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‘Just Mercy’ author talks race, adversity By Miller Jozwiak THE DAILY CARDINAL
Bryan Stevenson, the author of this year’s Go Big Read book, filled Varsity Hall in Union South Monday night during a talk on mass incarceration and race. “Just Mercy” follows Stevenson’s career and his work as the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that defends the poor and wrongly convicted, according to the book. The university gave out more than 5,000 copies of the book to students at convocation and more than 170 courses on campus are
using the book. “Bryan’s work has demonstrated that justice has not always been blind in this country,” Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in her introduction of Stevenson Monday. “Out of his experience, he has created a movement for equal treatment in the criminal justice system for poor and rich, for black and white and for children as well as adults.” The talk focused on systemic disparities in the criminal justice system through anecdotes from his career and actions he said
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UNION SOUTH
Carving out time for fun
Union South hosted a free pumpkin-carving event Monday. Pumpkins and supplies were provided, and participants were able to bring home their completed pumpkins and seeds. + Photo by Alayna Truttman
SSFC SPOTLIGHT
PAVE’s increased budget to bring teaching opportunities to campus By Ellie Herman THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Author Bryan Stevenson packs Varsity Hall and two overflow rooms to discuss ‘Just Mercy,’ this year’s Go Big Read book.
Proposed bill would alter worker’s compensation laws By Andrew Bahl THE DAILY CARDINAL
Legislative Republicans circulated a bill last week that would significantly change the state’s worker’s compensation laws. The proposal would diminish the amount of compensation owed to an employee who was injured due to negligence, reduce the statute of limitations for “traumatic injuries” to two years and require that employees seek treatment within the employer’s health care network. The bill’s co-authors, state
Rep. John Spiros, R-Marshfield, and state Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, said the bill would prevent workers from abusing the system. “This bill continues to ensure that when an employee is injured at work, the employee will be covered under worker’s comp with the goal of receiving the necessary treatment and returning to work within his or her limitations,” the authors wrote in a memo seeking co-sponsorship. “However the
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Members of the UW-Madison student organization Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment are planning to add speaker events and new programs through funds allocated by the Student Services Finance Committee. PAVE members work to end all forms of sexual assault, dating and domestic violence and stalking on campus through primary prevention, and seek to change the public’s attitudes and behaviors surrounding these issues through education and activism. SSFC heard a presentation from PAVE on Oct. 22, where the group originally asked for
an $8,000 increase for their 2016-’17 budget to send speakers to conferences and increase employee salaries.
“[The speakers] will all strengthen our outreach into programming that we haven’t done before.” Sophie Nielsen chair PAVE
SSFC members voted Monday to grant PAVE with $86,657.50 for the next fiscal year, part of which PAVE will devote toward speak-
ers on domestic violence, sexual assault, LGBTQ+ advocacy, multicultural awareness and a training against stalking. “[The speakers] will all strengthen our outreach into programming that we haven’t done before, reaching out to parts of communities that experience sexual violence in different ways, and need to give access to the conversations that PAVE are having,” PAVE Chair Sophie Nielsen said. Originally, PAVE members requested to bring 10 members to a National Association of Student Personnel conference next school year, which SSFC members
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New Madison resident loses car to downtown fire A Dodge Durango burst into flames Monday, damaging two parked, unmarked Madison Police Department squad cars just outside of the City County Building on South Carroll Street., according to an incident report by Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain. The 36-year-old owner of the SUV was moving from
Minnesota to Madison and had purchased the vehicle for $700 through Craigslist Saturday, according to a report by the Madison Fire Department. The owner noticed the smoke coming through the interior vents and on-scene officers noticed smoke and flames coming from the front end of the car, according
to the reports. The fire department responded to the scene to put out the fire. Though the SUV was full of the owner’s belongings for his new apartment, he removed them soon after seeing smoke come from the hood and before the flames took over the vehicle, according to the reports.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”