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The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald often offer strongly opposing viewpoints on campus or city issues. But after Wednesday's meeting of the city's Alcohol License Review Committee, the main organization in Madison that decides alcohol policies citywide, we have agreed with the Herald's editorial board that a combined call to action is needed.
Last year, The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board wrote that it is best for tenants to know their rights when renting so landlords do not continue to rent properties without oversight. As we said, ""The onus is on the landlords to heed the concerns of students who are paying sizable amounts of money for a safe place to live."" Every year, rental companies in Madison get thousands of new tenants, many of whom have never seen a lease before, and landlords frequently take advantage of this.
It's been a little over a year since we tepidly endorsed then-candidate Wyndham Manning for Dane County Supervisor of the 5th District. It was a decision made with a certain amount of reserve and precaution—one that was not made without considerable skepticism of Manning's ability to perform and execute in the position of supervisor and adequately represent the student voice. During his year in office, Manning has done little to challenge the low bar that was set for him, and his awkward and secretive announcement to not seek re-election only validated our earlier preoccupations with endorsing him.
This past Friday, the Daily Cardinal Editorial Board had the opportunity to meet with Chancellor Carolyn ""Biddy"" Martin to discuss some of the university's most pressing issues. With a year under her belt, Martin is due for some of the first appraisals of her job performance, most of which is tethered to the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates. But considering how much the Madison Initiative is dependent upon the future, most of the conversation looked ahead.
911 Call Center drama
911 Call Center drama
In light of the disaster of the last state budget, which took 115 days over its allotted time to become law, state Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, and state Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, have removed roughly half of the nonfiscal items from this year's budget proposal to make it more palatable from a bipartisan perspective. As the chairs of the Joint Committee on Finance, Miller and Pocan removed some nonfiscal items to be introduced in separate bills, leaving some non-fiscal items on the budget for the state Legislature to deliberate on.
Without question, serving as District 8 alder in the large and impressive shadow of outgoing Ald. Eli Judge is not the most enviable position. Both Bryon Eagon and Mark Woulf, the two candidates for Judge's position, have made no secret about their respect for Judge and commitment to continuing his impressive work in students' issues such as downtown lighting and tenant rights. Although both candidates bring an impressive slate of ideas related to student and city concerns, only Bryon Eagon has the pragmatic and realistic approach to accomplish the focal points of his campaign. After meeting with both candidates, The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board reaffirms its earlier endorsement for Bryon Eagon in District 8.
On Wednesday morning, the entire editorial staff of the Daily Emerald—the independent student newspaper of the University of Oregon—went on strike in protest of the attempts of its board of directors to install a publisher with control over the paper's editorial content.
Worker oppression and exploitation is not something we can ignore. It is our duty to use the power we have as consumers to monitor human-rights violations and hold companies accountable, especially those supplying UW-Madison with apparel. When Chancellor Martin terminated the university's contract with Russell Athletics, she struck a blow for workers' rights and demonstrated how our codes of conduct are more than just pieces of paper.
On Feb. 5, Juicy Campus, the notorious college gossip website, shut down forever. Juicy Campus closed not because of alleged links with student suicides or belittling rape victims, but because of decreasing ad revenues in the face of the country's economic meltdown.
Campus gets out the vote
On Monday, Ald. Eli Judge, District 8, announced he would not pursue a second term as alderman for his district on the Madison Common Council. Judge, a UW-Madison senior, plans to move on to law school rather than running for a second term representing District 8, an area of downtown Madison containing 98 percent of the student body.
Last week, 14 newly elected representatives of Associated Students of Madison's Student Council issued a press release proposing several reforms that, while short and unarticulated, appeared to represent a step in the right direction for an organization that has become disconnected with the student body. Since these proposed changes lacked details, The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board spoke with a number of newly elected ASM representatives on Monday.
The death of Brittany Sue Zimmermann, a UW-Madison junior, marked the first student homicide in the downtown area since 1996. As a part of the UW-Madison community, she will be greatly missed by students and residents alike. The Madison community's response to the event has been nothing short of remarkable.
Among the Student Service Finance Committee elections and bylaw changes, the Campus Antiwar Network was able to add the Iraqi Student Project to the ASM spring polls.
Wyndham Manning is the best candidate to succeed Ashok Kumar as the Dane County District 5 Supervisor. He is neither a great candidate nor the lesser of two evils, but rather the better of two mediocres.
1. Campus safety
Last semester, Marcus Bonner and two accomplices committed a brutal sexual assault on the 500 block of University Avenue, directly behind Ian's Pizza. Two men assaulted a 23-year-old woman while a third took pictures of the incident with his cell phone.
In a March 21 editorial, The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board referred to a ""recent disclosure of potential worker exploitation"" by Adidas, whom UW contracts for sportswear. This assumption, upon which the editorial was based, is false—the exploitation of workers in this case is not ""potential,"" and its disclosure is not ""recent.""
Solutions by The State News
