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Nass to visit campus to discuss budget impasse
Kim Burdick
Issue date: 9/19/07 Section: News
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State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, will be coming to speak to the College Republicans about the Wisconsin State budget stalemate next Wednesday at 9 p.m. in Esker Hall 119, according to senior Greg Torres.
Nass' position as a member of the Midwestern Higher Education Council and chair on the Committee on Colleges and Universities allows him to have a say on many decisions that directly affect the University of Wisconsin System.
Many of Nass' standpoints have been criticized for going against university interests - most recently, his stance on the bi-annual state budget and funding to certain university programs.
Nass is the chair of the Assembly Republicans who wanted to see the UW System budget cut by around $120 million, according to a July Associated Press article. The state budget was supposed to be completed as of July 1, but is still being negotiated as of Monday night.
The building of new dormitories and student unions would be canceled, and 17 administrative jobs within the system would be cut in the Assembly's budget plan.
Democrats are in stark disagreement with the Assembly's budget plan, which is resulting in a drawn out debate, preventing the budget from being completed and sent to Gov. Jim Doyle for final approval, according to Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, who spoke on campus last week.
Doyle told the Associated Press on Monday that he thinks the budget situation will be resolved by Friday.
Nass is also proposing a funding cut to a UW-Madison center that studies social change, arguing that its agenda is "too far to the left."
"The Assembly budget dismantles [the university] to satisfy party politics and eliminate personal pet peeves," UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said in a statement released to the Associated Press.
The state budget stalemate has left 178 students waiting to hear if they will be receiving funds from the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant (WHEG) as a part of their financial aid package.
"We need parents and students to contact their legislators and encourage the legislature to act quickly on the budget," Telfer wrote in an August letter to the Capital Times. "Our neediest students must know whether they will receive WHEG funding."
Nass' position as a member of the Midwestern Higher Education Council and chair on the Committee on Colleges and Universities allows him to have a say on many decisions that directly affect the University of Wisconsin System.
Many of Nass' standpoints have been criticized for going against university interests - most recently, his stance on the bi-annual state budget and funding to certain university programs.
Nass is the chair of the Assembly Republicans who wanted to see the UW System budget cut by around $120 million, according to a July Associated Press article. The state budget was supposed to be completed as of July 1, but is still being negotiated as of Monday night.
The building of new dormitories and student unions would be canceled, and 17 administrative jobs within the system would be cut in the Assembly's budget plan.
Democrats are in stark disagreement with the Assembly's budget plan, which is resulting in a drawn out debate, preventing the budget from being completed and sent to Gov. Jim Doyle for final approval, according to Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, who spoke on campus last week.
Doyle told the Associated Press on Monday that he thinks the budget situation will be resolved by Friday.
Nass is also proposing a funding cut to a UW-Madison center that studies social change, arguing that its agenda is "too far to the left."
"The Assembly budget dismantles [the university] to satisfy party politics and eliminate personal pet peeves," UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said in a statement released to the Associated Press.
The state budget stalemate has left 178 students waiting to hear if they will be receiving funds from the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant (WHEG) as a part of their financial aid package.
"We need parents and students to contact their legislators and encourage the legislature to act quickly on the budget," Telfer wrote in an August letter to the Capital Times. "Our neediest students must know whether they will receive WHEG funding."
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