SSFC to fund diversity of student groups
The UW Roman Catholic Foundation and Jewish Cultural Collective are eligible to receive student segregated fees, the Student Services Financial Committee decided at its meeting Wednesday evening.
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The UW Roman Catholic Foundation and Jewish Cultural Collective are eligible to receive student segregated fees, the Student Services Financial Committee decided at its meeting Wednesday evening.
In a speech aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Thursday evening, President Bush declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq and congratulated the U.S. military's efforts in ousting Saddam Hussein.
Boasting uneven floors, bats, mice and a hole in one basement wall that \may or may not be a gateway to hell,"" the house at 414 W. Johnson Street was deemed the winner of the Worst House in Madison Contest Wednesday.
When in doubt, keep your mouth shut.
Cheers, whistles, a trumpet and bongo drums marked the end of a day of silence for a group of about 200 ralliers at the Capitol Wednesday. The nationwide Day of Silence, sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, emphasized the silenced voices of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender individuals, especially in schools.
Anti-war demonstrators chose symbolism as their tactic at Truax Field Wednesday, where they risked arrest in a peaceful show of opposition to the war in Iraq.
With $250 million in budget cuts looming in the UW System's future, the UW System Board of Regents said they are counting on all UW institutions to put their greatest efforts into reducing expenses.
The UW System, reeling in the wake of massive budget cuts, might need to rethink its structure, according to several academic scholars.
Members of the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants' Association were among the loudest protesters at a rally at the state Capitol Monday, where hundreds of state employees gathered over their lunch hours to lambaste the Legislature's rejection of their contracts.
The title of Chancellor John Wiley's Wednesday round-table speech was \Wisconsin's Budget: Tangled Up in Red,"" but his words were not music to anyone's ears.
With rumblings of war in Iraq growing stronger, many members of the Wisconsin National Guard--including students at UW-Madison--have been summoned for active duty.
Concerns about increased funding for UW-Madison student organizations were evident at the Associated Students of Madison's conference committee meeting Saturday. Members of the committee disagreed on how to cut the budgets of five campus groups eligible for segregated fees, but eventually compromised on budgets for each organization.
With one week remaining until the Jan. 30 deadline for universities to implement an electronic database to track international students, UW-Madison is already in compliance, according to Judy Brodd, the university's interim director of international student services.
Speaking to a near-capacity Distinguished Lecture Series crowd at the Orpheum Theatre, 211 State St., Wednesday, former South African President F.W. de Klerk emphasized his nation's deep commitment to positive change since the fall of apartheid and the country's first democratic election in 1994.
In a victory for the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary decided Tuesday to grant the group a new eligibility hearing citing violations by Student Services Finance Committee members. The decision also ordered the removal of one SSFC member and issued warnings to two others on grounds they violated viewpoint neutrality.
After a rally on the steps of Memorial Union Thursday evening, hours of impassioned discussion and student testimony, resolutions to remove Associated Students of Madison Diversity Chair junior Jennifer Epps and ASM Vice Chair sophomore Emily McWilliams failed.
The Student Services Finance Committee denied eligibility to the UW Labor Center and the UW InfoShop Wednesday.
Healing and progress were the themes of the memorial gathering on Library Mall Wednesday morning to commemorate the anniversary of Sept. 11. In remarks delivered to a crowd of several hundred students, faculty and community members, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley and Associated Students of Madison Chair Bryan Gadow expressed sorrow for the tragedies of a year ago.
Many Americans ran the gamut of emotions on Sept. 11, 2001. They were horrified by news of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, outraged by their senselessness, saddened by the massive loss of life and anxious for news from friends and relatives in New York and Washington, D.C. Some shuddered to imagine that agony thousands of miles from home, unable to contact family and barely comprehending news about the day's events.
Reflecting a national trend in higher education, average freshman fall semester grades at UW-Madison rose almost two-tenths of a grade point over the past decade. Administrators at campuses across the country, those at UW-Madison as no exception, say the inflation is a result of smarter students and more stringent admissions standards.