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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Mining bill advances without crucial vote By Tyler Nickerson and Paloma Trygar The Daily cardinal
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Faculty Senator Adam Gamoran told the senate Monday a report found UW-Madison faculty salaries are lower than those at comparable institutions.
Report: UW faculty paid less than peers By Cheyenne Langkamp The Daily Cardinal
After a report found that faculty salaries at UW-Madison are significantly lower than those at peer institutions, members of the Faculty Senate said Monday they feared professors would leave the university for betterpaying offers. The report suggested UW-Madison use tuition increases and out-of-state
admissions to increase revenue to the university. A Faculty Senate committee drafted the Commission on Faculty Compensation and Economic Benefits Annual Report, which was created to provide information on current problems with faculty retention and offer recommendations to improve faculty benefits. According to the report, UW-Madison faculty salaries
are about 11 percent lower overall than those at competing institutions. “An 11 percent differential is pretty large and it’s large enough that it makes good people look for other jobs,” said Brad Barham, chair of the Faculty Senate’s University Committee. The report also found that an increasing number of faculty
The Joint Finance Committee voted Monday to send a controversial bill that would ease regulations on iron ore mining in Wisconsin to the state Senate floor, even though it seems unlikely to pass there. State Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, is the only Republican who opposes the bill. Republicans, who have a 17-16 majority in the senate and no Democrats on board with the mining proposal, will not be able to pass it if Schultz stands by his decision to vote against the legislation. The bill is a central piece in a series of Republican-backed legislation intended to spur job growth in Wisconsin. Republicans say the bill will create hundreds of Wisconsin jobs, but Democrats argue the bill does not do enough to protect the environment or allow enough input from citizens who would be affected by the mine. The Assembly passed it in January. Andrew Welhouse, spokesperson for Sen. Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, acknowledged the bill’s importance, but said he is still optimistic a compromise can be reached with Schultz by the end of this legislative session in two weeks. “He’s got his opinions on what he wants the bill to be,” Welhouse said in reference to Schultz. “We are hopeful that we can come to a product that has the support of
a majority of the senate and the majority of the assembly.” State Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, made small changes to the bill last week, hoping to sway Schultz’s decision. The changes allow citizens to contest mining permits after they have been issued, but leave challengers to find proof in the cases instead of getting help from the state Department of Natural Resources. Schultz said he can not support the bill because he said it does not give the general public a fair fight when contesting environmental permits. But he also said he wants to find a compromise. “Considering the high price of expertise and the wealth of talent available to the applicant and the DNR, compared to that of the general public, that doesn’t strike me as a fair fight,” Schultz said in a statement Monday. University of WisconsinMadison Professor Dennis Dresang refrained from calling the current session a failure from the Republican perspective if they can not pass the bill, but said it is pretty hard for Republicans to feel good about job creation in general. “The whole idea of creating jobs is pretty much a failure,” Dresang said. “Wisconsin is way behind the rest of the country in creating jobs. It’s obvious it’s been pretty frustrating for [Republicans] to do anything.”
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City delays Brooks Street apartment plans By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal
A city planning commission stalled in making a decision on a proposed apartment complex on North Brooks Street Monday because of conflict between city and university building guidelines. Property owner Joseph McCormick presented a proposed plan to tear down two existing apartment buildings
at 202-206 N. Brooks St. and replace them with one five-story apartment complex. The apartment complex is designed for students with two-, three- and four-bedroom units, bicycle and moped parking and a modern design. “It’s going to serve the students at UW and is very attractive and will serve the market for years to come,” project architect Joe Lee said.
The Plan Commission referred the proposal to the Urban Design Commission, which will review the proposed apartment plans for a third time. The Plan Commission’s concern included the proposed building’s height and how far it would be set back from the street. McCormick’s proposal also conflicts with guidelines for
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Coalition working to help students vote over break With upcoming elections, a student group is working to ensure other students participate in the vote over spring break. Coalition members will register students to vote and help them request absentee ballots at tables in Memorial Union and Union South from noon until 2
p.m. and at Gordon’s Commons from 6 until 8 p.m. all week. The vote which will take place April 3, will be for the presidential primary race, county executive board and local judges. Vote Coalition founder Hannah Somers said students need to request absentee ballots in order to
participate in the vote if they plan to leave Madison over spring break. “It’s really important that students request their absentee ballot because the process is really complicated and we want to make sure that everybody is able to vote in the April 3rd election,” Somers said.
On Campus
Science of a stroke Neuroscientist and Distinguished Lecture Series guest Jill Bolte Taylor met with students in Chadbourne Hall Monday to speak about her experiences after suffering a massive stroke at 37. + Photo by Mark Kauzlarich
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”