“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.” University of Wisconsin-Madison Since 1892 dailycardinal.com Monday, April 25, 2016 l Hundreds from UW-Madison walk out of class, call for administrators to resign By Peter Coutu THE DAILY CARDINAL Roughly 400 students walked out of class Thursday at 11:30 a.m. and marched around campus for about three hours to peacefully protest the UW-Madison Police Department’s arrest of student Denzel J. McDonald last week. No students were arrested. McDonald was arrested last Thursday for 11 charges of van- dalism, which featured messages condemning racism on campus. The protest started just outside of Bascom Hall, where students taped a list of five demands to the statue of Abraham Lincoln. The demands included the dismissal of the case against McDonald, the immediate return of his belongings, assurance that he can graduate in May, the res- ignations of UW-Madison admin- istrators and UWPD officers involved in the arrest and commu- nity control of UWPD. Michael Davis is a UW-Madison graduate student studying Afro- American studies and educational policy studies who helped organize the event. He said now is the time for underrepresented students to have their voices heard. “This is the right moment to organize student power and for the university to hear our demands,” Davis said. “I think it went amaz- ing, I really love everyone who came out to support us. But again, it does not stop here. We are really pushing for an adequate university response to meet our demands.” After the demands were read, hundreds of students continued down Bascom Hill holding a ban- ner that read “Black Lives Matter” while chanting “no justice, no peace” and “no racist police.” Many protesters also held signs that had the same words McDonald spray painted on university buildings. The demonstrators congregat- ed at the front entrance of College Library, chanting their demand for community control of the police and saying “this is our library, fuck white supremacy.” Occupying College Library The demonstrators occupied the first floor of College Library in Helen C. White Hall for roughly an hour, chanting that they were disrupting students in the library because McDonald, also known as King Shabazz, had his education disrupted by his arrest. “I think it’s awesome that the community is coming together. I think it’s really important and I think they made a good point about what happened with the arrest,” said UW-Madison senior Irina Shavlik, a student who was in College LIbrary when the protest- ers entered. “I love the idea of tak- ing time away from our education because [UWPD] took time away from [McDonald’s] education.” The disruption of a university class by UWPD was a focal point of chants and speakers through- out the protest. Cynthia Burnson, a UW-Madison graduate student who is studying human devel- opment and family studies, said she joined the movement today because of her perspective as a teaching assistant. “What we know is that our working conditions are our stu- dents’ learning conditions and vice versa. Making sure that this cam- pus is someplace that truly wel- comes and supports all students no matter what is critical, not just us as members of the campus com- munity, but also specifically as teaching assistants and graduate students is really, really important to us.” Calling for resignations While in College Library, sever- al professors—including Rachelle Winkle-Wagner and M. Bruce King—condemned how the uni- versity was handling the recent incidents of hate and bias on cam- pus this semester, such as when a student was spat on in Sellery Hall or when another student received a clearly threatening letter that included racial epithets. Last week, more than 500 pro- fessors, graduate students and teaching assistants signed a letter calling for more action from uni- versity administration. Professor King read a prepared statement from professor John Diamond. In the statement, Diamond said the university is not upholding its stated mission and that the univer- sity is more concerned with its image than the mental and physical health of its students. While still in College Library, the protesters specified names of the administration members they wanted to resign. They chanted for Chancellor Rebecca Blank, Dean of Students Lori Berquam and UWPD Police Chief Susan Riseling to be fired. Another organizer of the event, Alix Shabazz, who shares no rela- tion to King Shabazz, said she want- Until the Flint, Mich., water cri- sis, most Americans’ minds would likely jump to the dry Southwest when thinking about restricted access to drinking water. However, despite the seeming- ly abundant supply of drinking water in the Great Lakes region, Midwestern states are suddenly paying more attention to their water supply and its cleanliness. The City of Waukesha cur- rently faces a water quality and quantity problem. According to Milwaukee Riverkeeper, a non- profit organization seeking to maintain high water quality in the region, some deep wells in the area contain high levels of natu- rally occurring radium. Waukesha currently gets its water supply from a variety of shallow and deep wells in order to dilute radium levels from the deeper, radium-rich wells. The state Department of Natural Resources has mandated that Waukesha get its water quality levels back up to code by 2018. Story by Claire Hornacek Waukesha water policy creates controversy THOMAS YONASH/THE DAILY CARDINAL Hundreds of students walked out of class Thursday, marching and shutting down traffic around campus. IMAGE COURTESY OF CREATIVE COMMONS Waukesha is applying for an exemption to pull water from the Great Lakes basin, a move which has generated significant controversy. water page 3 walk out page 2 +ARTS, page 4 Unhood Yourself +OPINION, page 5 view The importance of engaging with #TheRealUW at the Chazen
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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
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Hundreds from UW-Madison walk out of class, call for administrators to resignBy Peter CoutuTHE DAILY CARDINAL
Roughly 400 students walked out of class Thursday at 11:30 a.m. and marched around campus for about three hours to peacefully protest the UW-Madison Police Department’s arrest of student Denzel J. McDonald last week. No students were arrested.
McDonald was arrested last Thursday for 11 charges of van-dalism, which featured messages condemning racism on campus. The protest started just outside of Bascom Hall, where students taped a list of five demands to the statue of Abraham Lincoln.
The demands included the dismissal of the case against McDonald, the immediate return of his belongings, assurance that he can graduate in May, the res-ignations of UW-Madison admin-istrators and UWPD officers involved in the arrest and commu-nity control of UWPD.
Michael Davis is a UW-Madison graduate student studying Afro-American studies and educational policy studies who helped organize the event. He said now is the time for underrepresented students to have their voices heard.
“This is the right moment to organize student power and for the university to hear our demands,” Davis said. “I think it went amaz-ing, I really love everyone who came out to support us. But again, it does not stop here. We are really pushing for an adequate university response to meet our demands.”
After the demands were read, hundreds of students continued
down Bascom Hill holding a ban-ner that read “Black Lives Matter” while chanting “no justice, no peace” and “no racist police.” Many protesters also held signs that had the same words McDonald spray painted on university buildings.
The demonstrators congregat-ed at the front entrance of College Library, chanting their demand for community control of the police and saying “this is our library, fuck white supremacy.”
Occupying College LibraryThe demonstrators occupied
the first floor of College Library in
Helen C. White Hall for roughly an hour, chanting that they were disrupting students in the library because McDonald, also known as King Shabazz, had his education disrupted by his arrest.
“I think it’s awesome that the community is coming together. I think it’s really important and I think they made a good point about what happened with the arrest,” said UW-Madison senior Irina Shavlik, a student who was in College LIbrary when the protest-ers entered. “I love the idea of tak-ing time away from our education because [UWPD] took time away
from [McDonald’s] education.”The disruption of a university
class by UWPD was a focal point of chants and speakers through-out the protest. Cynthia Burnson, a UW-Madison graduate student who is studying human devel-opment and family studies, said she joined the movement today because of her perspective as a teaching assistant.
“What we know is that our working conditions are our stu-dents’ learning conditions and vice versa. Making sure that this cam-pus is someplace that truly wel-comes and supports all students
no matter what is critical, not just us as members of the campus com-munity, but also specifically as teaching assistants and graduate students is really, really important to us.”
Calling for resignationsWhile in College Library, sever-
al professors—including Rachelle Winkle-Wagner and M. Bruce King—condemned how the uni-versity was handling the recent incidents of hate and bias on cam-pus this semester, such as when a student was spat on in Sellery Hall or when another student received a clearly threatening letter that included racial epithets.
Last week, more than 500 pro-fessors, graduate students and teaching assistants signed a letter calling for more action from uni-versity administration.
Professor King read a prepared statement from professor John Diamond. In the statement, Diamond said the university is not upholding its stated mission and that the univer-sity is more concerned with its image than the mental and physical health of its students.
While still in College Library, the protesters specified names of the administration members they wanted to resign. They chanted for Chancellor Rebecca Blank, Dean of Students Lori Berquam and UWPD Police Chief Susan Riseling to be fired.
Another organizer of the event, Alix Shabazz, who shares no rela-tion to King Shabazz, said she want-
Until the Flint, Mich., water cri-sis, most Americans’ minds would likely jump to the dry Southwest when thinking about restricted access to drinking water.
However, despite the seeming-ly abundant supply of drinking water in the Great Lakes region, Midwestern states are suddenly paying more attention to their water supply and its cleanliness.
The City of Waukesha cur-rently faces a water quality and
quantity problem. According to Milwaukee Riverkeeper, a non-profit organization seeking to maintain high water quality in the region, some deep wells in the area contain high levels of natu-rally occurring radium.
Waukesha currently gets its water supply from a variety of shallow and deep wells in order to dilute radium levels from the deeper, radium-rich wells. The state Department of Natural Resources has mandated that Waukesha get its water quality levels back up to code by 2018.
Story by Claire Hornacek
Waukesha water policy creates controversy
THOMAS YONASH/THE DAILY CARDINAL
Hundreds of students walked out of class Thursday, marching and shutting down traffic around campus.
IMAGE COURTESY OF CREATIVE COMMONS
Waukesha is applying for an exemption to pull water from the Great Lakes basin, a move which has generated significant controversy. water page 3
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Advising services across UW System feel strain after recent cuts to funding
By Madeline HeimTHE DAILY CARDINAL
Within the UW-Madison College of Engineering this year, 17 professional academic advisors are currently serving 6,600 students.
That means each advisor is assigned to meet with and guide more than 388 students, a ratio well above the national standard of 300 students to one advisor.
Wren Singer, director of the UW-Madison Office of Undergraduate Advising, said that system-wide funding cuts have
exacerbated the issue of assigning more students to each advisor.
She said there have been recent cuts to advising positions at the university, as well as vacant advising spots left unfilled, caus-ing some programs to now push many more students per advisor. The Department of English advi-sor, for example, serves roughly 450 students.
“That’s starting to get a little tight-er than we’d like it to get,” Singer said.
UW-Madison is not the only school where advising services
feel the budget crunch, however. In the recently released summa-ries of budget implications on UW System campuses, seven other schools cited reductions in the area, including UW-Green Bay, UW-Oshkosh and UW-River Falls.
Officials from UW-Platteville reported that 28 percent of their 2015-’16 budget reduction will be taken from instructional activities, which will result in reduced advis-ing time. UW-La Crosse’s summa-ry showed 45 positions eliminated from divisions like Student Affairs and Academic Affairs, which could have a negative effect on advising services for students.
Additionally, UW-Stevens Point cut three positions in its Academic Advising and Career Services, and UW-Superior eliminated the direc-tor of its Student Success Center, which is home to career services and an academic advising center.
Singer explained that because advisors on campus are committed to serving students, it may be hard for those students to notice immedi-ately the strain the services are under.
Funds were provided to produce “temporary patches” so students would not feel the impact right away, but Singer also said the temporary money her office had is now used up and some students could start being
affected as early as next year.Singer said the impact will first
fall on the employees themselves, creating “unreasonable expecta-tions” of the work they must do to make up for the cuts.
“The kind of things you would experience are longer waits, more hurried advisors, maybe advisors that aren’t as well trained because they don’t have as much time to do train-ing,” Singer said. “We might have to cut down on the kind of specialty advising for different areas, and so forth.”
Singer added that students who miss out on a good relationship with their advisors may not make timely decisions related to declaring their major, preparing for a career and tracking their path to graduation.
Advising is something that needs to be done by people, Singer explained.
“It’s hard to replace the con-versation that a person has with a student about your interests, your thoughts, your dreams, what you want to do with your life,” Singer said. “There are aspects of advising that can be replaced by technology, but tech-nology costs money too. All of these things, when there are bud-get cuts, are suffering.”
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Some UW-Madison advisors serve over 400 students, according to Wren Singer, director of the Office of Undergraduate Advising.
ed to keep the pressure on university administration after the protest.
“We were here to not only raise awareness around police vio-lence on campus and racism on campus but also to put pressure on those in power,” Alix Shabazz said. “We want the chancellor, we want UWPD, and we want the judge that is now over King’s case to understand that King has com-munity support. We will continue until he gets justice.”
Blocking trafficThe demonstrators left College
Library at around 12:45 p.m. and marched toward University Avenue. As the protest continued around campus, the demonstra-tors shut down several intersec-tions to raise awareness of the cur-rent campus climate for students of color at UW-Madison.
UWPD helped block traffic for the roughly 250 students who were participating in the protest at this point, according to one UWPD officer.
The protest blocked the intersec-tion of University Avenue and Park Street for about 30 minutes before continuing down the street toward the West Johnson Street and Park Street intersection, which they also blocked.
The protesters continued around campus, marching down East Campus Mall and eventu-ally to the Mosse Humanities Building, where McDonald was pulled out of class and arrest-ed last week. Outside of the Humanities Building, the protest-ers chanted “King couldn’t learn because of y’all, y’all ain’t gonna learn because of me” and “black bodies over buildings.”
The protest ended with speeches by two graduate students from the UW-Madison School of Education and the School of Human Ecology,
and a chant of love and support.After the protest, demonstra-
tors were encouraged to write on the ground of Library Mall with chalk to condemn racism on cam-pus and help reclaim the space.
“We have received the demands from the students and we are in the process of evaluating those. I do expect us to have more to say later today about that,” said UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone. “What I can say immediately is that obviously everybody on campus is very concerned about the issues that are affecting the climate for students of color.”
Chancellor Blank responds to demands
Last Friday, Blank issued a statement saying she was upset with how UWPD entered a class-room and Riseling apologized in a statement to the students and pro-fessor who were disrupted.
Blank issued a statement regarding the demands Thursday at about 4:30 p.m. She labelled the semester “difficult and exhaust-ing” for UW-Madison commu-nity members of color and their allies. She said she was frustrated she could not help enact change more quickly, but said she would not answer all of the demands presented today.
“Embedded in the student demands are requests for actions that I do not believe are reason-able, or even lawful, for me to take,” Blank said in the statement. “In fact, several of the demands seek to apply authority that the university does not have under state law or UW System policies and procedures.”
Blank did not specifically address the call for university administrators’ resignations. She again said that it is “imperative” to continue this dialogue on campus.
UWPD Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott said the appro-priate steps have been taken and the department has apologized for enter-ing a classroom, but the demand of resignations will not be met.
“We stand by the arrest and no one from our police department is resigning,” Lovicott said.
Several student organizations helped lead the protest, includ-ing BlackOut, BlindSide, Black Liberation Action Coalition and Freedom Inc. Davis stressed this was just a beginning for the movement, and that they had several more events planned in the coming weeks.
“I want to tell students that you have the power. Don’t feel isolated, don’t feel disempowered,” Davis said. “We are here to organize that collective student power.”
Miller Jozwiak, Jake Skubish and Lilly Price contributed to the reporting of this story.
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UW-Madison sophomore Tyriek Mack taped a list of five demands to the Abraham Lincoln statue on top of Bascom Hill Thursday.
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ALRC approves new Sconnie Bar near Camp RandallBy Miller JozwiakTHE DAILY CARDINAL
The Alcohol License Review Committee granted Wednesday a new bar located near Camp Randall Stadium, which will have a capacity of up to 1,660 on foot-ball game days, an entertainment license and alcohol license.
Sconnie Bar will be located at 1421 Regent St., pending approval of the licenses from Common Council. The bar will be located in the former spot of Lucky’s Bar, which is moving down the street. Managing member Thomas Van Wie said the bar will be a similar setup to Lucky’s.
The entertainment license will allow the bar to feature a DJ, karaoke and small bands. But the approval requires the bar to have entertain-ment only four times a month, among other contingencies. It will also have an indoor capacity of 160 inside.
Van Wie described the bar in his application as a “casual neigh-borhood sports bar marketing to all Wisconsin sports fans from high school to the pros. It will feature a full
service bar and restaurant… includ-ing 30+ TVs and 20 tap beer lines.”
Several community members spoke at the meeting in support of the bar, including Sconnie brand co-founder and owner Troy Vosseller and the property’s landlord. Four members of the community spoke out against the entertainment license due to concerns over noise, with all voicing concern that noise is already a problem with Lucky’s.
Also on the agenda was Osaka House on State Street. Jun Luo, the bar’s new owner, took over March 1. He went before the committee requesting an alcohol license for the first and second floor.
Madison Police Department Capt. Carl Gloede said five days after the switch in management, MPD performed a compliance check and found multiple under-age drinkers on the second floor and Luo intoxicated.
After more than an hour of dis-cussion, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, made a motion to approve Luo’s license with several conditions.
Those conditions included the res-taurant will only be able to serve alco-hol on the first floor, while serving food and with time limits. However, the committee ultimately denied the alcohol license.
The ALRC also granted DLS an alcohol license. DLS will be operating concessions for the new Orpheum Theater operator Live Nation. Gus Paras and his
family will still own the property, but Live Nation will be managing the theater.
The new DLS license comes in the midst of a lawsuit brought by Paras’ former Orpheum business partner, Henry Doane. Doane is claiming that Paras owes him por-tions of revenue from operating the Orpheum for various reasons. According to court documents,
Paras is counter-suing. The case is still pending.
Future Live Nation General Manager Karen Foley said DLS will have 25-30 on staff and Live Nation will have 30-40. She also said she can promise a safe venue, but needs to do more market research before establishing how many travelling shows Live Nation will bring to the Orpheum.
Sconnie Bar will be located at 1421 Regent St. Its football gameday capacity will be 1,160 patrons.
To solve this problem, the city submitted an application in May of 2010 to start siphoning its water supply from the Great Lakes Basin. Waukesha proposed taking about 10.1 million gallons of water per day from the basin and processing most of the water back into the Great Lakes’ water system. This would cost about $200 million to achieve.
The proposal is significant because of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, a federal law passed in 2008. The law sets regulations for how water from the Great Lakes Basin is distrib-uted, and prohibits the diversion of water from the Great Lakes Basin except for communities within the Basin’s borders. However, counties that straddle the border can apply to divert water from the Great Lakes Basin.
Although Waukesha is not within the Basin’s borders, Waukesha County is within limits, causing debate about the credibil-ity of the proposal.
The application is currently being reviewed by the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Council and various stakeholders held a meeting last week on the matter. If the council decides to accept the application, it will go to a larger council made up of governors and chief executives from throughout the Midwest. Their decision is expected to be announced by the end of April.
Waukesha is the first city not within the Great Lakes Basin bor-ders to apply to divert water from the Great Lakes. This means that the ruling on this case could set a precedent for other communities across the country.
The Alliance for the Great Lakes, a nonprofit organiza-tion dedicated to conserving and restoring the Great Lakes Region, reports there are at least eight other communities across Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio
that, due to population growth, may not be able to maintain necessary water quantities with groundwater wells.
“The first diversion application will be a test of whether the com-pact’s existing rules, processes and language are solid enough to meet the regulatory and possible legal challenges it will face,” a recently released AGL report said.
Those in favor of the diversion argue that just because Waukesha would be diverting water from the Great Lakes, it does not mean other communities will automati-cally be able to as well. Each com-munity will submit a proposal and go through the same pro-cess of examination so there is no threat of water being exported out of the region.
Opposition to the diversion argues that if Waukesha’s proposal is accepted, it will be harder to deny water diversion as an option with even more communities vying for water supplies, mak-ing the Great Lakes an even more valuable resource.
AGL has come out in favor of a plan to decrease the amount of water that would be diverted to Waukesha.
“The fact that they are signifi-cantly limiting the additional areas that could be eligible for lake water is definitely the right move,” said Molly Flanagan, a spokesperson for the AGL. “But we’ll need to take a look at the details to fully understand whether we can sup-port this piece.”
Another point brought up by the opposition is that diversion from the Great Lakes is meant as a last resort after all water conservation efforts are exhausted. Some believe that the City of Waukesha could do a better job encouraging citizens to conserve water resources.
Waukesha has said the diver-sion is its last and only option.
“We do not have enough water for our citizens and the water we do have is contaminated,” said Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly at an event earlier this month.
Two instances of anti-Semitic graffiti foundTwo pieces of graffiti fea-
turing Nazi-related imagery appeared on the UW-Madison campus this week near the University Bookstore and Engineering Mall.
The first piece was found on the west end wall of the University Bookstore earlier this week, and the second piece appeared later at Engineering Mall.
Both pieces featured the Wolfsangel, a symbol connected to the Nazi party.
John Lucas, execu-
tive director of University Communications, said the uni-versity knows about the new incidents of graffiti.
“We’re aware of a new set of graffiti with racial overtones that has appeared both on cam-pus and in locations off cam-pus in the city of Madison,” Lucas said. “A hate and bias report has been filed and we are investigating and responding to affected communities.”
Lucas said the university will remove the graffiti from the
campus location and work with the city for further removal from other Madison locations.
UWPD and the Madison Police Department will work together to investigate the graffi-ti itself, but no additional infor-mation is available at this time.
This incident closely fol-lowed the Thursday protest against UWPD’s arrest of Denzel J. McDonald on 11 counts of graffiti, which condemned racism on campus.
—Kelsey O’Hara
A collision involving a Madison Metro bus and a Trolley Pub cart on the 200 block of State Street occurred Friday around 7 p.m. and resulted in three people being injured, according to a Madison Police Department officer.
When turning onto State Street,
the bus hit the stationary trolley, which had several passengers. The collision caused passengers to fall off of the trolley, and three people sustained minor injuries. No one was transported to a hospital.
There was minimal damage to both vehicles, according to a
Madison Metro supervisor. This is the second consecutive week a city bus got into an accident.
Madison Fire Department, MPD and an ambulance report-ed to the scene.
Miller Jozwiak contributed to this report.
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A Madison Metro bus was involved in an accident with a Trolley Pub cart on the 200 block of State Street.
Madison Metro bus collides with Trolley Pub cart Friday
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There isn’t a single genre of music that fully encapsulates the sound of both Chicago-based band Wild Belle and their opener James Supercave. On the first stop of their nationwide
tour, the groups graced the visitors of The Sett with an energetic show. The venue was filled with college students and adults alike who began enjoying the show seated at the tables. By the end of the show, there wasn’t much room to even move around.
The Los Angeles group James Supercave opened up the night with songs from their new album Better Strange. With a powerful combination of electric guitar, infectious drumming and groovy synths, the band managed to draw
more people out of their seats as their set progressed.
High-energy guitar and drums countered the synths that, at times, gave off a dark and haunting air. Combined with the electric feeling of the instruments, the lead singer’s voice added an extra layer to increas-ing excitement from the audience. His voice, while very calm and relax-ing, was able to easily belt out lyrics for their more upbeat songs.
In retrospect, the combo James Supercave’s creative synths and awesome guitar play-ing served as a perfect opener for the jazzy funk-inspired psy-chedelic reggae music that Wild Belle would soon perform.
After just a short wait, Wild Belle took the stage. The group drew aspects from more genres than you would ever expect. Simply put, their music was a well-executed mash-up of ’90s alternative, psychedelic rock, reggae, ska and touches of funk and jazz. The lineup of instru-ments was just as diverse. Drums, electric guitar and bass would all be expected, but the band also used conga drums, shakers, a cowbell and even a saxophone.
Performing mostly songs from their new album Dreamland, Wild
Belle fed off of an electric audience. In a venue as small and intimate as The Sett, it was easy for everyone to pack in close to the stage and experi-ence the energy coming from them. Cheers could be heard from every-one in the audience when the band started playing their hit song “Throw Down Your Guns.”
As a whole, the members of Wild Belle worked extremely well together. The backup singer/tam-bourine player who entertained the audience with her fantastic vocals and dancing, the excit-ing percussionist who gave the songs an extra pop with his conga playing and the saxophone solos were some of the most captivating aspects of the show.
Despite these high points, there were moments of tension. During a couple different songs, the drum-mer came into the chorus too early after a few of the verses.
However, they all worked past the little hiccup and went on to close out the show with an encore after deafening cheers from the audience. After the encore, the lead singer went on to thank everyone in the audience for com-ing out, and it could not have seemed more genuine.
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By Francisco VelazquezTHE DAILY CARDINAL
Unhood Yourself: The Real UW One-Day Exhibition was gruesome gold. The stories told through vari-ous mediums, including digital print media, graffiti, spoken word and visual art pieces told the reality that thrives on this campus today.
#TheRealUW is a movement that began from a string of biased inci-dents occurring on the UW-Madison campus just this year alone. The alarming truth is that there have been at least 55 reported biased inci-dents, not including those that go unreported. The goal in mind of #TheRealUW exhibition is to bring awareness and conversation among different people in the community.
With a crowd that drew in over 600 people, #TheRealUW invites the uni-versity students and faculty to talk about these issues and to express the same level of concern as the students that were victims of these biased inci-dents. Holding nothing back, the stu-dents are here to unveil and demand attention to the agony of being a per-son of color on this campus. No emo-tion or stone will go unturned; this time, the truth with be unhooded.
This exhibition can be noted as the first of its kind. The Chazen welcomed the idea of having an abstract concept of visual art and performance to bring awareness to those that attend this campus. After #TheRealUW proposal was written and approved, the next step was the
artwork. As I watched First Wave Ninth Cohort members, Posse and PEOPLE scholars plan this entire show, the amount of work and dedi-cation stemmed much further than just one night of performance.
Performances varied from Tiffany Ike’s “Matter of Time” to an impromptu performance from OMAI First Wave Artistic Director Rain Wilson. The line-up was much more than just the words on stage. Developers want-ed people to take something away from this exhibit, to continue conversation past the small time increment that we were together.
The impact of this show goes beyond this beautiful museum. It lies in the streets, in our classrooms and in spaces that we fill. The acknowl-edgement of what protest looks like comes in many different forms, and #TheRealUW does not limit itself to just one medium of expression.
This show was groundbreak-ing. To think that a show based on race would have a space in The Chazen Museum of Art, let alone Madison, Wisconsin, is persistent progression. Further plans to expand and build this show are currently in the works. Having Buzzfeed, BET and The Huffington Post acknowledge
#TheRealUW movement is just the beginning. The conversa-tion will continue. The Unhood Yourself: The Real UW One-Day Exhibition is not about public-ity, but rather is about existing in space. No longer will people of color be silent at this univer-sity. This campus needs a voice to remind this campus why none of its students are here on luck, but knowledge. We plan to educate
this movement and take it beyond the realms of just this university. The protest does not end if we do not stop.
Writer Francisco Velazquez was also involved in the event, as he presented a solo piece and was a part of a group piece with fellow spoken word artists Kynala Phillips and Kennedie King. Read the full story online at www.dailycardinal.com.
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The pieces and performances encouraged conversation among viewers.
U W-Madison students, alumni and campus community members are sharing their stories of discrimina-
tion and bias with the hashtag #TheRealUW, illuminating how for some students, feeling safe, accepted and respected on this campus is not a given.
In would-be safe spaces like healing circles and residence halls, students have been mocked and spat on. Anti-Semitic symbols have been posted on doors, and n-word riddled notes have been slid into dorm rooms. An Asian student was told to go back to China, one blatant example of the lack of acceptance faced by margin-alized students on this campus. Outrage in response to these hate and bias acts termed “incidents” by the university has resulted in past and ongoing transgres-sions being projected by #TheRealUW to a mass audience, instantaneously.
In order to best address the anger and frustration of students affected, all areas of campus must listen, acknowl-edge there is a problem and engage in a productive solution.
“I would say these experiences are any-thing but new,” said UW-Madison senior Kenneth Cole, a leader of BlackOut, Blindside and #TheRealUW movement. “It’s not even just us, it’s not even just the students who are here now, but alumni call us and talk about their relationship with administration and talk about the same things that we’re fighting for now that they were fighting for back then.”
Cole said as a student leader in this move-ment, there has been a lot of stress. As of now, there is an expectation for minority students to solve and educate the surround-ing community on issues pertaining to rac-ism and discrimination.
“We’re fighting for equity and inclusion, which is something you should just have,” Cole said.
Students like Cole and Mariam Coker, the current Equity and Inclusion Committee chair for Associated Students of Madison, have attended community forums and town halls facilitated by the university to address the campus climate.
To an extent, these conversations are helpful, Coker said.
However, as she puts it, these are “listen-ing sessions, not solution sessions.”
Both Coker and Cole expressed the sentiment that while the open venues allow for discourse, the student partici-pants are failing to see productive results from the conversation.
As an added barrier, many of the stu-dents who are at these discussions are the same, recurring voices, usually those of the marginalized students themselves.
“The people who need to be there, the people who don’t care about these issues, who don’t know about these issues, aren’t there,” Coker said.
Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims released a video on YouTube saying “enough is enough” of these discrimi-natory acts, serving as a sort of call to action for everyone on UW’s campus to become part of the solution to address the climate.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank has also joined in the conversation, both online and through all-campus emails, to express her discontent for recent actions.
“Some of the sorts of incidents that have been reported either on The Real UW or through our hate and bias reporting are just unacceptable,” Blank said in an April 13 interview with The Daily Cardinal. “It’s hard to read some of this and not just feel incredibly sad about what this suggests about where we are and where we need to get.”
Blank acknowledged Wisconsin’s extremely white demographics, but said this gives our campus no excuse for these trans-gressions to be occurring.
The chancellor pointed to current efforts UW is taking to address the campus climate, including increased mental health services, creating a “more effective” multicultural center and finding the most efficient use of funds to address department diversity and any curriculum needs. Next fall, the univer-sity is set to unveil a pilot program targeted at cultural competency, something every student would take before stepping foot on UW’s campus.
Timothy Yu, director of the Asian American Studies Program, said while some form of this module will be a good start, it won’t be where we’ll see the biggest impact.
“Taking an ethnic studies class, learn-ing about the histories of people of color, the politics and history of race and racism; [We need] this kind of education more so than simply saying to people ‘don’t do that, don’t engage in these behaviors,’” Yu said. “When people understand the his-tory and the context around race and rac-ism, that has a much more lasting impact on their perspective.”
Lori Kido Lopez, a UW associate pro-fessor who teaches ethnic studies classes, echoed Yu’s point, saying a 30-60 minute module would not be nearly enough time to
reach students. “From my perspective, it takes that whole
semester to really move students’ feelings about an issue or to increase their under-standing of what racism is or how it works,” Lopez said.
Each UW-Madison student is required to take three credits of an ethnic studies course before graduation. Under the cur-rent diversity framework, effort is placed on students taking these credits in their first two years on campus, as to have a more meaningful effect.
Of the four total learning goals of the ethnic studies requirement, one is to “bet-ter prepare students for life and careers in an increasingly multicultural U.S. environ-ment,” something Yu said is hard to tangibly assess, but isn’t without anecdotal support.
“I believe very strongly that it does, that it can have an impact,” Yu said. “Certainly in my own classes, I’ve seen individual students come to me—students who were maybe very skeptical, very resistant about the idea of even talking about race at the beginning of the semester—come up to me at the end and say, ‘Wow, this class really changed my mind, this class really shifted my perspective. I thought about experiences that I never had to think about before.’”
However, both Yu and Lopez agree that these current issues of racial unrest could be eased through more support of the ethnic studies program.
“If those are weak, if those programs and departments aren’t being institution-ally supported, and those faculty are leav-ing, then that really strong pillar of having the ethnic studies requirement can’t work,” Lopez said.
Yu added that increasing faculty of color at UW is something many want to see happen, including students, and that a strong ethnic studies presence helps in both recruitment and retention.
Budgets are tight all across the UW System, but diversity efforts are not some-thing that should be limited by a price tag. Giving more attention to ethnic studies—through more resources, expanded course
options and recruitment of faculty—is and must be a priority on this campus.
So where do we go from here?How do we take all these conversa-
tions, all this talk, all of these ideas and make them into something meaning-ful? How do we change the climate to one more accepting and celebratory of our differences, as opposed to one that’s closed off and unwelcoming?
We recognize the value of ethnic studies. We—and that means every single member of this campus community—must understand and accept the importance of what an ethnic studies class has to offer.
We keep talking. This conversation can’t stop once the cameras turn off and once nation-al media has grabbed hold of another story.
But more than talking, we need to listen. As it stands, there is evidence of a disconnect between key players at this university. Students feel as though they aren’t being heard and administration feels as though they aren’t get-ting their voices through.
We cannot stay in this feedback loop in which minority students are asked by the uni-versity and their fellow students over and over again to share their experiences, to explain their oppressions, without being factored into policy changes in a serious way.
These past weeks, months and even years have shown a dark side to UW-Madison. But it is our duty as a campus community to help redefine #TheRealUW.
Collaboration, communication key in redefining #TheRealUW
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Budgets are tight all across the UW System, but diversity efforts are not something that should be limited by
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Mariam CokerEquity and Inclusion committee chair
Associated Students of Madison
“The people who need to be there, the people who don’t care about
these issues, who dont know about these issues, aren’t there.”
This conversation can’t stop once the cameras turn off and once
national media has grabbed hold of another story.
almanac
FULL REVIEW: So I had this computer virus
that kept causing my newsfeed to fill up with these ugly little lions doing random things. I tried every-thing to stop these atrocities from popping up on my newsfeed in every other picture because I just wanted to read about my cousin Pablo’s life, yet nothing worked. I reached my limit when one of these repulsive little lions purred at me and rubbed against my leg on my way to work. Simply disgusting.
My dog whispered, “I want to kill it with fire” when the lit-tle shit didn’t apologize for his blatant invasion of my personal space. I knew then and there that I needed to purge the world of this cancer, but like I’ve said in the past, I never go into anything unprepared. I knew I had to learn more about these vile crea-tures to safely and systematically wipe out their whole species.
Sun Tzu once told me to know my enemy and, in this case,
I learned my enemy is actually called a cat. They normally live for about nine years, but that number is greatly reduced when they are in my vicinity because I kill them deliberately and efficiently.
A cat is a mammal with more than 70 variations, yet they all share very similar, loathsome traits. Almost all cats possess a beating heart, which they require to stay alive. The cat’s heart pumps disgusting cat blood through its entire body to give it life. It is my
goal to extinguish this phenom-enon by any means necessary in order to crush its very existence.
Cats reproduce frequently and litters normally contain three to five kittens that grow to become another atrocity I must put down. The gestation period of a cat is nor-mally 60 days—much quicker than humans. If I were a cat I’d stay gestating for as long as possible because the moment they emerge into this world they’re in my terri-tory, just another target. I normal-
ly like to take out cats when they haven’t yet given birth as a gesture of good faith. Lucky for them, they will never experience life as the worst animal in existence.
I refuse to even rate the cat. This creature is my mor-tal enemy and doesn’t even deserve a rating from the world-renowned reviewer of ani-mals. This was simply meant to distract literate cats while I make my next hit. Look out, Sprinkles; I’m right behind you.
Almanac Animal ReviewDomestic Cat at a glance
PHYSICAL TRAITS: Everything about it is disgusting. I want to kill it so bad and will not rest until all of these animals are gone from this earth.
CAREER GOALS: Get as far away from me as possible because I’m coming for them, and I’m thirsty for blood.
PRIMARY FLAWS: Everything, truly anything this animal does is a flaw. How can evolution screw up so bad that this kind of creature is created?
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Just seeing its face makes me want to kill it.
PLACE OF RESIDENCE: In hell.
Final Score: UNWORTHY
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Poll: Bascom Hill voted best hill on campusBy Hossein RostamTHE DAILY CARDINAL
Bascom Hill cruised to victory in the annual heated and con-troversial Best Hill competition, drubbing all other prospective hills in a sweeping victory which crushed the hopes of millions looking to celebrate the merits of other inclines and precipices.
“We’ve had enough of estab-lishment hills, establishment
knolls, and establishment protu-berances,” claims one critic, who went on to claim that the Bascom Hill campaign was only able to win due to connections with big money from UW.
“Bascom Hill is the most prag-matic choice,” claims one sup-porter. “The other hills could be nice in Denmark or Sweden, but not here.”
Voting is now closed.
1. The day before the rally, gather 10-20 strong-willed friends with sturdy gastrointestinal tracts. Make sure they’re OK triggering reverse peristalsis in the name of justice.
2. Get tickets for the rally. They might be expensive, but the people of America will thank you later.3. Throw an awesome party, beer and liquor included, for your friends. The first priority, of course, is
having fun. The second priority is making sure everyone will feel terrible the next day. Upset stomachs are a must in order for this plan to work.
4. The next day, when everyone is thoroughly hungover, methodically eat fried eggs, about two or three an hour, until the rally begins. Wash them down with orange juice. If it’s an evening rally you’ll have to pace yourselves. You will be miserable, but, so will we all, if this plan doesn’t come through.
5. Driving very carefully, so as not to lose control of the vehicle or your stomach, make your way to the rally. Park and exit the vehicle.
6. With pained expressions on your faces, indicative of both the political climate and your internal strife, make your way toward the film crews present at the event. Do not make any motions or noises. Just stand in front of the cameras and wallow in your discomfort.
7. As the doors to the event open, take your places near the stage. Keep an eye out for the media areas in the building—you’ll want them to see your protest. For maximum effect, disperse your team around the front of the audience, so your poignant message can spread to the rest of the crowd.
8. As the opening speakers make their remarks, slowly eat the last few eggs you brought along in your pockets. Wash them down with OJ. This will not be easy. Your hungover, egg-filled bodies will be ready to burst, but you must be strong. You are strong. Only a few more minutes to wait.
9. The last openers finish their speeches. The crowd is warmed up and the energy high. Signal your team as the man himself, head-honcho of hell and high-rise buildings, Donald J. Trump, makes his way onto the stage.
10. As he nears the podium, as the TV cameras pan and the audience screams, put yourselves in position. Lift your hands to your mouths and extend your pointer fingers as far as they can go, slowly moving them toward the back of your throats.
11. As soon as The Donald opens his mouth, you will make your move. Jamming your fingers into your mouths, you and 15 friends trigger your natural gag reflex and unleash a torrent of egg- and orange juice-laden vomit as high and as far as you can. Gallons of bile and putrid filth pour out of your bodies and into the crowd as it roars in appreciation of Trump’s equally foul opinings.
12. You have done your job. With the acidic remnants of glory still in your mouths, watch the room fall into chaos. The soft-stomached folks around you succumb to the growing stench. Casualties to your patriotic protest, they vomit too.
13. Like a wave of sickness sent from Satan himself, the area of affliction begins to spread. With each word Trump utters, dozens more are unable to hold themselves back. Hundreds of people puke profusely, doubled over at the pain and horror brought to them by everyone else in the crowd.
14. Watch as the camera men and women can no longer restrain themselves. They drop their cameras and fall to their knees. Victims too, of the horrific scene.
15. With any luck, one camera will remain trained on the stage as Donald Drumpf himself, protected from the masses as he always has been, is overcome by the stench. He who has awakened such hate and hor-ror in so many Americans bends over the podium, too weak and disgusted to stand, and belches forth the most vile, putrid and caustic pile of puke the world has ever seen. He too crumples to the ground. Uncomfortable, sick and down from his podium, he has finally learned how it feels to be one of the many.
16. Your task is complete. But what of the backlash? What does this mean? The headlines will come. “Donald Trump rally causes thousands to be ill.” “Trump’s appearance causes widespread sickness.” What a shame, you might think, that it took physical pain to make people realize what’s been harming them all along.
17. Despite your good intentions, you might have realized that hate, including the kind you’ve just induced, will never lead to greatness.
18. Unsure if you should be proud or ashamed, just sit and hope that all the people you made puke are OK.
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Badgers wrap up spring preparations in front of over 9,000 fans at Camp randallBy ryan WeinkaufThe Daily CarDinal
Jared Abbrederis went rock. Joe Schobert went scissors. And that was how the Badgers kicked off their 2016 season.
It was perfect football weather in Madison Saturday, and for over 9,000 fans at Camp Randall and many more watching at home, today was also the perfect oppor-tunity to get a first look at next year’s Wisconsin Badger foot-ball team, as it hosted its annual Spring Game.
The game started off unconven-tionally, as the honorary captains, Abbrederis for the offense and Schobert for the defense, decided to face off in a best-of-three rock-paper-scissors match instead of the standard coin toss. Abbrederis pulled out the victory, a sign of things to come, as his team also won the game, 28-22.
But the score matters little, as the real joy in spring football lies in trying to find the answers for how the team will look next season, and this Badger team still had some question marks coming into today.
The biggest question is easily at the quarterback position, where the two-man race between red-shirt senior Bart Houston and red-shirt freshman Alex Hornibrook doesn’t look like it will be resolved any time soon. But head coach Paul Chryst is happy with the strides both QBs have made in spring.
“I think they took advantage of the practices and the meeting times, and I think that—I told them the other day, we’re not where we want to be, but I don’t think they’re behind schedule,” Chryst said. “With that being said, I think—and I think this is for our whole team, we’ve got to have a great summer
and be ready to go, and we’ve truly got to take advantage of fall camp and those 29 practice opportuni-ties before we open up, but I think both Alex and Bart did do a lot this spring, and with that I think they’ve grown, and I think they’re in a good spot, but we’ve got a ways to go.”
While the race is still up in the air, today certainly belonged to Hornibrook, as he threw two 40-plus-yard touchdown passes to junior George Rushing and com-pleted another near-40-yard pass to redshirt sophomore Peter Roy.
“It went pretty well,” Hornibrook said of the game. “We had George [Rushing] make a few good plays, there was a couple like at the end that I could’ve got the ball out a little quicker, could’ve got it to Kyle [Penniston] to get a touchdown there. There’s still some things we have to do but it was a good day.”
The battle will continue to drag on well beyond Saturday, but Houston believes the healthy com-petition is good for everyone.
“It’s going to be a competition from the spring, to the summer, to the fall, and you can’t look at it like you want to be better [than the other player], you want to be better and beat yourself each and every day,” Houston said.
One position where there is no question who is on top is running back, as senior running back Corey Clement showed in limited snaps that he is back to full strength and ready to make up the time he lost last year to injury.
“It felt great, I think if anybody understands, I just want to get out there and just run around,” said Clement, who rushed for 36 yards and a touchdown on just five car-
ries. “It didn’t matter where I ran, be it forwards, backwards, I just wanted to get out there and feel fresh legs again. I needed that.”
Clement and the other backs were running behind an offensive line that is finally coming into its own. After a season marked by inconsistency and inexperience, the line has emerged from last year into a much more solidi-fied group, something Clement appreciates dearly.
“[The consistency of the offen-sive line] is better, there’s more chemistry shared with both the running backs and the line itself, and you still have to consider that [senior center Dan] Voltz is out, when Voltz comes back it’s going to be even better. There’s going to be that senior leadership, so I think everything is going to be so driven on how hard they want to push each other.”
Even though the line was miss-ing two likely starters, in Voltz and redshirt sophomore tackle Jacob Maxwell, plenty of depth has been built up through last year and the emergence of players that have yet to play a game, including redshirt freshman guard Jon Dietzen and junior tackle Ryan Ramczyk.
Ramcyzk has been the talk of spring camp, as the transfer from Stevens Point has already locked in the starting left tackle spot despite being in his first year of eligibil-ity, and coaches and players have raved about his abilities.
“[Ramcyzk] is a beast, man,” redshirt junior linebacker T.J. Watt joked. “It’s hard to beat him, and he’s going to be one of the biggest and best guys in the Big Ten this year. He’s a beast and he obviously showed it today.”
Sitting out last year due to
transfer rules, Ramcyzk believes he has made a lot of progress in his short time here.
“I think I’ve come along ways since I first stepped foot on cam-pus,” Ramcyz said. “I feel a lot more comfortable with the offense we’re running and as well as the chemistry with the offensive line.”
On the defensive side of the ball, one of the biggest areas of strength on the whole team is the front seven, which lost a key player in Schobert, but returns plenty of depth and talent that will make them dangerous in the fall.
Watt is one of the players who is primed to have a much larger role this season with Schobert off to the NFL, and he thinks this linebacker corps has a lot of potential.
“I think we can do great things this year,” Watt said. “There’s no limit to what we can do, and I think we are just gonna keep gelling as a group and just keeping working over the offseason so we can bring it in the fall.”
The uncertainty in the defense comes in the secondary, especially at the safety position. After gradu-ating last year’s starters, Michael Caputo and Tanner McEvoy, two new starters need to be identified for the Badgers, and although inju-ries and other commitments have limited some of the potential start-ers’ opportunities, spring camp has been critical in getting reps for the younger safeties.
“I think that the safety posi-tion is probably the one defense that is still to be determined,” Chryst admitted. “Now, I say that and every guy is going to come back in fall camp and be who we think they can be, but certainly the different factors with D’Cota
getting injured, with Moose miss-ing decent amounts of practice because of class, gave great oppor-tunities—I thought Arrington [Farrar]—it was really good for Arrington to take advantage of that, and certainly Joe Ferguson and Evan Bondoc got a lot of work because—it’s easy right now you look at it and you say, Vince [Biegel] and T.J. [Watt] on the outside, we know who the inside backers are, we know who the D linemen are, so front seven is pretty well set so they’ll just play a lot of football, but the safety posi-tions, the one on defense, is the one “to be determined” and it will be a true camp.”
With spring camp coming to an end today, the team will recon-vene in the summer, the next step in preparing for one of, if not the, hardest schedules in recent Badger football history.
Redshirt junior wide receiv-er Jazz Peavy is another player whose role is likely to increase this season, and he and the rest of the team are ready to jump into the summer and prepare them-selves to make the upcoming sea-son a successful one.
“[The summer] is very impor-tant, the last thing we want to do when we come into fall camp is start over where we were in spring ball,” Peavy said. “So we just want to make sure we can stay on top of everything and come into fall camp and have things rolling the right way.”
The 2016 Wisconsin Badgers are a long way from being a fin-ished product, but the spring camp has shown early signs that this team will be very dangerous come fall.
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a reported total of over 9,000 fans watched Wisconsin’s spring game at Camp randall Stadium Saturday.
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Bart houston is currently locked in a quarterback battle with alex hornibrook that likely won’t be decided until later on in the summer.
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