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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Campus game to require Nerf gun registration By Megan Stoebig the daily cardinal
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Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said he is excited the new plans will incorporate more lighting on the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall. The plans also include bike parking, additional seating and new pavement.
City considers three designs for State Street, Library Mall By Sarah Olson THE DAILY CARDINAL
City officials could choose from one of three plans to redesign Library Mall and State Street in the next six weeks, Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said at a Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee meeting Monday. City planners previously proposed two potential designs for the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall. One of the proposals features an asymmetrical oval surrounding the current fountain on Library Mall, and the other plan, which is called “The Great Lawn” would create an open square green space on the mall. The University of WisconsinMadison does not have plans in its 2014 budget to reconstruct Library Mall, according to city Principal Planner Bill Fruhling.
Fruhling said the city is considering an alternative to the previously proposed plans. In the alternative plan, the city would move forward with construction on the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street without a plan for the Library Mall area, which city planners would leave for the university to decide on in the future. The alternative plan would allow the option of a “historical restoration” of the Library Mall space, which would seek to clean up and restore the mall instead of reconstruct it, according to Resnick. In each of the three plans, the 700 and 800 blocks would remain very similar, Fruhling said, but the alternative plan would include a raised platform, which could include the clock tower or a sculptural element at the start of Library Mall.
The city is also moving forward with plans for functional elements of the space including lighting, bike parking and seating, according to Fruhling. He said they want to design the space to prevent crime, so they have focused on making the area open and well-lit. Resnick said he is excited to try to expand the time students use the State Street and Library Mall areas with the improved lighting. “I think the nighttime movement is what I am most excited about,” Resnick said. Fruhling said the State Street Redesign Committee will hold another public information meeting regarding the State Street redesign plans sometime in the next few months, but city planners have not set a date for the meeting yet.
The Madison chapter of Humans vs. Zombies, the nation-wide game where “humans” defend themselves against “zombies” with socks and nerf blasters, will require participants to register weapons this year as an added safety precaution, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department spokesperson Marc Lovicott. Participants were required to submit a photo of their weapon before the game started Monday, which game moderators either approved or declined, according to Lovicott. The decision comes after participants during the game last semester were seen with nerf guns that appeared too similar to real weapons. “Last year, we had a few people calling us thinking someone on campus had a weapon, and there was some specific sensitivity because it was the same time as the Boston Bombing,” Lovicott said. Human vs. Zombie moderator Maurice Booth said the decision to require registration was a way to keep things fun and easy this year. “We want to be pro-active about it,” Booth said. “We know that there are some concerns going on, but we’ve had a lot of really positive experiences and we want to be able to keep that going on despite some of these crazy things that are going on in the world.” In the wake of four armed robberies over the past two weeks targeting UW-Madison students, Lovicott said Human vs. Zombies will continue this
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Man allegedly gropes woman on Langdon Street Police are still searching for the suspect in an alleged sexual assault that happened on the 100 block of Langdon Street around 12:20 a.m. on Sept. 6 or Sept. 7, according to a city incident report. The alleged suspect is a white male in his mid to late 20s with short blonde hair, according to the report. He is between 6 feet and 6-feet-2 inches tall
and was wearing a blue sweatshirt and shorts when the incident occurred. The 22-year-old female victim said she was walking alone when a man approached her from behind, grabbed her neck and punched her in the stomach. The alleged suspect then groped her over her clothing, according to the report. The report said the victim was
screaming and may have injured the suspect during the attack. The alleged suspect ran off toward Wisconsin Avenue, according to the police report. The report said the victim was reluctant to report the incident initially, but decided to do so at the urging of a friend.
Fire drills to take place throughout campus buildings this week Fire evacuation drills will take place Monday through Thursday in campus buildings across the University of WisconsinMadison, according to a news release. The fire drills are conducted annually in all UW-Madison buildings as part of the university’s emergency preparedness plans. The first fire drill occurred Monday
in Van Vleck around 2:30 p.m. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to listen for and partake in the drills, according to the release. When the alarm sounds, all building occupants are asked to evacuate and assemble in a spot listed near each building exit. Environmental Health & Safety,
UW-Madison Police and the Madison Fire Department personnel will act as overseers on each floor of a building. Some of the drills will run throughout class periods this week. They will last as long as it takes for complete building evacuation by occupants and for inspectors to check each floor of the building.
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Students will participate in Humans vs. Zombies on campus through Friday.
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