A University of Wisconsin System search committee looking to replace UW-Whitewater’s chancellor will conduct interviews this weekend in Chicago.
UW-Whitewater chancellor search panel to conduct interviews
WISC-TV 3
April 26, 2019
Higher Education/System
UW System faculty, students show hesitant support for sexual harassment prevention collaborative
Daily Cardinal
Like many other schools, the UW System has recently installed more measures to prevent sexual assault and harassment. But the System’s move to join a national coalition of colleges fighting these issues sparked both praise and criticism from faculty and students alike.
UW-Whitewater chancellor search panel to conduct interviews
A University of Wisconsin System search committee looking to replace UW-Whitewater’s chancellor will conduct interviews this weekend in Chicago.
Campus life
Miserable forecast won’t halt Madison traditions, but crowds may be thin
Wisconsin State Journal
The unsanctioned drinking event known as the Mifflin Street Block Party and the Crazylegs Classic 8K race are both scheduled to take place Saturday — along with the weekly Dane County Farmers’ Market — despite a winter weather watch and the potential for up to 9 inches of snow.
Joe Thomas returns to Badgers roots as grand marshal of Crazylegs Classic
Wisconsin State Journal
Back in his playing days with the University of Wisconsin football team, Joe Thomas used to look forward to checking out the Crazylegs Classic, encouraging the participants in his role as a spectator.
Going Out: Students’ designs hit the runway
Wisconsin State Journal
Attend the Threads Fashion Show 3 and 6 p.m. Sunday at the Madison Masonic Center, 301 Wisconsin Ave., to see creations by students in the UW-Madison Textiles and Fashion Design Program.
Crime and safety
‘Take Back the Night’ marchers protest sexual violence on, off campus
Badger Herald
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, NOW organizers discuss the importance of protesting rape culture on campus.
Search warrant: Man convicted of 2014 rape is tied by DNA to four other Madison area sex assaults
Wisconsin State Journal
Mariono L. Weaver, 48, currently an inmate at New Lisbon Correctional Institution, was tied by DNA evidence to reported sexual assaults in Madison, the town of Madison, Fitchburg and on the UW-Madison campus, according to the search warrant, which was filed by the state Department of Justice.
Extension
To divert wasted food, the city looks into digesters, returns to composting
Capital Times
Several initiatives around wasted food in the Madison/Dane County area have seen recent progress. Last fall, a trio of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergrads and a communications coordinator at FairShare CSA Coalition created a food waste recovery guide on behalf of the city and county, now available as a spiral-bound print copy and online at UW-Extension. Magnets that say “Got food waste?” with a picture of an apple core include a short link to the guide.
Health
Changes at UW Health sparks discussion about antibiotic-free meat
NBC-15
UW Health staff said, even with the change to antibiotic-free meat, all of the beef served at both University Hospital and American Family Children’s Hospital is local to Wisconsin.
Athletics
Crowds inch higher for Wisconsin Badgers women’s basketball games, but 60% of tickets still unused
Wisconsin State Journal
While the Badgers had an average announced home attendance of 3,894 last season, their games only had an average of 1,552 people in the seats.
After bottoming out in 2017-18, crowd size rebounds slightly for Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball home games
Wisconsin State Journal
For the season, more than 1 in 4 tickets for a Badgers home game was unused. The average ticket scan count of 12,667 was a 6.7% increase over the previous season, when crowd size bottomed out at an average of 11,870 as UW failed to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in 20 years. Still, the 2018-19 average trailed most earlier years.
Opinion
Column: Bill that allocates grant money for out-of-state students overlooks valuable occupations
Badger Herald
Though Murphy’s bill would benefit out-of-state students, it ignores low-income graduates who need grant money the most.
UW Experts in the News
Cyclone Kenneth is about to pummel Mozambique
Mashable
Noted: Cyclone Kenneth “slammed into Mozambique” early Thursday afternoon Eastern Time, reports NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Census: Democrats won in 2018 with young voter turnout, women, urban voters
Vox
Quoted: As Barry Burden, a political scientist with the University of Wisconsin Madison, pointed out on Twitter, “the future (of voting) is apparently female.”
Dane County begins turning gas from landfill’s trash into vehicle fuel
Noted: CNG has been used in vehicles for about 30 years, UW-Madison mechanical engineering professor Glenn Bower said.
UW-Madison Related
UW-Madison student continues his entrepreneurial run with coffee app Drip
Wisconsin State Journal
Jack Pawlik, 22, who has seen what a mobile app has done for coffee behemoth Starbucks, has created his own app that allows users to purchase coffee with their smart phones — but not from just one shop. The Drip app, created by Pawlik and Avery Durant, a 20-year-old developer in Boston, allows customers to order before they arrive and accrue loyalty points collectively from the shops and redeem the points at any of the shops on the app.