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Three candidates from outside the university are competing with the current UW-Madison Interim Director of Admissions and Recruitment Andre Phillips for the director of admissions and recruitment position.
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Four finalists vie for director of undergraduate admissions and recruitment

By Cameron Lane-Flehinger | Apr. 14, 2017

Unlike this year’s Badgers men’s basketball team, the search for a new admissions director at UW-Madison has reached a final four. Four finalists, three from outside the university, are being considered for the position of director of undergraduate admissions and recruitment, according to a Thursday release. The outside candidates are Jeffrey Fuller, director of student recruitment at the University of Houston; Daniel Hamrin, director of admissions operations at the University of Oklahoma; and Timothy Lee, director of undergraduate admissions, SUNY-Albany.

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Gun fired in East Gorham Street apartment

By Gina Heeb | Apr. 13, 2017

A man found in his downtown apartment Wednesday night reported someone had put a gun to his head, according to Madison police. Officers were called to the 10 block of East Gorham Street around 8:40 p.m., Madison Police Department officer Kimberly Alan said in an incident report.

A jury found that Darrick Anderson, 24, was responsible for the death of Andrew Nesbitt and was not suffering from any mental disease.
CITY NEWS

Downtown Madison homicide victim suffered about 70 knife wounds

By Cailynn Hensen | Apr. 13, 2017

A man found dead in his downtown Madison apartment last month suffered about 70 knife wounds, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. The victim, Andrew Nesbitt, suffered wounds to the head, torso and neck during the March 27 incident, Dane County Chief Medical Examiner Vincent Tranchida said Tuesday in a preliminary trial for the suspect in the homicide. Darrick E.

At the intersection of University Avenue and Lake Street, construction has begun for the UW School of Music Performance Center.
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Groundbreaking new home for UW musicians

By Darayus Sanjana | Apr. 12, 2017

For about seven years, on the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue, sat a sign that read “Future home of the UW School of Music Performance Center.” The sign was put up in anticipation of the UW-Madison School of Music’s new performance center for student musicians.

Concealed weapons are no longer banned on Madison Metro Transit buses, including those serving the downtown and campus area.
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Concealed weapons officially allowed on Madison buses

By Lawrence Andrea | Apr. 12, 2017

Passengers are now officially able to carry concealed weapons on Madison buses, after the city’s transit committee updated its policy Wednesday to comply with state law. The decision comes following a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling passed last month, which reversed an appeals court decision to maintain Madison Metro Transit’s previous policy of prohibiting weapons on buses.

Economic professors at UW-Madison and other Wisconsin schools, along with over a thousand other professors, penned and signed a letter to President Donald Trump about the “broad economic benefit that immigrants to this country bring.”
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UW economic professors emphasize importance of immigration in letter to Trump

By Sarah Schoenfeldt | Apr. 12, 2017

With immigration policy being one of the cruxes of the Trump administration, six UW-Madison economic professors penned a letter along with professors nationwide to President Donald Trump, detailing the economic benefits of immigration. Of the 1,470 professors to sign the bipartisan letter, six are from UW-Madison, and an additional 10 are from other Wisconsin schools. The letter addressed concerns over the Trump administration’s isolationist immigration policy and outlined positive gains derived from immigration.

New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay read from her book “Bad Feminist” as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate Publications Committee Lit Fest Tuesday.
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Author explains contradictions in feminism, pop culture

By Luisa de Vogel | Apr. 12, 2017

Teaching as a black woman at a predominantly white university has its struggles, according to New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay. Gay began her talk at Literary Fest Tuesday by touching on this topic, which is the subject of her essay “Typical First Year Professor” and appears in her book “Bad Feminist.” “Bad Feminist” explores the contradictions Gay has found in being a woman and a feminist.

An agreement between UW Health and Meriter allowing patients to avoid overcrowded hospital stays could be finalized as early as this summer.
CITY NEWS

UW Health, Meriter on track for merger

By Cailynn Hensen | Apr. 11, 2017

In a move that will reduce overcrowding and address the need for construction in local health care facilities, UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter have signed an agreement to merge operations. The joint-operating agreement that has been cleared by the Federal Trade Commission comes nine months after the two health care providers announced plans for the agreement.

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