A time for thanks
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UW to issue new IDs for voting By Alison Bauter The Daily Cardinal
Beginning Jan. 23, UW-Madison will start distributing free identification cards that students can use to vote, university officials announced Monday. Under a new state law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, the new UW-Madison ID cards can be used as valid identification for students without a Wisconsin driver’s license or stateissued ID card. “Students should exercise the right to vote, and as many students who want to should do that,” Hannah Somers, chair of the Associated Students of Madison’s Legislative Affairs Committee, said. She said the UW-Madison ID cards “will make it a lot easier to vote, especially for out-of-state students and students without a Wisconsin driver’s license.” Producing new, free cards will cost the university $100,000 over the next five years, an expense Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell said comes from UW-Madison’s existing budget, rather than from students. “We didn’t feel it would be appropriate to charge students a fee
for the right to vote,” Bazzell said. He said modifying Wiscards would cost $500,000, which is five times as much as creating separate cards from less expensive material. Unlike Wiscards, the university-issued student voter IDs are clearly marked as “VOTER IDENTIFICATION” and will be marked with an expiration date within two years of issuance and space for a signature, as required by the new law. The UW-Madison voter ID cards cannot be used for any other purpose or service on campus. The university had to make new cards or modify existing students IDs because Wiscards—like university ID cards statewide—do not comply with the new Voter ID law, which was designed to prevent fraud. Somers said the recently formed Vote Coalition student group is meeting with university officials and hopes to use posters, mass e-mails and other outreach tools before winter break, then make “a really big push” to engage students in the spring. The Vote Coalition kicks off outreach efforts with a campus-wide “legislation and voter education week” after Thanksgiving.
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Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition gathered outside Chancellor Ward’s office to protest alleged labor violations in Indonesia by Nike and UW’s main licensing partner Adidas.
Students protest labor policies By Corinne Burgermeister The Daily Cardinal
Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition held a demonstration Monday protesting UW-Madison’s main licensing partner, saying it fails to give severance pay to recently unemployed factory workers. The demonstration was a response to an Indonesian factory contracted by Nike and UW partner Adidas that closed
Tables ASM internal budget until Monday
Could help treat Parkinson’s, more
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university split from the company if it does not pay its workers. Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said the university developed a relationship with Adidas under the condition the company would comply with the university’s code of conduct, which includes fair labor rights. He said before the univer-
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Researchers at UW find stem-cell breakthrough
SSFC passes Legal Info. Center budget
The Student Services Finance Committee approved a budget of over $35,000 for the UW-Madison Legal Information Center Monday but tabled its decision on the Associated Students of Madison internal budget until next week. According to the group’s website, the LIC is a campus group that provides free legal information to students and community members. The committee gave the group less money than it requested for salaries and increased funding for telephone services. Although SSFC was scheduled to decide ASM’s internal budget Monday it tabled the decision until next week. Included in ASM’s $1.2 million requested budget is over
abruptly in January, leaving 2,800 workers jobless. Legally, the companies still owe 1.8 million of the original 3.3 million employees monetary compensation for the factory’s closure. SLAC member Jonah Zinn said Nike paid a portion of the money to its workers but said Adidas has to pay the rest of it. SLAC members symbolically cut a cake with an Adidas logo on it to demonstrate a proposed
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UW-Madison legal offical Nancy Lynch said it is not SSFC’s job to find a way to fund student groups’ staff members.
UW-Madison stem-cell researchers announced a possible breakthrough in stem-cell research Monday that could potentially help treat medical complications ranging from strokes to Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. Researchers found that neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells can successfully activate to transmit and receive signals when implanted into the brains of mice. Jason Weick, the lead author of the study, said that when researchers implanted human embryonic stem cells into mice’s brains, a new technology allowed researchers to observe stem cells’ output and input information simultaneously for the first time. “We think that that’s actually a critical factor and probably
more critical than receiving information,” Weick said. The new technology, called Optogenetics, allows researchers to stimulate the stem cells with light, causing them to emit output signals. “Now this method allows us some level of control the cells that we’re transplanting,” Weick said. “Before [this finding], we transplant the cells and they’re going to do whatever they’re going to do. We have no control over them.” He said an example of applying the new technology could be using it to treat a patient with Parkinson’s disease, a disease caused from insufficient dopamine-generating cells. Researchers could transplant customized neurons in a patient’s brain and use an implemented stimulating device to make the neurons release dopamine. “Say you’re having a particularly bad day symptom-wise, you can [increase] stimulation of
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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.”