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Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Power and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2010 urged UW-Madison students to become more involved in research on the environment and sustainable farming Monday. Growing Power, Inc. is a nonprofit organization based on sustainably farming foods for diverse communities and providing education and hands-on training to children and adults. It has worked to build gardens and harvest foods in Milwaukee, Chicago’s Grant Park, Kenya and other local communities. Allen said students should promote agri-
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culture because food is the most important thing to people across the world, and the industry is interested to hear what students have to say about the topic. “Things are changing because they’re starting to hear from the students,” he said. “The students really need to push this effort.” According to Allen, a student-led farming conference in Wisconsin attracted people from all over the country and was “impressive and great to see.” Allen said the nutrition value in food across the world has decreased substantially since the 1950s and the only way to improve it is to improve soil quality. allen page 3
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Art students created chalk murals on the Humanities Building Monday afternoon.
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Farmer Will Allen said Thursday UW-Madison students should take a greater interest in the effects of soil on nutritional content in food.
GAB lays out rules for Supreme Court race recount The Government Accountability Board outlined rules Monday for the state-wide recount of votes from the April 5 Supreme Court election. The recount is set to begin Wednesday and needs to be finished by May 9. A number of counties and municipalities that used Optech Eagle vote scanners—including the entire city of Milwaukee and parts of Dane and Waukesha counties—will have to recount ballots by hand due to a lack of memory cartridges. “Some counties will have a difficult time finishing in that amount of time,” said Michael Haas, special counsel for the GAB. “We are asking that you make your best attempt to meet this statutory deadline.
Haas said county clerks will need to send an e-mail to the GAB each day listing reporting units completed and the tally of votes. Those tallies will be updated on the board’s website daily to keep the public informed. Each county must have at least one county board member who is from the opposite party of the county clerk involved in the recount process. Tabulators do not need to be from both political parties, but they should not be selected based on political affiliation. If only one party is represented, it should be noted for issues of transparency, according to Shane Falk, staff counsel for the GAB. Representatives from both parties are expected to be in each county to oversee the recount. —Patrick Tricker
Former UW-Whitewater assistant professor Zhengnan Shi filed a lawsuit against the university in an attempt to get his job back after he was fired in February for allegedly making threatening statements that referenced the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. Shi had been an assistant professor of math and computer science since August 2008 and has requested judicial review of the decision. The office of UW-Whitewater Chancellor Richard Telfer, who banned Shi from campus, declined to comment on the case. According to UW-Whitewater campus newspaper the Royal Purple, campus and federal officials investigated a statement Shi allegedly made in 2010. Shi was accused of saying, “If I continue to get pushed too hard, this will turn out like Virginia Tech,” referencing the April 16, 2007, shooting spree by Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho that
left 32 people dead and injured 25 others. Shi was originally removed from his position but still allowed on campus to attend appointments and scheduled hearings. However, the dean of the Whitewater College of Letters and Sciences and the chair of the math and computer sciences department submitted a complaint to Telfer to have Shi dismissed permanently. The complaint also said Shi displayed signs of stress and anger around other faculty members and students in the time up until he allegedly made the statement. Several students also submitted complaints in the fall of 2010 about Shi’s teaching style. Shi’s attorney told the Royal Purple they considered the allegations to be “defamatory and serious.” According to Shi’s petition for judicial review, he believes he was never told the reasoning behind the decision to relieve him of his teaching duties and was never advised to any right of appeal. Shi could not be reached for comment.
Vice chief justice accuses ASM of violating due process, files complaint Student Judiciary Vice Chief Justice Tim Hogan filed a complaint with the Student Judiciary, claiming the Associated Students of Madison violated his right to due process in his impeachment hearing. Hogan said that by canceling his impeachment hearing ASM denied him the right to respond to the allegations against him. ASM Chair Brandon Williams notified Hogan that a petition asking for Hogan’s impeachment was filed and signed by one third of the ASM student council. Later, two of the student council members asked to remove their signatures. Because the two endorsements were withdrawn, there were not enough signatures to proceed with the hearing.
ASM bylaws do not say whether or not a member of ASM is allowed to remove their signature from a petition for impeachment. The bylaws do state, however, once an ASM officer has a petition for impeachment filed against them that officer has “the right to be represented by any member of the ASM, to speak, to produce witnesses for the defense, and to cross-examine any witnesses against him or her.” Williams said ASM was not at fault because it did not contact the press about the potential impeachment. “The remedy of the case itself does not seem like there is going to be a reasonable solution,” Williams said. —Anna Duffin
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”