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Panel urges student of color to engage through activism, voting

By Mason Muerhoff | Oct. 13, 2016

In an election cycle marked by racial tensions and controversial voter ID laws, a community panel at the Black and Brown Vote Discussion Wednesday night emphasized to students the importance of voting in November as well as engaging in non-traditional methods of civic action. The panel—composed of journalism professor Mike Wagner, history professor Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Mariam Coker, student activist Jessica Franco-Morales, co-founder of Young Gifted and Black Coalition Matthew Braunginn and alumna of the PEOPLE program Jessenia Gomez—urged those in attendance to vote and organize through non-traditional methods to enact change on campus and in the community.

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Reports of hate and bias more than triple on campus

By Sammy Gibbons | Oct. 12, 2016

The number of hate and bias incidents reported on campus has increased from 18 in Fall 2015 to 66, according to the Bias Response Team’s Spring 2016 Bias Incident Report. Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Chair of the Bias Response Team Joshua Moon Johnson discussed the details found in the report in a conference call on the day of its release Wednesday.

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Panelists toy around with idea of playing in adulthood

By Sammy Gibbons | Oct. 12, 2016

Audience members jumped across hopscotch squares to their theater seats, which held containers in the cupholders filled with small animal figurines and bouncy balls to entertain themselves during an interactive panel discussion, “Playing with Play.” Four panelists discussed the importance of playing, and how it is not just for children, at the Fredric March Play Circle Theater in Memorial Union Tuesday.

The LGBT Campus Center encouraged attendees to express their sexuality among friends at their National Coming Out Day social event.
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LGBT Campus Center celebrates National Coming Out Day

By Jalynn Valliere | Oct. 11, 2016

The LGBT Campus Center staff and UW-Madison students gathered at the Red Gym to celebrate the 28th anniversary of National Coming Out Day Tuesday. The National Coming Out Day Open House was a social event where attendees could enjoy refreshments and "come out" of a purple door. The open house was a chance for UW-Madison students in the LGBT community to celebrate coming out about their sexuality.

Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard and the rest of UW's men's basketball team teamed up with students to raise more than $20,000 for cancer research Monday afternoon.
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Men’s basketball team, students aim to shoot down cancer

By Ben Pickman | Oct. 10, 2016

Hundreds of students stepped onto the Kohl Center floor for the fifth annual “Shooting Down Cancer” Monday in an event that brought together the Wisconsin basketball program and its student body. While the event was fun for everyone involved, for head coach Greg Gard and his team it’s a way to impact current cancer patients and future cancer research. This is Gard’s first year leading the event; he took the reins from former Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan, who retired last December.

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ASM passes legislation to recognize Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day

By Hannah Malone | Oct. 7, 2016

The Associated Students of Madison Student Council passed legislation Wednesday to recognize the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day throughout campus. Although UW-Madison does not formally recognize Columbus Day as a holiday, the resolution called on the Faculty Senate and Chancellor Rebecca Blank to officially name the date Indigenous Peoples Day to acknowledge the Native American community on campus and throughout Dane County.

Jamein Cunningham of Portland State University discussed legal and racial relations in the 1960s and ’70s at Thursday’s Institute for Research on Poverty seminar.
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Professor discusses legal services, race riots of 1960s

By Jacob Borowsky | Oct. 7, 2016

Though simply tweeting #BlackLivesMatter after a police shooting might be easy, professor Jamein Cunningham explained that immersing yourself in research and data on legal and racial relations of the 1960s and ’70s is a substantially more effective response. Cunningham, an economics professor at Portland State University, presented findings from his extensive study on this topic at a seminar Thursday at Memorial Union, hosted by the Institute for Research on Poverty.

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Yoga workshop creates safe space for students in recovery

By Jack Tancill | Oct. 6, 2016

In an effort to create a safe space for students suffering from substance misuse disorders and addictive behaviors, the Live Free student organization hosted a yoga workshop Wednesday evening. The workshop, held in the Student Activity Center, was the first of the organization’s October Wellness Initiative Series.

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Latino Heritage Month art workshop inspires, educates students

By Kelly Ward | Oct. 4, 2016

Two UW-Madison student organizations collaborated on an art workshop Monday, as part of Latino Heritage Month, to celebrate individuals who have made significant contributions to the Latinx movement. Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán is a student organization that supports the self-determination of Chican@ and Latinx individuals.

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Sims stretched too thin as university’s diversity efforts falter

By Peter Coutu | Oct. 3, 2016

Within the past year, protesters at UW-Madison have struggled to achieve change. Actually providing the change they strive for on campus can prove to be a similarly frustrating pursuit for administrators. The person whose job entails fighting for diversity and inclusion-related activities at the university is Patrick Sims, the chief diversity officer at UW-Madison. In an article titled “What is a Chief Diversity Officer?” Damon Williams, a prominent researcher on the position, describes it as someone who always treats diversity as a top priority, “where others [in administration] work on issues of diversity as a matter of second or third priority.” The equity and inclusion committee chair for Associated Students of Madison during the 2015-’16 academic year, Mariam Coker, said many students do not realize the dynamic between Sims and the rest of senior administration on issues of diversity. “Something that students need to realize with Patrick Sims’ position is that he is the only person at the admin level dealing with these types of issues,” Coker said in an April 10 interview with The Daily Cardinal.

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