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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.
In the continued aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, people on both the left and right side of the political spectrum have proposed various solutions to the country’s economic woes. Although the Republicans and Democrats offer different answers, their views don’t differ very much in terms of the governing theory behind them. Instead of the ‘Republicrat’ false dichotomy, a few congressmen, such as Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., and former congressman Ron Paul, R-Texas, have returned to basic economic theory to create prosperity.
When September rolls around, the red-and-white comes out in Madison. Badger fever settles over campus and around the state; I sit here writing this after gleefully watching the Badgers dominate the Michigan State Spartans with a final score of 30-6. Football is not only a game, but a part of our lives. To say that our athletes are heroes to the people in Wisconsin would be an understatement. Football, basketball and other sports bring joy and pride to people around the state and alumni around the world. However, are the athletes getting proper appreciation?
There are many downsides of the wide-scale economic recession, and one of them happen to be the increase of the tuition costs in higher education. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, the national average for tuition at public four-year institutions saw an increase from $3,486 in 1990-’91 to $9,139 in 2014-’15, which is a roughly 161 percent increase, after being adjusted for inflation. In order to continue to offer educational opportunities to increasingly demanding student bodies, one of the common practices some public universities—including UW-Madison—have adopted is a tuition freeze.
There are 43,193 students enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These 43,193 students are trying to complete homework assignments on time. These 43,193 students are attempting to attend all the club kick-off meetings they signed up for at the Student Organization Fair. And these 43,193 students enrolled at UW-Madison are trying to find the perfect balance between school and their social lives. “The best four years of your life” is a phrase synonymously associated with your experiences in college. But how can a student make sure they are having the best years? Do they immerse themselves in homework, do all the readings assigned and receive the best education possible? Or do they fill their calendar with social opportunities and make friends that will last a lifetime (sorry, cliché number two about college)?
Capitalism doesn’t seem to be valued as strongly as it once was. We hear that businesses should exist to benefit society. Instead of embracing capitalism, we should apparently support a toned-down “conscious capitalism.” Students are encouraged to start careers as social entrepreneurs, where their work not only provides them a way of life, but also directly helps others. While I fully support any business or individual with altruistic goals and motives, I also recognize the value of capitalism, making a profit and working strictly to maximize your income.
Everyone knows that recycling is important. It helps to save resources and is an easy way to lower our carbon footprint as individuals. But does everyone do it? Not everyone is willing to put in the thought or time when it comes to the small intricacies of actually being green. Separating plastics, paper and cardboard can sometimes be overwhelming. People choose to avoid the confusion by just throwing their plastic bottles away. When push comes to shove, sometimes laziness takes over and this is not helping us be green.
In today’s media world, the news can often be intimidating, dense and boring. If readers don’t make it a point to constantly stay up-to-date, they can feel lost in the swamp of names, places and events. This fear of reading the news is the beginning of a vicious cycle where people remain uninformed about current events because they fear it is too hard to understand, or too much work to remain in the know.
There are memes all over the internet that poke fun at the situation when someone receives a holiday card. Instead of reading the card, the recipient’s mind is focused on the subsequent gift. Memes are funny only because they’re relatable. However, to the children of Manzini, Swaziland, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
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