THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER PER SINCE E1 1969 969 Friday, October 7, 2011
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GOP hopes to boost Wisconsin hunting tradition adition
Hand-crafters at Madison boutique RubyJupe created an innovative, insulated skirt to keep Wisconsin women’s legs cozy | 6
Badgers open against Wildcats
A new bill wants to expand programs that benefit hunters, but Democrats say the legislation isn’t environmentally friendlyy |
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With questions throughout the roster, Wisconsin begins season asonn by hosting Northern Michigan at Kohl Center| 8
GAB halts recall rules Ilona Argirion News Reporter On Thursday, state election officials retracted changes which could have circulated recall petitions for the possible upcoming recall efforts more efficiently, including the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker. At a meeting Thursday, the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules oversaw several of the Government Accountability Board’s retracted plans to recall election operations, including the distribution of online petitions. At the meeting, Kevin Kennedy, head of the GAB, said the rule changes previously sought would allow an individual to open a “petition for recall” online with both their name and address on the form, increasing the speed of the petition’s circulation. This petition would also be considered valid even if this individual was the only one to sign the petition, he said. Kennedy said this proposition would have
allowed for a faster process because groups would not have to gather the signatures face-to-face and the petition signers would not have to fill in their addresses. Republican members of the committee were skeptical of a the rules change by the independent GAB regarding the online circulation of petitions for recall elections in the state. Committee Co-Chair Rep. Jim Ott, R-Mequon, said the committee would postpone action on the recall petition rules change because the language of the change was too broad and would contrast with the intent of current policy. “Basically, an agency can come up with any form that would be completely counter to existing law, and we would have to say we can’t touch it because it is a form,” Ott said. “This particular law would result in a change in policy.” Teghan DeLane, spokesperson for Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, said Republicans wanted to compel the GAB into an emergency rule codification
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Tom Zionkowski The Badger Herald
George Austin, project manager for the Block 100 Foundation, lays out plans for a revamped portion of State Street during a Madison Public Library Board meeting on Thursday night. Austin said the plans would try to build structures to compliment the Overture Center and the library on Fairchild Street.
Changes may come to State Street Kaylie Duff y News Reporter The Madison Public Library Board reviewed redevelopment plans for the 100 block of State Street last night. During the meeting George Austin, the project manager for the Block 100 Foundation, a local non-profit organization, explained the architectural design
of a new project on the 100 block of State Street, which would house new retail and office space on the second, third and fourth stories. The project would aim to preserve the historic face of the buildings on State Street while redesigning the adjacent block of Fairchild Street, he said. The new building will orient itself to the library and
Overture Center. The project requires no public financial assistance, and money generated annually by the building will benefit the Overture Center, Austin said. “The block has a rich history,” explained Austin. “The goal being: Keep State Street how it is.” The only change to State Street would be
the reconstruction of the building on the corner of State Street and Fairchild Street. The goal is to make it look as it did in the beginning of the 20th century, Austin said. However, on Fairchild St. they want to create something new and dramatic, with better energy efficiency and
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Regents: Transfer process can be more efficient Matt Huppert State Editor The Board of Regents explored the current state of the University of Wisconsin System transfer programs and sought ways to improve the transition at their meeting Thursday. At the meeting held on the UW-Green Bay campus, UW System President Kevin Reilly said it is becoming increasingly common for students to continue their careers in higher education at a different university or institution than the one they started at. He said it has been the role of the UW System to provide students Megan McCormick The Badger Herald considering transferring UW System President Kevin Reilly speaks during a Board of Regents meeting in February of this to another institution with year. Reilly highlighted the role the UW System plays when a student transfers within it or into it. the necessary tools to do
Speakers: Efforts to weave diversity, education needed Danielle Smith News Reporter This year ’s University of Wisconsin Diversity Forum brought together a variety of speakers who spoke to issues concerning campus climate and the necessity and impact of diversity in education on Thursday. Keynote speaker Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., from New York University, began the event with his presentation titled “Creating the Schools Where Black and Latino Males can Thrive,” according to a statement on the forum. Noguera has extensively studied schools in urban areas
and economic and social factors that affect the students who study in them, according to the statement on the forum. He has been asked to comment on educational issues for CNN and National Public Radio, and has written many articles related to urban schools and urban school reform. Damon Williams, UW Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer, also spoke to give a campus update on diversity and climate. The idea of inclusive excellence powered by university goals for excellence and satisfaction of the needs of a changing society were other topics of the forum, Williams said in a statement.
so with confidence and ease. “Students demand flexibility and transparency to facilitate easier transfer, and our institutions have programs and systems in place to help them achieve their educational goals when they do transfer,” Reilly said. Last year, Reilly said, the University of Wisconsin had the second highest amount of students coming in from other institutions, with 1,671 transfer students, trailing UW-Milwaukee, who had 2,424. Over 17,000 students transferred into a UW college or institution last year, Reilly said. Eighty-seven percent of these students who transferred to a UW institution or school last
year, or nearly 15,000 students, were new transfer students, Reilly said, meaning they had not previously enrolled at the institution or school they were transferring to. While the UW System has seen an increase in transfer students over the last decade, Mark Nook, interim senior vice president for academic affairs at the UW System, said the rate of transfer students to no transfer students has remained relatively flat, with about 30 percent of incoming students arriving as transfer students. The percent of transfer students at each school varies dramatically, Nook said, with 20 percent of incoming students at some schools being transfer students and over 50 percent for others.
Regardless, Nook said, each individual school must provide adequate programs and resources for students who desire to transfer. “We can’t ignore the transfer students. We have to have programs in place to make transfer effective, and we do,” Nook said. One of the programs at the disposal of transfer students is the Transfer Information System, which allows students currently enrolled in a UW school to see how their credits would transfer if they enrolled in a different UW institution, Lynn Freeman, TIS training and outreach consultant for UW System, said. Freeman said TIS is developing a program
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Heave ho! The University of Wisconsin women’s crew team practices on Lake Mendota on a hot and sunny October day at the Porter Boat House. The next meet for the rowing team will be in Rockford, Ill., next week.
“It’s for those reasons that we’ve built a broad-spanning diversity infrastructure — one that not only focuses on issues of access and opportunity for students who are underrepresented and economically challenged, but one that brings the discussion on diversity into the 21st century through the broadened idea of inclusion,” Williams said in the statement. “Not only are we talking about racial diversity or economic diversity; we’re also talking about gender diversity and LGBTQ diversity.” Looking forward, Williams mentioned a “focus on campus
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