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Fellowship encourages spreading the Wisconsin Idea

By Sammy Gibbons | Apr. 17, 2017

The Wisconsin Idea Fellowship awards roughly seven fellowships annually and aids students in implementing service projects that will impact the campus and beyond. The program, which is open to students who hold sophomore to senior standing, offers logistical assistance as well as up to $7,000 in funding. It connects participants with a community partner and a UW-Madison faculty or academic staff advisor to address social problems that have been identified locally, nationally and globally, according to Wisconsin Idea Fellowship Graduate Assistant Garrett Grainger.

Three candidates from outside the university are competing with the current UW-Madison Interim Director of Admissions and Recruitment Andre Phillips for the director of admissions and recruitment position.
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Four finalists vie for director of undergraduate admissions and recruitment

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Apr. 14, 2017

Unlike this year’s Badgers men’s basketball team, the search for a new admissions director at UW-Madison has reached a final four. Four finalists, three from outside the university, are being considered for the position of director of undergraduate admissions and recruitment, according to a Thursday release. The outside candidates are Jeffrey Fuller, director of student recruitment at the University of Houston; Daniel Hamrin, director of admissions operations at the University of Oklahoma; and Timothy Lee, director of undergraduate admissions, SUNY-Albany.

New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay read from her book “Bad Feminist” as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate Publications Committee Lit Fest Tuesday.
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Author explains contradictions in feminism, pop culture

By Luisa de Vogel | Apr. 12, 2017

Teaching as a black woman at a predominantly white university has its struggles, according to New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay. Gay began her talk at Literary Fest Tuesday by touching on this topic, which is the subject of her essay “Typical First Year Professor” and appears in her book “Bad Feminist.” “Bad Feminist” explores the contradictions Gay has found in being a woman and a feminist.

The Revelry Music Festival has been cancelled after student interest declined over the four years since the inaugural festival.
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Revelry permanently cancelled due to lack of interest; WUDstock to replace it

By Sammy Gibbons | Apr. 10, 2017

Despite an April Fools joke teasing about headliners Migos and Noname playing the Revelry Music and Arts Festival, the event has been permanently cancelled. Wisconsin Union Directorate Music Committee student leaders voted to discontinue Revelry following declining interest in the event in recent years, according to WUD Communications Director Shauna Breneman. She said the committee will introduce a new festival—WUDstock—in its place.

UW-Madison alumnus Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction for his book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.” The book served as the UW Go Big Read book for the 2016-2017 program.
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UW-Madison alumnus pulls in Pulitzer for Go Big Read book

By Megan Provost | Apr. 10, 2017

UW-Madison alumnus Matthew Desmond’s book was not only the pick for Go Big Read this year, but also for a Pulitzer. His book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” won a Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, according to a UW-Madison news release. “Evicted”—the UW-Madison Go Big Read book for the 2016-2017 program—follows the stories of eight Milwaukee families as they deal with the loss of their homes.

Author Margaret Atwood discussed her latest novel “Hag-Seed,” a modern version of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” for a crowded Varsity Hall in a lecture hosted by UW-Madison Center for the Humanities and other groups Monday.
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Margaret Atwood advocates funding for the arts, talks new novel on campus

By Sammy Gibbons | Apr. 4, 2017

Award-winning author Margaret Atwood visited UW-Madison Monday to discuss reinventing a classic story, and to give her Canadian perspective on national funding for the arts. Atwood began with a quip about the U.S administration, and said sarcastically she was “so happy she was able to cross the border.” She later criticized recent executive orders to cut funding from the National Endowment of the Arts. “Defunding the arts is particularly disadvantageous to smaller communities, many of which have now built up an economy of sorts around things like music and theater ... as those go, there’s going to be a big hole in the economy,” Atwood said, in the talk, which was hosted by the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities along with other organizations . The Canadian author’s latest novel is a revitalization of William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” in a more modern, technical setting. Atwood explained the use of technology in the book, “Hag-Seed,” to a crowd of more than 1,000 people in Varsity Hall.

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