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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
UC tuition hike draws attention to fiscal woes By Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal
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Security was tight for President Barack Obama’s education speech at Wright Middle School in Madison.
In 46 years since Kennedy assassination, presidential security efforts have evolved By Josh Hilgendorf The Daily Cardinal
President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Madison’s Wright Middle School only weeks before the anniversary of former President John Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963—46 years ago Sunday— provides a look at the evolution of presidential security. Obama arrived at the Dane County Regional Airport at 12:22 p.m. and briefly met with a group of local government officials, including Gov. Jim Doyle and Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, before entering his presidential limousine, according to Joel DeSpain, public information officer
for the Madison Police Department. In anticipation of Obama’s arrival, bomb-sniffing dogs searched all cars parked at the airport and snipers were positioned throughout the area, DeSpain said. When Kennedy arrived at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, in 1963 before proceeding toward Dallas Business and Trade Mart for a luncheon speech, the airport was locked down much like the Dane County Airport. However, unlike during Obama’s visit to Madison, spectators from the general public were allowed to greet Kennedy upon his arrival, according to Philip Melanson in his book “The Secret Service: The Hidden History of
an Enigmatic Agency.” The details of Kennedy’s motorcade route were made public three days before his arrival by Dallas newspapers. By contrast, the details of Obama’s route were never made public prior to his arrival. The closure of Fish Hatchery Road at Carver Street was the only information made available to the public before Obama arrived, according to an MPD news release. DeSpain said MPD worked closely with the Secret Service days in advance to plan the route. The Obama motorcade proceeded
Because of financial pressures, the University of California Board of Regents approved a plan Thursday to raise tuition by 32 percent over the next year, the most drastic response yet to the recession by a state university system. According to UC spokesperson Steve Montiel, because California cut its funding to the system by over $800 million, the tuition hike comes as a necessary means to preserve education in the state. “The state has not been able or willing to fund full enrollment,” Montiel said. “You have to increase revenue or else the quality is going to suffer.” Montiel said although the entire country has been hurt by the recession, California is in particularly bad shape. “There are very few degrees of freedom that the [California] Legislature has,” UW-Madison public affairs and applied economics professor Andrew Reschovsky said. “That is augmented by the fact that you need a two-thirds vote to
approve any tax increase, meaning it’s very difficult to solve fiscal problems.” State universities across the country have seen a decrease in state funding, including UW-Madison. However, because Wisconsin’s financial situation is not as severe as California’s, the effects have not been as great. “We have increased tuition by 5.5 percent for the last three years,” UW System spokesperson David Giroux said. “In this current downturn, we have been able to work with the state to avoid those kind of precipitous cuts and dramatic tuition increases.” UW-Madison has also implemented the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, which increases tuition over a fouryear period for both in-state and out-of-state students. This increase is separate from the 5.5 percent across-the-board increase Giroux mentioned, which applies to all four-year UW System schools. Before implementing major tuition increases, Montiel said UC california page 3
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150 students turn out to discuss diversity issues By Ryan Hebel The Daily Cardinal
UW-Madison junior Marie Tapp only budgeted food for about 20 students when she pitched the idea of a diversity forum to her house fellow two weeks ago. Instead, about 150 students showed up at Smith Hall Monday night. Tapp said she intended the forum to address broad topics of race and diversity at UW-Madison, but articles published last week in The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald’s opinion sections brought out a larger and more energized crowd. “We obviously can’t solve this issue all in one night, but we want to have a progressive discussion. We understand that people are upset, and we want to find a
way to solve this issue of diversity on campus, or this lack of diversity on campus,” Tapp said. “We obviously can’t solve this issue all in one night, but we want to have a progressive discussion.” Marie Tapp junior UW-Madison
Hosted by Students for the Oneness of Humankind, the event clustered students into small groups that debated several topics, such as the role of race in admissions, the value of diversity in education and solutions to diversity problems on administra-
tive and student levels. House fellow Ashley Saffold, who helped organize the event, said she hoped the controversial opinion articles could act as a launching point for more students to interact and “constructively and collectively move forward.” “It turned out to be positive, I guess I could say ... It definitely ignited students to wake up and realize that this campus does need to change,” Saffold said. Junior Trisha Pedone said the event acted as a conduit for a healthy discussion of race and provided her some new perspectives. Freshman Deonate Brown said he was pleased his group’s conversations focused on individual experiences rather than diversity page 3
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UW-Madison senior Mallory Popp donates blood at the UW Business School Blood Drive in Grainger Hall Monday afternoon.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”