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School district, UW programs target inequity across Madison By Luisa de Vogel SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Madison Metropolitan School District and UW-Madison work together to facilitate enrichment programs for high school students in order to bridge achievement gaps among student demographics.

Stuck in traffic in New York City, Gloria Ladson-Billings watched as the national debt rose on a nearby electronic billboard. As she watched the numbers grow, so did a smaller number underneath — designating each American’s share of the debt. Looking at them, she felt a sense of responsibility for it. A sense of responsibility she wished everyone felt for the deficits and gaps in educational opportunity among historically marginalized students. “We all seem to feel accountable,” said Ladson-Billings, the Kellner

Family Chair in Urban Education in the UW-Madison School of Education. “I want that same level of accountability to go into the achievement of all of our students, so instead of talking about an achievement gap, I want to talk about an educational debt.” Ladson-Billings said the “achievement gap” exists because students of color have historically been given fewer educational resources — and some students are left behind with an “educational debt,” compared to advantaged peers. She said we can’t

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Personal bias dispute shakes finance committee By Max Bayer and Maggie Chandler THE DAILY CARDINAL

Two finance committee representatives accused each other of bringing personal politics into a decision on funding for the Muslim Student Association this week. Since a dispute last week between Reps. Jordan Madden and Max Goldfarb, where each accused the other of bringing personal politics into a decision on funding for MSA, the two have resolved their differences through what Goldfarb called a “productive discussion.” Goldfarb told The Daily Cardinal he is not pursuing a Student

Judiciary case against Madden after he called for Madden’s resignation earlier in the week. On Monday night, Madden and Goldfarb engaged in a heated debate when Goldfarb proposed eliminating MSA’s budget, on the grounds that the group was no longer upholding the eligibility requirements for student fee funding. But Madden was skeptical of Goldfarb’s stance. “I do start to question what the viewpoint neutrality is of this committee when we have someone here with a Trump sticker on their laptop and then people here who have been funded by a conservative student PAC to get on this committee,” Madden said

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Two Student Services Finance Committee reps resolved their accusations over viewpoint nuetrality after a heated debate.

at the meeting. He was referring to fellow committee members Goldfarb and Rep. Dylan Resch. While running for SSFC last spring, both representatives received funding from the PAC Turning Point USA, a national conservative organization with chapters on campuses across the country. “I vehemently reject these [viewpoint neutrality] allegations,” Goldfarb said in a public statement on his Facebook page. “All of my previous statements and motions are available via open records request for anyone that may doubt this assertion. What is more disturbing is the fact that the student that leveled these charges against me was himself in violation of viewpoint neutrality.” In a statement released Wednesday, SSFC Chair Jordan Gaal said comments from Monday’s meeting potentially violated viewpoint neutrality and asserted that ASM’s Student Election Commission doesn’t restrict candidates from accepting PAC funds. In response to Madden’s support of MSA, Goldfarb argued that granting a budget to someone to avoid appearing racist is biased. Goldfarb’s arguments for denying MSA funding were as follows: MSA did not originally include their mentorship program in their

budget presentation, which led Goldfarb to believe that the group did not have a program available to students on request He believed the group emphasized their supportive programming over their core programming, which would violate SSFC’s eligibility rules “Rep. Madden is on the record stating that SSFC did not have the authority to zero fund MSA because it would be perceived as racist,” Goldfarb said in his post. “I harbor no such bias and my motion to zero fund the Muslim Student Association was entirely based on funding criteria in the ASM bylaws. There is overwhelming evidence that this student organization is not eligible for funding.” Goldfarb also called for Madden’s resignation, but Madden stood by his vote. “As Goldfarb said in the very last line of his [post], the way you leave a lasting impact is by never giving up and standing up for what you believe in,” Madden said. “So in Max Goldfarb’s words, I think I stood up for what I believed in and I didn’t back down and I’m proud of that.” Since the dispute, Goldfarb said that they needed to set aside their differences so that the body could continue to make decisions.

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Students held a call-in to encourage the GOP oppose a bill to end an agreement with Planned Parenthood.

Students raise concern over abortion bill By Andy Goldstein SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Student activists organized Friday in opposition to a controversial Republican bill that would prohibit UW medical students from performing abortions or receive training at medical centers that do so. The proposal would end a decadelong partnership between the university and Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion-related training

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UW plasma physics research receives national funding By Jordan Gaal the daily cardinal

Plasma is an essential element in science fiction, most notably in the Star Wars franchise as a critical component of the Stormtroopers’ guns. At UW-Madison, Cary Forest, a professor of physics, is studying plasma that’s anything but fictional. Forest is recreating plasma solar flares right here on campus. “I build devices in the lab that mimic processes that we think are taking place in stars and galaxies so we can study them here … in a way that is impossible to do with telescopes,” said Forest. Forest is interested in learning more about the sun and what he calls “space weather.” This is the cosmic interaction of plasma, the fourth state of matter, in the sun and solar flares, with Earth and the surrounding universe. Solar flares are electromagnetic plasma pulses from the core of the sun ejecting toward the surface. Plasma is just an energized gas. Introducing large amounts of energy to a gas frees the electrons, turning it into plasma. Why does the plasma sit there stably without exploding? How is it building up enough energy? What triggers the explosion? These questions are what Forest and other astrophysicists are trying to answer. “Magnetic fields contact

plasma in the atmosphere of the sun; those plasmas can sit there for months and months stably and do nothing. Then, spontaneously they will erupt, explode and fire a plasma ball toward the earth that has the mass of a mountain,” said Forest. Understanding this will help scientists understand space weather. Space weather has broader implications here on Earth. Solar flares can cause communication frequency blackouts and destroy satellites. There was even a solar flare in 1987 that took out most of eastern Canada’s power grid. Learning what triggers a plasma solar flare can help scientists design more durable satellites. “If we can better understand space weather and better understand our local environment around the earth, when Elon Musk decides to put a base on the moon, then travel to Mars, we’re going to have to understand the plasma environment and how the sun interacts with it,” said Forest. “How do we create a spaceship so the people inside don’t get radiated?” By recreating plasma solar flares on earth, Forest can study the potential triggers. They call the trigger a magnetic reconnection, because the magnetic waves build up to release the stored plasma. Exactly how or why this hap-

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For the record An Oct. 19 article incorrectly spelled Dane County Farmers’ Market Manager Sarah Elliott’s last name. The same article also incorrectly listed the cost to be on the farmer’s market waitlist as $50 instead of $25, and incorrectly asserted that food vendors and jewelry vendors at the market go through the same process to receive a permit. The Daily Cardinal regrets these errors. Corrections or clarifications? Email edit@dailycardinal.com.

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Cary Forest stands in front of the Big Red Plasma Ball, an important tool he uses to study plasma physics and solar flares. pens is still unknown. Forest’s research is leading the world in studying how magnetic reconnection happens in the lab. “By probing [the plasma] in the lab, we think we can better understand what happens in the sun,” said Forest. A $12.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will allow UW-Madison to integrate two existing projects — the Big Red Plasma Ball and the Madison Symmetric Torus — into the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory. It will also create a degree of collaboration and efficiency never before seen in this area of research. Forest is still hard at work studying plasma and magnetic reconnection. Forest enters

the control room just as Ethan Peterson, a doctorate student, is minutes away from firing energy into a gas to create plasma. The narrow viewing window on the Big Red Plasma Ball, appropriately named for its large, red appearance and ability to generate plasma, flashes for a split second. There’s more on the horizon when it comes to understanding the sun, plasma and solar flares. Next year, NASA will be launching its first instrument into the sun. It will be the first time researchers can directly measure the sun. “I can’t imagine being anywhere else right now. [UW-Madison] is the most exciting place to be doing plasma physics.”

Marmoset fathers take on the child burden

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A marmoset at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. By Evan Cory the daily cardinal

Parenting styles vary among primate species. Some species’ offspring rely on the mother alone for caretaking and education. In other more social primates, caretaking can become a group responsibility where the father and older offspring contribute significant energy to infant care; this is known as cooperative breeding. The common marmoset has one of the most complex cooperative breeding systems of all primates. After giving birth, the mother’s parenting style is largely hands-off. She leaves most of the caretaking burden to the father, who begins carrying infants soon after birth. According to a new study from the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, the responsiveness of fathers to

their infants plays a significant role in the long-term health outcomes of the offspring. Despite being generally attentive parents as a whole, there is significant variability in the responsiveness and attention of individual marmoset fathers. The authors of the study, Toni Ziegler, Megan Sosa and Ricki Colman, worked to understand what effects the more responsive marmoset fathers might have on their offspring. They tested the attentiveness of each marmoset father by observing his response or lack thereof to an infant distress call that was played in an adjacent cage. Fathers were then classified as responsive or nonresponsive. The researchers also tested hormonal responses to the infant distress calls and found significantly higher testosterone levels in responsive

fathers who searched for the infant cry. Ziegler explains that “when [the marmoset father] hears the sound of infants crying, this distressed sound puts him in a mode to rescue and protect” and triggers the rise in testosterone. By tracking survival and weight of infants for both responsive and non-responsive fathers, the researchers began to see a trend. Infants from responsive fathers had a 67 percent survival rate, while the offspring of non-responsive fathers had only a 53 percent survival rate. Additionally, offspring of responsive fathers had a much higher weight trajectory than the offspring of the nonresponsive fathers. The data was in; infant marmosets with fathers who were responsive to their needs both survived more often and were gaining more weight during the weaning transition than infants of nonresponsive fathers. Their findings make sense in evolutionary terms. While males in some species try to mate with as many females as possible, marmoset males ensure their genes are passed on by investing their energy in helping their offspring survive to maturity instead of trying to father as many infants as possible. This paternal behavior also benefits the mother. Marmosets mothers commonly give birth to twins or triplets, and she would

likely be unable to provide all the care required to raise her offspring alone. Not to mention, female marmosets are highly fecund, meaning they can conceive again as soon as 10 days after giving birth, adding to her energetic burden. According to Ziegler, the next question to ask is where the “good father” trait comes from and why only some males have it. “I really want to know whether it’s something that’s a genetic trait that’s passed on, or is it an environmental effect,” said Ziegler. The same themes that this study investigates in marmosets also apply to humans. Our society also practices complex and variable cooperative breeding. Sometimes infants are raised entirely by one parent or the other, or even an older sibling. Paternal care has been shown to have wide ranging effects on well-being and health. The contributions of the father in raising a child play a major role in development. As more and more studies come out about both humans and model species like the marmoset, researchers are realizing the psychosocial effects of paternal care are only growing in importance. While this study doesn’t answer all the questions about marmoset paternal care, it adds to the pool of knowledge about cooperative breeding societies like ours and opens doors to asking future research questions.

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Homeless shelter may get a boost from city budget

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A proposed amendment to the city’s budget would provide additional funds to The Beacon, a homeless resource center. By Ellie Borstad STAFF WRITER

Downtown Madison’s new homeless day resource center could receive an additional $40,000 if a finance committee gives the goahead to an amendment to the city budget. Mayor Paul Soglin’s 2018 executive operating budget would provide The Beacon Day Resource Center with $110,000 in funding. But the proposed amendment, sponsored by Ald. Zach Wood, District 8, would raise this annual amount to $150,000 if approved by the Finance Committee. “We wanted to pay our fair share of the portion,” Wood told the Capital Times. “This has been a long time coming. I think it’s an exciting project, and I think it will have a number of really important benefits for the city.” The total budget for the center currently sits at $688,000, including the $110,000 that Soglin has proposed. Dane County and Catholic Charities of Madison, which runs the center, will each commit $175,000, and United Way of Dane County has pledged $100,000. The center, located at 615 E. Washington Ave., opened Oct. 16 after a funding issue nearly delayed the date. According to its website, the center provides goods and services including free food, shower facilities, preventative healthcare, employment and housing help, a computer lab and laundry facilities. The shelter estimates it will serve around 150 members of the homeless community each day. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said that despite the messy process the city has undergone to garner funding for The Beacon, he believes the Finance Committee will “overwhelmingly, if not unanimously” support the amendment.

“[The center] has been a long time coming,” Verveer said. “It is something that for years and years had many false starts, and it is absolutely critical now that the Beacon has opened we ensure it is a longterm success.” However, Verveer said one service he and the city government wish The Beacon had agreed to offer is overnight storage for guests’ belongings. This amendment is one of 22 that Soglin and alders have proposed to the operating budget, according to the Cap Times. The entire city operating budget currently totals $313.9 million, and the proposed amendments would add $456,070 in spending.

“[The Beacon] is somethig that for years... had many false starts, and it is absolutely critical now that...we ensure it is a long term success.” Mike Verveer alderman District 9

These amendments include adding a full-time position to implement environmental sustainability, increasing funding for the Department of Civil Rights and inserting a provision designed to reduce travel expenses in the mayor’s office. Other notable provisions in the budget are funds for a pilot project for police body cameras, staff to operate new police and fire stations and small pay increases for city officials. The Finance Committee will vote on the budget amendments at its meeting Monday, and the Common Council will take up the budget the week of Nov. 13.

MMSD from page 1 assume it is the student’s responsibility to catch up, but rather society’s responsibility to invest in education for students of color. Data indicates large achievement gaps between white students and students of color in the Madison Metropolitan School District. But, using UW-Madison’s resources, community programs are working to close those opportunity gaps, preparing students for success in college from a young age and supporting teachers. “The more diverse any particular campus is, the better off we all are,” said Ron Jetty, director of Information Technology Academy, the student enrichment program. “This is a world focused university and we really need all cultures to be represented here.” One organization, Forward Madison, works to create culturally responsive teachers who meet the needs of all Madison students. They do this by organizing intensive new teacher inductions led by Ladson-Billings, along with trainings for teachers in their first three years teaching at MMSD. “The partnership is designed to strengthen the ties of the school district and the university in the aim of closing the achievement gap here in Madison,” said Sue Gorud, Forward Madison executive director of professional learning and leadership development. Still, only 59 percent of African American students and 65 percent of low-income students attending MMSD schools completed high school in four years as of the 20152016 school year — compared with 90 percent of white students. However, Ladson-Billings warned against measuring achievement as a gap between two groups of students. She said this suggests achievement is stagnant and the onus shouldn’t be on students to “catch up.”

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and work opportunities to medical students. The state Senate heard testimony on the legislation Tuesday, months after a state Assembly committee considered a nearly identical measure. Both chambers could vote on the bill in the coming weeks, though its likelihood of passage is unclear, with Republican leaders remaining largely silent on the subject. Proponents of the bill say the state should not be funding abortions, and that elective abortions are not necessary for OB-GYN training. “UW [Health Care Administration] has continued using [state] funds to pay residents to go to Planned Parenthood in Madison and perform abortions,” bill author state Rep. Andre Jacque, R-De Pere, told the Assembly Committee on Science and Technology in July. “There is no comparable public relationship anywhere else in the country.” University officials and students have raised concern over the bill’s impact on the university’s OB-GYN program accreditation, which relies on students’ training and experi-

SSFC from page 1 “Especially on my end — and I think also Rep. Madden would agree with this sentiment — it really distracts the committee from the work that we have ahead of us and there is

Viewing educational disparities as an “achievement gap” assumes the problem will be solved when data suggests students of color are performing at the same level as white students. However, Ladson-Billings emphasized that high achieving students are always improving as well, and we should expect the best from all students. “It presumes a kind of stasis or a static place that the kids who are achieving are at,” she said. “The competition doesn’t stop among the high achievers.” The gap widens when looking at completion of advanced coursework. Only 14 percent of African American students and 20 percent of low-income students have completed an Advanced Placement class by 12th grade, compared to 67 percent of white students. Steve Somerson, a math teacher at East High School, said schools are working to change that. “We’re trying to push that and open it up a little, or open it up a lot so that different students who haven’t typically been represented are in those classes and can succeed in those classes,” Somerson said. Only teachers in advanced classes pushed the idea of college on students, according to UW-Madison senior and Madison East High School graduate Xavier Santana, who took a mixture of advanced and general courses. Somerson emphasized that some college prep programs — such as the Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program and the Information Technology Academy housed at UW-Madison — require students to take an AP class, to expose them to the rigor of college courses. PEOPLE and ITA recruit students in eighth grade and support them throughout high school with summer enrichment programs on the UW-Madison’s campus. Some

programs require students to take classes in an area of interest or hold internships to prepare them for college, depending on the participant’s age, as well as learn study skills at school Jetty said the initiative started to address underrepresented minorities in the admissions pipeline and in STEM careers. Programs like ITA and PEOPLE require a large time commitment from participating high school students, according to Santana. As a student, he spent about three to four hours a week with the program during the school year, and up to six weeks over the summer. Santana, a PEOPLE scholar, said the work he put into the program throughout high school was definitely worth it, as once he was accepted he received a full tuition scholarship. Once students enter UW-Madison, PEOPLE and ITA continued support through resource seminars, tutoring and social events. Santana said PEOPLE programing can help historically underrepresented students feel welcome on campus and navigate the university system. And before students even arrive to campus, ITA also focuses on preparing them to enter an environment at UW-Madison that is less diverse than the MMSD high schools. While statistics about student performance in MMSD still indicate wide disparities between white students and students of color, LadsonBillings said she is hopeful that programs like Forward Madison are going to change that. “My mother could not try on a hat in a department store or drink out of a particular water fountain or ride in the front of a bus — but I’m an endowed chair at a major university,” Ladson-Billings said. “Our challenge is to make sure we educate the kids, it’s really not nearly as hard as some of the other problems we as a society has faced.”

ence in reproductive and women’s health services. Alan Kaplan, CEO of UW Health, condemned the proposal in a letter to state legislators, calling it a direct threat “to shut down our capacity to train future OB-GYN physicians.” Critics fear this could cause students seeking a comprehensive medical education to go elsewhere, hampering the state’s need for a steady supply of health specialists. “There’s already a huge shortage of healthcare professionals in the state,” said Jordan Madden, co-founder and president of the Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Initiative on campus. “We need a lot more cooperation between our educational institutions and our legislature to meet that need.” Capitalizing on the bill’s uncertain future, students have taken action to pressure their legislators to come out in opposition to it. “We have several meetings organized with Republican representatives who have yet to cosponsor the legislation coming up,” said Madden, who hopes to sway undecided legislators to vote against the measure. The Student Coalition for Progress, in tandem with other

student groups, organized a callin Friday encouraging students to contact Republican state senators and representatives who may oppose the bill.

a lot of important funding decisions to be made for the rest of the year and we don’t want to be a distraction for the rest of the committee,” Goldfarb told The Daily Cardinal. Madden agreed, but said he will continue to be leery of PACs.

“We are able to work together and kind of see progress on [some issues we work on], but I think we’ve reached a point where we can agree to disagree about groups like Turning Point USA on the committee,” Madden said.

“My biggest concern is trying to safegaurd the future of access to OBGYNs in Wisconsin.” Jordan Madden president Accessible Reproductive Healthcare

State Sens. Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, and Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, were the primary targets of the call-in, as organizers felt they were the most likely to be swayed by public pressure. Some students fear that beyond program accreditation, access to women’s healthcare in Wisconsin is at stake as well. “This bill is just a terrible idea,” Madden said. “It hurts doctors and people trying to be trained in obstetrics and gynaecology, not even specifically abortion. My biggest concern is trying to safeguard the future of access to OBGYNs in Wisconsin.”

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he Wisconsin Idea is a core piece of the UW-Madison experience. It is as familiar to students as Jump Around, Babcock ice cream and trudging up Bascom Hill. It is impossible to spend four years at UW-Madison and not hear about it in a class, political debate or a TV ad. For those of you who don’t know, the Wisconsin Idea posits that the influence of the university should touch every corner of the state. It is something that is a point of pride for the university and makes it stand out among its peers. But not everyone loves the Wisconsin Idea. Not every community wants to be touched by the university’s reach. And not every Wisconsinite understands — or wants to understand — the work that its faculty do. Professors, both at UW-Madison and across the UW System, do important work that affects the state’s citizens on a daily basis, whether citizens know it or not. They will often work more than 40 hours a week to do so, mentoring students and applying for grants on top of normal teaching and research responsibilities. But from Act 10, signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker in 2011, to a record $250 million budget cut in 2015, to recent changes in tenure protections, faculty members argue that their work is not appreciated by legislators. This assault on university staff recently continued with a provision in the latest state budget that would require faculty self-report how many hours they teach. The proposal largely flew under the radar, but Walker has implied in the past that faculty could help ease budget constraints by teaching more classes. Accountability and transparency are good things. But it is not as if faculty are not already being held accountable for what they do with their time — professors say that they must already report their hours. And especially at an institution like UW-Madison, where research,

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While the Wisconsin Idea aims to help the university’s reach extend throughout the state, not everyone wants a part of university research and input. clinical work and mentoring are all vital, non-teaching roles, zeroing in on teaching seems to miss many key ways that faculty contribute to the university.

The demands are increasing and resources are decreasing.

Some faculty members also wonder if the teaching data could be used against them in future budget cycles, when the university often finds itself at the center of one political quagmire or another. “They’re going to need to be able to give reasons why it’s OK to cut faculty, to cut university salaries, to cut expenditures in general,” said Dave Vanness, an associate professor at UW-Madison and member of the PROFS steering committee. “And they’ll be able to look at that data and say, ‘you know your average faculty member spends nine hours a week in the classroom, what are they doing with the other 31?’ I guess I just

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The above infographic shows Wisconsin’s population on a county by county basis. More populous counties’ squares are larger and darker in color.

have a problem with that.” The clear implication from the tracking provision is that the state Legislature does not trust UW System professors specifically. Other state employees do not have similarly specific requirements — state lawmakers do not have to track how much time they spend recording floor votes or in committee hearings, for instance. But professors, for better or for worse, seem to have taken on a different status. For many Wisconsinites throughout the state, it seems that the disgruntlement with elite professors has reached a tipping point. “I kind of think the politics of resentment are easy to play and it’s easier to play in a negative way then build it up in a positive way,” Vanness said. “It’s easier to tear down then to build up. And that’s what’s so sad about it. You can convince people that an institution that is working day in and day out isn’t doing anything and it’s very hard to then go back and show all the things that we do.” While divides between the staff of largely urban, liberal universities and the more rural parts of the state are not new, they have been deepened in recent years. The stereotype of the lazy, elitist professor who only puts in enough effort to earn tenure has been cranked into overdrive. The trust that many people have in faculty members has worn down. “When you’re hearing all the time about these people who just sit around all the time and expect to have a job for life, well you start to wonder,” said Eric Sandgren, a professor in UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine. “And people can use that. So I think that has made people wary, less likely to trust.” Other factors make the disconnect between rural Wisconsin and the ivory towers of UW-Madison even more profound. Paradoxically, as state

funding has decreased, other sources of funding have become even more critical, meaning that faculty must work even harder to find research dollars to help support their programs. And while research is not a major element of every UW System school, at UW-Madison it is vital to supporting the university’s reputation as an elite institution. The university’s research rankings fell last year from fourth to sixth nationally, meaning that we can ill-afford further de-emphasizing those practices.

“But not everyone loves the Wisconsin Idea.”

If teaching is now more important than ever, thanks to the state Legislature, and research is still a required piece of a professor’s job requirement, how will faculty members be afforded the opportunity to go out into the Wisconsin community, describe their work and turn the tide of resentment towards their profession? “The demands are increasing and resources are decreasing so you really have to narrow your focus,” Sandgren said. “It’s hard to go out and interact with people in the state when you’re already working a whole lot more than 40 hours a week.” University administrators have undertaken efforts to shift public attitudes toward the university outside of Madison, Milwaukee or La Crosse. This has stemmed from the wise belief that greater understanding of UW-Madison and its mission would make it more likely state lawmakers would value public, higher education when it comes time to dole out state funds. That campaign has purchased

billboard advertisements in farflung parts of the state and started a website designed to highlight the impact of UW-Madison on each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. But the voice of a carefully crafted public relations strategy is not the same as grassroots encounters between members of the university community and the state’s residents. A website cannot create shared common ground that comes from those conversations; a billboard can’t buy a valuable back-and-forth discussion. One potential solution: The UW-Madison Speakers Bureau, which helps facilitate events with faculty in communities throughout the state. In the last 18 months, the program has set up 87 events which have been attended by over 5,300 Wisconsinites. While this is a mere fraction of the state’s population, it is a start — and one bolstered by the efforts of individual faculty members who try to communicate their work on personal trips throughout the state. The Wisconsin Idea is a powerful one and is a unique hallmark of the Badger State — there is no “Michigan Idea” or “Illinois Idea.” But it is predicated on a relationship between the university and the communities it serves, a tie which has been eroding now for some time. Pointing fingers, however, is useless. Faculty members are busy, wearing many hats on a day-to-day basis, and many are already trying to re-discover the sort of common ground that has gone missing. The university must help them by finding even more ways to promote such grassroots encounters, lest one of the most powerful ideals in American higher education become a hollow figurehead. What are your thoughts on faculty and the Wisconsin Idea? Please send any of your questions, comments or concerns to editorialboard@dailycardinal.com.

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Future, Young Thug’s ‘SUPER SLIMEY’ displays adaptation, lacks complexity ALBUM REVIEW

Super Slimey Future & Young Thug By Francisco Velazquez MUSIC COLUMNIST

Trap music begins between zones and moves cross-country. After releasing two solo projects earlier this year, Future and Young Thug finally come together on one project like a team lineup and brings the music industry back down south. SUPER SLIMEY debuted this past weekend from Atlanta rappers Future and Young Thug. Survival-like adaptation takes us between Codeine syrup, Percocet conversation and weekly exchange. The newly-released mixtape captures Atlanta’s continued legacy and the trivial parts that create the greatest resilience from the studio to the streets. Often overlooked, a quickly-paced mixtape runs from beginning to end on two separate missions, maintaining momentum like pythons and attacking multiple times. On a forgetful, and perhaps necessary, joint tape, Future and Thug compete on an applauseworthy release. After a successful year for each rapper respectively, the smoke settles just in time for musical brotherhood to begin again. Future proudly played Pluto chief in his previous album FUTURE, a demonic hustle and a constant grounding point for humble beginnings built on skill and tactic. The need to survive becomes his best and worst enemy, a constant battle between his lavish lifestyle and the multiple repercussions that take control of him. Similarly, HNDRXX explains the beginning, the continued hustle and the distractions lost between connection and feeling. Thug

released “Beautiful Thugger Girls” and “Young Martha,” an easy way of extending chaos and compelling self-discovery and two distinct reminders to never place artists in one category. The major flaws of coping begin at different levels. For some, it is neither the monetary nor emotional effects that consume us but the repeated relapse of needing possessions and constant fulfillment, even if it doesn’t last. In a strange year, 2017 combines some of music’s biggest names for 40 minutes in their search for independence. These feelings, more often than not, have driven the rap industry for years through competition and instinct. Knowing when music becomes business and undeniably keeps claiming prototypes within a never-ending cycle is precisely why Future and Thug continue to claim chart-topping hits. Reinvention upkeeps SUPER SLIMEY and we again witness the existing royalties continuously emerging from the southside of Atlanta. “No Cap” sets us off on an obviously Future-selected beat. With no hesitation, FUTURE clearly expressed loose commitment to relationships; here, he lets his exaggerated lifestyle continue all year: “My bitch can’t sleep at my house / Make her sleep at a hotel now / And when you talk, man, you talking off cap.” Young Thug’s energy shies from meeting Future on his Codeine-covered pedestal. Young Thug unequivalently encounters an experienced Future in his element. A “Digital Dash” extension, Thug’s slower flow times itself out. This is a battle that Future undeniably wins on a southside production and a beat that could stand alone or simply claim ownership from solely Future. Pace pulses quickly between Thug and his reminiscent cadance of Slime Season. On a hyperactive flow, “Three” delivers an active and lively Thug holding his own. His natural knack of rap singing has and

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Young Thug brings bursts of energy that incorporate personal depth.

continues to work in his favor. Manipulation works for Thug like a mistress; his overextension gives us a compelling claim at formlessness, a long time-loop generally similar to many of his past verses as he raps, “Inside the whips come red like ketchup (Yeah) / Count this money up with glasses like a miser (Yeah),” consistently claiming his multiple conquests in women, jewels and cars. Future easily flows on a DY 808 Mafia and southsideproduced beat. It is surprising to see how much influence producers give to the music industry’s biggest names. To those like Future and Thug alike, a well-produced beat can seamlessly alter the doubtful motives or unimpressionable lyrics. Ironically, competition continues from Future’s opening line, “I got more rings than you got hoes, bro / I bought my BM a Bentley with the wings, yeah.” Reverb returns and claims a seemingly similar stream of consciousness. Almost at the same moment in time, unequally prominent, Future and Young Thug speak the same topics and mumble between bass fillers for a quick beat that is easily forgettable and distilled. The fire sets as the wood burns down. A slow build-up begins before the first pass in “All Da Smoke,” where collaboration finally feels right. Here, the clubs close at the peak of morning. Once the vices fade away, Future carries history like scars. He finds the dangers of staying afloat are being saved by his music. A tempo flows freely between the work and forgetful nights; here, the dangers have changed but the stakes are just as high: “Left out of school, start selling rocks, bought me a drop (skrt) / Cartier frames, Cartier rings, Cartier socks (on God).” Thugger’s ad-libs support a refined Future and deliver a prospective favorite on the radio — maybe the next “Bad & Boujee.” A piano sample captures the rewired production. Thug ironically raps, “I only drink Activist / I’m on a diet.” It would seem that Thugger leaps from here and there, quickly committing and leaving one topic for the next. “200” reaches success, exclusively for comfort and stability. Future and Thug align their perceivable power to achieve everything they want and continue this like tradition — keeping women around for show, selling a lifestyle boasted on unaccountability and adamantly stacking their money nonetheless. A solo Young Thug brags about stealing a yacht on “Cruise Ship,” an adrenaline shot from JEFFERY. Thin drums carry a rather easily produced beat as we hear Thug secure all his ice, riding quotable lines with no true direction. “Patek Water” includes the only feature on the project from Offset. An Atlanta native, Offset racks another impressive verse

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Future’s distinct beats envelope listeners within his world. on an underwhelming beat. Almost lifeless, a bland performance fails to connect the trio and ultimately does not live up to the hype. In a quick and haunting build up, you can smell the residue of dope somewhere between the dual harmonies and damaged history of a casual Future. In classic-like trap, Future gives fans a typical fool element in “Feed Me Dope,” and the greatest incentive to upkeep the drugs even if the addiction isn’t your own. By this point, a moderately entertaining mixtape fails to reach a central reason and instead hovers between two artists and their claimed clout. For myself, and other critical listeners, SUPER SLIMEY captures attention but does not claim fullfocus delivery. Struggling to sing, Future overuses auto-tone on a drowning “Real Love” trap beat, but for Thug, his sonic-like flow floats ghostly as Future ad-libs betrayal on a heavy heartbeat with a capturing chorus, “All this fake love got me damaged.” Conversation doesn’t seem to settle for a scornful Future and, instead, he reveals why the same reasons he must go are the same reasons he still thinks about her in every element as he raps, “If you woulda took the flesh out me (took the flesh out me) / You woulda ran off with it and tried to convince me it was karma (I bet she love).” Magic mistakes itself for commitment when the words feel right. In “Killed Before,” a personal favorite, Thug seems to channel Wyclef and succeeds in slowing down the currency of time. A foundation for Thug’s transformation and a breath of fresh air, it would seem that Thug feels more in his element when the honesty is transparent. Perhaps the guitar strings and extended ad-libs

are where he finds a completely new world, with all of him in it. “Group Home” pulls the darkest moments in production and temporally pieces the stitches from years of wounds and battle. Here, Future crawls from his skin every time he reminisces on his past life. Similar to the way he maintains growth in a musically draining industry, Thugger adds a capturing, Codeine-like sound in a never-ending pool of trap and repeat. Future and Thug’s SUPER SLIMEY is a good attempt at connection. Undeniably an underwhelming release, there are a few potential chart-topping hits. You could say the lack of promotion or visual releases are reflective of the chemistry between the two, but the joint tape reveals the elements that have kept each artist respectively in their own lane. Thug brings a power-like dynamic, frequently bursting energy and drawing inspiration from a well known subject matter — himself. Future continues bringing us closer to the world around him, the ins and outs of his relationships and the success of his Pluto-like demeanor. More importantly, both solo tracks featured on the mixtape remind us that both artists work better in their own element. For the culture, SUPER SLIMEY has worthwhile moments and significantly continues to alter what rap music means today. Separately, the talent is mistakenly overlooked. Together, the music doesn’t hold the same complexity it should. It is perhaps not the most fulfilling joint mixtape of the year, but the highs and lows of the Atlantaborn rappers search for a new crossroad and come together for 13 quick reasons.

Grade: B-

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When in doubt, lube it out — the beginner’s guide to sex with lube This week, Indecent Exposure is giving lube the attention it deserves but often doesn’t get. Learn what types there are and why it is crucial for not only pleasurable sex, but safer sex too. As our favorite childhood crustacean Sebastian taught us, “Darling it’s better, down where it’s wetter, take it from me!”

Ayden Prehara Silicone vs Waterbased lube: Let’s talk a little bit about how to pick the right lube for you and your needs. Picking a lube is kind of like picking a new partner — we all have our deal-breakers. The two most common types of lube are water-based and siliconebased. Both of these do an amazing job at keeping things comfortable, but it’s all about some of the practical measures to keep in mind. For instance, water-based lube is easily absorbed back into the body, so if we don’t want to keep reapplying lube we may want to get a siliconebased which will remain on the surface of the skin for a longer period of time — silicone based lubes are generally best for anal play because of this reason. That being said, if we want an easier job cleaning up after application and don’t want our sheets to get stained, then a water based may be the best bet. One of the most important things to consider when picking lube is if we’re planning on using lube for our sex toys and what material our toys are made of. If our toys are made from silicone, we are definitely not going to want to use a silicone lube. Basically, the silicone in the lube will react to the silicone in our toys and could “melt” our toy. I know for a fact that none of us want to spend our hard earned money on something we love then have it melt inside us. For our silicone toy friends, we’re going to want to make sure that we’re using a water based lube. For easy de-lubing of our toys, we can always put a condom over our toy so we don’t have to worry about putting too much time into cleaning the toy after it has been used.

Sydney Thomas Practicing safe lube: Lube not only creates more fun in the bedroom, but it is also one of the most important safer sex supplies! Lubricant enhances sexual pleasure but also serves to protect our orifices from unpleasant discomforts, such as micro-tears, by reducing any sort of friction. While the vagina is self-lubricating (bless her), the anus is not, so engaging in anal play without adding lubricant can lead to tears which not only hurt but also make it easier for us to pass STIs and other infections to our partners. So with pleasure comes great responsibility and lube is most definitely the hero we all deserve. It’s also important to note that lube does not JUST enhance pleasure during intercourse, it also enhances pleasure when we’re masturbating, having oral sex or using toys! We have to be careful with what we use as a lubricant especially when we are putting lube on a vulva or a butthole without a barrier. Vulva’s are sensitive and each one has its own unique pH balance that can be upset easily leading to infections and discomfort. There are a lot of myths online (or spread by our friends) of DIY lubes that should MOST DEFINITELY NOT be used instead of the lube we can pick up at the store. We can purchase lube at any convenient store or supermarket. Even at your local gas station! It’s amazing how accessible safer sex supplies are. One of the most popular myths right now revolves around millennials’ obsession with coconut oil. Surprisingly people, it actually is not the answer to everything! Coconut oil disrupts the vagina’s natural ecosystem and can lead to infections such as yeast or bacterial vaginosis. Coconut oil has really cool antibiotic healing properties, however, adding a substance that kills bacteria is not what we want going on downstairs. There is a lot of good bacteria that exists in vaginas to keep them healthy and clean so adding this substance is counter intuitive. Coconut oil, similarly to other oil-based lubricants, can degrade latex, making it incompatible with most condoms and certain sex toys. For similar reasons we can also NOT use mayo, vaseline or olive oil. Lets just stick to picking some lube up at the store or taking advantage of saliva as a free resource.

Anna Welch Lube & pleasure: When a person with a vulva gets aroused their body does an incredible thing — it self-lubricates. But sometimes “getting wet” happens slowly, or it’s more of a mist than a downpour. Most condoms come pre-lubricated with silicone lube, but the coating is very thin and dries out quickly. So, for P-in-V sex with a condom, put a couple of drops of lube on both the inside and outside of the condom for maximum pleasure. Flavored lube can be a great way to switch up sex. It can also help oral-shy sex buddies get in to going down. Anything flavored (lube or condoms) can only be used for oral sex on a penis or oral sex on a vulva with a sex dam; a scented — not flavored — sheet of latex that can be laid over the vulva or anus to create a barrier to prevent STIs, also perfect for flavored lube and food play! Students can get free flavored (and non-flavored) condoms, lube, sex dams and other safer sex supplies at the Sex Out Loud office in the Student Activity Center. Similarly to P-in-V sex, adding lube to D-in-V sex (Dildoin-Vagina), or any sex involving sex toys can up the pleasure factor. The same guidelines apply, put a little — or a lot — on whatever toy that’s being inserted and push it — push it good. As Syd said, using lube during anal sex is crucial to staying safe, but it’s also key to having pleasurable anal sex. Similar to the tip of the penis and the clitoris, the anus is very rich in nerve endings, which is why it feels good when it’s stimulated. Oftentimes people with penises get prostate or “P-Spot” stimulation during anal sex making it all the more fun. But, like Sydney said, since the anus doesn’t get wet on its own lube is our best friend for taking anal sex from “ow” to “WOW!” My last sexy lube-related tip is about shower sex; water is not a lubricant, and it can actually wash away a body’s natural lubrication as well as water-based lube, so make sure to have some silicone lube handy for super hot water play. Also, make sure to lay down a sturdy bath mat to avoid a silicone-sex-trip to the emergency room.

Remember that lube is your sex life’s best friend! Got a little friction? Add some lube. Not sure you’re using enough? Add some lube. Need someone to talk to about your life decisions? That bottle of lube may not make good conversation, but it’s always there for you. Remember this: When in doubt, lube it out. If you have topic suggestions, or just want some advice, use that lube to slide into our inbox at sex@dailycardinal.com

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Monday, October 23, 2017

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UW loses best recruit in recent memory in Tyler Herro, still should remain optimistic about its recruiting philosophy SEBASTIAN VAN BASTELAER GRAPHIC BY LAURA MAHONEY/THE DAILY CARDINAL PHOTO BY CAMERON LANE-FLEHINGER/THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin players are tasked with picking the pregame soundtrack that plays in the Kohl Center prior to puck drop. The players really enjoy the opportunity to hear the songs they pick on the ice during gamedays.

From T.I. to T-Swift: UW players select pregame, locker room soundtrack By Ethan Levy THE DAILY CARDINAL

In its two years under head coach Tony Granato, Wisconsin has been focused on building an identity for its program. Granato has instilled an identity of confidence and determination — but, mostly, over the last two seasons, Wisconsin has prided itself on forming its identity of unity. On the ice, the Badgers discuss playing as a “unit of five;” similarly, off the ice, the Wisconsin players spend a significant amount of time together gelling as teammates and friends. This drive for unity is present in everything that the Badgers do — including the little-known task of picking the pregame music that is played in the Kohl Center. It is a less advertised job, but the Badgers’ players are actually responsible for picking the music that is played at home games while the team is warming up on the ice prior to puck drop. According to captain Cameron Hughes, this has been something the team has done in the past, but this season, more than in recent years, picking the music has been a collaborative and unified effort. “We left it up to everybody. We keep all the suggestions and put them together, and I think we have a pretty good mix,” Hughes said. “This year we definitely made it more like everybody had a say. Together we made a detailed list for the people in the arena that play the music.” The process for which the team picks its pregame music is involved and complex. According to various players, it took a significant amount of time before the season actually started to iron out what music would be played. The seniors and upperclassmen had the initial input, and then, once they gave their suggestions, the rest of the team had the chance to propose other music and comment on what the upperclassmen thought should

go on the playlist. “We played some songs in the locker room to see how they would sound, and then everyone got a chance to write in our group team message and give options for songs,” senior Ryan Wagner said. “Some guys are throwing in stuff that couldn’t be up there just to be funny, so it’s all good fun picking the music.” “It’s a seniority thing. The seniors all get their say, then if all the seniors have listed songs then juniors get to go,” junior Will Johnson said. “There’s a couple guys that take full control though.” Evidently, one of those guys that took control over this task was Hughes. Although he said it was “maybe not” his most important captain responsibility, he thinks picking the music is actually a genuinely important task that deserves serious forethought and attention. “It’s what you’re listening to 15 minutes before you’re playing so it’s pretty crucial,” Hughes said non-sarcastically. “Thankfully I think we have some good songs on there.” Many other Wisconsin players share Hughes’ sentiment regarding the importance of music. The Badgers don’t stop listening to music after warmups, as they play music (although, it is predominantly different, less family-friendly music) in the locker room at both practice and once they arrive to the rink before games. “We play music before games and then the music will stop after on-ice warmups,” Wagner said. “But during practice I will go back in the locker room and music will always be bumping.” Although Hughes headlined the effort to construct pregame Kohl Center music playlist, junior Matthew Freytag is always the first person to hook himself up to the speaker in the locker room — even if his selections are sometimes unpopular. “Freytag is our locker room

music guy,” Johnson said. “He loves his little wacky music. He’ll play some T-Swift or something like that. It’s pretty funny.” Although the pregame and locker room music is largely a team effort, the song choices are not, however, exclusively harmonious. Some members of the team don’t always like what others — often Freytag — pick and have to find a way to get them to change whatever unpopular song is being played. “Sometimes whoever has the music, we will kind of just look at him until he realizes what’s playing,” Wagner said. “Usually the mood just all of the sudden drops,” Johnson added. “Everyone just kind of looks and says, ‘alright, let’s go, switch it up.’ So that’s always funny.” The biggest conflict in the locker room, though, is the persistent rap versus country debate, which has been an ongoing issue over the last couple of years. “[Grant] Besse last year, whenever he took control, country was the only thing that he played,” Johnson said. “Freytag was rap and upbeat stuff. That’s always been the biggest disagreement.” Still, despite the conflicts that arise from picking the music that gets played in the locker room and Kohl Center, various players agree that getting to choose the pregame music is a largely appreciated responsibility. The Badgers take pride in getting to play their music — especially one of their pregame favorites, “Hypnotize” — when they are on the ice just before puck drop. “It’s actually great. Coming from junior hockey where they just pick stuff that they think the crowd will want to hear, it’s kind of fun to have it where every song that comes on is something that we picked and selected,” Johnson said. “It really is fun to do that. Everyone has a great time with it.”

Unopinionated The devastating side of national recruiting reared its ugly head this week, with Tyler Herro, one of Wisconsin Basketball’s top-rated recruits of all time, decommitting from the program. With only weeks before signing day, the Badgers are now forced to fight for scraps after losing their Plan A guy. My job is not to bash a high school kid’s difficult and complex decision to jump ship — people on Twitter and various fan sites have surely done enough of that. We’re all just chasing our dreams, so who are we to question the way some kid chooses to chase his? Losing Herro stings, but Wisconsin, in the long run, will be just fine. It was a rarity that UW was able to make such a big recruiting splash. The program, just like its counterpart in football, has consistently chosen to eschew flashiness in order to ensure on-court production. Following one of Bo Ryan’s tenets, Greg Gard and his staff continue to look for guys who will work hard, demonstrate unimpeachable integrity and buy into his system. For many, that includes sitting on the bench until they are ready to contribute. For the players with dreams of going oneand-done before getting drafted, Wisconsin’s system appears to be more of a roadblock than a springboard to success. But that’s a reason why Wisconsin’s teams are generally some of the most experienced and consistently successful groups in the country. Players who understand and commit to the program — who pay their dues and put in the time — tend to become smart, serviceable players who do in fact sometimes go pro. Teams that are comprised of top-50 recruits often don’t live up to their collec-

tive potential — egos conflict and players who are used to being the unquestioned stars chafe at the prospect of sharing the limelight with others and NBA dreams often supersede shortterm goals. Some of these teams do achieve immortality. Many more end up falling flat. Wisconsin, on the other hand, continues to remain immune from down years. Sixteen straight top-four finishes in the conference and 19 straight NCAA tournament bids will vouch for that. Their system of development has proven successful, and will continue to do so, even if the Diamond Stones and Tyler Herros of the world don’t buy in. The Frank Kaminskys and Ethan Happs will continue to add to their own prestige. This season, pundits are expecting a dip from the Badgers, but they should know by now to not count UW out. Expectations may need to be tempered, but this will be a hugely formative campaign for a Wisconsin team with plenty of talent and potential coming up the pipeline. This potential should show in the coming years. Kobe King, Brad Davison and Nate Reuvers comprise one of the best recruiting classes in recent memory — not because they’re necessarily bona fide superstars, but because they combine their athletic ability with a commitment to the program and to Coach Gard’s message. Those are the players that Wisconsin will continue to recruit and develop. In the end, Wisconsin will never out-compete schools like Kentucky, Duke or Kansas when it comes to consistently hauling in four- and five-star recruits. It will also likely avoid the major academic and recruiting violations that have recently befallen Louisville and should have befallen North Carolina. Its coaches will gladly pick and choose the right players for its system, while continuing to play by the rules, and finding success along the way. This is going to remain the case — with or without Tyler Herro.

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Wisconsin’s top recruits since 2010

Tyler Herro-27 (2018) Nate Reuvers-86 (2017) Nigel Hayes-83 (2013) Sam Dekker-17 (2012) Jarrod Uthoff-90 (2011)

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Kentucky-52 Michigan State-20 Wisconsin-5

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