CAMPUS NEWS
UW-Madison has least expensive meal plan in Big Ten
By Kayla Huynh | Jan. 23, 2018UW-Madison’s new meal plan for the 2018-’19 academic year sparked backlash throughout campus.
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CITY NEWS
Business as usual for city leaders as Soglin runs for governor
By Max Bayer | Jan. 22, 2018When Mayor Paul Soglin entered the race for governor, it was a hardly a surprise after months of hinting at the prospect of running.
CITY NEWS
Keep them warm: City’s homeless a focus as record winter persists
By Max Bayer | Jan. 22, 2018On New Year’s Eve, a man was found dead in a State Street parking structure. Two days earlier, a man was found distressed outside of a business on Olin Ave.
CAMPUS NEWS
To free up space for students, some house fellows will change dorm rooms
By Lawrence Andrea | Jan. 22, 2018A group of house fellows will be moving to new rooms this coming fall to free up space for students who would otherwise live in temporary spaces.
STATE NEWS
Conservation jobs program could be resurrected to tackle education costs
By Andy Goldstein | Jan. 22, 2018Lawmakers want to revive a program to hire students to clean up and care for the state’s natural resources, while helping them manage tuition and debt.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW-Madison employees one step away from pay increase after years of retention woes
By Maggie Chandler | Jan. 22, 2018UW-Madison employees could get an across-the-board four percent pay increase, including those making less than $15 an hour.
STATE NEWS
Record lows, record highs kick off an unusual Wisconsin winter
By Andy Goldstein | Jan. 22, 2018As heat waves and cold fronts alike bombard the region, Midwest average temperatures are far below normal for the season.
CITY NEWS
Alec Cook’s notebook to be excluded from upcoming trial
By Max Bayer | Jan. 20, 2018Alec Cook’s notebook, retrieved during a search of his apartment, will not be able to be used for his upcoming trial after two Dane County circuit judges granted a motion set forth by Cook’s attorneys. Cook was arrested in October 2016 on 21 counts including 12 counts of sexual assault, six of which include force and two counts of strangulation and suffocation.
STATE NEWS
Senate shuts down federal government after talks collapse
By Andy Goldstein | Jan. 20, 2018After failing to reach an agreement on a spending plan, the Senate has triggered a closure of the federal government.
STATE NEWS
Democrats flip state Senate seat in upset
By Andy Goldstein | Jan. 17, 2018Democrat Patty Schachtner defeated Republican Adam Jarchow in a special election upset, denting the Republican majority heading into the 2018 midterms.
CAMPUS NEWS
LGBT Campus Center welcomes new director
By Lawrence Andrea | Jan. 16, 2018UW-Madison’s LGBT Campus Center has a new director, the Division of Student Life announced Tuesday.
CITY NEWS
Soglin officially throws his hat into the 2018 governor’s race
By Nina Bertelsen | Jan. 10, 2018Madison Mayor Paul Soglin officially announced his bid for governor on Wednesday morning after months of speculation.
STATE NEWS
Paul Soglin to declare for governor next week
By Andy Goldstein | Jan. 4, 2018Mayor Paul Soglin plans to officially announce his candidacy for governor next week, entering a crowded field of Democratic hopefuls.
CITY NEWS
Common Council upholds mayor's veto of Taco Bell alcohol license
By Max Bayer | Jan. 2, 2018The Taco Bell on State Street will remain barred from serving alcohol after the city council voted to uphold Mayor Paul Soglin’s veto of an alcohol license for the restaurant. The council, which needed 14 votes to override the veto, had only nine.
CITY NEWS
State Street hairdresser arrested after violent cut
By Max Bayer | Dec. 27, 2017For one Madison man, a routine haircut at a State Street salon went suddenly awry — literally. Stylist and owner of Ruby’s Salon, 46-year-old Khaled A.
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Dane County to fight pharmaceutical companies in court over opioid epidemic
By Max Bayer | Dec. 20, 2017Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Wednesday that the county will pursue legal action against pharmaceutical companies for their responsibility in the nation’s opioid epidemic. Between 2000 and 2016, Dane County has seen a significant rise in the rate in prescription overdose deaths from 6.3 per 100,000 residents to 12.4 per 100,000.
CAMPUS NEWS
Man arrested for taking photos in residence hall bathroom
By Lawrence Andrea | Dec. 19, 2017A 27-year-old man was arrested by UW-Madison police Thursday after he allegedly snuck into a university residence hall, entered the women’s restroom and took pictures of a female inside last week.
CAMPUS NEWS
Business school dean Massey resigns after one semester
By Maggie Chandler | Dec. 19, 2017Anne Massey, dean of UW-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business — who proposed the plan to suspend admissions to the full-time Master of Business Administration Program degree for one year — is stepping down and will instead teach in the spring.
CAMPUS NEWS
Housing leaders revise meal plan, allow for money back, choice to opt out
By Lawrence Andrea | Dec. 15, 2017After over two weeks of pushback from student organizations and shared governance groups, changes will be made to the controversial meal plan that will require new dorm residents to deposit a minimum of $1,400 onto their WisCard for dining, university officials said Friday.
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Net neutrality and you: What new internet regulations could mean for students
By Andy Goldstein | Dec. 14, 2017The FCC’s net neutrality repeal could alter the internet’s power balance between consumers and corporations.
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