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The Republican Party is in shambles and party officials have no one to blame but themselves. Donald Trump has emerged from years of fear-mongering and conspiratorial thinking within the party. From the birther movement and outrageous accusations leveled at Planned Parenthood to beliefs that elections are rigged, the Republican Party has harbored conspiratorial thinkers for years.
As a new undergraduate student a year ago, I was looking forward to exploring various disciplines since I had not decided on a major. Being in the College of Letters and Science, I was required to take quite a few prerequisite classes since L&S focused on a liberal arts background.
For many Wisconsin students, November will mark the first time they cast a ballot in a presidential election. In just a few weeks, students will be lined up outside the Memorial Union or maybe the Red Gym to pull a lever that will determine the course of our nation—no pressure for you first-time voters.
The definition and rights of shared governance at UW-Madison have undergone so many changes since Gov. Scott Walker released the 2015-’17 budget in January 2015 that the relationship between shared governance and university administration still appears unclear today. Within the past month, the UW-Madison administration has announced major changes to campus life without consulting shared governance beforehand, disregarding crucial perspectives.
Donald Trump has had an interesting few weeks on the campaign trail. Hours before the second presidential debate, the now infamous and misogynistic tape of him and Billy Bush found in the Access Hollywood archives came up for air, leaving his campaign flailing. Republican officials and influencers denounced him in scores, with some even calling for Trump to leave the race entirely.
A week ago, a video, which recorded Donald Trump talking about his attempts to grope and seduce a married woman, was released to the public. Later, several women who said they had been sexually assaulted by Trump came out to the media to have their voices heard. Even though Trump apologized after the release of the video from 2005, the scandal still became ubiquitous in newspapers, drawing a great deal of attention.
The 2016 presidential election has left two key groups unfulfilled. Conventional supporters of the Republican Party and millennials who were galvanised by the refreshing campaign of Bernie Sanders.
The upcoming general election has been on the minds of Americans for over a year. It is in the final stretch, with Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton facing off in debates, something that will surely have an impact on the election next month.
When UW-Madison students graduate from college, they will enter into a society markedly different from that of their parents. The world is rapidly changing socially, politically, economically and environmentally. As a result, UW-Madison needs to ensure its students are prepared for a lifetime of change and trials as we begin our adult lives.
My great-grandfather was an immigrant from Germany. Nearly five years ago, just a few months before she died, his daughter, my paternal grandmother, told me the story of his immigration to America as a teenager.
Wisconsin’s commitment to environmental conservation, long a critical component of state politics, has taken a backseat in this age of budget cuts under Gov. Scott Walker. The examples set by pioneer Wisconsinites such as Aldo Leopold, John Muir and Gaylord Nelson are fading from memory as polluters go unpunished and government agencies charged with protecting the state’s natural resources are gutted.
I was an 18-year-old UW freshman in 1991 when I helped shepherd Hillary Clinton through a visit to the Law School and a walk back down Bascom Hill. Most of the American public did not yet know of her then, but I did. She was more than just the wife of the candidate I supported in the upcoming Democratic primaries. I knew her as a champion of children’s rights working with the Children’s Defense Fund and in private practice as a Yale educated lawyer. I knew that she was the first woman to chair the Legal Services Corporation, an important non-profit legal assistance organization that helped ensure access to legal services for the poor. I knew her as someone who had worked in Arkansas to bring the poor more access to doctors. I believed she could be president herself. Not one day when I was much older, but then and there.
I sit in an early morning lecture, struggling to focus on my notebook. When the horizontal blue lines on the paper begin to blur, my eyes shift to concentrate on another source of distraction and I am supplied with rows upon rows of computer screens. With options like online shopping on the computer in front of me and a fight with a boyfriend on the computer to my right, why should I be interested in what my professor is saying?
As highly educated college students on a politically active campus in an election year, there is perhaps no better time to realize our civic duty as students of UW-Madison. Badgers, it is time to vote.
Recently it seems like more and more events happening in the news are connected with each other. Of course Jennifer Aniston flying to New York to get away from Los Angeles has a direct correlation to the heartbreaking split of celebrity couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. But one can also see the relationship between the case of rapist Brock Turner and the portrayal of women in the media or another example would be the mall shooting in St. Cloud, Minn., and the recent Washington state mall shooting.
I have to admit, when Donald Trump announced he was running for president, I was a bit intrigued by his candidacy. In an otherwise large and homogenous field, Trump offered the opportunity for our party to evolve. His willingness to break form with establishment figures could’ve led to a Republican platform that was more in touch with our time and better equipped to attract young voters. But as we all know, this turned out to be a fantasy. Instead, his double entendres, and ambiguous romanticizations of the past have resulted in the regression of GOP policy and the substitution of divisive rhetoric for fiscal conservatism and constitutional rights.
Wisconsin is front and center in this year’s presidential election, but the state’s U.S. Senate race is just as pivotal. Incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is up against Russ Feingold, in a race that could determine whether Democrats get control of the Senate. And when it comes to the issues, Sen. Johnson and Russ couldn’t be farther apart.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s announcement that she intends to raise out-of-state tuition was an unforeseeable plot twist. Gov. Scott Walker’s tuition hike last year has been well-documented and sparked considerable controversy. Blank, however, was supposed to be our advocate, fighting on behalf of increasing the school’s budget and ensuring affordable education for all.
My first legitimate volunteering experience was during my freshman year of high school. Having the desire to strengthen my high school résumé and to experience some meaningful service, I participated in an annual trip through my school to a small community in El Portillo, Nicaragua. In El Portillo, I had the opportunity to connect with the locals and gain a better understanding of their culture.
Students at UW-Madison are stuck in the epicenter of Wisconsin’s disastrous political discourse. Nowhere in the nation, it seems, is the debate over education as prevalent as it is a few blocks away at our state Capitol. The list of grievances held by the state against the school and vice-versa extends indefinitely: tuition hikes, funding for student athletics, state funding cuts, faculty tenure and more. These issues have evolved from simple economic debates to massively politically charged issues. Republicans, with their majority in both houses of the legislature and control of the governor’s office, claimed victory over the minority Democrats when these issues were voted on in the last budget cycle. But Democratic politicians, perhaps counterintuitively, are racking up victories among their supporters every time these issues are mentioned. Rather than engaging in a true discussion over underlying educational visions, each side of the aisle is entrenching themselves for a political fight, and the only real losers are the students.
Solutions by The State News
