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Obama kills Keystone XL pipeline, continues environmental reforms By Lucas Sczygelski THE DAILY CARDINAL

After seven years of heated rhetoric from both conservatives and environmentalists, President Barack Obama officially announced Friday that he has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline. Although experts predicted it would lead to an inconsequential bump in global emissions, the pipeline became a focal point in America’s struggle to grapple with carbon dependency. Its rejection continues Obama’s recent push to cement his envi-

ronmental legacy following this summer’s new regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The pipeline was proposed in 2008 to transport oil from Alberta’s tar sands in Canada to refineries in the gulf of Mexico. The extraction of oil from the tar sands has drawn protests from environmentalists and locals due to the process, which requires strip mining that results in toxic runoff and the destruction of segments of Canada’s Boreal forest. Additionally, the production of oil from the tar sands creates about 17

percent more carbon pollution than that from normal sources, according to the U.S. state department. The proposed pipeline drew broad opposition from Democrats and public figures, including former Vice President Al Gore, who called it “ridiculous,” the Dalai Lama and Neil Young, who held a concert with Willie Nelson to bring attention to the proposal and controversially claimed that a strip-mined Alberta “looks like Hiroshima.”

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MPD Chief Mike Koval met with community members to discuss minority groups’ reactions to proposed police body cameras.

Concern arises over police body cameras By Greta Bjornson THE DAILY CARDINAL

A proposal that would require Madison Police Department officers to be outfitted with body cameras has sparked a discussion about police relations within the Madison community. A special committee that the Madison Common Council appointed and tasked with evaluating the benefits and setbacks of using the cameras has investigated the proposal since it was first presented. Deciding upon the fate of the proposal was delayed earlier this October and a final Common Council vote was scheduled for Nov. 17. In response to the issue, a report on minority communities’ reaction to body cameras compiled by the Madison YWCA Center for Family Policy and Practice was presented to community members at a meeting Thursday. Jacquelyn Boggess of the Center for Family Policy and Practice presented the report gathered from the responses of about 200 minority individuals in Dane County. Among the respondents were members of the African-American, Latino, LGBTQ and Hmong communities, as well as survivors of domestic violence. Boggess said she interviewed participants, many of whom were

principally concerned with manipulation of camera footage, as well as the safety of African-Americans. “I don’t see how [body cameras] can help,” one anonymous participant said, according to Boggess. Others expressed frustration over racial profiling. “In the same way that they are targeting the black community, they will eventually target the Latino community,” another respondent said. MPD Chief Mike Koval, who was also present, emphasized the force’s compliance regardless of the committee’s ultimate decision. “We understand that the council thought that [body cameras were] a critical need at this point … Ultimately, when the report is submitted to the council … should the council adopt its findings outright and go along with those findings, that works for us,” he said. “But on the other hand, if the council believes that there’s a need to acquire more data … the police department will be amenable to those findings.” Boggess clarified that although the respondents expressed concerns over privacy and race relations, the “report does not weigh in on whether there should be body cameras or not.” Rather, the report found that

Fall Science Writer in Residence aims to make scientific writing more approachable By Peter Coutu THE DAILY CARDINAL

Soren Wheeler, the senior editor at Radiolab, will be on campus all week to work as UW-Madison’s Science Writer in Residence in an effort to help students improve their science writing in a new age of journalism. For over a decade, Wheeler has been “trying to get regular people to understand and engage with science.” In 2000, he co-authored

“Atlas of Science Literacy,” which articulated what students should know about science at each level of education. In 2006, Wheeler received a master’s degree in science writing from John Hopkins University and then began working on Radiolab, a public radio show hosted in New York. He does a variety of work for the awardwinning show that usually covers scientific topics.

After years of growing Radiolab’s audience by writing consistent, interesting shows once every two weeks, Wheeler said he hopes to help advise students on how improve their writing about science. Though the show is hosted in New York, Wheeler moved to Madison about a year and a half ago. Beginning Monday, Wheeler

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Participants in the 2015 Madison Marathon pose after crossing the finish line. Almost 3,700 runners took part in the race Saturday, which included a full and half marathon. For the full story, see Sports, page 7. + Photo by Jeremy Liebman

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