2 - he Wchigan Dafy -Tuesday My 4, 1999
MSA resolution supports Wisconsin in court case
By Jewel Gopwani After a Wisconsin federal court sided with the stu- ernment by signing on to a brief along with about inform students about these programs.
Daily Staff Reporter dents, the school's regents unsuccessfully appealed twenty student governments nationally. The goal of the EBSI, according to the resolu
Standing behind its fellow university student the decision to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Wisconsin plans to send to the Supreme Court tion, is to increase the viability of the ethnic stud
governments, the Michigan Student Assembly According to the assembly's resolution, presented later this month, MSA president Bram Elias said. ies programs, by encouraging more Universit
passed a resolution at an April 20 meeting which by LSA Rep. and Budget Priorities Chair Glen Roe, MSA also used last month's meeting to establish funding and internal efforts to increase hiring an
supports the University of Wisconsin at Madison, students, faculty and administrators nationwide support for ethnic studies at the University by tenuring autonomy for ethnic studies programs.
whose Board of Regents is currently involved in a view Wisconsin v. Southworth as "a threat to the passing a resolution which will allow the forma- The assembly also voted unanimously to sup
Supreme Court case. educational mission of the university as a place tion of a group titled the Ethnic and Black Studies port departmental status for the Center o
Wisconsin law student Scott Southworth and two where there should exist a forum of vigorous debate Initiative. According to the resolution, the EBSI, Afroamerican and African Studies. According t
other students filed a suit against the regents in and idea exchange from all points of view on soci- which would be comprised of members of MSA, this resolution, MSA also supports efforts to
April 1996. The students argue that an individual's ety's most pressing questions and problems" LSA-Student Government and student activists, "CAAS autonomy in its processes of hiring, ten.
student government fees should not be given to Passing this resolution means that the assembly plans to review the University's ethnic studies pro- ing and assigning committee work to faculty
organizations they do not ethically support. will show its support for Wisconsin's student gov- grams and sponsor an educational session to and to establish CAAS as a department"
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