‘This is not polite art.’
RECALL SEASON: The effect of the summer recall elections is up for debate
Pop-art counterparts, the Chicago Imagists, come to the Madison Museum of Comtemporary Art
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City approves budget, funding for Overture By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal
After hours of deliberation, Madison’s Common Council passed the 2012 city Operating Budget Wednesday, which included funding for the Overture Center as well as for a performing arts study that will aim to enhance the city’s arts initiatives.
“There are bigger needs in our community.”
Jill Johnson alder District 16
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Doctors hold signs to publicize their availability to write protestors sick notes at the Capitol last spring. Officials reprimanded some of these physicians Wednesday.
Physicians disciplined State officials vote to reprimand doctors who issued sick notes to protestors last spring By Ben Siegel The Daily Cardinal
State officials agreed Wednesday to take official disciplinary action against physicians who were responsible for writing sick notes for demonstrators at the state Capitol last spring. The state Medical Examining
Board voted to discipline nine physicians for issuing medical excuses to individuals who used them to miss work or school to participate in protests. Seven of the nine were given formal reprimands for “deficiencies in record keeping,” according to a statement from the Department of Safety and Professional Services. The reprimand requires the seven to pay costs as well as take remedial courses in medical record keeping, according to the Milwaukee Journal-
The council tacked an extra $500,000 onto the Overture’s budget, resulting in $1.85 million, and allotted $125,000 toward the conduction of the performing arts study. The Operating Budget originally proposed by for-
mer Mayor Dave Cieslewicz had allotted $2 million to the Overture, which was then reduced to $1.3 million by Mayor Paul Soglin in September. Because ownership of the Overture will transition into the hands of the private, nonprofit Overture Foundation beginning Jan. 1, the Overture requested the city support them partially while they fundraise the rest. According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, the Overture Center Foundation has raised almost $1 million in the last year. While fundraising has been successful in the last year, without funding from the city, Verveer said it is unlikely the Overture would be able to raise anymore money than it already has. “If we don’t have this city support [the Overture Center] in this maiden year of our new
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Sentinel, and leaves a mark on their permanent record. Six of the seven formally disciplined are physicians in UW-Madison’s Department of Family Medicine, along with the two reprimanded physicians. Amidst Capitol protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining legislation, doctors in white lab coats were videotaped issuing sick notes around the Capitol Square for
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UW System grant programs threatened By Tyler Nickerson The Daily Cardinal
In the face of more budget cuts, leaders of the UW System sent a report detailing the benefits of $1.4 million in-state funding for research grants to a legislative committee Wednesday. Facing a $65.7 million budget lapse that has left the UW System with less money to fund grant programs, University representatives from around the state have stressed the connection between higher education and a prosperous economy. Specifically at UW-Madison, the report said 30 projects received funding in the
2009-2011 biennial budget. Researchers have also published 30 research papers and at least 9 patents have been applied for as a result of the grant money.
Funding for research and development “is an integral component of the state’s economic recovery and future development.” Kevin P. Reilly UW System President
Breakthroughs that have resulted from research at
UW-Madison are as diverse as the optimization of wind turbine blade design and innovations in diamond coated cutting tools. According to the report, the Industrial and Economic Development Research Fund, in charge of allocating the grants, was founded in 1987 “to enhance the relationship between UW System institutional research and Wisconsin industrial practices in an effort to promote the state’s economic growth” Corporate partners finance the program along with state money.
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On Campus
Wiscontrepreneurial spirit
Kendra Hill won second place in the “Wiscontrepreneur Whiteboard Challenge” Wednesday. Competitors had five minutes to pitch a new idea on a whiteboard and were competing for prizes up to $300. + Photo by Aevyrie Roessler
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”