The relative unemployability and uncertainty associated with degrees in the humanities has been a popular trope for decades.
Snowballs flew across Bascom Hill Thursday night as students fought for victory in the annual Battle for Bascom.
President Barack Obama visited Milwaukee Thursday to praise the city on its increased enrollment in the Affordable Care Act program.
The Frequency concert venue announced Thursday it will suspend hip-hop bookings for a year in response to a fight Wednesday night that resulted in an employee having to go to the emergency room.
Community leaders held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce March as Voter ID Month in Madison, an effort coordinated by VoteRiders and the Dane County Voter ID Coalition that aims to spread awareness of the new voter ID law passed in February. Senate Bill 295, which passed in early February, mandates that citizens must have a valid Wisconsin state ID, which includes driver’s licenses or state-issued voter IDs, in order to vote.
Recently appointed Corrections Secretary Jon Litscher testified before a Senate committee Wednesday, following recent scandals at the state’s largest juvenile facilities. Gov.
Blind Side, a politically minded student group, is running a slate of 23 students in the upcoming Associated Students of Madison elections, which include 29 open Student Council seats and three open Student Services Finance Committee seats.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council gave final approval on the grant for Wunk Sheek’s annual Spring Powwow during a meeting Wednesday.
The Associated Students of Madison Finance Committee approved Wunk Sheek’s requested $14,260 grant Tuesday night for the student organization’s annual powwow event. Fifteen people—including current UW-Madison students, university employees and UW-Madison graduates—spoke about the meaning of the powwow and why the grant should be approved.
High school seniors graduating in 2017 can apply to UW-Madison using the Common Application, a process used by more than 600 colleges and universities across the country.
A teenage boy entered a McDonald’s with what appeared to be a revolver in his pocket and asked for free food Tuesday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
Employment data released Wednesday showed an increase in private-sector jobs in Wisconsin since September 2014.
Firefighters rescued two sleeping Madison residents Tuesday night, as a fire filled their apartment, according to a Madison Fire Department daily report. Responders rushed to Magnolia Lane after a concerned apartment resident reported they thought they detected smoke in the basement.
Members of the UW-Madison community met Tuesday night at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery to hear a lecture given by UW-Madison professor of life science and communication Dietram A.
UW-Madison’s Great World Texts program will host its annual student conference April 20 at Union South where high school students will present their projects surrounding a classic literary text. The Great World Texts program aims to provide high school students across Wisconsin an opportunity to spend a school year studying a work of classic literature and then share their experience through projects they create and present.
The Madison Common Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to appoint Tim Gruber as the interim District 11 alder, after Chris Schmidt resigned from the position in early January. Gruber is no stranger to Madison.
Former UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Darrell Bazzell spoke to the Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Committee Wednesday about the importance of their role in shared governance at the university.
The Wisconsin Assembly passed a package of bills to address college affordability last month, but the fate of the legislation remains uncertain with an end to the two-year session looming. The bills, introduced by Gov.
Madison police arrested Kenya Lemons Saturday on charges of $1,800 in retail theft and eluding, among other minor charges and citations, according to a department incident report. Police responded to a call from a Target security officer at 4301 Lien Rd, who allegedly spotted Lemons leaving the store with two bottles of high-end liquor she didn't paid for.
Gov. Scott Walker signed 58 bills into law Tuesday, including a strip search bill and a bill that allows the UW System’s Board of Regents to regulate agricultural land without oversight of the Building Commission. Governor approves strip search bill Walker signed Senate Bill 248, which dismisses the requirement that a person who is arrested or taken into custody can only be strip searched if they are going to be held with other detainees for a minimum of 12 hours.
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