UW-Madison students, faculty and staff met in a town hall meeting to discuss the future of the Latinx community on campus following the presidential election.
UW-Madison student organization Sex Out Loud led a discussion at the Memorial Union Council Room to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS during World AIDS Day Thursday. The group showed a video on PrEP, a preventative HIV medicine for those who have an increased risk for exposure to HIV/AIDS. Sex Out Loud is a peer-led resource on campus that promotes sexual health through sex education and activism. Events Coordinator Char’Lee King said her involvement with the organization was heavily influenced by her upbringing in an African-American community that did not talk about topics related to sex. “Sex Out Loud incorporated pleasure which is a great part of sex ed,” King said.
Gov. Scott Walker announced Thursday his plan to expand the broadband program in rural areas, and proposed a bill to the state Legislature providing $35 million for the expansion.
The unprecedented recount of the state’s almost 3 million presidential ballots by the Wisconsin Elections Commission began Thursday, after it was formally requested by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who raised concerns of fraud or error. The first day of the recount, which is expected to take just under two weeks, has proceeded smoothly thus far, according to the Elections Commission.
A fire on the fourth floor of the downtown highrise Uncommon displaced 10 residents Wednesday, according to a Madison Fire Department daily report. “An automatic sprinkler activation kept the fire contained to the room of origin, which suffered smoke and fire damage,” MFD Public Information Officer Cynthia Schuster wrote.
More than 3,000 UW-Madison employees will not receive proposed salary increases or switch to hourly positions following a federal judge’s recent block of President Barack Obama’s overtime pay rule.
Two years ago, UW-Milwaukee doctoral student and lecturer Stephanie Baran attended a conference where she spoke about the effects racism, sexism and classism have on capitalist practices.
For many Muslims on campus, wearing a hijab comes with a number of daily challenges. On Wednesday, 45 non-Muslim participants wore hijabs to try and get a sense of the Hijabi experience. Wisconsin Union Directorate Global Connections Director Swetha Saseedhar, along with Muslim Student Association members Noor Hammad and Iffa Bhuiyan, said the goal of the event was to normalize the hijab on UW-Madison’s predominantly white campus.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin alleged unlawful coordination between the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Jill Stein Wednesday as the state begins its general election recount. In a complaint filed with the Federal Elections Commission, the state party asked for the commission to begin an investigation into whether campaign finance laws are violated by the two campaigns in efforts to reaffirm the validity of Election Day ballots.
Wisconsin’s Group Insurance Board met Wednesday to discuss the future of self-insurance in the state, in a potentially controversial move to change how the government provides health care to its 250,000 employees. Many UW faculty are questioning what this means for them.
A well that pumps more than 750 million gallons of water near the UW-Madison campus has reached a “critical contamination threshold” of sodium and chloride due to road salt, with chloride levels doubling since 2000. The Madison Water Utility is launching a multi-year study of Utility Well 14 in response to explore ways to mitigate road salt contamination.
Three students met with UW-Madison Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf Wednesday to request the school offer free feminine hygiene products in Bascom Hall restrooms. Jordan Madden, the President of UW’s Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Initiative, along with Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Mariam Coker and ASM Coordinating Council member Mara Matovich, used the meeting to stress the benefits of providing free and accessible menstrual products in campus bathrooms. “I’ve encountered so many people on this campus ... that think that tampons and menstrual products should be just as accessible, if not more so, than condoms, toiletries and many of the other items that people have available at their disposal,” Madden told the Daily Cardinal. Earlier this year, Brown University became one of the first colleges in the country to provide free tampons and pads in their bathrooms.
Within the past semester, UW-Madison has had two high-profile sexual assault cases emerge on campus.
The Wisconsin Idea currently excludes tribal governments from its outreach plan even as it specifically reaches out to other forms of state and local government For American Indian Curriculum Services coordinator Aaron Bird Bear, this omission is only part of the long history of marginalization and oppression that has been taking place on Wisconsin land since before the state was founded, and it bars Native American communities from accessing the full benefits of the university.
Palestinian writer and activist Laila El-Haddad shared how her personal life and politics of her home country created her award-winning works.
A recount of Wisconsin’s general election results will start Thursday as scheduled after Green Party candidate Jill Stein paid the requisite $3.5 million before Tuesday’s deadline. Counties will not be required to tabulate the results by hand, however, as Dane County Circuit Court Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn denied a request Wednesday from Stein’s campaign for a hand recount.
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery announced UW-Madison alumna Jo Handelsman as its new director Tuesday.
The Dane County Clerk’s Office is preparing for a massive recount effort after Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein ordered a recount in Wisconsin. “All of the ballots are being delivered from the counties, and they’re being sorted and locked in a room to get ready for the recount,” said Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell.
In the aftermath of a recent car theft, the Madison Police Department urged residents to exercise caution. An unknown perpetrator recently stole a 2000 Chevrolet Impala after the owner of the car left it unattended, unlocked and running in her driveway, according to an MPD incident report. The theft took place last week on the 3700 block of School Road near Dane County Regional Airport.
UW-Madison’s student-run tutoring service, Greater University Tutoring Service, had its budget for the 2018 fiscal year approved at $141,514.08 by the Student Service Finance Committee Monday. According to Vivian Burnette, GUTS co-director, GUTS volunteers served around 25,000 hours to tutor more than 4,000 students, both undergraduate and graduate, during the 2016 fiscal year.
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