ee INDEPENDENT SINCE 1956 > HA/ INSIDE m The NEWS ./ mi M I iif^ Student savings card UWM PAGE 4 March 2, 2005 The student-run Independent newsweekly Volume 491 Issue 20 A&E Iran in a nutshell PAGE 14 Firecracker of UWM's a season for Boys in Blue EDITORIAL Farewell, Hunter PAGE 7 Panther men PAGE 21 PAGE 19 Students brave cold to deliver doors to legislators Screw it Tuition could be raised 51 percent in over four years Students at ASU fight back with Web site By Bradley A. Wooten News Editor To expose what they say is a common problem at many college campuses, two ARKING entrepreneurs at Arizona State University launched a Web site Thursday, Feb.24, KAWbll to "fight back" against park­ www.screwparking.com ing and transit restrictions. all our classes and co-cur- Justin Chastain, a senior riculars with the bus sys­ studying business manage­ tem," said Cairns. "They're ment, and Justin Cairns, a increasing parking prices to junior studying marketing offset the cost of the free and management, launched bus system." screwparking.com, a site He also said that in look­ that received over 5,000 hits ing around the ASU campus, its first day. tickets are littered every­ "We can't find spots to where on cars and students park as it is," said Cairns. have an inseparable need "In the next five years, 25 for their vehicles. "People percent of parking is being who have cars and drive to cleared out and replaced school are put at a disad­ poor," "mother of four trying Student protestors from around with buildings." ASU is im­ vantage because they can't By Bradley A. Wooten plementing a system simi­ News Editor . to make a better life,"."college the state gather outside the Capitol get to work and classes on lar to the UPass system the should bring knowledge not to address rising tuition and UW time if they are put on the University of Wisconsin-Mil­ As legislators whirled pre­ school budget cuts. bus schedule." poverty" and "we are the fu­ waukee uses. > paring for floor session, scores ture." of students from across Wis­ President Brett Belden. "In his "It's unrealistic to get to See PARKING page 2 consin, including University Skyrocketing costs last budget, Doyle increased of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Over four years, tuition at tuition by 37 percent and local UW supporters braved all UW campuses could sky­ raided auxiliary funds to pay brisk conditions outside the rocket 51 percent. While tu­ for the state's mistakes. Stu­ Capitol for a press conference ition climbs, so does the debt dents cannot bear the brunt to address runaway tuition students and their families of the state failing to provide Tuition, diversity the and cuts to UW school bud­ take on to cover college costs. for the 160,000 taxpaying UW gets. UWM resident undergraduates students in Wisconsin." challenges in State Among the speakers, Reps. now graduate on average with Although the United Coun­ Rob Kreibich (R-Eau Claire) more than $16,000 in student cil of UW Students, the state­ and Mark Pocan (D-Madison) loan debt. wide lobbying organization of the Student Address spoke on the virtues of the UW For the first time in 15 years, for the UW System campuses, System while students held this debt load is decreasing is fighting for a four percent By Brian Resop the leaders of the campus signs and chanted to keep the probability of owning a increase in tuition, the SA News Editor community and called for a warm between speakers. home by one percent for every does not feel that it is enough unified effort to increase the Kreibich implored students $5,000 of debt. to keep students who are fi­ In the second-ever Univer­ number of student of color to "descend on the Capitol in "As the state has divested nancially at risk from retain­ sity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at UWM. huge numbers to make their from UW campuses, Wiscon­ ing their status as a college State of the Student Address, "None of us work for each case for lower tuition and an sin families and students are student. Student Association President other," Belden said," we must additional (student) voice on paying more in a struggle "Some of the governor's Brett Belden challenged stu­ then learn to work with each the Board of Regents." He then to maintain quality in their initiatives are helpful," said dents and the administration other." called on his fellow legislators classrooms and on their cam­ Adam Tucker, a professional to make the campus a better The SA has shunned derog­ to "recognize the growing puses," said Stephanie Hilton, campaign manager hired to experience for students. atory remarks by such promi­ clout of young voters." United Council president. "Not lobby full time on behalf of Diversity and tuition were nent Milwaukeeans as Mark Following the press con­ only are they paying more for all 27,000-plus UWM students. his two main targets. Belling and shown strong ference, students delivered less, the doors to the univer­ "But this is only a modest im­ "The new model of leader­ support for the UW System's doors to each member of the sity are being shut outright provement. If the state legis­ ship is collaborative, requir­ diversity-improvement agen­ Joint Committee on Finance, to families who cannot afford lature doesn't want to invest ing widespread participation da Plan 2008, Belden said. Assembly Speaker John Gard tuition. They're on the outside in Wisconsin's future, they and collective decision-mak­ The SA will continue to take (R-Peshtigo) and Senate Ma­ looking in." should not be surprised when ing," said Belden, who is still a stance on improving UWM's jority Leader Dale Shultz (R- Wisconsin graduates don't serving in his first term. "It diverse campus community, Richland Center). Throughout UWM's role want to stay here after years accepts the inevitability of he said. the afternoon, students met The UWM Student Associa­ of overpriced schooling." conflict but encourages con­ "Increasing diversity ben­ with legislators to put faces tion kicked off its fight for a Belden, along with Tucker, sensus." efits not only those students to tuition increases and cuts tuition freeze Feb. 23, citing will outline the strategy that What the student govern­ who identify as students of to their UW school budgets. the disappointing recommen­ the SA will use to bring a ment has accomplished thus color," Belden said, "but also On Feb. 1, students at 23 dation of Gov. Jim Doyle in his zero .percent tuition increase far is nothing compared to enriches the experience of all UW campuses began signing 2005-07 budget to increase tu­ to UWM and stabilize access what it is going to accomplish students and enables them to doors with the message "Keep ition 5 to 7 percent. to higher education that is in the future, he said. be successful leaders in a di­ UW Doors Open to All." "Any increase will severely threatening students of eco­ In the ongoing effort to im­ verse workforce." Students wrote personal diminish access to the UW Sys­ nomically disadvantaged prove diversity on campus, messages on the doors: "I'm tem," said Student Association backgrounds. Belden issued a challenge to See ADDRESS page 5- 2 March 2,2005 The UWM Post News PARKING "If colleges want larger en­ If students wish to pur­ ews brief rolment and student funds, chase one of the $13 T-shirts, Continued from page 1 they have to acknowledge they are automatically entered By Bradley Wooten, News Editor The situation at ASU is not and Jen Blando, Staff Writer parking is a serious problem," in the raffle. unlike UWM. Park­ "If you could find a shirt Marquette Tribune adviser ing is becoming on the Internet that denser and dens­ is as unique and contract not renewed er, but the solu­ Jur funny as ours tions to parking 1 for that price, Marquette University has decided not to renew the con­ problems are be­ DQBf tract of Tom Mueller, faculty adviser for the Marquette I'd like to see it," coming lighter said Chastain. Tribune, a student-run newspaper.. The grounds for the dis­ and lighter, with OlSE TMAN AT THE As this site missal would not be disclosed by the university. students being forced to park progresses, raf­ Journalism professors questioned whether Mueller's con­ farther away and paying fles will be held tract was not renewed on account of the freedom he allowed more to do so. his student journalists; their concern is that the adminis­ in greater frequency in order "Parking and to serve the purpose of the tration is attempting to rid the paper of the man who puts Transit could freedom of the press ahead of the university's reputation, site. care less about "Our primary purpose is according to a Feb. 7 Journal Sentinel article. students," said Mueller told the Journal Sentinel that he considered more or less is to keep the site Chastain. up and flowing," said Chas­ himself fired and that he was the target of administrators He said when because "they are uncomfortable with a newspaper that ac­ tain. "We're business students students' cars are sending a political message tually acts like a newspaper." actually towed, Park­ The national Society of Professional Journalists, based in and offering a quality prod­ ing and Transit issues uct." Indianapolis, is in the process of conducting a fact-finding a bus schedule on how The two hold the opinion investigation on Mueller's dismissal.