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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Judiciary blocks Ward’s decision Student judiciary places injunction on council’s MCSC decision By Anna Duffin The Daily CArdinal
The Student Judiciary negated a decision Chancellor David Ward made last week by passing legislation Tuesday that would invalidate any student council decision regarding the Multicultural Student Coalition’s funding eligibility. Ward ruled last Friday that the Associated Students of Madison
would decide if MCSC is eligible to receive funding for the next fiscal year. The Student Services Finance Committee decided the group was ineligible for funding in October, saying it did not spend over half of its time directly serving students. When the SJ upheld the committee’s ruling, MCSC appealed to Ward. In SJ’s resolution, it said Ward only has the authority to intervene in the student segregated fee allocation process when ASM commits a “viewpoint neutrality violation” by taking group’s viewpoints and beliefs into account when ruling.
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Occupy Madison organizer Dave Peters addresses the City Council Tuesday ahead of a vote that ultimately decided against extending Occupy’s camping permit.
City Council: Occupy Madison camp will disperse by April 30 By Ben Siegel The Daily CArdinal
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The Student Judiciary heard election violation complaints against BOOP candidates Tuesday.
Judiciary: Nine members face removal for alleged violations By Anna Duffin The Daily CArdinal
The Student Elections Committee asked the Student Judiciary Tuesday to eliminate the nine elected members of the BOOP student government campaign from student council and disqualify the other 13 who were not elected. SEC Chair Mickey Stevens said a BOOP campaign message was chalked over another candidate’s chalk during elections, violating campaign rules. He said the group also violated
election rules by playing music over speakers in East Campus Mall without a permit, breaking city ordinances. Members of BOOP, a slate under which some students ran for Associated Students of Madison student government in March, said it is difficult to identify who qualifies as a member of “BOOP.” Of the 22 individuals the SEC is alleging violated campaign rules, nine were ultimately elected to stu-
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The Occupy Madison encampment was denied an extension on their permit by the City Council Tuesday, meaning that the camp will be forced to disband on April 30. The initial resolution to temporarily extend the city’s allowance of the camp was meant to give city and county officials additional time to address the problem of homelessness that, with the number of homeless campers, has become part of the group’s agenda. While omitting the decision to grant an extension to the Occupy camp, the revised resolution eventually passed will create a Homeless Issues Committee consisting of city officials and current or formerly homeless persons to devise ways the city can improve its social service offerings. According to the resolution, Madison’s homeless services
system was forced to turn away 2,000 individuals due to a lack of resources in 2011. That figure doesn’t include those, like Occupy residents Harold Morgan, Janine Burke and Brent Nelson, who have problems with the system and choose not to partake in it. “There are too many rules in the shelters,” said Morgan, who suffers from seizures. “Without that tent, I would probably be dead today.” Nelson, who said he and Burke had attended to Morgan during several of his fits, agreed. “A lot of these people won’t go to the shelters because they are too hectic,” Nelson said. “Here, we’re one big family.” To organizer Jen Thompson, the camp has been more effective than shelters in empowering individuals. “Receiving [shelter], with rules and conditions, is very different than having to take responsibility
and influence for your environment,” she said. “It’s a whole new way of looking at things.” While not discounting the achievements of the Occupy community, Mayor Paul Soglin opposed the resolution because it would endorse illegal use of the city-owned land and is a financial burden on the city’s emergency services. Ald. Lisa Subeck, District, 1, was hopeful for the future, despite the fact that the initial resolution she co-sponsored was rejected. “I hope this body can have the same sense of urgency [in addressing homelessness] even if we don’t have the Occupy site there to remind us,” Subeck said. According to Brent Nelson, come April 30, the former residents of the encampment will do just that. “They’ll scatter like ants,” he said. “They’ll have them sleeping in every doorway, every alley.”
UW, adidas fail to meet April 15 mediation deadline By Sam Cusick The Daily CArdinal
UW-Madison announced Friday that the university and adidas did not meet the April 15 deadline for completing mediation set by the Labor Licensing Policy Committee last month. LLPC members hoped the deadline would pressure UW administration to ensure mediation results in payment to unemployed adidas-contracted workers within 60 days, which is
the amount of time Chancellor David Ward initially said the process would last. The university now expects the process to last until mid-June. Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition said they see the time extension it as a “stall tactic” for the university to continue mediation for more than double the time they initially proposed. “This new time that he set for himself will end in the mid-
dle of June when of course students are no longer in school so there won’t be anybody here to make sure that he does the right thing,” SLAC Member Lingran Kong said. However, Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said the university feels mediation is the best response to the issue, despite the extended time frame.
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