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Soglin looks to protect Oscar Mayer workers By Negassi Tesfamichael THE DAILY CARDINAL

On the heels of last week’s announcement by Kraft Heinz to close Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant, Mayor Paul Soglin reaffirmed his desire to help the plant’s soon-to-be laid off workers. Kraft Heinz, the parent company of Oscar Mayer, announced Wednesday it would close seven plants nationwide. The Madison plant, which opened in 1919, houses nearly 1,200 jobs. About 250 corporate officers will transfer to a new headquarters in Chicago, while the other 1,000 salaried employees and workers will be laid off. Soglin emphasized a healthy state economy as promising for workers. “Fortunately, Madison is doing quite well. We’re the economic engine that is driving this state,” Soglin said. “We are disproportionately creating high-paying jobs … We are disproportionately providing tax revenues.” Soglin said he spoke with Gov. Scott Walker over the phone Friday to make sure the Workforce

Development Board of South Central Wisconsin has enough resources to help workers find new employment. “Our common goal is to ensure that the workers at Oscar Mayer and the families of those workers end up with the best results, assurance of as good a job as they have presently,” Soglin said. “That is our primary concern.” “It could be used for other industrial or manufacturing uses, particularly those that need a lot of water,” Soglin said. “The first and highest use of that site is employment.” Walker has faced criticism about not reaching out to Kraft Heinz, though officials at Kraft Heinz defended the process. “The decision to close Madison was based entirely on the need to reduce operational redundancies and eliminate excess capacity,” Michael Mullen, a spokesperson for Kraft Heinz, said in a statement. “We are now working with Wisconsin officials to find a buyer that could potentially keep the Madison facility open.”

Researchers find new way to tag harmful brain tumors By Bri Maas THE DAILY CARDINAL

A team of UW-Madison researchers has found a way to more easily identify brain cancer that could lead to earlier diagnoses and more effective treatment of the deadly disease.

“These results could have far-ranging implications for improving outcomes in cancers.” Peter Choyke director NCI Molecular Imaging Program

UW-Madison associate professor of radiology Weibo Cai led the team that created an antibody to tag a specific gene that is highly active in glioblastoma multiforme, a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer, according to a university release. The antibody attaches to the CD146 protein present in glio-

blastoma and, when mixed with a copper isotope, makes tumor cells light up in a PET scan. Although so far the process has only been tested on mice implanted with human glioblastoma, it could be the first step in improving cancer treatment. “We’ve created a tag that— at least in our mouse model—is highly specific for this aggressive brain cancer,” Cai said in the release. “If the technique proves out in further tests, it could be used to diagnose some strains of aggressive glioblastoma, and also to evaluate treatment progress or even to test potential drugs.” Other lethal forms of cancer, including ovarian, liver and lung tumors, could also be tagged with the team’s antibody. Cai said in the release he targeted cancers with the lowest survival rates, which are the most aggressive and are associated with higher levels of CD146 activity.

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The day center is planned to give Madison’s downtown homeless community an opportunity to get access to laundry facilities, meals and other amenites. The center is set to open next October.

County approves purchase of downtown homeless day center The Dane County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.4 million purchase for a downtown homeless resource center Friday. The purchase, approved with a 30-4 vote, allocates four properties on the 1300 block of East Washington Avenue for the center, which will provide storage space, laundry facilities and meals for homeless individuals. “A permanent site for a day shelter and resource center is vital to get services to individuals and families struggling with

homelessness,” Dane County Board Chair Sharon Corrigan, District 26, said in a Friday statement. “This purchase allows us to move forward on that commitment.” Dane County Executive Joe Parisi initially announced plans for the center in September. Many people spoke out against the purchase, saying its location in the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood could affect nearby schools and businesses. However, Supervisor Heidi

Wegleitner, District 2, who represents the neighborhood, dismissed those concerns. “I’m going to fight for the neighborhood’s concerns, and I’m going to fight for quality services at the day resource center,” Wegleitner said in a Friday statement. “I’m going to continue to fight for affordable permanent housing.” Construction is slated for the spring, with the resource center opening in October 2016. —Negassi Tesfamichael

Vandalism in Vilas Hall provokes letter from administration Students taking classes housed in Vilas Hall, including those in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, received an email Monday alerting them of “an incident of bias and racism” that occurred a few weeks ago in Vilas Hall. The attached letter from Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims detailed the vandalism of a poster for the Department of Theater and Drama’s production of “TEA.” According to Sims’ letter, the vandal defaced and targeted the AsianAmerican women on the poster. Sims also called to attention the severity of such incidents, which he said violate the campus community’s fundamental values, and

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Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims wrote a letter to students to describe the vandalism and call students to action.

“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”


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