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Monday, February 11, 2013
MCSC challenges SSFC decision to ‘minimally fund’ By Tamar Myers the daily cardinal
The MultiCultural Student Coalition argued in an Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary hearing Friday that Student Services Finance Committee representatives did not remain viewpoint neutral in the committee’s fall decision to minimally fund the organization. The appeal was based on SSFC’s move to minimally fund MCSC for the 2013-’14 fiscal year at $10,600 instead of approv-
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Kohl Blooded Ben Brust shoots the game-winning 3-pointer in overtime against the Michigan Wolverines at the Kohl Center Saturday, giving Wisconsin a lead it would not relinquish. Story on Page 8. + Photo by Abigail Waldo
Walker announces education reforms for upcoming budget By Jack Casey the daily cardinal
Gov. Scott Walker announced in a statement Feb. 10 he plans to allot a portion of his budget, which will be released Feb. 20, to strengthening state education systems, including technical colleges and universities. Walker said in the statement he promises to allocate roughly $132 million to his two-part plan for educational development. In one part of his plan, the governor
said he will unveil new legislation, which aims to fund worker training grants and establish an Office of Skills Development. Walker said he plans to implement all other educational initiatives, such as those involving higher education and K-12 reforms, through his budget. The governor said the proposals specifically focus on the University of Wisconsin System, allocating $20 million to teach specific jobs-based skills as
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Budget to include deer control initiative Gov. Scott Walker plans to include deer management solutions as part of his biennial budget that would focus on the joint management of herd populations by hunters, landowners and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The governor’s plans center on the 2012 Deer Trustee Report, complied by hunters and conservationists. The report describes
a proper management plan for the state’s deer population, including using technology and research to control population management issues like Chronic Wasting disease. The budget allocation will aim to allow the state to create positions and systems that will help the DNR incorporate management ideas from the report.
ing the organization’s $1.4 million budget request. The minimal funding level would allow for, at minimum, an office, a part-time student hourly employee and basic supplies. In the hearing, MCSC representatives said SSFC members violated ASM bylaws of viewpoint neutrality by using personal biases and value judgments in the decision.
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UW Regents review Human Resources overpayments By Cheyenne Langkamp the daily cardinal
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents heard an updated report Friday from administrators on recently discovered overpayments made to employees through the Human Resources System over the past year. A January report by the state Legislative Audit Bureau brought public attention to $33 million in overpayments to UW System employees for health and retirement benefits. UW System Director of Operations and Audit Review Elizabeth Dionne said they found an additional $1.1 million in overpayments, which were a result of mistakes in income tax withholding and billing of benefits to UW System employees, that have also not yet been recovered. UW System President Kevin Reilly
said the system is taking a three-pronged approach to solving the issues: an internal audit, a risk assessment by an independent group and full compliance with an additional state audit. “We are fixing issues as we go,” Reilly said. “We will continue to fix the rest of the problems as we go forward.” Reilly also said the administration is looking into the possibility of getting credit back for the overpayments. UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson said dealing with the HRS problems over the past year has been difficult for employees, citing examples of some employees not receiving paychecks on time. “I’ve heard good reports about how things are changing and improving but it’s been a difficult time,” Patterson said.
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UW recognizes students’ creative inventions Two inventions that incorporate Wisconsin’s well-known pastimes of hunting and fishing won the top awards Friday at a University of Wisconsin-Madison invention contest for undergraduates. According to a university news release, the $10,000-dollar Schoofs Prize for Creativity at the event, called “Innovations Days,” went to UW-Madison senior Justin Vannieuwenhoven for a fishing rod holder that self-adjusts to rough water to make bait appear more natural to fish. Vannieuwenhoven found inspiration from his grandfather, an avid fisherman
who he said loves the invention, according to the release. Also Friday, UW-Madison seniors Luke Stedman and Steve Burbach won the Tong Prototype Prize for a portable tree stand for hunters. Both Stedman and Burbach are hunters, and said current portable tree stand designs can be dangerous. Their design incorporates steel jaws that clamp around tree trunks to better support to the stand, which is used to provide hunters with a higher vantage point.
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Regent Jeffrey Bartell said in a meeting Friday he hopes the University of Wisconsin System will learn from recent errors within the Human Resources System.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”