It was the Monday afternoon of finals week on the UW-Madison campus, and Noah Phillips still had two reports to write and two exams to take before wrapping up his second semester as a Badger. After spending three weeks immersed in the Occupy Madison movement shortly after it organized on Oct. 7, the freshman from Washington, D.C., admitted he needed to “finish the year strong” after missing some quizzes and falling behind on his schoolwork. And yet, Phillips wasn?t hunkered down in his campus dorm room banging out the reports or trekking to a campus library for a marathon study session. He was in the state Capitol on Dec. 19 with a few hundred others to take part in the Solidarity Singalong, a vocal vigil that?s been held every weekday since March 11 to rail on Gov. Scott Walker and his anti-union legislation.
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