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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Most students say new alcohol policy works By Sam Cusick The Daily Cardinal
In the first semester since the program began, nearly 90 percent of UW-Madison students required to take a course on alcohol consumption safety found it beneficial, according to university health experts, though one participant disagreed. The program, called Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students, requires students who go to detox or receive an underage drinking citation to attend an alcohol awareness seminar for which they pay up to $200. Dr. Sarah Van Orman, the University Health Services Executive Director, said UHS distributed an evaluation to the 282 students who completed the program to gain feedback on the program’s first semester.
In addition to the vast majority of students reporting the program to be “excellent” or “good,” over half recommended all freshman take the course. “So far, the evaluation looks really positive,” Van Orman said. “We’re seeing significant increases in the terms of [students’] knowledge of alcohol, and also about attitudes around high-risk drinking.” However, UW-Madison sophomore Kristina Olafson said the course did not provide any information she had not previously learned in high school. “I think that getting a ticket in general was more effective than the class, since the class was just basically things I already knew,” she said. BASICS offers a group and individual setting. It requires first time or less-severe offenders to attend group seminars,
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Madison’s Downtown Plan includes the proposed demolition of Mifflin neighborhood housing, making way for high rise apartments. The plan will be discussed at a work session Thursday.
City approves plans to redevelop downtown Mifflin area houses could be replaced with high-rise apartments By Meghan Chua The Daily Cardinal
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Hundreds of protesters professed anger over UW Chancellor David Ward’s decision to enter mediation with adidas.
Ward’s decision process to enter mediation with adidas draws conflict By Alex DiTullio The Daily Cardinal
The chair of UW-Madison’s primary licensing advisory committee said Monday she is unhappy with the way Chancellor David Ward decided to enter a period of mediation with Adidas, rather than give the company 90 days’ notice to pay severance to its workers as the committee recommended. Labor Licensing Policy Committee Chair Lydia Zepeda said she was surprised when she heard about the chancellor’s decision. “I had talked to him the day
before and he did not mention this as a possibility at [any] point,” Zepeda said. The issue concerning adidas began Jan. 19 when a report alleged that an adidas factory, owned by PT Kizone, abruptly shut down, leaving the workers unemployed and owed severance fees. Almost two weeks later, after various demonstrations from student groups urging Ward to give adidas 90 days’ notice to remedy the situation or cut ties with the company, it seemed he agreed. “After appropriate and
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City officials unanimously approved a plan for proposed redevelopment in the downtown area Monday, which includes possible plans to construct high rise apartment buildings in the Mifflin neighborhood. The plan would call for demolition of houses on Broom, West Dayton and Bedford streets, replacing them with apartment complexes. “There needs [to be] some measure put in place, so that this
neighborhood can really thrive,” Downtown Plan Director Steven Cover said. However, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said this would put the community atmosphere in the Mifflin neighborhood at risk.
“Proposing to bulldoze, in essence, the entire Mifflin neighborhood and create high rises meant for professionals and not inviting to undergrads is a mis-
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Equal benefits for partners The Board of Estimates unanimously approved an ordinance Monday requiring private contractors with the city of Madison to give the same benefits, such as health insurance, to those in domestic partnerships as married couples. According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, this concept exists in ordinances throughout the country, including Dane County. “I think it’s absolutely the right thing to do, and we should have done it a long time ago,” Verveer said. Work on the city ordinance
began about a year ago only after the state passed similar legislation. “I thought it would be hypocritical of the city to impose [requiring equal benefits] on our contractors when we ourselves are not providing equal benefits to our own city employees that are in domestic partnerships,” Verveer said. Verveer said those who “don’t wish to have a marriage license” fall under the ordinance and applies to both gay and straight couples in domestic partnerships. Meghan Chua
Election marks first run for voter ID rule Tyler Nickerson The Daily Cardinal
Tuesday’s primary elections will be the first time voters will be asked to provide an acceptable photo ID before receiving a ballot, in accordance to the new Voter ID law passed last year. Kevin Kennedy, director and general counsel of the Government Accountability Board, called the Voter ID law “the biggest change to Wisconsin elections since 18-year-olds became eligible to vote in the early 1970s” in a statement on the GAB website.
Election officials are expecting 10 percent of eligible voters to turnout at Tuesday’s primaries, in which voters can choose between three candidates for Dane County Circuit Court Judge. Dane County Chief Deputy Clerk Sherri Endres said while Tuesday is a relatively small election, it will “give us all the chance to run through this once and see what the issues are if any and get them corrected for the April election,” when Wisconsin will have its presidential primary and other city and county elections.
Given the significant changes to the voting process, Endres said the Dane County Clerk’s office has held multiple educational seminars to educate municipal clerks and election inspectors on the new rules. “Many of the municipal clerks have gone the extra mile and done some mock trials and have done training with their poll workers,” Endres said. The GAB started airing public service announcements on TV, radio, newspapers, bill-
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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.”