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INDIANAPOLIS—Moments after Montee Ball hoisted the Grange-Griffin trophy, presented to the Big Ten Football Championship Game’s most valuable player, he tried to hand it off the stage to Melvin Gordon.

According to Ball, he was told the redshirt freshman and junior James White were not allowed to join him on the stage.

For the first time all night, somebody had stopped the trio of running backs from exacting their collective will.

Gordon (9 carries, 216 yards, TD) led the team in rushing yards, White (15, 119, 4 TDs) visited the end zone most frequently, and Ball (21, 202, 3 TDs) became the Football Bowl Subdivision’s all-time leader in rushing touchdowns en route to a 70-31 demolition of No. 12 Nebraska at Lucas Oil Stadium. The win gives Wisconsin (8-5 overall) its third-straight berth in the Rose Bowl.

“Those guys compete on a daily basis,” Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said of his talented backfield. “Montee’s great. James

is great, and Melvin’s getting the hang of things.”

Getting the hang of things, apparently, includes averaging 24 yards per carry on the biggest stage of the Kenosha, Wis., native’s young career.

Gordon set the tone on the fourth play of the game when he took a jet sweep and beat a defend-er to the edge to find himself in open space. Then, he made pursu-ing senior safety P.J. Smith fall to the ground with another move and was off to the races, 56 yards down the left sideline. Excellent down-field blocking by redshirt junior wide receiver Jared Abbrederis—another theme that would hold through the night—ensured the Badgers took a 7-0 lead.

“Football is all momentum,” Gordon said. “Me doing that defi-nitely gave us the momentum and we just didn’t let it go.”

At times this year, Wisconsin’s offense has stagnated after fast starts. Saturday, a combination of creative play calling and explo-sive plays ensured that would not be a problem.

In UW’s losses to Ohio State

and Penn State the last two weeks, the offense combined for four “explosive plays,” defined in the Wisconsin media guide as plays resulting in 20 or more yards. In the title game alone, the Badgers racked up nine. Seven of those came on running plays, and another was a 22-yard completion to White.

All three running backs had touchdown runs of over 55 yards, with Ball (57) and White (68) turning in slightly longer runs in the third quarter than Gordon did in the first.

Wisconsin rolled up 640 yards of offense on 60 snaps, a whopping 10.7 yards per play. The team’s 539 rushing yards is the most allowed in Nebraska program history. All three backs were able to regular-ly beat Cornhuskers defenders to the edge early in the game, creat-ing more space between the tack-les, where the Badgers struggled in the two teams’ first meeting in September. Even when the ball did not go outside, putting Gordon in motion kept the defense honest.

“I definitely knew, as soon as I hit a couple of big ones, I told the coaches, ‘James and Montee, it’s

so open for them. It’s in the clear … The jet’s there, but feed these guys the ball because the holes are open,’” he said.

With the running game estab-lished early, offensive coordinator Matt Canada kept the offense hum-ming by reaching into all corners of the playbook.

All three of Wisconsin’s second-quarter touchdowns came from the “Barge” formation, which features White taking a direct snap. He ran the first in, handed the second to Ball and—for the first time since installing the package early in the season—threw for the third, a three-yard pass to sophomore tight end Sam Arneson just before the half.

The Badgers also used a new look, called ‘Zebra,’ according to redshirt senior quarterback Curt Phillips. Seven players lined up left of the ball, with Arneson snapping to Phillips. Phillips then rolled right and hit Arneson, an eligible receiver due to the align-ment—for 10 yards.

“We had some trouble with it this week,” redshirt junior center Travis Frederick said. “It’s not often the offensive line is not on the ball

like that. We had to check with the ref to make sure we weren’t on the ball and everything. It was kind of a good feeling, you feel like a wide receiver a little bit.”

Phillips got his turn feel-ing like a receiver as well when he caught a 27-yard pass from redshirt junior wideout Jared Abbrederis early in the second quarter on a throwback. In total, the Badgers had three different players complete a pass.

By halftime, the Badgers led 42-10 and had all but salted away a third-straight Big Ten title. There were several new wrinkles from the UW offense, but the prodi-gious output still started and ended simply—domination in the running game.

“It’s awesome,” Phillips said. “It doesn’t really matter who’s playing quarterback at that point. It’s just fun to be a part of. A lot of times I get in trouble for not carrying out my fakes because I’m turned around being a cheerleader and just watch-ing them go.”

He has a month to improve before the Badgers face Stanford in the Rose Bowl.

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H ere comes December—a month that (I think unanimously) evokes

memories and emotions about one thing in particular: the holidays.

This is not going to be an arti-cle that sucks up to the holiday season, so I’m sorry to all those who get ’nog-buzzed daydream-ing about snow angels and sug-arplums. No, there won’t be any lords a-leaping either. It’s actually going to be the opposite.

Now, before preemptive-ly striking Yukon Cornelius’ pick-ax into my apparently-icy heart, hear me out. I’m not a Scrooge, I swear; I love the idea of Christmas, or any holiday in the spirit of celebration, really. (For simplicity’s sake, I’m only going to say Christmas from now on. I know technically it isn’t politically correct or what-ever but I’m apologizing for it in advance, so deal.)

Christmas, like most holidays for which we’re given time off of school, should be about recon-necting with family and loved ones. It isn’t easy being openly cliché with people, so spare me the judgment, but I think it’s about time to take some of the commercialism out of Christmas.

This won’t happen anytime soon. It’s just a bit sad that even the things we convince ourselves to be altruistic, or even holy, ulti-mately revolve around making money. Can anyone else envi-

sion a troll-logic equation that explains Christmas’ step-by-step equivalence to evil?

I wanted to run an article about Thanksgiving last week, but it went down in flames. This little attempt at holiday writing redemption is sort of like microwaving that practi-cally reanimated turkey one last time—bittersweet.

Okay that was gross and unnecessary. But I think there’s actually something important to say here, so don’t abandon me yet.

Usually when I think of inno-cence, I look back to my child-hood. Oh, the days of (relative-ly more potent) ignorance and bliss, when all was good in the hood because the ’rents said so. I remember what Christmas meant to me as a kid: presents! My favor-ite person at Christmas time was Santa Claus, and for some reason, Rudolph was my beloved rein-deer. I guess time changes a man, because now I think it’s pretty twisted that we manipulate the unspoiled hopes and dreams of little boys and girls all across the U.S. of A. via a fat man with a beard, airborne quadrupeds and a sack of toys.

You think that I’m complete-ly off my rocker. There’s noth-ing wrong with a little “White Christmas” lie, right?

Actually, you’re probably wondering why I’m choosing to be so aggressively cynical about Christmas a full three weeks in advance. Well, since the unofficial kickoff to Christmas time—Black Friday—was over a week ago, it seemed appropriate enough.

We have entered the season

of 24/7 Christmas music, gaudy home light displays, black ice and watching where the hus-kies go (don’t you eat that yel-low snow). And while I’m not a huge fan of any of the aforemen-tioned, they aren’t the root of my Christmas qualms. I’m upset with the Xmas attitude.

For some reason a lot of peo-ple think the Christmas spirit is defined by giving gifts to friends and family. Listen, you aren’t a saint for buying your boyfriend an Android. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

I hate to bring up memes twice in such a short column, but why don’t we take all this

misguided holiday cheer and put it towards something actually constructive? Yeah sure, it’s cool getting someone a gift they really enjoy, but if they can just pick it up anytime at Best Buy, the magic dissipates a bit.

So here’s my proposal for all of you: This Christmakwanzukkah, don’t buy your parents, siblings or whoever something frivolous that they’re never going to use. Let’s collectively resist the urge to compile more tchotchkes and give to people who are actually in need.

Think Christmas is actually a time for cheer? Send responses to holsteen@wisc.edu.

The Dirty Bird sex and the student bodyTo persevere or to part: Long-distance lovin’

D ear Alex,I have been in a long-

distance relationship for two years. I’m having concerns about regret; am I wasting time with her or is it worth it if I end up staying together?

Thanks.

Unfortunately, it’s not in my jurisdiction to make up your mind for you. However, I can give you some tools to help you figure out what’s right for you:

First of all, I want you to imag-ine yourself in five years. On the one hand, you decided to stick it out with your girlfriend and are now reunited. You see her often and love every minute you’re with her. However, will you be think-ing of missed opportunities or the chance to experiment with oth-ers? Will the woman you’re see-ing still be your dream girl, or did you spend time on her that you could have spent searching for your soulmate?

On the other hand, you and your significant other decided to break up. You dated and screwed around for a few years and really took advantage of your college experience and met other part-ners who made you feel happy. You may be dating someone now, and it may even be serious. But do you find yourself thinking about your ex from time-to-time? Is she happy with someone else? Would you be happier with her?

These are some of the ques-tions you need to ask yourself before you come to any conclu-sions. You’ll have to incorpo-rate other options, as well. For example, what if you stuck it out with her throughout college but it doesn’t work out later in life. Will you think that your “golden years” were wasted?

The above questions focus on your specific relationship and what its outcomes may be. Now comes the question of the benefits of hooking up versus being in a long-term relationship, and the possible detriments of each.

It is my belief that everyone needs to experience both one-night stands and commitment at least a few times before mak-ing life-altering decisions about a relationship. It would be unfair

to settle down without getting to know what you may like and finding what different people bring out in you sexually. You can learn to love things you never knew about!

However, many people don’t enjoy hooking up. They can-not stand the lack of emotions enforced by such an act and feel badly about it afterward. Unfortunately, one of the few ways to figure out whether or not it’s for you is by trying it and sub-sequently realizing and explor-ing your aversion. Once again, you have to project regret; if you don’t engage in a few hookups over your college career, will you always wish you had? You may feel this way even if you and your now-girlfriend end up together. That kind of distress can lead to conflict, even resentment, later on in relationships and should be taken into account.

Long-term commitments at our age are difficult to main-tain and sometimes don’t facili-tate as much personal growth as being single might. College is about “me-time,” getting to know yourself on a personal level, and understanding what you want out of life. Working these things out with a partner can help the

two of you become a very strong couple, but without a substantial knowledge base of yourself, you may feel like something is missing from your life, if perhaps not your relationship. This, once again, may be back to haunt you (and possibly your partner) later in life.

In my opinion, unless you are absolutely sure that she is the per-son you would like to spend the rest of your life with, it might be time to take a break from being in a relationship with her. I obvi-ously urge you to talk with her about your thoughts, feelings and doubts pertaining to your rela-tionship. However, I also believe you should go into a conversation like that with strong resolve if (and only if) you already know what you want.

Ending a relationship like this can be daunting and pain-ful. Keep in mind that it’s not the end of the world; this person can still be in your life. If the relation-ship is meant to work out, it will at some point. You may run into her years from now and rekindle that spark, or you both may move on and find absolute happiness. Discovering where you will land is life’s greatest adventure.

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Dating for a causeon campus

The african students association hosted a “Date auction” in Ingrahm Hall Friday night where dates with students were put up for bid to raise money for st. Rita’s, a school for children with disabilities in cameroon. + Photo by Shoaib Altaf

student Rose Bowl tickets not sold out

As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares for another visit to Pasadena, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking a little more caution in planning what can be an expensive trip to California.

Tickets to last year’s Rose Bowl sold out within 15 minutes of becoming available to student season ticket holders. The year before it took 20 minutes until the only place a student could find a ticket was from someone who had bought it at the original face value.

But this year, as of press time

Sunday, tickets were still avail-able on uwbadgers.com. Even so, others were already available above face value on sites such as Craigslist and Stubhub.

To UW-Madison students such as sophomore Seth Parker, the cost of travel and tickets as well as a less excit-ing season make buying tick-ets to the Rose Bowl this year less appealing.

“Last year was such an excit-ing season because we were just so good…but this year it’s just kind of like they’re in it because so many other teams can’t be in it,” Parker said.

Police say sexual assault likely motive in Johnson Street battery against UW student

Madison detectives said sexual assault was most likely the motive in an attack against a University of Wisconsin-Madison female student on East Johnson Street Nov. 24.

The 21-year-old student was walking home at 2:47 a.m. on the 100 block of East Johnson Street when the suspect attacked her, beating her in the face and head, according to Madison Police Department Lt. Sherrie Strand.

An off-duty Madison fire-fighter saw the attack and “came to her rescue,” Strand said in a statement. The suspect ran away after the firefighter punched him in the face.

The victim sustained several cuts to the back of her head and received multiple staple stitches, according to police.

The firefighter’s quick actions “saved the victim from addi-tional harm,” Madison Police

Department Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

DeSpain also said Nov. 26 he is recommending the firefighter for an award within the police department for his actions.

According to the police report, the suspect is a blonde, white male in his late 20s to early 30s who stands approxi-mately 5 feet 11 inches tall. Police released a sketch of the suspect Friday.

DnR closes third wolf hunting zoneThe Wisconsin Department

of Natural Resources closed its third of six wolf-hunting zones around the state Sunday, con-tinuing the trend toward an early end to the inaugural wolf-hunting season.

The DNR closed Zone 1, which encompasses the far northeastern portion of the state, after the 32nd wolf was killed in the area Saturday. According to a DNR statement, the official announcement was delayed a day because DNR pol-icy mandates hunting areas be closed 24 hours after the last allowed wolf is harvested.

The hunting season, which opened Oct. 15, was original-ly set to run until Feb. 28, but with three of six zones already closed, there is spec-ulation the hunt will end sooner than expected.

Half the designated hunt-ing zones remain open, but the number of wolves killed in the remaining areas is nearing pre-

scribed quota levels. Zones 5 and 6 cover the lower two-thirds of the state and are both within two wolves of closing.

The DNR set its original quo-tas based on known wolf popu-lations in each of the six areas, according to its website. The agency hoped to reduce the state wolf population by 116 wolves Kurt Thiede, the DNR Lands Division administrator, said in a statement.

Thiede said the wolf hunt and the prescribed harvest level is a learning process the agency hopes to use to better control the wolf population in future years.

“This is Wisconsin’s inaugu-ral season,” Thiede said. “We are learning much about hunter and trapper success rates that will help us draft permanent rules that continue to move the wolf population down toward levels in line with social carry-ing capacity.”

—Jack Casey

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panel to focus on consequences of a nuclear Iran for u.s.Three University of Wisconsin-

Madison political science profes-sors will discuss the implications for the United States of Iran pos-sessing a nuclear weapon at an event Tuesday evening.

Discussion at the panel, hosted by the Madison-Israel Public Affairs Committee, will focus on the consequences a nuclear Iran would have for the United States, including

potential economic and foreign policy consequences.

MadPAC president Natanya Russek said the Iranian threat is important yet underrated by many students.

“[The panel] is a really great opportunity to open students’ eyes to the different opinions that exist on a threat that’s very real to all of us as Americans,” Russek said.

During the panel, profes-

sor Andrew Kydd will discuss international security, profes-sor Nadav Shelef will discuss Middle Eastern politics, and professor Jon Pevehouse will discuss political economics.

“Facing a Weapon: What Americans Must Know about the Dangers of a Nuclear Iran” will take place Dec. 4 at 6:30 p.m. in room 159 of the Education Building.

survey seeks vendor input on madison public marketThe city of Madison will release

a survey Monday to gather input from farmers, small business own-ers and entrepreneurs interested in selling goods in a public market that could be located just outside downtown Madison.

Through this survey, Mayor Paul Soglin and the City of Madison Local Food Committee want to identify vendors who would be interested in being involved in planning the Madison Public Market, accord-ing to a press release.

Soglin said it is “critical” to start conversations with ven-dors now, since “the interest customers will have for a Market

will largely be determined by the produce and products that ven-dors are able to provide.”

The vendor survey is avail-able online through Jan. 15.

While the public market is in its introductory planning phase, the Local Food Committee outlined several characteristics an indoor, year-round market in Madison would embody including provid-ing locally produced merchandise and being open six or seven days a week, according to the statement.

Additionally, committee members would want the mar-ket to offer a combination of pro-duce, in addition to processed and prepared foods.

The committee does not envi-sion the market being located downtown but at a site on a major transportation route within five miles of downtown Madison, according to the statement.

Members of the Local Food Committee also want the mar-ket to be accessible and afford-able for Madison residents in a range of income levels, accord-ing to the statement.

Soglin, Madison Local Food Committee members and city staff will host a press conference Monday at 1 p.m. to continue dis-cussing a future public market in Madison and details on the survey.

—Abby Becker

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‘Garlic Ballads’ leaves stomach upsetBy Jessica KorneffTheDailyCarDinal

You can love it or hate it, but there’s no denying that garlic has one of the most distinct tastes you’ll ever palate. Whether it’s roasted or sprinkled raw on a salad, even the tiniest hint of garlic leaves a lasting taste and smell. For the characters in Mo Yan’s “The Garlic Ballads,” the soul of their quaint Chinese town is driven by the government-ordained garlic plantations that rule not only their economy, but also their social standings.

Garlic has a way of permeat-ing itself into every event, and its smell is infused into peasant farmers’ lives as they struggle against an oppressive government and their own social constraints.

Yan tells the story through a series of time lapses, flash-ing back and forth between all the steps that lead to the pres-ent moment. Two basic threads weave throughout, connect-ing the wisps of memories that essentially make up “The Garlic Ballads.”

The first thread involves Gao Ma, a heartbroken man whose

love for an unattainable girl causes the two of them to live in misery. The second is the story of Gao Yang, a weak peasant farmer with a pitiful past that has the unfortunate tendency to keep repeating itself.

Both men live in poverty, either ignored or ruthlessly tortured by public officials who force them to plant garlic and then carelessly let them suffer when selling the crop becomes impossible. Both are also in trouble with the police, charged for rioting and storming Communist official headquarters in an act of desperation. Gao Ma, with his failed attempts to stand up for what he believes in, rep-resents the stalwart and faithful citizen whose life shatters around him once society turns its back. Gao Yang is the picture of the helpless peasant farmer, absolute-ly crushed each day of his life by the heavy hand of an unflinching government. Overall, it’s a story of disillusionment—with govern-ment, with family and with long-standing social structures which once made so much sense, but in the end are completely baffling.

“The Garlic Ballads” sat on my dresser for a good week before I finally decided to reach for it. For whatever reason, I was intimidated. After reading the first few pages, it was pretty clear that this wouldn’t be a light read. The story starts off at a fast pace, with clear-cut good char-acters and shockingly evil antag-onists. These antagonists are usually the police officers—who torture Gao Yang mercilessly—

or the Fang family, who brutally attack Gao Ma when he declares his love for their daughter.

In his attempt to portray the miserable peasant farmer soci-ety, Mo Yan describes scenes of torture and abuse in excruciating detail. While it definitely gets the point across, these scenes also shock and disgust the reader to the point of nausea. There were times when I had to set the book down because it became almost unbearable to go on. As the lives of each character become increas-ingly destitute, these vivid scenes of abuse keep repeating to the point where the book seems to stop moving forward. “The Garlic Ballads” is definitely not a story for an impatient reader, or one with a weak stomach.

Despite the graphic nature of some of these scenes, the book is very well-written in a unique, poet-ic prose. The story is told in a mys-tical, almost dream-like tone and touches on many important issues. For a college-aged reader from Wisconsin, it gives a glimpse of a life unlike anything we’ve experi-enced here. Besides an oppressive government, “The Garlic Ballads” also touches on issues like cour-age, and what it means to live in a society where the only two options are either to be oppressed, or to be the oppressor.

In all, “The Garlic Ballads” is a bleak tale where the hopeless-ness of the characters’ lives is as unshakeable as the stench of the garlic that surrounds them each day.

Grade: BC

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Samy ‘Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’’... 40 years too late

S amy from five weeks ago would not recognize Samy today. My life has

been forever changed, quite suddenly, by Michael Jackson.

It’s been going on for 39 days. I didn’t change my Spotify. I bought three MJ cds at the Exclusive Company (on sale!). I watched “Michael Jackson: The Real Michael Jackson” twice. I’d recommend it. I tried mimicking the “Thriller” dance in my kitch-en when no roommates were home. The cats were frightened.

This isn’t a new phenom-enon. In 2005 it was the Titanic (not the movie, the ship). In the summer of 2007 it was the Brewers. I watched every game.

And I justify this one by brushing it off. I’m 40 years late, so I have to make up for it now.

But why so late? Why did it take me this long? Why am I chasing the last Michael Jackson bandwagon that left the station years ago?

It was chance. On the Thursday of Halloween week-end, a dear friend and I par-took in a weekly ritual, so to speak. After said ritual, we began watching “Most Popular Hits of Decade 2000-2009” on YouTube, showcasing what topped the charts in chrono-logical order. Lah lah lah. Blah blah blah. And then. BAM. 2009. Michael Jackson. Dead at 50. Cue the “Thriller-Beat It-Billie Jean” montage.

And then I said, “Let’s watch all 13 minutes and 40 seconds of Thriller.” This eventually led to a poorly-done documentary about him on Netflix into the wee-hours of the morning.

That moment I realized it— this man, who was ridiculed for the better part of my life, was so much more: a legend, the best performer of all time! And I was ignorant of it all! I obviously can’t do him justice in this column.

Regardless, I’m worried I’ve started annoying my friends, mother and passers-by with

my insatiable need to talk about him 24/7. So I’ll annoy you instead. I’ve learned some snippets about his childhood I’d like to share. Disregard the delayed reaction time.

1) The Jackson’s two-bed-room home in Gary, Ind. was on Jackson Street. Fancy that.

2) I can recite the Jackson sib-lings in descending birth order: Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Latoya, Marlon, Michael, Randy, Janet. And don’t forget Brandon, Marlon’s twin who died shortly after birth.

3) Randy Jackson and Randy Jackson of American Idol fame are two different people.

Here’s what I really learned.

Michael meant so much to so many. His success made him an easy target. He was too trusting of a doctor who recommended more surgery, of a family who accused him of child molestation. He made mistakes, and that made him more human. His death was considered homicide, but it wasn’t the one doctor that killed him. It was everyone who used him in his later years for the sake of spectacle.

Whether his life was trium-phant or tragic, I can’t say.

But oh, how I wish I could’ve watched from the beginning of his career that started so young and ended too soon. If I were 25 in 1985 I would’ve jumped his bones. If I were 10 in 1990 I would’ve been his lil’ bud at Neverland Ranch. (With Macaulay of course.) But I’m 20, it’s 2012 and he’s dead. So last resort? Fill my life with his soul, day and night. Here’s how you can do the same:

1) For a swing in your step on your walk to class, listen to “Forever Came Today” from

Moving Violation. Over and over. 2) Instead of looking at pic-

tures of cats on the Internet, find MJ photos circa 1968.

3) If you need a good cry, shut your door and play “Who’s Lovin’ You” and “Ben” on rotation.

4) Putting on some pounds due to lack of movement from sugges-tions two and three? Four words: “Thriller” dance in kitchen.

5) In a dry spell? Watch “The Way you Make Me Feel” video, and pretend you are the girl. That tip goes for all sexes and orientations.

6) If your ego is getting too big, think about Michael for a few minutes and realize you will never be as awesome as him. But he would’ve been awe-some to you, had he the chance. Perhaps that was what made him most special.

Even if I lose touch with all my friends, I’ll still have one through six. Don’t stop ‘til you get enough, right?

Disagree with Samy’s choice of favorite musician? Send her an email and tell her to “Beat It” at moskol@wisc.edu.

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A lot of blame gets thrown around when discuss-ing mental illnesses,

especially depression. Depression is one of the haziest of chemical imbalances, and the line between clinical depression and just hav-ing a series of off-days is a fine one. Who bears the guilt for despon-dence? To what must we attri-bute our despair? Who is respon-sible for depression? Ourselves, the chronically depressed? Our friends and families? Surely no one is directly responsible for our anguish. Depression is no one person’s fault, because depression is a result of our modern lifestyles.

We’re lonesome because we’re alienated and cut off from oth-ers. We’re hopeless because it’s impossible to attain one’s hopes

without self-discipline and per-sonal responsibility, but both are undermined by our context of instant gratification. We’re con-sumed by the ducks of anxiety, nipping at our heels and stepping on our toes, because we were simply not built for the sorts of stress we have claimed as our modern inheritance.

I was diagnosed with depres-sion in tenth grade, but I don’t identify as depressed because I don’t view my chemical reali-ties as something that’s wrong with me, as a symptom of my mental illness, as my problem. I view it as one manifestation of society’s much larger, deep-er problems. Therefore, I don’t treat it with therapy. I don’t treat it with pills. I treat it by striving to purge the worst of internal-ized societal power structures from my being. I do it by try-ing to develop meaningful, deep relationships within a context of Facebook and hook-ups. I do it by expressing myself and by helping people. It is definitely true that directing mental cre-ative energy outward by focus-ing that bright lens on oth-ers, instead of employing it in self-scrutiny and navel-gazing, works wonders. Our culture encourages self-centeredness in a heightened, panicked pitch; it is a blinding, desperate wail that sounds just like the whimper

you make at night when you’re torn between your sheets and your blankets, your instincts and your programming.

Some cultures avoid the rabid self-centeredness that character-izes us. The Hutterites, an iso-lated religious group which has existed for 400 years, have crafted their society so differently than ours that our societal problems of divorce, insanity and even depres-sion are next to unknown in their communities. Their long-standing religious customs establish a soci-ety that emphasizes the communal over the individual, but through these practices the Hutterites are able to avoid conflict and mental unrest to a great degree.

In modern society, where the individual comes to the fore, we get caught in a festering cycle of guilt and self-reproach, inter-nalizing our problems instead of externalizing and working through them. When you look at the loneliness, hopelessness and gloom that characterize depres-sion, you can’t separate the symp-toms from their brain chemis-try. And when you examine that brain chemistry, it’s easy to see it not as some awful disorder but as a specific kind of neurobiological symptom of a much larger, soci-etal disease.

This is how I view and frame my own struggle with depres-sion. Usually people end this

sort of discussion with that kind of qualification, with an acknowledgement that every-one’s struggle and experience is personal. And it is. I’m only one mind.

But I won’t end it there. It would be disingenuous to end it there, because it’s not what I believe and because this is an opinion column. You, reader, could probably be diagnosed with depression if you wanted, if you haven’t yet, because alien-ation is in the air we breathe. It’s in anonymous faces. It’s in the relentless demand for our money over the things that make us individuals of intrinsic worth. It’s in the indifference to suffering and obscene short-sightedness of our institutions we’re forced to witness and adopt every day just to get to the grocery store. Depression is a thing that touch-es all of us, that has its hooks in all of us. And fighting it means working every day to define our-selves not in opposition to our own minds, our own brains, but instead in opposition to those pieces of society that remove us from ourselves, that damage and traumatize us.

Noah is a sophomore major-ing in history of science and community and nonprofit lead-ership. Please send all letters and feedback to opinion@dai-lycardinal.com.

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S ince Nov. 2011, the Madison Police Department has been working with the

Community Against Violence Team as part of its focused deterrence program, which is meant to offer support to violent repeat offenders while making it clear their violence and law-breaking will not be toler-ated. It includes close monitoring of the convicts once they are released from prison and harsh punishment for future infractions.

Support offered for the repeat offenders comes from several com-munity groups and includes access to education as well as assistance with housing and job searches; these are necessary skills for escaping the cycle of crime these people are caught in.

A little over one year later, the program has seen mixed results, but each case has proven the importance of the policy to public safety in Madison.

Take Damien Smith for exam-ple, a 22-year-old man with con-firmed involvement in the drug

trade and suspected involvement in several Madison shootings. At the very first Notification Call-In Meeting for the focused deterrence program late last year, Smith allegedly came bearing an open bullet wound, denied the resources offered him and returned almost immediately to selling heroin and crack cocaine.

Just days ago, Smith was convicted and sen-tenced to an additional 12 years in prison for his crimes. Because of the program’s prom-ise of stiffer penalties, he will likely not get parole, keeping him off the streets and making it impossible for him to cause any more harm to Madison citizens.

While one might argue Smith is proof of the program’s failure, he actually proves its success. The police followed through, exacting punishment in accordance with the policy and keeping a criminal off the streets in a more effective manner than before. Several simi-lar cases, like Emon Hollins, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison after his probation was revoked,

and Eric Alston, who is now spending 12 years in prison, reaf-firm the police department’s stance

that infractions will not be tolerated. The crimes committed by these men are serious and are finally being treated that way.

Though many cases have resulted in impris-onment, there is a dis-tinct possibility, as the program is solidified, that repeat offenders will become successful, edu-cated, productive mem-bers of society if they take advantage of the resources offered them, particularly education. Lack of education is con-sistently cited as a major contributing factor to the likelihood of a person’s

involvement in crimes. If more repeat offenders take advantage of the education resources presented as part of the program, there will almost certainly be a shift from imprisonment to employment.

Even with the high rates of re-imprisonment, the Madison Police Department is heavily supported in their efforts. David Kennedy, the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John

Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, sang the program’s praises in October at the Monona Terrace. He told law enforcement officials, “What you have done is extraordinary.” Kennedy said the program was not only working, but it should also be applied to other targeted groups, such as drunk drivers and street robbers. Perhaps if we take his advice, Madison will see a successful drop in a variety of types of crimes, improving the city’s safety as a whole.

This is clearly a successful program, and an important one to continue. Even in cases where

past offenders offend again, the public can be sure they won’t be freed as quickly as they might have been before police imple-mented focused deterrence. In the future, hopefully the number of repeat offenders reached by the program will increase—only 30 violent repeat offenders have been contacted to date—and the number utilizing the education, job search and housing opportu-nities will also rise, leading to a safer environment for Madison’s students and families.

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‘Focused deterrence’ has positive impactKate Krebsopinioncolumnist

Depression is a product of modern culture

38.2percent of released inmates in Wis. who are incarcerated again within 3 years

30violent repeat offenders in the focused deterrence program

noahphillipsopinioncolumnist

by britt MoesASM DiverSity CoMMittee viCe ChAir

The Shared Governance Committee for Campus Diversity and Climate Committee (CDCC) is currently creating an ad hoc committee to work on research-ing and drafting the Campus Diversity Plan. The Diversity Plan is essential for campus to create a more diverse and cultur-ally competent environment here on campus. The creation of the Diversity Plan will involve mem-bers from the following groups: students, faculty, classified staff, academic staff and non-voting community members.

The process by which we cre-ate policies and plans like this on campus is unique. Shared governance allows for all par-ties who are affected to partici-pate and make these decisions as a collective group. Diversity is essential to learning, edu-cating, professional work and especially in daily interac-tions. We look forward to hav-ing students give their input on what diversity should look like on this campus and how we can achieve that through the Diversity Plan. If you have any questions requiring a swift response, please contact Britt Moes at moes@wisc.edu.

Britt Moes is the Vice Chair of the ASM Diversity Committee, a Student Representative for the CDCC and a Senior at UW-Madison. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycar-dinal.com

Letter:student input important to future of diversity plan

You, reader, could prob-ably be diagnosed with

depression if you wanted, if you haven’t yet, because alienation is in the air we

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the focused deterrence program, which has reached 30 repeat offenders, is helping officers keep criminals off the streets.

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Football

by ryan Hillthe daily cardinal

INDIANAPOLIS—It isn’t hard to imagine Wisconsin (4-4 Big Ten, 8-5 overall) offensive coordina-tor Matt Canada licking his chops leading up to the rematch with Nebraska (7-1, 10-3) in the Big Ten Championship game.

Playing indoors, giving redshirt freshman running back Melvin Gordon more than a few touches, and having a hungry pair of run-ning backs in senior Montee Ball and junior James White allowed the often-criticized Canada to open up the playbook and ultimately drub the Cornhuskers by a score of 70-31 to earn a spot in the Rose Bowl for the third consecutive year.

“[That’s] the reason I hired him,” Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said of Canada. “I’ve been impressed with his creativity ever since I’ve known him.”

The trickery yielded a 539-yard rushing performance (Gordon had 216, Ball 202 and White 109), a touchdown pass from White to sophomore tight end Sam Arneson out of the ‘Barge’ forma-tion, and more jet sweeps than one could imagine.

Nebraska’s defense was about as baffled as it was against Ohio State Oct. 6, when it gave up 63 points.

“It was a weird day today for some reason,” senior Cornhuskers safety P.J. Smith said. “We didn’t do anything right on defense.”

Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini was equally ashamed.

“I apologize to everybody asso-ciated with Nebraska football with how we coached, how we played, and it’s not acceptable,” he said.

The Badgers almost liter-

ally couldn’t have started any faster, as Gordon scored on the game’s fourth play on a 56-yard jet sweep. Redshirt senior corner-back Marcus Cromartie returned an interception 29 yards for a touchdown from Nebraska senior quarterback Taylor Martinez’s first pass attempt that slipped through the hands of sophomore wideout Kenny Bell.

But Martinez answered three plays and two Husker penalties later by running 76 yards for a score on a third-and-11 from Nebraska’s own 24. The Huskers marched down the field on their next pos-session and converted on a 32-yard field goal by senior kicker Brett Maher to pull within 14-10.

Wisconsin jumped out to a 14-7 first-quarter lead against Penn State last week but failed to score again until the fourth quarter.

But this time Wisconsin, using a combination of jet sweeps from Gordon and pounding it up the middle with Ball and White, found the endzone four more times before the half.

“[It was] kind of a chess game back and forth,” redshirt junior center Travis Frederick said of the inside-outside run calls. “I think coach Canada did a good job of alter-nating that and making it work.”

But Wisconsin wasn’t about to let off the gas at halftime, even lead-ing 42-10. The Badgers had learned their lesson a few too many times in the regular season.

“We just tried to make sure to keep our foot on their throats,” redshirt senior quarterback Curt Phillips (6-of-8 for 71 yards) said. “Obviously they came back on us last time, so we just really tried to emphasize 0-0 at halftime.”

The thing that left everybody confused, though, was the lack of trickery and touches to Gordon ear-lier in the season.

“We’ve practiced a lot of that stuff all season long,” Phillips said. “We just hadn’t necessarily had the opportunity to use them.”

Wisconsin was just 25 yards rushing off its domination of Indiana in Bloomington, Ind., Nov. 10. Similar to that game, the trio of running backs thought the offen-sive line’s performance deserves a large amount of praise.

“It was pretty open,” Gordon said. “Those guys blocked it up well for me, I can’t lie. I just ran.”

The Badgers averaged more yards per rush (10.8) than they did through the air per attempt (10.1) and proved that the gap between the best team in the Big Ten (a 12-0 Ohio State) and the Badgers, who stumbled to a 4-4 conference record, is minimal.

“After some of those [losses] Saturday night when you’re sitting on the plane ride home—some were on the road—and then I come in on Sunday and just see the guys that we have the great fortune of coaching and see the look in their eyes, the passion,” Bielema said. “They hurt when you’re supposed to hurt.”

Lost in the offensive frenzy was a defense that held the Huskers back just enough for the Badgers to pull away. Martinez looked far less comfortable after giving up the 76-yard scamper in the first quarter. He did finish with 140 yards on the ground, however.

“Really proud of the defen-sive effort from the D-line, to the linebackers, to the secondary,” redshirt junior linebacker Chris Borland said. “It’s one of the best we’ve put forth all year in the first half, especially.”

The doubt of the Badgers around the Big Ten and the adversity that was swept away Saturday night makes the Rose Bowl berth even better for this season’s Badgers.

“When you have a chance to take a swing, take it hard,” Bielema said. “I knew our kids were going to come out and prove some things very, very well today.

“To have three Big Ten Championships says it all. It makes this one very special.”

men’s basketball

by max Sternbergthe daily cardinal

Having started off the week with a dismal effort in Wednesday’s loss to Virginia, Wisconsin men’s basketball got back on track quickly Sunday as it cruised to an 81-56 win over previ-ously undefeated California.

Junior guard Ben Brust led the scoring for the Badgers (5-3 over-all) with a season-high 22 points on 9-of-13 shooting, but it was once again the energy of fresh-man forward Sam Dekker off the bench that sparked the Badgers’ first-half outburst.

Dekker checked in for the first time with 16:19 left in the half and UW still scoreless. When the Sheboygan, Wis., native was replaced by sophomore forward Frank Kaminsky less than four minutes later, the 2-0 California lead had turned into an 11-point Wisconsin advantage, Dekker contributing to 10 of the Badgers’ 15 points during the run.

“Dekker was good,” California head coach Mike Montgomery said. “He’s going to be a real nice player.”

“[Dekker] was able to get a couple creases and he is pretty good at finishing around the bas-ket,” Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan said. “He’s just learning, but he did give us a good spark.”

The Badgers got plenty of production up and down the lineup on their way to a third 80-point effort in the season’s first eight games. Brust and Dekker were joined in double fig-ures by redshirt senior forward Ryan Evans and fellow senior Jared Berggren, who followed an inconsistent effort against Virginia with an 18-point, eight-rebound performance that was one of the best Berggren has had thus far this season.

“There were a lot of the same looks [as the looks against Virginia],” Brust said of the Badgers’ shooting. “It’s just a mat-ter of stepping up to the plate and finishing the plays.”

While the Golden Bears (6-1) would climb back within seven later in the opening half, a 12-0 run by Wisconsin in response effectively ended any hopes California had of leaving Madison

unscathed. The Badgers would finish the half with a 13-point cushion and sailed smoothly to victory from there, never trailing by less than 17 over the final 15 minutes of play.

“They just outplayed us,” California junior guard Allen Crabbe said. “We just dug our-selves too deep a hole in the first half.”

Having struggled most of the season on both the offensive and defensive glass, UW finally had a good effort in the trench-es, outrebounding a California team that entered the game averaging over 40 rebounds per game. The Badgers converted their 14 offensive rebounds into 18 second-chance points, piling on with another 25 points on 23 California turnovers.

“We took care of the small stuff,” senior forward Mike Bruesewitz said. “The team that plays harder generally wins and that’s what we did tonight.”

Though Wisconsin was able to hold most of the Cal attack in check, Crabbe was an excep-tion. The Los Angeles native was responsible for nearly half of the Bears’ points, finishing with 25 on 8-of-15 from the field. His teammate in the backcourt, junior Justin Cobbs, was not as fortunate. After averaging over 20 points per game coming in, Cobbs was held to just 11 on 3-of-10 shoot-ing, adding insult to injury with seven turnovers and zero assists.

“I thought we did a pretty good job on Cobbs because he has been scoring like crazy,” Ryan said. “We did a better job of sticking to our rules, make a guy make a jump shot rather than a layup or a power move at the basket.”

Having finally gotten their first non-conference win over a major conference opponent, the Badgers now have just one final tune-up Tuesday against Nebraska-Omaha before next Saturday’s rivalry game against Marquette in Milwaukee.

But for a Badger team that has failed to get on more than a two-game winning streak over the first three-plus weeks of the season, another tune-up before the duel with the Golden Eagles is certainly much needed.

Pasadena awaits badgersabigail walDo/the daily cardinal

Wisconsin is the first Big ten team since Michigan in 1979 to reach three consecutive rose Bowls.

redshirt senior forward Jared Berggren scored 18 points on 7-of-9 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds Sunday.

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Wisconsin clamps down, tops California

running backs power Wisconsin to third straight Big ten title