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Gov. Jim Doyle said two national organizations would give $12 million in financial grants to help students throughout Wisconsin pay for higher education Thursday. Doyle said $1.6 million would come annually from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Access Challenge Grant program over the next five years. The remaining funds would come from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation, which will provide an additional $819,000 each year. “In Wisconsin we are making sure that every student who works hard knows that higher education is within reach,” Doyle said in a statement. “This grant will help us to provide the tools and information students need to get
UW professor assists in lowenergy production of hydrogen UW-Madison Engineering researcher and professor Manos Mavrikakis, along with researchers from Tufts University and Harvard University, discovered a way to produce hydrogen using less energy and less money. The United States uses 9 million tons of hydrogen per year, yet the Earth produces relatively little hydrogen, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The hydrogen produced the way the researchers discovered could be used as a clean source of energy for fuel cell-powered vehicles of the future, according to UW Communications. The research team developed a catalyst, which uses small amounts of platinum, which works at a lower temperature than current catalysts. Mavrikakis and his team of researchers focused on the way the atoms of the catalyst function. The team, with assistance from the UW-Madison Division of Information Technology and the Center for High-Throughput Computing, modeled the new catalyst to inspect it in detail.
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Gov. Doyle announces $12 million for students By Scott Girard
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to college.” The program targets demographics which are usually underrepresented among college students, including those from low-income and minority families may be the first in their families to attend college. “Much of the goal of the grant is targeted to helping students, especially first-generation, low-income students understand the steps that they need to take to get into college and succeed once they’re in college.” said Amy Kerwin, of the College Access Challenge Grant. Kerwin said the program is “really running the gamut for preparing for and understanding the steps that are needed to take to get to college.” According to a statement, Doyle has doyle page 3
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Students danced to the salsa styles of La Santa Cecilia Thursday during the World Music Festival.
SSFC approves funding for CWC By Andrew Kasper The Daily Cardinal
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CWC members embraced Thursday after the SSFC approved funds for the organization. SSFC denied the CWC funds last year.
Nervous faces turned to smiles, and smiles to elated embraces as the supporters of the Campus Women’s Center at last night’s Student Services Finance Committee meeting listened to the tallying of votes in favor of reinstating their funding eligibility for the next two years. The unanimous, 8-0, vote came following a debate where the committee passed the CWC through the “direct services” eligibility criteria by a razor-thin margin, and after they withstood the scrutiny of an undercover auditor sent by SSFC Chair Matthew Manes—a tactic questioned by committee member Aliyya Terry. “Why was the whole committee not informed about this happening? Why did everyone not have a decision in this? Why was he only sent to this group?” Terry asked Manes. The committee then voted to put the issue of the undercover auditor—a student position possessed by Brenden Leib and officially titled the “Accountability Liaison”—on the agenda to be discussed at Monday’s meeting. The secret audit by Leib was
ordered by Manes but requested by committee member Cale Plamann— who worked very closely with the CWC and even abstained from voting because of his involvement in the organization. “I think tonight is a great way of showing that it cuts both ways, and here [the accountability liaison] helped a group out because it showed that they were accountable,” explained Plamann. The Accountability Liaison position has not existed for the past three years, and this was the first incident during the eligibility season when the position was used to secretly audit a group, according to Manes. However, Manes may use the position more extensively in making future decisions about student groups on a case-by-case basis. Still, CWC supporters were glad to regain funding. “Everybody is feeling good about it,” said Catherine Morgan, support services coordinator for the CWC. But the reprieve is still many months in coming—the CWC cannot receive the promised funding until July. ssfc page 3
West Mifflin Street renovations continue to receive criticism from public By Maggie DeGroot The Daily Cardinal
Proposed renovations to West Mifflin Street remain to be a primary topic of discussion at the Downtown Plan Public meeting Thursday. The Mifflin Street area has been the most talked about out of any of the downtown areas, according to Principal Planner Bill Fruhling. “There are some people that feel very strongly that [West Mifflin Street] is all junk and should be bulldozed and
redeveloped into bigger buildings,” Fruhling said. “Some people feel very strongly that, because of this area’s history ... it should be a historic district.” The committee has struggled with this issue for some time, but feels this plan preserves the core of Mifflin Street, Fruhling said. “Thanks to a lot of lobbying work that many of us did, including Associated Students of Madison and the neighborhood association, we are preserving the character in large part,”
Ald. Mike Verveer, District 2 said of the West Mifflin area. Even though Verveer said he was generally pleased with the plans, he did express some disappointment as the plans call for tearing down more houses than he would like. The current plans state the West Mifflin area would increase its net density from 32 units per acre to 53 units per acre. Along with the conservation of approximately 130 buildings, the plans
call for a new development of mid-rise apartments, townhouses and carriagehouse buildings. A proposed park on a block bounded by West Johnson, North Bassett, West Dayton and Marion Streets also faced some criticism at the meeting. The plans for the park include the removal of seven structures, not including the Doubletree Hotel on West Johnson Street. However, the current site for the park may not be the best location
since the property owners affected by the proposed park are not supportive of the plans as of Thursday’s meeting, according to Verveer. The next meeting to discuss the downtown plans will be on Oct. 7. Additionally Ald. Michael Schumacher, District 18, made the decision to not run next spring for reelection after serving two terms. “He’s always been somebody that I’ve enjoyed working with,” Verveer said.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”