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UW men’s soccer team maintains scoreless streak as they lose third straight game SPORTS
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Students cheered on the Green Bay Packers at State Street Brats as they played the Vikings Monday evening. However, Wisconsin lost its second border battle with Minnesota, with a final score of 30-23.
Peace Park opponents speak out THE DAILY CARDINAL
After nine years of planning, a team of architects may fulfill their dream of building a visitor center on the site of Lisa Link Peace Park, located on State Street. A group of speakers presented their plans to the city Planning Commission Monday, which have yet to be approved by the Common Council. The opposition present at the
meeting felt the visitor center would not be financially beneficial and said the homeless are being driven out of the site with nowhere else to go. Susan Smith, a representative of Downtown Madison, Inc., was in support of the plan. “[The visitor center] is for everyone ... It’s not about kicking people out,” she said. The visitor center will consist of a game table, small work-
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Campus orgs aim to educate students on dating violence
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stations and a public bathroom among other amenities. The renovation will also include a performance space, increased lighting and a fountain. The space will also offer labor programs for the homeless to learn techniques to be applied in future occupations. Supporters argued that money would be best spent on building peace park page 3
In 2008, 46 lives were lost in domestic violence-related incidents in Wisconsin, according to the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence. To most UW-Madison students these statistics are alarming, but for some they are all too familiar. October is domestic violence awareness month, and campus organizations such as University Health Services and Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment and the Offices of the Dean of Students have stepped up efforts to educate the student population in hopes of preventing future violence. According to Carmen Hotvedt, UHS violence prevention specialist, these groups plan to provide peer-led workshops, spread materials about healthy relationships and offer training for first responders. Hotvedt said college students are particularly vulnerable to experiencing domestic violence, making it even more important to educate students at UW-Madison. “We know that about 20 percent of high school students are experiencing some form of violence in dating relationships before they come to college, and the age at which women
are most vulnerable to dating violence is 16-24,” she said. “Clearly, these are crimes that have an impact not only for college-aged students, both men and women, but also for the entire campus.” “Clearly, these are crimes that have an impact not only for college-aged students, both men and women, but also for the entire campus.” Carmen Hotvedt violence prevention specialist University Health Services
Tera Meerkins, chair of PAVE, said if students were more aware of domestic violence issues, it could be something that gets reported more often, thus making it easier to prevent. “It’s not very often reported so many people don’t know it exists, and that prevents them from reporting it because they think they’re alone,” she said. “It’s viewed as a private issue.” She said this privacy trend prevents many victims from seeking resources, essentially violence page 3
BadgerCare Plus Core Plan forced to to waitlist applicants By Ariel Shapiro THE DAILY CARDINAL
The BadgerCare Plus Core Plan will begin wait-listing applicants after Friday, Oct. 9, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Monday at St. Mary’s Hospital. Doyle promised a transition plan for waitlisted applicants. “The fact that we have to apply a waiting list three months after the first application is [surprising].” Jim Doyle Wisconsin governor
The Core Plan provides access to basic health-care services to uninsured, childless adults under
age 64. The program began enrollment last June, and according to Doyle, 60,000 applications have been received since then. Doyle said he expects over 70,000 applications by the end of the week. The state presently can afford to cover 54,000 people. Although Doyle and the Department of Health Services are trying to recruit as many eligible people as possible for the program before Friday, they devised a bare-bones plan for those on the waiting list. Doyle described the transition program as “a basic plan” that gives waiting list applicants limited access to some health services. “It will protect those people, it will protect the hospitals and it will protect the rest of us from badgercare page 3
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Student organizations posted signs on Bascom Hill as part of domestic violence awareness month. UHS, PAVE and the Offices of the Dean of Students hope to educate students in order to prevent future violence.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”