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Monday, December 2, 2013
Local officials revise City Hall visitor policy By Melissa Howison the daily cardinal
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University police cited UW student Cade Peregoy for underage drinking and running onto Camp Randall’s field Saturday.
Police cite UW student for running onto field The final Badger home football game of the 2013 season Saturday against Penn State saw a high number of allaround rambunctious behavior, as well as a University of Wisconsin-Madison student streaking on the playing field. UW-Madison Police Department Spokesperson Marc Lovicott said UW-Madison student Cade Peregoy was intoxicated and wandering around the field disturbing the players when officers finally caught up with him running into the south end zone. Lovicott said it has not been determined how Peregoy was able to bypass security and enter the field during the game. “We’re still trying to figure
that out,” Lovicott said. “We know that he entered somehow on the north end zone area of the field, but we’re not exactly sure how he got out on the field.” Police cited Peregoy for underage drinking and entering the playing surface, according to Lovicott, who added he believes Peregoy was also later taken to detox. Aside from this incident, the total number of citations increased from the previous game against Indiana from 16 to 28. UW student ejections also increased from 8 to 27, and police arrested a total of 17 students. The highest blood alcohol sample was 0.332, up from 0.287, and first aid calls also increased from 6 to 23.
A proposal to redefine the policies dictating what behaviors are accepted of visitors to the City-County Building aims to strike a balance between the humanitarian needs of the public and the workplace needs of city staff, according to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8. Mayor Paul Soglin introduced the proposal in a letter to Dane County Executive Director Joe Parisi Nov. 13. In the letter, Soglin called for placing a private security guard at the entrance of Madison’s City-County Building, located at 210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., during regular work hours and prohibiting loitering in the building. However, Resnick said the city-county liaison committee rejected the idea of a security guard and revised the proposal at a meeting Nov. 25. The com-
mittee, composed of elected officials from Madison and Dane County, instead settled on using an “escalating model” to patrol the area, according to Resnick. The model operates as a three-strikes system where first-time offenders would be informed their behavior is disruptive and will not be tolerated. A second offense would result in the individual being prohibited from entering the City-County Building for 24 hours, which Resnick said “would simply be ... a chance to refocus their energy and clear their head.” Thirdly, the individual would be permanently banned. “I believe that focusing on the behavior is a start,” Resnick said. “Very often explaining to someone why they’re being removed from a particular situation does help.” Dane County Facilities
Management, which currently oversees procedures and policies at the City-County Building, would authorize staff members on site to implement the new rules. Resnick added committee members are not concerned with forbidding loitering or sleeping on the steps of the City-County Building. Rather, they hope to prevent people from conducting themselves “in a manner that would be disruptive to the city agencies that work within the building.” He said the “disruptive behaviors” the committee is focused on eliminating include consuming alcohol or being intoxicated in the City-County Building and threatening others. The city-county liaison committee’s revised proposal will go to the Homeless Issues Committee of Dane County for review before coming back for final approval by the liaison representatives.
STUDENT PROFILE
2014 Rhodes Scholar says UW key in academic success By Adelina Yankova the daily cardinal
University of WisconsinMadison senior and 2014 Rhodes Scholar Drew Birrenkott will continue his studies at Oxford University in England after graduation, but as a true Wisconsin native,
he said there are certain things he will miss. “Keeping up with my Wisconsin sports is going to be tough,” Birrenkott said. “I’ll miss waking up on Saturday morning and being able to go to Camp Randall and watch the Badgers.”
Birrenkott, who credits the university for many of his successes to date, said he appreciates the diversity of individuals he has encountered and worked with here. “My favorite thing about
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Pope Francis statement garners attention of UW Catholic community Pope Francis issued a statement Tuesday denouncing the modern focus on business and profit-making and called for a renewed mission of ending poverty, drawing attention from campus-area Catholics. In an apostolic exhortation, which is a formal message from the Pope, Francis outlined his mission to rededicate the Catholic Church to addressing the needs of the poor. Francis has made the issues of poverty and equality the defining doctrines of his papacy. The statement describes the
causes of poverty as a sickness rooted in the base of society. “Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor,” Francis added, “as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own.” The statement went on to criticize the influence of capitalism on society. “We can no longer trust in the unseen forces and the invisible
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UW-Madison senior Drew Birrenkott will continue studying at Oxford University in England after graduation. He said he credits his experience at UW-Madison for many of his successes.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”