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After campus memes call out Associated Students of Madison, representatives weigh in on disconnect with campus community
CAMPUS NEWS

After campus memes call out Associated Students of Madison, representatives weigh in on disconnect with campus community

By Maggie Chandler | Mar. 1, 2018

A picture is worth a thousand words, but how many would it be for a meme? Answer: a lot if you follow the UW-Madison Memes for Milk-Chugging Teens. A frenzy of memes popped up in the satirical Facebook group, at the Associated Students of Madison’s opposition to the controversial dining plan and what some students call high segregated fees first surfaced Wednesday night.

SmithGroupJJR — the design firm that served as the lead park designer for Alumni Park — received an award Thursday from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for the planning and design of the new park space.
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Alumni Park wins architecture award for planning and design

By Donovan McBride | Mar. 1, 2018

Just under four months after its grand opening, UW-Madison’s Alumni Park is already getting recognition. SmithGroupJJR — the design firm that served as the lead park designer for Alumni Park — received an award Thursday from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for the planning and design of the new park space.

The Vending Oversight Committee recommended that by 2023, all late night food vendors be moved to Library Mall rather than be phased out completely. 
CITY NEWS

“We only sell food”: Vendors oppose proposal to eliminate late-night food carts

By Max Bayer | Mar. 1, 2018

Members of the city’s Vending Oversight Committee were met with harsh reactions Wednesday night when they took up a proposal to phase out late night food carts. Opponents of the proposal argue food carts are consistently and unfairly the targets of reforms that are rooted in overconsumption of alcohol. Mario Armenta, one of the four current late night vendors, doesn’t know what would happen if the vendors were forced to shut down.

A new University Health Services health model shift allows trans students to go against the stigma of being trans labeled as a mental health condition, which staff said is the best inclusive and affirmative practice of trans health care. 
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UHS ‘breaks down barriers’ for trans students seeking medical care

By Sammy Gibbons | Mar. 1, 2018

UHS plans to move to an informed consent model of transgender health care, a shift LGBT Campus Center Assistant Director Charek Briggs said gives patients agency in their own medical care. Informed consent allows patients to make decisions about their own health care after being fully informed of benefits and consequences by their medical provider. 

Seven Dane County affordable housing projects were awarded tax credits that, when combined, totaled more than $3 million. 
CITY NEWS

State tax credits awarded to seven Dane County affordable housing projects

By Jon Brockman | Mar. 1, 2018

Seven Dane County projects that will encourage development of housing for low-income individuals and families received millions in state tax credits this week. The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, which awarded a total of $13.4 million to projects across the state, announced Tuesday that it will give $3.4 million in low-income housing tax credits for these projects.

While humanities majors make less money than graduates in STEM fields, they see more job satisfaction on average, according to a a 2014 report. 
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Choosing a major? The humanities may be more practical than you think.

By Luisa de Vogel | Mar. 1, 2018

When Rebekah Paré was studying jazz piano in college, she didn’t imagine the skills she was learning in her music theory classes would someday be directly applicable to a career outside of piano performance. Today the improvisation skills Paré learned in her piano classes inform her everyday work as the associate dean for the College of Letters and Science career initiative at UW-Madison. Students are often pressured into science, technology, engineering, mathematics or pre-professional majors due to a myth that students who study the humanities are unable to compete in the job market without a graduate degree, according to Paré. “Our humanities students, as well as our social science and natural sciences are graduating with a really fantastic set of skills that are in high demand,” Paré said.

Amid the UW System’s new restructuring plan, UW-Stevens Point is struggling to balance a $4.5 million deficit.
NEWS

UW-Stevens Point could see major cuts to faculty, programming

By Luisa de Vogel | Mar. 1, 2018

UW-Stevens Point is facing a $4.5 million structural deficit, mainly due to declining enrollment and state budget cuts. The university is looking at making major cuts to programming and faculty, including the possibility of cutting tenured staff, according to a statement that Greg Summers, UW-Stevens Point provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs made to Wisconsin Public Radio. Although a formal announcement about program and faculty cuts has not been made, an announcement is coming in the near future, according to UW-Stevens Point Media Relations Director Nick Schultz. When the university first began exploring remedies to the deficit, Summers proposed cutting the school’s geography program.

UW-Madison students, faculty and community members went to the Student Activity Center Wednesday evening to donate menstrual products and paint.
CAMPUS NEWS

Student org collects menstrual products for Dane County homeless

By Lawrence Andrea | Feb. 28, 2018

A UW-Madison student organization exchanged paint and canvas for menstrual products and monetary donations in the Student Activity Center Wednesday night. KORA — a student group aiming to empower and encourage women leaders — gave canvas, paint and brushes to students and community members who donated unopened menstrual hygiene products or a sum of money to the organization in an effort to advocate for the mental and physical health of homeless women in the Dane County area.

Our Wisconsin is a program from the Center for the First-Year Experience, part of the Division of Student Life.
CAMPUS NEWS

Our Wisconsin survey results show inclusivity progress, awareness

By Kayla Huynh | Feb. 28, 2018

In a recent survey, students reported a UW-Madison inclusion program effectively increased awareness of and respect for diversity on campus among first-year students in residence halls. Survey data revealed students who participated in the Our Wisconsin program — a three-hour workshop focused on respect for diversity, community connection, identifying bias and gaining appreciation for others’ experiences — were more aware of cultural differences on campus.

UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine Professor Yoshihiro Kawaola is helping to produce a new vaccine for Ebola.
CAMPUS NEWS

UW-Madison professor leads Ebola vaccine effort

By Taylor Osborne | Feb. 27, 2018

While previously tested on monkeys, an experimental Ebola vaccine produced by a UW-Madison lab is slated to be used in clinical trial on humans. The project — led by UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine Professor Yoshihiro Kawaola with the help of Waisman Biomanufacturing — will develop 1000 doses of the vaccine for use in the trials that are set to begin in Japan this December.

Dane County leaders called on state and federal legislators Monday to enact new gun reform legislation.
CITY NEWS

Local leaders call on state and federal government for action on gun reform

By J. Adam Wigger | Feb. 26, 2018

In a press conference with Madison public officials, students and educators, Gov. Scott Walker and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan were called on to make a difference in the push to pass new gun legislation. Jennifer Cheatham, superintendent of the Madison public schools, stressed the importance of student safety in schools, saying “we demand action because school safety is not a political issue, it is only about keeping our children safe.” Cheatham also emphasized the value of keeping the conversation of gun reform alive in Madison schools.

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