NEWS ENTERTAINMENT SpORTS UW-Madison professors go UWM Post's Nightlife UWM swimmers win one in to Washington D.C. to sell pullout offers students Chicago and tune up for new idea on education. variety. (Pages 5-12) conference meet. {Page 13) (Page4) Mm S $366 million referendum for MPS fails by large margin By Jerry C. Smith school district to borrow this amount Although property tax concerns important factor overlooked by to know why their children aren't to help pay for the plan. were partly responsible for the MPS." learning at the rate they should be and In the first school referendum to The referendum was offered to referendum's defeaL University of Farrell said MPS officials never why they aren't attending school be put before Milwaukee voters in 23 voters as part of a $474 million Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor really addressed some of the prob­ regularly. Those answers were not years, the message was quite clear facilities plan that would add 15 Walter C. Farrell, Jr. said other lems raised by parents and taxpaying addressed." that property tax concerns far out­ schools to the districL pay for addi­ concerns played a bigger role in its voters of the proposed plan. He said Farrell said those most affected weighed the concerns voiced by pro­ tions to 14 existing schools, catch up demise. this, coupled with the cost of the plan, by the referendum were led to be­ ponents of the 10-year facilities plan on backlogged maintenance projects "The concern of property taxes were major reasons Milwaukee vot­ lieve they would get the answers to proposed by Milwaukee Public district-wide and keep up on future was certainly one reason the referen­ ers overwhelmingly turned it down. these questions once more buildings Schools Superintendent Howard L. maintenance needs. dum was overturned," said Farrell, "Parents wanted other areas ad­ Fuller. The additional $108 million anexpertinurbandemographic trends dressed," Farrell said. "They wanted Please see VOTE page 4 Milwaukee voters rejected the needed to complete the proposed and academic achievement problems $366 million referendum Tuesday plan would have been funded by the of urban public school students. "But by a 75 to 25 percent margin. The district's regular annual property tax how the referendum would benefit referendum would have allowed the levy. the average citizen was another very SA appointments Mixed signals.. made at meeting By Chad Sirovina •*tmtwxi(sx& Several new appointments were made at the Student Associa­ tion Senate meeting on Friday, February 12. They included four new senators and one new chairperson. Eddie Cruz was appointed as the new chairperson of the Community Affairs Committee. Cruz said that he wanted to get involved in the Community Affairs Committee is because, the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee draws most of its students from the surrounding area. "We are basically a commuter campus," he said. Cruz said he felt the role of the committee was one of bringing the campus together to help the community. "It helps further the relationship between the community and campus," said Cruz. Cruz pointed to some of the successes of committee last year. Those included a third floor trick-or-treat program for commu­ nity children during Halloween and a Christmas food, clothing and toy drive. According to Cruz, later this semester the committee has set up an Easter-egg hunt. A specific date has not yet been set. In addition to the appointment of Cruz, four new senators were confirmed at the meeting. Tammy Rose, Scott Stepheon, and Heather Thompson were confirmed as senators for the College of Letters and Science. Heather Peterson was confirmed to the Student At Large position. •Post photo by Lee Jankowski According to Andrea Boehme with the four new confirmed Sometimes artwork has a multitute of meanings. There are at least four messages in this senators, only 10 senate seats remain open. bit of graffiti near downtown on a highway over pass support. How many messages can One seat is open in each of the following schools: Architec­ you find? ture, Fine Arts, Social Welfare, Nursing, Engineering, and Business. In addition, there are four graduate seats left open. The senate approved the original budget for the Women's Center which recently had its space approved by the Union Author speaks about white guilt Policy Board. The senate's proposed conflict of interest legislation was By Mandy Poudrier It left out women, Native Americans, and blacks. This voted against unanimously. resulted in instant inequality. The proposed legislation would have prevented those senators Shelby Steele, author of "The Content of our "All those good, Democratic ideas were undermined by involved in student organizations from voting on issues that Character: A New Vision of Race in America," the sin of collective entitlement." involved those organizations which came before the senate. spoke Thursday, Feb. 11 in the Wisconsin Room of According to Steele, this led all the way up to the Civil As was pointed out in the meeting, this law would have the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union. Rights Era, and it is something the population is still prevented all senators from voting on items that involved the His speech covered the connoversial ideas he struggling with today. senate, such as the budget. explores in his book ~ that African Americans use The Civil Rights Era was so important, Steele said, The senate did, however, approve a code of ethics which racism as an excuse for personal failure and that because it recognized for the first time the unfairness of would apply to all SA officers. White people feed this failure because of the guilt collective entitlement and identified race as a source of The senate also approved the mandated United Council refer­ they feel. power. Leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. set out to endum to be added to the UPB ballot. Students will be able to vote According to Steele, the racial situation of the separate the marriage of race and power. on whether or not to remain in the UC on March 31 and April 1. country today can be traced back to the founding Along with these realizations, Steele insists, there had to The UC is an organization that represents all of the student fathers of America. They wrote the Constitution for emerge a great deal of anger over 350 years of black government organizations in the UW system. the newly democratic country on the premise that victimization by whites. One more new amendment was proposed to the old SA individuals, not groups, should be entitled to citi­ "This knowledge invoked moral power," Steele stated. constitution as well. zenship and everything that goes along with it. "The leaders of the time applied this moral power, and Roxanne Patton moved that Article X, sections 1.1 and 1.4, Steele referred to this as individual entitlement. brought about the Civil Rights Bill." which deal with funding, be changed to read "each student is Steele said he believes that "the original sin of the It was after they gained some freedom that African- charged by student organizations per semester." founding fathers" was that although the Constitution Americans really felt a lot of anger towards their oppres- It was felt that this phrasing more accurately describes the symbolically prevented collective entitlement, the students' involuntary contribution as opposed to "allocate," only individuals it was written for were white males. Please see STEELE page 4 which is used in the current constitution. GRAND OPENING - N. FARWELL HOT STYLES. COOL PRICES. 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Henke Faculty Lounge, Marquette Alumni Memorial Union, from 3 to 5 p m. films from the Near EastFeb. 18-21. The historical collection titled "Building A Name in Milwaukee" March 4 - 6--"Planning in Context: Development in a Changing World," On Feb. 18 and 21, "Yol," di­ depicts the evolution of the Watson-Raimey family beginning with Sully at the Edith Hefter Conference Center, 3270 N. Marietta Ave. Registration rected by Serif Goren will be shown.