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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Newly GOP Legislature will bring changes
Screamin’ for a reason
By Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal
With a newly elected, Republican-controlled state Legislature, Wisconsin will likely see a slew of deregulatory bills this season. The GOP now has a majority of 60-38, with one Independent in the state Assembly, and 19-14 in the state Senate. Among the 14 Democratic lawmakers ousted this election cycle were some of the
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Madison’s Screamin’ Cyn Cyn and the Pons played a show at Memorial Union’s der Rathskeller Wednesday night as part of Human Rights Week.
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By Alicia Goldfine The Daily Cardinal
French journalist Thierry Cruvellier spoke in Memorial Union Wednesday about the punishment and trials of war criminals in countries such as Rwanda, Cambodia and Lebanon. Cruvellier’s lecture kicked off the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Human Rights Awareness Week. Cruvellier was the only fulltime foreign journalist to cover Rwanda’s International Criminal Tribunal, which was formed to prosecute criminals after the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Cruvellier said justice is never easy to fight for, and every country finds its own political transition after mass genocide. Rwanda has taken a unique approach by following mass murder with mass justice, which makes it is impossible for the government to punish all guilty parties, Cruvellier said. “More than 1 million people have in one way or another been prosecuted, which is unbelievable and unprecedented and nowhere to be seen,” Cruvellier said. Cruvellier said statements tribunal courts make about their operations often stray from the truth. “We have to look at these courts for what they do, not for what they claim,” Cruvellier said. According to Cruvellier, foreign political context behind tribunal courts inspires the way in which the court acts in Rwanda,
Cambodia, Sierra Leone and other countries. “The courts can hardly do something that the international community behind it is not willing to do,” Cruvellier said. Cruvellier said justice can best be attained through the combination of trials, reparations, com-
missions and removal of state members involved in crime, though the victims will never receive a satisfactory answer. “What is important to keep in mind is that trial is only a small answer to mass murder,” Cruvellier said. “It only achieves very little. It punishes, and that’s all it does.”
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GAB: statewide voter turnout at 50% By Ariel Shapiro
French journalist speaks about trials of war criminals, attaining justice after genocide
most prominent people at the Capitol. Both Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, D-Wausau, and Speaker of the Assembly Mike Sheridan, D-Janesville, were defeated by their Republican challengers. One of the top contenders for the next Speaker of the Assembly, state Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, is looking forward to creating jobs and minimizing government power, according to
Voter turnout for Tuesday’s midterm elections was relatively high at nearly 50 percent, meeting the Government Accountability Board’s original predictions.
“Based on the feedback we have received and media reports, this was a successful election.” Kevin Kennedy chief election officer Wisconsin
“Based on the feedback we have received and media reports, this was a successful
election,” Kevin Kennedy, the state’s chief election officer said. “I consider it a successful election when most voters have a pleasant experience and remember its outcome rather than any issues at the polling place.” The 2010 election drew more of the voting-age population than any other midterm election since 1974, except for the 2006 election when voter turnout was 51 percent. UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said although the overall voter turnout was high for a midterm election, Democratic voter participation dropped off significantly since the 2008 election. turnout page 3
Mifflin residents robbed at gunpoint
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Thierry Cruvellier, the only full-time journalist to cover Rwanda’s International Criminal Tribunal, spoke Wednesday at the Union.
Four men living on the 500 block of West Mifflin were robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning. The Madison residents, three of the four said to be in their early 20s, were sitting on their front porch around 12:23 a.m. when the two black male suspects approached the residents, according to the police incident report. One suspect had a handgun and directed the four residents inside their house, police said. Once inside, one of the suspects held the residents at gunpoint, while the other suspect began to gather money and electronic devices in the house, police said. The suspects also asked the
residents about drugs, specifically marijuana, police said. “One resident was punched and another stomped on during the robbery,” Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement. One suspect was said to be in his early 20s, around 5'8", 160 to 170 lbs. with a high-pitched voice. At the time of the robbery he was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, dark jeans and black tennis shoes. According to police the other suspect is 20 years old, around 6', 175 to 180 lbs. with a lighter complexion and a thin beard. He was seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark jeans and dark shoes. —Maggie DeGroot
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”