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Saturday, April 19, 2025

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Cardinal Call: Uncertain Horizons for Immigration in Wisconsin

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. 


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Cardinal Call: Crawford Rallies at UW

On this episode of Cardinal Call, Oliver Gerharz speaks with the Badger Herald’s Digital News Editor Brianna Davis about her story “Judge Susan Crawford hosts rally at UW as early voting begins for April election” as part of a larger discussion about campus attitudes towards the recent State Supreme Court race.


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Cardinal Call: Conservative Voice Heather Mac Donald Condemns DEI at Wisconsin Event

This week host Ted Hyngstrom speaks to Staff Writer Jake Piper about his story “Heather Mac Donald blasts DEI, says it works to ‘cover up the racial skill gap’ during UW-Madison visit” in a discussion of Heather MacDonald’s comments on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on college campuses. Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: New UWPD chief Brent Plisch outlines leadership vision, department’s collaboration efforts – Ella Hanley 2025 student government elections see highest voter turnout in years – Gavin Escott UW-Madison College Democrats, Republicans campaign on tried-and-true abortion, public safety issues in Supreme Court race – Clara Strecker


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Cardinal Call: UW-Madison Students React to Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest

On this episode of Cardinal Call, host Oliver Gerharz speaks with Copy Chief Zoey Elwood about her article reporting on a recent UW–Madison protest: “‘We will not be intimidated into being quiet’: Activists gather at Library Mall in support of Mahmoud Khalil” Articles featured in this week’s campus news in brief segment: ‘This building has to go’: Evers visits Chadbourne Residence Hall, Mosse Humanities to hear student concerns –  Zoey Elwood


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Cardinal Call: Federal Funding Cuts Hurt UW-Madison’s Graduate Programs

On this episode of Cardinal Call, host Oliver Gerharz speaks with Daily Cardinal Campus News Editor Gavin Escott about his article “‘There aren’t easy answers’: Mnookin fields faculty questions on NIH funding cuts’s impact on junior faculty, graduate students” in a discussion of how recent federal funding cuts will affect UW–Madison and the state of Wisconsin. Articles featured in this week’s campus news in brief segment: Brent Plisch named chief of UWPD – Julia Walkowicz No. 12 Wisconsin unexpected falls to Penn State in sobering end to remarkable regular season – Jacob Szczap


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Cardinal Call: Native Americans and the UW System

On this episode of Cardinal Call, Host Oliver Gerharz speaks with Daily Cardinal Senior Staff Writer Elijah Pines about his story Native Americans are underrepresented across the UW System. Educators are working to change that in a discussion of the relationship between the Native American community and higher education in the State of Wisconsin. Articles featured in this week’s campus news in brief segment: Future of diversity-based scholarships, programs in doubt after Department of Education decision – Gavin Escott Wisconsin Sports Business Conference debuts in Madison – Jordyn Grover


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Cardinal Call: Former Regent Addresses UW Board of Regents

This week host Ted Hyngstrom speaks to Features Editor Nick Bumgardner about his story “‘We need to be more humble’: Former UW Regent Reflects on Service, urges regents, state government to work together” in a discussion of Bob Atwell’s remarks to the UW Board of Regents. Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: New UW System platform to streamline administrative processes for employees – Ted Hyngstrom Exclusive: Vos says Legislature will not increase state funding to UW-Madison to address potential annual $65 million loss – Gavin Escott


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Cardinal Call: UW–Madison Economics Professor to Advise President

This week host Oliver Gerharz speaks to Daily Cardinal Staff Writer Wanwa Omot about her story “Trump taps UW-Madison professor skeptical of tariffs to executive council.” Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: UWPD in final stages of selecting new police chief, final candidate presents – Alaina Walsh UW System budget ‘completely out of sync with what is available,’ former Gov. Thompson says - Elijah Pines 


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Cardinal Call: College Enrollment and Birth Rates Fall Together in Wisconsin

This week host Ted Hyngstrom speaks to Daily Cardinal Staff Writer Alaina Walsh about her story “Declining youth population poses challenges for UW System” in a discussion of declining enrollment rates at UW–Madison. Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: South Asian dance competition hosted at UW-Madison draws hundreds from across the country – Sonia Bendre Trump administration federal grant freeze will not affect federal financial aid at UW-Madison – Alaina Walsh


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Cardinal Call: Food Insecurity at UW-Madison

This week host Oliver Gerharz speaks to Daily Cardinal College/Campus News Editor Mary Bosch about her story “Has food security improved at UW-Madison over the last year?” in a discussion of food insecurity at UW–Madison. Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: UW-Madison removes chief diversity officer, citing financial concerns - Sreejita Patra The rundown on UW System stories you missed over the break - Gavin Escott & Annika Bereny


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Cardinal Call: Indian Americans Divided on 2024 Election

This week host Oliver Gerharz speaks to Daily Cardinal Senior Staff Writer Sreejita Patra about her story “‘We’re the dark horses': Wisconsin Indian Americans divided on election as political representation grows” in a discussion about the long-term voting habits of Indian Americans and the sudden changes felt within this voting bloc in the last presidential election. 


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Cardinal Call: Campus LGBTQ Community Letter Calls Out UW-Madison

This week host Oliver Gerharz speaks to Daily Cardinal reporter Ella Gorodetzky about her story “Letter to campus administration criticizes reassignment of GSCC director.” Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: Study proposes paving, lighting Lakeshore Path – Noe Goldhaber UW-Madison student explores personal phone addiction in book ‘Enemy in Your Pocket’ – Katherine McGrann Badgers fire offensive coordinator Phil Longo – Tomer Ronen


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Cardinal Call: Student Views on the Election Results

 This week host Oliver Gerharz speaks to the Daily Cardinal‘s Campus News Editor Gavin Escott about his story “‘America has failed us’: UW-Madison students and community members voice disbelief, fear of the future after Trump victory” to try and gauge the thoughts of UW-Madison students on the re-election of Donald Trump at tail end of this historic election. Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: Wisconsin men’s soccer draws against Michigan, falls short of Big Ten Tournament – Grace Cannizzo UW-Madison students receive racist text messages as part of nationwide incident – Drew Wesson


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Cardinal Call: Student Views on the Upcoming Election

This week host Oliver Gerharz speaks to the Daily Cardinal‘s Features Editor Tomer Ronen about his story “Here’s what UW-Madison students think of Harris, Trump as they gear up for the election” and Daily Cardinal reporter Jake Wesson about his story “ ‘A lot less unity’: College Democrats and Republicans reflect on party values, candidates heading into the 2024 election” to try and gauge the thoughts of UW-Madison students going into this historic election. Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: Harris to visit UW-Madison Wednesday for ‘Get Out the Vote’ rally - Anna Kleiber Abortion rights, marijuana, TikTok: Three takeaways from Wisconsin 2nd Congressional District debate at UW-Madison - Iain Chang 


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Cardinal Call: Students for Justice in Palestine rallies on Bascom Hill

This week host Oliver Gerharz spoke to Daily Cardinal reporter Jake Piper about a recent Students for Justice in Palestine protest on October 7th. We discuss the perspectives of both the Pro-Palestinian Protestors and the Pro-Israeli Counterprotestors.  Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: Camp Randall sells $1.2 million in alcohol since start of football season – Sonia Bendre Wisconsin women’s rowing makes waves in season opener – Elaina Russell


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Cardinal Call: Canvas and the Right to Disconnect

 In this installment of the Cardinal Call, host Oliver Gerharz speaks to Daily Cardinal Opinions Editor Blake Martin about his article on Canvas, a Learning Management System that UW–Madison uses to connect its students to their classes at all times. In his opinion article Students have a right to leave the classroom. Canvas isn’t helping, Blake argues that changes should be made to the use of Canvas on campus through the angle of a student’s right to disconnect. Articles in this week’s “campus news in brief” segment: UW System president defends recent campus free speech policies in address to conservative groups – Ellie Huber and Bryna Goeking ‘It’s the same history repeating itself’: Wisconsin Black Student Union holds vigil in memory of Marcellus Williams – Sreejita Patra


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Cardinal Call: StudentPrint lays off staff, shifts to self-service

Podcast Director Oliver Gerharz is joined by the Daily Cardinal’s Elijah Pines to discuss his article on the recent closure of StudentPrint, an on-campus print shop run by students. They discuss the history of StudentPrint, the 23 employees laid off during the closure, and the services offered by StudentPrint’s replacement, the Registered Student Organization Print and Resource Center. University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked #1 public university by Washington Monthly - Kate Eaton Go Big Read book promotes disability advocacy as UW reckons with past - Bryna Goeking


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