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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Football ticket lottery unveiled By Devin Rose THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison’s Athletic Department announced Monday several changes to the allocation process for student season football tickets, as well as new procedures to be implemented at the games during the 2008 season. According to Vince Sweeney, senior associate athletic director for external relations, football season tickets will move to a weighted lottery system for all students instead of only freshmen. Interested students can apply for the lottery from June 15 to June 30 online at uwbadgers.com. The athletic department will look at applicants’ class standings as of June 1, and each applicant will receive a number of chances corresponding to their standing. Graduate students and seniors will get four, while incoming freshmen will get one. The lottery will be held the first

week of July, Sweeney said, and students will be notified by e-mail July 7. According to uwbadgers.com, each undergraduate class is guaranteed 2,000 lottery winners, with 500 for graduate students. Sweeney said changes came as a result of feedback from a focus group of randomly selected students and from an online survey e-mailed to students. “The survey said that people are worried about the decline in time to get tickets,” said Logan Hulick, a student representative on the UW Athletic Board. He said the sellout time went from three weeks four years ago to two and a half days last year. UW-Madison junior C.J. Smith said he was angered by the change because of the uncertainty of whether he would receive tickets. tickets page 3

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UW Athletics announced Monday changes to the allocation policies and gameday procedures for the upcoming football season, including a lottery for all students and colored wristbands for seating assignments.

No suspects in killing, forensic tests continue

UW Athletes in Action aims to show AIDS statistic with orange T-shirts

By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL

By Shira Nanus THE DAILY CARDINAL

About 2,000 UW-Madison students and staff will wear orange “orphan” T-shirts Tuesday as part of a campus-wide “Orphan Campaign” hosted by UWMadison student group Athletes in Action. The goal of the campaign is to spread awareness of the impact AIDS is having on sub-Saharan Africa, where one out of every 20 children is orphaned as a result of AIDS. Athletes in Action hopes to visually demonstrate the AIDS statistic by having 5 percent of UW-Madison’s campus wear bright orange. “Our goal is to saturate the campus with these shirts to raise the awareness and give students and faculty an opportunity to take the next step,” UW-Madison senior and Orphan Campaign cochair Tyler Turner said. Fellow campaign co-chair and former UW-Madison football player Luke Swan hopes the campaign will help put the issue of AIDS on “the forefront of people’s minds.” “People who know about it can do something about it. If they don’t know about it, they can’t do anything about it,” Swan said. “Our goal is just to

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Students and staff will wear orange T-shirts Tuesday to support UWMadison’s Athletes in Action campaign to raise AIDS awareness. really make something happen with this pandemic that is going on.” For the past three years, Athletes in Action has raised money to build clean water wells in parts of Africa heavily affected by AIDS with its “48 Hour Practice” event, which has been postponed to fall.

“If they don’t know about it, they can’t do anything about it.” Luke Swan campaign co-chair Athletes in Action

The campaign originated from Acting On Aids, a movement to create awareness about AIDS

globally. UW-Madison and Ohio State University are the first large public universities participating in the campaign. Athletes in Action will try to get 4,000 students to wear the orange T-shirts Friday to represent the statistic projected if nothing changes in the next 10 years—one in 10 children will be orphaned due to AIDS. For all students wearing the Tshirts, there will be a five-minute “swarm” on Bascom Hill. “We hear numbers all the time, but the numbers don’t always mean that much to us, so this is a visual representation,” Scott Mottice, chair of Athletes in Action, said. “Getting one in 20 students on this campus to wear an orange shirt that says ‘orphan’ on it kind of gives people a picture of how much that actually is.”

Although several arrests have been made during the homicide investigation of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann, there are still no suspects in the case, police said Monday. Zimmermann, 21, was killed in her West Doty Street apartment Wednesday. As investigators continued to comb the Bassett neighborhood for clues, police arrested several people after questioning them about the events leading up to Zimmermann’s death. Madison Police Department public information officer Joel DeSpain said the arrests were for probation holds or other crimes unrelated to the

homicide. One of the arrests included a man who reportedly asked for money and entered a home on nearby West Washington Avenue. Police arrested him for a probation hold. Police are hopeful evidence collected at DeSPAIN Zimmermann’s apartment will provide a DNA sample of her killer. “We’re looking for anything that would appear to us particularly to have zimmermann page 3

Berquam asks faculty to help mourners By Amanda Hoffstrom THE DAILY CARDINAL

Dean of Students Lori Berquam asked Faculty Senate members Monday to speak with any students or colleagues about the death of Brittany Zimmermann, and university police said they are working to keep the campus and city safe. “Her death certainly impacted many of our students and our faculty and our staff,” said Berquam, who had just returned from Zimmermann’s funeral. “I hope that you will continue to join our efforts with the police departments in solving this horrendous murder, as well as the others that we are aware of in our city.” Dale Burke, assistant chief of the UW Police Department, said although efforts to improve campus safety have

reduced campus crime year after year, “the things that are occurring within the city of Madison right now are extremely disturbing to all of us.” Burke said officials are doing everything possible to “ensure the safety and security” of students, faculty and campus visitors. $120,000 donation The University Book Store became the first corporate donor to the faculty initiative to fund need-based scholarships Monday. The UW Foundation will match each donation. “When the board learned that the faculty had adopted a measure to fund need-based scholarships for UW students, we decided it would be faculty page 3

“…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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