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Church plan criticized Stakeholders voice concerns over apartment proposal that would gut house of worship Allie Johnson City Life Editor

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The Holy Redeemer School could be gutted if a proposal to turn it into new student housing goes according to plan.

Madison residents voiced their concerns over the planned conversion of a downtown church building into new student housing at a neighborhood meeting Wednesday. The meeting was called to address the application of the Cathedral Parish to convert the Holy Redeemer School building, located at 142 W. Johnson Street, into new apartments. The application to change the land use of the property was contentious due to the status of the building as a Madison city landmark, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said. The school was built in 1892 and was declared a city landmark in 1999, according to a statement from the Mansion Hill Neighborhood

Association. The proposed changes would require gutting the interior of the building and creating 48 single occupancy bedrooms and five double occupancy bedrooms, according to the statement. Kevin Holmes, a pastor at Holy Redeemer Church, cited several reasons for the proposed conversion of the building. The school building is currently underutilized, according to Holmes. The building is an old structure and is badly deteriorated, he said, adding it would be more expensive to bring the building up to modern standards through renovations. Through this project, the building could be restored and would be in much higher use, Holmes said. He added the revenue from renting the building would support

the construction and the life of the parish. Parishioners from Holy Redeemer Church expressed concern with looking at the building as a business and using it to make money. Parking was another fault community member and parishioners found with the proposed project. The church parking lot borders the school building, Verveer said. John Kothe, one of the real estate partners on the project, explained the tenants of the apartments would not be allowed use of the parking lot. Students with cars would look elsewhere for parking or not rent apartments in the building, he said. Parishioners and community members also took issue with the loss of space for church activities, such as religious education and serving

homeless meals. “They argue [the project] is going to bring the building back to life, but up until a couple months ago the building was full of life,” Gail Geib, a Holy Redeemer parishioner said. Additionally, about 250 parishioners signed a petition against the project as a whole, according to Gene Devitt, Mansion Hill Neighborhood Association chair. According to Holmes, converting the building into apartments is the most feasible route to go in terms of cost to the church. “We can only do what is feasible to do,” Holmes said. “[The project] seems to me to be extremely positive with regards to the life of the

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Mining bill nears vote in Assembly Legislators prepare for heated debate about environmental concerns, job creation in state Noah Goetzel State Politics Editor As the Legislature readies to officially decide whether to support a contentious mining bill today, debates have continued to rage regarding the environmental impact of building the mine among lawmakers, lobbyists and state agencies. The Assembly is poised to pass the Republican-backed bill proposal and place it on Gov. Walker’s desk to sign next week. The GOP holds a 30 seat advantage in the

Assembly, but that will not stop the Democrats from ensuring all representatives hear their voices of opposition, according to Rep. André Jacque, R– DePere. Jacque said he expects a nine-and-a-half-hour Assembly floor session Thursday full of “robust discussion.” “Largely, this is going to be a debate on whether or not we want to see mining in Wisconsin based on what is, I think, reasonable

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ASM passes alcohol policy recommendation changes Muge Niu Higher Education Editor Members of student government unanimously approved two changes to the recommended campus alcohol policy brought forth by a graduate student representative Wednesday,

resonating with faculty senators’ opposition to the proposed alcohol permit application process. Jamie Wheeler, Associated Students of Madison Student Council graduate student representative, presented two amendments to the

campus alcohol policy recommendations. The first amendment to the recommended policy is to allow registered student organizations with graduate and professional students to get alcohol permits at studentonly events and to allow

teaching assistants and project assistants to serve as responsible employees at such events. The current recommended campus alcohol policy will no longer allow registered student organizations to get alcohol permits and

will require faculty or staff to serve as responsible employees at events that serve alcohol. “We want to make sure the students’ voices are heard, we see these as vital to maintain the community environment,” Wheeler said. “[We want

to] be sure that events with participants who are above the minimum drinking age can be possible without the prohibitive cost.” In addition to the amendment directly related to graduate

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Committee continues textbook swap talk INSIDE Members of student government consider affordability, mandatory advising meetings for freshmen Riley Sexton Herald Contributor Members of student government continued assessing solutions to textbook affordability on campus as well as considered mandatory advisory meetings for freshmen Wednesday. In a University Affairs Committee meeting, representatives laid out initiatives to create a textbook swap program to aid students with textbook costs. Past initiatives, like

the Associated Students of Madison Textbook Swap which used to take place before each semester from 2008 through 2011 have been called “unstructured” by current University Affairs Chair Becca Buell. Buell has said the program, which involved ASM coordinating swapping students’ textbooks and handling cash was not effective, and current efforts aim to create a similar exchange that is more financially and logistically feasible.

To generate ideas for a new program, the committee is looking at four separate initiatives to amount to one solution. Proposals brought to the committee included increasing the use of e-books by professors as texts for class, creating a campus textbook swap program, expanding rental textbook availability and requiring professors to post textbook information two weeks before the start of the semester. Regarding revamping

e-book availability, some committee members voiced concern that it would be difficult for students without Internet access and the cost savings would not be very large. In light of speculations over this and the issue of compliance, Buell said she will continue to research the issue. As for the proposal recommending expansion in University Bookstore rental textbook availability, members said the current program is seen as underutilized.

Buell said the proposed book swap would be school, department or major specific, and the structure would resemble the CoEWide Book Exchange sponsored by Polygon and other engineering organizations. The committee will look into setting a date and space for the swap. The subcommittee needs to do further research to determine the structure of the swap and is in the

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TEXTBOOK, from 1 process of reaching out to the Engineering School’s student leadership for more information, according to Buell. Regarding the initiative to require professors to post textbook requirements online at least two weeks ahead of the semester starting date, the committee agreed this would be helpful for students purchasing books from sellers outside the bookstore. The strength of any mandatory timeline would be a question for more research, according to Grace Bolt, assistant ASM press officer director. Current federal laws protect student rights on this issue as well as university rules for its professors that the committee decided needed more research, Bolt said. “I think all of them will take a lot more research,” Bolt said. The committee also considered the idea of mandatory advising for freshmen in its meeting.

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Police work with Eagle Heights community Allie Johnson City Life Editor University of Wisconsin Housing and police are working with residents of the Eagle Heights neighborhood after the arrest of three suspects in connection with an incident in the area late Tuesday night. Residents of the University Houses in the Eagle Heights neighborhood reported hearing shots fired in the area around 9:30 p.m., according to a University of Wisconsin Police Department statement. After arriving on the scene,

UWPD located several persons of interest with possible connections to the incident. Police took two suspects into custody around 9:36 p.m., the statement said, and the department later apprehended an additional suspect at 11:29 p.m. UWPD is now working with residents of the Eagle Heights neighborhood to address the incident, according to UWPD Lt. Kari Sasso. “The response from the community has been concern,” Sasso said. “We are doing everything we can to stay in communication with the

people in the area.” Sasso said there is no longer reason for concern, and UWPD is conducting an ongoing investigation into the incident. UW issued several WiscAlerts to the campus community members warning them of a possible armed suspect in the Eagle Heights area Tuesday, telling them to avoid the area and notifying them of the description of the suspect. UWPD found several shell casings at the scene, and an all-clear alert was issued to the campus community at 11:57 p.m., the UWPD statement said.

According to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, the technology of the WiscAlert system and the cooperation of multiple police departments allowed the suspects to be apprehended in a timely manner. Resnick said in his eight years living in the area, this is the first incident he has seen that involved an armed suspect there. “It’s been a very long time since anything like this has happened in Eagle Heights,” Resnick said. “It is usually a very safe area of campus.” A statement issued to Eagle Heights

residents from Director of Apartments Kelly Ignatoski Wednesday morning said as more is learned about the incident, it will be shared with Eagle Heights residents and campus community members. According to the statement, the incident was as disturbing and confusing to University Housing as it must have been for residents. The statement said University Housing residents are encouraged to keep doors locked and report any crime or suspicion of one to UWPD as soon as possible.

Work hour, bill publication legislation passed Lexi Harrison Reporter The Assembly passed bills to permit reducing employees’ work hours and to remove the secretary of state’s power to delay enacting legislation Wednesday. The approved worker unemployment protection legislation creates a workshare program that offers an alternative to laying off workers. The bill would allow employers for six months every five years to reduce the number of hours their employees work instead of firing them. This bill could save the state an estimated $7.6 million in the next three years, according to a statement by Assembly Speaker Rep. Robin Vos, R–Racine. Vos said during the Assembly session the

MINING, from 1 standards,” he said. “This is something that can be done responsibly. It would help a very economically depressed portion of the state and support a lot of other industry in Wisconsin.” Jacque added there is no perfect bill ever introduced in the Legislature, but he said he feels confident about environmental protections in place. He noted the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and its Public Trust Doctrine would all regulate the proposed mining operation. DNR spokesperson Ann Coakley said the current laws and proposed changes to groundwater policy have environmental consequences. “They both require avoiding and minimizing environmental impacts; however, the proposed new law allows for more impacts than current law does,” she said. “The new law may impact the environment more. It doesn’t mean it will for sure.” Coakley said she has read the iron ore bill enough times to consider herself an expert on it, yet she has only had preliminary conversations with Gogebic Taconite company leaders. As a result, she does not know

fact that the bill can save Wisconsin workers money instead of losing their jobs makes up for the provisions removed from the bill. Democrats approved the idea of the bill but wanted an amendment providing language used by states with similar Legislature endorsed by the Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council, a group of both state business lobbies and unions. The proposed amendment would have added a warning to employers that they must abide by collective bargaining agreements when taking part in reducing hours of large groups of workers. However, Rep. Ed Brooks, R–Reedsburg, said union members would already be notified if their collective bargaining agreements were needed in such a plan. “What is more important

the exact environmental impacts without knowing the specifics of the proposal. If the mining bill is signed into law, Gogebic Taconite must spend at least a year drafting background data before submitting a mine engineering application to the DNR, according to Coakley. Upon receiving the plan proposal, she said her department will have 420 days to evaluate the application. Coakley added the company will be denied a permit if the application fails to sufficiently avoid sufficient groundwater impacts. However, one conservation advocate said they think it is “unbelievable” how unsustainable the bill is because the DNR is only allowed to uphold state law. Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters Program Director Anne Sayers said it will become less restrictive regarding groundwater standards if the Assembly supports the mining bill. “This is an extremely flawed bill that says the DNR no longer has to implement the groundwater law in the books when it comes to open-pit mining and iron ore,” Sayers said, adding it exempts mining companies from DNR regulation. Sayers said Gogebic Taconite is a mountaintop removal coal mining company with a history of environmental violations. Allowing this “devastating” piece of legislation to pass will set a dangerous precedent for Wisconsin’s environmental protection policies, according to Sayers. “Not only will it harm our natural resources and our public health, it sends the message to companies around the country that if there is a particular environmental law that stands in the way, you can come into Wisconsin and we’ll go ahead and roll it back,” she said.

than worrying about a specific union giveaway provision is to make sure that we have protections in place for the workers,” he said. Republicans denied a proposed Democratic amendment, and the bill passed on a bipartisan vote of 74-22. The other major bill the Assembly passed Wednesday would make the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau publish enacted legislation instead of the secretary of state. The proposed law also removes the 10-day waiting period currently held by the secretary of state before ratifying such legislation. The secretary of state’s 10-day requirement has existed throughout Wisconsin’s history. Members of the opposition

to the proposal said this bill is a result of a 2011 lawsuit regarding the removal of public employees’ collective bargaining rights. Democrats and other opponents of Walker’s legislation to repeal collective bargaining for most state public employees sued during this 10-day period in 2011 and prevented the bill from becoming law. At the time, Secretary of State Doug LaFollette did not publish the bill immediately and waited long enough for a judge to keep him from publishing the bill due to the lawsuit. With the proposed bill, the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau would publish all the bills instead of the secretary of state the day after the governor signs them instead of up to

10 days after. Democrats argue the bill is simply a way to silence oppositional protest. Rep. Sandy Pasch, D-Shorewood, said the bill was made to punish LaFollette. “This is just a mean, vindictive bill,” she said. “It eliminates a position we have had in our body out of spite for what happened two years ago.” LaFollette said he thinks the bill strips the secretary of state’s office of its most important tasks. However, Rep. Steve Nass, R–Whitewater, said the 10-day gap was “archaic” and “unnecessary.” He said the secretary of state only needed a role in determining when laws were published before the advancement of technology and the Internet.

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Graduate student representative Jamie Wheeler presented amendments to the campus alcohol policy, echoing opinions expressed by UW faculty.

ASM, from 1 students, Wheeler’s other amendment is to allow alcohol permits at large department gatherings that last longer than two hours and have more than 50 attendees. According to University Health Services Executive Director Sarah Van Orman, chair of the University of Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Task Force, not allowing graduate students to serve as responsible employees is a means of protection. “Graduate students should not be put into the position… to deal with those kind of situations when you have faculty and staff members present,” Van Orman said at the presentation to the Faculty Senate. Wheeler said that is

not the issue they are after, although contrary to the anecdotal evidence provided by Van Orman, she had never heard of or met a graduate student who has been put in a “power situation” with faculty, staff and alcohol. The first amendment does not refer to department-wide gatherings but studentonly activities, such as events held by the 67 registered professional or graduate student organizations. The other amendment will prevent large department gatherings from getting prohibitively expensive, Wheeler said. “One way that we maintain a sense of community and collegiality… at the department is through social activities,” Wheeler said. “Currently alcohol is provided by

participants or event planners, and that’s what we’d like to see continue.” According to Wheeler, departments such as history and sociology hold annual social activities that attract over a hundred people and “picnics are simply not two-hour events.” Currently the Vice Chancellor’s office is taking feedback from faculty, staff and students on the website. However, the survey only contains two multiple-choice questions unrelated to the specific content of the recommended policy and a comment box. Wheeler encouraged students to use the comment box for specific changes and said she is in the progress of preparing a document to present to the Vice Chancellor’s office for review.

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College dean search narrows Committee looks to target 8-10 finalists to fill College of Letters and Science position Jacob Ahrens-Balwit Herald Contributor The search for University of Wisconsin’s next dean of the College of Letters and Science has reached a new stage, narrowing down to a target range of eight to 10 finalists from both inside and outside the university. The search began last July after the current dean, Gary Sandefur, announced his resignation. Sandefur, who has served dean for the College of Letters and Science for nine years, plans on taking one year for research leave before returning to the UW as faculty for the sociology department. Provost Paul M. DeLuca organized a search committee at the end of last year to review potential candidates’ applications, and ultimately to select

“Letters and Science is a huge part of the UWMadison system as far as teaching, administration and research goes, and whoever is at the helm of that is going to need to be an impressive leader.” Jeff Hardin

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a group of finalists for the dean position that Interim Chancellor David Ward would approve. The committee is headed by professor Jeff Hardin, chair of the zoology department, and consists of members from diverse departmental backgrounds. According to Hardin, no finalists have been chosen yet, but the committee has a target range of eight to 10 finalists they hope to submit to the chancellor by the end of April. These finalists will then be brought to campus and interviewed for the position, Hardin said. Hardin declined to comment on the

specific criteria used by the committee to determine the finalists, as well as the number of current applicants being reviewed. According to Hardin, the next dean will be faced with a number of challenges and must be a strong leader, capable of representing their large and diverse student constituents to make progress in a time of budget cuts and losses due to sequestering. Additionally the dean must be able to work closely with the new leadership in the chancellor’s office, he said. “Letters and Science is a huge part of the UWMadison system as far as teaching, administration and research goes, and whoever is at the helm of that is going to need to be an impressive leader,” Hardin said. Hardin said the committee is looking both externally and internally in the University of Wisconsin System for candidates and has had many promising applications so far. Jacob Steiner, a junior studying political science, currently holds a position on the search and screen committee, representing the 17,000 undergraduate Letters and Science students at UW. As the only undergraduate on the committee, Steiner said he takes the selection process very seriously. “We are very fortunate to attend a worldclass institution, and the applications we’ve received have been in line with that reputation,” Steiner said. “I’m very excited to continue forward in the process and submit an exceptional slate of candidates from which the chancellor will select the next dean.” The search committee is going to have to work vigorously for the next month in order to narrow down the list of potential candidates, Steiner said. After all the work is done, Steiner said he is hopeful an applicant can be found who is “devoted to teaching; creating an inclusive, positive atmosphere; maintaining affordability and access; and ensuring student success.”

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Senate Republicans voted down confirmation of federal appeals court nominee Caitlin Halligan Wednesday, prompting President Barack Obama to say he was deeply disappointed.

Republicans block judicial nominee Henry Jackson Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked the confirmation of federal appeals court nominee Caitlin Halligan for the second time, denying President Barack Obama a key judicial appointment. A majority of senators, 51, supported Halligan’s nomination, but Democrats needed 60 votes in the 100-member Senate to get it past Republican objections. Citing her work on lawsuits against gun manufacturers and on behalf of illegal immigrants, Republicans said Halligan is too liberal to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The National Rifle Association opposed her nomination. Obama said he was “deeply disappointed” in the Senate’s action. “Ms. Halligan has always practiced law with the highest ethical ideals, and her qualifications are beyond question,” Obama

said. “Furthermore, her career in public service and as a law enforcement lawyer, serving the citizens of New York, is well within the mainstream.” Democrats said the effort to block Halligan, who was first nominated to the appeals court in September 2010 to fill the seat vacated by John Roberts when he was elevated to chief justice of the Supreme Court in 2005, also is about maintaining a conservative majority on a key appellate court. GOP senators blocked the confirmation vote on her in December 2011 and Obama renominated her in January this year. There are currently four vacancies on the court, with nominees from Republican presidents holding a slim, 4-3 majority. The D.C. appeals court is considered one of the most important courts in the country because it handles challenges to most federal rulemaking and oversees federal agencies based in Washington. The Washington court

is also something of a pipeline to the Supreme Court. Four of the nine the justices on the Supreme Court served on the D.C. Circuit before being confirmed to the higher court: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Lets call it for what it is,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., supporting Halligan’s nomination. “This has to do with keeping a court with the same views.” Republicans defended their votes to block Halligan, saying they objected to Halligan in particular, not the idea of a Democratic nominee to the key court. Citing her work as the state of New York’s solicitor general, Sen. Charles Grassley said Halligan could not be trusted. “This is a court where we can least afford to nominate an activist judge,” he said. Republican Leader Mitch McConnell called Halligan’s former work

as solicitor general for the state of New York “a textbook example of judicial activism.” “The point here is that even in cases where the law was clear, or the courts had already spoken, including the Supreme Court, Ms. Halligan chose to get involved anyway, using arguments that had already been rejected either by the courts, the legislature, or, in the case of frivolous claims against the gun manufacturers, by both,” McConnell said. McConnell cited two cases Halligan worked on when she was New York state’s solicitor general. In one, Halligan filed a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that the National Labor Relations Board should have the legal authority to grant back pay to illegal aliens. In another, Halligan argued that that gun manufacturers contributed to a public nuisance of illegal handguns in the state. In a letter to lawmakers, the NRA expressed similar concerns with Halligan’s work on gun issues.

Snow removal budget nears depletion City has used five of six major removals after storm, may need to dip into reserves Aliya Iftikhar Reporter The city’s government neared the end of its allocated budget for snow removal after another snowstorm hit the city earlier this week. Each calendar year, Madison allocates a certain amount of its budget to snow removal, according to Tim Fruit, an administrative analyst for the city’s Finance Department. The amount is typically around $110,000, he said. This accounts for about six major snow removals a year along with 27 small salt and sand plowings, he said. A major snow removal is when a “snow emergency” is declared and more than three inches of snow have fallen, according to the city of Madison website. “The city plans for six major snow removals a year, based off of

historical information,” Fruit said. After the snowstorm March 5, Madison had used five of the six major snow removals allotted for 2013, according to Katie Crawley, assistant to Mayor Paul Soglin and liaison to the Streets Division, said. During a major snow removal, private contractors are called to help plow all of the residential roads. If there are less than three inches, only city plows are used, Crawley said. “The city generally expects to use four major snow removals during the January to March months and two in the November to December months,” Crawley said. With nine months remaining in the year and no sign of winter relenting, each additional snowfall increases the city’s snow removal bill, Crawley said. Additionally, the fall could yield additional snowfall,

increasing the cost to the city further, she said. According to Crawley, this poses concerns of the possibility of the city spending more than its budget. For one, the city will continue to provide snow removal services regardless of the costs, Crawley said. If necessary, the city will dip into its contingency reserve, a part of the budget that is set aside for emergency types of things, she added. The City Council is also a possible source of appropriation and additional funds, Fruit said. Although Madison has already used five of its major snowplows this year, it may not be a cause for huge concern. The amount of money paid to the contractors is directly related to how much snow has fallen, according to Fruit. If there is less snow, the contractors work fewer hours, he said.

Therefore, the snowstorms in early February, where just over three or four inches of snow fell, did not cost as much as the snowstorm that occurred earlier this week, Fruit said. Despite the unpredictability of weather, the money allocated for snow removal within the budget is generally standard and not likely to change, Fruit said. Staying within the snow removal budget has varied greatly from year to year, according to Crawley. In 2012 when there was virtually no snow from January to March, the money that was not used was returned to the city, she said. However, when the major snowstorm in December hit, dumping almost sixteen inches in Madison, she said the extra money was useful. “It all evens out,” Crawley said. Hopefully it will this time too.”

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Walker backs off jobs goal promise Governor says campaign platform no longer feasible because of many constraining factors Noah Goetzel State Politics Editor After running on the campaign promise he would add a quarter million jobs to Wisconsin’s private sector, Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday he believes his goal is not feasible. Walker told Wisconsin Public Radio the state should still aim high in job growth numbers. However, confounding variables, including collective bargaining protests, his gubernatorial recall election, the weakened national economy and the Affordable Care Act, inhibited Wisconsin’s ability to add 250,000 jobs his first term, he said. “There are plenty of logical reasons why it’d be tough to get there…but for me, you’ve still got to aim high,” Walker told WPR. “You start out with a high goal to begin with.” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R–Racine, did not provide specifics as to what number of new jobs added would be more created, but the legislator said they are committed to rejuvenating Wisconsin’s sputtering economy. The speaker also echoed Walker’s explanations for why this projected number of new jobs has not been achieved.

“It’s not my job to pick a specific number,” Vos said in an interview with The Badger Herald. “We are doing everything we can to try to create an environment where the private sector can create jobs. But, I also know with all of the things that have occurred in Wisconsin – the recalls, Obamacare’s implementation, the huge tax increases that are coming from Washington – that’s having a dampening effect on our economy.” Vos added these reasons, and the inability of Congress to agree in particular, justify the difficulties in predicting the state’s economic outlook. Current Employment Statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor reveal Wisconsin has added only 9,100 jobs between December 2011 and December 2012. The state experienced losses of more than 4,000 jobs four of these 13 months. While the unemployment rate has declined from 7.5 percent to 6.8 percent between 2011 and 2013, the state’s total nonfarm employment has increased by less than a percent in 2011 and 2012, according to the budget in brief. Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate said while GOP leaders

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Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday his campaign promise to help create 250,000 jobs in the state is not realistic because of factors like his recall and the Affordable Care Act. like Vos are backing away from Walker’s promises, the governor is not the only Republican to blame. “Robin Vos wants to protect his own job, so it’s no great surprise that he’s trying to back away from Scott Walker’s promise to create 250,000 jobs,” Tate said in a statement Tuesday. “Even Scott Walker’s administration is forecasting they won’t get halfway there.

But it’s too little, too late, for Robin Vos – he can say the 250,000 jobs promise is all Walker’s, but the failure belongs to every Republican in Wisconsin.” According to the DOL’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages January report, Wisconsin ranks 42nd in the country in private-sector job creation. In the his 2010

gubernatorial election campaign against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker’s primary campaign promise was to help the state add 250,000 jobs in the private sector by the end of his fouryear term. Common Cause in Wisconsin Executive Director Jay Heck said Walker’s campaign goal was overly optimistic, unrealistic and

irresponsible. “If he’s saying it’s not possible and he’s blaming the recall, and he’s blaming all he turmoil that happened in 2011, he’s not totally shouldering the responsibility and saying it was an unrealistic number to begin with,” Heck said. “What he’s done by framing it the way he has is that he has again made it a partisan issue, certainly for Democrats.”

Roggensack saddened by Supreme Court attacks Scott Bauer Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack said Wednesday her “heart aches” over the approach taken by her opponent Ed Fallone in the race for the state’s highest court. Fallone, a Marquette University law professor, blames Roggensack for contributing to what he calls a dysfunctional state Supreme Court best exemplified by a physical altercation in 2011 involving two other justices. “The reason for the dysfunction is incivility

among the justices,” Fallone said. Roggensack and Fallone made their cases during a joint appearance before the Madison Rotary in advance of the April 2 election. The winner will serve a 10-year term. Roggensack, who was first elected to the Supreme Court in 2003, said Fallone’s attacks on the court are counterproductive and intended to distract from what she says is his weakness — she has nearly 17 years’ experience as a judge versus none for Fallone. “My heart aches a little bit with the choice my opponent has made for

his campaign because he attacks the court as an institution,” Roggensack said. More needs to be done to educate the public about the good work the court is doing, she said. Roggensack said Fallone’s criticism “creates further injury to the court. We will all lose if that perception is not repaired. I will work hard to continue to repair it.” In the court’s most highly publicized incident, Justice David Prosser placed his hands around the neck of fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in 2011. Prosser said he was making a defensive move, but charges have been brought against him

alleging that he violated the judicial ethics code. Roggensack and two other justices have recused themselves from his case. In another sign of discord, Prosser called Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson a derogatory name in 2010 in front of other justices. In response to a question about whether the court should move out of the Capitol to be perceived as less political, Roggensack said that’s not the issue. “We’re kind of in a political phase where people have developed a habit of where if they don’t like an opinion they say it’s political, if they do like it they say it’s well-reasoned,”

Roggensack said. “It’s just a phase. I think we’ll pass through that just as we have other phases.” Fallone rejected that. “The court is not just going through a phase like some unruly teenager,” he said. “If it’s a phase, it’s a phase that’s been going on for at least three years.” Fallone said one improvement the court could make would be to require justices to step aside in cases involving parties who had made political donations to members on the court. Roggensack was one of four justices who voted for the rule allowing such donations in 2009. Allowing justices to

hear those cases only opens the door to special interest money in judicial campaigns, Fallone said. Spending in the past four Supreme Court races have averaged about $5 million each, with an average of about $3 million in each coming from outside groups. Spending hasn’t come close to that yet in this race. The only outside group to run ads so far in this year’s race is the conservative Club for Growth, which spent an estimated $300,000 in the primary in support of Roggensack. Roggensack aired one TV ad in the primary and Fallone hasn’t run any.

Democratic senator plans bill to ban dogs from wolf hunt Todd Richmond Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democratic state senator plans to introduce a longshot bill that would prohibit Wisconsin wolf hunters from using dogs, marking another chapter in a months-long battle to stop the practice before it begins. Sen. Fred Risser of Madison sent an email to the rest of the Legislature on Monday asking for cosponsors. He noted that Wisconsin is the only one of seven states with a wolf hunt that allows dogs. He said humane societies are concerned about the risk of bloody clashes between dogs and wolves.

PLAN, from 1 neighborhood.” This is a very sensitive topic because of the closing of the school building to use by parishioners, Verveer said. Verveer said the city only has jurisdiction over the outside of the building and cannot address the concerns brought up by the community members. Any concerns over the design of the inside of the building and preservation of church space must be resolved between Holmes and the members of the parish, he said. The next step for the planned conversion is approval from the Madison Landmarks Commission on March 11.

“It doesn’t make sense to me. It’s nothing more than state-sanctioned dog fighting,” Risser said in a telephone interview. “We shouldn’t have done it in the first place and maybe we can stop it before it becomes too ingrained.” A lawyer representing a group of humane societies that sued last year to ban wolf hunters from using dogs called the bill “wonderful.” “That would be a very sane change in public policy,” said Carl Sinderbrand, an attorney for the Wisconsin Federated Humane Societies, Inc. “It would reflect the will of the vast majority of Wisconsinites.” But the bill has almost

no chance of success; Republicans control both the state Senate and Assembly. Rep. Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, was the chief sponsor of the bill that established the wolf hunt. He serves as Assembly majority leader and plays a huge role in deciding what legislation makes it to the floor for a vote. He said during a telephone interview Monday that Risser’s proposal will probably go nowhere. “To totally eliminate an entire privilege that is out there for sportsmen, it goes too far,” Suder said. The wolf hunt has been a flashpoint of contention since Republicans passed Suder’s bill about a year ago. Animal rights advocates see

the hunt as unnecessary; farmers maintain something must be done to control a burgeoning wolf population preying on their livestock. The bill scheduled the wolf season to run from Oct. 15 to the end of February or whenever hunters reached a kill limit imposed by the state Department of Natural Resources. The legislation allows hunters to pursue wolves with up to six dogs after the end of the November gun deer season. Emergency rules the DNR crafted to get the first hunt off the ground limited dog use to daylight hours but set no other restrictions. A group of humane societies filed a lawsuit in August alleging the lack of regulations would

lead to deadly wolf-dog fights during the season and throughout the rest of the year as hunters trained their hounds on wolves. Dane County Circuit Judge Peter C. Anderson temporarily barred hunters from using dogs while he weighed the case. The first season began and ended while the prohibition was in place. The ban didn’t seem to hamper hunters; the DNR closed the season two months early in December after hunters had killed 117 wolves, one more than their limit. When Anderson revisited the lawsuit in January, he concluded that the DNR didn’t have to impose restrictions on dogs in wolf hunts but that it should have

tweaked its rules to account for the risk in training dogs on wolves. He issued a double-sided ruling, saying hunters could use dogs to pursue wolves during the season but barred them from training on wolves. The DNR is currently drafting permanent rules that would allow hunters to train dogs on wolves during in-season daylight hours and the month of March. Each dog also would have to be tattooed or wear a collar with its owner’s name and address. The agency doesn’t expect to implement the rules until 2014. The humane societies say that’s not good enough because hunters will face no restrictions going into the 2013-14 hunt.

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ArtsEtc. Writer The Minnesota band Cloud Cult released its new album Love earlier this week, capturing both new listeners and loyal fans with its inspiring and uplifting take on today’s indie rock sound. Today many songwriters and artists are focusing on more mellow beats, showcasing slow guitar intros and whispery harmonic solos. Love incorporates those features while still staying true to the band’s unique variation of sounds and trippy accompaniment. Lead singer Craig and Connie Minowa express the happiness they have felt since the birth of their new baby. The Minowas lost a two-year-old son, Kaidin, in 2002, and a majority of their past albums express the grief the couple has felt for their son’s death. However, whether it is because of time passing or the new addition to their family, Love has a sense of hope, celebration and acceptance for life and is a fresh change from the typical Cloud Cult abstract-

darkness. Love includes more acoustic guitar than previous albums that typically featured autotuned techno guitars to create a space-age atmosphere. In addition to the acoustic guitar, the album also incorporates violin, piano and cello. The album starts off with the beautifully inspiring song “You’re the Only Thing in Your Way,” a fresh-faced pick-me-up that begins the album with hope and grace. The song is a monologue rooting for a friend, with lyrics like “Breathe, baby, breath, until all is calm” and “Love, baby, love,” reminding listeners of what’s important in life. The album has a wonderful flow, beginning with light sounds, but moves into songs such as “It’s Your Decision” and “Complicated Creation” that feature harder guitar and piano rock solos. The song “1x1x1” sounds more like the band’s previous albums with a techno-angst style, intriguing percussion and awesome explosions of sound. A transition occurs in the middle of the album,

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going from the eerie “The Calling” to the instrumental “Love and the First Law of Thermodynamics,” which features wind-like sounds and light piano to musically describe the sweetness of love. From this point the songs become increasingly more hopeful and optimistic, including the clapping and laughing song “Good Friend” and “Meet Me Where You’re Going.” The end of the album symbolizes the band’s acceptance of the loss of the Minowas’ son and the optimism they have moving forward. The second to last song “Catharsis” begins with a little boy speaking and saying “Ladies and gentleman, I love you, I love you,” and then moves to fast-paced guitar. The

song encompasses the denotative meaning of catharsis: the process of releasing and providing relief of strong or repressed emotions. It celebrates the life of their son beautifully and flows perfectly into the last song “The Show Starts Now,” that features children singing and promoting the optimism that the band has for the future. Love is a fitting title for a wonderful collection of songs filled with inspiring instrumentals, positively encouraging lyrics and a perfect representation of what “love” is all about.

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Somewhere between Hell and humanity, Carlos Fragoso’s paintings must live a very real existence. The Brazilian artist, now nearly 60 years old, opened an exhibition last Friday at Gallery 1308 in Union South. The exhibition titled, “The Age of Foolishness,” will be on display until April 9. The collection of paintings and etchings are imbued with spontaneity. Fragoso has displayed several enormous canvases that seem to stretch from the floor to the ceiling. They depict dreamlike scenes of humans, animals and creatures that fall somewhere in between. The scenes depicted are irrelevant to the purpose of the piece. Each canvas is said to be created without an initial plan, just a feeling or a concept. With layers of thin paint, objects start to solidify and ultimately create figures. Using this technique, forms that make up every bizarre

creature have a vibrant distortion that embodies an emotional concept, as opposed to a literal one. His paintings and etchings are said to be devoid of one true meaning – whatever the viewer brings to the table is just fine. Fragoso, however, went back on this claim last Friday showing that he had a very clear picture of what all his paintings meant to him. He has attempted to make several statements about the nature of man throughout time. His version of Adam and Eve titled, “Original Choice,” stands nearest to the gallery door. In it, a snake-headed Eve stretches seven feet tall, reaching for the apple, supposedly choosing her enlightenment. Nearby, Adam is swinging in a tree, done up like a monkey wearing nothing but a pair of sneakers. The size of his work is imposing, especially in the confined space of Gallery 1308. His pieces can only be seen fully while standing clear across the room. Individually, they are passages into a separate world he has created that one could easily step into – but in this case you may not want to. There is a darkness to his images that seems to have more in common with religious works of the 1500s than modern art. Wherever and whenever these images are from, it is a coy and intimidating place where the natives seem like they’ll either make love to you or eat you alive. Sex plays a small, yet noticeable, role in Fragoso’s pieces. In short, it would be tough to find a painting without a penis. He claims, however, that his use of the phallus is intended as a statement of the hypocritical selfsatisfaction he thinks society endures from its political overlords. The essence of his paintings seem to mimic Native American artwork. Likewise, they have a similar allegorical bite. He has attempted to make statements about “the 99 percent” and the fallibility of man. Social commentary in artwork, though, is hit-or-miss. Flippant fad issues of the day seem too shallow to deserve the immortality that such grand artwork affords. In this case, the translation from images to concept seems to fall a little short: the mystery of not knowing their exact purpose makes the pieces significantly more alluring. Save for the attempt at social commentary, Fragoso’s paintings seem to accomplish what he sets out to do. With more observation, creatures that were once separate seem to form together and vice versa. Viewers can’t help but attribute their own significance and tell their own story. With form and color he has been able to activate the picture plane so that despite their physical impossibility, his subjects truly begin to exist. Carlos Fragoso’s “The Age of Foolishness” feels out loud. I dare you to not feel it as well.

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SC to Brandon. If you only knew how much I want to wrap my legs around your tall, sexy, muscly body... SC to Joe who was on my team at the conference this weekend! I wish I could have gotten to know you more! SC to Brant even though we really never had a ﬁrst chance. I miss being around you and talking to you. I hope that’s a mutual feeling and not just all in my head. SC to the girl in the tie-dye shirt doing abs next to me up by the track at the SERF tonight! You were super cute! SC to the girl that volunteers at after school science in the Discovery Building every week. Seeing you get so enthusiastic with the kids is just plain awesome! DSO to you

being damn good looking! SC to the guy next to me silently rockin’ out at the table next to me in the SAC. Although its rather distracting, its quite cute at the same time, and I would love to know what you are rocking out to :) SC to the gorgeous brunette girl sitting near to me on the 80 earlier. If I wasn’t desperately cramming for my exam I would have told I liked your zebra backpack. SC to the cute girl in the education building I passed by today wearing a cute pink shirt with flowers and having matching pink flower earrings...Badger girls have serious style SC to the guy I almost hit with my car pulling out of my parking spot on Langdon Sunday evening, you had a great smile- Girl in the red car SC to the hottie girl sitting on the right hand side in the front of History 393 SC to the girl in CA 250 sitting in the front-left side wearing a pink long sleeved shirt, I think you are gorgeous SC to the cute guy who rides the 27 every Tuesday morning. We get on and off at the same stop.. one of these days I’ll grow a pair and say hi.

classmate. We ﬂirt. You know that we do. Call me. SO to JH, you and I would be pretty damn awesome, I think. I hate that it’s so complicated. SC to the guy I met at Sotto. We left Sotta, hung out for a while, and then both got cold feet. I’d like to see you again. SC to the cute bartender who was working at Bacon Night this week. Sorry my friends dragged me away before I could give you my number! Hoping that you work next Tuesday! SC to the sexy blond in the weight room at the SERF. Your muscly arms are so delicious and you have the cutest smile ever! SC to the girl in my accounting class with the hipster glasses. I want all up on that. SC to snow days. RSC to Biddy Martin. Come back! SC to Zack, who I met at a frat party last weekend. You were super cute and a really good dancer. SC to my ex Z.A. I’m sorry I text you every time I start drinking, but I really do miss you and want to at least ﬁnd a way to be friends again! SC to JG. Girl. You is so sexay. And I love how maternal you are. SO to your baking skills. You rock it out.

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March movie melting pot oﬀers variety for viewers Diverse film options released this month feature notable stars, intriguing plot lines Bess Donoghue ArtsEtc. Staff Writer With the passing of the Academy Awards, a new year of film begins. Although the spring tends to be a generally weak season prior to the summer season of blockbusters, there are a couple of flicks worth a trip to the local theatre. To kick off the year, fans of the Broadway musical “Wicked,” and the 1939 classic, “The Wizard of Oz,” will be flocking to theaters this weekend for “Oz the Great and Powerful,” starring James Franco (“127 Hours”) as the title

character: Oz. The cast also includes Mila Kunis (“Ted”), Michelle Williams (“My Week with Marilyn”) and Rachel Weisz (“The Bourne Legacy”) as witches trying to help Franco determine whether he is the allpowerful leader this fantasy land so desperately seeks. In addition to this unofficial prequel, Franco will return to the screen later this month with the release of “Spring Breakers,” in theaters March 22. Franco plays a bawdy arms dealer seeking the help of four college girls to perform dirty work with the experience of their criminal record. The film includes former Disney Channel stars Selena Gomez (“Monte Carlo”) and Vanessa Hudgens (“Sucker Punch”) in risque roles. For Franco, the two films could not be more different despite their close releases.

Also scheduled for release March 22 is “Admission,” starring Tina Fey (“30 Rock”) and Paul Rudd (“This is 40”). Fey plays Portia, the enemy of all high school seniors: an admissions officer for Princeton University. Just as she is eligible for promotion, Portia finds herself considering an application from a chapter of her past she previously thought was closed. While renowned for her work on television, Fey has made a distinct presence in the film industry with “Baby Mama,” “Date Night” and the high school classic “Mean Girls.” Let’s not also forget her comical and brilliant performance earlier this year with Amy Poehler (“Parks and Recreation”) at the Golden Globes. “Admission” should be one of the more serious films to

consider this month. Earlier this year, Ryan Gosling (“Crazy, Stupid, Love”) was a follower of the law in the crime film “Gangster Squad.” Now he will instigate crime in “The Place Beyond the Pines.” Gosling plays Luke, a young father who puts his days of performing motorcycle stunts behind him to pursue a career robbing banks in order to provide for his family. For the film, Gosling teamed up with director Derek Cianfrance for a second time after their work together on indie-gem “Blue Valentine,” for which Gosling gave an awardwinning performance. This new film also includes additional renowned cast members Eva Mendes (“The Other Guys”), Rose Byrne (“Bridesmaids”) and Bradley Cooper (“Silver Linings Playbook”) as

ambitious officer Avery Cross trying to chase Gosling’s character down. The film received critical acclaim during its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and should perform well during its theatrical release March 29. Also set to release the same day are a couple of fan-base films including “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” the second film in the series after the release of the first in 2009. The film stars Channing Tatum (“Magic Mike”) as the official Captain Duke Hauser. This sequel also brings even more physical strength and man-power than the first with the inclusion of stars Bruce Willis (“A Good Day to Die Hard”) and Dwayne Johnson (“Journey 2: The Mysterious Island”). The fans of the G.I. Joe series will have to determine whether it’s

too much to have People’s Sexiest Man of the Year, John McClane and “The Rock” all in the same film. Additionally for those few, still-remaining “Twilight” fans out there, the written works of Stephanie Meyer return March 29 with the release of “The Host.” The film stars Saoirse Ronan (“Hanna”) as Melanie, whose soul has been taken over by an outside host destined to take over Earth. However, she embraces this host as a partner and attempts to save the planet, rather than destroy it. In Melanie’s mission to save her race, she finds romance along the way. With the conclusion of the awards season, gone are the films on historical events in United States history, abandoned life boats and ballroom dancing. However, this month offers all audiences a variety of films.

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Fund your student organization with segregated fees A step-by-step guide to designing a direct-service-providing Registered Student Organization that will receive $100,000 in GSSF funding If you’ve tuned in to campus news any time over the past 10 years, you’ve probably heard of the General Student Services Fund, our student government’s poorly structured funding opportunity for student organizations. Every year, some service organizations are awarded upwards of

$100,000 apiece, while others central to our community are left high and dry — leaving us to both foot the bill and suffer as a result. I’ve come to believe that complete, public transparency as to how this fund operates will be necessary to countervail the bureaucratic inertia which has hindered past

attempts at reform. Today, I want to share my knowledge of this process in the hope that, by realizing the absurd details of what’s occurring, you become as upset as I am that this is allowed to continue. Next week, a new Associated Students of Madison constitution will come to a

campus vote, and with it a rare opportunity to empower our student leaders with the tools they need to make what’s written here obsolete. I implore you to vote yes and, in so doing, bring some sanity to the way our dollars get handed out. Matthew Manes

How to Gain GSSF Eligibility in 10 Easy Steps So you’ve decided you want $100,000 for your student organization to provide a service to the campus? Excellent! Just follow these steps and you’ll be on your way to funding. 1. Pick a service you want to provide the student body It doesn’t really matter what this service is because the people evaluating it will be bound by something called “viewpoint neutrality,” which means they cannot take your viewpoint into consideration. Or, put another way, it doesn’t matter how silly, stupid or out there your service is, because they’ll be judging you based on 16 yes or no criteria. If you meet the criteria, which is what this 10 step guideline is all about, then they are legally bound to fund your activities! How, you might ask? It’s simple. 2. Design your organization to satisfy the GSSF In order to qualify for GSSF funds, your group must be centered around providing to campus what’s defined as a “direct service.” The idea is that you’d be receiving funding, not for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the student body. The reality is a huge disconnect exists here – you, the applicant, not ASM, determine what you want to provide. I would still hope you, dear reader, use the information contained here with prudence because ultimately your peers will be forced to pay for it. Anyway, a “direct service” is a program with the following characteristics: • The program can be available upon request by recipients You need to be able to provide your service following a request by a student. You’re allowed to set specific dates and times for when you would put on your service, but you need to be prepared to provide your service outside of that as well. • The program can be tailored subject to the needs of the recipients within the mission of the group This one can be tricky, but what it boils down to is you can’t have a one size fits all approach. Whether it’s providing subject matter in response to a student’s request or providing instruction that’s skill level and ability appropriate, you need some degree of recipient-specific customizability. • The program must be accessible to the recipients regardless of recipient’s participation and/or membership in the group You can’t require recipients to participate as agents on behalf of your organization as part of your service. Make sure to avoid incorporating mission-furthering activities because while members actively further the goals of your organization, recipients do not. • The program must be available to recipients continually throughout the course of the fiscal year This means when everyone else goes home for summer and winter breaks, you still need to be able to provide the service. You may have lower volume and shorter hours, but service still needs to be available. • The program is not an individual event, series of events, publication or a leadership development opportunity for group members. The word “event” means a program occurring exclusively on a specific date set by your organization. An exemption exists such that if the program is also requestable, tailorable and educational, it can still qualify. However, publications and group development for your members still don’t. • The direct service must be educational but cannot be credit producing

This should be self-explanatory. So, what kind of archetypal, plug-andplay program can you offer that has these characteristics? Why, workshops of course! Pick your activity, build a workshop to teach others how to do your activity, then make it requestable, tailorable, available yearround and boom! You have a direct service and have satisfied the first requirement for funding. It isn’t enough though that you provide a direct service to warrant your $100,000 request, you need to satisfy several other requirements as well. They’re broken down as follows: University student requirements Four requirements deal with the issue of university students versus non-students. More than 75 percent of the time your organization spends planning, coordinating and implementing your direct service has to be spent on university students. The same goes for your programming in general. Additionally, greater than 75 percent of the people who receive your programming, be it direct services or other, must be university students. The easiest way to make sure you satisfy these requirements is to require a student ID to do anything with your organization, thus sidestepping the issue entirely. Your direct service must also be aimed at reaching all university students – essentially, to make an effort to reach out to the entire campus and aim to make it as universally accessible as possible. You don’t need to actually serve all students, nor do you need to have something with broad appeal, but you must aim at reaching everyone. Direct service requirements Because student organizations often do other activities in addition to direct services, there are requirements about how much direct service you do to qualify for funding. First, you must provide a written mission statement for your direct service. Next, of all the time your organization spends planning, coordinating and implementing everything, more than 50 percent of that must be spent on your direct service. Finally, you must demonstrate the university does not provide a substantially equivalent direct service. Other student organizations don’t count, and neither do university services that aren’t direct services. Other Requirements If you have not received GSSF funding before, you’ll need to submit a written plan on how you will administer your budget, a paragraph or two. Your group cannot have violated any laws or ASM/University policies in the past 2 years, and you must complete the application and show up to your hearing (duh). Finally, your group must also be a Registered Student Organization and have written governing documents. 3. Write governing documents Keeping in mind the requirements you’ll ultimately need to fulfill, you need to begin building the structure to your organization by writing a constitution or bylaws. How you structure your organization is completely up to you, and the Center for Leadership and Involvement does a great job of explaining how to write a constitution, providing examples on their website. As a pro-tip, you might want to empower the leadership of your organization to make most of the decisions for the organization and charge them with maintaining compliancy with the requirements. A catch-all clause to that effect would go a long way, and would read

something like: “The [leadership] of [your organization] shall have the charge and authority to intervene and maintain compliancy with all GSSF criteria in the event [your organization] is deemed eligible for GSSF funds. In so doing, the following parameters will be actively monitored and managed: -Staff and member time spent on activities not directly pursuant to the direct service(s) -Total, unique and non-student recipients for the direct service(s) and all other programming -Student/non-student group composition” With this clause, even if a disqualifying mistake is made elsewhere in your application or in satisfying the requirements, you’ve essentially underwrote everything and guaranteed you’ll meet the GSSF requirements anyway. It’s akin to a real-life “Arabian Nights,” and you’re Ali Baba: if you can handle the guards, the only thing between you and your goal is uttering a few magic words. 4. Register with the Center for Leadership and Involvement As of writing this, there were 880 registered student organizations at the University of Wisconsin. Registering is a piece of cake – all it really takes is four students and a little bit of paperwork. CfLI typically begins accepting registrations at the beginning of August for the upcoming school year. You’ll want to submit everything as soon as they let you, because processing that many registrations can take a month or two and you’ll have deadlines fast approaching. 5. Write an eligibility application At this point, your timeline becomes important. Although the date changes annually, the deadlines for your applications at points overlap during August and September. From this arises the very real possibility that your RSO registration will not have gone through by the time you need to submit your GSSF applications, but that’s OK. As long as you’ve submitted your documents and are waiting for CfLI to process your registration, just mention it on your application and by the time your hearings roll around a month or two later you should have that cleared and will meet the RSO requirement. When writing your eligibility application, your job is to demonstrate you meet all of the requirements. Flesh out your service and how you intend to put it on, in as much technical detail as possible. Remember, they can’t evaluate your application based on subjective notions such as “good” or bad,” so don’t bother trying to convince them along those lines. The entire process is described in detail beginning on page 24 of the official GSSF Financial Guide, and an example application can be found on page 149. 6. Determine costs and write a budget application This is where you connect your idea for a service to the funding to make it happen. Figure out everything you would need to do it right: staff, equipment, advertising, travel, etc. The ASM financial staff and the Student Services Finance Committee leadership are available to help you determine what appropriate amounts would be and review your request for errors. Make sure to link your request to the service you want approved, and of course stress how central the funding is to your ability to perform your service. 7. Submit your applications Check the ASM website for deadlines, and do this on time. 8. Present your eligibility, and say how

your service meets their definitions Once you’ve submitted an application, you’ll be given a hearing in which you have 15 minutes to present the application and 30 minutes to answer questions. Give an overview of your organization, describe your services and then walk down the list of criteria, one-by-one. In no uncertain terms, discuss each requirement and how you satisfy it, as if they’ll be checking these requirements off a list as you go, because they will be (see page 30 of the Financial Guide). Be concise, and if you’re asked a difficult question that you aren’t prepared to answer, write it down and get back to them later — if you try to make something up on the spot, you might get into trouble. If you’ve done everything right, the committee will vote “aye” on your application, and you’ll move on to the next step. 9. Present your budget, and say why you need money to do your service Same deal as before, 15 minutes to present followed by 30 minutes to answer questions. Remind the committee about your service and how you provide it, and then proceed to walk down your budget line by line. Be prepared to defend everything in it as necessary, explaining that without this funding, your service to the student body will suffer. Then sit back and wait for them to approve your funding award. 10. Go out and provide your service Congratulations! You deserve this money…sort of. Matthew Manes (mattsr1776@gmail. com) is a former Chair of the Student Services Finance Committee. Links to documents can be found on the online version of this article.

10 Steps to GSSF Eligibility 1. Pick a service you want to provide to the student body 2. Design your organization based on this guide* 3. Write foundational documents 4. Register with the Center for Leadership and Involvement 5. Write an eligibility application 6. Determine costs and write a budget application 7. Submit your applications 8. Present your eligibility, and say how your service meets their definitions 9. Present your budget, and say why you need money to do your service 10. Go out and provide your service *

Essential Characteristics of a $100,000 GSSF group

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Provides a direct service that is requestable, tailorable, accessible, available, repeatable and educational

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Focuses on university students

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Spends a majority of its time on its dierct service.

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Planned Parenthood budget cuts will hurt Wisconsin Nathaniel Olson Columnist Let’s talk about sex. About two weeks ago, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announced it would be closing four of its health centers in the state. This amounts to a little more than 10 percent of Planned Parenthood infrastructure here in Wisconsin. Planned Parenthood cited state budget cuts as the primary reason for the closure of these clinics, reporting that the $1.1 million reduction in their funding would make it impossible for them to keep up with the cost of maintaining the facilities. These decisions won’t affect many people up at the Capitol, but they’ll matter tremendously for

disadvantaged women in Beaver Dam, Johnson Creek, Chippewa Falls and Shawano, the four towns that’ll see the departure of their only family planning services. Planned Parenthood has gotten a pretty bad rap for being an “abortion industry.” That allegation is about three percent true -- only three percent of the services offered by Planned Parenthood involve abortion. Although critics would have the public believe these centers are where women go to rid themselves of unwanted fetuses, Planned Parenthoods are, as their name suggests, clinics where women go to seek help planning a pregnancy. They also provide other services like cancer screenings and STI testing.

As Nicole Safar, director of public policy for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, puts it, “None of these centers provided abortion services… in these communities, there is nowhere else for low-income women to get these services. These centers focused on preventing unplanned pregnancies and reducing the need for abortions.” I’ve never understood why there’s a disagreement about this issue. Regardless of politics in the abortion debate, everyone should agree that reducing the need for abortions is an excellent goal. All the evidence points in the same direction: more education, more access to family planning and more open dialogue about the need for women to have healthy

options leads to better fiscal and societal outcomes. This is not simply a Wisconsin issue. Last week, The New York Times reported that Texas lawmakers were seeking to reinstitute a large chunk of the $73 million cut for family planning services in the fiscal year of 2011. As the Times reported, “The latest Health and Human Services Commission projections being circulated among Texas lawmakers indicate that during the 2014-15 biennium, poor women will deliver an estimated 23,760 more babies than they would have, as a result of their reduced access to state-subsidized birth control. The additional cost to taxpayers is expected to be as much as $273 million — $103 million to $108 million to the

state’s general revenue budget alone — and the bulk of it is the cost of caring for those infants under Medicaid.” I don’t think I’ve ever said this before, but it’s probably time to follow Texas’s lead. Cue the snowball fight in hell. Our government invests in these sorts of family planning services because they’re costefficient ways to dramatically improve personal and societal welfare. They stand out in America because one of the unfortunate hallmarks of our health care system is its scorn for preventative care – services meant to prevent people from getting sick (or in this case, pregnant) in the first place. Although almost any health care expert will tell you that preventative care

is most efficient (it’s cheap, non-intrusive and saves both patients and providers time and money), the politicians of this state are undertaking a bizarre effort to make sure Wisconsin spends more taxpayer money in the long run. Services like Planned Parenthood decrease the amount of entitlement spending, reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and prevent students from dropping out of high school. Can someone please remind me why the government is trying so hard to eliminate them? Nathaniel Olson (naolson4@ wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in political science, history and psychology.

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