The UW System Board of Regents decided Friday to approve budgets for two new university buildings and ask the state Legislature to fund them.
One of the projects is the $34.9 million dormitory renovation plan on Dayton Street that includes 600 new beds and the demolition of Ogg Hall.
Additionally, regents planned to ask legislators to fund $40 million for Grainger Hall additions that will include more space for undergraduate business students and graduate students.
In total, $20 million will come from an unidentified donor and $10 million will come from taxpayers.
All additions are part of Chancellor John Wiley's campus redesign plan and are expected to be complete by 2007.
Regents also agreed Regent President Toby Marcovich will seek out a new UW System President to take Katharine Lyall's place in August.
-The Capital Times contributed to this report.
Presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said in a personal statement on his campaign Web site the Madison Fair Wage Campaign is an example for the nation about the importance of a living wage.
He encourages Madison voters to sign in favor of a $7.75 minimum wage on the Fair Wage referendum petition. He also says he will make the restoration of the federal minimum wage a top priority if elected president.
Democratic presidential candidates Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and retired Gen. Wesley Clark campaigned in Wisconsin over the weekend, emphasizing the importance of beating George Bush in November.
Edwards, who visited UW-Milwaukee Saturday, called for the rights of unions to organize and attacked Bush's free trade policies.
He said his South Carolina roots give him the broadest audience and the greatest chance of any of the candidates to beat Bush.
Clark, in a forum with Gov. Jim Doyle in Racine Sunday, argued Massachusetts Democratic front- runner Sen. John Kerry's nomination is not inevitable.
Doyle called for a clean campaign in Wisconsin, and Clark, while not saying he would abide by one, praised the other candidates.
Edwards and Clark will campaign further in Wisconsin before the primary Feb. 17.
An armed man attempted to kidnap a 13-year-old girl from the Comfort Inn, 4822 E. Washington Ave., Friday night, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
After following the girl, who was staying with her family, into the elevator and upstairs, the man covered her mouth and led her downstairs and outside the hotel. With a gun to her head he warned he would \blow her brains out"" if she attempted to scream, Madison Police Capt. Mike Masterson said.
The man led her through the parking lot where they saw two adult friends of the girl, police said. She then escaped and the suspect fled.
While police have no suspects, the girl told police the man was white and in his 30s, 5'8"" to 5'10"" with an average build and brown hair.
