Leaving behind a legacy of environmentalism and advancement in botany, former UW-Madison professor Hugh Iltis died this week from complications due to cardiovascular disease. His son, Michael Iltis, told the Wisconsin State Journal his father died Monday at the age of 91.
In closing out the fall semester, The Daily Cardinal looks back at the most newsworthy moments.
For Jelissa Edwards, the journey from high school to college graduation seemed clear.
A man was shot in the arm near State Street early Wednesday morning, with police still searching for suspects. The 36-year-old victim was taken to a local emergency room with non-life-threatening injuries, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. The shooting happened around 2 a.m.
In the midst of below-zero temperatures, UW-Madison recognized more than 1,000 graduates at the mid-year commencement ceremony at the Kohl Center Sunday.
The UW-Madison Police Department announced Friday that Kristen Roman will be the next chief of police.
Suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook, charged with many counts of sexual assault reported by 10 different women, will be released Friday from Dane County Jail, according to university officials.
The BearCat is not a military-grade vehicle, but its use by the Sheriff’s Department has still raised concern about arming local law enforcement with heavy equipment.
Suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook has been charged with six additional criminal charges from five different women Thursday, and is now facing 21 criminal charges, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Cook is now being charged with felony stalking, following the most recent hearing.
The Associated Students of Madison—largely made up of those who ran on the activist BlindSide ticket last semester—faced anonymous criticism from a student who questioned their ability to adequately represent all student views on campus. At Wednesday’s student council meeting, ASM Chair Carmen Goséy announced the council received a complaint from the Office of Compliance.
The Syrian Army took over Aleppo, killing hundreds of citizens in the streets Monday. Now, UW-Madison students aim to aid the people of Syria by acting locally. UW-Madison students Ali Khan, Omer Arain, Sara Easa and Rama Shoukfeh organized a call-in day to take place Friday.
UW-Madison students, faculty and staff are already beginning to protest campus carry legislation that seeks to allow concealed weapon in university buildings and will reportedly be re-introduced in January.
WEST ALLIS, Wis.—Dressed in matching black “Make America Great Again hats,” Trump pins and white Trump t-shirts, Juliana McMan and her three sisters stood together, eagerly waiting to see President-elect Donald Trump Tuesday night. McMan, a day-one Trump supporter and a recent DePaul University graduate, traveled two hours from her home in western Illinois to the State Fairgrounds where she was one in a crowd of thousands that attended Trump’s “Thank You Tour.” “The Chicago rally got shut down because crazy protesters and stuff,” McMan said.
Brooke Evans officially accepted a nomination Tuesday night to serve as a College of Letters & Science representative on the Associated Students of Madison Student Council.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s $3.5 million presidential recount came to a close in Wisconsin Monday with only 1,769 of the 2.95 million ballots differing from the Nov.
In December 2014, kids filled the lobby of Bascom Hall as professors and teaching assistants held office hours amid the chaos—meanwhile, just down the hall, UW-Madison administration attempted to work through the noise.
The state’s biennial budget might seem complicated, but it has very real effects for the students, faculty, administration and staff that make up the UW System.
Although elected and appointed representatives for the Associated Students of Madison make commitments to advocate for students at weekly meetings, two groups within the larger organization have been dealing with low attendance this year. While attendance has always been a slight problem for both the Student Council and the Student Services Finance Committee, it has grown into a bigger issue that could potentially affect the groups’ abilities to accomplish their duties. ASM’s Nominations Board has had to fill eight vacant Council seats this semester, for example—four of which have been filled, one is in the process of being filled and three still remain empty.
Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval said Sunday on a Wisconsin talk show that city law enforcement will uphold its current inclusive immigration policies in months to come, despite not being a formal sanctuary city. “We will not be using our local authority to sort of hunt down folks based on immigration or documentation issues,” Koval said on a WISN news program.
Split between university-centered cities and vast dairyland, state leaders are moving to re-format environmental regulations, which protection-minded activists said they find troubling. Last month, the state Department of Natural Resources moved to privatize permit acquisition, proposing what DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp, in an opinion editorial on the agency’s website, called “assurance programs” which she explained would increase independent information sourcing, relieving the agency until the final step. While staff rates dwindle, the DNR is crafting methods to deal with budget cuts, redirecting positions and reorienting systematic structures, inducing environmentalist’s anxieties. Since her appointment by Gov. Scott Walker in 2011, Stepp’s actions drew criticism from conservationist groups.
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