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www.badgerherald.com Monday, October 22, 2012 Volume XLIV, Issue 32
INSIDE
Badgers’ 1-2 punch dominate Gophers
SPORTS | 8
Tailbacks James White and Montee Ball ran wild in Wisconsin’s 38-13 win in 122nd meeting of two teams.
Mayer Hawthorne serenades Madison
ARTS | 5
The indie crooner brought the county,
an armchair and a slick cover or two
to the Majestic Thursday.
EVENTStoday
6:30 p.m.Homecoming Week: Air Band CompetitionThe Upper SettUnion South
7-9 p.m.WUD Film, DLS Present: “Super Size Me”The MarqueeUnion South
Shooter kills 3, injures 4Brookfi eld Police Lt. Mark Millard holds a photo of suspect Radcliffe Haughton. According to police, Haughton’s wife worked at the spa and had recently placed a restraining order on her husband.
Associated Press
A shooter killed three people and injured four others before committing suicide Sunday at a salon in Brookfi eld.
Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tuschaus said the suspected shooter, 45-year-old Radcliffe Haughton from Brown Deer, was found dead in the Azana Salon and Spa with self-induced gunshot wounds a few hours after the shooting. He added Haughton was the only suspect police were looking for in the case.
“Our community can feel safe,” Tuschaus said.
Tuschaus said police were notified of a shooting in progress at approximately 11:09 a.m. at the spa.
Tuschaus said Haughton’s wife is an employee of the spa. He said police were called to the spa on Oct. 4
after the suspect slashed the tires of his wife’s vehicle. He added on Oct. 18, Haughton received a four-year restraining order from his wife by the Milwaukee County Court.
The restraining order prohibited Haughton from any contact with his wife, being in her residence and possessing any fi rearm until its expiration date four years later.
Froedert Hospital spokesperson Nalissa Wienke said Sunday afternoon the hospital received four patients with non-critical injuries shortly after the shooting and were expecting three additional patients to arrive. Brookfi eld Fire Department Chief Charlie Myers later said the females transported to Froedert were 22, 30, 32 and 40 years old.
Tuschaus said the other three victims were never
transported to the hospital and were found dead in the salon. He said police are still in the process of identifying the three deceased victims.
“I want to stress our heartfelt prayers and concerns for the victims in this matter,” Tuschaus said. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to them.”
He said officers who arrived on the scene encountered smoke in the building and found a small fire in a hallway of the spa upon their arrival. He added they believe the suspect started the fi re with a fl ammable liquid.
A propane tank was located at the spa, and it is currently unknown if it was placed there by the suspect or was left from general contracting work being done in the building, Tuschaus said.
Brookfield Police Department Lt. John Beth
said the Milwaukee Bomb Squad was assisting on the scene.
He said the suspect’s vehicle was found outside Brookfield and that police believe he arrived at the spa in a taxicab.
Tuschaus said it originally took police a while to enter the building and verify if the suspect was inside because they were expecting an armed encounter. He said it took a long time for police to clear the area because it is a large building with several small rooms.
According to Tuschaus, surrounding area police departments helped assist in the crime, as well as state and federal agencies. He said the investigation is ongoing.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker released a statement Sunday to offer support to the victims of the shooting.
Suspected gunman commits suicide after attack at Brookfi eld spa; bomb squad deployedCamille AlbertCity Hall Editor
Homeless travel idea criticized
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposal to give money to homeless persons wishing to leave the city in order to reconnect with relatives in other communities is now drawing criticism from several city offi cials.
Soglin said the $25,000 plan, which would be included in the 2013 budget, would give homeless people in the city of Madison who might feel stranded and alone an opportunity to relocate near family and friends.
Ald. Lisa Subeck, District 1, said while she and Soglin both agree homelessness is a problem in the City of Madison, but they disagree on the solution to control the situation.
“The solution isn’t to remove people who are struggling,” Subeck said. “Madison is a city for everyone; just because someone is homeless doesn’t mean they should be sent away.”
Subeck, who has experience working with the homeless and low-income families, said she is one of the three City Council members who offered amendments to eliminate the funds for Soglin’s program proposal in favor of a different type of solution.
She said funds in the 2013 budget could be allocated toward a homeless day center or shelter. She added, in her experience, this would make more sense than
providing them with travel money.
Soglin said he is aware of the amendment to the program and wishes members of the City Council would give the program a chance. He added if the program were to be implemented, citizens could expect to see a reduction in crime or other problems associated with homelessness.
He said the premise of his proposal is supported by research that shows the homeless find somewhere to live more quickly when they are around family and friends, rather than in a homeless shelter.
“A person is more likely to succeed if they are in the support of loved ones,” Soglin said.
He added he is unsure of how the program would be operated, but an organization such as United Way of Dane County, who helps homeless people find housing, could be involved.
A program staff member could potentially make contacts to family members and friends the homeless would like to reconnect with, Soglin said.
According to Subeck, people who have support typically do not leave to go to other cities to start their own lives and are usually instead fleeing abusive situations.
She said many homeless people come to Madison for a better
Alderman disagrees with Soglin plan to help displaced persons leave townMcKenzi HigginsHerald Contributor
Islamophobia talk draws 250
Around 250 attendees filled Union South’s Varsity Hall Friday for a Muslim Students Association event to raise awareness of what they believe is a nation-wide misunderstanding of Islam.
Titled “Understanding Islamophobia in America,” the event was meant to draw attention to other historical struggles for rights and to discuss potential strategies for countering it, MSA President Siddique Akram said in an email The Badger Herald.
The Muslim-Jewish Volunteer Initiative and the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions also sponsored the event.
Keynote speaker Ahmed Rehab, who is the executive director of the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and a contributor to The Huffington Post, defined Islamophobia as a “form of bigotry … an expression, a statement or act of bigotry [against Islam and or Muslims].”
Rehab spoke on how perceptions of Islam and Muslims in America are shaped as a result of poor exposure to the religion and its followers.
“It’s been this series of conflicts that have been the exclusive introduction to a large group of people who don’t know anything about that religion,” Rehab said.
According to Rehab, many groups form and spread bigoted messages about Islam due to poor exposure to Islam and Muslims. These messages of hate spread through various channels, and without strong advocacy for the whole of non-violent Muslims, these claims create dangerous generalizations about Muslims, Rehab said.
“We cannot pretend this overwhelming majority [of peaceful Muslims] does not exist; it exists, it is there,” Rehab said. “If we become blind to it, that’s our problem.”
University of Wisconsin associate professor of law Asifa Quraishi-Landes spoke on how Shariah law, the moral code of Islam, is misunderstood by many politicians and Americans as a threat to American rights.
Quraishi-Landes explained that Shariah presents non-uniform guidelines for Islamic living. When a specific fiqh, a set of laws, clash with laws in the United States, Muslims would
Union South hosts event aimed at examining prejudice toward MuslimsTim HadickMultimedia Editor
Man attacked on University Avenue after trying to hail cab
A male victim suffered injuries to the face after being attacked by four male suspects on University Avenue early Saturday morning.
The victim was hit and kicked by the suspect numerous times after attempting to hail a cab around 12:05 a.m., a Madison Police Department statement said. It added the suspects made verbal contact with the victim before the battery.
The statement said the suspects are four black males approximately 20
years old.Ald. Mike Verveer,
District 4, said the incident occurred across the street from Segredo in front of the Fluno Center. He said a Segredo security staff member went across the street to assist the victim after he saw what happened.
He added the suspects fled the area before MPD arrived and are still at large.
Many high-profile incidents have occurred in this area of downtown over the past year, which has led to increased MPD security through the downtown safety initiative, according to Verveer.
“I was really surprised when I heard about this attack, given the location and time of evening because of all the extra attention the police are giving the 600 block of University Avenue,” Verveer said.
He said there were at least six extra police officers in addition to the regular officers in the area at the time of the attack. He added even though police cannot be everywhere at once, it is “frustrating” the attack happened on such a heavily policed area.
This incident occurred in the same place as the
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Wisconsin defensive tackle and lumberjack-look-alike Beau Allen poses majestically with Paul
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As companies end endorsements with the legendary cyclist, questions concerning drugs in sports persist.
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Bus fare hike worries some city officials
Search for next chancellor accepts public input
A plan to increase bus fares in Madison in is catching heat from city offi cials.
Even though the proposed increase in bus fares in Mayor Paul Soglin’s 2013 operating budget could pose problems for low-income individuals, it may be the only way Madison Metro can operate without cutting any of its services.
The proposed budget would raise base fares from $2 to $2.25, said Mick Rusch, marketing and customer service manager for Madison Metro.
Soglin said the increase in bus fares would bring in $600,000 for the city of Madison. He said the
increase will help cover a portion of the cost of expanding the bus system, which will happen over the next few years, and increasing fuel costs.
Ald. Satya Rhodes-Conway, District 12, told the Wisconsin State Journal she is trying to eliminate the measure. She did not returns phone calls for this story.
Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said he has great concerns for the long-term impacts to the Route 80 bus services and low-income members of the community who use bus fares for work. He said a small fare increase can have very detrimental effects over the years and could be devastating to a low-income individual.
The increase in bus fares will not immediately
affect the Route 80 bus service because the route’s contract is set for multiple years, Resnick said. He said the increase would start having an impact in future years when its contract is renegotiated.
“If we can get the budget into a place where we are being fi scally responsible and provide the same services, then I will [be in opposition to bus fare increases],” Resnick said. “The challenge is how to get to that point.”
Rusch said Soglin proposed all city agencies decrease their budget by 5 percent, requiring Madison Metro to either reduce services or increase fares.
Madison Metro predicts ridership will increase next year by 0.9 percent if the proposed increase in bus
fares become a part of the budget.
“We’re not looking to increase fares,” Rusch said. “But this is one of those things where decreasing services doesn’t seem like the right thing to do. As a department of the city of Madison, we should be part of solving Madison’s budget challenges, part of solving the problem.”
Rusch said in 2011, Madison Metro had a 40-year high in ridership: a record 14.9 million bus rides, which was a 9.5 percent increase from the year before.
Madison Metro made it easier to ride the bus with resources such as a mobile phone app for trip planning and a GPS on buses so riders know exactly when a bus
will arrive, Rusch said. The increase in gas prices, young people driving less and an environmentally aware community have all helped create a national trend of people flocking to mass transit, he said.
Rusch said anyone is able to visit mymetro.com and click on “proposed fare increase” under “fare options” to fill out a public testimony.
Rusch said there will be a public hearing on the issue Nov. 7, a few days before the City Council meeting Nov. 13, where members will decide whether the bus fare prices will increase.
“Anyone who has thoughts on the issue should attend,” he said. “This will sway opinions. We want people to speak.”
In a concluding round of public forums, University of Wisconsin’s Chancellor Search and Screen Committee held its third and final town hall meeting Friday, focusing primarily on the importance of the Wisconsin Idea in looking for a chancellor candidate.
With the coming departure of UW Interim Chancellor David Ward, the UW Chancellor Search and Screen Committee invited faculty, students and community members to express concerns and suggestions as part of the chancellor nomination process.
David McDonald, UW
history professor and chair of the Search and Screen Committee, said the forums have had relatively small audiences.
However, according to McDonald, the small crowds allowed members of the audience to participate more and present unique angles to issues concerning education and administration.
“The three public forums absolutely were helpful,” McDonald said. “[They] served to maximize opportunities for the community to share their own perspectives.”
The forum, which allowed audience members to ask questions and give their input to the committee, focused on the importance of the Wisconsin Idea in
looking for candidates.Jason Chiang, both
a graduate student and medical student, spoke of the importance of using technology transfer and research to benefit the public.
“I’ve seen faculty here use research to help patients throughout Wisconsin, which I believe is a great embodiment of the Wisconsin Idea,” Chiang said. “I hope that the next chancellor will continue that.”
Aaron Crandall, administrative program specialist in the School of Human Ecology, said he hopes the new chancellor will continue the Wisconsin Idea by encouraging collaborations within the
university and emphasizing UW is a small part of a much broader community.
Other attendees voiced their opinions, emphasizing interdisciplinary learning, community, reputation and budget.
According to Crandall, the new chancellor must be prepared to address difficult decisions that deal with shrinking budgets and the streamlining of services.
Shoko Miyagi, who works in UW’s Facilities Planning and Management department, requested an approachable chancellor who will connect and interact with anyone in the community.
Professor of theatre and drama Manon van de Water expressed her concerns about the preservation of the
arts.“The arts are increasingly
less valued as a fundamental part of our mandatory education,” van de Water said. “But we need to teach artistic methods and preserve interdisciplinary work. Without the arts, we lose our humanity.”
Jonathan Martin, professor and chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, added UW is a distinct university that should embrace its role as one of the nation’s leading institution of higher education.
McDonald added community members would also be able to contribute through a web chat 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday as well as through Twitter or emails.
25-cent increase sparks concerns for low-income individuals; Mayor says measure would earn city $600,000
With low attendance, members of UW faculty offer concerns, suggestions in open forum as search progresses
Sarah EucalanoHerald Contributor
Paige CostakosHerald Contributor
“Senseless acts of violence leave us with heavy hearts and many questions,” Walker said in the statement. “Our state will stand with the victims and their families, and we will provide them with the law enforcement and community support they need to heal in the coming days.”
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like to be able to opt out of the laws that conflict with fiqh or be accommodated, according to Quraishi-Landes.
Many groups opposing Shariah have taken these sentiments for inclusion out of context and speak with complete ignorance to how Shariah works, Quraishi-Landes said.
Daniel Tutt, outreach director at Unity Productions Foundation, detailed his experience interviewing Americans in support of Muslims living and practicing in the United States.
“Islam is so ingrained as negative … there is a large percentage of those who accept that, [who] still believe Muslims are bad,” Tutt said.
Other speakers included Associate Director of the Middle East Studies Program
Jennifer Loewenstein, who highlighted current events that have shaped perceptions of Muslims, and UW alumnus Rashid Dar, who shared his experience working at the New York City Park 51 Mosque, commonly known as the “Ground Zero mosque,” which was at the center of a controversy in 2010.
Two UW students also presented poetry readings at the beginning and middle of the event.
According to Akram, no specific events had influenced the planning of the event. However, the message still remains to be an important one in Madison and Wisconsin.
“I believe informative events such as [“Understanding Islamophobia in America”] can go a long way in clearing up misconceptions and empowering attendees,” Akram said.
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Homecoming week arrives with focus on community
The University of Wisconsin’s Homecoming is taking on a new light this year with the Volunteer Campus Clean-Up Kickoff Sunday, as the planning committee prepares for a week focused on community outreach.
Activities for the 2012
Homecoming kicked off Sunday with the cleanup, a new event committed toward this year’s community service initiative, Homecoming Committee President Stacy Day said.
Sunday was designated Community Service Day, which, like the rest of Homecoming, is sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. It allowed student groups and other entities to help clean the campus in preparation for the week’s festivities, Day said.
The event, which was also done in partnership
future and are willing to work to better their lives, but the city lacks the resources available for them to do so.
Sarah Listug, spokesperson for the United Way of Dane County, said homelessness in the City of Madison
is an issue and the organization is determined to end family homelessness.
She said the organization adopted a program called Housing First, which works to place homeless people in Madison immediately into permanent housing and is more than twice as effective than a
homeless shelter.“We do know
homeless people and families are more successful in an actual home versus a shelter system,” Listug said.
The City of Madison could expect the program, if approved, to be implemented sometime early next year, Soglin said.
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shooting last May during graduation weekend, Verveer said. He said the area is covered with city surveillance cameras, which will hopefully lead the police to fi nd the suspects.
“I am optimistic the suspects will be identified based on the video footage that is readily available to detectives,” Verveer said.
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with the UW Business School and the UW Office of Sustainability, is the start of what will continue to be the week’s focus on community outreach and service.
Associated Students of Madison Press Office Director David Gardner said this year’s theme, which was decided with ASM’s input, was prompted by an effort to embody the Wisconsin Idea. It exemplifies the idea of the campus giving back, Gardner said.
According to Day, Homecoming’s community service focus was initiated by a re-examination of past themes, which she said have revolved around specific events instead of an overarching message.
Referencing past themes, such as “music,” Day said the committee tried to focus more on the “intangible” concepts that could be brought across to the student body.
“We don’t want the theme as much to structure events, but to structure the mentality of Homecoming,” Day said. “We really re-envisioned what Homecoming means.”
According to Day, in “straying away from the tangible,” this year’s focus will be used less to structurally back the traditional events, but rather provide an overarching message and add on additional programs.
Such programs include
various community service drives, including a shoe and clothing drive and the extension of the annual blood drive to three days, Day said.
According to Day, by combining the traditional events with this new focus, the committee is attempting to turn Homecoming back to the roots of the Wisconsin Idea.
“We are really placing the theme to express Wisconsin spirit and pride, and get back to basics,” Day said. “I think people generally appreciate the commitment to the service effort and people genuinely appreciate Homecoming.”
In addition to representing the Wisconsin Idea, Gardner also emphasized the theme’s commitment to UW’s “Year of Innovation” and to ASM’s purpose of serving the campus community.
ASM, which is funding Homecoming in part, will also be involved with the community service component on specific homecoming initiatives such as campus safety, Gardner said.
According to Gardner, the work of giving back to the community is what “ASM is really all about” and strives to do “day in and day out.”
For the second year, Homecoming will also be working with the On Wisconsin Society, which
Allison JohnsonHerald Contributor
At the Homecoming Music Showcase, the a cappella group Redefi ned rocked out to “Some Nights” by Fun., helping kick off the University of Wisconsin’s 2012 Homecoming hoopla.
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honors community service efforts in undergraduates, according to Day.
ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky will be one of the students honored on the Camp Randall Stadium at the Homecoming football game against Michigan State Oct.
27, Gardner said.According to Day, the
Homecoming Committee has seen a great response from the community regarding the new focus and hopes for donations throughout the week.
The Homecoming Parade will be held Oct. 26 at 6 p.m.
Campuswide clean-up held Sunday in part of promotion for public serviceTara GolshanHigher Education Editor
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Mehre misinformed on PETALETTER TO THE EDITOR
In his column “PETA slanders UW scientists,” passionate but woefully misinformed student Jared Mehre made a series of sweeping, untruthful claims in defense of cruel and deadly experiments on cats at the University of Wisconsin. The record should be set straight.
An orange tabby cat named Double Trouble — who was named by UW faculty and staff, not by PETA — had her head cut open, a restraint device screwed to her skull and cochlear devices implanted in her ears. She was intentionally deafened with injections of toxic chemicals and was starved for up to six days at a time in order to force her to cooperate in experiments. The horrible photos UW staff took of Double Trouble — and fought for more than three years to keep secret — show her with a steel rod and wires protruding from her head with one of her eyes half-closed because her face was partially paralyzed by a sloppy surgery. During one invasive surgery on her head, records note her anesthetic mask came off and she “showed signs of waking.” These are sad facts UW provided through its own records.
Double Trouble’s treatment and progress records clearly show experimenters killed and decapitated her because she became too sick to continue and because the cochlear implants didn’t work — not because the experiment was completed or deemed a success. On the contrary, it was actually a failure. The experiment has never been published in any peer-reviewed scientifi c journal nor has any UW experiment involving
cochlear implants on cats. The university’s suggestion Double Trouble’s suffering has benefi ted the fi eld of human hearing research is a self-serving revision of history.
The USDA has not determined that UW’s cruel experiments on cats are cruel or unethical — that isn’t the agency’s job. They simply found that UW didn’t violate the law — a law that allows animals to be burned, crippled and poisoned to death, a law which permits animals to be electrocuted and addicted to drugs like cocaine and heroin as long as the right paperwork is fi lled out. Both PETA and a former veterinarian who worked in the laboratory dispute the USDA’s fi ndings and have provided them with additional information to assist in their potential reevaluation of the case.
Cats have the capacity to feel pleasure, pain and suffering whether they are adopted from shelters into loving families or have the misfortune to be born into a life of misery in a laboratory. To suggest the latter do not deserve the same protection as the feline companions in our homes is nonsensical. It is analogous to saying dogs bred and abused by horrendous dogfi ghting operations should not elicit our defense, compassion or support because they were “born to do this.”
Outside of a laboratory, what UW did to Double Trouble and dozens of other cats would likely be considered a felony. The school knows this, and that’s precisely why last year they sneakily helped push through a law that prevents any abuse they commit against animals in their laboratories from being punished under state
cruelty statutes even if it violates federal law.
Thankfully, despite the fear-mongering, obfuscation and propaganda from UW and its desperate experimenters, the public increasingly recognizes experimentation on animals for the cruelty and wastefulness that it is. Outraged by the disturbing photos of Double Trouble, more than 170,000 people have written to the National Institutes of Health asking for taxpayer funding for the experiments to be cut. They are not anomalies. Independent Gallup polls show that more than half of college-aged students are now morally opposed to experiments on animals for any reason and this number has dramatically increased over the last decade. More than half of women oppose the practice, as do more than 40 percent of adults overall.
The tide is quickly turning against animal experimentation for ethical, scientifi c and economic reasons. Nothing will change the horrible fate Double Trouble met at UW, but Americans are already demanding public policy be modernized to refl ect their growing objection to the practice. It’s only a matter of time before UW faculty and staff who make their living tormenting animals in laboratories fi nd themselves without government or private funders willing to defend and bankroll their cruel trade.
Justin Goodman is the associate director of laboratory investigations at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Bipartisan redistricting essential for democracy
Last week, Republican lawyers were ordered by a federal judge to release 34 emails regarding the redistricting process. The court has already ruled two state assembly districts in Milwaukee were drawn inappropriately. The law fi rm Republican lawmakers contracted to redraw the districts has already been fi ned $17,500.
This only goes to show that when redistricting is left in the hands of partisans, the districts will not be drawn fairly. The State of Wisconsin should abandon partisan redistricting by creating a bipartisan independent commission to redraw districts every ten years.
Partisan redistricting is harmful to democracy. The democratic process is corrupted when elected offi cials handpick their own electorate. When partisans are allowed to draw their own districts, citizens’ ability to hold elected offi cials accountable for their actions is weakened. The party with a majority is able to govern as it sees fi t, but this doesn’t mean it should continuously rig elections in order to remain in power.
Gerrymandering is a form of election rigging. If you control who votes in your district, you often control who wins the election. If pockets of Democratic or Republican voters are
deliberately split up to eliminate that party’s seat, it is a form of election theft. Unfortunately, partisan redistricting almost always leads to gerrymandering. This is unfair to citizens, and the best way to avoid it is to take district drawing out of the hands of partisans.
Some states have created bipartisan commissions made up of legislators to redistrict. This is not a proper solution to the problem because it inevitably leads to bipartisan gerrymandering. Election rigging is no better when it is done by both parties than when one party does it. Redistricting should be completely devoid of politics.
The state of Wisconsin should create an independent bipartisan commission to redistrict. This system has already been employed by six states, mostly in the western U.S. The commission should be made up of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, along with some number of independents who are not in elected offi ce. This will minimize the infl uence of incumbents in the process and make the results of our elections fair, rather than the outcome of a biased map.
Nonpartisan redistricting will create a stronger democracy because it will remove a bias toward
incumbents. It will presumably make elections more competitive, meaning legislators will have greater accountability. Parties may become less extreme because the districts will be less homogeneous. Politicians will be forced to run centrist campaigns.
It may even facilitate compromise and better yet, more effi cient government. At least 85% of congressional districts in America are not competitive, and competitive elections incentivize bipartisanship because if you have a competitive district, citizens with an opposing political philosophy must vote for you if you want to be elected.
Gerrymandering is perhaps the most effective legal way of manipulating elections. It is an unethical process that is destructive to our democracy — putting the redistricting process in the hands of politicians incentivizes corruption. Gerrymandering amounts to legal theft of elections, and though this process is almost as old as the union itself, it will serve us all greatly to get rid of it.
An independent bipartisan redistricting process will hold elected offi cials accountable for their actions because they will be unable to place bias on their own electorate. We must take legislators’ electoral fate out of their own hands — otherwise, we allow ourselves to be used. Fair elections are essential to democracy, and as long as gerrymandering is legal, our elections are not fair.
Spencer Lindsay ([email protected]) is a sophomore majoring in political science.
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The straight dope: two different takes on Armstrong’s drug use
Last Wednesday, Trek Bycicle Corporation became yet another company to break ties with legendary cycler Lance Armstrong over allegations of performance-enhancing drug use.
Trek joins a growing list of businesses — which includes the likes of Nike, Giro and Anheuser-Busch InBev NV — that have
decided to drop Armstrong as an endorser after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency stripped the athlete of his seven Tour de France titles. The USADA claimed they were won “from start to fi nish by doping” and that he operated the “most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.”
The mass exodus of Armstrong sponsors is the most recent act in a drama that has as its central plot the unraveling of the reputation of the greatest cycler in the history of the tour. As this drama continues to unfold, it is becoming clear Armstrong is a victim who has been targeted by an altogether inept regulatory agency that will stop at nothing to tarnish his career.
After more than a decade of frequent and comprehensive drug testing, the USADA is still unable to provide conclusive evidence Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs. Nevertheless, it has engaged in a concerted effort to re-frame an inspiring career that had become a symbol of perseverance in the face of adversity as the results of cheating. Considering the fact it was unable to prove his guilt when he was a dominant cycler, and the fact that is is now relying on what
amounts to a massive body of anecdotal and circumstantial evidence and hearsay, the USADA’s statements are belated, malicious and, quite frankly, slanderous.
At this point, I don’t care if Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs. It is generally accepted doping is endemic in cycling, so he wouldn’t have had an unfair advantage — drug user or not, he won those titles fair and square. Moreover, his efforts to raise money for cancer research with the Livestrong foundation are an example of the positive impact an athlete can make outside of sports. Armstrong’s athletic career transcends the sport of cycling — regardless of whether he used erythropoietin.
It’s unfortunate so many companies that once supported Armstrong have cut and run due to the USADA’s allegations, because that’s all they are — allegations. In breaking ties with Armstrong, Trek has shown that in the face of slanderous accusations of drug use, corporate sponsors have forgotten more than a decade’s worth of hard work, perseverance and philanthropy.
Charles Godfrey ([email protected]) is a junior majoring in physics and math.
USADA attack on legendary cycler’s reputation is both belated and slanderous, overlooks inspiring careerPerformance-enhancing drugs are an ubiquitous form of sports technology, just like engineered bicycles
Trek Bicycle Corporation, headquartered in nearby Waterloo, recently distanced itself from multiple Tour de France-winning cyclist Lance Armstrong. In regard to performance-enhancing drugs, I will pose you a question someone once asked me while drunk:
“What if doing drugs to get ahead in sports was required?”
Of course, this notion is silly, but it’s not too far from the truth. Frankly, I don’t care if Lance Armstrong engaged in doping to get ahead. Performance-enhancing drugs are, at heart, technological innovations.
Like building a better bicycle — as Trek strives to do — drugs only have the power to help an athlete with proper training and natural skill. Even if I went out and bought the best bike I could afford and pumped myself full of erythropoietin, I would probably never win the Tour de France.
In this way, better technology, be it growth hormones or superior gears, is just one way athletes can give themselves a leg up. There is no magic bullet
in sports, and pretending doping can guarantee a win is foolish.
Furthermore, there is a long tradition of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling. “It’s a great rarity today for
someone to achieve athletic success who doesn’t take drugs,” a certain retired track coach said in 1971. For cycling, this may not be so wrong. Bjarne Riis, winner of the Tour de France in 1996, tested positive for EPO and still retains the title. Even dating back to the 1800s, cyclists mixed up amphetamine concoctions to keep them awake on the road, reported Scientific American.
My point on performance-enhancing drugs: Get over it. Using drugs to get ahead in sports is as old as
sports itself and should be treated as any other developing technology. When we make such a big deal about “doping,” we sound like an uptight high school principal from the 1950s who is also very concerned about that devil music, rock n’ roll.
Taylor Nye ([email protected]) is a senior majoring in biology, archaeology and Latin American studies.
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“In this way, better technology, be it growth hormones or superior gears, is just one way athletes can give themselves a leg up. There is no magic bullet in sports, and pretending doping can guarantee a win is foolish.”
“Gerrymandering amounts to legal theft of elections, and though this process is almost as old as the union itself, it will serve us all greatly to get rid of it.”
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Going home for the weekend, I was excited to show off my new fashion fi nds to my family, and I walked through my front door wearing a white pair of high-waisted Levi’s capris tucked into a chambray button-up. My mom, who usually showers my outfi ts with compliments, instead greeted me with a burst of laughter.
“I swear,” she said, “I had that exact same outfi t when you were a little kid. And I’m sure you made fun of it for being ‘uncool.’”
Personally, there is one thing her comment made me absolutely certain about: The nineties are back.
For a couple of years the fashion world has had an eighties revival with neon colors, exaggerated shapes and wacky prints, but now it is moving on to the next decade — one many of us college students have actually lived through. Don’t let those memories of your mom looking terribly Gap girl-esque scare you away; the nineties were a decade of fashion genius.
Always effortlessly cool, fashion icons like Kate Moss, Drew Barrymore and Winona Ryder mixed elegant minimalism with trashy grunge, cutesy girliness with a tomboy fl air and wore every outfi t with a down to earth attitude. With all the nineties-infl uenced pieces fl ooding the fashion arena, it’s easy to channel these stylish ladies in your everyday wardrobe.
The low waisted, fl ared jean has offi cially been
taken over by an essentially nineties fi t. Now, high-waisted pants that are skinny from the waist to the leg openings are the hippest option. Taking another cue from the nineties, the perfect jeans hit slightly above the ankle with a length somewhere between capris and normal pants, giving awesome kicks a time to shine.
Of course, a new jean fi t calls for a new shirt fi t. While pants become higher, shirts become shorter (or should be tucked in) for a new silhouette that emphasizes your waist and butt. A tight fi tting crop top is a daring option that allows for a little sex appeal when showing off a strip of stomach, or give grunge a modern twist by buttoning up a fl annel all the way to the collar and primly tucking it in for an interesting contrast between classy and trashy.
While eighties-inspired fashion had an in-your-face color palette more appropriate for high school dress-up days than real life, the nineties had a subtler color palette that communicates a mature and laid back chic. As in any decade, all black was a chic go-to that let fi t and fabric (preferably offbeat luxurious ones like velvet) take the spotlight. If color’s your thing, steal popular nineties hues like mustard yellow, deep maroon, off-white and pale pink, which are quietly pretty and both casual and elegant. Bold, oversized prints and graphics are replaced with smaller, more classic prints like paisley or hounds tooth (think Cher Horowitz’s irresistibly matchy-matchy suits in Clueless).
Denim is another huge nineties fabric that has gained popularity today. All satire of the “Canadian Tuxedo” has become obsolete as denim on
denim loses it’s fashion-crime status. In the nineties, chambray and denim shirts were staples that hung in the closets of both the fashionable and the fashion-aloof. Now they are gaining back their coveted place in closets, taking on fi ts that are just slightly more tailored yet maintain that worn in, wildly soft fabric.
Jean skirts and cutoffs also reclaim their spots in wardrobes, only the barely-there Abercrombie and Hollister versions should simply be banned. Instead, high-waisted pairs in perfectly worn fabrics would have nineties grungsters swooning. Or toughen up dainty fl oral prints with oversized jean jackets and vests that were too cool for school in the nineties and just cool enough for school now.
I idealize the midi-length silk shift my mom wore in family videos. Just slightly sheer, she would belt the elegant number with its tiny, dark fl oral prints. Calvin Klein’s minimalist gowns grew huge in the mid nineties and are once again a source of inspiration for any girl who wants to look simple and elegant with their monotone colors and streamlined shapes. Even girly mini-dresses with dainty prints and ruffl ed silhouettes take on an element of cool when paired with ripped tights, combat boots and denim jackets.
So sure, you may no longer be dying to watch your favorite boy band or watching reruns of “My So-Called Life,” but as far as fashion goes, the nineties are back with an unstoppable force.
Maggie Schafer is an English/creative writing and sociology major. Send her your opinions or questions on the latest trends at [email protected].
Levis, fl orals, black on black: bringing the nineties back
By the time Dinosaur Jr. bassist Lou Barlow returned to the stage to inform a waiting audience there would be no encore, this reviewer was more than ready for the night to be over. “Our drummer’s throwing up,” said Barlow, referring to Murph, the bald-headed slugger who, if ill, did not let on as he spent most of the ninety minute set assaulting his drum kit with a young punk’s intensity. However, Murph’s intensity and dedication were one of few highlights of Dinosaur Jr.’s performance Friday night.
Before the show began, the buzzword in the theater was “loud.” This is a band
that plays at full volume and is known for it. Middle-aged and young alike were prepared with earplugs, ready to take the sound waves without taking any damage, and the band didn’t let anyone down if they came looking for a sonic blast. If they came for the actual music, however, they may have felt otherwise.
Murph and Barlow, who account for two of the band’s three members, bashed and thrashed away on stage, and while entertaining to watch, their performance was not the right fit with guitarist/vocalist J Mascis’s meek and mumbled vocals. Barely audible and even less intelligible, if one didn’t already know the song, he or she would be lost to know what was being said over
the wall shaking kick drum, effect-driven guitar and groaning bass.
To the credit of Barlow, he worked to keep the audience involved, telling stories of the band’s formation, having fun with the word “isthmus” and actually showing interest as he worked over his low-slung Rickenbacker. But it was the attitude of Mascis that was the night’s biggest downer. Mascis, in general, seemed bored and barely awake for the first half of the show, and the band’s performance as a whole suffered for it.
Great album tracks like “Budge,” “Freak Scene” or “No Bones” from 1988’s Bug or “Watch the Corners” from this year’s I Bet on Sky brought up the crowd,
but the momentum was never sustained. As the band would finish a song, it would break out into short improv jams that never went anywhere and then would stand around as Mascis would retune. Although a necessary part of performance, it was just one more break that would bring down the mood when the level of enthusiasm was already low. Even a several minute long version of “Forget the Swan” from the 1985 debut Dinosaur could not propel the group out of the slump.
When the band launched into one of their biggest hits, “Feel The Pain,” the crowd livened up, and a spontaneous mosh pit sprung up on the floor as if it really were 1994 all over
again. As Mascis sang, “I feel nothing,” all I could think was “me neither.”
Opening that evening was Shearwater, hailing from Austin, Texas, and co-founded by Okkervil River’s Jonathan Meiburg. Where Dinosaur Jr. came up short, Shearwater delivered.
Meiburg’s vocals soared over the mix of keys, bass and the clockwork precision of Danny Reisch’s drums. The band as a whole came through on songs like “Breaking the Yearlings,” the staccato piano-laced “You As You Were” and in the slow march drone of “Dread Sovereign,” all of which are from February’s Animal Joy — an album that would not be out of place if it were slipped in with the later works of David Bowie.
While the music of Shearwater showed the influences of Radiohead, Bowie and even touches of Black Sabbath with distortion heavy power chords, they are very much their own band. Unknown to many of the crowd, Shearwater captured the attention of the audience and held it with melodic songs interwoven with loop effects, MIDI keys and double percussion attacks. This band played as if it was the headliner and refused to be just the “opening act” that made good background music while a person waits for their beer. By the end of the evening, it was obvious Shearwater was the sheer force of the night, while Dinosaur Jr. played like it was going extinct.
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Dinosaur Jr.’s skill dulled by high-decibel roar
The crowd was packed, and there was a distinctly eclectic feeling in the Majestic Theater last Thursday as the crowd gathered to see Mayer Hawthorne. And perhaps eclectic is the best way to describe Hawthorne fans, for the divisive disconnect between Hawthorne’s white boy charm and his soulful crooning could only appeal to a diverse crowd.
To kick off the night, openers The Living Statues came on one by one at 8:30 p.m. sharp, led by the group’s bassist. The band played a solid 45-minute set, an energetic mix of bluesy garage rock and ‘60s pop. Every member of The Living
Statues boasts noticeable talent in his position, especially the pinch-hitting guitarist, who according to frontman Tommy Shears learned every song in a week after Shears injured his hand. Shears himself was a thunderhead on stage, performing like Julian Casablancas with an Elvis twist. On top of “Stay in the States,” the single that helped the group achieve radio play, “Alone” and “Stranger” were the set’s more memorable tracks.
Hawthorne and his backup band (referred to as The Country) appeared onstage around 9:50 p.m. with one of the more unique stage setups I’ve seen, with not just the standard guitar and bass onstage but an old beat-up armchair and
an organ. It was clear from the beginning Hawthorne’s showmanship is incredible — from choreographed swing moves to audience involvement, Hawthorne played the Majestic like he owned it. One example of this was “picture time,” where Hawthorne, decked out in red tux and bowtie, posed for audience cameras (insisting afterward they be put away).
One element that contributed to Hawthorne and The Country’s excellent stage presence was the meticulously strung-together set — each song smoothly transitioned to the next. Between songs, The Country (which consisted of a bass guitarist, electric guitarist, drummer, organ player and, occasionally,
Hawthorne on a white Flying V) would jam as Hawthorne introduced his material to the audience.
This gave the concert something of a scripted feeling, but it also played into the previously mentioned showmanship — it made the show seem like a pre-packaged deal, with all the bells and whistles but little deviation or improvisation. The set was generally a collection of hits from Hawthorne’s How Do You Do and A Strange Arrangement, but it also featured radical covers of Frank Sinatra’s “I’ve Got a Crush on You” and Hall & Oates’ “You Make My Dreams Come True,” which segued straight out of How Do You Do’s “Finally Falling.”
Highlights of Hawthorne
and The Country’s performance included the aforementioned covers, which the crowd ate up, along with “Finally Falling,” “Hooked,” “Get to Know You,” “Dreaming” and a ten-minute encore presentation of “Henny & Gingerale,” a catchy ode to what is presumably Hawthorne’s favorite drink — he even prepared a few onstage. The song itself was a spectacular jam, with incredible solos from each band member; the organist’s was particularly enthralling, as he unleashed a Daft Punk-esque solo to praise and positive reactions from the crowd and Hawthorne himself.
Overall, the concert offered extremely good music that was rather timeless, from the ‘60s
pop/rock combo of The Living Statues to the swinging Motown homages of Hawthorne and The Country. Hawthorne displayed extremely good showmanship which lent itself to an electric energy that was felt throughout the venue.
While Hawthorne’s live tunes failed to achieve the polish of his studio work, part of the show’s appeal was hearing him sing as part of a more stripped-down yet talented ensemble. While the choreography and planned transitions gave the concert a somewhat practiced, routine feeling, those same factors contributed to Mayer Hawthorne and The Country’s professionalism and showmanship.
Timeless tunes, polished performance at Mayer Hawthorne
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Ball’s 93 fourth quarter yards seemed to come all too easily for the Badgers as the offensive line wore down the Gophers’ front seven with 54 running plays throughout the game, compared to just 15 passing plays.
It was the ninth straight time the Badgers have beaten the Gophers,
tying the longest winning streak in the series’ history.
“It’s an awesome feeling,” linebacker Mike Taylor said. “Growing up in the state of Wisconsin, that’s what you watch, the Badgers versus the Gophers, Paul Bunyan’s Axe. We get up for this one, us Wisconsin kids, that’s why we come to Wisconsin.”
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Groy from left guard to left tackle to fi ll in for the injured Wagner.
With the exception of right tackle, Groy has now played every position on the offensive line. It’s a fact Groy says made the transition to left tackle an easy one heading into Saturday’s game.
“Left tackle was fun, it was something I was prepared for going into the week,” Groy said. “Ricky helped me out with a lot of things during film, and we executed well.”
Arguably the most important player on Wisconsin’s offensive line, Wagner’s absence in the lineup posed questions as to whether the running game would be able to continue its recent trend of dominating performances.
Overall, the offensive
line limited costly mistakes — helping earn Wisconsin 337 rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns — one of the only imperfections being the two sacks it allowed on Stave in the second quarter.
“To have Ricky Wagner, probably our best offensive lineman, out of there and to be able to do those things … we knew it wasn’t going to be easy,” Bielema said. “But we wore them down.”
Bielema said he does not know yet whether Wagner will be healthy to play against Michigan State, but for now Bielema and the Badgers are pleased with a big win in college football’s oldest rivalry.
“I think we take a lot of pride in that,” Bielema said. “I learned that when I first came here … it’s a representation of a victory for an entire year.”
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After all, it has been nearly a decade since it last crossed the state border. This has been going on for eight years now and will continue until at least late November 2013.
An even closer look at the axe shows that it is “Presented by the National W Club,” an organization that supports Wisconsin. How could it last very long in Minneapolis?
The only thing the Wisconsin-Minnesota game can claim at this point is that it dates back to 1890 and the two teams have played more times than any pair of opponents in college football
history.It’s a fashionable claim
to say that their 122 games trump all other rivalries, but when they seem somewhat meaningless season after season, how unrivaled can this rivalry be?
Furthermore, little brother claims much more than Wisconsin as their rival. Iowa, Michigan and Penn State all hold rivalries with Minnesota. Wisconsin hasn’t played Iowa since 2010, so claiming Minnesota as the only other rival can’t say much for the Badgers.
Wisconsin’s recent history with other opponents like Michigan State or Ohio State has run the gamut of a typical rivalry with the
aforementioned upsets, dogfi ghts, relevancy and impact. Until the Gophers and Badgers get on the same level of (preferably high) competition, there will be little “condition of competitiveness.”
Wisconsin holds proximity and history with little brother Minnesota, but that’s about it. Only one child continues to dominate this sibling rivalry, if rivalry is really even an accurate way to describe the competition at this point.
Sean is a Junior majoring in journalism. What do you think of the Wisconsin-Minnesota rivalry? Send him an email at [email protected].
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UW opens LaBahn without winBadgers register 3-3 tie, take shoot-out Sunday after falling 1-0 to Bemidji State Friday
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team came away with a loss and a tie in its opening weekend at the newly-opened LaBahn Arena.
Despite dominating both games over the weekend, Wisconsin (3-3-2, 1-3-2 WCHA) was unable to come away with a win over WCHA foe Bemidji State (2-3-1, 1-2-1).
Sunday, the Beavers forced the Badgers into overtime with a late third period goal to tie the game. Neither team was able to score in overtime, taking the game to a shootout. It was UW that came out on top in the shootout, giving Wisconsin an extra point in the WCHA standings.
But Bemidji State struck first, taking the early lead fi ve minutes into the first period when senior forward MacKenzie Thurston buried an assisted shot.
It took more than four periods, but the Badgers finally scored their first goal at LaBahn Arena when senior forward and captain Brianna Decker put in a backhanded shot on an assist from junior defenseman Kelly Jaminski with just more than six minutes left in the second period.
Decker’s goal broke Wisconsin’s three-game goalless streak, the longest such streak since 2001.
Decker said the team built
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some momentum once she put Wisconsin on the board.
“Anytime you score a goal it brings energy to the team naturally,” Decker said. “It was just a matter of time that we were going to put one in and create energy.”
Wisconsin took the lead when freshman defenseman Courtney Burke scored her fi rst career goal early in the third period.
The Badgers spent plenty of time in the penalty box Sunday, committing six penalties for a total of 12 minutes. Wisconsin fended off Bemidji State’s power play until Beavers’ sophomore forward Rachael Kelly scored during her team’s one-man advantage.
During another Bemidji State power play, Wisconsin broke the 2-2 tie when senior defenseman Jordan Brickner scored the shorthanded goal on a breakaway with an assist from sophomore forward Karley Sylvester.
Brickner explained what happened and her excitement after scoring what at the time appeared to be the game-winning goal.
“The puck kind of bounced out,” Brickner said. “Karley Sylvester and I kind of got to it. We took off down the ice and I think we both got behind the defender. I was about to slide it over to her and then I saw the goalie kind of cheat and I saw top shelf open so I shot it and it went in. It was pretty exciting,
especially when we were down one person.”
Wisconsin seemed to have the game all but won when Bemidji State scored its third and game-tying goal with just 55 seconds left in the third period.
After a scoreless overtime, Decker and junior forward Madison Packer both made their shots, while Wisconsin’s junior goalkeeper blocked both of Bemidji’s shots to give Wisconsin the shootout win.
Head coach Mark Johnson was pleased with the way his team played Sunday.
“Overall it was a good effort,” Johnson said. “We had a lot of opportunities and had good momentum and overall, as I told the team, it was a good effort today. We won the shootout so you get the extra point, so you can walk away feeling pretty good about it.”
Friday, Bemidji State spoiled Wisconsin’s grand opening of the LaBahn Arena and 500th game in program history, defeating the Badgers 1-0 in front of a sellout crowd.
Despite outshooting the Beavers 75 to 37, the Badgers were unable to put a goal on the board.
Wisconsin’s best chance to score came with less than a minute to go in the second period when Decker’s shot on goal hit off the far post.
Even though UW was shut out, Decker said she was happy her team earned
scoring chances and is trying not to get frustrated.
“It’s early on in the season,” Decker said. “You can’t get frustrated. A loss, no one wants to lose, but our team can only move forward. Just like last weekend, we just have to learn from it. We have to put the puck in the net, but we are getting opportunities. We just can’t get frustrated.”
Along with 27 shots on goal, UW had three power plays on Friday but could not capitalize on the single-man advantage.
Bemidji State’s goal came five minutes into the third period when Wisconsin junior goaltender Alex Rigsby was caught behind the net trying to slow the puck when she collided with a teammate and lost her stick. The puck shot in front of the goal, leaving Rigsby without her stick, to watch the puck slide away.
Johnson said he was disappointed his team couldn’t come away with the win in the Badgers’ fi rst game at LaBahn and that his team still has some time to adjust to the new facility.
“[LaBahn Arena] is a house and we have to make it a home,” Johnson said. “We can’t do that in a short period of time. We’ve had a number of practices here and now we had our first game and so the newness as you go through more game starts to go away and you get more comfortable. That’s what we need to do.”
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to wide receiver Brandon Green, bringing the score to 6-7 after the Gophers missed the extra point try.
Nelson finished the day with 149 passing yards, 68 rushing yards and two touchdowns. But Badgers’ cornerback Devin Smith and linebacker Ethan Armstrong each recorded interceptions in the second half during which the team turned into 10 points.
“We heard rumors last
night he was going to start and we haven’t seen any film on him and know from what was presented he was a talented player,” Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland said. “He ran well … he was pretty composed for a freshman. He didn’t make too many mistakes, his two interceptions were good plays by our guys.”
But the efforts of Ball and White were just too much for Minnesota
to combat. While Ball struggled out of the gates in the first half — just 39 yards on 10 carries — White was electric, rushing for 98 yards and two touchdowns on seven carries.
But Ball, a 2011 Heisman finalist, could not be contained for four quarters.
After Minnesota brought the score to 24-13 on a 14-yard pass from Nelson to A.J. Barker at the end of the third quarter, something
clicked for Ball as he churned out touchdown runs of 14 and 44 yards in the first six minutes of the fourth quarter.
“When [White] starts playing really, really well, it kind of sets a fire into me,” Ball said. “I told him I better get going and vice-versa, which is the healthy competition that we have. It betters the offense.”
While James White started strongly for the Badgers, star tailback Montee Ball fi nished stronger, gaining 93 yards and scoring two touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
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For the ninth season in a row, Paul Bunyan’s Axe will call Madison, Wis., home.
Wisconsin (6-2, 3-1 Big Ten) leaned on the combined 341 rushing yards and five touchdowns of standout tailbacks Montee Ball and James White to run past border rival Minnesota (4-3, 0-3) 38-13 at Camp Randall Saturday afternoon.
Just a week removed from hanging the second-highest offensive output in school history on Purdue, Wisconsin’s offensive line again dominated the trenches Saturday, buoying the team to 337 yards on the ground behind Ball’s 166 yards and White’s 175 yards.
“We’re taking little steps,” redshirt junior center Travis Frederick said. “The offensive line is playing a lot better, and everybody’s playing a lot better … and finally that’s starting to break things open for the running backs. They’re doing as great a job as they’ve ever been. To have a 1-2 punch like that and Melvin (Gordon) in there, it’s phenomenal for us.”
In the 122nd installment of college football’s longest-played rivalry, the Badgers used a not-so-historic formation to bring a bit of spice on offense.
Using what Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema called in his postgame press conference the “barge” formation, the Badgers used a package that featured White at quarterback with Ball in the backfi eld. The formation also utilized the team’s strength, size and depth on the offensive line with seven offensive
linemen and two tight ends on the line of scrimmage.
“It was something [White] did in high school at St. Thomas Aquinas (in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.),” Bielema said. “At Wisconsin, we have a lot of big people and that got quite a few of them out there. We cut all the pretty guys out, no wide receivers, no quarterbacks and we didn’t even put our fullback out there.”
The formation led to UW’s fi rst score, as White scampered for a 14-yard touchdown run two plays after a 42-yard completion from quarterback Joel Stave to wide receiver Jared Abbrederis.
“It’s pretty cool,” White said. “It’s something I did in high school, so it’s not something that’s too new to me. It’s just another way to get me the ball and I just try to take advantage of it.”
It was an offensive wrinkle Minnesota was entirely unprepared for.
“When you haven’t seen [the package] on film or anything like that and they put five guys on one side and three on the other, that’s a good move on their part,” Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill said. “You get all those big guys on one side, and you get shifted over there and take care of that side, then they come back to the other side.”
But Minnesota answered quickly. In a surprising late-week move, the Gophers removed freshman Philip Nelson’s redshirt to replace the struggling Max Shortell at quarterback. The young Nelson showed poise, leading his team on a seven-play, 65-yard drive capped by a 16-yard connection
What took place on the fi eld Saturday was football. What was held against the goalpost in celebratory tree-chopping symbolism was a trophy. However, what happened at Camp Randall this weekend was supposed to be a rivalry — but it wasn’t.
Wisconsin winning the rights to hold Paul Bunyan’s Axe for a ninth consecutive
year gave further indication of the Badgers’ dominance over their border bound foes to the west. It also showed just how far this so-called rivalry has dissolved.
A quick look at the Microsoft Word defi nition for rivalry reveals a noun with three syllables and the fi rst defi nition as “condition of competitiveness.” The battle for the axe hasn’t had a single ounce of competitiveness for years.
Seriously, when was the last time anyone witnessed a Gopher carrying that enormous axe? Many Minnesota players have graduated with the unfulfi lled dream of chopping down a goalpost. The Gophers can’t
even touch the axe until they win a game against the Badgers, and from the looks of it, that day remains far in the future.
Wisconsin has been a top 25 football program (aside from the last few weeks) for a majority of the past decade. Minnesota has not. Minnesota’s best era ended in the 1940s; Wisconsin’s has just begun.
Wisconsin has won back-to-back Big Ten championships. Minnesota hasn’t won the Big Ten since 1967 when Bart Starr was quarterbacking the Packers to a victory in the fi rst ever Super Bowl.
A border battle should employ a pair of teams that
actually battle for supremacy with the results — or in this case a trophy — swapping sides from year to year. Yet Wisconsin keeps winning the war.
The Badgers have become the big brother that wins every time, no matter how close the little brother gets. If the recent games are any indication, little brother might not win that big ‘ole axe for a long time.
The best rivalries have upsets, dogfi ghts, relevancy and impact. This one has had little of each.
Nobody thought Minnesota would upend Russell Wilson and the 2011 football team last year, but even in Wisconsin’s worst seasons the Badgers
have prospered against the Gophers. In Bret Bielema’s second season, when Wisconsin fi nished 7-6, the Badgers still beat up on their little brother.
Even in the years Wisconsin has been ranked, the Gophers haven’t pulled off an upset.
The last signifi cant game between Bucky and Goldy Gopher came back nearly 20 years ago in 1993 when Minnesota handed Wisconsin — the eventual Big Ten champion — its only loss of the season.
Unfortunately for the life of the rivalry, the gap between Wisconsin and Minnesota doesn’t seem to be tapering. The Badgers have won the
last three axe games by an average of 24 points. Jerry Kill’s tenure as head coach at Minnesota has shown some promise, but a 25-point loss during a season where Wisconsin has been less than impressive does not serve as an example of a “condition of competitiveness.”
Recently, the only similarity held between the two programs is that they play in cold fall weather in the Midwest, and they both own a respective side of the sought-after axe, Minnesota’s gold and Wisconsin’s red.
They might both possess a side, but the Badgers pretty much own the whole thing.
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Wisconsin ground game demolishes Minnesota run defense as Ball, White combine for 341 yards, 5 touchdowns in 38-13 win
Redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave struggled at times in Saturday’s game, going 7-15 for 106 yards and missing several open targets.
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Stave’s youth shows with inconsistent performance; Groy continues solid play in 2nd week taking over for Wagner at left tackle
Border battle between Wisconsin, Minnesota fading
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Sean ZakZak It To Ya
In a game that saw the Badgers earn their ninth consecutive victory against Minnesota in the annual border battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe, the offense continued its ascension back to its 2011 form despite shaky play at times from redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave.
While the running game maintained its resurgence to the form of years past — both Montee Ball and James White finished with over 150 yards each and scored a combined fi ve touchdowns — Stave and the passing game continued to leave questions for the coaches to solve as they head into a key home matchup with Michigan State Saturday.
Since his insertion into the lineup at halftime against Utah State, Stave has adjusted to his new starting role nicely. Coming into Saturday’s game, he led the Big Ten in passing effi ciency with a 149.6 rating, which also ranked fourth among freshman quarterbacks nationally. Stave averaged 9.4 yards per pass attempt, also tops in the Big Ten.
Despite completing seven of his 15 passing attempts
against Minnesota, Stave only threw for a total of 106 yards and did not throw a single touchdown pass. A sign of his youth and inexperience, Stave underthrew a number of passes, which against a better defense might have cost UW more than just an incomplete pass on the box score.
Still, head coach Bret Bielema said the redshirt freshman will continue to grow and develop his skills as he gets more comfortable running the Badgers’ offense.
“Joel is just learning how to be a quarterback,” Bielema said. “Some of those things, he has got to get rid of the football, but you coach well on Sundays for a guy like that.
“We will point those things out for him. We don’t want him to mishandle the game … the good news is he’s a freshman.”
Early in the second quarter, after Stave orchestrated a 38-yard drive down to the Minnesota 26-yard line, the Gophers sacked Stave twice in three plays for a loss of 20 yards, moving UW back to the Minnesota 43-yard line. Out of fi eld goal range, Wisconsin was forced to punt the ball away.
“One of them, I saw him
coming and my foot slipped out on me there, but [I] can’t let that happen,” Stave said. “Especially in the red zone, I can’t get sacked and keep pushing the ball back and back like that. So I’ve just got to be smarter with it, throw it away.”
While ultimately the drive would have no repercussions in the eventual outcome of the game, it would have given Wisconsin a vital cushion at a critical point in the game as the Badgers clung to a razor-thin 7-6 lead at the time.
Groy fi lls in at left tackle for injured Wagner
Despite Stave’s personal struggles Saturday, the offense as a whole appears to have hit its stride in recent weeks.
After averaging only 16.3 points per game in its first two games, UW has posted 34.2 points per game since and scored at least 27 points in each of its last fi ve games.
Most recently with Ball, White and Melvin Gordon at the helm of a surging running game, an injury to senior left tackle Ricky Wagner during Wisconsin’s Oct. 13 matchup with Purdue meant switching junior Ryan
