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Fair celebrates health-care reform bill By Kayla Torgerson The Daily Cardinal
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Families welcomed home loved ones from the 115th Fighter Wing during a reception Thursday, held at the Wisconsin National Guard Headquarters after the soldiers returned from a two-month deployment to Iraq.
Wisconsin Students Public Interest Research Group hosted a health-care fair Thursday to celebrate the recent health-care reform bill passed by U.S. House of Representatives and to further educate students on the issue. U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, who spoke at the event, said the new bill would positively impact students in Madison and around the country. She said the bill would create a supermarket of insurance plans so that people can shop around for the best option for health-
care coverage. “I hope at the end of the day … that one of the many choices in the insurance industry is a strong publicly sponsored health-insurance option,” Baldwin said. Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services, who also spoke at the fair, said many people think health insurance does not affect college students because of misperceptions that all students are “young, healthy, well-covered and wealthy.” However, Van Orman said fair page 3
Families and friends welcome home airmen from the 115th Fighter Wing By Hannah Furfaro The Daily Cardinal
Approximately 200 airmen from the Madison-based 115th Fighter Wing were welcomed home by friends and family Thursday after a two-month tour of duty in Iraq.
Gov. Jim Doyle welcomed the troops as they exited an aircraft at Truax Field in Madison. Afterwards, friends and family met their loved ones at the Wisconsin National Guard’s joint headquarters for a welcome reception.
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Gov. Jim Doyle shakes the hand of a member of the Madisonbased 115th Fighter Wing after the airmen landed at Truax Field.
Tim Hruska, who attended the reception, said he was anxious to see his wife return after her two-month deployment. He said she had been deployed to Iraq previously, but her return home this time was special. Hruska, whose wife works as a supply technician in the 115th, said because his two grown children recently moved, this was the first time he was home alone during one of his wife’s tours. “When I went home and I closed the door … the silence was deafening.” Hruska and other relatives of soliders filled the reception hall waiting for their returning friends and family. Steve Resan, who arrived on one of the first buses of soldiers, said he usually ends up on one of the final buses after a return from Iraq. “The last time he came back I got right up in the front of the crowd waiting with a bunch of people,” his wife said. “You are just standing there waiting and waiting, and five or six buses later, oh boy … but, he got on the first bus this time.” “I just wanted to try something new this time,” Resan said. Children of soldiers made signs and held balloons welcoming their parents home. Garrett Lenzendorf, who wore a shirt that said “Daddy you are my hero,” held a sign that said, “Daddy you are the best birthday present.” “It’s his birthday today,” Lenzendorf ’s mother said. The 115th previously deployed in December 2004, June 2006 and January 2008 as part of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
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Students from both the MultiCultural Student Coalition and MEChA lobbied for their groups’ budgets at the meeting Thursday.
SSFC denies CWC’s second appeal, OKs MCSC’s budget By Robert Taylor The Daily Cardinal
The Campus Women’s Center exhausted its appeals process Thursday when the Student Services Finance Committee voted 2-0 to reject a procedural appeal and to uphold an earlier ASM Student Judiciary ruling. Zorian Lasowsky, CWC finance coordinator, argued the organization had been denied the due process procedure guaranteed to them by the ASM Constitution during the original budget hearings.
Lawosky said the committee made an “error of omission” by not clearly articulating to members that they were allowed to use discretion on all sources of information they considered in their decision, including supplementary materials. The implication of the omission, he said, was that members believed they had to give more weight to the CWC’s eligibility application than other evidence. “This was a violation of due ssfc 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.”