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""While anti-Semitism has indeed been shunned by the civilized world, things are quite different in the Muslim/Arab world, because anti-Semitism is an integral part of their religion and culture.""
Amid a growing heroin and opiate problem in the city, Mayor Paul Soglin announced changes to the 2012 budget. Among the changes, he plans to reduce funding to the Overture Center to offset increased spending to deal with the burgeoning drug problem.
ASM has done it again. No, it hasn't made great strides in its mission of ""maintaining and improving the quality of education and student life on campus,"" rather it has extrapolated yet another trivial drama to yet another branch of student government. And this time the Student Services Finance Committee is in the hot seat.
Wisconsin Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, is currently circulating a bill that would remove the requirements for schools that offer a sexual health education program to teach about topics such as contraception and body image. Instead, it promotes abstinence-only sexual education. We feel that this bill will be a disservice to the children in Wisconsin public schools.
Last Wednesday, the Associated Students of Madison announced the resignation of five representatives. ASM Rep. Tom Templeton said he believes the students resigned not because of problems with the student government but due to prior commitments. After interviewing one of the ASM representatives who resigned, it turns out Templeton was right. The student stepped down from his role because it was taking too much time away from his position on the Homecoming Committee. He said he is under the impression the other representative left their posts for similar reasons.
The Brothers Fitzgerald are at it again. This week, Assembly Speaker Jeff and Senate Majority Leader Scott called for a legislative inquiry into a ruling by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, or GAB. Specifically, the brothers want to reevaluate GAB's recent ruling, which states that students may use modified university ID cards at the polls as part of the new Voter ID law.
This summer, the Wisconsin state Senate passed legislation aimed at curbing local and municipal control over housing laws. Senate Bill 107, which was introduced by state Sen. Frank Lasee, R-De Pere, would prohibit local governments from enacting ordinances limiting a landlord's ability to show an apartment, search a prospective tenant's background or use that background information as the basis of rejection. The bill will be taken up by the state Assembly at some point in the current session.
The question surrounding Interim Chancellor David Ward's term length recently surfaced as UW-Madison's University Committee requested he stay an additional year. While the interim position is only allotted a single-year term during a search and screen process, members of the UW faculty argue Ward's background, collegiate experience and national insight put him in the best position to lead UW-Madison through Wisconsin's rocky political climate.
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Early this week, UW-Madison fell under extreme scrutiny from a political think tank for its alleged discriminatory admissions practices, and in turn, aroused a legitimate fury in the campus community. The Center for Equal Opportunity—a Virginia-based conservative organization—released a report Monday night stating that, based on ACT and SAT test scores as well as class rank, UW-Madison enrollment rates significantly favor black and Hispanic applicants over white and Asian ones.
Where you stand on the issue of Wisconsin's ""concealed carry"" law—which allows licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons in public places and businesses—likely comes down to one question: Do you feel safer with more guns around you?
Walker worst for Wisconsin
Until recently, the Associated Students of Madison's bafflingly unorganized, unaccountable and bureaucratic funding system could justifiably be compared to a wild game of Monopoly with student segregated fees. This year, however, we were pleased to see ASM make some refreshing and efficient changes when it came to getting things done.
The first weeks in office for any newly-elected public officer serve as a good time to lay groundwork for the agenda's most pressing issues, so it makes sense that Madison Mayor Paul Soglin jumped right into the action.
Most of the decisions surrounding the New Badger Partnership have focused on its promise to keep UW-Madison competitive in spite of deep budget cuts from the state. But beyond the financial benefits of increased autonomy, public authority status also presents UW-Madison students with a golden opportunity to strengthen shared governance.
In many cases, the Associated Students of Madison is the target of undue criticism, even from us. But there's no doubt the recent actions of a few high-profile ASM members warrant a critical eye.
The future of UW-Madison's authority model grows hazier as Chancellor Biddy Martin finds her brainchild gridlocked between UW System officials and the Wisconsin state Legislature. As evidenced by her e-mail sent to UW-Madison students last Thursday, Martin's attempts to implement the New Badger Partnership—a plan to increase UW-Madison's flexibility through the establishment of a public authority model that would break the university from the UW System—are growing increasingly desperate. Although Martin earned the support of Gov. Scott Walker in his proposed biennial budget, the idea of Wisconsin's most prestigious and economically viable research institution stripping away from the UW System has sister universities and the Board of Regents disconcerted.
Connections matter when it comes to getting a job, and we realize politics is no different.
Working as a Madison Common Council alderman requires a pragmatic approach to city politics, new policy initiatives and an openness to differing opinions. That is why we are endorsing Sam Stevenson for District 2.
Sometimes, one candidate in an election is so head-and-shoulders above his opponent the endorsement is a no-brainer. That is the case in this year's race to represent District 8, where Scott Resnick has shown that he is the best person to serve on Madison's Common Council.
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