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City outlines plans for 2011 Freakfest

Matt Hintz The Badger Herald

University of Wisconsin students brought their best skills to the fi eld Thursday afternoon during the fi rst week of tryouts for the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee Team, the Hodags. More than 100 contenders came out for the challenge, hoping to join the approximately 20 return-

ing players for the upcoming season. The Hodags have won three national championships and twice come in second place.

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While the popular theatrics surrounding the Freakfest event are expected to remain largely unchanged in 2011, students making plans for Halloween can expect to pay more for their ticket in the upcoming year.

At Thursday’s Downtown Coordinating Committee meeting, members were able to confirm that while a ticket price increase was recently approved in collaboration between the mayor and the production company, no members could confirm what the adjusted price would be.

Madison Parks Community Events Coordinator, Kelli Lamberty, said while the format of the event will be the same as in previous years, a ticket price increase has been negotiated, a development the majority of the committee, including City

Council members present, were not previously made aware of.

“The event will be essentially the same as last year,” she said. “The admission price is going to go up, but at this time, I’m not sure by how much.”

Although the new ticket price is not yet widely available, Lamberty said more information on the event would likely be made available when Frank Productions, the Madison-based agency behind booking the event, releases the entertainment lineup for the event on Sept. 26.

Another change that could alter the face of the student-friendly event is the absence of police offi cers from the University of Wisconsin force, which typically join the Madison Police Department in providing law enforcement services for the event. City officials were uncertain of the exact reasoning for UWPD’s absence.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said this would likely lead to MPD having to provide additional manpower to cover the event, though there have historically been no major incidents in conjunction with the event since

sponsorship of the event began.

The committee also voted to dip into the city’s Contingent Reserve Fund, a practice that is common for the event, for $35,018 to cover the event.

While many students consider Freakfest a priority event for the holiday, Verveer said the city of Madison has yet to break even financially on the Halloween festivities.

Verveer added the extent to which the city is subsidizing Freakfest has been on a decreasing trend since its inception.

He also said the Freakfest resolutions approved in the meeting mark the third and final committee before the details of the event come before the City Council on Tuesday.

“The Council was not consulted on the price increase,” Verveer said. “I just hope the price increase is reasonable for the quality of entertainment available.”

The committee also made the decision to offer roughly the same number of complimentary tickets to State Street area business owners.

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Offi cials say ticket prices expected to go up, UWPD will not aid in patrollingKatherine KruegerDeputy News Editor

Members of the Downtown Coordinating Committee met Thursday night to discuss specifi c plans for the annual Freakfest event on State Street. Ticket prices will go up an undetermined amount so the city can offset the costs it absorbs from hosting the event.

Steve Sellers The Badger Herald

State accused of overpaying unemployment fees

In the last three years unemployed citizens in Wisconsin received nearly $500 million they were not entitled to receive, according to a statement released Wednesday from the Office of the Vice

President of the United States.

These findings are a part of a Department of Labor report outlining the amount of unemployment insurance each state has improperly given out over the past three years.

Wisconsin gave $497,137,531 in unemployment insurance it was not entitled to give, according to the report.

Forty-four percent of Wisconsin’s waste was attributed to the state’s failure to confi rm that those receiving benefits had met

the state’s requirement that recipients be actively searching for employment, the report said. Unemployment payments given to Wisconsinites who had already returned to work was responsible for nearly a third of the waste.

While Wisconsin’s 12.4 percent rate seems high, it is still lower than several states, including Indiana, whose 43.56 percent of improper payments over the last three years resulted in $1.73 billion paid by the state, the statement said.

The findings were

included in a joint cabinet meeting called by Vice President Joe Biden to address the wasteful spending occurring in federal agencies as part of President Barack Obama’s Campaign to Cut Waste. In addition to creating an initiative to reduce improper unemployment insurance payments, the campaign includes a program to reduce unnecessary waste in Medicaid and Medicare, the statement said, which is estimated to save $2 billion.

“Today’s

announcements on cutting waste in Medicare, Medicaid and unemployment insurance shows that we can make our government more efficient and responsible to the American people,” Biden said in Wednesday’s statement. “If we’re going to spur jobs and economic growth and restore long-term fiscal solvency, we need to make sure hard-earned tax dollars don’t go to waste.”

State Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, said the management of

unemployment insurance is the responsibility of primarily state governments. Because the state receives federal funding for unemployment insurance, he said the state must abide by parameters set by the federal government.

Grothman said any short-term changes made in the distribution of unemployment insurance would likely come from a joint labor committee.

At the cabinet meeting,

White House claims more than 1 in 10 Wis. claims are falsely approvedMatt HuppertState Editor

UW connectivity funds scholarship

The University of Wisconsin is introducing the “Bucky Challenge,” which aims to raise money for students as well as increase connectivity with the university through the use of social media sites.

Through Oct. 3, whenever anyone “likes” or “follows” UW or the Wisconsin Alumni Association on Facebook or Twitter, UW alumnus Will Hsu, his wife Jenny and his parents, Paul and Sharon, will donate $1 to the Great People Scholarship, according to a UW statement.

The scholarship has a limit of $50,000.

The statement also said the Great People Scholarship campaign provides need-based financial aid to UW students through the Office of Student Financial Aid.

Donations such as the Hsus’ make the

campaign possible.Hsu said when he and

his family decided to donate to UW this year, they wanted to further a goal of connectedness in a unique way.

He added the use of social media allowed more people to be impacted than if he made a fl at donation instead.

“Even though it doesn’t cost you anything to sign on or click, the act in order to raise funds makes it meaningful because hopefully it leads to future connections between you and the university,” Hsu said.

WAA spokesperson Kate Dixon agreed the use of social media in the Bucky Challenge extends the impact of the Hsus’ contribution and fosters strong university connections.

“It’s an easy way for people who are fans and followers of UW to give back to the university,”

Katie CaronNews Reporter

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Developer attacked for supporting Walker, GOP

An MMSD board member accused the developer of the controversial Edgewater redevelopment of supporting Walker and said City Council should reconsider allotting it $3.3 million in TIF funds.

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In an act that could add another layer of controversy to a city debate spanning nearly two and a half years, a Madison School Board member recently wrote a letter linking a prominent development project to the election campaign of the governor.

In the letter, board member Lucy Mathiak uses campaign finance information from a nonpartisan group’s website to show the money trail between the Edgewater project’s developer, Hammes Co., and Republican campaigns, including support for Gov. Scott Walker.

The letter was addressed to City Council members and Mayor Paul Soglin, who will need to make a fi nal decision on funding the development, following Soglin’s announcement that he would slash Tax Incremental Financing for the project as part of the city’s capital budget.

Mathiak expressed

support for the TIF budgetary provision, citing concern regarding the possible implications on public school revenue in the district, urging alders to approve the mayor’s budget as it stands.

She added she takes personal issue with funding a project in which the lead developer has previously donated thousands of dollars to Republican politicians that supported Walker ’s collective bargaining measure last spring.

The legislation drew extreme criticism from the Madison community and from members of the City Council.

“I have real issues with channeling more profit to people who will turn around and use their personal resources to bring us the chaos and destruction, from economic hardship to assaults on basic political and collective bargaining rights, that we have seen in the past [nine] months,” she said in the letter.

She added that it is difficult to contemplate siphoning property

tax revenue to “further aggrandize” individuals that have caused damage to the state of Wisconsin and the greater community.

While Mathiak has opposed the city’s review of the Edgewater TIF district nearly since the beginning, advocates of the project, including Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, viewed the letter as a last-ditch effort to stir opposition before the matter is considered in council.

Maniaci said the investments of several individuals involved in a large company should have no bearing on whether the city continues to fund the Edgewater project and that Mathiak has been “unprofessional” in debating the issue since early in the process.

“I don’t think you should have to check your political affiliation at the door if you’re working to make Madison a better place,” she said.

Hammes Co. also previously donated funds to the political campaigns of former

Katherine KruegerDeputy News Editor

Gov. Jim Doyle and former gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett, Maniaci said, and it would be “absurd” to ask for a developer’s political leanings at the door on a project.

While Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said he agrees with the Madison School Board support for the mayor’s intention to slash funding for Edgewater, he does not believe the letter ’s rhetoric will carry much

weight with council members when the matter comes down to a final vote.

“With the multiple arguments against city TIF money going to the Edgewater, I agree with the mayor’s decision,” he said. “But I think [Mathiak’s letter] falls by the wayside when it comes down to good arguments.”

Mathiak did not immediately return calls for comment.

UW garners largest mouse genome database Researchers from the

University of Wisconsin, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Oxford have compiled the largest known database of non-human vertebrate organisms used to study and identify mutations related to more than 700 genetic traits.

Studying the DNA sequences of both common laboratory and wild mice, these researchers have completed the genomes of 17 strains of mice, according to a UW statement.

Their findings were published in the Sept. 14 issue of Nature.

With the advances in sequencing capabilities, these genomes will

help further research on common human diseases.

According to a release from WTSI, the study’s purpose was not just to catalog these genetic codes but to also discover what caused variations between genes.

The release also said the study will open the door to research on gene function and the identification of which genes are related to the contraction of certain diseases.

David Adams, leader of the study and member of WTSI, said the combination of known human genomes with the newly discovered mice genomes will prove beneficial in treating disease.

“We are living in an era where we have thousands of human

genomes at our fi ngertips,” he said. “The mouse and the genome sequences we have created will play a critical role in understanding how genetic variation contributes to disease and will lead us towards new therapies.”

UW geneticist Bret Payseur said he was initially drawn to the study through an interest in the genetic mechanics underlying disease.

“Mice are the premier model organisms for human disease,” Payseur said. “We’ve made a lot of progress in understanding the genetics of common human diseases by studying mice.”

Assisted by UW graduate student Michael White, Payseur’s research also focuses on how mice genome

sequences can aid the study of evolution.

Payseur said by studying specific sequences in these different strains of mice’s DNA, ancestral relationships between each mouse are more easily ascertained.

These relationships further aid researchers in their ability to compare differences and similarities of the genomes characterizing evolutionary relationships.

Payseur intends to extend his studies to “look even more in depth at genetic sequencing to try to understand [and] reconstruct the pedigree of most mouse strains.”

This, he hopes, will allow researchers to better determine which strains of mice are best suited for specifi c studies

of diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

Oxford professor Jonathon Flint, co-leader of the study, emphasized discovering these genome sequences is just the beginning.

“This study is a first step in a long path that moves from understanding what the genome is to what it does,” Flint said in a Wellcome Trust Centre statement.

Of the immediate benefi ts of this discovery is the ability to quickly identify mouse genes associated with common human diseases as well as search for these diseases cause.

Researchers will also be able to place less reliance on mice breeding, condensing the number of mice needed for genetic studies.

Danielle MillerNews Reporter

Mascots from the nationwide tour Textbook Rebellion grabbed student attention on East Campus Mall Wednesday as part of a WISPIRG sponsored event calling for lower textbook prices. The tour will go to 40 campuses across the country this year.

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Petitions circle campus to lower textbook costs

Two giant mascots from the nationwide Textbook Rebellion movement engaged in a vicious battle on East Campus Mall Wednesday morning to garner support for a Madison-area petition concerning textbook prices.

The University of Wisconsin was one

stop on the Textbook Rebellion’s tour of college campuses launched Aug. 31.

The Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group sponsored the movement’s Madison appearance as part of its affordable textbook campaign.

The aim of the tour is to collect 10,000 signatures in favor of Open Textbooks, a program

allowing free digital access to participating college textbooks and print options of textbooks at low costs.

Two mascots standing tall at around 5-feet have grown to be national symbols for the movement. The taller “Mr. $200 Textbook,” wears a dark suit and top hat, while the “Textbook Rebel” is shorter and yellow.

Sydney Zettler, WISPIRG’s Textbook Rebellion coordinator, said the event relates to students as textbook prices are becoming an important issue on campus.

Citing an anecdote from her summer, Zettler noted how textbook prices are a serious issue for everyone but especially for students paying for college on their own.

“Take me, for example,” she said. “I worked this summer, put aside $1,000 for college. Half of this was spent solely on textbooks. For students that are paying for college, textbooks have become another added expense.”

UW microbiology professor Timothy Paustian offered to speak at the event because he said textbook pricing is an issue he is passionate about.

Paustian said he began using Flat World Knowledge after seeing how steep the costs of other microbiology books were.

He said expensive textbooks impose a serious burden on his students that can be avoided.

Flat World Knowledge is the largest publisher catering to college students with free and open textbooks.

“It is ridiculous that students are paying on average $900 a semester on textbooks,” Paustian

said. “Absolutely ridiculous, especially when considering recent technology advents.”

Paustian said he supported the Textbook Rebellion for its emphasis on the usage of Open Textbooks.

He said he believes there is no reason for textbook prices to have risen when publishing techniques have lowered costs.

“The costs in the textbook industry have gone down with the web and new publishing techniques,” he said. “They’re just taking advantage of students now because they can.”

Zettler agreed, saying high textbook prices affect students, some of whom are unable to buy at least one of their books.

She said in today’s university environment, textbooks have become part of a “broken market.”

To remedy the market, Paustian said putting pressure on the textbook publishing industry would help faculty choose more cost-efficient textbooks for students, ultimately decreasing the amount students spend.

“It’s time for publishing to be free and open to everybody,” Paustian said. “Students should be able to get the information they need and for faculty to have the ability to choose textbooks that don’t put a huge burden on students.”

Selby RodriguezCampus Editor

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Madison named nation’s most educated cityFor a city already

known for its political activism, vibrant downtown nightlife and the best brats and cheese products around, a recent accolade for education gives Madison residents one more reason to smile.

A recent top 100 ranking published in Men’s Health Magazine named Wisconsin’s capital city the best educated

in the nation, based on education rates of citizens ranging from high school students to adults holding multiple degrees.

Madison was one of only two cities granted an “A plus” rating but still managed to beat out the second place winner, Plano, Texas. Madison is also the only city with a Big Ten Conference university to crack the magazine’s top 10.

The article also characterized Madison

as a city “where the average household has more degrees than a thermometer.”

According to the Men’s Health website, a study of U.S. Census Bureau figures on high school enrollment for kindergarten through graduate school, education levels for individuals over 25 and data for how many households bear student loans were also considered.

University of WIsconsin Provost Paul DeLuca said Madison’s honor as a city served as a testament to the important implications of the university for the rest of the state.

“We’re educating people for a completely new economy, and the economic survival of the state will depend on the success of our programs,” DeLuca said.

Madison was in close competition with cities home to other world-

renowned universities for having the best educated population. These cities included Raleigh, N.C, which took third in the rankings, and San Diego, Calif., in sixth place.

DeLuca added he often speaks with students who report they come to appreciate their education at UW even more in the years after graduation, and students come to foster a lifelong desire to learn at the university.

“I’m hoping at the

end of four years you’ll realize that this is just the beginning and that the rest of your life will be involved in a self-driven education in a variety of subjects, and some of that you’ll get from us,” DeLuca said.

The Men’s Health Magazine ranking distributed grades to each of the 100 cities that were included. Fifteen cities, including Dallas, Texas, and Cleveland, Ohio, received F grades.

Caroline WittenbergCity Reporter

unanimously approving a resolution to establish the event space as a glass-free zone and formerly authorize a city contract with Frank Productions, who the city has worked with since the second year of the event’s formal sponsorship, members voted to support the 2012 Operating Plan for Madison’s Central Business Improvement District.

Mary Carbine, executive director of Madison’s Central Business Improvement District, said the city also looks to expand the downtown trick-or-treating program in response to “overwhelming” turnout in the event’s second year. Nearly 800 children and their families collected candy from downtown businesses during the event.

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the Department of Labor revealed several initiatives to cut some of the unnecessary unemployment insurance spending happening at the state level, the statement said.

The DOL released each state’s financial irregularities from unemployment insurance through an online map including how much each state has unnecessarily spent in their respective programs.

The DOL also identifi ed the types of problems

driving the state’s spending errors, as well as the steps each state has taken to correct the issue.

Six states — Virginia, Indiana, Colorado, Washington, Louisiana, and Arizona — were identified as “high priority states” due to their extensively high improper payment percentages, the statement said.

“DOL is working with these states to ensure they develop a comprehensive turnaround plan to reduce their improper payments,” the statement said.

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she said. “It’s also a really great way to combine one couple’s philanthropy for UW with our great social media outreach.”

Dixon also said social media use has expanded throughout departments and programs at the university in the past year and that the Bucky Challenge reflects this growth.

She said the WAA gained 2,000 new social media followers in the Wednesday alone.

“This speaks to how social media provides an easy way for people to make a difference and that [donating to this scholarship is] something people are interested in,” Dixon said.

According to UW spokesperson John Lucas, the Bucky Challenge highlights the priority of utilizing social media to communicate and foster conversation between university programs and students.

“Eventually we want to get to a place where we do really cool projects

where we combine social media with institutional goals,” Lucas said.

He added the way students now interact and acquire information has made using new tools to connect a primary goal for UW.

Social media has made gaining information a two-way street, he said, and UW aims to utilize this venue.

“We’re a forward-looking university, and we want to be at the forefront of people using new tools to engage,” he said.

In addition to participating in the Bucky Challenge, he encourages students to like or follow other pages and accounts related to the university and said there’s a page for just about every program or department.

Regardless, the Bucky Challenge marks a new use of social media aimed at fostering university connections and furthering philanthropic aims that will only be successful through participation by friends of the university.

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Hundreds of club lovers danced their hearts out at Thursday’s rendition of Tiesto’s Club Life College Invasion Tour. Tiesto is a performer who brings different musical genres together under

the brand name “Tiesto” and has been nominated for a Grammy and several MTV awards.

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Colorblind, merit-based admissions process needed

In my fi rst political science class freshman year, I found myself in an honors discussion debating public policy. In our fi rst week, we were asked to debate the various systems of college admissions, ranging from a lottery system to a complete meritocracy.

Among my 20 or so counterparts, I was the only student to speak in support of a college admissions system that accepts students based primarily and almost exclusively on merit — and I was ripped apart, particularly by those who supported some measure of affi rmative action. In light of the recent report from the Center for Equal Opportunity and subsequent response by administration and students, I feel my views are once again in the minority.

Given the diversity goals openly expressed by university administration, I am not ignorant to the fact that some type of affi rmative action is practiced at the University of Wisconsin. I checked that box that said Caucasian (read: privileged white girl) when submitting my own application. However, I always assumed that all admittees, regardless of race, were held to the academic standards on which this university also prides itself. According to the report from the

CEO, however, African-American and Hispanic students were accepted at ratios of 576-to-1 and 504-to-1, respectively, over white and Asian students, yet their composite SAT scores were 100 or more points lower than white and Asian admittees. The more upsetting portion of the CEO report for me is not the unequal ratio at which black and Hispanic students are accepted over white and Asian students; rather, it is that those admittees are evidently being judged by unequal academic standards based on their race. The question, then, is why?

One popular argument is affi rmative action, or that the admissions department assumes black and Hispanic students must have faced hardships in their life because of their race, which they can now correct for by offering them an elite college opportunity. In reality, though, an individual of any race could have faced hardships that put him or her at a socioeconomic or academic disadvantage, rendering the race of an applicant unimportant. Given society’s tendency to make unfair assumptions based on race, why even inquire about an applicant’s race on a college application?

A subsequent argument is that a university has a responsibility to promote diversity among the student body as part of a comprehensive social education. While I support UW’s mission to promote diversity, promoting diversity among a student body and ensuring that a certain ratio of diversity exists within a student body are entirely different things. Even on a campus where the student population is 100

Emily CampbellGuest Columnist

Affi rmative action debate showcases closed-mindednessLETTER TO THE EDITOR

I attended the affi rmative action debate this Tuesday, and I have never been more embarrassed to be a Badger. I expected to see a contentious debate, yet all I saw was a group of disrespectful, closed-minded students unwilling to even listen to those with a different viewpoint.

I am a supporter of affi rmative action at our university. I support efforts to promote diversity within our graduate programs. What I do not support, however, is groups of thugs breaking into a hotel to disrupt a

press conference of a group they disagree with. I do not support students laughing at and shouting down a guest to our university (no matter what their viewpoint). I do not support a mass effort to inappropriately frame a debate topic in order to infl ame a political response. This behavior is what I have issue with, not the substance of the student’s argument.

How is it that Columbia University can have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, one of the world’s most brutal dictators and

hate-mongers, visit their university for a civil debate every few years, and yet the students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison cannot appropriately handle themselves in a fairly common and reasonable political debate? This is because, like it or not, the battle of affi rmative action is not a cut-and-dried issue and, as members of this university, we should all be open to learning more about the subject. A 2009 Pew Research poll showed the United States divided 70 percent in support

of and 25 percent against affi rmative action. These numbers certainly show that this is a debate worth having.

Our university benefi ts from heated debates and genuine disagreements. Such exchanges enlighten us all and sharpen our viewpoints. If we become a place where opposing, unpopular views are shouted down and those who possess those beliefs are subject to criminal behavior, our educational experience will suffer, and we will lose our place among the world’s top universities.

Putting all political issues aside, we must be civil to each other, we must listen to each other and, most importantly, we must respect each other. These are the cornerstones of academic debate, and without them we will be left to attend a university where we learn in a pool of our own beliefs — never having to face the mere annoyance of dealing with those who disagree with us.

William L. Brown(wlbrown@wisc.edu)3rd Year Law Student

New bill could put hunters and landowners at odds

Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, lays out his argument against admissions processes his organization believe to be discriminatory.Malory Goldin The Badger Herald

I attended high school in a small southeastern Wisconsin town where people got excused absences for opening day of deer and turkey hunting season. Wisconsin is downright cozy to outdoorsmen, and the sports of hunting and fi shing exist in an equilibrium with property owners. However, as reported by the Wisconsin State Journal on Sept. 10, a bill making its way to the capitol is about to complicate land use dynamics in Wisconsin, and doing so could break

the long-held peace.Created in 1985,

the Managed Forest Law program allows landowners to set aside portions of their holdings as state protected forest and has led to the conservation of three million acres. For doing this, owners get lowered property taxes, and the law lets them choose whether they want the conserved land to be open to the public ($1.67 per acre in taxes) or closed to the public ($8.34 an acre in taxes). Compared to the usual rate of $30 to $32 dollars an acre, conserving land is a steal as well as good for our state. With 19 percent of Wisconsin’s forest-land in the program, we’re a model of success for other states.

However, the new legislation crafted by State Rep. Fred Clark,

D-Baraboo and Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center would raise the tax rate of those wishing to deny the public access to their land by 25 percent. Most of the land in the program, 62 percent, is closed, so that means that owners will either have to put up more cash to keep their property private or allow outsiders on their grounds to hunt, fi sh and whatever else they want to do.

On one side of the coin, the citizens of Wisconsin have the right to enjoy their conserved forest land. In February of this year, power plays by the large Illinois hunting club Coleman Lake Club outraged the citizens of a small Northwoods town when the club put their thousands of acres on the managed land list and closed it off to local sportsmen. Said Clark

about the program’s goal, “It was absolutely our aim to create a broad public policy that would prevent large enrollments from being closed to the public.” Wisconsinites love their outdoor recreation, and closing up such large tracts makes it more diffi cult to enjoy our favorite pastimes. Said George Meyer, executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation and former Department of Natural Resources secretary under then- Gov. Tommy Thompson said, “We’re losing access on hundreds of thousands of acres that we’re supposed to have access to.”

On the other hand, though, landowners should have the right, as my uncle would say, to tell people to “get the hell of their property.” The hike in property taxes

may make it economically diffi cult for owners to keep their land private, and usually, they want it private for a reason. As reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, landowner Mike Greenheck said he closed nearly 2,500 acres in Buffalo, Pierce and Richland counties after an arson incident, vandalism and the shooting of his family dog. People often have disregard for land or property that is not theirs, and it is easy to see why landowners might want it closed. Even though the managed forest is part of a state governmental program, it’s important to remember that it’s still the landowner’s holding. Furthermore, the concern of losing access to the land is overshadowing the fact that overall, one-fi fth of the state’s forested acres have successfully been conserved for future

generations.The most important

aim of the program has already been met — Wisconsin forestland is safeguarded from development, which benefi ts everyone. Changing the law to make it more fi nancially diffi cult for landowners to privatize their forests could discourage landowners from enrolling their forests. It could also force them to grudgingly allow sportsmen on their property. These two groups have existed harmoniously for such a long time, and the new Legislature is unwise, especially since they’re the ones with the guns.

Taylor Nye (tenye@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in biological anthropology, archaeology and Latin American studies.

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percent white, students can be encouraged by administration and faculty to confront issues of diversity by engaging with society and members of other racial and cultural backgrounds outside of their academic experience. I believe it is the primary responsibility of an educational institution to promote academic learning.

Judging students of a certain race by one set of

academic standards and students of another race by an entirely different set does a disservice not only to the many qualifi ed students who were rejected, but to all those who were accepted as well by not fostering the best academic environment that could have been achieved.

I recognize that the issue is hardly black and white (no pun intended), and I am by no means

trying to assert that any current student does not deserve to be a Badger. I do, however, fi nd fl aws with UW’s ongoing approach to college admissions. I believe UW and other universities would benefi t in many ways from adopting a colorblind policy for admissions and giving more weight to factors such as academic merit, community involvement and socioeconomic

background. As an educational institution, the University of Wisconsin should fi rst and foremost be concerned with upholding and advancing the academic merit of its student body, not trying to achieve the ideal ratios for the color of its skin.

Emily Campbell (ecampbell@badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in journalism and communication arts.

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Michael Ian Black brings sarcasm to Majestic

Get ready for the circus. Michael Ian Black is adopting a bold new performance style complete with fire breathers, stilt walkers and lion tamers for his “Black is White” comedy tour.

Or is he?Black may have

promised what sounds like good ol’ family fun in an interview with The Badger Herald, but anyone familiar with his deadpan sense of humor knows better than to take his words at face value.

You might recognize Black from his witty commentary on all things pop culture from the VH1 “I Love the…” series or from the Comedy Central shows “Stella” and “Michael and Michael Have Issues.” He has also played a character on the NBC show “Ed” and co-

wrote the 2007 comedy “Run, Fatboy, Run.” Black has even entered the market of children’s books with titles like “Chicken Cheeks,” “The Purple Kangaroo” and “A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea.”

Black says his new tour, which stops at the Majestic Theatre in Madison tonight, will be “very dissimilar” from his recent Comedy Central special, “Very Famous.” When asked how it will be different, he wryly repeats, “Well, there’s the sword swallowing.”

He dodges some questions with such quick-witted, sarcastic comments that would seem rehearsed if he

weren’t so clearly a natural comedian. Other times he gives dry, succinct responses leaving no room for confusion or follow-up questions.

Of the tour name he says “My name is Black, but my race is white.”

‘Nuff said.Despite the jugglers he

will supposedly share the stage with, you can bet his comedy will be anything but wholesome or kitschy. On the contrary, his stand-up will likely include biting sarcasm, moments of vulgarity and most certainly, hilarity.

In fact, his stand-up might not even be suitable for his own family.

“Will I be talking about my kids? Maybe. Talking favorably about my kids? Probably not.”

He is not apologetic about it, nor does he worry about shielding his two elementary-school-age children from his racier content, citing their subpar intelligence as evidence that they would not be able to fi nd him on the internet.

Instead, he offers blunt jokes at their expense.

“I’m sure at some point they will learn

more about what I do professionally and at that point, if they’re upset, fuck ‘em. They eat don’t they? Somebody’s feeding them, so they can just shut the fuck up about it.”

Black’s understated tone and heavy sarcasm make him perfect for college students. When asked what he knows of UW-Madison students, he says “Only that you guys know how to party! You guys party harder than anybody in … other places.” He says this in a tone that hints he says the same thing to all college kids, partly to win their affection and partly for his own self-amusement.

Surprisingly, he follows this comment with what is perhaps the only non-smart-alecky comment of the whole interview.

“In my experience, Wisconsinites are pleasant people. They’re just a little too interested in football.”

Moments later, Black reactivates his sarcasm switch when he tries his hand at forming a shout-out fit for print in any Wednesday edition of The Badger Herald:

“Shout out to Bologna.

So, it’s been brought to my attention that there’s a misconception out there about tea-drinking: something along the lines of it being only for the elderly, or the tamest and lamest of hipsters. Now here’s where all you coffee addicts (read: Lin) get to hear what’s what — and learn once and for all that tea is the shit.

Granted, I am a person that gets off on things like embroidery, reading a book, Feist and James Taylor, which I fully realize fits the bill more or less for “tamest and lamest.” But there’s far more to tea than meets the eye.

When it comes to flavor, both drinks give off an initial muddy-water vibe to the unaccustomed taster. However, I would argue that the aroma of tea sets it apart, as well as the varying depth present within that depends on which myriad blend you may choose.

Black, green, oolong, black, white, darjeeling, Irish breakfast, chamomile, earl gray — the variety is almost infi nite. For coffee there’s just … coffee. Tea may be intentionally bitter, but the taste hurts so good — whereas coffee is just another bad-tasting substance that some suffer through in an attempt to stay awake.

Here’s all you really need to know to nip this debate in the leaf. The book “The Empire of Tea” was written by Iris Macfarlane, who is married to a tea planter, and her son Alan — which thankfully gives you the adorable image of the three of them sitting at home every night sipping tea together. The book cites tea as the world’s most popular drink; the amount of tea consumed equals more than coffee, hot chocolate, soft drinks and alcohol combined.

So if drinking tea means I have the personality of a dreary, ancient woman, then at least I’m in good company.

Let’s characterize these beverages in the most fair and unbiased terms possible. If tea had a mascot, it would be the teabag: a floppy, porous, wet sack of ground-up leaves shuffling along on Teva-clad feet, pushing up its glasses between steps. Its lonely string would drag behind it like a beacon of impotence. The crumpled tag on the end would say “I’m not comfortable being outside the cupboard.”

Coffee’s mascot? The bean. A pumped-up, high-energy fun-fest prone to bursting around doorways and screaming the opening lines of “The Numa Numa Song” while doing some weird thing with its arms. Actually, that sounds horrible now that I’m writing it. Grind it up. Filter some hot water through it.

A common complaint about coffee is the taste. “The bitterness,” they say. “Who could willingly ingest such a vile substance?” To which I say, Sarah, you’re doing it wrong. If your tea-addled tongue can’t grasp the nuance and beauty of the best bean for breakfast, you could at least do yourself the favor of loading your cup with half-and-half and sugar until you cut through that bitterness.

And the smell! What beats being gently nestled on a cold Sunday by an aromatic waft of morning joe brewed in your time-delayed coffeemaker through the door you forgot to close the night before, just beckoning you to slide on some slippers, tip-toe over to the kitchen, pour yourself a brimming cup and, fully recharged, head to the library for a full day of productive studying?

Nothing, is the answer. And certainly not tea.

Steeped in controversyJoe, schmoe. Tea-time can be all the time when you infuse your day with the world’s most popular drink.

There’s only one drink suitable for studying, and it’s the one that doesn’t come in a “Sleepytime” variety.

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Comedian Michael Ian Black, pictured here in a promotional photo for his current tour, “Black is White,” brings his trademark mixture of vulgarity and non sequitur humor to Madison tonight.

Photo courtesy of Jam Productions

I haven’t seen you around in a long time. I miss you. Let’s get together soon.”

By the time the interview wraps, Black has given little detail about the actual contents of his show, unless you count his insistence that his act will feature Ringling Brothers-esque entertainment.

However, Black does not need to give explicit

details of what his stand-up will include. From the interview and his repertoire of prior works, one thing is clear — Michael Ian Black is one funny dude, and he will deliver at the Majestic, provided his fans can get there.

“Just know the directions to the place, because otherwise you’ll get lost,” he says.

Deadpanning comic sounds off on the circus, kids, bologna; preps new routine Holly HartungArtsEtc. Writer

As summer comes to a close, the average student will undoubtedly feel somewhat melancholy at the prospect of shorter days, foreboding tests and quizzes and frigid walks to morning class.

Thankfully, with Tuesday’s release of Electronic Arts’ “NHL 12,” the exciting smorgasbord of new game titles that is the pre-holiday gaming season is offi cially upon us. Sports games such as “NHL 12” are, as a whole, at a higher risk for “copy and paste syndrome.” This, of course, is the tendency to release games which are nearly indistinguishable from their predecessors, and thus a complete and utter waste of time, money and trained hand-eye-coordination.

Thankfully, the NHL series as a whole has had a fairly good track record of coming up with creative and ingenious ways of making refreshing improvements on game content, and “12” is no exception. To the casual player, the game’s graphics may not seem all that different than previous NHL titles. Though “12” may not boast visuals comparable to more popular games of today, when playing it in full 1080p it’s hard to argue that it doesn’t look impressive.

Those like I, who play the game in a more ... determined fashion, will notice that EA made numerous tweaks on a smaller scale, changes which make for a more realistic NHL than ever before. The physics of the game, for once, actually seem to follow the laws of the natural world. Gloves, helmets, sticks and even the net will fl y before your eyes as the glorious mayhem that is hockey takes place. One other impressive adjustment you may notice is that, rather than simply pasting randomly-generated faces onto NHL uniforms, developers took the time to (for the most part) render real-life facial characteristics

onto players. Even those sitting on the bench are actually recognizable members of your team rather than glorifi ed, stick-wielding mannequins.

All in all, the atmosphere on the ice just feels more authentic than ever before. The sound is fantastic, as usual. The roar of the crowd after a bone-crunching hit or breakaway goal is all one needs to feel fully immersed in the game. Unfortunately, EA has still done little to alter the game commentary. It’s been three or four years now of the same announcers saying just about the same things over and over. One can only bear hearing the line, “The gloves have dropped; let’s see if the fi sticuffs will follow” so many times when picking a fi ght.

By far the most radical changes in “12” lie in its gameplay. Everything feels smoother, faster and impressively fl uid. Making quick “playmaker passes” to teammates in your offensive zone leads to entirely new and complex ways to create epic scoring chances. Even though it now seems harder to take quick slap shots and wristers off of passes, it’s arguable that this added touch is more realistic than simply allowing you to hit 100 percent of your shots off of give-and-go plays. When playing with a teammate on offense, you can now jockey for position in front of the net, shoving defenders for the high-priced real estate in front of the goalie.

The checking system in “NHL 12” has been completely overhauled, making hits more frequent, as well as smarter. Now, instead of needing huge amounts of speed and perfect accuracy to hit your opponent, it’s possible to simply knock them off balance with a well-placed, slow moving check, giving you easier access to the puck in your defensive zone when you’re in a pinch. Though the more realistic checking system is indeed advantageous to defenders, it can create frustration on the other end of the ice. I often found myself

being checked a ridiculous amount by opponents, which eliminated a good portion of my scoring chances and left me screaming at my television screen in rage.

Though the multiplayer matchmaking system and gameplay seem to be relatively unchanged, EA did add a screenshot which tracks your experience progress at the end of every game, and it’s nice to have an idea of how the last game affected your overall ranking.

One thing that remains frustrating as hell is the fact that EA online will disconnect you from your game immediately if your internet has any temporary loss of connection, resulting in a loss. You’d think that they would at least throw you a small bone by giving you a “courtesy countdown” to regain your internet connection and salvage the game.

If you’re a stat junkie, “NHL 12” will be nothing short of a statistically satisfying wet dream. The completely re-done post-game stat report is nothing short of revolutionary. You can now see where you’ve taken every shot, made every hit and taken every penalty on the ice during the game, as well in which parts of the net your shots tend to end up.

All in all, “NHL 12” delivered at least one great thing in every aspect of the game. “12” was all about improving upon what was already great, and they succeeded. Though some of the new game play improvements may frustrate old timers, it was a step in the right direction for the series. That being said, EA still suffers from its own enormity as a company and seems to neglect the “little things” that people are looking for in games, such as an online system that caters more to individual players. I give it four out of fi ve stars for its ingenuity and genuine enjoyability.

Andrew Lahr (aplahr@wisc.edu) is a creative writing major by day, gamer by night.

EA Sports snipes it home with newest hockey game

Andrew LahrHerald Arcade Columnist

POINTCounterpoint

“Will I be talking about my kids? Probably. Talking favorably about my kids? Probably not.”

Michael Ian BlackComedian

Sports

Selfless scorer Nosbusch leader for women’s soccer

Leadership is not something that can be taught, and typically, effort isn’t either. Fortunately for the Wisconsin women’s soccer team, the offense has a potent offensive player by the name of Laurie Nosbusch who excels at both leading and scoring.

Nosbusch is a senior captain for the Badgers and easily one of the most tenacious offensive weapons on the team, as evidenced by her 36 total shots and 20 shots on goal through eight games this season. The second-highest totals on the team are 15 total shots and 11 shots on goal, respectively, by freshman forward Cara Walls.

Despite only converting all those chances into three goals thus far this season, last season’s 10 goals on 22.2 percent shooting indicates that with a few more rolls going her way, Nosbusch could still have a spectacular season ahead of her.

Walls, though a very talented freshman, credits

Nosbusch with helping her develop in her first season.

“We play the same position, so it’s easy for me to look up to her,” Walls said. “She works incredibly hard and she never stops. She is always around the ball and creating opportunities, so I am just trying to learn from her and hopefully be as good as she is.”

Trying to instill the wisdom that she has gained over her four years at Wisconsin on teammates is something Nosbusch takes very seriously.

“I know that my teammates and my coaches are looking to me to lead,” Nosbusch said. “The way I have always gone about it is to lead by example, especially on the field, to give 100 percent effort and just to try to drive your teammates to do the same.”

Goalkeeper Michele Dalton, also a senior, has been able to see the impact Nosbusch has had on this year ’s group of freshmen and the team as a whole.

“She makes the people that play around her better because of all the

effort that she puts forth and everything that she does on the field to make the team better,” Dalton said. “The freshmen who have come in are defi nitely incredibly lucky to play with somebody like Laurie, being able to learn from both her on the fi eld play and off the fi eld leadership.”

A quick glance at the stat sheet might induce the thought that Nosbusch focuses all her energy on scoring, possibly missing opportunities to set up teammates, but she currently leads the team in assists.

And if someone were to assume she’s always looking to score on her own, Dalton would set the record straight.

“If she sees an opportunity to pass the ball off and give it to another teammate who has a better scoring opportunity than her, she wouldn’t even think twice to do it if the team is going to win and be successful,” Dalton said. “She is one of a kind, one in a million, and I am really happy that I can call her my teammate.”

“I have never played with a teammate who is

UW forward Laurie Nosbusch (left) battles with a Central Michigan defender Wednesday. Nosbusch scored a goal in the 2-1 loss.

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considered players. He hasn’t cracked top-fi ve consideration yet, but Wilson is listed on ESPN’s watch list.

The rest of the season will be exciting to see how far Wilson can lead the Badgers, but the chances of Wilson bringing another Heisman to Madison are slim.

Despite putting on a show through two games this season worthy of the equivalent of an Emmy, Wilson doesn’t have the history with UW or the background that will carry him through the Heisman process.

He’s been impressive. He’s a dual threat. He’s helped pick up a talented Wisconsin team and give it the one thing they needed: an

experienced quarterback. But his previous work with North Carolina State, while good, wasn’t enough to get him Heisman attention.

Frankly he doesn’t have enough of a history with the voters to stand out as the game’s best player.

The one way for him to claim the trophy: Take UW to the national championship.

I will be the fi rst to admit that I currently don’t even want to consider a return trip to the Rose Bowl, much less a bid at the national championship. Like many a football player — or so they claim in interviews — I just want to take this season one game at a time, focusing on the week’s opponent as they come up.

If the Badgers do

anything to give themselves a chance to play in the title game, they have to win every game in the regular season and win convincingly. This is the point where Wilson can step in and prove he’s worthy of the Heisman talk.

He may have a long way to go to even be in serious consideration for the trophy, but having a player in the mix gives UW that knowing, yes-we’re-taking-you-seriously nod from the rest of college football.

Kelly is a junior majoring in journalism. Think she just jinxed everything by even bringing it up? Let her know at kerickson@badgerherald.com or follow her on Twitter @kellyerickson4.

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Ball is on a roll, too. Dating back to last year ’s Nov. 13 contest against Indiana, the junior running back has scored more touchdowns than all but four Big Ten teams — a total of 18 fit into just six games.

The Northern Illinois defense, meanwhile, is giving up 471.5 yards a game and 35.5 points, and Wisconsin’s offense will look to keep those numbers from slipping.

“I’m not surprised by our production so far,” Wilson said. “I think that our offense is an offense that can do a lot of different things. … We’ve clicked really well, the huddle is great every single day and we just got to keep working.”

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to a talented UC-Irvine squad on the road, a testament to their ability to remain competitive with premiere teams. Though the non-conference schedule has not gone as planned for UW, their first weekend matchup with Drake will show how well the team is able to rebound after a tough stretch of games.

“The team’s disappointed that we’ve lost games that we should’ve won, but I feel like all the guys’ heads are still up. We’re still confident,” sophomore forward Chris Prince said. “We know what we’re capable of, and I think that’s really going to start showing the next two or three games.”

While Wisconsin will be playing on the road in downtown Chicago, they expect to have plenty of Badger fans at the game.

The game this weekend carries even more meaning for Prince, a Naperville, Ill., native who will have friends and family watching him from the stands.

“I can’t wait to play back at home,” Prince said. “It’s pretty much going to feel like a home game for me, even though it’s away.”

UW hopes to contain Twellman, rest of Cougars’ offense

Often struggling this year with Friday-Sunday games, the Badgers will be looking to reverse the trend Sunday when they take on SIU Edwardsville at Flames Field.

Dropping the second game of both of their doubleheader weekend matchups this season, Wisconsin seems to have trouble putting together two strong performances in the same weekend. However, despite their

recent struggles, coaches have been impressed with how the team has bounced back in practice since their second loss of the weekend Sunday to Memphis.

“When you’ve lost three [games in a row], there’s obviously a little element of questioning themselves, but I think they’ve handled it well. I think they came to work this week. … That was our level of expectation,” Trask said.

Much like Drake, SIUE (3-1-1) has started off the season strong but hasn’t faced the same caliber of competition as the Badgers. On the offensive side, the Cougars are led by Jack Twellman, a senior midfi elder/forward who has scored nearly half of SIUE’s nine goals this year.

Led by senior Colin Mani and junior Kyle McCrudden, the

UW defense has at times looked quite intimidating for opponents, but its ability to put in a complete game could be key to limiting Twellman and the rest of the Cougars’ offense.

While things haven’t been going as planned for Wisconsin recently, the team is trying to keep things in perspective and remember that it’s still early in the season. With that in mind, the Badgers are confident they will start putting together complete games and picking up victories.

“We all honestly feel like we can win every game we go into, and we are expecting that,” junior midfielder Tomislav Zadro said. “I think this weekend we’re going to win two wins, and I think we’re on the right track. I think we’ll have a successful season.”

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more dedicated to a team, who is selfless in the way that she plays. Laurie is everything that you look for in a teammate, in a leader, in a captain,” she added.

The Badgers couldn’t be happier with all the opportunities that Nosbusch gives the team to score. Her teammates and coaches openly express the fact that they expect Nosbusch to score, especially in the clutch when they need it most.

The coaching staff knows that it’s because of Nosbusch’s preparation that allows her to get into position for her and the Badgers to score, and head coach Paula Wilkins couldn’t say enough good

things about Nosbusch’s mental strength for the game.

“She is a very detail-oriented. She is a kid who is very focused and very driven, one of the most driven players that I have ever dealt with,” Wilkins said. “I think that right alone sets the tone for training and in games.”

Humbly, Nosbusch directs the attention and success to everybody who has helped her along the way to fulfilling her dream of playing for the school that she has cheered for her entire life.

“[My success] comes from having had really great teams coaches and teammates growing up,” Nosbusch says. “I

was always in situations where you had to work your hardest to get on the field and to try to help your team win. It’s just been kind of instilled in me.”

Prior to the season, the goals Nosbusch set were not for herself, but rather for her team and even looking on this year as her last in a Badger uniform, her expectation of any legacy within the women’s soccer program is equally as modest.

“I want people to say that I played every game as hard as I could, and I represented the university well and that I left the program better than it was when I started,” Nosbusch said.

SSPORTSPORTSSports EditorMike Fiammettasports@badgerherald.com

The Badger Herald | Sports | Friday, September 16, 20118

Badger ‘D’ ready for NIU offense

Second in the nation with a 237.64 passer effi ciency rating, Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson has thrown a mere seven incomplete passes in two games this year. His numbers could continue to improve against a vulnerable Northern Illinois defense.

Megan McCormick The Badger Herald

Chris Prince (left), a key member of the Badgers’ offensive attack, could hold the key to UW picking up a pair of wins against Drake and SIU Edwardsville over the weekend.

Stephanie Moebius The Badger Herald

If only for the day, old friends become new enemies Saturday when No. 7/8 Wisconsin meets Northern Illinois in Chicago’s famed Soldier Field.

Ending his stay as defensive coordinator of the Wisconsin football team following the Rose Bowl, Dave Doeren will now be standing across the field from the Badger coaching staff as the new head coach of Northern Illinois.

With friendships still existing along the Wisconsin staff and players still smiling with the memory of Doeren recruiting them, several members of the team admitted over the past week how nice it will be to see the former coach again — not that the niceties will continue between the opening kickoff and the final whistle, however.

“He recruited me, so it’s going to be nice to see him again,” running back Montee Ball said of Doeren. “But we got a lot to work on, make sure we change up a few things because we know he’s going to attack us in

a couple aspects of the game because he knows us really well.”

Doeren’s knowledge of Wisconsin (2-0) has been a constant point of inquiry for the Badgers all week. Although a few adjustments are expected to be made, Doeren’s successor, Chris Ash, still expects the game’s decision to come from who simply performs better.

“They still have to block us and make throws and make catches, and we’re still going to have to get off blocks and run and tackle them too,” Ash said, who shares the reigns of defensive coordinator with Charlie Partridge. “I think it comes down to more about that than it does about him knowing us or our personnel.”

Thus it should be an intriguing matchup whenever the Northern Illinois (1-1) offense and the Wisconsin defense take the field, not just because of the minds at work.

Against Oregon State one week ago, Wisconsin refi ned the fi ner points of its defense after missing too many tackles in the opener versus Nevada-Las Vegas.

The Badgers stifled the Beavers for 24 rushing yards on 23 attempts and didn’t concede a point in a 35-0 route.

But the Huskies tote a high-rolling offense led by fifth-year senior quarterback Chandler Harnish.

Returning eight starters from a group that led the Mid-American Conference in scoring and total offense a year ago, Northern Illinois has hardly seen a drop-off in production since. NIU’s 45.5 points per game rank 17th nationally, while its 485.5 yards per game fall in at 22nd.

The main engine behind it, Harnish, has already notched 11 touchdowns (seven by air) in just two games while completing 75 percent of his passes and totaling 510 passing yards along the way.

It’s Harnish’s athleticism that has UW safety and co-captain Aaron Henry expecting Saturday’s game to be the most challenging so far this season for the Badger defense.

“Just because of what the quarterback can do,” Henry said of Harnish. “He’s an extremely savvy athlete. He does well, it seems, under pressure,

and he can definitely go out there and win the ball game.”

“I think if we allow him to do the things that he’s been doing these last couple games, we’re going to be in a world of trouble.”

Ash also said it’s been difficult to determine what strategy Northern Illinois will administer on the Wisconsin defense due to Doeren’s arrival and the lack of challenges

that the offense has faced in its fi rst two games.

“There’s still a lot of unknowns about what they do because it’s a new staff,” he said. “They didn’t have to do a whole lot against Army (in a 49-26 win), had to get a different gameplan from game one to game two (a 45-42 loss to Kansas) and we’ll have to wait and see what they do in game three.”

But the Huskies aren’t

the only offense with big numbers heading into Soldier Field. The Badgers’ offense — which will see the return of left guard Travis Frederick from a knee injury — has rolled up 43 points and 448 yards per game, while quarterback Russell Wilson currently holds the nation’s second-best passer effi ciency rating of 237.64.

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UW looks to break losing streakThis weekend could

mark a major turning point for the Wisconsin men’s soccer team, as the Badgers are in the midst of a three-game losing streak that they hope to end against Drake and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

After losses to Virginia, California-Irvine and Memphis after an impressive start to their 2011 campaign, the Badgers start off their weekend doubleheader against the

Drake Bulldogs today. Drake currently sits at 4-1-1, and, according to coaches, strongly resembles the Memphis team Wisconsin fell to Sunday.

Much like the Tigers, the Bulldogs have an attacking offense that will put plenty of shots on goal. Hailing from the Missouri Valley Conference, UW will have to avoid overlooking an opponent that will be hungry to take down a Big Ten squad at Flames Field.

“We’ve been very pleased with many

aspects of the team, but it’s those little moments — maybe you could break it down into seconds or minutes within a game — where we’re still seeming to find a way to give the momentum to the other team,” head coach John Trask said.

Losing each of their last two games by a single goal, including a double overtime loss to UC-Irvine, it’s clear that Wisconsin’s record is not indicative of their level of play. But as the coaches and players point out, momentary lapses and slow starts have already

cost the Badgers several games this year.

Led by two fifth-year senior midfielders in Matt Kuhn and Charles Schwartz, Drake will present another tough test for the Badgers’ defense. Riding a two-game winning streak and putting up 13 goals in six games thus far, the Bulldogs certainly won’t lack confidence when they line up across from the Badgers toght.

Just like UW, the Bulldogs lost by one goal

Ian McCueAssociate Sports Editor

Wilson distant shot at Heisman

Since about mid-June, Badger fans and media alike have been riding the Russell Wilson train and it’s certainly not about to slow down anytime soon.

Through fall camp, it was rare if media sports outlets failed to mention Wilson at least once. Days before the Nevada-Las Vegas game, everyone was a-twitter — and on Twitter — with great expectations for the transfer quarterback. It seemed as if everyone felt the guy was special.

Then he gave an unforgettable performance against the Rebels in the season opener.

Wilson went 10-for-13, passing for 255 yards and two touchdowns. He also ran the ball only two times but managed to rack up a total of 62 yards on the ground on top of another touchdown. His performance alone would have been enough for the win over UNLV.

In the postgame interviews, all anyone wanted to discuss was the dominating show Wilson just gave the nation. Guilty as charged, I personally wrote an analysis on Wilson’s Badger debut.

But as grateful as the rest of the team may be to have an experienced quarterback under center, I wouldn’t be surprised if they got a little tired of answering questions about the Richmond, Va., native after awhile.

Wilson brought exactly what every Badger was hoping for. He was poised, smart, had good vision on the fi eld and looked as if he had been playing with Wisconsin for years.

Against Oregon State, Wilson picked up where he left off, expanding the passing game further and giving the nation a reason to keep watching Wisconsin.

With three touchdowns

and 189 yards, Wilson went 17-of-21 and ran the ball four times for a net total of 11 yards. He took only one sack for a loss of nine yards.

It may be only two weeks into the season, but Wilson has been nearly fl awless so far. And it hasn’t been the just-fi lling-in-a-role-and-getting-the-ball-where-it-needs-to-go — Wilson boasts numbers that rank him among the nation’s best.

With a 237.6 passer rating, Wilson possesses the second best passer rating in the nation, second to Baylor’s Robert Griffi n III’s 250.6 rating. Despite the 13-point difference separating the two, Wilson’s 79.4 completion percentage is stronger than Griffi n’s 77.8, and Wilson’s 444 passing yards beat Griffi n’s 359 by almost a complete football fi eld — it’s only 15 yards short.

It’s not too early to start whispering the H-word is it?

To put this in perspective, the preseason’s expected Heisman winner and 2010 fi nalist, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, is currently No. 20 in the nation with a passer rating of 173.2. Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore, another 2010 fi nalist, is ranked even lower at No. 24 with a 170.1 passer rating.

Heisman expectations don’t bleed into the media until late October. How the season plays out certainly counts, and making a name for yourself early is one way to get on the watch list that may have previously ignored you.

In Sports Illustrated’s college football preview issue, Wilson wasn’t listed among

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Wilson brought exactly what every Badger was hoping for. He was poised, smart, had good vision on the field and looked as if he had been playing with Wisconsin for years.