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County opts for new redistricting procedure By Miller Jozwiak THE DAILY CARDINAL
In an effort to get politics out of the the process of redistricting, the Dane County Board has approved creation of an independent citizens commission to draw political boundaries after the 2020 census. The new commission will be modeled after a method used for congressional and legislative district drawing in Iowa, according to a county press release. The Dane County process will use population, municipal boundaries, ethnic makeup and natural geographic features to establish its districts. Individuals who are affiliated with a political party, lobbying group, labor union or other entities with a vested interest in drawing voting boundaries will not be allowed to serve on the nine-to-11member commission. Following the release of the 2020 census numbers, the Dane County Board chair and the county clerk will make appointments to establish the commission. The appointments will be subject to approval by the full Board, the Dane County Towns
Association, the Dane County Cities and Villages Association and the City of Madison will have input into the appointments. Once the commission is established, it will submit one to three maps to the Board for approval. If none of the proposed maps are approved, they will be re-referred to the commission, which will be able to amend and resubmit them. The process could change the Board’s fifth district, which Supervisor Hayley Young represents. The district has traditionally been held by a student or recent graduate because it covers campus and Lake Mendota. Young voted to create the commission and noted the fifth district was changed slightly after the 2010 census. “The aim of a citizen redistricting commission is to make sure that the people who live in the area are representing the district,” Young said. “We’re really doing the best that we can with what we have … we don’t have someone who is paid doing this.” In 2013 a panel of three federal judges redrew two assembly dis-
tricts, finding that the districts violated the voting rights of Latinos on the Southside of Milwaukee, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A federal lawsuit is also pending for that 2011 redistricting. “Voters should feel confident that they get to select their elected officials, not the other way around,” Supervisor Jenni Dye of Fitchburg, who chaired a subcommittee that helped draft the new plan, said in the release. “This independent commission means that supervisors won’t be the ones at the table drawing maps and selecting their voters.” Dane County voters approved a 2014 advisory referendum to establish impartial, nonpartisan redistricting. The County Board then established a subcommittee to make recommendations for how to conduct the next mapping process, from which this commission was established. There was only one vote against the commission’s creation. The ordinance amendment needs to be signed by Dane County Executive Joe Parisi before it becomes law.
State Street may see retail increase
Graduate student writes presidential debate questions
By Miller Jozwiak THE DAILY CARDINAL
The preliminary recommendations for the city’s retail impact study include suggestions for changing the perception of parking availability, addressing homelessness downtown and possibly adjusting regulations. Tangible Consulting Services and Perkins+Will prepared an interim report of recommended policies and strategies for improving retail downtown. The interim report is a draft of the final report that will come out of the downtown retail impact study and was presented at the Overture Thursday night. The report recognized three “core issues” and two “emerging concerns” regarding retail on State Street, the Capitol Square, King Street and the general downtown area. It drew on a survey that was based on more than 1,100 respondents. There were several substan-
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Dane County Board of Supervisors District Five, which is made up mostly of campus and Lake Mendota, could change following the 2020 census under the new redistricting commission.
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Mayor Paul Soglin has supported the push for more retail. tial recommendations in the State Street part of the report. The report suggested restricting food and beverage businesses to only 50 percent of block-level storefronts. That suggestion came as Mayor Paul Soglin, who originally advocated for the study, has suggested a moratorium on State Street liquor licenses and recently tried vetoing some licenses that Common Council has passed. The recommendations could also bring a new fee to commercial renters. The report said vacant space needs to be reduced as well, possibly through adopting public regulations which would levy a fee for allowing extended vacancies. The report also took aim at reducing homelessness.
“The personal and societal needs implied by people who spend so much time on the street call for our compassion and response on many levels,” the report said. It also said, “This population has a significant impact on the attractiveness of the area to shoppers. Part of the impact relates to the presence of this population, particularly when they are asking for money.” They suggested “utilizing and activating” public space through programming the space and transitioning to outdoor activities at restaurants after retail hours in order to take up more of the space. Those suggestions for State Street and the other areas may be revised before the final report is presented in October.
A UW-Madison graduate student represented UW-Madison as a student delegate to produce questions to potentially be asked at Monday’s presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Jacqueline Moss, who is pursuing a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction, went to the 2016 College Debate, a new, nonpartisan program that aims to give young voters a voice on the issues that mat-
ter most to them. The group formed questions based on issues they agreed were important. Delegates gathered twice at Dominican University in California within the last three months and came up with a list of questions that focused five policy issues—education, civil rights, the economy, foreign policy and immigration. The finished list, which was submitted to the Commission on Presidential Debates, consisted of three specific questions for each policy.
Beltline burglars tailgate, steal car A 32-year-old woman had the scare of her life when she was carjacked in what Madison Police Department called a “bigger city crime” in an incident report. Officials said the Mount Horeb woman was venturing west, when an SUV began to tailgate her. She pulled aside to an exit when the vehicle rear ended her. Three men got out of the SUV and told her to look at the front bumper damage. The woman then retrieved her cell phone from her vehicle to con-
tact the police. But before reaching the driver’s seat, one of the suspect pushed past her to take the driver’s seat. The individual drove off, while the other two suspects drove off in the SUV. The victim located a nearby restaurant to call police and detail the “bump-and-run carjacking.” Shortly after an attempt to pinpoint the individuals involved and the stolen vehicle, Milwaukee Police stated the SUV was recently used in an armed robbery at a Walgreens. —Hunter Nollenberg
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Fires damage, help forests By Maggie Liu The Daily Cardinal
Yellowstone National Park is the nation’s oldest national park, spanning one of the largest swathes of wilderness in America. It’s famed for its pristine landscape and iconic wildlife. As UW-Madison’s Eugene P. Odum professor of ecology Monica Turner states, Yellowstone is the “crown jewel” of American national parks. However, Yellowstone’s forests, along with forest ecosystems elsewhere, are in danger of climate change. Turner studies natural disturbances, like wildfires, that occur in forests and how the ecosystem recovers from them. She has worked in Yellowstone since the summer of 1988, when a destructive fire swept through Yellowstone. At the time, ecologists were alarmed. In the following years, however, they realized that it wasn’t as bad as they thought. In fact, the forest was already welladapted to the fire, because for the past 10,000 years in Yellowstone large catastrophic fires had been sweeping through every 100 or so years. The 1988 fire had simply been part of the pattern that the forest was already adapted to. This led Turner and others to develop the idea of resilience, which is how ecosystems can recover from disasters without needing any intervention. Resilience is made up of two parts: the information legacy and material legacy. The information legacy is
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A regenerating Yellowstone forest, after the 1988 and 2000 fires. This demonstrates a significant loss of forest resilience. the long-term set of traits that species have evolved over many years in order to recover from disturbances. The material legacy is the “nuts and bolts” of resilience. For example, it’s the actual “stuff” left behind by burned trees, like seeds, that will help regenerate the forest. Nature usually doesn’t need any help from us to recover from disaster because it has the long-term and short-term problems covered already. So, what’s changing now? “Climate,” Turner said. “Climate is getting warmer and warmer. Fires occur during the years when we have hot and dry conditions. In much of [Yellowstone], those [conditions] didn’t happen very often.” Because Yellowstone usually doesn’t have dry and hot conditions, giant wildfires like the 1988 fire aren’t common at all. However, recently ecologists have shown that by the end of the 21st century, the weather averages will be the same as the unusually hot and dry 1988
summer. The abnormal extreme will become the new normal. This means that Yellowstone fires could occur every 30 years instead of every hundred years—an alarming change to the status quo. “What’s that going to mean for our forests and landscapes?” Turner asked. To answer that question, Turner collaborated with scientists studying forests around the world to develop a revolutionary framework to understand why and how forest resilience can be damaged by factors like climate change and how resilience can be sustained. The framework states that resilience can only be maintained if the two legacies, information and material, match up with the conditions around them. It’s like puzzle pieces: If the condition puzzle piece fits with the legacy pieces, then the forest can recover fine. If the condition puzzle piece changes because of, say, climate change, then the puzzle pieces
don’t fit anymore, and the ecosystem loses its resiliency to the new conditions. If any of these changes don’t match up with the two legacies, then resiliency and ecosystem alike start falling apart. An added complication is resilience debt, which means that there’s a time lag for the damaging effects of climate change to be obvious to us. “The climate is changing gradually … we don’t always know when it has passed the threshold where the forest species that are present now won’t be able to recover in the future,” Turner stated. “So the resilience debt means that we may have changed the system fundamentally in ways that we won’t even see until a natural disturbance comes through and gives the system a chance to reset.” The idea that the “writing on the wall” could already be there for a valued nature preserve like Yellowstone and for others around the country adds an urgency to the research in this field. Turner hopes the framework she helped develop will be a building block on the path of understanding the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems, and eventually being able to lessen or prevent catastrophic changes. Turner is already planning on return trips to Yellowstone and is eager to return and study the aftereffects of five fires currently burning in Yellowstone. Although her research is a lot of work, Turner said that being able to study in Yellowstone for so long has been the highlight of her career.
Study to connect concussions and academics By Julie Spitzer The Daily Cardinal
The stick hit the puck and the puck glided across the ice. As the blades on his skates did the same, Vaughn Kottler, a now junior at UW-Madison but an incoming high school junior at the time, scurried around the hockey rink at tryouts. Little did he know what was about to hit him. He was so fixated on the puck and his stick, doing his best to make the team, that he didn’t notice the other player and the side of the rink so close to him. Crash! His body—and head— hit the boards. The drive home, Kottler said, made him uneasy. He described it as the feeling one gets when one awakes from a deep sleep too soon and one’s body is just not ready. His next few days were dotted with headaches, and looking at screens and reading were among some of the most difficult tasks. Concussions, however, do not discriminate. A non-athlete can sustain a concussion from simply hitting their head, or even shoulder, against any surface too hard, transmitting the force of impact to their brain. No concussion symptom should go ignored. A new study, launching this October out of the UW-Madison School of Nursing and School of Medicine and Public Health, hopes to gain new insights into the aftermath of a concussion in high school athletes, but the knowledge gained can be applied to student athletes of all ages. Dr. Traci Snedden, a post-doc-
toral fellow at the UW-Madison School of Nursing and co-investigator of the study, is currently part of a collaborative team that assesses NCAA athletes in a national study focusing on concussion symptom patterns. Snedden, however, hopes to gain more insights on concussions in adolescents, particularly on how they affect academic performances. “Most [of the previous studies] are more concerned with returning them to their sport … less attention has been placed on when are they are optimally ready to return to school,” Snedden said. “And when they do return to school, they look fine, they have no crutches, they have no cast … faculty and teachers assume that they are fine but underneath that ... many of the studies report that they are struggling with their academics in a number of ways.” The study, which focuses on Madison-area high school athletes, will send surveys electronically to students who have sustained concussions. It will also ask their parents or caregivers for their insights. The surveys will take place over a four-week time period, from the time of injury. Snedden is curious as to how academic struggles vary from the first week post-concussion to the third or fourth and why that is. Surveys will be distributed on a rolling basis throughout the next few months, and she hopes results will be published this spring. Little is known about what occurs in the brain after a concussion, Snedden explained. So far,
animal models are the only way for scientists to study a brain immediately after experiencing a concussion. From these models, they have learned that a concussion is a complex biochemical response, causing a supply and demand issue. The brain requires more energy, which isn’t met because of changes at the cellular level. More is known about concussion symptoms. According to Snedden, many patients report an overwhelming feeling of fogginess, much like Kottler’s. There are four categories of concussion symptoms, each of which, Snedden said, will cause a struggle in daily life. These are physical, such as headaches and nausea; cognitive, including difficulty thinking; emotional/behavioral and sleep-related. Additionally, Snedden said previous studies have reported that student athletes, post-concussion, reported difficulties in the classroom, inspiring the study which seeks to learn more. Snedden explained these difficulties may range from worsened symptoms after shifting one’s view from notebook to teacher, reading, staring at screens or physically being able to stay awake for an entire school day due to overwhelming fatigue. Headaches associated with concussions may also impede a student’s ability to function normally in the classroom. Kottler was no different. “Math was hard because you have a class that requires you to immediately think,” Kottler recalled. Snedden recommends taking care of the concussion with physi-
cal and cognitive rest as one way to help the brain heal. However, Snedden emphasized that each concussion is unique, so each treatment regime will be different for each individual and a fine balance of limitations and activity is required. When an injured individual does not allow proper healing of their concussion, according to Snedden, the effects may be damaging in the short-term as well as long-term. However, many of these effects are still unknown. “We know that those who do not report their concussion immediately actually have a longer recovery period,” Snedden said. “The brain itself isn’t able to heal … They continue to force their brain to be overworked.” Less is known about the longterm effects of a concussion, but according to Snedden, multiple concussions in a short period of time may lead to a cumulative effect that may be detrimental in the long-term. “When we talk about high school-age, or even college-age kids, this is a very fragile time of their lives where they’re making plans for the future. So having cognitive issues during this time could affect them across their future life,” Snedden said. Snedden and the other researchers will also be conducting a similar study with college-age students. Distributed within the next few weeks to all undergraduate UW-Madison students via their Wiscmail accounts, the survey will be inquiring about their experiences with concussions and other injuries while students at UW-Madison.
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Kapanke challenges Shilling in race for state Senate seat By Jake Skubish THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Sara Goldrick-Rab, a former professor at UW-Madison, returned Friday to detail findings from her recent book, “Paying the Price.”
Goldrick-Rab returns to Madison for book signing By Madeline Heim THE DAILY CARDINAL
Former UW-Madison professor Sara Goldrick-Rab returned to the area Friday to present findings from her recently published book, “Paying the Price.” Goldrick-Rab, who left the school last year for Temple University after sharp critiques of UW-Madison and the UW System, launched a study in 2008 following 3,000 low-income students throughout the system that received need-based aid and what those students’ higher educational outcomes looked like.
“Once you get to the table, you find out that this thing doesn’t have the value that you thought it did.” Sara Goldrick-Rab author “Paying the Price”
The Federal Pell Grant, which Goldrick-Rab said many of the study’s students qualified for, covered roughly 80 percent of the cost for a four-year college in its beginning stages. These days, she said it only pays for about one-third. Comparing the Pell Grant
to using a discount coupon at an expensive restaurant, Goldrick-Rab said it gets students to try college “because it’s giving you a discount.” “But once you get to the table… you find out that this thing doesn’t have the value that you thought it did,” she said. “And by the time you get the bill and realize you don’t have the money to pay for it, it’s too late. You already ate the food. You can’t give it back.” Goldrick-Rab detailed the ways in which Wisconsin could turn things around for lowincome students who are not seeing help from their financial aid package, like adapting the National School Lunch Program for higher education and halting construction of apartments like The Hub, instead allowing for mixed-income housing. The way to drive down these prices and change attitudes is to talk to people, she said—and not just about freezing tuition. “It’s the cost of things like housing, and food, and transportation, and books and supplies and medical care,” Goldrick-Rab argued. “These are the bulk of the costs of attending college. And if you can’t deal with those costs and don’t deal with those costs, then you are not making college more affordable for most people.”
Trump to make campaign stop in Waukesha as presidential race tightens Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will make a campaign stop in Waukesha Wednesday, according to his website. Trump will hold a rally in the Waukesha County Expo Center, according to the campaign. Doors open at 3 p.m. for the event, which begins at 6 p.m. Trump’s running mate, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, will also hold an event in Waukesha Tuesday. Pence
will speak at Weldall Manufacturing, Inc. at 5:30 p.m. The presidential race is tightening in Wisconsin, with the latest Marquette University Law School Poll showing Hillary Clinton with a two-point lead among likely voters. Trump has held numerous rallies to garner support in Wisconsin, including one in Green Bay in August and another in Janesville in March.
Each week, The Daily Cardinal will be taking a look at downballot races throughout the state. This week we look to the 32nd Senate district in La Crosse where Republican Dan Kapanke and Democrat Jennifer Shilling are locked in a rematch. Republican candidate Dan Kapanke is challenging Democratic incumbent Jennifer Shilling in a rematch for state Senate District 32. Kapanke, who was ousted from his seat by Shilling in a recall election, is trying to regain control of the La Crosse area. Shilling, the current Senate minority leader, defeated him by 10.8 percent in 2011. Kapanke was recalled in the aftermath of Act 10, which halted public employee’s collective bargaining rights. Shilling’s political career started in college, when she beat her 78-year-old opponent for a seat on the La Crosse County Board. She spent 10 years in the state Assembly representing District 95 before becoming District 32 state senator.
Shilling plans to grow Wisconsin’s middle class and boost job creation efforts by “[focusing] on making childcare more affordable, lowering student loan debt, expanding healthcare access and improving retirement security,” according to a press release. Kapanke, who held District 32 for seven years, hopes to bring “common sense leadership for Western Wisconsin,” according to the candidate’s website.
“Together we will keep Wisconsin moving in the right direction.” Dan Kapanke candidate state Senate
Kapanke was raised on a dairy farm in La Crosse County. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and the Wisconsin and South Dakota National Guard. In his time following the recall election, Kapanke served as chair of Agriculture,
Forestry and Higher Education Committee until 2012. He is the current owner of La Crosse Loggers, a collegiate summer baseball league. “As a small business owner, I know that growing jobs, training our workforce, and bringing steady leadership are key for our economic future,” said Kapanke on his campaign website. “We need fiscal responsibility with taxpayer dollars, which allows Wisconsin’s hardworking people to keep more of what they earn… Together we will keep Wisconsin moving in the right direction.” If Shilling, who defeated Kapanke in 2011, keeps her seat, Democrats could flip the Republican chamber. Republicans have a state government trifecta—holding majority leadership in the state Senate, state Assembly and governorship, including a five-seat majority in the state Senate. If Democrats pick up three out of the 16 seats up for election, however, they will flip the chamber and break this trifecta, creating a divided state government.
Student Services Finance Committee chair details process of eligibility for student organizations seeking funding By Luisa de Vogel THE DAILY CARDINAL
This year, students attending UW-Madison will pay around $1,200 in segregated fees, which are allocated in part to several registered student organizations across campus. Before reaping the benefits of those funds, student organizations must undergo an eligibility process, established in 2000 when UW System student Scott Southworth sued the Board of Regents. Southworth argued that paying student segregated fees to a group whose mission he did not agree with violated his First Amendment rights. The lawsuit resulted in the creation of the eligibility process. Groups looking to be funded by segregated fees must now fill out an extensive 20-page application and give a presentation to the Student Services Finance Committee, which allocates those fees throughout the academic year, according to SSFC Chair Colin Barushok. Groups must prove they provide educational programming to the UW-Madison campus community in order to receive funding. That educational programming must include fostering civic knowledge and engagement, intercultural and cross-cultural educational opportunities or the building of teamwork and problem-solving skills. The Campus Women’s Center, Greater University Tutoring Services, the Student Leadership Program and several other groups are currently receiving segregated fees, according to the Associated Students of Madison website. Last year, SSFC denied eligibility to Wunk Sheek, a student organization dedicated to providing a
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UW-Madison’s Student Services Finance Committee allocates segregated fees to registered student organizations on campus. space for students of indigenous backgrounds to socialize and share their culture with the greater campus community. “Their programming isn’t available throughout the academic school year. That’s also required,” Barushok said. “They need at least one core program that’s available throughout the academic year.” According to Barushok, Wunk Sheek is applying for eligibility again this year. “I’m really confident and excited for them to come back to the committee this year,” Barushok said.
“We don’t grant or deny groups because we don’t like them. I think they all provide good services.” If a group violates the terms of eligibility, according to Barushok, it is at risk of having SSFC freeze its budget. However, he said this disciplinary process rarely happens, and suggested students across campus engage in the student organizations that receive funding from segregated fees. “I encourage [students] to go out and use these programs, because they pay for them,” Barushok said.
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Julia Jacklin gave memorable performance to Madison fans. By Shaye Graves THE DAILY CARDINAL
Australian artist-to-watch Julia Jacklin is a fresh voice in the music industry—so fresh that she has yet to release her first album. That said, when she introduced herself to Madison on Wednesday night at The Frequency, she seemed familiar somehow, as if she were a cool and slightly older neighbor I had seen around, but was only now just getting to know. Jacklin rocked a badass schoolgirl aesthetic in her signature white Reebok classics, crew socks, plaid miniskirt, t-shirt and scarlet lips. Her blonde, wavy locks were mat-
ted down like she had slept all day, rolled out of bed and gone straight to her show. This unassumingly cool aura Jacklin projected paired well with The Frequency’s paint-chipped, duct-taped and sticker-laden stage. The audience gave Jacklin their undivided attention during her stripped-down, nine-song set. She was joined on stage by her usual drummer, Tom, and the two of them ditched percussion altogether in favor of just guitar, bass and sugary sweet harmonies. Vocally, Jacklin was all warmth and butter. She showed impressive voice control while avoiding rigidity; I was pleasantly surprised by her willingness to
experiment with phrasing and delivery. For instance, she kept the crowd on its toes when she slowed down a fan-favorite song “Coming of Age,” pushing its lyrics to the forefront of our attention in doing so. Lyrically, I found Jacklin’s words much easier to discern in-person than in her studio recordings. This helped me appreciate her music on another level. As lovely as Jacklin’s voice is, her songwriting takes the cake. Unexpected lyrics comprise many of her songs and articulate her personal growth over the past few years. During “Coming of Age,” written prior to her breakthrough in music, Jacklin sang determinedly about needing to find a girl who would make her “toes curl.” In other (less creative) words, these lyrics express a desire to find a new artist to look up to, someone to inspire progression in Jacklin’s music before it becomes too late. This panic Jacklin felt about running out of time to make a name for herself manifested prominently as a theme in her debut album, Don’t Let The Kids Win. A new song she premiered for her Madison audience, “Will I Be A Mother,” also features the passing of time as a prevalent theme. Jacklin ponders whether or not she will change in tandem with time, imagining scenarios where her body changes, but her mind remains the same, and vice versa. “Will I ever be a mother or will I always be a child?” she contemplates in the
chorus. Though ironically, nothing during Jacklin’s show, apart from the vulnerable lyrics she let loose, conveyed this sense of nervousness about her present or future. In fact, Jacklin’s overall demeanor exuded something like removed maturity from the tension she historically imposed on herself in placing deadlines on her life goals. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece questioning how the 25-year-old alt-country songstress made such a rapid come-up in the music industry. Out of the countless talented musicians in the world, only a handful of them will sign with prominent record labels and tour internationally as Jacklin is doing now. However, seeing her perform live brought clarity to this situation. Jacklin is a true artist in her ability to connect with an audience and make them feel something genuine. For the first time ever at a concert, I cried a little, mostly because of Jacklin’s ability to bring her audience right to her emotional level during any given song. Lyrics I did not expect to relate to, and did not feel especially connected to when I listened to their studio versions, resonated deeply with me when she sang them live. This happened twice. I hit the ground hard with Jacklin during “L.A. Dream,” and then again during her closing number, “Don’t Let The Kids Win,” when she sang, “And I’ve got a feeling that this won’t ever
change/ We’re gonna keep on getting older/ It’s gonna keep on feeling strange.” I have yet to experience a timerelated existential crisis (I’m only 19!), but my eyes actually watered during this song. Because Jacklin put herself so completely into expressing this feeling when she performed “Don’t Let The Kids Win,” I was able to go there with her. Jacklin came across as so personable that her show felt somewhat like an intimate heart-to-heart between the two of us, as though she really were just a cool, older girl living in a house down the street from me. During this “heart-to-heart,” I became more aware that as time passes, I might start to feel like the deadlines by which I need to achieve my dreams are speeding past without me. However, the sole presence of Julia Jacklin in front of me Wednesday night, surprising even herself as she sang on her first North American tour, was proof that we can be wrong about the expiration dates we place on our life endeavors. As I left Jacklin’s show, I wondered if she ever located the girl that she sang about needing to find in “Coming of Age”—the artist whose music would inspire Jacklin to the point where her toes curled. Though after watching her perform Wednesday night, I would say that in the process of looking for this someone, Jacklin just might have found herself.
Rimes excites fans with season premiere By Ben Golden THE DAILY CARDINAL
‘Tis the season for Shondaland’s hit shows to return. “Grey’s Anatomy” and “How to Get Away with Murder” began new seasons Sept. 22, and it’s finally beginning to feel like fall. Shonda Rhimes, the prime-time network queen, has created one successful show after another without jeopardizing quality. Her characters are always complex and real, her narration is always personal and clever and her series as a whole are always worthy to binge. Setting aside other shows by Rhimes, I would like to focus on her edgiest and wittiest show to date, “How to Get Away with Murder.” “HTGAWM” has the signature fast pace of a Rhimes series. Beginning its third season, “HTGAWM” is still the new show on the block, considering that “Grey’s Anatomy” is on its 13th season. Yet, “HTGAWM” far surpasses “Grey’s Anatomy” in many aspects. “HTGAWM” tracks the high-adrenaline lives of law students at a prestigious Pennsylvania university after they are involved in a murder. The structure ditches the usual, one-case-per-episode format for something much more gripping— one serial plot point arched throughout a season. The series begins each season with the characters in an unbelievable situation revealed to us in a flash-forward, with most of the season unraveling to eventually get to that plot-point in time. For the season three premiere, the flash-forward is fully revealed at the end of the episode, filled with enough shock to promise a terrific new season. “HTGAWM” has one ingredient
that pushes the series to the top spot of Shondaland originals: the wondrous acting capabilities of Viola Davis. As the misunderstood defense attorney and professor Annalise Keating, Davis channels a powerhouse performance unmatched by anything else on television. Her overqualified Emmy win for this role (which was the first win for an African-American woman in that category) cements her status as one of the best actresses to grace our screens. Professor Keating is a multifaceted, complicated character that Davis craftily harnesses with impeccable skill, pouring her talent into each episode. The third season premiere implies a developing maturation amongst the characters. Murder cover-ups that once forced an inseparable bond between Annalise and her student interns, “The Keating Five,” are deteriorating as Annalise’s morals are publicly questioned and the students no longer feel intimidated by her prowess. Ultimatums are no longer enforced between the corrupted lawyers and they are beyond ready to put the past behind them to move on. This ideal vanishes into smoke once this season’s flash-forward is revealed and their bond feels stronger than ever. “We’re good people now. Say it until you believe it,” Annalise utters in the season three premiere, a notion that is almost laughable at this point in the series. “HTGAWM” is a rare basic-cable series that still manages to thoughtfully push the boundaries in terms of race, sexuality, addiction, abuse and self-identity. The material seamlessly laces its dramatic plot with intricate characters that must face
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their personal battles alongside their legal ones, often at intersecting crossroads. The show effectively presents minority characters that are multi-
dimensional. This quality is unfortunately only beginning to surface in the midst of our modern television climate. Shonda Rhimes is reputably
on the forefront of this mission since “Grey’s Anatomy.” Now “HTGAWM” continues this legacy with more quick wit and fun than ever before.
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Almanac Story Time The Screeching Summer Solstice By Ayomide Awosike
“Shit!” I yell as I scramble out of bed at 5:20 a.m. It’s the day of the summer solstice, the worst day of the year. I rummage
through my bedside dresser, attempting to find my earplugs. They’re not there, fuck! Why didn’t I look for them last night? I stumble through my apartment and down the hall, looking for my backpack—maybe they’re in there. I glance at the clock in my living room as I grab and unzip my backpack, flipping it over and dumping its contents out: 5:22 a.m. All that’s in my backpack are school and work supplies. A low, but quickly growing ear piercing shriek, begins in the East.
I sprint to my bathroom, glancing at the clock once again—5:23. I grab toilet paper and roll it into two small balls, fumbling
as I pour water on them. The shriek grows closer as I stuff the toilet paper in my ears and make a run for the front door, making sure to grab my wallet and phone from my kitchen counter. The makeshift earplugs are doing their job well as I jog down the street toward the Walgreens. I notice I’m not the only one making a run for it though, and I pick up my pace as I berate myself. How the hell did I forget about the solstice? There are signs plastered everywhere for sun’s sake! I run past a group of Sun Worshippers preparing for their day of ceremonies in the park just down the street and think about a time when they didn’t exist. Just as I’m about to get completely lost in thought, I almost run into the sliding doors.
I make my way down to the earplug aisle and search for the same brand of Skullcandy earplugs I’ve bought for years
and make my way to the checkout line when I run into Jerome, who’s ahead of me in line. I tap him on the shoulder and slide the earplugs into my pocket as we start to speak in sign language. “Hey, man! How’re you doing?” I sign to him. “Pretty good! Did you lose your earplugs too?” “Yeah, this is the second year in a row I’ve completely forgot about the solstice.” “Shit, really? This makes a first for me… Hey, did you see the fucking sunners outside?” he says as he begins checking out. He looks away for a bit when the cashier begins signing to him. He looks back at me.
“Yeah, and for suns’ sake, try to be more respectful of other people’s
religions,” I said. “Well their ‘god’ is nothing but a nuisance. I mean, who wants to praise a sun that screams once a year? And it happens to be on the longest day!
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They have to be crazy to worship it.” I look away now, checking out with the cashier, who asks me if I want a bag. I shake my head and turn back to Jerome. “Hold on a sec,” I quickly take out my makeshift earplugs one at a time, replacing them with my new ones. For a split second as I’m replacing each ear I hear an almost deafening scream. The earplugs provide a sweet relief as I put them in… nothing but sweet silence. I take another moment to
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connect them to my phone, then my phone to his, as I begin speaking. “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you don’t have to be a dick about it.”
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College athletes deserve to be paid SAMANTHA WILCOX opinion columnist
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hen September rolls around, the red-andwhite comes out in Madison. Badger fever settles over campus and around the state; I sit here writing this after gleefully watching the Badgers dominate the Michigan State Spartans with a final score of 30-6. Football is not only a game, but a part of our lives. To say that our athletes are heroes to the people in Wisconsin would be an understatement. Football, basketball and other sports bring joy and pride to people around the state and alumni around the world. However, are the athletes getting proper appreciation? According to ESPN, the Wisconsin Badgers are the eighth most profitable college football team in the country, making a total revenue of just above $95 million every season from ticket sales, donations, media rights and branding. According to USA Today, Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst has a salary of $2.3 million. On a bigger stage, the NCAA draws in $6 billion annually in total profits, according to U.S. News & World Report. But while teams and NCAA officials fill their pockets every season, athletes do not make a single penny for their work. Many argue that they are not without compensation, as many athletes get a free education, academic counseling and access to state-of-theart facilities and coaching. Also, they get their names in the public consciousness, potentially getting them on the radar of professional teams.
And their work is not for nothing: When players enter the professional leagues, they are guaranteed to be well-compensated. According to the International Business Times, firstdraft rookies in the NFL made as much as $28 million last year and first-draft NBA rookies could make as much as $12 million. However, is the promise of an education and future success enough to delay a salary for athletes’ collegiate play? Players risk the chance of suffering a career-ending injury before they graduate, which could end their dreams of going into the professional leagues before it ever comes to fruition. Not only could it end their success in their sport, but it could also put them behind their peers when it comes to finding a job in the real job market.
It’s not fair to take advantage of their dreams and choose the easy way out by not paying them.
Academics often come second to healing a physical injury. For example, physical therapy and doctor’s visits could get in the way of academics, leading injured athletes to lack the résumé padding and skills their nonathlete counterparts have. Also, athletes infamously take non-rigorous academic courses to maintain a minimum GPA, potentially making them less competitive than other applicants
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Northwestern football players have led the movement for student athletes to be compensated. in the regular job pool. If they don’t go into football or their respective sports, they may be lost in their futures. They might have dedicated their entire lives to playing the sport they love, but won’t have reaped any of the monetary benefits from doing so. According to the NCAA, only about 1 percent of their athletes go on to become professional athletes. The hope and lore of becoming a professional athlete is something that hardly anyone actually gets to achieve, regardless of talent, skill or playing time. So for 99 percent of college athletes, the thing that often defines them is going to be ripped from their lives after they graduate. They won’t ever get the paychecks they hope for—they are being exploited by the NCAA for free labor.
Former Northwestern swimmer Jenny Wilson is one of these individuals. Holding records in the 100- and 200-meter breastroke and seen as an Olympic hopeful for the 2012 London games, Wilson saw her career come to an end after her quest to go pro didn’t take off. Now a reporter at a local newspaper, her life is no longer the same. “I miss [swimming] so much,” Wilson said, “There is a huge void in my life.” According to Sports Illustrated, Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban and Michigan Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh both rake in over $7 million a year for their coaching expertise. If the NCAA can justify paying their coaches exorbitant salaries and allowing their teams to produce millions of dollars in prof-
its, they should properly and fairly compensate their athletes. College sports would be impossible without athletes—not only are they talent, but they are spokespeople of the school they represent. Collegiate athletes work their whole lives to get a shot on the field or court, to get their names heard and seen by the masses and hopefully to make their way into the pros. It’s not fair to take advantage of their dreams and choose the easy way out by not paying them. If students working in a dining hall are paid, then students working on the field should be too. Samantha is a sophomore majoring in journalism and communication arts. Do you agree with her that college athletes should be paid? Let us know at opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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From December 2007 to June 2009, the U.S. labor market lost 8.4 million jobs. This was the most severe employment contraction of any recession since the Great Depression.
Government solutions to economic problems do not work BEN MILLER opinion columnist
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n the continued aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, people on both the left and right side of the political spectrum have proposed various solutions to the country’s economic woes. Although the Republicans and Democrats offer different answers, their views don’t differ very much in terms of the governing theory behind them. Instead of the ‘Republicrat’ false dichotomy, a few congressmen, such as Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., and former congressman Ron Paul, R-Texas, have returned to basic economic theory to create prosperity. I believe that if one wants to understand proper economics, one must ask a simple question: Do I support economic central planning? To those who remember the downfall of the Soviet Union or know of the failure of the current Venezuelan economy, this may seem like a pointless question. Clearly, history has proven that central planning doesn’t work ubiquitously. However, politicians in the United States continually propose legislation in favor of government planning (albeit to a milder degree than failed socialist
states). President George Bush’s bailouts or President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act are two examples where politicians thought that government planning and action was necessary to fix the economy. Economic activity is nothing more than the summation of individual exchanges. There is no metaphysical entity known as the “market.” Marketplaces do not exist independently of the individuals that compose them. The purpose of an exchange is to give away something of lesser value for something of greater value. The reason trade happens is because value is subjective. I may value oranges more than apples, whereas the opposite is true for the person I’m trading with. Thus, we make a mutually beneficial exchange. The idea that value is subjective, which seems intuitive to most, is the exact reason why government economic solutions fail miserably. The government is not an omniscient, benevolent being. Government is nothing more than a collection of completely fallible individuals trying to make decisions for everyone. This can create a massive problem economically speaking. How can the government decide what
action to take if it doesn’t know the subjective value individuals place on goods? Can it even make an effective policy decision if no good is inherently more valuable than another? The answer is it can’t. In 1936, John Maynard Keynes flipped the world of economics upside down by suggesting that government fiscal policy was a necessity to solve economic externalities. Since then, we have been ravaged by failed government policy. Keynes’s theory has been proven wrong time and again, yet big government advocates cling to it as their lifeblood. In 2003, five years before the 2008 crisis, Paul made the following prediction: “The special privileges granted to Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac] have distorted the housing market by allowing them to attract capital they could not attract under pure market conditions. Like all artificially created bubbles, the boom in housing prices cannot last forever. When housing prices fall, homeowners will experience difficulty as their equity is wiped out. Furthermore, the holders of the mortgage debt will also have a loss. These losses will be greater than they would have other-
wise been had government policy not actively encouraged over-investment in housing.” This prediction was extremely and scarily accurate. How could Paul make such a prediction when Paul Krugman, arguably the most prominent modern economist, could not? The answer lies in the fact that Paul subscribes to an economic school of thought known as the Austrian School. The Austrian School, which champions the aforementioned theory of subjective value and the efficiency of markets free from intervention, has provided elegant explanations as to why recessions and booms occur and how to obtain prosperity. Austrian economists, such as the Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek, believe that economic distortions are created by government intervention. They hold that markets are efficient and do not lead to monopolies when unregulated. Instead, monopolies are created when people with power use government regulation to “stack the deck” against those without power. A perfect example is the EpiPen crisis. The price of EpiPens has skyrocketed because FDA regulation has pre-
vented competitors from entering the market, creating a monopoly. Despite the fact that the Austrian School economists have created one of the greatest economic theories of all time, one simply won’t learn Austrian School economics at university. It is not because the Austrian School theories have been debunked—far from it. It is because economics is not taught without an ideological bent. History should have taught us that government does not solve economic crises—it causes them. Yet, when it comes to attending university, we are taught by textbooks, not history. We must reach beyond the classroom and consider the multitude of different economic theories if we are to find truth. Instead of merely taking one theory as true, we must test them against each other, theoretically and empirically. In both cases, the Keynesian belief falls short whereas the Austrian School has held firm. It is time we return to the theory that will lead us to proper policy. Through this we find that government cannot fix the economy, only free markets can. Ben is a sophomore majoring in political science. Send all comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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With doughnut giveaway, Hayes and teammates make connection with fans By Bobby Ehrlich The daily cardinal
The connection between athletes and fans is often distant. Fans observe from afar as athletes make plays in the arena. There is rarely face-to-face, one-on-one interaction between player and fan. Nigel Hayes broke that norm Friday afternoon. After making a promise via Twitter to deliver doughnuts to all students with season tickets if the tickets sold out in under five minutes—they sold out in three minutes—Hayes delivered. Receiving a generous donation from Hy-Vee, Hayes was saved from shelling out big bucks for
a massive doughnut purchase. In front of the Kohl Center, students who bought season tickets came up one-by-one to Hayes, who handed each student a delicious bakery item with a smile and a thank you for supporting the team. In a world filled with athletes with giant egos who can barely find time to sign a few autographs, Hayes represented a breath of fresh air Friday. “I kind of selfishly would like to hand out all of them personally. So that way I can be like, ‘Hey, one day I passed out 2,000 doughnuts,’” Hayes said. And he did. The other players
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Hayes passing out the first of several hundred doughnuts Friday.
helped; most of the team was there to help check names and interact with the mammoth line that formed along Dayton Street. Head coach Greg Gard even helped give out napkins. But Nigel was the only one who handed out doughnuts. And he thoroughly enjoyed it. He genuinely thanked each student for their support and frequently paused to take selfies with excited fans. For these student fans, it was a chance to interact with the star of the basketball team, the most well-known athlete on the campus. The one usually dazzling on the court and making jokes during press conferences. It wasn’t staged. It wasn’t some marketing stunt manufactured by the public relations department. Hayes made a genuine connection with his classmates and fans, something that rarely happens, even in college athletics. “I’m extremely proud [of our fanbase],” Hayes said. “It makes you a little happy, gives you butterflies inside to see that either, one, they really wanted doughnuts or, two, they really think that this is going to be a pretty special year for us.”
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Hayes happily handed out doughnuts to season ticket holders. It certainly has the potential to be a special year for the Badgers. With basically the entirety of a team that just missed the Elite Eight returning, Wisconsin is poised to make another Final Four run. But before Hayes can get started this season, he had to fulfill his promise to the student body. “I guess that’s the pitfall of promising free food to college students, they would not let you back away from that,” Hayes said. “We all know, especially the college kids, whenever there is free food, we will be there or we will do what needs to be done to receive
the free food.” Two years ago, Wisconsin clinched the Big Ten title with a decisive victory over Michigan State in the Kohl Center. The players rushed the student section, running up and down the aisles, high-fiving the Grateful Red. Wisconsin has the ability to create a moment like that again. Only this time, hundreds of student section members will have already met the team and its superstar up close and personal. It was a special moment in 2015, but if the Badgers can do it again in 2017, it will be even more special.
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Mondays with Rasty: Hornibrook’s poise in the pocket is exactly what the football doctor ordered
Zach rastall make it rasty Are you a Wisconsin fan who forgot what it’s like to have a quarterback who can step up and make a throw when the team needs it on third down? Fear not, your savior is here and his name is Alex Hornibrook. In the first start of his collegiate career, Hornibrook looked calm, cool and collected, going 16-for26 with 195 yards, one touchdown and one interception in the Badgers’ 30-6 steamrolling of No. 8 Michigan State. Those numbers aren’t exactly the gaudiest you’ll ever see, but he looked solid in a hostile road environment. Not only that, but he didn’t have much of a running game to help him.
Wisconsin rushed for only 122 yards on 41 carries, a paltry 3.0 yards per carry. The Spartans were committed to stifling UW’s rushing attack and were largely successful in that endeavor. That obviously meant Hornibrook had to be sharp for the Badgers to move the ball with consistency on offense. And he was able to do just that, with his most impressive work coming on third down. Hornibrook went 9-for-12 for 136 yards and six first downs in third-down situations, including going 6-for-6 with four first downs when Wisconsin was faced with third and 10 or longer. To be able to move the chains with that kind of consistency and keep drives alive was huge for the Badgers, and a ton of the credit for that goes to their redshirt freshman quarterback. With Joel Stave and Bart Houston under center, there often wasn’t much confidence that they
could get first downs through the air when Wisconsin needed them to. On Saturday, Hornibrook was poised in the pocket in those same situations. He’ll need to continue that trend next week, as the Badgers take on a Michigan defense that has only allowed six third-down conversions in 50 attempts (12 percent success rate) this season, the best mark among all FBS teams. The Wisconsin offense was also decidedly better in the red zone with Hornibrook under center. Prior to Saturday’s game, the Badgers had only scored touchdowns on 53.3 percent of their red zone trips (eight-for-15). Against Michigan State, they found the end zone all three times they made it to the red zone, and are a perfect seven-forseven in converting red zone trips to touchdowns with Hornibrook at quarterback this season. Hornibrook wasn’t perfect—a
couple of poor passes and a bad fumble in the first half—but it was still an inspired performance that we haven’t often seen from Wisconsin quarterbacks in recent years. Simply put, he adds a whole different dynamic to the UW offense that has been missing for quite some time. Of course, Hornibrook alone wasn’t responsible for the resounding victory. Major props have to be given to Wisconsin’s defense, which forced four turnovers (three interceptions and a fumble). The scoop and score from redshirt senior safety Leo Musso in particular was a pivotal moment in the game. It came early in the third quarter after Michigan State had just forced a three and out. Trailing 13-6, the Spartans had an opportunity to march down the field and tie things up after a rough first half. But Jack Cichy jarred the ball loose
from Michigan State running back L.J. Scott, which Musso scooped up and took back to the house for a 66-yard touchdown. Whatever hope remained among the Spartan Stadium crowd quickly dissipated and Michigan State never really threatened to make it a game again the rest of the way. Now, the Badgers sit at 4-0 with two wins over Top Ten teams in the same season for the first time since 1962. A season that began with fears of a daunting schedule have given way to optimism, driven by a redshirt freshman quarterback and an already stout defense that has added a propensity for takeaways to its arsenal. The next two games against Michigan and Ohio State loom large and will be tougher tests than anything Wisconsin has faced thus far this year. But for now, the Badgers have their sights set on a Big Ten West title, and possibly even more.