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Thursday, March 7, 2013
State Assembly passes two Republican bills Legislation would limit workday hours, secretary of state role By Andrew Haffner The Daily Cardinal
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ASM Student Council Rep. Jamie Wheeler discusses legislation Wednesday that proposes changes to the recently released campus alcohol policy recommendations.
ASM offers changes to alcohol policy update By Paige Villiard The Daily Cardinal
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council unanimously approved a resolution of two suggested changes to the campus alcohol-policy recommendations recently made by a campus task force. The Event Alcohol Sales and Service Task Force was charged with reviewing the university’s alcohol policies following the sexual-assault controversy during the 2012 Rose Bowl. One of the task force’s recommendations, which would restrict graduate students and their organizations from serving alcohol at events, received criticism over the effect it would
have on event attendance. Student Council Rep. Kyle Rak said events would be less successful because serving alcohol is a tradition at many of them. “The turnouts would be a lot lower and the events would not be anywhere near as fun,” Rak said. Council approved legislation recommending changes to allow graduate or professional registered student organizations to get alcohol permits, as well as allowing project assistant or teaching assistant graduate students to serve alcohol at events. Another of the task force’s recommendations would prevent an event with over 50 attendees or lasting longer than
two hours from obtaining an alcohol permit. Student Council Rep. Jamie Wheeler said the recommendation would affect department events that many faculty, staff and graduate or professional students attend, adding it would be expensive to hire a catering service. ASM’s resolution recommends large events with everyone over the minimum drinking age be eligible for alcohol permits regardless of attendance or length. Wheeler said the resolution would go to Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell, in addition to the original recommendations made by the task force.
The state Assembly passed two separate bills Wednesday, which would allow Wisconsin employers to reduce work hours for their employees instead of resorting to lay offs as a cost-cutting measure and would eliminate the secretary of state’s role in publishing new legislation. The “unemployment insurance” bill, which would create a work-share program intended to protect workers from labor cuts, was passed with bipartisan support despite early controversy stemming from the bill’s allowance of employers to reduce unionized workers’ hours without
first negotiating with their union. Assembly Republicans tabled a Democratic amendment that would have created additional protections for collective-bargaining agreements in the bill. Republicans said in a statement the amendment was unnecessary because the bill would still require employers to adhere to state and federal labor laws honoring union bargaining rights. The bill will now go before the state Senate. The other piece of legislation, SB2, would ensure that legislation becomes effective the day after the governor signs it, circumventing the current process that allows the secretary of state 10 days after the governor’s approval to tell the Legislative Reference Bureau to officially publish legislation. The secretary would retain the power to choose a date within the 10-day span when the Wisconsin
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Revelry leaders reveal funding sources Re ve l r y organizers announced the breakdown of the event’s budget plan Wednesday, which will not include funding from student segregated fees. Revelry is a University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsored event to be held May 4, the same day as the Mifflin Street Block Party, to celebrate the end of the year. The major sponsors for the event are University Health Services, UW Housing, the Wisconsin Union and Dean of Students office, which combine
to account for nearly one third of the budget. The Revelry budget will not include any funding from student segregated fees, which are funds set aside from student’s tuition and fees. Additionally, ticket revenue will account for approximately 30 percent of the funding for the event. Other sources of the budget will come from private funding, non-segregated fees from student organizations’ budgets and other miscellaneous university funds that do not come from student tuition.
City could allow gardening on public land By Melissa Howison The Daily Cardinal
A local food policy committee defined a list of priority health goals for Madison in 2013 Wednesday, including increasing opportunities for residents to garden on public lands. Madison’s Local Food Policy Council discussed two ordinances that would make healthy food more accessible by allowing residents to plant on terraces and city-owned land.
The first ordinance would create an application system in which residents would be able to obtain “edible landscaping” permits to garden on public land. Committee member Topf Wells said multi-year contracts would be better suited for the project than annual permits. “Since a lot of the species that are contemplated here are perennial, I think it would make more sense to go with
a permit period, perhaps not indefinitely, but longer than one year,” Wells said. Members also discussed how the city would make sure public planting areas were properly maintained, so as not to obstruct the community and bother neighbors. “Some of the plants that could be put in … could expand and take on more territory,
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