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University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete campus coverage since 1892 dailycardinal.com Tuesday, November 1, 2011l
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
Freakfest 2011: trend persists, arrests down
By Aarushi AgniThe Daily CarDinal
Last year, Hannah Goodno showed her Conversational English class episodes of “How I Met Your Mother,” “Modern Family” and sketches from “Saturday Night Live.”
Afterward, the group dis-cussed the shows and talked about idiomatic expressions the characters used, among other exercises.
“They’d ask questions about why a certain joke was funny,” Goodno said. “It makes you think about what you consider normal, and what you think is something everyone could just ‘get,’ and you realize it’s more influenced by culture than you ever realized.”
Goodno, a lessons instructor for the Greater
University Tutoring Services’ Conversational English pro-gram, said the experience gave her an opportunity to step out-side her comfort zone.
“You have to think more about your culture in a different way because you’re teaching it to someone else,” Goodno said.
Despite attempts to reach out to students, GUTS’ CE pro-gram faces a chronic shortage of English tutors.
The organization has tried sending mass e-mails to the student body, to people within the GUTS organization and to high-level language students, but all attempts proved inef-fective, according to Yuntong Yan, GUTS’ Conversational English Curriculum Specialist.
The only requirement to become a tutor is to be a native
English speaker.Yan has led the CE pro-
gram, which has trained inter-national students in the cul-tural aspects of conversation in English-speaking culture since 2010.
The international student population has grown steadily in the past five years, explained
Need for English tutors not met
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Curriculum specialist yuntong yan leads a Greater University Tutoring Services’ Conversational english group Monday. yan said the program needs more english tutors.
By Ben SiegelThe Daily CarDinal
Although police reported more arrests from Saturday night’s Freakfest on Monday, bringing the total to 32, statistics only confirmed that Freakfest 2011 was one of the most subdued Madison Halloween in recent memory.
P o l i c e Department Public I n f o r m a t i o n Officer Joel DeSpain said authorities were skeptical that arrest figures would decrease further from 2010’s total of 43, but the number of cita-tions Saturday left officials surprised.
“[The 32 arrests] really, I think, speaks volumes about how this event has really turned around,” said DeSpain.
Before the rebranding of fes-tivities in Madison as the officially-sanctioned Freakfest event in 2006, Halloween celebrations in Madison
were often punctuated by rioting, looting and police using tear gas across State Street—most recently in 2005.
The 2011 event was a far cry from that. The 32 arrests made Saturday night, 25 offenders were cited and released, while 4 were sent to jail. The incident report listed 3 people as being sent to either the hospital or a detoxi-fication center.
Revised cita-tion figures put the total num-ber of Freakfest citations at 46. According to DeSpain, citations can surpass the number of arrests made, as individu-als can be issued more than one citation.
“Our arrests were behavior-based. It really has to do with how people
are conducting themselves on the street,” DeSpain said. “The majority
Student Judiciary: SSFC waiver invalidBy Anna DuffinThe Daily CarDinal
In a mostly symbolic deci-sion, the Student Judiciary ruled Monday a student government committee’s process for student groups to apply for over $250,000 in funding is invalid.
The waiver groups were required to submit sparked con-troversy when the Multicultural Student Coalition turned it in past deadline, making the group ineli-gible for its requested $1.27 million in funding.
SJ Chief Justice Kathryn Fifield said the SJ ruled the waiver inval-id because the Student Services Finance Committee did not imple-ment it properly.
“Because it wasn’t developed over a long enough period of time and groups were only given a week to complete it, it can’t be considered an established process and is therefore a violation of due process,” Fifield said.
But SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart
said the group can not receive funding because the committee ruled it ineligible in October.
“I felt like SSFC pretty much won except for the waiver was invalid,” Neibart said. “However, in my opinion, that really doesn’t affect our process.”
Fifield said the SJ did not take MCSC’s ineligibility into account when making the ruling.
“Because MCSC has been denied eligibility, they’re still ineli-gible. This decision has no effect on that,” Fifield said. “For all prac-tical purposes, the only things that could be considered in this case were things that happened before
The state Senate approved rules Tuesday that allow concealed weapons on the Senate floor but prohibit them from being carried into the gallery during session. individuals with permits will also be allowed to carry concealed weapons into Senate offices unless senators post signs on their doors saying otherwise. The Senate Committee on Senate Organization approved the rules along party lines, with three republicans voting for and two Democrats voting against the rules. The Department of administra-tion announced Oct. 28 that concea-led weapons would be allowed inside state buildings including the Capitol after Gov. Scott Walker said execu-tive offices within the Capitol would permit concealed weapons inside. The state assembly is also in the process of approving their own rules,
which would allow concealed weapons in both the assembly floor and gallery, if approved by the assembly Commit-tee on assembly Organization. DOa Secretary Mike huebsch said concealed weapons would be prohibited in the Supreme Cour-thouse and the Capitol police station within the Capitol because of existing state law.
Senate decides to allow weapons on floor, prohibit in gallery
Concealed weapons will be allowed on the Wisconsin state Senate floor.
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Arrests2009:
52 arrested2010:
44 arrested2011:
32 arrested,
46 citations issued
Attendance2009:
44,000 2010:
35,000 2011:
25,000-30,000
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Sarah NeibartSSFC Chair
“i feel like SSFC pretty much won except the waiver was invalid.”
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hannah Goodnolessons instructor
GUTS Conversational english
“You have to think more about your culture in a dif-ferent way because you’re
teaching it to someone else.”
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D ear Class,Sorry to trouble you all. I know
that getting all these e-mails is, like, getting reaallllly annoying, but I have missed class the last few times. I don’t really have a good excuse, but I could make one up if you would like. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could send me some notes. This will be the last time I ask; I PROMISE! However, I can’t speak for my 298 other inconsiderate classmates who may attempt to waste your time, as I am now.
I know the exam is not for another three weeks, and I will be in class on Thursday, but the only way I can communicate today is through text messaging and com-
puters; so, I am not sure how to ask just one student in person if they would e-mail me their notes.
Would I start by introduc-ing myself, asking how their day was, making a remark about how this class is such bullshit or by trying to bond over shared stories of drunken mishaps? What if they thought I was secretly trying to hit on them under the radar? What if they then might ask me for my notes in return?
Truth be told I don’t actually take notes even when I do go to lec-ture. And usually I have an excuse not to look at them before the exam as well. (Seriously my life is so busy and stressful right now, uuugh you don’t even know.) But I like to have someone else’s notes on file, just in case.
Please understand that I just can’t possibly talk to someone I don’t know in class; however, behind the comfortable semi-ano-nymity of the Internet, I have no problem asking the entire class.
P.S. If you happen to use my e-mail to search for me on Facebook, you will find that I have no pri-vacy setting whatsoever. Feel free to check out my profile and learn about the most intimate details of my life. Sometimes I can be shy, but once you get to know me, I’m really fun!
I love to travel, though the fur-thest away from home I’ve been is Flint, Mich. However, I feel like I traveled around the globe after reading “Eat, Pray, Love.”
You’ll see that one of my inter-ests is meeting new people (at least on the Internet), so if you are still curious and there is anything more you want to know, just ask. :-)
With thanks and some thin-ly veiled sarcasm,
—ElliotTired of these obnoxious
e-mails filling your inbox day in and day out? Then e-mail Elliot at [email protected] and join him in relentlessly bashing them with biting sarcasm.
I require someone’s class notesEllIot IgnasIakignastrodamous
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notes.
Truth be told, I
don’t actually take notes even when I do go to lecture.
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Yan, who describes the problem as a failure to catch up with the growing demand.
“I feel like there’s a miscon-ception about our program,” said Yan. “We are not an [English as a Second Language] program.”
The goal of the program, she said, is not to teach English grammar or sentence structure, but cultural norms of American
society like how to tip, how to order or how to book hotels.
CE offers both one-on-one conversation tutoring and group sessions. The group les-sons are generally team-taught by two volunteers—this is where the need for tutors is greatest, Yan said.
“A lot of international stu-dents find it easier to hang out with other international stu-dents because there is less of a
language and culture barrier,” Yan explained. “We want them to have the chance to get as comfortable as they can.”
She said teaching the les-sons is rewarding for student volunteers, yielding experi-ence, letters of recommenda-tion, friendship and new per-spectives.
“I’m sure a lot of people are interested but just haven’t found us yet,” said Yan.
the hearing three weeks ago.”MCSC members said they
appealed SSFC’s decision to prove the committee was dysfunctional.
Group members said SSFC broke bylaws when it created the
waiver in the summer session by amending the committee’s rules, and said Neibart did not have the authority to unilaterally decide MCSC’s waiver was invalid since the group turned it in late.
The SJ ruled that, while SSFC was not supposed to amend the rules,
the committee did not intentionally break bylaws. Fifield said the ruling will impact future SSFC sessions by making it clear rules cannot be amended in the summer session.
The body also said Neibart did have the authority to deem MCSC’s waiver invalid.
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In a bit of horticultural irony, a landscaping truck wound up driving into the bushes outside of Van Hise Hall early Friday evening . + Photo by Mark Kauzlarich
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SSFC approvesWISPIrG funding of nearly $150,000By david KleinThedailycardiNal
The Student Service Finance Committee approved a budget of nearly $150,000 for the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) Monday.
The committee cut several items from WISPIRG’s budget proposal, including airfare for organized training as well as funding for a WISPIRG fel-low.
The SSFC also voted to lower WISPIRG’s member-ship fees. W I S P I R G initially requested over $60,000 in membership fees from SSFC, but the commit-tee lowered fees by around $8,000.
Last year, SSFC passed a resolution saying only $10,000 could go to member-ship fees, but the commit-tee overturned the ruling Monday. SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said overturning the ruling shows a shift in ideol-ogy between sessions of the committee.
“I think this is significant,” said Chair Sarah Neibart. “This shows a philosophical shift on what this session of SSFC thinks is appropriate to approve.”
Rep. Cale Plamann said he felt the lowered membership
fees were reasonable. “I think we cut out enough
of the fat without hurting them,” said Plamann. “That’s what we’re trying to do.”
Rep. David Vines said while he thinks some overall budget cuts would be appro-priate if they did not restrict WISPIRG’s staff develop-ment.
“If this hurts staff develop-ment, this could really end up being a less cost effective measure,” said Vines.
SSFC members also WISPIRG’s staff needs to be UW-Madison employ-ees. The committee said they would remove $90,000 from WISPIRG’s budget if the group’s professional staff did not sign contracts with UW-Madison by the end of the fall semester.
Currently, some of the group’s professional staff are non-university employees.
Cale PlamannSSFcrepresentative
“I think we cut enough of the fat without hurting them. That’s what we’re
trying to do.”
Redistricting amendment proves divisiveBy Tyler NickersonThedailycardiNal
State Senators debated an amendment to Wisconsin’s new redistricting law Monday that would move up a year the date new district lines would apply to elections.
State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, who authored the amendment, said during a Senate Committee on Transportation and Elections hearing she was con-cerned possible recall elections of odd-numbered state senators held before Nov. 6, 2012 would be con-ducted in old districts, not the new districts that took effect in August.
On Nov. 6, 2012, senators from even-numbered districts will have general elections. But senators from odd-numbered districts will not have general elections until 2014.
Constituents from old district
lines would vote in a recall election of a senator from an odd-numbered district if it is held before Nov. 6, 2012, the date the Government Accountability Board determined new district lines would go into effect for elections.
But State Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said he thinks it is wrong the people who voted in a candidate would not be able to vote out a candidate.
“How is it fair that a municipal-ity can vote in a recall election that didn’t have the opportunity to vote in the general election in the first place?” Erpenbach said. “You are essentially treating these like gen-eral elections, not recall elections.”
State Sen. Spencer Coggs, D-Milwaukee, said new voting lines should not be made official until senators have general elections.
“Just put it back to the way the law has always been in the state of Wisconsin … that we represent the districts we were elected to until there are regular elections,” Coggs said.
But supporters of the amend-ment argued if people are not allowed to recall legislators from the new district lines, many would be stuck with an unwanted senator until general elections in 2014.
“This recall landscape is a whole new world for us,” Lazich said. “If we do [what Coggs suggested] we are disenfranchising those odd numbered districts.”
State Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend argued the amend-ment is a “common sense, automat-ic, technical change that we should whip through the committee and the state Senate.”
of people were arrested for under-age drinking or open intoxicants.”
Along with the number of reported incidents, DeSpain said the kind of the quality of these violations was also indic-ative of Saturday’s relatively
tame festivities. No signifi-cant incidents of battery, sex-ual assault or property damage were reported to authorities.
Frank Productions, the event promotions company contracted to administrate Freakfest, reported the sale of approximately 25,000-30,000
tickets for Saturday, down from 35,000 in 2010 and 44,000 in 2009.
“From a police perspective, that was a success. But the numbers were down, and that probably says something to Frank Productions,” DeSpain said.
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arts
W hen I first heard the Gaslight Anthem’s gorgeous second
album The ’59 Sound way back in 2008, it immediately struck a chord. The lyrics were powerful, fearlessly ham-fisted and cliché-ridden, float-ing on ethereal and soft-spoken working-class punk rock.
Lead singer and guitarist Brian Fallon is the kind of fool-ish romantic trying hard to be a “real man” in a modern America where “real” men mostly work at desks, not on their hot rods or in the auto body shop. That prideful, wounded heart comes through strong in lines like, “For 10 long years I’ve been hustling around / trying to wash the sins and sweat from this brow.”
The album became very spe-cial to me for all sorts of rea-sons. It rewarded my fetish-istic obsession with ‘60s and ‘70s black music, name-drop-ping an overwhelming litany of jazz and soul veterans. It referenced tracks as dissimilar as Otis Redding’s “Mr. Pitiful” and Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town.” It had a blues track named after a hippie cult novel. It shouted “Casablanca”
like Fallon was trying to woo Ingrid Bergman herself.
Mostly, though, it appealed to the part of me that wanted so hard to believe that nice guys didn’t always finish last and that a fatalistic romantic gesture like throwing a kiss-moist stone at a window frame would and could be rewarded.
In “Miles Davis & The Cool,” Fallon delivers. “With a flick of a wrist and a turn of the key / you just fall in my arms.” It’s one of the album’s most beautiful and poignant moments, when rough-necked hero who “never had a good thing” finally hears his sweetheart’s voice, “sway sweet and slow.”
To an immature 18-year-old kid who still believed in true romance, that track sounded like gold. Four years later, it was hardly remembered. Having lost the The ’59 Sound in one of those iTunes library-wiping rituals I used to pull every couple of months, the ide-alistic sentiments found therein seemed pretty unsuited for my late-college lifestyle.
Fueled by alcohol and con-venience, my cynicism had bloomed. As radical feminis-tic riot grrrls had too great an impact on my understanding of power relations, I can’t be so hard on myself as to admit to misogyny.
I certainly, briefly became
an avid and evangelistic anti-romantic. Women were to be respected and fooled around with, but romance? That was kid stuff, a dangerous road best saved for that perfect and per-fectly symmetrical, Nietzsche-quoting hipster chick that God-willing didn’t exist.
Looking through the vinyl stacks at some record store a few weeks ago, I came across a copy of The ’59 Sound and remembered how I had really connected with that album a few years before.
Putting it on later that night,
the album immediately pulled me back into its seductive, old timey biosphere. Although the highly listenable music sucked me in, it was Fallon’s raven haired thieves and temptresses that kept my head spinning on weird frequencies.
I played The ’59 Sound daily for weeks, and before I knew it, I was seeing the world in cool blues. Everything gleamed like some infinitely more inno-cent reshoot of “Sin City.” Even the women on the street looked a little different, and I was getting these aching long-ings like I hardly remembered. Not sexual urges necessarily, because those familiar pangs were never going anywhere. No, these yearnings were the kind that make you read Shakespeare and get you hurt.
Seems to me that each record creates its own kind of moral system, has its own values and revels in its own remark-
able style. Thus, Lady Gaga’s Born This Way makes assump-tions about what constitutes good music and proper human behavior in a very different way than even Lil’ Wayne’s Tha Carter IV would.
I pay more attention than most to the imagined worlds created by sound and words. Coming across a particularly attractive moral universe in a record will almost invariably assure my fandom.
My recent experiences with The ’59 Sound suggest that a record also has the potential to influence the listener’s values in a rather profound manner, but questions remain. What are the implications of the strong mate-rialistic sentiments in modern pop music? Does free jazz have any potential for boosting cre-ativity? Most importantly, when the hell does this crap wear off?
Send all feedback to Alex at [email protected].
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Anthem of a revitalized romanticAlex SerAphinsong of the seraph
Young Man goes from YouTube to the stageBy Jessica SklbaThe daily cardiNal
In case your Halloween week-end was not enough fun for you, grab a ticket for Young Man and Cold War Kids’ show at the Majestic Nov. 1.
Young Man’s Colin Caulfield records and produces all of his own music. He is a multi-instrumentalist singer-song-writer. In other words, he can basically do anything. He is excited to bring his music to the stage and work alongside a band of talented musicians.
Caulfield majored in English, and he attributes a lot of the characteristics of his music to his academic background. He writes songs in a structural way, as if presenting an argument. “I didn’t nail all of my papers, but I feel like I tried something differ-ent every time,” Caulfield said. “The same applies to my music.”
Young Man rode the wave of Internet fame. He gained recognition through YouTube covers of famous bands includ-ing Bon Iver, Beach House and Ariel Pink. When Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox heard Caulfield’s cover of their song “Rainwater Cassette Exchange,” he said it was better than the original and began promoting Young Man to their active online commu-nity, immediately accumulating hoards of fans.
Despite his lack of formal training, Caulfield shies away from calling himself self-taught. “The idea of being ‘self-taught’ is increasingly vague with the
Internet,” Caulfield said. “I can get in-depth vocal lessons for free on YouTube, so to say I learned everything on my own is kind of inauthentic.” Self-taught or not, he holds himself to high stan-dards and draws inspiration from musicians such as John Lennon and The Beatles, Wolfgang Voigt, and Rufus Wainwright.
The production of Young Man’s music is meticulous and time consuming. He layers the vocal harmonies with guitar, key-board and percussions for the eight tracks of his latest album. When he performs live, he works with a band, and he is excited to expand his musical abilities.
Young Man released an EP in 2010 entitled Boy, and his first full-length album Ideas of a Distance was released this September. Caulfield put a lot of effort into this album. “Trying to pick a favorite track is like trying to pick a favorite child,” Caulfield said. “I’m just so proud of all of them.”
Fresh from a tour with Grouplove, Young Man is excited to kick off their tour with Cold War Kids in Madison. Caulfield’s musical history with Madison consists of playing a house party a cou-ple years ago, so playing along-side the well-known Cold War Kids is a major step up. “It’s just a totally different vibe,” Caulfield said. “It’s really pro-fessional. It’s much more of a production. I’ve heard great things about the guys from Cold War Kids, so it will be a good experience.”
Coming across a particu-larly attractive moral universe in a record
will almost invariably assure my fandom.
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Letter: Students must lead recall effortsSteve HughesThe YouNg Progressives
It started with students. On a cold winter morning,
February 12, 2011—the day after Governor Scott Walker intro-duced his now-infamous “bud-get repair” bill—students gath-ered outside Memorial Union. It was a ragtag and hastily assembled bunch of Teacher Assistants’ Association,
The Young Progressives and College Democrats, but the crowd of about 80 students lis-tened intently as the groups explained how important immediate action was. Then, on Monday—Valentine’s Day—over 1,500 students descend-ed on Walker’s office in the Capitol Building to deliver wheelbarrows full of cards protesting the proposed cuts
to the University of Wisconsin. Thus began the protests that would soon grow to 70,000, 100,000, and, finally, 150,000 people filling Capitol Square.
Today, over eight months later, we stand on the verge of finally being able to remove Scott Walker from office. Two weeks from today, volunteers across the state will begin col-lecting signatures to recall the
governor. Grassroots activ-ist groups and individuals throughout all of Wisconsin—including on UW’s campus— will have sixty days to collect a minimum of 540,206 signa-tures, though they aim to col-lect over 700,000. “We’ve done the math ... and Wisconsin can’t afford any more days with Scott Walker as governor,” said Mike Tate, Democratic Party
of Wisconsin Chair. Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold has also lent his voice to the recall movement, saying “Scott Walker has attacked the rights of Wisconsin workers, passed an undemocratic voter ID bill, and done the bidding of the Koch brothers and his deep-pocketed corporate backers at every turn.”
And UW students have the opportunity to be the van-guard of the recall effort. In the intervening months between the protests and today, Walker has cut over $300 million from Wisconsin’s universities, and halved the technical school budget—the largest cuts to the UW system in the history of the state. However, on campus, students and organizers have only 33 days to collect signa-tures before students leave for finals and winter break. This makes it especially important that students not only sign, but also volunteer to help reach out to their classmates in this shortened period.
Students need to make their voices heard. “The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines,” said the late pop-ulist U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone.
On Saturday, November 19, working people from across the state will gather on the Capitol Square. Students, led by The Young Progressives, will gather on Library Mall at 11:00 a.m. before marching to the Capitol to add our voices in opposition to Scott Walker.
Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. UW students have a vested interest in the removal of this governor from office, and we have only a short time to make our pres-ence felt. Join us on November 19, and talk to your friends and neighbors about why it’s so important to be involved. Just remember: The movement started with that group of stu-dents on February 12.
It can end with students, too.Steve Hughes is president of
The Young Progressives. Please send all feedback to [email protected].
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ACROSS 1 Hannibal crossed
them 5 Pauley Pavilion
school 9 Howling scavenger 14 “In ___ of flowers ...” 15 Coward of England 16 Casaba, e.g. 17 Apparel 18 Certain
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stretch 31 Arrest, in slang 32 Circle segments 36 RN’s specialty 37 California prison
city 40 “Don’t make me
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52 Maugham’s “Cakes and ___”
53 Leg bones 56 “And the earth ___
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sneezeguard 67 Pear-shaped
instrument 68 Golden parachute
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person 3 Possibly 4 Undersea prowler,
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By Ryan EvansThe Daily CarDinal
According to head coach Mike Eaves, if you had told him at the beginning of the season that his young Wisconsin men’s hockey team (3-3 WCHA, 4-4 overall) would be .500 at the end of the sea-son’s first month, he would have taken it, and that is exactly where the Badgers find themselves after their first four weekends of play.
At the start of this year not many would have predicted Wisconsin would be sitting where it is at this point, but this young team has done its best to prove its doubters wrong and finds itself in fourth place in the WCHA after one month of play.
As Eaves pointed out, people shouldn’t have been so quick to judge this year’s Wisconsin
team because young groups are unknowns and therefore hard to predict.
“I really think that with a young team it’s hard to put an expectation on a team,” Eaves said. “It’s better to have an open mind, don’t limit them and don’t put low parameters on them.”
“As we go along we’ll see how they grow and maybe for the second half of the season, once we have a better feel, we can set better parameters.”
But, Eaves is the first to point out that, despite the Badgers’ promising start, this young group still has plenty it can improve on, specifically mentioning the team’s penalty kill, which allowed four power-play goals to Nebraska-Omaha in Wisconsin’s 5-4 loss to
the Mavericks this past Friday.“We talked about [the penalty
kill] again this morning,” Eaves said. “We looked to the reasons as to why I think we’re in a bit of a funk. We’re trying a lot of different people […] it’s an area that we know we have to get better. We’re doing some things. We just need to shore it up a little bit.”
For the first time this season, Wisconsin was faced with main-taining leads this past weekend. Against Nebraska-Omaha, the Badgers built two 3-0 leads. In the first game they couldn’t hold it and lost, and while they won Saturday, they allowed the Mavericks to creep back into the game. Holding leads is a new mindset for a Wisconsin team that has usually found itself having to come back
in most games this year, and Eaves said it’s something the team can’t learn by simply practicing.
“It’s really an emotional thing,” Eaves said of the ability to hold leads. “It’s about playing with poise and confidence and understanding what the situation in the game is and how to execute in that. So a little bit in practice helps, but it ultimately comes down to games.”
One thing Eaves and his coaching staff have been impressed by the past couple of weekends has been the Badgers’ scoring outburst. There were ques-tions about the Badgers’ offensive ability after they managed just eight goals through their first four games, but in the four games since—in games against WCHA rivals North Dakota and Nebraska-Omaha no less—Wisconsin’s offense has broken out, lighting the lamp 20 times.
Maybe more impressive than the goal-scoring numbers them-selves is the fact that 13 different players have scored the 20 goals Wisconsin has tallied in its past four contests. After losing three of their top five scorers from last sea-son the Badgers knew they would have to find new sources of offense, and Eaves said that is had been encouraging to see that come to fru-
ition the past couple of weekends.“We said at the beginning as a
projection that we’d have to have scoring by committee because we didn’t have anything really proven coming back to a high degree and
we found some nice things, Eaves said.”
So we’re seeing things we really like and things we can build on.”
One player leading the Badgers’ goal scor-ing charge has been sophomore forward Tyler Barnes. He is cur-rently riding a seven-game point streak, and in the past four games he has tallied two goals and three assists. But, Eaves is still looking for consis-tency from Barnes.
“If we can get Tyler Barnes to play Saturday like he does Friday we’ll have something special,” Eaves said. “He still hasn’t gone to that next level of consistency, so we’re going to continue to push. We pointed that out.”
“Tyler has aspirations of play-ing at the next level,” Eaves added, “and one of the definitions of play-ing at the next level, and one of the definitions of being a professional athlete is the fact that you’re con-sistent day in and day out, and that’s something Tyler is aware of, and we’re going to continue to push him to get there.”
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Tyler Barnes has a seven-game point streak, but Mike eaves says he is looking for consistency from the sophomore forward.
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Coming into the showdown against Ohio State, the No. 19 Wisconsin football team (2-2 Big Ten, 6-2 overall) was poised to make a statement and redeem itself after a devastating loss at Michigan State. Yet, in spite of the Badgers late rally, the nightmare from MSU returned when Buckeyes fresh-man quarterback Braxton Miller connected on a 40-yard touch-down to freshman wide receiver Devin Smith to nullify Wisconsin’s incredible comeback and give the Buckeyes a 33-29 victory.
While clearly disappoint-ed about lost opportunities that might have prevented the defeat, head coach Bret Bielema stressed about taking account-ability and moving forward.
“[We are] within a play or two arguably of winning each game, and it doesn’t take a rocket sci-entist to figure out 8-0 sounds a lot better than 6-2,” Bielema said. “We kind of always talked about in our program being accountable for what we saw. Bottom line is we lost two games, and you have to own it and embrace it.”
The Badgers will go back to the drawing board and work out some of the issues that have plagued them in the past two weeks, particularly on the defensive side of the ball.
Even with the strong play of junior linebacker Mike Taylor, who recorded 22 tackles, the Badgers’ defense was unable to stymie the Buckeyes’ running game and sur-rendered over 250 rushing yards.
“We let the quarterback outside the pocket, and obviously the com-munication and busted coverage is unacceptable and its something we definitely have to correct,” Bielema said.“I would say most of our issues that have popped up have become two things: either a wrong alignment or assignment or lack of communication.”
Senior quarterback Russell Wilson talked about the minor adjustments that the Badgers need to address.
“We are doing a good job of converting when we need to and making plays when we need to, but there’s that little thing we are missing,” Wilson said. “A block, a throw, whatever it is we have to
capitalize on that.”The Badgers will need to take
care of their business as they face Purdue in a pivotal divisional matchup as both teams are tied 2-2 in the Leaders Division. Wisconsin has won the last five games against Purdue but struggled last year as it was down 10-6 at halftime and had to fight back in the second half to secure the 34-14 victory.
“Purdue returns more play-ers than any other team in our league, and you can see where they play very well in stretches, Bielema said. “They have speed. Defensive line wise they have big guys inside that are going to be a difficult task for us. Their athetltic at the linebacker spot so it will be a tough contest.”
The Badger defense will also be tested as it faces Purdue’s spread offense, which utilizes the wildcat formation to throw off defenses.
“Out of all those spread teams, they have someone who impersonates the quarterback,” Bielema said. “Purdue ran a reverse when the quarterback was lined up as a receiver and threw it downfield, so we have to make sure our bases are covered and everyone is high aware.”
Wilson relishes the opportunity for the team to make a statement against Purdue and show this team
is still capable of winning games.“The main things is looking at
it as another opportunity,” Wilson said. “If you love the game of foot-ball, every opportunity is a blessing and every opportunity is a chance to excel on the football field.”
The poise and perseverance Wilson exudes is a trait he attri-butes to his father, who taught him never to stop battling on the field
until the clock ran out.“My dad taught me about pre-
serving,” Wilson said. “No matter what is going on in your life, no matter what is the situation dur-ing the game, you just have to keep pushing and keep working.”
“We lost a couple games on heartaches that will last for a life-time, but in the end it makes all of us stronger,” Bielema said.
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“We lost a couple games on heartaches that will last a lifetime, but in the end it makes all of us stronger.”