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Monday, November 26, 2012
Marijuana reforms pass over Wisconsin By Andrew Haffner The Daily Cardinal
Elections this November saw the legalization of recreational cannabis in Colorado and Washington state, as well as numerous ballot referendums approving medical marijuana use across the country, but Wisconsin has yet to follow the trend in a country that is increasingly more accepting of the drug. Since 1996, when California became the first state to legalize medicinal marijuana, state drug laws across the country have trended toward more relaxed policies. Currently, 18 states allow medicinal marijuana, and campaigns throughout the remaining 32 are pushing for more pot-friendly legislation. The rise in pro-marijuana legislation correlates with public opinion; a 2011 Gallup poll found that approximately 50
percent of Americans supported legalizing the drug, while only 46 percent opposed, the first time in the poll’s 43-year history supporters were the majority. Recent polls have shown similar support. Despite growing pro-marijuana sentiment, Wisconsin still enforces statewide prohibition of the drug. Wisconsin legislators have unsuccessfully proposed their own version of marijuana legalization, the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act, since the early 2000s and Dane County approved a medical marijuana ballot initiative in 2010. But National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws lawyer Jerry Frederick remains skeptical a law will be passed here any time soon. “With the Republican lean in the state,
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Graphic by Dylan Moriarty
Some states around the country have decriminalized marijuana, which means someone caught with under a certain amount of the drug gets a ticket but it stays off their record.
Man commits suicide at Dayton Street ramp A 54-year-old man jumped off a West Dayton Street parking ramp Sunday afternoon and died on impact, according to the Madison Police Department. MPD Sgt. Jason Ostrenga said the man jumped off the Civic Center parking ramp, located at 309 W. Dayton St., to commit suicide at approximately 1:34 p.m. “[The man] left his vehicle on the sixth floor of the parking ramp and left what appears to be a suicide note,” Ostrenga said. A witness heard the man hit the ground and called Madison
International enrollment increases at UW, nationwide
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Running into the record books
With his 79th career touchdown Saturday, Montee Ball broke the NCAA FBS career touchdown record. Head to dailycardinal.com for full coverage of the record-breaking performance. +Cardinal File Photo by Shoaib Altaf
Labor board rules Palermo’s legally terminated workers A regional labor relations board’s decision that Palermo’s did not violate workers’ rights in firing a group of employees will likely not change student labor activists’ approach to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s ties with the pizza company, one activist said Sunday. The Milwaukee office of the National Labor Relations Board ruled last week Palermo’s termination of 75 workers under
an immigration audit was legal and not retaliation against workers’ creation of a union, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday. However, the NLRB also said the company unlawfully fired nine workers for supporting union activity and a workers’ strike that began in June to protest unsafe working conditions. An attorney for Palermo’s worker groups said they plan
police, according to Ostrenga. Ostrenga said the man died upon impact and said the MPD does not suspect foul play. The police investigated the scene and called the coroner, who will contact any family members, according to Ostrenga. But Ostrenga said he did not know if any relatives had been contacted as of Sunday at approximately 5:20 p.m. Due to the circumstances, the police department will likely not release the man’s identity, according to Ostrenga.
to appeal the decision regarding the immigration audit at the Washington D.C. NLRB, according to the Journal Sentinel. UW-Madison’s Student Labor Action Coalition, Teaching Assistants’ Association and Labor Licensing Policy Committee urged the university to cut all ties with Palermo’s in mid-October. SLAC and LLPC member
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By Sam Cusick The Daily Cardinal
A higher number of students from around the world, especially China and India, have enrolled at the University of WisconsinMadison over the past five years, as the school continues to gain international recognition. But such trends are not unique to UW-Madison, as indicated by the 2012 Open Doors Report, which documented trends in international education exchange with an emphasis on international students studying in the U.S. over the past year. The national trends described in the report released Nov. 12 by the Institute of International Education, a non-profit cultural education exchange and training program,
are parallel to international student rates at UW-Madison, according to Assistant Dean and Director of International Student Services Laurie Cox. The results also showed a nationwide increase of students from China. At UW-Madison, according to Cox, Chinese students have surpassed South Korean students as the most represented international students on campus. “I would say… for many, many years, South Korea was the number one sending country, so that is a major shift,” Cox said. Cox attributed the increase in Chinese students to the numerous visits to China by former
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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”