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Falk names new 911 director By Anna Discher THE DAILY CARDINAL
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P.J. Hill, a former Badger football player, was arrested last week on drunken driving charges.
Hill arrested on two felony charges Madison police officers arrested former Badger running back P.J. Hill last week for driving under the influence. Police were called in at 2:30 a.m. March 14 after Hill, 22, allegedly hit a guard rail near the Open Pantry, 1401 Regent St., and fled. Hill led officers on a chase before crashing his car into a wall on Spring Street with a female passenger inside. He was arrested at gunpoint. Hill, who refused a sobriety test upon his arrest, arrived at the Dane
County Circuit Court March 16 on tentative charges of drunken driving, fleeing police, driving without headlights and reckless endangerment. He will appear in court again April 6 after formal charges are filed. As a part of his bail, Hill cannot drink or be in or near the Open Pantry on Regent Street. Hill announced his decision to enter the National Football League draft earlier this year, prohibiting him from participating in his senior season with the Badgers. He is antici-
pating going to New York City April 25-26 for the draft. Hill left the Badgers after obtaining a total of 3,942 yards, behind Ron Dayne and Anthony Davis. He is the second player to rush for 1,000 yards in the first three seasons. Hill was suspended from the Badger football team in 2006 after an incident in a UW residence hall. Hill pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct charges stemming from the incident. —Erin Banco
Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk named UW-Madison graduate John Dejung the new director of the Dane County Public Safety Communications Center Thursday. Dejung worked the past 12 years as 911/311 director for the city of Minneapolis. He has also overseen millions of dollars in technical upgrades to the Minneapolis 911 Center, including the 2006-’07 replacement of the center’s computer-aided dispatch system. Dejung has served as the president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Emergency Number Association, chair of the Minnesota Metropolitan 911 Board Technical Operations Committee and two-year chair of a 911 national industry group called the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials. In 2008, the Minneapolis 911 Center was awarded the 911 Call Center of the Year by the 911 Institute for its handling and emergency response coordination of the Minneapolis I-35 bridge collapse in 2007, according to a press release. Falk, who is running for reelection, said Dejung’s extensive experience overseeing 911 technical upgrades and working with public safety agencies and oversight groups make him the “perfect” candidate for the position, which
will be responsible for important changes to the center. “[Dejung] has the right experience, the right credentials, and a cando attitude that will serve our center well,” Falk said in a statement. “Our highly trained team of 911 Center professionals handles over 640,000 calls a year. From teaching CCR (cardio-cerebral resuscitation) over the phone to friends and family of heart attack victims to helping nervous fathers deliver very premature babies in cars along the side of the road on bitter cold mornings, our dispatchers are true first responders.” Nancy Mistele, Falk’s opponent in the upcoming election, has focused a majority of her campaign on the 911 Center’s mistake with the death of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann last April. According to a statement made by Mistele, Falk appointed Dejung director of the Dane County Public Safety Communications Center for the benefit of her political career. “It appears this director is much more experienced than Kathleen Falk’s last choice, and I look forward to working with the new director to address the serious problems still existing at the 911 Center,” Mistele said in a press release. Dejung will officially begin as Dane County Public Safety Communications Director on June 1.
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Woman raped and held hostage on Mifflin By Rachel Holzman THE DAILY CARDINAL
Madison police arrested a man March 15 after he allegedly held a 46-yearold woman captive and raped her with the help of a friend at his West Mifflin Street GRAHAM residence. The suspect, 54-year-old James Graham, is currently being held at the Dane County Jail and has been tentatively charged with first-degree
sexual assault. According to a search warrant obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal, Graham allegedly beat the woman at his apartment and took turns raping her with a friend over a three-day period. The WSJ said the woman told police she met Graham and his friend on March 11 and went back to Graham’s apartment with them. Graham’s residence, 441 W. Mifflin St., is owned by Madison Development Corporation. MDC leases Graham’s unit to Housing Initiatives, which provide housing services to the homeless and to resi-
dents with special needs. The woman told police that once she was inside the residence, Graham’s friend held her arms down while Graham punched her in the face and told her to undress. In the warrant, the woman said the two men took turns holding her down and assaulting her. The victim also said she was not allowed to leave the apartment for three days and was told she would be killed if she left or said anything. The woman told police Graham kept a 12-inch knife with him and forced her into a closet if anyone came into the apartment.
Doyle recommends in-state tuition for illegal immigrants A provision in Gov. Jim Doyle’s 2009-’11 executive budget proposal would allow certain illegal immigrants in Wisconsin to pay in-state tuition at UW campuses. According to budget documents, undocumented residents would receive nonresident tuition remission if they graduated from Wisconsin high schools, attended high school in the state for at least three years and
provided proof that they would apply for citizenship as soon as they were eligible to do so. Doyle has included similar provisions in three previous budgets, but the state Legislature removed them before passage. Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities chair Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, said the Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant
Reconciliation Act of 1996 may conflict with Doyle’s proposal because it would require the state to grant all U.S. citizens in-state tuition as well. “Then we couldn’t charge out-ofstate tuition, and out of state tuition is very important to the university because it [not only] pays for that student’s education, but also it subdoyle page 3
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Scott “Boo” Kiker and his bandmates perform on State Street. Boo Bradley, Kiker’s band, will perform at the High Noon Saloon on Saturday.
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Feingold moves to outlaw capital punishment Sen. Feingold proposed a bill Thursday prohibiting the death penalty nationwide. Police release suspect sketch Police issued a sketch of a suspect involved in a 2005 sexual assault case. Joint Finance Committee hears tesimony from UW System UW leaders discussed the university’s value to the state.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”