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City leaders propose new alcohol plan By Patricia Johnson THE DAILY CARDINAL
Madison city leaders are considering preliminary proposals to the city’s current alcohol license density ordinance set to expire on April 1. The new plans are designed to encourage late-night entertainment in areas of the city where growth is currently banned. The current ordinance restricts the addition of new bars within the downtown area, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. The ordinance was originally created in 2007 due to excessive complaints about alcohol-related disturbances. “From a student’s perspective, the current law is controversial because it limits the opportunity for additional campus bars,” Verveer said. According to Verveer, the disturbances still exist but there are significantly fewer complaints made to city representatives since
the passage of the alcohol license density ordinance, also known as ALDO, in 2007. Verveer said he and Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, presented city Council with numerous plans for the new alcohol licensing ordinance. The most significant change presented to the council involves shrinking the ALDO footprint from the entire downtown area to a few blocks closer to campus. According to Verveer, the new ordinance would span the 500 and 600 blocks of State Street and the 600 block of University Avenue. The two blocks would be connected by North Lake Street on the east of the block and West Gilman to the west side of the blocks. Verveer said since most police service calls are “concentrated in that area,” minimizing the ordinance location prevents excessive law enforcement precautions.
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KOHL CENTER
Home sweep home
The Wisconsin Badgers Men’s Hockey team defeated the No. 1 Minnesota Gophers at the Kohl Center Friday and Saturday to a full crowd of enthusiastic Crease Creatures both nights. + Photo by Tommy Yonash
Martial arts student organization withdraws from GSSF funding The Western Martial Arts Society has withdrawn from the General Student Service Fund for the remainder of this fiscal year and has surrendered its funding for the next fiscal year, according to Student Services Finance Committee Chair David Vines.
The WMAS is a registered student organization that strives to practice and inform others on martial arts common to ancient Europe. The group was granted funding for this year of $95,177.24 for 2013-’14, a significant decrease from its proposed amount of $164,362.29.
UW professor tackles racial academic disparities THE DAILY CARDINAL
University of WisconsinMadison Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings goes beyond the classroom in her quest to diminish racial disparities on and off campus. Furthering diversity and improving the imbalance of academic performance among minorities and “white matron kids” on campus are issues crucial to Ladson-Billings, who teaches both undergraduate and graduate education courses in the school of education at UW-Madison. Ladson-Billings said she believes the university needs to emphasize student retention rather than recruitment and cited the lack of diverse entertainment offered on and around campus as a possible reason for minority students feeling excluded from the university community. “When I’m driving through campus on Fridays or Saturday nights and see students lined
up outside of bars, it is rare that I see a student of color in that line,” Ladson-Billings said. “Why? Because actually the research shows us that black kids in particular are not really heavy drinkers. So if what the campus offers for socializing is ‘let’s go get drunk,’ they’re left out.” She said one way to avoid losing students is by “[staying] current with what they’re engaged in.” As a way to remain relevant, Ladson-Billings will host the fourth “Getting Real” series, a free semester-long lecture series on the educational theories behind the hip-hop movement, beginning Feb. 17. “You would probably have to live under a rock if you didn’t understand that hip-hop is kind of a driving course of youth culture right now and not just black youth culture,” LadsonBillings explained. “I’ve traveled the world, and I see hiphop everywhere.” The lecture series will focus
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Der Stiftskeller to reopen for business Monday
PROFESSOR PROFILE
By Daniella Emmanuel
In a letter from WMAS Finance Officer Matthew Manes to SSFC, Manes said that WMAS has not been able to succeed in the goals that it had outlined when requesting funding.
PHOTO COURTESY OF GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS
UW professor Gloria Ladson-Billings will host ‘Getting Real,’ the fourth lecture series on hip-hop and education. on the role of the hip-hop industry and feature various prominent guest speakers, including songwriter Jack Knight, who has written for artists like Diddy, Monifah and Jennifer Lopez, Ladson-Billings added. “It is paired with a course I’m teaching called ‘Pedagogical Flow: Hip-Hop in the K-12 classroom,’” Ladson-Billings said. “I
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have a variety of students from across campus who are now taking the class with me.” Ladson-Billings said she is hopeful for the future of diversity on campus and looks forward to working with a newly hired superintendent who “wants to do whatever she can to improve the performance of African American students.”
Memorial Union’s Der Stiftskeller will reopen its doors Monday at 3 p.m. after a five-month hiatus, according to a university news release. Der Stiftskeller closed in October as part of the Memorial Union Reinvestment project, which will be fully completed by summer of 2016, according to the release. Melanie Taylor, project manager of the restoration, said in a November interview with The Daily Cardinal her team’s objective is to improve infrastructure of the building, not to change its image, a goal which has been seen through at Der Stiftskeller. Improvements include six cash registers and new serving windows, which will serve a greater variety of beer, the release said. However, the iconic traits of Der Stiftskeller will remain intact. “This is a sacred space to people. We wanted it to be the same,” said Howard Haas, project manager from Conrad Schmitt, the company in charge of recreating Der Stiftskeller’s quintessential murals. “It should look like no construction was done.”
Jackson silences Spartans with last-second dagger
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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”