While the Associated Students of Madison passed its internal budget along with a resolution Thursday, freshman election results for ASM positions were released.
Eyal Halamish, with 547 votes, and Ashok Kumar, with 529 votes, defeated 10 other candidates for the spot of freshman representative Sophomore Catharine Quinn won the open slot on the Student Services Finance Committee, with 1,709 votes. ASM had to conduct its election twice this year after the Division of Information Technology lost the results from the first election.
In other business, ASM passed an internal budget of $654,050. Representatives use the internal budget to fund ASM activities and to fund grants the organization awards to student groups.
Representatives also voted to support state assembly bill 357, which prohibits the use of ethnic mascots and nicknames in Wisconsin.
The state Assembly voted to pass Senate Bill 214, which will allow Wisconsin citizens to carry concealed weapons, by a margin of 64-35 just before 3 a.m. Thursday.
The bill will now go back to the Senate, which approved it Oct. 24, to review changes to amendments regarding training, exemptions and funding. It will then go to Gov. Jim Doyle, who has publicly stated he will veto the bill.
If the Republican-controlled Assembly wants to override Doyle's veto, they will have to get two more votes for the required two-thirds majority to undo the veto.
The idea behind SB 214 originated after the state Supreme Court overturned a concealed weapon conviction of a Milwaukee man July 15. This is the first time a proposal to legalize conceal and carry has made it through both houses, as a bill passed in the Assembly last session failed to pass the Democrat-dominated Senate.
A recent poll indicated 69 percent of Wisconsin residents were opposed to carrying concealed weapons.
The UW Police Department has identified the suspect in Wednesday afternoon's bomb threat at UW Hospital.
The suspect will be charged with a bomb scare, a felony charge. UW Police anticipate taking the suspect into custody very soon.
The bomb threat briefly shut down parts of the hospital but was found to be a false alarm after officials arrived at the scene.
Carl R. Pielmeier, 21, of Darlington, Wis., entered a plea of not guilty Thursday at his initial court appearance in connection with an Oct. 19 incident in Eagle Heights.
He faces charges of carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct with a hate crime extender for allegedly trying to break into the victim's apartment while dressed in paramilitary clothes and white power regalia.
Dane County Circuit Court Commissioner Todd E. Meurer released Peilmeier on a signature bond under the conditions he is not to go armed with any type of dangerous weapon and to not set foot on university property.
Pielmeier asked that he be allowed an exception for hunting season, which Meurer denied.
\What happened here is just so egregious I don't feel comfortable with you going out with any [weapon] at all, even if it is for lawful deer hunting,"" Meurer said.
Former state Senator Brian Burke pled not guilty in Dane County Circuit Court Thursday to 18 felony charges in connection with the senate caucus scandal.
Burke's final pretrial hearing is set for Jan. 15. Burke is accused of soliciting campaign donations in the Capitol, withholding subpoenaed records, falsifying his appointment calendars and improperly categorizing campaign expenditures as legislative ones, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
