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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
City approves Langdon area redevelopment By Sam Garigliano The Daily Cardinal
Madison’s City Council voted Tuesday to approve a highly contested demolition of three residence buildings in the Langdon Street area to make way for a new student-oriented apartment complex. The 15-three decision marked the final step in a 5-year process that involved substantial deliberation and planning between developers and city officials. The six-story apartment complex, which will replace three existing buildings on Iota Court, will include 231 bedrooms, underground parking and increased emergency vehicle access to the region by way
of a new fire lane. Dozens of people spoke at the meeting, both for and against the development, including area residents, property developers, students and a variety of concerned citizens. Adam Hermanns, a UW-Madison sophomore and resident at the nearby Chi Psi Fraternity, spoke against the development saying it will negatively affect the population density, cost of living and historic nature of the area. “When I come back in 30 years with my kids I want to be able to enjoy the same historic district that exists
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State Democrats propose act to expand health care By Jack Casey The Daily Cardinal
Democratic state legislators introduced measures Tuesday to strengthen BadgerCare, a state health care program, which prompted skepticism from Republicans who said the requested funding for the act may not be available. BadgerCare is a state initiative
designed to provide health care coverage to people who do not qualify for healthcareinsurancethroughtheirjobs or cannot afford it on their own, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services website. The Strengthen BadgerCare Act, spearheaded by state Sen. Jon
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New workout plan
Students workout and sweat during Beach Body Blast class at the South East Recreational Facility Tuesday. + Photo by Taylor Galaszewski
Sustainability Committee votes on campaigns, elects leadership The Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee voted on two spring campaigns to address campus waste management and energy use, and elected committee leadership in a meeting Tuesday. The waste campaign will include efforts to standardize and increase recycling and compost bins across campus, according to Sustainability
Committee Chair Colin Higgins. Higgins said the campaign stems from a lack of bins across campus, as well as a lack of knowledge about what items can be recycled or composted. Along with standardizing the bins, the committee plans to create posters outlining appropriate items for recycling. Committee member and freshman Will Mulhern said he feels this will be an impor-
tant campaign based on his experience living in residence halls where many students throw their trash and recycling bins into one bag before throwing it out. The committee will also launch an energy campaign, which will include efforts to better educate campus about energy use, in addition to a
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UW student group hosts lecture on Tibetan protests By Sam Cusick The Daily Cardinal
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Keynote speaker Tsering Shakya discusses the motivations behind the Tibetan protesters and their political significance.
With acts of self-immolation on the rise in Eastern Tibet, the Tibetan Students Association of Madison hosted a lecture Tuesday to raise awareness about the protests and discover the motivations behind them. Tibetans have protested alleged human-rights violations since China gained control of the region in 1951. Since 1998 when self-immolation, a person setting themself on fire, began, 99 people have chosen to selfimmolate to bring attention to their plight for a free Tibet. University of British Columbia Professor Tsering Shakya, the keynote speaker and an expert on Tibet and its relationship with China, discussed the reasons Tibetan citizens have chosen to protest by self-immolating, and its impact
on Tibetan society. Shakya said protesters choose to self-immolate to sacrifice their body in the hopes of saving others, which is a fundamental idea in Buddhist teaching. He added activists feel the method is the best way to cause the least harm to others, as it only harms the protester. “There is incredible [Chinese] control of the human body and movement [in Tibet],” Shakya said. “[Selfimmolation] has become, clearly, the ultimate rejection of state authority.” Shakya also explained the two competing viewpoints, Chinese and Tibetan, on the protests. He said Tibetans feel the protests are happening as evidence of a strict and repressive Chinese government, while the Chinese government sees the protests as the work of
“religious fanatics.” Due to increased surveillance in the region following past protests, activists cannot organize large group protests without raising suspicion, which causes them to feel as if self-immolation is their only option, Shakya said. TSA Co-Chair Tenzin Dechen said the group hosted the event to raise students’ awareness about the plight of Tibetan protesters, since members feel very few students know about what is happening in Tibet. “It took one guy in Tunisia to start the Arab Spring and Tibetans have been self-immolating for two years now,” Dechen said. “And its been a total number 99 [protesters who have self-immolated], almost reaching 100, and yet the world doesn’t necessarily know a lot about it.”
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”