Service Employees International Union lead organizer Jay Brower will fill the District 13 seat and sit on the Dane County Health and Human Needs Committee until the Spring Election in April of 2024.

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Brower said the main issues facing District 13, which encompasses most of the University of Wisconsin campus, are global warming, housing and criminal justice reform, according to a press release from Miles.

Brower said he wants to approach politics in a progressive way, focusing on criminal justice reform and labor issues.

SEIU works with hundreds of workers in the community, especially in the healthcare field, some of whom live in District 13, Brower said.

Brower said the expertise he gained in his career gives him the opportunity to share his experience connecting with community members and building relationships in his new position as Dane County supervisor.

“Through that experience, [I] saw an opportunity to contribute my expertise and build coalitions, especially among progressively aligned groups as a labor activist and deeply committed to supporting working people,” Brower said. “People who experience marginalization across the spectrum based on race, class, gender expression, nationality … ”

Brower said being an organizer in politics is very similar to organizing within labor. His work involves talking to people individually and having people act together, Brower said.

Since the workers SEIU represents span the spectrum of income, race, religion, sexual orientation and other factors, talking to community members to understand their values informs him in his new role, Brower said.

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“Having conversations with people about what they love, what they’re struggling with, what the future they want to achieve for themselves, for their families, for their loved ones, Is really important,” Brower said.

The other supervisors appointed to the positions were Chad Kemp and Steven Peters, for Districts 32 and 9 respectively.

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Shew said technoableism is everywhere — it’s disguised in wheelchair-inaccessible buildings, not including closed captioning for videos and infantilization of disabled people.

“I think it involves a certain infantilization of disabled people, too, that you don’t deserve the same information, that we have to keep an eye on you and you have to be observed and surveilled and make sure you’re using things correctly in a neurotypical and nondisabled way,” Shew said.

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Drug technology is also “deeply flawed and anti-autistic.” For example, Shew said when studying autistic mice models, scientists manipulate part of their brain so they don’t socialize with other mice. Since the mice don’t socialize with others, scientists say they’re “autistic.” But that’s not what happens to autistic people, Shew said.

Too often those who develop disabled technology, like those who make technology for autism, make it so autistic people seem more neurotypical when that’s not possible, Shew said. They don’t consult people with disabilities for the right reasons, which highlights the importance of disability technology made by those who are disabled.

“So often we’re told one thing will save us…but the people who saved my life are other disabled people who reprogrammed my phone,” Shew said.

Some may not realize there are types of disability technology disabled people made since they’re not marketed as such. For example, OXO Good Grips for kitchen utensils were made to make gripping easier for people with arthritis. And Snuggies, Shew said, were made with people who use a wheelchair in mind.

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Disability technology also comes in the form of games such as Pokémon and Dungeons and Dragons, Shew said. Games like these provide social interaction for autistic people because players know their role and can follow a script.

Shew also spoke on disability justice. Typically, the lived experience of a disability is different from its typical depictions of a disabled white woman, Shew said. Disability justice also involves abolitionist policies.

“The largest holders of disabled people in the United States are prisons,” Shew said.

Those who are incarcerated will live without diagnoses and poor healthcare while in the prison system, so it’s important to be abolitionist in disability policies, Shew said.

While some of it was emotionally hard to write, like learning about the history of eugenics which focuses on the elimination of disability and therefore the elimination of disabled people, Shew said it’s important to her to talk about disabled expertise as she does in her book.

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Opening game day is historically more incident heavy, but Kirchman said high temperatures were a contributing factor to the lower incident and attendance rate at the game. At the first game of the 2022 season against Illinois State University, UWPD reported 27 ejections and 19 arrests, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Most ejections, arrests and tickets at Badger football games are related to underage drinking, Kirchman said. Completely stopping underage drinking from occurring would be an impossible task, Kirchman said. Instead, UWPD aims to educate students on consuming alcohol safely.

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“We understand that alcohol consumption is going to happen,” Kirchman said, “Us standing here and saying ‘don’t do it,’ that is not going to solve anything … So instead [we consider], what can we do to help affect behaviors so that people are more safe, because that’s the more important thing.”

But, UW’s commitment to educating students on alcohol safety doesn’t stop at the gates of Camp Randall. All degree-seeking undergraduate students are required to complete the online AlcoholEdu course, which teaches students about the impacts of alcohol and gives students the information they need to make healthy decisions, according to the course’s website.

Tailgating is a commonplace event on game days, even for those who do not go to the games. UW student Maggie Brock said she and her friend group still tailgate even if they do not actually attend the games.

“I always have fun, I love football season,” Brock said, though she did not get student tickets through the lottery system this year.

UWPD is aware of the tailgating and partying that goes on on game days, Kirchman said, but there are many ways to stay safe and out of trouble.

According to an article from The Badger Herald, UWPD relies on “behavior-based policing,” which means students are typically only approached when they are attracting attention to themselves engaging in illegal activity.

UWPD focuses on the people who have gone too far, especially on game days, Kirchman said. Some things officers look for at tailgates and inside the stadium include passing out, vomiting in bathrooms or behavioral complaints from other Badger fans.

Kirchman said using alcohol in moderation is key to staying safe on gameday. Moderate alcohol use is defined as up to 3 drinks for females on their day of heaviest drinking in the past two weeks, and up to 4 drinks for males, according to AlcoholEdu. Anything beyond this is considered heavy or problematic drinking. 

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Kirchman also recommended that students should stay with their friends to ensure nobody gets lost. Traveling in pairs, staying with familiar people and faces and making sure nobody gets left behind are all crucial to making sure game days stay safe and incident free, Kirchman said.

Besides alcohol related incidents, the sheer amount of people in small areas also concerns UWPD.

“The stadium itself has a capacity of just under 80,000 people, if you then look at the footprint of the immediate area around it, of the people that don’t actually go into the stadium on a game day, you’re probably easily looking at about 100,000 people just within several blocks, so that alone is a huge safety issue,” Kirchman said.

UWPD is the sole organizer of security and safety at all UW owned property, including games at Camp Randall, so everything is planned by them with help from outside and internal partners, Kirchman said.

“Game days for us as a police department are sort of an all hands on deck sort of situation,” Kirchman said.

Most officers in the department work on game days to provide safety and security for the people in the area, but UWPD also brings in outside police officers from the Madison Police Department, the Dane County Police Department and even officers from other UW system schools, Kirchman said.

Additionally, officers now help with non-emergency health incidents, instead of waiting for EMTs and paramedics to come to the scene. There were 250 medical calls during the opening game, but most were resolved by transporting the person in need to a cooling center at the stadium, Kirchman said.

Kirchman said that simply not being noticed by UWPD is the best way to avoid an interaction with an officer on game day.

“Game day is sort of like a big giant game of Whack a Mole,” Kirchman said. “If somebody brings enough attention to themselves long enough, then that’s going to bring us to them. If somebody just sort of stays below the surface or just pops their head up and is back down quickly enough, then you’re probably not going to have too many problems.”

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Govindarajan said the proposed height limit changes would apply only to the Regent Street area and would not interfere with the Capitol View Preservation Ordinance. The ordinance, which has been in place since 1966, ensures the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol can be seen from anywhere in the city within a one mile radius.

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Govindarajan’s proposed amendments would allow developers to increase the height of buildings’ north and south of Regent Street and between Randall Avenue and East Campus Mall by anywhere from two to four stories. Govindarajan said this would incentivize developers to build more dense and affordable student housing.

“Making these amendments go through does make it very concrete to the developers that they want you to build here,” Govindarajan said.

The proposals specifically focus on Regent Street because of the height of most buildings in the area. According to Govindarajan’s blog post, most residential buildings in this area are at or below five stories due to state building codes which require more expensive construction material for buildings above six stories.

Govindarajan said increasing the maximum height of buildings in the area will incentivize housing developers to take on taller projects in the area.

“If we’re allowing developers to build larger buildings, more than 10 stories tall, then they’re able to make some of their money back on the construction and provide more housing for the people who want to live there,” Govindarajan said.

Though Core Spaces housing projects like the Oliv Apartments and Johnson and Broom will reserve units for low-income students, students are still struggling to find affordable housing, according to an article from The Badger Herald.

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Govindarajan said since students are Madison residents, the student housing issue is under the jurisdiction of the city.

“The university — It’s an educational institution. It’s not a housing authority. We are students and residents of the city. We pay taxes, we … are a huge part of the local economy and there is no reason that the city should ignore the will of students” Govindarajan said.

Govindarajan said the proposals are expected to be considered by the Common Council in the next several months. The next Plan Commission meeting is being held virtually Oct. 2nd.

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Registered Student Organizations can receive GSSF funding, which draws from the Student Segregated Fee, after a hearing where the SSFC determines the organization’s eligibility, according to the GSSF website.

The SSFC has previously waived the expectation that a budget proposed by a student organization should not include costs of student hourly positions if they exceed 60% of an RSO’s budget.

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Associated Students of Madison Chair Kevin Jacobson said wage inclusion in GSSF budgets had been waived in the past because wages for student workers rose while services offered by RSOs haven’t increased at the same rate.

“We’ve actually done this for the past few years in a row,” Jacobson said. “And that’s because we’ve raised the wage both years. The wage for ASM has gone up about 42% in the past few years. So it’s putting a lot more strain on this formula than it has been before because it’s putting more and more money on the salary side while not increasing the services on the supply side,” Jacobson said.

SSFC representatives disagreed on the importance and function of the 60% budget requirement. Where some representatives argued for the removal of this condition, others called for the maximum percentage for all student organizations to be raised.

Rep. Harris Jacobs was in favor of the maintenance of the 60% requirement, while Rep. Alex Beer said this percentage should be raised to 72% to account for the 8% inflation rate and the 2022 wage increase for student workers from $12 to $15 an hour.

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Following the extensive discussion, the SSFC passed a motion to raise the 60% to 75% wage allocation requirement for the 30th session, capping the percentage of an RSO’s budget used to pay its workers.

SSFC chair Quinn Wakley said the committee would revisit the issue in the spring to provide a long term solution to the issue surrounding balancing the budgets of student organizations’ salaries and other expenses.

SSFC’s next meeting will take place Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. in the Student Activity Center on East Campus Mall.

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“Latinx Heritage Month is unique to each individual person, but it is a way for us all to come together and celebrate our joined cultures,” UW student and Latinx Heritage Month Planning Committee member Elias Moore-Barbosa said in an email statement to The Badger Herald. 

Moore-Barbosa said the committee has been working throughout the school year and summer to plan events highlighting the Latinx community.

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This year’s theme for month-long celebration — “Transplanting Traditions” — honors Latinx traditions and raises awareness of their presence in all facets of society, according to the Latinx Heritage Month website. The theme aims to recognize the many current music, food and beauty trends created by Latinx communities that have been adopted by mainstream society.

“We [Latinx people] are made of a lot of different countries which means different dialects of Spanish, different cultures, different traditions, and that we should … really just lift up one another,” UW student and Latinx Heritage Month Planning Committee member Leslie Mendoza-Villanueva said.

The keynote speaker for this year’s program is Isaias Hernandez, the creator of the platform Queer Brown Vegan. Herndandez will be at the Union Play Circle Theater in Memorial Union on Oct. 5 at 7 p.m.

Upcoming events include a gallery night titled “Spreading our Wings” on Sept. 25 at the Red Gym 1973 Art Gallery at 6 p.m. This event will honor the new undergraduate major in Chican@ and Latin@ Studies, offered by the College of Letters and Sciences for the first time in Fall 2023, according to the event’s website.

“Mastering Mesa,” a cooking class in collaboration with WUD Cuisine will also be held Oct. 2 at 5 p.m. at Babcock Hall, according to the flyer.

The month will conclude with the Latine Ball at 6 p.m. at the Pyle Center Oct. 14.

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“Topics surrounding Latinx Heritage Month bring on further conversations that delve deeper into the richness of our people and our history, bringing on topics around terms used and the whole idea that Latin America, though with many similarities joining us together, also has a lot of diversity throughout,” Moore-Barbosa said.

Events for Latinx Heritage Month began Sept. 15 with the annual march up Bascom Hill. UW students and faculty carried flags up the hill while music played, and were met with food, games and an opportunity to connect with the UW Latinx community once reaching the top, according to UW News.

The Latinx Cultural Center is located on the second floor of the Red Gym and is a space for Latinx students to connect with their identity and form a greater community at UW through academic and social opportunities, according to the Latinx Cultural Center’s website.

“I feel like that’s our big goal, making sure Latine students, whether they’re new or been around their campus now for a year, get to know other Latine students,” Mendoza-Villanueva said. “We’re here, you’re not alone on this big campus.”

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Physics 109 — Physics in the Arts — investigates the physical science that influences the arts, including the effect of sound waves in music and the physics of light in photography and painting. The course has been taught since 1969 when it was engineered by esteemed professors Willy Haeberli and Ugo Camerini.

One of today’s professors Baha Balantekin said the course offers something for everyone, even for students who are not interested in arts or physics.

“It’s really good to educate people in general to the value of the science and to show them science is not something abstract — it is connected to things they do every day,” Balantekin said.

The course provides insight into the physical dynamics of nature and answers questions such as “Why is the sky blue?” Part of Balantekin’s job is to explain to students the sun produces white light, which contains all colors in the spectrum, Balantenkin said. When the white light enters the atmosphere, the blue color scatters, or diffuses away, making the sky appear blue.

Physics and arts have been connected for a long time. An example originated in 500 BCE, with the Greek mathematician Pythagoras, and continues its relevance today for string instrument players, Balantekin said. 

“He [Pythagoras] looked at the Greek harp, the ancient instrument with the four strings, and he discovered that if you have two strings where the ratio of their lengths is the ratio of small integers, then they sound well together, there is harmony,” Balantekin said. “So, he connected the concept of harmony with something which is physically measurable.”

In his 30 years of teaching the course, Balantekin has taught students from all disciplines. He said about a third of the students in the 300-person course are artists themselves. Often, the students are encouraged to bring their instruments into class so they may gather data on the frequency of sound waves produced. 

Balantekin said frequency is to physicists as pitch is to musicians. Frequency in physics refers to the number of oscillations, or “ups and downs,” a wave has over a unit of time. He said the pitch people hear is associated with a particular frequency.

The course also offers a unique knowledge of color and light. Professor Pupa Gilbert is an artist who has been teaching Physics 109 for many years. Gilbert said she has long been fascinated by the physics of color and uses the topic as a pillar of the course.

“Anything we can do on a screen, for example, on a cell phone screen or in a movie theater screen … comes from additive color mixing — from the mixing of only three pigments, only three kinds of light — red, green and blue,” Gilbert said.

The pixels that make up computer screens project certain colors to people’s eyes, which are sensitive to red, green and blue pigments. Gilbert said the observer’s eye actually mixes those colors — the device and the screen don’t do this at all.

Much of physics is inseparable from the anatomy of human eyes and ears, Gilbert said. 

Gilbert explores this concept and more in her widely-praised textbook “Physics and the Arts.” The course uses this book that has been translated into multiple languages for courses all over the world. Its third edition even won the “Texty” award from the Textbook and Academic Writing Association in 2022.

“The purpose of the book is really to bring physics … within reach of the general public and especially fascinate students and artists and poets and painters with the wonders of physics,” Gilbert said. 

Gilbert’s enthusiasm for arts and physics introduced her to Aedan Gardill, a recent doctorate graduate from UW. Gardill received his doctorate in physics and became close colleagues with Gilbert after sharing a mutual interest in art and science.

Gardill is an artist as well and has specialized in portraiture of underrepresented groups in science. Currently, UW’s L. R. Ingersoll Physics Museum houses four of his portraits, which he constructed using the unique physics of polarized lights.

“The color that you’re seeing here [in the portrait] is not pigment, there’s no paint in this. It’s just white light going through layers of cellophane, which actually interact with the light and rotate it in such a way that then when you look through another polarizer, it filters out specific colors of light,” Gardill said.

Polarizers are filters that move light in a certain direction and help viewers look at Gardill’s polarized portraits. He said he has used similar technology in outreach with local schools to teach the physics of light and optics to fifth graders.

Physics can be an intimidating science because it involves mathematics. But Gardill said having an art and physics background helps with education efforts to improve physical science literacy.

“Part of physics is kind of imagining how things work or visualizing how things work,” Gardill said. “And that’s all of art too, visualizing how something might work or representing something that might not be physical per se.”

In Physics 109, Gilbert uses similar techniques to help her students realize physics can be understandable. The laws of physics also interact with every single part of the world every day. Her favorite part of the course is watching her students make these revelations, Gilbert said.

Though somebody may arrive saying they’re bad at math, by the end of the course they’re saying how fun it was instead, according to Gilbert.

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The panelists discussed engaging the public with efforts to regulate artificial intelligence, the biases built into AI algorithms and the role of journalists and public alike in combating AI disinformation campaigns.

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Scheufele opened with the attempts by AI firms like Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon to lobby Congress to regulate AI. Chen said, like most other deals between the government and firms, there is no public input on the process. She said selecting and consulting European Union-style “public juries” for changes once agreements between the government and tech companies were reached is one suggestion.

All participants spoke on the “black box” of AI, criticizing how companies managed and created their algorithms.

Chen said the language of AI could further fuel partisan divides. When engaged by a climate skeptic, ChatGPT transformed the discussion into rhetoric about political differences instead of maintaining a factual approach, according to a study she worked on.

“[AI] is strengthening these tones and rhetoric when talking to people about these types of issues,” Chen said. “And this goes back to where it is trained and how it comes to reinforce these types of implicit biases.”

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Culver said in one personal experience she had with Spotify’s generative AI, it went over an hour without playing a female artist. Generative AIs base their predictions on past information, and the biases held within that information manifest it in an even more tangible way.

The panel finished the conversation on the role of journalists and the public in dealing with the current information landscape. Scheufele said there is not much that can be done legally to fight state disinformation campaigns. This is because of the legal gray areas of enforcing laws and the rapid decentralization of information.

Because of the inability to effectively regulate disinformation on social media platforms and information spreading faster than journalists can assess it, Chen said education should adapt to the information ecosystem and instruct children on how to avoid being tricked and letting emotions take over.

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Culver said there’s a need for human journalists to work with critical issues instead of relying on generative AIs to give us the news. She said the hearings held by the House Oversight Committee on the “weaponization of the federal government” are an attempt to justify cutting funding for researchers examining disinformation campaigns targeting elections.

“They are actually trying to intimidate and shut down academic research on these issues, including academic research happening on this very campus,” Culver said “It is so concerning that we are spending government time and money trying to intimidate these people.”

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District 7 Ald. Nasra Wehelie proposed a midnight adjournment rule, which would force meetings to either stop at midnight, or require two-thirds support from members to continue. District 8 Ald. MGR Govindarajan made a change to the ordinance to put the voting threshold at simple majority, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Discussion went on for about forty minutes, and concluded around 11 p.m., with a vote against the new rule coming to 9-10, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Another issue that was addressed during the meeting regards Rudi the pig. A 2018 city ordinance prohibited the possession of any pig, hog, boar, or swine anywhere within City of Madison limits.

Rudi is the pig that started the debate against the ordinance back in July, when Rudi’s owners were informed they could not have possession of a pig within the City, according to The Cap Times.

The vote ultimately decided a home can keep one pig as a pet as long as it falls under certain criteria — 24 inches tall or less at the shoulder and weighing less than 300 pounds, according to the legislation, which passed in an 11-8 vote. 

District 12 Ald. Amani Latimer Burris is hopeful that after a long meeting of mostly procedural discussions and learning how to work together as a Council, they can start to make a real difference. 

“We are in such a unique position because we have such diversity,” Burris said. “And when I say diversity, I’m not just talking about gender diversity or racial diversity. We have age diversity, we have thought diversity, religion diversity, we are so diversified it’s insane. And so we have an opportunity to shape and put in … for what your generation has called for. So I get excited if we can just … get the counsel business done, then we can … do a great job of shaping things and listening and creating the city that you want to live in and love.”

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Hyundai and Kia vehicle owners are at a higher risk of getting their car stolen than other vehicle brands due to light flaws in the ignition systems of these vehicles.

This information, along with how to start them without a key, began to spread online over summer 2022, which provided burglars the tools to steal the cars easily, MPD Head of Burglary Crime Unit Sgt. Scott Reitmeier said. 

“The real spike was last summer, and that was summer of ‘22,” Reitmeiser said. “Where the flaw in the ignition systems of Kias and Hyundais was brought to the forefront through social media. Criminals were able to realize that those ignition systems could be defeated without much difficulty. That’s when we were having a real tough time and dealing with the biggest number of vehicles being stolen” 

Reitmeier revealed that the major problem with these particular vehicles is that they can be started by household objects that resemble the key. Including the use of USB drives that can act like the key to the vehicle to start the ignition system without the physical key being present. 

In efforts to minimize the risk of getting one’s car stolen, Reitmeier shared numerous measures that Madison Kia and Hyundai owners can take to prevent becoming a victim of such a scenario, including parking indoors, parking in well lit areas, putting an air-tag or another form of tracking device in your vehicle and making use of Ring doorbells or apartment building camera systems.

Reitmeier also said that both Hyundai and Kia companies have been making use of their Recall policies, where owners of cars from these brands can bring their vehicle into dealerships for correction installations. 

“The Hyundai and Kia companies have tried to do a lot with recalling certain years in certain models to install some type of correction,” Reitmeier said. “So if you have one of those cars, make sure you’re in contact with a dealership and see if you’re eligible for some type of correction or recall or additional maintenance that can be done to cinch its security up.”

The Madison Police Department is giving out free wheel locks to those who own 2011-2021 Hyundai and Kia vehicles for supplemental protection.

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