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UW, U.S. hockey standout Suter dies at 57 By Jack Baer THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Bob Suter, far left at the bottom, is the first member of the Miracle on Ice team to pass away.
Badger athletics lost a close member of its family Tuesday afternoon, as the Wisconsin men’s hockey team issued a release announcing the death of former Badger hockey player Bob Suter. He was 57. Suter was a standout defenseman during his time with the Badgers, from 1975-’79. He was a member of the 1977 National Championship team and registered an assist in the overtime 6-5 victory over Michigan in the title game. Filling the role of the hardnosed blue liner, Suter led the Badgers in penalties and penalty minutes in three different seasons. He graduated as Wisconsin’s alltime penalty leader. Suter is perhaps best known for his time with the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, the Miracle on Ice team. He is the first member of the historic team to pass away. “This is a heart-breaking day. Bob was the ultimate teammate,” said Wisconsin women’s hock-
ey head coach Mark Johnson, a Wisconsin and Olympic teammate of Suter’s, in the release. “He could skate like the wind and was as hard of a competitor that I ever knew. He has passed much too young.” After his decorated amateur career, Suter rejected a contract from the Los Angeles Kings and never played in the National Hockey League. He instead played in the Central Hockey League for a short time. Suter’s post-playing career brought him back to Madison for good, where he briefly coached the now-revived USHL Madison Capitols. He then co-owned and directed the Capitol Ice Arena, where the Wisconsin State Journal has reported he suffered a fatal apparent heart attack. “It’s a sad day for not only the community of Madison but the hockey community who knew Bob and all of the players who he touched and who he gave an opportunity to play hockey
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Public Safety Review Committee plans for on-body police cameras Members of the city’s Public Safety Review Committee met Tuesday to discuss the potential use of on-body cameras by Madison Police Department officers, according to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8. “The recommendation was
to move forward on the cameras themselves,” Resnick said. “We discussed other costs associated to the initiative, and other general thoughts and concerns from MPD, while in the court of wanting to understand any long-term costs and implications.”
Although there are no set financial costs at this time, Resnick fully anticipates that the study commissioned by the Public Safety Review Committee will determine the final numbers.
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Police look into possible drowning Madison police are opening an investigation after a 52-year-old unidentified man was found dead and pulled out of the water in Burr Jones Park, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. Witnesses at the scene saw the man entering the water for a swim while intoxicated and then called for help, the report said. Following the arrival of the Madison Fire Department, divers immediately jumped in the water to rescue the man. According to the release, they unsuccessfully attempted to resuscitate him. Officials have yet to release the name of the victim, saying in the statement they would wait until they notified the man’s next of kin.
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Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen filed a writ of certiorari Tuesday to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Van Hollen appeals same-sex marriage ban to High Court By Andrew Hahn THE DAILY CARDINAL
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All my sisters Today, Union South hosts a group exhibition created by 23 sisterless female artists. Their work examines the close connections between women in and out of sisterhood. + Photo by Emily Buck
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Wisconsin’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage could be the platform from which the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the issue for the entire nation, according state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. Van Hollen submitted a writ of certiorari to the High Court Tuesday, asking the justices to overturn last week’s decision in a federal appeals court that Wisconsin’s ban violates the Equal
Protections Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Van Hollen said he is confident the Court will rule on the issue in its next term. In the appeal Van Hollen argues the Supreme Court must adopt Wisconsin’s case to settle confusion for the same-sex couples who married immediately after a federal judge initially struck down the law. “The marriage amendment referendum, voted for by 1,264,310
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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.”