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PETA activists disrupt UW Regents meeting Actor arrested while protesting alleged animal cruelty Ethical Treatment of Animals protestor Jeremy Beckham University of Wisconsin- marched into the Regents’ Madison police arrested meeting shouting “Shame on Oscar-nominated actor James UW!” while carrying large Cromwell for disorposters picturing one derly conduct after he of the cats that underdisrupted Thursday’s went experiments in UW System Board of UW-Madison labs, Regents meeting to according to a video draw media attention to PETA released to The the university’s alleged Daily Cardinal. use of animal cruelty PETA’s allegaduring experiments. tions date back to Cromwell, an actor CROMWELL Sept. 2012 when the well-known for his organization’s memrole in “Babe,” and People for bers gathered at Library Mall
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to protest the university’s alleged use of animal cruelty on nine cats by drilling holes into their skulls and intentionally deafening them. According to Cromwell, he and Beckham took action because the regents neglected to respond to a letter a PETA protestor sent to the regents Jan. 22, which expressed similar concerns about UW-Madison’s experiment on the cat, Double Trouble. “The whole point is they
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UW System student success rates show improvement The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and chancellors from Wisconsin universities engaged in a discussion Thursday about progress toward achieving goals for graduation and retention rates, as well as increased diversity on Wisconsin campuses. According to UW System Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Mark Nook, the system is on track to achieve its goals of producing 80,000 more graduates and decrease the retention and graduation gaps for underrepresented minority students on UW campuses by the 2025 deadline. However, Nook said due to
the tough economy and tuition increases in recent years, there has been less encouraging news for retention and graduation rates for students receiving Pell Grants. UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson said it’s important for students and parents to go into a college education with a plan to get out in four years. However, UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells said a four year degree may not be a realistic goal for all students, such as first-generation college students or students who need to take a semester off to work. “The populations we’re try-
ing to serve are becoming more diverse and more economically challenged and it’s just going to take more time for them to get to the American dream so to speak,” Wells said. Also at the meeting, UW System Director of Operations Review and Audit Elizabeth Dionne announced an additional $1.1 million dollars in overpayments to UW System employees, according to the Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel. The UW System is currently undergoing an internal audit and state audit regarding $33 million dollars in overpayments discovered earlier this year. —Cheyenne Langkamp
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Community members light candles at an anti-gun violence vigil Thursday, advocating gun control state and nationwide.
Community members hold gun control vigil By Meghan Chua the daily cardinal
Faith leaders, public officials and community members gathered at Madison’s First Congregational United Church of Christ Thursday to hold a candlelight vigil supporting efforts to end gun violence. Although speakers at the event represented multiple faith organizations, each emphasized speaking out and taking action to advocate gun control, an issue that has gained attention nationwide in the wake of a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 26 people dead, many of them children. The Rev. David Moyer, conference minister at the Wisconsin
Conference United Church of Christ, said the increasing violence found in society, particularly gun violence, “falls far short” of what the U.S. should be able to do for its citizens. “The heart of God is breaking at this violence that we human beings commit against one another,” he said. Linda Ketcham, executive director of Madison Area Urban Ministry, said the call for gun control is grounded in many things, including being a parent. Ketcham also said it is absurd “that one can carry a weapon into our statehouse but not a sign.”
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Walker outlines plans for economic development
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UW System Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Mark Nook discusses student graduation and retention rates at a UW System Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
Gov. Scott Walker announced plans Thursday to significantly invest in start-up businesses along with other long-term initiatives to promote economic growth in Wisconsin. At the Governor’s Conference of Economic Development, the governor proposed to allot an extra $75 million toward the Economic Development Tax Credit Program in his biennial budget, which he said would support state businesses to make investments as well as to create and sustain jobs. Additionally, Walker stated the importance of promoting startup and emerging businesses in Wisconsin “because that’s where a lot of the growth is going to be, in the
state and throughout the country.” He proposed to allot funding to groups that would provide guidance to entrepreneurs’ emerging companies, such as assisting them with business planning and networking. “One of the things I hear consistently is the need and assistance not to be the full funding source, but to bridge the gap,” Walker said. “To the extent we can help bridge that gap, the better.” Regarding education, Walker said Wisconsin could be the place employers look to expand if “we are the state that can guarantee a steady supply of high quality,
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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.”