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One last chance to dance Wisconsin ends Kentucky’s bid for perfection, faces Duke in national championship game
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INDIANAPOLIS—It happened. The Badgers made history, beating the unbeaten. They found catharsis for their fans, avenging the heartbreaker that shredded their last season. And they’ve earned opportunity, getting to play in one more game. The only game left. The Badgers (36-3) took down Kentucky, who is now 38 and done, by a score of 71-64. Duke awaits in the national championship, but that’s not going to stop every Badger fan in the country from ingraining the memory of Saturday night in their minds for as long as humanly possible. Think back to one year ago, as Kentucky’s Aaron Harrison released a 25-footer over an outstretched Josh Gasser and sank what was then a dream season for the Badgers. Think about Kentucky’s status entering the game, the undefeated juggernaut with a black hole of five-star athletes amassed in the interior. The team that beat them would
hoist the memory in every montage and program for the rest of its history. The Wisconsin players weren’t thinking about that. They might, in the future. But for now, it’s all eyes on their original goal: a national championship.
“We came in here believing we could win, and we did it.” Traevon Jackson senior guard Wisconsin basketball
“Last year’s game obviously was motivation, not because of Kentucky, but just ‘cause of how far we got,” junior forward Sam Dekker said. “You know, that was a hump we wanted to get over. It didn’t matter who was in front of us. We just wanted to get a chance to play for the national title. We set those goals out before the season.” Entering the game, Kentucky and Wisconsin were each nationally elite in their
own categories. Kentucky was the best defense in the country, and a juggernaut on the boards and interior defense. Wisconsin was the best offense in the country, and among the best in shooting and taking care of the ball. It was strength on strength, and there is no question who won the battle. The Badgers eviscerated one of the great defenses in college basketball history to the tune of 1.258 points per possession. They outrebounded the tallest team in the country 34-22. They closed out a game against a team that always found a way to wake up and pull through. They did it with the historically elite level of offensive efficiency that brought them to the Final Four. “I think what impacted the game the most was Wisconsin and how they played,” said Kentucky head coach John Calipari. “I mean, they outrebounded us by 12 rebounds. That doesn’t happen. You think about this. We had six turnovers for the game. We shot 90 percent from the free throw line, 60 percent from the three, and 48 percent from the field,
and we lost?” It was an even game until the final minute, both teams trading blows and pushing their fans to erupt in cheers. At halftime, it was tied 36-36. With eight minutes left, 56-56. With two minutes remaining, 60-60. From there the Badgers could not be stopped, scoring on every possession and closing out what could go down as the biggest win in school history.
“Whether we’re down six or up 20, we’re going to be us and we’re going to play our game.” Sam Dekker junior forward Wisconsin basketball
As the final buzzer sounded, the team mobbed out half-court. Some were jubilant, others teared up. Senior guard Traevon Jackson was one of the latter. “It is truly a blessing, it is amazing,” Jackson said with his eyes red. “We have been play-
ing for this the whole year and [the Lord’s] word never lies. We are here. We made it.” No player could quite put into words what they were feeling after the game, but they at least know what’s left: “One more game,” which Gasser yelled into the student section as he walked to the locker room. “We’re not surprised we are in this situation,” Dekker said. “This is something we’ve been talking about since day one this season. Look where we are now.” Where they are now is the national championship game, but the ripples of Saturday night’s win could be felt throughout the state of Wisconsin. State Street flooded with celebrating students when the victory was clinched, and that water could rise one more time. Duke awaits with a trophy lying behind it. The champion will be decided Monday night, with tipoff set for 8:18 p.m. But for now, there’s enough accomplishment to swim through, because, again, Wisconsin took down Kentucky. Take some time to let that sink in.
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APPY GAMEDAY, BADGERS! Today, we’ll be talking about a lifelong competition we all face: how to find the ideal mate. While I’ve covered this topic in the past, today I’m going to give it a little... spin. Before we really begin, let’s break down the ways the team we most adore embody what national relationship champions look like: First and foremost, let’s all try to be a little more like our national hero Nigel Hayes. He’s respectful, smart and good with balls! Just kidding, kind of, but Nigel uses big words to his advantage and calls women “beautiful.” #winning Photo Frank “the Tank” Kaminsky is a similar all-star who takes criticism like an adult and knows when not to beat a dead horse. When asked about Kentucky’s Andrew Harrison insulting our loveable center, Kaminsky and Harrison apparently talked over the issue and Kaminsky reported being “over it.” In a real relationship, once an argument is over, it’s over. Frank knows that! Finally, let’s look at the team as a whole. Those boys have a lot of star power, and if they were lesser players and lesser people, they would try to claim the glory for themselves. However, Bo Ryan taught them well, and their training in being humble and sharing responsibility paid off. Look who is
laughing all the way to the championship bank. Moving on from my shameless fangirling, I’ve been getting some emails (real emails!) from readers asking what I like in bed and in relationships. According to the emails and conversations I’ve had with likeminded column enthusiasts and editors, I “owe” everyone some insight into my love life.
While I think all people look for different things from their significant others, I do believe there are certain commonalities we all share when looking for potential partners. Because of the ethics of journalism and future dating code breaking (trust me), I am most certainly not going to write in public what I like in private. My columns constantly encourage communication between partners, but that doesn’t mean my goal is to push anybody to share things they aren’t comfortable sharing with large groups of people—or that I owe you anything. In fact the logic behind that is inherently flawed, but I digress. Use your brain, plz. However, if you want me to get a little personal, I won’t deny anyone the opportunity to learn a little more about what I think a healthy relationship looks like, if not sexually then at least interpersonally. First, a little history: I’ve had one boyfriend in
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college and our relationship was pretty brief. He was handsome and involved on campus. I liked him a ton and we had a semester of fun together before it became apparent we weren’t right for each other. Our communication styles clashed and we had different long-term priorities. A good experience, and again, he was very good looking, but not right in the end, although naturally I was pretty hung up on him after we stopped seeing each other. For about a year after that, I had a string of one- or twoweek flings until I met the most significant guy who had been a part of my life up to that point. We were never much more than friends but we meant a great deal to each other. Unfortunately, he had a lot of personal problems he refused to deal with and reveled in misery. He ended up shutting me out emotionally after almost a year, all while wanting to “stay friends,” which was simply not an option for me. Since then I’ve been able to find healthier and healthier relationships, and while I think all people look for different things from their significant others, I do believe there are certain commonalities we all share when looking for potential partners. Most people look for edgy and exciting, and in some cases that comes at a loss. People who are often brooding can be beyond selfcentered, which can lead them to be less considerate of others’ feelings. While many people can handle being more of a caregiver than receiver, the egotistical geniuses can only last for
so long for those of us with more emotional needs. I understand how many people are selfish, people of all genders. I’d say I’m selfish most of the time. But in a relationship, it’s imperative to find someone who isn’t. Does that mean the person we settle down with will be more of a pushover than we’re used to? If we can exchange strength for kindness, brooding for consideration and creativity for communication, we should welcome it with open arms. Those people are out there—the guys who go the extra mile to comfort their partners when they’re sad, to shoot a nice (or even regular!) text every now and then, to put in effort even when both people aren’t in the same room. Everyone should hold out for someone who treats them the way they want to be treated, whether it matches what I’ve described or not. Settling for less is like, literally the worst. But actually. I don’t think what I’m looking for is impossible. In fact, it’s as attainable as anything when we look in the right places. There are people who balance being unique and funny with understanding the needs of others. Who want to make themselves and other people happy instead of feeling forever misunderstood by society. Wait for one of those, and you’ll never go hungry again! You know, for love. Just like Scar. Wish Alex would write more columns that make her sound like an Elite Daily staffer? Email sex@dailycardinal.com to encourage her misbehavior!
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Past police records mentioning Tony Robinson, Matt Kenny released By Andrew Hahn THE DAILY CARDINAL
The Madison Police Department released hundreds of pages of police procedures and records Friday in response to open records requests made after Officer Matt Kenny fatally shot 19-year-old Tony Robinson. Addressing several requests for records about Kenny and his history, police released reports of his job performance, including several commendations for his police work in dangerous situations.
“That interest would be undermined if such persons ... had to be concerned that seeking such treatment would make their information public knowledge.” Anthony Bitterman lieutenant MPD
Kenny was involved in another officer-involved shooting in July 2007. Madison resident Ronald Brandon had been waving a pellet gun in view of his family and his neighbors, who called the police. Kenny, believing the gun to be real and loaded, told Brandon to drop it. Brandon pointed the weapon at police and Kenny fatally shot him, according to reports filed by officers at the scene. Then-Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard decided not to charge Kenny with any wrongdoing after reviewing the evidence. The records include only one disciplinary record, a let-
ter reprimanding Kenny for leaving his loaded firearm in the bathroom of a Madison cafe two days later, where it was discovered by a customer and returned to police. Police also released reports from incidents involving Robinson and his family. These included custody disputes between Robinson’s parents when he was an infant and a burglary at Robinson’s home in July 2014. They also included records of an April 2014 armed robbery of a Madison residence Robinson was involved with. Robinson was arrested with four others and pled guilty to the charges. MPD Lt. Anthony Bitterman said in a letter accompanying the released records that information about Tony Robinson or anyone else’s mental or physical health had been redacted, as per Wisconsin state statute. “It is in the public’s best interests that persons with medical, mental health and substance abuse issues seek appropriate treatment for those conditions,” Bitterman wrote. “That interest would be undermined if such persons or their friends/family had to be concerned that seeking such treatment would make their information public knowledge.” The state’s Department of Justice, which independently investigated Robinson’s death, completed its investigation two weeks ago. That report, which is not released to the public, was handed over to Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne’s office to determine whether charges will be brought against Kenny.
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Jay Katelansky’s work focuses on racial inequality and racial issues caused by the killing of unarmed people of color in Madison and around the U.S.
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UW-Madison graduate student uses art to combat racial issues, inequality By Laura Grulke THE DAILY CARDINAL
While many aspects of the movement for racial equity in Madison and across the country have included protests and press conferences, Jay Katelansky uses a phantom to fight the status quo in the “bubble” that is Madison. In her Master’s thesis art show, “Jay Katelansky Seeks Phantom,” she uses her artwork to embody a phantom that lives in a place like Ferguson or Williamson Street. Her work exhibits the phantom’s experience of living in places where unarmed people of color are killed. Katelansky, Moore College of Art and Design graduate and now a second-year fine arts graduate student at UW-Madison, has always focused her work on racial issues. She uses paintings, projections, videos, tape and
more to re-create the “BlackAmerican experience.” Her work is not simply for her professors to see. Katelansky said the most important part of her work is the conversations it inspires in people who see it. With a notable web presence distributing her art, anyone around the country can see and experience her message. But Madison in particular has posed many problems for her goal to spark deeper conversations about race and racial inequalities. Katelansky said many people in Madison shy away from talking about these types of issues. “Facilitating these conversations is hard, especially in places such as Madison where race isn’t talked about so openly at all,” Katelansky said. “It’s like we’re in our own bubble, and no one speaks about [race].” Her Master’s show has
helped to get her the feedback she has wanted. Along with insightful critiques from her professors, many students and others from the public have approached her with questions and comments that have given her new ideas. Spurred on by the new conversations, Katelansky said she has found inspiration in varying kinds of public engagement with racial issues. Young, Gifted, and Black Coalition’s efforts in particular have shown her how the public is combating racial inequalities beside her. “The ongoing strength that people have in fighting what has been happening … [is] such a huge inspiration, because even though I’m making work about it, there’s other people doing other things that are also part of the movement,” Katelansky said.
State Street crowds stay peaceful after Saturday’s game By Laura Grulke THE DAILY CARDINAL
Crowds of proud Badgers peacefully flooded State Street Saturday night in celebration of the men’s basketball team’s victory against the University of Kentucky, drawing praise from law enforcement.
“It really shows how much of a community there is here ... and how proud we all are to be Badgers.”
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Badger fans gather on State Street to celebrate Wisconsin’s win against Kentucky, remaining peaceful with no reported incidents.
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The crowd was relatively wellbehaved, with only one report of an accidental minor injury and no property damage or arrests, Madison Police Department Lt. Kelly Donahue said.
The UW Police Department also did not report any issues. UWPD Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott said the department had prepared all week while keeping last year’s more turbulent crowds in mind, working closely with MPD and focusing on campus safety. Instead of last year’s spontaneous influx of venting students, UW-Madison junior Jake Ziegler said students this year had high energy but were more controlled. UW-Madison freshman Tara Saye said crowd surfing was the most disruptive behavior. Other than making sure nobody was injured while participating, Saye said law enforcement could be seen high-fiving students while standing on the outskirts of the crowd. “It really shows how much of a community there is here, and how much spirit this school has and how proud we all are to be Badgers,” Saye said. Ziegler said he hopes stu-
dents mirror Saturday’s behavior in the case Wisconsin loses the championship game rather than react like other losing universities have. Assistant News Editor Cheyene Miller at University of Kentucky’s student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, said riots, 31 arrests and at least three injuries resulted after the Saturday loss. People were seen burning shirts, boxes and a Wisconsin flag while police in riot gear arrested the most disruptive participants. Miller said this kind of behavior is expected for most matches nearing the championship game, especially police in full riot gear and setting articles of clothing on fire. Madison law enforcement has prepared plans that are being “ironed out” for the expected championship game celebration, according to Lovicott, who said he is looking forward to Madison’s spirited reaction.
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While people across Madison fixed their eyes on the Badger game Saturday night, a meager but appreciative crowd settled into the High Noon Saloon to hear music from folk band the Pines. The Pines stopped in Madison on a mini tour around the Midwest as they put together their sixth album. With Benson Ramsey and David Huckfelt on guitar and lead vocals and Alex Ramsey on keyboard, the band played crowd favorites from their previous albums and peppered in some yet-to-be-released tunes. After a performance by Milwaukee Americana artist Hayward Williams, the Pines took their seats on stage. The band has played alongside the likes of Bon Iver and Trampled by Turtles. The Pines greeted Madison with the humility and gratitude of an up-and-comer. Donning straw hats and leather boots, their Midwestern roots were present throughout the entirety of the show. The Pines’ songs are often inspired by the stark landscape and infrastructure of Iowa, where the band members grew up. “I feel like for us it’s about seeing a place where we can go that is sort of unconventional. The things that can open up, the things that can convey feeling without words,” Huckfelt said. Ramsey and Huckfelt now live in Minneapolis, but their show Saturday night proved the ambient feel of their music is fully intact. The sound that emerged
from their instruments was so crisp and pure it was nearly identical to the recorded version. Accompanying the complex picking of their guitars and eerie softness of the keyboard, the Pines’ lyrics are often reminiscent of early American folk music. Ramsey told the audience sometimes the folklore in their lyrics confuses fans. “People sometimes come up to us after the show and they’re like, ‘did you really murder your wife?’” Ramsey said. While Ramsey and Huckfelt stopped to talk to the audience or sip their Spotted Cow from time to time, it was clear this band is pretty down-to-business. And that business is delivering beautiful folk songs. They said they were happy to be back in Madison despite the fact the Badger game happened to fall on the same day as their show. “I’ve never seen so many people in one room that hate basketball,” Huckfelt said to the audience. Ramsey smiled and told him that maybe they didn’t hate basketball. Maybe they were just too anxious to watch. “One in seven Americans suffer from severe anxiety so I know at least one of you guys is freaking out right now,” Ramsey said. Anxious or not, the audience contently soaked in the artists’ honest performance and sang along to the encore performance of “All the While” before the spotlights went dark and the Pines waved goodbye to their fans.
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Chazwick Bradley Bundick reaches new level in What For? CD REVIEW
What For? Chazwick Bradley Bundick By Jacinta Tian THe Daily Cardinal
Chazwick Bradley Bundick, Toro y Moi’s solitary member, is seen as a leading figure in the chillwave movement. His music adapts heavy use of artificially created or enhanced sounds, synthesizers, repeating section of sound material, taking a portion of one sound and reusing it, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines. However, in this new album, What For?, he takes his unhurried voice to the next level. The feeling he portrays by telling a road-trip experience under the blue summer sky was soothing and engaging and serves as perfect back-
ground music while diving into some deep thoughts or during interpersonal conversations. This is the same feeling aroused by the album’s cover with Toro looking down smiling with blue sky and lightning bolts painted on an aged garage door behind him. The ten songs of What For? are based in a standard band set-up of guitar, bass, keys and drums. It specifically features a Roland JX-3P, Moog Voyager and Fender Rhodes, and follows a ‘70s mood. Apart from those creditable instruments echoing his voice, Julian Lynch and Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson also contributed to the production of this album at Bundick’s Berkeley, Calif. home. A few especially noticeable records are worth highlighting, including singles releasesd after the album like “Empty Nesters,” with its opening guitar riff reminiscent of The Byrds’ mid-period. Also, “Run Baby Run” adapts a hugely effective guitar track which holds the song together.
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’m not a sports fan. I never have been and I probably never will be. Not for lack of trying though because I tried for half of my life to either excel at some sport or really fall in love with one. I couldn’t do either and never do I feel that loss more as when I witness the love and devotion for a sport by thousands, if not millions of people during sporting events. Do not get me wrong though, I cheer and applaud. I scream and throw out profanities. I also jump around without abandon. But all the while some small part of me feels like a fraud because I didn’t follow the season nor do I know the players. It feels like it’s not my place, as if I do not have the right to do so. And yet there I am, screaming the house down with the most ardent of fans. It occurs to me then that I can’t be the only one. I’m neither a born and bred Badger, nor a Wisconsinite. It’s not in our blood to scream for the Badgers, rather it’s an acquired taste. It’s not in all of our nature to flood the streets as a mob over a sport, but it’s a learned tradition. The sport brings you there. Even those who don’t belong, who haven’t felt it in their blood, haven’t wept for it and haven’t given their time to it. Even those. Because that precisely is why sports exist. They exist to give us something to believe in together, something bigger than us. Talking about literature, right on the heels of the Badger’s win at Final Four and with the championship tonight, would feel incomplete without sports and athletes (just basketball though to be brutally and gleefully specific). Intriguingly enough, it is a niche genre that does not get enough attention as it is anyway. Since that’s right up my alley, I would be a fool to pass up such a historical opportunity, and a fool I most certainly am not. Sports have always been a focus of obsessive fandom and just as much criticism. Why do we need them? What purpose do they serve? If the answer for some is still not apparent in the lives and games of the many great athletes to walk amongst us and before, then perhaps words and stories may provide a new vision. Rick Telander’s “Heaven is a playground” is a well-known classic and wonderfully apt for the Badgers. Tracing the roots of today’s inner city basketball to this story, it shows us the world of those that love the game and dream of nothing but playing it. The kids in this book already know something we all spend a lifetime chasing, they know what they’re meant to do. They know without a shadow of a doubt that they belong on a court, with a ball in their hand. But that knowledge is also harsh and comes at a price. We’re given a glimpse into a
world where living this dream practically and realistically is not possible for many. It comes as fleeting opportunities that even those that manage to grab it rarely ever manage to hold on. It shows us the paths all legends would have had to walk on and struggle through at some point. It is hard for many to imagine what the world of an athlete really must be like. Their team has to become their family and the coach their god. In many ways, an athlete’s entire identity as a player is honed by the coach. Championships are won and teams are shaped by what a coach teaches them. “Season on the Brink” by John Feinstein is one such story about a legendary coach who, to this day, is purported to have walked a very fine line between genius and madness. Feinstein takes you much further than just an entertaining look into the basketball season of a brilliant coach, but also offers you insight into the psychological workings of a man who was unrivaled in teaching his players how to play. This is a highly complicated juxtaposition of a man who was heavily criticized as well as worshipped and yet knew what he had to do to make his players perform like champions. For some, sports is an expression and an outlet for all that they have within them. For everything that they’re unable to share with the world. It is their version of beauty in motion and what allows them to breathe. Pat Conroy’s memoir about his career as a self-proclaimed mediocre point guard, “My Losing Season,” is one that that echoes all those sentiments. He writes about basketball and what it means to college athletes while they are all struggling to find their place in the world and their individual identities. Trying to fathom who we are and actively being that person is a daily struggle for all of us, we live and breathe that war. But these were men who had made
basketball a part of them, as it is for all athletes, in a way that there was no them without the sport. Conroy repeatedly begs the question of whether ,at the end of the day, we learn more from winning or losing and, either way asserts that we are left with a hell of a lot more than just a trophy or defeat. Sports has never been just about winning, apparent in the above mentioned pieces of writing. Do not ever let anyone tell
you different. The ones who live and breathe the game, those that see role models in the athletes, and all those who come together because of it, they truly understand the spirit and soul of sports. Every war is waged with the dream of victory, and victory is what the Badgers will bring home. In the words of Muhammad Ali, the athlete I find unrivaled in brilliance, “Champions aren’t made in
gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have lastminute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” What is your favorite sports novel? Are there any other books you think would be relevant in response to the Badger win? Let Maham know at mhasan4@wisc.edu.
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n the fall of 1967, 22-yearold Paul Soglin and his UW-Madison peers were engaged in a peaceful sit-in to protest the campus presence of Dow Chemical Company, one of the leading producers of napalm during the Vietnam War. When Madison police attempted to remove the students from the building in which they were protesting, the confrontation turned violent and many students, including Soglin, were beaten by officers. Soglin was later chosen to lead the student strike that followed the incident. Nearly 48 years later, when 19-year-old Tony Robinson was shot and killed on Williamson Street by a Madison police officer last month, now-Madison Mayor Paul Soglin was standing quietly among the crowds, solemnly grieving the loss of a young life and mourning the suffering his community was enduring. “It’s an unspeakable tragedy,” Soglin said at the scene. Soglin’s passion for Madison and its people has been mistaken for stubbornness, even arrogance, in the 18 years he has led the city since first taking the mayoral office in 1973. But it is Soglin’s doggedness in the face of emerging adversities, his unrivaled knowledge of the city’s inner-workings and his paramount focus to give “a new
urgency to old questions” regarding poverty and equity, as he stated in a letter to The Cap Times, that has earned him The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board’s endorsement in the April 7 mayoral election. The incumbent Soglin and his intelligent, zealous challenger, Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, share many of the same views and offer similar solutions to issues in and around Madison. However, this board believes Resnick is not prepared to handle the challenges of leading Madison’s city government as well as the difficulties the city will face when Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015 budget is implemented, slashing funding for the UW System, environmental organizations and rural health care programs. Resnick’s promises to improve the city’s technological framework, including implementing city-wide access to high-speed Internet and working to attract young entrepreneurs and startups to the area, are noble. However, they are overshadowed by his lack of experience. Soglin proved his ability to manage the city’s finances responsibly by rejecting the TIF money for the Edgewater, saving taxpayers millions when the project proceeded without the grant, and opening the Judge Doyle Square project up to new developers when it was found to cost much
more than originally planned. Soglin told the board that he admires Resnick, however, for the fact that he has stayed in Madison and that his business employs fellow Madisonians. This allegiance to preserving and promoting local businesses is a necessary aspect of our city’s leader, especially as apartment developments like The Hub and its chain-filled storefronts are coming to fruition. A focus on making the city’s IT industry a force to be reckoned with isn’t enough; Soglin’s creative proposals to incentivise stores’ use of sidewalk space and to create an online search engine for all stores and products in the Madison area, for example, would allow the city’s cultural, social and economic landmarks, like State Street, to prosper. Soglin’s hyper-awareness of the issues his community is facing extends to UW-Madison students as well. As a project manager at EPIC Systems for four years in the 2000s, Soglin hired humanities majors for the software company because they knew how to think critically; he is a staunch believer in the idea that college is not meant to simply train students for a profession, but to teach them how to contemplate and debate about the environment, equity and economics intelligently. As the UW System faces massive budget cuts that could raise tuition dramatically when Walker’s tuition freeze is lifted in 2017, and student loan debt develops into a crucial, life-altering issue for college graduates and anyone considering college, this board believes Soglin’s experi-
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ence as both a public and private employer provides him with the necessary perspective to make decisions that are conscious of these developing issues. Finally, some of Soglin’s biggest critics have said he oversimplifies the issue of homelessness and even promotes racial divisions with his legislation. Soglin vows to continue to make solving the city’s racial issues a priority by seeking to reintroduce a program from his previous terms, which was cut by his successors, that dramatically reduced black infant mortality rates. Annexing Madison’s south side, which contains the area’s greatest concentration of people of color, is also a primary concern of Soglin; annexing the area and deeming it part of the City of Madison, rather than the Town
of Madison, will allow the local government to have more influence in improving citizens’ quality of life there. And just last fall, Soglin’s plan to create approximately 1,000 housing units for the homeless and low-income workers by 2020 was approved by the city council, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Madison has been anything but stagnant with Soglin at its helm. Though Soglin’s goals for his next term may seem lofty, our board is confident that no one is more prepared to take on the city’s issues and join us together in the city’s evolution. We proudly endorse him in the mayoral election. We want to konw what you think. Please send comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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Mayor Paul Soglin deserves four more years to continue working toward bringing his dream for the city to fruition.
Teach for America endangers the public education system Sarah dobbs Letter to the Editor
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e can provide an excellent education for kids in low-income communities.” What recent graduate of education doesn’t want to embrace and advance this statement? This is the mission statement of Teach for America. The program, though well intentioned, is a threat to public education. It replaces qualified teachers with recent college graduates in underserved classrooms and uses tax dollars to fund pro-reform, pro-privatization education operations. TFA is a menace to the success of public education everywhere and, as a college student and passionate proponent of public education, I must alert you that TFA is recruiting on your campus! Teach for America, a nonprofit organization functions like a domestic Peace Corps for education. The program is intended to supplement classrooms with volunteers to augment the educational experiences of students across the country. Increasingly however, TFA volunteers are being used as replacements for experienced, qualified teachers because these inexperienced volunteers are paid far less than experienced teachers and as volunteers, are not entitled
to benefits. Between 2008 and 2013, 324,000 teaching positions have been eliminated and numbers of TFA volunteers have skyrocketed. In 2013 The Chicago Board of Education announced the layoffs of over 3,000 school personnel due to budget cuts and then proceeded to increase its payment to TFA from $600,000 to nearly $1.6 million. TFA volunteers are a good financial deal for school districts but the educational ramifications have been disastrous. (Washington Post, September 10, 2013). Volunteers are limited to two-year tours with the program and have neither the time nor the skills as first-time teachers, to develop long-term, trusting relationships with students. Districts cycle TFA teachers in and out of schools, eliminating the possibility of any real and sustainable progress. TFA perpetuates institutional racism by subjecting low-income and minority students to the teaching of inexperienced, temporary volunteers in place of professional teachers. Utilizing TFA instructors provides a golden opportunity for public education reformers who seek to shut down struggling public schools and open for-profit charter or private schools. Students fail tests providing the district a reason to
close schools and open charters or other education reform institutions. Teach for America is a major player in the for-profit education reform movement that has already shut down countless public schools and converted them to charters. “When these charter students ring up good test scores, nearby public schools look increasingly bad by comparison, which can feed momentum to shut them down, fire their teachers, or turn them over to private management” (Huffington Post, August 16, 2012). TFA is an excellent idea as a supplement to education but the system is broken and TFA is being falsely offered as the panacea. The program’s prevalence in underserved schools will also perpetuate the historical underachievement of minority students by consistently placing their education in the hands of inexperienced college graduates. It’s not that recent graduates of some of our countries finest educational institutions are not capable of becoming excellent teachers or that they do not have the talent or skills to be effective first-time teachers. Everyone starts somewhere, right? As young teachers we should always start by becoming certified to teach! TFA relies on exploiting the very
creativity and enthusiasm of young graduates because we are so passionate about helping cure the ills of American education. What we don’t realize, unfortunately, is that by endorsing TFA, we become perpetrators of the problem as well. Often times TFA volunteers become discouraged and lose interest in continuing to teach because they are working in environments that are immensely unfair to them and their students. TFA is a capitalist enterprise that is exploiting our passion as young educators. Let’s do something about it! Spread the truth about TFA among your fellow students and discourage them from enrolling as volunteers. Go to your administration and insist that they remove existing TFA representatives from campus and prevent any future representatives and advocates from scheduling information sessions or open houses. If TFA has campus events in the near future, there are still steps you can take to show them you are not interested! Occupy the stage at an info session to prevent the representative from presenting. Picket the TFA sign up booths on application days. The National Honor Fraternity Phi Sigma Pi has also recently adopted TFA as
its national philanthropy. If this frat exists on your campus, implore your school’s chapter to petition the national chapter to take TFA off its agenda. It may be your senior year and if you don’t join TFA you’ll end up living at your parent’s house staring at a wall while your skills atrophy. So what can you do? First, get certified! Join the Peace Corps. Go to your local school and offer your skills by building an afterschool or extracurricular program to enrich and supplement kids’ education that way. Make a connection and build on it. All passionate young educators have secret super powers and TFA is not an appropriate forum through which to exercise them. Our students are our future and they deserve the best. Teach for America is undermining their potential to be great and as young students of education full of the fervor for social change and justice in education, let us be advocates for their success by stopping TFA NOW. Sarah Dobbs is a freshman at Swarthmore college. Do you agree with her perspective? Is Teach for America a menace to the future of public education in our country? Please send all thoughts and comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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By Jack Baer the daily cardinal
INDIANAPOLIS—Wisconsin is loose. They enter a pregame press conference already in a fit of giggles, and eventually pull the rest of the media in with them. It’s at the point where even head coach Bo Ryan is cracking jokes, worrying his guys are “too tense.” The Badgers have just defeated Kentucky, an achievement that would be season-defining for virtually any team in the country. The national final awaits. And here the Badgers are laughing like they’re sitting around in an old dorm room. This demeanor could create worries the team is too loose, that it is “satisfied.” Anyone thinking that hasn’t paid attention to a word these guys have said all year, and definitely didn’t hear what they had to say last night. “We wanted to win a national championship and [Kentucky was] the team we had to play,” said sophomore forward Nigel Hayes. “Inevitably we would have to end that streak if we wanted to reach that goal. The fact we were able to do that against a great team was definitely secondary, but we’ll take it.” Wisconsin’s goal was never taking down Kentucky specifically, it was winning a title. With a single game remaining, they have
their chance. Their final opponent is a familiar one: Duke. Last December, the Blue Devils walked into the Kohl Center and put on an offensive clinic, led by freshman guard Tyus Jones’ 22 points. It was a deflating 80-70 loss for the Badgers, a missed opportunity to cement themselves as a nationally elite team for the rest of the season. Duke made 65.2 percent of its field goal attempts and 58.3 percent of its 3-point attempts. UW will get a chance at revenge like they did against Kentucky, just on a smaller scale and a bigger stage. “I think we are better. I think both teams are better. Over the course of a season you go through a lot of changes and you learn a lot and grow together,” said junior forward Sam Dekker. “If you asked a bunch of guys on the team they would say they didn’t play the way they wanted to. Obviously we are going to want to come out and play better basketball against a great opponent. Hopefully they won’t shoot quite as well as they did at our place.” As hyped as Kentucky was entering the Final Four, Duke may be even more talented. The Blue Devils feature freshman center Jahlil Okafor, a strong candidate to hear his name called first in this summer’s NBA Draft. Fellow fresh-
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UW will try to prevent another lights-out shooting night from Duke. men Jones and Justise Winslow could also be lottery picks. In total, the team has nine McDonald’s AllAmericans on its roster. On the other hand, UW has played a total of 17 McDonald’s AllAmericans in its last three games, while sporting none of their own. “It doesn’t matter where you were when you were 16 or 17 years old, it matters where you are now,” said redshirt senior guard Josh Gasser. “We have proven that we are a pretty good team. We play well
together and we are well coached, so that is all that really matters.” During the game, Kaminsky will square off with Okafor in a battle of Wooden Award finalists. Okafor is the most advanced lowpost scorer in a generation, and Kaminsky the era’s most offensively versatile big man. Every other position will be a battle between two of the best starting lineups in college basketball. Duke holds the bench edge just like many of Wisconsin’s opponents,
but the Badgers counter with an ability to attack the interior, something the Blue Devils have struggled with throughout the season. Where we stand now, the Badgers are near the end of the greatest season in program history. The Kentucky game will stand in the living memory of every Badger fan. But there’s one more game, and Ryan won’t let anyone forget thanks to a fellow UW-Madison coach. Ryan recalled women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson, a star on the famous Miracle on Ice hockey team of the 1980 Olympics. Everyone remembers the Russia upset, but that was just the semifinal of the tournament. Finland still awaited the US in the final, as Duke does for Wisconsin. “Duke is a really good team,” Ryan said. “I think Finland was a good team because they got to the finals. So, yes, we know we’ve got 40 more, as I’ve said a thousand times. But we know we got some work to do. I think last night’s game simply says, ‘Okay, it puts you in position now to go after the championship.’” Maybe some fans need that reminder, but not this team. Everything that has been said indicates this team isn’t just OK with returning to the Final Four or even finding vengeance over Kentucky. It wants a championship.
How they did it: Efficient offense leads Badgers over UK By Zach Rastall the daily cardinal
INDIANAPOLIS— Saturday night, the Wisconsin Badgers accomplished what no other team in college basketball had done this season: defeat the Kentucky Wildcats. Thirty-eight teams had tried before them, and all 38 had failed in their attempt to take down Kentucky. But the Badgers were up to the task in Indianapolis, as they avenged their heartbreaking loss to the Wildcats in last year’s Final Four. So how did UW pull off the upset? While you could point to a number of different contributing factors, there’s no question that two of the biggest reasons for the Badgers’ victory were their ultraefficient performance on offense and their impressive work on the glass. Add in the team’s unwavering resiliency, and you have all the ingredients for a win that stands on par with just about any in program history.
Since Ken Pomeroy began tracking tempo-free statistics back in 2002, no team has posted a higher adjusted offensive efficiency rating than Wisconsin has this season, and it was on full display at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Badgers scored 1.23 points per possession in Saturday night’s win, with that number reaching as high as 1.42 at one point in the second half, according to SBNation. While these kinds of numbers would be impressive under just about any circumstances, they’re simply jaw-dropping when you consider the fact they were against a Kentucky team that came into the night with the best defense of the KenPom era. Wisconsin has now scored at least 1.20 points per possession in 10 of its last 11 games, but its performance against Kentucky may have been its best over that stretch. While the UW defense was far from perfect, the Badgers were able to hold UK’s All-American junior forward Willie Cauley-
Stein to just two points and five rebounds on the night. Wisconsin also did an incredible job cleaning up on the glass, outrebounding the Wildcats 34-22, including a 12-6 edge on the offensive glass. Gaudy numbers like that help explain how the Wildcats could lose despite the fact they shot 48.1 percent from the floor, 60 percent from 3-point range and 90 percent from the free throw line while turning the ball over just six times. “We just tried to do whatever we could to stay into them. We know if they get another offensive rebound, they get another chance to score,” said senior forward Frank Kaminsky. “They’re such a good offensive team, if they get buckets that way, it’s going to be a long night. Just trying to keep them off the glass is one of our main priorities.” Kaminsky, who celebrated his 22nd birthday Saturday, was pivotal to UW’s success against Kentucky, recording game highs
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Frank Kaminsky led all scorers with 20 points and hauled in 11 rebounds to fuel the upset win.
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Sam Dekker scored 16 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer. with 20 points and 11 rebounds. Junior forward Sam Dekker also continued his incredible surge during the NCAA Tournament, scoring 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting, including 2-of-3 on 3-pointers. This included a go-ahead, stepback triple that Dekker hit with less than two minutes remaining in regulation, which put the Badgers up for good. Dekker’s 3-pointer was part of a 15-4 run for Wisconsin over the last 4:26 of the game, which followed a seven-minute stretch where the Badgers didn’t score a field goal as the Wildcats seized a 60-56 lead. But despite its scoring drought, Wisconsin never wavered or panicked and righted the ship for the final minutes of the game. “We got down today a little bit, but we didn’t change our expression, we didn’t change what we did, we didn’t freak out,” Dekker
said. “We knew if we played our game, we’d get back into it, come back, crawl back.” Thanks to their collective resilience, the Badgers rose up when it came down to crunch time and found a way to take down a Kentucky team that had, up to that point, always been able to pull out a win whenever it had its back against the wall this season. “Extremely proud of the way our guys hung in there when it looked like we dug ourselves a hole that we could never get out of,” said UW head coach Bo Ryan. “When you don’t score a field goal in about a seven-minute period, the other team got hot. When we got down four, we just kept battling on every possession. “It was just the end, the last five minutes. Again, these guys just gutted it out.”