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The University of Wisconsin Police Department has made necessary advances toward developing an emergency plan in the case that an incident on the scale of the Virginia Tech shootings arises on a UW campus.
Every September, the perpetual battle between tenants and landlords heats up when security deposit checks are returned. Tenants receive their security deposits minus deductions for damages. Sometimes these deductions are itemized in detail. Sometimes they are not.
By the end of 2010, Madison Metro plans to install security cameras on all of their buses. Currently, 20 of the city's 204 buses have security cameras installed.
When Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced plans last year to fence off State Street and effectively charge admission to Halloween, he was met with skepticism and, in many cases, outrage. Turning one of UW-Madison's most distinctive, albeit rowdy, traditions into a paid event seemed far-fetched. Ultimately, the mayor got his way. Surprisingly, everything worked out: Smaller crowds and restricted access meant a calmer atmosphere in general and, most importantly for the city, no riots.
Oct. 28, 1971.
In a Sept. 28 press release, Gov. Doyle reported that if there is no new state budget, students might face an additional $800 tuition surcharge next semester to cover the $96 million UW Systems needs to continue operating. Though this is only one option UW System could take to cover the shortage, it proves a point:Students will pay if the state Legislature won't. And if the $800 does not come from students' checking accounts, it will come from the classroom.
As more and more consequences of the budget impasse emerge, it is obvious that the situation is becoming dire, even for students. Oct. 4, the UW System Board of Regents had to make a tough call: after evaluating many alternatives, if the budget is not passed by spring semester, a not-yet-determined tax will be added to the 5.5 percent increase in tuition.
Every year, the Associated Students of Madison, a sprawling bureaucracy of people looking for resume padding and winners of online popularity contests, present a hook"" issue intended to draw widespread student backing. This year is no different, with a poorly conceived grocery store plan emerging as the centerpiece of ASM's 2008 agenda, further proving the organization's inability to focus itself on realistic improvements to the UW-Madison.
The deadline for the state's biennial budget was July 1. Because state legislators are 13 weeks late in passing a budget, Wisconsin is the only state in the union without a passed budget. Without a state budget in place, state, city and local agencies are unable to determine their own budgets and spending levels. Lawmakers should feel the same pressure as every one of these agencies to ensure the budget is passed with haste.
Students have remained notably quiet in the budget debate raging at the Capitol. Perhaps that is why it seemed acceptable to Gov. Jim Doyle and UW-Madison administrators when they solicited a group of students critically dependent on state-funded Wisconsin Higher Education Grants to participate in a press conference.
In August, Madison Metro proposed both a bus rate increase from $1.50 to $2.00 and cuts in Sunday service. The next month Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said bus fares would stay at $1.50 and there would be no Sunday service cuts because he was able to find funds elsewhere in the budget.""
State Street does not need more bars.
In August, state Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, proposed the Cervical Cancer Education and Prevention Bill."" This bill would mandate schools to educate their students about the Human Papilloma Virus vaccination. Last Wednesday, the state Assembly Public Health Committee held a public hearing regarding the bill.
Wisconsin has now entered its fourth month without a budget for 2008, leaving the state with last year's provisions and a guarantee for fiscal failure before next summer. Students can be forgiven for largely ignoring the political spitting match unfolding between Democrats and Republicans at the Capitol since July, but now the budget impasse"" threatens to directly affect UW-Madison, and it is time to take note.
In the past week, sections of UW-Madison campus were locked down twice. The first was last Tuesday after Jesse A. Miller called the Dane County Crisis Center and saying he was at the UW Hospital, had a weapon and wanted to be killed by police.
Robbery seems to have run amok in Madison this fall.
Music rights organizations are punishing Madison restaurants and bars for playing music - whether live or recorded - by making owners pay yearly licensing fees.
The UW Athletic Department suspended running back Lance Smith in mid-July for alleged battery and disorderly conduct involving his former girlfriend. Conveniently, the Athletic Department reinstated him on Aug. 6 - just in time for the first practice. We applaud the efforts of Dean of Students Lori Berquam for suspending Smith for five away games, but this is yet another example of misconduct by student-athletes going unpunished. Head coach Bret Bielema needs to establish the notion that improper conduct by his players is unacceptable, and playing sports does not put athletes above the law.
The agenda for this Tuesday's ceremony for the families of murder victims, sponsored by the Department of Justice, was decidedly different than originally intended. The Freedom From Religion Foundation remonstrated the ceremony, which was supposed to include a hymn including the phrase, This too shall pass,"" and a closing prayer conducted by a Lutheran pastor, Charles Peterson.
The new Show and Blow"" policy in effect during football games is another attempt of the UW-Madison Police Department and the dean of students to deter students from drinking, and once again, their attempts are no more than another obstacle for students to hurdle.
Solutions by The State News
