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When Donald Trump lastcampaigned in Wisconsin fourmonths ago, he clashed openlywith the state’s leading Repub-licans on his way to a resound-ing primary defeat.

“It worked so well for himlast time, he decided to do it allover again,” said Mark Graul, aGOP strategist in Green Bay,where Trump and running mate

Mike Pence will hold a Fridaynight rally. “It’s impossible tounderstand what the strategyis.”

Trump arrives here afterpicking a fight with Wisconsin’smost popular Republican politi-cian, House Speaker Paul Ryanof Janesville.

In doing so, he has antago-

nized other GOP leaders in thestate, few of whom are attend-ing the Green Bay rally.

Even some of his more en-thusiastic supporters in Wis-consin say Trump is making hisown task tougher in this toughbattleground state, where Dem-ocratic vice presidential candi-date Tim Kaine is also cam-

paigning Friday.“He did the same thing in the

Republican primary (when) hewent after Scott Walker,” saidU.S. Rep. Sean Duffy in an inter-view on CNN Thursday.

Trump visits amid feudCandidate’s strategy questionedahead of rally in Green Bay

BY CRAIG GILBERTAND JASON STEINMILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

■ Paul Ryan: Endorsements aren't'blank checks' 8A■ Milwaukee's Muslim femaleleaders speak out. 9A■ Clinton surges ahead of Trump innew poll. 10A

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Six historic buildings atthe former Milwaukee Sol-diers Home grounds will beredeveloped into around 100apartments for veterans andtheir families under a$40 million proposal an-nounced Thursday.

The buildings are on ornear Mitchell Blvd., betweenI-94 and W. National Ave., onthe grounds of the ZablockiVeterans Affairs MedicalCenter. They include OldMain, the Soldiers Homecompleted in 1869, and otherhistoric buildings that areunused and in danger of fall-ing apart.

The Soldiers Homegrounds were declared a na-tional historic landmark bythe National Park Service in2011, with the National Trustfor Historic Preservationadding the buildings to its listof most endangered historicplaces.

Since then, the VA has re-paired Old Main’s roof andmade repairs to other build-ings. But public funds tofully restore the buildingsweren’t available.

Thursday’s announce-ment amounts to “a turningpoint” in efforts to restoreOld Main and the other build-ings, said Genell Scheurell,senior field officer for thetrust.

“It would have been agreat tragedy not to find agood use for the buildings,”

SoldiersHomegettingnew life Veterans housingto be built on site TOM DAYKINMILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

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Wes Hotchkiss ofBeaver Dam holdsears of corn duringthe opening day ofthe 165th WisconsinState Fair at StateFair Park in WestAllis on Thursday.See more atjsonline.com/photos.

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A group of friends walks through the Wisconsin State Fair during its opening day Thursday with their newcow-spotted hats purchased near the Original Cream Puff Pavilion. The group, all of Milwaukee, is John Flores(from left), Nikki Gucciardo, Josh Bierce, Kara Gucciardo and Travis Riesop.

Top executives at one ofAmerica’s most prominentOlympic organizationsfailed to alert authorities tomany allegations of sexualabuse by coaches, relying ona policy that enabled preda-tors to abuse gymnasts longafter USA Gymnastics hadreceived warnings.

An investigation by theIndianapolis Star uncoveredmultiple examples of chil-dren suffering the conse-quences, including a Georgiacase in which a coach preyedon young female athletes forseven years after USA Gym-nastics dismissed the first offour warnings about him.

In a 2013 lawsuit filed byone of that coach’s victims,two former USA Gymnasticsofficials admitted underoath that the organizationroutinely dismissed sexualabuse allegations as hearsayunless they came directlyfrom a victim or victim’s par-ent.

Legal experts and childadvocates expressed alarmabout that approach, saying

Olympicclub failedto reportabuseUSA Gymnasticsshelved complaintsMARISA KWIATKOWSKI,MARK ALESIAAND TIM EVANSTHE INDIANAPOLIS STAR

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Albert O. “Ab” Nicholas, aprominent philanthropist andnationally known Milwaukeemoney manager, died Thursday.

Nicholas, who was 85, donat-ed millions to the University ofWisconsin-Madison, his almamater; to the Boys & Girls Clubsof Greater Milwaukee; to

Brightstar Foun-dation for invest-ment in thestate’s emerginggrowth compa-nies; and to manyother causes.

But his kind-ness went be-

yond the financial.“He was generous with his in-

terest in other people, generouswith his friendships, generouswith his laughter and generouswith his family,” said Gary Man-ning, rector at Trinity Episcopal

Church in Wauwatosa, Nicholas’long-time parish.

A tall man with a long gait,Nicholas often left his down-town Milwaukee office forlunch, nodding and smiling athis many acquaintances as hestrode down Water St.

He was a standout basketballplayer in college, but Nicholaschose an investment careerover professional basketball.He formed Nicholas Co. in 1967and built it into a firm that man-

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restored buildings will be theAdministration Building(also known as Building 1),built in 1896; the CatholicChaplain’s Quarters (Build-ing 14), built in 1899; and threeduplexes (Buildings 18, 19 and62).

The apartments will in-clude support services forveterans and their familieswho are homeless, or at riskof becoming homeless.

Alexander Co. and theHousing Authority wereamong the developers whoresponded to a 2015 requestfor proposals from the De-partment of Veterans Affairs.Alexander Co. will lease thebuildings from the VA, andwill pay for renovating them.The Housing Authority willoperate the buildings afterthey have been restored.

Support services, includ-ing education, job trainingand counseling, will be man-aged by the Center for Veter-ans Issues.

Project architecture willbe led by Uihlein Wilson Ar-chitects, with Quorum Archi-tects designing the Admini-stration Building. Beyer Con-struction will manage con-struction on all six buildings.

The VA uses several other

said Robert Cocroft, a retiredbrigadier general and presi-dent of the Center for Veter-ans Issues.

The Milwaukee SoldiersHome is one of the nation’sthree original SoldiersHomes. The homes were builtfor Civil War veterans withphysical and mental disabili-ties, and later served othermilitary veterans.

The Gothic Revival-styleOld Main was designed byMilwaukee architect EdwardTownsend Mix, who also de-signed the Mackie Building.The VA used Old Main until1989.

The buildings will be rede-veloped by the Alexander Co.,a Madison-based develop-ment firm, and managed bythe Milwaukee Housing Au-thority.

Planned financing for the$40 million project includesfederal affordable housingtax credits, federal and statehistoric preservation taxcredits and grants.

Work is anticipated to be-gin in fall 2017, with all build-ings completed by April 2019,according to Alexander Co.

The 133,730-square-footOld Main, completed in 1869,is the largest of the buildings.It sits on a hill overlookingMiller Park, and its tower canbe seen from I-94.

The project will help pre-serve historic buildings whilealso serving veterans, ac-cording to VA and city offi-cials.

“The Soldiers Home is a lo-cal and national treasure,”said Milwaukee Mayor TomBarrett in a statement. “Thispartnership and project is aperfect way to preserve thehistory of the Soldiers Homewhile meeting the needs of to-day’s veterans.”

Along with Old Main, the

historic buildings on the 90-acre grounds for offices, a li-brary and other purposes.The agency also might even-tually redevelop the vacantWard Memorial Theater as aconference and training cen-ter for its employees.

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intendent Dean Gorrell said itsboard debated whether it shouldtake up the policy or wait until adecision was reached in the law-suit, but decided to move for-ward.

“We have transgender stu-dents in our school district and wewant to do right by them,” he said.

According to Juchems, about80 districts around the state haveat least some kind of policy inplace regarding transgender stu-dents. But only a handful wouldcomply with the new federalguidelines, he said.

He points to Shorewood andMenasha as among the districtsthat would clear that hurdle.

Shorewood’s policy, for exam-ple, clearly explains that trans-gender students may use anybathrooms or locker rooms theychoose. Its policy was highlightedby the Obama administrationwhen it announced the new direc-tive in May.

The Menasha School Districtrevised its policy in May 2015 af-ter a transgender student com-plained to the administration thatits policy discriminated againsther. The student wanted to use thefemale restrooms, but at thattime transgender students usedonly the unisex bathrooms thatwere offered. SuperintendentChris VanderHeyden said it wastime for them to “do their home-work” and come up with a newpolicy that would let the studentuse the female restroom.

“If we tell this student thatthey have to use a unisex bath-room, that’s discriminating,”VanderHeyden said. “We pre-sented the board two options —they could dig in and discriminateor amend their policy. Our board,being smart, agreed to make apolicy change.”

Such decisions in some caseshave drawn pushback from thecommunity and beyond.

“I had people from other statescalling me saying ‘what the hellare you thinking?’ “ said Vander-

Heyden. Much of the opposition

stemmed from the fear that malestudents would claim to be trans-gender so they could sneak intothe girl’s bathrooms.

“I didn’t have any kids comeforward who were concerned,”he said. “It was all parents andpeople from out of town.”

Since implementing the newpolicy, VanderHeyden said thedistrict has not had any problems.

The Sparta Area School Dis-trict, east of La Crosse, also faceda strong backlash when it tried tocreate a policy to protect trans-gender students.

Superintendent John Hen-dricks called the ensuing dispute“ugly” and “a flash point for thedistrict.”

“It was a lost opportunity to beproactive and supportive oftransgender students,” Hen-dricks said. “I felt it was morallythe right thing to do.”

He said school board membersreceived dozens of phone callsfrom people opposing the policy.

“My board took a lot of abuse,from local (residents) , but a lot ofabuse came from people aroundthe state who had no real ties tothe district,” Hendricks said.“People were concerned if weadopt a policy for transgenderstudents, other districts will fol-low.”

One Wisconsin district alreadyhas been sued over its treatmentof transgender students.

In early July, 16-year-oldtransgender student Ash Whit-aker and his mother filed a feder-al lawsuit against the KenoshaUnified School District and its su-perintendent in federal court, al-leging they discriminated againsthim on the basis of his genderidentity.

“The district has been review-ing its policies to determine howto address the unique issuesraised by a student’s transgenderidentification,” said districtspokeswoman Tanya Ruder. “Thedistrict expects the process toculminate in new policies beforethe end of the year.”

Juchems said districts need toupdate their policies, not just toavoid a lawsuit, but to best servetheir students.

“There are many wonderfuleducators in Kenosha who are do-ing the right thing, but there is anabsence of clear policy and proce-dure,” he said. “All students bene-fit from a school that has a gen-der-inclusive environment.”

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