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Hundreds 'die-in' at library for #BlackLivesMatter protest
By Andrew Bahl and By Rachel Schulze | Dec. 14, 2014"Hands up, don’t shoot!”
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NEWS
Top Ten News Fall 2014
By Devin Rose and Daily Cardinal News Staff | Dec. 11, 2014The following are the Top Ten news stories we covered over the summer and in Fall 2014.
NEWS
Ferguson protesters return to county meeting, demand criminal justice reforms
By Annie Schoenfeldt | Dec. 9, 2014Members of the Young, Gifted and Black coalition, joined by community members and students, held a rally and sit-in on a county meeting Tuesday to campaign for changes to Madison’s criminal justice system.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW-Madison community remembers senior Michael Cooper Heinz
By Leah Leonidas | Dec. 8, 2014UW-Madison student Truman Tiernan organized a memorial service and candle vigil Sunday for senior undergraduate student Michael Cooper Heinz, who passed away Nov. 23. Heinz, a strategic communication and philosophy major, was the former president of the Kappa Sigma fraternity on campus.
CITY NEWS
Police body cameras present both problems and solutions to Madison
By Steven Wishau - The Daily Cardinal and Irene Burski | Dec. 8, 2014Although considered “inevitable” by city officials and community members alike at last month’s city council meeting, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval and Mayor Paul Soglin emphasized at a Dec. 5 press conference that the proposed police body camera program will not singlehandedly bridge trust gaps.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW-Madison alumni, donors to be namesake for new School of Music hall
By Jessica Dorsky | Dec. 8, 2014UW-Madison School of Music’s new recital center will be named in honor of UW alumnni and advisory board members George and Pamela Hamel, whose $15 million donation will help make constructing the building possible, according to a university release.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW students, community rise in protest of events in Ferguson
By Bri Maas | Dec. 8, 2014White police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August, gaining national attention and sparking debates over institutional racial disparities and police officers’ use of force.
CITY NEWS
Eastside Great Dane to open Tuesday
By The Daily Cardinal and Maida N. Woulf | Dec. 8, 2014The Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company is scheduled to reopen Tuesday following a Nov. 15 fire that caused $150,000 in damage.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW System to re-evaluate segregated fees, students voice concern
By Emily Gerber | Dec. 5, 2014President Ray Cross unveiled potential UW System internal reforms that could lead to a change in student segregated fees at a Board of Regents meeting Friday.
CAMPUS NEWS
SSFC approves student wage increase
By Scott Bembenek | Dec. 4, 2014The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee raised General Student Services Fund student wages Thursday, also making revisions to the process of reviewing student wage levels in the future.
NEWS
Walker, Senate Republicans split on right-to-work legislation
By Leo Vartorella | Dec. 4, 2014State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, announced yesterday he will look to address the “Right to Work for Less” bill during the next legislative session.
CAMPUS NEWS
Board of Regents committee approves next phase of Rec Sports Master Plan
By Andrew Bahl | Dec. 4, 2014A UW System Board of Regents committee approved funds for three UW-Madison campus projects Thursday.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW-Madison researchers help develop new sweet corn variety
By Phoebe Kiekhofer | Dec. 4, 2014Researchers at UW-Madison developed a new sweet corn variety coined “Who Gets Kissed?” in collaboration with the Organic Seed Alliance and other farmers, according to a university release.
CITY NEWS
Madison man drives wrong way on West Gorham Street, attempts to avoid arrest
By The Daily Cardinal | Dec. 4, 2014Madison police arrested a 27-year-old Madison man early Thursday morning after he drove the wrong way on West Gorham Street and continued to evade police after attempts to pull him over, according to a Madison Police Department report.
CITY NEWS
Madison may become home for new West Gorham Street bar
By Patricia Johnson | Dec. 4, 2014A new bar may find a home in Madison’s campus area as early as June of next year if city officials continue to move the project through the approval process.
CAMPUS NEWS
ASM finalizes internal budget, talks Biennial Budget
By Madeline Heim | Dec. 4, 2014The Associated Students of Madison Student Council met Wednesday to hear an update on the 2015-2017 Biennial Budget and finalize the 2015-‘16 ASM internal budget, which totaled $1,381,932.74.
CITY NEWS
Racial disparities challenge local police forces in Ferguson and Madison
By Andrew Bahl and Andrea Snow | Dec. 4, 2014Racial disparities nationwide have come into focus following the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri not to charge the police officer who killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. That heightened awareness has also exposed racial disparities in Madison, which in some ways exceed those in Ferguson.
CAMPUS NEWS
Students, community members gather in silent vigil Wednesday night
By Eric Cummings | Dec. 4, 2014Approximately 150 demonstrators gathered on the Kohl Center lawn in a silent vigil responding to the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner Wednesday night.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW-Madison students’ artistic commentary on racial injustices taken down hours after exhibition
By Daily Cardinal Staff and Leah Leonidas | Dec. 4, 2014Black Be Nimble. Black Be Quick. Black Be Dead. White Magic Trick.
CITY NEWS
Blue Velvet bar owner foils money fraud ploy
By The Daily Cardinal | Dec. 3, 2014Having offered the pretense that Blue Velvet Lounge was behind paying its bills, a telephone scammer nearly bamboozled the bar owner out of $745 Friday, according to a Madison Police Department report.
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