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One more shining moment? Wisconsin seniors take final shot at tourney run

By Ben Pickman THE DAILY CARDINAL

Vitto Brown almost never wears his two Final Four rings. He knows where they are—in a mural of his athletic achievements at his house in Bowling Green, Ohio—but the rings, for now, are just museum relics on display for visitors of the Brown house to marvel at.

Over the past two years, Brown— who still uses his 2014 Final Four backpack—has come to fully appreci-

ate UW’s 2014 and 2015 deep tournament runs. For that matter, all four of the Wisconsin seniors have grown to realize just how special their early tournament runs were.

And with one final NCAA Tournament run looming, Brown, Nigel Hayes, Bronson Koenig and Zak Showalter are hoping the adversity that they have experienced since their heartbreaking loss in the National Championship game two years ago culminates in one more Final Four ring.

Immediately upon Hayes, Koenig and Brown’s arrival in Madison, success was almost a given.

“They’ve seen really good times.

They walked into two Final Fours, which was kind of a utopia,” head coach Greg Gard said.

It was during those back-to-back regional championships that the current senior class was at its best. They were role players back then, making timely plays as the superstars handled the heavy lifting. Since those

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superstars left, though, that utopia the seniors were used to has looked more like an Orwellian society.

Some adversity was expected.

Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker, Wisconsin’s two best players during both Final Four runs, left after the 2014-‘15 season to the NBA. Other veteran players like Josh Gasser, Traevon Jackson and Duje Dukan also graduated, and those young contributors were asked to be the stars.

But few could have predicted the

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Badgers losing their season opener last year to Western Illinois at the Kohl Center or consecutive losses to in-state rivals Milwaukee and Marquette.

Fewer still could have known that after their victory over Texas A&MCorpus Christi in mid-December Bo Ryan would suddenly retire.

When Gard moved into the lead chair last season, UW continued to struggle, losing four of its next six

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Did tenure changes influence your departure from UW? Most former professors said yes Seventy-five percent of those asked considered tenure cuts when leaving

By Madeline Heim THE DAILY CARDINAL

After the UW System’s strong tenure policies were cut back last year in a series of moves from the state Legislature and the Board of Regents, many speculated the changes would soon negatively impact the system’s carefully cultivated faculty and staff.

Data collected by The Daily Cardinal found that of professors contacted, 75 percent who accepted an outside offer to leave UW-Madison in the last academic year cited those changes as playing at least some part in their decision to depart.

“I really didn’t want to go,” said Karma Chávez, who taught for six years in UW-Madison’s Communication Arts and Chican@/Latin@ Studies programs before leaving for a similar position at the University of Texas at Austin. “I loved my job and I

loved my community.”

But Chávez—explaining she was upset with the sudden lack of robust tenure protections and frustrated that her administration did not fight harder for her and her colleagues—decided she would accept the job in Texas that had opened up around the same time.

“The context of budget cuts and political attacks ...creates uncertainty about the future of UW-Madison.”

Noam Lupu former professor UW-Madison

She’s one of 29 faculty members who left the university in 2016 to pursue other academic opportunities. Of those 29, The Daily Cardinal was able to reach 20—and of those

20, 15 said tenure changes played a role in their choice to leave, even if it was a small role.

The uproar over tenure changes began almost two years ago, when Gov. Scott Walker struck protections from state statute in July 2015.

And although the regents were quick to draft resolutions that they hoped would put professors at ease, the damage had already been done for faculty who saw their tenure protections go from some of the strongest in the country historically to much more middle-of-the-road.

For many of them, it was also about more than just tenure. They said working within a public higher education system that saw declining state support—including a staggering $250 million cut to the schools in the 2015-’17 biennial budget—was also disheartening.

“The changes to tenure per se

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The Wisconsin Technical College System implemented a system of performance-based metrics in all of their 16 districts in 2014.

Tech colleges model pathways to create performance metrics

By Lilly Price and Nina Bertelsen THE DAILY CARDINAL

Part of Gov. Scott Walker’s recent budget proposal would compare each UW System school’s performance against a set of criteria to determine their share of state funding. Specific performance metrics have yet to be defined, but have already drawn skepticism from critics UW-Madison professor Nick Hillman has done research in state higher education performance funding and its outcomes and policy implications.

Hillman told The Daily Cardinal that Walker’s current proposal includes metrics that are inconsistent with industry standards for successful performance metrics. He suggested a collaborative model that did not follow a one-size-fits-all approach would be more effective in reaching desired outcomes.

Currently, the budget would look at percentages and statistics that show a school’s efforts to support state priorities of affordability and attainability, work readiness, student success in state workforce, efficiency, service as well as additional criteria.

The Board of Regents would then use a weighted formula to rank schools and determine each school’s share of state dollars.

The weighted formula, adjusted for each school, determines the ranking that schools receive, which determines how much state aid they can collect.

However, performance-based metrics are not a new idea in Wisconsin or the nation. Three

years ago, the Wisconsin Technical College System implemented a system of performance based metrics in all of their 16 districts.

State legislators and technical colleges administrators collaborated to determine a list of nine metrics the districts would use to assess performance. The governor had originally proposed six standards, and the group added three more before implementation.

Each college then chose seven metrics for their school to measure themselves against.

“That gave a little bit of flexibility in that process and that also gave campuses a little bit of a buy-in, a little bit of mission differentiation going,” Hillman said.

Mission Differentiation Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, was involved in the technical colleges’ transition to performance based funding as chair of the Senate Committee on Universities and Technical colleges committee and the chair of the Joint Committee on Finance.

“I’ve heard from other states and read it’s important, as you go to performance based funding, not to take away the ability for different campuses or different districts to have unique missions,” Harsdorf said.

Hillman said that applying the same categories of criteria to all schools is unlikely to yield the desired results. He suggested mission differentiation, with different metrics tailored to each university’s goals, would allow each campus to measure themselves against standards

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By Sammy Gibbons THE DAILY CARDINAL

More students may stay on campus this summer due to university attempts to make Summer Term more accessible through scholarships and flexible courses.

The changes came in response to Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s speech to the UW System Board of Regents in February in which she said Summer Term should be a priority.

Added online courses, as well as scholarships, will make it easier for individuals to advance their academics, according to Dean of Continuing Studies Jeffrey Russell.

Russell said the team that formed the new Summer Term worked on scholarship efforts with help from the Office of Student Financial Aid and have increased the amount of funding available for scholarships.

This summer they will distribute half a million in awards, according to Russell.

“We survey all the students in Summer Term every other year and one of the top things when they talk about what could improve summer is more scholarship funding,” Russell said.

A student advisory board has also been created, and Russell said this board has advocated strongly for more scholarship funding as well.

One specific new scholarship will allow spring semester transfer students to take a summer course. The team is also working with first-year students—they developed an early admit program, which gives these students the opportunity to take a course over the summer to orient themselves to campus.

Russell said they are hearing from students through surveys

and other vehicles to provide them with what they want and need: a variety of courses as well as flexibility. He said many summer courses offer hands-on learning, particularly in classes that require field-based work.

This summer they will offer more than 150 online courses, eight of which are new this term. He said this will allow students to make academic progress while engaging in other opportunities, like internships.

“We’re trying to be studentcentered and enable students to better utilize the summer and to reduce time for degrees and reduce their student debt where it makes sense,” Russell said. “That means that if they could do a course online that would help them ... that means they could be at home or in D.C. at an internship and still making academic progress.”

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UW-Madison students will have access to additional scholarships as well as new online courses in order to have a flexible courseload—and enjoy the terrace—this upcoming summer.

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Policy leaders wanted to allow for this differentiation among technical college districts, according to Harsdorf. Harsdorf added that UW System campuses likely have even greater variation.

“Within the university, you have two year campuses, you’ve got doctoral campuses, you’ve got the comprehensives and even if you take a look at Parkside, they gear more toward a disadvantaged population,” Harsdorf said.

Bottom-up approach leads to sustainable model Conversely, Hillman cited other schools that have taken a bottom-up approach to crafting their metric policies instead of having the legislature tell schools what to implement.

He said allowing schools to be part of a deliberative process to decide which metrics are best, like the technical colleges, can make help models survive changing administrations, as well as shifting economic and

tenure from page 2 played a small role, but what played a larger role was the political climate that they are a part of,” said Noam Lupu, a former political science assistant professor at UW-Madison who now teaches at Vanderbilt University.

“The context of budget cuts and political attacks on the university creates uncertainty about the future of UW-Madison.”

That climate did play a role in the spike of outside offers handed to professors at UW-Madison in the last year, according to an interview with Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf last October. More than three-fourths of those who received outside offers chose to stay, Mangelsdorf said, but retention efforts cost the university

political trends.

“These policies come and go.

They are like many management fads and they have very short shelf lives,” Hillman said. “If Wisconsin really wants to be committed to this a little nuance along the way would be to include campuses in some of the planning so if they’re gonna do it they do it really in a sustainable way.”

Harsdorf said that performance funding metrics can help identify issues institutions weren’t aware of and achieve successful outcomes. For taxpayers and students, it can allow for greater transparency.

Harsdorf and other legislators working on the budget will hear public testimonies and proposal from different campuses concerning performance funding. Following, legislators will modify the budget before it reaches Walker’s desk sometime in June.

“Metrics will drive behavior so we’re going to be working to see how we can improve and make sure [the budget] we do pass is going to be successful,” Harsdorf said. about $23.6 million.

Those who did leave now teach at campuses across the country, from Yale University to schools within the University of California system. And of the 15 who reported that tenure changes influenced their decision to go, many of them expressed concern not for how their own career at UW-Madison was affected, but instead for how the university will fare in the future.

“The answer [to whether tenure was a factor] is yes,” said Jan Edwards, who now teaches at the University of Maryland. “Not because I thought I was going to lose tenure myself, but because I thought it would make it more difficult to recruit the best junior faculty.”

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Student group urges UW to switch to renewable energy

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Members of the Climate Reality Corps at UW-Madison (from left) Savannah Lipps, Lydia Stiegman and Mary Pierce talked about their goal for UW-Madison to switch to renewable energy by 2030.

By Matthew Whitney THE DAILY CARDINAL

A pledge to implement 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030 at UW-Madison could be on the table after The Climate Reality Project recently opened a new branch on campus.

Founded by former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, The Climate Reality Project is a worldwide organization dedicated to mobilizing action for climate change. The organization’s goal is to “spread the truth about the climate crisis and build popular support for clean energy solutions,” according to their mission statement.

The Climate Reality Campus Corps at UW-Madison has been focusing on “raising a lot of student

awareness and support, and faculty support for the 100% Committed campaign,” according to Mary Pierce, a member of the group. The organization has had success at smaller universities, but bringing the cause to UW-Madison is part of their goal of spreading awareness on a larger scale.

“Especially because we are part of the Big Ten, we should be a leader, not a follower, for this cause,” Lydia Stiegman, also a member of the group, said. “If a campus like ours can sign on to this, we can help other campuses become a part of this too.”

UW-Stevens Point, Colorado State University and Hampshire College are among those that already took the pledge to have their

universities operate on 100 percent renewable electricity.

Members of the UW-Madison chapter have been petitioning at dining halls and elsewhere on campus to raise awareness for the campaign. Other student volunteers have been working on gaining endorsements from faculty and other student organizations.

The club is working to get signatures on a petition to bring to Chancellor Rebecca Blank.

“We want to show that there are thousands of students here who want an environmentally conscious campus,” Pierce said.

Nearly two hours past midnight, the plan passed in a 12-seven vote.

The Biergarten at Olbrich Park plans to open by May.

Plans for beer garden gain Common Council approval despite strong backlash from members of community, long debate over proposal are excited to see the park used by a wide range of residents and claim After over six hours of debate that none of the activities they use and public comment, Madison’s the park for now will be impacted. city council voted Tuesday to allow Eastmoreland resident Bill a beer garden in Olbrich Park.

Adolfson said his wife and children A warm-weather dream look forward to spring in the park. entitled “The Biergarten” is one The beer garden, he says, will only step closer to reality after the enrich it. council’s decision to grant BKM While support exists, debate in Group a liquor license and use the months leading up to the meetagreement for a small portion ing resulted in an overflow of oppoof the East Side Madison park. sition during public comment.

Among community concerns are safety and noise; some wish to further restrict BKM’s limit on “We have addressed many amplified sound, currently limited concerns and have made sig- to Fridays and Saturdays between 4 nificant adjustments.” p.m. and 8 p.m.

Many residents also expressed Mike Bare worries that patrons of the beer manager garden may become too intoxicatOlbrich Park Biergarten ed and damage their property, and others were upset over the idea of the beer garden being open every The beer garden intends, day of the week. according to its application, Kathy Soukup, president of to provide a gathering space the Eastmoreland Community where community members Association and community can “enjoy the beautiful view, member, stood in opposition to or bring a meal and share in a the beer garden. picnic while also enjoying some “I am concerned that if there is local beer.” a problem in the beer garden or in Community members have dif- the park, there won’t be anyone who fering opinions on the installation can respond,” said Soukup. “There of the private company in a public are not enough police resources to park. Those in favor of the decision take care of non-emergency calls.

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“The Biergarten,” set for location in Olbrich Park, would be a gathering space for the Madison community. Alders granted developers the liquor license after a long debate March 7.

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There are only three park rangers per shift who cover the 300 parks in Madison. The beer garden staff cannot do anything about a situation unless it is taking place within the beer garden.”

“There is certainly virture in compromise.”

Mike Bare manager Olbrich Park Biergarten

Mike Bare, a BKM investor and manager of the beer garden, claimed the tradition of beer drinking is nothing new to Madison, citing the Memorial Terrace as proof. Bare also highlighted changes to the business plan that were made in response to concerns of residents.

“We have addressed many concerns and have made significant adjustments to the plan.

There is certainly virtue in compromise,” said Bare.

Nearly two hours past midnight, the plan passed in a 12-seven vote.

The Biergarten at Olbrich Park plans to open by May.

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Newly discovered fossils are oldest evidence of life

By Abby Rogerson the daily cardinal

Four billion years ago, Earth was a hostile place with a thin atmosphere made mainly of carbon dioxide, volcanoes everywhere and oxygen levels too low to support air-breathing organisms. Nonetheless, a recent discovery of 4.28—3.75 billion-year-old microfossils suggests life existed under such conditions.

University College of London graduate student Matthew Dodd and his team believe they’ve found the oldest evidence of life on Earth in the form of fossilized bacterial tubes and filaments, preserved in a fragment of the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, also referred to as the NSB. While the NSB is now a rocky region in Quebec, Canada, it would have been part of the seafloor during the bacteria’s lifetime. The rock’s structure and chemical composition suggest the ancient bacteria thrived near hydrothermal vents, which are found near fissures in the seafloor that release lava.

Such heat-resistant bacteria are called thermophiles.

Perhaps the most easily observable evidence that the NSB microfossils are of biological origin is their structural similarity to modern-day and other fossilized thermophiles. The newly discovered NSB microfossils, fossils of bacteria with similar composition to the NSB microfossils and some species of thermophiles living today all have a winding filamentous and tubular shape. Although it’s

unlikely this type of structure could be created via abiotic processes, more evidence is needed to prove they are truly remnants of ancient bacteria.

All living organisms contain carbon, so fossils usually contain carbon. However, the NSB microfossils are composed of iron oxides. This is not a disqualifying factor though, since it’s possible its carbon components were replaced with iron compounds throughout time.

Presence of carbonaceous material in the surrounding rock supports this hypothesis.

However, experts in the field are far from convinced these microscopic fossils are truly four billion-year-old signs of life.

“Now, one of the interesting twists about these rocks from Nuvvuagittuq is that the age of those rocks is uncertain … the younger age [3.77 billion years] comes from dating a mineral called zircon, which is considered the gold standard for dating rocks that are this old …

The 4.3 billion-year-age comes from what we call a ‘model age.’ It’s only correct if a certain set of assumptions hold true, and there’s no way to evaluate those assumptions,” said John Valley, UW-Madison Geoscience professor and discoverer of Earth’s oldest zircon, about the controversial aspects of the recent findings.

The NSB findings will surely be the subject of further research before any scientific consensus is reached, but it’s likely the younger age is more credible than the older.

Surprisingly, evidence of

prehistoric life on Earth has consequences for the possibility of extraterrestrial life as well.

Valley explains life only needs three things to survive: liquid water, a source of carbon and some kind of energy. Around the same time these conditions were met on Earth—about 4.4 billion years before present—they were satisfied on Mars. If life could have evolved on Earth around that time period, it’s possible life existed on Mars, too. Although these are only speculations at the moment, the field of astrobiology may quickly advance as Martian samples become more accessible.

Astrobiologists may be in luck—NASA’s Mars 2020 mission plans to gather samples from the red planet to bring back to Earth. Valley is hopeful he will have the chance to study these samples, with the goal of identifying bio-signatures—chemical markers produced via biotic processes. Biosignatures may lead the search for ancient life on both Earth and Mars, since intact fossils are often pulverized throughout a planet’s history of volcanism and tectonic movement.

As research on Earth’s early organisms continues, insight into the possibility of life on Mars will follow. If scientists can accurately date the most ancient of Earth’s bio-signatures, they can derive information about the environments capable of sustaining life. Pair that with knowledge about historical Martian environments, and scientists may have better luck in finding remnants of extraterrestrial life.

Dear Ms. Scientist, Why do we dream?

Leo K. Dreams happen because your brain doesn’t just stop working when you’re asleep. In fact, your brain continues to be active during the night. Scientists have found that dreaming generally occurs during REM, or rapid eye movement, sleep. This is the sleep stage when—you guessed it—your eyes move around rapidly despite being closed. During REM, your brain activity can be as high as it would be while being awake, and REM dreams tend to be the most vivid and memorable. However, this still leaves the question of why we’ve evolved to have dreams so frequently. Some scientists think that dreaming is just a random byproduct of our neurons firing during slumber.

Others think that dreaming may serve a more useful purpose. One such hypothesis theorizes that our dreams are a way for our brains to process our experiences and feelings and strengthen our memories. Another theory suggests that dreams can simulate real life threats, worries or dangers to better prepare us in the waking world.

Ask Ms. Scientist is written by Maggie Liu and Jordan Gaal.

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Risks of Listeria in pregnancy

By Yingshan Deng the daily cardinal

Researchers at UW-Madison recently found that listeriosis, the infection caused by the foodborne bacteria called Listeria, damages the placenta and results in miscarriages during the early stages of pregnancy in non-human primates.

Listeria monocytogenes is a common human pathogen that infects humans after the consumption of contaminated foods like raw milk, cheese, deli meats or produce. It is particularly dangerous to people with defective immune systems and was traditionally considered a threat to the fetus during the late stages of pregnancy.

“The project provides the first detailed examination of what happens in a pregnant primate between ingestion of Listeria and loss of

viability of the fetus. This study also indicates that infection with Listeria earlier in pregnancy can be serious and bad for the fetus,” said Charles Czuprynski, chair of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences and director of the Food Research Institute at UW-Madison.

Listeriosis was traditionally only considered a risk during the last trimester of pregnancy.

But in this study, pregnant monkeys were inoculated at a time equivalent to the end of the first trimester, indicating that Listeria could harm the fetus much earlier than previously thought, said Czuprynski.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that listeriosis is the third-leading cause of death from foodborne illness, with a 20 percent casefatality rate. Nearly 25 percent of pregnancy-associated cases

result in fetal loss or death of the newborn.

It is still unclear what level of exposure to Listeria would harm the fetus, but the study provides a much more detailed understanding regarding Listeria’s growth in pregnant primates, and insights into the series of events that occur when the bacteria attacks the placenta and fetus, said Czuprynski.

After the paper was released online, the research team received an email from a woman who lost her pregnancy in its early stage due to listeriosis.

“There are not a large number of people to whom this has been reported to occur, but she was very happy to see that people were trying to understand how and why this occurs,” said Czuprynski.

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In the third episode of Sciencecast: Energy Series, Tim Donohue, the director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, explains biofules and his idea of a “George Jetson” future of clean fuels derived from biomass.

The GLBRC, in the Wisconsin Energy Institute, was established by the Department of Energy in 2007. The center takes an interdisciplinary approach to advance bioenergy research and find more sustainable ways of converting biomass into useful, cleaner fuels.

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Four Star Video Cooperative keeps rental business alive and thriving

By Eli Radtke THE DAILY CARDINAL

When walking down State Street, it is easy to become distracted by the many flashing signs, cries from the street corners or the stunning view of the Capitol in the distance. Amidst all the clutter, tucked between Asian Kitchen and Pita Pit, is Four Star Video Cooperative.

Perhaps the strongest pull to the store is simply the fact that, yes, there is a video rental store that still exists and yes, it is 2017.

“I think it’s the biggest video store in Wisconsin, and we have the most titles. It’s kind of a resource for people who want to delve into the history of film. We have everything going back to, well I think we even have movies from the 1890’s,” Lewis Peterson, one of the four owners of Four Star, said.

Four Star is owned and operated by Lewis Peterson, Andy Fox, Helen Boldt and Nick Propheter, all of whom had worked at the store before the change. Four Star’s mission, as stated by their website, is to make underground, art, foreign and just plain weird titles available to the public by placing them alongside more mainstream Hollywood films.

With a collection of 32,229 titles, not including duplicates, it appears that this mission is being met.

The bell on the door rings when you enter. A black-and-white film plays on a small television next to a houseplant behind the front desk.

Rows of shelves line the room, titles

staring back at you. A staircase leads to the basement where the bulk of the collection is stored. Welcome to Four Star Video.

Four Star has been around since 1985, but only recently did it become a co-op. In 2014 when Lisa Brennan, the owner at the time, decided to move on to other projects, the employees at Four Star had a choice to make.

“Basically, either we were going to buy the store because you know there wasn’t another prospective buyer or we were going to close, and none of us really wanted to see it close and have everything sold off piece by piece. So we had a fundraising campaign, raised about $10,000 which was the down payment for the bank, and here we are, still open three years later,” Peterson said.

How does a video store stay open in a world where it seems that every day a new streaming service pops up? Four Star says it’s the finality and the human interaction that keeps their customers coming back.

“People like the finality of it too.

Once they have made their selection, that’s what they are going to watch in the next couple days, as opposed to online where you can watch 500 previews and then the first quarter of like five movies and then maybe finish one,” Fox said.

Customer base is important, and with Redbox and micro movierental businesses filling the void left by true “browsing” establishments and a large portion of the popu-

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Four Star Video Cooperative maintains strong relationships with customers to maintain a strong business. lation moving toward increasingly popular streaming services, a piece of the market is moving away from the physical store. With new content so readily available, it would seem a concern for businesses like Four Star as platforms like these become more prevalent.

“I mean, obviously it’s a concern, all that stuff was pretty well in place [when] we bought this store. We knew what we were getting into, I mean we aren’t going to be like 70-years-old and doing this, but it’s just like we wanted it to be available to people,” Peterson said. “People like having it here as a physical thing

and, you know, having someone to talk to who knows rather than typing into Google.”

With such a large selection to choose from, there are undoubtedly some strange titles that enter the mix. Boldt said that the movie “Green Porno” is probably the strangest title Four Star has. Made

by Isabella Rossellini, it’s about animal sex.

“Yeah, animal reproduction.

It’s about how animals reproduce and then she acts it out.

Like these costumes and stuff,” Boldt said.

So why opt for shelves, smiles

and plastic cases over the convenience of your laptop?

“You can have a library of 30,000 movies for under 20 bucks a month,” Fox said.

And if that doesn’t sell you, the human experience will. According to Four Star’s owners, they have a consistent stream of “regulars” that they know by name.

Four Star Video Cooperative is located at 449 State Street and is open from 10 a.m. to midnight every day of the year. For more information or to contact Four Star visit their website: http://fourstarvideocoop.com/store/contact.

The 10 road trip movies to watch over spring break

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By Jake Skubish THE DAILY CARDINAL

Spring break is great because you can do a lot of great things during your time off.

1. Break up with significant other.

2. Get back with significant other.

3. Spend time with high school friends.

4. Ignore high school friends.

5. Spend time with family.

6. Ignore family.

7. Sit alone watching Netflix, wondering if you should spend time with your high school friends or family, or maybe get back with your significant other.

8. Go on a road trip.

9. Complain about how short

spring break is.

Everyone knows that option #8 is the best option. But if you can’t go on a road trip, everyone also knows that watching movies about road trips is the second-best option.

The Road Trip Movie (RTM) is the best movie genre for a few reasons. First, road trip movies are versatile; they can be silly or dry comedies, solemn or bittersweet dramas or somewhere in between.

Second, RTMs are the perfect vehicle (heh) for characters to engage in some hijinks or make some mistakes while learning some lessons along the way. Hijinks and mistakes and learning lessons are all great features of movies, so this is

a plus. Third, RTMs have a broad scope: They can be romances, time travel movies, westerns or anything where the characters are basically travelling from Point A to Point B. Now that we’ve established the superiority of RTMs, here’s a handy daily schedule of the RTMs you should watch over break.

Friday: ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ “Little Miss Sunshine” is about a dysfunctional family’s mission to get their daughter to a child beauty pageant, and has all the best features of the RTM: It’s hilarious, deeply painful and ultimately heartwarming.

It’s the quintessential RTM, which is why it’s the perfect place to start.

Saturday: ‘Zombieland’ It’s the first Saturday of break!

You deserve to have fun! No RTM is more fun, or more rewatchable, than “Zombieland,” the saga of four strangers bonding as they seek refuge from a zombie-infested America.

I live for Woody Harrelson’s cackle, and Jesse Eisenberg is at the height of his nervous-neurotic-charming powers. Be warned, this one’s gory.

Sunday: ‘Children of Men’ Well, shit. The first weekend of break is already over, so wallow in that sadness with this gloomy film.

The year is 2027 and, in a world where every woman has become infertile, an underground activist tries to transport an inconspicuously pregnant woman to safety. As much a religious parable as an RTM, this movie is grim, optimistic and totally unique.

Monday: ‘Duel’

Let’s take a step back from these modern RTMs and bask in the genre’s roots. This 1971 TV-movie was one of Steven Spielberg’s first, and one of his most undervalued.

It’s about a man being terrorized on the highway by some kind of demon trucker, which is how I basically see all trucks when I’m driving on the highway, so this one is highly relatable.

Tuesday: ‘Into the Wild’ It’s the midway point of break, so let’s get reflective. This biographical epic follows Christopher McCandless, who leaves his family and responsibilities behind to trek into the Alaskan wilderness.

This one covers everything from societal conformity to loneliness, but never feels preachy or pretentious. The book of the same name is equally inspired, and it’s different enough from the movie that you can enjoy both.

Wednesday: ‘Locke’ “Locke” adds a twist to the classic RTM: Instead of using the road trip as a way for the characters to explore the world, this one transpires entirely inside the car.

Locke, played by Tom Hardy, is the title character and the only actor to appear on screen as he makes a series of phone calls during a latenight trip. It sounds mundane, but it’s tense and suspenseful.

Thursday: ‘The African Queen’ For Throwback Thursday, we’ll take it back to this 1951 classic, which centers on a boat trip featuring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine

Hepburn. Technically, this isn’t an RTM because there are no roads, but whatever. Take this opportunity to marvel at the comic dexterity of the less-heralded Hepburn.

Friday: ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ This Spanish-language RTM follows two teenage boys and an older woman as they travel across Mexico.

You know it’s a great RTM because of how many life lessons they learn.

According to IMDb, the boys “learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.” It’s a gorgeous, moving film, and has one of the most affecting endings I’ve ever seen.

Saturday: ‘The Trip’ This 2010 comedy centers on Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, two British comedians playing themselves as they review restaurants across England. Celebrity impressions and hilarious bickering are abound, but the versatility of the RTM is also on display when conversations turn somber. If you like “The Trip,” you’ll want to check out the sequel, “The Trip to Italy,” as well.

Sunday: ‘About Schmidt’ “About Schmidt,” which follows Jack Nicholson’s road trip to his daughter’s wedding, has many of the typical features that make a great RTM. There are deep laughs, profound misery and an abundance of self-discovery. But it’s also an interesting place to end this marathon because it critiques the very concept of the RTM: Perhaps the lessons and wisdom gained from the trip were within reach the entire time.

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2017 NCAA Tournament Bracket East Preview No. 1 seed: Villanova Wildcats vital Duke takes advantage of Jayson Ready to repeat as champions, it Tatum’s versatility and finds a way is no surprise Villanova is dancing to drive to the paint against No. 15 into the NCAA bracket with a No. 1 seed Troy. seed. Much of the Wildcats’ impresDark Horse: No. 6 seed SMU sive résumé. comes from their elite For SMU to make a deep run road wins (Purdue, Notre Dame, in this tournament as a No. 6 seed, Creighton). Villanova is No. 7 in the they will need key players like Duke nation with the best field goal per- transfer Semi Ojeleye to perform. As centage, and fewest fouls proved their the American Athletic Conference defeat against Big East contender Tournament’s most outstanding Creighton 3-0 this season. player, averaging 19 points National Player of the Year per game, his ability to candidate and senior guard score and defend could creJosh Hart leads the team, ate noise in the East. Senior increasing his season averguard Sterling Brown’s Josh Hart’s age with 18.9 points per game potential to take control and 3-point (15.5 last season) and 40.7 play stellar defense could percentage percent from 3-point range carry SMU on a long ride (35.7 percent). If Hart keeps through the tournament. stealing loose balls, playing Riding a 16-game winning with pressure and driving streak, SMU could meet ACC titles Coach K has to the hoop, the Wildcats are Lone Star State rival Baylor won bound to give an opponent in the second round. The a Hart attack. Entering the Mustangs are hoping to preseason as a Top 5 team, break a long drought of sucthey validated this spot all cess, as they haven’t been to Last time season. Their efficiency on the Elite Eight since 1967.

SMU reached the offensive end and ability Team on upset alert: the Elite to play deep should allow No. 5 seed Virginia Eight them to shine as the cream of Placed as a No. 5 seed for the crop in the East Region. the fifth time in program hisNo. 2 seed: Duke Blue tory, Virginia will fight No. Devils 12 seed UNC- Wilmington in the first Duke has a rollercoaster season, showdown of the tournament. As the but enters the tournament as a No. strongest defensive team in the coun2 seed looking to perform up to their try, the Cavaliers need to find offense potential. Coach Mike Krzyzewski, against the Seahawks. Although who recently earned his 14th ACC Virginia beat UNC-Wilmington in tournament title, will need the team 2010 in a 69-67 nailbiter, they rank as to shoot well from the outside and the second-worst team in the nation have their best defender, junior for rebounds. The Seahawk’s ability to Grayson Allen step up to advance play fast and use their passin the bracket. The 2017 ACC ing lanes make Virginia Tournament MVP, sophoa vulnerable team. UNCmore guard Luke Kennard Wilmington’s ability averages 20 points per game to force turnovers and and has been incredible from handle the ball could the 3-point arc all season. break a few brackets.

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West Preview No. 1 seed: Gonzaga Bulldogs Gonzaga has been a dominant force all year long and their record reflects that. Led by junior guard Nigel Williams-Goss, who averaged 16.9 ppg along with 5.7 rpg and 4.8 apg this past season, and senior center Przemek Karnowski, who averaged 12 ppg and 6 rpg, this team is extremely efficient on both offense and defense. Gonzaga ranked 13th in the country in points per game and 8th in the country in points allowed per game. However, these statistics are very inflated because of the weak conference in which they play in.

Due to their easy schedule, this team could be overwhelmed in the NCAA tournament against improved competition.

No. 2 seed: Arizona Wildcats Arizona has been a phenomenal team throughout the season. This team currently has a ton of momentum after defeating both UCLA and Oregon

on their way to winning the Pac-12 championship. Arizona is led by sophomore guard Allonzo Trier who, despite missing the first half of the season, is averaging 17.3 ppg and 5 rpg. Freshman forward Lauri Markkanen complements Trier, who is averaging 15.6 ppg and 7.1 rpg. This team is extremely talented, but their coach Sean Miller has never been able to get past the Elite Eight during his tenure.

Dark horse: No. 5 seed Notre Dame Fighting Irish Notre Dame, a 25-win team, has one of the best coaches in the region in Mike Brey, who has had tremendous success in previous tournaments, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2015. This team is also the best free throw shooting team in the country at 79.9 percent, which will help them win crucial games down the stretch.

The Fighting Irish have tremendous depth at the guard position and forward Bonzie Colson, who is averaging 17.5 ppg and 10.2 rpg, is a force in

First Round March 16-17 1 Kansas 16 NCC/UCD 8 Miami 9 Michigan State 5 Iowa State 12 Nevada 4 Purdue 13 Vermont 6 Creighton 11 Rhode Island 3 Oregon 14 Iona 7 Michigan 10 Okla. State 2 Louisville 15 Jcksnville St.

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No. 1 seed: Kansas Jayhawks nobody wants to face in the NCAA For the seventh time in the Tournament. More consistent play last 11 NCAA Tournaments, the on the offensive end, especially Jayhawks earned a No. 1 seed in the from senior point guard Derrick Big Dance. However, if there is one Walton Jr., and defensive adjustknock on Bill Self’s Hall of Fame ments have John Beilein’s team résumé, it’s the fact that Kansas playing at an extremely high level has *just* one national title and right now. Their plane accident two Final Four appearances dur- prior to the Big Ten Tournament, ing his 14 years at the helm. With followed by them winning that Wooden Award favorite Frank tournament, made them college Mason III and dynamic basketball’s best feel-good guard Josh Jackson leadstory this March. Warm ing the way, the Jayhawks and fuzzy narratives look like they have all the don’t make deep NCAA tools necessary to make Tournament runs, but Frank Mason III’s 3-point a deep run and reach the teams playing as well as percentage Final Four for the first Michigan with a differtime since 2012. ence-maker like Walton No. 2 seed: Louisville Jr. sure as heck can.

Cardinals Team on upset alert: Derrick After a one-year hiaNo. 6 seed Creighton Walton Jr. tus from the NCAA Bluejays points per Tournament due to a An 11 seed over 6 game self-imposed postseaseed upset isn’t the most son ban, Rick Pitino’s inspired choice, but Cardinals are back as a No. Creighton is certainly a 2 seed. Sophomore guard team in danger of being Years since Rhode Island Donovan Mitchell is the ousted in the first round. has won an headliner on a crazy athletPrior to losing star point NCAA game ic roster that makes its livguard Maurice Watson Jr. ing on smothering opposfor the season to a torn ing offenses. However, the ACL, the Bluejays were Cardinals have been prone to pro- 18-1 and ranked No. 7 in the counlonged scoring droughts through- try. Since then, they’ve gone 7-8 and out the season and are often shaky simply haven’t looked like the same at the free-throw line. While a trip team without him. Meanwhile, to the Final Four would come as no Rhode Island, a preseason top-25 great surprise for this Louisville team, saved what could have been a team, those are the sorts of defi- lost season by winning the Atlantic ciencies that can become fatal flaws 10 Tournament to play itself off the come March, especially if you run bubble. It will be no surprise if the into a hot-shooting team.

Rams knock off Creighton Dark horse: No. 7 seed on Friday. That would Michigan Wolverines be quite a win for A hot-shooting team, you Rhode Island, say? Michigan has you covwhich hasn’t won ered. The Wolverines went a tourney game from a team that looked dessince 1998. tined for the NIT in early ­—Zach Rastall February to one that

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the paint that will help consistently space out the floor.

All of these components make Notre Dame a perfect tournament team that could make run through the West.

Team on upset alert: No. 6 seed Maryland Terrapins The Terrapins have been wildly inconsistent all year, sometimes looking like the best team in the Big Ten and other times losing to teams like Pittsburgh, Nebraska and Penn State. Senior Melo Trimble is in the upper echelon of point guards in the country, but even when he scores upwards of 25 points, like he did against Wisconsin, he often doesn’t get enough support around him.

Xavier struggled down the stretch, losing seven of their last ten, but defeated No. 4 seed Butler in their penultimate game. Trevon Bluitt is averaging over 18 points per game and he could send the Terrapins back to College Park with a strong performance.

—Scott Reichel

No. 1 seed: North Carolina Tar Heels The Tar Heels earned their 16th ever No. 1 seed, and will face No. 16 Texas Southern in Greenville, SC on Friday, March 17 to open up the tournament.

The Tar Heels lost in the National Championship Game last season to the Villanova Wildcats in an instant classic that featured dueling final shots. Many expected UNC to be back this season–and they were right. The Tar Heels won the ACC regular season title.

Led by juniors Justin Jackson and Joel Berry II, UNC made it to the semi-finals of the ACC Tournament before losing to hated rival Duke.

No. 2 seed: Kentucky Wildcats The Tar Heels are joined in the south by No. 2 seed Kentucky Wildcats, who won both the SEC regular season and conference tournament titles. Freshman phenom guard Malik Monk has led the Wildcats in scoring with 20.5 ppg, and freshman forward

Edrice “Bam” Adebayo controls the paint for the Wildcats.

This is certainly the region for blue bloods, with the UCLA Bruins earning the No. 3 seed. Led by freshman point guard Lonzo Ball, who is currently a projected Top 5 pick in the NBA draft, UCLA finished in the Top 5 in the rankings.

UCLA, UNC and Kentucky have 24 combined national titles, and with these three powerhouses in the same region, it’s likely the winner of the South could win this year’s title.

Dark horse: No. 10 seed Wichita State Shockers After winning the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament and sharing the regular season title, the Shockers seem incredibly low-seeded. According to KenPom, Wichita State is the eighth-best team in the country. Look for the Shockers to test Kentucky in the Round of 32, and to potentially keep dancing until the second weekend. Wichita State knocked off Kansas as a No. 7 seed in 2015 and could be poised to know off

another perennialy powerhouse. Kentucky has legitiimate final four hopes, but Wichita State is a scary team.

Team on upset alert: No. 5 seed Minnesota Golden Gophers Coach Richard Pitino led the Golden Gophers to a 4th place finish in the Big Ten, but a fiveseed may be a bit of a stretch for a Minnesota team that lost to No. 8 seed Wisconsin twice and No. 7 seed Michigan in the Big Ten tournament. Their matchup against the No. 12 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders could be an interesting 5-12 upset to pick.

MTSU won the C-USA regular season title conference tournament in dominant fashion, only losing one game in conference play and winning by more than 10 points in each tournament game.

—Bremen Keasey

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Many people, in fear of coming off as insensitive, do not acknowledge Islam’s problems.

Islam’s flaws cannot go unnoticed in discussing the term ‘Islamophobia’ KORT DRIESSEN opinion columnist

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t has been just over a month since President Donald Trump issued his “Muslim Ban.” Now seems the opportune time to have an honest, rational and necessary conversation surrounding Islam and its criticisms.

In the immediate wake of the ban, I noticed many of my fellow campus liberals using the word “Islamophobia” to seemingly no end. Some of these accusations were quite justified—I myself observed anti-Muslim bigotry on this campus and please believe me when I say that I stand firmly against any person engaging in an activity so vile as that. However, most of these well-intentioned accusations held no merit or logic.

“Islamophobia” is not a constructive term—and words do matter. My intention is not to offend or inspire hatred in any form, but to promote honest conversation. In that spirit, I will outline the two major reasons that we should stop saying “Islamophobia.”

For starters, this idea silences honest criticism of Islam, which is something both necessary and warranted.

Let me be clear on this point: We should be criticizing the religion of Islam and its doctrines. We should absolutely not be criticizing all Muslim people. There is a massive difference and I am arguing in favor of the former and against the latter.

First, the doctrines of Islam are in fact worthy of high criticism. This is a religion whose holy book calls for the death of unbelievers, and for apostates to be slain. This same holy book grants men complete control over women, and openly permits and encourages brutal violence against women. This is a religion whose prophet ordered a woman to be stoned to death for adultery, and that anyone participating in homosexual activity be murdered. This is a religion that encourages torture, and that commands its adherents to fight blindly in the name of its God, even against their better judgement.

What’s more, there is an entire

system of religious law, called Sharia, based solely upon the Quran and the words of Muhammed, which happen to be the source of the atrocities I’ve just mentioned.

And while it is easy to say that only “a few bad apples” believe in these things, that is simply not true. In a study conducted by Pew Research Center, for example, 99 percent of Muslims surveyed in Afghanistan supported Sharia being imposed as the official law of the land.

While the numbers certainly differ by country, and there is variance even within Sharia supporters, the results are far from encouraging.

When one makes a truthful criticism of Islam and then is immediately silenced or condemned as an “Islamophobe,” it also silences the people who desperately need and want for that criticism to be heard, but can’t voice it themselves. With the privilege we have been granted, we can give a voice to those who most need one, and by using false claims of ignorance or bigotry to silence those trying to do just that, you are a contributor to the problem.

Also, the term “phobia” is unclear. By definition, a “phobia” is an extreme or irrational fear.

While I do not believe fear is at all the best way to address this problem and actively advocate against fear, it is not inherently irrational to fear a doctrine or a set of ideas that calls for your death, or that endorses violence against women or that covets world domination.

Why is it there is no Christianityophobia, or Mormon-ophobia or Scientology-ophobia?

Because an author can write a book critical of Christianity and not have to go into hiding for years because of a Fatwah calling for their death. Salman Rushdie cannot say the same for Islam.

Because a cartoonist can publish a picture ridiculing Scientology, and not be killed for it. Stéphane Charbonnier cannot say the same for Islam.

No one should be killed for publishing a cartoon, or writing a book or leaving a religion, period. There

should be no debate on this, no matter the circumstances, and it is not irrational to fear a doctrine that says otherwise.

Anti-Muslim bigotry is no doubt a problem and I do not want that to be lost in my criticisms. It needs to be fought whenever it rears its ugly head, but let’s call it what it is: antiMuslim bigotry.

I am opposed to a “Muslim Ban” like the one our president and much of our country had called for. We cannot turn our backs on refugees that have found themselves in the worst of imaginable situations, yet we must keep an even head and think straight when discussing this issue.

Women’s rights, free speech, LGBT rights and religious freedom are all liberal values and values that represent everything great about the world, yet when someone truthfully criticizes the institution most threatening to those values, liberals often shout them down as “Islamophobic.” It is time for that to stop.

Islam as it currently stands is not a set of ideas that aligns itself with liberal values and actually stands at the antithesis of many of those values and that is simply a fact. That said, there are many liberal Muslims and Muslims who want to reform their religion for the better, and they are the ones who are really going to be able to do it. These are the people we should not only allow into this country, but encourage them to come and give them all of the possible support we can—and that starts with the truth.

Please, I implore you, stop silencing the truth and consider the consequences of doing so. Because for every night you lay in bed, satisfied with yourself for sniffing out another “Islamophobe,” a young girl in Afghanistan or Iraq or Pakistan lies voiceless in her bed, steeped in the dread of what tomorrow will bring.

Kort is a freshman studying neurobiology. What are your thoughts on the word “Islamophobia?” Please send all comments and questions to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

e are sending this letter in response to the article titled “Nearly half of UW fraternities faced punishment during 2016.”

As the article points out, the university sets clear expectations for all student organizations, including Greek Life chapters, and holds organizations accountable through probation and other sanctions when violations occur.

We look forward to continuing improvements in the years ahead.

It is also important to point out that while 45 percent of fraternities had a sanction of probation or higher, the violations and sanctions vary greatly in their severity. A general probation sanction alone means that there was a violation, but no restrictions on events are currently being placed on the organization. All sanctions levied by the Committee on Student Organizations (CSO) are m e a n t to have an educational component as the CSO hopes that the educational sessions, programs and sometimes pausing of certain activities helps the organization to improve moving forward.

Also, it is less well known that unlike other registered student organizations, Greek Life chapters are subject to internal and external monitoring that acts both to prevent problems and to expose violations when they occur. Internally, chapters must report in advance to their governance council when they are holding social events and monitors from their governance council drop in unannounced to check whether the event is being

run in accordance with a risk management plan. Externally, chapters on Langdon Street have a Madison Police Department officer assigned to monitor their houses and report problems.

We would agree that highrisk drinking is a significant problem within the Greek Life community as we have seen in the AlcoholEdu data. Greek Life staff and students continue to work hard on addressing this issue through the required risk management training for all Greek Life chapters, required registration for all social events and required event monitoring

by Greek Life peers to ensure that proper risk management protocols are being followed.

In addition, to the community’s credit, they have taken concrete steps to try and address this issue by requiring that all new members must attend a Badgers Step Up! (BSU!) session. The program focuses on leadership d e ve l o p m e nt , bystander intervention, alcohol education, resources and UW-Madison policies related to alcohol. BSU is required by one member of every registered student organization.

By moving beyond the minimum requirement for BSU! and requiring all new members to attend, this is one way that our Greek Life community is taking the issue of alcohol at their events seriously and we look forward to continuing improvement in the years ahead.

Do you have a response for Dean of Students and Vice Provost for Student Life Lori Berquam, Assistant Dean and Director of the Center for Leadership and Involvement Eric Knueve, Interfraternity Council President Michael Foy and Panhellenic Association President Rachel Gold? If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding this Letter to the Editor or The Daily Cardinal’s initial investigative report, please send them all to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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by Alexandra Pleasant This the first installment of a new mystery that will be released in multiple parts over the remainder of the semester. “Nowhere” follows the story of Hannah in her search for her friend Cade and takes place right on the UW-Madison campus. The story begins on Lake Mendota in the middle of winter. Our next installment will be released April 3.

Chapter the First: The Lake Cade is unflinchingly honest. I’m not listening, and the night is quiet and clear.

“This is a bad idea,” Cade says, sinking his hands deep into the pockets of his Carhartt. “Hannah.” He means for me to come back.

“We’ll just stay away from the thin ice,” I laugh. “It’s still solid.”

Levi lets out a huff and watches his breath plum in a slow curling cloud above him; he hikes up the collar of his black peacoat. Even in the dark, I can see the warning glance in his grey eyes as I climb over the rocks behind Memorial Union and out onto the ice of Lake Mendota.

“Goddamn it, Hannah,” Cade says and reluctantly he, then Levi, follow me.

The sound of a night train rumbles from the other side of campus. The hazy glow of the Capitol, the castlelike Red Gym, the lights of the Union Theater, all behind us now. I turn around to see the boys.

“Woah.” My breath also climbs up above, away from me. “Look at it reflecting on the ice,” I say. I pull out my phone and point the camera at Cade and Levi with the lights behind them. The auto focus jumps from Levi to the Union Theater, underexposed then blown out—dark, blurry images.

I listen, a sound like a metal cable snapping and then a low resonant groan.

“You’ll never get a good one,” Cade says. “You just have to look at it, and hope you remember it right.” I roll my eyes. Levi stands motionless staring at his Converse against the ice; he lets out a deep sigh and watches his breath rise and disappear into the clear night sky.

I slip and fall. Levi’s gaze snaps down to me, “You’re drunk. Go home,” he says with a small smile.

“You’re drunk. You go home,” I say.

“It’s not even midnight.”

“OK, Hannah,” Cade helps me up then mutters under his breath, “That statement would have been true an hour ago.” His hands are winter-dry and cracked; he never wears gloves.

He holds his hands out to make sure I’m OK. I laugh. As we move further onto the ice, Cade develops the concern of a worried chirp when I almost slip—that kind of genuine tenderness on the brink of a laugh, and a caution in the way he watches me to make sure I don’t slip in that half-second of complete confidence after I get my balance back.

Levi stops suddenly, “Hannah, did you hear that?” I listen, a sound like a metal cable snapping and then a

low resonant groan.

“It sounds like the Titanic going down.”

“It must be the ice heaving apart, you know,” Levi says.

“Like the bigger pieces breaking and settling,” I add.

Cade kneels and brushes the loose snow from the ice. He plants his hands squarely, heavy on the smooth surface.

“I wonder if I could feel that, the ice breaking.” The sound comes booming again, reaching us distantly from the far part of the lake. I watch a smile grow slowly across Cade’s face.

“As long as it’s not breaking under us,” Levi says. Cade laughs, balling his hands into fists, and pounds on the thick ice underneath us.

Something pounds back.

The hazy glow of the Capitol, the castle-like Red Gym, the lights of the Union Theater, all behind us now.

“Cade?” I say. He pounds on the ice again. The response from the underside is frantic, quickening, terrified.

“There’s something under the ice.

I can’t see,” says Cade. I pull up the flashlight on my phone and shine it on the ice, but it’s too thick and too white to make out anything beyond it. Levi, looking a little confused, does the same.

The underside goes into a frenzy; there’s a blinding flash that lights the ice beneath us.

We run for shore. Levi sprints ahead; I follow him, and Cade a short distance behind. Then I hear a cracking sound—thin ice.

Cade yells, then goes silent. I turn around and make out the dark glare of open water. I inch beside the edge of the break. I see him; his face upturned, eyes wide and terrified, fists clenched against the cold and his body slowly marbling a waterlogged blue as he sinks gently. I grab his hood and then the back of his jacket and pull at him. He reaches, grasping for the edge of the thicker ice. He pulls himself onto the ice and lies coughing.

“Cade, get up,” I plead. “We have to get off the ice.” He stands and stumbles with the cold working its way up against his wet skin. When we get back to shore he slumps against the rocks, lit with the soft glow of the lights of the union. Levi stands, shaking on the concrete above us. He pulls at the collar of his coat and yells down at us.

“What was that?!”

The train blows its whistle and his shoulders jerk up suddenly as his shaking becomes more violet.

I try to take off my wet coat but the soaking sleeves cling and bunch at my wrists. My heart is racing. I’m shaking. I cough because I can’t catch my breath. Cade is even worse.

“Hannah!” Levi says.

“I don’t know, Levi! Alright! I don’t know.” I look up at him standing above me; he looks small with his arms drawn into his chest. He’s shaking too. “I just want to go home,” I say.

He’s quiet for a long moment, “Do you want me to walk you home?”

I shake my head. Levi hesitates, like he’s going to say something, then just nods. “OK,” he says. He turns back toward State Street, synching his arms tighter to his chest, he wavers as he walks away.

I look at Cade, lying against the cold rocks, coughing. I pull at his arm.

“Can you stand?” He does. “Come on, I’ll walk you home.” He stumbles and grabs onto my arms. He looks at me with wild eyes.

“I don’t want to be here,” he says.

“I don’t want to stay in the lake.”

“I’ll get you home, Cade. I promise.”

The night goes dark and loses all detail on the walk home. The empty streets echo the rumble of empty busses. The streetlights flare and flicker as we pass under them. We stop as the train crossing flashes across Union South. A night train looms in the dark coming toward us.

“I’ve been here before,” Cade says suddenly while shaking badly.

“Yeah, Cade, you live down the street.” I say.

“No, Hannah. I’ve been here so many times, and you’ll be here again too,” he says. His head whips wildly back-andforth and his breathing quickens. He brushes his damp hair from his forehead and starts hyperventilating.

[Police] hang over the sides of the boats with poles and pickaxes breaking the still-standing ice into chunks.

“Cade,” I say. I don’t really know what to say. “In the water, di-did you, like hit your head?” Really I was pleading that this is not what I think it is. That this won’t be one of the nights Cade locks himself in and sits in the middle of a dark room too terrified to move and calls me at 2 a.m., to say it’s bad again. “Cade?”

It’s me pleading that this isn’t that.

Not here, not out in the street in the dark while he is drenched and halffrozen and shaking so hard I can feel it in my bones. He looks to his left and right and over his shoulder. The train blows its whistle and his shoulders jerk up suddenly as his shaking becomes more violent.

“Hannah.” He means he’s scared.

Unflinchingly honest—at least he is with me.

“Hold on,” I say. The muscles around his mouth pull tight; he’s really trying not to lose it. He balls the fabric of my jacket in his hands and a thin layer of ice flakes off.

“I don’t want to be here,” he says again. “Not the nowhere. The white wall, not here,” he stutters.

I get him in his apartment.

I bundle towels from the bathroom in my arms and give them to him, like they are mine to give. I’m bad at taking care of people. He’s gone white and stares off vacantly. I leave his keys and phone on the counter. I

help him take off his coat and drape a towel over his shoulders. After that I just kind of watch him for a while. I lean against the front door frame.

“Cade?”

He turns to me and his brow furrows together.

“Hannah,” he says. He means it’s OK if I go. He nods lightly. We’ve always been like that, strangely attuned to meanings, understanding the odd familiarities of each other’s voice in the recital of our own names. All the conversations I remember best are only our soft-spoken names repeated back-and-forth between us.

Cade laughs, balling his hands into fists, and pounds on the thick ice underneath us.

Something pounds back.

The next morning, walking to College Library, the sun is unseasonally bright. When I turn from University Street onto Park Street, I see the yellow police tape coloring the far end along the lake.

Then I see Levi’s stiff, narrow shoulders under the weight of his peacoat; the collar still hiked around his neck. I come up beside him, shuffling between the others that stand in the sun that feels too bright and stare out at the lake. The water just beyond the union is open and police boats and campus rescue troll the confined free water. Men in thick navy coats, emboldened with the large, white letters of POLICE, hang over the sides of the boats with poles and pickaxes breaking the still-standing ice into chunks that fall and rise beside them in the water.

“What’s going on?” I ask.

One of the policemen nearby answers, “There was a call that someone went through the ice last night.”

He pauses. “We’re looking for them.”

The pounding on the ice—what if there was someone underneath us? What if they needed help and we just ran away to leave them there, trapped under the ice, alone? I grab Levi’s sleeve and pull him back.

I’ve been here before.

“Do you think that had something to do with last night?” I say in sharp, hushed tones. He looks at me, confused.

“Whatever that sound was.” He looks at me like he doesn’t understand what I’m saying. I try again, “When Cade was beating on the ice…”

His face draws itself tight in a succession of indecipherable micro-expressions. He stares at me a long, ugly moment; then his lips break into words as he speaks through a tight frown.

“Cade wasn’t there.”

What do you think happened to Cade? Who or what was the pounding that was under the ice? Have any cool theories about the story so far? Send any questions, comments, concerns or theories to almanac@ dailycardinal.com.

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seniors from page 1 games. And even after a late-season run, which culminated in a Sweet 16 appearance, Brown, Hayes and Koenig walked off the floor in Philadelphia without reaching a Final Four for the first time in their careers.

“These past couple years have been filled with a lot of adversity,” Koenig said. “[It] kind of showed us what we need to do to make us stronger and make us better.”

Before his junior season, Hayes recognized that he was now tasked with filling the shoes left by Kaminsky and Dekker.

“For us to have any amount of success like I’ve been accustomed to over the past two years, I need to make another tremendous leap,” Hayes said before last year.

But instead of making the leap, Hayes has regressed in some ways, most notably as a shooter. After Wisconsin’s loss to Iowa in its secondto-last regular-season game, Hayes said he was in a “sunken place.”

Wisconsin had lost five-of-six games and Koenig, Brown, Showalter and Hayes had struggled throughout.

“They’ll realize, ‘We’re not as good as we think we are, and we need to play together as a team to get to where we want to accomplish,’” Zach Bohannon, a captain on UW’s 2014 Final Four team, said.

The Badgers closed the regular season with a victory over Minnesota, and in the Big Ten tournament they took Bohannon’s advice to heart. Wisconsin tied a season-high in assists in its quarterfinal win against Indiana. In its victory over Northwestern, UW played its most complete game of the year.

Yet the Badgers struggled in the second half of the Big Ten Championship

game and left Washington, D.C. with a sour taste in its mouth.

Wisconsin has an uphill battle ahead. There are no Frank Kaminskys, Sam Dekkers or Josh Gassers walking through the locker room doors. And while this senior class has already reached two Final Fours, Brown and Showalter especially are looking to reach the pinnacle again, this time as key contributors.

“I guess I appreciate what we’ve done even more being in [Kaminsky and Dekker’s] shoes and having to play in games like that,” Showalter said.

Much of this senior class’s story has already been written. As freshman, Bohannon said they were an unusually large and tight-knit class. He added that they helped Ryan “mellow out” and become more of a player’s coach.

Freshman guard D’Mitrik Trice says that as seniors, they have maintained their tight bonds and noted that their camaraderie “proves what Wisconsin basketball is all about.”

This senior class will go down as one of the winningest classes in Wisconsin history. Brown knows that one day in his future he will truly appreciate just how magical his first two seasons were. Yet as the Badgers prepare to face Virginia Tech in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday, questions remain as to how deep this team will go.

Showalter’s two Final Four rings lie dormant in a drawer of his apartment. He hasn’t looked at them in a while, but he knows where to look if he needs a reminder of what the Badgers are fighting for.

“That’s some good motivation for me right now,” Showalter said. “Maybe I should pull those back out.”

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While Wisconsin’s win over Xavier in last year’s Round of 32 game was forever immortalized by senior guard Bronson Koenig’s buzzer-beating three, if not for redshirt senior guard Zak Showalter drawing a charge seconds earlier, Koenig never would have had the chance to shoot the ball.

Such plays have been commonplace for Showalter since he arrived in Madison five years ago. Charges, steals and pass deflections have always been a staple of his game. The

Big Ten All-Defensive Team honoree had yet another stellar defensive season, setting a new career-high with 43 steals.

On top of his defensive contributions, Showalter set new career-highs across the board, in points per game, field-goal percentage, 3-point percentage and free-throw percentage. After beginning his Wisconsin tenure as merely a defensive specialist, Showalter has emerged as one of the Badgers’ key offensive players as well.

— Ben Pickman

Vitto Brown burst onto the scene last year in his junior season when he lept from 6.4 minutes per game to more than 25. Most shockingly, he stepped into a role as a lightsout, spot-up 3-point shooter, earning the nickmane ‘3tto’ Brown. He hit a clutch three against Notre Dame in the tournament last year before the Badgers collapsed.

In his first two seasons in Madison, Brown took exactly zero threes. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, he drilled 40 percent of his 95 attempts from

deep last season and got out to a solid start to the 2016-’17 season.

But since the Big Ten season began, Brown has regressed to an unreliable shooter that is mostly on the court for defensive purposes and his strong grasp of the offense.

He shot just 25.8 percent from deep range during the conference season and a putrid 39.6 percent from inside the arc. For Brown, the key won’t be performing well in March, it will be not falling apart.

— Thomas Valtin-Erwin

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While the UW sixth-man carousel continues to spin, freshman guard D’Mitrik Trice remains the lone constant. He has played a key role filling in for Bronson Koenig during injuries and foul trouble, and while he’s struggled to hit 3-pointers in Big Ten play, the IMG Academy product has a smooth stroke.

Sophomore forward Khalil Iverson has blossomed into an excellent addition to the team.

He’s become one of the team’s best on-ball defenders, often guarding the opposition’s top-scoring threat when Nigel Hayes and Zak Showalter take a rest. Iverson is mostly a zero offensively, but his highlight-reel dunks pump life into the team when things start to drag.

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foot, first-year guard Brevin Pritzl has earned more and more minutes as the conference season has progressed. He has great awareness of where he needs to be and brings good energy to a team that can sometimes fall into states of near-apathy. The shooting touch Pritzl was known for in high school hasn’t quite manifested yet, but he’s found other ways to contribute.

Redshirt junior guard Jordan Hill has seen a decline in his minutes since last season, but he’s been serviceable in his limited time on the court. He can be a drag on offense, but provides quickness on the defensive perimeter and has sneaky-quick hands, often leading to deflections and steals.

— Thomas Valtin-Erwin

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points to put the Badgers ahead in the extra frame.

Happ goes off at the Garden:

Koenig comes up clutch in Minnesota:

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Under the bright lights of Madison Square Garden, redshirt sophomore Ethan Happ walked onto one of the most hallowed floors in all of basketball and took center stage, delivering his best performance of the season.

In Wisconsin’s 61-54 overtime victory over Rutgers, Happ carried the load on both ends, torching the Scarlet Knights for a career-high 32 points while also anchoring the defense with two blocks.

On a night when scoring woes nearly cost Wisconsin the game, it was up to Happ to keep his team alive. Playing from behind for a substantial amount of time, the Badgers had to dig themselves out of a nine-point deficit, relying on stingy team defense and a string of late-game heroics from Happ to rally past Rutgers.

Happ piled up 14 points over the final three minutes of regulation and in overtime, an offensive outburst which included a gametying bucket with two seconds left in the second half and five crucial

The Badgers added another overtime victory to their résumé, by defeating the Golden Gophers 78-76 on the road. This back-and-forth affair, which featured 18 ties and 16 lead changes, unfolded in much the same way as the one in New York.

Burgeoning big man Ethan Happ proved vital yet again, stuffing the stat sheet with 28 points, 12 rebounds, six assists and five steals. The outcome was decided when Bronson Koenig, a player who has made a living off of clutching- up in crunch time, did what he does best.

The senior sharpshooter buried a pair of 3three-pointers to keep his team from losing. After falling behind 76-74, Koenig came off a screen, got open and drilled his second three of overtime, delivering the fatal blow to finish off the Gophers.

Badgers right the ship in regular season finale:

Losers in five of their last six, a very successful senior class entered the last game they would ever play at the Kohl Center reel-

ing. With its season growing increasingly grim, Wisconsin finally managed to turn things around, relying on its vast array of senior leadership to lead the team to a 66-49 victory.

The senior triumvirate of Nigel Hayes, Bronson Koenig and Zak Showalter all finished in double figures as the senior class as a whole combined for 46 points on the night, downing a red-hot Minnesota team.

After relatively putrid showings on offense, Wisconsin scored the basketball with much greater success and balance, especially in the second half.

Koenig, especially, found his stroke, scoring 17 points after the intermission. Most importantly for Wisconsin, the solid showing on senior night may have stemmed the tide just in the knick of time, as the team, even with the clunker in the Big Ten title game, looked much better during the Big Ten tournament.

While Wisconsin’s execution remains far from perfect, the Minnesota game marked the first time the Badgers showed signs of life and may have gained some momentum heading into March Madness.

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Quiet leader: Though his shooting development hasn’t been what fans had hoped, the importance of Nigel Hayes to the Badgers’ success is unquestionable. His defense and passing abilities, in particular, stand out in his game. Earlier in the season, Hayes had the tendency to force up jump shots, and the results weren’t very good. However, he’s gotten back to doing what he does best on offense—working inside, punishing smaller defenders when they cover him man-to-man and

Klutch Koenig: Amid the panic that ensued with the Badgers’ late-season collapse and the hype around Ethan Happ’s stellar sophomore campaign, Bronson Koenig had a quietly efficient year for Wisconsin.

The senior is playing fewer minutes per contest than last season, but has increased his scoring and field-goal percentage slightly in 2017. In a season where Wisconsin’s offense was often erratic, finishing No. 8 in the Big Ten in points per

Sophomore stud: Ethan Happ, a former threestar recruit, has blossomed into Wisconsin’s most vital presence below the rim. In his redshirt season, Happ practiced against current NBA players Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker. That experience translated to a 2016 Big Ten Freshman of the Year award, but his contributions to the team didn’t stop there. This year,

being more selective with his jumpers and 3-pointers. When his shooting stroke is on, as it was in UW’s 28-point win over Northwestern, he is a force to be reckoned with. Hayes has been with Wisconsin for one of the best stretches in program history, highlighted by back-to-back Final Four appearances during his first two years and last season’s Sweet 16 run. Whether or not the Badgers are able to make another deep run in his final season may come down to how well Hayes performs.

—Zach Rastall game, Koenig’s ability to hit timely shots has become even more important. The Badgers looked out of sorts when Koenig missed their trip to Ann Arbor, Mich., due to injury—they lost 58-64—and Greg Gard’s squad was 6-2 in contests where the senior scored at least 20 points. Koenig may not be the most athletic Badger, but his ball security and clutch play will be as important as ever for a team looking to give its seniors one last trip to the Final Four.

­—Jake Nisse he leads the team in scoring, while opening up space for shooters. On the opposite end, Happ ranks tops in the country in defensive rating, No. 3 in defensive win shares and No. 11 in steal rate. Happ’s remarkable ability to accumulate steals deserves a tip of the hat, as he is the only player in the Top 70 of steal rate taller than 6-foot7. In less than a year, he has gone from a solid asset to a deadly weapon.

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