Taiwan Little Eats is serving hot street food from its new cart at UW-Madison, reaching hungry students even in the wintertime.
Food cart serves Taiwanese street food to students, through the winter
NBC-15
November 21, 2019
Campus life
ASM hears Rape Crisis Center presentation, approves new legislation on work place safety
Badger Herald
The Associated Students of Madison heard a presentation from the Rape Crisis Center Wednesday night and voted to approve new legislation against workplace harassment to support Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate students.
Invisible disabilities: Obstacles of learning differences
Daily Cardinal
The chances you know someone with a learning disability are higher than you might think.
What’s in a name? The power of labels in disability identity, perception
Daily Cardinal
After obtaining a law degree from UW-Madison, Nicki Vander Meulen attempted to find work as a lawyer, but received rejection after rejection.“The minute any law firm found out I was disabled or autistic no one hired me,” she explained.
State news
Foundation for student voters files suit against Wisconsin alleging voter suppression
The Hill
A foundation that promotes student voters filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin Tuesday alleging the state is suppressing voters with its voter identification law.
Lawsuit says student ID voting restrictions violate 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A new lawsuit contends that Wisconsin’s barriers to using student IDs at polling places violate the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 nationally in 1971.
Foundation lawsuit challenges student voter ID requirements
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin voter identification requirements are so onerous that they’re clearly designed to prevent students from voting, a group that promotes student voting alleged in a new lawsuit.
Agriculture
America’s milk industry is struggling
CNN via WISC-TV
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” Brian Gould, emeritus professor of agriculture and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told CNN Business. He said Suiza’s growth “wasn’t organic,” adding, “it was really just from the outside in.”
Arts & Humanities
The stereotypes we keep
Isthmus
It’s bold, real and wildly uncomfortable — the basic ingredients of a play created to spark debate. The Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning Clybourne Park, playing at UW-Madison’s Mitchell Theatre through Nov. 24, starts on a chipper note, with characters blithely debating origins of ice cream while dropping subtle hints of cultural ignorance. But it erupts into poisonous verbal sparring and screaming matches about racism, prejudice and fear. It’s a heavy performance to watch, let alone perform.
Exhibit at the Tory Folliard Gallery will celebrate life and work of John Wilde
Milwaukee Magazine
Noted: Wilde (pronounced WILL-dee) was born in Milwaukee in 1919 and spent most of his life in Wisconsin, both producing art and teaching it for 34 years at UW-Madison. His medium of choice was painting, supplemented by printmaking, drawing and silverpoint – the ancient practice of drawing with silver wire fashioned into a mechanical pencil of sorts.
Health
Native American Center for Health Professions Gets $1 Million Grant Renewal
Madison365
The Native American Center for Health Professions, located within the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will once again be the recipient of a competitive national grant to recruit American Indian and Alaska Native students into the field of medicine.
New study to help Wisconsinites to quit smoking. Local woman says similar program worked
NBC-15
The university says UW-CTRI will partner with Aurora Health Care and UW Health. The program will contact patients of the two health care systems who are listed as smokers in electronic health records.
Trying to survive: A day in the life of college student with Type 1 diabetes
Daily Cardinal
“I have Type 1 diabetes.” A frequently-repeated statement in my life since I was diagnosed in 2014. My pancreas stopped producing insulin and now I take insulin every single day, at every single meal, for every single thing I put in my body.
Athletics
J.J. Watt decides to interact with fans by publicly announcing his cell phone number
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
J.J. Watt, the Pewaukee High School and University of Wisconsin star who’s currently sidelined for the rest of the Houston Texans season with injury, tried something pretty uncommon as a means of interacting with fans — he publicly released his cell phone number.
Opinion
Editorial: UW-Madison demands support to continue being research powerhouse
Channel3000.com
MADISON, Wis. – Make no mistake, there are nearly 900 colleges and universities that would like to have UW Madison’s ranking for national research by the National Science Foundation.
Cooper: The Last Time America Turned Away From the World
New York Times
One hundred years ago, on Nov. 19, 1919, Alice Roosevelt Longworth threw a late-night party. Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and wife of Nicholas Longworth, the future speaker of the House, was celebrating the defeat in the Senate that day of the Treaty of Versailles, which encapsulated President Woodrow Wilson’s grand project for world peace, the League of Nations. “We were jubilant,” she recalled later, “too elated to mind the reservationists. And by we, I mean the irreconcilables, who were against any League, no matter how ‘safeguarded’ with reservations.”
Editorial: UW-Madison demands support to continue being research powerhouse
WISC-TV 3
Make no mistake, there are nearly 900 colleges and universities that would like to have UW Madison’s ranking for national research by the National Science Foundation.
UW Experts in the News
Kamala Harris’ claim about typical dad paying higher taxes than 400 richest families is Mostly False
PolitiFact
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison economist Andrew Reschovsky praised the study, but called Harris’ claim misleading.
Warning signs of climate change
Madison Magazine
Quoted: Christopher Kucharik, professor and chair of the agronomy department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, citing data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, and the National Weather Service, says three of the six wettest years ever recorded (since 1869) in Madison have happened in the past several years?—?2013, 2016 and 2018.
What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?
The Washington Post
Noted: “I don’t understand the conceptual model for global competence that leaves language out,” said Dianna L. Murphy, director of the Language Institute at the University of Wisconsin.
Warning signs of climate change
Madison Magazine
Noted: Christopher Kucharik, professor and chair of the agronomy department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, citing data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, and the National Weather Service, says three of the six wettest years ever recorded (since 1869) in Madison have happened in the past several years?—?2013, 2016 and 2018.
A Closer Look at Fresno’s Hmong Community
New York Times
Quoted: When Chia Youyee Vang heard about Sunday night’s horrific shooting in Fresno, she pictured her brothers.
“They get together to watch Sunday Night Football, too,” said Ms. Vang, the director of the Hmong Diaspora Studies Program and a history professor at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. “It was so tragic because it was part of a normal routine in life — you’re not hiding in the jungle, you’re not in a war zone.”
With Lake Michigan waves intensifying, Fox Point takes emergency action to protect sewers on eroding shoreline
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: The high water levels are mostly caused by record-setting precipitation in the Great Lakes basin over the last five years, according to Adam Bechle, coastal engineering outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute.