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Gov. Walker meets with UW-Madison supporters By Nicole Hurley THE DAILY CARDINAL
Two days after his second and final gubernatorial debate against Democratic challenger Mary Burke, Gov. Scott Walker addressed UW-Madison students and other supporters Sunday morning during an event attended by the College Republicans at a Republican campaign office in Madison. Walker used a series of numbers and statistics to illustrate the progress Wisconsin has made since he first took office in January 2011. “Here are the facts,” Walker said. “We had a $3.6 billion budget deficit. The next state budget begins with a surplus of over a half a billion dollars.” He said this $517 million cash surplus was made possible by reforms he initiated. The governor focused his speech primarily around his concept of returning the surplus to the pockets of
Wisconsin’s “hard-working taxpayers.” He explained this was being carried out through the reduction of property and income taxes and also through an idea that appealed and applied to his college-aged listeners: tuition freezes. This marks the second consecutive year where the governor has prohibited increases in tuition for colleges within the UW System. “For the first time ever, we’ve added tuition freeze[s] not one year, but two years in a row,” he said. “We’re going to continue that tuition freeze so more students and working families can afford college.” Walker posed for a photograph with UW-Madison students, during which they exclaimed “tuition freeze” in lieu of the typical “say cheese” expression. During his speech, he acknowledged the UW-Madison students present and invited
Scott Walker, Mary Burke meet in final debate in Milwaukee By Andrew Bahl THE DAILY CARINDAL
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ASM member Megan Phillips seeks student input as she campaigns to raise the ‘living wage’ for campus jobs.
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UW sophomore leads campaign to increase student ‘living wage’
By Adelina Yankova THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Gov. Scott Walker met with UW-Madison students and supporters Sunday in Madison to talk about higher education issues.
With the mounting costs of attending college, a UW-Madison student consistently working 15 hours a week throughout the entire duration of the academic year would have to earn roughly $21 per hour to pay back the cost of one year of tuition and fees alone. When adding this statistic to other major costs such as room and board, Megan Phillips, UW-Madison sophomore and leader of a campus-wide campaign to increase minimum wage for student employees, sees a problem for students’ ability to offset their expenses. “Obviously there is an issue here,” Phillips said. “There is a gap between how much students are making and how much students are paying just to go to college.” Phillips, who serves as chair of the Associated Students of Madison Nominations Board, said she hopes to help address this
gap by affecting tangible change in the way of increasing “living wages” for student workers. As part of her campaign, the Minnesota native has been talking with the Wisconsin Union, University Housing and Rec Sports about increasing wages for their student employees. Phillips said these organizations, which are the three biggest employers of students on campus, have been relatively receptive to her ideas, but have not yet enacted change. An ASM intern during her freshman year, Phillips learned grassroots organizing skills in the context of her campaign to “pay students a sustainable amount” so they could benefit from devoting time to other enrichment opportunities. While she admits that holding a job can teach students invaluable leadership skills, Phillips also points to the fact that those who have to work
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Man urinates on Madison Police Department squad car near City Bar Madison police arrested a man urinating on a city of Madison police car parked near City Bar on the 600 block of State Street Saturday night, according to a Madison Police Department
incident report. Witnesses warned the suspect, 21-year-old Dodgeville resident Chase Martin, of the approaching police, but Martin continued urinating
on the parked squad vehicle, MPD Lt. Eric Tripke wrote in the report. Martin then fled, attempting to hide from police on Gilman Street. When the pursuing offi-
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cers found him, Martin resisted arrest but was ultimately taken into custody. Officers charged Martin with disorderly conduct and resisting police, according to the report.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke squared off in the second and final gubernatorial debate in Milwaukee Friday. Four of the nine questions posed by panelists pertained specifically to the southeastern region of the state, with topics including a proposed casino in Kenosha, job growth and gun violence in Milwaukee. The candidates disagreed over the state of Wisconsin’s economy, with Walker touting the work his administration has done to create what he says is a budget surplus. “The $3.6 billion deficit we inherited has turned into more than a half-billion dollar surplus,” Walker said. Burke hit back by alleging the state is facing a structural deficit of $1.8 billion and blamed Walker for a lack of fiscal responsibility. When asked about how she would foster job growth, Burke promoted her jobs plan
“I have been straight from the start that these are the best ideas [for helping the Wisconsin economy].”
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and stressed public education, business growth and more aggressive investment in infrastructure as ways to stimulate the economy. “We need to make sure that everyone has a fair shot to get ahead as long as they do the work,” Burke said. Walker criticized Burke’s tenure as the state’s secretary of commerce and touted the 8,400 private sector jobs the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates were created in September, a mark he called the best in a decade. “Unemployment is down to 5.5 percent, the lowest we’ve seen since 2008,” Walker said. Walker also said the state created 100,000 jobs under his watch, which falls short of his stated goal of 250,000 new jobs being created in his first term.
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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.”