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Me Too founder Tarana Burke visits campus, calls UW students to action By Gracie Wallner FEATURES EDITOR
UW-Madison’s Memorial Union auditorium buzzed with hundreds of students, faculty and community members who awaited Tarana Burke, the founder of the Me Too movement, to speak. Sexual violence is not a new issue on college campuses, but the power of Me Too has forced higher education to find its place in the movement. Burke said in order for students to have conversations about sexual violence in the outside world they should be able to have them within their campus community. “There should be an inherent commitment to make this community less vulnerable to sexual violence and based upon the conversations I had today, there is not,” Burke said. Grappling with her own history of sexual violence, Burke founded the Me Too movement in 2006 as a way to give young people a platform to talk about sexual violence and a space to heal. “We were just giving language and basic organizing skills, because we believed people with the lived experiences should be at the forefront,” she said. The hashtag began in 2017 when
actress Alyssa Milano tweeted, “If all the women and men who have been sexually harassed, assaulted or abused wrote ‘me too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem. #metoo.” One year later, 19 million people had posted #MeToo, according to a Pew Research study. While the hashtag increased public awareness of the movement, Burke emphasized Me Too is more than just a hashtag. She said her work is meant provide healing and advocacy for all survivors, especially for historically marginalized people. Burke recognized that conversations about sexual violence have never occurred in the same manner they are now and encouraged the audience to “not waste this moment.” She said Me Too would not be where it is today without individuals making a decision to speak up about being “in a number no one wants to be a part of.” UW-Madison students are part of that number. Me Too at UW-Madison: In class and on campus UW-Madison philosophy professor Aaron Yarmel said students can gain tools to address sexual violence by studying Me Too and related topics from a
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The Me Too movement has a prominent place in higher education, curricula, and the lives of students. variety of fields’ perspectives. “You’re making a mistake if you don’t [address Me Too in class],” he said. Other educators, like Center of Journalism Ethics Director Kathleen Bartzen Culver agreed Me Too has an important place in curricula. “Me Too is the mother of all case studies for crisis management — it’s something that’s going to be on syllabi for years,”
she said. However, Culver mentioned she aided a former student in securing an internship, who later experienced sexual assault on the job. When the student was hesitant to ask for help, Culver recognized the university has a role beyond coursework — faculty and staff need to be an accessible resource for students. “I feel that I am absolutely a resource for students who have
been put in a position like that, but if students don’t feel that you are someone they can come to, if you’re just sort of reinforcing the power structure, that’s something we have to solve,” she said. Jenna Herr, a graduate student in the UW-Madison School of Business, said even after serving as co-president of Women
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International LGBTQ+ students search for their space on campus By Defang Zhang STAFF WRITER
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International LGBTQ+ students search for student organizations that foster a safe space after facing isolation at Uw-Madison.
Worldwide acceptance and visibility of those who identify as LGBTQ became more prevelant on U.S. college campuses in 2018 with events and celebrations held to create a more welcoming environment to all students. According to a report released by Campus Explorer, only 60 campuses had LGBTQ or Gender and Sexuality Centers in 2006. Today, there are more than 100 within the United States. UW-Madison is one of the universities that has enacted institutional policies aiming to increase inclusion for the LGBTQ community on campus. According to a UW-Madison Gender and Sexuality Campus Center spreadsheet, there have been 26 gender-neutral restrooms created in academic buildings and student activity centers on campus.
“Our goal is to provide comfortable space for students within the community,” said Tiffany Lee, crossroad coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center at UW-Madison. In addition to establishing more gender-neutral facilities on campus, the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center also provides exclusive programs and training for LGBTQ students and allies who are interested in getting involved, Lee said. Although the LGBTQ community on campus has gained increasing visibility and better support, the awareness of the international LGBTQ community on campus has shown little signs of progress at all, particularly when focusing on female international LGBTQ students. “Minority students are not always open to tell their sexual orientation in public, especially for females who are more shy than males,” said Arya Y.,
a female international student who identifies as a member of LGBTQ community. “I feel like an outsider on campus.” For female international LGBTQ students, besides the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, finding an inclusive student organization or activist group on campus can be a challenge. “I don’t know what it’s like for undergrads, but I came to UW-Madison as a graduate student in the Gender and Women’s Studies department. I think the GWS department and my cohort have helped me a lot in navigating resources on campus,” said Di W., an alumna who has been a queer feminist advocate for almost a decade. According to Arya, she doesn’t know how to reach out and build connections with female international LGBTQ student organiza-
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“…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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Due to recent events, safety awareness and student anxiety about their own safety has been increasing, particularly on popular off-campus locations such as State Street and Langdon Street. Though a call to action for offcampus blue buttons has been made by the students, we must also take safety measures into our own hands to ensure our wellbeing. With a few helpful tips and reminders of alertness, being safe on and off campus can become less challenging. Use UW’s SAFEwalk SAFEwalk is a great service available to all students, where SAFEwalkers accompany students throughout campus and near-campus locations. This is a great tool to use if you are walking home from the library or traveling across campus at night. It gives you power in numbers and puts your mind at ease. Never walk alone (at night) Another key tip to ensure your own safety is to never walk alone at night. It is crucial to always walk in at least a pair, if not more. A lot of notable stories are when individuals encounter violence or crime while they are alone, so always text your friends, use a group chat or ask someone you trust to take you home. Walking home alone should never be an option,
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Play hockey, ice fish and take advantage of a frozen lake Mendota.
Spring break unplugged By Colleen Muraca LIFE & STYLE EDITOR
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So, it’s the first week of March and it is still reaching sub-zero temperatures, which is problematic to say the least. With spring break just over a week away, there’s still plenty of time to enjoy the winter season, for it very well may be cold until finals roll around. For starters, Lakes Mendota and Monona are going to be frozen for about another month, so ice fishing and pond hockey are not out of the question. Just a fair warning though, historical records have seen the ice melt as early as the first week in March, so maybe let others test out the ice before you do. For those who want to remain warm these days that seem fitting for the Night King and the White Walkers, we have some indoor options. There is one more home game for the Badger men’s basketball team this Thursday night, which also happens to be senior night for UW. Brace the cold for your walk over to the Kohl Center or even stay at home to see the game on TV, and enjoy watching the Badgers dominate Iowa My friends reference social media daily, whether it’s about other friends’ stories or celebrities’ posts. For jobs we have to be in the know. Social media is integrated in everything we do and ultimately we can’t get away. However, there is hope. The goal of the Screen Time setting is to put time limits on each app. Instead of jumping in the deep end, ease your way in to fix your habits if you’re anything like me. As we head to our spring break
destinations, I urge you to notice how much social media is apart of that experience. The point of having these vacations is to take a break, and that means social media, too. Use this week to truly take a break from it all. Unplug the phone, be in the moment, take photos of the places you go — but don’t worry about what other people are doing or what they think about your posts. Be active and in the present before your vacation is in the past.
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seconds, where an immediate loud alarm sound is let out. The same Emergency SOS slider will appear, and you should drag to call emergency services as well. If for some reason you can’t drag the slider, after the timer goes off, emergency services will be alerted immediately. Safety is a major concern on any college campus, and though efforts have been made, it is also up to us how mindful, alert and proactive we are when ensuring our own safety. Keeping these helpful tips in mind can create a more secure environment for you and those around you, and lead the UW campus to a safer and happier community.
in the wonderful indoors. With the recent rising action and climax of the Academy Awards a week and a half ago, the WUD Film Committee has been screening best picture nominees for the past month. This weekend, March 8-10, will be no different. The period pic and winner for best actress, The Favourite, will be screened at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. Lastly, for those who are looking to venture out in the cold, hopping from bar to bar, The Barstool Open is a miniature golf bar crawl on April 12, where teams of four compete in a downtown bar crawl of more than a dozen bars with a miniature golf hole at each. Participants must be 21 and over, and the proceeds of an entrance fee of $50 go to Local Lions Club charities and to Badger Honor Flight. With spring break, midterms and a heavy dose of March Madness sprinkled into this bitter cold March, there are plenty of opportunities to stay warm and still enjoy the little free time it seems we students have nowadays. If you do find yourself a little more adventurous, this city has seemed to bode well for the bold.
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If you don’t know already, Apple has a new iOS 12 update called Screen Time that records the amount of time someone spends on any app. Not only does it record the amount of time in each app, it tracks how many times the user picks up or unlocks their phone in a response to their notifications. To say the least, the numbers I received were alarming. This semester I am lucky enough
to be heading to Europe for spring break and in preparation for my trip, I have been trying to do a social media detox cleanse from the apps that consume many hours of my life. This has not been easy. The first couple times I tried, I re-downloaded the app within days of deleting them off my phone. I know, embarrassing. The next couple of times, it only got easier. The reality is, it seems nearly impossible to be completely unplugged in today’s society.
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After primary win, Satya Rhodes-Conway confident entering general election fight By Jon Brockman CITY NEWS EDITOR
When the dust settled on Feb. 19 and every primary vote was counted, Satya Rhodes-Conway heard what she had been hoping to hear for the past eight months: she would be running for mayor in the general election in April. A former alder and current managing director at the Mayors Innovation Project at UW-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy, RhodesConway announced her run for mayor last May, more than a month before another candidate joined the race. At the time, incumbent Mayor Paul Soglin was seeking the Democratic nomination for governor and later ruled out a reelection campaign. In a statement, he called RhodesConway “eminently qualified” to be mayor. Eventually, more candidates joined the field, including District 10 Ald. Maurice Cheeks, River Alliance of Wisconsin Executive Director Raj Shukla, City of Madison Racial Equity Coordinator Toriana Pettaway and comedian Nick Hart. Soglin later recanted and joined the mayoral race after he lost the gubernatorial primary to Tony Evers. Though Soglin’s two decades of experience as mayor may make him a daunting opponent, Rhodes-Conway said she is not focusing on him. “I haven’t been following his campaign very much. For me, this is not about any other candidate and it never has been,” she said. “This is about our community and our city and what our city needs. I didn’t get in to run against anyone and I’m not in it now to run against anyone.” Instead, she has pledged to make her campaign about the issues she sees Madison facing, such as racial inequalities and climate issues. “The reason that I’m running is because Madison is facing a set of tipping-point challenges,” she said. “Our housing crisis, our increasingly congested transportation system, deep racial disparities, and the looming impact of climate change. The city is not moving fast enough or far enough on any of those challenges.” Though her proposals may be
Me Too from page 1 in Business — where she would encourage any woman to feel comfortable stepping forward and being supported — she’s been in a situation where she felt support might not be available. “It’s a difficult time to navigate for sure,” she said. “I think that professors and other mentors and advisors within the school definitely have a role [in supporting students].” Culver said UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication aims to inform students of avenues they can follow to report sexual violence and get help from professors and advisors. The process professors follow upon receiving this information should be
enough to attract some voters to her, Rhodes-Conway also thinks she appeals to voters through her grassroots campaign style and willingness to go out and speak with people. She has positioned herself as a candidate who is not beholden to large donors, bringing in less money in campaign contributions than the other three main candidates. In her victory speech the night of the primary, she told supporters they could succeed despite being “dramatically outspent,” and identified campaign money as “definitely… an issue for some voters.” She also contributed much of her success to her willingness to engage the community by knocking on doors and meeting face-toface with constituents. “I think that part of the reason we were successful is that we really got out into the neighborhoods and knocked on a lot of people’s doors, had a lot of conversations, had a lot of events,” she said. “I think that the combination of the message and experience I bring really resonated with folks.” She said hearing directly from people what they wanted the city to do to fix the issues they were worried about helped shape her stances on certain issues. Though she met with residents from all across Madison, most of the concerns she heard were the same.
“Across the board, people are talking about the housing market and the lack of affordable housing and how hard it is to find an affordable place to live in this town,” she said. “I’m also hearing the need for better transit and people were really struck and worried by the flooding last year. The nuances of it might be different neighborhood to neighborhood but the themes have really been consistent.” If elected, Rhodes-Conway would make history as Madison’s first openly gay mayor. Though it would likely not mean any change in policy, as Soglin has long been a supporter of the LGBTQ community, Rhodes-Conway thinks there is more to it. “It’s certainly not about me and it’s less about the city and it’s more about young LGBTQ folks being able to see themselves in public office,” she said. “That’s really the thing I think about that’s the most important.” The election in April will offer Madison voters a tough choice: stick with Soglin, the longestserving mayor in city history, or go in a new direction with Rhodes-Conway. Soglin has largely focused his campaign around his accomplishments in office, including a minimum wage hike and the creation of the city’s affordable housing
fund. He has appealed to voters at mayoral forums by touting his experience and qualifications, having been the city’s mayor for twenty-two years. In a campaign where the candidates have remained relatively civil, rarely going on the attack against others, the criticisms against Rhodes-Conway are largely based on her lack of experience. However, Soglin’s “eminently qualified” comment in July may be hard for him to shake. “I thought that was very nice of him to say and to recognize my qualifications and the work that I’ve done with cities over the past 13 years,” Rhodes-Conway said. “I hope he still believes that because nothing’s changed on my side. I appreciate the compliment and I hope the voters agree.” For now, both candidates are focused on the general election on April 2 when voters will decide on the next mayor. Though she came up over 300 votes shy of Soglin in the primary, RhodesConway said she sees the close race as a good sign for her chances in the general election. “I think that it’s pretty clear based on the results of the primary that Madison is ready for change,” she said. “I’m eager to be talking with folks all across this city about my vision, my experience, and what we can do in this community if we work together.”
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Challenger Satya Rhodes-Conway hopes she can convince voters to choose her vision for the city. scrutinized to ensure situations don’t get overlooked, she added. Yarmel said he tries to provide students tools to think critically about instances of sexual harassment and encourage students to work collectively in class so they develop an ability to discuss difficult topics. The business ethics course Yarmel teaches has a full unit on sexual harassment, as well as a space for allowing conversations on related topics to emerge naturally so students have an opportunity to discuss what is meaningful to them, he said. Herr said she likes the dialogue with her peers that occurs in class regarding current social movements like Me Too and is proud that she has never had a professor “shy
away” from those conversations. Burke said much of the buzz generated by #MeToo centers on the workplace, but she was clear it is about the “entire spectrum” of sexual violence, including college campuses. Higher education should “help students realize you deserve respect: this is how you can expect to be treated and if you’re not, these are the skills that you need to be able to communicate that,” Herr said. Students should be treated with dignity and respect on campus, Burke said. How students expect to be treated on campus should mirror how they expect to be treated in the real world. Student experiences with sexual violence on campus is different from the workplace because cam-
pus is an “all-encompassing environment” and the workplace often isn’t, Yarmel said. However, he emphasized that addressing both forms of sexual violence requires improving communication. “We have a general problem in our society where people don’t talk to each other, people don’t have these really difficult, deep conversations about social problems in a civil and reasonable way,” he said. Burke urged students to talk with each other to build inclusivity on campus. “There’s a group of people on this campus that has never spoken to another group of people on this campus. And I guarantee you probably have very similar experience,” she said. “Freak them out, ‘why are those two groups togeth-
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lgbtq students from page 1 tions on campus. Founding an international LGBTQ student community on campus has proved to be a hard task for all genders. Two years ago, junior Peter L. went through a mental breakdown when no one supported his idea for Queer in Business, which is now an emerging student organization founded by international students with the goal of connecting queer students within The Wisconsin School of Business. As the original founder and the current president of Qbiz, Peter initially experienced unexpected difficulties in recruiting interested students and potential allies. According to Peter, he ultimately overcame the dilemma by networking with the LGBTQ community at New York University and rearranged his marketing strategy of Qbiz. The differences between class, race and even cultural backgrounds are prominent factors preventing both female and male international LGBTQ students from forming student organizations. In a 2016 national survey released from United Nations Development Programme, UNDP exposed the severeness on social attitudes towards sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in China. According to the survey, Chinese families have the lowest degree of acceptance for minorities. Only 8.1 percent of the participants welcome LGBTQ kin within their households. “My parents are very traditional, I really don’t know how they will react if I came out to them,” said Cecilia, a Chinese LGBTQ undergraduate at UW-Madison. “They might kick me out [of my home].” UW-Madison has generated health services programs on campus to create and maintain a campus environment that ensures complete inclusion and prohibits discrimination for both international and domestic LGBTQ students. According to University Health Services, two health providers with LGBTQ focus were hired in 2017 to expand access and availability of services on campus. In addition to the developing health services, staff and faculty members at the Gender and Sexuality Center are also continuously working to create a more equitable learning environment. er?’ Get people whispering, ‘Did you see the Black Student Union and Delta Delta Delta.’’’ Burke praised UW-Madison’s mission statement, which seeks to “help students to develop an understanding and appreciation for the complex cultural and physical worlds in which they live and to realize their highest potential of intellectual, physical and human development.” She said the university’s work on sexual and racial violence can help achieve this mission, but questioned its commitment to making tangible changes. Burke parted with a message to the university: “Don’t invite me to your school and think you’re checking a box. Y’all haven’t done anything yet.”
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‘A necessary step’: Before NBA fame, Stan Van Gundy found failure in Madison By Jake Nisse MEN’S BASKETBALL BEAT WRITER
Before the Bo Ryan era — the 16 straight NCAA Tournament appearances, the establishment of Wisconsin as a basketball institution — Stu Jackson threw a whistle. Jackson, the Badgers’ head coach from 1992-’94, flung the object across a near-empty gym during a heated practice, hitting an innocent bystander in the process. Rather than cleaning up his mess himself, he enlisted the help of a young assistant named Stan Van Gundy to make amends. Van Gundy would eventually go on to win more than 500 NBA games as a coach and reach an NBA finals in 2009 with the Orlando Magic, but at the time he was still cleaning up his boss’ messes. ‘“Stan, go over there and tell him I’m sorry,”’ former Wisconsin forward and current assistant coach Howard Moore remembers Jackson saying to the budding coach. By August of 1994, Van Gundy had been elevated to head coach on a five year deal with a one-year buyout option in case the new coach didn’t work out. It turned out to be a prescient decision by athletic director Pat Richter. Van Gundy assumed the head coaching position at a pivotal time for Wisconsin’s basketball program. For the first time in two generations, there were high expectations for the Badgers. The season before, the team had earned its first NCAA Tournament bid since 1947, won 18 games and sold out every home game for the first time in school history. Despite losing point guard Tracy Webster, Van Gundy’s iteration of the team returned four starters, including future NBA star Michael Finley, and received a No. 17 preseason ranking. Wisconsin had found success under Jackson by employing an
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Stan Van Gundy won more than 500 games in his 12-year NBA coaching career and took the Orlando Magic to the NBA finals, but before that, he coached one frustrating and unsuccessful year with Wisconsin. uptempo style that featured “pressure defense and a fast-paced wide-open offense,” according to the 1994-’95 season program. “There aren’t a whole lot of players out there who want to walk the ball up the floor and play a halfcourt game,” Van Gundy was ironically quoted by the program as saying. It was that affable, playerfirst personality that made him a hit with players as an assistant. According to the people who worked closely with him at Wisconsin, those qualities may have contributed to his demise. Van Gundy watched as a team featuring three seniors in the starting lineup regressed defensively — allowing a middling 71.6
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Van Gundy’s Wisconsin tenure was defined by an amicable relationship with his players, but that might have ultimately lead to his quick firing.
points per game defensively. The former assistant was a teacher rather than a disciplinarian, and Van Gundy’s players seemed to be too comfortable with him. “My feeling was that at that point in time in his career he was still operating more or less as the assistant,” Richter said. “He had a great relationship with all of the players, and I didn’t feel as we went along, elevated himself out of that role into the top person in order to make a clear cut decision in that regard.” Even Van Gundy himself told the basketball program that he would “continue to work like an assistant coach” in the 1994-’95 season, though he was referring to maintaining a high work ethic. Van Gundy’s basketball mind was evident even then, but with Wisconsin, the fit was off. According to Richter, Van Gundy could’ve had a better chance to keep his job if he displayed a more prototypical college head coaching style, but the ex-assistant had a personality far more suited to the NBA. “I think he was also very good at connecting with players and connecting with personalities,” said Sean Daugherty, who was a freshman player during Van Gundy’s lone season at head coach. “That pro game, you’re connecting with a lot of huge egos that, arguably at least some of those guys are more concerned with getting their own stats than they are anything else. And he was pretty good with being able to connect with individual players.” Van Gundy’s propensity for managing personalities and teaching made have made him a beloved NBA coach, but they didn’t quite work at Wisconsin. Despite a talented roster and high expectations in Madison, Van Gundy fell short. After beginning the season 6-1,
the team stumbled to four straight losses and finished the season with a 7-11 conference record. Van Gundy’s final loss of the season at Michigan State kept the Badgers out of the National Invitation Tournament and ended his short tenure as head coach. While Van Gundy was wellliked, he simply didn’t produce well enough for the athletic department to justify keeping a coach that they had inherited from Jackson’s tenure. “We had too much talent to not have more success than what we had,” Daugherty said of that season. So, what went wrong for Wisconsin? It wasn’t all Van Gundy’s fault. For one, Wisconsin missed Tracy Webster, the former point guard who served as the pacemaker for the offense. With Webster replaced by sophomore Darnell Hoskins — who wound up transferring to Dayton the next season — the dynamic was different, Moore said. “What he brought to the table kept everyone involved, everyone going, and he was the catalyst that we missed,” he said. But Webster’s departure wasn’t the only issue. Daugherty believes that Wisconsin played too much through Finley, and in turn didn’t play good enough defense to offset their often stagnant offense. “That’s one of the things I learned from Coach [Dick] Bennett my last three years, is you can struggle offensively and if you’ve got an exceptional defensive approach, you can make a lot of mistakes on offense and still be competitive,” Daugherty said. “And we didn’t have that same rigor that we probably could’ve had.” None of the observers of that season had any doubt in Van Gundy’s basketball knowledge, while his work ethic and
preparation were noted as equally impressive. Yet Van Gundy was put in a difficult spot after being forced to turn from “good cop to bad cop” in replacing Jackson and lasted just 27 games in charge. Surprisingly, that move would work out well for both sides. After 25 years from the promotion of Van Gundy to head coach, the program looks nothing like the one he left. About two weeks following Van Gundy’s dismissal, the plans to build the Kohl Center were announced, and by the time the next head coach, Dick Bennett, had finished his tenure, the decision to build the expensive stadium was fully justified by the team’s play. Under Bennett, the Badgers adopted the slow, plodding style the team is still known for today and re-established itself as an NCAA tournament caliber squad. Bennett led defensively sound teams to three tournament berths — including a Final Four in the 1999-2000 season — in his five full years as head coach. After Bennett, the baton was handed to Bo Ryan, who famously brought the school to new heights in nearly 500 games coaching the Badgers, including a national runner-up finish in 2014-’15 season. After his disappointing exit from Madison, Van Gundy also carved out a successful career, quickly rising to the pro ranks and perhaps silencing some of his detractors in Madison. “That guy was extremely resilient and persistent,” Daugherty said. “And regardless of how you look at that one year with him on the sidelines, it was a necessary step and a meaningful step in what’s become a very successful career for him.” Over a long NBA career that started the same year Wisconsin fired him, Van Gundy first served as an assistant coach for the Miami Heat, before being promoted to head coach in South Beach and eventually serving the same role for the Magic and Pistons. But 523 wins and an NBA finals appearance later, there are likely still Midwesterners who remember Van Gundy as the out-of-depth, diet soda-guzzling coach who lasted just one season in Madison. Even the man who fired him knows that is unwise. “He gives you kind of a rumpled look a little bit,” Richter said. “Maybe the tie is crooked, the coat is maybe wrinkled or whatever. He just seems like a regular guy, which he is. That’s the kind of guy you wanna have a beer with… Don’t let those looks fool you, because in a game he’s very competitive and understands the game well.” Van Gundy’s exit from town unexpectedly launched the start of sustained success for both parties on separate yet parallel paths. “The journey to success is not linear,” Daugherty said. And for Van Gundy, it went through Madison.
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The Wisconsin Idea, according to UW-Madison’s website, seeks to “influence people’s lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom.” It is the state’s application of what the world calls a liberal arts education. Liberal arts education has been offered in American colleges for years. It is an established system that aims to prepare students by educating them in a variety of subjects. From the natural sciences to humanities to social sciences, this system prepares students to be well-rounded, knowledgeable citizens post-graduation. General education, or gen-ed, requirements are a mechanism universities use to ensure that students take a variety of classes spanning across subjects. Although the requirements may differ slightly among each college within the university, all students must fulfill them in order to graduate. UW-Madison implemented a single three-credit Ethnic Studies course into the gen-ed requirement back in 1989. This became required in order for students to become aware of history’s impact on the present, to be able to recognize and question assumptions, be conscious of onesself as well as others and to effectively participate in a multicultural society. The Ethnic Studies requirement (ESR) enables the Wisconsin Idea to adapt to modern culture, and serves to make students aware of their own privileges and identities and how these intersect with their daily lives. In an increasingly polarized political and social environment, courses on race and ethnicity in the United States are crucial to educating young people on the roots of these issues. Ideally, this intersectional education will help address the lasting notions of racism and develop cultural sensitivity. UW-Madison sophomore
Becca Chadwick said ethnic studies classes “teach you more than just math and equations, but how to be a good person in the real world.” She advocated her support for the requirement, saying, “even though it may not relate to my major… it’s important to learn about as a white, privileged female.” Dr. Michael Thornton, a UW-Madison professor of Afro-American Studies and Asian American Studies, touched on how the goal of ethnic studies courses is to “give voice to people who are regularly last asked to come to the table, and only after the plans have been established.” “When done right, these courses provide context and content to what it means to live as members of communities who have been vital participants in what we are as a nation,” Thornton said. Despite its cultural necessity and support, ESR continually faces challenges. Students often take these courses less seriously. Many students aim to take “easy A” classes, attending fewer lectures and engaging less with the material in the process. Such downfalls inhibit the goals of ESR from being fulfilled. According to UW-Madison sophomore Maggie Marshall, “the perception people have on ethnic studies classes are that they are ‘joke classes’, so they aren’t taken very seriously.” Her commentary highlights the plight the Ethnic Studies requirement faces — its importance and need is met with reluctance and resentment. Thornton also discussed how ESR classes face a unique challenge regarding engagement because students “commonly come in with little prior knowledge and are often resistant to the conversations.” Rooted in the largely white demographic of the UW-Madison student body, it is clear some improvements need to be made to the system in order to mitigate such challenges and foster intersectional understanding and willingness to learn. For the ESR to effectively change the way racially privileged students perceive their own identity and interact with others that have differing identities, the requirement must be expanded from one three-credit
course to six credits. Not only will this help instill long-term consideration of race in daily life, but it will help expand the coverage of various identities. “If you assume many folks, but especially those who are white, arrive on this campus not having really explored the role race plays in their lives, an idea influenced by color-blind thinking, then clearly one class cannot do justice to the complexity of race’s influence both here and world-wide,” Thornton said. This, in tandem with the fact that most ethnic studies courses only cover one ethnic/racial group’s experience, makes it clear that more than one class is needed to achieve ESR’s goals. Adding more credits to the ESR is an idea that the university has dabbled in, according to UW-Madison Director of General Education Dr. Elaine Klein.
ESR enables the Wisconsin Idea to adapt to modern culture, serving to make students aware of their own privileges, identities, and how they intersect with their daily lives. “Faculty have consistently reminded us that a six-credit requirement would be better, since we have a twocourse requirement for QR (Quantitative Reasoning) and Comm. (Communication A/B),” Klein said. “Faculty that teach ethnic studies have been working really hard to expand the array of courses that would be eligible for ethnic studies.” Another common criticism of ESR is that the courses lack comprehensibility. However, after talking to ethnic studies professors Thornton and Kasey Keeler, it became clear that in order to fully achieve the goals of ESR, this attention to privilege and identity must be a university-wide initiative. “The ESR by itself, as a tool for teaching college-aged students to think critically about race, ethnicity, indigeneity, is not enough,” Keeler said. “Developing an awareness of identity, specifically racial and ethnic identity, and privilege of one’s self and those around you within the institutional power structures of our country... this
is life-long learning.” Thornton also touched on this topic, talking about his own experience teaching Afro-American Studies courses which often discuss the less-covered topic of people of color to people of color relations, rather than simply white to POC relations. “Even doing this does not make my courses comprehensive,” said Thornton. “But neither should that be a realistic goal in the ethnic studies requirement — to attempt to do so is an insult to the true extent of human diversity.” In addition to refining the expectations of ESR courses, the university should also hire more professors and faculty of color in order to achieve maximum visibility and impact. “Since I am black, white, Asian American, Native American and married to a Latina, I try to give voice to most of these groups in my professional work,” Thornton said. “I think my experiences allow me to better understand the diversity of experiences people have around race. That experience taught me that race is complicated and encouraged me to consider that no one group has the answer to any question.” He went on to explain that since this class is required, and will be the only time many students will focus on people of color, “it is reasonable for these faculty to feel the need to focus on their own histories intertwined with white machinations.” Keeler said she has seen UW-Madison acting on this exact thing, as she herself is a Native woman. “The university has taken steps recently to hire more Native faculty and is currently undergoing a Native Studies cluster-hire across the School of Human Ecology, the School of Nursing and the Nelson Institute, as well as a joint position in History and American Indian Studies,” Keeler said. “I am thrilled to see this sort of hiring, and know students will see it too.” Other suggestions made by Thornton and Keller included requiring ESR to be taken during students’ first two years at UW-Madison. While it is vital that students are required to take more than one course in
order to cover at least two different ethnic/indigenous groups, this potential change would emphasize community-based learning and allow students to also “experience diversity in a real setting.” Students would be able to apply the lessons and expand teachings of ethnic studies, race, religion, gender and sexuality, etc. into classrooms across campus over the course of their collegiate experience. This last suggestion speaks heavily to what we believe the Wisconsin Idea stands for: by encouraging students to seek courses outside their field of study and engage with ideas of inequality and identity in a context of computer programming, environmental justice, gender and women’s studies, economics and much more, UW-Madison will not only be fostering intelligent citizens, but socially responsible ones as well. “We must hold all of our professors and academic staff on campus accountable for incorporating social and racial justice within courses so that students are learning the histories and practicing the skills throughout their collegiate careers,” Keeler said. While ethnic studies courses have good intentions, and many professors are committed to making their courses worthwhile and impactful for even the most reluctant of students, the university must increase the required amount of ESR credits, instill a sense of comprehensibility within these courses and further encourage that qualified professors of color should be teaching them. University action, however, is merely a single dimension to a multifaceted solution; student attitudes must change as well. Accessibility to a liberal arts education has the ability to transform students into wellrounded, socially and culturally responsible citizens. Students should fully embrace the benefits of a liberal arts education by dedicating themselves to a diverse subject matter outside of their major, especially ethnic studies courses. In doing so, the undergraduate student body will better reflect the Wisconsin Idea and “influence people’s lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom.”
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The Ethnic Studies requirement is an important part of the liberal arts education that UW-Madison promotes and improving the program would benefit all students.
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The Lyrics of my Heart By Chelsea Hylton MELANIN SPEAKING - SMALL TALKS
A letter to you. I write this with all the raw emotion from my body and hope that it finds a place to rest easy in your heart. Let me begin by saying thank you. Thank you for seeing my heart before my personality and my personality before my body. You saw the scars from the emotions in my life and you weren’t scared. You accepted them knowing they would last a lifetime and didn’t care. I couldn’t believe that you saw my strength before you saw any of my weaknesses and you laid yourself out to catch my tears once, then again and again never complaining at how much of a mess I am. I am a mess. A mixture of emotion, insecurity, anxiety, self-doubt and a constant battle within myself to make sure I am enough. You simply took a leap of faith not know-
ing if there was ground for you to land on and accepted me for the mess that I am. You have this incredible ability to make me sure of the emotions I am unsure of. You support my dreams as your own always wanting to turn them into realities. I am not a fetish you get your fix from but rather, I am a single flame of light that surrounds you with warmth and calmness. When I think of you I can’t help but think that you are a prayer God wrote for me. That prayer brings us bliss and joy in life, and that is what you are. I know you were made from a limited edition mold because God loves me. I will take a room full of silence with you in it before I take a constructed idea of what a relationship is because we exist for us, not for them. We do not exist for those who did not see our worth because, in fact, I am glad they didn’t see what I see when I look at you. “It’s kinda hard for me to explain.” A letter to you.
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Featured this week is a poem by Chelsea Hylton. She writes this as a letter to a loved one who sees her for her and nothing else.
New major to be offered within Human Ecology, ‘Rights Determination Policy’ By Sam Jones ALMANAC CO-EDITOR
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Teenage Fever By Kellen Sharp ALMANAC CO-EDITOR
We had that dry ice type of love, like dry ice taught me where there’s smoke there isn’t always fire
Recording my problems on drum breaks, breakin hearts to deal with heartbreak I’ve been breaking down from the brink of dusk to the break of dawn
So where’s there’s an “I love you too,” it isn’t always love
I exist in the twilight zone of smoke and mirrors
Between Drake Albums and iPhone Photo Albums
Of teenage fever and sea sickness from too many rides on the love boat.
With the recent outpouring of a new, wildly original archetype within meme culture, UW-Madison has decided to add a new major to their progressive School of Human Ecology: Rights Determination Policy. This major seeks to decide who, in fact, deserves rights. Twitter has been full of discussions over whether Virgos, people who pour their milk before their cereal, folks with butterfly tattoos, gym rats, those who actually enjoy listening to Lil Pump, and the like deserve to be considered humans, and thus benefit from the rights associated with such an identification. Such rights entail freedom of speech, the right to assembly, the ability to purchase the spice-level of salsa that you want to consume despite what
your roommates say, the choice of who you want to marry (well… sort of ), the occasional right to a good education and clean drinking water, and much more. This area of study will serve to sift through the masses of potential identities that exist, and will predictably come to exist, and will resolve the burning question of whether they deserve such inalienable rights or not.
“This major seeks to decide who, in fact, deserves rights.”
Rumor has it, the major will consist of four concentrations: questionable music taste, film preferences, social mannerisms, and the most complicated of all, the male-identifying species. The major will also pioneer a novel ranking system for rights, detailed as follows: “definitely deserves rights,” “can possess MOST rights,” “you are sort of human,” “it’s a no from me,” and “who are you kidding.” The university has received much pushback from radical left and right wing activists alike, the left arguing that everything that consists of atoms deserves rights, and the right arguing that a raging liberal university like UW could never make such determinations. However, some experts believe that there is a different reason that both sides of the aisle are upset over the new academic department: neither group deserves rights.
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Today’s Crossword Puzzle
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69. ‘’Taxi’’ or ‘’Seinfeld’’ role 70. Cornwell or Clancy, e.g. 71. How one might feel after a sprint 72. Mimicked 73. Long Island drink
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34. ‘’Heidi’’ setting 35. Jackson 5’s hometown 36. Spots 37. Lunkhead 39. Withered 42. Circus performer? 43. Plants grass slab by slab 48. Somewhat upset 50. Put away 52. Sports official 54. October birthstone 55. Within permitted bounds 56. Jagged 57. Fe or Catalina 58. ‘’___ Good Men’’ (1992) 59. Indonesia island 60. Scottish family 61. Performed a glissade 63. Laboratory heating device 64. Commercial establishment 67. I, to Claudius 68. Twilight
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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.
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‘Siege’ solid amidst industry challenges By Marty Forbeck VIDEO GAMES COLUMNIST
Well, I had a piece planned on “Rainbow Six: Siege” for this week — a little thinkpiece about the whole “games as a service” trend and how “Siege” has managed to both stumble into that model and sidestep the worst parts of it. But after the Activision-Blizzard layoffs, it just feels disingenuous to talk about anything other than the weird, terrible ways this industry is run and the ways it could be better. Eight hundred people were laid off after the biggest of the big gaming companies posted its biggest profits ever, all because the company failed to hit an even bigger profit margin. It feels like every few months something like this happens. The Telltale Games collapse of last year springs to mind, although that was under some radically different circumstances. Still, same cause — the poison pill of failing to hit arbitrary numbers for executives and outside investors. The thing I keep coming back to is that, just like Telltale, in a couple of weeks, what little press coverage there is of this will have died down and the usual news cycles will start back up again. It happens with every tragedy, and I’m nowhere near immune to it — chances are we’re coming back to fluffy “Rainbow Six” coverage before the end of this article. Still, before I fade back that direction I want to give my two
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Tactical shooter video, “Rainbow Six Siege,” is another game in the industry that manages to succeed. cents on what needs to be done to prevent this kind of thing from happening and also possibly amend the nonsense which was my Telltale coverage from a few months ago. The games industry needs organized labor, plain and simple. I probably should’ve said that to start with, but I realize that there’s still a certain subsection of people on this campus who start seeing red after getting even a whiff of the word “union.” Here’s what I’ll say: Keep your opinions to yourself on organized labor in general, however wrong or right they might be. Within media industries spe-
cifically — I’m talking movies, music, games — they are probably the best working model. The film industry has been functioning on a guild system for decades, and they are better for it. Eventually, there will be a time when the actor doesn’t have a big project on their docket. Or, better yet, there will come a time when they are let go from a big project. Or the project itself collapses — it’s Hollywood after all, only a few pitches ever make it all the way to print. If they can’t pick up new work right away, at best they’ll have to
find another, less satisfying line of work somewhere else. And that’s how one loses talent in an industry. Video games have gotten away with not having this system for quite a while longer than the film industry, first and foremost because game companies don’t want to have to deal with unions, and secondly because game projects often take a lot longer than film projects. Unlike in other artistic industries, for upwards of several years the corporation that’s hired you can treat you as an employee instead of as a contract job. Eventually, every project gets shipped or canceled, and
when it does, any staff that can’t be easily connected to a new project is shuffled out the door. There’s a reason why voice actors have made the most progress on forming unions in this industry and why you hear about them going on strike more often. The turnaround on voice-acting jobs is quick — you are treated like a contract worker. If the Activision layoffs showed anything it’s that, from the highest level, everyone is seen that way. And so now, I come back to “Siege.” The Ubisoft shooter is just entering its fourth year, and after a rocky launch period, it’s gotten a lot of praise for its continuous updates and additional content. If you want to see everything the game has to offer, it is still going to cost you upwards of $60 this long after launch, but with so many things to do in the game, it almost feels worth it. I gave it upwards of a dozen hours and I was still stumbling into new maps and game modes. The point is it’s fine, a bit expensive and convoluted. It is a solid B+ worthy of some deeper praise and analysis. The question is, who wants to still be making a solid B+ after four, or five years? There are some who appreciate the job security and pay such a project affords, of course, but of everybody still working on this thing, who’s still on it for the love of the work, and who’s on it because they’re afraid they have nowhere else to go? Food for thought. Final Grade: B+
‘True Detective’ season three unoriginal, falls flat By Dominic LeRose
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Sometimes a TV series just doesn’t know when to end. The first season of HBO’s “True Detective” from 2014 starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in spellbinding performances that redefined crime storytelling for ages to come. It was dark, gritty and rooted in the questioning the nature of humanity. Each episode was more gripping and intriguing than the next. The second season was your typical cop story — Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams playing depressed detectives in a cliché corruption story that was boring from start to finish. The third season starring Mahershala Ali looked promising. Advertised in a fashion that channeled the nature of the first season, yet it was revealed that instead of trying to revive the glory of the first season, it was better for the show to have ended after one season and leave it at that. To begin, Mahershala Ali gives another terrific performance. After winning his second Academy Award for best supporting actor for “Green Book,” Ali has proven to be a powerhouse actor who is just entering the height of his career. In “True Detective,” we see him portray Wayne Hays, an empty detective presented in three different stages of his life. Two of these stages occur during his career as an Arkansas detective who investigates the disappearance of two children alongside his gruff partner, played by Stephen Dorff. The third stage follows him as
an old man dealing with dementia as he tries to recall and reflect on the case years later. Ali’s versatility is infectious, his portrayal of an elderly man utterly convincing due to his tremendous talent and shocking makeup transformation. While Ali is phenomenal, “True Detective” fails to excel in both excitement and narrative. Wayne Hays doesn’t transform at all throughout his story, instead wearing the same unpleased face and mumbling his every word. Hays is intriguing at first, as is the entire story. Yet as the season progresses, Wayne and his storyline become less and less interesting. The season is too rooted on his cliché marital struggles with his wife Amelia (Carmen Ejogo), whose character is used simply to add a strong female character, but in reality adds nothing interesting. She’s just there to irritate Wayne and distract us from the case overall, a plot point that feels forced and unconvincing. The case itself this season becomes less interesting by the episode with far too many plot points added to confuse us. After three seasons, it’s time for “True Detective” to call it quits. Season three tried to mirror the style of season one, and in doing so it fell short of capturing the brilliance and authenticity the first season offered us. There’s no going back after two mediocre seasons that failed to deliver emotional or entertaining depth. Despite the consistently strong performances, there’s nothing fresh or original that this show can offer anymore. Final Grade: C-