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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Senate approves bill to increase online privacy The Wisconsin state Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to pass a bill that would protect citizens’ private Internet accounts, such as Facebook and Twitter, from employers, universities and landlords.
“The current generation will write the laws on social media.” Melissa Sargent state representative D-Madison
Currently, employers can request all passwords to private Internet accounts, including social media sites, before offering a position to applicants. Employers can use information gathered from private accounts when making hiring decisions and can also refuse to hire those
candidates who do not provide their passwords. The bill would prohibit employers, educational institutions and landlords from requesting private online passwords and from discriminating against people who refuse to provide such information. However, parties that are currently allowed to request potential employees’ information will still be able to view Internet content that is public domain and personal information published or sent through an organization’s server or network. The bill also allows employers to restrict Internet access to certain sites if the device is paid for, even in part, by the organization. State Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, the author of a similar bill in the state Assembly, said she was pleased to see the passage of the bill backed by bipartisan support, accord-
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Peace Corps panelists share community service stories By Sarah Olson the daily cardinal
Prospective and returned Peace Corps volunteers crossed paths at a Peace Corps reception Tuesday, where a panel of speakers shared wisdom gained in their experiences serving communities
in a globalized world. Lori DiPrete Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute director for education and engagement, facilitated discussion between three panel-
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UW-Madison faculty, staff, students and community members participate in breakout sessions to gather feedback that will be incorporated in the upcoming campus diversity plan.
Community engages with diversity issues By Maija Inveiss the daily cardinal
After the final campus engagement session Tuesday, committee members say that they want to gather more student feedback on what should be included in an upcoming campus diversity plan. The committee hopes to see more student involvement in future engagement sessions in the spring when community members will be given a similar opportunity for input on the first draft of the plan, according to Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee Co-chair Ruth Litovsky. Committee members say they believe community involvement is high, but student participation has lagged. “I think there’s been a lot of staff and some faculty,” Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee Co-chair Ryan Adserias said. “We haven’t had as many students as I was hoping to have originally.” According to committee member Eric Schroeckenthaler, the committee hopes to extend its reach to students, such as by increasing its online presence. “Students have a very different perspective on campus
than staff and faculty and it’s an important perspective, because we are central to this campus,” Schroeckenthaler said. Schroeckenthaler said the committee is hoping to get more students involved by asking for feedback in an engagement session for international students and in one jointly held by Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee and LGBT Campus Center.
“Students have a very different perspective on campus than staff and faculty and it’s an important perspective.” Eric Schroeckenthaler ad hoc diversity planning committee
The goal for the engagement sessions is to find out from the community what their main concerns are toward diversity on campus. The Diversity Planning Committee is going to integrate these concerns in the first draft of the Diversity Plan. The Diversity Plan has been discussed since February 2013.
A previous plan expired in 2008, so it needed to be updated, Litovsky said. “We’ve been working since February ... gathering our initial thoughts ... and pouring over lots of different data and talking to all kinds of different folks,” Adserias said. Wisconsin Public Television staff member Jen Hadley said she believes the Diversity Plan should encourage communication from people of all different walks of life. “I would like to see places where people of different backgrounds and ethnicities socialize together,” Hadley said. “We may come together on campus, but then we all go into our own neighborhoods and do our own separate things.” At a session late Monday night attended by many custodians and manual laborers, participants discussed some of the diversity problems they have faced in their field. One issue raised was lack of language and translation support. Other topics discussed in breakout sessions were revisions to ethnic studies courses and teaching assistant diversity training programs.
State Assembly passes ‘sexting’ bill in Tuesday session
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Peace Corps recruiter Eric Luckey said 106 alumni are currently serving in the Peace Corps.
A state Assembly bill making it illegal to disseminate sexual images online and through phones without the sender’s consent passed on a voice vote Tuesday in the state Assembly. The bill, officially called the Individual Privacy Protection Act, but commonly referred to as the “revenge porn ban” and “sexting” bill because of the con-
tent it covers, passed with one amendment, written by the bill’s author, state Rep. John Spiros, R-Marshfield. The amendment excluded images that were newsworthy or of public importance from the bill. If the bill were to become law, it would cover issues such as those people whose intimate pictures, taken while they were
in a relationship, are posted online after a breakup, as well as those people who choose to “sext” someone else, and find that the receiver forwarded the message on to others. The Assembly messaged the bill to the state Senate, which had its last session for the year Tuesday, after the successful voice vote.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”