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By Megan Provost SENIOR STAFF WRITER
For most UW-Madison students, it’s easy to don red and white on game days, walk down Bascom with eyes set on the capitol or sit on the Terrace and feel at home. For some, though, taking advantage of what the city of Madison has to offer just isn’t enough. For some Badgers, both current and alum, being a part of the community means serving in it. UW-Madison junior Noah Roberts has ties to the Madison area that reach back far before he applied to college. Born and raised in neighboring Fitchburg,
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UW-Madison junior Noah Roberts, along with alums Zach Wood and Hayley Young, were elected into spots in local government during their time as undergraduates, and continue to serve the Madison community today. Wis., Roberts’ self-proclaimed “over-involvement” began in high school. That didn’t end
once he graduated. “Curious to a fault,” Roberts invests his time in many parts of
campus. On track to earn both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees by 2019, the double-major in
After campus climate results, students react By Kayla Huynh STAFF WRITER
For some UW-Madison students, last week’s campuswide climate survey results were no surprise. Survey data showed that while 81 percent of UW-Madison’s overall student population often feel welcome on campus, just 69 percent of LGBQ students, 67 percent of students with a disability and 65 percent of black students feel similarly. Sean Olson, a representative of the Ten Percent Society, an organization focused on providing a safe space for LGBTQ students, said the results are a reaffirmation of issues of inclusion on campus. While Olson believes that many student organizations provide safe spaces for LGBTQ students, he thinks that there needs to be more institutional action to promote a safe and inclusive campus for minority groups. “[UW-Madison] should push these findings of the survey [to] show that this is a reality on campus and, even
though they might not know it, [make] people aware that they are playing into this [campus] culture,” Olson said. According to Olson, creating events like the Diversity Forum is essential to generating awareness. Olson hopes advertising these events will cause majority groups to become informed of the experiences of minority students. “Creating events with a focus on underrepresented identities allow the campus to incorporate a discussion surrounding diversity and its role within the educational system,” Olson said. K at r i n a Mo r r i s o n , Associated Students of Madison chair, said she feels the university is not doing enough to make underrepresented students feel included on campus. She suggests administration use the results as a call for change to recruit more students and staff of color. Morrison referenced that 19 percent of students of color have
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Protesters demonstrate at an immigration rights event at the Capitol.
Walker urged to oppose controversial immigration bill amid re-election bid By Andy Goldstein SENIOR STAFF WRITER
As Gov. Scott Walker launched his 2018 re-election campaign at an event in Waukesha, immigrant rights advocates protested just outside, demanding the governor publicly oppose a controversial immigration bill. Senate Bill 275, which was voted through committee last Thursday, would bar municipalities from prohibiting law enforcement from inquiring about individuals’ immigration status, or refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. It would also empower certain officials to proceed with enforcement action against
undocumented individuals. A similar proposal failed in the legislature last year, following a daylong general strike by immigrantworkers and protests by advocate groups and allies. Voces de la Frontera, one of such groups, has announced preparations to do so again, according to Executive Director Christine Neumann-Ortiz. “We’re demanding that [Walker] publicly speak out and veto this bill,” said NeumannOrtiz, who has announced her organization’s intent to build support for another, more-sustained general strike. “We want him to say that he will stand by
political science and geography currently serves as an Associate Justice on Student Judiciary, policy chair of the Alexander Hamilton Society and an editor of the Wisconsin International Review. He also previously held a position on the Student Service Finance Committee. “I have a lot of passions, and I like to be involved in the things I’m passionate about,” he said. For Roberts, his involvement on campus is only the beginning — at 21, he serves as president of the board of education for the Verona Area School District, the district he graduated from not
local page 3 the contributions that immigrant families make to our economy.” Proponents of the bill, like the Federation for American Immigration Reform, feel that the proposed reforms are necessary for public safety, citing fears about criminal activity in immigrant communities. “Shielding criminal aliens needlessly endangers innocent lives. There are roughly 3 million criminal aliens living in the United States, and nearly 1 million of these aliens have final orders of removal,” Susan Tully, F.A.I.R’s field director, told the Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform. “These criminals should not be able to continue to live in communities and engage in further criminal activity. However, opponents of the legislation fear that tying immigration enforcement to local authorities could damage trust and cooperation between law enforcement and undocumented communities. “[This bill] turns our government and local institutions into an arm of immigration, making people afraid to report cases of domestic abuse, trafficking, or sexual abuse,” NeumannOrtiz said. “They’re afraid to contact or work with law enforcement, making people more vulnerable.” The proposal, introduced by state Sen. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, is expected to be taken up on the floor of the Senate in the coming months.
Local homeless community would benefit from jobs program, report suggests By Max Bayer SENIOR STAFF WRITER
With tools at its disposal, Madison is considering public employment programs to com-
bat the city’s homelessness after a recent report highlighted the potential benefits of such a program. The Day Jobs report, conducted by the the city’s Community
Development Division, assessed a variety of potential job programs for the homeless and panhandlers in the Madison area. These programs were modeled
after comparable initiatives in Portland, Maine, Albuquerque, N.M., Denver and Chicago. The CDC conducted field research such as surveys, interviews and
community meetings to create the report. The results found no strong
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The Care Talks program seeks to improve healthcare communication and understanding. By Cayla Guerra the daily cardinal
Everyone has a specialty and everyone is an expert in something. When one becomes an expert in a certain field, it simultaneously becomes more necessary and more difficult to convey the knowledge gained to those who will benefit from it. Conveying healthcare information in particular has never been an easy task, whether one is talking to a doctor about a health-related problem or trying to interpret health information for a loved one who is unable to do so for themselves. This issue is multifaceted. Loved ones must talk with the doctor, understand what he or she is telling them and then interpret this information and relay it to the patient. There are worries that the process needs to be made more accessible. Healthcare professionals want to help patients and loved ones to become more knowledgeable about their care and become proficient in supporting themselves medically. This is the research of Paul Smith, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UW-Madison. Smith addresses both sides of the discussion through his pilot program called Care Talks. Through the pilot program, he advises doctors on how to better communicate with their patients. “Care Talks are a series of four workshops that last about two hours each. They’re oriented toward the caregivers. A lot of [the caregivers] take care of folks with dementia,” said Smith. In his Care Talks, Smith focuses on two parties: The caregiver and the care partner. The caregiver is the person providing aid; this person may be a spouse, a child or any person providing care to people who need it. The care partner is the person receiving the care. These people may have trouble advocating for themselves due to illnesses or disadvantages. Illness is commonly discussed as a major reason care partners may have trouble understanding their healthcare instructions, but a lesser known reason is the high limited literacy rate of adults.
“A survey of adult readers in the US found that one-third to half of all adults have a problem with written text. That’s a lot of people who have difficulty reading. This makes verbal communication hard too as people may have a smaller vocabulary for describing what’s going on.” said Smith. “The numbers of people who have trouble reading are alarmingly high, and conveying health related information is already extremely difficult. So it’s important we reach people and help caregivers better transmit information to their care partners,” he added. “We work with Aging and Disability Resource Centers, specifically five different ones around the state. Their staff help caregivers provide care to people ages sixty and older and people with disabilities,” said Smith. Although these conversations can be packed with difficult concepts, there are a series of small interventions Smith and his team can help caregivers master. The first time the program was run, there were only 15 caregivers enrolled. After completion, Smith and his team surveyed for usefulness. They found that out of the 14 respondents, all of them had found the program beneficial and would recommend the program to a friend. Next, they’ll focus on how much it helped the care partners. Low enrollment is an issue the team faces with this program. “It’s hard to engage the caregivers, because by the time they call they’re looking for immediate help. They’re busy and stressed,” said Smith. Despite struggles to increase awareness and interest in the course, the program is doing well for something so new. “It’s a pilot program. We are still trying to see how we can interact with care partners. It’s very early in the research project’s lifetime. If we can get positive results, we can do a larger study and get more people involved. We already have some ideas about how to do that,” said Smith. Caregivers face unique challenges as they strive to provide care to their care partners. A side product of this program
has been providing caregivers with a space to discuss their work with each other. “Sometimes they talk about the issues of being a caregiver during the sessions, which has become sort of a support group for them,” said Smith. The other aspect of Smith’s work focuses on what he tells healthcare professionals, like doctors and nurses, about how to be effective during communication with caregivers or their care partners. “We call it getting off on the right foot. Just sitting down when a caregiver talks with their care partner, looking them in the eye and smiling helps a lot. There’s an instant human connection when this happens in a conversation,” said Smith. Beginning conversations like this makes care partners a lot more receptive to what their caregiver discusses with them. Small mannerisms like eye contact and smiling go a long way in starting the conversation correctly, but maintaining attention throughout the conversation is just as important. “We naturally sometimes speak faster when we’re talking, which makes us hard to understand. The care partners don’t have time to think about it, process it and decide what’s going on. Ideally, we will help caregivers speak more slowly, then check the understanding of the care partner. That’s not something that’s commonly done in healthcare,” said Smith. Checking for comprehension is an important step of Smith’s model because it’s the main determinant of whether the program is able to actually improve healthcare communication. In addition to checking for comprehension in the care partner on the individual conversational level, Smith and his team follow up with surveys to assess the program’s efficacy. Communication is vital when providing care and translating the information that caregivers have into information that can actively aid in providing healthcare to others. Smith’s research program will continue to help these expert caregivers share information more effectively with their care partners and their healthcare professionals.
Maybe you’ve seen your pets move around and make noises in their sleep before–the family dog starts whimpering, moving their legs, or the cat starts twitching. That begs the question; are they actually dreaming when they’re moving and making noises like that in their sleep? The answer is yes! Animals follow similar sleep cycles to humans, including dreaming! In smaller animals, sleep cycles are quicker and dreams are more frequent and rapid. This is because there is a higher level of stimulation and smaller animals often experience more powerful sensory stimulation. Larger animals have longer sleep cycles closer to humans and consequently longer dreams. Just like humans, animals have their most vivid dreams during the first stage of sleep. This stage of sleep is called REM sleep, or rapid eye movement. Most mammals experience REM sleep, but reptiles and fish don’t. Reptiles and fish still dream, just not as intensely as mammals do.
Dear Ms. Scientist, Why do I get food comas? Martha S. It’s definitely happened to me before; I’ll be in the lecture hall right after eating a nice lunch and trying to pay attention, yet slowly but surely, my eyes start drooping and I feel unbelievably drowsy even though I got a decent night of sleep. What gives? After a meal, your parasympathetic nervous system activates in response to increased food mass in your stomach and intestines. The activation triggers a relaxation response, making you feel like you don’t have a lot of energy. When you perceive that you have low energy, you start to feel tired and sleepy, causing the food coma experience. It’s also possible that food comas are helped along by molecule called tryptophan, which is in most foods. Tryptophan is converted to melatonin in your body, and increased melatonin levels result in sleepiness. However, the amount of tryptophan you eat probably isn’t enough to significantly trigger sleepiness. As for avoiding falling asleep in class after a lunch, some easy solutions are eating a smaller lunch and eating earlier.
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UW-Stout questions Eau Claire merger with Barron County By Jessica Sullivan STAFF WRITER
UW-Stout’s student government is asking the Board of Regents to reconsider a plan to merge UW-Barron County, a two-year college, with UW-Eau Claire, a fouryear college, as part of a restructuring of the UW System. UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer is concerned that fewer students from UW-Barron County will transfer to UW-Stout if the merger is approved. According to Meyer, over a quarter of UW-Barron County students transferred to UW-Stout for the 2015-’16 school year. According to UW System enrollment figures, the number of full-time students enrolled at UW-Barron County has dropped 35 percent from 2010 to 2017. UW System President Ray Cross said the merger, if passed, would take effect on July 1, 2018. UW-Stout’s student government — the University Student Senate of the Stout Student Association — was also critical of UW-Barron County’s proposed merge with UW-Eau Claire, especially since the merger was suggested without student input.
“We express our sincere disappointment in the handling of this proposed restructure and are asking for this proposal to be postponed for one meeting to review identified problems and potential solutions in a thoughtful and collaborative way,” SSA President Alex Vernon said in a statement. In the resolutions, student leaders said UW-Barron County and UW-Stout have had a longer relationship than any other UW institution. Meyer said he will continue to nurture this relationship. In response to the proposed restructuring, UW-Eau Claire Chancellor James C. Schmidt sent out an email to staff and students where he highlighted the strong connection between UW-Eau Claire and UW-Barron County. “While it is too soon to identify all the opportunities this new structure could bring to students here and in Barron County, we do know that meeting the needs of students at both campuses will be our highest priority,” Schmidt said in the email. The Board of Regents is scheduled to vote on the plan during their meeting Thursday.
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ASM Chair Katrina Morrison said she was among the students of color surveyed who “seriously considered” leaving UW-Madison.
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to create an inclusive environment. However, she said she thinks that student organizations, such as the Multicultural Center and ASM, are making positive efforts to improve campus climate. ADA is an organization that supports students with disabilities on campus, and Fonkem hopes student organizations like hers will be able to use ASM as a bridge to the administration in order to initiate change. “I hope what the survey will do is at least [inform] the wider campus community,” Fonkem said. “It’s better to start with the [students] understanding that they need to change, and that will help force the administration to change [too].”
al programs were suggested over day jobs. “Looking at the conclusions, I’m really not overly surprised at all that our staff is recommending that a so-called ‘day jobs program’ would not really be an efficient use of our resources,” Verveer said. “Largely, it would not be very meaningful to the people that we’re trying to assist.” However, the report noted significant barriers for the city’s homeless to find and maintain employment opportunities, namely stable housing. Even when housing isn’t a requirement, evidence suggests that it’s vital in successful work participation. Other challenges often facing homeless individuals are subUW-Madison watching the Act 10 Protests. “That was an important event for me in terms of going from somebody who thought about politics and government to working adjacent to it,” Wood said. While studying political science and education policy, Wood was heavily involved in College Democrats. He spent much of his undergraduate career doing campus work for the campaigns of several local and national political figures. According to Wood, he decided to run for City Council during his senior year due to his frustration with the unresponsiveness of federal and state government. “If you wanted to see something happen at the federal level, sometimes it could take years, whereas locally I got a chance to see that you can do things,” Wood said. “Somebody can say ‘Hey, I think we ought to look at this’ and you can look at it and actually do something.” Promoting young voices in government has been one of Wood’s primary goals while serving on City Council. “I don’t think it is just a coincidence that there are lot of seventy-plus [year old] individuals in the Senate who deny the existence of climate change, for example, because they will not [live to] see it,” Wood said.”I think when it comes to the decision-making table, you’re either at it or on it.” Hayley Young, a member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors and recent UW-Madison alum, also attested to the importance of local government. “You can say, ‘oh, I’m not interested,’ but [local government is] interested in you,” Young said.
Young made the decision to run for Dane County Board during her senior year and was elected in April 2016. “I knew that Dane County was going to be home for me regardless,” Young said. “I wanted to live here after graduation no matter what happened, and I now have the real privilege of getting to represent my neighbors.” Young was also an active member of College Democrats during her time on campus, spending “pretty much every semester of undergrad” working for both local and national campaigns. She said this involvement in activism during her time as an undergraduate exposed her to the dynamic nature and potential of local government. “Being so active in college, being so engaged in activism … I had already started seeing, at the smaller level, what could be done, and I wanted to continue that and I wanted to continue being involved in my community, and I wanted to be involved in a more concrete way,” Young said. All three local leaders advocated for increased presence and participation of young people, both in government and within their communities. According to Young, the best way to achieve this is to vote. “A lot of people do a really good job of being engaged every four years, but things happen every single day that matter a ton, and they happen every single day in your backyard, so know who your local representatives are,” Young said. “Vote in every single election. Vote for school board. Vote for County Board. Vote for City Council because it all impacts your life.”
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indicators that there should be targeted day job programs for panhandlers because the number of panhandlers in the city has been declining and it would be difficult to access this demographic for work opportunities. But additional findings noted that transitional job programs, rather than day job programs, would be more effective at creating stable career opportunities. The two differ in that transitional jobs couple wage-paid work, skills training and intensive support services. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, wasn’t surprised that transition-
long ago. Roberts ran his own campaign through the spring semester, a process he says happened rapidly, but culminated in his victory in the April 2016 election. “It wasn’t something I expected, and it was a quick turnaround, but I’m extremely happy that I did and grateful for those who urged me to pursue that,” Roberts said. According to Roberts, his position on the school board allows him to pursue his passions for public policy and education while working on a lifelong goal: inciting positive change in his community. “One of my goals for my career in general, no matter what I do, is that I bring about positive change,” Roberts said. “Give me an issue, and my goal is to solve that issue.” However, Roberts says, this positive change can’t be achieved alone. “When people work together, when you have diversity of thought and diversity of ideas, you can come to a solution, and I think when people are engaged, that’s when you are able to address prevailing issues in your community.” Roberts is not the only Badger to take on local government while in the midst of his undergrad. Current Madison Ald. Zach Wood, a UW-Madison alum who graduated in 2015, ran and was elected to his current position on City Council during the second semester of his senior year. A native of Waunakee, Wis., Wood also had strong ties to the local community long before attending his first class as a Badger. As a high school senior, Wood was drawn to
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stance abuse, mental illness, low employment skills and education. Verveer was aware of these constraints and said future jobs programs would be built around the city’s “housing-first” model for tackling homelessness. “Using this housing-first model, there are a lot of supportive services that are needed once people get off the street to maintain their ability to have permanent shelter over their head,” he said. The city expects that The Beacon, a new day resource center that assists the homeless community in Madison, will be instrumental in implementing some of these services. The Beacon offers a variety of services, ranging from housing assistance to helping with employment searches. The center opened in October after the county invested $2.3 million in its redevelopment. Verveer noted that like any non-government organization, the city has a set of expectations of expectations for The Beacon laid out in its contract. The report lists a number of performance measures to be used in evaluating its success, such as the number of people who had stable housing six months following the program. Moving forward, Verveer said he is optimistic about the efforts the city is making to improve life for Madison’s homeless. “There really is an unprecedented level of collaboration and cooperation amongst the different non-profit agencies that are supporting this population as well as the funders, like the city and the county, all working together,” he said.
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‘I and You’ conveys Whitman’s deep themes By Allison Garfield THE ATER COLUMNIST
The Forward Theater Company kicked off its ninth annual season with Lauren Gunderson’s “I and You” at the Overture Center’s Playhouse Theater. The play opened on Thursday, Nov. 2 and will run until Nov. 19 and, trust me, this is a show you do not want to miss. The entirety of the play takes place in the attic-like, teenage bedroom of Caroline, a high school senior who hasn’t been to school in months due to a liver illness and is confined to the boundaries of her home. This all changes, however, when fellow student Anthony unexpectedly shows up bearing Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” and waffle fries. The play consists of only these two characters, and they magnificently carry the show. As the duo work on their American Literature project by dissecting Whitman’s usage of the pronouns “I” and “you,” we learn more about these two characters and see their relationship evolve. They reveal their aspirations in life and talk about dark topics, like death and fear of dying, like it’s completely normal. Caroline shares that she wants to be a photographer, to capture the good and the bad in the world and show it to people, while Anthony reviews the mysterious death of a basketball player that happened earlier that day and the two bond. Caroline is played by Chantae Miller, a 16-year-old high school junior who brings a wonderful ferocity to Caroline. Alistair Sewell, 21, portrayed Anthony and did an
excellent job making him the lovable, dorky character that he is. Though the two actors are young, they are immensely professional. They bring a maturity to this project that is rare to find, even in experienced adult actors. Occasionally, Miller’s performance would plateau in moments of anger and angst, but Sewell’s varied emotionality balanced this out, making them the perfect pair. The show is spectacularly directed by Jennifer Uphoff Gray, whose precise vision of Gunderson’s world is the reason that the play is so affecting. As Caroline starts to warm up to Anthony, they both explore some of the main themes in Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”: life, death, the body and the soul, the self and time. I was wary of this initially and nervous that this would be another show trying to layer meaning into places it didn’t belong or didn’t exist. Playwright Lauren Gunderson, the most produced playwright in America in 2017, manages to masterfully examine these themes from a modern viewpoint within the context of these characters’ lives. She skillfully created a realistic world full of wit, charm, sorrow and fear that observes the fragile tissue of human connection. It is embedded with comedy, expertly delivered by the cast, which brought the energy of the show back up when it intermittently fell into the depths of despondency. The only flaw with the script is how seamless it is; I didn’t wholly feel like I was watching two high schoolers because high schoolers wouldn’t talk about death as fluently as these two characters did. There’s a level of discomfort and
awkwardness that comes with these lofty subjects that didn’t necessarily carry through. Part of what is so wonderful about this script is the character Anthony’s commentary on modern technology. Caroline lives most of her life online because being restricted to her bedroom leaves her with no other option, but when Anthony barges in, technology becomes a way for her to avoid intimacy and connection. Anthony doesn’t hesitate to call her out on this with lines like, “I came over in person … which people still do!” and “I will friend you [on Facebook] when I’m not actually in the room trying to be friends with you!” Additionally, the play reaffirms that the best way to get to know a person is having a face-toface conversation; nothing matches the intimacy of being in the same physical space as someone. The set is a beautifully detailed and realistic teenage bedroom, complete with books piled high on the shelves, laundry hanging out of the hamper, pictures collaged on the wall and pill bottles scattered in various sections of the room. The thoroughness and specificity of the set — every precise and measured detail — immerses the audience into Caroline’s world, which is limited to this single room. The intimacy of the smaller Playhouse Theater further submerges the audience into these character’s lives. The set also included string lights perfectly hung along the ceiling, completing the image. The light shining through the bedroom window imitated natural sunlight, producing an even more realistic look.
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Gunderson’s play dives deep into ideas of life, death and time. Because the show is an uninterrupted 85 minutes of these twopeople talking, I expected it to be difficult to stay fully engaged; this was not the case. Miller and Sewell made the entirety of the show feel like one long, natural conversation, like if someone was to overhear it in the lobby of the theater, they would think that it was just a guy and a girl having an abnormally loud discussion. The two had such a regular back and forth; their reactions were believable because they were actually listening to what the other was saying, not just waiting for their next line. This is especially impressive when you consider they only had three weeks of rehearsal for this production. Toward the end of the play, I started to get apprehensive. I could sense that the show was coming to a close and it felt incomplete, like something was missing, which didn’t make sense because the writing so far has been impeccable and
basically flawless. The play couldn’t have a happy ending, where the boy gets the girl and everyone gets exactly what they want — there’s no nuance there, it’s too obvious. And then Gunderson hits you with the twist. I’m not going to say what happens because words couldn’t express the emotion and gravity of the situation or do it justice. It’s phenomenal, nonetheless, and wraps up the show just as I had hoped. Just as Caroline attempts to capture the small things through photography, Gunderson captures that and much more with this play. “I and You” is a wonderful reminder of how theater can communicate the mystery of life and death, how things begin and end, while still giving the audience hope; how a completely real world can change in an instant and how a single person can have a lasting impact on a life. The show may be about the words “I” and “you,” but to quote director Uphoff Gray, “the magic of theater is in ‘we.’”
Janesville’s story told to Madison book festival attendees By Lucas Sczygelski THE DAILY CARDINAL
“I’ve got a question,” said Amy Goldstein, veteran Washington Post staffer and the writer of “Janesville: An American Story.” She paused and pulled back her frizzy red hair, scanning the book festival audience from a pedestal at the Madison Public Library. Her book is about the closure of Janesville’s General Motors plant, but nobody in the crowd was wearing steel-toed boots or worn-in work pants; it was more of a sneaker and wool sweater affair — an assortment of Madison professionals. She asked her question anyway: “How many of you here have some connection to Janesville and the plant?” Dozens of hands proudly shot up. I already knew that the guy sitting to my left had no connection whatsoever. I asked him before Goldstein
walked onto the stage. With a smirk of relief he informed me that he’d never even been to Janesville, the blue-collar city about an hour south of Madison, but he felt “awfully bad” for the people there and found Goldstein’s new book “informative.” I did know, however, that the man to my right was going to raise his hand. John Elliott’s face, framed by a set of long, grey sideburns, previously nodded when I asked if he had connections to Janesville. “The town was kind of awful,” the Edgewood College librarian said. “I don’t say this to be mean to my old town, though. It’s very sad what’s happened.” Elliott grew up in Janesville during the GM boom years, when “there was a lot of money in Janesville.” The union men lived like “blue-collar royalty,” buying motorboats and big houses and snowmobiles. Sure, the
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Goldstein explores changes within the Janesville community.
non-GM workers resented the GM guys, with their platinum pensions and their UAW Local 95 membership cards, but the wages pumped money and pride into the community. “Now I go back there and the town looks like hell,” Elliott said. “And I don’t think it’ll ever come back.” Of Elliott’s high school group, which he gleefully described as “hippies” with “long hair,” only one went on to work at the plant. “Tom worked on the line, never went to college,” Elliott explained. “He retired at 52. He has enough money to live, but I can tell he’s depressed, because the world he knew is gone. When you’re a union plant guy for 30 or 40 years and that all goes away, who are you now?” Goldstein’s book grapples with that question. She follows workingclass Janesville families as they adjust to the loss of the nation’s oldest-operating GM factory after the last Chevy Tahoe rolled off the line two days before Christmas in 2008. Some of what followed are stories of triumph over adversity. Some are not. There’s a third-generation union rep that makes the painful decision to help workers from the “company side” by enrolling in HR classes at Blackhawk Technical College. Then there’s his wife, who enrolls at Blackhawk after being laid off and earns high marks in the criminal justice program. There are GM “gypsies” who opt to commute to GM plants in places like Fort Wayne or Kansas City during the week and return home to their families on
weekends. There are ex-linemen (accustomed to making $28 an hour) who take jobs at non-unionized manufacturers for less than half their former wages. She’ll trace their descents into poverty. Meanwhile, there’s a noble teacher who notices kids “losing weight” and looking a little scruffier, so she starts a food drive. There’s the local M&I Bank president who takes time away from her plush job to lead the effort to save the economy from free-fall. It’s a bit difficult to keep the long list of characters straight, as they come in and out of the story: “I wanted this book to feel like a kaleidoscope,” Goldstein told us. But by refusing to write in banal generalizations about the working class, Goldstein is able to tell a powerful story about how a uniquely civic-minded community was splintered by omnipresent economic forces and indifferent executives. She’s able to weigh the value of work using terms like “dignity” and “responsibility” instead of “paycheck” and “mortgage.” “Janesville” joins a growing genre of books that has gained prominence after the 2016 election cycle. Call it the literature of “post-industrial malaise” or “the downside of neoliberalism’s ascent.” It includes books like “The Unwinding,” “Strangers in Their Own Land” and “Hillbilly Elegy” — this year’s controversial Go Big Read book. The genre tries to make sense of the economic nationalism, racism and xenophobia that seem to accompany industrial blight.
But what’s now loosely defined as “Trumpism” is not what Goldstein finds in Janesville. The city remains strongly Democratic; Rock County went 52 percent for Clinton in 2016. The characters in the book are more apt to enroll in career retraining programs at the local tech school than to blame minorities. In fact, they have a hard time blaming anyone at all. Here’s one character, Matt Wopat, as he decides to quit tech school and commute to Fort Wayne’s GM plant every workweek to avoid bankruptcy: “As his mind churns on this jam he is in, the strangest thing is that he can find absolutely no one to blame. Not … the government, dutifully paying for classes for a job he might never get. Not GM, shelling out for his benefits even as the company had gone bankrupt. Certainly not [his wife], trying her damnedest to find a job better than restocking her Hallmark displays a couple of days a week. Not even himself.” As for Goldstein, she’s pleased with how her project turned out, and she said she’s happy she picked Janesville as her subject. “One of the side effects is … that Madison has become a kind of second home to me,” she told the festival audience. But it almost didn’t turn out that way. Explaining why she picked Janesville over other rust-belt cities, she said, “I thought that Janesville was a cool American-sounding name. Now that appealed to me. I thought, if I was going to be living with a name, I like the fact that it’s Janesville.”
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The Iran nuclear deal reduces the threat of global nuclear war. United States’ involvement is critical.
Global security relies on United States involvement PETER KANE opinion columnist
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n mid-October, President Trump announced that he will not recertify the Iran nuclear deal, following through on his campaign promise to end one of the Obama Administration’s signature achievements. The deal is a big step towards stability in the Middle East and ending it would question the United States’ role as a leader in the denuclearization of the world. In a scathing speech at the White House, the president used Iran’s history as an untrustworthy adversary of the United States to justify his action, but there is really no good reason to leave the agreement and his move shows a misunderstanding of what it takes to negotiate an international agreement of this size. The Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is multinational agreement to lift sanctions on Iran if it agreed to drastically reduce its nuclear program. After years of negotiation, the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany resumed trade with Iran in 2016 after the country sent 98 percent of its Uranium supply to Russia and began shutting down its nuclear testing sites. As part of the agreement, Iran must agree to thorough inspections of its nuclear program by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the U.S. President must certify every 90 days that Iran is keeping with its side of the deal. Since becoming president, Trump has twice recertified the deal, but on Oct. 13 said that Iran has “violated the spirit of the deal” and will no longer support it. Now the deal is in the hands of Congress, who has 60 days to decide if the U.S. should reimpose sanctions on Iran or back out of the deal completely. It could also decide to ignore the president and do nothing, leaving the deal as it is. While it is unlikely that Congress will agree to impose more sanctions- to do so would require 60 votes, and these days legislators can hardly agree on
anything- the mere suggestion that the U.S. will not maintain its side of the deal could have serious implications across the globe. The Iran deal is the first time that the United States has had a clear and accurate understanding of Iran’s nuclear program; at the time the deal was negotiated, Iran was within weeks of obtaining enough uranium to build a nuclear weapon. Now, according to the IAEA, it would take years for Iran to make a nuclear weapon and the country is complying with the terms of the agreement by shutting down its testing facilities. The Iran nuclear deal is widely supported around the world. Since Trump announced his decision not to recertify it, leaders from Britain, France, Germany and Russia announced their continued commitment to the agreement and urged the United States to remain in the deal. Many fear that if Iran sees the U.S. as not holding up its end, it will resume work on nuclear weapons and the situation will escalate unnecessarily. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran will not be the first to violate the terms of the deal, but he will not let the United States back out of the deal without a proper response. The Iranian foreign minister who negotiated the deal said that no additional concessions will be given to the United States. What President Trump fails to see is that Iran wants the deal to work too. The country endured decades of sanctions from around the world and sacrificed its nuclear program to end its forced economic isolation. Since sanctions were lifted on Jan 15, 2016, Iranian oil exports have returned to pre-sanction levels and the country has made huge deals with international companies that before would’ve been impossible. Virtually everyone involved in this deal is aware and supportive of its ability to stabilize the Middle East and reduce the threat of nuclear conflict; but to think that unanimous global accord would be enough to convince the
president to abandon a nationalistic campaign promise would be an underestimation of the stubborn arrogance of Donald J. Trump. The president thinks that he can stomp into the UN General Assembly, call the Iran deal unfair and rewrite the deal on his terms, but the reality is that the Iran nuclear deal is already as good as it gets. Iran and all the other countries involved in the deal will not agree to renegotiate simply because the United States’ foreign policy has changed. There is no logical reason for the United States to back out of the deal. Trump claims that Iran’s past justifies exiting the agreement, and while it is true that Iran’s relationship with the U.S. has rarely been friendly, the deal allows the U.S. to watch Iran more closely. By refusing to certify the Iran deal, Trump is ignoring the advice of other world leaders, the IAEA and even his own advisers only to continue his agenda of erasing his predecessor’s legacy. It is easy for Trump and his Fox News echo chamber to vilify the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially when the deal is so associated with Barack Hussein Obama. Trump wants to prove his experience as a businessman will allow him to strike a better deal than career politicians, but his actions show him to be a worse negotiator than he is a diplomat. Backing out of the Iran deal will limit his ability to negotiate with North Korea at a time when tensions with that regime are already high. Leaving the Iran nuclear deal will do nothing to prevent the threat of nuclear weapons and detracts from the seriousness of their use. The president’s decision last week only shows that the most dangerous world leader with nuclear capabilities is not the head of Russia, North Korea or Iran, but the United States of America. Peter is a junior majoring in journalism and English. What do you think about the U.S.’s new foreign policy? How can we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? Please direct any comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
istory probably wasn’t every student’s favorite subject growing up in school. There was always so much information to remember in history class, such specific dates, time periods, people and locations for exams and papers. U.S. History and World History were required courses in high school and you learned a bit here and there in middle school. You would spend an enormous amount of time on the “Founding Fathers” and all the dynasties and empires that rose and fell throughout the world. But did you ever learn about feminism? Did you ever cover any of the feminist waves? Why aren’t these topics a part of the core curriculum in history classes? We live in the 21st century where the youth has the most to offer. These topics have been around for centuries and they are just as important to how society has evolved as the dynasties and empires. How do we educate the youth about the importance of protest and social movement when we don’t include this information in their daily school curriculum? Whenever we talk about protest in history we often equate it with the Civil Rights Movement. While this is important, we also need to be educating students about feminist figures such as Maya Angelou, Mary Wollstonecraft, Bell Hooks and the long list that follows. Every school system should have a better emphasis on feminist education as well as women and gender studies. Most students don’t get this education at school or at home. How do we expect them to know anything about it? Everyone should be a feminist. It’s not about hating men, it’s about respect and equal representation for all. Gloria Steinem, a well-renowned feminist, author and activist, once said, “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” By not giving these topics signif-
icant importance, you tell every child that their voice in this movement doesn’t really matter. We already live in such a male-dominated society that we don’t need every aspect of our education to be centered around them. Those who have already come and fought for this movement did not do it for nothing. Even though they are not here anymore their struggles and fight still deserve to be talked about today, tomorrow and 10 years from now. That’s why they did what they did. Even if they didn’t achieve any change immediately, they at least deserve a conversation. This past January probably one of the most memorable world-wide marches took place. The Women’s March that occurred the day after the Presidential Inauguration shook the world. It wasn’t just women who came together, it was also men and children who partook in this demonstration of strength and unity. They marched for the same rights that were fought for years ago. Students should be educated about the fight that led up to the march. It didn’t just happen overnight. The march wasn’t solely based on the outcome of the election. You can’t tell American history without the fundamental women who helped shape it. It was a woman who made our American flag, it is a woman who is our Statue of Liberty, it is a woman who’s land we grace, and it is a woman who runs our university. We have already gone too long without properly educating students about these survivors, campaigners, and activists that a change needs to happen now. A reform in the historical education will prepare students better for the issues they face outside of the classroom. Most of the lessons you currently learn, you don’t even remember learning. Chelsea is a freshman intending on majoring in journalism. Do you think that history books leave out feminist leaders? Please send questions, comments or concerns to us at opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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The Women’s March in January was a historic feminist event.
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Toying around: Getting sex toy-smart This week, Indecent Exposure is giving a more in-depth discussion about sex toys, the various types, applications and proper usage and maintenance that comes with their use.
Anna Welch Let’s talk about one of the most beloved sex toys on the market: vibrators! Bad day? Vibe. Boring date? Vibe. Inexplicable attraction to douchey coworker? Vibe. Vibrators are either internal or external only. An internal vibe can be used inside the vagina and outside on the vulva and clit. External-only are too small to be inserted and should only be used on the vulva and clit. External-only or clitoral vibrators are generally only a few inches long and they vary in shape from the common “bullet” vibe to things as sneaky as rubber duckies and lipstick tubes. Internal vibrators come in three main types — realistic, classic, and G-spot. Realistic vibrators are designed to look — and sometimes feel — like penises. Classic or “traditional” vibrators are non-phallic, meaning they generally have a smooth, cylindrical shape with a rounded tip. G-spot vibrators are usually non-phallic as well, but they tend to have a curved design for easier G-spot access. Dual-stimulation vibrators look similar to classic internal vibes, but with a fun extra little arm for, you guessed it, dual-stimulation of the clitoris and the inside of the vagina. Unlike condoms which are highly regulated by the FDA in the U.S., vibrators and other sex toys have zero governmental regulations — meaning a sex toy website could claim a toy is 100% silicone and that could be 100% bullshit. Silicone vibrators are non-porous, making them easiest to clean and generally the highest quality. If you’re using lube with a silicone vibrator be sure to use waterbased lube. Silicone based lube can degrade the material of a silicone based toy. If at all possible, save the online shopping for Cyber Monday and purchase your vibe in person. A Woman’s Touch in Madison and The Tool Shed in Milwaukee are great local options for body-safe toys. If buying from a reputable sex store in-person is intimidating, check to see if they have a website — tons of sex stores sell online! To test the sensation of a vibrator, rest it against the underside of your forearm. For a first-time purchase, try to spend under $20 in case you don’t like the sensation, or you decide you want something stronger or gentler. Clean your vibrator with unscented soap and warm water after every use to avoid bacteria buildup. If you see a toy you just can’t resist online but you’re unsure of its quality, simply use a condom with it to stay safe and for easy cleanup.
Sydney Thomas Dildo here, dildo there, dildos everywhere! Dildos are toys that can be used to penetrate the vagina, the anus, orally, or for any form of sexual intercourse. They can be used to stimulate the clitoris, prostate, and G-spot. These fun toys can be used alone or with partners depending on preference. They can also be attached to harnesses and worn by many different people to satisfy many different needs. Choosing a dildo can be difficult due to the wide variety on the market. They come in many different shapes, sizes, colors, textures, etc and some dildos do in fact vibrate (a lot of fun ones are animal shaped and have a place to insert a bullet vibrator). They can be made of glass, plastic, silicone, metal or rubber. Three types of popular dildos on the market are basic dildos, double-ended dildos and dolphin dildos. A basic dildo is your classic phallic shaped toy that is either realistic (i.e. looks more like a penis usually involving veins, glans or scrotum) or they can be more abstract and look more just like a plain penetrative shaft. Double ended dildos are made so that two partners can enjoy it at once, or so that somebody flying solo can use one end to penetrate the anus while using the other to penetrate the vagina at the same time, or by using one end as a handle. The adorable dolphin dildo is great for people that prefer a more discrete, non-phallic dildo that can be used anally because it has a nice base that won’t get lost in the anus. The finger hole of dolphin vibrators also can be a nice place to add a bullet vibrator and turn up the heat! It can be hard to determine the true size and feel of a dildo through online shopping, so try to go to a reputable sex store such as A Woman’s Touch in Madison to get a better idea of what you’re buying. A dildo should be cleaned after each use unless it was covered with a condom. Glass and metal (and sometimes silicone) dildos can be boiled. Some toys can go on the top rack of the dishwasher, just be sure not to leave a steam-cleaned surprise for roommates. When in doubt about how to clean a toy, the classic fragrance-free soap and warm water is foolproof.
Ayden Prehara Anal: The final frontier. With the anus’ densely packed nerve endings, anal play can be an entirely new way for all bodies to experience pleasure. For many of us, the butt is filled with curiosity and anxiety. We often associate the butt as being dirty, for poop and poop only. But think about it, we as humans are clean. If we practice really basic hygiene (wiping after we go to the bathroom and showering), and we don’t currently feel like we have to go to the bathroom, we’re generally safe to play! Protip: If we’re still worried, take a steamy shower with our partner to feel squeaky clean. Three key rules for pleasurable play: 1. LUBE! Unlike the vagina, the anus does not self lubricate, meaning that lube is absolutely necessary for comfortable and safe anal play. (You can check out our last column for tips on picking the right lube for you). 2. FLARED BASE! We’re going to want to make sure we have a flared base or handle, basically something that will ensure that toy doesn’t get lost or stuck inside us. 3. START SMALL! The anus is the opposite of an elephant – it doesn’t remember a thing. The size of the toy we had in out butt last time doesn’t matter, we’re going to want to start small. Start with a finger and continue to work up to relax the muscles and make for comfortable play. When it comes to anal specific toys there are three primary varieties: butt plugs, anal beads, and prostate stimulators: Butt plugs are not meant for thrusting, but rather are designed to give us a sensation of fullness, and for folks with vaginas it can make us feel “tighter.” If desired, butt plugs can also be a great way for our butts to relax before anal! Anal beads are a string of beads of varying sizes, starting small and working its way bigger. When using beads, we’re going to want to make sure we heavily lubricate them and that we’re mindful not to pull them out like we’re starting a lawn mower. Relax, go slower, and enjoy that heightened orgasm. Prostate stimulators are insertive vibrators with a curved end designed specifically to stimulate the prostate. Similar to butt plugs, stimulators are not meant to be thrusted, but can offer an intense full bodied orgasm. Clean your anal toys like you would any other toy, and if we want even less cleanup, we can always slip a condom over our toys.
Sex toys are a great way to spice up your sex life, find out something new about yourself, or just add that extra oomph to your personal time. Don’t be afraid to explore your different options! If you have topic suggestions or just want some advice, shoot us an email at sex@dailycardinal.com
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Taylor worthy of Heisman consideration SEBASTIAN VAN BASTELAER
Unopinionated This year ESPN released a list called “Ranking the happiness of every college football fan base.” The survey took into account program power, rivalry dominance, coaching stability, recruiting trend, revenue growth and Twitter buzz. The results were in many ways unsurprising. Wisconsin came in at 14th out of 128 FBS programs. Predictably, its strong suits according to the survey were program power (95/100), revenue growth (98/100) and rivalry dominance (99/100). It’s hard to argue with those numbers. UW received middling scores in the remaining criteria, with one notable exception. The “Twitter buzz” category was a massive outlier, scoring only 14/100. For a frame of reference, Idaho (the 127th-ranked program in terms of happiness) scored a 37. Now my purpose here is not to nitpick and point out flaws in a football program that has obviously experienced success of elephantine proportions recently. But one can’t help but wonder why such a prestigious and illustrious program doesn’t create tons of attention on social media. A brief glance at the team’s Twitter page helps to understand this discrepancy. The account is certainly active, posting lots of great videos (replete with Matt Lepay’s glorious radio calls) and funny GIFs. But in many ways it embodies the style of the program writ small. It prides itself on being dependable, reliable and professional without being overly fancy, flashy or
(most importantly) controversial. It is not wont to get into beef with other accounts or spew bombast. Nor is it likely to publicly advocate for certain players to win awards — not even a bona fide superstar who’s being overlooked for the Heisman Trophy. Fortunately, dear readers, I am not limited by such inhibitions. (Do I have multiple readers? Am I technically allowed to use the plural? I should call a lawyer.) So, after 300 words of exposition, I am making an announcement: It is on this very page that I launch the Jonathan Taylor Heisman campaign. UW’s true freshman sensation continues to get overlooked in favor of a slew of less-worthy candidates. Don’t get me wrong, Saquon Barkley, Baker Mayfield, J.T. Barrett, Josh Adams and Bryce Love are all having great seasons. But they’ve also all been prone to down weeks, particularly this week. The notable exception, statistically speaking, is Mayfield — but heck, I could probably throw for 350 yards and 4 touchdowns against Oklahoma State’s defense. Enter Jonathan Taylor. He leads the Big Ten in rushing by a flabbergasting 400 yards. Saquon Barkley, the media darling of Penn State, has exactly as many yards and touchdowns rushing and receiving combined (1368, 12 TD’s) as Taylor does on the ground alone. Granted, Taylor doesn’t return kicks, but he also doesn’t have Barkley’s peculiar habit of getting trapped in the backfield and blindly spinning in the opposite direction only to find himself right in the arms of a tackler. J.T. Barrett, meanwhile, tends to vanish altogether on occasion (see last night’s game). Bryce Love has had a tremendous year, but tends
to get his yards in big chunks and occasionally disappears as well (also, see last night’s game). And Baker Mayfield has thrown far more interceptions on the year than Jonathan Taylor, and it’s not even close. (Note: I understand the two play different positions). The most important thing to note here is that all of these players have had less-than-stellar games. That’s of course to be expected —no Heisman winner is ever consistently amazing through the course of a season. But Taylor has done something that none of his competitors can claim; he hasn’t lost a game yet. Heisman trophies aren’t won by having the best record in the country, and we can’t give the running back all the credit for the undefeated record, but he (along with his teammates) has done what’s needed to win games for this team, something that none of the other contenders have been able to do. There have been no “trap games” or upsets at the hands of Iowa or Iowa State or Michigan State. This team keeps on winning, and it has its phenom to thank. The media will keep pushing Heisman candidates on us, players from the so-called “blue blood” programs who will bring in the most advertising dollars. They will probably continue to do so. Can I objectively say I believe that Jonathan Taylor deserves to (or will) win the Heisman? Probably not, barring an even more amazing stretch to end the year. And his time will come. But continuing to overlook him is a downright abomination. Maybe with grassroots organizing, led by a campaign manager extraordinaire (yours truly), we can get him to New York. It’s the least we can do.
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Jonathan Taylor is third in the nation with 1,368 yards on the ground. Taylor is the only freshman in the top 15 in rushing.
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Dhooghe duo do it together, each score first goal of career in tie By Ethan Levy SPORTS EDITOR
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Sean Dhooghe (#24 above) and his brother Jason each scored the first goal of their career on Saturday. Jason had an assist on Sean’s goal.
Over the course of this season, Wisconsin has played seven different freshmen, and five of those firstyear players have been in the lineup for all 11 games so far. Between quarterbacking the powerplay, playing on the penalty kill and being on the ice in close games as time ticks down, this freshman class has had a tremendous impact on Wisconsin’s season thus far. The freshman impact, however, was never more apparent than in No. 7 Wisconsin’s (1-1 Big Ten, 6-4-1 overall) 2-2 tie against North Dakota (1-1-0 NCHC, 6-2-2) — especially through the likes of Sean and Jason Dhooghe. With time expiring in the first period, freshman defenseman Tyler Inamoto was given a game misconduct and was ejected for a hit to the head. Wisconsin was forced to play with five defensemen the rest of the night, as freshmen Wyatt Kalynuk and Josh Ess stepped up huge for the Badgers, often playing together without the help of a veteran defenseman. “Coach Osiecki puts the pairs together and has a ton of confidence in those guys. I think that’s the biggest thing when a coach can throw you over the boards in key situa-
tions when you’re young players like that instill the confidence in them,” head coach Tony Granato said. “They don’t play like freshmen. All those guys, with Tyler as well. All three of those young players have a ton of poise for freshmen D.” Still, the even bigger contribution from the freshmen came from the forwards. With just over three minutes remaining in the first period, Jason dropped to the ice to block a shot with time expiring on his brother Sean’s penalty. Jason was just trying to clean the zone after being exhausted from a long kill, but his block did more than that. The puck bounced off his shin guards, right onto Sean’s stick, who was then awarded a penalty shot after being taken down on his ensuing breakaway. Sean had yet to score a goal heading into the game but earned his first points of his career last night. Still, he remained cool and felt confident that he could beat the North Dakota goalie to score his first career goal and give the Badgers a 1-0 lead. “[Hayton was giving me] some words of wisdom [before the shot],” Sean said. “He was telling me to do my thing. We do a lot of shootouts in practice, and he was trying to tell me what to do — but I already knew
what I was going to do before that. He was pretty surprised because he had never seen that one out of me.” The Dhooghe’s don’t spend a lot of time together on the same line, but their unscripted three seconds of ice time together last night resulted in Sean’s first goal of his career. Almost two periods later, Dhooghe found a way to break the tie again. This time, however, Jason recorded the first goal of his career, putting UW up 2-1 with just over 10 minutes to go in the third. “They’re roommates too so they do a lot together,” Granato said. “It was appropriate they both scored their first collegiate goals together and I think the fans recognized who the Dhooghes were tonight too which was very exciting.” “It’s special,” Sean said. “It’s cool scoring your first goal, and then when your brothers on your side doing the same thing on the same night in front of a huge crowd in a really big game, it’s pretty special.” Even though Jason and Sean’s efforts were not quite enough to give UW a win, it was a pretty special night for the brothers to score their first goals together on the same night. “Yeah, it’s pretty special,” Jason said. “We’re never going to forget this.”