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Forum explores campus safety issues SAFEwalk calls up since 2012 By Tamar Myers the daily cardinal
At a Memorial Union town hall meeting Sunday evening, Dean of Students Lori Berquam shared something a criminal suspect once told her. “‘College students are usually drunk and they won’t remember what happens to them anyway,’” Berquam quoted the suspect as saying. Berquam communicated this at a University of WisconsinMadison forum to warn students about their susceptibility to crime. The town hall-style meeting was held to answer students’ questions and gather input on improving campus safety. Other officials participating in the forum included UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling,
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Student government secretary Carissa Szlosek discussed ideas to improve campus safety gathered during a ‘think tank’ brainstorming session at a town hall forum Sunday. Madison Police Department Captain Carl Gloede and student government representatives David Gardner and Carissa Szlosek. Gloede spoke to attendees about the recent surge in strong-
armed robberies, which do not involve weapon use. According to his figures, this type of crime increased 30 percent from 2011-’13. He attributed the uptick partially to “apple picking” by criminals
who swipe the iPhones of walkers too engrossed in their cell phones to notice their surroundings. SAFEwalk coordinator Kate Moran said this rise is one reason the walking escort program has
experienced increased use this year. Moran also attributes the rise to legally mandated crime bulletins that police now email to the campus. In August, there was a 98 percent increase in SAFEwalk calls from last year, Moran said. So far in September there has been a 75 percent increase in use, with 348 calls to date compared to 198 total in September 2012. The program has taken measures such as upping the number of SAFEwalker shifts to keep up with demand. “We’re working harder than ever,” Moran said. After presentations by officials, Gardner and Szlosek led “think tank” groups for students to brainstorm ideas about improving safety. A much-discussed idea was finding an alternative to the SAFEcab service that was discon-
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US House seeks one-year delay to health care law in spending bill By Sarah Olson the daily cardinal
The U.S. House of Representatives voted early Sunday morning to amend a bill that would postpone a federal government shutdown with a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act and a repeal of a taxation to pay for it. Without a federal spending bill, large federal government operations, including national parks and monuments’ services, could shut down starting Oct. 1. The shutdown would also put some non-essential federal workers on unpaid furloughs. The House passed a bill Sept. 20 that sought to defund the Affordable Care Act in return for providing federal government funding. Sunday’s House vote
comes after the U.S. Senate voted Friday to amend the bill to include funding for the Affordable Care Act. “Obamacare is not ready,” U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., said in a statement Sunday. “Today the House stood with the majority of Americans and passed a resolution that funds the government and delays Obamacare for one year.” U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a statement, “I voted in favor of allowing a vote to de-fund Obamacare. I oppose Obamacare. I want to see it repealed and replaced. That can happen only if the Senate is actually allowed to proceed to final passage of a bill that does so.” But in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., criticized some members
of Congress for leading the country on a “divisive, irresponsible path.” “Last week, my former Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives continued to put their own personal, partisan politics ahead of progress for the American people,” Baldwin said. House policies constitute “crisis to crisis governing,” according to Baldwin, and create uncertainty for the nation’s economy and financial insecurity for American businesses and families. But House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement the House plan reflects the American people’s desire to keep the government running and stop the implementation
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Police arrest man responsible for Sept. 5 sexual assault Madison police arrested a 37-year-old man for sexually assaulting a college student after selling her ecstasy on State Street earlier in September, according to a police report. Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in the report Jonathan Evenson met the 22-year-old woman
who was “very intoxicated” while she was out celebrating her birthday Sept. 5. According to DeSpain, Evenson took the woman to his downtown office and later to his home on the West Side. He is accused of sexually assaulting her in both locations after providing her ecstasy.
The MPD charged Evenson with four counts of second degree sexual assault, which could include non-consensual sexual contact or intercourse involving force or violence, according to state law. He is also being charged for the sale of non-narcotic illegal substances.
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Williams, a retired professor emeritus, discusses Bottle Biology and explains how to use plastic bottles for research and experiments.
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Paul Williams: ‘coach’ of undergrad plant research By Megan Stoebig the daily cardinal
Paul Williams, a retired emeritus professor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison plant pathology department, came to the university as a graduate student in 1959 off a train from Vancouver. Williams was offered a professorship right after graduation and
assigned to take care of the cabbage and sauerkraut crops on campus. The job, he says, quickly morphed into many different things. He noticed plants in the cabbage family took a notoriously long time to go through their life cycles. He said he had a “eureka
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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.”