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Monday, November 21, 2011
Bill allows vocational diplomas in high school By Rachel Fettig The Daily Cardinal
30,000 rally to recall Scott Walker Members of Madison Teacher’s Inc., Madison’s teachers’ union, march around Capitol Square to protest Walker’s policies. There were no arrests at the rally. By Rachel Hahn The Daily Cardinal
Nearly 30,000 people gathered to protest and to sign recall petitions for Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch Saturday, making it the largest demonstration at the Capitol since the spring collective bargaining protests. Under state law, organizers who began circulating recall petitions on Nov. 15 have 60 days to collect 540, 208 signatures, one-fourth the number of voters in the gubernatorial election, to trigger a recall election. An election would likely take place no earlier than May. United Wisconsin, the political action committee that organized the recall drive, reported Friday they have already collected 105,000 signatures. State Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said Saturday
before a student march organized by the Young Progressives and College Democrats that he was confident organizers could get even 700,000 signatures. “We will stand up day after day and go out and make sure we have the signatures we need to make sure we recall Governor Scott Walker … we have thousands and thousands [of signatures] more to go,” Erpenbach said. “But we’ll get them.” Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt and former Associated Students of Madison Vice-Chair Beth Huang were among many who spoke against Walker’s policies at the rally. “Tell the 180,000 students in the UW System that our
never-ceasing annual 5.5 percent tuition increases are worth it when we’re wait-listed class after class,” Huang said in response to the recent university budget cuts. Former Senator Russ Feingold also kicked off a pre-rally at the Capitol by signing a recall petition and talking to volunteers. Despite interest from protestors, Feingold reiterated he would not run against Walker in a recall election. This decision leaves Democrats without a clear challenger although media groups and supporters have brought up several names such as Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, and Erpenbach. In an interview with The Daily Cardinal, Erpenbach said he was “looking” at running but wanted to focus on the recall petition.
A bill introduced in September would allow Wisconsin school districts to offer vocational high school diplomas to students, permitting students to graduate without fulfilling educational requirements for core subjects now in place. Currently, high school students must complete 13 credit units to graduate distributed across English, social studies, science and math departments. If the bill proposed by state Rep. Mark Radcliffe, D-Black River Falls is passed, high school students would not have to fulfill the credit requirements currently needed to graduate. Instead, they could fulfill a certain number of vocational, or job-specific, credits, as deter-
mined by school boards. Radcliffe said it will open up jobs for high school graduates.
“They can use this to help market themselves to employers.” Rep. Mark Radcliffe D-Black River Falls
“In order to compete in a global economy and bring jobs back to Wisconsin we need a skilled workforce and this bill is a piece of that goal,” Radcliffe said in a statement.
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UW student receives Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford For the first time in 11 years, a UW-Madison student earned a Rhodes scholarship. UW-Madison senior Alexis Brown was announced Saturday as one of 32 recipients of the prestigious award, which will grant her two to three years of study at Oxford University. Brown, an English major from Algonquin, Ill., received the award for outstanding work in the classroom and the community. “We congratulate Alexis on winning the most prestigious of all higher education honors,” Chancellor David Ward said in a statement. “In her, we see the makings
of a gifted scholar who will be an effective voice for the humanities within academia and beyond.” Her community involvement includes working as a peer tutor as well as a poetry reviewer, copy editor and associate editor for The Madison Review, a literary arts journal. Brown is also the founder and editor-in-chief for The Madison Journal of Literary Criticism, a journal that offers literature students a space to publish their scholarly work and engage in contemporary literary debate. Brown joins a list of past honorees including former President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold.
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CAMPUS NEWS
Just Bhangra, baby! Nearly 50 Walker supporters made their way to Capitol Square briefly (left) while Walker opponents organized demonstrations for hours through the day (right). PHOTOS BY Grace Liu/the daily cardinal
The UW School of Bhangra performs at the India Students Association’s Fall Show 2011 Friday at the Wisconsin Union theater.+ Photo by Grace Liu
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”