Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald was re-elected to a record fifth term Thursday, after helping to lead legislative Republicans to their biggest majorities in several decades. No member opposed Fitzgerald, who was confirmed on a voice vote.
For out-of-state students at UW-Madison, traveling home for the holidays can be stressful. Associated Students of Madison Representative Katherine Kerwin proposed new legislation at Wednesday’s Student Council meeting that would ease this stress.
Two prominent Wisconsin Republicans—House Speaker Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker—touted Donald Trump’s presidential victory as a triumph for conservatism Wednesday. Both had been critical of Trump before, but campaigned with him in the last days of the election and appear ready to fall in line behind the president-elect. Ryan held a press conference in Janesville and congratulated Trump, as well as fellow Wisconsinites Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and U.S.
Students and activists marched in protest Wednesday against what they called a perpetuated rape culture at UW-Madison.
Nearly a month ago, Dane County Board Supervisor Hayley Young,, District 5, introduced a resolution asserting the county’s official condemnation of hateful rhetoric toward Muslim Americans.
Members of a UW-Madison student organization will travel to North Dakota to assist protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
When walking to class the morning after Election Day, UW-Madison sophomore Ali Khan said he felt like someone close to him passed away. In his classes Wednesday, classmates of Khan were laughing about the election results— a perspective wildly different than his own, as he has friends who “are fearing for what is going to happen to them.” “It felt like it only affected you, and I feel like today, these students are not just historically marginalized, but feel marginalized today," Khan said. Many students from groups that Donald Trump regularly targeted during his campaign echoed Khan’s feelings.
New policies will be put in place for attendees of home athletic events, the University of Wisconsin Department of Athletics said Wednesday. The changes come following an incident involving a fan wearing a costume depicting President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck, and the university’s response calling the costume free speech.
Madison Police Department officers arrested John Kuznezow, 54, for invasion of privacy Monday night after there were reports of a man sitting in a tree looking through windows on Langdon Street. “Upon arrival officers discovered Kuznezow still in the tree and he appeared to be looking in a second floor window to an apartment,” MPD Lieutenant Anthony Fiore wrote in an incident report. “When officers ordered Kuznezow out of the tree they noted his pants were undone and Kuznezow had no reasonable explanation for his presence in said tree.” MPD investigated the incident and found there was a female resident inside her apartment and that she was unaware the suspect had been watching her.
Two men were driving around the North Side of Madison when they stopped and one got out of the car at the corner of Wheeler Road and School Road.
Two phrases written in white spray paint were drawn on the sidewalk and wall on East Campus Mall across from the Chazen Art Museum Wednesday.
Following an election that left Wisconsin Republicans again in charge of the legislature and subsequently all future funding for the UW System, the state’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors issued a letter seeking renewed support across the state for higher education.
Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, credited President-elect Donald Trump for the historic Republican growth in Wisconsin’s Assembly majority alongside Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, Wednesday. Steineke and Vos are among state GOP leaders to embrace Tuesday’s election results with a unifying tone. “There’s no question President-elect Trump brought a whole new group of people into the process,” Steineke said.
Hours after her shocking defeat to Republican Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton formally conceded the presidential race in a speech to supporters Wednesday. The speech was supposed to be her crowning achievement, adding another honor to a decorated career as former first lady, U.S.
Thousands of students across Wisconsin cast their ballots Tuesday in the hopes that their voice will influence the future policy decisions of our nation.
The Wisconsin Idea–the UW System’s grounding principle for outreach to the state—will only be put into action when all students have access to affordable education, according to Sara Goldrick-Rab, former UW-Madison sociology professor and author of “Paying the Price.” In her Tuesday lecture “The Future of Wisconsin Higher Education,” Goldrick-Rab investigated how the state’s student aid policies are falling short of meeting student need and are failing the students who need it most. “To me, what the Wisconsin Idea has meant in my life is to do better than this,” Goldrick-Rab said.
Many UW-Madison undergraduate students voted in a presidential election for the first time during this election cycle.
As the push for election engagement wrapped up Tuesday night, Associated Students of Madison leaders assessed the efforts they made to encourage voting across the campus community.
Many UW-Madison students headed to the polls on Election Day, though one in particular didn’t vote for a presidential candidate—he casted a vote for every other position on the ballot instead. Tuesday marked the second election Eric Underwood, a graduate student and registered Republican from Illinois, voted in; however, in 2012 he cast a vote for presidential candidate Mitt Romney. “I just feel much better about myself not voting for anyone and not writing anyone in either,” Underwood said about casting his absentee ballot.
The UW-Madison campus hosted watch parties for attendees of all party affiliations to observe as the results came in for the elections, which resulted in Donald Trump being named president elect of the United States.
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