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Colleges Against Cancer members celebrated the beginning of Breast Fest, a week-long series of events that concludes Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and informed people of the upcoming Rally for Life event.
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Colleges Against Cancer kicks off Breast Fest with rally

By Kelly Ward | Oct. 24, 2016

Colleges Against Cancer began celebrating the start of Breast Fest, a week-long series of events to raise awareness for breast cancer that will occur during the last week of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The organization gathered at Library Mall Monday and shared information about the upcoming Relay for Life event with visitors of their table. UW-Madison senior Allie Lowman, who is the director of sponsorship for CAC, stressed the importance of cancer awareness and promoted the Relay for Life event, which will be held April 7 and 8. “It makes a big campus seem a little bit smaller,” Lowman said.”To see everyone come together for one cause, it’s really meaningful, especially if you know someone who’s struggled with cancer before.” CAC will be holding multiple events this week for Breast Fest that encompass the theme of breast cancer awareness, starting with a breast cancer panel Tuesday, a luminaria ceremony Wednesday and a balloon release Friday.

The Associated Students of Madison and UW-Madison will setup early voting and one-stop-registration sites at Union South and the Student Activity Center starting Oct. 24.
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UW-Madison to hold early voting in two locations

By Sammy Gibbons | Oct. 24, 2016

UW-Madison students can vote before Election Day Nov. 8 at two campus locations. The Associated Students of Madison collaborated with UW-Madison to set up early voting and one-stop-registration sites at two campus locations. Students can vote before Nov. 8 at Union South from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, and the Student Activity Center 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day of the week starting Oct. 24 and ending Nov. 4.

Author Jacqueline Woodson discssued how she thought about her own identity, especially as a female of color, while writer her award-winning books.
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Award-winning author places herself in the stories she writes

By Ningyuan Ma | Oct. 21, 2016

Award-wining author of children and adolescent books, Jacqueline Woodson, talked about her inherent inspiration for becoming a writer as "wanting to see herself in the world" at The Charlotte Zolotow Lecture Thursday. Woodson is known for “Miracle's Boys” and “Brown Girl Dreaming,” which won her the 2014 National Book Award in the young people's literature category.

The SERF is expected to close permanently late this summer before being torn down and replaced.
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Nursing students to assist with meningococcal vaccinations

By Max Bayer | Oct. 20, 2016

After two UW-Madison students contracted meningococcal disease, more than 80 nursing students will volunteer to administer vaccinations beginning Thursday at the SERF. According to Dr. Pam McGranahan, an assistant clinical professor at the UW-Madison School of Nursing, first-year students will be conducting screenings and managing crowd control while second-year students will be the immunizers.

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Wisconsin Black Student Union challenges student athletes’ role in campus activism

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Oct. 19, 2016

With NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest continuing to appear in headlines, UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Black Student Union hosted an open discussion on the role of student athletes in campus social justice movements. “Talk to Me Tuesdays” is a new initiative lead by the WBSU to stimulate an open discussion of racial issues and experiences related to race.

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PAVE holds workshop to build healthy relationships

By Hannah Malone | Oct. 13, 2016

Students decided what makes a romantic relationship healthy by interacting with one another at a workshop Thursday. Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment peer facilitators lead the interactive workshop called “Build A Healthy Relationship” about what healthy romantic relationships look like.

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Social justice organizer inspires students with activism experience

By Kelly Ward | Oct. 13, 2016

Community organizer and activist Bree Newsome discussed “Tearing Hate From the Sky” Wednesday evening as part of the Multicultural Student Center’s social justice speaker series. Newsome is an intersectional social justice activist who is most well-known for scaling the flagpole at the South Carolina State House and removing the Confederate flag in 2015.

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Panel urges student of color to engage through activism, voting

By Mason Muerhoff | Oct. 13, 2016

In an election cycle marked by racial tensions and controversial voter ID laws, a community panel at the Black and Brown Vote Discussion Wednesday night emphasized to students the importance of voting in November as well as engaging in non-traditional methods of civic action. The panel—composed of journalism professor Mike Wagner, history professor Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Mariam Coker, student activist Jessica Franco-Morales, co-founder of Young Gifted and Black Coalition Matthew Braunginn and alumna of the PEOPLE program Jessenia Gomez—urged those in attendance to vote and organize through non-traditional methods to enact change on campus and in the community.

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Reports of hate and bias more than triple on campus

By Sammy Gibbons | Oct. 12, 2016

The number of hate and bias incidents reported on campus has increased from 18 in Fall 2015 to 66, according to the Bias Response Team’s Spring 2016 Bias Incident Report. Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Chair of the Bias Response Team Joshua Moon Johnson discussed the details found in the report in a conference call on the day of its release Wednesday.

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Panelists toy around with idea of playing in adulthood

By Sammy Gibbons | Oct. 12, 2016

Audience members jumped across hopscotch squares to their theater seats, which held containers in the cupholders filled with small animal figurines and bouncy balls to entertain themselves during an interactive panel discussion, “Playing with Play.” Four panelists discussed the importance of playing, and how it is not just for children, at the Fredric March Play Circle Theater in Memorial Union Tuesday.

The LGBT Campus Center encouraged attendees to express their sexuality among friends at their National Coming Out Day social event.
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LGBT Campus Center celebrates National Coming Out Day

By Jalynn Valliere | Oct. 11, 2016

The LGBT Campus Center staff and UW-Madison students gathered at the Red Gym to celebrate the 28th anniversary of National Coming Out Day Tuesday. The National Coming Out Day Open House was a social event where attendees could enjoy refreshments and "come out" of a purple door. The open house was a chance for UW-Madison students in the LGBT community to celebrate coming out about their sexuality.

Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard and the rest of UW's men's basketball team teamed up with students to raise more than $20,000 for cancer research Monday afternoon.
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Men’s basketball team, students aim to shoot down cancer

By Ben Pickman | Oct. 10, 2016

Hundreds of students stepped onto the Kohl Center floor for the fifth annual “Shooting Down Cancer” Monday in an event that brought together the Wisconsin basketball program and its student body. While the event was fun for everyone involved, for head coach Greg Gard and his team it’s a way to impact current cancer patients and future cancer research. This is Gard’s first year leading the event; he took the reins from former Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan, who retired last December.

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