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Program adapts fitness for all abilities

By Elliana Bogost STAFF WRITER

A group of athletic-wearclad people sit on the wooden floor of Gym 6 in UW-Madison’s Natatorium. They spike a ball over a net like any other volleyball match. In this game, though, the net sits 3.5 feet above the ground, and players must remain seated during the game.

This isn’t just a different way of playing volleyball. It’s an adapted form of exercise for clients of the program with various disabilities.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 12.6 percent of Americans lived with a disability in 2016, and half of that population did not get aerobic physical activity. The UW-Madison Adapted Fitness program aims to help some of those seeking alternatives to a standard fitness center.

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UW-Madison’s Adapted Fitness program teaches inviduals with disabilities exercises tailored to their needs.

The program is operated by the university’s kinesiology department. Tim Gattenby, a faculty associate for the program, expanded it in 1986 to provide an inclusive, recreational exercise space for people of various abilities.

It is a popular program for individuals in the Madison community seeking physical therapy. And as clients learn methods for getting physical activity, UW-Madison students looking to enter such fields are partnered

with them, acting as coaches.

Unlike most fitness programs, UW-Madison’s Adapted Fitness program is individually tailored to the specific needs and goals of each client. This is addressed through not only the student

volunteers, but also with adaptable equipment and exercises.

The sit-down volleyball game is one of many sports and activities — including biking, weight machines and swimming — that help clients be motivated to exercise and also feel included.

Each sport and activity chosen is focused on what each person needs. Mark Graser, a program participant, was originally sent to the rehab hospital but was recommended the Adapted Fitness program.

Graser said he was apprehensive at first but soon realized what this program could do for him.

“This is more than the gym,” Graser said. “It has all the support and people you need and the equipment.”

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SSFC updates polcies, racks up student bills

By Luisa de Vogel ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

In a year where multiple groups have expressed frustration with the process to receive student funds, the Student Services Finance Committee is grappling with a survey showing half of all groups seeking money felt the board didn’t create a welcoming environment.

As a result, SSFC has worked to increase transparency and change certain internal committee policies.

However, internal policy debates have led to lengthy meetings, requiring UW-Madison students to foot the bill, as SSFC members are paid through student segregated fees.

“We had issues last semester with the eligibility process with multiple organizations and that has resulted in more internal policy change conversation, and that’s really what we want to see happen,” SSFC Chair Jordan Gaal said.

In an effort to seek feedback

from General Student Service Fund groups (the groups seeking funds from SSFC) the committee sent out a survey last fall asking organizations about their satisfaction with the application process.

The survey has been used to consider policy changes aimed at clarifying eligibility expectations and the expectations set out for representatives.

In the past, students have seen SSFC as inaccessible, according to Gaal, and groups often express confusion over the eligibility process.

Changes to the forms groups complete in order to apply for GSSF funding were among the policies the body adapted in order to ensure funding is inclusive and accessible.

“It’s hard for us always to tell what’s working and what’s not when we spend every day with these policies,” Gaal said.

While Gaal has gotten some

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The Dreamers of UW-Madison has released a scholarship application for DACA students in Madison colleges.

UW-Madison org creates scholarship for DACA students

By Lawrence Andrea CAMPUS NEWS EDITOR

A group of UW-Madison students has taken advocating for undocumented students into their own hands.

After becoming a registered organization in 2016 with the goal of providing support for the self-described Dreamers in the community, the Dreamers of UW-Madison released a schol-

arship application Tuesday for undocumented students for the fall 2018 semester.

The group will award two one-time $1,000 scholarships — one to a current undocumented student attending UW-Madison, Edgewood College or Madison College and one to an undocumented high school senior enrolled in one of the three colleges for the upcoming semester.

Selina Armenta, a recent UW-Madison graduate and club co-founder, said these scholarships are a step in what has been a two-year effort to address the struggles and needs of undocumented students. According to Armenta, undocumented students often struggle financially

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Beacon staff chart path forward after issues with neighbors, local businesses

By Max Bayer CITY NEWS EDITOR

In January, the Madison Police Department received 73 calls to service for The Beacon, a homeless day resource center in east Madison. That location was the second-largest call generator that month.

In February, with 62 calls, The Beacon was the largest call generator.

“The volume of calls was unsustainable for my team and represented safety and security concerns for Beacon staff and their clientele whose ability to receive necessary services was negatively impacted,” wrote Central Police Chief Jason Freedman in a blog post.

On Wednesday, in a community meeting with around 90

people including local business owners and central police officers, Beacon staff made it clear they were invested in improving relations with the community.

Changes that have already been made have included additional on-site security, improving staff training and editing the center’s code of conduct.

And whether those changes are

entirely responsible for recent success, the data is evident: as of March 30, the center only had 28 calls to service.

After the meeting, Jackson Fonder, president and CEO of Catholic Charities, the organization that operates The Beacon, said he felt encouraged.

“For the most part, 90 percent of the people here, are pret-

ty respectful about what we’re doing, they like what we’re doing and they’re not afraid to share their ideas,” he said.

Fonder, as well as central district officers, acknowledge that The Beacon is not going anywhere and it’s important

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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

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Sleep allows neural connection shrinking: crucial for learning

By Cayla Guerra THE DAILY CARDINAL

For as long as life has existed, everything alive has slept. Surely, the purpose of something as essential as sleep is fully understood in the scientific community. However, the “why” of sleep is what keeps scientists like Chiara Cirelli up at night. Cirelli, a UW-Madison professor of psychiatry, became passionate about discovering the purpose of sleep since she first learned about it while obtaining her dual doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Pisa.

“From the very beginning when I started medical school, I went into a sleep lab and I was hooked.

It’s such a fascinating topic about which we know so little, so it’s easy to get buried in it,” said Cirelli.

Cirelli has worked on this topic for over two decades, using meticulous approaches and various animal models to better illuminate the shadowy world of sleep science.

“Over the last 20 years, we’ve been doing very different experiments with subjects from flies to mice to people to rats, but all this time, it’s been to test one idea, one hypothesis. This is the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis,” said Cirelli.

The synaptic homeostasis hypothesis (SHY) is an elegant explanation of our need to sleep.

The hypothesis balances new learning and old knowledge. When we are awake and learning new things, the connections between neurons, or synapses, get stronger and therefore larger. This enlargement of the synapses is essential to assimilate new knowledge.

However, what happens when there’s no more space for the neurons to grow? Cirelli believes sleep is the answer.

“Everyone in neuroscience in general accepts and understands that when you learn, you overall strengthen the connections [between neurons]. That creates this need for renormalization

because otherwise there would be no space and the existing connections would saturate,” said Cirelli.

Renormalization is the shrinking of some connections in order to accommodate for the new larger synapses that form following learning. Cirelli believes this process happens during sleep, and is the reason we can learn new things.

During the day, the net strength and size of our synapses that we use for learning increase. As we sleep, they are renormalized to make room for the next day. As logical as this idea sounds, figuring out how it actually works is no easy feat.

“It’s not easy to test, because there is no single way of measuring the strength of the connections. There are many ways, some better than others, but there’s not just a single experiment to say ‘yes you are right.’

That’s why we’ve been doing this for almost 20 years,” said Cirelli.

Measuring the content of synaptic proteins in the brains of fruit flies is one of the methods Cirelli used to study sleep. A neurotransmitter is a chemical messenger.

Neurons use these to communicate with one another. The neuron sending the message, or the presynaptic neuron, will release neurotransmitters into the synapse.

These neurotransmitters are taken in by the neuron receiving the message, or the post-synaptic neuron. They instruct this neuron on what kind of message to continue communicating or act upon. Both pre- and post-synaptic neurons use specific proteins to release the neurotransmitter and respond to it. “[We] extract from the brain all of the proteins in the synapses and just measure the quantity. If the synapses are bigger, then there should be more of these proteins after wake than after sleep. This is what we measured in flies,” said Cirelli.

Cirelli’s lab is also working on a brain imaging study in flies similar to a study they did in mice.

Cirelli anticipates the fly study will be less time consuming because fly brains are much smaller than mice brains. Cirelli’s lab hopes to confirm the same results that they produced from mice.

The original mouse study was a high risk study that paid off majorly. They kept mice awake or let them sleep, then sacrificed the mice and imaged their brains using electron microscopy, which can visualize the synapses and measure their size.

Cirelli sorted through hundreds of mouse brain images to evaluate the synaptic strength.

“At the end, we broke the code and figured out which animals were which. When we ran the statistics [on the size of the connection versus whether the animal was asleep or awake], it was extremely significant and clear that the sleep and wake groups were distinct,” said Cirelli.

Although the study helped Cirelli conclude that sleep does help reduce the size of synaptic connections, she took a huge risk in taking on a study this time-consuming.

“This is a study that heavily depended on the hard work of undergraduate research assistants that work part-time in the lab while they go to school, because it is very long and very risky. That’s another challenge of these projects, is finding the right people,” said Cirelli.

Now, Cirelli’s next step is to find a way to prove that SHY applies to humans as well. Cirelli and her team find promise in transcranial magnetic stimulation for researching sleep-dependent synaptic renormalization in humans.

“It’s just a coil and a piece of metal that you put on the scalp.

It sends a little signal and you are able to record a wave that is the response. This is measuring not just one connection, but millions!

For the same amount of stimulation, since the number of connections does not change from one day to the next, if overall those connections got stronger, then the signal I

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record would be bigger after wake than after sleep,” said Cirelli.

In other words, the wake brain, full from a day’s learning, will be expected to send a stronger signal than one that has been renormalized to make more room for more learning the next day.

“We still don’t know what the exact mechanism is. How, through the strengthening of neurons, do you induce this need for sleep? But we know that this mechanism does exist,” said Cirelli.

Cirelli stressed the importance of sleep in continued learning and how vital it is to sustain life. With so many people not getting enough sleep (including Cirelli’s undergraduate research assistants), the simple answer would be to use sleeping pills and medication to induce sleep. Cirelli, however, warns against the long term use of these medications.

“Sleeping pills are not a solution and should never be used in the long term. There is no pill that can mimic all of the aspects of sleep... every pill just stimulates a pathway or enhances a neurotransmitter.

But sleep is a mixture of modifications of many different pathways.

So, when the pills act only one way, you can get that state of sleep, but it’s not true physiological sleep,” said Cirelli.

Along with starting from the assumption that sleep is important, Cirelli says learning more about sleep may teach us how to maximize it.

“There’s no easy fix. But recent studies have shown that very mild levels of acoustic stimulation during sleep enhances the depth of sleep, so for the young people getting only a few hours of sleep at night, this could be helpful. Ideally, someday you can have a power nap for one hour and be refreshed, but it has to be so carefully balanced,” said Cirelli.

The importance of staying stimulated during the day isn’t usually an issue for young people who don’t sleep enough, but the sleeplessness in older adults can be directly related to how they use their time awake.

“Older people complain about not being able to sleep as much as when they were young. We know that one of the treatments that works the best long term is behavioral therapy ... this means you have to teach people to continue to live a full life and be engaged during the day. This way you will induce this stimulation of neurons. The more you do that, then the more the need for sleep and the pressure for sleep increases,” said Cirelli.

Sleep problems won’t be corrected overnight, but our capacity to learn is invaluable, so sleep will continue to be important as we improve our understanding of learning and renormalization.

As Cirelli and her team continue to learn about the science of sleep, they’ll view the process from more angles than anyone before her. They plan to look into how early development changes the renormalization and sleep process. Perhaps someday, the reason we need sleep every night will no longer be a topic scientists lose sleep over.

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fitness from page 1 Adapted Fitness clients are each assigned at least one student volunteer. The student volunteers evaluate the client through a series of interview questions, and together they determine the goals they will work together to meet.

According to Gattenby, the students are learning how to provide the best assistance and accommodations to clients who have both permanent and temporary disabilities.

“Each volunteer is trained and encouraged to look beyond the client’s diverse abilities and look to their unique goals,” Gattenby said. “Working toward a goal is what motivates both the student staff and client.”

Student volunteers can participate in the program for a semester or longer. Some get graduation credit for the class through the kinesiology program. Volunteers come from various majors — for example, UW-Madison engineering students participate by working with local design companies to build some of the special fitness equipment in the gym.

The clients vary in age from

children to the elderly and travel from all over Dane County.

They also have a wide spectrum of disabilities. Some have just been released from the hospital and are new to living with the aftereffects of a traumatic injury, including stroke, spinal cord injury or brain injury.

Other participants experience cognitive disabilities, as well as cerebral palsy.

Yasmeena Ougayour, a UW-Madison senior and student volunteer, said she has learned communication is the most important aspect of working and getting to know your client and their needs.

“I have learned how to connect with people who are different from myself and find ways to educate myself every time I interact with a new client,” Ougayour said.

Gattenby encourages student volunteers to look beyond a client’s disability when speaking with them about their goals and value what each person wants to accomplish.

“The program primarily focuses on what each person’s end goal is, no matter how big or small, whether it is being able to water their plants or being able

to run again,” Gattenby said.

Gattenby made it clear that all of his students and student volunteers make sure that they meet each person at their own level and push them to achieve. The program not only helps the clients who are receiving adaptive exercise and therapy, it also changes the attitude of the volunteers.

“Between the one-on-one attention from UW-Madison students and other university resources, there really isn’t another comparable adaptive fitness program in Wisconsin or elsewhere,” Gattenby said.

“This program brings people a sense of confidence in themselves no matter what their ability in life is.”

Ougayour recently witnessed one of her favorite moments in the gym. One of her clients has a spinal cord injury and was unable to walk before the program due to lack of supportive equipment.

Adapted Fitness provided him with a machine that helped support his body weight and allowed him to take steps on a treadmill while being suspended by a harness.

“Moments like this make me love the program a little more every day I am here,” Ougayour said.

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Around 90 people attended a forum at The Beacon Wednesday to discuss its services and ways it could improve community relations.

calls from page 1 that there’s a constant dialogue between stakeholders. The center has only existed for five months since its launch last October.

“We have to communicate to the community so we’re a good neighbor,” he said. “Getting in front of this group three or four times a year is critical to our success.”

Freedman was also in attendance and made it clear that the services The Beacon provides inherently opens itself to obstacles.

“As we all know, the population that is being served here, the guests that are coming here, are struggling,” he said. “No matter where they are, they are going to cause some issues.”

On the other hand, he said The Beacon is vital because it creates the opportunity “to break some cycles.”

Fonder said accomplishing that goal while maintaining good community relations is a challenge.

“Somehow The Beacon has to slide in here, deliver the services, and still be a good neighbor,” he said. “That’s a tough balance.”

In order to keep track of progress, Freedman and Central

District Neighborhood Officer Ken Brown say it’s imperative community members call the department when necessary.

“When you call, it generates a record in our system and it helps for us to prioritize not only where we go, but when we go and maybe some of our approaches,” he said.

Brown also highlighted the

“For the most part, 90 percent of the people here, are pretty respectful about what we’re doing... and they’re not afraid to share their ideas.”

Jackson Fonder president and CEO Catholic Charities

increased value of his work as a neighborhood officer to make sure both community members and Beacon attendees are familiar with him.

“I’m not tied to calls for service, so I’m not patrolling,” he said. “I have that time to build those relationships and foster that trust in the community.”

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UW-Madison kinesiology students coach participants of the university’s Adapted Fitness program.

survey from page 1 pushback on the importance of expensive policy debates from fellow representatives, he argues they are important to ensure the long-term effective and efficient use of student money.

“I make sure we are continuously evaluating the processes by which we grant students money and making sure that they’re inclusive and working for everyone,” Gaal said.

Dreamers from page 1 because they do not qualify for in-state tuition and are unable to apply for federal and state aid.

“This type of scholarship is important because undocumented students in Wisconsin don’t really have a whole bunch of options financially when it comes to affording college,” Armenta said. “We have to rely on these types of private scholarships — which are usually smaller — and our own income.”

Dreamers of UW-Madison has worked to raise money for this scholarship since its founding in 2016, according to UW-Madison junior and group co-founder Jazmin Vargas. She said that, in

Survey feedback indicated that student leaders feel SSFC is communicative about deadlines and policies, however Rep. Dylan Resch said he would like to see the body work harder to incorporate the voices of groups who are not already eligible for the general student service fund when looking at policy considerations.

“There are groups on campus who are not receiving anything from SSFC and maybe receiving something from grant allocation,

but they could be because of the work they are doing… and there’s no real outreach there,” Resch said.

Of the policy debates this semester, SSFC has spent the most time discussing attendance.

After a lengthy debate last month, the current attendance policy, which has been criticized for its lack of flexibility, remains intact.

At Thursday’s meeting, six representatives, including Resch, are up for impeachment based on the current policy.

addition to holding restaurant fundraisers in which portions of sale prices go toward the organization, group members have also created and sold T-shirts to fund the scholarships.

The group has raised approximately $3,500 selling $20 T-shirts with slogans like “I support Undocumented Students” and “Undocumented and Unafraid.”

In addition to being enrolled at one of the three Madison colleges, an applicant must have a minimum cumulative college GPA of 3.0 or a high school GPA of 3.25, present a high school or college transcript and submit one letter of recommendation. Applicants will also be required to complete

two essays regarding their efforts to create social change and hardships they have overcome.

While this is just the first year the scholarship is being offered, the group said it plans to continue to provide aid to undocumented students each spring.

“It is an ongoing thing,” Armenta said. “We are still selling shirts. We are still trying to raise the money so that hopefully in the future we can give more than two scholarships and maybe increase the amounts as well.”

Applications are due to the Dreamers of UW-Madison by Thursday, May 31, at 11:59 p.m.

Scholarship award notifications will be sent on or before Sunday, July 15, according to the application.

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DC Readers’ 2018 Choice Best Marching Band Song/Chant:

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Look, I’m not the most U-Rah-Rah gal that ever walked the campus. But when I hear that sweet, sweet horn section announce the song that’s become a dog whistle to Badgers young and old, far and wide, you bet your bottom dollar I’m shedding a Mendota-volume amount of Bucky-shaped tears.

Nothing like consensually putting your arm around the person next to you — be they friend or stranger or enemy — and celebrating the place we all spent three-six+ years learning, loving, winning, failing, drinking, growing and just being together. Not even the coldest-hearted Badger can help but feel the warmth of “Varsity.” I’m tearing up just thinking about it. — Amileah Sutliff

UW Sex Fantasy: Who hasn’t thought about getting it on in Memorial Library’s kinky cages? These torturous chambers are certainly for more than just an extreme study solution. Let me break this down to awaken a fantasy you never knew you had [play smooth slow-jam here]: You’re anxious to get an assignment done in the depths of the stacks. You’re at your wit’s end and need a form of ~release~. As you bite your lip, feeling hot and flustered, you look up and see [insert hottie of your dreams] seductively sliding a book off the shelf. You both make eye contact and lower your reading glasses, feeling a scholarly sexual tension. Suddenly, your claustrophobic study space transforms into an erotic sex dungeon, lock and key included. — Ben Golden

Fav study spot: Best Brunch Spot:

The Memorial Union pleases all the senses to give some relief from the pains of studying: The mouthwatering smell of Strada’s woodfired pizza wafts through the building, the best view of ombre pink streaks of sunset over Lake Mendota can be seen from the Terrace or the allwindowed lounge. Visitors from the public talk and laugh, including many children enjoying dishes of Babcock ice cream, which reminds students, when we’re in our favorite midterm groutfit and haven’t slept in days, that there is a pleasant world outside our stressed bubbles on campus.

With ample comfortable seating options and choices for food and coffee, Memorial Union is the ideal space to hunker down during your end-of-semester finals campout. -Sammy Gibbons

Short Stack on State Street has it all — and by “it all,” I mean 24-hour breakfast on the weekends. Honestly, how can one go wrong with pancakes at 2 a.m. after a debaucherous night? Whether you go for the tried-and-true short stack of buttermilk pancakes or live on the wild and adventurous side and choose to go for the blind (and discounted!) special — you will never go wrong with this campus brunch classic. So regardless of your state of mind, or the time, as one of the chalk signs on the wall so lovingly quotes “Always Sunny in Philadelphia’’s” Frank Reynolds, “May I offer you an egg during this trying time?” —Samantha Wilcox

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Best UW Tradition: There’s no reason that in 2018 we should be getting excited about one-hit-wonder House of Pain’s 1992 single. Yet there’s a weird beauty in Jump Around. It’s 14,000 drunk students dressed to the nines in red and white, shaking the stadium to the point where they tried to stop this tradition. When I was touring here for the first time, our tour guide talked about Jump Around and the sports teams, and I got goosebumps. Maybe that’s just the sports fan in me, but I couldn’t wait to jump around. Pair that with the student section race, it’s no wonder every Badger student can’t wait for the fourth quarter. We came to get down. —Bremen Keasey

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Looking for a dining experience that resembles a NASCAR pit-stop tire change more than a romantic restaurant for a date night with your boo? Head west to QQ’s, where 100 percent of engineers eat 100 percent of their meals [citation not needed]. Walk down the steps to a literal basement, where several employees will yell at you for having only selected two of your three entree options. Pick your base (fried rice or lo mein) and your choice of several protein options — but make sure you add peanut butter chicken to the order. The whole process takes about 15 seconds, costs eight dollars and will last you two full, delicious meals.

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Accessibility on campus is a vital issue view Cardinal View editorials represent The Daily Cardinal’s organizational opinion. Each editorial is crafted independent of news coverage.

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W-Madison is a diverse campus filled with students and staff with different types of backgrounds, cultures and abilities. The university is comprised of numerous unique minds and bodies, but sometimes certain types of bodies and abilities get more attention and privilege. Students with disabilities face unique challenges on a campus that don’t always feel accessible to them.

You’ve probably heard about the McBurney Disability Resource Center on the first day of a new class, but to students who take advantage of its resources, it’s much more than just a note on the syllabus. Founded in 1977, the center has grown to serve close to 2,000 Badgers who need specific accommodations to improve their learning experience on campus. A student looking to get help from the center first fills out basic information in an online form, then meets with an accommodations specialist. Director Mari Magler explained this conversation is more important than the paperwork.

“I want to know from a student, ‘What has your experience been like? Where have you experienced barriers?’” she said. From there,

individualized accommodations are set up, ranging from separate exam rooms to pens that record audio as you take notes.

The center’s growth has mirrored a trajectory of growing inclusivity for those with disabilities on campus. In just the past 10 years, the McBurney office has grown 156 percent in terms of students served, according to Magler, and part of that involves a changing conversation around mental health.

“I think many students with a mental health condition don’t necessarily think of a disability resource center of being something that might benefit them,” Magler said. “So I hope we’re doing a better job of talking about that.”

In fact, one-third of the students currently using McBurney accommodations identified a psychological disability as their primary disability, more than any other singular category of disability. The trend toward giving all students, of all abilities, the opportunities and resources to learn at the same comfort level as their peers is a positive one — one that should be continued.

Besides the McBurney Center, UW-Madison is working on other ways to foster a more inclusive learning environment that promotes acceptance and understanding. The disability studies initiative is not a major or certificate yet, but includes a certain group of classes from across different majors, such as communication arts, English, and gender and women’s studies that relate to different aspects of

disability studies.

Jenell Johnson is a professor in the communication arts department and also the head of the disability studies initiative. Johnson says she has heard stories of professors and other instructors not being accommodating as they should be, which in large part comes from a misunderstanding of what accommodations and accessibility are about.

“I think that there’s a sense in which people who are not familiar with disability rights … in which accommodations are viewed as special treatment as opposed to something that is leveling the field so everyone is able to learn in the ways that suit them best,” she said.

Everyone can benefit from educating themselves on disability studies and rights through classes listed under the disability studies initiative, and help to create a more welcoming and open campus atmosphere. Rather than just following accommodations because it is the rule, professors should think of McBurney accommodations not as “special treatment,” but as providing a fair classroom experience that all students should be entitled to. Professors should also take advantage of free trainings offered by the McBurney Center on how to best assist students with disabilities. Magler says even though she and her staff present at faculty orientation every August, that process is “very brief” and much more can be said. Departments like rehab psychology and the staff of College Library already take

advantage of these programs, and others should follow their lead to ensure that all their students are being served equally.

Johnson also stressed the importance of creating an accepting environment for students who may not necessarily have a McBurney visa but would benefit from accomodations or alternate teaching styles.

“There are ways to design your classroom and ways to design your syllabi that take into account a lot of different bodies and minds that might be in that classroom,” Johnson said. Normalizing a diverse range of abilities and different ways that students learn best fosters an environment of inclusion and helps reduce stigmas associated with disability.

Besides the classroom environment, UW-Madison’s campus’ physical environment can oftentimes prove a challenge for students with disabilities that most ablebodied students do not take into consideration in their daily lives.

Older buildings like Vilas Hall can prove to be difficult to navigate for people with physical disabilities, since some floors have bathrooms without automatic buttons to press.

However, rather than completely renovating inaccessible buildings, which is extremely costly and time intensive, there are other ways students can work on being more accessible.

“If you’re going to have a student org, for example, make it in a place that you know to be accessible … if the only way to get to a room is to go up a bunch of stairs, then you’re

basically blocking anybody who uses a wheelchair from getting up there,” Johnson said.

Most importantly, disability is nothing to be ashamed of. Groups like Disability Pride Madison are working to show that people with disabilities are regular human beings whose bodies or minds just work in different and diverse ways.

Making campus physically and educationally accessible is incredibly important, but so is fostering an environment where students and instructors feel comfortable to express pride in their identity.

Think about some of the most iconic parts of UW-Madison’s campus. Memorial Union Terrace, Camp Randall Stadium, Abraham Lincoln’s statue and most of all, Bascom Hill. Bascom Hill is showcased on tours of the university, and making the trek up the hill is almost seen as a rite of passage as a UW-Madison student.

What is seen as an inconvenient yet essential part of campus for able-bodied students can be completely inaccessible or an incredibly daunting obstacle for students with certain kinds of disabilities.

It’s true that the hill won’t be going away anytime soon, but as this campus moves toward the future, our community can continue on the path to create physically, educationally and emotionally accommodating environments for those with disabilities.

What do you think of the accessibility on campus? Send all comments to editorialboard@dailycardinal.com.

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‘The Blood is at the Doorstep’ is a testament to the tremendous power of documentaries

By Alex Jankovick FILM COLUMNIST

With expensive blockbusters and art-house independent films dominating the entertainment industry, documentary filmmaking has wrongfully taken a back seat in the eyes of American audiences. Instead, documentary features are charming smaller audiences at various film festivals across the country.

Premiering at the 2017 SXSW

Film Festival, “The Blood is at the Doorstep” follows the pain, fight and activism of a grieving family after an unjustified death among their clan.

Directed by Erik Ljung, this documentary feature dives into the aftermath of the 2014 murder of Dontre Hamilton, an unarmed black man, by a police officer in a local park of Milwaukee. While the police department chose to focus on

Hamilton’s battle with schizophrenia as justification for the encounter, “The Blood is at the Doorstep” takes the story in a different direction. The narrative is told through the eyes of the Hamilton family as they rise up against the Milwaukee Police Department and become a beacon of hope for many communities across the United States that have unfortunately seen similar events tran-

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This accurate depiction of rural and urban Milwaukee displays the brave and awe-inspiring family of Dontre Hamilton.

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spire. Fueled by intimate and enthralling footage that can’t be seen anywhere else, the film balances hard-hitting journalism and the humanity of the Hamiltons’ fight.

The most important attribute of this feature is the filmmaking team’s ability to catch every single moment after the initial encounter on camera. As every great filmmaker knows, “show don’t tell” is a fundamental principle for the visual medium. Ljung puts absolutely every event that he possibly could on screen, and it is unbelievable to witness. In times of stressful moments where perspective can change the narrative, Ljung lets the footage speak for itself with little to no editing. This allows the audience to form their own judgements while maintaining the dignity of the film’s journalistic nature. The Hamilton family undeniably deserves credit for sharing their story with audiences in a time of such tremendous emotional turmoil.

“The Blood is at the Doorstep” also displays the most accurate depiction of Milwaukee I have ever seen on film. Aside from the sweeping aerial shots of downtown and rural areas of the city, the representation of the community is Ljung’s most impressive achievement. The diversity of perspectives that the film is able to present in a logical and easy to follow investigation is astounding. Personal accounts from key witnesses of the crime, the activists leading the movement and involved members of the Milwaukee Police Department provide a holistic picture of an event that has never been told in such a

manner. Ljung’s work towards providing all perspectives surrounding Dontre Hamilton’s story is a testament to the true journalism on display.

Adjacent to the evidence presented throughout the film is a brave and awe-inspiring family of revolutionaries. Starting with their personal accounts of Dontre Hamilton’s final days, his family immediately grabs the audience’s attention and demands for their story to be heard. Nate Hamilton, Dontre’s older brother and co-founder of The Coalition for Justice, holds nothing back by sharing his unedited and raw emotion behind the tragedy. Hamilton’s mother, Maria, on the other hand, brings more grace and empathy than is expected from any grieving mother to Milwaukee’s fight for justice.

“The Blood is at the Doorstep” is a flawless display of documentary filmmaking that wears its heart on its sleeve. The Hamilton family chose to share their story with the world in the hopes of eliciting change. Documentaries such as these are small steps toward that conclusion.

Although the story may not give audiences the ending they desire, everyone has the ability to walk away from this feature with a new perspective on the injustice that happens all too often within our communities.

Final Grade: A

“The Blood is at the Doorstep” will be having its Madison premiere on Saturday, April 7 at the Wisconsin Film Festival. Email our film columnist at ajankovich@wisc.edu with your thoughts.

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Now abroad, mental fortitude key for Carlini

By Jake Nisse THE DAILY CARDINAL

LONDON — As she’s ascended through the ranks of volleyball, Lauren Carlini has become accustomed to adjustment.

She’s bridged the gap between West Aurora High School and Wisconsin, proved herself to USA Volleyball coaches and recently forged a professional career with Florentine outfit Savino Del Bene Volley Scandicci.

Of course, there have been some difficult moments. She was left off the USA roster for the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix last summer, and says she suffered a dip in form (along with her team) in Italy this past winter.

PHOTOS BY BRANDON MOE AND GRAPHIC BY JADE SHENG/THE DAILY CARDINAL But merely focusing on the play Lauren Carlini has become one of the best volleyball players in UW history in large part because of her mental acumen. of Carlini — a supremely skilled setter who has largely thrived at every level — neglects another part of her wood with teammates ranging from gist to sharpen her game. bench and the respect of players. daily growth.

18 to 31 years old, and uses those leadThe calls provide Carlini with “People think that a sports psyShe’s developed her ership skills constantly. At various focusing and breathing chologist would make the players mindset along with her Wisconsin, she learned how techniques — subtle pointers that think more,” she told Vice Sports physical performance. to balance the personalities she hopes will elevate her game in 2016. “But I’m actually trying to Ask her about her bigof her teammates and has even further. get them to play in the absence of Carlini was a three-time gest improvement during quickly become an impor“It’s just things that you don’t thought—analytical thought. I don’t AVCA her time in Madison, and tant voice on her professional think about in your beginning years want them analyzing why the pass First-Team the three-time First Team All-American. team. Even her team’s web- of high school or college, at all,” she went well or didn’t go well.”

All-American will mention a site describes her as having said. “But when you get to this level All of this points to how Carlini’s quality that’s nowhere to be “great qualities of leaders.” the margin of error is so small, that mental state will affect her on-court seen on the statsheet.

But as much as Carlini you will do whatever it takes to be in performance. Whether she’s feelCarlini ranks “Leadership is all about helps teammates on the that top one percent.” ing comfortable with her team or first in finding out what makes court, she still leans on othCarlini is the norm, not the excep- missing her family and American program history with people tick,” she said. “What ers sometimes to stay sane. tion, when it comes to USA Volleyball breakfasts, volleyball is vastly more 74 career makes each person the best The former Badger utiliz- players seeking help to boost their involved than simply hitting a ball double-douthat they can possibly be, and es the mental performance mental attributes. over a net. bles. how do you reach them at resources provided by the The men’s team employs Andrea Mental attributes — whether it be that level.” national team, regularly call- Becker as its sports psychologist, and leadership, focus or resilience — are Carlini currently shares the hard- ing a team-specific sports psycholo- her work has earned her a spot on the paramount to high performance in

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the sport, and Carlini is doing everything she can to sharpen that side of her game.

Carlini also makes sure to hang out with other American volleyball players who live nearby in Florence, proactively quelling any feelings of isolation or homesickness that could arise.

“There’s definitely enough support around me that I don’t feel completely alone,” she said.

Every dinner date, FaceTime to her dogs and phone call to her sports psychologist improves Carlini’s mental state just a bit more, ensuring that her mind will match her mammoth ability come game time.

Even the negative experiences have made her stronger: Carlini was forced to play without her contacts for four games after contracting a bacterial infection in her right eye, but managed to produce what she said was “the best volleyball I played all season.”

“Maybe I should take my contacts out and play blind from now on,” she joked.

As she prepares for the semifinals of the playoffs in Italy, over 4,500 miles away from where she honed her craft in college, Carlini couldn’t be farther from home.

But she doesn’t regret her move one bit. If you listen close enough, you may even hear her embracing it.

“Put yourself in an uncomfortable situation,” Carlini said, “because that’s where growth happens.”

Jake Nisse is currently studying abroad in London. This is the third of an ongoing series on former Wisconsin athletes currently playing overseas.

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