** Eight UW-Madison graduates are receiving the Wisconsin Alumni Association?s 75th annual Distinguished Alumni Awards. This honor is the association?s highest accolade.
** A long-running battle over how student fees are distributed at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is intensifying, with student senate leaders threatening the chancellor with a vote of “no confidence,” reports the Superior Telegram.
** Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is speaking on the UW-Madison campus about ethics and race during a lecture on Thursday. Gates is to discuss issues aired in his PBS documentary “African-American Lives,” which showed how blacks are using genealogy and genetic science to understand their past.