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Student leaders removed from seats By Aleah Heinlein The Daily Cardinal
Beth Huang was removed from her position as student council Vice Chair by the Student Judiciary Thursday. The SJ ruled not to extend Huang’s time in office until her appeal date, due to uncertainty whether Huang met the deadline for infringements of Associated Students of Madison bylaws last spring. In April, the SJ sentenced Huang to 20 hours of community service for violating ASM campaign bylaws by canvassing in a student dormitory. Huang said the hours were due by Sept. 15, and she submitted them that night. According to the SJ, this was past the due date. The Judiciary
announced Huang’s dismissal Tuesday, postponed its effect Wednesday and decided to enact the dismissal Thursday. Huang will get the chance to appeal Student Judiciary’s most recent decision. SJ Chief Justice Kathryn Fifield stated allowing Huang to appeal is the “best opportunity to really flesh out the important questions that have resulted from this case… and what the appellants will be able to present to [ASM] in terms of arguments.” According to Huang, her dismissal will have consequences for ASM. Huang opened up forum by stating that “the termination of her stay and subsequent removal will have a detrimental affect on ASM
as an organization and ASM as a student body.” Huang said it took her three months to transition into her position as Vice Chair, and that nobody can make that changeover in one week’s time. She said during that period she met with 50 to 100 different faculty, staff and administration members on campus, as well as student organizations. “Those relationships and institutional networks with UW-Madison cannot simply be passed on,” she said. The SJ also dismissed ASM Nominations Board Chair Niko Magollan on the same grounds. The SJ will meet in special session to hear both Huang and Magollan’s appeals by Friday Sept. 30.
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MCSC Rep. Nneka Acubeze said she does not know how the group will respond to a dramatic budget reduction.
Student government stands by MCSC ruling By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal
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As people from the Baby Boomer generation grow older, more “senior students” are enrolling in a program that allows those over the age of 60 to audit classes for free.
Enrollment rising for ‘senior’ students who enjoy benefits of free program By Patrick Berthiaume and Alex DiTullio the Daily Cardinal
As students scan the classroom for an empty seat, one person tends to stick out. Usually quietly seated in the back row, this person, who could pass as many of the students’ grandparent, eagerly awaits to learn from UW-Madison professors free of charge. Over the last 30 years, approximately 1,000 “senior students” each semester have enrolled in the Wisconsin policy that allows people over the age of 60 to audit classes without paying tuition. “It’s wonderful to have this
opportunity to go in and expand your mind,” said Rick Larson, a 62-year-old auditing a history class. “You never stop growing as a person.”
Learning Programs, have increased over the last few years without signs of stopping. As people from the Baby Boomer generation continue to hit 60, enrollment is expected to grow rapidly, Professor Barry “It’s wonderful to have this Orton with the Department of opportunity to go in and expand Continuing Studies said. your mind” Larson said after a long career in one field, his retirement opened the Rick Larson door to furthering his knowledge in course auditor other areas. According to Larson, who is enrolled in “Vietnam Era, Music, Senior students enrolled in the seniors page 3 program, established by the Division of Continuing Studies’ Senior
Student leaders stood by their decision Thursday to limit the Multicultural Student Coalition’s budget to $250,000, although the group requested upwards of $1.5 million. The Student Services Finance Committee refused to make an exception for MCSC, who turned in their waiver form 48 minutes past deadline to qualify for over $250,000 in funding. In the waiver, MCSC said they have “been critical for student mobilization, education, and healing” in light of recent issues challenging diversity efforts on campus. MCSC administrative staffer Nneka Acubeze told SSFC the group is still determining how to rework their budget to fit within the $250,000 limit. “We’re kind of doing some debriefing within our own organization and what that means for all
the hard work that was put into the budget,” Acubeze said. In the waiver, MCSC said SSFC’s request to list the group’s expenses according to importance was “drenched with white privilege and is dripping with the audacity of self-given and unearned power.” The group said they “refuse to do the impossible task of itemizing [their] oppression,” which they said they would be forced to do when choosing which programs to fund. SSFC’s request for them to do this “is a mirror of the campus climate [they] exist in as marginalized students,” the group said. SSFC Rep. David Vines said while the language in the waiver MCSC sent might have appeared as if they felt targeted, members of the group said they understood the ruling was not made out of spite. “I don’t think it was necessary to include that language in the waiver,
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Professor, student spar in Capital Times over CEO admissions study By Alison Bauter and Shannon Kelly The Daily Cardinal
After last week’s Center for Equal Opportunity controversy, a war of words broke out between one UW-Madison professor and a student earlier this week. In a strongly worded letter to the Capital Times, UW-Madison physics professor Marshall Onellion criticized the university’s admissions policy and its response to the
CEO studies, calling out student protestor Mia McKinney as one of several “student thugs” Tuesday. McKinney wrote back to “wholeheartedly refute” the professor’s letter. “[Onellian] clearly has misconstrued the facts and, indeed, does not know what is going on,” wrote McKinney. “He was unable to form
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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.”