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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Change in stem-cell policy stirs debate
ASM judging student need for second 24hour library By Rory Linnane
By Claire Wiese
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The Associated Students of Madison Academic Affairs Committee is currently surveying students to gauge student interest in an additional 24-hour campus library. According to Claire Lempke, ASM media specialist, several UWMadison students contacted the committee with complaints that College Library is overcrowded. College Library, located on the southeast side of campus, is currently the only 24-hour library on campus. Academic Affairs Committee Chair Chris Tiernan said a 24-hour library on the west side of campus could make it safer for students walking home from late-night studying. “A lot of students from the Lakeshore area and the west side of campus walk from College Library to their respective homes,” Tiernan said. The committee is looking at making Steenbock Library, 550 Babcock Dr., a 24-hour library. Tiernan said Steenbock is an appropriate choice because faculty there expressed a desire to attract more students to their library. Johnny Tackett, the ASM representative from the medical school, said he noticed congestion in the Health Sciences Ebling Library on the far west side of campus. He noticed many students studying in Ebling who are not health science students. “It’s not that other students are there and they don’t belong there. It’s just frustrating when you can’t find study space in the library where you’re doing most of your work to begin with,” Tackett said. “I think extending the hours will make Steenbock more intriguing to students.” Because of monetary restraints, Tiernan said the library might only be open 24-hours during exam periods. “I’m imagining that it’s probably going to be really tough to staff another 24-hour library fulltime,” he said. Tiernan said the committee will speak with faculty from the library system about the idea after gathering student input. Students on the Academic Affairs Committee went to Lakeshore residence halls and dining facilities March 6 to ask students about their library use. Tiernan estimated 60 students responded to the survey, but the surveys have not been tallied yet. “I think, just paging through the surveys, a majority of students were saying they would utilize Steenbock,” Tiernan said. Tiernan said the committee hopes to finish gathering student input by the first week in April.
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The former house fellow said he is of legal age to drink and his superiors simply said it was “the wrong move.” “If he hadn’t resigned, I don’t think they should have considered firing him, because he was a good house fellow,” Knoespel said of his former house fellow. “He related to us well, and he acted like he cared about us all.” Sophomore Maggie Thoreson, a UW-Madison Kronshage resident,
The executive order President Obama signed Monday to remove previous barriers to stem-cell research has garnered praise from the scientific community and criticism surrounding its controversial nature. The policy change, one of Obama’s campaign promises, allows federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. Barbara Lyons, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life, voiced her opposition to Obama’s order. “The executive order was expected but very disappointing,” she said. “We believe that President Obama is behind the times, because the research is moving in a different direction. We believe that eventually embryonic stem-cell research will become obsolete.” Lyons said UW-Madison researcher James Thomson’s 2007 breakthrough of induced pluripotent skin cells could be used in a similar way as embryonic stem cells, calling the discovery the “holy grail of research.” “[Obama’s executive order] is ill-advised,” Julaine Appling, CEO of the Wisconsin Family Council, said. “We have a path of success that has been cut
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House fellows resign, leave students baffled By Alyssa Connolly The Daily Cardinal
The third UW-Madison student to resign from a university house fellow position this year moved out of Kronshage Hall Thursday, leaving residents temporarily unmonitored. A source, who asked to remain anonymous, said he was a former house fellow in Kronshage but resigned halfway through last semester. He said an additional house fellow recently resigned from Witte Hall as well.
The former Kronshage employee said the house fellows felt “forced” to resign because they failed to uphold the strict policies the Kronshage Residence Life Coordinator and Area Coordinator desired. Multiple UWMadison housing authorities refused to comment on the reasons for the rumored resignations. Tim Knoespel, a UW-Madison freshman Kronshage resident, said he heard rumors the former house fellow may have been in trouble for having been drinking on Halloween night.
Over 660,000 Wis. employees exposed to secondhand smoke at workplaces By Megan Orear The Daily Cardinal
The UW Carbone Cancer Center released a study Monday revealing over 660,000 Wisconsin employees are exposed to harmful secondhand smoke while at work. Dr. Patrick Remington of the cancer center said the most disappointing finding of the study was the disparity in smoking exposure among people of different races and education levels. High school graduates are twice as likely as college graduates, men are 50 percent more likely than women and black and Hispanic workers are twice as likely as white workers to be exposed to secondhand smoke at work, according to the study. Remington said eliminating smoking in places like college campuses and airplanes has led to social and economic disparities in workplace smoking levels. “One could say that it’s a good thing that we’ve made progress and almost eliminated exposure to smoking among those with the highest
education, but others would say that it’s an injustice not to provide a safe workplace for all,” he said. The study shows the percentage of workers exposed to smoking decreased from 33 percent in 2000 to 22 percent in 2007. “I think this is as low as we’ll go in the places that smoking is allowed without some policy to level the playing field,” Remington said. Gov. Jim Doyle included a statewide smoking ban in his 2009-’11 budget proposal. Remington said he believes the state will adopt a smoking ban eventually, but he is not sure when. Pete Madland, executive director of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, said the choice to allow smoking should be left to the discretion of individual business owners, adding that workers can opt not to work at a business that allows smoking. The smoking ban, according to Madland, should not be included in the budget because it is a policy issue that lawmakers should debate separately.
Gal up pole Madison Area Technical College student Kendra McWilliams practices her moves at a pole-dancing class Monday at the Dance Fabulous studio at 212 N. Henry St. nick kogos the daily cardinal
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