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Committee approves upgrade to frat house
SSFC representative resigns from position By Tamar Myers the daily cardinal
A member of the Student Services Finance Committee resigned Monday, saying he had been labeled as an “extremist” and no longer felt serving on the committee was a productive use of his time. University of WisconsinMadison senior German Larrain resigned from his position on the committee in an email to its representatives. SSFC is tasked with allocating the General Student Services Fund, made up of segregated fees students pay each year as part of tuition. The funding is then granted to certain student organizations the committee determines provide a direct student service. Other registered student organizations can apply for grants from Associated Students of Madison, but GSSF groups are funded in a much larger way. Larrain was part of a group that tried to drastically reform SSFC bylaws last year. Their proposal, Larrain said, would have prevented organizations from requesting funding for paid student workers and eliminated the GSSF designation, streamlining funding into
one process for all Registered Students Organizations. Student Council voted to create a committee this year to examine the GSSF eligibility criteria. The group is composed of GSSF groups and SSFC members, and Student Council Chair David Gardner said it will eventually include members of non-GSSF registered student organizations. Larrain said using GSSF groups to help reform bylaws could elicit “valuable points,” but would not help eliminate the GSSF fund itself because groups “wouldn’t say anything against their own self interest.” At an SSFC meeting Monday, Chair David Vines said he believes SSFC members have done “a good job.” ASM officials declined to comment further. At the meeting, SSFC also voted 9-0 to approve the $61,315 budget of Atheists Humanists and Agnostics, with two members abstaining from voting. Representatives also heard a budget presentation from Veterans, Educators, and Traditional Students, which requested $34,874. SSFC will decide on their budget Thursday.
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According to Blank, at least 50 percent of funding must go to academic staff that did not receive pay increases in the 2012-’13 academic year. The goal is for 20 to 30 percent of all academic staff to receive raises.
The city Landmarks Commission gave its approval of the alteration plans for the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House located on Frances Street and listened to a proposal that included tearing down the Highlander House, which is located on West Gilman Street, at a meeting Monday. Landmarks Commission Chairman Stuart Levitan said the alteration plan for the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House is a “beautiful project.” The plan includes changing the windows of the back of the house to their historic style, adding a front entry stoop that will act as an Americans with Disabilities Act accessible ramp and slightly expanding the size of the house under the second story porch, according to Mark Bastian, who is an architect for the plan. George Austin, a representative of the philanthropic organization the Tosa Foundation, said the foundation is helping pay for the house’s alterations and the house is a “historic landmark.” He also said, “the alterations will give it 100 years more of life.” Levitan said, “That [the Delta Upsilon Fraternity] is restoring and renovating in an architecturally conscious manner is a real testament to that fraternity. It should be a model for other fraternities in the Langdon neighborhood to emulate.” According to Levitan, a fraternity that has not emulated this model is Sigma Epsilon, which wanted to tear down its house. The commission also heard a proposal made by
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Chancellor Rebecca Blank addressed the Academic Staff Assembly Monday, speaking about staff compensation among other issues.
Blank talks HR Design future The Academic Staff Assembly discusses staff compensation By Maija Inveiss THE DAILY CARDINAL
The Academic Staff Assembly met Monday to hear from Chancellor Rebecca Blank about the human resources plan and a fund used to give raises for academic staff. Last spring, the state Legislature delayed the University of WisconsinMadison Human Resources Design Plan that was supposed to take effect in July 2013. The plan would have changed the structure of how UW-Madison employees are compensated. University officials are continuing to work on the plan that would go into effect in 2015 if approved by the state Legislature. Blank said creating the new HR Design Plan will be tough, but it is essential to compensate the staff working for the university as effectively as possible.
Blank also discussed the Critical Compensation Fund, which gives pay raises to the academic staff. Director of Human Resources Robert Lavigna presented information on the fund and said this year, one percent of the campus budget is allotted for pay raises to academic staff. This percentage is lower than the two percent allotted in the budget last year, Lavigna said.
“Our most important resource is our people and I know that the work that you do is critical to our educational enterprise ... and our Wisconsin Idea.” Rebecca Blank chancellor UW-Madison
Alternate side parking to take effect Thursday evening
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Students read the names of men and women killed in the line of duty since Sept. 11, 2001 on Bascom Hill Monday. + Photo by Amy Gruntner
Alternate side parking restrictions will begin at 1 a.m. Friday throughout Madison, Wis., which will require residents to park their cars on the odd numbered house side of the street starting Thursday evening. These restrictions are in effect seven days a week from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. from Nov. 15 to March 15, regardless of the weather. Car
owners must park on the odd number house side of the street on odd numbered days and even house sides on even days. Violators may receive $20 fines, or $60 fines during a snow emergency. “To avoid fines people should park their cars on the proper side of the street,” Streets Division spokesperson George
Dreckmann said. “Residents should also remove seldom used vehicles, boats and other trailers from the streets now to avoid fines.” The area that extends from Park and Proudfit Streets to Thornton Avenue and the Yahara River, and from Lake Mendota to Lake Monona is exempt from the restrictions.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”