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UW-Madison junior Katrina Gray was studying abroad in Alexandria when mass protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak broke out. She witnessed her friends and neighbors join the nationwide democratic struggle. This is her story: On January 24 my Egyptian friends and I sat in a café smoking hookah and drinking tea; a normal day. The topic of the next day’s protests came up. We talked about Mubarak, 30 years of marshall law and the quality of life, but overall my peers assured me that the protests of Police Day would be short-lived. They were wrong. The days following would be beyond anything I could have imagined. In the mornings the streets were quiet and pensive, like the calm before the storm, and in the evenings the people took to the streets, regardless of religion, age or class.
The atmosphere was positive and the first few days of protest were entirely peaceful. After the police—who were feared and hated—all but disappeared overnight and the Army came in their place, the community morale sky-rocketed: Citizens took over traffic control, garbage collection and neighborhood watch groups—everyone was working together. On January 28, I woke up in what felt like Soviet Russia, or maybe North Korea: Overnight the government had cut off Internet and phone service, and tanks were parked on main streets every few miles. The news on TV was as if it were just an average day. I could feel the invisible hand of dictatorship closing in. But people came out that day in greater numbers, chanting “the people want to drop the system” or “enough, drop Mubarak.” Later that night destruction and arson began. The tear gas wasn’t so bad (although, I didn’t
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get the brunt of it), and there are more than enough junkercars in Alexandria to burn. What was most unsettling was seeing the wounded: many experiencing head trauma, likely from rocks being thrown at police vehicles and bouncing back. The night of January 29 is when things got dicey. After the protests, small groups of armed men patrolled the streets looking for looters and criminals. I thought of my friends, soon to be engineers, standing in bunches with old broomsticks or kitchen knives doing their duty to protect the neighborhood, and without phone or Internet access I was unable to check on them. What’s important to know about this revolution is that it is entirely by the people; they are doing this for themselves, for their children. It is not a product of international influence, it is not secretly being run by the Muslim Brotherhood of the Waft party or any political party. One day I found myself
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After watching the Green Bay Packers defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 in the Super Bowl, students took to the streets in celebration.
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Badger Catholic case may go to U.S. Supreme Court By Scott Girard The Daily Cardinal
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UW student Katrina Gray witnessed the upheaval in Egypt first hand when studying abroad in Alexandria, witnessing friends and neighbors join the popular struggle for a democratic government.
UW researchers make stem cell breakthrough Two studies conducted in part by UW-Madison researchers, revealed new information about the nature of cancer cells and stem cells. The first study found a new way of looking at cancer cells, specifically those found in the early stages of leukemia, according to the UW-Madison website. UW-Madison associate professor of pathology Igor Slukvin worked on the study with a team that included researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research and the WiCell Research Institute. According to the university, the
researchers used a method developed in 2009 by Wisconsin stem cell researcher James Thomson to avoid problems that often plague stem-cell research. Slukvin said the results may mean researchers will be able to see exactly when the cancer begins to show the cells, according to the website. The other study, reported in the scientific journal “Nature,” looked at induced pluripotent stem cells and their possible medical benefits. Induced pluripotent stem cells are adult stem cells that have been scientifically altered to behave like
embryonic stem cells. The study found these cells retain individual characteristics from actual embryonic stem cells, as well as from each other, which had not been proven in any prior research. The final report said these cells have potential benefits for therapy and the study of disease progression. UW-Madison and Morgridge Institute researchers Thomson, Ron Stewart and Jessica AntosiewiczBourget worked on the study, which was based out of a lab in California. —Scott Girard
Seven higher education organizations have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving UW-Madison and its refusal to fund activities for the Badger Catholic group on campus. The American Council on Education, along with the six other organizations, filed a brief asking the Court to hear the case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in favor of Badger Catholic. The appeals court voted 2-1 in a September 2010, ruling the university could not refuse funding to the student organization. Badger Catholic President Nico Fassino said he thinks the decision will be echoed by the Supreme Court, should it hear the case. “I’m confident that our position would be upheld because the past two court rulings have been in Badger Catholic’s favor,” Fassino said.
The education organizations argue a public university should not be required to provide funds specifically for religious worship activities, but Fassino said such funding would not violate separation of church and state based on past court rulings. “There’s been a great deal of national precedent that the 7th District Court Judge outlined in his statement when he gave the ruling,” Fassino said. The brief cites different university handbooks from around the country, some that do provide such funding, and others that do not, as examples that each individual university may make funding decisions on religious worship issues. The brief also argued UW-Madison funded 86 percent of Badger Catholic’s requests during the 2007-’08 school year, and therefore the university is not trying to drown out any religious activity. catholic page 3
Eagon endorses Resnick in District 8 race Ald. Bryon Eagon will formally announce his endorsement for District 8 City Council candidate Scott Resnick Tuesday. Resnick currently serves as the State-Langdon Neighborhood Association president. Resnick
faces former Daily Cardinal columnist Kyle Szarzynski and former Daily Cardinal reporter Christian von Preysing-Barry in the race for Madison’s Common Council. resnick 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.”