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Letter to the Editor: Fight for Madison renter rights
By Dusty Weis | Sep. 20, 2010Getting young people in Madison to pay attention to local politics sometimes feels like trying to convince a college freshman that there's a need for the reference section at the library. Five to ten years from now, you know they'll have gained the wisdom to admit you were right, but for now, there's just this impenetrable haze of apathy, and it starts with the phrase, ""Well, how does it effect me?""
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Panel to talk monkey business is a waste
By Lydia Statz | Sep. 19, 2010Last Thursday, the Dane County Board of Supervisors struck down a motion to create a citizen's advisory panel on primate testing at UW-Madison, and rightly so. The duties of the panel were to include analyzing and investigating the ethics behind primate testing in hopes of educating the public. And while it is certainly a topic of great public interest that is worthy of deep debate, the board has no power over the university. Discussing primate testing in a forum that has no authority to affect change is simply a waste of taxpayer dollars and the county legislature's time.
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Sexual assault: an issue on and off the screen
By Jacqueline O'Reilly | Sep. 19, 2010Like it or not, celebrities have more power over the public's mindset than those in office. Laws deeming sexual assault and rape illegal are enforced in all 50 states, yet the entertainment industry depicts the crime in such a way that society perceives it as permissible.
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