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A belly dancer performs at Madison’s World Music Festival on the Memorial Union Terrace Wednesday.
WUD Society and Politics hosts town hall-style health-care debate THE DAILY CARDINAL
In an attempt to generate discussion on health-care reform, the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Society and Politics Committee kicked off the year Wednesday with a town hall-style Q&A session led by a panel of Madison-area experts. Panelists discussed a variety of topics concerning the health-care debate and addressed possible solutions to advocate reform, including a single-payer system, a public option plan, socializing medicine and rationing health care. The panel agreed that both reform of insurance companies and reform of the health-care system is needed. Bioethics professor Tom Oliver of the Population Heath Institute and Dr. Richard Rieselbach, a nephrologist at UW Hospital, said restructuring medical care
so care providers work in teams would be more efficient from a financial perspective. The teams would put primarycare physicians at the forefront, with other team members dealing with of more minor health problems. “The media have done a really poor job of presenting [the health-care debate] in an objective way.” Nicole Safar legal analyst Planned Parenthood
CEO of Access Community Health Centers Gordon Derzon pointed out that despite controversy over a public plan for health care, 80 million Americans are already on a public health-care plan, namely
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University Ave. Liquor to get new ownership
Hips don’t lie
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those on Medicare, Medicaid and in the military. Nicole Safar, a legal analyst at Planned Parenthood, also critiqued the role of the media throughout the health-care debate of the past few months. “Activists in Wisconsin have been out there, making calls, going to town hall meetings ... and the media have done a really poor job of presenting this in an objective way,” she said. The panel urged students and community members to continue discussing health care and pushing reform through community involvement and grassroots organizations such as Dane County Grassroots Network and Organizing for America. WUD Society and Politics Committee meetings are held on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in Memorial Union, TITU.
One of Madison’s most prominent liquor stores will soon be under the new ownership of two former employees, who have decided to purchase the establishment from its former owner. The Alcohol License Review Committee approved a new license for University Avenue Liquor, located at 525 University Ave. in the heart of the downtown and campus area, at its Wednesday night meeting. Joel Kouba and Herbert Taylor, both current employees, will purchase the 2,000 square-foot business that has been at its current location for at least 10 years. According to Kouba, who has worked there for seven years while managing it for the past three, the University Avenue liquor business itself has been prominent in the Madison area for over 25 years. Mark Woulf, the Associated Students of Madison student representative for the ALRC, praised the establishment and its workers, especially when dealing with students. Kouba said they regularly use ID scanners given to them by the UW at
their door, especially on weekends. However, Kouba and Taylor faced slight scrutiny over their keg delivery processes. Their current process includes having the buyer fill out a deposit slip with his or her name, license number, address and phone number. When the keg is delivered, the name on the slip must match the name of the person accepting it. Kouba said that during the school year, and especially during the tailgating season, they go through as many as 150 to 160 kegs per week. According to Captain Carl Gloede of the Madison Police Department, there have been 32 instances of deposit slips not being accurate. Kouba, however, could only think of a few problems in the seven years he has been employed there. The problems he could remember occurred during his second year of employment, and centered on the Mifflin Street Block Party and Freakfest events. ALRC member and District 4 alder Mike Verveer said he has known the applicants for quite some time and it is a gratifying part of his job when he is able to see employees purchase their place of employment.
ASM votes to approve new student board By Tom Czaja THE DAILY CARDINAL
feel should be accepted. Both Junger and ASM vice chair Tom Templeton feel the new committee should be composed of a majority of undergraduate students, but graduate students are eligible to apply as well. Junger said ASM plans to hold a town hall-style meeting with Berquam within the next two weeks to provide students with more information about the committee and hopefully gain support. The student council also approved the UW Homecoming committee event grant for $12,900.
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The Associated Students of Madison student council voted unanimously Wednesday evening for the creation of the new student board to oversee funds from the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates. The call for this committee was well received in an effort to give other students outside the ASM student council a chance at getting their voices heard. According to ASM chair Tyler Junger, the new group will chiefly oversee a student service aspect
while simultaneously having a slight role in curricular innovation. “There is a need to jump on this train now,” he said. He insisted the committee, which will begin as ad hoc, needs to get started as soon as possible to have an immediate impact on the student body. According to Junger, the next step will be to receive several proposals from deans of the various schools for funding, with a meeting then set up with Chancellor Biddy Martin and Dean of Students Lori Berquam to give their say on which proposals they
Chancellor Biddy Martin spoke Wednesday at a ceremony on Bascom Hill to honor the 100th anniversary of the Abraham Lincoln statue as well as the bicentennial of president’s birth.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”