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Concealed weapons are now allowed on Madison buses, including those on campus routes, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

CITY NEWS

State Supreme Court: concealed weapons OK on public buses, including campus

By Cailynn Hensen | Mar. 7, 2017

Passengers on Madison buses—including those serving the downtown and campus area—will be permitted to carry concealed weapons, following a state Supreme Court ruling Tuesday. In a 5-2 conclusion, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed an appeals court decision to maintain a Madison Metro Transit policy that had stricter gun restrictions in place than those in current state law. Justice Daniel Kelly wrote the opinion for the majority.

State Sen. Patrick Testin spoke at a College Republican meeting Tuesday night about his upcoming legislation.

STATE NEWS

State Republican Senator offers support of budget in campus visit

By Benita Mathew | Mar. 7, 2017

Amid uncertainty of the level of support Gov. Scott Walker has in the state Legislature for his budget proposal, state Sen.

Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal would eliminate Wisconsin’s farm-to-school coordinator, who oversees programs that work to supply schools with locally-sourced food.

STATE NEWS

Experts, political leaders condemn Walker’s proposal to eliminate ‘farm-to-school’ coordinator

By Noah Habenstreit | Mar. 7, 2017

A provision in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal would cut funding for a program that helps supply Wisconsin schools with local food, a move experts and political leaders say would be detrimental to student nutrition and the area’s economy.

Family and friends held a vigil Monday for Tony Robinson, an unarmed teenager fatally shot by a Madison police officer in 2015, to commemorate the anniversary of his death.

CITY NEWS

Discontent persists two years after officer shooting of Tony Robinson

By Gina Heeb and Claire Lancaster | Mar. 6, 2017

Grief and anger were palpable as hundreds of friends, family and community members held a demonstration Monday night to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the death of Tony Robinson, a teenager shot and killed in 2015 by Madison Police Department Officer Matt Kenny. Family and friends still seeking justice Demonstrators chanted, “The whole damn system is guilty as hell, indict, convict, send those killer cops to jail,” and “No justice, no peace, no racist police,” as they marched from Madison East High School to the Social Justice Center—a block from where Robinson was shot.

The University Committee expressed concern that an added amendment put the post tenure review proposal at risk for a veto by the Board of Regents.

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Faculty Senate send post-tenure review proposal to regents for approval

By Nina Bertelsen | Mar. 6, 2017

Ultimately Goldberg acknowledged that adopting the proposal was the best course of action to mitigate any harm done by the regents. He commended the committee for its work but asked other senators to stand in solidarity with him and abstain from voting on the proposal as a symbolic protest.

Panelists discussed their personal experiences with immigration and integration at the first of week of events for WUD Global Connection’s first Women of Color week.

CAMPUS NEWS

Immigrant panelists discuss US culture, kick off Women of Color week

By Claire Campbell | Mar. 6, 2017

To Women of Color week, WUD Global Connections held a panel Monday that was comprised of three faculty members who come from immigrant families. They discussed immigration and integration—how they have learned to navigate U.S. culture, especially in the current political climate.

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Three-year degree pathways could be ineffective, but help some at UW

By Meredith Nesbitt | Mar. 6, 2017

The debate over three-year versus four-year bachelor degree programs is taking center stage following Gov. Scott Walker’s 2017-’19 budget proposal. An aspect of this requires the UW System to establish pathways to a three-year degree for 10 percent of programs by Jan.1, 2018 and 60 percent of programs by June 2020.

Houses on Mifflin Street usually hold hundreds of party-going UW-Madison students one Saturday at the end of spring semester, but, this year, one group of housemates will make their house an alternative space to hold discussions of the current political climate.

CITY NEWS

Residents plan to ‘make Mifflin a protest again’

By Sammy Gibbons | Mar. 6, 2017

Toward the end of every spring semester, Mifflin Street residents open their doors to hundreds of UW-Madison students and Madison residents for a Saturday of celebration.

The university had 100 more reports of sexual assualts in 2016 than 2015, totaling 325.

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325 sexual assaults reported at UW-Madison last year, a jump of over 100

By Nina Bertelsen | Mar. 6, 2017

The number of reported sexual assaults on campus rose from 217 reports in 2015 to 325 reports in 2016. This more than doubles the increase between 2014 and 2015, when the number of reports rose by only 45.

(From left) Owen Desai, Nour Saeed and Hannah Malone discussed their project, Stories to Break Borders, which shares stories of UW-Madison student leaders through Facebook posts on the group’s page.

CAMPUS NEWS

Stories to Break Borders fosters community through filmed student interviews

By Megan Provost | Mar. 5, 2017

Stories to Break Borders, a UW-Madison student-led initiative that launched Sunday, is a Facebook-based project through which student leaders on campus can “share their story with the world and tell people their own unique perspective on things,” according to Saeed.

A five-year partnership between Planned Parenthood and the UW’s School of Medicine and Public Health may be dismantled under a recently proposed bill.

STATE NEWS

GOP bill aims to end UW’s partnership with Planned Parenthood

By Madeline Schachte | Mar. 5, 2017

Republican legislators introduced a bill Friday that may result in UW System employees no longer being able to perform abortions or train others at Madison Planned Parenthood clinics.

State Superintendent and Democratic nominee for governor Tony Evers took shots at Gov. Scott Walker in his tenth annual State of Education address, calling for significant increases in state aid and financial support to schools and students.

CITY NEWS

Drinking fountains at six Madison schools test positive for lead

By Noah Habenstreit | Mar. 5, 2017

All six schools tested by Madison’s school district contain lead levels higher than the national standard for contamination in their drinking water. Water fountains at East High School, Sherman and Blackhawk Middle Schools and Gompers, Lowell and Lapham Elementary Schools, all on the city’s east side, contained lead amounts higher than 15 parts per billion, the Madison Metropolitan School District said Thursday.

The Red Gym will house two new cultural student centers this fall.

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At Madison, tradition of shared governance overshadows state changes

By Max Bayer | Mar. 4, 2017

In August of last year, the UW System Board of Regents approved the usage of UW-Madison’s Red Gym as an Amazon package pickup zone without consultation from student or faculty groups. Representatives from the Associated Students of Madison felt blindsided. “It’s unacceptable that administration disregarded student voice in making its decision,” said Sally Rohrer, chairwoman of the Legislative Affairs Committee, in a press release.

UW-Madison Police Department arrested Chanell M. Cousins, a suspect in a string of burglaries that have occurred on campus.

CAMPUS NEWS

Suspect in series of campus burglaries arrested

By Sammy Gibbons | Mar. 3, 2017

Chanell M. Cousins, 20, was booked in the Dane County Jail following a tip from a community member that led to the arrest. She is facing tentative charges of burglary and party to a crime.

Caliph Muab-El engaged attendees in an interactive talk at the Multicultural Student Center that examined definitions of race.

CAMPUS NEWS

Local activist ‘unpacks,’ promotes discussion of white supremacy

By Megan Provost | Mar. 3, 2017

The interactive talk and workshop, titled “Mechanics of the Mind: Unpacking White Supremacy,” was sponsored by the organization Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment. It was initially supposed to be led by racial justice consultant and trainer Brandi Grayson. However, due to a family emergency, Muab-El stepped in for Grayson.

The Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Committee proposed to make Wiscards function as the ASM bus pass.

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Move over ASM bus pass: Wiscards may become the new swipe

By Maggie Chandler | Mar. 3, 2017

“I think having the bus pass automatically connected to the WisCard makes it a lot easier for students to use it, since they don't have to pick up a separate card, which with more convenience could lead them to using the pass more often,”Matovich said.

A group of UW-Madison faculty, staff and students exchanged thoughts on trigger warnings and maintaining comfortable space in the classroom, or not.

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UW faculty members oppose trigger warnings, discuss safe spaces

By Sammy Gibbons | Mar. 3, 2017

UW-Madison instructors debated how they should deliver course content to this generation of college students that have seen the term “trigger warning” splashed on recent headlines. Ellen Samuels, an associate professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies and English departments, gathered a group of students, faculty and staff to discuss how instructors can handle the communication of difficult content in their courses.

Representatives for two student resources, including Katrina Morrison of the Student Activity Center Governing Board, presented budget proposals to the Student Services Finance Committee Thursday.

NEWS

SSFC debates budgets for endangered student resources

By Noah Habenstreit | Mar. 2, 2017

With the passage of a potentially devastating state budget proposal looming, the Student Services Finance Committee debated the budgets of two student resources that may be in jeopardy.

A bill that would give terminally ill patients more treatment options by utilizing experiential passed through the Assembly Health Committee with support on both sides of the aisle.

STATE NEWS

Right to Try bill moves out of Committee with bipartisan support, to Assembly floor

By Sarah Schoenfeldt | Mar. 2, 2017

The state Assembly Health Committee passed the Right to Try bill Wednesday which will broaden terminally ill patients’ access to experimental drugs.

CITY NEWS

Clerk’s office steps up election transparency

By Cailynn Hensen | Mar. 2, 2017

A newly available program that allows the public to access ballots cast in the last presidential race is making Dane County a pioneer in election transparency. The county clerk’s office is now disclosing every ballot cast from the November election to the public on its website, through the computer program Election Audit Central. “This was impossible a couple of years ago,” said Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell.