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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Lecture poses questions of intervention
County 2014 budget funds equality efforts
By Sarah Olson
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University of WisconsinMadison assistant political science professor Andrew Kydd, who is known as a “scientist among political scientists,” addressed an intimate audience at a Madison Committee on Foreign Affairs event Monday where he presented a case for neutral intervention in humanitarian crises. Kydd, who specializes in topics including political violence, conflict resolution and weapons of mass destruction, makes human behavior models to determine how political actors should behave to achieve certain desired outcomes, similar to models economists make to predict changes in the market. Kydd said intervention models illustrating how to respond to mass killings support neutral intervention, which means intervention efforts do not favor either group and do not seek regime change. The models also support targeted sanctions and punishment for leaders who kill civilians during civil war. But Kydd said when considered in the context of real scenarios, such as in Libya and Syria, the models fair “terribly.” “The problem with humanitarian intervention is that it’s viewed as feeble and weak, and unlikely to happen by the perpetrators,” Kydd said, which leads people such as Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to think they can execute mass killings and “the international community will do nothing more than talk about it.” NATO forces justified neutral intervention in Libya in 2011, according to Kydd, but the situation escalated to regime change culminating in the overthrow of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Although the ongoing situation in Syria is much worse than the case was in Libya, the Obama administration’s reluctance to
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Student Services Finance Committee Chair David Vines suggests changes for eligibility funding guidelines.
Committee reviews GSSF funding rules The Eligibility Criteria Review Committee met Tuesday to continue giving input on the General Student Services Fund Group’s application requirements. To receive eligibility and funding from GSSF many requirements need to be fulfilled. GSSF is a fund that supplies money to student organizations that offer direct services to students. Fifteen GSSF student organizations received $1,011,800.14 total in the 2014 fiscal year. The ECRC plans to continue discussing the GSSF guidelines to ensure the student organizations applying for funding receive fair consideration. The ultimate goal of the committee is to create new GSSF parameters. One guideline the ECRC discussed was the requirement that organizations who have received previous funding need to prove their allocated funds were used in a
fiscally responsible manner to renew eligibility. Student Services Finance Committee members rely solely on the representatives’ yearly budget reports, and one of the concerns was organizations might not use their budgets efficiently. One suggestion included sending SSFC members to some of the programs sponsored by GSSF-supported organizations to assess the organization’s use of the money in their budgets. Another recommendation by SSFC Chair David Vines was to require groups who did not use a certain baseline percentage of their budget to present to the representatives, so they could have an opportunity to explain why the money was not used. SSFC members could then determine whether the circumstances did not allow
Dane County officials focused the 2013-’14 budget on assisting the homeless and decreasing the county’s above-average racial disparities, according to District 5 Supervisor Leland Pan. The Dane County Board approved the $560 million spending plan Monday, which allocates $150,000 to build a permanent day resource center for the homeless. Although the Board hoped the resource center would be up and running at the onset of winter, Pan said the county has yet to purchase a property, so the budget also adds $25,000 to the city’s efforts to aid the homeless during the colder months. Those initiatives include providing bathrooms, showers and storage facilities for those without other accommodations. Pan, also a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior, said many of the budget discussions were restricted by the state tax levy Gov. Scott Walker lowered three years ago. “It really limits our ability to push forth new programs because it means if we
were to try to fund something new or increase the funds for something, chances are we’d have to take away funds from something else,” Pan said. The budget also designates $20,000 for Planned Parenthood to invest at its dis-
“A lot of the services are just to general operations in order to make up for federal or state cuts.” Leland Pan dane county supervisor District 10
cretion, which will help offset funding cuts to the organization at the state level, according to Pan. “A lot of the services are just to general operations in order to make up for federal or state cuts,” he added. The budget also attempts to lessen the racial disparities Dane County experiences, which were outlined in a report the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families published in October.
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Mary Burke scheduled to speak at Union South Wednesday Mary Burke, the only current Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin 2014 gubernatorial race, is scheduled to speak at Union South on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus Wednesday night. College Democrats of UW-Madison scheduled the event to provide students an opportunity to familiarize them-
selves with contemporary state issues. Students can ask questions on topics they find concerning, such as college affordability according to College Democrats Chair Austin Helmke. The event is designed as a meet-and-greet to allow everyone who attends to have an opportunity to shake Burke’s hand and briefly converse with
her on a personal level. Helmke said he thinks the event will be a good chance for students to engage with Burke. “She is not very well-known in the state,” Helmke said. “This is a great opportunity for campus to get a sense for who she really is.” Burke is scheduled to speak in Northwoods B room in Union South at 6:45 p.m.
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