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Weekend, October 22-24, 2010
Hulsey confuses Baldwin support By Beth Pickhard The Daily Cardinal
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Academy Award Winning Documentarian and UW-Madison Alumnus Errol Morris accredits UW with much of his success. Morris spoke Thursday as part of the university’s Year of the Arts.
Award-winning documentarian, UW alum praises university By Taryn McCormack The Daily Cardinal
Academy Award-winning documentarian and 1969 UW-Madison alum Errol Morris spoke Thursday at a Humanities Without Boundaries Event as part of the university’s Year of the Arts. Morris said he accredits UW-Madison for much of his success. “This school made an incredible difference in my life. I don’t know where I would be without the University of WisconsinMadison,” Morris said. Morris said he struggled to be to be accepted into a university until he was advised to apply to UW-Madison. “I thought I was headed for diesel mechanic school. The
placement officer of my high school urged me to apply to the University of Wisconsin because they take everybody,” Morris said. Morris said his fascination with film started at UW-Madison as well.
“I got my degree in history at a time when this department was probably the best in the world.” Errol Morris documentarian UW-Madison alum
“The Wisconsin State Historical Society was given
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The Student Service Finance Committee voted to endorse Chair Matt Manes’ proposed Campus Services Fund Thursday. The CSF, part of Manes’ proposed strategic budget plan, would empower the Associated Students of Madison to ensure funding for services they deem “essential” to the student body. SSFC representative Aliyya Terry critiqued the proposal in open forum, offering several amendments to Manes’ original proposal. Terry’s amendments included potential limits on the CSF, such as a cap on the total number of services the CSF could fund at a given time. Terry also said ASM members should be required to col-
lect a certain number of student signatures before proposing a CSF service. According to Manes’ original proposal, any ASM member could propose a service for the CSF, while non-members would be required to first gather 30 student signatures before proposing. Terry suggested ASM members meet the 30-signature requirement as a way to “actively engage” the student body. “It’s a way of opening the door to get students involved in the process,” Terry said. However, other council members disagreed. SSFC Secretary Jason Smathers said the proposed amendments would “limit the [the CSF] from the outset.” Regarding the 30-signature
“This was clearly a misunderstanding and the next time I’ll put it in writing.” Brett Hulsey candidate 77th Assembly District
fications out just to make sure in the future,” Hulsey said. “This was clearly a misunderstanding and the next time I’ll put it in writing.” Ben Manski, Green Party candidate for District 77, said Hulsey hulsey page 3
an amazing grant, a gift. They received literally thousands of films,” Morris said. “You could go to the Historical Society Library and order them up. I started compulsively watching movies.” Errol Morris’ film, “The Fog of the War,” is dedicated to two of Morris’ favorite Wisconsin professors, Harvey Goldberg and George Mosse. “I got my degree in history at a time when this department was probably the best in the world,” Morris said. “The two major professors, who were fabulously interesting and absolutely diametrically opposed, really are responsible for what interests me. It all came out of this place and for that I am really grateful.”
SSFC endorses chair’s proposed Campus Services Fund By Alison Bauter
Brett Hulsey, Dane County Supervisor and Democratic 77th Assembly District candidate, retracted claims he made Wednesday that he received the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. At a debate of District 77 candidates, Hulsey said he received Baldwin’s endorsement. “I am honored to have the support of Representative Tammy Baldwin. Spencer Black is supporting me along with Senator Risser, County Executive Falk, Mayor Dave,” Hulsey said during the debate. Hulsey said Thursday he had received a call from Baldwin following the Sept. 14 primary, but misunderstood their communication. “She called me the day after the campaign, the primary, to congratulate me and I thought we
talked about it, but I guess it is just a misunderstanding,” he said. Baldwin has not endorsed anyone in the District 77 race. “I will be sending e-mail veri-
suggestion, Smathers said the mechanism for student input already existed in electing members of ASM. “I just don’t see what the problem is,” Smathers said. Following the CSF’s passage, Manes said he would present his proposal, along with a questionand-answer session, to ASM Nov. 3, before moving on to debate the following week. The meeting ended with the council going into closed session for budget training. The SSFC’s two newest members, Rae Lymer and Riaan Roux, completed budget training along with the rest of the council. They will be officially sworn in at the SSFC’s next meeting Tuesday as the council begins its new budget season.
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New York Times Columnist Bob Herbert urges the American public to take action to end the Afghanistan war at the UW law school.
New York Times columnist condemns Afghanistan war By Tessa Hahn The Daily Cardinal
Herbert spoke about the American public’s ignorance of the war in Afghanistan and the need to end the conflict. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert led the UW Law School’s annual Robert W. Kastenmeier lecture Thursday. Herbert said the justifications for the Afghanistan war are trivial and not worth the destruction for Americans and Afghanis. “This is what war is: Suffering and bloodshed and terror and
death,” Herbert said. “It’s a horror that’s almost unimaginable to those who have not experienced it, and if we are going to subject our young people to that kind of hell, there ought to be a damn good reason for it.” Herbert said Americans do not know the purpose of the ongoing war. “The problem, folks, is not with the troops. It’s with us,” Herbert said. “We’re fighting these terrible wars with no real sense of what we’re doing, what herbert page 3
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”