For University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni and Friends RALPH APPLEBAUM & ASSOCIATES ALUMNI PARK Honoring University of Wisconsin Alumni The Wisconsin Alumni Association is creating Alumni Park in the space between the Union Terrace and Library Mall to celebrate the accomplishments of UW-Madison and its graduates. Moo U The park will represent the five pillars of the Wisconsin Idea: service, Dairy plays a big role in the discovery, tradition, progress, and leadership. But we want your help UW’s past, present, and future. 22 in suggesting who or what would best illustrate these principles. WHERE BADGERS BELONG Share your ideas at [email protected]. Winter 2013 Who’s Tops on Downton Abbey? 16 | Two Lives: Students of Faith 30 | Refuge from Witch Doctors 40 YOUR LEGACY. THEIR FUTURE. We can shape how we’re remembered. Remembering the University of Wisconsin-Madison in your will is an investment in the future. For our children. For our university. For the world. To discuss your legacy, contact Scott McKinney in the Offi ce of Gift Planning at the University of Wisconsin Foundation at [email protected] or 608-262-6241. supportuw.org/gift-planning UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION On Wisconsin Full Pg October 2012.indd 1 10/10/2012 11:00:28 AM WINTER 2013 contents VOLUME 114, NUMBER 4 Features 22 Milk Matters By John Allen Dairy is not “straw hats and bib overalls” at the UW. The flagship institution in America’s Dairyland draws on a long history of lacto-research, modern technology, and big data to thrive in what has become a very scientific field. 30 A Leap of Faith By Jenny Price ’96 40 Does religion have a place at a public university? The Lubar Institute contends that it does — not to proselytize, but to give students a safe place to explore beliefs and cultivate understanding. 34 Spotlight on Innovation By David J. Tenenbaum MA’86 What started as a gutsy notion among four UW undergrads (we could do this better) has grown into a wildly successful theatrical-lighting enterprise based in Badgerland. 40 Pigment Prejudice By Nicole Sweeney Etter Due to a belief that their body parts bring good luck, people with albinism in some African countries are hunted and killed. Two alumni are stepping in to help in Tanzania, where the problem is most severe. 22 Departments 7 Inside Story 8 Posts 10 Scene 12 News & Notes 34 18 Collection 19 Classroom 20 Sports 46 Traditions Cover A Brown Swiss named UW Wonderment Taylor 48 Sifting & Winnowing is one of more than 1,100 cows in the UW’s herd. 49 Badger Connections Photo by Bryce Richter 66 Flashback Photo Illustration by Earl Madden WINTER 2013 3 4 ON WISCONSIN NOW OPEN to all University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni Overnight accommodations at the Fluno Center offer a welcome retreat after a long day of meetings, a convenient place to stay after a Badger game, or simply a luxurious night in the heart of campus. STAY IN THE Enjoy spectacular views of Madison while you HEART OF CAMPUS relax in style. The Fluno Center: Steps Away. A Notch Above. Visit fluno.com for more information. On University Ave. between Lake St. and Frances St. KEEP ON As long as Badgers keep on doing what we do—so uniquely, so passionately, so astoundingly and so joyfully—we will continue to change the world. WWW.WISC.EDU 6 ON WISCONSIN Message furnished by the University of Wisconsin–Madison 12795 UW Print Ad_v3.indd 1 7/17/13 1:48 PM insidestory JEFF MILLER Brown Swiss On Wisconsin are divas. WINTER 2013 They’re lovely cows, but as dairy breeds go, they’re high- Publisher maintenance and kind of Wisconsin Alumni Association 650 North Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706 temperamental. Voice: (608) 262-2551 • Toll-free: “Brown Swiss do what (888) WIS-ALUM • Fax: (608) 265-8771 they want, when they want,” Email: [email protected] Website: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com says Sarah Witt x’17, a member of the Badger Co-Editors Niki Denison, Wisconsin Alumni Association Dairy Club who helped On Cindy Foss, University Communications Wisconsin stage its cover Senior Editor shoot for this issue. And we John Allen, Wisconsin Alumni Association needed a lot of help. From left: Elizabeth Binversie, Anuj Modi, Taylor, Ted Senior Writer Although the UW is Halbach, Kathryn Ruh, Sarah Witt, and photographer Jenny Price ’96, University Communications the flagship university of Bryce Richter. Pity poor Modi. Art Director America’s Dairyland, we Earl J. Madden MFA’82, University Marketing haven’t covered milk studies in a feature-length article in many years, so we wanted Production Editor to give cows their due. We held a cattle call to select the best cover girl, which led us Eileen Fitzgerald ’79, University Marketing to UW Wonderment Taylor, the 1,500-pound, three-year-old beauty you see here. Class Notes Editor But choosing the right cow is the easy part. Getting her photo? Now, that’s hard. Paula Apfelbach ’83, Wisconsin Alumni Ted Halbach, who teaches dairy cattle evaluation, was there to assist. Whenever Association UW cattle make a public appearance — which they were doing a bit of this week; it Editorial Intern: Preston Schmitt x’14 was World Dairy Expo — Halbach’s the guy to see. He can get our mooing models Design, Layout, and Production ready for a runway show or photo shoot. And he assembled the entourage that Barry Carlsen MFA’83; Toni Good ’76, MA’89; prepped and managed Taylor. Kent Hamele ’78, University Marketing First Witt and a few fellow students — Kathryn Ruh x’14, Elizabeth Binversie x’15, Campus Advisers and Anuj Modi x’17 — had to get Taylor primped and polished. They washed her, Paula Bonner MS’78, President and CEO, brushed her coat, combed out her tail, and brightened up her hooves. Normally this and Mary DeNiro MBA’11, Executive Vice President and COO, Wisconsin Alumni last task is done with a product called Black Magic — or with shoe polish or even Association • Amy E. Toburen ’80, Executive spray paint if Black Magic isn’t available. On our day, the team had none of the above, Director, University Communications • Lynne so instead they shined up her tootsies with spray oil. Then they brought Taylor — a Johnson, Senior Director of Communications, UW Foundation very skeptical Taylor — into the Stock Pavilion, where we’d set up a makeshift photo studio. Advertising Representatives Madison Magazine: (608) 270-3600 Ruh and Binversie coaxed her into position, while Witt convinced her to look in the right direction by hooting like a howler monkey. As for Modi, he was on bucket Big Ten Alumni Alliance National Accounts Manager duty. Don’t ask. Susan Tauster: (630) 858-1558 And Taylor? We eventually got her picture, but she made it clear that she didn’t like clicking cameras. She liked popping flashes even less. She threw a tantrum, Alumni Name, Address, Phone, and Email Changes • Death Notices threatened to kick over a few thousand dollars’ worth of lights, and generally huffed Madison area: (608) 262-9648 and sulked. Toll-free: (888) 947-2586 Diva. Email: [email protected] John Allen Quarterly production of On Wisconsin is supported by financial gifts from alumni and friends. To make a gift to UW-Madison, please visit supportuw.org. Printed on recycled paper. Please remember to recycle This magazine was printed this magazine. by Arandell Corporation, a WINTER 2013 7 Wisconsin Green Tier participant. posts Great Issue pain, and some estimates state Inoculated against Ayn Rand Brennan, the prescription-drug The cover scared me (that woman that 50 percent of suicides are I appreciated Marilyn Leys’ Sifting problem differs from previous looks intense!) [“Scripts and the related to chronic pain. Primary- & Winnowing column about her drug epidemics in several ways. City,” Fall 2013 On Wisconsin], care physicians are treated like role in covering an Ayn Rand The addicts tend to be members but the issue as a whole was criminals now for trying to treat lecture on campus in the early of the middle class, for instance, great! I, too, will someday name chronic-pain patients, and that 1960s [“Reporting on Rand”]. and those selling the drugs my first daughter Madison makes it hard for the approxi- As a photographer for the Badger often aren’t street dealers but [“Naming Rights”]. [It’s] been mately one-third of the population yearbook, I attended the novelist- physicians.” decided for a while now, and my with chronic pain to get treated. philosopher’s seminar the Now that the addicts are future wife will have to be good We need major changes in pain next day. white and middle-class, I’m with that, ha ha. Looking forward management in the United States. Rand arrived with the unfortu- wondering if they will now end to James White [Team Player], Tad Taylor PhD’83 (also an MD) nate haircut and ill-fitting suit that up in jail and be forced to serve miss my Juston Stix [Traditions], Plano, Texas marked her public image. She excessive time in prison for minor and can’t believe a UW alum is wore a huge silver pin that was drug offenses like so many poor, buying the NYSE [“The Big Board, Got Raw Milk? a dollar sign and commenced to black, and brown addicts do. in One Big Gulp”]! Now I can boast that the UW chain-smoke in the tiny room, The “war on drugs” was and Dan Beardmore ’08 is not just about beer, but vita- even though the space was is a war on poor people of color.