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Walker ahead of Neumann in campaign funds Part 1 of 2 in a series on campaign finance By Alison Dirr The Daily Cardinal
For the last six months, gubernatorial candidates Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and former congressman Mark Neumann have been engaged in a close competition in an invisible primary–a race for campaign contributions. Walker is ahead of Neumann both in terms of funding and
the number of donations he has received according to their latest campaign finance reports. However, in the first gubernatorial race in 28 years without an incumbent, there will likely be a hard-fought internal political battle on the Republican front. According to an April St. Norbert’s poll, in a head-to-head matchup between Neumann and Walker, Neumann received support from 23 percent of voters to Walker’s 24 percent. Thirty-three percent of voters said they were unsure whom they would vote for. However, the Walker campaign
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Students “froze” on Bascom Hill Monday to promote Sexual Assault Awareness Month, taking place in April.
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Cash in hand at the end of 2009
Faculty approve free-speech proposal
Walker: more than $2 million Neumann: $974,178
The Faculty Senate voted to approve a proposal Monday to ensure that faculty members can freely criticize the actions of UW-Madison administrators and policies. The new proposal, written by UW-Madison political science professor Donald Downs, ensures that faculty members will not be punished for speaking about public issues as private citizens or within the context of their expertise as an employee at UW-Madison. Ian Dobson, a UW-Madison professor of engineering, said although he supports the amendment, he felt that speech within one’s area of expertise as a faculty member could also be considered speech on behalf of the university. “When you’re contacted to make
Money spent by each candidate Walker: $1.2 million Neumann: $350,803
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a statement about your area of capacity and that happens to be a matter of public interest or concern … then they are asking you for an informed opinion based on being a member of the University of Wisconsin,” he said. According to Chancellor Biddy Martin, however, there is a distinction between these two types of speech. “Even if you’re speaking in your official capacity on a matter of public concern you are not speaking on behalf of the university,” she said. The amendment also states faculty members are still required to act responsibly and to acknowledge that they are not speaking on behalf of the university in certain situations. “It does acknowledge that we feel a sense of responsibility for the words we choose and the environment we choose to say it,” UW-Madison history
professor John Sharpless said. Bill Tracy, chair of the Faculty Senate’s University Committee, also addressed the UC’s ad hoc committee report evaluating provost Paul DeLuca’s proposal to create a new Vice Chancellor for Research position, which is a duty currently held by the Dean of the Graduate School. Tracy said the ad hoc committee called to increase the workload of the associate deans to relieve the burden from the individual serving both roles rather than separate the job into two different positions. “The ad hoc committee took the position that UW-Madison has done well in research and we were concerned that we didn’t destroy a good system but recognize that there were improvements to be made,” Hector DeLuca, chair of the ad hoc committee, said.
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Jin’s Chicken and Fish license revoked after many violations By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal
The Vending Oversight Committee placed a motion to revoke the vending license of Jeffrey Okafo of Jin’s Chicken and Fish Monday night. The one-year revocation is a result of, according to committee members, Okafo’s consistent violation of Madison City laws with regard to street use, health codes, parking and vending ordinance. Okafo, owner of the food cart usually located on library mall, has been regularly vending with a suspended license. He was also
ticketed for leaving his cart unattended for one to two weeks in January earlier this year. Okafo’s first violation in September 2008 involved vending without a license. Multiple charges have been made against Okafo since. “This committee has suspended his license for a six-month period and a thirty-day period. One year is the least amount of time he should be suspended considering the amount of violations he has,” said John Strange, jin’s page 3
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Bill Tracy, chair of the University Committee, outlined the ad hoc committee report evaluating provost Paul DeLuca’s propsal to restructure the graduate school at the Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”