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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
ASM finance group’s event grants run out By Paige Villiard The Daily Cardinal
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University of Wisconsin-Madison College Democrats watch Obama’s fifth State of the Union address at the Memorial Union Der Rathskeller Tuesday.
UW political group leaders clash over State of the Union address By Jack Casey The Daily CarDinal
President Barack Obama established a broad foundation of initiatives, ranging from education-based economic reform to gun control in his fifth State of the Union Address Tuesday, which drew mixed responses from University of WisconsinMadison’s two college party chairs. Obama touched on higher education early in the address, asking Congress to pursue initiatives to provide students and
families a ranking for how efficiently colleges are operating. The government will use these rankings to give those schools that have the best value the most federal aid. He said his administration would also compile the rankings in a “College Scorecard,” which would tell the students and families where they could “get the most bang for their buck.” “I ask Congress to change the Higher Education Act so that affordability and value are
included in determining which colleges receive certain types of federal aid,” Obama said. Chris Hoffman, chair of the UW-Madison College Democrats, said Obama’s higher education plans would help colleges and universities receive funding they deserve, and the president’s value ranking system would fit well with UW-Madison. “I think he talked specifically
The Associated Students of Madison Finance Committee allocated the remaining portion of its budget meant to fund student organizations’ event grant requests Tuesday to four of 12 student organizations that originally requested funding. The ASM Finance Committee allots money to smaller student groups on campus that request funding for planning events, as well as for travel and operation purposes, according to the ASM website. The Committee also maintains ASM’s internal fiscal budget. According to ASM Spokesperson David Gardner, the committee allocated the
funding in its budget to groups in the order they applied, and said all student organizations in the queue were warned of the committee’s limited amount of available funding. Finance Committee Chair Andrew Kidd said event grants do not usually have enough money to last an entire fiscal year. Additionally, he said there were more events this year than previous years, with more organizations requesting funding due to other financial sources on campus capping their funds. The committee was able to fund three events close
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New survey shows homeless rates up from summer 2012 The number of homeless citizens in Dane County increased nearly 14 percent over the last six months, with 718 people living in shelters and 99 people sleeping outside, according to a Jan. 30 survey. Social workers from the Community Development Block Grant conduct the survey twice a year–in January and July–at the request of the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Design, according Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. These survey results are a leap from the July 2012 numbers of 554 people in shelters and 162 sleeping outside, according to the Isthmus newspaper. According to Verveer, the increasing problem of home-
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Disability coalition supports Walker’s workforce initiative A coalition of more than 30 Wisconsin disability organizations said in a statement Tuesday it supports Gov. Scott Walker’s recently proposed $132 million education and workforce initiative, which the group said could help improve employment training for citizens with disabilities. The Survival Coalition of Wisconsin Disability Organizations, plans to work with Walker’s initiatives to help people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities gain job experience, according to Beth Swedeen, executive director of the Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities
and Survival Coalition co-chair. Swedeen said people with disabilities would have a better chance to avoid unemployment if Walker’s proposed initiatives are applied to apprenticeship programs and technical college employee training courses, which often do not involve people with disabilities. According to Swedeen, job centers around the state are not staffed with people who know how to assist these with disabilities when they are looking for jobs or training programs. Swedeen said she would like to see more job support put into the job centers to accommodate these needs.
“What we would like to see is that as these initiatives are rolled out, people with disabilities are intentionally included in them,” Swedeen said. Swedeen said it is important to include people with disabilities in the general workforce because it allows them to be selfsufficient instead of relying on publicly provided services. “[People with disabilities] just want to be included in the general opportunities anyone would be offered,” Swedeen said. “We’d like see the job growth for people with disabilities be just what the job growth is for the rest of the state.” —Jack Casey
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Homeless shelters, such as Porchlight Inc., 306 N. Brooks St., limit the number of days people are allowed to stay over night.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”