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Suspended UW-Madison junior Alec Cook is being charged with the alleged sexual assault of ten women.
CITY NEWS

Cook’s lawyers request for his release from jail

The lawyers of Alec Cook, who is being charged with the alleged sexual assault of five women, are requesting he be released on signature bond rather than the the $200,000 bail on which he is currently in jail. He should be released because prosecutors haven't shown that bail is required to assure that Cook will appear in court, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Cook’s attorneys, Chris Van Wagner and Jessa Nicholson, wrote in a bail motion that prosecutors are citing the seriousness of the charges for the bail being so high. Cook’s preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 27, but prosecutors requested the date be moved back due to case detectives not being able to make the hearing. Cook’s lawyers agreed to the delay, Assistant District Attorney Colette Sampson said when she made the request.


CAMPUS NEWS

Administration, ASM talk Black Cultural Center, Red Gym use

UW-Madison administrators detailed plans Wednesday for the Black Cultural Center, and how to best provide space for historically marginalized groups on campus to student leaders who critiqued only housing these groups in the Red Gym. Gabe Javier, assistant dean of students and director of the LGBT Campus Center, said that construction for the Black Cultural Center is moving quickly.


Three UW-Madison religious studies professors described Tuesday the ways people can contribute to the Wisconsin Idea.
NEWS

Religion a lens for cooperation and communication, UW professors say

Religion’s significant role on campus and across the state cannot be underestimated in order to gain a better appreciation for Wisconsin’s culture and climate, according to religious studies professors Corrie Norman, Susan Ridgely and Jordan Rosenblum. In their Tuesday lecture “Lived Religion in Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Idea,” Norman, Ridgely and Rosenbaum emphasized the ways religion and the search for meaning manifest themselves both directly and indirectly in all aspects of life, influencing the values and decisions of entire populations. “It’s here, it matters to people, it happens in multiple ways, and sometimes the best ways to see it is not to look for it in the grand ideas of the John Bascoms, but to look for it at the kitchen tables, in the gas station diners, in the cornfields, in the coffee shops of Madison,” Norman said.


NEWS

Baldwin calls upon GOP leaders to bolster domestic manufacturing jobs

Republican House leadership removed the Buy America amendment introduced by U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Monday that was a part of a water infrastructure bill intended to protect domestic manufacturing jobs. The Made in America Water Infrastructure Act, also known as the Buy America legislation, required U.S.


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CITY NEWS

Suspect at large in Five Guys pants fraud

A man reportedly swindled a UW-Madison student out of two expensive pairs of pants during a transaction at Five Guys on State Street last week. After the student posted on Facebook’s Marketplace Community advertising designer jeans for sale, the suspect, who claimed to be from Baraboo, offered $100 for each pair.


UW-Madison professors from the Languages and Cultures of Asia Department and Gender and Women’s Studies Department presented their research on women’s rights and gender in Middle Eastern countries.
CAMPUS NEWS

U.S. should learn from other countries’ gender rights, UW professors say

When it comes to issues of women’s rights and gender, Americans may have a lot to learn from their counterparts in North Africa, Turkey and South Asia, according to three UW-Madison professors. The professors—Funda Derin of the UW-Madison Languages and Cultures of Asia department, along with Aili Tripp and Christine Garlough of the UW-Madison Department of Gender and Women’s Studies—presented their research on worldwide gender issues Monday as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Global Connections program.


Representative Zaakir Abdul-wahid debated an amendment to decrease Wunk Sheek’s budget at Monday’s Student Service Finance Committee meeting.
NEWS

SSFC debates, approves Wunk Sheek budget

Representatives on the Student Services Finance Committee debated Wunk Sheek’s proposed budget at Monday’s meeting. Members of the committee expressed concern over the amount of money allocated to the group’s 2017-’18 On Wisconsin Spring Powwow.



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