A tale of two theaters The Modjeska and Avalon theaters get a second chance. page 23 May 19, 2016 | Vol. 7 No. 14 Freedom fighters Global activists demand we break free from fossil fuels page 8 PHOTO: KRISTIAN BUUS/BREAK FREE 2016 On May 3, young people from Wales stopped an open cast coal mine from operating for the day. The organizers from Reclaim the Power were sending a message that now is the time for a transition to renewable energy and the time to stop fossil fuel projects that make the planet unlivable. 4 UW-Madison addresses 32 One female artist 35 Dive into tropical IPAs racism on preserves another Brewers locally and across the nation campus UW-Madison music are exploring the fruity possibilities Students professor Laura of unique, citrusy hops. demand Schwendinger inclusion forges ahead with and target her new opera racism, 6 GOP’s legislative map about neglected driving goes on trial Baroque painter change at Trial date set in Wisconsin Artemisia the Big 10 over worst partisan gerry- Gentileschi. university. mander in U.S. | May 19, 2016 2 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM News with a twist WiGWAG By Lisa Neff and Louis Weisberg Partners Action Fund lif says school administration TRUMP 101 leads us to believe that this indi- decided to nix a $2 informed her the ID under her Students at Georgia’s Savannah vidual sprayed a liquid mixture of million attack on Russ class photo was a “typo.” That State University can enroll this hand sanitizer, water, and Tom- Feingold after three Wis- “typo” halted distribution of the summer in a three-credit course cat mice poison on produce,” an consin TV stations refused to air yearbook until the name could be on “The Trump Factor in Ameri- FBI special agent told the Detroit it. 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A Muslim high school student be fair,” Maddow pointed out, to arrest a man who’d allegedly er Nature,” according to Tunick’s in California says she’s identified “Trump is losing in single digits been putting a mouse poison on website. KOCH BrotHERS PULL as “Isis Phillips” in the yearbook to some of these.” Trump also can food at a Michigan Whole Foods faLSE AD recently issued at Osos High take heart from the fact he polled and other stores over a two-week Find more WiGWAG on our web- The Koch brothers’ Freedom School in California. Bayan Zeh- better than hemorrhoids. period. “Our joint investigation site, wisconsingazette.com. WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM | May 19, 2016 3 | May 19, 2016 4 WISCONSINGAZETTE.COM UW-Madison works to address racism on campus By Bryna Godar the city of Madison to help bring outside crimination. AP Writer pressure to hold the university accountable,” “I think that what’s happened is students UW-Madison graduate student said Davis, who’s pushing for community have just gotten fed up,” said Gonzalez, Michael Davis says he feels isolat- control of university police. whose parents are from Mexico. ed, excluded and afraid as a black Universities nationwide have conceded to UW students have interrupted Board of student on the predominantly white demands from protesters, including resigna- Regents meetings with lists of demands and campus, where he’s been called a tions of administrators at the University of have aired grievances and stories of discrim- racial slur multiple times. Missouri. But it’s unclear how many of the ination on social media using the hashtag “It hasn’t been a positive experi- requested changes will be carried out. At the #TheRealUW. ence at all,” Davis said. University of Kansas, plans for a multicultur- Hundreds also protested the in-class About 76 percent of the UW-Mad- al student government are in doubt after the arrest of a 21-year-old senior for anti-racist ison’s undergraduate population is chancellor vetoed a proposed student fee. graffiti, such as “White supremacy is a dis- white, making it the second-whitest At UW-Madison, a series of racially ease,” painted around campus. campus among the 14 universities charged incidents fueled the students’ pres- UW administrators say they are try- in the Big 10 conference. It also has sure for change: photos of swastikas posted ing to be responsive to student needs and the smallest percentage of black on a dorm room door, stereotypical war cry demands, and a university committee con- undergraduate students, at just over sounds shouted at a Ho-Chunk tribal elder sisting of students and staff is evaluating 2 percent. and graffiti using other Nazi symbols. more than 100 proposals to improve the Davis is among an increasing For many students of color, though, it’s campus climate. number of students at the flagship the smaller instances. Betty Nen, a freshman “My hope is that we are a campus that Madison campus demanding the whose father is from Papua New Guinea, is really trying to do it differently,” said administration make changes for said a guy started touching her hair at a Lori Berquam, Vice Provost for Student Life. inclusivity’s sake. They join college party to see what it would feel like. Nima “We’re not perfect, but we’re trying to do students around the United States Cheraghi, a freshman, said a girl called him it in a way that manifests the ideas of our who’ve expressed frustration with Aladdin because of his Iranian descent. students.” discrimination and racism on pre- “I believe that many, especially white, The conversation includes a broader dominantly white campuses. students just don’t understand the privileges range of people than it has in the past, said In response, UW administrators they’re given,” said Cheraghi, a spokesman Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Pat- agreed to cultural competency training, for Associated Students of Madison, the rick Sims. He said “majority” students — in added student support hours and asked student government. other words, white students — are just now students how to improve the climate. But PhotoS: COURTESY FACEBOOK Sergio Gonzalez, co-president of the finding out about issues he’s been hearing Participants in the #TheRealUW visual activists say the response is inadequate.