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Bar guide +LIFE & STYLE, page 6 and 7
Concealed carry has no place on campus +OPINION, page 10
ASM chair, vice chair ‘helping pave the way’ for diverse leadership By Madeline Heim THE DAILY CARDINAL
Inside a corner office in the Student Activity Center every Sunday night, Associated Students of Madison Chair Carmen Goséy and Vice Chair Mariam Coker meet to lay out plans of positive change for the campus. They are trying to tackle the big issues—campus climate, sexual assault prevention and college affordability, to name a few—as well as constantly pushing for student voices in university and system decisions and holding administrative leaders accountable. But Goséy and Coker’s roles do not just follow those of previous leadership. Their pairing, which marks the first time both the body’s chair and vice chair identify as women of color, establishes a historic precedent for UW-Madison’s student government on a campus that has been characterized as predominantly white and criticized for not meeting the needs of historically marginalized communities. In their few months as leaders, they have been asked to reconcile their own identities with their roles
as the voice of students on campus in light of high proportions of sexual assaults among black women, a noose displayed at a football game and the election of Donald Trump, who used controversial rhetoric targeting those communities throughout his campaign. “I realized the position was going to be hard,” Goséy said. “But I didn’t realize how hard it was going to be because I’m a person of color and a woman of color, because it has an emotional effect on you.” Both described frustrations they felt from being tokenized and trivialized in interactions with campus administration, including meetings about treatment of indigenous peoples and a recent discussion with UW Athletics personnel following the noose incident. “A lot of it that I face is that I’m complaining too much, or I’m being too loud. Last year, [an administrator] referred to me as ‘little girl,’” Coker said. “They referred to us as girls, as children … I feel like we struggle for legitimacy.” And it is not only in contact with administration where the pair faces challenges—represent-
ing a largely white campus with widely varying viewpoints presents its own set of difficulties, even inside ASM. Coker and Goséy recalled struggling during the first few Student Council meetings to keep control of the floor, a duty assigned to the chair through Robert’s Rules. Coker said some men on the Council talked out of turn and over Goséy, although the pair agreed that problem has mostly been solved. The two discussed the successes that ASM has already accomplished, including moving the corporate Amazon pickup point location from the Red Gym, pushing for a policy that would bar nooses from future football games and registering thousands of students to vote, as well as broaching the issue of sexual assault even within the governing body itself. Both said in regard to sexual assault within their own communities, it is difficult to make people see the intersectionality to their identities and they are often attacked for “going after black males.”
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15 years ago this weekend, the first Harry Potter film hit theaters. The Wizarding World continues this weekend with the release of J.K. Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” + Graphic by Kimberlee Carr in 2001
Republican lawmaker plans to reintroduce campus carry legislation By Emily Curtis and Andrew Bahl THE DAILY CARDINAL
A state lawmaker who introduced a bill allowing concealed carry on campus told The Daily Cardinal last week that he would reintroduce the measure, although he said it may not be rolled out immediately at the beginning of the next legislative session in January. State Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, then defended the proposed bill at a panel on campus Monday. He was joined by state Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, College
Democrats Chair Augie McGinnityWake, UW-Madison professor Lisa Cooper and Samara Safarik from the group Moms Who Demand Action. Currently, UW-Madison does allow concealed carry on campus, but not inside campus buildings. Kremer said students can carry guns outside on their way to campus buildings, but then have no place to put them when they enter the building. He argues students might face violence within classrooms that
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Student arrested for sexual assault released from jail
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Associated Students of Madison Chair Carmen Goséy and Vice Chair Mariam Coker described challenges they have faced as the first women-of-color leadership team of the governing body.
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Sixteen incidents of harrassing, threatening behavior reported on campus since presidential election There have been 16 bias incidents reported on campus since the election of President-elect Donald Trump last week, according to a university release. The release defined the bias
incidents as “harassing and threatening behavior toward individuals based on their race, ethnicity, presumed national origin and political affiliation,” although it did not specify which identi-
ties were targeted on campus. One occurrence involved a physical attack off-campus in which the assailant told the victim to “go back to where you came from. Following the election, stu-
dents gathered to protest sexual assault, Trump and racism on campus, expressing fears that a racially charged campaign from the President-elect could lead to a surge of bias incidents.
The bias episodes this week constitute a large spike in overall incidents on campus. There were 66 incidents reported in the entire first half of 2016, up from 18 in Fall 2015.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”