No Frisbee-flying on Bascom Hill. No sunset-watching on the Terrace. No bar-hopping on the weekends.
Forced off campus because of COVID-19, UW-Madison students re-create college life online
Wisconsin State Journal
April 24, 2020
Top Stories
Campus life
Administrative Improvement Awards acknowledge innovations made for university community
Badger Herald
Member of Student Information System Optimization Program Team speaks on specific improvements implemented to SIS.
Crime and safety
MPD to crack down on any Mifflin Street Block Party attendees due to COVID-19
Badger Herald
MPD will issue citations to non-residents, report UW students to Dean of Students.
Agriculture
Coronavirus, Trump & Food Supply — Eat More Potatoes, America
National Review
America’s food producers set up their supply chains to cater a certain percentage to restaurants and a certain percentage to supermarkets, and while you might think, “food is food,” supermarkets and their shoppers have different needs from restaurants:
“Seldom does a consumer go to a grocery store and want to buy a 5-pound bag of shredded cheese,” said Mark Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “They wanted maybe 1-pound bags at a time. You can’t just put 1-pound bags through a 5-pound line. Not possible. You have to have a different piece of equipment set up differently. We’ve had an industry that’s had to shuffle a great deal to move product from where it was produced before to where it needs to be today.
It wasn’t just toilet paper. People stocked up on eggs during pandemic, sending wholesale prices skyrocketing
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “I think a lot of that first buying was people loading up and now I think that demand has decreased,” said Ronald Kean, a University of Wisconsin Extension poultry specialist. “Some of our large egg producers sell a lot of liquid eggs, but that has dropped off because that’s mostly used by restaurants and schools.”
Health
UW Health, Froedtert partner with national COVID-19 plasma project
Badger Herald
Plasma donor speaks out on donation experience.
Madison hospitals ramp up procedures again as COVID-19 outbreak levels off
Wisconsin State Journal
In addition to restarting procedures, UW Health, SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital and UnityPoint Health-Meriter said people should use their emergency rooms, which have seen declines in patient volumes for many conditions during the coronavirus outbreak, if needed.
Opinion
Column: Looking onward to fall semester reveals current funds insufficient to support UW
Badger Herald
Online instruction has left a large impact on UW financially, current UW budget will be insufficient if fall semester is fully digital.
UW Experts in the News
Healing from a Distance: Using faith, mindful practices when isolated from loved ones
NBC-15
Quoted: Dr. Richard Davidson, the founder and director of UW Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, says the range of emotions is normal. “The real opportunity and challenge is not to get hijacked by those emotions,” Dr. Davidson said. “We can watch them. We can observe them. We can diminish the emotions.”
GOP leaders seeking to overturn Tony Evers’ coronavirus orders aren’t saying what alternatives they want
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: “It’s pretty clear that pushing the economy to go back to work before coronavirus is brought under control is going to be like being in a vehicle and pushing on the accelerator and the brake at the same time,” said Ian Coxhead, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Protest against stay-at-home restrictions set for Friday as Republican impatience grows
Wisconsin State Journal
Patrick Remington, professor emeritus at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, said gathering to protest is unequivocally a health risk for protesters and those with whom they come into contact.
UW-Madison Related
COVID-19 closed Madison bars. A UW-Madison student recreated them on Minecraft
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison senior Hunter Post misses the college bars he and his friends frequented before coronavirus closed bars across the city and sent many students home.