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Men’s basketball seniors Tanner Bronson, Brian Butch, Michael Flowers and Greg Stiemsma (not pictured) sign autographs Monday at University Book Store for a “Meet the Badgers” event.
Regents close to naming UW chancellor finalists THE DAILY CARDINAL
The UW-Madison Chancellor Search and Screen Committee will narrow the candidates to succeed current Chancellor John Wiley at a closed meeting Tuesday, making its final recommendations to the UW System Board of Regents afterward. “At this point our process comes to an end and the UW System takes over,” Marsha Mailick Seltzer, chair of the search committee, said of Tuesday’s meeting. Seltzer said a UW spokesperson will announce the final candidates Wednesday. UW System spokesperson David Giroux said the number of final candidates will be selected “somewhere in the neighborhood of five” during the search committee’s Tuesday meeting.
David Musolf, spokesperson for the Chancellor Search and Screen Committee, said he was unable to discuss specific details about the meeting. “At this stage it’s still pretty confidential,” he said. The committee’s final recommendations will come after a long process of seeking nominations, viewing applications and conducting interviews of a variety of applicants. Fifty-five individuals submitted applications to replace Wiley, who will step down in September 2008. According to the UWMadison chancellor search website, candidates will be evaluated on a variety of professional and personal characteristics including academic accomplishments, leadership qualities and their commitment to enhancing the university experience.
Musolf said the position description is “quite comprehensive and does speak to the qualities the committee is looking for.” According to Giroux, once the final candidates’ names are announced Wednesday, the “public phase of the search begins.” “[Finalists] are invited to campus for a whole series of presentations, meetings, different types of venues in which people will have the opportunity to see them and interact with them,” Giroux said. The public appearances on campus are tentatively scheduled the week of May 12. UWMadison students, faculty and community members will then be allowed to e-mail input based on the campus visits. Musolf said he expects the Board of Regents to approve the new UW-Madison chancellor at its meeting the first week in June.
Senior Class President charged with misdemeanor theft Newly elected Senior Class President Oliver Delgado was arrested and charged for a misdemeanor theft from Memorial Union in late April, according to The Capital Times. At an initial court appearance April 21, Delgado pleaded not guilty to stealing Van Galder bus tickets from the union’s information desk, though a criminal complaint cites his confession. Delgado was elected president of the class of 2009 during the Associated Students of Madison spring elections April
1 to April 3. Members of ASM Student Council would not comment on whether Delgado would keep his position at its meeting Monday. Student Council also postponed the election for chair of ASM because potential candidate Jeff Wright said he did not want the position. Wright said he instead wanted to work on reform rather than work with the details of holding the chair position. Brittany Wiegand, current chair of the ASM Legislative
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Affairs Committee, also said she did not want the position. Members discussed the possibility of electing a president instead of a chair for next year’s ASM spring elections. Tim Fung won the position of ASM Finance Committee chair by one vote over freshman representative Julie Chou. The council also passed the Constitutional Committee’s Resolution, which forms an ad hoc committee to write a new constitution and bylaws for students at UW-Madison. —Erin Banco
A UW-Madison student is facing felony charges of criminal damage to property after police allege he intentionally set off the sprinkler system in the University House Towers April 4. According to a criminal complaint filed Monday, video cameras in the building at 502 N. Frances St. caught Max Korman, 18, of Northbrook, Ill., putting something on or near the hallway ceiling of the eighth floor, which he resided on, around 1:43 a.m. Seconds later, the fire alarms went off and water gushed down the hallway while Korman returned to his apartment. Korman is also charged with misdemeanor interference with firefighting equipment. Madison Police Department Sgt. Lori Schalecki said police take incidents like this seriously because of the headaches it causes residents and landlords alike. “A lot of people don’t maintain
renter’s insurance so they may run into the fact that their property is not going to get replaced if it’s been damaged by the water,” Schalecki said. Towers director of leasing Jermaine Butler estimated the building’s water damage to be between $15,000 and $20,000, according to the complaint. Urban Outfitters, located on the street level of the same building as Towers, experienced flooding as a result of the sprinklers that caused $5,325 in damaged merchandise, store manager William Lesniak told police in the complaint. UW-Madison freshman and Towers resident Anna Engstrom said the sprinklers caused a huge middle-of-the-night disturbance for the building’s 400 residents, who were evacuated when the fire alarms went off. “We were displaced for four hours,” Engstrom said. “I had to work at 7:30 and we didn’t get back until 5:30, so I only got like an hour of sleep.” If convicted, Korman faces up to three years and six months in jail, fines of $10,000 or both for the felony charge. He faces up to nine months in prison for the misdemeanor charge.
Wisconsin college student key in Dem. struggle over delegates A UW-Madison superdelegate posts YouTube video for input By Charles Brace THE DAILY CARDINAL
A Wisconsin college student could play an instrumental role in deciding which Democratic presidential candidate reaches the White House in the coming months. Leila Sahar, 22, a senior at Lawrence University in northeast Wisconsin, is not a superdelegate. However, she was appointed to the influential Credentials Committee for the Democratic Party convention in August. Sahar said she was given the position after working for several years at the Democratic N a t i o n a l Committee and talking often with DNC Chair Howard Dean. The committee is responsible for deciding if SAHAR delegates from the Michigan and Florida primaries are seated at the convention, as the states were stripped of their delegates by the
DNC for moving up their primaries without authorization. The Clinton campaign wants the delegates to be sent to the convention, but this remains unresolved and might not be an issue depending on whether one of the candidates drops out. Sahar said she does not know which way she might rule on the issue and wants to find out more about the proper procedures that need to be followed. “I’m trying to prevent myself from making a firm decision one way or another until I hear those important details,” Sahar said. She said she KHALEEL has not been contacted by either of the campaigns or candidates. Lawrence assistant professor of government Arnold Shober, who taught Sahar at times in college, said Dean made the right decision in choosing her. “If they needed to pick a college student who is dedicated to a party and not a candidate, someone who is hardworking, thoughtful and does all her research, they picked superdelegates 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.”