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SSFC votes against changes to bylawsBy Megan StoebigThe Daily CarDinal

The Student Services Finance Committee voted against changing its bylaws Monday after a contentious dis-cussion of the role of student hourly positions.

The proposed changes included significant alterations to SSFC’s financial code, as well as the elimination of student hourly positions from student organizations. Additionally, the General Student Services Fund, which currently sup-plies money allocated to reg-istered student organizations that provide direct services to students by meeting SSFC eligibility criteria, would have also been eliminated.

The legislation failed by a 6-7 vote, with most representatives citing the lack of student hourly wages as their reason to vote down the proposal, according

to SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker.“There was not a majority of

the committee that felt comfort-able removing the opportunity for segregated fees for student hourlies and student organiza-tions,” Bruecker said.

During the committee’s open forum multiple student organizations, including repre-sentatives from Sex Out Loud and F.H. King, spoke about the effects eliminating these hourly positions would have on their respective groups.

Bruecker said she understood why many students were upset, as their jobs were in jeopardy.

“It’s difficult because I can justify paying student hour-lies for a service but I can-not justify paying a student to be in a student organization,” Bruecker said.

SSFC Rep. Kyle Quagliana said the importance of student salaries determined his vote

against the budget. “I do agree with a lot of what

[the sponsors] have done, but I am too attached to student wages to delete them from the legislation,” Quagliana said.

Four members of the com-mittee recessed to draft a rolling fund that would have capped student hourlies at $400,000, but the proposed amendment did not pass.

Bruecker said the rolling fund amendment created a “miniature version of the cur-rent model” rather than creat-ing a new model, which was the original intent.

Though the legislation failed, Bruecker said it started a conversation about some of the issues with the GSSF. However, she said she will be continue to advocate for a new financial code that will address some of the waste in student organiza-tion funding.

Tuesday voting to take place at various locations around campus

Polling places for the bien-nial aldermanic elections Tuesday will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m., and are located in several buildings on and around campus, including some university facilities.

Voters can cast ballots for the alder representing their city district as well as for either incumbent state Supreme Court justice Pat Roggensack or her opponent Ed Fallone. The race between incumbent state superintendent Tony

Evers and Don Pridemore is also on the ballot.

Two of the four aldermanic elections in student populated areas are contested, while the other two are uncontested races involving incumbent councilmen.

The election for the Langdon neighborhood area District 2 Common Council seat is between Ledell Zellers, who has served on multiple city committees, and University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 graduate Bryan Post.

The District 13 alder race,

which is comprised of off-campus housing south of Regent Street, is between incumbent alder Sue Ellingson, who is running for her second two-year term, and Edgewood College sophomore Zach Madden.

Downtown Ald. MIke Verveer, District 4, has been on Council for 18 years and is running unop-posed, as is Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, who is running for his second term.

Residents can register to vote at the polls the day of the election.

Donation to fund lounge addition to Union Theater

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will hear a pro-posal to increase the Memorial Union Reinvestment budget at its April meeting following a $2 million donation.

The donation, which came from an anonymous donor, would fund the addition of the Sunset Lounge to Phase I of the construction on Memorial Union. The plans for the lounge were included in the origi-nal budget but were dropped due to insufficient funding.

The lounge was originally designed as a lakefront addition to the Union Theater, but a slight majority of students voted against

the design on a 2011 referendum. The design committee decided to adjust the plans to accommodate student concerns.

The lounge was originally placed in the budget as an “add alternate,” which meant if extra funding was made available, the lounge would be built.

The donation covers the entire cost of the lounge, mean-ing student segregated fees and tax dollars will not be used to fund the project.

If the board approves the budget adjustment, the plans will then go to the State Building Commission for final approval.

Legislative Affairs leaders hope to pass student-focused leasing policies

Multiple student leaders are encouraging the approval of a Tenant Bill of Rights, a set of student-friendly leasing poli-cies for campus-area tenants and landlords.

ASM Legislative Affairs Committee Intern Ryan Prestil outlined voluntary provisions Monday for the document which would ask landlords to enforce stricter requirements upon them-selves compared to current city ordinances, including rules about maintenance, cleaning and dis-crimination, as well as notice periods for showing apartments to future tenants.

Associated Students of

Madison Student Council will vote on the plan at a meeting April 3.

If the legislation is passed, ASM will promote the landlords

Everyone’s a criticOn CAMpUS

Students discussed and displayed their artwork at the 85th annual Student Art Show at Memorial Union. The exhibition will run through April 9. + Photo by Taylor Galaszewski

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“[The bill of rights] is try-ing to promote coopera-

tion, not tell you how to do your job.”

GRAphiC By dyLAn MORiARTy

above: Campus polling locationsright: Madison ward map

Check out the Arts Calendar to see a preview of upcoming musical events around Madison this month

+ARTS, pages 4 & 5

Letters:Candidate ledell Zellers and District 2 alder Bridget Maniaci give their opinions on today’s election

+OpiniOn, page 6

By Haley HenschelBird ABroAd

B REAKING NEWS: I’ve been living in Australia for over a month and

haven’t been bitten, poisoned, disembowelled, strangled or digested by anything!

Yet.Just kidding. Studying

abroad in Brisbane, Australia, with a 10-day trip to Fiji before-hand, has been an absolute dream. As I’m sure you’ve heard, there are some furry, funky and frightening crea-tures you can encounter here in the land down under. First, you’ve got the cute ones you want to smuggle back to the U.S.: fuzzy kangaroos, sassy kookaburras, sleepy koalas, quokkas (look it up, you will die of cuteness overload) and the odd but endearing platy-pus. Then, you’ve got the crit-ters that will make you want to hide in your room all day: enor-mous 16-foot saltwater croco-diles, spiders that eat birds for breakfast, sharks (which hap-pen to live in the river flow-ing around Brisbane), dingos that’ll eat your baby, venomous snakes, stingrays, box jellyfish, etc., etc., etc. I could go on for pages and pages about every-thing here that could kill you if it got the chance.

And it doesn’t matter how innocent they appear to be—the dainty, blue-ringed octopus, a teeny little guy about the size of a golf ball who spends most of his time hanging out under pretty shells, will give you a painless sting that will paralyze you within 10 minutes, disable your respira-tory system and ulti-mately kill you in under 20. Oh, and there’s no antivenom. Lovely little feller.

A n y w a y — t h a t wasn’t meant to scare you away! Australia is amaz-ing! Along with the multitude of critters I’ve encountered here, the people I’ve come across on my travels so far are just as fascinat-ing. Here’s the low-down on sev-eral different types of human beings you’ll find when you study abroad on the other side of the world:

The Guy With the Crazy

Backstory (Farfetchedis

accountum)You’ll find the wild

Farfetchedis accoun-tum interacting with people like a normal human being, mind-ing his own busi-

ness out in the open—exactly where you won’t expect him. He hides among common folk, unbeknownst to the rest of the population, until you both have a beer together and he starts telling you his bizarre life story. The particular specimen that I encountered, a 19-year-old blond, blue-eyed German fellow, claimed to have been found by his parents on the streets of Bangkok as an infant. His dream job is to write and publish erotic novels. In addi-tion, thanks to a cousin in the music industry, this specimen claims he was in the record-ing studio when Kanye West and Justin Vernon (of the band Bon Iver) recorded the hit song “Monster.” So, it’s best to take Farfetchedis accountum’s sto-ries with a grain of salt.

The Girl Who’s on a Mission to Find Herself

(Soulsearcherus travellus)Maybe she thought her life

back home was too monotonous or maybe she’s read

“Eat, Pray, Love” one too many times. Whatever the reason is, Soulsearcherus travellus doesn’t really know where she’s going. Most of this specimen’s journey depends on impulse, big dreams and a sizeable bank account. Part of you is extremely jealous of Soulsearcherus travellus, but then you remember how travel-ling requires lots of money and you’re kind of a poor college stu-dent. Maybe someday.

The Uni Student Who Dresses Up for Class Every day (Secretlyae modelus)… also known as everyone

Whether Secretlyae mod-elus is going to uni (univer-sity), work or is just out for a stroll, it’s nails done, hair done, everything did. Everyone looks fantastic, with the corridors serving as their catwalk. The most revolting specimen is the one who accidentally forgot to match their sunglasses to the rest of their outfit. Even those at the fitness center on campus

look good in their flat-

tering, brightly colored work-out gear. You can always tell who’s a foreign student because they’ll be the ones dressed in athletic shorts and a T-shirt with a backpack instead of a nice large purse/shoulder bag. It’s just not fair.

The Person Who Hates Your Home

Country No Matter What You Say or Do

(Ignorantus jackassus)It’s very rare that you will

encounter this beast, but with any rabid animal, the trick is to ignore it, stay as far away from it as possible and don’t take anything that comes out of its mouth personally. It’s their loss. Also, DO NOT PROVOKE IT, and especially don’t bring up either world war, as you will look like the biggest moron on Earth, and it will probably start foaming at the mouth.

The Professor Who Thinks You’re Fluent in Australian Slang

(Whatthehellis that-wordus)

You enroll in a course about the marine environment of Australia (check). You think you’ll learn about coral, dolphins and sea turtles (accurate). It’ll be the coolest class ever (precisely). It’s the perfect time to take it, seeing that you’re probably going to be in Australia only once in

your entire life (valid). You innocently sign up to go on a field trip with your

class to an island to study marine life (wick-ed awesome). Then,

you receive the packing list for that trip from a feral Whatthehellis thatworda and you

have no clue what a tog, cozzie, arvo, singlet,

dunny budgie or sanger is. Is she really asking you to wear a thong to the beach?

Crikey, is this even the same language?!

For an easy solution, ask your Australian

roommates to deci-pher these words

for you (and risk a bit of light-hearted mockery) or make

UrbanDictionary.com your best friend.

As you can hope-fully tell, not all

Australian wildlife is out to get you (knock on

wood). But just in case, I don’t plan on wrestling crocodiles anytime soon.

Has reading this column spiked an interest in arvos, cozzies and sassy kooka-

burras? Share your thoughts with Haley at henschel2@wisc.

edu. Look for more columns from birds abroad throughout the semester!

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Man suffers knife wound after intervening in dispute

A man was wounded early Saturday morning after inter-vening in a possible domestic dispute on the 700 block of University Avenue and arrived at a local hospital shortly after, according to a police report.

The unidentified victim was walking when he saw a man and woman arguing, Madison Police Department spokesper-son Joel DeSpain reported.

According to the report, the victim stepped between the couple to prevent the argument from escalating when a second

man, who appeared to be with the couple, pulled out a knife.

The suspect, a 6-foot-5 black male wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, “slashed” the knife at the victim, which resulted in a small cut near his eye that did not require stitch-es, DeSpain said in the report.

The victim arrived at a local hospital at approximate-ly 4 a.m. Saturday, according to the police report. The sus-pect has not yet been identi-fied and is wanted for a weap-ons violation.

UW system leaders ask for state support of Walker’s budgetUniversity of Wisconsin

System leaders sent a let-ter to the Wisconsin State Legislature Monday asking leg-islators to support funding for Wisconsin’s universities as set out in Gov. Scott Walker’s bien-

nial budget proposal.Under Walker’s budget, UW

System schools would receive $181 million in new state investments, such as funding for economic and workforce development proj-ects, as well as the new UW Flex Degree option.

The letter urges legislators to support Walker’s proposal, saying it will accelerate economic growth in the state while also resulting in the lowest tuition increases in the past decade.

UW System President Kevin Reilly, UW System Board of Regents President Brent Smith, and UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward were among the administrators who signed the letter, in addition to other leaders from UW System schools.

The Joint Finance Committee is currently holding budget hear-ings and can make adjustments to Walker’s proposed budget before it is sent to both houses of the state legislature for final approval.

College-aged woman robbed on N. Bassett st. during breakA college-aged woman was

robbed March 26 on the 10 block of North Bassett Street, according to a police report.

The report said the 19-year-old woman was walking and texting with her iPhone at approximately 7:20 p.m. when two men walking toward the woman passed her on

the sidewalk.As the men passed her, one

of them pushed her from behind while simultaneously grabbing her phone, according to the report.

The two men then fled the scene on foot with the iPhone, according to the report.

The woman described the sus-

pect as an African-American male between 5-foot-9 and 5-foot-10 and approximately 160 pounds, according to the report. The report added he was wearing a dark gray “beanie type hat” and blue jeans at the time of the robbery.

Police have not identified the suspect.

who add the policies to their leases by sending out campus-wide emails listing approved companies and allowing them to use ASM’s stamp of approval on their advertisements.

“The bigger landlords have the capacity to promote them-selves really well around cam-pus,” Prestil said. “But for small-er landlords, they might not have the resources to send out a cam-pus-wide email so we could do that for them and say ‘landlord XYZ has signed onto this.’”

Prestil also said he anticipates hesitation from landlords who may see the Tenant Bill of Rights as a way for ASM to tell them how to run their business.

Even so, Prestil said, “[The bill of rights] is trying to promote cooperation, not tell you how to do your job.”

If ASM supports the legisla-tion, Prestil plans to spend the rest of spring semester finding landlords to agree to the policies and summer working “around whatever red tape they need to do for that.”

—Mara Jezior

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asM diversity Committee outlines upcoming projects

Members of the Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee discussed an upcoming campus climate survey and project to address tuition equity for undoc-umented students Monday.

Diversity Committee Intern Jessica Behling spoke about her semester project, a survey asking students about their experience

with the University of Wisconsin-Madison diversity climate.

According to Behling, the survey explores a variety of topics, includ-ing race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious preferences and instances of discrimination and harassment.

Behling said she wanted to pur-sue the survey because the univer-sity has never attempted a campus-wide survey to discover campus climate problems.

She added the survey will be sent to students and professors directly by Diversity Committee members. Diversity Committee Chair Mia Akers said the survey is impor-tant because climate affects student interactions throughout campus.

“I think it’s important for stu-dents because it’s our climate, it’s our culture, and we want to shape

it to be the best we can,” Akers said.Akers said she believes students

will take time to engage with the survey because campus climate is part of daily life at the university.

Diversity Committee Intern Ricardo Mora also spoke about his project to explore the stories of undocumented students at the uni-versity, who currently pay full out of state tuition.

Mora said he eventually wants to pursue in state tuition for these undocumented students by solicit-ing the support of faculty, student organizations and shared gover-nance bodies.

Akers said she is “proud” her committee is addressing citizenship status because it is a diversity issue that is commonly overlooked.

—Cheyenne Langkamp

rescheduled ‘UW Colleges day’ to take place at state capitol thursday

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW-Extension will host UW Colleges Day at the state capitol Thursday after the previously scheduled date was canceled due to bad weather.

UW Colleges Day will pres-ent UW-Madison research to Wisconsin legislators and the public since people outside the university typically do not get the chance to see its research, according to a university release.

During the event, numerous

UW-Madison faculty and staff, UW-Extension employees and UW Colleges educators will present their research at dem-onstrations and hands-on dis-plays, which will allow visitors to interact with the research, according to the release.

The event will feature research ranging from cheese and sausage making to space science at more than 30 different displays.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the rotunda at the state capitol.

Mia akerschair

diverstitycommittee

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and we want to shape it to be the best we can.”

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Letter: Vote Ledell Zellers for District 2

LeDeLL ZeLLersletter to the editor

H i, I am Ledell Zellers and I’m running for the office of alder for District 2 on the

City Council. This District includes most of the Langdon Street area between W. Gorham and the lake from Wisconsin Avenue to Francis Street. I have been endorsed by three alders of districts which abut District 2, including Mike Verveer, Marsha Rummel and Satya Rhodes Conway as well as by the county representative whose district covers the majority of District 2.

Important issues to residents of the Langdon area which are affect-ed by City actions include safety, housing quality/affordability and maintaining the unique look, feel and character of the Langdon area.

I care deeply about this area of the city. It really is the epicenter of Greek, co-op and student life. It has a beautiful and quirky atmosphere, especially characterized by the size of the buildings and noteworthy

architecture of the co-ops, sorority and fraternity chapter houses and other distinguished rental build-ings. Damaging the low skylines, the views and the ambiance that residents having enjoyed and cast-ing the traditionally scaled build-ings in shadow destroys much of what makes the Langdon area special. As you know, the recent approval of plans to demolish three buildings on Henry Street/Iota Court has increased the concern about the future of this neighbor-hood by many living in the Langdon neighborhood as well as by those who recognize what a jewel this area is. While the city plan calls for preserving historic buildings and maintaining the scale of new buildings in the Langdon area, the recently approved Waterfront development does neither. I share the concerns which have been expressed by many in the Langdon community and will continue to push for developers to follow the carefully thought out community plans that are intended to guide

development in this area. I sup-port the Langdon area residents in their drive to help save the char-acter of this special place by mak-ing it a local historic district. They now have over 1,200 signatures on their petition: https://www.change.org /petitions/city-of-madison-prevent-high-rise-apartments-in-the-langdon-neighborhood.

Safety is clearly a crucial element in our day to day lives. Providing adequate lighting in campus neigh-borhoods for pedestrians can enhance safety. I will continue the efforts I’ve made as a neighborhood activist to get pedestrian scale light-ing (as opposed to “street lights”) installed on blocks that do not have adequate lighting. In addition we need to maintain strong relation-ships with the community policing team to address safety issues imme-diately when they arise. Police, property owners and residents need to work cooperatively when buildings become a staging area for criminal activity. I will work with the University to continue the safe

walk program and will explore means to potentially reinstate the safe ride program.

Changes imposed at the state level have had a serious nega-tive impact on residents who live in rental housing. The city must continue to enhance its property inspection program to encour-age appropriate maintenance of rental properties. Recently the City Housing Committee was disbanded and replaced by a Landlord Tenant Issues Committee and a Housing Strategy Committee. Getting these committees up and functioning needs to be a priority. The Strategy Committee will play an impor-tant role in guiding an increase in affordable housing within the city. Simply building more large high-density residential buildings does not ensure affordable housing. Per real estate economist Donovan Rypkema, “You can’t build new and rent cheap.”

Since 2001, I’ve lived just a block off Langdon Street on North Carroll Street. For over a decade,

I’ve been active in the Capitol neighborhood—serving as neigh-borhood association president for three years, an active member of the City of Madison’s Downtown Coordinating Committee for nearly 10 years (currently committee chair), and volunteering as a member of the Zoning Code Rewrite Advisory Committee for four years. In 2006, I won a Madison Trust for Historic Preservation award for leading the effort to save the Women’s Building, now Samba Brazilian Grill.

This is an area that matters. The people matter. The diversity of housing options, including afford-able options, matters. The charm and beauty of where we live mat-ters. You deserve a voice in actions the city takes, we deserve a voice.

The election is Tuesday April 2. I ask for your support and your vote. Your vote matters. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Langdon area votes at the Lowell Center at 610 Langdon St.

Please send all feedback to opin-ion@dailycardinal.com.

Letter: Vote Bryan Post for District 2 alder in today’s electionBriDget Maniaciletter to the editor

T oday you have the chance to elect Bryan Post, a young, smart, progres-

sive UW alum to the Madison City Council. After four years of serving as the District 2 Alder, I can also emphatically say that by voting for Bryan, you have the chance to vote against backwards, small-minded ideas and a candidate that continu-ally has taken positions against renters, students and creating a balanced and vibrant downtown.

Bryan Post understands better than Ledell Zellers what it means to make the campus community and downtown Madison great. Over four years, I have seen Ledell Zellers take hardline positions on issues of housing, alcohol policy and the nighttime economy. Ledell was president of Capitol Neighborhoods Inc. in 2008 when CNI pushed a draco-nian downtown policy commit-tee that advocated for the City to spend extra police resources on bar raids and house-party patrols. They also advocated for mandating ID scanners at bars and creating a beer tax.

Members of the greek com-munity and State-Langdon neighborhood repeatedly felt helpless and railroaded under Ledell’s leadership as CNI President. They seceeded from CNI and created their own neighborhood association.

Many months I find myself at the Mansion Hill Neighborhood Association meetings, and it’s the same club of 6-8 people that come every month. I have no confidence that if elected, Ledell will pursue any agenda outside of her own interests, which in the last 10 years is basically limited to historic preservation efforts and anti-alcohol efforts. Spending money on bar and party raids takes away limited police resources and does noth-ing to create safer neighbor-hoods at night.

Bryan has been endorsed by

the Affordable Housing Action Alliance because as a rent-er, he understands the issues students face in finding well-priced housing and the many rental terms tenants face. Mayor Soglin disbanded the Housing Committee last year and Bryan has championed reinstating this vital committee.

Because of the housing shortag-es in the city, many students are reli-ant on public transit. Next spring ASM and UW-Madison will be negotiating the SafeRide bus con-tracts. Bryan has made a commit-ment to fight to restore the service cuts that UW made.

Who will help student orga-nizations or fraternities pull a street-use permit? Or fight for the Mifflin Street Block Party? After refusing to get involved in other years, Zellers and CNI eventually got involved with Mifflin in 2011 when the Majestic Theatre needed a non-profit to hold the beer licence. Mifflin went out of control that year because you had event organiz-ers who didn’t understand the community, and Zellers was right in the middle of it. Because CNI did so poorly organizing, the entire future of Mifflin is threatened with extinction.

I would like to send someone to City Hall that’s going to succeed and be an effective advocate for District 2. Zellers is not new to City Hall, and over the last 10 years, she has burned significant bridges with major decision-makers that this district needs to succeed.

Having served the campus community for the last four years, I can confidently say the differences between the two can-didates couldn’t be more clear.

Bryan has earned the endorse-ments of Fair Wisconsin, UW’s College Democrats, former Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, State Senator Fred Risser and a number of labor unions. He’s the only candidate unions are supporting. Bryan’s also earned the endorsement of Downtown Madison Inc. because he supports having thriving

neighborhoods with shops, bars and restaurants that support a growing city, not shutting the city down at midnight.

Bryan has continually impressed me with his intelligence, pragmatic

nature and positive attitude. He’ll support students and I couldn’t ask for a more competent, exciting can-didate to take over District 2. Give him the opportunity.

The election is today. Your

vote counts. Vote Bryan Post for City Council.

Bridget is a UW-Madison alum and current District 2 alder. Please send feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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The Badger softball team (5-1 Big Ten, 24-7 overall) began con-ference play this past week, tak-ing on Big Ten opponents Illinois (1-5, 11-7) and Iowa (1-5, 20-13) in two separate away tournaments. Wisconsin was scheduled to play two same-day games at home against Northwestern (16-13, 2-3) March 27, but both were postponed due to poor weather conditions.

In Champaign, the Badgers broke out the brooms for a three-game sweep in their tournament against Illinois, winning each game by at least three runs, and never allowing more than two runs a game.

Wisconsin dominated the first game of the series on both sides of the ball in an 8-1 win. Senior first baseman Shannel Blackshear led the Badgers with two runs, while six separate players scored the rest of the runs in a concerted team effort. Junior pitcher Cassandra Darrah allowed only three hits and one run through seven innings

The second game against

Illinois played out similarly, with Wisconsin winning 5-1. Illinois scored immediately in the first inning, marking only the ninth time all season the Badgers had to play while behind. Senior pitcher Meghan McIntosh was able to lock down the opposing offense for the rest of the game, recording only three hits and no walks.

Junior infielder Michelle Mueller led the Badgers on offense, knocking in three RBIs in

the third and fifth innings. Senior infielder Whitney Massey also scored an insurance home run in the seventh inning.

Darrah once again took to the mound for the last game against Illinois and delivered another dom-inating performance, allowing only four hits and two walks in a 5-2 win. The Badgers went scoreless through four innings after Illinois scored a run in the second inning, until Blackshear blasted a two-

run homer in the fifth. In the sixth inning Wisconsin turned on the heat, scoring three more runs, one of them a career first for freshman third baseman Stefanni LaJeunesse.

Darrah and McIntosh had a combined 0.67 ERA for the series. Darrah once again earned Big Ten Player of the Week for her efforts. This marks the second time she has won the honor this season, putting the total for the Badgers at six all year, more than any other

Big Ten school so far. The first game of the series

against Iowa went nine innings, with the Badgers losing in a close 2-1 game, their first loss in 13 games and Darrah’s first loss in seven games. Six different Badgers were able to connect with the ball, but only LaJeunesse scored, hitting a home run in the fifth.

The second game was differ-ent story, as McIntosh dominated by allowing only two hits, striking out six and walking one in an 8-0 game. Wisconsin blew the game wide open in the fifth by scoring five runs, all of them on two outs. LaJeunesse again led the Badgers on offense, scoring three RBIs.

Wisconsin took the series in the third game, winning 3-0. Darrah earned her sixth shutout of the sea-son with her 16th win, while junior outfielder Mary Massei went 2-for-2 with two RBIs.

The Badgers will head to Minneapolis next weekend to take on Minnesota, and then open up the season at home against Northern Iowa April 10.

W ith the calendar final-ly turning the page into April, NFL fans

everywhere know that the draft is fast approaching, and if there is an overabundance of one thing on the Internet, it is certainly prog-nosticators telling us which player will go where and why they will succeed or flop in the pros.

Many so-called “scouting reports” use the same lazy compari-sons for players, as if picking a piece of magnetic poetry off a refrigerator and using that term until it no lon-ger has meaning. But when do these reports go from simply being lazy, to becoming unquestionably racist?

Anyone who read Nolan Nawrocki’s scouting report on West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith in Pro Football Weekly this week surely saw where that line was crossed.

Nawrocki said Smith is, “Not a student of the game. Nonchalant field presence — does not com-mand respect from teammates and cannot inspire. Mild prac-tice demeanor — no urgency. Not committed or focused — marginal work ethic. Interviewed poorly at the Combine and did not show an understanding of concepts on the white board.”

These criticisms seem to contra-dict what several other scouts and college football writers have said about Smith in the past. CBS Sports writer Bruce Feldman—one of the most respected men in sports jour-nalism—wrote a tweet in response to Nawrocki, which completely contradicted him.

“Not guaranteeing Geno Smith will be a great NFL QB but was around him a lot in college to know he very much IS a student of the game.”

What is more troubling is

Nawrocki’s comparisons he makes to previous quarterbacks. While he calls Smith a “cross between Akili Smith and Aaron Brooks”—two black quarter-backs—he compares USC quar-terback Matt Barkley (who is white) to Drew Brees and Colt McCoy—two white quarterbacks.

Are quarterbacks of one race or another more likely to have similar qualities to other quar-terbacks of the same race? Sure. But it has become a disturbing trend to compare all young black quarterbacks to Michael Vick or Donovan McNabb.

This is also not Nawrocki’s first go-around with a scouting report that has had a twang of racism. In 2011, Auburn quarter-back Cam Newton—who had a tumultuous college career to say the least—received an equally inappropriate report.

Nawrocki spent much of the report deriding Newton’s past—writing in detail about felony charges that were levied against him (even though the charges were dropped) and an alleged “six-figure payment” he received to play at Auburn—before making erroneous claims about his character.

“Very disingenuous — has a fake smile, comes off as very scripted and has a selfish, me-first makeup. Always knows where the cam-eras are and plays to them. Has an enormous ego with a sense of entitlement that continually invites trouble and makes him believe he is above the law.”

Nawrocki came under fire after this report was published, and rightfully so. I can under-stand if he did not like Newton personally, but to go so far as call his personality “fake” and say that he regularly invites trouble on himself is ludicrous.

By the way, since he was draft-ed No. 1 overall by the Carolina Panthers, Newton has excelled in the league, winning rookie of the year honors and becoming a team

leader, while avoiding any off-the-field issues.

I cannot say for certain wheth-er or not Nawrocki’s words were intentionally racist or if he was actually calling it as he saw it, but there has been a clear pattern in recent years to lump prospects into racial stereotypes that are only skin deep.

Why can’t Geno Smith be compared to a white quarter-back? He is a traditional pocket passer who, while possessing good speed, relies mostly on his arm and pocket presence to make plays. Doesn’t that sound like Drew Brees or Andrew Luck or almost every other white quarterback?

Why is every black pocket passer the next Warren Moon or Randall Cunningham while a white quarterback with an identical skill set is compared to Tom Brady or Peyton Manning?

It’s about time writers and scouts stop making these lazy comparisons and actually look further than a person’s skin color.

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Softball

Badgers stay hot against illinois, iowa

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the Badgers went 5-1 in the three-game series with illinois and iowa over spring break.

NFL scouting reports relying too much on race as a factor

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