UW-Madison students, political organizations still open to conversation across the aisle
As the 2020 presidential election looms before us, the two main political parties seem to grow increasingly polarized by the day.
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As the 2020 presidential election looms before us, the two main political parties seem to grow increasingly polarized by the day.
Since COVID-19 first infected individuals in Wuhan, China, the mass media has provided constant coverage on the “novel” virus — and as coronavirus spread more significantly throughout the US, American news outlets’ headlines and top stories almost unanimously feature the latest updates of the pandemic.
Rock County Christian School is a private college preparatory school in Beloit, Wisconsin. It teaches kindergarten through 12th grade and is operated by a nonprofit, interdenominational, evangelical Christian parent support organization. The school aims to allow students to thrive spiritually, academically, socially and physically, according to their website.
In the Memorial Library stacks, students find old books, quiet study spaces and campus rumors of an axe murderer. At night it can feel like the start of a B- horror movie, but students have discovered their research and study skills here for 91 years.
The 29 individuals — representing 19 countries from around the globe — who sat in anticipation at Madison’s courthouse Friday morning have been living in the country for years, but it wasn’t until now that they finally became official citizens of the United States. The event was closed to the public, but the room still filled with the individuals’ families and friends who excitedly waited to welcome their loved ones as official members of the community.
Throughout her freshman year, Madeline Noreika struggled adjusting to life at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But instead of seeking help, the stigma associated with needing mental health services led her to spend her first couple years of college handling her anxiety and depression alone.
With the summer coming to an end, emails, flyers and posters promoting ‘back-to-school’ sales seem to be everywhere.
While the southern border lies a thousand miles away, immigration issues still resonate for many members of the Wisconsin community, from immigrants who’ve made their homes in the state to attorneys and communities working to support them.
13 percent of UW-Madison undergraduates are international students, according to enrollment reports of 2018 fall done by the Office of the Registrar from UW Madison. Though UW-Madison is a predominantly white school, the number of international students are not too small to represent. UW-Madison accepts degree-seeking and exchange undergraduates, graduates and doctoral students representing more than 130 countries.
Although the musical “Miss Saigon” closed last Sunday after a six-day stint at the Overture Center for the Arts, presented in partnership with Broadway Across America, conversations surrounding Asian American misrepresentation in the musical are far from over.
When the seven members of the Madison Metropolitan School Board gather to discuss their plans for the future after the April 2 election, there will be one noticeable change — everyone seated at the table will be a woman.
SHANGHAI — The Chinese New Year, also called the Spring Festival, is an annual holiday in China that celebrates the end of one lunar year and the beginning of another. The Lunar Calendar has a twelve year cycle with one of twelve animals being the animal of the year. 2019 is the Year of the Pig, symbolizing wealth. The celebration, which includes families gathering together, special meals eaten on specific days, and religious traditions, lasts for fifteen days. A large amount of people leave the big cities to join family in their hometowns resulting in what is known as the largest human migration on the planet. An estimated three billion trips were made this year. Though many left the massive metropolis for the week, I arrived in Shanghai, a city that in recent years has seen a large population increase and rapid development, for the first several days of the Spring Festival.
UW-Madison’s Memorial Union auditorium buzzed with hundreds of students, faculty and community members who awaited Tarana Burke, the founder of the Me Too movement, to speak.
In 2019, a woman’s place is not in the kitchen nor in a daycare center, but wherever she wants to be. At UW-Madison, there are thousands of female students succeeding in academics as well as professors and researchers who continue to contribute to campus and the community.
Cries of outrage echoed through the Madison Board of Education meeting room as a passionate crowd of students, parents, faculty and community members listed their concerns about racism in schools and listened to board members discuss funding yesterday.
In the year since a gunman killed 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, activists — many of whom are high school students themselves — have marched, petitioned and voted for tighter gun laws across the country.
Less than a minute after student protesters draped their hand-painted banners over the second floor railing at Union South, campus security forced the small group to roll up its flags and issued some of the demonstrators warnings.
Reaching out to UW-Madison’s mental health services can be a challenge for students. But when none of the counselors look like you, booking an appointment can be even harder.
As the semester begins and the federal government enters its 33rd day of a record-long partial shutdown, The Daily Cardinal is bringing you stories about what the shutdown looks like on campus and around the community. Certain government agencies have been closed since Dec. 22 and will only reopen once Congress and President Trump can reach a compromise over a $5 billion border wall.
Last year, UW-Madison faced a decision: what to do with spaces in the Memorial Union named after key alumni who were also members of a former powerful fraternity named “Ku Klux Klan.”