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UW ranks among nation’s top in value he said he would like to see that number climb to 90 percent. He said this accomplishment would place the university in a class among elite private schools. DeLuca said Chancellor David Ward’s Initiative for Educational Innovation could help the university achieve this goal. The initiative, which aims to use university resources more efficiently, involves making more classes available during summer sessions and increasing mixed-media capabilities in classrooms. Despite the university’s high-ranking value, some groups, such as Occupy UW, have vigorously argued tuition is too high. However, DeLuca
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said even a 20-percent decrease in tuition would dramatically affect the quality of the students’ education. “I think it has always been a fact that if you want to have a virtually world-class education that’s simply not free,” he said. “Our goal is to make that affordable as possible for students.” The Chair of the Economics Department John Karl Scholz reflected DeLuca, saying that a university of UW-Madison’s caliber cannot maintain a high academic level and lower tuition rates. “It takes resources to be outstanding,” Scholz said. “The money needed for that has to come from somewhere.”
In the midst of a year when student groups have protested the high tuition costs of higher education, UW-Madison is the fifth-highest-valued public university in the country, according to a list released Monday by The Princeton Review. According to The Princeton Review’s website, it ranks universities’ value by comparing undergraduate academics, financial aid and tuition cost. Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Paul DeLuca said he was excited to see the university receive a top10 ranking for the first time. “We strive to provide an absolutely world class education in as cost-effective way as we can,” DeLuca said. “And when you get a ranking 1. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill like this, its recognition that maybe we 2. University of Virginia are achieving that.” 3. New College of Florida While DeLuca 4. State University of New York - Binghamton said the top 5 ranking is remarkable, he said the university could use 6. College of William and Mary its resources more efficiently if more 7. University of Florida students graduated 8. University of Georgia within six years. 9. University of Washington According to DeLuca, 84 percent 10. University of Texas at Austin of students graduate Graphic by Dylan Moriarty/the daily cardinal within six years, but
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GAB declines help from Tea Party backed organization in recall verification By Ben Siegel The Daily Cardinal
Th e G ove r n m e nt Accountability Board voted against using recall petition evaluations provided by a Tea Party-affiliated organization to help officially review petitions in a special meeting Tuesday. Verify the Recall, a Tea Party-backed initiative to check the validity of all gubernatorial recall petition signatures, offered to share its third-party findings with the GAB to help the state agency verify signatures and signee information. The proposed evaluation criteria, which would assess the validity of petition signatures based on such categories as the residency of the individual and
whether or not the signee is deceased or fictional, would be “a significant and unwise departure to change our standards of review,” according to GAB director and general counsel Kevin Kennedy in his recommendation to the board.
“We are not pursuing an agenda one way or another.” Judge David G. Deininger Chairman Government Accountability Board
State statutes place the burden of contesting signatures on those officials who have recall petitions submitted against
them. In its work, the GAB only verifies that petitions are entirely filled out by signees. “The board and the staff are trying to do the right thing in a very unprecedented process,” Judge David G. Deininger, Ret., the board’s chair, said Tuesday. “We don’t have preconceptions, we are not pursuing an agenda some way or another. We are only trying to follow the statute and have the process be as true to what the language of the Constitution and the statutes require.” In a separate decision, the board also voted to approve the use of Wisconsin technical college IDs as acceptable voting identification, provided the identification features the date of issuance, a signature and is valid.
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Memes, similar to the one above, are becoming increasingly popular, but some have met criticism due to controversial content.
UW “meme” page goes viral on Facebook By Alex DiTullio The Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison students are experiencing a new distraction from homework, lecture and boredom after a Facebook page dedicated to university -related “memes” launched Tuesday, recieving more than 7,000 “likes” within the first 24 hours of its creation. The campus-wide phenomenon, which displays user-generated witty phrases over a corresponding background image, includes UW-Madison inside jokes such as freshmen drinking too much or people taking the 80 bus route to avoid hiking up Bascom Hill. “We’re really amazed at how fast it took off,” said one of the page’s creators who preferred to remain anonymous. “There’s no way we could have
even imagined that within less than 24 hours we’d have six or seven thousand people liking the page.” The co-creator said they made the page after his roommate saw similar pages among other universities and thought, “we could do something like this.” While the co-creator said the memes are intended purely for enjoyment, he said he along with the other creators have had to delete a number of “completely despicable” posts, ranging from racist references to memes that can cause viewers’ computer operating systems to crash. “Obviously some of that nastiness will show up when you get thousands and thousands of people on a site, but I don’t
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Campus parking permit prices could increase by as much as $45 next year By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal
Prices for campus parking permits could go up next year, members of UW-Madison’s Student Transportation Board learned Tuesday. The u n ive r s i t y ’s Transportation Services Committee approved the proposal last Friday, which is now waiting final approval from Chancellor David Ward. The proposal would increase the base cost of parking in lots such as Union South by $45, motorcycle
permits by $20, moped permits by $35 and monthly permits by $5. Associated Students of Madison Student Transportation Board member Chase Wilson told the board Tuesday increases would help make up for the university’s transportation system’s lack of funding. “Everyone knows that [transportation services] needs more money. [Transportation Services Director Patrick Kass] been pretty open about that this year,” Wilson
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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.”