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The Madison Police Department arrested a suspect in the homicide of a 19-year-old Madison man Friday. According to news website WKOW.com, Madison resident Karen Giron-Cruz is being held by police “on charges she was a party to the crime of homicide.” Giron-Cruz was associated with the white car suspected of being used in the shooting of Antonio Perez Wednesday, according to MPD. Perez was shot and killed in what MPD believes to be a gangrelated incident on the 2100 block of Fordem Avenue. Police seized the vehicle but continue to look for two suspects. According to the police report, both are young Latino men, and the primary suspect is described as approximately 5'8" and 175 pounds, with a stocky build and shaved or bald head. Anyone with information on tensions between rival gangs in Madison or about this specific crime is encouraged to call Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014.
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ASM elects new chair, vice chair By Kelsey Gunderson The Daily Cardinal
Associated Students of Madison representatives elected former Student Services Finance Committee Chair Brandon Williams as chair of the new Student Council session Sunday. Williams defeated former Academic Affairs Chair Jonah Zinn in a 20-12-1 vote. Representatives also elected former Legislative Affairs Chair Adam Johnson as vice chair and T.J. Madsen as secretary. Williams said he feels he is ready to take on the role of chair, pointing to his experiences allocating student segregated fees and working to reach out to the student body as SSFC chair. According to Williams, the rising cost of education is the top issue facing asm page 3
Milwaukee rally draws thousands By Hannah Furfaro The Daily Cardinal photos by danny marchewka (top) AND lorenzo zemella (CENTER AND bottom)/the daily cardinal
By Taylor Curley The Daily Cardinal
Many students woke up earlier than usual Saturday morning and started tossing back some brews in honor of the annual Mifflin Street Block Party. The perfect weather, packed street and two stages of music made for a memorable block party yet again. The Madison Police Department said Saturday’s block party was the most heavily attended in years, and citations were up as well. By 9 p.m., 212 citations had been issued, mostly for open containers, glass bottles and underage drinking violations,
compared to 164 citations last year. There were also two more serious incidents. One involved a 19-year-old woman who told police she was sexually assaulted in the basement of a home on Mifflin. A person of interest in the assault was being questioned by MPD. The other incident involved the fraternity Kappa Sigma. A wooden picture frame that came from an upper balcony of the fraternity house struck a 19-yearold woman. The victim suffered a deep head cut and was transported to the hospital, and police are still investigating the incident.
Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, was not able to give an official crowd estimate but said there were likely more than 20,000 attendees at this year’s block party. “Even with much more attendees than previous years, the citations given out by the police department were exactly half of what was in 2008,” Verveer said. “This is a victory if you will.” Verveer said ideally there would be no arrests, but good weather leads more students to come to the block party and
start drinking earlier, increasing the likelihood of problems. Madison-based production company DCNY Pro sponsored the party. There were two music stages, sponsored by WSUM student radio and Maximum Ink Music Magazine, and some students said they made the block party much livelier than it was in previous years. “The music keeps getting better and better every year. That’s the one thing that does change,” UW-Madison senior mifflin page 3
Thousands of marchers descended on National Avenue in Milwaukee and an estimated 500 marched at the state Capitol Saturday as part of the annual May Day immigration march. The march in Milwaukee, which was planned months before the recent passage of a controversial Arizona immigration reform law, was one of over 80 May Day marches nationwide that protested the law. People from across the state joined the march, which featured a speech from Rafael Reyes, an Arizona native and member of the National Day Labor Organizing Network. “There is a presence of fear in Arizona, but also a presence of strength and beauty in the young rally page 3
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”