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Common cold DNA unlocked on campus

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Stem cells develop heartbeat

By Molly Sheetz THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison researchers have discovered a way to convert stem cells developed from adult skin cells into functional heart-muscle tissue, a breakthrough that could change the way the medical community treats heart disease.

A paper published Thursday in the scientific journal Circulation Research details the study conducted since 2007. Using induced plu-

ripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, UW cardiologist Dr. Tim Kamp created heart-muscle cells that, under a microscope, visibly maintain a steady heartbeat.

UW-Madison researcher James Thompson and his research team created iPS cells in 2007, which can be generated from adult tissue and do not generate the controversy associated with embryonic stem cells.

In 1998, Thompson was the first scientist to remove and grow human

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Charter to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy

By Charles Brace THE DAILY CARDINAL

Charter Communications, the main provider of cable television to Madison residents, announced Thursday they will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the face of massive debts.

The company agreed to declare bankruptcy by April 1 in a restructuring deal with creditors that will help to reduce Charter’s debt by $8 billion. Charter said in a statement that company operations are expected to continue as normal, including service to customers and general workings of the business.

“We are committed to continuing to provide our 5.5 million customers with quality cable, Internet and phone service,” said Neil Smit, president and chief executive officer in a statement, “And through this agreement, we will be even better-positioned to deliver the products and services

our customers demand now and in the future.”

Yet Charter’s stock value dropped by over 55 percent upon the announcement, declining to roughly $0.03 cents a share on the NASDAQ index. The stock was over $1.67 a share earlier in the financial year, according to nasdaq.com.

The company still has roughly $800 million in cash, according to the statement, which, when combined with other assets, should allow the company to pay normal operating costs and expenses.

Despite this, Charter still plans to raise $3 billion in capital to make the company more financially viable, though it will also make $74 million interest payments on the debts.

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embryonic stem cells.

In the past, embryonic stem cells have proven capable of forming heart cells, but this study marks the first time iPS cells have been used to form the same heart cells. “[The study] shows that those induced pluripotent stem cells can be differentiated and can form heart cells, which we thought they should be able to do because embryonic stem cells can, and we think they’re like embryonic stem cells,” Kamp said.

Kamp also said researchers are excited that iPS cells allow them to create disease models, which, when constructed in a lab dish, would allow scientists to develop a better understanding of heart disease within a contained environment.

The iPS cells have been used for more than just heart muscle development. Dr. Clive Svendson of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and his lab have also successfully used these iPS cells to create motor neuron

cells in a disease-model of spinal muscular atrophy.

UW-Madison scientist Jianhua Zhang, lead author on the paper, said she believes iPS cell development can positively affect the future of medicine by allowing doctors to personalize the way they treat patients While she admits it could be several years before iPS technology is actively incorporated into cell therapy, Zhang feels that, since its start in 2007, iPS research has made very significant progress.

Edward Fallone, president of the non-profit group Wisconsin Stem Cell Now, said the discovery is exciting and such research with iPS cells must continue.

“Everything we learn about replacement tissue and the ability to generate replacements for body tissues that are diseased or damaged, everything we learn brings us one step closer to eventually being able to cure these conditions,” Fallone said.

Scientists at UW-Madison were crucial in mapping the entire genetic code of the common cold, researchers announced Thursday, likely leading to relief for many worldwide.

University clinicians started the process when they needed to find the gene sequences of the common cold virus in an ongoing study of asthma patients. They collaborated with the University of Maryland to do so, said Ann Palmenberg, UW-Madison professor of molecular virology and co-author of the study.

“We needed the complete genome, so we decided ‘what the heck,’ we’ll take all the ones that haven’t been done and do the whole thing,” Palmenberg said.

She said the sequencing of the genetic code tells a “huge amount about the biochemistry” of the virus, and only 30 of the 99 strains were sequenced before the study.

No other researchers had yet studied the cellular structures inside the virus that make humans sick, according to Palmenberg.

The common cold has three major species: A, B and C. Although the three differ, mapping the entire genetic sequence let researchers draw comparisons between the three and better understand how to fight the disease, she said.

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Love at first read: 1966 flashback

By Ashley Spencer THE DAILY CARDINAL

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n Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1966, Jeffrey Bartell saw his future wife for the first time in a black and white photo on the 11th page of the Daily Cardinal.

There, on the right side of the page, Jeff stared at an exquisite beauty, pictured with a cute flippy bob parted to the side, her lips rounded in a warm smile. Above the photo, Jeff read her name, “Angie Baldi.”

At the time, the Cardinal was profiling the Wisconsin Homecoming Queen Candidates, and Jeff liked what he saw.

“This is a nice-looking group,” Jeff remembered thinking as he circled the pictures of a couple of the attractive co-eds.

But Angela stood out.

It wasn’t just her striking looks that caught Jeff’s eye. The short biography under love story page 3

PHOTO COURTESY JEFF BARTELL

Thanks to a 1966 Daily Cardinal, Jeff Bartell was able to meet and eventually marry the love of his life, Angie Baldi.

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

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It’s hard out here for a (gumball) pimp

DAVID HOTTINGER it’s getting hottinger

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ike most of you, I have to hustle on the side to pay to keep my babies’ mommas quiet. There are five of them, so the fake ID business I run out of Love Shack and my slanging of crack rock don’t cover all the bills. My career advisor told me it’s an awful time to enter the legitimate side of business, “with the economy and everything,” but I told her I had no other option. I got baby daughters to feed, Gail, and payments on my Kymco, bitch. So I had to find another way.

Luckily, my mom gave me a gumball machine when she cut me loose at 18, so that I could live off gumballs or something. But I had a brilliant idea when I was longboarding (JK!) the other day: why don’t I sell gumballs, and get hood rich off all dem quarters?

So that’s what I’ve been doing.

The machine itself is one of those double-barreled beauties that dispense

candy on the other side. I bought 10 pounds of Mike & Ike on eBay (dumb idea, don’t do it), loaded the other side with Seedlings, “the fruit-shaped bubble gum with candy seeds,” set the machine in my living room and waited for the jingles to pour in. In hindsight, I probably should have put the machine in the Plaza or something where drunk hipsters who pay for their drinks in coin would actually buy candy, but as my parents always told me when they were talking about the things they should’ve done before they had me, “well, it’s too late now!”

I live with nine fat kids anyway, so my merchandise moves, you could say.

Except there’s a problem. My roommates treat my candy like it’s coconuts; they’ll pay for it if they have to, but they’d rather just shake something until it comes down for free. I suppose I do the same thing. If there’s a Fast Break bar dangling inside the vending machine in College Library, I’ll totally shake and kick the machine until it drops. Heck, I’ll even feel like I earned it. But then I usually throw it away, because Fast Breaks suck.

But my machine is different.

Mostly because it’s mine. When my roommates or attendees of our P. Diddy parties pass the machine on their way through the room, it should send a message to them. Say fat Paul waddles through. The gumball machine should cry out to his eyes, “Hey! Fat kid! Look at what David did! He spent a bunch of his money stocking me with yummy Ikes and Mikes and those gumballs yous likes!

You want some? Yeah you do! Just give me a quarter, and I’ll fill your fat hand with sugar ... I know, just one quarter!”

And then fat Paul waddles away happy and I can buy a quarter more worth of McDonald’s for my daughter. But it doesn’t work that way.

Granted, no one in my house speaks gumball-machinese, but they totally misinterpret what my machine says to them. They think it says something like, “Hey! Dumpy Dan! You like candy? Yeah I know, who doesn’t?

Well guess what? Greedy David locked all this candy inside me, and he wants everybody to pay him a quarter for it to feed his crack addiction ... I know, a whole quarter! Well, I’ll tell you what, you could either help finance crime

and give Miser D his money, or you could shake the bejeezes out of me for like 10 minutes until about two pieces fall out. No brainer, I know! ... That’s it, jibber-jabber the shit out of me!”

I’m gonna have to start bustin’ some caps. There is an economic crisis in my living room, and my roommates are bailing my assets out, not me. Last weekend they shook it until the back fell off and robbed all my quarters and bought new candy which they keep in a dish on our coffee table and don’t pay squat for. Plus, even when they do feel like paying for it, I have to compete with that Lutheran Student Center on Gilman because they sell Nerd Ropes, which I can’t get out of my machine too well. So this is what I’m going to have to do: start charging you all for reading my articles. You’ve already read the whole thing, so don’t try to get out of it now. Ten dollars. No, 20. If I don’t come up with $90 for my BM’s Charter bill by next week I’ll have to sell my graphing calculator or something. E-mail me, I’ll tell you where to send the check.

Send all billing inquiries to dhottinger@wisc.edu

Doyle: deficit persists despite stimulus

By Megan Orear THE DAILY CARDINAL

Doyle praised Congress’s economic stimulus bill at a press conference Thursday, but said the state will face difficult financial times even with the help of federal funds.

According to Doyle, the $789 billion version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act agreed upon Wednesday would send around $3.5 billion to Wisconsin. He said $2 billion of these funds will go toward education and Medicaid and help offset the 2009-11 projected state budget

deficit of $5.7 billion.

“This bill, as it gets enacted into law, will help us enormously be able to move forward in Wisconsin,” Doyle said.

Doyle said he will deliver the 200911 budget Tuesday under the assumption the stimulus package will become law, but said even with the help of these funds, Wisconsin will face a very large budget deficit. “[The stimulus package] is not going to solve all of the budget problems that Wisconsin has or any of the other states in this country have,”

Doyle said.

For Wisconsin, the stimulus bill would give eligible working families $800 dollar tax cuts and $2,500 tax credits for college, as well as increase unemployment compensation benefits by $100 and the maximum Pell Grant by $500.

According to a White House statement, the stimulus bill will create or save 70,000 jobs in Wisconsin.

The bill also includes $8.5 billion for the National Institute of Health for research projects. The University of Wisconsin was the second larg-

est recipient of NIH funds out of any university last year, according to Doyle, and will likely benefit from this increase in their funding.

In addition to the money toward research projects, the bill also allocates $1.5 billion toward university research facility renovation.

Doyle recognized U.S. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., who is the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, for his contributions to the stimulus bill.

“Congressman Obey really has been the champion for us, and I’m very thankful for that,” he said.

UHS looking to find permanent clinical services director

By Melanie Teachout THE DAILY CARDINAL

University Health Services directors said Thursday the office is fully staffed and working efficiently at the new location on East Campus Mall.

The office is undergoing changes in staffing, as directors are looking for a permanent candidate to fill the director position of clinical services.

“We have recently hired a new nurse manager as well as two nurses to replace those who have retired.

We are as well staffed as we have ever

been,” Gerald Ryan, interim director of Clinical Services said.

Ryan is an applicant for the permanent director of clinical services, a position directors hope to fill by March 1.

Ryan said he only experienced one incident when UHS was understaffed. He said he filled more than one position, serving as both clinical services director and nurse manager. However, UHS hired Cheryle Sickels, who serves as the current nurse manager.

“It is a very busy time of the year, and everybody is working really hard.

It has been a real help to have gotten the new nurse manager,” Ryan said.

The application for the permanent director of clinical services closed Feb. 2, and the committee anticipates choosing a proper candidate by March 1. The only present openings in UHS are those created by retiring nurses.

“We are going to have to address the retirements, but because they are retirements, we know when they are going to happen so we will start the recruiting process for those when it becomes necessary,” Ryan said. “We found that we have been able to find

a very good pool of nurses, so we are not anticipating that it should be a major obstacle.”

According to Van Orman, the spots left open by retired nurses are positions of primary care and immunization travel.

The nurses planning to leave worked for what directors consider an average amount of time.

“Nurses as a group have long years of service, and we have been planning and anticipating recruitments in that area because of the length of service of our nurses,” Van Orman said.

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Mifflin preparations begin early

By Caitlin Gath THE DAILY CARDINAL

Members of the Madison Police Department and Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, met with residents of Mifflin Street Thursday in an effort to improve the annual Mifflin Street Block Party.

Verveer said he wanted to initiate the meeting, the first in a series leading up to the event, because of the rise in arrests over the years.

In 2003 only 33 people were arrested, but four years later, the number increased to 489.

“Most people love the event and don’t realize it could go ugly, which is why police take it so seriously,” he said. “There’s something broken about this event when we have hundreds and hundreds of people arrested.”

Cpt. Mary Schauf of the MPD emphasized although the event should belong to the students and residents of Mifflin Street, safety is an essential factor for the entire city of Madison.

“How do we get people to understand that we don’t want to go out and make a bunch of arrests?” she said. “It’s your street and so it’s your block party, and we’d like to have you take some ownership of that.”

Students responded by requesting police use more judgment when doling out tickets, most of which are minor violations for having an open container on the street.

Andrew Carpenter, a UWMadison junior who spends the majority of his time with friends who live on Mifflin Street, said he would like to see those who display violent or disruptive behavior be penalized for their actions.

Jordan Kennedy, a resident of Mifflin Street, echoed Carpenter’s sentiments. He explained he was

a victim of receiving a drinking ticket when his entire body was not completely on private property.

“I feel like they’re [police] just looking for offenders,” he said.

The only way to make it legal for students to openly drink on the streets would be for a corporate entity to get involved by taking out a street use permit.

KYLE BURSAW/THE DAILY CARDINAL FILE PHOTO

Madison Police are preparing early for the annual Mifflin Street Block Party this year to help lower the number of arrests.

SSFC Chair steps down, new leaders elected The chair of Student Services Finance Committee announced his resignation Thursday.

Kurt Gosselin held the position for almost two years. He said he evaluated the decision of resigning during winter break.

SSFC is a financial group affiliated with Associated Students of Madison. It prides itself on serving and funding the student organizations on campus through allocated and no allocated segregated fees.

“I had an opportunity to look at the emotional and physical toll the position took on me while I was working 40 hours a week on top of everything else,” Gosselin said.

Hannah Karns, vice chair

of ASM, said she did not possess insecurities about replacing Gosselin.

“It is unfortunate that the resignation had to occur at this point in the year, but we are confident that SSFC will remain in good hands for the remainder of the session,” she said in a statement.

According to Gosselin, the decision to resign could not have come at a better time. SSFC’s major projects are completed, but the group still needs to deal with auxiliary budgets and subcommittee work.

Gosselin said there are “budding, enthusiastic” committee members who he hopes will fill leadership positions next year.

“I have tremendous confidence in members, including Tyler Junger and Brandon Williams,” he said.

Gosselin said he would spend his future time focusing on his academics, his personal relationships and practicing for the LSATS. At their meeting Thursday, members of SSFC elected new leadership to serve for the rest of the session. Carl Fergus will serve as chair, Kyle Szarzynski as vice chair and Tyler Junger as secretary.

According to an ASM release, Gosselin said he will “continue to look after students’ interests on campus.”

—Erin Banco

911 Center completes final audit, improvements still needed

By Ashley Davis THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Matrix Consulting Group released results regarding the Dane County 911 Center after completing a comprehensive review.

“I requested this audit … we wanted a fresh, objective, expert review of the system to let us know how the system is functioning,” Kathleen Falk, Dane County executive, said in a statement.

The Public Safety Communications Center, which includes the Dane County 911 Center, implemented strategies aimed at improving employee training after mishandling a phone call from homicide victim Brittany Zimmermann.

The Matrix audit highlighted positive findings in the 911 Center report including medical

and fire priority dispatch and staffing increase initiatives.

The PSCC has acted under a ten-year strategic plan since 2004. It installed a new telephone system, assigned a communications supervisor and updated the complaint review and investigation process.

However, the PSCC still faces several issues as described in the Matrix audit. According to the report, the PSCC needs to formalize its agency operations and performance training to ensure quality assurance.

According to the Matrix report, there are no formal performance management programs in effect or written directives in place governing the selection of training officers.

The PSCC has not formally surveyed any of their client agencies

or Dane County citizens. It has yet to utilize medical or psychological examinations as part of their hiring process for communicators.

“Falk still has not given [the emergency communication staff ] the tools and training they need to do their job,” Nancy Mistele, Dane County executive candidate, said. “For these serious problems to still be lingering five years after Kathleen Falk was given a road map to fix our 911 Center is inexcusable.”

Falk, on the other hand, said at a review meeting Thursday the center has made considerable strides over the years and is continuing to improve.

“I believe our center operates at a very high level,” she said. The PSCC is in compliance with the 2004 strategic plan and will continually work to improve the 911

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love story from page 1 her picture intrigued him, especially when he read the last sentence: Angela “especially loves playing the piano.” Jeff did too.

The Daily Cardinal described Angie Baldi, then 20, as a Milwaukee native and member of both the Delta Gamma sorority and Sigma Epsilon Sigma, the women’s honorary society.

She was also a cheerleader.

Soon after seeing Angela’s picture, Jeff, 23, attended “Yell Like Hell,” a homecoming pep-rally, in hopes of seeing her in person. Through the dense crowd packing Langdon Street Jeff spotted Angela, her leg in a cast, leaning on crutches. She had just broken her foot cheering at the Ohio State game.

“But she was still awfully cute,” he remembered thinking.

The next day, Jeff went to the football game and wandered down the stands to check her out again.

Soon after, he gave her a call at her sorority house. Posing as a Daily Cardinal reporter, Jeff told Angela his name, said he was writing a follow-up story on her Homecoming candidacy and asked her to meet him at the Memorial Union for an interview.

“It wasn’t a complete lie. I was Jeff Bartell, which was true, and I did want to interview her. It’s just I didn’t have any connection with the Daily Cardinal,” Jeff said.

The two met at the Memorial Union in front of the fish tank.

Angela came and saw Jeff’s face as he peered from behind that special issue of the Cardinal, the one that had Angela’s picture on page 11.

“Angela?” he said when he saw her appear on her crutches—as though he hadn’t seen her before.

“Jeff?” she said to the “cute fellow with the curly hair.”

The two grabbed some coffee and sat down for the “interview.”

“Jeff had the newspaper with him and he said, ‘This says you play piano.’ And then he proceeded to talk about how he played in dance and rock bands, giving me all these interesting details,” Angela recalled.

The two then had a long conversation about their similar interests, which also included horseback riding. After some time, Jeff finally confessed that, no, he was not a reporter, and no, he wasn’t on the staff of the Daily Cardinal.

“I know,” Angela said. “You haven’t taken any notes. And I think I learned more about you than you did about me.”

Jeff then asked her out to dinner, and Angela agreed, even though she had a steady boyfriend at another campus.

“I thought he was cute,” Angela said. “I might have been more cautious, but he seemed like a reliable guy, a law student and all.”

Soon after, the two had their first date, dinner and a movie at Hilldale Theater, where they saw “Dr. Zhivago” with Omar Shariff.

It wasn’t too long after that Angela sent her other boyfriend his pin back—Jeff and Angie were rapidly falling in love. It was on their second date that both of them knew already they would marry each other.

On that second date, Jeff invited Angela home to meet his parents.

He grew up in Madison, and his parents met at the university. His father was a faculty member in the Communications department, and his mother worked for WHA, the university radio station. Jerry and Joyce Bartell watched as Angela sang and Jeff accompanied her on the piano. The Bartells were quickly charmed by Angela, as was their son.

When Angela came home to the Delta Gamma house on Langdon later that night, she told one of her sorority sisters that she had just come back from a date with the man she was sure she going to marry.

“I like to say I married my accompanist,” Angela said. “And we’ve been making beautiful music together ever since.”

The couple married just two years later in August of 1968 at the Madison First Unitarian Society. Jeff had just finished law school and was about to start his first job at the Attorney General’s office, and Angela was starting law school, after falling for a particularly “cute, curly haired law student.” She proved equally as talented, retiring recently from her 30-year career as a Dane County Circuit Judge.

The couple has stayed involved with the university to this very day: Jeff is currently a member of the UW Board of Regents, and the Bartells continue to visit the Union for ice cream and fudge-bottom pie.

JERRY BROWN/THE DAILY CARDINAL FILE PHOTO

Angie Baldi’s Homecoming profile in the 1966 Daily Cardinal paper was what first caught Jeff Bartell’s eye.

charter from page 1

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Business, said Chapter 11 bankruptcy is significantly different than Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

He said Chapter 11 filings are for companies that are an “economically viable enterprise,” but that due to financial constraints or issues must restructure to continue.

Hausch said in a Chapter 7 filing the company would sell off assets and the company would essentially end.

types that cause a runny nose or aches, as the 99 strains would make it impractical. But she said drugs “without question” could be developed to fight the more dangerous type C species of cold virus that sometimes causes severe pneumonia or asthma.

According to the scientists’ research paper, the common cold causes roughly 50 percent of all asthma flare-ups.

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Finding a Valentine

Today’s Sudoku

Anthro-apology

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Angel Hair Pasta

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Sid and Phil

By Alex Lewein alex@sidandphil.com

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

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Walt Disney quote on love Yesterday’s Code:

“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening”

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

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Evil Bird Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com TRAVEL GUIDE ACROSS

1 Block, in a way 6 Lobster pincer 10 It makes a stool a chair 14 More than portly 15 Centers of activity 16 For grades 1-12, briefly 17 Animal handler 18 Like the Kalahari 19 Arabian chieftain (Var.) 20 “The Sopranos” were here 21 Position of advantage 24 Philbin of TV 26 Ultra-wide shoe 27 Not professionals 29 Castle in the air, e.g.

34 Kate’s partner 35 Goes a few rounds 36 In the past 37 The African Queen, e.g.

38 In a fog 39 Trident- shaped letters 40 Massachu- setts cape 41 Burnsian hillsides 42 Card game authority Edmond 43 Uncalled for

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13 Shatner role 22 “Delta of Venus” author Anais 23 Williams and Koppel 25 Release, as an odor 27 Rachel’s father 28 In isolation 29 Catnaps 30 Gives the gate 31 Where the affluent live?

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Keepin It Real On Valentine’s Day

by Brian Bienenfeld Valentine’s day...well what is there to say Infatuation in the Keg Line For couples, we can say it’s a very special day

by Hope Carmichael For the ladies, it’s about chocolates and roses and not having to pay But for the fellas, it’s all about cashing in to get a good lay.

My cheeks blush rose, On V-Day Women expect to be wined and dined not solely due They demand their men to be sensitive and kind to one failed game of beer pong Men do all they can to live up to the hype but also, When all we really wanna do is chill and maybe smoke a pipe your face.

On the day of Valentine, women want commitment and romance too And my hair tosses Men would prefer a threesome, with their girl and lab partner named Sue. (an instinct) Women love Valentine’s Day like men love the Super Bowl falling stubbornly back But stay strong men, these Valentine’s Days do take their toll over my eyes Each and every Valentine’s Day women look to gain more control which dance a nervous tarantula You may not even realize it until you’ve lost a bit of your soul and stop on you.

For every V-Day they’ll expect more and more This is So beware fellas cause you may end up poor. infatuation in the keg line.

So to all the men looking for lust and the all women looking for love Gentlemen, V-Day maybe the day to give your lady the shove.

People, I know how that must sound but let’s be frank What did Rose do with Jack when the Titanic actually sank The point is people, Valentine’s Day can be very tricky So I guess all I’m saying is, you better be real picky To both men and women, I will leave you with some sage advice: Ladies, tone down the demands, stop treating your men as blind mice And to all the Gentlemen, do your very best, play your cards right and above all be extra nice For who knows, one day you may find yourselves surrounded by friends and family all throwing rice!

Acrostic by Todd Stevens

I pine for you every second we’re apart It feels like my heart will break I wanted to give you a piece of my heart Not some gift that’s lame or fake I traveled to the Whole Foods store But bought not flowers nor cake I got you what you deserved you cheating whore A piece of bloody red steak The anguish, the sadness, the crying, the pouting The lying, the madness, the pain At least now I can say that I won’t be doubting You’ll ever eat red meat again So enjoy your newfound hunk of a man And I’ll act like I don’t care But the truth of it is our love really can Only be described as medium rare

by Kevin Slane

Questions

by Jenna Liberman

I like you But I am impatient.

I try to be apparent.

Giggles, sideways glances, Texts under guise Of school, Initiate plans outside of study groups, Conversation about friends, music, anything.

I don’t want to be transparent I don’t want to be Let down, embarrassed, Rejected There is a comfort in opacity.

True Love

by Kyle Sparks

High above the river Atop a willow tree You ask me for one fruit snack But I hand over three

HAIKUS

Yet another sign He’s just not that into you The gift of condoms —Kevin Slane A Pathetic Fidelity

‘Though with another When I reach across the bed Know I reach for you —Steve Wiberg

St. Valentine’s Day is here for you Tis here for your admirer, too Always sending signals of lust Looking to earn your faith and trust Knowing all your thoughts and dreams Each day they’re there, or so it seems Really, it’s time to get that restraining order

Alisa at the Precipice

Clandestine Encounter

By Kaitlyn Schnell Rays of soft sunshine trickle through the door You saunter in with sweet disposition Dust floats up as you swiftly meet the floor Each step closer proves my intuition No syllable spoken, yet I still hear The velvet voice that saturates senses Fervor aroused when only you are near Oh, how you dismantle my defenses!

Exist solely to satisfy pleasure I surrender my trembling fingers To the serene face that I so treasure Your savory scent descends and lingers Our clandestine encounter yields bliss How can I deny seclusion like this?

Admonition to Ladies in the College Party Scene

By Jim Donovon “Oh Darling whom I have only met once, Oh thou bright starlet of this drunkard’s night, Oh won’t you swoop down and be base tonight?

Please drink your drink so as to bless this dunce For then the moment will feel nice and right No matter that your wedding will be white.

“Babe, be burdened with bad reputation And please hurry into this relation If given choice all good instinct eschew For that is what all girls in college do.

Excessive drink: this Bacchic rite partake and gossip later about past mistakes.

“When the night’s transformed into a whirlwind Remember, a stranger’s advances always rescind.”

by Steve Wiberg

When you dream, you dream of tornados Because tornado dreams indicate stress Whirling with shards they collect on the go Knocking over straw hopes when they blow But I envision you on a cliff Thinking about old love, and our tryst Dizzy with worry, one foot in the abyss Your heart equally divided and your muscles stiff And I, an interloping siren, call from below: “Jump! Fly! To a mysterious future, cloaked, unknown, Wherein I promise nothing except a tender heart, my own.

So leave old embers die for my strident burning glow.”

To assist I would recall the verse of Dylan Thomas With a completely different meaning, but meant nonetheless “Do not go gentle into that good night” Take that leap head first and solve our plight.

Things can’t stress you out if you let them go, And know darling, that as you fall, you fall into my arms, Open and eager to hold you and all your charms Then, hand in hand, we’ll write a new lover’s yarn.

You told me we’re conjunct and our recondite love prodigious.

Not comme il faut nor de rigeur but veritably seditious.

I knew that ‘perspicacity’ (the thing that you adored was), But what’s a word for love between a man and a thesaurus?

by Matt Hunziker Three Ways to Heaven

I look into her eyes and give you a high five Our plan is set and the dream is alive You’ll get the tip, I’ll get the assist Then we’ll reverse roles, she won’t resist I’ll drive the hole, you defend the arc Then I’ll retreat and you can have her heart For love is a game, a game for two So you can sub in when I am through

by Max Conway

And Alisa, should your hand tremble, your eyes cry, or your head feel faint.

I will always be there to revive you with a kiss.

HAIKUS

To wish to be close Like a vine around a tree, Both beauties enhanced —Steve Wiberg

Be the arrow in my heart, and not just the one who shot it, Because then I could leave you there and my heart might grow around it.

Love’s wound is frightful deep, Your arrow pricks me, leaves me weak, But should I have to pull it out, I’d wail, and weep, and gnash my teeth, Until I had teeth no more And from love’s banquet I might never again eat.

Please come to me, and take my hand.

And from the arrow’s feather we’ll craft a wreath.

And I’ll place it on your head as a pretty crown And it will make your beauty so much more the sweet.

My love’s a treasure I pray you’d reap, Stashed for you aboard an innumerable fleet, Waiting, all hands, for you to take your seat Beside me so that we might sail and our fortune meet.

I think on V-Day Being single is okay The chocolate is all yours —Caissa Casarez

My love’s the best medicine, vitamin, and, above all, treat Because I vow to make you better every day of every week Your good is my only concern, and is all I’ll seek, For you, my dear, I’d accomplish any feat

Six months of dating You got me a facebook gift We are so over —Kevin Slane

And until you assent, your shored up heart relent, These words written above, and more, will I repeat.

by Steve Wiberg

So the first gift I ever received from a girl on Valentine’s Day was an incense burner from my (then) girlfriend. And I remember removing it from its slim rectangle of gift wrap and thinking ‘What kind of legal adult would go to Hot Topic to buy a Valentine’s Day gift for another legal adult?’ and ‘Have I ever indicated that I would enjoy sitting in a beanbag chair surrounded by velvet art and inhaling the rich aroma of something called ‘Egyptian Lavender?’ and ‘Why, why - unless your boyfriend is a Wiccan or collects tiny mushrooms in glass globes strung on hemp necklaces – why would you buy them a gift that says, “Happy Valentine’s Day! I think you are a Wiccan who likes collecting tiny mushrooms in glass globes strung on hemp necklaces!”?’ and ‘This is the beginning of the end, isn’t it?’ So ... thanks for letting me get that off my chest. I’m going to sit back down now. Thanks.

by Matt Hunziker

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ity staff and Alcohol License Review Committee members have recently proposed an “alcohol ban list” in an attempt to prevent chronic street alcoholics in Madison from purchasing alcohol.

There is no definition of what it takes to be put on the list. However, according to Katherine Plominski, the city’s alcohol policy coordinator, a person would have to receive a combination of six or more alcohol citations or detox-center referrals within a year to make the list.

Once on the list, violators would be unable to purchase alcohol from liquor stores, and to be removed individuals would need to go 180 days without an alcohol-related citation or trip to detox.

Although these are only the beginnings of the plan with no official criteria set in place, we applaud any action to deter chronic alcoholics from purchasing liquor for both financial and social reasons.

According to Todd Campbell, alcohol and other drug abuse services manager for Dane County, it costs $261.52 per person for a single day in detox. One potential member of this list was sent to detox 46 times within a year, totaling $12,029.92. This is a substantial amount of money lost to a single person, let alone the poten-

tially 100 or more who would be put on the list. Although the person sent to detox would be responsible for the cost, many habitual drinkers cannot afford to pay such an amount.

Also, the individuals who would be targeted are those who disrupt or endanger Madison residents, and any preventative measures could improve the safety of the city.

Although the ALRC and city staff are off to a great start with this proposal, more needs to be done.

City staff and the ALRC must adopt a strict policy to confront the problem of habitual drinkers headon. Three alcohol-related citations in one year should earn both a noselling policy in liquor stores and a no-serving policy in bars. Green Bay adopted a similar policy 10 years ago, and their problem sectors saw an immediate decrease in habitual drunks and fewer complaints from concerned residents. Madison has a problem with both, and Green Bay’s solution provided clear results.

Madison’s problem drinkers remain unfazed by citation after citation. The only way to curb such behavior is to cut off the source of their addiction and use a ban list to reinforce the negative effects associated with habitual drunkenness.

Darwin’s legacy muddled in sad, pointless debate

By Anthony Cefali THE DAILY CARDINAL

Happy belated birthday, Charles Darwin. Look how far we’ve come since you sailed around the world. Look how much we’ve learned about your elegant theory that explains how something as complex as a human being wrought with consciousness, morality and curiosity could share a common ancestor

with every other living thing on this planet. One hundred and fifty years of human-guided evolution have passed, but social acceptance of evolution in America has not even made it onto land yet.

If standards for science education are not set to eliminate the pedantic complaints of intelligent design, we risk further damaging the natural cycles of our planet as well as the education of future generations.

We are in the midst of Earth’s sixth mass extinction, and we are responsible for it.

Recently, there has been a resurgence of the evolution-creationism debate at the state and county level. It is at this level that evolution is losing traction among the American people. The state of Wisconsin mandates the teaching of evolution, but the ultimate curriculum decisions are left up to the school boards. Because of perverse special interests, Darwin’s theory is being emphasized as strictly a theory open for debate alongside the concept that we are all descendents of a man and a rib-woman.

In Georgia, high-school biology textbooks must be labeled with a sticker stating, “Evolution is a theory, not a fact,” and it “should be approached with an open mind.”

Blanket statements like these only serve to cause students to mistrust evolution and their educators, not question it in a productive way.

Evolution, along with other academic endeavors, should always be approached with an open mind.

As students, it is our duty to evaluate and debate our subjects to better understand them and possibly even to improve them. This is how we achieve scientific progress—through the constant revision of paradigms. But evolution has answered the questions of real science and should not have to

answer to the arrogant skepticism of intelligent design. Darwin’s concept of natural selection had plenty of philosophical holes upon conception, holes that we have since plugged up and continue to fill with the help of modern genetics and paleontology. Much to the chagrin of the scientific community, creationist thought persists and is even thriving in some respects.

The United States is pretty much the last bastion of intelligent design. According to a recent Gallup poll, only 39 percent of Americans believe in evolution, while at least 25 percent firmly do not. Since 1980, belief in evolution among adults has actually declined. In a modern age, we are furiously backpedaling. There is an innate fear that nothing happens when we die, so we overcompensate. Proponents of intelligent design feed this insecurity with dishonest books, television programs and museums dedicated to restoring homocentric ideals.

Somewhere along the line teachers became parrots of Darwinist falsities to be corrected by pastors and parents. Authority needs to be removed from the school boards and other powerful people who are carrying out special interests in the name of halting “moral degradation” and restored to the people with the facts—our teachers.

The truth is we are in control of evolution now. We are in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, and we are responsible for it. Life is resilient; it will always find a way to exist in any form it possibly can. But now, as the only sentient beings on this planet, it is up to us to guide evolution responsibly and with regard for our planet’s future. Not being accountable for our actions and denying blatant facts in favor of comforting fantasy is destructive to the planet. And as Carl Sagan once said, “In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”

Anthony Cefali is a junior majoring in biology and English. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Wisconsin challenges Mavericks over the weekend

By Brandon Storlie THE DAILY CARDINAL

In the wake of one of the most physical series of the season, one might expect the Wisconsin women’s hockey team to relax. Think again.

Even after taking a shootout victory from archrival Minnesota last Sunday, the Badgers remain a point behind the Gophers in the race for the WCHA regular-season title.

After dropping to second in both the national and league standings with only two series left in the regular season, the team knows what is on the line.

“Our team has always been a pretty good team at being able to focus on the task at hand,” Wisconsin junior forward Meghan Duggan said. “We’re already a point behind Minnesota, so any slip-up would just make things worse for us.”

No one personifies the Badgers’ desperation more than Duggan. The Massachusetts native netted a pair of goals at Ridder Arena last weekend

before lighting the lamp in Sunday’s shootout to give Wisconsin the win.

“Everyone’s harping on the fact that we’re one point behind [Minnesota] and we might have just lost the regular-season championship,” Duggan said. “But there are still four games to be played. Funny stuff can happen.”

On paper, the Badgers will have a definitive edge when they travel to Mankato this weekend. Wisconsin outscored Minnesota State 15-2 in two games at the Kohl Center in late November. To make matters worse for the Mavericks, they have never beaten the Badgers, going 0-39-1. The Badgers do not want the 41st time to be their downfall.

“It’s good for us to just look at Mankato as the next milestone and go through Friday night’s game ready to win and take two points from them,” Duggan said.

Besides going goal-for-goal with the Gophers on the road last Sunday, the Badgers also showcased their abil-

Women’s Tennis

UW hosts ITA National Team Tournament starting Friday

By Emma Condon THE DAILY CARDINAL

The UW women’s tennis team will host 16 of the best tennis squads in the nation for the ITA National Team Indoor Tournament this weekend at Nielsen Tennis Stadium.

The No. 68 Badgers will move into the busy weekend of tournament play after sustaining two difficult losses to No. 63 Old Dominion and No. 24 William and Mary, both by a score of 5-2, causing the Badgers to fall to 2-3 on the 2009 season. As play begins early Friday morning, they face another east-coast team, Duke, in the first round of the draw.

“I think first of all we need to take last weekend’s learning experience and apply it to this week,” Badgers head coach Brian Fleishman said.

“Meaning that we know that every match we play is going to be really tough. There is nobody that we can overlook, underestimate, and I think we prepared pretty well for Duke and we know what to expect.”

The No. 9 Blue Devils are undefeated after five games and enter the tournament off a 4-2 victory over No. 32 Ohio State in the tournament’s first regional qualifying round after failing to qualify last year.

Although it will be the tournament’s 22nd consecutive year on Madison courts, for the first time in its history the field will be comprised of 15 regional qualifiers and the hosting Badgers.

Previously, the tournament invited teams to participate based on the previous season’s records and regional representation. However, this year the ITA opened competition to 64

favre from page 8 about Favre’s retirement is not the announcement itself but the way in which he has handled it. This year was a major learning experience for both the Jets and the Packers, and certainly Favre, too. He proved that he was able to learn from his mistakes of the past—he didn’t leave the Jets in a tough situation and put their team in limbo by dragging out his announcement.

Now Favre has given the Jets ample time to move on from his short tenure with the team and address the future

teams nationally through 15 regional qualifying tournaments where the winner advanced to the national tournament in Madison, making for one of the most competitive draws in tournament history.

“I think that every team that came here this weekend is expecting to win a national title,” Fleishman said. “We’re trying to see how we can match up against some of the top teams in the country and kind of gauge what we need to do and where we need to go.”

Qualifiers this year include 12 of 15 regional No. 1 teams, including Big Ten powerhouse Northwestern (4-0), which is currently ranked No. 1 in the country and boasts the nation’s best singles player, Maria Mosolova.

Among the 12 teams that return from last year’s tournament is undefeated No. 7 Georgia Tech (5-0), which is looking for its third straight ITA team title after defeating Northwestern 4-2 last year.

Other teams vying for the title this year include No. 2. California (3-0), No. 3 UCLA (4-0), No. 4 Baylor (2-0) and No. 5 Stanford (3-0).

In this competitive field, 57 of 128 ranked singles will make appearances this weekend, ready to threaten the Badger ladies, but despite last weekend’s tough losses, Fleishman said the girls are ready.

“You can take a loss and look at it different ways,” he said. “You can either lose confidence or try to go home and work on things to build confidence, and I think that’s what we did this past week.”

UW will open play Friday against Duke at 9 a.m. The tournament will continue through Monday, Feb. 16. needs of the franchise. Although Favre certainly played a part in the Jets’ failure to make the playoffs, Jets fans should be eternally grateful to Favre for making the right choice for not only himself, but the team as well.

Hopefully Favre will repair his legacy with Packers management. He can’t take back his actions from the past, but this one-year learning experience and his growth in maturity should not go unnoticed.

Do you think Brett Favre will stay retired this time? E-mail your thoughts to Matt at mfox2@wisc.edu.

ity to play through adversity. After losing senior forward and team captain Erika Lawler to an injury midway through Saturday’s contest, the Badgers fought through major lineup changes in Sunday’s game.

“That was tough,” UW junior forward Jasmine Giles said. “The lines were all messed up, and everyone was playing with somebody

different. That was probably the hardest part. We persevered, [and] we came through. We’ll take it.”

Although the Badgers have a fairly easy schedule for the remainder of the regular season, injuries and fatigue will be two of their main concerns for the rest of the year.

However, the team is far from making excuses.

“We have a lot of bumps and bruises here and there,” UW senior defender Alycia Matthews said.

“But we’re trained to do this. We’re Division I athletes.”

UW will have its final road series this weekend against the Mavericks.

Faceoff will be at 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday at All Season’s Arena in Mankato, Minn.

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Men’s Basketball

Wisconsin welcomes Ohio State

By Andy Van Sistine THE DAILY CARDINAL

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any times, fans of professional sports and the players themselves forget that athletes have extraordinary talent, but they are also human beings.

This certainly applies to New York Jets quarterback Brett Favre, who recently announced his second retirement from the NFL in 12 months.

When Favre retired from the Packers in March 2008, it seemed to be an appropriate ending to a legendary career. Although he didn’t finish the season with a Super Bowl title, the Packers’ surprise run showed Favre’s ability to silence his critics and hold together a successful team despite a 38-year-old frame.

But after Favre’s emotional press conference and the realization that he had officially left the game, he realized something that many athletes constantly struggle with: He was afraid of change and moving on from the game he was so passionate about. You can hardly blame him—17 seasons, all the records and tremendous success—it’s not an easy thing to abandon. For some players, their sport is all they know, and the idea of leaving it behind is often too painful to confront.

In the end, Favre’s abrupt decision to return to the NFL probably made him seem like a selfish individual. It was without a doubt an impulsive act and put the Packers in an extremely difficult situation, not to mention the players like Aaron Rodgers who were adversely affected.

But at the same time, I think it would also be unfair to say that Favre’s one-year experiment was a mistake.

He had a strong urge to return to the game he was so passionate about and had every right to prove himself out on the field, even if it felt wrong to see him without a Packers jersey.

During Favre’s stint with the New York Jets, there were still glimpses of the old Favre that everyone loved and respected. His stats—22 touchdowns and 22 interceptions—were far from stellar, but Favre also led the Jets on an impressive five-game winning streak, including a victory over the previously undefeated Tennessee Titans.

The end of the season essentially unfolded as a complete disaster. The fashion in which the Jets choked down the stretch—losing four of their last five—made Favre’s miscues even more glaring. But nonetheless, Favre also provided plenty of entertainment and gave the Jets much-needed excitement surrounding their franchise.

From the beginning, the Jets had no choice but to look at their experience with Favre as an experiment.

He clearly didn’t have a long-standing future with the team, and his skills were diminishing. But the Jets still competed at a much higher level than they did in years past, and in 40 years without a Super Bowl win, there was very little risk in taking a gamble with the older superstar.

In the end, Favre knew that it was time with all the injuries and adversity he was facing. Eventually, everyone’s time runs out, and for Favre it came under unfortunate circumstances.

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One week’s time was all it took for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team to get its bearings after a month’s worth of hard times.

Now on a three-game winning streak, the Badgers (6-6 Big Ten, 15-9 overall) will try to maintain their winning ways against No. 24 Ohio State (7-4, 17-5) when they roll into the Kohl Center tomorrow evening.

Although Wisconsin struggled to a 1-4 record against ranked conference opponents to start the season, the victory against No. 25 Illinois last week was a testament to the Badgers’ ability to win with their backs against the wall.

Six consecutive conference losses in January is a costly blow to any team, but Wisconsin’s recent performances seem to have the team back on track and still in position to claim a postseason berth.

“When you get in those situations and you get in those stretches where [things] go against you a little bit, you’ve got to keep in mind that you can’t feel sorry for yourself and you can’t think the opponents are going to feel sorry for you at all,” UW assistant coach Howard Moore said. “You’ve just got to keep fighting and keep plugging away, and I think that’s what this group did.”

Since the beginning of February, Wisconsin’s defense has held opponents to an average of 48.6 points per game—better than any other team in the conference—and has kept opponents’ shooting percentage down to 38.5 percent in the last three games. Prior to then, the

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Badgers were allowing more than 61 points per conference game and were next to last in the Big Ten in opponent field-goal percentage.

Without question, the improvements on defense have been a major factor in the team’s turnaround.

“We go back and we watch film of what we did wrong in those games that we lost, and now it’s turned over,” senior forward Marcus Landry said. “All the things that we did that made us lose those games, we’re not doing anymore, so we’re coming out successful. In those games … we only lost by no more than four points, so it all comes down to the end. Those mistakes that we were making before, we’re not making anymore.”

In addition, productivity across the Wisconsin offense has been widespread to a point where it is anyone’s guess as to who might be the team’s highest scorer each night.

Wisconsin junior guard Jason Bohannon had 20 points in the win against Illinois, and senior forwards Landry and Joe Krabbenhoft have led the team against Penn State and Iowa, respectively.

The great outside play of Bohannon, who is 11-of-15 from 3-point range in the last three games, has opened up the post for players like Landry and Krabbenhoft, which keeps opposing defenses torn and gives the Badgers plenty of options around the rim.

On the flip side, the Buckeyes have compiled a four-game win streak of their own and will surely test the Badgers on both sides of the ball. Ohio State has compiled the best shooting percentage of

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Wisconsin and junior guard Trévon Hughes hope to collect their fourth straight win Saturday night against Ohio State at the Kohl Center. any team in the Big Ten and has been averaging 77 points per game in the last two weeks. The team is led by sophomore guard-forward Evan Turner, who has been averaging 17 points per game and is .500 from behind the 3-point arc this season.

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Minnesota last weekend.

But rankings and hot streaks do not seem to have any affect on how the Badgers prepare for their next opponent. They will be sticking with the game plan that has gotten them back on track as of late.

“We approach every game the same way,” Landry said. “They’re just the next game on our list.”

Tipoff for the Valentine’s Day showdown is scheduled for 8 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN. Up next for UW: Indiana TV: BTN When: Monday at 7 p.m.

Badgers bounce back, defeat Penn State at home

By Jay Messar THE DAILY CARDINAL

Wisconsin sophomore forward Tara Steinbauer recorded her first career double-double as the UW women’s basketball team beat Penn State 58-52 at the Kohl Center Thursday, snapping a five-game losing streak.

“I was walking down the hallway with Rae [D’Alie] and she said ‘I’m so sick of losing,’” Stone said.

“That grit comes out when you get sick of it long enough.

“This hopefully is the game that

jump-starts us, that breaks us through the ice and we get rolling into the [Big Ten] Tournament.”

Wisconsin had lost the first two games of its streak-on last second shots—including at Penn State when junior guard Tyra Grant hit a turnaround jumper at the end of overtime—before getting blown out on at Michigan and Purdue.

“You put all that work into being up in those games and to lose two buzzer-beaters … its draining,” D’Alie said. “Then to go play two games like Michigan and Purdue and it’s just

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Wisconsin junior guards Teah Gant (left) and Rae Lin D’Alie (right) celebrate their home win against Penn State Thursday night.

like, OK, that’s it. This is the time we’re going to flip it.”

“I believe this is our breaking point,” D’Alie added.

Steinbauer led UW (5-9 Big Ten, 15-10 overall) with 16 points and a career-high 10 rebounds, and fellow sophomores Alyssa Karel and Lin Zastrow added 15 and 11 points, respectively.

Despite going 4-for-8 from the free-throw line in the final three minutes of the game, the Badgers converted 15 offensive rebounds into 15 second-chance points— including a clutch put-back by Steinbauer with under a minute to go to put the Badgers up four.

“Her offensive rebound late in the game, inside the last minute, was huge for us,” Stone said. “[It] may have been the difference maker.”

Grant once again lit up the Badgers, leading PSU with 24 points.

“She’s a fantastic player,” Stone said of Grant. “She’s WNBA player.

From the standpoint of her ability to score outside and inside, handle the basketball, shoot in traffic, we knew we’d have to do a good job on her.”

Grant picked up where she left off in Happy Valley, scoring 12 first-half points on 5-for-7 shooting from the floor with two threes.

But Wisconsin used a 12-2 run to take the lead at the half 26-19.

The Badgers caused a shotclock violation on PSU to open the second half, then Zastrow went to work drawing an and-one to put the Badgers up 29-19.

UW opened up a 13-point lead on a layup by D’Alie, but the Nittany Lions came roaring back. Penn State cut the lead to five on a spin move by sophomore guard Julia Trogele from 12 feet and another Grant jumper. A pair of free throws by O’Rourke then tied the game at 33.

Pressure mounting, Steinbauer sunk a huge 3-pointer as the shot clock expired, and Karel curled off a double screen to put the Badgers back up 41-35 with 7:49 to go.

“I think I pulled my 3-point percentage up for the season from 9 percent to 20 percent,” Steinbauer said with a wry smile. “It came at the right time for us.”

Costly Nittany Lion turnovers led to layups for Wisconsin, as D’Alie put the Badgers ahead 4838 with two of her eight points in the game. Penn State answered with a 12-2 run of its own to close to within two, 52-50.

Steinbauer hit a free throw to put UW up three. Grant missed a shot on the ensuing possession and Wisconsin junior Teah Gant grabbed the defensive rebound, leading to a run-out layup by Karel to seal the win for Wisconsin.

The Badgers also recorded a season-high 12 steals in the game.

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