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City suggests late-night food cart changes By Patricia Johnson THE DAILY CARDINAL
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted the Wisconsin Elite Invitational for Track and Field Friday and Saturday.+ Photo by Grey Satterfield
Athletic Board looks to foster well-being of student athletes By Emily Gerber THE DAILY CARDINAL
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board focused discussion at Friday’s meeting on finding ways UW-Madison can improve the athletic department, highlighting the need to increase and maintain student welfare. Athletic Board Chair Dale Bjorling said he recently attended the National Collegiate Athletic Association convention in San Diego, where conversation centered on the governing of college athletic programs. Bjorling said he thinks to maintain the strength of conferences such as the Big Ten, which UW-Madison is a part of, there needs to be more support given from NCAA. “To support student athletes at their institutions, [the conferences] need more latitude than is currently allowed by the NCAA,” Bjorling said. According to Bjorling, the idea to lend more support to the larger conferences was not
well received by the smaller conferences in attendance, as they felt it would put them at a disadvantage when it comes time to recruit. Another topic brought up at the convention was concern on the amount of time players spend on their sport, Bjorling said. “Most national surveys show that student athletes spend an average of 40 hours a week on their sport,” Bjorling said, though he mentioned this number was likely an underestimate. Combined with class schedules, Bjorling estimated student athletes are occupied around 85 hours a week with either school or sport. The concern regarding the large time commitment is that there is little time left for students to partake in extracurricular activity. Bjorling said the NCAA commissioner urged schools to look at ways of ensuring more of a balance for students, so they can pursue endeavors like internships or other activities.
Faculty Athletic Rep. Sheila McGuirk, who was also in attendance in San Diego, said the NCAA is discussing the possibility of lessening the penalties associated with “street drug” abuse, such as alcohol and marijuana, which serve no purpose of enhancing a player’s athletic performance.
Violators will be subject to $60 fines along with the risk of having their vehicle towed, according to the release. For residents who have nowhere to park their vehicle overnight, city ramps will allow free parking from 9 p.m. until 7 a.m. However, cars stored for over 48 hours will be at risk of being towed or drivers will be ticketed.
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“Most national surveys show that student athletes spend an average of 40 hours a week on their sport.” Dale Bjorling chair Athletic Board
McGuirk cited the current penalty of alcohol abuse is a year-long suspension and said there are plans to reduce that punishment to only half of a season. The Athletic Board will have its next meeting Feb. 21.
City of Madison declares snow emergency through Tuesday The city of Madison declared a city-wide snow emergency Sunday that will last until 7 a.m. Tuesday, and will affect side parking throughout city streets, according to a news release. Starting Jan. 27, during the evening, cars parked on the streets must park on the even house-numbered side of the road, according to the release.
Madison’s late-night vending could see fewer licenses and a change in vending sites, according to recommendations from a city Office of Business Resources memo. Late-night vending is allowed in the city between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. for customers to purchase food after most typical business hours. The recommendations include only allowing a maximum of 10 licenses annually for eight large food carts and two pushcarts. Currently, the city has no limit on the amount of late-night vending licenses, and the changes are an effort to pre-
vent a flux of vendors in allotted vending zones for 2014, according to the memo. For vendors who are unable to acquire a license, the Office suggested creating a wait-list that would allow vendors a chance to receive licenses from vendors with expired licenses. Another plan included allowing vendors with the most seniority the first choice for vending locations. Plans for new vending locations mentioned in the memo include relocating large food carts to Frances Street, West Gilman Street and Broom Street. Two pushcarts would be permit-
The Brittingham Park Shelter off of West Washington Avenue will also allow parking for residents in need. All daytime parking restrictions will be in effect during the snow emergency. There are selected blocks in the downtown and Isthmus area that restrict all parking during a snow emergency, according to the release.
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Dr. Vince Cryns said UW-Madison is among the most welcoming institutions he has worked with for undergraduate research. By Adelina Yankova THE DAILY CARDINAL
The work of University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medicine Dr. Vince Cryns seems paradoxical at first: he looks for ways to kill cells to save lives. Cryns’ research, which focuses on finding ways of killing diseased cells in patients suffering from triple-negative breast cancer, has become revolutionary in its discovery of a link between this type of breast cancer, brain cancer and the protein alphaB-crystallin. Triple-negative breast cancer, which is responsible for approximately 15 percent of all breast cancer cases, lacks estrogen, progesterone and HER2 receptors, the three sites normally targeted by conventional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy,
Cryns said. It is a particularly aggressive cancer most commonly present in young women, with increased frequency in African American and Hispanic women. It is also a cancer that commonly diffuses to the brain, a complication which often results in patient death, according to Cryns. AlphaB-crystallin, the normal purpose of which is to protect cells from stress, Cryns said, has the currently inexplicable ability to guard cancer cells against death, allowing them to escape the breast tissue and survive in new environments, ultimately facilitating their spread to other areas of the body. “Discovery of this protein provides us with a molecule we can
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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”