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News | page 2 SA Senator Katie Krause under SORC investigation T H E D/^v r- \- for missing funds School of Public Health UWMIOSL finds a location The Student-Run Independent Newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Sports | page 6 SANTIAGO_V_7 Engelmann Field gets a change in greenery Chancellor Santiago leaves full plate for successor By Mike La Count lor for the past six years. His News Editor resignation will take effect [email protected] Oct. 1, which means the uni versity needs to appoint a new As of Oct. 1, Carlos Santiago chancellor by the end of the will no longer be a university month. Chris Whalley has high chancellor. The process for selecting hopes for Panther Soccer UW-Milwaukee announced a new chancellor is lengthy on Aug. 16 that Chancellor and will likely not begin un Santiago will be resigning his til next spring. Until this pro post to take a job with a non cess is concluded, an interim fringe) page 11 profit scholarship program. chancellor must be selected. His new position will relocate As of now, the UW System does him to Washington D.C. where not know who will be taking Lollapalooza and he will work as a CEO for the charge come October. Pitchfork music festival Hispanic College Fund. Whoever does take over will reviews Santiago has served as the Post file photo university's seventh chancel See SANTIAGO page 6 m • P**^ habitat plan for the parceUl was New sex column: Rockin' Innovation Park could be ™?:^*L Z^. the Cribb with Tara Cribb ment of the sale, which was ini- ££ • •• tially scheduled to take place in Editorial | page 19 UvUI I Ul l_#W Ul lUU^Clv The Innovation Park is closely ^-^^-* tied to the other parts of the Master Plan. Initially titled "the Bikers: share the road Michael Cudahy Innovation with cars Park," the project was to be spearheaded by funds provided by the philanthropist. However, Who really set the Iraq after a highly publicized deal War deadline? between Cudahy and UWM fell through concerning the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences, Cudahy pulled his funding from the project. University officials pushed forward with the plan city and state which could anyway, insisting that Cudahy's better be spent elsewhere. funding would be replaced by "We live in a city that is in other sources. deep, deep economic trou Supporters of the project ble, and wherever we put have been adamant that the fu [the Innovation Park] is go sion of university research and ing to be very important to private investment can act as a that location, and I think it's much-needed economic engine incredibly important for this for Milwaukee. urban area that we put our "There are other innovations footprint in the tax basin of that could be copyrighted, and this city rather than put our there are other ways to pro multiplier effect in a suburb. tect ideas and get them into the ... The fact is that the hidden marketplace," UWM Research endowment of this place is Foundation President Brian its people, and the reason Thompson told UWM Today. why the people are here is "And we're trying to develop a the city, and for us to turn By Tom Swieciak The Innovation Park, a key Post file photo range of programs that can not our back on the city in this Asst. News Editor segment of outgoing Chancellor only handle patented materials incredible way is, I think, a [email protected] Carlos Santiago's campus Master lion, according to the Journal but can also help with other in disgrace," William Holahan Plan, is to be built with the Sentinel. novations and get them to the of the Center for Economic University officials have high purchase of 88 acres on the The land is being acquired marketplace in the best possible Education said at a board hopes for the end of September, Milwaukee County Grounds in by an affiliate of the UWM Real manner." meeting late last year. as UW-Milwaukee may finally be Wauwatosa. Santiago reportedly Estate Foundation, known as Detractors of the project, Many of the concerns closing on a land deal for the will attempt to close the deal on UWM Innovation Park LLC. City however, consider the deal a con Holahan voiced were backed proposed - and much touted - his last day as chancellor, Sept. of Wauwatosa officials rezoned voluted and bungling behemoth UWM Innovation Park. 30, for an estimated $13.55 mil- the land in May after a wildlife that will sap money from the See INNOVATION PARK page 7 mMMMBVII •fW-TTTTT •HI-WIT— 2 September 2,2010 News The UWM Post uwMrOSt Conner exhibition at Inova Drug war kidnappings Editor in Chief Editorial Editor Business Manager Bruce Conner, multimedia artist, will be Mexican police report that kidnapping has Kurt Raether Jackie Dreyer Simon Bouwman featured in an exhibition in the Inova Center increased over 15 percent this year. High-pro News Editor Production Editor Advertising Manager in Kenilworth Square Apartments. Conner is file victims include political leaders such as Tom Swieciak Josh Evert Stephanie Fisher known for his formation of the Rat Bastard Diego Fernandez, leader the Mexican political Protective Association, a group of beatnik art party PAN. Fernandez has been in captivity Asst. News Editors Multimedia Editor Account Executive ists from San Francisco working in the '50s and since May. In late August, Edelmiro Cavazos Mike La Count Sierra Riesberg Joey Morgan '60s. In addition to his work in painting, sculp Leal, the mayor of Santiago, was abducted, Zach Erdmann Puzzle Editor Advertising Designer ture, assemblage and film, he twice announced tortured and killed. Mexican officials say the Special Projects Editor Jonas Wittke Kim Sullivan his own death, a rouse he incorporated into his drug war's escalation caused the increase in Jonathan Anderson Chief Copy Editor Distribution exhibitions before his actual death in 2008. kidnappings. The Kenilworth exhibit will run until Sept. 26. Fringe Editor Lindsey Millard Patrick Quast Jacob Schneider Asst. Copy Editors Alek Shumaker Head cyst actually bullet Asst. Fringe Editors Sarah Hanneken Board of Directors Stem cell research cut Trapper Schoepp Caitlin PenzeyMoog Kurt Raether U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth A man in Bochum, Germany went to have a Michael Ray Derek De Vinney Simon Bouwman cuts federal funding for stem cell research. cyst removed from the back of his head only Josh Evert Lamberth says a 1995 congressional act ban to discover it was actually a bullet. After a Sports Editor Web Editor Tim Prahl Kim Sullivan ning federal funding of the destruction of em New Year's celebration in 2004 or 2005 (he Kody Schafer bryos means the federal government cannot is not sure which), the Polish man remembers Tim Prahl Asst. Sports Editor fund any form of research on embryonic stem waking up with a sore head. His high level of Jeremy Lubus cells by extension. The Justice Department is intoxication the night of and his reluctance to expected to appeal. go to doctors prevented him from discovering the .22 caliber bullet in the back of his head Phone:(414)229-4578 SHIPPING ADDRESS MAILING ADDRESS Fax:(414)229-4579 2200 Kenwood Blvd. Union Box 88 for five years. [email protected] Suite EG80 UWM P.O. Box 413 www.uwmpost.com **Tv1iiwaukee,WI 53211 Milwaukee, Wl 53201 THE UWM POST has a circulation of 10,000 and is distributed on campus and throughout the surrounding communities. On Aug. 14, a UW-Milwaukee Police officer agreed to have people leave. Most had already The first copy is free, additional copies $.75 each.The UWM Post, Inc. is a located a mattress on fire at an off-campus exited out the back door. registered student organization at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee location. Milwaukee Fire Department Engine and an independent nonstock corporation. All submissions become the 27 arrived on the scene, and indicated that The UWM Police Department received a re property of The UWM Post, Inc. the fire was suspicious. The Milwaukee Police port on Aug. 24 at 4:39 p.m. of a white male Department was notified. and white female fighting on the North Ave. The UWM Post is published Mondays in the fall and spring semesters, except bridge. The caller believed that one person during spring break and exam periods. The UWM Post also publishes once in UWM Police received an emergency 911 had a knife. late summer. call on the morning of Aug. 16 from a stu The UWM Post is written and edited by students of the University of Wiscon dent reporting a black gun, probably an auto On Aug. 25, a UWM employee reported that sin - Milwaukee and they are solely responsible for its editorial policy and matic gun, lying on the curb in front of 2974 a university vehicle had been damaged by sand content. The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is not liable for debts in N Maryland Ave. The caller stated that the gun blasting taking place on the upper level of the curred by the publisher. The UWM Post is not an official publication of UWM. was black with an orange tip. Sandburg parking structure. The vehicle had a The UWM Post is a student organization at UWM. cracked window and various other dents as a Two males were doing bike tricks in the result of the sandblasting. Lubar parking structure on Aug. 20 at 6:27 The First Amendment p.m. They were warned to stop by UWM Police On Aug. 29, police received a report of an Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of and released.