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pay freeze forstate workersBy Meghan ChuaThe Daily carDinal

The first employee pay plan created since the restriction of collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin passed Thursday, freezing state worker pay for two years and restricting overtime pay.

Among those to be affected when the plan takes effect in January are 25,000 University of Wisconsin System employees and 32,000 state employees. 9,000 state workers without previous union involvement are also affected.

The Joint Committee on Employment Relations passed the measure 6-2 down party lines, with Republicans supporting the plan.

Changes have also been made to overtime pay, which cost state agen-cies, including the UW System, $70 million in 2010, according to a

report published by the Legislative Audit Bureau in May.

Employees will now only be able to claim overtime pay for actual hours worked, rather than claiming both sick time and over-time pay for working different shifts of the same workday.

Overtime hours will also be distributed based on a rotation of all employees instead of seniority.

For employees of the univer-sity, the pay plan means there will be no raises for the next two years. Under the 2011-2013 budget, state agencies, including the UW System, can submit supplemen-tal pay plans additional to those provided for all state employ-ees, according to UW System Spokesperson David Giroux.

By Taylor HarveyThe Daily carDinal

Developers introduced a new Downtown Plan to Madison’s Common Council earlier this week, which includes the instal-lation of a bike path along Lake Mendota and redeveloping some downtown neighborhoods.

According to Principal Planner Michael Waidelich, the plan seeks to enhance econom-ic and real estate development downtown.

One major redevelopment in the plan is to “preserve, reha-bilitate and modernize” student housing units in the Bassett, West Washington and Mifflin Street

Neighborhoods, which according to Waidelich, emphasizes “fairly heavy on conservation.”

Waidelich said the redevel-opment will impact students who view the neighborhood as a relatively cheap residential area on campus where “you don’t have to worry about taking care of [the house] too much.”

If people make large invest-ments and fix up units, inves-tors will want to see the units taken care of and prices will probably be higher, according to Waidelich.

“The real recommendation is for the plan to maintain the essential scale and character

in the area,” Waidelich said. “It would involve rehabilitat-ing some of the houses, moving some of them, demolishing some of them and replacing some with new development.”

Waidelich said the plan also aims to promote housing diver-sity to cater to the influx of non-students, such as young profes-sionals and empty-nesters, who have resided in the Basset Street Neighborhood in the past 15 years.

“Student dominance in the area will change a little if we are successful in encouraging more

By sean ReichardThe Daily carDinal

In the midst of increased political activity around the state, UW-Madison posted guidelines Wednesday reminding faculty, students and staff of appropriate political activity on campus.

The rules discourage students, faculty and staff from engaging in political activity in university buildings and housing. They also prohibit employees from using university resources for political advocacy or participat-ing in political actions when they should be working.

An example of inappropri-ate behavior would include a professor sending emails from a university account, urging col-leagues to support or vote against Gov. Scott Walker, according to

UW-Madison Political Science Professor and free-speech expert Donald Downs.

Downs agreed with the pur-pose of the guidelines.

“I think that’s a principled thing for the university to do,” he said. “People should do their best to abide by [the guide-lines].”

While Downs said inappro-priate political activity could warrant fines and reprimands, the university does not strongly enforce the rules.

“I don’t think [violating the guidelines] is really criminal, but there could be some kind of violation,” he said. “I’ve never heard of them being applied.”

According to Downs, con-sequences of violating the guidelines would depend on

the seriousness of violation as well as how long-standing and repeated it is.

Downs criticized the guide-lines for being ambiguous at times. He said individual pro-fessors, students and staff mem-bers can engage in political activity on their own, as long as they are not using university resources to do so.

“The fact that we’re faculty members and staff of the univer-sity shouldn’t mean we can’t talk about [political] things,” he said.

“That to me is different from actively using university resources to push causes and rally people around candidates and things like that.”

For full details on the guide-lines, visit the University of Wisconsin news homepage.

UW issues guidelines limiting political activity on campus

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construction to upgrade the utility system throughout the east side of campus has limited student mobility through library Mall.

Construction at Library Mall to end in mid-DecemberBy shannon KellyThe Daily carDinal

The construction that has obstructed much of Library Mall for more than two years will finally be coming to a close in mid-Decem-ber when ongoing utility replace-ments and upgrades are complete.

The project was the final phase of a five-part plan to upgrade the utility system throughout the east side of campus and focused pri-marily on building an underground utilities tunnel to make mainte-nance access to the utilities easier.

While these new utility upgrades are estimated to last 30 to 50 years, this does not mean the Library Mall will remain free from construction.

According to a statement from the university, it will approach the city about plans to potentially begin rebuilding the Library Mall and the State Street Mall some-time in the next six months.

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Risser, Fitzgerald throw it down on the Senate floorBy Dr. Yams McYummy, M.D.The Daily CarDinal

Only a few weeks after the state Senate approved rules allowing those with permits to carry concealed weapons on the Senate floor, members of the Senate are choosing violence over discussion to “get things done way quicker.”

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, was thrilled to take advantage of the new lax weapon restrictions.

Donning a pair of chaps and spurs while sitting upon his recently acquired white steed, Fitzgerald, said the new mea-sures were “necessary” to fully defend the Second Amendment as he admired his revolver.

“Fuck yeah, now I have might to back up all this job creation that’s going on,” Fitzgerald said.

State Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, who was appre-hensive of the new policy, thought he would carry con-cealed weapons to prove that not just anyone should be able to have a gun.

“Guns on the Senate floor are not safe, see?” Risser said as he fired two shots in the air while the 32 other senators hid under the desk. “And this is me at my most alert.”

Though viewers will not be able to carry concealed weapons inside the gallery, many were able to view the first annual celebratory John Wayne-inspired face off between “Team Job Creators” and “Team ‘The Fab 16 not dis-enfranchising people’” during the special session meeting.

The 17-hour floor session, one of the longest in state history, consisted of an hour of inquisitive debate about business loans and 15 hours of shouting about how long semi-trucks could be on state highways. The last hour con-sisted of Fitzgerald and Risser walking to opposite ends of the chamber, counting to 10, turn-ing around and threatening to shoot each other.

Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said the senators involved might have vio-lated administrative code but he “wasn’t quite sure.”

There will be a special elec-tion in December for the 20th Senate District as the rifle state Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, shoved inside his trench coat backfired when the other senators were having a heated debate about the definition of a bicycle.

Grothman does not face seri-ous injuries but will now be “too crabby to serve the 20th Senate District,” according to a press release from his mother.

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The story “Companion book sheds light on art,” which ran on Nov. 17, incorrectly states Lynn Warren is employed at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Warren is actually Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

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investment,” Waidelich said. “We really want to turn [the neighbor-hood] around, fix it up and make it more attractive to more kinds of people.”

Waidelich said the plan also aims to further connect downtown visitors and the community to the lakes; one element would create a bike path along Lake Mendota from the Memorial Union Terrace

to James Madison Park.“The whole idea of connect-

ing more to the lakes is seen as a pretty clear idea the city could take much greater advantage of,” Waidelich said.

Planners intend to “formal-ize” the existing path located behind properties along Lake Mendota. The path will be “made a little more public” with instal-lations of lighting and the pave-ment of streets.

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9,300 Wisconsin private sector jobs lost in octoberby ben siegelThedailycardiNal

Preliminary data released by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Thursday showed a decline in the state’s unemployment rate from September to October, and a decrease in the total number of jobs available.

Taking into account jobs in industries that employ seasonally, 9,300 private sector jobs were lost between September and October. Compared to October 2010, how-ever, the number of private sector jobs has increased by 14,500.

Since October 2010, the number of public jobs has declined by 8,500.

“The decline in total jobs over the month reaffirms our expo-sure to challenges in the ... econ-omy,” DWD Secretary Reggie Newson said in a statement. “More than ever, we must con-tinue to advance the Governor’s job-creation agenda and ensure jobseekers have the skills that are in demand by employers who are looking to locate or expand in Wisconsin.”

According to Rep. Kelda Helen Roys, D-Madison, the realities of the governor’s special legislative session paint a differ-ent picture of his priorities.

“Unfortunately, the results are in. For four straight months

Wisconsin has lost jobs, while Governor Walker and legisla-tive Republicans continue to focus their attention on more special interest giveaways,” Roys said in a release. “9,300 more families will suffer this holiday season, with little to hope for from our state’s Republican leaders.”

Wisconsin’s unemployment rate for October was 7.7 per-cent, a drop from 7.8 percent in September, according to the seasonally adjusted DWD fig-ures. October’s rate is 1.3 percent lower than the national unem-ployment figure for the month, which is 9 percent.

SSFC approves MEChA budget requestThe student government

finance committee unani-mously approved a budget of over $150,000 for Movimento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) Thursday.

According to the group’s web-site, MEChA is a student group that works to educate campus and the community about Chican@ culture and struggles.

The Student Services Finance Committee made minor changes to the budget, including adding fund-ing for an off-campus location to the budget if the group cannot find a location on campus by March 1.

SSFC Rep. David Vines said it is important the group find a space to provide their services to students.

“[The group] needs a space to perform direct services, and if we fail to give them space we would be doing a disservice to the group,” said Vines.

Rep. Cale Plamann said

he thought MEChA’s budget request was reasonable.

“I think we’re looking at a largely fiscally responsible bud-get,” Plamann said.

Also at the meeting, the com-mittee passed a resolution rec-ommending use of the Campus Services Fund to allow student

groups to contract employees from outside of UW-Madison.

SSFC voted to pass the resolu-tion to the Associated Students of Madison for final approval despite SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart’s request to table the resolution until her return next week.

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Giroux said such plans are “contingent upon us having money to self-fund a supplemen-tal pay plan.” He also expressed uncertainty about how poten-tial supplemental plans and the “prospect of anywhere from $65 million to $113 million in new cuts … might reconcile.”

Merit-based pay raises will

be available for employees, including political appointees.

“The proposed changes will allow the agencies to operate in the most efficient and eco-nomic manner while providing the best service to the people of Wisconsin,” Gregory Gracz, director of the Office of State Employment Relations, said to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Vacation, sick leave and other

work-related benefits remain largely unaffected by the plan.

Democrats have expressed concern that this approach will reward political allies more than those employees “deserving” of the raise.

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said passing the plan was “a great dis-service…to the delivery of smooth and effective public services.”

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Management utilities engineer for the project, said the tunnel is being implemented to ease future main-tenance and avoid further interfer-ence with Library Mall.

“We wanted to create a walk-through tunnel underneath to house the utilities so if there are any issues … we wouldn’t have to obstruct the mall in any way,” he said.

Another key component of the project was to put backup lines, called redundancies, in place so that the system will be able to keep working if there are problems or breaks in the lines.

“Utility lines eventually will have problems as they get older and you may have to do maintenance on them,” Dudley said.

“In order to keep the campus

up and running without any inter-ruptions we can … create loops in our central campus plans.”

Dudley also said the univer-sity will continue to upgrade and maintain campus utilities in years to come.

“It’s an ongoing effort,” he said. “As the campus expands, we want to continue to provide redundan-cy to increase our reliability with serving the campus.”

bills for reforms in advertisements, state budget laws sent to committee

Bills introduced in the State Assembly by Rep. Penny Bernard Schaber, D-Appleton, that aim to add transparency to the state budget process and political advertisements were assigned to committee Thursday.

The first bill would prevent amendments on non-fiscal policy to be recommended for adoption during future budget delibera-tions in the legislature.

“The budget should not be a vehicle for pushing through con-troversial policies that have no bearing on the finances of the State of Wisconsin,” Schaber said in a statement.

The second bill would require every political advertisement

on both radio and TV to clearly display the sponsor and contact information.

“The print on the TV is so small and flashes across the screen in such a blur and the spoken dis-closure on the radio speaks a mile a minute … it is impossible to tell who sponsored the ad,” Schaber said in a statement.

Both bills were circulated for co-sponsorship in the Legislature in October and assigned to com-mittees on Thursday.

If the bills are taken up and passed in their respective com-mittees, they would proceed to the Assembly floor for a vote, which could be as early as their next session in January.

college of engineering creates incentive to give backThe UW-Madison College of

Engineering announced an initia-tive to promote the importance of giving back to the college: The col-lege will match and double any donation made by its students or recent graduates.

Coordinator of the program and UW-Madison junior Avery Wine said “Connect for Life”

hopes to raise awareness of how graduates can contribute to the success of the engineer-ing school.

“It is important for students to know how much giving truly impacts their college experience,” Wine said in a release. “With tuition only providing about 15 percent of College of Engineering

revenue, gifts from alumni and friends are helping support more resources that students rely on every day.”

Engineering Dean Paul S. Peercy announced at a reception earlier in the year that the college’s Industrial Advisory Board has given more than $30,000 to sup-port the program.

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By Jess Sklbathe daily cardiNal

The master of feel-good music, Mat Kearney, originally intended to play at The Majestic Theatre this Saturday evening. However, due to the high demand for tick-ets, the venue was switched to the larger Capitol Theater at the Overture Center. If that doesn’t speak for itself, I don’t know how else to convince you that you want to be at this show.

Mat Kearney grew up in Eugene, Ore. The eccentric community, where anything on the fringe of pop culture was celebrated, had an influence on Kearney.

“Everyone’s parents listened to Bob Marley and The Grateful Dead,” Kearney said. “In my high school, underground hip-hop was more popular than boy bands. I grew up getting taken to painting and pottery lessons in my parent’s VW bus.”

He never had the life-altering moment where he realized music was his calling. It was a gradual pro-cess, following his studio-owning

friend across the country recording music and writing songs. Slowly, he began making an actual profit from playing shows and selling albums. Finally, Kearney hit the jackpot when he signed with Columbia.

Since entering the music busi-ness, Kearney has undergone major life changes. He recently got married.

“It affected my writing a lot,” Kearney said. “Falling in love with someone seems to wreck your world in the best ways.”

Kearney is a musician who is passionate about his music. He loves pursuing a career he’s excited about.

“It felt like a glove that fit. In many ways, it still doesn’t feel like a career. It feels more like an obses-sion,” he said. “Sometimes it’s a job, but mostly I feel incredibly fortu-nate to be able to do what I do.”

Kearney is known as a Christian artist, but his music is not dominated by his religion. He is positive, uplifting and fun to lis-ten to. He draws big crowds of all religious backgrounds. Though

his music may not be in-your-face religious, he wants his fans to know he is a Christian.

“[My faith] affects the way I live my life, so I hope it bleeds into everything I do,” Kearney said. “Loving God and loving people is a goal in everything.”

His latest album, Young Love (featuring chart-topper “Hey Mama”), was released this past August. Inspired by Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and a bit of A Tribe Called Quest, it features songs that are a mix of pop, folk and white-boy rap. Surprisingly, Kearney makes it work.

If you love Kearney’s album, you will love him even more live in concert. His performance atmo-sphere is down to earth, intimate and simple. He is engaging and fun to listen to.

Tickets are $18.50 in advance and $22.50 at the door. If you don’t find this show enjoyable, feel free to contact me and I’ll openly insult your taste in music. Don’t miss this one, folks.

Midwest hospitality is certainlynot lost on alex Schaaf, the one-man band turned frontman for a trio.

Schaaf has gone from being the sole creative mind involved in indie band yellow Ostrich, playing with loop pedals to create his first album under the moniker, Mistress, to working with bassist Jon Natchez and drummer Michael tapper. his thoughts on the forthcoming yet-to-be-titled album revolved around the new sound.

“the other [album] was more like a person in a room,” Schaaf said. “it was more intricately cons-tructed, whereas the new one is three people and it just comes from playing shows together. it’s a big-ger, live sound than the Mistress stuff.”

With the beats that showed up on the last album, stemming from the great vocal harmonies and counter melodies, i can only ima-gine that this new record will be a crowning achievement. What bet-ter way to test out new material than to play it on the road?

“last time we played some new stuff, but we’ll be playing some newer new stuff; it’ll be about half and half,” he said.

Schaaf seemed really excited to talk about his hometown, Prairie du chien, which, for those of you not from Wisconsin, is just a two-hour jaunt west of Madison. apparently most of the press people he does interviews with have no clue where this is.

“i’m so used to talking to people who have no idea about anything in Wisconsin, so i usually just say i’m from

this small town, it’s near Milwaukee,” Schaaf said. “have you heard of Milwaukee? Okay it’s near there.”

even nearer to Milwaukee is Schaaf’s alma mater, lawrence Uni-versity, in appleton. he graduated in the spring of 2010 with degrees in english and music. it wasn’t until halfway through his time at lawe-rence, however, that he really got into playing guitar.

“i’ve been playing [piano] since i was young and through college,” he said. “[But] i didn’t start playing guitar seriously until, like my junior year of college.”

the notion of him not being a life-long guitarist becomes diffi-cult to grasp once you’ve watched Schaaf play on stage while simul-taneously layering intricate vocal harmonies on his loop pedal for songs like “libraries” and “hold On.” yellow Ostrich met a great crowd when they played at der rathskeller this past spring, and Schaaf hopes it continues to grow with each return trip.

the band has been touring with rising act, ra ra riot since Oct. 26, and though they won’t be able to play this weekend’s show in Madi-son, yellow Ostrich and fellow ope-ner delicate Steve are up to the task to entertain.

catch them at the Sett this Satur-day, Nov. 19 at 9 p.m. admission is free and Schaaf says concert goers should also plan on staying for delicate Steve.

“they’re gonna be really awesome so people should defini-tely stick around for them,” he said.

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opinion

W hen religion meets government, there is often a much-

deserved hullabaloo. This occurs especially around the holiday season. People rightly worry about the government promoting one religion and dis-couraging others. The recent decisions by Gov. Scot Walker and President Obama have put a renewed political focus on one aspect of the holiday season: the Christmas tree.

In a minor, but controver-sial move, Walker renamed the evergreen tree that will sit in the Capitol the “Christmas tree” instead of the religion-neutral “holiday tree.” Around the same time, in a non-controversial move, Obama decided not to implement a 15-cent tax on the sale of those trees. While the choices are quite different, both decisions brings up the conversation of govern-ment’s proper roles.

When I first heard about Walker’s decision to give a Christian name to a public tree, I have to admit I laughed. It seemed ridiculous to me that the tree was named the ‘holiday tree’ in the first place, and I found it

even more so that the governor found it necessary to change the name that has been around since 1985. It seemed like a silly thing to worry about.

But then I got to thinking why the government has a Christmas tree in the first place. According to a press release from the Walker administra-tion, the Christmas tree’s pur-pose is to hold ornaments that children send in to “showcase the diversity that makes up” Wisconsin. Honestly, the chanc-es of getting a diverse set of ornaments seems pretty bleak, even if it was called a “holiday tree.” Stressing the new name could only reduce the diversity of ornament makers.

Diversity is probably not the reason why Walker wanted to rename the tree, and it probably is not why he keeps the tree up anyway. If that were the case, he would not need to call it a Christmas tree. For some reason, he must believe that people pre-fer a tree that commemorates the birth of Christ (and the charity, good food and rampant commer-cialism that comes with it) to a nondescript tree that people can describe in any way they choose.

But whatever his reason, Walker should not have changed the name of the tree. The tree was already commemorating the holiday season, so labeling it “Christmas tree” can only dis-

courage non-Christians from sharing in the celebration.

While Walker made a less-than-stellar decision, Obama made a surprisingly good one by choosing not to let the United States Department of Agriculture place a 15-cent tax on Christmas trees. The new fee, which was voted in by Republicans in 1996, was going to be used for promot-ing the Christmas-tree industry in America.

The issue at hand is really not the tax itself but what the feder-al government was going to do with it. The federal government often uses public funds to pro-mote different industries. What people forget is that the govern-ment then implicitly chooses one industry over another. In this case, it chooses the true Christmas tree market over the synthetic tree market. This is not a proper role of government, and the federal government has no Constitutional standing to do so. It was wise for Obama to tell the USDA to back off its plan. With the many abuses of power the Obama administra-tion has committed (including extending the USA PATRIOT Act and killing an American citizen without due-process) it is nice to see the administration do something that adhere to the Constitution, however small the act may be.

Governments at all lev-

els need to stick to what they are meant to do. This does not include putting “Christmas trees” as opposed to holiday trees in the state capitol, and it does not include marketing for the Christmas tree indus-try. Governments have a hard enough time managing their

basic duties —keeping their finances in check, keeping bor-ders safe, maintaining good schools and so on—they don’t need to take on anything else.

Matt Beaty is a junior major-ing in mathematics and computer science. Please send all feedback to [email protected].

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Dear editor,

In Thursday’s edition of The Daily Cardinal, columnist Nico Savidge posed a question a lot of people have asked ever since the Penn State scandal broke: Can what happened in State College happen in Madison?

It’s a fair point. What hap-pened at PSU and to the victims of Jerry Sandusky’s crimes is despicable and calls into ques-tion what heinous actions (or lack thereof ) people will take to preserve the reputation of an athletic program and its idols.

But we cannot keep speaking in hypotheticals when all col-lege campuses, especially our own, are dealing with horrific realities. The fact of the matter is 25 percent of the women on the UW-Madison campus will be victims of rape or attempted rape throughout their time at college. That number should disturb you—it should rock you to your core.

There is no sense in compar-ing what happened to the boys sexually abused by Sandusky and ignored by PSU leaders to what is happening to vic-tims on this campus. Traumatic experiences are not relative to one other: They are traumatic. End of story.

I happen to be a good friend of Mr. Savidge and know him as someone who takes the issue of sexual assault very seriously. Still, if we are going to prompt the student body to think about this epidemic, we must do so in a way that is both thought pro-voking and productive.

It’s not that Mr. Savidge was ill intentioned. It’s not that the question he asked was an unim-portant one. It’s that we cannot concentrate on a hypothetical when sexual assault exists as a reality on this campus.

We need to translate the anger and disappointment we felt upon hearing of the Penn State scandal into something that truly benefits our campus and fellow Badgers affected by sexual assault.

Sincerely,

Jacqueline O’Reilly

PAVE Media Advocate

PAVE is a student organization dedicated to ending sexual assault, dating/domestic violence and stalk-ing on the UW-Madison campus through education and activism. Please direct questions to [email protected].

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head) 29 Hourly pay 30 Emmy winner Ruby 33 Name on many jeans’

labels 34 “Family” film of 1938 37 Ills 39 Flightless bird 40 Breadmaker’s raw

material 41 “Family” film of 1958 44 Ready, willing and ___ 45 “Get the message?” 46 Big water pipe 47 Woman hoping for

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49 Political campaign ammunition

50 Brooks of “Blazing Saddles”

51 Like some tales 54 Short musical piece 59 “Family” film of 1992 61 Harder to find 62 “If all ___ fails ...” 63 Its flag features a

beehive 64 “Family” film of 1983 65 Draft choices 66 Yankees’ crosstown

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28 Pinball machine no-no

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concert 43 Unspoiled paradise 48 Emergency notifiers 49 Lavishes affection

(on) 50 Butterfly relatives 51 Between ports 52 Aquatic lung 53 Oh, to be in ancient

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By Ryan Evansthe daily cardinal

The end of last season was a disappointment for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team (4-5-1 WCHA, 5-6-1 overall) as it stumbled down the stretch, before it was eliminated in the first round of the WCHA lay-offs by Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

The Badgers return to that site this weekend for the first time since that heartbreak-ing series loss to face the No. 5 Tigers (3-2-0, 5-2-0), and for the players, the disappointment from that series still rings fresh in their minds.

“It didn’t end the way we wanted it,” sophomore defense-man Frankie Simonelli said. “We left there with a little extra fire in

our stomach for that place.” “I want to get them back bad,”

sophomore forward Keegan Meuer said. “The returning guys want to avenge that, because we definitely haven’t forgotten about it.”

Road trips have not been friendly to Wisconsin so far this season, as the Badgers have yet to win a game outside of Madison this year. Those road hic-cups might have been expected from such an inexperienced team, because the young players have had to learn quickly about life on the road.

“It’s a combination of guys being ready to go and getting used to road atmospheres,” Meuer said of the team’s road woes this season. “You’re out of your comfort zone, you’re not at your home rink, you’re not sleeping in your own bed and you’re not going through the regular things. But guys have to develop a nice road routine and treat every game the same.”

For the Badgers’ young play-ers this is their first time playing

in many of the buildings on the road, something that head coach Mike Eaves said leaves them “a bit awestruck.”

“Some of these guys com-ing straight out of high school

haven’t traveled farther than the next town,” sophomore forward Tyler Barnes said. “It’s an adjustment factor playing on the road; it’s a completely different game, but we’re making strides to improve our play on the road.”

Part of the Badgers’ problems on the road can be chalked up to inconsistency. Coaches and players agree that

this team has to find ways to bring the same effort night in and night out.

“We have to come men-tally prepared both nights,” Simonelli said. “No matter who we’re playing, no matter which night it is, no matter how tired you are, you have to know what your job is and what you have to do that night.”

“The key to any good team is to set the bar high and match those expectations,” Meuer

said. “Prove that you can meet those, and then the next night you have to do the same thing over and over.”

Wisconsin will be tested this weekend by a Colorado College offense that ranks as the high-est scoring unit in the WCHA. Through seven games, the Tigers have scored 31 goals—an aver-age of 4.43 goals per game—but according to Meuer, those num-bers do n0t tell the whole story.

“They haven’t played that many games,” Meuer said. “In some respects we’re the veteran team this season because we have almost double the games on them. We should be in better shape, bet-ter condition, and I think that’s going to show this weekend.”

“Hopefully our systems are going to be able to shut them down and exploit some of their shortcomings,” he added. “We’re not too worried about them.”

By Vince Huththe daily cardinal

One trait evident in all champi-onship teams is their ability to find motivation for a game regardless of the competition.

That being said, it should be no surprise the No. 1 Wisconsin wom-en’s hockey team (7-1-0 WCHA, 11-1-0 overall) will not take lightly its series against Rensselaer (1-3-2 ECAC, 3-7-4 overall) this weekend.

The Engineers beat Yale 5-0 Sunday to end a nine-game win-less streak. While many will view this weekend’s series as a sure-fire sweep, it still has the Badgers’ full attention.

Senior forward Hilary Knight knows Wisconsin can benefit from playing against Rensselaer.

“I think the biggest thing is going into the game, and it’s a 0-0 score,” Knight said. “Just doing the little things that we need to, to prog-ress ourselves as a unit.”

Head coach Mark Johnson has instilled an identity in this team that is founded on working hard and playing smart no matter what team the Badgers are preparing for or playing against.

“Your game is sort of a reflection of how you practice,” Johnson said. “Irrelevant of who you’re playing or where you’re playing them at, [working hard and playing smart] are some of the ingredients that you have to have if you’re going to be successful.”

The series provides further moti-vation for senior forward Brooke Ammerman and sophomore for-ward Brittany Ammerman.

Rensselaer’s campus is less than two hours away from River Vale, N.J., the Ammermans’ hometown. The sisters are expecting more than 20 family members and friends to attend the games.

While there is a small chance the NCAA quarterfinals could be

held out east, this road trip could be Brooke Ammerman’s last chance to play collegiate hockey on the east coast.

“Ever since I’ve gotten here, a lot of girls—in their senior year—got a chance to play near home,” Brooke Ammerman said. “It’s defi-nitely really cool just to have my aunts and uncles see me play live, and it’s definitely bittersweet.”

Although Brittany Ammerman will likely have more opportunities to play near home over the next two seasons, Brooke can tell her younger sister is excited to make the trip this weekend.

“Brittany definitely has a lit-tle more step in her practice,” Brooke Ammerman said.

As if the team did not have enough motivation already, Wisconsin is coming off a bye weekend. It was the first time the Badgers had a weekend without hockey since early in October.

“[The players] are itching to get back to some competition other than themselves,” Johnson said.

The Badgers will not play a currently ranked team until January 2012, but do not expect tehm to let up during the upcoming stretch.

“If you don’t want to work hard or you’re not going to play smart, then good things aren’t going to happen,” Johnson said. “If you do work hard and you play smart, gen-erally good things will follow.”

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Wisconsin searching for first road win of season

Women’s Hockey

Fresh off bye week, Wisconsin travels to Troy, N.Y. to face Rensselaer

despite not having a road win this season, sophomore forward Keegan Meuer is confident the Badgers can down the tigers.

By Ted Poraththe daily cardinal

The No. 13 Badgers (2-0) will host the Wofford Terriers (1-1) Saturday night at the Kohl Center.

The Badgers have looked rather impressive in their first two games, winning them by 54 and 27, respectively. In these games the Wisconsin offense has averaged 76.5 points per game and is shooting over 50 percent from the field.

What has really caught the eye of everyone though has been the Badgers’ ability to make three-point shots. The Badgers made 15 three-pointers against Kennesaw State and 10 against

Colgate, shooting over 52 percent from three in those two games.

“If that’s what the defense is giving us, we’ll take it,” head coach Bo Ryan said of his team shooting so many threes. “I don’t think there was one three in there that was really a bad three.”

The star of the Badger offense thus far has been sophomore guard Ben Brust, who has come off the bench to be a spark plug and an x-factor for Wisconsin. Brust has averaged 15.5 points in the first two games, hitting 50 per-cent of his shots and making eight of his 16 attempted threes.

While it has been Brust’s shoot-ing ability that has gotten him all

the press, he has been playing solid defense this year and has contributed to all other facets of the game. Ryan emphasized that this is why Brust has gotten his opportunity this year.

“Ben can hunt a shot down pretty well, but defensively and ball-handling and decision-mak-ing [he had work to do],” Ryan said. “If a guy’s ready he’ll play, if a guy isn’t he works his way into playing, but now he’s trying to be a defensive player and a good passer and a good rebounder. “

Wisconsin’s ability to defend has just as much to do with its success this year as its ability to knock down shots, if not more. The Badgers have been able to hold their two opponents to an average of only a measly 36 points per game, and in these games the Badgers have been able to hold their opponents to contested jump shots, resulting in a very low percentage from the field (29 percent). Typical though of a Bo-Ryan-coached team, Wisconsin, despite its success, feels it can improve defensively.

Wofford is coming into Saturday’s game having rebounded off of its first loss against Georgia to win its last game against Emory & Henry 70-55 Sunday. While the Terriers might not seem like a tough oppo-nent, just ask the 2009 Badgers about just how tough it is to beat the Terriers. Wofford played Wisconsin in the first round of the NCAA tournament that year and was leading for most of the game but ended up losing by only four points.

The Terriers are coming off its second-straight Southern Conference title, and though it has lost four of its starters from last year’s team, including SoCon player of the year Noah Dahlman, it has a legacy of win-ning, which means it will not be afraid of Wisconsin or coming to the Kohl Center.

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Third-straight win on line for Badgers against Wofford

Sophomore guard Ben Brust has been one of Wisconsin’s early season surprises, averaging over 15 points per game.

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and i think that’s going to show this weekend.”

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By Parker Gabrielthe daily cardinal

After Ohio State and Penn State lost and the Badgers (4-2 Big Ten, 8-2 overall) took care of business against Minnesota, the natural reaction was to consider what a de facto Divisions League championship game would look like Nov. 26 at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.

There’s just one pesky little thing stand-

ing in the way of that: an Illinois squad, led by head coach Ron Zook, that is a little bit tough to get a read on.

After starting the year 6-0 and safely within the AP Top 25 poll, the Fighting Illini (2-4, 6-4) have failed to score more than 14 points in each of the last four weeks and have failed to notch another win.

That offense, so dormant over the last month, is led by talented sophomore quar-

terback Nathan Scheelhaase (1857 yards, 12 TDs, 515 rushing yards, six TDs).

“I’ve said this earlier in the season: I think Illinois is a great team,” senior Wisconsin wide receiver Nick Toon said. “They obviously have a lot of athletes and they definitely have the ability to win games here down the stretch.”

His favorite target, by far, is senior wide receiver A.J. Jordan. Jordan leads the Big Ten and is seventh in the nation with 1,143 yards on the season. The Jacksonville, Fla., native will likely be matched up against senior UW corner Antonio Fenelus.

Fenelus intercepted Minnesota junior quarterback MarQueis Gray last week and has played his best football this year. He leads the team in both interceptions (three) and passes broken up (four).

The Illini are equally athletic on defense, where they rank No. 12 in the country in points allowed, checking in at just 15.8. Junior defensive end Whitney Mercilus anchors a talented front seven. Mercilus was named a semi-finalist for the Bronco Nagurski Award, which is anually given to the top defensive lineman in the country.

“I think both of those two defensive ends, in perspective, might be the best pair of defensive ends in the league from what I’ve seen,” head coach Bret Bielema said Monday.

Toon busted out of a funk Saturday against Minnesota, hauling in eight passes for 100 yards and two scores. He was the top target for senior quarterback Russell Wilson, one of two of the Badgers’ offensive weapons beginning again to make noise in

the Heisman Trophy conversation. Wilson has a chance to set the NCAA

record for passing efficiency, while junior running back Montee Ball already has the single-season Big Ten touchdown record and will be chasing more records for UW’s final two regular season games.

Both will operate without redshirt junior center Peter Konz. The Neenah native injured his ankle against Minnesota and is expected to miss two to four weeks. Bielema said he would not doubt Konz being back sooner rather than later, but it seems likely he will not see action before a bowl game.

“Pete is the best center in college foot-ball that I’ve seen play the game,” Bielema said. “I mean, he’s very, very good. So anytime you lose someone of that caliber, it obviously hurts in a certain regard.”

Still, Bielema said he expects redshirt freshman Ryan Groy to fill Konz’s spot aptly. Groy has experience at center and both guard spots and finished the game against Minnesota after Konz went down.

Sophomore wide receiver Jared Abbrederis is expected to play after hurt-ing his shoulder last weekend.

If the Badgers win Saturday, the match-up with Penn State will certainly attract plenty of attention. For now, though, Ball said he expects the team to use this year’s experience to keep them from looking too far ahead.

“We’re going to make sure we focus on Illinois because we could lose this just as fast as we did [against Michigan State and Ohio State],” he said.

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Badgers to face declining Fighting illini

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Senior wide receiver nick toon exploded back onto the scene against Minnesota. toon will have to repeat that performance if the Badgers wish to beat the illini.