In his newly submitted 2017-’19 budget proposal, State Superintendent Tony Evers requested a slight increase in K-12 education funding from Gov. Scott Walker and the state Legislature Tuesday.
Local protesters joined two national organizations in a boycott of Wendy’s State Street location for the fast food restaurant’s alleged unwillingness to improve the wages and working conditions of U.S. tomato farmworkers.
House Republicans renominated Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as speaker of the House Tuesday, despite past feuds between Ryan and President-elect, Donald Trump. Initially, some Republicans had speculated that Ryan may not be renominated because he did not back Trump early in his campaign.
Most of the 800-plus student organizations on campus focus on changing the world through causes they care about. The Adventure Learning Program, however, seeks to change the world by helping these other organizations be effective and efficient in their missions.
Monday night provided a unique opportunity for the Madison community: the chance to hear first-hand accounts of space travel and life in microgravity from one of America’s pioneering astronauts Colonel Eileen Collins. Collins, who became the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle mission during her 16 years as an astronaut, spoke in Shannon Hall as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
Four finalists have been selected for the position of UW-Madison Police Department chief of police.
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., announced Monday his decision to run for chairman of the Democratic National Committee after Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned earlier this year.
State politicians and community members met Monday to discuss concealed carry on UW System schools’ campuses, with a bill allowing for so-called campus carry potentially looming next year. At times, the panel became very tense as state Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum—the only Republican panelist present—disagreed with state Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, College Democrats Chair Augie McGinnity-Wake, UW Madison professor Lisa Cooper and Samara Safarik from the group Moms Who Demand Action.
The University committee discussed a number of issues related to marginalized student inclusivity and safety, as well as issues of tenure and funding, at its meeting Monday.
A 50-year-old pizza delivery driver was rear-ended near the 2000 block of Campus Drive Sunday at 10:35 p.m.
Suspended UW-Madison freshman Alec Shiva was released from the Dane County Jail on a signature bond Monday. Shiva was arrested Thursday after a female student reported that he sexually assaulted her in his Sellery Residence Hall room.
A new piece of public artwork will soon stand at the convergence of State Street, Library Mall and East Campus Mall as a capstone for the State Street Reconstruction Project, which the city began planning in 2013 and constructing in 2014.
While campaigning for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Ohio a week before the election, President Barack Obama spoke of the double standards that have morphed voters’ perception of Clinton. “When a guy’s ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard, well that’s OK,” Obama said.
As post-election tensions rise nationwide, UW-Eau Claire came under fire for a school policy denying students community service credit for religion-focused volunteer work. After strong GOP gains in state legislature, Republicans are speaking out about a squabble characterized as “anti-religious political correctness” by state Sen.
Madison Police Department officers arrested Mister M.S. “Seville” Gibson Thursday for repeated acts of first-degree sexual assault of a child. Seville was originally charged in 2014 for sexual assault of a child.
Three teenagers were arrested last week after a fight on South Park street left two other teenagers injured, one of whom was unconscious. “The victim was pulled down by the hair and punched multiple times in the head,” Madison Police Department Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain wrote in an incident report.
Reince Priebus will serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff, according to a statement from Trump Sunday. Priebus, the Republican National Committee Chairman, will provide Trump with the experience and political connections the billionaire outsider lacks.
Following President-elect Donald Trump’s Tuesday victory, a letter has begun circulating online calling on UW-Madison administrators to protect students, staff and their family members “who face imminent deportation” because of their undocumented status. Trump promised to deport anyone living in the country illegally during his campaign, and his election has already inspired fear among Latino students in Madison, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. The letter calls on Chancellor Rebecca Blank as well as other senior administrators to declare the UW-Madison campus as a sanctuary for community members who are undocumented or those who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which is a program that allows certain immigrants to receive renewable two-year work permits. UW-Madison students Sergio M.
Members of the UW System Board of Regents’ task force on campus climate expressed concerns about instances of racism and homophobia on UW System campuses during a meeting Friday.
Demonstrations on campus continued Friday as around 200 students and community members alike gathered at Library Mall to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. According to Katya Com, Socialist Alternative member, the DAPL, a pipeline intended to transport crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois, was recently rerouted through sacred Sioux lands.
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