Most Marquette students should have gotten this e-mail today:
There are three sets of candidates running for MUSG President/Executive Vice President and the field will be narrowed to two during Wednesday’s primary election. Candidate bios and additional information are available now at
http://musg.mu.edu/electionCandidates.php
VOTE ON-LINE from the convenience of your personal computer or in a university computer lab. Electronic voting will take place at the website http://musg.mu.edu/vote/ on Wednesday, March 18, from 12:01am – 10:00pm (Central Time). All full-time undergraduate students are eligible and encouraged to vote. You’ll need your Emarq username and password to enter into the system. If you experience problems, stop by the Election Help Desk in the MUSG Office, AMU 133, or call the MUSG Office at 288-7416, open from 9:00am – 9:00pm on Voting Day.
Election results will be announced at a press conference on Thursday, March 19 at 4:00pm in the AMU First Floor Commons.
MarquetteUniversity
Unfortunately I won’t be there…my spring break was last week and I can’t leave campus. Oh well. If you make it, I suggest you check it out. All of these are excellent live acts and the new material won’t disappoint.
Hip-Hop/Rap, Music, Rhymesayers
AWESOME. I’ve been looking forward to something like for a long time.
From JSOnline.com:
Ending a 17-year-long dispute, Congress has thrown its support behind a modern streetcar system in downtown Milwaukee.
With local officials deadlocked over how to spend $91.5 million in long-idle federal transit aid, Sen. Herb Kohl and Rep. David Obey quietly inserted a provision in the massive federal omnibus spending bill to hand 60% of the money to the city for a downtown rail line and 40% to Milwaukee County for buses. President Barack Obama signed the $410 billion package into law Wednesday.
That’s a victory for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who has championed a downtown streetcar loop, and a defeat for County Executive Scott Walker, who has fought the concept and wanted all the money to go to buses. Kohl and Obey, both Wisconsin Democrats, acted at the urging of Barrett, their former congressional colleague.
Modern streetcars resemble light rail vehicles, but are smaller and less expensive. Otherwise, they spur the same kind of debate as light rail: Supporters say a fixed rail system stimulates economic development and provides a transportation option that is attractive to both visitors and residents, while opponents say it’s too costly and isn’t as flexible as a bus line.
As envisioned by Barrett, the streetcars would run in a three-mile loop that links downtown destinations to the Amtrak-Greyhound station. It would connect not only with existing trains and buses but also tie in with proposals for commuter rail and high-speed trains.
Read the rest of the article here.
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