KANYE QUITS SCHOOL IN FAVOR OF HEARTBREAK The school motif is gone, as is much of Kanye West’s old style on the dark 808’s & Heartbreak ARTS University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Badger fans at State Street Brats celebrate as they watch the Wisconsin men’s basketball team defeat Virginia Tech 74-72 as part of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. See Sports for full coverage of the game.
Ald. Eli Judge, District 8, announced Monday he will not seek re-election for a second term as a member of the Madison Common Council, and others are already preparing to campaign for his spot. A UW-Madison senior, the 21year-old Judge is the youngest member of the council, and his plan to attend law school was “one of the biggest factors in not running,” he said. Over the course of his term, Judge has accumulated a number of policy achievements. His first item passed through the Common Council was the Textbook Ordinance, which has resulted in almost a 100 percent drop in textbook thefts on the UW-Madison campus, according to the UW Police Department. He also worked with
U.S. officially in state of recession since Dec. 2007 The National Bureau of Economic Research officially announced Friday the United States has been experiencing an economic recession since December 2007. “By the time we get the official recognition, we are already pretty well aware of the state of the economy.” Donald Moynihan associate professor of public affairs UW-Madison
UW-Madison associate professor of public affairs Donald Moynihan said the announcement only confirms what the public already realizes about the state of the economy. According to Moynihan, the announcement from the bureau took a year because it takes time to gather all the data that officially signifies a recession, including growing unemployment and at least two successive quarters of negative economic growth. “By the time we get the official recognition, we are already pretty well aware of the state of the economy,” Moynihan said. As to how the recession has been seen in Wisconsin, Moynihan said the state has experienced a large loss of manufacturing jobs. He said Wisconsin is not among the states feeling the worst of the recession,
but is far from being one of the states faring the best. UW-Madison assistant professor of consumer science J. Michael Collins said Wisconsin is a “mixed story.” Although the state has not had the same housing slump or amount of job losses as other states, such as California, there have been large layoffs. Collins said he expects unemployment to continue to increase in Wisconsin into 2009. According to Collins, there is no way to forecast when the recession will end for the state or country, and it is possible the announcement of the recession from the National Bureau of Economic Research will negatively affect consumer sentiment and make things worse in the near future.
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“People, while they might have known the economy is on a downturn, may have been uncertain as to how much so,” Collins said. “With the official announcement, people might be less likely to start businesses or take other risks that would work to help us out of the recession.”
local business groups and tenantrights organizations to pass the Photo Ordinance, which adds protection for renters from dishonest landlords. “It’s sad that he’s not serving on the council with us,” said Ald. Brenda Konkel, District 2, who worked with Judge as an advocate for tenants. “I think he was a good representative for the students and brought a balanced perspective to the council. I really appreciate all the hard work he did on behalf of tenants.” Throughout his term, Judge helped the Rape Crisis Center by securing $10,000 of new funding. Most recently, he drafted the Downtown Residential Lighting Initiative to place strategic lighting fixtures in the downtown area and improve safety. judge page 3
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lion dollars by moving one or two months ahead of schedule. Wisconsin Union Initiative leader Dan Cornelius said the project has utilized student input throughout the design process and parts of the building, such as a green roof, could be used for curriculum and faculty research. “I think this is just an incredible building, and I think it’s going to be a great resource, not only for campus but for the community as a whole,” Cornelius said. One portion of the development that commission members questioned was the logistics of platforms in the design to account
In a series of voice mails to the Athletic Department last week, former Badger football player Leonard J. Taylor Jr., who has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, threatened the lives of UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez and professional tennis player Maria Sharapova, according to a criminal complaint. According to the complaint, Taylor, 32, of Indianapolis had been calling Alvarez’s work phone and leaving “disturbing messages” since the beginning of the football season. The complaint states the calls were not threatening, but “bizarre,” and had been made during the 2007-’08 season as well about money supposedly owed to him. During a telephone conversation with UW Police Detective Bruce Carroll Sept. 16, Taylor vowed to stop calling Alvarez and was told he was not allowed at any Athletic Department facilities. A university employee told UWPD detectives the calls had stopped after police intervened but resumed in November with “excessive profanity, threats against Alvarez and references to how professional tennis player Maria Sharapova [had] done [him] injustices in various ways.” The complaint states 29 messages were left on Alvarez’s voice mail Nov. 24 and Nov. 25, in which Taylor said he wanted to marry Sharapova, but also kill her and her family.
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The existing Union South is scheduled to be demolished in January of next year to make way for a new union in 2011.
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“With the official announcement, people might be less likely to start businesses or take other risks.”
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Plans to create a pedestrian mall as a part of the design for the new south campus union made their way to Madison’s Plan Commission at a public hearing Monday night. Representatives from UWMadison and the Wisconsin Union Initiative and architects unveiled their design plans to the commission in an effort to gain approval for demolition of Union South, which occupies the location for the project. Gary Brown, director of planning and landscape architecture for the Campus Master Plan, said the plan is moving forward at a brisk pace, saving upwards of half a mil-
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”