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(05/03/10 6:00am)
As much as we love those men in uniform, Madison can't get
enough of the jolly fellows patrolling the streets via pedals. Yes,
Madison has a love for the diligent and forceful bike police who
make it top priority to catch and ticket any criminals illegally
zipping through Library Mall at record speeds. This safety squad is
just one small portion of Madison's extreme efforts to create and
uphold a more bike friendly city.
(04/29/10 6:00am)
The Associated Students of Madison may not be the most exciting
topic on campus. Bucky Badger's shapely body is probably more
inspiring. But nonetheless, ASM is an integral part of our daily
lives as students. The student government is charged with
allocating $38 million in student segregated fees and giving
students a voice in administration decisions through shared
governance, and it is important that the right students are put in
charge of that money.
(04/27/10 6:00am)
Last week, the Alcohol License Review Committee approved a
repeal of a three-year-old provision that has effectively been
preventing new businesses from getting a liquor license in
Madison's downtown area.
(04/23/10 6:00am)
Earlier this month, the watchdog group Security on Campus
lobbied for Congress to amend sexual assault acts so universities
would have to disclose the total number of sexual assault hearings
that occur on campus. The legislation would narrow the Clery Act,
which requires universities to report information on crime that
occurs on and around campus.
(04/16/10 6:00am)
The results are in. In the elections for the Associated Students
of Madison (ASM) Student Council that closed Wednesday, MPOWER
lost, and so did Rec Sports' plan for the Nat. The best part of the
election? The record turnout of 34.5 percent of the student body.
Such high turnout is unprecedented. True, 65.5 percent of the
student body didn't have an excuse not to vote—the election was
online, took two minutes, offered information on the candidates and
about the ballot and was open for three days. Cheers to those of us
who managed to find two minutes over three days to vote for fellow
students who allocate $38 million in our own student segregated
fees.
(04/13/10 6:00am)
First it was New Era. Then it was Russell. And this past Friday,
Chancellor Biddy Martin decided to drop yet another contract with
an athletic apparel company—Nike. The reason: Nike neglected to
reimburse Honduran factory workers for $2 million in unpaid wages.
The hope: By dropping the contract, UW-Madison will force Nike to
reconsider its abhorrent labor practices. However, no matter how
much financial weight UW-Madison may carry, it is nowhere near
close enough to effect real change in Nike's labor policies.
(04/11/10 6:00am)
Although Chancellor Biddy Martin declared this the Year of the
Humanities, today we vote on the remodeling and expansion of the
Natatorium. The Nat is an object of aesthetic scorn among students
and faculty for its uninviting exterior and apparent lack of
up-to-date workout equipment. But during a time of already rising
segregated fees and a rough economy, we cannot possibly condone the
construction of a replacement athletic facility that will rely on
the lopsided blitz of a financial plan proposed by NatUp
2010.
(04/06/10 6:00am)
An ad hoc committee of the Faculty Senate stated in a recently
released report that the university's Athletic Board is largely in
compliance with Faculty Policies and Procedures regarding its role
in oversight of the Athletic Department.
(04/04/10 6:00am)
With local activist Michael Johnson in one corner and UW campus
politico Analiese Eicher in the other, the District 5 County Board
race presents a choice unique enough in the political realm to
allow voters to make a difference.
(03/25/10 6:00am)
Plans for a new Central Library died last week. Weeks of debate
were stifled by the uncaring hand of economics, another reminder
that we inhabit a cold, harsh universe that is dictated solely by
chance events often occurring at what we deem to be the worst
possible times.
(03/23/10 6:00am)
Wisconsin's Sunshine Act might as well be a legislative call for
spring to come early. Enacted in 2005 in the spirit of a more
transparent government, the bill mandated that all state contracts
greater than $10,000 be posted to a centralized website. Four years
later, that admirable piece of legislation has turned out to be a
toothless joke.
(03/22/10 6:00am)
The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, the program raising
tuition by $250 for in-state students and $750 for non-resident
students, has the potential to decrease class sizes in bottle-neck
courses and add much-needed faculty in high-demand areas. However
the reality is that of the 114 proposals submitted to receive a
portion of the MIU funding, only 31 were recommended to Chancellor
Biddy Martin by the MIU Shared Governance Oversight Committee and
the Student Oversight Committee.
(03/18/10 6:00am)
UW System employee salaries were released last week with few
surprises and the same aggravating discrepancies. Ten system
employees earned over $300,000. Chancellor Biddy Martin made more
than UW System President Kevin Reilly by almost $23,000, and nobody
outshone Athletic Director Barry Alvarez at half a million.
(03/15/10 6:00am)
Last week ASM's Academic Affairs Committee proposed the creation
of a standing committee to address textbook issues as a more
permanent way of addressing the financial burden of textbooks on
campus. The proposed committee would be comprised of three
students, three faculty members and three academic staff and,
according to ASM Academic Affairs Chairman Jonah Zinn, would focus
on ""things like electronic textbooks, open-source textbooks,
getting departments to focus on certain textbooks, library reserve
programs and the possibility of creating a textbook rental
program.""
(03/14/10 6:00am)
In a rare instance of the City of Madison and Dane County not
seeing eye to eye, a lawsuit resulted over their disagreements on
how to handle 911 calls.
(03/10/10 6:00am)
Last week, the state of Wisconsin received the ""Billy Madison""
treatment in the Department of Education's Race to the Top. At no
point in Wisconsin's rambling, incoherent proposal were they even
close to anything resembling a rational thought. Everyone in the
federal government is now dumber for having read it. They awarded
us no points, and may God have mercy on our souls. Or at least the
souls of Wisconsin students.
(03/09/10 6:00am)
On March 1, the Faculty Senate heard a proposed revision to
Chapter 8 of the Faculty Policy and Procedures. The potential
addition of three sentences to the faculty speech code is a direct
response to the 2006 Supreme Court case Garcetti v. Ceballos, in
which an assistant district attorney claimed he was passed up for a
promotion after being critical of his office. In a narrow 5-4
decision, the Supreme Court decided that Americans do not have free
speech rights to speak out publicly in their official capacity
against their place of employment.
(03/07/10 6:00am)
Making sausage is really disgusting. Regulating Wisconsin's
livestock and dairy industry is markedly more disgusting.
(03/02/10 6:00am)
Every student knows about the November Rush. All of a sudden,
your inbox is flooded with offers from companies like Steve Brown
Apartments, CHT Apartments and Madison Property Management. Ads in
local papers advertise apartments and houses that will be available
in the fall. If you already have an apartment, people start touring
your home looking to make it theirs for the next school year.
(02/25/10 6:00am)
An ad hoc committee of the Faculty Senate released its report
Monday in response to proposals from Chancellor Biddy Martin and
Provost Paul DeLuca, who intended to substantially restructure the
UW-Madison Graduate School. Administrators sought to divide the
graduate education and research sections of the Graduate School
into more separately defined entities and create a new
administrative structure to accommodate them. Martin and DeLuca
both said restructuring was needed so UW could remain competitive
in securing multi-million dollar federal grants, fix problems in
research safety compliance and better administer UW-Madison's
ever-expanding research capabilities.