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Police: shots fired near campus drug related By Erik Thiel The Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin Police Department revealed at a meeting Tuesday that last week’s shooting at University Houses apartments in Eagle Heights resulted from a drug deal dispute. The shooting occurred at approximately 9:30 p.m. last Tuesday and no injuries were reported, according to UWPD Chief Susan Riseling. There were two cars involved in a drug deal when a third car came, interested in buying drugs, according to Riseling. Residents, who are primarily UW graduate students, reported four to five shots “rapidly fired” from the first two cars outside apartment number 10, according to Riseling. Police later recovered bullet shells, but did not find a weapon. Riseling said she does not believe the weapon ever left the car.
UWPD arrested three suspects from the third car on the way to purchase drugs, but the suspects in the other two cars have not been apprehended or identified, according to Riseling. Riseling named the suspects as Jurell Hilliard, Cortez Braxton and Gavin Pyle. She said Hilliard and Braxton are being held for violating their probation, but police released Pyle because he was not on probation and there was no evidence to keep him in custody. Community members at the meeting also had an opportunity to voice their concerns and ask the police questions about the incident. Eagle Heights resident Heather McLean said she is satisfied with the security police placed around the area in the way of frequent patrols, but is confused about how officials found shell casings outside
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UWPD Chief Susan Riseling speaks to Eagle Heights residents about a shooting in the area last week.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Panel discusses how state budget could affect UW By Justin Williams The Daily Cardinal
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The Frequency banned hip-hop shows after a shooting outside the venue earlier this year.
Committee to address hip-hop in Madison By Morgan Haefner The Daily Cardinal
The Madison Arts Commission established a subcommittee to preserve the local hip-hop community at its meeting Tuesday following backlash about local venue owners restricting the types of shows they are willing to host. The subcommittee, to be chaired by MAC member Anthony Brown II, is to be in place for one year and will “[present] hiphop music in the community that shows not all hip-hop music is negative, aggressive or hard edged as it has been characterized by mass media,” according to Brown. He proposed the subcommittee to assist local artists in transforming negative attitudes toward the genre after several instances of violence at local shows. Most recently, The Frequency announced it would no longer host hiphop artists after a fight that began in the venue escalated into shots fired outside, although no one was injured. Madison has a contentious history with hip-hop. In 2009, the Brink Lounge discontinued hip-hop shows after a fight broke out, and two violent events at The Majestic Theatre and High Noon Saloon in recent years caused tension in the music community, although
neither venue officially banned hip-hop acts from performing. Brown requested the subcommittee include arts commission members, Madison Police Department personnel and local artists, highlighting the importance of collaboration between these different entities. Brown, who is also a hip-hop artist and performs under the stage name, “A.L,” said he and other local artists have limited performing space in Madison. “It’s frustrating to local hip-hop artists … It’s frustrating when you don’t feel welcome in Madison,” he said. The next step is to “figure out ways for hiphop music to exist and keep events safe for individuals,” according to Brown, who said venue owners, artists and media need to work together to figure out why the public has a negative opinion of hip-hop. “My goal is to shed positive light on hip-hop,” he said. Brown also hopes to involve University of Wisconsin-Madison students in the subcommittee’s discussions. “I think it would be great to have undergraduates who are involved in the hip-hop community and who love to listen to hip-hop music to become consultants,” he said.
A voluntary, nonprofit organization representing University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty held a state budget forum Tuesday to discuss Gov. Scott Walker’s new biennial budget and its effects on state and campus affairs. The forum, hosted by PROFS, included experts on various portions of the budget, including Darrell Bazzell, the UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and Andrew Reschovsky, a UW-Madison professor of public affairs and applied economics. The speakers presented their analyses of the proposed budget plan, highlighting its future effects on higher education, Medicare and job creation. The proposed biennial budget, which would take effect this July if approved by the state legislature, would give a $181 million funding increase to the UW System in the upcoming biennium, following a $315 million cut two years ago. The state would give the UW System funding through a newly formatted block grant,
which gives the universities more flexibility on how to spend their money. Bazzell said that while the new budget plan increases university funding, there are still some funding issues under the current proposal, because it does not increase need-based financial aid. Additionally, he said the budget in its current form would remove the tuition cap schools in the UW System currently must abide by when calculating tuition for the upcoming year. However, student representatives from UW-Madison have said they would work with state government to try to re-establish a tuition cap within the budget. The current tuition cap for UW-Madison prevents the university from increasing the school’s tuition by more than 5.5 percent of what it currently is, but student representatives have said they would like the cap lowered to between 3 and 4 percent. Additionally, the budget is designed to grant the university new flexibilities with its pay plan, which provides salary increases
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Police report woman sexually assaulted on Mifflin Street Three men sexually assaulted a 22-year-old female Madison resident on West Mifflin Street early Saturday morning, according to a police report. The woman was walking home alone at approximately 1 a.m. after drinking at a downtown bar when three men approached her on the 200 block of West Mifflin St., according to the report. Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said the
woman recognized the men and believes they followed her from the bar. One of the three men allegedly pushed her to the ground and groped her over her clothing, which DeSpain said constitutes a fourth-degree sexual assault of “indecent-type touching.” DeSpain said the woman remembered falling down and a man touching her inappropriately but could not recall other details when she was found on the sidewalk.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”