Ava Menkes is a former managing editor for The Daily Cardinal. She previously served as the state news editor. She has covered multiple elections, legislative redistricting, healthcare and campus news. She also led 2024 presidential coverage and a project on news deserts. She previously interned with Wisconsin Watch and Isthmus, and will report with The Nation in 2025 on foreign policy and immigration. Follow her on Twitter at @AvaMenkes.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Dean of Students suspended the Students for Justice in Palestine for violating five university policies at an April protest against a former U.S. Ambassador.
UWPD says an internal review will take place since the use of force was above 'compliant handcuffing' after a student said the police 'heightened' a conflict.
In 2024,The Daily Cardinal took home over 40 awards across three collegiate newspaper contests, including a national finalist spot for Best-All Around Student Newspaper by the Society of Professional Journalists.
The FBI national press office told The Daily Cardinal Friday morning they do not have immediate comment.
On this episode of Cardinal Call, hosts Oliver Gerharz and Ted Hyngstrom talk to the Daily Cardinal’s Editor-in-Chief Frankie Pica and Managing Editor Ava Menkes about the Cardinal’s Spring 2025 Action Project, Uncertain Horizons: Immigration in Wisconsin. They discuss the stories in the issue including a photo essay on immigrant students, a local choir, and the Fulbright program.
In Wisconsin, a culture of democracy is preserved by local news reporting.
Troy Farm, Madison’s oldest urban farm, illustrates how organic agriculture is still cutting edge even in cities.
Residents in all 50 states, including Wisconsin are receiving student loan forgiveness.
A Music Hall restoration, a mandate to have UW System employees complete a module to address “ideological bias” in unconscious bias training and more were taken out of the Dec. 13 deal.
Officer Michael Fanone went to the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021 to stop an insurrection. Following recovery, he said young voters can use the insurrection as motivation to vote.
Students play an ice hockey game at the 2023 Lily's Classic fundraiser.
Attendants wait during the Dec. 7, 2023 meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
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