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Kohl Center bill totals $32,000 for Obama rally

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Members of the UW-Madison marching band perform at halftime during the Badger men’s basketball game at Indiana. Fans were invited to watch the game air on the Big Ten Network at the Kohl Center for free Wednesday.

Budget shortfall projected at $650 million

By Charles Brace THE DAILY CARDINAL

The state budget will face a $652.3 million shortfall, according to state officials Wednesday, $200 million more than projected last month.

In a memo to the state Joint Finance Committee, which helps write the budget, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau said the deficit is largely due to decreased tax collections.

The state budget is written assuming tax collections and earnings will increase at a certain rate over the next two years, the rate typically

being around 3 percent.

LFB Director Bob Lang said in the memo state income, sales and corporate taxes will not reach the rate anticipated when the budget was written, so the deficit is likely to occur.

Lang said economic slowdown in the national economy, along with high-profile court cases involving state funds, could also increase the deficit.

One of the court cases includes $200 million transferred from a malpractice insurance fund during the budget process last fall. A doc-

tors group is currently suing the state over the transfer.

“I have directed state agencies to take immediate action that will save $111 million over the biennium,” said Gov. Jim Doyle in a statement responding to the projected shortfall, “but we must work together and be prepared to all shoulder some of the burden.”

Doyle said he would not raise taxes in response to the shortfall.

Leaders in the Republican-controlled state Assembly also said they would not raise taxes.

Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, said

in a release he would try to work with Doyle to solve the problem by cutting spending.

Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, D-Weston, said he wanted to help Wisconsin businesses by revising the current tax structure in the state.

He said he wanted to close a loophole in state law allowing companies to not pay taxes if they have corporate headquarters in Las Vegas, Nev. The Democrat-controlled state Senate made closing the loophole the major funding source for the economic agenda announced earlier this year.

Orpheum solidifies place in Madison history State Street’s Orpheum Theatre gets national recognition by National Register of Historic Places

By Lauren Vettel THE DAILY CARDINAL

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The Orpheum Theatre, located at 216 State St., is in the process of restoring the marquee to its original state.

The Wisconsin Historical Society announced Feb. 4 one of State Street’s oldest and most beloved buildings, the Orpheum Theatre, joined the National Register of Historic Places.

For many Madison residents, however, the Orpheum’s unique architecture and charm have made it a local landmark since its creation nearly 80 years ago.

The Orpheum, located at 216 State St., was built in 1927 as a movie and vaudeville theatre in Art-Deco and French Renaissance style by the Chicago architecture firm Rapp & Rapp. The firm was the biggest name in movie theatre design at the time of the Orpheum’s construction.

“This was really the main venue in Madison until the Overture Center and the Civic Center [were built],” said Orpheum owner Henry Doane. “There’s a lot of history in this building and I feel like we’re building on it.”

Chris Warren, a board member on the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, said he has been working closely with Doane to gain recognition for the theater. In 1997, the Orpheum became a Madison landmark after being nominated by the Trust.

Doane said he helped rescue the building from being converted into an IMAX theatre in 1998. The fol-

University officials said high-profile 2008 presidential campaign stops at UW-Madison this week have been successful, but required much behind-the-scenes preparation.

Todd Nelson, assistant athletic director for event operations, said U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s, D-Ill., campaign notified the university five days in advance that he wanted to come to campus. Originally the campaign sought Feb. 11, which was too short of a notice for the university to pull it all together. The UW Athletic Department is in charge of all events at the Kohl Center.

Nelson said the university offered Feb. 18 as a possibility—Obama’s campaign said the date was too late. The Wisconsin primary is Feb. 19.

“We wanted it as close to campus as possible, with as many people as possible,” Bryon Eagon, director of Wisconsin Students for Obama, said of the location.

According to Nelson, the university worked around scheduled practices of Badgers sports teams to have Obama at the Kohl Center. The men’s basketball team practiced at the Kohl Center until 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Marc Kennedy, communications director for Wisconsin Unions, said each political candidate could host one event on campus.

“Every legitimate political candidate, according to policy, can receive a one-time shot at a venue, something that would be free to the public,” he said.

“Barack Obama has had his … Hillary Clinton hasn’t been here so she still would get [her shot].”

The University of Wisconsin Police Department worked with the Madison Police Department and U.S. Secret Service for Obama’s rally. Expenditures for the event cost nearly $32,000 to the Obama campaign, according to Nelson.

Nelson said the crowd control and security measures Tuesday were similar to UW men’s basketball games.

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Bill Clinton on UW-Madison campus Thursday Former President Clinton in Madison Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, DN.Y., Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the UW Stock Pavilion, 1675 Linden Dr.

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ey You: It gives me great pleasure to announce that you may be interested in becoming my secret admirer!

No doubt you’ve considered this exciting opportunity before, but all throughout February the Matt Hunziker Society of Secret Admiration is offering never-before-seen deals on all of our most popular membership packages! Newcomers will be glad to know that our basic membership fee is temporarily waived, but the following rules and regulations do still apply: Though many “traditional” admirers may wish to express their affections in writing, please be advised that I will not accept notes passed to me across lecture halls, nor slipped inside my locker. Although mail is not officially discouraged, because of time constraints, any envelopes not marked “Contains Important Tax Information”

will be disposed of unread.

To save on all the hassle this Valentine’s Day, why not send a “Lurker Letter” (patent pending)?

These pre-stamped, extra-glossy postcards require no return address and are available from your local stationary store. Let me know you’ve been watching me (anonymously) with one of three unique messages!

1) “Matt, I love your new haircut!”

Sure, every haircut reveals more silver hair around my temples, but don’t think “prematurely gray.” Think “prematurely distinguished.” In 25 years, might I have the salt-and-pepper mane of People Magazine’s 2006 “Sexiest Man of the Year” winner George Clooney? I don’t know, but I do know that I like my new haircut. You like my new haircut, too.

2) “Matt, as I followed you from class today, I noticed that your stride is powerful, like that of a wild animal.”

A lion perhaps? As a Leo, I’m also blessed with abundant personal magnetism and am a natural extrovert.

(But don’t take that as a cue to try and talk to me!)

3) “Matt, I feel like you’re better

looking every time I see you.”

It’s quite likely true. Just like a fine wine (see “Gift Giving” below), my complexity and value steadily appreciate with time.

Of course, as someone once famously said, “Actions speak louder than words,” and with me the act of gift giving speaks loudest of all. Check newsstands for your free copy of my 2008 Most Preferred Gifts Catalog.

Other good choices include flowers (orchids), fine wines (reds, especially) and money (no checks, obviously).

Note that becoming my secret admirer in no way entitles you to a reciprocal relationship of any nature, whether real or imagined. I am gainfully employed in relation with a person with whom I am on a first name basis. Furthermore, any such feedback would constitute an unacceptable breach of the professional agreement between you, the prospective admirer, and I, the prospectively admired.

Note also the specific wording of the title “Secret Admirer.” At no time nor for any reason may the anonymity clause of this contract be revoked. I have enough difficulty remembering

the names of real-life acquaintances and familial relations and do not wish to burden myself further with having to recall who expressed what undying affection. If you find it too difficult to abide by the terms of this professional agreement, I have no qualms about outsourcing my admiring work to a developing nation.

If you are interested in something a bit more substantial, you might consider becoming one of my professional stalkers. At the “Hunziker’s Hunters” membership level, you’ll have notarized proof of our association (printed on a handsomely framed and individually filed restraining order). Also included in the package are blocks on all social networking websites and guaranteed police seizure of any photographs taken with a telephoto lens from a distance closer than the courtordered 300 yards.

With so many options, there’s no reason not to express yourself this February, so flatter away!

But please, no calls.

Contact Matt through your anonymous, third-party e-mail account at hunziker@wisc.edu.

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It’s light, sharp and eminently drinkable.

Uncomplicated and unassuming. This is the kind of beer that the inventor of the six-pack had in mind.

Expect it to kick you in the teeth right out of the bottle. A light mouthfeel tides over a crisp, grainy flavor that should make it a target for drinkers in the hot, summer months, but it’s more than fine in February. The bitter finish terminates the flavor in short order, and

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No new deal for New Era The termination of New Era Cap Company’s licensing contract to manufacture apparel with UWMadison’s logo will not be reviewed, even though the company reached a tentative labor agreement Wednesday with its Mobile, Ala. factory workers.

The university terminated its contract with New Era on Jan. 25 after inspectors hired to assess allegations of poor working conditions at the Mobile factory were denied access.

New Era’s refusal violated its contract.

“We are pleased for the workers that they are going to find themselves in a better work situation, but we contend … that New Era is not a company we wish to do business with,” said Dawn Crim, special assistant to Chancellor John Wiley.

Crim said given the history of the company’s relationship with

UW-Madison policies, New Era would have to demonstrate seriously changed philosophies before the university provides any future licensing consideration.

UW-Madison scrutinized the company’s labor practices in 2002 for similar allegations of worker abuse at its Derby, N.Y., factory. However, New Era kept its license after it made improvements.

“We’re not simply making our decision based solely on what has happened right now,” Crim said.

“We don’t want a repeat of this situation in the future.”

According to a statement, the parties involved reached a collective bargaining agreement to provide workers with wage increases and better health insurance.

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Weekend campus-area burglars sought Madison Police are warning students to keep their doors locked at all times after a string of attempted burglaries occurred in the 600 block of North Frances Street Saturday.

According to a police report, two women were exiting the bathroom of their apartment when they saw two unknown men leaving a bedroom at the residence around 10:30 p.m. The women managed to take a backpack from the perpetrators before the men fled.

MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain said the bag contained items such as a video game player and video

games reported stolen by a man at a nearby residence.

Police said the women’s neighbor saw the perpetrators and reported hearing a “soft” knock at her door during the same time period. A man matching the description of one of the perpetrators then walked into the apartment, but fled after realizing someone was there.

Police describe the first perpetrator as a white male, age 25 to 35, 6'0", with brown hair and facial hair.

The second perpetrator is described as a white male, age 23 to 28, 6'2", with short blonde hair.

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“We have some big names that come here, a lot of fairly famous people,” he said.

In 2004, presidential hopeful Howard Dean hosted his last rally in the theater. Last fall, Grammy-nominated artist Feist preformed for a sold-out crowd.

Some patrons become so enamored with the Orpheum’s architectural beauty and historic ambiance they choose it as the location for their wedding, a trend embraced by Doane and current managers. Couples can even have their names placed on the theater’s signature marquee for the big day.

The Orpheum plans to serve a special three-course meal to sweethearts dining out for a romantic evening this Valentine’s Day. Doane said there is currently a fundraising project dedicated to restoring the marquee to its original glory. Towering proudly above State Street, the marquee remains one of the most recognizable features of the downtown landscape.

Restoring the marquee will cost over $200,000 and will be divided into two separate phases. The first will restore the vertical name-bearing portion of the sign and the second will refurbish and relight the horizontal, fluorescent-lit marquee.

Doane said that their initial fundraiser in December 2006 was a huge success. Still, he projects that because of the great cost it might be a while before the marquee is restored to its original state.

Until then, Madison residents can still bask in the theater’s breath-taking interior, attend a variety of musical performances or enjoy a movie inside the State Street landmark.

lowing year, he filed the initial paperwork for the building to be put on the National Register of Historic Places.

“The Orpheum was often a forum for historic figures to reach their audiences,” said Daina Penkiunas, registry coordinator for the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Penkiunas said the Orpheum’s noteworthy architecture represents the high level of ornamentation and artistry that defines the movie palace era of the 1920s.

“There’s a lot of history in this building and I feel like we’re building on it.”

Chris Warren board member Madison Trust for Historic Preservation

Members of the Register receive a number of grants for preservation or rehabilitation income tax credit. Owners can continue to restore their buildings or not and they can renovate without consulting the Register.

Today, the Orpheum serves as a formal restaurant, trendy bar and theater for live performances and movies. The novelty of the theater’s early 20th century design makes it the ideal venue for theme parties and other special events, according to Warren.

Live entertainment is another main attraction of the venue. According to Doane, the Orpheum has attracted famous names in music, politics and the global community.

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Clinton strategy memo focuses on Ohio, Texas, not Wisconsin

By Charles Brace THE DAILY CARDINAL

A Wednesday memo from the campaign of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said how Clinton can win the Democratic nomination, though Wisconsin is not mentioned in the release.

“Change begins March 4,” said Clinton adviser Mark Penn in the memo referring to the primaries in Ohio and Texas, two states with large amounts of delegates.

Ohio has 141 pledged Democratic delegates, with Texas having 193, not counting the superdelegates in each primary. Wisconsin has 74 pledged delegates out of its 92 total.

Penn also said Clinton would

do well in Pennsylvania, with its primary April 22, but no mention is made of the remaining primaries in February, which includes Wisconsin and Hawaii on Feb. 19.

“This race has shown that it is voters and delegates who matter, not the pundits or perceived ‘momentum,’” Penn said.

Carly Lindauer, spokesperson for the Clinton campaign in Wisconsin, said the memo does not show the campaign thinks Wisconsin is unimportant.

She said Chelsea Clinton visiting the state on Monday and Tuesday, along with former President Bill Clinton campaigning Thursday, show the campaign is still deter-

mined to win the state.

Lindauer said Senator Clinton would be in Wisconsin Saturday through Tuesday morning.

“She’s very committed to being here [in Wisconsin],” Lindauer said.

The Clinton campaign has also launched a series of television commercials in the state asking U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to debate in Wisconsin.

Clinton would have come to Wisconsin earlier if Obama was willing to debate, according to Lindauer.

Dan Leistikow, spokesperson for the Obama campaign in Wisconsin, previously said in an e-mail Obama is scheduled to debate Clinton at least two more times, though this does not necessarily include Wisconsin.

UW garners spot on President’s community service honor roll UW-Madison was named to the 2007 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction earlier this week.

The President’s Honor Roll began in 2006 and identifies schools based on the scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation and other categories, according to a statement.

“We do a tremendous amount of community service and service learning,” Aaron Brower said, vice provost for teaching and learning.

“It’s just part of the fabric of what we do on campus.”

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Nelson said event staff followed strict procedures to allow attendees into the building, such as limiting entrance to Gate B. After the doors

Brower said the 100-year-old Wisconsin Idea contributes to students’ desire to help others.

“We all want to do things that make a difference in the world,” Brower said, adding UW-Madison is consistently in the lead with producing volunteers for the Peace Corps and Teach for America.

UW-Madison’s Morgridge Center for Public Service facilitates many volunteer opportunities.

Randy Wallar, the center’s associate director, said about 1,700 students are already signed up for “The 10,000 Hours Show of Dane County,” which

encourages students to volunteer for at least 10 hours to earn a free rock concert ticket on April 2.

Wallar also mentioned more than 100 service learning courses are offered at UW-Madison annually, which the Morgridge Center helps to develop.

Students can work with Madison’s homeless, as well as disabled or incarcerated individuals in these courses.

Wallar said he and the Morgridge Center staff were “very happy” about the award.

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were open for 30 minutes, Nelson said officials determined the crowd was not moving fast enough and opened Gate A as well.

Procedures similar to airport security were necessary for the 2,000 students Secret Service allowed on the Kohl Center floor for an up-close look at Obama.

The whole event kept security busy, but UWPD Sgt. Jason Whitney said the Kohl Center is “the best building on campus to hold a large crowd.”

“The Kohl Center worked out great for us,” he said. “We work large crowds there weekly, so everybody is familiar with the venue and it went really smoothly.”

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n Wisconsin and across the United States, minorities make up a disproportionate number of those arrested and ultimately sent to prison. As hotheaded liberals and intolerant conservatives fight it out in a rhetorical battle that solves little, governments continuously fail to successfully address the issue.

Fortunately, that appears to be changing in this state. Last week, Gov. Jim Doyle’s office released a report recommending changes in the way government works for minorities living on the margins of legality. Perhaps more importantly, the report stands as an official declaration that society at large cannot be excused from the current realities of minority incarceration.

It is still acceptable on the right wing to place the blame squarely on low-income communities and poorly educated individuals. They are lazy, delinquent, amoral and so forth go the arguments of the archconservatives, barely concealing the racism that has created such a distressing environment in the first place. Such thinking should be easily dismissed, given that the crippling economic isolation and deep-seated prejudices from the wealthy establishment clearly have a powerful effect on the behavior of those on the losing end of this argument.

As James Baldwin once wrote, the ghetto in America emerged as a way of confining and oppressing blacks and other minorities. It should hardly be surprising, then, that escaping such a predicament, built and cemented for several generations, has proven difficult.

The recommendations offered by Doyle’s commission are good and would certainly

go a long way toward altering the course of a growingly disparate society. Much of the report serves as a call for more studies, more examination of data. It also demands more programs designed to reduce prison recidivism, juvenile behavioral problems and isolation from mainstream society—each of which leads to increased crime.

Of course, all of those recommendations cost money, placing Wisconsin in a difficult position.

Are we willing to pay for the benefit of all people, even those who have been abandoned in the wake of white flight and the slow death of American industry?

Doyle’s recommendations would certainly go a long way in altering the course of a growingly disparate society.

What the report does not note, and what conservatives refuse to admit, is that drug offenses are simply the ugliest outgrowth of our take-no-prisoners capitalist economy. That is not to defend the practice, though, as hard drug dealing is also one of the most destructive forces at work in America, killing people with poisons that are ultimately color blind.

Until lawmakers and comfortable, middle-class citizens realize that economic hopelessness is a real motivation for much of the state’s criminal behavior, especially the bulk of its drug offenses, we are doomed to a vicious cycle in which minorities seemed destined to suffer unrightfully.

Fates of candidates rest in hands of 796 voters ERIK OPSAL opinion columnist

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t’s been more than a year since the two Democratic candidates announced their intentions to run for president. We thought we’d have a nominee by now. Feb. 5 was supposed to decide it all. So, after a year of campaigning and numerous primaries, we now know this could all come down to the convention in August—and the votes of 796 people.

Those 796 people are superdelegates, and they vote however they want to vote. The 796 are party insiders—Democratic governors, members of Congress and members of the Democratic National Committee. So far, 261 have endorsed Clinton and 178 have endorsed Obama, according to NBC News estimates.

These are different than the delegates given out based on primaries and caucuses, which are called pledged delegates. After Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama has 1,128 pledged delegates and Sen. Hillary Clinton has 1009 delegates.

Of Wisconsin’s 92 delegates, 16 are superdelegates, one of whom, Awais Khaleel, a UW-Madison senior and the vice chair of the College Democrats of America, plans to remain neutral in the race.

Another, Marquette junior Jason Rae, is undecided, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Because the race is so close, there is basically no way for one of the candidates to reach the 2,025 delegates needed to win the nomination without superdelegates like Khaleel and Rae coming into play. But what happens when the race comes down to these 796 people? Well, under certain circumstances, chaos could easily occur.

Let’s say Obama gets to the convention with a lead of 100 or more pledged delegates, but Clinton has more superdelegates.

The votes are cast and Clinton emerges as the nominee. The pro-

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verbial smoke-filled room scenario would be complete—party insiders would have chosen the nominee despite the American people voting otherwise. Luckily, this probably won’t happen.

“I think that would be a disaster for the party and I think that is extremely unlikely to happen,” said political science professor David Canon. “These are all smart people and I think they can see how the voters would view that.”

To avoid this catastrophe, the superdelegates would have to make a choice: either vote as their states voted, or vote for the winner of the pledged delegates.

However, without a convincing margin in pledged delegates— perhaps something more in the range of 50—then anything can happen, according to Canon.

Still, the potential for disaster is huge, and it shows a nomination process that may require a facelift. The last reform came after the 1968 Democratic Convention, which ended in riots. Hubert Humphrey won the nomination even though he hadn’t entered a single primary. The McGovernFraser reforms wished to put the

power into the hands of the people once and for all, and that’s why we have the system we have today.

Ironically, after a decade of working this way, the law was changed to include superdelegates after the 1980 election because party leaders thought the system gave too much power to voters, according to Canon.

“This process is working out precisely the way the party leaders wanted it to,” he said. We’ll have to wait and see whether that’s a good thing or not. As Sen. John McCain sits on the sidelines as the presumptive Republican nominee—smearing both Obama and Clinton with little retribution—a race that goes to the convention could very well hurt the Democratic party.

A race decided by 796 people would hurt the party even more.

But, if they’re smart, these people will realize that the real power belongs to the voters, and they will back the nominee who leads in pledged delegates, regardless of who they support.

Erik Opsal is a senior majoring in journalism and political science. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Remember to “Thank Hillary for Iraq” in upcoming primary

By Dan Josephson THE DAILY CARDINAL

Prior to being washed off, the phrase “Thank Hillary for Iraq” could be seen inscribed in large colorful letters on the cement pillars outside Memorial Library. Although this may be viewed as an exaggerated political statement, it clearly sums up the difference Wisconsin voters will see this Tuesday when choosing between Sen. Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.

Clinton may claim that she thought the Bush Administration was going to handle the war in a different manner. It is clear, though, that she accepted the joint resolution through the stigma that if the war was a success, those who voted for it would receive praise, while those opposed would be criticized for the majority of their political careers.

The tables have turned on what Clinton thought was a safe strategy. Thousands of Iraqi and American deaths later, she is

being criticized—as are the 76 other Democrats who backed the Republican party.

In 2002 Obama spoke against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. His 2008 opponent assumed that this intended “small scale” attack would prevail within a matter of weeks, disregarding the well being of her country’s soldiers and the citizens of the “liberated” yet insurgent-flooded Iraq.

Come Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, the registered Democrats of Wisconsin will be choosing between one Senator who stuck to his convictions in a time when they were unpopular and one who essentially sold out.

If Clinton should be nominated over Obama, this country is going to see a showdown similar to what resulted in a Democratic collapse in 2004.

In any debate over foreign policy and withdrawal, the Republican nominee will spearhead Clinton, easily pointing the finger at her and telling her that she agreed with them from the start.

These attacks, which effectively

ruined Kerry’s credibility, will find their place during Clinton’s campaign whenever she attempts to attack the previous administration for the war in Iraq. Obama will not struggle when criticizing these actions.

Come Tuesday, Wisconsin will choose between someone who stuck to his convictions and one who essentially sold out.

Clinton also lacks the support Obama is gaining from the Republican party. According to former GOP Congressman Joe Scarsborough, “[Obama] doesn’t attack Republicans.” This group, deemed “Obamacans,” have openly expressed hope in his candidacy, from Evangelical Christians to people as conservative as Susan Eisenhower.

If Clinton wins the nomination this November, these “Obamacans” will vote based on their party identification. People will think back to the events leading up to the Monica Lewinsky scandal when Clinton labeled the Republican party as a “base of evil conspiracies.”

If Clinton were to assume presidency, there would be no telling when the United States would withdraw from Iraq. Obama is the only candidate left who not only originally opposed the war, but who makes a point to tell the American people that withdrawing troops will be the first thing he does.

Clinton gains much support for her expertise in domestic issues, and when it comes down to it she is undoubtedly one of the best in that category. But with regard to international issues, Clinton nearly refrains from speaking about her withdrawal strategy, which makes it difficult to endorse her as a candidate.

The Bush Administration has

already spent over 150 billion dollars on the war. For every additional day that is spent in Iraq, more lives, limbs and money are lost. Considering the $5 trillion deficit that this country has not even come close to paying off, this war grows exceedingly unnecessary.

If voters think that this nation is going to get anywhere near national Healthcare while still in a full fledged war that Clinton has made no claim to end, they have another thing coming.

Come Tuesday, Wisconsin has a legitimate chance to decide the fate of this year’s presidential election.

Either this nation will witness a battle between the lesser of two evils—both of whom voted for a war that will hinder any domestic progress—or it will have the opportunity to vote for a candidate who can positively change the United States.

Dan Josephson is a junior majoring in political science and legal studies. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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By Sara Barreau THE DAILY CARDINAL

Giving your Valentine a generic mixed bouquet, a dozen red roses or a cliché box of chocolates each Feb. 14 can get tiring. It is even worse for Valentines receiving them. We have celebrated this holiday for sweethearts for over 1,500 years, so there is no shame in indulging with a few sweets with your sweet. However, you do not have to give the same boring heart-shaped box full of assorted chocolates year after year.

For those who have Valentines with a sweet tooth, try a non-conventional method to please your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day. Go to one of Madison’s locally owned bakeries and pick up a pastry—or a dozen of them. Bakeries provide a comforting atmosphere with a great selection of delectable pastries, cookies and cake. There is bound to be something for everyone. This should help you decide what is worth your while and what you should pass up.

Greenbush Bakery: Greenbush Bakery, 1305 Regent St., is a favorite place to begin an early morning recovery after a long night. However, Greenbush—an establishment that prides itself on using completely kosher ingredients—is more than a campus hotspot on early Sunday mornings. It is also a great place for breakfast every day.

The pastries are prepared the night before, and the smell of doughnuts upon walking through the door is enough to make a person break any intentions of dieting for the week. The fritters are delicious and large enough to share—if one can bear to—and there is a great selection of timeless doughnut favorites.

Greenbush will surely be stocked with Valentine’s Day goodies considering the array of green and yellow-sprinkled doughnuts they often have before Packer games.

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Main St., is located on the Capitol square and has a very friendly atmosphere with helpful staff. With a wide variety of pastries, cookies and candies made fresh daily, the selection can be overwhelming.

Everything looks good.

The German Chocolate Cinnamon Roll is one out-of-theordinary option. This pastry has a standard cinnamon roll base but is covered in coconut and chocolate frosting. It is a rich and indulgent treat you will certainly want to split with a Valentine. Scott’s Pastry Shoppe also serves lunch, but with treats this good, you should eat dessert first.

People’s Bakery: People’s Bakery, 2810 E. Washington Ave., is a little out of the way for anyone living on campus and is not necessarily worth the bus ride. Upon entering the building located in a small strip-mall on the corner of East Washington Avenue and East Johnson Street, the somewhat overwhelming aroma of deep-fryers invades the senses. In particular, the smell of items such as gyros, which are served throughout

the day, seem to linger.

On a positive note, People’s Bakery prepares its doughnuts fresh each day and has an average selection of the favorite little breakfast pastry. In addition to fritters, long johns and Bismarck doughnuts, People’s Bakery has a small selection of some decorated cookies as well.

This was not my favorite bakery, but the fare was tasty and the prices were reasonable. I was even able to surprise my co-workers with some sweet Saturday sustenance.

Café Soleil: Café Soleil/L’Etoile Restaurant, 25 N. Pinckney St., is a cozy café also located on Capitol square. With its warm, inviting setting and amazing but few pastry items, Café Soleil is No. 1 on my list of Madison bakeries.

The café begins preparing items for the day around 4 a.m., and the hard work certainly pays off. The herb and chèvre croissant is delicious. It is the perfect way to start the day if you are looking for something not as sweet as a doughnut.

Another option is an almond and marzipan croissant, which was

also good but was definitely on the sweet side. One of the newer treats is a sugar-coated doughnut with a chocolate and hazelnut filling. It was extremely difficult to eat without spilling the filling, and the taste of the dough didn’t seem to compliment the gooey interior.

However, my absolute favorite item on the menu was the double chocolate cookie topped with a sprinkle of sea salt. No, don’t wrinkle your nose. It is delicious. The salt helps cut through the very rich, sweet chocolate. It is the perfect balance. A couple of these can help you and your date celebrate.

Lane’s Bakery: Lane’s Bakery, 448 S. Park St., is a short distance away from campus, but it is most definitely worth the trip. Lane’s has a plethora of cookies, cakes and pastries to choose from right within their store. They even have frosted cut-out cookies in fun shapes. What archeology major wouldn’t like a dinosaur sugar cookie?

The selection of more traditional cookies is impressive as well.

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chocolate macadamia nut, chocolate chunk and oatmeal raisin, among others.

An interesting cookie on the menu is the Charlie Brown, which is a chocolate cake cookie with cherries in the middle covered with chocolate frosting. Lane’s also has a refrigerator case with cheesecakes and cakes that look good enough for any Valentine to appreciate.

Although each bakery has something that distinguishes one from another, they all pretty much had the same response when I asked them if they would have anything special in store for Valentine’s Day—“Not really.” Pink frosting and sprinkles were mentioned and possibly some heart-shaped cookies.

Lane’s even had platters of heartshaped sugar cookies around the store. Otherwise, it is business as usual, which, in a pop culture oversaturated with pink and red on Feb. 14, can actually be somewhat of a relief.

So indulge with something special—a fresh-baked pastry from one of Madison’s amazing bakeries. Valentines everywhere will be pleased you did.

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Even though some Madison bakeries do not offer Valentine’s Day treats, Lane’s Bakery and Greenbush Bakery give freshly baked options for those with a sweet tooth. Greenbush (right) has red and white sprinkled doughnuts, and Lane’s (left) has an array of decorated cookies and cupcakes.

End food monogamy, find Valentine in Walgreen’s candy aisle ARIEL KRAUT sweet-n-sour kraut

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can’t believe it is Valentine’s Day already. Let the self-loathing begin. But all jokes aside, I actually like this holiday. The cards and the candy—obviously the candy—are all in good fun. This year has been one wild ride, and it’s also going to mark my first Valentine’s Day alone. But don’t pity me everyone, it took me a while to get to this place and I’m not about to allow some candy hearts to get me down.

But still, it is Valentine’s Day, and I can’t help but get a little nostalgic about old times. The only way I can get my once significant other out of my system is if I tell the tale.

So here I go.

Like I said, I just recently broke up with my boyfriend. Well, I guess we’re just not exclusive anymore because we both settled on somewhat good terms. You might know

him—the red Sour Patch Kid. Yeah, he was kind of a big deal. He was so great to me, as any boyfriend should be.

He fed me well and even comforted me when I needed someone, no matter what time of day it was. However, his best quality was definitely how complex he was for a boy; he just had such a range of emotions. First he was sour, and then he was sweet. Needless to say, he drove me wild.

We started out on our path to a relationship about three years ago. One not so mundane night, my friends and I had a slight case of the munchies, which landed us in the trashiest “7-11” in town. I know you’re silently judging me, 7-11? But, let’s be honest, where else can you get a 64 oz. cup of Diet Coke for like 50 cents and also find the widest selection of high quality snack foods?

Anyway, it was there I laid eyes on him, right in the candy aisle.

That heart-stopping yellow bag was calling out to me. From the second we made eye contact, I knew we would be together forever. I couldn’t

help myself.

Ever since that day I remained a loyal and devoted girlfriend.

Throughout our blissful affair we did everything together. We went to the movies, hung out in my dorm room and without fail he was there for me when I was going through a stressful time—especially soothing during late nights studying for midterms.

Everything was perfect until one day when my sweet and sour relationship came crashing down before my eyes. It was sometime last year when I walked into Walgreen’s on State Street, our previously chosen meeting spot for our date that night (I had a six-page English paper due).

I walked down every aisle in a daze, like a lost child I kept searching and searching for him, but he was nowhere to be found. How could my man ditch me like that? I was so devastatingly heartbroken, I couldn’t think straight.

After finally coming to terms with the fact he was not showing up, fast action was required. I decided the most natural thing to do was to

be slutty—I am a sorority girl after all. So, I quickly purchased every gummy candy I could find. I’m not the type of girl to allow something like this to break my spirit. I realized I needed someone new, something bigger and better.

Everything was perfect until one day when my sweet and sour relationship came crashing down.

After cheating on my boyfriend (I mean, I wasn’t sure if we were actually broken up), I thought I would feel absolutely wretched. But, shockingly, it was kind of nice to be with someone different for a change.

I had fallen into such a routine with Red that I hadn’t opened myself up to the possibility of anyone else.

I had never even noticed Sweet Tart, who was really good looking.

And Red’s cousin, Swedish Fish, is such a genuine guy. I even picked

up some new girlfriends along the way that helped me get through it—Gummi Bear, Gummi Worm and Peach-O. With all of these new friends of mine, I didn’t really care if my boyfriend didn’t want to be with me anymore. I now had variety in my life and of course some newfound spice thanks to my super sexy friend with benefits, Red Hot. It’s safe to say the era of my monogamous relationships with food has come to an end. I’ve been in college for almost two years now, and it’s time for me to open my eyes. There are so many things out there that I haven’t tasted yet, and I’m on a mission to “date” them all.

Before the Sour Patch Kid there was Twizzler, and before him there was the Strawberry Frosted Pop Tart. There are more fish in the proverbial sea, and I’m about to go fishing for some goodness. Maybe I won’t ever call them again, but at least I took a shot.

If you are single this Valentine’s Day or just have some extra candy, e-mail akraut@wisc.edu.

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or Andy Cohn and Kim Vergeront’s first Valentine’s Day, Kim made Andy a heartshaped cake.

“It took her hours,” Andy said. “It was a beautiful cake, but it was dry.

In fact, it tasted terrible. My friends and I told her it was delicious, but we threw it out.”

Andy Cohn and Kim Vergeront have been married for 35 years.

The couple met at UW-Madison as seniors and started dating a few months later.

“I saw this woman in class [and] there was something about her that intimidated me,” Cohn said. “She was so smart and beautiful.”

The couple got married two years after graduation.

Relationships have changed over the past 30 years as a result of major societal shifts, according to Aimée Dechter, sociology professor at UWMadison.

One of these changes is that gender roles within modern relationships are often less distinct, Dechter said.

Michelle and Ryan Kipps, a generation younger than Cohn and Vergeront, have been married for almost a year. They met at a house party in 2001 while attending UWMadison and started dating shortly after.

On their first Valentine’s Day, they went on a date to Porta Bella.

“We thought it would be so romantic, but they didn’t take reservations,” Michelle said. “It was a long trek through the snow in heels. The cost of the dinner was $40-$50, but the fact that my feet were frozen and my shoes ruined [was] priceless.”

Changing Roles Valentine’s Day dates have changed in terms of what each partner’s roles are, Dechter said, such as modernizing the typical flowers and chocolates with a casual dinner.

On the subsequent Valentine’s Day, the Kipps bought a heart-shaped pizza from Rocky’s instead.

“It’s been our tradition ever since,” Michelle said.

Bruce and Ruth Gibson met at UW-Madison in 1974 and were engaged within eight weeks.

According to Bruce, Valentine’s Day was “pretty important for the nine months we dated. Ruth is an excellent baker, and it was another excuse to make me some sweets.”

They still occasionally celebrate Valentine’s Day traditionally by exchanging flowers.

“We no longer have that notion of the princess and prince charming, of the man having to court the woman,” Dechter said. “It’s not always about this romantic first kiss, because the woman may be as likely to initiate the first kiss as the man.”

Because of the women’s movement in the 1980s, society no longer expects men to take full initiative in relationships, according to Dechter.

Couples are more likely to talk about relationship components such as having children, jobs and living situations.

“We talked a lot about getting married before the proposal,” Michelle Kipps said. “I didn’t want marriage to contain any surprise issues that could have been foreseen.”

The traditional, “romantic” way to propose involved the man surpris-

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ing the woman with a ring without any prior discussion of marriage.

“I also picked out my engagement ring, but we had shopped for one for over a year, so the proposal was still a surprise,” Michelle said.

Elliott and Lori Sogol have been married for 31 years. Although they met in high school, they continued dating throughout their education at UW-Madison until getting married their junior year. As with most marriage proposals three decades ago, Lori had not been expecting the question.

“I was lucky that the answer was yes,” Elliott said. “I had [already] planned a surprise engagement party back at the dorm room.”

Couples in both generations said they married for love. However, Michelle and Ryan Kipps married for both emotional and logistical reasons.

“He was about to start a career which could take him anywhere in the country,” Michelle said. “If I was going to saddle up for the ride, I had to know it was forever.”

“Modern” can still be romantic From 1970 to 1979, the divorce rate doubled and has stabilized at 50 percent since the late 80s, according to Dechter.

“People may be more gun-shy about getting married right away,” Dechter said.

According to Bruce and Ruth Gibson, they got married on the basis of love.

“We [liked] each other’s company and still do. We got along great and felt we had the same values,” Bruce said.

Ena and Richard Gibson have been married for 41 years. They met at a party when Ena’s date left with another girl.

“As I prepared to leave alone, a handsome young man came up to me and asked if he could walk me home,” Ena said. “He was so very sweet and never mentioned that I had been dumped and left at the party until our 20th wedding anniversary.”

The story of the Gibson’s engagement represents the biggest difference of what dating means to both generations.

“It didn’t seem important to me to marry but it was very important to him,” Ena said. “We had spent the night together and he felt that it was important to marry so I would be a respectable girl.”

The reason for their quick marriage may lie in the less lenient sexual norms of the day.

“While [the Gibsons] were dating, abortion wasn’t legal, [and the] pill was not as available,” Dechter said.

“These people were operating under different birth control capabilities.”

This explains the reluctance for the older generation to have sex outside of marriage or to cohabit.

“The next step to dating isn’t all about building up towards marriage,” Dechter said. “Now it’s acceptable to have sex within a dating relationship, and the couple, as it gets more serious, may start cohabiting.”

For Eliott and Lori Sogol, however, dating led straight to marriage.

“If you know that this is the person you want to spend your life with, why not go for it?” Elliott said.

Now relationships are not necessarily a clear-cut progression from dating to marriage, Dechter said.

Another social change in dating is the decline in value of men’s real wage, Dechter said. Couples have a greater need to include women’s wages in household income for a high standard of living.

“We had no money and I was afraid to tell my parents—I told them after a year—and he had dropped out of school for a semester to work,” Ena Harris said.

According to Dechter, signifi-

cant changes in men’s wages did not happen until the ’70s and ’80s, so older couples often did not realize the importance of building a career before marriage.

“Considering our age and being a student, finances were a little issue for us,” Elliott Sogol said. “Fortunately, we did not have too many other issues in the beginning.”

According to Dechter, people recognize that period of their 20s as a “career-building period.”

Michelle and Ryan Kipps established their own careers completely before marriage. “[Ryan] has a very busy schedule, but I’m fairly independent, so it works well for us,” Michelle said. “I know I come first when it’s his choice.”

The modern couple can still have the “romantic” aspect of the traditional relationship while sharing the modern aspect of equal gender roles.

However, many modern married couples have altered the traditional Valentine’s Day to meet the modern outlook on career building.

“The festivities piece of the day was really never top of the list—still won’t be,” Michelle said. “Ryan is now a physician at UW, so he’ll probably be working late.”

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Cardinal Mixtape Already found your special someone’s special something? Need some music to set the perfect mood? From Marvin Gaye to Daft Punk, our Arts staff gives its suggestions.

“Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye Probably on every remotely romantic mix tape ever.

It’s cheesy, but such a good song you can’t resist it. You know what I’m talkin’ about! —Megan Corbett “Be Alright” by Trina As this tasteful song’s title implies, everyone wants Valentine’s Day to be a time of happiness and comfort, when all is right. And whose definition of that doesn’t include wanting “my ass smacked, legs wide, front back, side to side”? —Dan Wohl “Samson” by Regina Spektor The wistful tone and simplistic lyrics (“I cut his hair myself one night / A pair of dull scissors and a yellow light / He told me that I’d done all right / And kissed me ‘till the morning light”) paint intimate and tender pictures.

—Megan Dwyer “My Beautiful Rescue” by This Providence When I first heard this song, it blew me away. A perfect mixture of acoustic guitar and soulful lyrics makes this my quintessential love song. One of the song’s lyrics, “I’m falling head over heels for you,” is used in so many love songs.

However, the rest of the song—about how the lead singer’s pride is gone because of this girl—makes it different and, thus, much better. —Caissa Casarez “The Man In Me” by Bob Dylan Bob Dylan loves his woman so much he loves her twice, with both the external and internal Bob that only she has the ability to reveal. —Kyle Sparks “I’m the One” by Descendants This is a change-up from the mushy themes tied to Valentine’s Day. “I’m the One” is about the torture of having persistent feelings for someone who relies on you for everything but loves and subjects themselves to exploitative relationships even when something much better—you— agonizingly waits right in front of them. —Mario Puig “Nothing Better” by the Postal Service Love is beautiful, but often depressing. As such, this track off the Postal Service’s debut album is perfectly representative, featuring poetic lyrics in a harmonizing duet about a heartbroken guy as his girlfriend walks out on him. Just never tell your special somebody that this is “our song”—they may listen too closely and slap you upside the head. —Mark Reichers “Digital Love” by Daft Punk No love song mixes French romance with youthful infatuation quite like Daft Punk’s “Digital Love.” The Parisians of Daft Punk infuse the electronic tune with intoxicating beats and the tale of simmering, unspoken love. The result is sensational—it will alternately give listeners butterflies and the desire to bust a move.

—Jill Klosterman “Tell Me Why” by Neil Young This is one of those sad love songs that makes your chest hurt. A love song that makes you cry while also being cathartic and good for the soul. —Frances Provine

“Bless the Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts More than some would admit, past loves play a big part in true love. Mistakes we’ve made along the way to true love define who we are when we finally find it, and that’s what this song is about. —Brad Boron “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston This has all the trappings of a classic love song: the word “Love,” in the title, Whitney’s booming voice, the Kenny G solo. But few newly weds and prom-goers seem to realize it is actually a break-up song, and a thorny and regretful one at that.

Next time the DJ puts it on, sit this one out. —Kate Marcus “Gold Soundz” by Pavement This Crooked Rain standout isn’t heartwarming in the traditional sense, but Stephen Malkmus codifies the formula for every offbeat romance from “Manhattan” to “Fight Club” with his self-effacing comeon: “You’re the kind of girl I like, because you’re empty / and I’m empty.” —Matt Hunziker “Aphrodisiac” by Bow Wow Wow If you can’t be with the one you love and you’re having trouble loving the one you’re with, this song has the solution.

—Megan Dwyer “Freak-a-Leek” by Petey Pablo Perfect for when you’re getting it on with the female. —Alexander Joseph Gawenda “The Luckiest” by Ben Folds Because it says it all. —Anna Williams “Why” by Jason Aldean My boyfriend and I were on the verge of breaking up when he drove over to my house and played this song as loud as his speakers could. It still makes me tear up a little.

—Megan Corbett “Maggie May” by Rod Stewart The ultimate love song of the ’70s that is still a makeout anthem. Besides, what guy doesn’t want some older woman’s lovin’ once in a while?

—Shawn Small “Eve, the Apple of My Eye” by Bell X1 An indie song from Damien Rice’s former band, this song is gentle and sweet.

Written about giving love a chance, it’s a beautiful song that’s perfect for a gushy mixtape. It was even on “The O.C.”!

—Josh Monifi “Can’t Help Falling in Love” by Elvis Presley UB40 gave it some reggae flair and the A-Teens took it down Teeny-Bopper Lane, but no one performed “Can’t Help Falling in Love” better than Elvis Presley. The King undoubtedly wooed us with his voice, which was arguably just as provocative as those gyrating hips. —Eunice Abraham

“Drive” by the Cars Written by frontman Ric Ocasek and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr, “Drive” tells it like it is from the man’s point of view—he’ll “pick you up when you fall,” “hang it up when you call” and he’ll let you know that no matter how in love you are, “you can’t go on thinkin’ nothing’s wrong.”

But at least you can take comfort knowing “who’s gonna drive you home tonight.” —Eunice Abraham “Between the Bars” by Elliott Smith A big part of music, especially music about love, is its ability to let the listener feel a little of what the artist was going through while writing it. Elliott Smith’s “Between the Bars,” though it may not seem like a love song at first, epitomizes this ability. Listening to the song closely makes it almost too easy to feel the aching joy of love, especially if you know the words and can sing along with it. —Justin Stephani

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Butch’s unorthodox 3-pointer lifts Wisconsin to victory over Indiana

By Ben Breiner THE DAILY CARDINAL

It’s not over ‘til the... polar bear sings?

As 17,320 stunned fans looked on, senior forward Brian Butch’s bank shot 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds left gave No.15 Wisconsin a 68-66 win over No.13 Indiana Wednesday at Assembly Hall. It was the Badgers’ first win in Bloomington since 2004.

“I told Brian in the locker room that they discounted it because he didn’t call it and that we lost and the game was over,” head coach Bo Ryan said. “There was silence for two seconds and then somebody yelled ‘let’s get on the plane.’ And that was it.”

Butch scored all 13 of his points in the second half, but the star of the night was sophomore guard Jason Bohannon. The Iowa native hit six 3-pointers and pulled down three boards.

“I told Brian in the locker room that they discounted it because he didn’t call it and that we lost and the game was over.”

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“There was a lot of good looks ... a lot of it had to do with guys setting picks on the inside,” Bohannon said.

“Marcus [Landry] or Brian kind of stuck there and set a little pick there on the back side and it opened me up for a few shots.”

The teams played a tight first half.

Indiana went up by eight early in the game, but Wisconsin repeatedly closed the gap.

UW hung in on the strength of torrid 3-point shooting as they connected on 8-of-15 shots from long distance.

D.J. White powered the offense for Indiana, scoring the first six points of the game and 14 in the first half to go with three blocked shots. At the break, Wisconsin trailed 37-36.

The game’s second half was nearly as close as the first. Indiana freshman guard Eric Gordon scored 17 of his 23 points after intermission, and neither team led by more than six.

The Badgers took a one-point lead five separate times in the second half, but each time the Hoosiers reasserted their advantage. The last one came with 28 seconds left in the game.

Junior forward Landry took the ball from the top of the key, drove, spun and fired a fade-away jump shot from just inside the free throw line.

The shot kicked off of the back of the rim but Landry cut to the basket and tipped in the errant attempt.

On Indiana’s ensuing possession, senior guard Michael Flowers (15 points, seven rebounds) fouled Gordon, who calmly hit both of his free throws, giving his team the 6665 advantage.

After advancing the ball to midcourt, Ryan called a timeout to set up a final play. Wisconsin inbounded the ball to Landry with 12 seconds remaining. Moments later, Landry handed the ball to Butch, and he nailed the jumper off the glass.

“I really thought I was [going to] make it ... it left my hand and I was like well I think its [going to] go,” Butch said “I thought there was enough on it to let it go. I didn’t think it was [going to] bank in, but once it banked in I was big smiles.”

The last ditch 3-pointer from Hoosier junior swingman Jamarcus Ellis came up empty as the clock ran out.

Sophomore point guard Trevon Hughes continued his recent struggles missing six three-point shots and turning the ball over three times.

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Senior forward Brian Butch was all smiles after his 3-pointer banked into the hoop and UW held on to beat Indiana 68-66.

Both squads took care of the ball all game, combining for just 14 giveaways. The Badgers did most of their damage from beyond the arc hitting 42 percent of their threes compared to 23 percent for Indiana.

However, the Badgers did not follow their usual modus operandi as it was the Hoosiers who hit more free throws than Wisconsin attempted. UW only went to the line six times, shooting 15 fewer

than their season average.

The loss for Indiana comes on the heels of a report from the NCAA that alleges Hoosier coach Kelvin Sampson committed five major recruiting violations. He committed similar violations near the end of his tenure at Oklahoma. Sampson’s contract has a clause which allows IU to fire him upon committing certain infractions.

—Brad Fedie contributed to this report.

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The sound in the Kohl Center went from excitement to a harmonious gasp as fast you could say “Eric Gordon” when UW senior forward Brian Butch threw up a three pointer with just over six seconds to go.

It got so silent you could almost hear the ball hit the backboard from Bloomington, Ind. But when it bounced off the glass and into the hoop the average fan wouldn’t have known that there were only 2,400-plus people in the Kohl

Center—the shot might as well have fallen in front of a sold-out crowd at home.

Butch’s three with five seconds left gave UW a hard fought 68-66 road win against the Hoosiers, propelling the Badgers right back into the hunt for the Big Ten title.

With the game being broadcast on the Big Ten Network, the UW Athletic Department opened the doors of the Kohl Center Wednesday night to fans that otherwise would have been left out in the cold. The result was an atmosphere that didn’t rival a usual home game, but there

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Bucky Badger can hardly bear to watch with the other fans at the Kohl Center Wednesday night.

here has been a growing trend in sports, a trend that has no merit to be there in the first place: love entertainment stories.

The NFL Playoffs gave two perfect examples of this appalling new genre that has grown out of the dark and murky depths of gossip and the weekly tabloids.

The first is Tony Romo and his relationship with singer/actress Jessica Simpson.

During the first week of the NFL Playoffs, the Dallas Cowboys had a bye because of their ranking as the top seed in the NFC. While most players were sitting at their homes resting or actually preparing for the upcoming week without knowing who their opponent would be, Romo decided to head south with Simpson and her family.

This information would probably not have surfaced had it not been for the paparazzi, entertainment shows and tabloids that stalk such celebrities like Simpson nonstop. But once the likes of ESPN became aware of the situation, the entire incident became wellknown public knowledge, talked about every hour on SportsCenter for the next week.

It’s time to leave love and gossip to Entertainment Tonight.

wasn’t much of a difference when Wisconsin pulled off another road stunner.

“I think it’s great what they did here tonight,” UW-Madison senior Kurt Bindrich said. “This is much better than a packed bar. I wish more students had shown up though.”

The majority of the crowd consisted of parents and children, not students, but there were a number of them who chose the Kohl Center over the bars.

Nonetheless, the crowd was in it the entire game. The optimism grew as UW stayed in it longer and longer and as the teams traded leads seven times in the final two minutes, one could easily forget that the game was happening on a scoreboard, not on the dark empty court beneath it.

“I mean, obviously it would have been great if the game had actually happened here, but a lot of us didn’t get tickets this year so it was a great opportunity to cheer in this building and hear the band,” Bindrich said.

Not only was the band at the Kohl Center, the scoreboard was lowered to eye-level in the lower bowl and it was in full operation with live stats. The PA announcer had a familiar voice and the cheerleaders and dance team performed their usual routines. The only thing missing was a basketball, 10 players and about 15,000 more fans.

And obviously the logistics of watching the game on a scoreboard had its effects. The WIBA radio feed with Matt Lepay and Mike Lucas was broadcast on the speakers instead of the audio

The second story came out during the downtime between the NFC and AFC Championship games and the Super Bowl, as TMZ caught New England quarterback Tom Brady walking down the sidewalk with a boot on his foot.

Again, the rumors and gossip began to fly about what Brady was doing and if the so-called “injury” would have any effect on Brady’s ability to play in Super Bowl XLII. In both instances, the sports world was oblivious to the notion that these things were happening until the underbelly of reporting alerted it to the situation.

Unfortunately, the sports world seems to have been swept up in this current trend. The lines between rumor, scandal and sports seem to be more blurred than ever.

It wasn’t always this way. A reporter used to have to show up to practice and see that a star player was injured in order to know for sure—not see some video on YouTube showing Brady walk down the street to see his supermodel girlfriend, or the Hollywood actress who is the mother of his child.

Sports—especially football— have grown to be so large that they are just as much about entertainment as they are about tradition. A

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Senior forward Jinelle Zaugg scored two goals against Bemidji State when the Badgers faced the Beavers in November.

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This weekend, the No. 5 Wisconsin Badger women’s hockey team will face off against the team that sits in the cellar of the WCHA, Bemidji State. The Beavers enter Madison with a 1-21-2 record in conference and are 32 points behind Wisconsin in the standings.

The last time these teams met, the Badgers opened the series by putting the puck in the net seven times. The next day Bemidji’s senior goalie Emily Brookshaw turned back 50 Wisconsin shots on goal and earned her squad a 0-0 tie. Thus, despite Bemidji State’s record, Wisconsin will not look past the Beavers.

“My theme has always been it doesn’t matter who you play or where you are playing them, you better be ready to play because the day has come when anybody can beat anybody,” head coach Mark Johnson said.

“You look at Bemidji’s record this year compared to last or North Dakota’s compared to last year. If you blink, these teams can beat you.”

The Beavers come in with the worst offense in the WCHA. They have scored 19 goals in 24 conference games, and freshman forward Annie Bauerfeld is the only player on the team who has scored 10 points.

Brookshaw ranks fifth in the league in save percentage but is allowing almost three goals per game. This results mostly from the fact that she sees an average of more than 32 shots each night.

The Badgers have a 33-1-2 record all-time against Bemidji State and have never lost to them in Madison.

Wisconsin also leads the NCAA in

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women’s hockey attendance with over 2,000 fans per game, 700 more per game than Minnesota, which ranks second.

This series comes between two of Wisconsin’s most important series of the season. Last week the Badgers visited first-place Duluth and next weekend they will head to Minneapolis to take on second-place Minnesota. The players and coaches, however, are wary of looking past Bemidji State.

“It’s getting tense,” junior forward Kayla Hagen said. “We can kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I think our excitement level is staying pretty high, so hopefully we’re going to run Bemidji over, get into the playoffs and keep the train going.”

The Badgers still control their own destiny in terms of getting second place in the WCHA but will need help to win the conference. If Duluth is swept by St. Cloud State in two weeks and the Badgers win their final four games, they would share the regular season title.

Wisconsin has a 9-1 record in the 2008 calendar year and a 90-14-5 all-time record after Jan. 1 under head coach Mark Johnson.

“Our job is to continue to prepare and get ourselves in position that we’re playing good every night, because once we get up to Minnesota and then it becomes playoffs, and if you’re not playing well or if you don’t have a good night, your season could end rather quickly,” Johnson said.

The puck drops at 2:07 p.m.

Friday at the Kohl Center. Saturday has the same start time, but the game will be played at the Eagle’s Nest in Verona.

College basketball coaches nationwide know February is an important measuring stick of a team’s success.

Although the season schedule is shrinking, Wisconsin women’s basketball head coach Lisa Stone knows her team is playing well when it counts.

“The bottom line is we’ve got to continue to play good basketball at the right time of the year,” Stone said. “And I’m encouraged by that. Our STONE kids, they’re all in the boat. They’re all with us. They’re all continuing to fight.”

Her Badgers will look to keep up the battle as they welcome Illinois to the Kohl Center Thursday night.

Wisconsin (4-8 Big Ten, 11-11 overall) suffered a 64-54 loss in Champaign, Ill., last December after a miserable start. Falling behind 2713 to the Illini, Wisconsin’s poor 32-percent shooting from the field

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In a rather humorous moment, there was some confusion as Wisconsin called its final timeout with 12 seconds left. As sophomore guard Trevon Hughes dribbled up the court with Wisconsin down 6665, the crowd in the Kohl Center was roaring with anticipation.

But then Hughes threw a 30-foot shot at the basket, missing badly and you could hear the confusion and disappointment in the crowd. But lost in the translation of a WIBA-Big

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was not enough to pick up the road win.

Senior guard Janese Banks led the Badgers with 15 points against Illinois last time out. Senior guard Jolene Anderson, who leads the conference in scoring with 20.9 points per game, was held to just 10.

Illinois (6-7, 14-10) is led by sophomore center Jenna Smith, who scored a game-high 16 points against the Badgers at Assembly Hall. Smith currently averages 18 points per game, second only to Wisconsin’s Anderson.

Thursday’s matchup marks the start of a 10-day span during which Wisconsin will play four of its last six conference games. Stone feels this could be an amiable schedule for the team’s overall focus.

“Next week, we play Monday, Wednesday, Saturday—quick, quick turnarounds due to TV— that our kids are excited to play,” Stone said. “They’re thankful we don’t have any more byes. That’s a long week of practice when you have a bye week.”

Before Sunday’s stinging home loss to No. 23 Ohio State, the Badgers had won three of their last four games and had shaken off

the shooting woes. Stone knows Wisconsin has all the right ingredients to make a run to the annual Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis.

Ten Network broadcast from two states away was that Bo Ryan had called timeout and Hughes’ shot was just practice.

The crowd realized it and a gentle, but rattled laughter clouded the building.

The band played another song and the fans got ready for Wisconsin’s third opportunity at a game-winning shot on the road this season.

Junior forward Marcus Landry took the inbounds pass with 12 seconds to go and lightly pushed it to Butch who cut along the perimeter. There were still eight seconds left though. No one thought he was going to shoot it.

But he did.

Silence blanketed the Kohl Center, followed by a surprised and relieved roar as Butch’s shot banked off the glass and in.

And when JaMarcus Ellis’ lastsecond heave fell short, fans weren’t sure what to do. Some reacted like it happened right in front of them.

Others realized it was on a scoreboard and kept their cool. And a few students even took a stab at charging the court.

It was a unique situation, but it was also a unique sporting event: a crowd lacking a game on the court in front of them.

“I won’t lie. When that shot went in, I forgot I wasn’t really at the game,” Bindrich said.

than your own to create content, but whether TMZ—whose tagline is “Entertainment News, Celebrity Gossip and Hollywood Rumors”—is the most reputable source the sports world can find is something else.

Whether this new trend is chalked up to a new age in which information is in such high demand that it doesn’t matter where it comes

from, or if it is just laziness on behalf of the sports world, it needs to stop.

It’s time to leave the love drama and gossip to Entertainment Tonight, and get back to writing about what sports fans want to read: sports.

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“I like our situation in terms of going into the Big Ten Tournament,” Stone said. “As long as we continue to take care of each game as it comes, build momentum, play the right and strong kind of basketball at the end of the year, [we’ll] go into that Big Ten Tournament and make some noise.”

Ten teams are jostling for position in the race to Indy. Wisconsin, currently in a tie for ninth place, is just 5.5 games behind surprise Big Ten leader Iowa.

“This team, and the way this year’s been, the Big Ten Tournament is going to be crazy,” Stone said.

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To the media, the fans and the greater Badger nation, he is known as the Polar Bear. To his teammates, he is one of the pillars of leadership and experience they all lean on for support. To his coaches, he is a key contributor on both sides of the ball as well as a teacher and role model for the young understudies on the team. “[We] expect, with all the experience he’s had, for him to keep teaching those younger guys little things about what we do and how we do things,” UW assistant coach Howard Moore said. “[He gives] them the indication of, ‘Hey, I’ve started at this point and now I’m here because I’ve worked at it, I’ve persevered.’”

His name is Brian Butch, and his basketball career to this point has been a tumultuous journey with many ups and downs. But in this, his senior season as a forward for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team, he has one last opportunity to cap his academic years off with a conference title and a run for the national championship.

Coming out of high school, Butch had more accolades and all-American honors than just about any prep basketball player to ever come out of the state of Wisconsin. A firstteam Parade All-American and member of the McDonald’s All-American West team, Butch could have more or less landed a spot on any collegiate roster in the NCAA. But the Appleton, Wis., native ultimately chose to stay close to home because UW-Madison offered everything he wanted in a college program.

“I thought it was a great system, I thought the campus was great and I thought the coaches and players around me were great,” Butch said.

Unfortunately for Butch, his transition from high school to college was not very smooth.

He redshirted his freshman year to bulk up and become an expert in the Wisconsin system with a great deal of guidance from teammate Mike Wilkinson. His hard work paid off, as he was given playing time in 27 games during his inau-

gural season on the court, but a bad case of infectious mononucleosis sidelined him for six games and limited him to only 35 combined minutes in the last eight games of the 2004-’05 season.

More health issues continued to plague Butch, as an ankle injury in his sophomore year limited his mobility and kept the star forward from reaching his full potential, which drew criticism from the media and some fans.

Pressure to perform at the level he demonstrated in high school began to mount, but Butch took it all in stride and placed the burden of playing better squarely on his own shoulders.

“He’s always just looked at it as, ‘Í came in and there was a lot said and a lot done, but at the same time, I’ve still got a job to do,’” Moore said of Butch’s response to the pressure. “He’s always worried about right now as opposed to what’s been said and what’s been done. He’s really matured in a lot of ways and it shows in his play.”

Again Butch took to the floor his junior year in an effort to live up to his former status. He earned a 47.5 field goal percentage and ranked among the Big Ten’s best in rebounding during a 2006-’07 season that set numerous records for the program and captured a great deal of attention on the national stage. However, Butch fell victim to injury yet again when he suffered a dislocated elbow in a gut-wrenching loss to conference rival Ohio State near the end of the regular season—a blow that cost the team a valuable asset and possibly contributed to its early demise in the 2007 NCAA Tournament.

“It’s frustrating any time you have injury [or] sickness,” Butch said. “The redshirt year, I thought I did what I needed to do to get out and play—and I [did], but I got sick. And sophomore year I had an ankle injury. And then junior year, everyone knows about the elbow.

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Although the Wisconsin women’s basketball team has not quite met its preseason expectations, it has gotten production from some of its younger players, like freshman point guard Alyssa Karel.

In her first season playing college basketball, Karel has earned a spot in Lisa Stone’s rotation and given the team a onetwo punch at the lead guard spot. She backs-up sophomore guard Rea Lin D’Alie and plays 16.3 minutes per game. “[Karel and I] help each other out, we complement each other. We’re kind of different, so I think that’s a good thing,” D’Alie said. “Coach is always like ‘We’ll put her in for different looks and stuff.’

And I think it really helps when one of us isn’t playing well and the other just hops in and kind of just doesn’t skip a beat.”

Karel started playing basketball before she entered grade school partially because her father was a coach. She described herself as always being around the game and as part of “a really big basketball family.”

She attended Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul, Minn., a high school known for its athletic programs. Cretin-Derham has produced five NFL players and two MLB players, including Hall of Famer Paul Molitor.

Karel was a starter all four seasons in high school and earned all-state and Minnesota Defensive Player of the Year honors from the AP and St. Paul Pioneer Press her senior year. That season she averaged 19.2 points, 6.3 rebounds, 7.8 assists and 5.6 steals per game.

“Coming in my ninth grade year I got really lucky because the starting point guard was actually just graduating,” Karel said. “The spot was wide open and they needed somebody, and there wasn’t really

anybody above me that really played the position. So luckily I was able to just step in right away for them.”

AAU ball was another avenue Karel took in her basketball career, and it led to her meeting friend and current Badger teammate, freshman forward Tara Steinbauer.

They played together for four seasons on the North Tartan AAU team.

“I remember the first time we played her. She was on this no-name team. We went in thinking like ‘Oh, we are going to whoop this team,’” Steinbauer said. “She just kept her team in it and that’s how she’s always been. She’s always been one of those players who, rain or shine, she keeps her team in it.”

Soon after, Steinbauer’s team needed an extra player to go to nationals, and she remembered the point guard from a “noname team” who had almost beaten them single-handedly.

Karel also was a National Honor Society member and 4.0 student in high school.

The transition to college, however, was not as smooth as it could have been because Karel came to campus early to begin working out and playing with the team.

“Because it’s your senior summer, I wasn’t really that excited to come here with people I didn’t really even know,” Karel said. “The summer after senior year is kind of a time to wind down with your friends, kind of your last goodbye. As bummed as I was that I had to leave early, coming here, within a few weeks of being here, it was kind of where I wanted to be and it kind of molded into my home.”

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Wisconsin hopes to smash the Gophers again

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The Badgers and their fans would like to forget their most recent appearance at home, last Saturday’s devastating 72-67 loss to Purdue. But after winning on the road against Indiana Wednesday, Wisconsin will have a chance to build on its victory as the Minnesota Gophers visit the Kohl Center.

In the last meeting between the two teams in Minneapolis, the Badgers dominated, taking a 3923 lead into halftime and winning 63-47. Sophomore guard Trevon Hughes led all scorers with 20 points while senior center Brian Butch and junior forward Marcus Landry poured in 11 points each.

However, the real difference in the contest was Wisconsin’s suffocating defense, which held Minnesota to a low in points for a game this season.

Wisconsin assistant coach Gary Close said he feels the Badgers should be able to repeat the performance if they focus on their previous matchup against the Gophers.

“We just played really solid right from the get-go,” Close said.

“They’re a really good rebounding team. We kept them off the boards for the most part and did a good job containing [Spencer] Tollackson and [Dan] Coleman, who are outstanding post players. It was a really good team effort, so we just

need to do the same things we did there.”

The Gophers are led by a trio of seniors who are also the team’s top three scorers. Coleman, a senior forward, is averaging 13.1 points and 6.3 rebounds, both team highs. Senior guard Lawrence McKenzie is the team’s secondleading scorer with 10.9 points per contest and leads the Gophers in assists with 3.1 per game.

Tollackson has been a steady force in the post, averaging 10.8 points and 4.3 rebounds a game. All three players must be contained on defense for Wisconsin to give themselves a good chance to win.

Minnesota has been strong offensively as of late, with wins in three of its last four and a 92-point outburst against Northwestern. Still, the Gophers have a lot to prove with only the sixth-best record in the conference. They are still lacking a signature victory in Big Ten play.

Wisconsin still has the best scoring defense in the Big Ten, limiting its opponents to a mere 56.6 points per game.

Junior forward Joe Krabbenhoft attributes this success to hard work and consistency throughout the season.

“We’ve just practiced the same way from day one,” Krabbenhoft said. “Today our first drills were getting back on defense, transition and protecting the rim—we talk about that every day. It started with day one and it’s continued to day whatever, 110. Things haven’t changed around here and I think that’s why consistently we go out there every game and try to do what we do on defense. We’ve just got to

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Another positive quality Wisconsin has seen from its defense of late is production from its regular rotation and bench. All year, the Badgers have benefited from a balanced scoring attack and good effort on both sides of the ball.

Close believes Wisconsin’s team chemistry has been a major factor in many of its important wins.

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Offense Wisconsin has beat Minnesota 12 times in their last 13 games. In their last meeting Feb. 3 at Minnesota, the Badgers cruised to a 63-47 victory. Leading the way was sophomore point guard Trevon Hughes, who averages 12.2 points per game but scored 20 points. However, it seems like Minnesota has turned its game around after winning two games in a row since its four-game losing streak. Minnesota has shown signs of improvement with a healthy freshman Al Nolen, who had 11 points last Saturday versus Iowa, but Wisconsin should have the edge with its strength underneath the basket and its ability to get into the paint.

Advantage: Wisconsin

Defense Minnesota showed speed from its guards and forced Wisconsin to commit 18 turnovers when the two teams met in early February. Minnesota also forced 21 turnovers against Iowa by getting into the passing lanes. The Gophers have allowed 62.9 points per game and have allowed 66.3 points on the road. Wisconsin also forced the Gophers to commit 18 turnovers (14.8 per game). Wisconsin takes pride in its defense and believes to win a game a team must play solid defense throughout. The Badgers have faced some high octane offenses including Duke, Texas and Marquette and are still allowing only 56.6 points per game. Wisconsin held Minnesota to 36 percent field goal shooting last time, and with home court advantage, you can expect the Badgers’ defense will be fired up.

Advantage: Wisconsin

Coaching Minnesota’s Tubby Smith is in his first year coaching Minnesota. Smith has 10 years of coaching experience with Kentucky and a national championship on his resume. Smith was 263-83 with the Wildcats and led them to the NCAA Tournament each year.

Smith’s coaching past is impressive, with four Elite Eight appearances, six Sweet Sixteen appearances and five Southeastern Conference Championships. Minnesota’s final record last season was 9-22, but the Gophers are 15-7 thus far under Smith. Bo Ryan’s style of coaching starts with the unity and chemistry of his players. Ryan’s style is to play team defense and work the ball around the perimeter for a good look. With Ryan’s experience with the Badgers, Wisconsin should be able to secure the win.

Advantage: Wisconsin

Overall With Minnesota’s performance on Saturday against Iowa, the Gophers showed they are still a threat in the Big Ten. The Gophers’ defense forced 21 turnovers and shot 43.4 percent, an improvement from how they performed prior to facing the Badgers the first time around. Minnesota is looking for revenge against the Badgers and is eager to break the 12-of-13-wins trend the Badgers hold against them. With the game being played at the Kohl Center, the Badgers already have an advantage over the Gophers. Wisconsin is 10-2 in the conference and is determined to keep ahead in the Big Ten. With the loss against Purdue, the Badgers are set on a win and will be motivated to play intense basketball.

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strengths of the team,” Close said.

“We’ve got good chemistry—people understand their roles and basically all they want to do is win, whatever we can do to keep winning is what everyone is involved in.”

Wisconsin will try to maintain this level of consistency with Saturday’s 1 p.m. tip-off. The Kohl Center’s fans will be eager to avenge their second home loss to a Big Ten team since Bo Ryan took over the head-coaching position at UW.

butch from page 1 [but] as a player you just try to make the best of it.”

Butch has remained healthy in his final year as a Badger and has been piecing together a statistically successful year. Although many analysts across the country thought little of Wisconsin’s potential to rank among the NCAA elite, Butch has helped the Badgers knock out their opponents one by one, including making a game winning field goal on Wednesday against Indiana.

“The goals are [to] take them game by game,” Butch said. “It sounds cliché, but for us, each game is as important as the next one. If you get caught looking ahead, you lose a game. There’s a slip up you can’t have. Hopefully we’re, at the end, competing for the Big Ten title, which is everyone’s goal. And from there on we’re just playing basketball and seeing how far we can go.”

In addition to his leadership role on the team, Butch has been playing the part of teacher as well, leading by example and bringing up the next generation of big men—young teammates like freshmen J.P. Gavinski, Keaton Nankivil and Jon Leuer.

“Obviously, with him being around here for five years, he knows a lot,” Leuer said. “He knows the ropes, and he’s definitely pointed some things out to me that have benefited my game.”

With a handful of conference games, a Big Ten tournament and a NCAA postseason bid on the horizon, Butch will try to leave Wisconsin with the same fanfare he had when he entered the program—and maybe even some titles to go with it.

“I think he’s done some great things for us this year and we’ve still got a long way to go,” Moore said.

“There’s a lot more to see coming from Brian Butch.”

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ntramural basketball started for me last Sunday, the time of year when college-aged burn-outs try to prove they still have some sort of athletic talent.

Dusting off my basketball shoes was the first step, followed by bundling up and fighting the below-zero temperature on my walk over to the SERF. Once I got there, I was introduced to my team of ladies.

Half of them I’ve played with for the past few years, and the other half replaced friends of mine who are now studying abroad or who are too busy to take an hour out of their schedules to play.

Throughout my middle-school and high-school years, teammates of mine were constantly fighting for attention and playing time.

At the college intramural level, things are quite a bit different.

Nobody cares about how much playing time she gets, just as long as it is equal to the others on her team. Points don’t matter so much and neither does winning or losing. For once, basketball is all about having fun and spending time with friends.

I’m just trying to figure out if that is a good thing.

The starting five is determined by who raises their hand first or by who doesn’t volunteer to sit out first. Prior to college, the starting five was always

determined by the coach based on who matched up best against the opposing team and who was the most talented.

Furthermore, the team captain is rarely a position desired by intramural players. I remember a time when being named captain meant something. At this level, most players are too lazy to sign their names on a piece of paper and to talk with the officials before tip-off, so this leadership position is not desired.

During the first few possessions of the game, everyone has a smile on her face. Players make small talk and everyone has a good time.

Once the game picks up a little bit, you will notice some players take intramurals more seriously than others. A lot of eye-rolling will occur and small talk transforms into smack talk.

The funny thing is, the nicest, most innocent girls are usually the ones with the most attitude on the court.

Additionally, no longer do players get angry when they are subbed out of the game. In fact, most players look forward to game breaks. I don’t because I’m way too competitive.

It seems the most anticipated break is halftime, when very few words are exchanged about basketball. Those five minutes become a time to talk about what everybody did over the weekend while stretching out leg cramps and re-hydrating. The only other thing we decided on was to stop shooting from the outside, considering very few of our shots

fell through the hoop.

This brings up another point: If you miss a shot, nobody really cares. For instance, I missed a layup early in the game and I was the only one to remember that at halftime. I was expecting my teammates to yell, “Come on” or “How did you miss that?” when it happened, but nobody said anything. If I would have missed that layup late in the game, reactions may have been a little bit more extreme.

With five minutes left on the clock, my team was losing by seven points. Tempers started to heat up on both ends of the court. Some players would foul opponents with authority, the type of authority that would earn them a seat on the bench if they were still in high school.

In intramurals, members from both teams chuckle to each other, mumbling, “Wow, that girl is way too intense.”

At the end of the game, win or lose, most players leave the gym with a sense of accomplishment.

That 40 minutes of running a basketball court not only gives players a great workout, but it reminds a lot of them how special basketball used to be to them.

Intramurals may be low-key and fun, but for those of us who made basketball a huge part of our lives throughout the past, it is a depressing substitution.

If any of you felt embarrassed about your intramural basketball performance this week, remember it is only the first week. But if you really need someone to talk to about it, e-mail Crystal at crowns@wisc.

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Wisconsin freshman guard Alyssa Karel is averaging 4.1 points per game and has 17 steals on the season.

karel from page 1 gets tough and when stuff is hard and we’re all really stressed and school and anything, it’s really nice to just have her here, someone to lean on,” Karel said. “We know when each other’s down, and so we kind of feed off that and we’re always just there for each other.”

Having both Karel and D’Alie on the team allows for a slight contrast of styles in terms of point guard play. Karel attacks and looks to score more then D’Alie, who generally is more focused on controlling tempo.

Both players, however, have shown a strong desire to push the tempo and create transition opportunities. Stone sometimes puts both on the court at the same time, a lineup that infuses a lot of speed into the game and was

described by D’Alie as “fierce.”

Karel also likes to throw her passes with a little more flair than the simple workman-like dishes tossed out by D’Alie.

“I played with boys a lot when I was younger, my brothers all played,” Karel said. “Just being smaller I think sometimes it’s hard to kind of muscle up the pass, so it’s just kind of something I’ve grown up kind of doing.”

No matter how she plays on the court, however, Karel creates a sense of confidence and loyalty for her teammates.

“I definitely consider her my best friend. She knows me more personally than anybody else on this team,” Steinbauer said. “She’s one of those people who is always going to be there to support me whether it be in basketball or whether it be in school or in life.”

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Wisconsin Badgers

Minnesota Golden Gophers

team roster

team roster

No. 0 1 2 3 4 11 13 20 24 33 34 50

Name Al Nolen Lawrence McKenzie Ryan Saunders Kevin Payton Travis Busch Jonathan Williams Dan Coleman Lawrence Westbrook Blake Hoffarber Jamul Abu-Shamala Damiam Johnson Spencer Tollackson

Pos. G G G G/F G/F F F G G G F C

Ht. 6-1 6-2 6-1 6-5 6-4 6-9 6-9 6-0 6-4 6-5 6-7 6-9

Wt. 180 180 180 215 220 285 225 195 200 210 195 260

AP National Rankings 1. Memphis 2. Duke 3. Kansas 4. Tennessee 5. North Carolina 6. UCLA 7. Stanford 8. Georgetown 9. Butler 10. Michigan State 11. Texas 12. Xavier 13. Indiana

14. Drake 15. Wisconsin 16. Texas A&M 17. Connecticut 18. Kansas State 19. Purdue 20. Notre Dame 21. Washington State 22. Pittsburgh 23. Louisville 24. Vanderbilt 25. Saint Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Yr. Fr. Sr. Sr. So. Jr. Jr. Sr. So. Fr. Jr. So. Sr.

Hometown Minneapolis, Minn.

Minneapolis, Minn.

Medina, Minn.

Camden, N.J. St. Paul, Minn.

St. Cloud, Minn.

Minneapolis, Minn.

Chandler, Ariz.

Minnetonka, Minn.

Shakopee, Minn.

Thibodaux, La. Chaska, Minn.

No. 1 2 3 12 14 15 21 22 24 30 32 34 43 44 45 52

Name Marcus Landry Wquinton Smith Trevon Hughes Jason Bohannon Tanner Bronson Brett Valentyn Morris Cain Michael Flowers Tim Jarmusz Jon Leuer Brian Butch Greg Stiemsma Kevin Gullikson J.P. Gavinski Joe Krabbenhoft Keaton Nankivil

Pos. F G G G G G G/F G F/G F F/C C F C G/F F

Ht. 6-7 5-11 6-1 6-2 5-11 6-4 6-5 6-2 6-6 6-10 6-11 6-11 6-7 6-11 6-7 6-9

Assists Butler, OSU 6.3 Thompson, NU 4.8 Neitzel, MSU 4.5 Walton, MSU 4.4 Ellis, IND 4.2

Rebounding White, IND 10.7 Claxton, PSU 8.4 Suton, MSU 8.4 Ellis, IND 7.6 Pruitt, ILL 7.6

Steals Hughes, WIS 2.2 Nolen, MINN 2.2 Kramer, PUR 2.1 Johnson, MINN 1.9 Moore, NU 1.9

Yr./Elg. Jr./Jr. Fr./Fr. So./So. So./So. #Sr./Sr. So./Fr. Jr./Jr. Sr./Sr. Fr./Fr. Fr./Fr. #Sr./Sr. Sr./Sr. Jr./Jr. So./Fr. Jr./Jr. Fr./Fr.

Hometown Milwaukee, Wis. Milwaukee, Wis. Queens, N.Y. Marion, Iowa Glendale, Wis. Verona, Wis. Milwaukee, Wis. Madison, Wis. Oshkosh, Wis. Long Lake, Minn.

Appleton, Wis. Randolph, Wis. Stillwater, Minn.

Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Sioux Falls, S.D. Madison, Wis.

Schedule

Big Ten Stat Leaders Scoring Gordon, IND 21.3 White, IND 17.6 Harris, MICH 15.9 Morgan, MSU 15.6 J. Butler, OSU 14.8

Wt. 222 200 193 203 170 193 210 183 200 208 235 260 240 255 220 245

Date Jan. 22 Jan. 26 Jan. 31 Feb. 3 Feb. 6 Feb. 9 Feb. 13 Feb. 16 Feb. 20 Feb. 24 Feb. 28 March 5

Opponent Michigan @ Purdue Indiana @ Minnesota @ Iowa Purdue @ Indiana Minnesota @ Illinois @ Ohio State Michigan State Penn State

Result W 64-61 L 56-60 W 62-49 W 63-47 W 60-54 L 72-67 W 68-66 1 p.m.

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