap in the district.

Hughes, who has held seat seven for nine years, believes that maintaining an adequate level of funding will ensure high-quality teachers and programs—components he said will keep Madison

competitive with other school districts. Hughes said addressing the achievement gap is essential but doesn’t mean starting special programs for certain groups of students, because the district needs to make the classroom experience better for everyone.

Vander Meulen, a juvenile attorney in the area, would create a behavior plan to address the achievement gap, if elected in April. Instead of a disciplinary system in which students would listen to the advice of teachers, Vander Meulen said she thinks students are more likely to listen to peer-topeer guidance.

The general election is set for April 4.

UW System Student Representatives lobby against segregated fees opt-out

By Maggie Chandler THE DAILY CARDINAL

Students from several UW campuses across the state met at the state Capitol for one goal—to lobby together at the Capitol.

When the UW System Student Representatives lobbied state officials Thursday, the proposal to opt out of segregated fees was the top issue according to Jacob Schimmel, president of UW-La Crosse Student Association.

They are happy with the increase to UW System funding but against allowing students the

chance of opting out of segregated fees amongst, other important topics said Chris Morgan, Student Body President of the Student Government Association at UW-River Falls.

“There are a number of legislatures that really don’t know what exactly segregated fees are, so I think it’s just important to let them know about that before delving into that persuasion piece,” Schimmel said. “That probably took up, honestly, close to half of

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Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Initiative, a new student group, seeks to make menstrual products more accessible to women and families in Madison and the surrounding area.

Student group strives to increase accessibility of menstrual products

By Megan Provost THE DAILY CARDINAL

What started last year as a feminine product collection drive is now one of UW-Madison’s newest student organizations: Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Initiative.

The organization’s central mission is to “make menstrual products and resources as accessible to women and families in Madison as possible,” according to ARHI co-founder and president Jordan Madden.

The initiative began last school year when Madden and fellow ARHI co-founder and vice president Kendall Oehler, then freshman, organized a drive in the residence halls on campus to collect feminine products such as men-

strual pads, tampons and menstrual cups for low-income women and families in the Madison area.

The success of the drive led to the formation of ARHI as an official student organization.

The organization hopes to address “not only getting these resources to these people, but also campaigning on campus for expanded reproductive resources,” Madden said.

Despite just being approved as a registered student organization at the end of last semester, ARHI is already working with other organizations on campus to accomplish larger goals. According to Madden, the group is collaborating with Associated Students of Madison and its Shared Governance Committee

to work towards what has become one of ARHI’s main goals: getting feminine products into every bathroom on campus.

“I’m a guy, so when I walk into a bathroom, all the resources I need are there, and that’s not the same for different genders,” Madden said. “I think it’s important for students to help Madison take a role in becoming part of the 21st century.”

Madden partnered with ASM leaders in November to lobby the UW-Madison administration to offer free feminine hygiene products in the bathrooms at Bascom Hall.

But ARHI leaders have not forgotten their roots. During March, which is International Women’s

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As The Daily Cardinal celebrates its 125th anniversary this year, the newspaper joins the ranks of many other historic institutions. In fact, the Cardinal was established the same year and month as Vogue Magazine. + Photo courtesy of UW-Madison archives, 1960

Community activists, constituents hold ‘empty chair town hall’ in Madison for Sen. Ron Johnson

By Sam Schulz THE DAILY CARDINAL

Roughly 500 constituents gathered at what was termed an “empty chair town hall” for Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., at the First Congregational Church in Madison Wednesday night.

Lawmakers across the country have faced increasingly antagonistic town halls, and many have stopped holding open meetings as a result.

In response to this, activists have begun holding town halls “in absen-

tia” to highlight the perceived lack of communication with constituents.

The town hall was organized on behalf of Johnson since he had not scheduled one himself during the congressional recess. Johnson was invited to the event but did not attend.

Although he didn’t show up, almost 500 people came out to voice their concerns on federal policy.

The first 45 minutes of the meeting was devoted to questions that were recorded with the intent to

send them to Johnson for a response.

This was followed by addresses from speakers on topics such as immigration and gerrymandering.

Daniel Zinn, a UW-Madison student and head of the campus chapter of Amnesty International, a major human rights organization, asked Johnson to oppose President Donald Trump’s immigration ban executive order and all legislation to that effect.

“We want Senator Johnson to pledge his support for the reset-

tlement of Syrian refugees in the United States [and] denounce President Trump and his administration when they make Islamophobic remarks,” Zinn said.

Most of the questions dealt with health care, climate change and immigration. Among attendees who asked questions, many claimed to have previously reached out to Johnson about these issues before and said they received no response.

Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause Wisconsin, a citi-

zen’s lobby concerned with election reform and transparency in government, spoke about partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin and the current federal court case against it. “[State legislators] know that they can defy you, not listen to you, not attend a town hall meeting and be perfectly assured that because of the way the maps are drawn that they will be re-elected. And that is fundamentally undemocratic,” Heck said.

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Evers has argued for increasing funding to help struggling urban schools. The candidate has gained support from union leaders, public school advocates and democrats.

Holtz campaigned on being a more experienced educator and clear conservative. He supports increasing private school voucher programs, overturning Common Core and has called for better discipline in schools and to make classrooms safer.

Holtz’s right-leaning policies earned him the support of two dozen Republican lawmakers, several pro-life advocates and Wisconsin business leaders.

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Less than a week before the primary, Humphries admitted in a Feb. 15 interview with the Wisconsin State Journal that he had made an agreement with Holtz to collaborate to defeat Evers.

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According to the agreement, the candidate who dropped out would be given jurisdiction over creating rules, changing boards, breaking apart districts and be allowed to appoint their own deputy superintendents for several of Wisconsin’s largest school districts. The districts mentioned in the agreement were Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Madison and possibly Green Bay. “We are going to shake up Milwaukee and it is going to # 24 make noise,” Lowell said in the agreement.

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The Head and the Heart effortlessly worked the crowd and the stage.

The Head and the Heart lights up the Orpheum

By Samantha Marz THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Head and the Heart returned to Madison this week to perform at the Orpheum for two nights. On Tuesday, I watched as both the balcony seating and general admission enjoyed a continuous influx of people all waiting in anticipation to see the indie band take to the stage.

Whitney, a band from Chicago, opened the show on a high note.

They played a few tracks off their recently released album, Lights Upon the Lake, offering a unique combination of indie and psychedelic sounds. Lead singer and drummer Julien Ehrlich worked the stage with intense percussion skills and quick wit, telling the crowd, “If you wanna dance, you could give it a shot.” The real standout from the band, though, was trumpet player Will Miller. I love when bands incorporate trumpet into their sound, and the audience must too, because they cheered in approval whenever Miller soloed.

They endured a somewhat awkward moment when Ehrlich stopped the band mid-song in order to adjust his drumset, but they recovered quickly and continued with the set.

Whitney’s upbeat, eccentric music provided a good transition for the main event. When the lights in the Orpheum dimmed, claps and shouts filled the theatre as The Eagles’ “One of These Nights,” played from the speaker. In the backdrop, each word in the sign, “Signs of Light”—both the name of The Head and the Heart’s third album and their current tour—lit up in time with the song’s guitar strokes. The Head and the Heart took to the stage, diving right in with the song “All We Ever Knew,” a single on Signs of Light.

They spread high energy effortlessly around the room, no strangers to the stage. The set alternated between tracks from Signs of Light and older songs from The Head and the Heart and Let’s Be Still.

Although the band performed songs like “City of Angels” and “Rhythm & Blues” with enthusiasm, they were truly at their best when they returned to the folky sound they began with back in 2009. The band crushed the song, “Another Story”—my per-

sonal favorite from Let’s Be Still.

Frontman Jonathan Russell’s powerful vocals combined with Charity Rose Thielen’s violin emphasized the band’s passion for their music.

Love and admiration were in the air, particularly for Thielen, who also serves as a lead vocalist.

The audience cheered each time she took over on vocals, particularly in the slower, quieter track, “Winter Song.”

There were indeed “signs of light” on the stage as well.

Tiki torches and spherical lights adorned the stage. Shades of violet, turquoise, sky blue and red washed over the band with each song to highlight the recurring theme of light present in many of their newer tracks. Fake trees sat behind the band, evoking imagery from Signs of Light’s album artwork.

The Head and the Heart ended their main set with “Down in the Valley.” This is one of my favorite songs, and undoubtedly my favorite from them, so it was incredibly special to hear them perform it live. The rest of the theatre and I sang along with them as they played, uniting everyone in a comfortable, positive space.

The band left the stage to a standing ovation. The crowd remained on their feet, their claps and cheers unbroken for over a minute, willing the band to come back for an encore.

Jonathan Russell returned to answer the call, armed only with an acoustic guitar. He played a stripped-down version of a song, “Your Mother’s Eyes,” which Russell described as a lullaby.

While I like The Head and the Heart’s new album, one of my complaints about it was that it used too much instrumentation and processing, so it was nice to hear that song acoustically.

The Head and the Heart ended the encore with “Rivers and Roads,” combining powerful harmonies, punctuated piano notes and percussion to bring the show to a climactic conclusion. As I headed home from the Orpheum that night with ears still ringing and a smile on my face, I looked up to find a starry night sky. Part of me wants to believe that The Head and the Heart’s show had something to do with those little lights.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve already disengaged from Trump’s news cycle. Fried by the dreary doublethink, the anxiety provoking ineptitude, the sense that something is fundamentally ajar that none of us are qualified to fix, I’ve made the conscious decision to step back. When confronted with a TV set, instead of tuning in to Colbert I reflexively watch sitcoms, ESPN, even Monday Night Raw. Anything else.

I’m surprised it’s come to this.

Only four months ago, I was gleefully interviewing the most ornery fans I could find at a Trump rally in a fluorescent-lit Waukesha expo center. As a Daily Cardinal reporter, I politely listened to a man rave about the necessity of reinstating stop-and-frisk. I nodded deferentially to an elderly woman in an American flag knit as she lectured me on how “college kids just don’t get it” and how “Trump’s gonna make it better again.” I even bought a MAGA campaign button on the way out and took Trump’s advice to read “Art of the Deal.”

I followed every tweet and every blubbering attempt at coherent policy. But as Trump’s ascension became reality, I found that I couldn’t do it anymore. Formerly addicted, I became allergic to the Trump circus. I couldn’t even read about it. In its place, I retreated to the confines of fiction.

Novelist Martin Amis, conjurer of the kind of overweight, TV-addicted yob that some argue currently occupies the White House, wrote that when he creates a monster on the page, “The covers of the book are like the bars of a cage. He can’t harm you, but you can look at him.” A novel can’t hurt us, but it certainly can show us possible horrors from a safe distance. Maybe that’s what my current book fixation is all about. More than just a diversion from the day’s headlines [although that’s part of it], it’s like watching ‘The Shining’ and thinking, “I may be in my crummy, roach-infested Madison apartment, but at least I’m nowhere near that Overlook Hotel.”

This isn’t a fresh thought. The New York Times Book Review has spent the past month covering the titillating debate over which high school english class staple, “Brave New World” or “1984,” is a better guide to the Trump age.

If you haven’t been tuning in, the consensus is that Aldous Huxley’s depiction of humanity pleasuring itself to oblivion is more accurate.

That hasn’t stopped Orwell’s novel

from rocketing to the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list. For that, it has Kellyanne Conway to thank. If her “alternative facts” comment doesn’t sit well with you, then you should get with the program and embrace America’s new slogan: “Ignorance is Strength,” just like Orwell predicted.

To stay sane, gray-haired thought leaders like David Brooks warned against the perpetual lurch from one grotesque tweet to the next Conway lie. Pushing fiction like “It Can’t Happen Here,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and others, they implored liberals to slow down, read a book and see the forest for the trees. I eagerly bought the advice. While Sinclair Lewis’ book sure read like the 82-year-old anti-Fascist pulp that it is, it got me sufficiently worked up to read on to Atwood. Christian theocracy burst from the pages.

But neither book really explained how we got here. For that, Don Delillo’s “White Noise” seemed spot on. The fuzzy drone of consumerism drowned out the characters’ feeble mental capacities, reducing them to a sum of tabloid and talk radio blather.

Heck, even Dostoyevsky’s halfcrazed recluse in “Notes from the Underground” started to seem prescient, with all his skewering of pointy-headed rationality.

“What if it turns out that man’s advantage ... consist precisely in his desiring something harmful to himself instead of something advantageous?” the hermit quips from his St. Petersburg flat. Oh, so that’s it. Maybe the collapse of the meritocratic order that Hillary Clinton embodied was inevitable anyway. Maybe the American proletariat likes to see a little carnage.

Other Madison residents seem to be in the throes of the same crisis. A Room of One’s Own bookstore down State Street is doing brisk business off it. I walked straight to the store’s “O” fiction section looking for Orwell.

Another guy was there weighing “1984” against “Politics and the English Language.” He gave me a look that said “Yep, me too.”

“That’s right, we’ve definitely seen a sales uptick in the dystopian stuff,” the woman behind the checkout counter said. ““Fahrenheit 451,” “It Can’t Happen Here.” The “Handmaid’s Tale” is selling like crazy too—of course that could be because of the new TV series coming out about it.

Either way, we keep running out and having to order more copies.”

Well, if anything, the Trump presidency is a boon to the booksellers. I suppose we should all play along and pay them a visit while we still can.

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College long-distance relationships should not be frowned upon ADAM IMRAN opinion columnist

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University Housing and other campus employers don’t pay high enough wages to keep students.

UW Housing needs to increase pay in order to retain employees MADISON SCHULTZ opinion columnist

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s soon as prospective students are admitted to UW-Madison, they begin the housing application process. Along with this process, students are highly encouraged to apply for a student job on campus. These jobs are presented as being conveniently located, with flexible hours and a great way to make friends and connections. While all of this may be true, there is one major detriment to working for the university: the pay.

Students who work at one of the dining halls or as a custodian (which are by far the most popular and common job options) are paid $9.00 an hour as a starting wage. This may be enough to keep students around for a little bit, but it is not high enough to keep enough students interested and committed in the long-run.

There is an opportunity for pay raises the longer a student continues to work within University Housing, but these are minimal. For dining, a second-level team member is paid $9.25, while a third-level team member only receives $9.75 per hour. Custodial staff pay increases only goes up to second level, in which they are paid $9.75.

The pay is not competitive enough.

There is room for advancement in student jobs in the form of supervisor promotions, but still, the pay increase is not enough to retain the amount of

workers a dining hall or custodial staff needs to be run effectively. The minimal pay increase—50 cents an hour for an additional year of experience—is not enough to convince students to want to apply for supervisor positions when they could find other leadership positions with better pay elsewhere.

Because of this, students might feel the need to seek out other jobs that will give them more relevant leadership experience. The dining halls specifically have not had enough student workers, and it is evident that they are having a hard time keeping up with the demand.

Gordon’s especially, the largest dining hall on campus that sees a lot of traffic from students and the general public alike, does not have enough employees to keep up with the high demand.

During rush dining times for lunch and dinner, lines can snake around the cafeteria due to many stations not being staffed with enough workers.

I feel that part of the reason the dining halls have been struggling to find and retain enough student employees is that students can easily find other similar entry-level jobs that pay more. A simple search on the UW Student Job Center shows many jobs with entrylevel qualifications with most paying at least $10.00 an hour.

So while a job as a dining hall team member or student custodian may attract first-semester students and freshmen, once students begin to make other connections on campus they are more inclined to apply for other jobs they know will pay more.

I think that campus jobs offer many benefits that are currently being outweighed by the fact that the pay is not competitive enough.

It’s unfortunate because these jobs really are great because of their convenient locations, as many students don’t have cars to easily travel off campus, as well as flexible hours that cater to school schedules. Also, they allow students to make connections with their peers, as their coworkers will be fellow UW-Madison students, which would not necessarily happen at off-campus jobs.

With the recent budget cuts it seems unlikely that money will be spent toward increasing student wages.

But not enough students will continue to be attracted to these campus jobs when they know they can find similar work with better pay elsewhere. The university needs to increase their wages in order to compete with other local employers that take away interest in dining hall and other campus jobs.

Regrettably, with the recent budget cuts it seems unlikely that money will be spent toward increasing student wages. It’s hard to determine where money should go, but the university needs to strongly consider raising the wage in order to keep a high enough student interest in housing jobs.

Madison is a sophomore majoring in English and communications.

What are your thoughts on campus job wages? Have you or someone you know left a campus job in favor of a better paying opportunity elsewhere? Would you consider working for the university if wages were higher? Please send all your questions, comments and concerns to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

hen someone tells you they are in a long-distance relationship with someone who lives 1,000 miles away, it usually warrants one of the following responses: “Why in your right mind would you do that?” or “That’s adorable, you must really love each other!”

Long-distance relationships are by no means easy. They require a lot of trust—not to be suspicious, jealous, sneaky or doubtful. Once you have an established grounding in that, you can now proceed to understand how a long-distance relationship is really possible.

Here are five reasons why a longdistance relationship in college is not as bad as you think, from a firsthand opinion. So when you are deciding whether or not to keep your longterm high school sweetheart, that person you met over winter break browsing Tinder and decided to make it official, or perhaps the person from high school who you didn’t hit off with until the end of senior year, I strongly encourage you to read this.

While you may not be able to see your long-distance lover frequently during the school year, breaks are a great time to reconnect and spend time with each other. This makes planning things on breaks extremely easy and adventurous. Something as simple as going to a cozy neighborhood diner becomes the highlight of your week.

Of course it would be nice to take them to State Street Brats or The Old Fashioned every weekend for dates, but unfortunately they can’t fly out to Madison every weekend.

Since you would get to see them on breaks, you have a lot more time than you would if you were in the middle of rush week or have two midterms the next day. You would be able to go out and spend time with each other without having to worry about any of that.

Another perk of a long-distance relationship is that your grades won’t drop because you are spending too much time studying during the semester at school and during exam time. If you are serious about your partner, you probably will not go to parties for the sole purpose of meeting people. This indirectly

gives you more time to study and stay focused on academics. That being said, hopefully you will save at least two or three hours a week to Skype, Facetime, or write your special someone on the weekend when you are both free to talk because that is extremely important.

Everyone needs study breaks.

What will be a better way to spend them than talking to someone you miss a whole lot (and trust me, you will miss them beyond words)?

If anything, it will give you something to look forward to and can be motivation for getting through your school assignment.

In a long-distance relationship, your partner does not take time away from your friends while you are at school. You can still have your guys or gals movie night.

True, it is very hard when all of your friends go to parties and date night with their partners on Thursday and Friday nights, while you are stuck at home eating ice cream and doing homework. But if a moment like this strikes, you are only a Skype call away from your significant other.

Expect your social media presence to absolutely skyrocket. Expect the first “Like” and comment on Facebook and Instagram to be from them. Expect your Snapscore to increase by 1,000 points every week, just because of them alone. It is safe to say that everyone will be aware of the fact that you are taken. Ignore the backlash from people who say that face-to-face contact is the best form of communication, because sometimes you have to take what you can get when you’re 1,000 miles away. And that’s okay.

Probably the most important thing to remember is that absence makes the heart grow fonder. After weeks, or maybe months, of not seeing them, there is no better feeling then stepping out of your car and getting the biggest hug ever.

You are immediately reminded that all of the tough times away were definitely worth the wait.

Adam is a sophomore majoring in statistics. What are your thoughts on long-distance relationships? Have you ever been a part of one? Do you agree with Adam in that it’s worth it? Please send all questions, comments and concerns to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Study finds Humanities Building slightly more navigable than Parisian catacombs

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MADISON—In the wake of a controversial experiment that saw the starvation death of a test subject, the UW-Madison Department of Psychology concluded that the George L. Mosse Humanities Building is only 6 percent more navigable than the infamous Catacombs of Paris, France.

The study, which was set to continue through May 2017, was nixed following the death of Thomas Sutters, a junior at UW-Madison who fell victim to starvation after becoming lost on the third floor of the Humanities Building. Search teams found Sutters’ body after only three days of scouring the labyrinthine structure, a pace many faculty hailed as miraculous in light of the fact that the previous record for locating missing persons in Liz Waters was eight days.

Sutters was one of 10 students who agreed to try their hand at navigating the residence hall for a $10 Qdoba gift card.

All of the other participants survived, much to the surprise of department faculty. “Honestly, if we can close an experiment like this with a 60 percent survival rate, we’re golden,” remarked one UW-Madison psychology professor. “We did a test just like this in ’06 with Memorial [Library] and only three of 25 kids made it out.”

Project lead Bernard Stenson expressed his condolences to Sutters’ family, adding that they are “lucky to even get the body back at all,” citing numerous incidents of students utterly vanishing in the serpentine residence hall.

Luckily for the Department of Psychology, Sutters signed an airtight release form before participating in the study. In addi-

tion, the research yielded has been instrumental in the department’s efforts to determine innate human pathfinding ability. “Aside from Mr. Sutters’ death, this experiment has been a huge success,” Stenson said at a recent psychology conference. “We’ve combined our research with studies conducted by the University of Paris in France and found that our very own Humanities Building is only 6 percent easier to navigate than the Parisian Catacombs.”

The Catacombs, which in the Dark Ages were used as burial chambers for Parisian dead, have become famous in modern times for their spooky atmosphere and convoluted geography. “It is amazing to have such a useful resource for this kind of research right here on campus,” Stenson noted. “Not a lot of other universities have buildings that are confusing enough to kill students, and I think that’s just

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The Humanties Building has long been the bane of the student body. Further studies of its complexities are planned. another thing that makes the UW so great.”

At press time, the UW-Madison Department of

Geography had begun recruiting cartographers for an expedition to survey the Humanities Building in greater depth.

Obama posterizes Bannon in pickup game at White House

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Kyrie Irving demonstrates some of the physical qualities of an NBA player. Initial testing did not convince him it was spherical.

Kyrie Irving revealed to be unable to describe shape of regulation NBA basketball

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Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving showed an inability to express the shape of an approved NBA basketball, when pressed Wednesday.

The former Duke University standout failed to provide a definitive response upon the request from The Daily Cardinal reporters to dictate what type of geometric figure he believed a standard-issue Spalding league ball to be.

“I don’t know,” Irving said.

“Whatever shape it may be, I’m not familiar with it.”

Irving raised eyebrows around the NBA media and fan communities last week when he professed that he understood the Earth to be flat rather than round. The star’s defiance of what was considered to be a consensus among Westerners for centuries prior prompted many to probe Irving with other shaperelated queries.

“It doesn’t matter if Ky knows

what shape the ball is,” teammate LeBron James said of the 38 percent lifetime three-point shooter.

“He sure knows how to handle it.”

According to league-partner manufacturer Spalding, official NBA game balls are 100 percent leather, roughly 30 inches in circumference and spherical in structure.

When asked to relate the format of his home planet and the recreational tool his profession revolves around, Irving issued a request to be dismissed from the interview, which Cardinal staffers granted.

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green publicly sided with Irving over the AllStar break when he implied that it would be difficult to stand on the Earth if it were indeed round, as scientists claim.

At press time, Green has not responded to The Daily Cardinal’s Facebook message requesting comment on the matter.

Steve Bannon’s role as Senior Advisor to the President of the United States was briefly halted when the visiting former POTUS challenged Bannon to a pickup game of one-on-one basketball.

Bannon reluctantly accepted and was dunked on in full view of his White House staff.

The echoes from the apocalyptic monster jam reverberated across the hardwood court behind the White House and over the fence onto Pennsylvania Avenue.

“Tourists were asking if they were moving furniture inside the White House,” a Front Lawn security officer said. “We could hear the game from the street.”

The line of Secret Service Agents watching the game while seated upon a bench in the courtyard erupted following the poster dunk, with some jumping in the

air and others shouting in an animated, crazed fashion while swinging gym towels above their heads.

“The reaction of the Secret Service agents present at the game was very much like a team’s bench in college basketball,” a leading sports analyst said. “It was one of the better bench reactions I have seen.”

“Obama literally broke [Bannon’s] ankles at one point.”

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Reporters present at the event noted that Obama abandoned strategy entirely following the first few minutes of the game, choosing instead to steal the ball when Bannon possessed it and lob practice shots from the half-court line.

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“Obama literally broke his ankles at one point,” a reporter said.

“He pulled this crazy, through— the legs fake, and Bannon just sort of—went sprawling.”

Our chief strategist performed wonderfully during a basketball game yesterday,” Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in the next morning’s press briefing. “He pulled skilled moves on the former POTUS, who he soundly defeated after a game-winning three-point shot.”

A Secret Service agent keeping score confirmed that the game was 41-3 in Obama’s favor at the end of regulation.

President Obama allowed few questions after the game and was allegedly unimpressed with Bannon’s performance on the hard court.

“If he really does want to watch the whole system ‘crashing down around him,’ he’s going to need to step up his game.”

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Drive for five: Wisconsin learns from storied legacy of past teams, players coaching staff, whether it’s Mark Johnson, associate head coach Dan Koch, or assistant Jackie Crum, is to keep the players focused on the next game, not the championship game.

“I don’t think coach ever puts any pressure on us about winning, orn on Oct. 8, 1999 in winning championships or anyMadison, Wisconsin’s thing like that,” said junior forwomen’s hockey program ward Emily Clark. “But he does has yet to reach its 18th birthday, challenge us to get better throughmeaning the program itself is still out the year and every weekend.” younger than all of its players.

The attitude of maximum effort In that relatively brief time, the and incremental improvement Badgers have managed to amass a that Johnson instills in his playreputation and a tradition of suc- ers works in two ways. It keeps cess on par with any program in his players focused on the task at the country: four national champi- hand and gives them a number onships, nine Frozen Four appear- of attainable goals, so that players ances, four Patty Kazmaier Award are able to compare themselves to winners and numerous Olympians their own past performance, not and record holders. the performance of players who From the stars on the jersey to came before them. the banners hanging from the raf“Whether it be a bad game, you ters, it’s a history that’s unavoidable leave the rink knowing that you did for any player who dons the home the best that you could,” said the whites at LaBahn Arena, but espe- younger Johnson. “I think that’s cially so for the upperclassmen of something that goes far, being able this year’s team, who have played to say after every game, after every their entire careers in the shadow shift, after every practice that you of icons like Hilary Knight, Brianna gave everything you had and left it Decker and Alex Rigsby. all on the ice.”

Growing up behind For some players, the the glass and in the lockexpectations and the er room, redshirt senior ability to add their own Over Mikayla Johnson, daughname to the program’s ter of head coach Mark the last storied history is part of Johnson, remembers the attraction of playing three the distinct attitude that in Madison. years ... those teams brought on “That’s the fun part of and off the ice. it, there is that pressure “The atmosphere was and that expectation and kind of like, ‘OK, that’s it’s about how we handle Wins what Badger hockey is that,” said junior forward like, winning, winning, Baylee Wellhausen. “We winning,’” said Johnson. “I bring everything we have Win think it definitely makes to the table and show percentage you hold up to those everyone that this is a expectations. Our pronumber one program that gram, our history is meant we’re a part of.”

Frozen Four to be a winning, successful It’s been six years since appearances team so you don’t want to Wisconsin’s last national disappoint that.” championship, and in While the attention that time former Badgers National titles around the program is players have accumulated present when the team at all levels of women’s is struggling on the ice, hockey, with players like the pressure of expectations can Rigsby, Decker, and Knight servbe even greater when the team ing as role models for a younger is poised for success. Entering generation of Badgers. this season with a No. 1 ranking, In particular, defender Meaghan Wisconsin’s players have been Mikkelson, a member of the 2006 subjected to speculation about and 2007 national championship their chances of avenging three teams, had taken on somewhat of a straight Frozen Four losses to rival mentor role with Clark and senior Minnesota and collecting a fifth forward Sarah Nurse during their NCAA title. time together on the Canadian The challenge for the Badger national team.

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Wisconsin hopes to end the season with a celebration on the ice after claiming a fifth national title.

“The biggest thing that we’ve both talked about is making sure to have fun with it because it goes by faster than you think,” said Clark. “I can’t even believe it’s my third year already so just trying to enjoy the moment and having fun with it is important.”

This year’s team has obvious championship aspirations, but no experience in a championship game. What they do have is a network of coaches, family members and former teammates, who through their words and actions have imparted a series of lessons on several of today’s Badger players, giving them a sort of indirect championship experience.

For Wellhausen, it’s come from her uncles, Don and Tony Granato, former Badgers players who now

coach for the men’s team. Don won a national title with Wisconsin in 1990, and on occasion he’s passed down lessons to his niece about what makes a championship team.

“A lot of the things he has to say about winning that national championship is centered around the team, he’s always preaching how special his team was,” said Wellhausen. “He doesn’t really say too much about the feeling of winning, he’s a humble guy, but he always talks about how great the team was.”

Ask almost any current Badger player and they’ll tell you that the collective mentality of this year’s squad is what sets it apart from Wisconsin teams of years past.

Ask Mikayla Johnson however, and she’ll compare it to a group of players who have come to define

success in Madison.

“I definitely remember [Meghan] Duggan’s generation here and I think it comes with having a good chemistry in the locker room.

Having a good captain, [Sydney McKibbon]’s an awesome captain so we have that here this year,” Johnson said. “Having a team that’s really united in friendship and being able to work hard and play for each other, not just for yourself, brings a lot into a championship team.”

Whether that team spirit leads the Badgers to their fifth national title remains to be seen.

But if this team finds itself taking the ice in the championship game, they’ll have the experience of generations of championship Badgers who have prepared them for that moment.

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Emily Clark is third on the Badgers in points this year.

Baylee Wellhausen has notched 14 goals for UW.

Captain McKibbon looks to lead UW to its fifth championship.