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By Ian Wilder STAFF WRITER As one of Wisconsin’s high est elected positions, you wouldn’t expect the Secretary of State’s o ce to be tucked away in the basement. But for years, Secretary of State Doug La Follette and his two sta completed the few duties they had left underground, far from the grandeur of the Capitol’s main floors. At age 82, La Follette is one of Wisconsin’s oldest politicians. He has a long public service career, first running for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1970, then being elected to serve as a state senator from 1972 to 1974 before becoming secretary of state. He’s occupied the o ce for 44 years and is seeking another four-year term this November. La Follette’s name is one of the most recognizable in Wisconsin politics thanks to Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, a former gover nor and U.S. Senator who built Wisconsin’s progressive repu tation in the early 20th century. He’s not entirely sure, but Doug La Follette’s research says he is a “first cousin, twice-removed” to Robert La Follette. Doug La Follette has seen his role diminish during his tenure as secretary – a trend that explains his basement o ce. His role is largely limited to authenticating o cial state documents and other bureaucratic tasks. “I can do the office with both hands tied behind my back, and it’s not a very exciting thing if you like to do stuff,” La Follette told the Washington Post earlier thisButyear.with secretary of state elec tions taking center stage thanks to former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of voter fraud during the 2020 elections, what’s normally a sleepy election is com ing alive in Wisconsin.

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“A lot of good things were hap pening in the ‘70s, so I thought the secretary of state’s o ce would be a statewide o ce where I’d be able to communicate with all the people in Wisconsin and talk about the important environmen tal issues which we had to deal with,” La Follette said. By the time La Follette assumed the role in 1975, many of the office’s original responsi bilities had already been shift ed to other state agencies. The secretary still maintained ample power and a full staff of 50 employees, but that changed in the 1990s when then-Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson allocated much of the office’s powers to other state agencies. La Follette says Thompson’s motivation was “not personal.” “It was just his desire to accu mulate power. He wanted to con trol everything,” La Follette said. “In fact, as a demonstration of that, he stripped away about 75% of the responsibility from the sec retary of state.” Now, Wisconsin’s secretary of state has the least amount of power among all states that directly elect the position, accord ing to a 2021 Council of State Governments report. La Follette does not see a clear path to restor ing the o ce’s powers with the current Republican legislature. “I think it’s probably very unlikely because the Department of Financial Institution (DFI) exists,” La Follette said. “You’d have to break up DFI. I put togeth er a proposal to do that, which I think is very reasonable, but I’ve not been successful at getting the Republicans to pass such a plan.”

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“Look what happened in the last election. There were seri ous e orts to convince [election o cials] in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,” La Follette said, recalling Trump’s attempt to over turn the legitimate 2020 election. “Fortunately, those secretaries of state [and Wisconsin’s commis sion] resisted that. That’s why it’s a bad idea to have an elected per son in Historycharge.”ofthe o ce Before he ran for elected o ce, La Follette was an environmental ist and founder of the “Wisconsin’s Environmental Decade” advoca cy group, now known as Clean Wisconsin. He originally ran for o ce to promote his passion for the environment in government.

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A ‘very important election’ This year’s secretary of state election could have an outsized impact on the future of elections in Wisconsin.LaFollette’s opponent in the Nov. 8 election, Rep. Amy Loudenbeck (R-Clinton), has called for election administration responsibilities to be transferred from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) to the secretary’s o ce — a move La Follette called “a very bad idea.” Republican Gov. Scott Walker created the WEC in 2016 after signing a bill that abolished the Government Accountability Board, Wisconsin’s previous nonpartisan elections and ethics board. Though the new WEC is partisan, it maintains a balance of three Republicans and three Democrats, each of whom are appointed to ﬁve-year terms. But with Republicans accusing states of aiding voter fraud during the 2020 election despite lacking evidence, according to the New Yorker, the WEC is on the chop ping block as part of a nationwide Republican push to gain control over state elections before the next presidential election in 2024. Continue reading online at dailycardinal.com

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By Francesca Pica STAFF WRITER

In the letter, COVID protocols at UW-Madison were compared to those at the University of California, Los Angeles, where Mnookin was the former Law School Dean. “We urge UW-Madison to implement an expanded, compre hensive mitigation approach that builds on successful UW-Madison policies and implements addi tional protective measures like those currently in place at UCLA and outlined in the UCLA Table of Mitigation Recommendations and Requirements and UCLA COVID 19 Prevention Program for Workplaces,” the letter reads. The letter was given to Mnookin at the ice cream social welcome event in early August.

Chancellor Mnookin responded to an open letter from University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty and sta seeking improve ments to COVID-19 protocols and policies at the university.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dane County is at a low community transmission level as of September 7. The CDC recommends staying up to date on vaccinations, along with getting tested if symptoms arise. “UW-Madison is monitoring COVID-19 in our community and working closely with state and local public health o cials,” the UW-Madison COVID response team said. “There are no chang es to campus policy at this time, though public health o cials rec ommend everyone stay up to date on COVID-19 vaccination.” Campus policy recommends that students get tested when they notice symptoms, along with staying up to date on vaccinations and wearing masks in indoor spaces.

By Noa Chamberlin STAFF WRITER Over the past two and a half years, the foundation of higher education has been put to the test. From COVID-19 in 2020 to the impacts of inflation, apply ing to college and access to higher education have experi enced a downfall. In light of these compli cations and challenges, the University of Wisconsin System is considering implementing direct admissions for in-state high school students. In admin istering direct admissions, the goal would be to increase access to a higher college education and student enrollment, according to WPR.According to UW System data, the percentage of high school students enrolling at the state’s 13 universities has fallen since 2013. Further, there has been a 5% decrease in the num ber of high school graduates who applied to UW schools immedi ately after graduation — decreas ing from 32% to UW-Madison27%.assistant edu cation professor Taylor Odle researched the topic of direct admissions with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Professor of Higher Education Jennifer Delaney in January 2022. Odle explained the large impact automatic admissions holds from the perspective of the“Ratherstudent. than asking high school students to research colleges, complete long appli cations, manage sending tran scripts and test scores, paying various fees, etc., direct admis sions policies, instead, proac tively admit students to college based on data already available to them, such as high school GPA and ACT/SAT scores,” he told the Daily Cardinal. Odle explained students and parents will receive a letter in the fall of their senior year let ting them know which colleges they have been automatically admitted to with information on how to enroll and apply for financial aid, as well as other validOdleinformation.commented on the more in-depth analysis of automatic admissions and what qualifies students for direct“Underadmission.direct admissions policies, most students are auto matically admitted to all openaccess institutions (e.g., com munity colleges, regional com prehensive universities), and students who surpass certain academic thresholds (e.g., GPA above 3.7) could be admitted to more selective universities or state flagships,” he said. Odle further stated direct admissions has the potential to create a shift in applicants and admitted students by sidestep ping the traditional admissions process and presenting a proac tive notification process of open slots. The traditional admis sions process entails stress and multiple costly elements with out any guarantees. By eliminating this overwhelm ing process for the students and parents, the direct admissions policy allows for a more encour aging and easily accessible way to a higher“Directeducation.admissions can not only make the college application process simpler and easier for students, but it can also be used to reduce existing inequalities in college access — by removing barriers that disproportionately impact students by race, income and place,” Odle said. One favorable aspect of the direct admissions decision is based on how direct admissions simplify the application process by leveraging existing student data, according to the Board of Regents Education Committee. Another main component and goal of direct admissions to eliminate the prominent disparities seen in many col lege student bodies, Odle said. The current college search and application process — and its many complex steps — produc es inequality, where students of color and those who are firstgeneration college students, low-income or from rural areas are greatly “Automaticdisadvantaged.admissions is meant to simplify this process by eliminating the need to apply to college altogether, particular ly for higher-achieving students who would easily be admitted anyway,” said Odle.

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Businesses on the 400 block of State Street have moved to new locations in anticipation of a plan to demolish and redevelop the block.

Universities can also benefit from direct Accordingadmissions.to Odle’s research, direct admissions policies raise state and insti tutional enrollment levels, and they do so by increasing the number of in-state students who enroll in college. Direct admissions have been put in place in several states, including Idaho, Hawaii and Minnesota. These opt-in pilot programs have been estab lished both at individual uni versities and at systemwide lev els, according to the Boards of Regents Education Committee. At UW schools specifically, the direct admissions process has not yet been established.

On August 6, Mnookin released an o cial statement in response to the open letter. She explained her plans for the COVID protocols from here moving forward.

“I need to see what [JD McCormick’s] new plans are and how they’ve evolved before I can make a decision,” Heck said. “I generally try to hear all the input and see every single piece of what’s been proposed.”

“We have lived with this virus for more than two years, adapting to ever-changing circumstances, sometimes at great sacriﬁce. We also operate, here at UW — as at every university — in the context of broader local, state, and national responses to the virus, and of course those, too, continue to change and evolve,” the statement reads. “I also note that not every protocol writ ten on the page ends up working entirely as expected in practice.”

Although, the property company has yet to submit its revisions to theColinUDC. Smith, JD McCormick’s business development director, claimed the development would promote greater economic activity on State “ThisStreet.project has been a hope and dream for years now,” Smith said to the Wisconsin State Journal. “We decided to start the o cial process because State Street has had an increase in commercial vacancies and a decrease in pedes trian tra c. Our owner has lived in Madison his entire life and wants to be part of the revitalization of StateJDStreet.”McCormick did not respond to the Cardinal’s request for comment. Though the project has not yet been approved by the UDC, the businesses located at the 400 block have already Businessesrelocated.include Sencha Tea Bar, B-Side Records, Culture Collectives and Freedom Skate Shop — each of which has found a new location elsewhere on StateAlderStreet.Heck said the dis placed businesses had been unhappy about the move, espe cially those who are facing higher“Theyrents.were on essentially month to month leases,” he said. “They didn’t really have the ability to say, ‘Oh, we signed a lease for a year. So you can’t kick us out.’” “I think they were all not happy about having to move out, and some of them will be pay ing higher rents than they were,” Alder Heck continued. B-Side Records, located at 436 State Street, is the last of the businesses to move. Owner Steve Manley said he plans to move his new location at 514 State Street in September. “The whirlwind of pre-mov ing activity is already under way,” said Manley. “The big push will happen sometime midto-late September. We estimate to have to be closed for most of a week or so during the major por tion of the transition.” Manley said though he consid ered moving o State Street, he felt that the location’s high pedes trian tra c would make up for the higher rent costs. “I had considered moving the store to a di erent area of the city where lease rates are cheaper but my feeling is B-Side Records has such a long identity as a State Street store and thought it best to keep it that way,” he said. “It might be the highest commercial rent dis trict in Wisconsin, but the tradeo is that it is one of the best locations for foot tra c.” Despite sharing some of the commission’s concerns, Alder Heck remains open minded about what the project, if approved, will o er the community.

“This could be helpful to UW at large or specific UW campuses by helping increase enrollment levels and diversify the popula tion of students who enroll at a UW campus,” he said. considers a direct admissions program

Madison-based developer JD McCormick Properties proposed to build a five-story building on State Street’s 400 block. The development would include commercial space for a restaurant on the first and second floor, as well as 23-26 apartment units above.If approved, three small retail store fronts would be demolished. Two of those buildings, 428-430 State St. and 432-436 State St., were con structed in the 1890s. In February, JD McCormick Properties submitted the pro posal to the city’s Urban Design Commission (UDC) for approv al. However, the commission did not approve the project due to concerns the development would disrupt the character of StateAlderStreet.Patrick Heck (District 2) told the Daily Cardinal the UDC commissioners believed the pro posed design does not align with State Street’s historic architecture. “They were criticized for it being out of scale with the traditional narrow storefront facades of State Street,” Heck said. “And some UDC commis sioners were concerned about the four story height right along State, even though that’s allowed in the zoning.” JD McCormick ultimate ly decided to revise its plans.

Dan Fitch, who works at UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, gave the letter. He also helped write the letter with the campus labor union United Faculty and Academic Sta “I just was given the letter here today, so I haven’t had a chance to take a look at it,” Mnookin told the Cap Times at the event. “What I will say is that I will be listen ing very carefully to public health professionals, just as Becky Blank did, to try to find the balance between keeping our community safe, but also protecting the educa tion and the strength of the experi ence of being here as best as we possibly can.”

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Odle attended a UW System Board of Regent meeting in August 2022 to learn more about the policy of direct admissions, and he told the Cardinal there were no official details about UW’s potential direct admissions system. However, the direct admis sions process is heavily encour aged and UW Systems, Odle and other researchers hope for this process to be implemented based on the multiple benefits that can result from automat ic admissions for in-state high schoolUniversitiesstudents. examine the direct admissions process so intricately because they consider it a simplified way to increase the level of college enrollments and reduce inequalities in the college process, Odle explained. He is hopeful about the future of the enrollment process, specifi cally in UW schools.

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I used to want to make films when I was a kid. Growing up, we had one desktop in the house that was usually being used by my dad for some Bollywood covers of Arijit Singh or Kishore Kumar. Meanwhile, I would sit next to him and essentially act as a studio engineer. I became fluent in music production programs and began making film scores for movies with sam ples. I would literally run home from school with ideas on beats in seventh and eighth grade and just create stuff. It’s crazy to think about, but the Carnatic Indian music was probably what made my beats so raw and different. Fast forward to 2018, and here I am making beats for people and then making album art on Photoshop, logos on Illustrator and still making edits in Final Cut Pro. My childhood helped me become fluent in all of these without realizing. Working and being a student is extreme ly time consuming. What have you done to balance your schedule?

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speak with late Badger alum Virgil Abloh. How did that impact you since you both come from the same hometown? He lived across the main street from where I grew up, and I had no clue until my friends told me about it. I spent the next 40 weekends calling him once every Saturday until he picked up one day. Didn’t take too long for me to realize he must’ve buttdialed or something and I was listening [to him talk about] his Nike projects while I should’ve been studying for a calculus final.

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Any of my friends will tell you this: I really haven’t balanced it. I jump from one idea to another, from one place to another, and by the end of the day, I have this accu mulation of concepts and work that I’m able to show. My break from school is work, my break from work is school, and if I want a break from both I just go watch a movie or listen to some music to get inspired again. Just love what you do and be obsessed with the process of how you do it. You won’t have a “schedule” then. Early on you had the opportunity to

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By Beth Shoop STAFF WRITER In-state tuition rates for the University of Wisconsin System have remained stable since 2013. The UW System Board of Regents continued this trend by extending the tuition freeze to in-state undergraduates for the 2022-23 academic year. Tuition cost is decided in the summer by the Board of Regents through discus sions with the chancellors. Running a large academic insti tution comes at a high cost. The operating budget at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 2021-22 reached $6.564 billion. According to a UW System press release, with these costs, universities attempt to make education acces sible with lower tuition, especially for in-state students. Because in-state costs remain the same, concerns from out-of-state and international students have grown. In-state tuition has not changed since 2013 even though the cost of living has increased significantly. For the 202223 school year, the out-of-state tuition for UW-Madison reached $38,654.00 per year, according to the O ce of Student Financial Aid. Associated Students of Madison (ASM) representative Steven Shi weighed in with his thoughts on the tuition freeze as an international student. Shi explained that while he believes the tuition freeze is fair for instate students, the burden it can place on out-of-state and international stu dents can be di cult. Shi illustrated a stereotype that is commonly heard around campus, the idea that all international students are extremely“Therewealthy.aresome stereotypes about how international students are wealthy,” Shi said. “Basically cash cows for everyone. But that is cer tainly not the case.” “The vast majority of internation al students come from middle-class families or even lower. It can become quite a struggle for international stu dents to pursue academic careers in the US,” Shi added. UW System President Jay Rothman requested a review of a ordability conducted by the UW System’s O ce of Policy Analysis and Research that will compare the UW System costs to those of similar insti tutions. Students have raised ques tions as to whether or not the price comparison will act as justification for the UW System to raise prices and discontinue the tuition freeze in the coming“Ouryears.foremost goal at UW–Madison is to o er the best educa tion at the lowest possible cost,” UW-Madison communications spe cialist Greg Bump said. “Were there to be changes in tuition in future years, we would want to protect a ordability for those who have fewer resources.” If the freeze were to end, Bump clarified that low costs would remain through di erent financial aid pro grams and funds such as Bucky’s Tuition Promise. According to Bucky’s Tuition Promise website, this program is a “commitment to Wisconsin resident students,” and it guarantees scholarships for lowerincomeTuitionstudents.discrepancies reside around in-state versus out-of-state costs. This leaves international stu dents like Shi feeling forgotten as they face a plethora of additional fees. Such fees combined with increasing tuition makes higher education in the United States more di cult to pursue. “[The] university needs to think urgently if they want to stay com petitive amongst all the universities around the world and to stay honest to its commitment to accessible edu cation,” Shi said. ASM press officer Meghan Savaglia highlighted the complexity of the tuition freeze. She expressed the need for accessible and a ord able education but recognized that the issue is not clear cut. Savaglia said ASM’s goal is to “fur ther initiatives to continue to make college more a ordable for a wider range of students.” The tuition freeze provoked ques tions regarding wages for both fac ulty and student employees. “While in-state undergraduate tuition has been frozen, we have been able to make adjustments to full- and part-time employees com pensation using other sources of funds,” Bump said. Bump contends student employee wages have no relationship to the tuition freeze and employees who get paid partly through tuition costs are not to worry as funding will come from other sources.

Q&A: UW student Pranav Volety discusses his creative process

By the end of freshman year, most col lege students could tell you their favor ite class or name some friends from the dorm, but not all could tell you the song they helped produce with Kanye West’s team or the time they got to hang with Snakehips backstage after making a piece of art for Pranavthem.Volety, a University of WisconsinMadison junior, embodies the Renaissance Man — operating in the field of science through lab work and neurobiology studies while also being a photographer, producer, creative director and designer. His latest roles operate as the Creative Director of both the burgeoning rap cam paign for NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown and the U.S. Senate campaign for Steven Olikara. Volety creates in all facets, from working on photography and videog raphy to editing and producing.

A first generation immigrant from Hyderabad, India, his family united in Rockford, Illinois during his childhood after separately moving across the Midwest. Growing up in a little-known town that birthed stars such as Fred VanVleet and Virgil Abloh, he balanced his small-town reality with his big-time aspirations. Since his arrival at UW-Madison, Volety has been featured in Complex, Hot New Hip Hop, XXL and Wiscansinfest. His col laborations include Kanye West, Flume, Santan Dave, Snakehips, Tkay Maidza and WUDMusic.Voletysatdown with the Cardinal to discuss his time on campus and his creative endeavors. Through all your work so far, you’ve worn a lot of hats — producer, director, photographer and student. How do you avoid being typecast in one role? I think it traces back to my upbring ing. I moved here with my parents from Hyderabad, India where my mom and I stayed in Terre Haute, Indiana while she did her residency, and my dad lived in Chicago because of work. We later moved to Rockford, Illinois, but being an Indian-American was two hats I had to wear. It’s two different cultures, two different sets of expectations and two dif ferent lifestyles I lived. When I was about 11, I had a pretty hefty schedule where I was doing tennis, swim team, Suzuki guitar les sons and Carnatic (classical South Indian) music lessons which my mom made sure that I participated in. Multitasking became a skill of mine, and that grew over time to mean that I was able to multitask what I do. I know it’s natural to most people to see neurobiology and my career outside of it as separate, but they couldn’t be more similar to me because of my goal. I just want to create and provide for others in the most efficient and produc tive way. I just happen to be creative and interested in medicine. How did you start out in the field of the arts, and what ultimately drew you to creative direction?

He realized he answered the phone and ended the call with “Oh, it’s this kid again.” I definitely wasn’t studying for the next hour after that but instead was worried more about legal repercussions for some reason. An hour later I got a call from him, and after some calming down, I explained to him my ideas and some community out reach possibilities. It was life-changing, and he showed me how I could bridge science and art as he’d done with engineering and fashion. We had our last call sometime near the beginning of the pandemic, and it was nearly an hour long. The last words he said to me were to “Keep going and keep dreaming. It’s way simpler than it looks.” He changed the trajectory of my life with a few words, let alone the rest of the phone calls. Truly the embodiment of consilience andYou’vecompassion.been creatively directing for Steven Olikara on his U.S. Senate cam paign. What made him stand out to you? I ran across Steven’s campaign manager at the org fair and decided to give it a shot as a creative lead for the team. It was prob ably the best adventure a kid could ask for. Steven leads through action, whether that means creating town halls to speak at, show ing how NFT technology could be ethical, or even showing up at events on campus when no other candidate would. How’d you start working with Antonio Brown, and what’s your favorite part about working with him so far? It was actually at a Donda Doves [a high school basketball team founded by West] game in Chicago where I went over to talk to Ye (Kanye West) and DaBaby. I completely skipped over Antonio Brown (AB), not realizing who it was. I’m not into sports much, but I realized a little too late that it was AB and went over to talk with him for a bit. A month ago I was at Summer Smash and saw him, and he recognized me. Ever since then, it’s been a journey. People don’t realize how much of a genius and how good a men tor Antonio really is. A lot of times in this industry, it’s a give-me-and-back-o men tality whereas, with AB, it’s about the fam ily eating together, and more importantly, making sure everyone is growing. I couldn’t be more thankful for the opportunities he’s o ered me thus far, and I’m excited to see what the future holds too. How would you say your combination of Synesthesia, color blindness and ADHD has gifted you with a unique perspective? My ADHD mind works best when I can literally swivel my chair from one art form to another. In a world of labels, I decided to brand myself as a creative director, even though I truly believe it’s a joke of a title that a lot of influencers and executives have diluted. Synesthesia and color blindness are things I’m just starting to explore, but expect some projects soon with those. Most people would be surprised at the fact you’re a neurological biology major. What made you choose that field? A neuroanatomical and neuropsy chological understanding is crucial to creating something that connects with people. A lot of what I work on for peo ple requires me to invoke some sort of emotion or transport you to a certain place. Neurobiology and other fields like it are the future — they merge two exist ing studies. It’s in this gray area between fields that I thrive. Without the predeter mined paths like most fields have, it’s the wild west of science at the moment. Do you have any advice for people who are also trying to carve a path for them selves in the arts? Stop worrying about being perfect with what you do. It’ll inevitably delay your goals. We live in a time when elitism in art is present and active. You have to keep your head up and release content. I fall victim to shying away from it too, trust me.

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The future of the tuition freeze is unknown beyond next year. However, the university maintains their main goal of keeping costs down and pro viding accessible education to all.

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Wisconsin’s passing game should have a similar look this week. The Cougars yielded some long completions against Idaho, including ones of 42, 23 and 18 yards. Perhaps Mertz will work the ball downﬁeld a bit to his starting receiver trio of Chimere Dike, Markus Allen and Skyler Bell. Look for Dean Engram to get some more action in Week 2, espe cially if Wisconsin enjoys another big lead in the second half. Looking Ahead Once again, Wisconsin has a home matchup it should win by a considerable margin. If the Badgers follow a similar o ensive formula from a week ago while, defensively, tightening up some holes in the secondary, remain ing staunch against the run and exploiting the Cougars’ ball secu rity issues, they’ll likely improve to 2-0 on the season. The Daily Cardinal will provide live updates during Saturday’s game on @cardinal_sports, and our recap will be available online shortly after the contest.

Marsh, who made six tackles of his own, had an impressive sack where he bolted through the o ensive line on a nickel blitz and blew up a 4th and 9 attempt. The 5’10” Marsh was one of the Cougars’ best defenders in 2021 with his 70 total tackles, 5.5 tackles for a loss, three interceptions, two forced fumbles and seven passes defensed. Marsh’s Week 1 sack highlights the need for Wisconsin to be organized and aware with its pass protection. In the second quar ter against Illinois State, Graham Mertz took a huge blindside hit from a blitzing nickel defender and made a brief visit to the injury tent. Braelon Allen tried to recov er after initially sliding to the right in pass protection, but he couldn’t get close to the defender before he was able to reach Mertz. While Mertz will inevitably take hits throughout the season, preventable ones of last Saturday’s magnitude are detrimental to his long-term success. Postgame, the Wisconsin quarterback recalled the play and admitted he should have moved Allen’s block to the weak side after his pre-snap read. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Washington State call some creative blitzes, with Marsh or someone else, to test the Badgers’ pass protection and keep Mertz on his toes. Improved blocking will be a big step for Allen, too, both for Wisconsin and for his potential as an NFL player.

State’s defense played fairly well against Idaho, holding the Vandals to 62 rush ing yards on 34 attempts and 212 passing yards on 32 attempts. The Cougars intercepted quarterback Gevani McCoy twice and sacked him seven Linebackertimes.Daiyan Henley was outstanding with eight total tack les, a sack, three tackles for a loss and an Defensiveinterception.backArmani

Watson totaled 522 yards and ﬁve touchdowns with Wisconsin in 2019 and 2021 before transferring in search of an increased role. The redshirt junior ﬁnished with 117 yards on 18 attempts last week, and he additionally caught two passes for 17 yards.

Watson did lose a fumble, though, as did Ollie and running back Jaylen Jenkins. Running the ball will be di cult enough against a stiﬂing Badger front seven, but if the Cougars can’t trust their skill players to secure the football, it will be a long after noon for Washington State.

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Wisconsin running back Braelon Allen barrels through the Illinois State defense - en route to 148 yards and two touchdowns.

Clearly, the Cougars’ best chance at o ensive success is challenging Wisconsin’s second ary, which will be without start ing free safety Hunter Wohler. Wohler, after leaving the Illinois State game with a leg injury and being seen with a boot and crutch es afterwards, has reportedly been ruled out of this Saturday’s contest. In his absence, the inex perienced Preston Zachman, a former linebacker who recorded an interception in Week 1, should enter a starting role.

By Justin Alpert STAFF WRITER The No. 19 Wisconsin Badgers (1-0) return to Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. to host the unranked Washington State Cougars (1-0). Fresh o a 24-17 victory at home versus Idaho, the Cougars bring a familiar face — and ball security concerns — into a daunt ing matchup with the Badgers. Week 1 WisconsinRecapopened the new campaign with a 38-0 clobbering of the Illinois State Redbirds. In front of a packed house at Camp Randall Stadium, the Redbirds found success on an early drive before gifting safety John Torchio and the Badgers a 100-yard, scoreopening pick-six. From there, the Badgers domi nated on the strength of Braelon Allen’s 148-yard, two-touchdown night and a promising 2022 debut for quarterback Graham Mertz. However, Illinois State was the inept, Week 1 opponent it was supposed to be. This week, Washington State comes to Madison with a Power Fivequality roster and a win under its belt in the early season. The Badgers have plenty of room for improvement, namely in their defensive secondary, and this Saturday will be a great oppor tunity to build upon last week’s impressiveWashingtonperformance.StateO ense vs. Wisconsin Defense Under center for the Cougars is quarterback Cameron Ward, who’s beginning his first season in the FBS after two years at University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. There he enjoyed two dominant seasons, accumulating 6,908 pass ing yards, 71 touchdowns and 14 interceptions across 19 games. In 2020, Ward won the Jerry Rice Award as the most outstanding fresh man in FCS football, and last year he was a finalist for the Walter Payton Award which goes to the most out standing o ensive player in the FCS. Ward had an impressive start to his FBS career last Saturday, completing 25 of 40 attempts for 215 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions, albeit with a lackluster QBR of 37.7. He ral lied the Cougars back from an early 10-0 deficit and rattled o 24 straightWashingtonpoints. State’s leading receiver in Week 1 was Donovan Ollie, who caught seven passes for 67 yards. The redshirt sopho more had 301 yards on 26 catches in 2021. De’Zhaun Stribling had seven catches for 51 yards and a touchdown, and he’s coming off a 44-catch, 471-yard and fivetouchdown campaign. Beyond their Week 1 produc tion, another similarity between Ollie and Stribling is their height. Both standing at 6’3”, the receiv ers have a significant size advan tage over Wisconsin’s starting cornerbacks. Wisconsin’s Jay Shaw (5’11”) and Ricardo Hallman (5’10”) were exposed a bit on downfield throws against Illinois State. So, Ward, who’s shown a knack for the deep ball through out his collegiate career, figures to let it loose this Saturday. The Cougars ran for 143 yards and 5.7 per attempt against Idaho, with former Badger running back Nakia Watson leading the charge.

The theater was packed with audience members of all ages, each anticipatedly ﬂipping through their bright pink playbooks. Vibrant and complicated graphics of pages of the notorious Burn Book ﬂashed on the screen behind the empty stage.

“I speciﬁcally remember stat ing three times the importance of security for the opening and for the duration of the exhibit,” GatlinHayesContinuenoted. reading at dailycardi nal.com

“It was a mess from the begin ning,” shared Additionally,Gatlin-Hayes.inresponse to the vandalization of Gee’s work, the website FWD: truth was estab lished by some of the artists as “an open letter and living archive made in collective (re:)action.” It goes into detail regarding how the MMoCA has failed Black women, femmes and gender non-conﬁrming artists at most every step in this collaboration. The timeline assembled at fwdtruth.com details these interac tions and makes clear the destruc tion and theft of Gee’s artwork was not an anomaly but a scarily inevi table symptom of much larger issues with the museum. The timeline In April 2021, the museum announced the Wisconsin Triennial, a state-wide survey of contem porary art occurring every three years, would be curated by some one outside the museum’s sta for the ﬁrst time in their history. They later announced the guest curator would be Wisconsin artist, owner and curator of 5 Points Art Gallery in Milwaukee’s north side, Fatima Laster. However, this decision car ried an amount of “internal dissent andInuncertainty.”September 2021, a “collection of artists, curators, art advocates, and citizens” wrote to Director Brungardt and the MMoCA board to “formally applaud the selection of Fatima Laster as guest curator for the Wisconsin Triennial” and “urge MMoCA to continue to do the work of supporting Laster’s appointment and continuing to center inclusion in [MMoCA’s] exhibition programming.” Most importantly, this letter included a list of actions the muse um needed to take to ensure the exhibit’s success and avoid “the traps that often come with hiring a per son of color to join a predominate ly white institution” because of “a lack of institutional support.” These included having the full support of the museum, a lack of “institutional gatekeeping” and “cross-disciplinary documentation of the exhibit so that this historical moment is available for future artists.” Fast forward to March 2022, the artists had been announced and Brungardt agreed in the art loan contract between the museum and the artists to “exercise the same care in respect to artwork loaned to it, as it does in safekeeping of its own artwork.”

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The second the stage lights ﬂipped toward two individuals, the infamous Janice and Damian, the entire the ater was transformed. Through a quick-witted and entertaining open ing sequence of song and dance, the two iconic characters — portrayed by Lindsay Heather Pearce and Iain Young, respectively — transported the theater to a place much too scary to be explored alone: high school in 2004.

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The North American tour of “Mean Girls” has been running since 2018, with the exception of a brief but necessary pause during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by an award-winning team includ ing Tina Fey of “30 Rock” and lyricist Nell Benjamin of “Legally Blonde,” the show received immense support from its viewers. This includes an average show score of an impressive 83 percent and positive feedback from the likes of USA Today and New York Magazine. The musical serves as a hardhitting adaptation of the American teen comedy ﬁlm of the same title directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. Set in a Chicago suburb, the show opens with the introduction of a young home-taught student from Kenya, Cady FollowingHeron.hermove across the world, Cady is met with a problem reﬂected in the lives of most teens entering public school: making friends. With the help of wacky duo Janice and Damian, Cady is thrust into the wild environment of North Shore High School. It isn’t long until she is taken under the wing of an A-list clique known as The Plastics. When she falls for the ex-boyfriend of Plastics alpha Regina George, a snowball of social destruction (and reconstruction) takes form. From the very beginning of the show, it was quite obvious that the cast and production team had worked tirelessly to perfect its remarkable scene design. The lead cast members and the ensemble alike navigated a num ber of complicated props expertly, rolling across the stage on high school desks and tall bathroom stalls with comfort and precision. Each scenic transition involved quick outfit changes on the part of every cast member. This feat was most impressive during Janis’ introduction of Cady to a lunch room full of jocks, nerds and “sex ually active band geeks,” wherein ensemble members switched cos tumes covertly before the audi ence. The choreography and use of props were mesmerizing, prov ing the enlisted talent to be oneof-a-kind.Continue reading at dailycar dinal.com

By Je ery Brown STAFF WRITER The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) is fac ing allegations of racism after allow ing the artwork of local artist Lilada Gee to be defaced and stolen. The incident On June 24, a woman and her children visited the “Ain’t I a Woman” exhibit. Using the art supplies around as part of the exhibit, they proceeded to paint and glitter over Gee’s piece. When a museum attendant found the family and went to inform muse um leadership, the mother and chil dren left with the art. Gee received a phone call from MMoCA’s director Christina Brungardt that simultaneously made Gee aware of the incident and asked if it was alright for the family to keep Gee’s vandalized and stolen art. The security footage was shared with Gee who, upon viewing, said it was “clear that they painted a penis on [the Brungardt’sartwork].” question was described as an e ort to “de-esca late” the situation which the muse um’s statement calls an “anomaly.” They add, “at no point during the incident did the director intend to allow the mother to keep possession of theSinceartwork.”then,at least half of the 23 artists involved in the exhibit have pulled their work. The Daily Cardinal spoke with one of these artists under the condi tion of anonymity as well as Rhonda Gatlin-Hayes who decided to leave her artwork in the museum. The anonymous artist high lighted how “challenging” this experience and incident have been. In discussion with the Cardinal, they emphasized interactions with MMoCA — going all the way back to the beginning of the exhibit — were “troubling” and marked with “slights and oversights [MMoCA] was comfortable making.”

Everyone remembers that moment in the theater when the lights ﬁnally dim. We recognize the immediate hush of the crowd and the restless movements of the audience in their seats. When the show is about to begin, the whole world stops. Broadway productions have mas tered this e ect. It creates an other worldly experience only possible in a professional theater setting. On Aug. 30, the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin got its very own taste in the form of Broadway’s “Mean Girls” production.

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A week later, the first major o ense occurred. During the instal lation of the exhibit, Lilada Gee stepped out to get more supplies. She called Annik Dupaty, another Black woman involved in the exhibit, to let her back in. However, a white employee of MMoCA not only pre vented their reentry but “verbally accosts and physically intimidates” them. Gee decided to pause the installation of the exhibit, letting it stand as a reflection of its state on the day of this incident. In response, the museum fired their o ending sta member while keeping them anonymous. MMoCA then set up a time to speak with the artists to discuss “desired reconcilia tory actions and accountability mea sures.” In addition to requesting a formal apology, the artists asked for increased security at the museum.

The Cardinal’s favorite ways to tailgate Badger games

— Samuel Mayo

“Fuel up before leaving the house, hit up Lathrop St., play some games, then scramble to nd the gang with zero cell reception before heading into Camp Randall (always Section P!)”

— Mackenzie Moore

“I enjoy drinking whatever classic tailgate beverage is around - likely warm Hamm’s or jungle juice - and getting into shenanigans with my friends. Shout out to the mysterious green blob on Nick’s driveway last season. Still not quite sure what I ate.”

“With friends, usually with a few good keg stands and a few bomb hot dogs too :)”

— Tyler Katzenberger

— Samantha Benish

“Favorite part of a tailgate is watching parents try and out drink their children, and nine times out of 10 succeed.”

— Madeleine Afonso

“My favorite ways to tailgate include longstanding Badger traditions like beer pong, boomcup and three-story beerbongs. Walking around Madison and seeing the handmade anti-other team banners is heartwarming.”

White-Bergey“Playing jump around when we wake up and wake up our entire house by blasting it at full volume. ”

“Getting ready with all of my roommates while we blast music. It’s always so fun and brings us a lot closer. After that, we always meet up with more of our friends to go to a tailgate. Another thing I greatly enjoy is the walk to the game. My friends and I are always very hype by then and we are always yelling ‘Roll Badge!’ And high- ving other fans.”

“A tailgate hosted by someone’s parents! There’s always homemade food, free drinks and good con versation. Besides getting to meet your friends’ family, you usually get to hear some fun stories from alumni about their time at UW-Madison. There’s nothing quite like it! Who doesn’t love a homemade bu alo chicken dip and taking Fireball shots with someone’s dad?”

— Sophie Walk

— Drake

— Sophia Vento

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Plants get sick just like humans, and these diseases cost the U.S. $220 billion per year. Despite this, plant pathol ogy, the study of plant diseases, is relatively unknown to the general public. A decade old campus club at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, how ever, is connecting plant pathology and research to the general public — one event at a time.What’s Eating My Plants (WEMP) was established in 2012 by then gradu ate students Dr. Alejandra Huerta and Dr. Ana Cristina Fulladosla Palma with the goal of bringing public out reach to UW-Madison’s plant pathology department. “We know that the Wisconsin idea is to make what we do translational, not just a harbor of informa tion that no one else in the world knows,” said Mariama Carter, current WEMP chair person and fifth year plant pathology PhD student. “[The founders] wanted to take their expertise as PhD students and make that acces sible and understandable to theThesecommunity.”principles of out reach and education have remained core to WEMP’s mission in the decade since its founding. The club focus es on three methods of out reach: event outreach, class room activities and social media engagement. At events, WEMP uses tactile learning tools to engage kids and parents, let ting them visualize microbes and look through the lens of microscopes. These activities help introduce kids to plants and plant diseases — such as how potatoes are grown from tubers and not seeds, or that a moldy strawberry is a sick strawberry. These out reach events also encourage kids to broaden their hori zons and see themselves as future scientists. “We hope that when we go to events with kids we can promote their self identity and efficacy in science, and so they can say ‘Oh if they’re doing that, then I can do that too,’” Carter commented. During classroom activi ties, WEMP members create lesson plans with specific learning goals, working with students to broaden their understanding of botany and plant pathology. This oppor tunity provides members with opportunities to learn and grow as teachers and edu cators while also connecting with their local community. Social media engage ment is a growing part of WEMP’s outreach tools, primarily focused on their website and YouTube. Through their website, the club provides teachers and parent s with slides and athome activities to teach kids about plant pathology. One of their at-home science activi ties, featuring plant vascula tor coloring pages connected to a Magic School Bus episode, was featured by the American Phytopathological Society.

Invasive species in colorful camoﬂage: what chameleons tell us about species dispersalGRAPHICBYJENNIFER

“We exist here,” Carter concluded.

Invasive species are run ning amuck around the globe. In Wisconsin, invasive plants and non-native earthworms are changing the composition of our forests, while zebra and quagga mussels ravage the eco system of our lakes. Research into the manage ment and prevention of inva sive species is ongoing, and a key to predicting future invasions may be looking into these species’ pasts. In order to understand how a species’ traits influenced their success at dispersal throughout his tory, a research team led by Sarah-Sophie Weil from the Université Grenoble Alpes in Grenoble, France used an enig matic and surprising model organism:Chameleonschameleons.came onto the scene around 90 MYA in what we now call Africa and Madagascar. In the current day, chameleons are most abundant in Africa and Madagascar but can also be found in southern Europe, the Middle East and Southeastern Asia. Early chameleon species were primarily terrestrial, spending their lives on the ground in closed canopy forests. The tree climbing behavior of the arboreal chameleons most recog nized today likely evolved in the early eocene when tropical forests sprouted in Africa and Madagascar due to the opening of the Indian Ocean and a period of “Greenhouse Earth.” During this period, global temperatures rose, and there was a significant increase in moisture in the region, mak ing the conditions right for tropical forests to establish and spread. Chameleons, with their bird-like zygodactyl feet, quickly adapted to new arbo realThereniches.are 217 described species of chameleon, 181 of which were analyzed by the Weil team. Alongside histori cal biographical data about chameleon dispersal in Africa and Madagascar, species were analyzed based on three traits: life history, body size and lineage distribution. Life history is how organ isms survive and reproduce, and encompasses all traits that affect these processes. A “slow” life history is associated with longer lived organisms that do not produce many offspring and have larg er brain sizes. Species with traditionally slow life histo ries include elephants, which display high levels of parental care, gestate for one to two years and have very few off spring over the course of their lifetime. A “fast” life history, on the other hand, is associ ated with species that produce many offspring and have a shorter life span on average. Species with fast life histories include mice, which can pro duce five to six babies per lit ter, average five to ten litters a year and have just three weeks between births. Life history can affect dis persal in many different ways, though strategies vary between species. Birds’ slower life his tories tend to be more success ful than their counterparts. In mammals, amphibians and non-avian reptiles, however, a faster life history is generally associated with success. In the study, chameleon body size was measured as the length from the snout to the base of the tail. Previous research suggests large ani mals may have an advantage in the early stage of disper sal and colonization. A large body size is associated with a lower metabolic rate, which allows larger organisms to better cope with long periods of food and water shortages, environmental changes and otherWhenstressors.analyzing lineage distribution, chameleons were sorted into coastal and non coastal lineages. Chameleons were defined as coastal if they lived within 10 km of the coast. Coastal lineages may have an advan tage when it comes to long range dispersal because of an exposure to storms, cyclones and extreme weather events that displace organisms from their native range. Coastal species of mottle snake-eyed skinks, for example, have dis persed 13 to 14 times more frequently than their noncoastal equivalents. The Weil team initially hypothesized chameleon spe cies with faster life histories, coastal lineages and larger bodies would be better dis persers than lineages holding one or none of these traits. Additionally, the Weil team predicted that chameleon spe cies’ fast life histories would be significantly better dispers ers than species with a slow lifeHowever,history. after phylogenetic analysis and trait dependent biogeographic modeling, the results showed a di erent story. The team’s analysis did not conﬁrm chameleons with a fast life history were better dispers ers but instead uncovered that chameleons with extreme life histories were better dispersers than chameleons with an inter mediate life Chameleonshistory.with a fast life history have the advantage of quickly establishing large pop ulations in new environments. This fast population growth is when the newly colonized area is di erent from their area of origin, as environmental chal lenges are unlikely to wipe out the entirety of the population. A similar pattern is seen in mam mals, amphibians and nonavian reptiles, where species with a faster life history have a greater dispersal success. On the other hand, chame leons with a slow life history have the advantage of time and patience. These chameleons will have fewer offspring but can afford to wait to lay eggs until environmental condi tions are right due to their long life span. This strategy is often employed by successful avian invaders, whose large brains give them a leg up on theirThecompetition.Weilteam’s analysis posits that one strategy may not necessarily be better than the other, and dispersal suc cess comes in many forms. On an evolutionary timescale, both strategies can be implement ed to great success within the same family of organisms. These types of inferences and analytical methods can tell us more about how spe cies disperse in the anthropo cene. Understanding the his torical ranges and dispersal patterns can give us clues to how they migrate in an ever changing environment. For example, this analysis could be applied to species of invasive carp to understand if historic range and life cycle affects their successful inva sion. It may also allow us to predict what areas are most vulnerable to invasion, and expand our research into invasive species with a slower lifeResearchhistory. into these topics is ongoing, but the analysis on these humble chameleons has provided a fertile ground for future research.

“This organization is intro ducing people to an entire field they didn’t realize exist ed. And not just that this field exists, but that there are people that look like us,” Carter said. “We are a diverse organization started by people of color who are in agriculture, which is a field that has a hard time recruit ing people of color. Even if [certain ethnicities] aren’t underrepresented in STEM, they are underrepresented in agriculture.”Thisschool year, WEMP is looking to add more under graduate students to their roster. Though the club is his torically made up of gradu ate students, WEMP wants every type of student, regard less of education, ethnicity or religion, to feel represented and supported in agriculture and plant pathology. “There is no one pheno type in science and there’s no one phenotype of scien tist,” Carter commented. “There’s a place for you in agriculture, which has been a field that has benefited from margnilizing, raping pillaging and brutalizing people of color.

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Over the past decade, WEMP has become the unof ficial face of UW-Madison plant pathology. By commit ting to outreach and educa tion, WEMP is pushing the entire plant pathology com munity to be better commu nicators. A lack of science communication in all STEM fields, from agriculture to medicine, has promoted a distrust of science and sci entists. By employing diverse outreach methods along side enthusiasm for science, WEMP hopes to foster con nections and trust between the community and scientists. Alongside community out reach and education, WEMP is also committed to promoting diversity within plant pathology.

By Sophie Friedberg STAFF WRITER Dejope may be in Lakeshore, but it still of

I had been waiting for this moment since I put my deposit down. My heart pounding, I opened the email, praying it would say Sellery or Witte. “Welcome to the Bradley Fam,” the email read. “Bradley? Who the hell is Bradley?” I thought to myself, realizing my place ment was in a dorm I did not know even Bradleyexisted.was not listed on my dorm preference sheet. I thought it must have been some mistake. Confused, I researched the dorm to see what I was get ting myself into. This had to be a Bradleymistake.was ranked the worst dorm in 2019, the year before I moved in. It was a small building with about 200 residents. Google maps showed a 30-minute walk from State Street. It was said to have overbearing RAs and tiny rooms. Not attractive look ing from the outside. At all. It did not even make the second round in Badger Barstool’s “Best Residence Hall” bracket. That says Rumorsomething.haditifyou didn’t get a Southeast dorm you would have no social life. In all honesty, I sulked for two weeks before getting to school. With complete tunnel vision, I thought my freshman year was going to be completely ruined. I thought this was going to completely change my Wisconsin experience. It did, but not in the way I thought. Despite its weakness es, this crappy dorm was one of the best things that happened to me.Bradley is a hidden gem. Those statistics turned out to be its greatest strength. Because it was a small dorm, it created a small community within such a huge school. That is some thing a new student might want. Being 30 minutes away from “all the action” gave me a peaceful home to return to after a night out. Not to mention, the Lakeshore area is beautiful, and my RAs, Julio and Hlee, became friends with everyone on the Peopleﬂoor. bonded over not wanting to live there. I met some of my closest friends, and we are still friends as I enter my junior year. So if you didn’t get the dorm you want ed, don’t Thingsworry.will turn out the way they are supposed to. And if you still don’t like your dorm, you can always switch. However, be sure to keep an open mind and give it a Whereverchance. you end up, you can make the most of it and ﬁnd the “fam” I did. I am beyond grateful to the people who assigned me to Bradley, as they gave me an experience I never knew I needed.

By Noa Chamberlin STAFF WRITER As an older sister who holds just under seven months of life experience over her younger sister, all summer I was bombarded with numerous questions related to the intimidating concept of going to college. From my sister’s perspective, I’m seen as an expert in all things related to college. Going to college is one of the biggest milestones in a young person’s life. You are immediately bombarded with an enormous amount of change and independence. Honestly, no one can prepare you for going to college — nor can they predict what may happen. The best I can do is provide some basic advice I wish I knew — or now know — to utilize in my future years. First things ﬁrst, everyone feels the same way you do. I know it’s hard to not compare yourself to other people. We all do it, but I can guarantee every single incoming freshman is anxious about meeting people, starting their classes, discovering who they are and experiencing the rest of the ideas that go hand-in-hand with how college is “supposed” to go. Not only does everyone feel those same nerves, but it’s also completely normal to feel that way. Once I realized that, I could focus on not letting those challenges hold me back in any Somethingway.Iadvised my younger sister to do was to think of college in increments and not as a large, dras tic, permanent change in life. Moving away from home and becoming an independent sounds so intimidating and stressful.

I found that it’s best to think of the ﬁrst few months of college as just that, a few months. Next thing you know, it’s November and you are home for Thanksgiving. The overwhelming concepts of college and inde pendence can be simplified into three months until you are back home — three months until you are reunited with family and your bed to eat turkey and mashed potatoes.

Going back to school after Thanksgiving is much less overwhelming than the initial move in. Your space is organized, you know what to expect and just a month later, it’s winter break. If you find yourself being scared just think “This has happened before.” By the time winter break is reaching an end — if you’re anything like me — you will be itching to get back to school and away from your family after having discovered your new found independence. Of course you will still miss them, but you will feel more confident withMyleaving.finalpiece of advice I would o er is to not place all this pressure on yourself to discover who you are, what your purpose is in life, or exactly what your future is going to look like. That’s not realistic. Yes, try new things and put yourself out there. Look for classes and clubs you enjoy. Maybe that will lead to a career, maybe not. Your college experience may not always be what you planned, but it will turn out to be what you needed. There are opportunities awaiting. Let yourself enjoy this time, because trust me, those four years fly by. The small increments of time broken down make college seem less intimidating, but it also proves how quickly the years vanish. I can hardly believe I’m already a quarter through my college experience, coming into school as the now knowledgeable sophomore my sister sees me as. Overall, my main advice is to enjoy it. Take in the little moments. Learn more about yourself, meet all kinds of people, be open to new things, and take risks. If you can do all this, then by this time next year, you’ll be an expert too.

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it. She was just happy to help, and gifted me the nightstand with a smile. In my Jewish commu nity, this Midwestern woman would be considered a mensch. In my Californian community, she’d be consid ered rude for eavesdropping. So, as the population of California students at UW grows, please be patient with us. The culture shock of see ing smiling faces and people not being phased by torrential rain is quite extraordinary for us. We’re learning to be just as friendly, just as compassion ate and just as tolerant of cold weather as you Wisconsinites. However, I don’t care how long I’ve lived in Wisconsin; I will never give up my umbrel la. Laugh at me all you want, you sociopath Scons walking around in board shorts and ﬂip ﬂops with nothing but a Packers cap to shield you from the rain. That is a train I simply cannot, and will not, get Butbehind.Iwill start a conversa tion with you in the elevator about it … Baby steps.

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“Why did you come to Wisconsin?”Byandlarge,this is the first thing University of Wisconsin-Madison students will ask you when you say you’re from California. I get it, California has its draws: great weather, unbelievable scenery and let’s face it, a lot of hotties But, in California, what you gain in sunny skies and tall mountains, you lose in empathetic people and a sense of community. So, as a Californian who has lived in Wisconsin going on two years now, I’m here to tell you some thing that may shock you: I like living in Wisconsin better than living in California. And here’s why. At home, I don’t know my neighbors, and I have never known my neighbors. When I visit my school friends who live in Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, I’m always introduced to their neigh bors. Built-in friends! Who wouldn’t want that? During move-in day my freshman year, a boy smiled at me in the elevator and started ask ing me questions: about my day, about myself, and all I could think was, “Here goes another creepy guy trying to skeeve on me.” I relayed this information back to my room mate who instantly checked my ego. “Sophie, he wasn’t hit ting on you; that’s just what friendly people do here. It’s Midwestern

opinionPerformative activism at UW-Madison

Even if students seem to be show ing up by the end of the ﬁrst quarter, many of them leave just after “Jump Around.” We have never-ending atten tion to drinking, yet can’t sit through a three-hour game with friends and classmates — even in important games against respected Big Ten foes. Instead of packing into Camp Randall, students take their place down Langdon, the houses surround ing the stadium, and the bars spread throughout and near the campus. They seem to forget they woke up early on a June day and paid to acquire the coveted tickets. In their drunken stupor, it is more important to have another Busch, or ﬁve, or ten, rather than make their way to the stadium where the only drinks they will be able to have are the shoot ers they snuck past security. It isn’t that we go to the pregame to spend time with people, but rather, we go to these festivities in order to forget who came with However,us.this isn’t a problem that solely impacts football games. Few would argue this sense of drinking has positive impacts on our scholas tics, extracurriculars, social connec tions and our personal, mental and physicalAttemptinghealth.to have students drop these habits to study for classes they don’t necessarily care about is a futile practice. Unfortunately, this drinking goes further than just corroding our learning habits — it harms our ability to process the world around us.

When you mention the hypoc risy in the situation they invariably take the defense. They show discom fort, hurt even, that you would sug gest their complicity is not innocu ous and is, in fact, a large reason why change is stagnant. That is the luxury of choice: the choice to care, the choice to push back. If you care, care consistently, not conditionally. Contingent activ ism debases movements upheld by those willing to see themselves as cogs — not pulleys. These move ments are used as stepping stones to further personal agendas. This is dangerous in its detraction from tangible work performed by many on campus who are the first to notice these inconsistencies. It is remarkably easy to have an us versus them mentality. Oftentimes when we decide we are a part of the us we conclude that all progress can cease, that we are granted the authority to speak with equal con fidence as those who never had the option of silence. The problem there is the implication that ignorance is something we have the capability of being exempt from. On college campuses where ide ology stops at application, mass struggle can become an individual ized accomplishment. It instills the feeling of change when all that has occurred is self-congratulation. Not only is the constant American struggle toward progres sion a looming presence, but now there is the increasing precarious ness of what so many believed to be fundamental protection. However, with the proximity and connectedness UW-Madison’s community provides, the ability to recognize points of improvement is useful not just on an institutional level but on a personal one. Self-reflection on our own intents and our own capacity for harm is the gateway to change. Listening to those around us who have lived experiences rather than centering ourselves in conversations is the key to creating a more empathetic cam pus. Remembering not everyone has the option of silence is allyship in its rawest form. I still believe in those old prov erbs: “Practice what you preach” and “Your friends are a reflec tion of you.” Now, more than ever, that’s not just general life advice but a necessity for ground-level change. We can’t hold hands and try to sympathize with hatred when the foundation — if there ever was one — is crumbling. Priyanka Vasavan is a sopho more studying Marketing and English. Do you agree that per formative activism is a problem at UW-Madison? Send all comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Today, we ignore these challenges and unfamiliar areas much too regu larly. It is easier to sit back and crack open another beer than it is to join the march heading through State Street to the capitol. By prioritizing drinking, students are not getting a valuable return on their large tuition payments.

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The original idea of the Mi in street block party is just another example of the uniqueness of the UW-Madison campus. These students who were willing to ﬁght against the injustices of their day shaped some of the reasons why Madison was able to blossom into the high-ranking public university it is now. They had time for letting loose, yet they also understood their role as students and participants in society. Correctly, they used their time in Madison to take charge of the rapidly evolving world and create change in the areas it was needed.

Madison, like other cities or towns home to a large public university, is starting to prepare itself for the return of students to the campus and the metropolitan area. Over the next few weeks of early fall, young adults will pour in from Wisconsin, the sur rounding states and countries across the Afterglobe.a quick unpacking, the dye games will start up, bars will see an increase in attendance and people will be waking up wondering how they actually got home the night before. If you were to visit multiple land-grant universities around this time of year, it might be hard to tell the di erences when all students are exhibiting the same University of Wisconsin-Madison has more to it than the typical public university. It is situated in the same city that is home to the Wisconsin state capitol, allow ing greater opportunity for political action and protest. The campus and city are surrounded by four di er ent lakes, putting the campus on an isthmus, something not many other colleges can claim. The school is home to worldly scholars and academics in any path you choose to follow. While all these are great reasons why prospective students ﬂock to our campus, the party scene is one that many point to as one of their deciding factors. Not to discredit the opportuni ties there are to have a great night out in Madison, but choosing this school for solely social reasons can belittle the unique aspects our institution has to o er. Instead, UW-Madison’s institu tional opportunities should rise above the norms that are seen at other state schools.Badger athletics is also a draw to many, particularly the football team with its home games at Camp Randall Stadium. With a team that has dominated the Big Ten West over the past few years, it is no surprise people love to huddle together on the famous grounds that began as a civil war training area. Year after year, student tickets sell out early on a June morning, forcing students on break to have to set their alarms. The demand is so high that getting up early and into the queue doesn’t guarantee the coveted ticket. It all makes sense, to join with your classmates to cheer on a team that is more likely than not to come out victorious. Combine that with “Jump Around” at the end of the third quar ter, one of the most respected tradi tions across the nation, and it sets up an event you would not want to miss. Yet, when kick-o rolls around on those six Saturdays of the year, the stu dent section is more aluminum than red and white. It is a conundrum and something that rightfully frustrates fans, administrators, alumni and stu dents who missed out on the tickets. Most college football fans will understand that the pregame tailgate is as essential to the game day fes tivities as the game itself. However, here at Madison, for many students, it triumphs over the event they paid money to watch. While I’m sure Paul Chryst would love to have us students a little oiled up before entering the stadium to make sure we bring the noise, it doesn’t do him any good when we are too drunk to care about showing up.

By Priyanka Vasavan OPINION EDITOR Early in my freshman year I was in a friend’s dorm when a boy walked in, invited himself to sit down and began playing “The Times They Are A-Changin.’” He strummed the guitar with no dis cernible rhythm and sang o -key in a contrived 1960s twang. The last chord hung in the air as he looked around the room with a melancholic expression and confessed — with the utmost seriousness — how sad he was that racism existed, but how happy he was that his hero Bob Dylan is not racist. This seemed to be a vaguely strange and obvious thing to say — was there anyone on campus who openly admitted to enjoying racism? Yet, everyone in the room agreed that they too were saddened by its existence. They could not believe people were still racist. The term was used conclusively, as in you could either have it or not, like chla mydia or colon cancer. That night introduced me to a popular scene at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: groups of pre dominantly white liberals gather and brush the surface of political or social issues with an excitement equivalent to gameday. Yet, when the opportunity arises for real-life appli cation, to materialize their words in the face of disagreement, even blatant bigotry, the line between performance and personal, becomes uncomfortably thin. Like most universities, UW-Madison fosters free think ing. Higher education gives incom ing freshmen the opportunity to understand their own beliefs and values — ones they might not have been able to explore previously, especially given the upbringing of many students. In 2021, 45.6% of freshmen were from 71 of the 72 Wisconsin coun ties. While 49.6% of Wisconsinites voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, Madison’s possessive Dane County had 75.7% of constituents vote Democratic. So, it’s not surpris ing that this is the first time many students are exposed to an intensely liberalForatmosphere.manystudents coming from predominantly conserva tive counties, ‘liberal’ is enough of an identifier. The label leaves no room for error and no room for improvement. It is an all-inclusive, all-encompassing signifier of one’s stance on every matter. When speaking with peers at UW-Madison, one can replace the word “liberal” with “generous” or “intelligent” or “kindhearted,” and the conversation still makes sense. “My boyfriend? He’s great. He’s also liberal.” The word points towards an explicit, established depiction of character. It comes in the form of “Hey, I’m a good person. I love NPR and astrology. Just don’t talk too loudly about the protests in front of my roommate. She’ll get weird ed out. It’s not her fault. Just how she was Beliefsraised.”aretucked away when there is the possibility of a negative outcome. This means those beliefs are not intrinsic to identity or core values. Rather, they reside in selfperception or overall image.

One clear example of this is the Mi in Block Party that occurs every year during the last weekend of April. In 1969, the Block Party was started by a group of students as a way to make their voices heard. During this era, students across the country were finding their role in our society to fight against the social ills of the day: civil rights, women’s rights, nuclear weap ons and the losing war in Vietnam. UW-Madison was among the most active campuses in the nation with respect to student activism. While drugs of the time may have been used to enhance the celebration, the drinking culture of the students here has bastardized what the Mi in Block Party originally stood for. Next April, students will file through Mi in street and the sur rounding area. Bags of cheap wine will be followed by shots of even cheaper vodka. All this is done to try and cover the fears we have about the future that is rapidly approaching. In 1969, students were beaten and arrested by cops for fight ing against the imperialism of the U.S. government. Today, students are taken into custody for blow ing numbers into breathalyzers that would make alcoholics cringe.

While this culture continues to move in the direction of more igno rance and more mixies, please, at least attend the football games you bought tickets for this fall. We students waste enough money on things we will never use again.

6. Jump on a stronger looking person’s back. Maybe you’re feeling congested. Maybe you’re having one of those days where you think “Why do I have to go to this math class? I’m a communications major.” When it takes everything to not skip class, see if you can get a Badger lineman to carry you. If they say no, then you will be able to think about the unfriendly giant you met instead of variables and all of that other witchy business.

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5. Look like you’re too cool for the hill. Establish dominance. Most people either look at their feet or directly ahead when going up Bascom. Show the hill that you’re not just going to bend down and give it the respect it demands. Keep your head up and look around at the beautiful, historic campus that’s stealing all of your money. Sometimes you get to see a kid fall.

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1. Pick a target. At any given time, there will be dozens of students walking up the hill. You have to turn your walk to class into what life truly is — a competition. Pick someone nearby and tell yourself you will make it to the top before them. You will because you’re a winner.

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3. Phone a friend. Some days, you’re not about speed. Maybe you just want to get to your Spanish class when you get there. However, you should make it clear that you could move faster if you wanted to. The best way to get the beneﬁt of the doubt is through multi-tasking.

When a recent University evenforeducation.readingcowsationincreaseroadpreparedfromdegreetoldrecentnessandhowthemselveswhates,majorgraduateWisconsin-Madisonofsigneduptoindairyscienctheydidn’tknowtheyweregettinginto.“It’squitetroublingbigthisissueishowlittleawarethereseemstobe,”graduateRileyTheBeet.“ButmyindairyscienceUW-MadisonhasmeforthetoughaheadinworkingtocowrepresentainSTEM.”ResearchshowsonlyfractionofapercentofhaveaccesstobasicandmathematicsThenumbersscienceclassesarelower.“Itisappallingthat none of the nation’s top engineering companies have any cows on sta ,” said a local cow educa tion advocate. “How can we expect cows to have an equitable existence without representation among those designing theThisfuture?”iswhy the mission of UW-Madison’s dairy science department is to be on the cutting edge of cow science education and produce the world’s best science teachers for cows. Unfortunately, that’s no easy“Whentask. we go onto a farm, we’re starting from scratch,” a dairy science professor told The Beet. “The education of cows is entirely neglected in most situations. We’re talking a literacy rate of near zero at most every dairy farm in theButcountry.”that doesn’t dis suade the dedicated cow educators who have taken it upon themselves to design cow-friendly sci ence equipment. From beakers and test tubes to dissecting grass, accessi bility is central to a mis sion they can’t do on their own, even with the passion of young people like Riley. The department head explained, “The university has entirely ignored our pleas for the creation of departments specialized in dairy literature and dairy mathematics. Sometimes it feels like what we do here, expanding educational opportunities to cows, is entirely unimportant. But the look in a calf’s face as they ﬁnd their spark is the only fuel I need to keep at this every day.”

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4. Mind the flamingos. Each fall, Bascom Hill is covered in plastic lawn flamingos. They want what’s best for you, so take their unmoving glare to say “Hey buddy, I know you won’t let me down now.” This is particularly important to remember when you’re running away from a cop after stealing a flamingo.

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2. Listen to something louder than your breathing. For those who are prone to smoking weed out of a plastic bottle, breathing harder while walking up an incline should be a wel comed sign that your lungs are still working. For those who don’t, you may not like to be reminded that you’re a human being with weaknesses. Slap on some headphones and amp up that murder mystery podcast.

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THE BEET EDITOR Bright-eyed freshmen wear ing Letters and Science t-shirts are a classic September sight on the University of WisconsinMadison campus. It almost seems as though wearing the free piece of clothing is a sign that someone is leaving independent ly for the first time, proud of their new college and excited about the opportunity that lies ahead. However, because freshmen aren’t allowed to be that happy, the rest of the campus commu nity constantly talks shit about these scallywags and the schoolsponsored dirty ass rags on their torsos. As such, the brand new Badgers ultimately buy any other shirt from the bookstore and moveOveron.the course of an indi vidual’s college career, the emo tions evoked by the shirt evolve. Where there is usually a feeling of superiority, nausea and want ing to call the police, there is con fidence, charm and pure sexual energy. Still, because it’s so rare to see a senior wearing one, this idea is rarely tested. Matt Riley, a senior chemistry major, is testing it. And he’s get ting laid Accordingconstantly.toone 21-year-old woman who wishes to remain anon ymous, Matt Riley wasn’t always such an alluring sex machine. “I’ve been in a club with him for three years and he never seemed to have a girlfriend or even know how to flirt,” said the satisfied junior. “But every day this week he’s been wearing that Letters and Science t-shirt. The first day, it was a little lame. The second, I thought ‘it must be a joke — kinda funny, I guess.’ By day three, I wanted to lick his armpit stains.” This is just one example of Riley’s sexcapade. He can’t even walk into a class without a woman — even a few fellas here and there — trying to make a move. Though the slightlybelow-average looking student has good friends in fraternities, he is no longer allowed at any of the“Aparties.couple days ago, I invited Matt to our first party of the semester. He knows the drill, so he managed to scrounge up a couple of girls so that we would let him in,” said frat boy Liam“ByGoetz.theend of the night — and I swear to god — he had slept with every single woman there. We wanted to get the carpet replaced, but we bought one of those basketball arcade games instead.” For a dedicated student like Riley, it must be di cult to man age school work along with being the hottest lay on cam pus. There’s no telling whether the class of 2023 member will keep wearing the t-shirt or give himself a break and go back to wearing Minecraft t-shirts every other day. In any case, depending on the contraception used, the univer sity may need to build him a statue. At his current rate, he will be the father of the entire class of 2025 by May.

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