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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

UW students victims of separate sexual assaults in downtown Madison By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL

Two female UW-Madison students were the victims of recent sexual assaults in the downtown Madison area, police said Tuesday.

“Students and others should be alert to those who look suspicious and to let us know.” Joel DeSpain public information officer Madison Police Department

The first incident occurred Saturday evening on Langdon Street. A 36-year-old graduate student reported that a stranger followed her into her apartment building and grabbed her buttocks while she was checking her mail at 5:23 p.m.,

according to a police report. Police patrolling the area spotted a man matching the victim’s description of the perpetrator and arrested Daniel M. Coffee, 21, of Madison. Coffee is tentatively charged with fourth-degree sexual assault. The second assault happened Monday morning in a parking lot on the 120 block of East Gorham Street. According to a police report, a 20year-old sophomore said she was getting into her car when a strange man approached her and grabbed her clothing. He then made a sexual gesture with his hips while hugging the victim’s chest area before running off. Police describe the perpetrator as a white male, 19 to 24 years old, 5'8" to 5'10" with short blond or light brown hair, blue or green eyes and acne. He was last seen wearing a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, shiny blue nylon assaults page 3

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The athletic department announced it will revert to last season’s ticket voucher system and abandon the wristband policy in order to correct the congestion problem that plagued the Marshall game.

Assigned seats back for rest of football season By Erin Banco THE DAILY CARDINAL

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The UW-Madison Athletic Department will revert to the previous football ticketing system for the remainder of the season, beginning with the game this Saturday against Ohio State. Similar to past years, students will exchange validated vouchers for reserved seating tickets. Students will no longer receive colored wristbands, which were used at the first two home football games this season. Vince Sweeney, senior associate athletic director for external relations, said officials decided to return to the old procedure after reading survey responses from student season-ticket holders.

“We really do care about the students, and we value their input,” he said. “[Their input] is what led us to this decision … so we are hoping that it will be well-received.” Sweeney said students should be able to find their seats more easily with portals marked to enter either the upper half or lower half of each student section. Students had complained about congestion caused by the wristband policy. “We think we can deal with some of that migration if we try and provide a bit more information as [students] are trying to decide what portal they should enter,” Sweeney said. The next two home games,

against Ohio State and Penn State, start at 7 p.m., which contributed to the switch from wristbands to assigned seating. “I am nervous because this week is a night game and people are going to be trying to get better seats and may be a little more out of control,” said Kayla Haag, a UW-Madison sophomore and football volunteer for Per Mar. Haag said it was difficult to work last year’s games because volunteers could not identify students sitting in the wrong section. “At least with the wristbands you could tell who was in the tickets page 3

One Wisconsin Now claims business interest group lied about involvement in UW budget NICK KOGOS/THE DAILY CARDINAL

Matt Wessale, a UW-Madison junior and a coordinator for WISPIRG’s ‘Big Red, Go Green’ campaign, argues against the construction of a new coal plant at a Portage city council meeting Tuesday. Opponents of the plant said the money should instead be invested in a clean-energy economy.

Students invited to offer feedback at ASM constitution listening sessions By Rory Linnane THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison students and faculty can participate in listening sessions Wednesday to offer feedback on a recently created draft of the Associated Students of Madison constitution. According to Jeffrey Wright, chair of the Constitutional Committee, each hour-long session will be open for university community members to ask

questions and supply feedback. “We want people to take ownership of what could become the new student government,” Wright said. According to Wright, the goal of the constitution is to create a greater separation of roles between the legislative body and the executive body, with the first major asm page 3

By Hannah McClung THE DAILY CARDINAL

The watchdog group One Wisconsin Now filed a complaint Tuesday with the Government Accountability Board claiming Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce failed to report lobbying activity involving the University of Wisconsin budget. WMC, a pro-business interest group, commented on its lobbying activities in response to former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley’s article in Madison Magazine, in which he said WMC is not acting in the best interests of the University of Wisconsin. In a statement released Aug. 20, WMC said they played a part in the final passage of the entire Wisconsin state budget.

However, according to OWN, that statement was revised from one released earlier the same day that read, “WMC actively lobbied for final passage of the UW budget.”

“The law says that if you lobby, you have to report that activity.” Scot Ross executive director One Wisconsin Now

“This public reversal on WMC’s previous claim is even more reason why a full investigation by the GAB is warranted,” Scot Ross, executive director of OWN, said.

WMC is confident the complaint will be dismissed by the GAB because the complaints are without merit, according to Jim Pugh, director of public relations for WMC. “[This complaint] is part of an ongoing harassment campaign by One Wisconsin Now,” Pugh said. According to Pugh, WMC supported the final passage of the entire state budget, which included massive funding increases for the University of Wisconsin, but did not lobby for the UW budget itself. Under Wisconsin law, if a group lobbies for a particular part of the budget, it must report that activity. According to Ross, WMC is wmc 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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