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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
HR redesign sparks campus conversation By Cheyenne Langkamp The Daily Cardinal
After over a year of planning, the University of WisconsinMadison human resources redesign plan has garnered praise and criticism alike from campus stakeholders since its release Friday. The new plan aims to improve university employee recruitment and retainment in response to the recent decline in state support by making changes to employee benefits, compensation and diversity efforts. The plan includes a recom-
mendation to change current state statute to allow performancebased pay for faculty and staff, which Academic Staff Executive Committee Chair Jeff Shokler said will be a good way to motivate employees to improve. “It would just be another tool in the toolkit of ways in which we can reinforce good service and quality performance for employees on campus,” Shokler said. The new plan defines academic staff as salaried positions
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Corps values Returned Peace Corps volunteer Don Grey speaks about his experiences at the Peace Corps Global House Party Monday. The event aimed to inform students interested in the corps about what to expect and how to get involved. + Photo by Mohamed Aqeel
UW System president appoints committee for chancellor search lesia witkowsky/the daily cardinal
Madison Police Department Capt. Carl Gloede says camera footage will help police track down and identify criminals.
Surveillance cameras to aid downtown police officers By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal
In response to the recent violence in downtown Madison, the city may install additional surveillance cameras throughout the campus area for police to more effectively catch criminals and monitor safety. The city’s financial committee approved Mayor Paul Soglin’s Executive Capital Budget Monday with several amendments, including one that dedicates $100,000 to double the amount of surveillance cameras throughout Madison’s downtown. Currently, the Madison Police Department’s officers and detectives use approximately 30 cameras to assist in tracking down and
identifying suspects, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. “I firmly believe that the security cameras have proven their worth over the years,” Verveer said. MPD Capt. Carl Gloede said surveillance cameras allow police to capture information on tape that can be used to assist criminal investigations. Gloede said surveillance cameras on the 600 block of University Avenue as well as on Lake and Frances Streets assisted detectives in identifying suspects in the May 19 shooting on University Avenue that injured three people. “It is my profound belief that
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University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly appointed a committee Monday to represent the campus community in the search for the next University of WisconsinMadison chancellor. The Search and Screen Committee will narrow down applicants for a new UW-Madison chancellor who will begin in the 2013-2014 academic year, replacing Interim Chancellor David Ward, who began his current term in July 2011. The committee includes UW-Madison faculty, staff, a dean and two students, according to a statement released Monday. Other members come from UW System boards and administration.
The search committee plans to recommend at least five final candidates for the chancellor position to UW System regents by spring break, according to Search and Screen Committee Chair David McDonald, who is also a UW-Madison history professor. A special committee of regents, including Reilly, will then select the most qualified candidate to present to the full board for appointment. According to McDonald, basic qualifications for a chancellor include scholarly achievement, previous leadership experience at universities and the campus community’s respect for the individual. Additionally, he said part of
the search committee’s purpose is to determine more specific qualifications for the new chancellor position, especially for a diverse university such as UW-Madison. “Each constituency [at UW-Madison] has their own vision of what they’d like to see in a chancellor,” McDonald said. “My committee’s job, in part, is to try and harmonize and blend those separate visions into something common.” McDonald said the search committee will hold a series of public listening sessions to hear these opinions from around campus. The search committee will have its first meeting Oct. 3. —Meghan Chua
Suspects attack Wando’s bouncer with broom, bottles Madison police arrested four suspects who attacked several Wando’s staff members early Sunday morning in a bar fight that a city official called “absolutely perverse” and included an assault with a broomstick. A Sun Prairie man was out celebrating the birth of his newborn daughter with three friends when Wando’s staff asked one of the extremely intoxicated group
members to leave the bar after he fell off a barstool, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain. A fight broke out during which a suspect threw a recycling bin full of bottles down the stairs at staff members while another punched and threatened to shoot a bouncer, according to the report. Another suspect beat the
same bouncer in the head with a broomstick, according to police. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the fight was unusual because Wando’s is typically known to have a strict enforcement staff. Although police usually patrol the area near Wando’s during the weekend, the altercation forced police to send additional squad and police on horses, according to Verveer.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”