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Four dead after Middleton, south side shootings By Ryan Hebel The Daily Cardinal
Two women and two girls were fatally shot Thursday evening in separate locations in Madison and Middleton, according to a Madison police report. The report said police suspect Tyrone Adair, 38, in both shootings. It said Adair is still at large, “armed and dangerous”
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and driving a silver GMC Acadia. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, he is described as black, 5'10" and 175 pounds with brown eyes. At about 6 p.m., police were called when the first two victims, a woman and girl, were found in a vehicle parked in the garage of shootings page 3
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UW-Madison senior Peter Goitom performs as part of a cappella group Fundamentally Sound’s CD release show in Memorial Union’s Union Theater Thursday night.
Mendota Court apartment plans move forward By Maggie DeGroot The Daily Cardinal
south campus union at the meeting. She said the choices reflected a set of core guidelines the council had established early in the process. “We wanted to have an organic feeling, nature-based colors, well-constructed pieces and to explore the potential of some of the high-tech options,” she said. “We feel confident that we have gotten to where we wanted to be from a durability standpoint.” Union Council members were pleased and voted to approve the plan. Grove also updated the council on the planning process
Plans for a newly designed Mendota Court apartment complex have continued to move forward through the development process in recent weeks. The State-Langdon Neighborhood Association met Thursday at the Student Activity Center to address concerns regarding the proposed complex that had been brought up at previous meetings. Gary Brink, head of Gary Brink and Associates, the architectural firm behind the complex, presented new site plans for the building. According to current site plans, the complex would be nine stories tall with eight floors and 141 bedrooms. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said he gave the new plans a “thumbs-up,” and Ald. Bryon Eagon, District 8, said he approved the changes the architect made. Patrick Corcoran of Patrick Properties, the developer behind the project, said he wanted the units to be affordable to students, but he did not disclose expected rental costs. The first level would contain two- and three-bedroom units, and levels two and three would have three- and fourbedroom units. The remaining levels would contain five- and six-bedroom units.
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A woman and a girl were found dead at the Forest Ridge apartments.
Doyle to address climate issues at U.N. conference By Hannah Furfaro The Daily Cardinal
Gov. Jim Doyle will meet with governors and international leaders in mid-December at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. According to a statement from Doyle’s office, the conference will host environmental and business leaders to discuss states’ roles in creating “green solutions” to climate issues. “With a global focus on climate change, Wisconsin is wellpositioned to become a worldwide leader in a clean-energy economy,” Doyle said in a statement. Doyle said he will meet with companies at the conference to discuss expanding business and employment opportunities in Wisconsin. “We have the hardest workers and high-end manufacturers, the brightest researchers and some of the best natural resources in the world. By advancing renewable fuels and alternative energy, we can create jobs in Wisconsin and take on the pressing challenge of climate change,” he said. Doyle’s trip comes on the heels of criticism of climate-change proposals made by Wisconsin’s Global Warming
Task Force in July 2008. In a letter released Thursday from state Rep. Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, to Doyle, Huebsch encouraged Doyle to reconsider the recommendations based on a potential decrease in jobs associated with parts of the legislation. “We ask that you consider the appropriateness of holding state government harmless from the financial impact of these proposals, while forcing Wisconsin taxpayers, consumers and electric ratepayers to fully absorb the considerable cost of the policies,” Huebsch said in the letter. Over 20 businesses and associations, including Wisconsin Retail Council and the Metropolitan Builders Association, signed the letter. In a statement, Senior Policy Director for Clean Wisconsin Keith Reopelle said although his organization opposes a nuclear power provision of the bill, it supports the legislation overall. “We support the task force recommendations as a package, in its entirety, because 98 percent of those recommendations support clean-energy solutions to global warming,” he said.
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Architects for the new south campus union unveiled the building’s final furniture selections and color schemes Thursday.
Council considers Memorial Union renovation plans By Robert Taylor The Daily Cardinal
The Union Council reviewed proposals for the renovation of Memorial Union and approved the final furniture and decorum selections for the new south campus union at its meeting Thursday. The former Union South officially closed in December 2008 and was demolished this spring. Union Council members are currently in the process of finalizing plans for the union’s replacement. Julie Grove, architect and project manager at UW Capital Planning and Development, unveiled the final furniture selections, colors and fabrics for every space within the new
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