Faculty call for smaller cuts to UW System
By Cheyenne Langkamp | Nov. 8, 2011The UW-Madison Faculty Senate passed a resolution officially addressing recent budget cuts to the UW System Monday.
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate passed a resolution officially addressing recent budget cuts to the UW System Monday.
Wisconsinites seeking concealed carry permits will not have to complete a four-hour-long training requirement after a legislative committee ruling Monday.
The Student Service Finance Committee decided Monday to delay the ruling on the Multicultural Student Coalition’s appeal for funding eligibility until next week.
Members of the North Pinckney Street Plaza Selection Committee discussed the various proposals for the location’s public sculpture Monday, requesting modifications from one artist’s proposal.
An unlikely source initiated the first petition to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Friday, a week and a half earlier than the start of the recall anticipated by Democrats.
Police arrested 12 students and ejected 18 at Saturday’s Badger football game, some of the lowest numbers officials have seen all season.
Less than a week after a state law allowing concealed carry went into place, more than 20,000 Wisconsin citizens have already applied for a permit from the state's Department of Justice.
Nearly three dozen people reported symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting Friday after eating from a buffet at the UW-Madison Pyle Center, a spokeswoman for UW Extension told the Wisconsin State Journal.
Following a flurry of policymaking that included extending concealed carry to the legislative floors of the Capitol, a group of protestors sued the state Friday over their right to carry banners and signs in state buildings.
Newly elected Associated Students of Madison representatives said they want to see more transparency within student government.
Police arrested a Milwaukee man for possession of an open beer and a container of Hydrocodone pills on Regent Street late Thursday night.
The Multicultural Student Coalition appealed the student government finance committee’s decision to deny them funding eligibility Thursday.
Representatives from student organizations across campus attended a rally Thursday planned by the Multicultural Student Coalition to protest the Student Services Finance Committee decision to deny the group’s funding.
A state Assembly member asked fellow Rep. Peggy Krusick, D-Milwaukee, to remove herself from caucus Thursday after Krusick proposed a controversial amendment earlier this week.
The special legislative session dubbed “Back to Work Wisconsin” by Gov. Scott Walker adjourned in the Assembly Thursday, concluding a day of legislation that left some lawmakers questioning the effectiveness of the economic legislation initiative.
Concealed weapons will be allowed in the state Assembly’s public galleries, but not the Assembly floor, under a policy adopted Thursday.