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Bush speech highlights Wis. stem-cell research Dispute in funding of embryonic stem cells still remains

By Charles Brace THE DAILY CARDINAL

President Bush gave his annual State of the Union address Monday, and his remarks on stemcell research will likely reverberate in Wisconsin for the last year of his term.

Bush said he was in favor of funding the medical breakthrough by UW-Madison and Japanese researchers that reprogram skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells.

“This breakthrough has the potential to move us beyond the divisive debates of the past by extending the frontiers of medicine without the destruction of human life,” Bush said. “We must also ensure that all life is treated with the dignity it deserves.”

He also said he wanted Congress to ban buying, selling, or cloning of “human life.”

Ed Fallone, president of the advocacy group Wisconsin Stem Cell Now, Inc., said the new research on skin cells should not be favored over other avenues of research involving embryonic stem cells.

Fallone said it is unrealistic to favor non-embryonic stem-cell research when it is unknown if it will be as effective as research involving embryos.

The emphasis on the skin-cell research, according to Fallone, could also hurt funding for experiments that are already ongoing involving embryonic cells.

“I hope Congress will ignore this unrealistic call to impose a moral litmus test on medical research,” Fallone said.

Ronald Kalil, a UW-Madison professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences who does stem-cell research, said it was important to remember reprogrammed skin cells

do not have the same sets of genes as the embryonic cells.

This difference could mean they cannot indefinitely replicate like embryonic cells, Kalil said, but it is difficult to predict because few specifics are known on the new research.

The reprogrammed skin cells could solve the problem of a patient’s body rejecting donated tissue, according to Kalil, because the cells could come from a patient’s own body.

Kalil said Bush’s favoring for skin cell research could improve funding in Wisconsin. He also said it was unlikely embryonic-cell research funding would suffer until the new method is proven successful.

Andrew Cohn, governmental affairs director for the WiCell Research Institute at UW-Madison, said Bush’s comments were disappointing. He said the breakthrough in November with skin cells would not have been possible without embryonic stem-cell research.

Police identify victim of year’s first homicide

By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL

Madison Police and the Dane County Coroner’s office identified the homicide victim found on South Park Street as 31-year-old Joel A. Marino during a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

According to a police report, Marino was found in an alley at the 700 block of South Park Street Monday afternoon and was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police declared the incident a homicide, the city’s first in 2008.

An autopsy revealed that Marino died of “multiple penetrating wounds from a sharp instrument,” according to Dane County Coroner

John Stanley. He said at the news conference the exact type of instrument used was not yet known.

Marino lived in the neighborhood where he was killed, and detectives are investigating the possibility the crime was committed inside his home, according to a police report.

Police said they could not rule out that the murder was a random act at this point in the investigation.

Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a “person of interest,” a man who was last seen in the area around the time of the crime. Police describe him as being 6' to 6'1", and he was last seen wearing a white stocking cap with a red “W” on the front

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Peace advocate stresses optimism to solve Israeli-Palestinian conflict David Makovsky, director of The Washington Institute’s Project on the Middle East Peace Process, addressed students Tuesday on what is necessary for a peaceful solution.

Campaign finance reform bill faces opposition The bill seeks to put more public funds into the election process, but might not pass this session.

UW-Madison turns 159 on Feb. 5 The Wisconsin Alumni Association and University Housing will distribute free pieces of birthday cake at a Founders’ Day celebration.

and a tan sheepskin-like jacket.

He was also carrying a gray, new looking backpack.

“It’s quite out of the ordinary,” City Council President Mike Verveer said Monday after the incident. He said the neighborhood where the crime occurred, near St. Mary’s Hospital and the Lake Monona shore, is known as a generally safe area with little violent crime.

Ald. Julie S. Kerr, District 13, who represents the area in which the killing took place, said at the conference Marino was a “really decent guy” and noted her constituents’ fears regarding the murder.

“People are very concerned,” Kerr said.

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California-based Peet’s Coffee and Tea plans to establish its second Madison store by summer 2008 at the Memorial Union.

Coffee house to open in UW’s Memorial Union

By Devin Rose THE DAILY CARDINAL

A new coffee house will open in UW-Madison’s Memorial Union as early as summer 2008, the university announced Tuesday.

Peet’s Coffee and Tea plans to move to the former ground floor location of STA Travel, which re-located to State Street in November 2007.

According to Amanda Green, Wisconsin Union Directorate vice president, a spring 2007 survey asked students to identify criteria they would like to see in a coffee house on campus.

such as Starbucks Coffee and Caribou Coffee, but Green said the product quality, upscale atmosphere and flexibility to work with the Union made it the best overall candidate.

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“It gives just another option right on campus for a place to go and study and to hang out.”

Dan Cornelius member Union Council

Using the nearly 3,000 responses, a committee looked at vendors who met the criteria, Union Communications Director Marc Kennedy said.

“Everyone was really adamant about having a coffee house that was environmentally friendly, had organic and fair trade choices and used sustainable packaging, so that’s something that we put a lot of weight on,” Green said.

Peet’s competed with other companies during the selection process,

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The arcade currently housed in Memorial Union will be cleared to expand seating for the new Peet’s Coffee and Tea store.

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

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fter the first week of classes, I have people picked out in my lectures and discussions that I think I would like to be friends with. They look interesting—they have flattering haircuts, wore a T-shirt I bought at the same concert and roll their eyes the same time as I do in lecture.

But making a new friend can be difficult because it’s hard to decide who is really worth your time.

I’ve come up with a scientifically based formula to indubitably decide if someone is right with me. It’s a short cut, but a most accurate and decisive one.

It rests on two simple shallow tastes: books and music. Below is a guide to what I feel is socially acceptable.

Question No. 1: Hey, I’m looking for a new book. What do you like to read?

Answer: Be careful, this is a trick question. Some might think that the obvious answer would be, “Books? Me? Naw brah, I

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don’t read,” coupled with an irritated eye roll. This, however, is the right answer if you’re talking to some one with a barbed wire arm tattoo.

Otherwise, you really just blew it.

If you’re trying to impress someone, devaluing your sense of intelligence is not the way to go. We’re all in college—we should at least pretend we read.

Safe answers include: Vonnegut, Eggers, Thoreau, Salinger, Sedaris, Klosterman, and that one guy who wrote “On the Road.”

Even people who don’t read will be impressed by the idea that you do.

If you’re completely at a loss for words, try using a foreign name or a name you know you’ve heard before, but aren’t really sure where: Fugazi (an alternative rock band) and Pinochet (A Chilean dictator who was majorly bad ass) might just fool some idiot into thinking you prefer obscure reading that’s really beyond them.

This is not without risk though, as one might be able to see through your murky bull.

Question No. 2: So, like, what kind of music do you listen to?”

Answer: “I like anything— anything but country.”

Oh, wow really? That’s really

interesting and individualistic!

You want to make yourself sound exclusive, but open to trying new things. Be a walking contradiction and give a flexible answer that can be easily altered if your fellow conversationalist expresses dissatisfaction with your tastes.

Start with something universally accepted and indisputable.

Select one of the following: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones or Bob Dylan. Generally, the further back you go into rock music, the less a person can argue with your choice. No one messes with greatness.

Casually sprinkle in a few names of some crappy indie bands that recently played at various music festivals to show you keep up with the scene. And if you don’t know what the scene is, don’t worry, most people don’t.

Besides, artsy band names are

easy to make up—just take seemingly meaningless words and mesh them together: The Orange Kicks. Also be sure to add that their first CD was soooooo much better than their newest release.

Liking mainstream music isn’t necessarily a downfall. I appreciate a person who knows that songs played on the radio aren’t always crap. Stick with people who are actually somewhat respectable though, like Timberlake or Kanye. Or go with musicians a lot of girls want to have sex with, like John Mayer.

Instant conversation killers: Panic! At the Disco, Limp Bizkit, Nickleback.

I find my questions are generally effective in friend selection, and have no qualms with basing years of companionship on two arbitrary questions, because to a culturally refined person such as myself, these trivialities mean everything.

To the more socially inept part of the population who I’ve seen eating alone in various consumption establishments, I sincerely believe you can trick someone into liking you.

If you need help making friends and would like further cultural training for a high price, e-mail aaspencer@wisc.edu.

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coffee house from page 1 detailed training process for Peet’s employees is also a plus. Employees will primarily be students.

According to Green, the architects plan to hold forums with students to discuss the design aspects they would like to see in the building.

Cornelius said the arcade on the first floor would be taken out to make room for seating in the shop and that multiple entrances would be built, including an exterior doorway.

Green said Peet’s would be open until 1 a.m. at the request of survey respondents. He added that this semester will be the first in a few years that Memorial Union and Union South will be open for 24 hours during finals week.

A priority for the Union, Cornelius said, is to provide a variety of late-night student options other than drinking, and he believes the coffee house would help.

“It will be great for the students because it gives just another option

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‘Quiet zones’ silence city’s train whistles at select crossings New gates, lights increase safety at railroad tracks

By Ashley Ojala THE DAILY CARDINAL

Downtown Madison residents will no longer wake up in the middle of the night to the loud, highpitched sound of a train whistle.

In response to resident complaints about late-night and earlymorning train whistles, the city created three “quiet zones” going into effect Wednesday. Trains will not sound their horns unless it is absolutely necessary at these areas.

“I’d rather be inconvenienced in my sleep occasionally than get hit by a train.”

Tom Wangard junior UW-Madison

Peter Ostlind, chair of the Bassett District, said the implementation of quiet zones has been in the works for years, and residents are happy about being able to sleep without a train whistle disturbing them.

According to Steve Sonntag, Madison’s pavement engineer, the city passed an ordinance banning train whistles at some intersections in 2001, but a 2006 federal law requiring improvements at each

railroad crossing slowed the process.

Along with gates and flashing lights, federal regulations require each crossing to have an electronic notifier to calculate the speed of the train and trigger the gate to come down. The crossings must also have a battery backup and a power-off option so engineers know if crossing signals or gates are not functioning properly.

Sonntag said the city has completed the necessary improvements and made it safe for trains to sound horns only when an engineer recognizes “imminent danger” in the crossing.

UW-Madison junior Tom Wangard, a Bassett neighborhood resident, said he worries the whistle-ban will make railroad crossings more dangerous.

“I’d rather be inconvenienced in my sleep occasionally than get hit by a train,” he said.

Sonntag said residents should not worry about safety because engineers are still required to sound their horn when a person is in the crossing. Additionally, he said the new modifications have actually increased safety.

“When you’re adding signals and gates, you’re improving the safety of that crossing,” he said.

Janet Piraino, spokeswoman for Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, said the mayor supports the upgrades in safety and is especially happy that many residents will sleep better.

“The mayor feels that a whistleban is a quality of life issue, so he’s very supportive of the ban,” she said.

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right on campus for a place to go and study and to hang out,” he said.

Union employees expect the shop to open by summer, but said it could open as late as the fall semester.

Peet’s is a California-based company with 116 stores nationwide, according to a statement. This will be the company’s second operation in Madison, joining its first location at the Sundance Cinemas in Hilldale Mall.

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W-Madison students are always under attack for their drinking.

Usually, the criticism comes from within the university, where administration and faculty are concerned about academic performance. Occasionally, questions arise from within the police department, where despite a penchant for ticketing house parties there is also real concern for the safety of those drunkenly strolling city streets late at night.

Although neither body appears to be winning the fight against alcohol, each is at least genuine. The same cannot be said of Capitol Neighborhoods Inc., which just released a 14page report claiming to target downtown drunkenness and the crime it creates.

On the surface, CNI’s goals appear admirable—though patronizing—considering the police, the city and the university are inherently interested in preventing rape, vandalism and other alcohol-related crime.

The group’s proposed methods are sure to be less than popular, among other things calling for higher drink prices, increased vigilance concerning underage drinking and a fairly aggressive attitude toward cutting people off at bars.

Yet even those measures, if put forth with actual concern for UW-Madison students, would deserve a forum for debate.

It is unclear to what exactly CNI hopes to put an end.

The problem, however, is that CNI has little or no connection to the people it is attempting to govern. Rather, its membership, comprised mostly of wealthy, middle-aged downtown residents, is dedicated above all to having a quiet neighborhood, free of the noise and partying that would seem to come naturally to the

center of an American city.

In truth, CNI has been working for years to enact conservative alcohol policies that directly affect UW-Madison students, not for the betterment of the campus but for the preservation of a calm and orderly downtown that may or may not have ever existed. Its members populate city committees and were a driving force behind the Alcohol Density Plan that already restricts the opening of new bars on and around State Street.

On the surface, CNI’s goals appear admirable, though patronizing.

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CNI functionaries, along with members of the media and general public, have also raised questions as to whether clubs should be allowed to play rap music, since it was once a favored boogey man of downtown rowdiness.

Although they cite statistics in their report, it is unclear to what exactly CNI hopes to put an end.

At a city meeting in the past, when pressed as to what exactly demonstrated that downtown was out of control, one member complained that people waiting in line at a bar had made fun of his hat.

Obviously, CNI raises some interesting points regarding the prevalence of alcohol in downtown police calls, a figure they put at 70 percent. And some parts of downtown do give way to chaos on the weekends. But a body of cranky adults who come off as finger-wagging parents should not be throwing its hat in the ring regarding campus drinking, nor attempting to end the fun downtown under the guise of helping UW-Madison undergraduates.

If what CNI wants is a shuttered downtown, where members can walk along State Street without the fear of encountering a drunk person, they should say so. Otherwise, they should end their current deception.

Packers loss translates to a charitable cause MATT JIVIDEN opinion columnist

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he football season (or at least as far as I’m inclined to follow it) has ended. In the name of full disclosure I must first admit that I am a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. I was quite disappointed after our defeat at the hands of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Naturally, I then threw my support behind the Green Bay Packers (not that I was jumping on a bandwagon—I was really just hoping for an exciting statewide Super Bowl party.)

Unfortunately, that hope was dashed against the rocks after a 47-yard overtime field goal. We all know how bad that feels, but in order to ease the pain I offer you a story that brought me some solace in my dark nights after the Steelers were defeated in AFC

title games in 1997, 2001 and 2004.

In this case, the story began last week in Green Bay, and before it ends it will take us across the world to strange foreign lands where the Buffalo Bills are considered the greatest football dynasty of all time.

After the Giants kicked their game-winning field goal (third time’s a charm), a business executive clandestinely left the Packers’ sideline carrying an inconspicuous eight-fold corrugated box.

This closely guarded box was then escorted to a warehouse in Pennsylvania, and from there the contents are now being sent to the ends of the world.

As nice as it would be to have a shirt that reads ‘Packers: Super Bowl champions,’ it is more important to people in the world to simply have a shirt.

Okay—now I’ve strung you along far enough. You must be asking yourself, “What’s in that box?”

I’ll tell you. The box is filled with T-shirts, sweatshirts and hats proclaiming the Green Bay Packers as the 2007-’08 NFC champions.

Instead of those shirts becoming an embarrassing reminder of a franchise putting the cart before the horse or some piece of tight fitting ironic kitch in a hipster’s closet, the National Football League sends them far, far away to people who are in need.

Cold weather garments are usually sent to colder climates.

Many of the Packer’s NFC champion sweatshirts will find their

way to Romania—where they will no doubt warm up a large new fan demographic—the 5.7 billion people in the world who have no interest in American football. Many of the T-shirts pronouncing the Packers as the NFC champs will also make their way to African nations, where indigenous populations may add them to their collection of the Packer’s 1997-’98 Super Bowl champion garb. Or maybe even a ’95 Steelers world champion shirt—completely unaware of Neil O’Donnell’s deplorable numbers in that game.

It’s probably worth noting that most of the people who receive these garments probably don’t know who the Packers are, and they probably don’t care whether they won the NFC. Many, if not most, probably don’t understand the English written on their shirts.

Most of them are probably just excited to receive a clean, new shirt. And that’s fine. Actually, that’s great.

I don’t know if there is a moral (or a point) to this column.

Perhaps you can take comfort in the fact that some measurable amount of good has come out of the situation.

Perhaps we should take it as a reminder that there are indeed more important things in life than football, and that as nice as it would be for you to have a shirt that reads ‘Packers: Super Bowl champions,’ it is more important to most people in the world to simply have a shirt. Or maybe it is just a slightly absurd set of circumstances that involves America distributing sports-related misinformation around the world.

Matt Jividen is a senior majoring in history. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Ledger’s last role may prove to be his finest, as he takes center screen opposite a caped Christian Bale this summer in ‘The Dark Knight.’

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hen Christopher Nolan, director of the “Batman Begins” sequel “The Dark Knight,” was asked why Heath Ledger made the perfect candidate to play the Joker, he simply answered, “He is fearless.” I personally never met Ledger, but from all I’ve heard and read, he was a good person and a great, promising, uncompromising actor. He was undoubtedly taken from the film community too soon.

But this column isn’t about

death and, frankly, enough has been said about the passing of this promising young actor that I don’t have to rehash any more of the details. This story is a celebration of lives and lifetimes of work, not just Ledger’s, but of every actor, director and film talent who has ever lived and then ceased to live.

One of the most remarkable things I think as I watch an old film is that most, if not all, of the people who had a hand in the film are now gone. It’s not meant to depress me, but it symbolizes the legacy of film. Just as da Vinci forever has the Mona Lisa and Michael Jordan will always have his jump shot, Peter Sellers, John Ford and countless others have their filmographies. We can no longer see Fred and Ginger or Gene

Kelly dance live, but we’ll forever have “Top Hat” and “Singin’ in the Rain.” With apologies to Woody Allen, who once said he wanted to achieve immortality not through his work but rather by not dying, the former is a much more realistic option than the latter.

This story is a celebration of lives and lifetimes of work, not just Ledger’s but of every actor, director and film talent.

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With a menacing grin and heavy makeup, Ledger is barely recognizable as the Joker. his own good looks holding him down, making him appear more of a matinee idol than a serious actor. But even in movies that could’ve easily rested on his pretty-boy image, like “10 Things I Hate About You,” “A Knight’s Tale” and “The Brothers Grimm,” Ledger displayed the kind of superb character acting that separates mundane actors from the great talent. “Brokeback Mountain” was his launchpoint into the mainstream, as he took a risky part and played it sensitively and deftly. Heath leaves behind these performances for all of us to enjoy until the day film disappears, and hopefully we’ll all remember him for his roles rather than his death.

Reportedly, all of Ledger’s

post-production work is finished on “The Dark Knight,” which has the dubious distinction of being his final film. According to most early reports and interviews, the part of the Joker could well be his best role to date. I, for many reasons, am hopeful that it is.

This will give us one more chance to appreciate the legacy of a great actor. Like we did for those artists who passed on before him, we can always return to the roles that make us miss him all the more.

And, really, is there any better way to honor an artist than by appreciating his life’s work?

If you would like to reminisce about the life and work of your favorite actor, director or film talent who has died, e-mail Brad at boron@wisc.edu.

Coppola’s ‘Youth Without Youth’ nostalgic for classic cinema

By Mark Riechers THE DAILY CARDINAL

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but unfortunately for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Youth Without Youth,” the same holds true in reverse. The Hollywood legend returns to the screen after a 10-year absence from the director’s

chair, and while his talent shines through to make for a beautiful cinematic experience, the core story of the film still smells rotten.

Tim Roth stars as Dominic, a 70year-old linguistic professor living in pre-WWII Romania. Dominic mourns his life’s work, a complete origin of human language and con-

sciousness, which he fears he will never complete. Things take a turn when he is struck by lightening, a cataclysmic event that restores him to the build of a man in his mid-thirties. The regeneration also develops his mind to superhuman levels, giving him an incredibly vivid memory and the ability to

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Roth plays a 70-year-old linguistic professor, but his character is dominated by Coppola’s legendary and dazzling visuals.

master new languages in his sleep.

His powers develop further, sparking the interest of Nazi scientists eager to kidnap Dominic to help create a race of “supermen.”

The plot continues into segments of classic films about spies and intrigue, some brief love plots and eventually meditation on the cost of near immortality, isolation and loss. The film never seems to gel together into a single narrative—the plot points seem to be at best distractions for Roth’s character as he contemplates the ramifications of his newfound abilities. At its worst, the plot seems to be Coppola’s effort to recreate his favorite classic cinema scenes without giving an explanation for why they’re in the same film.

Fortunately, this is where the film shines—it is gorgeous. Nostalgic viewers will be hooked from the opening credits, distinctly modeled after the credits on “talkies” and other films of Hollywood yesteryear. Some of the camerawork does a better job characterizing Dominic than Roth does in his performance. The camera isolates Dominic on the screen from other characters, and the use of trick photography to show Dominic conversing with the “double” that manifests itself in his heightened mental abilities is spectacular.

The WWII espionage segments use the high contrast colors of propaganda war posters littering the streets of Romania, and later scenes in the film turn up the contrast to emulate the feel of a classic film like

“The Maltese Falcon.” The whole film has a fine coat of polish that could only come from as steady a hand as Coppola’s.

The whole film has a fine coat of polish that could only come from as steady a hand as Coppola’s.

In the end, the film suffers from the tragic flaw of egotism. Many unnecessary scenes are left in the final cut, most leaving audiences scratching their heads instead of driving the story forward. These scenes—while a blast for film geeks to dissect and analyze—do nothing to move the film as a whole to any logical conclusion. By the end, viewers are left with the cliché of the regretful immortal and clusters of philosophical dialogue, which appear throughout the film and are recited again over the final scene. The plot of the film becomes an exercise in delivering philosophical revelations without context or explanation—a form that will definitely turn off all but the most introspective viewers.

“Youth Without Youth” clearly represents Coppola’s work by the level of quality but falls flat as art house fare. It becomes too contrived to truly stand as a film worth praise.

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Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

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Dwarfhead and Narwhal

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By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

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elite eight from page 8 far behind when this season is over (he has 23 through 19 games).

Edge: Flowers

Power forward: Marcus Landry vs. Alando Tucker While Landry is starting to turn the corner and be the player many Badger fans were expecting, the sophomore version of Tucker was better than the junior version of Landry.

Tucker led his team in scoring with 15.2 points per game and was second on the team in rebounding with 6.1 boards per game.

Landry is averaging a solid 10.8 points per game in an offense that is not relying on him as heavily as Tucker’s was, but his 4.9 boards per game are pretty disappointing.

Edge: Tucker Forward/Center: Brian Butch vs. Mike Wilkinson Both are seniors in this comparison, and while I love the things I’m seeing from Butch, Wilkinson did all the same things but more consistently. His 14.3 points per game average was not as up-and-down as Butch’s 13.2.

You could argue that Butch does not need to score in double figures every game while playing in a much more balanced offense, but the truth is that his team would be a lot better if he was as aggressive in every game as he was against Purdue Saturday (gamehigh 20 points).

The rebounding is similar as Wilkinson averaged 7.4 boards, while Butch is currently at 7.8, but Wilkinson was a much better defender, no question.

Edge: Wilkinson As you can see, it’s a tough argument because when it comes to the go-to-guys the Elite Eight team was better. But in all other areas, specifically defensively, this year’s team is definitely better.

So what gives these Badgers the edge? The bench. Between Morley and Taylor, one of them had to come off the bench and both provided a big boost, but I’ll take Jason Bohannon over Ray Nixon any day. Also, there was no one on that Elite Eight team that could provide a boost in the post like Greg Stiemsma, except for, well, Greg Stiemsma.

He was a freshman that year and might have been the only big man that season that showed any ability to stop North Carolina’s Sean May. But he only played in 10 games that season, and because he did not have the offensive ability to play the entire game against UNC—he only played three minutes—May tore up the Badgers and ended their postseason run.

In the end, those guys did go to the Elite Eight, the longest postseason run since Ryan has been at Wisconsin. So is this year’s team better?

Well, I guess they will just have to prove that themselves.

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Wisconsin-Indiana game highlights Big Ten

By Adam Hoge THE DAILY CARDINAL

Small forward: Joe Krabbenhoft vs. Zach Morley These two players could not be more alike. Both are bruising players that won’t lead the team in scoring but will lead the team in hustle points while grabbing rebounds and doing the little things.

But Krabbenhoft is just a little bit better in every aspect. He’s pulling down 6.3 rebounds per game to Morley’s 4.7. He’s averaging 7.9 points per game to Morley’s 7.4. And Krabbenhoft leads the Badgers with 54 assists, while Morley had 58 the entire season.

Edge: Krabbenhoft

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Player of the Week: Brian Butch No one player dominated the week for Wisconsin, which split its two games but never played all that well in a win over Michigan at home and a loss at Purdue over the weekend.

Still, senior forward Brian Butch single-handedly gave the Badgers a chance in West Lafayette, Ind., scoring 20 points on 7-of-10 shooting while pulling down 13 boards.

The double-double was the 11th of the big man’s career and he hit both of his 3-point attempts in the game. The second of those 3-pointers came during a 7-0 run late in the game that shrunk a nine-point Purdue lead down to two. It was also a quick shot taken with confidence, something that has not been there for Butch, who is only 5-for-34 from beyond the arc this season.

“You just shoot the ball,”

track from page 8 meters (2:11.81), Megan Seidl in the high jump (5-6) and Maggie Hippman in the 3000 meters (10:11.05).

Finishing third for UW were Alexis Beecham in the 200 meters (25.62), Sarah Hurley in the 800 meters (2:14.65) and Maggie Collison in the 3000 meters (10:16.34). Junior Caitlin Dodge finished fourth in the

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seven straight victories following a 19-14 loss to Oklahoma State earlier this season. Needless to say, Iowa will be one of UW’s most difficult challenges of the season, but the match could also serve as a season changer if the Badgers are able to knock off the top-ranked team in the country.

Depending on their results against the Gophers on Friday night, some Iowa standouts could make the trip to Madison with gaudy records.

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Butch said. “Any time you start over-thinking it is when you really go down in a slump. If it’s there I’m going to shoot it. You just keep going.”

Butch is a 29 percent career 3-point shooter.

The Gophers played Indiana and Michigan State tough at home, losing to both by just three points. Those losses are part of three-game losing streak, however. Iowa, meanwhile, rebounded from an 0-3 start in Big Ten play with a win at home over Michigan State and a 68-60 victory at Michigan.

days to prepare for a tough road test at Minnesota Sunday.

UW is 5-1 under Bo Ryan at the Kohl Center when both teams are ranked—the only loss being to No. 1 Illinois Jan. 25, 2005.

On Deck: Indiana, at Minnesota, at Iowa After playing just one game in nine days, Wisconsin will start a stretch of three games in just seven days, including back-to-back road games at Minnesota Sunday and at Iowa next Wednesday.

First, No. 11 Indiana (6-0 Big Ten, 17-2 overall) comes to the Kohl Center Thursday night to test its undefeated Big Ten record against the No. 13 Badgers (6-1, 16-3). In what is the biggest conference game of the season to date, both teams are coming off losses Saturday as Indiana fell to UConn at home and Wisconsin fell victim to Purdue.

Both Minnesota (2-4, 12-6) and Iowa (3-5, 10-11) should provide tough road tests for Wisconsin, which is 4-2 away from home this season.

Game of the Week: No. 11 Indiana at No. 13 Wisconsin, Thursday 8 p.m.

Indiana’s 15-game win streak came to an abrupt end Saturday and now the Hoosiers have to travel to the Kohl Center, where only one Big Ten team (Illinois, twice) has defeated Bo Ryan.

Both of these teams have been criticized for a soft start to the Big Ten season, and this will be the toughest test of Indiana’s entire season thus far.

IU has only played one ranked team, and that was then-No. 22 Southern Illinois, which has been disappointing since.

One of these teams will suffer its second loss in a row. The Badgers especially need a win with only two

Looking on the bright side While the Badgers were having the court stormed on them for the fourth time in two seasons, Ryan was taking advantage of the bleak situation “I thought people threw loose money out on the court,” he said.

“I was looking for some fives. I wasn’t going to dive into the students for ones. I was looking for fives and tens.”

He also started his post-game press conference by claiming: “My mom text messaged me and said [Flowers’] hand was pulled,” referring to the senior’s late drive to the hoop that was blocked by Purdue freshman Robbie Hummel.

“I’m just kidding,” Ryan said, later admitting that his mother does not even own a cell phone.

At least he wasn’t taking the loss too hard.

200 meters in 25.89.

For the men’s team, sophomore Nate Larkin took first in the 60meter hurdles setting a new personal record of 8.03 seconds.

The UW men’s 4x400 meter relay team of Andrew Milenkovski, Luke Hoenecke, James Groce and Zach Beth finished second with a season best time of 3:16.67.

Groce also claimed second place in the 200-meter dash in 21.96.

Junior Matt Withrow took second

for Wisconsin in the 3000-meter run with a finishing time of 8:15.54.

In the men’s shot put, junior Chris Pressley finished second after a throw of 52 feet, 11 inches, while Jake Fritz finished third with 52-1 1⁄4.

Junior Steve Ludwig took second place in the mile with a time of 4:12.05. Eric Hatchell finished third in 4:14.91.

Sophomore Pat Nichols set a new personal best of 6-10 1⁄4 in the men’s high jump to finish third.

David Grzesiak placed third in the heptathlon with a personal best total 5,220 points, which ranks him 10th on the Badgers’ all-time list.

The Brookfield, Wis., native finished fourth in the heptathlon pole vault at 14-1 1⁄4 and also placed second in the heptathlon 1,000 meters in 2:42.91.

Both marks were personal bests.

The Badgers will compete again next Saturday at the UNI Invitational in Cedar Falls, Iowa, at the UNI-Dome.

be matched up with UW senior Collin Cudd.

In the 133-pound match Iowa will most likely send sophomore Joe Slaton to the mats with his 232 record at time of publication.

He could be matched up with the Badger’s Tanelli.

Finally, heavyweight Iowa senior Matt Fields will look to claim his 22nd win of the season when he battles UW junior Kyle Massey.

Action will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Friday evening and will resume at 1:00 p.m, Sunday afternoon.

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Badgers looking to turn corner

By Jay Messar THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW basketball as good as ’05 Elite Eight team

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y buddy and I get in the same argument every day. Which team is better: the 2004-’05 Badgers that went to the Elite Eight or this year’s team that is well on its way to another 25 win season?

A good argument can be made either way, and we keep changing our minds about who is actually right. I say this year’s team. He says the Elite Eight team.

Right now the numbers are in my favor, but we aren’t even half way through the Big Ten season. The 2004’05 team finished with a +7.4 scoring margin while these guys are winning by an average of 15.4 points per game.

The defense is also better this year, holding opponents to just 54 points per game. The Elite Eight squad was solid, but not as good, holding opponents to 60 points per game.

So who has the edge? Let’s go position-by-position: Point guard: Trevon Hughes vs.

Sharif Chambliss/Kammron Taylor Chambliss was a big addition to a team that ended up really needing a point guard after Boo Wade lasted only one game before leaving the team.

Taylor was a sophomore and not quite ready to lead the team, so the Penn State transfer and Taylor split playing time (each averaged 26 minutes per game) and combined to score 15.9 points per game.

Chambliss played like the solid senior he was. He turned the ball over only 41 times on the season and dished out 95 assists. Hughes already has 48 turnovers on the year, but also has 51 assists, which will put him near Chambliss’ output by the end of the year.

The senior transfer was also a slightly better 3-point shooter at 39 percent (Hughes is shooting 37 percent from behind the arc), but the sophomore point guard certainly has more scoring ability, averaging 13.1 points per game.

The two seem pretty even so far, but there is no doubt Hughes is an upgrade defensively. He already has 38 steals, which is the same amount Chambliss and Taylor combined for in the entire 2004-’05 season.

Edge: Hughes Shooting guard: Michael Flowers vs. Clayton Hanson Both are seniors in the two seasons we are comparing, and both are very good defensive players. Hanson proved that being a good defender is not always about steals (he grabbed only 20 of them during his senior season), but Flowers is certainly showing that they are nice to have (27 in just 19 games this season).

On the flip side, Hanson committed fewer fouls (65 in 34 games) than Flowers (50 in 19 games so far), but that’s the price you pay when you go for more steals.

Flowers is also a better scorer, averaging 9.2 points per game to Hanson’s 6.5. Everyone loved how many threes Hanson hit (55), but Flowers won’t be elite eight page 7

To the surprise of many Big Ten fans, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team fizzled to begin the Big Ten campaign, managing a record of just 1-6. After all, this was the team that nearly won the WNIT championship last year and lost nobody to graduation.

The dismal start to the 2007’08 campaign thus caused a change in the season outlook— what was once the approach of the hare has shifted to the view of the tortoise.

“There’s still room to get the things done we want to get done,” Stone said. “That’s the feel that I have ... it’s one of those years that I want to believe that it’s not how we started, but it’s how we’re going to finish.”

Although still in 10th place halfway through the conference schedule, last week’s successful two-game home stand has thrown the preseason title contenders back into the wallows of conference play.

More importantly, Wisconsin, just four games back from conference leader and No. 19 Ohio State, is arguably the hottest team in the league.

“I want to send Jolene, Janese and Danielle Ward out with a trip to the NCAA Tournament,” Stone said. “I really do. I want that for them. And our team wants that for them. So we strive

every day to get better. And right now I’m seeing, it’s like the ice broke, and we’ve started to sail.”

Senior captains Janese Banks and Jolene Anderson have predictably fulfilled their roles as experienced four-year starting guards. And although senior forward Danielle Ward has played well all season, she has been prone to fouls, leaving a void inside.

In the recent wins over Penn State and Northwestern it has been the support players that stepped up, including the post player off the bench lacking since Stone’s tenure began.

It took a breakout game against perennial powerhouse Ohio State for freshman forward Lin Zastrow to finally come into her own down low. The 2007 Wisconsin AP Player of the Year and Wisconsin Miss Basketball has averaged 13 points and five rebounds in 24 minutes a game in the three contests since that game in Columbus, Ohio.

“There’s certainly some confidence in the locker room right now,” Stone said following Sunday’s win against Northwestern. “There’s been some resurgence in some of our young freshmen, namely Lin Zastrow. It gives us another inside focus.”

Now all Zastrow and her fellow Badgers need to do is take a lesson from Aesop and make the steady trek toward the NCAA tournament.

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Freshman forward Lin Zastrow has played well this season for UW, who will need her continue her success.

UW track wins Invite

By Royston Sim THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Junior Zach Tanelli is ranked No. 12 in his weight class, but will have his hands full against MSU’s Franklin Gomez.

Wrestling takes on Big Ten

By Tom Lea THE DAILY CARDINAL

The University of Wisconsin wrestling team (1-1 Big Ten, 10-2-1 overall) will host two conference foes this weekend inside the UW Field House, which will undoubtedly be a critical weekend for Badger Big Ten championship hopes.

On Friday night, the Spartans of Michigan State will entertain the UW grapplers as they look to upset the No. 13 Badgers.

Meanwhile, UW is coming off their first conference win of the season after upending Indiana last weekend 20-15 and is looking to drive that momentum further this weekend.

Several key matchups will determine the fate of both teams, especially for the Spartans, who desperately need a conference victory to get back into the

Big Ten race as they currently sit winless following setbacks against Minnesota and Purdue, respectively.

In the 133-pound class, MSU’s Franklin Gomez will walk into the fieldhouse boasting a 16-1 record on the season, while looking to defeat UW junior and No. 12-ranked Zach Tanelli.

Michigan State wrestler Joe Williams will also try to improve upon his 19-8 record when he grapples with Badger junior and No. 4 ranked Dallas Herbst in the 197-pound match.

Following the match with the Spartans, the Badgers will have a quick turnaround as they match strength with No. 1 ranked Iowa on Sunday afternoon.

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The UW men’s and women’s track and field teams produced a slew of impressive performances to win six events Saturday in the Wisconsin Elite Invitational at Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center.

The women’s team set seven new personal records—one of which was also a school record—and enjoyed numerous top-three finishes.

Junior Amanda Hoeppner provided a standout performance— she recorded a �new personal best and broke the school weight throw record with her second-place finish of 57 feet 41⁄4 inches. The previous mark of 57-23⁄4 was set

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The Badgers will have a difficult time replacing Demi Omole, but are well on their way after last weekend’s success.

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Hoeppner also set a new personal record in the shot put to finish third with a throw of 49-33⁄4, behind senior Kayla Schultz who finished second �at 49-71⁄4. These two marks rank third and fourth, respectively, on the Wisconsin all-time best top-10 indoor record list.

Freshman Egle Staisiunaite streaked home in 8.66 seconds to win the 60-meter hurdles.

She set a new personal record and tied the third best time in the Wisconsin record book.

In the pole vault, junior Amy Dahlin won with a personal best of 12-51⁄2�and tied the third all-time highest indoor vault in Wisconsin history. Freshman Shannon Schlack tied her own personal best to finish third at 11-53⁄4.

Sophomore Hanna Grinaker led a top-three sweep in the women’s mile. Grinaker won with a personal best of 4 minutes 56.57 seconds, followed closely by senior Katrina Rundhaug, who also ran a personal best of 4:56.85. Freshman Leah Coyle clinched the sweep after finishing third in 5:06.54.

Junior Chavon Robinson won two events for the Wisconsin team with jumps of 19-11⁄2 in the long jump and 39-73⁄4 in the triple jump. She was followed by senior Venus Washington in the long jump, placing second at 1841⁄4, and Jessica Jeremiah and LaQuita Brazil (3-3 3⁄4) placing second and third in the triple jump, respectively.

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Black Sunday Backdoor Badgers Six national championships Winning the MacNaughton Cup • Lights out at the Kohl Center • Famous fight between the Badgers and North Dakota

Playlist origins “When you say Wisconsin, you’ve said it all” began as a tune the band would play with no vocals. One game, the section behind the band, Section G at the Coliseum, started shouting the Budweiser song, according to Leckrone.

After the third or fourth time of this, Leckrone instructed the band to turn around and outshout Section G with “When you say Wisconsin, you’ve said it all.” It became a back and forth battle until it took over the crowd. “You’ve Said It All” is now universally played at UW athletic events.

“And Then There’s Maude” has been the first song played at every home hockey game for more than 30 years.

Leckrone originally thought “Time Warp” would be a natural fit for fifth quarter, but it got no reaction. He is unsure if the crowd hadn’t seen “Rocky Horror Picture Show” or what the problem was, but he said, “We played it at one of the hockey games at the Kohl Center and those crazies that were there at that point knew it all.” Leckrone said the crowd knew the dance and began requesting “Time Warp” after that by tapping their watches and asking “What time is it?”

It took a few tries, but Leckrone finally caught on to what the students wanted when they chanted “Jose Cuervo.” “I just didn’t get the connection,” he said. “Finally, I figured out they wanted ‘Tequila.’”

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UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone dances in the student section during “Jumpin’ at the Woodside.” Leckrone is known for his enthusiasm between periods at every home hockey game.

When you say Leckrone, you’ve said it all

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f you’ve ever wondered where hockey band and fan traditions began, look no further than UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone.

Leckrone is approaching his 40th year of conducting at UW men’s hockey games and has seen, or plotted, the many traditions that fans now enjoy. What began during the 1969’70 men’s hockey season as then-head coach Bob Johnson asking the band to play at a few games, has evolved into a must-have, capable of rousing fans and intimidating competitors.

“I always try to see how visiting people react, it’s always kind of fun to watch,” Leckrone said in reference to the looks of amazement as visitors watch the student section perform dances from such classics as “Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “The Gong Show.” What really makes a game worthwhile for Leckrone, though, is when the whole crowd is involved in the music. He and marching band

members like to view themselves as an integral part of the hockey experience.

During the Coliseum days when seating was general admission, Leckrone said fans would be waiting in their seats 45 minutes before faceoff and begin clapping for the band to start playing immediately.

Once hockey moved to the Kohl Center, though, the fans backed off but have since regained their enthusiasm.

“I don’t want to play and have the audience just listen and clap politely. I want them to react and be involved with it,” he said.

Students have varied impressions of the marching band’s role at hockey games. Some, like UW-Madison junior Brett Becker, feel the crowd would be more into the music if the band played “Swingtown”—a popular tune at football games.0 Others feel the crowd wouldn’t watch the game as much if the band were not playing.

“[I] would like to think that without the band at the game that the crowd would feel there was something missing.”

“The band is most involved in hockey because it plays in between plays, in between periods and the crowd is always involved, always moving, and I think that adds a lot to hockey as a sport,” UW-Madison junior Liz Denter said.

For Leckrone, a game is not a game unless you are truly involved in the whole experience.

“To me, if you pay the money and go to a game, you’re not getting everything out of it as a spectator if you don’t get involved,” he said.

One way Leckrone learned to get the crowd more involved is to pull them from their seats himself and make them start dancing between periods. When the band first plays “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” Leckrone said he likes to find the most distracted and disengaged fans and pull them to their feet.

In his years of directing, Leckrone has personally witnessed the famous water-bottle fight against North

Dakota, six national championship games, winning the MacNaughton cup, the Kohl Center blackout and Black Sunday. He has made “And Then There’s Maude,” “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Ring of Fire,” “Space Badger,” “Tequila,” “Time Warp” and “You’ve Said It All” staples of every home UW men’s hockey game. But he doesn’t take credit for everything.

He said some things were plotted by the band and others were introduced by the students, like “Ring of Fire,” “You’ve Said It All” and “Tequila.”

The band is always looking to add more songs to the mix but cannot take any away for fear of jinxing the outcome.

“It’s become part of the ritual that if you don’t do [it], everyone is going to say ‘Well, you didn’t play ‘Ring of Fire,’ so we lost,’” he said. Leckrone plans to introduce new songs at the Wisconsin/University of MinnesotaDuluth series and hopes to add more traditions to the already lengthy list.

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Leckrone recalls a student coming up to him at a game and asking him to play some Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire.”

That night, Leckrone went home to make a routine and the band played it a few games later. The band is now superstitious that the team could lose if they don’t play “Ring of Fire.”

Gene Gene the Dancing Machine from “The Gong Show” inspired the “Jumpin’ at the Woodside” dance.

UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone performs the Gene Gene the Dancing Machine dance to “Jumping at the Woodside” (left). Leckrone is known for pulling students from their seats during this song and is getting ready to do so in the above photo.

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The Badgers earned three points with a win and a tie against the Minnesota Golden Gophers last weekend.

Freshman defenseman Ryan McDonagh opened Friday’s scoring with a goal from the blue line off a feed from freshman forward Kyle Turris. In the second period, Turris took a pass at center ice and scored a highlight-reel goal.

Minnesota cut the deficit in half when sophomore winger and topfive NHL draft pick Blake Wheeler scored late in the second period, but junior forward Ben Street put the game away with a third-period goal.

Wisconsin had to come back Saturday night, trailing 2-0 after the first period. The Badgers received a goal from freshman forward Patrick Johnson in the second period to cut it to 2-1. Johnson then assisted on sophomore forward Aaron Bendickson’s game-tying goal, ending the scoring for the evening.

Minnesota-Duluth swept the UMass-Lowell River Hawks by scores of 1-0 and 4-1 last weekend.

Preview The two teams enter this weekend tied for fourth place in the WCHA with 17 points.

With each team starting to display a consistent offense, watch for the goalies to play a bigger-than-

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Junior goalie Shane Connelly is a big reason the Badgers have allowed two goals or less in seven of the last 11 games.

Many people think the bowl system in college football is inaccurate in deciding the national champion.

They’re right. However, the oneand-done NCAA Tournament in college hockey does not make much sense either.

I realized this was a problem last season when Michigan State beat Boston College to win the national championship. BC outplayed State the entire game and was the better team all season, yet lost on a goal with 20 seconds left in the game.

The only time in a season that we see a best-of-three series is in the opening round of the conference tournaments. Who wants to watch Minnesota State for three games when we only get to see one game between teams such as Michigan and Colorado College to determine the national champion?

The problem lies in the fact that hockey is too fluky of a sport to determine the national champion in one game. The shape of the puck and the unpredictable ice surface make it easier for an underdog to get tourney format page 3

Defensemen

Goalies

Wisconsin freshman forward Kyle Turris has established himself as one of the league’s top players, and he scored a goal that registered at No. 7 on ESPN Sportscenter’s Top 10 plays last Friday night. MinnesotaDuluth lacks a premiere scorer, while three Wisconsin players have 20 points or more this season in all games; the closest Bulldog has 14 points.

Wisconsin and Minnesota-Duluth are battling it out this weekend for fourth place—but not only in the standings. The Badgers are fourth in scoring defense in the WCHA, giving up just two goals less than the Bulldogs this season. Duluth junior defenseman Jason Garrison is having the best season of any blueliner on the ice this weekend.

Minnesota-Duluth sophomore goalie Alex Stalock might be the most entertaining player to watch on the ice this weekend.

The sophomore floats to all areas of the ice to play pucks, which leads to some dicey situations. Statistically, he sits very close to Badger junior Shane Connelly in conference play this season.

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Overall

Scott Sandelin’s eight seasons at Minnesota-Duluth have been up and down. Although he led the Bulldogs to the Frozen Four in 2004, his overall record sits well under .500, though he did help bring the program back to respectability. Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves has a record well above .500, plus an NCAA title.

Wisconsin has hit its best stride of the season, as it is unbeaten in its last five games. In addition, the Badgers seem to have discovered the ability to claw back into games. Duluth, however, went into UMass-Lowell last weekend and swept the No. 16 River Hawks, so the Bulldogs have showcased their ability to win on the road.

Wisconsin matches up well against Duluth in every facet of hockey, and has a decided advantage up front with its top scorers. The Badgers are playing their best hockey of the season, and it is only a matter of time before they record their second WCHA sweep of the 2007-’08 campaign.

Second-Half Schedule Opponent Colo. College Colo. College @ Denver @ Denver @ Alaska-Anc. @ Alaska-Anc. Minnesota Minnesota Minn.-Duluth Minn.-Duluth @ Michigan Tech @ Michigan Tech Minn. State Minn. State @ Minnesota @ Minnesota @ St. Cloud State @ St. Cloud State

ERIC LEVINE the man advantage

No. 11 Wisconsin vs. No. 12 Minnesota-Duluth

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per game this season.

On offense, the Badgers have generated 55 percent of their conference-game goals from their top two lines, led by Turris and Street.

Wisconsin has scored 2.5 goals-pergame in the WCHA this season.

Despite lacking a top scorer, the Bulldogs have a balanced offensive attack and have scored only three fewer goals than the Badgers in conference play this season.

Although Wisconsin is starting to turn its power play around, scoring in two of the last three games with the man advantage, MinnesotaDuluth continues to struggle and is last in the conference with a 10-percent success rate in WCHA play.

Single-elimination not the right fit for college hockey

Forwards

ONE YEAR AGO: Wisconsin lost both games at Colorado College. The first game was especially tough to swallow, as the Badgers let a third-period lead slip away and fell to the Tigers in overtime.

usual role in deciding this weekend’s outcome.

Bulldog sophomore goalie Alex Stalock has allowed fewer than two goals per game over the last eight games but is only eighth in the conference in GAA. He is talented but has trouble staying in the net.

Stalock has started all but one game this season.

Wisconsin junior goalie Shane Connelly has a 10-10-3 record overall and kept the Badgers in the second game against Minnesota by stopping 22 shots in the final two periods and overtime. The numbers of these two goalies are nearly identical across the board. Both have allowed between 2.4 and 2.5 goals

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STAT OF THE WEEK: The Badgers have now come from behind in eight games this season to win or tie. Wisconsin trailed 2-0 last Saturday but salvaged a tie with a third-period goal.

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WCHA Standings Conference Games Only No. Team Record Points 1 Colo. College 15-4-1 31 2 North Dakota 13-7-0 26 3 Denver 12-4-0 24 4 Minn.-Duluth 6-7-5 17 7-8-3 17 Wisconsin 6 Minnesota 6-9-3 15 7 Michigan Tech 6-8-2 14 Minn. State 5-9-4 14 St. Cloud State 6-10-2 14 10 Alaska-Anc. 2-12-4 8

Advantage: Even

Prediction: Wisconsin Sweep

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Record Team 25-3-0 Miami (OH) 22-3-1 Michigan 16-8-1 North Dakota 18-6-0 Denver 17-5-5 Michigan State Colorado College 18-7-1 15-7-1 New Hampshire 20-9-1 Notre Dame 12-5-7 Boston College 15-7-2 Clarkson 11-10-5 Wisconsin

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February 1-2, 2008

Badgers hitting their stride at right time

By Eric Levine POWERPLAY

It is the Badgers of old again at the Kohl Center, as the Wisconsin women’s hockey team has turned it on heading into the stretch, winning eight straight games including six on the road.

Although Wisconsin sits at seventh in the PairWise rankings, meaning it is two spots away from not making the NCAA Tournament, head coach Mark Johnson is not concerned, confident that his team has the ability

to play well enough to make the tournament.

“If we take care of business, we’ll be just fine,” he said.

Senior defenseman and captain Emily Morris does not sense any urgency throughout the team with regard to making the tournament.

“We just take it one game, one shift, one period at a time. We haven’t really thought about [our position nationally] a lot,” she said.

The winning streak has largely been a result of the team finding an offensive identity, centered around

senior forward Jinelle Zaugg. She was benched earlier this season against Minnesota-Duluth for part of a game but has scored five goals in the last eight games.

“I think it’s a matter of mind and determination. I don’t know how many strides I’ve made in a different direction,” Zaugg said.

“I don’t think I’ve really changed much. I’ve just tried to be more aggressive and bring my energy to the game.”

Johnson said he discussed with Zaugg how important it was that she take advantage of the last few months of her hockey career.

“She can do whatever she wants on the ice. If she wants to dominate a game, she has the set of skills, the height, the strength to do those things,” he said.

Zaugg’s three-goal, twoassist effort this weekend against St. Cloud State earned her the WCHA’s Offensive Player of the Week award.

Vetter getting better Junior goalie Jessie Vetter is quietly turning in another great season for Wisconsin.

She recorded her 23rd career shutout on Saturday against St. Cloud State and had flirted with shutouts three different times over the last three series before finally recording a shutout.

Against Minnesota State Vetter lost a shutout when Mavericks sophomore defenseman Kathleen Rosso scored with five seconds remaining in the game to make it 3-1.

JACOB ELA/THE DAILY CARDINAL Senior forward Erin Keys scored Senior winger Jinelle Zaugg is seven goals away from breaking the for Ohio State against Vetter in the all-time school record of 84, held by former Badger Meghan Hunter. final 10 minutes of a 4-1 Wisconsin

win, and on Friday, Huskies sophomore forward Holly Roberts scored with 26 seconds remaining in the game to deny Vetter the shutout.

“We were joking about that going into this weekend that we need to focus in the last minute so we can actually get through with the shutout,” Vetter said.

The netminder’s accolades against St. Cloud State earned her the WCHA’s Defensive Player of the Week award.

“It’s pretty cool. Obviously we come from a very good conference with a lot of good goaltenders,” she said. “It’s our [defense] in general that got the shutout and played really well this weekend to help me get that.”

Vetter is currently second in the conference with a 1.25 GAA and a .925 save percentage.

Duluth within reach After 20 conference games played, Wisconsin now sits within striking distance of MinnesotaDuluth in the WCHA standings.

The Badgers currently trail the Bulldogs by eight points in the WCHA, but the Badgers have played two fewer games than the Bulldogs and will visit Duluth in two weekends. If Wisconsin sweeps Duluth and wins out and Duluth wins the rest of its other games, the tiebreaker would go to MinnesotaDuluth because it would have more conference wins.

This means Wisconsin will need help from one of Duluth’s opponents. Perhaps the best chance of an upset occurring is this weekend, when the Bulldogs travel to Ohio State to face the Buckeyes.

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a lucky bounce and defeat a more deserving opponent.

There is a huge disparity between the NHL Playoffs and the NCAA Tournament. Each has 16 teams, but in the NHL there are four best-ofseven rounds en route to the Stanley Cup. A team needs to win 16 games in the NHL to win the Stanley Cup yet there are not even 16 total games in the NCAA Tournament and a team only has to win four games to win it all.

Throughout the college hockey season, teams play two-game series.

Once the NCAA Tournament arrives, they suddenly switch the format and play single-elimination, abandoning the five-month-long set up.

I understand that the college hockey season is drawn out enough (when Wisconsin won two years ago, its season lasted six months). Yet, why does the NCAA schedule a fivemonth regular season only to make a team win just four games to become the national champion?

My proposal is to keep the regional rounds as is, but extend the semifinals and finals to best-of-three series spread out over two weekends in the same host city.

This won’t take away from the excitement of single-elimination competition, seeing as the NHL playoffs end up being one of the most exciting events each year.

Extending the Frozen Four would allow the four teams to get a feel for one another, develop some storylines from game to game and— most importantly—more accurately determine the best team in college hockey. Let’s start crowning the real champion each season, instead of the beneficiary of the bounces.

E-mail Eric at elevine@wisc.edu.

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Line Chart 13 Aaron Bendickson, SO 6 Josh Engel, SR 9 Michael Davies, SO 24 John Mitchell, JR

19 Nick Kemp, JR 37 Justin Fontaine, FR 16 Matt Greer, JR 11 Kyle Schmidt, FR

*4 Davis Drewiske, SR 17 Ryan McDonagh, FR 3 Craig Johnson, FR

17 Josh Meyers, JR 22 Travis Gawryletz, SR 5 Trent Palm, SO

*13 Matt McKnight, SR 18 MacGregor Sharp, JR 8 Drew Akins, SO 15 Rob Bordson, FR

35 Shane Connelly, JR 1 Scott Gudmandson, FR

19 Kyle Turris, FR 22 Ben Street, JR 5 Blake Geoffrion, SO 16 Sean Dolan, FR

20 Kyle Klubertanz, SR 2 Jamie McBain, SO 27 Cody Goloubef, FR

7 Jason Garrison, JR 4 Evan Oberg, FR 14 Jay Cascalenda, JR

10 Patrick Johnson, FR 18 Matthew Ford, SR 8 Podge Turnbull, FR 14 Ben Grotting, SO

Head Coach: Mike Eaves

32 Alex Stalock, SO 1 Kenny Reiter, FR

10 Michael Gergen, JR 23 Jordan Fulton, SO 20 Andrew Carroll, JR 21 Cody Danberg, FR

* Denotes team captain

Head Coach: Scott Sandelin