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October 12, 2020

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More than 3,000 UW-Madison students have contracted COVID-19. This is one student’s story

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Wisconsin State Journal

More than 3,000 of UW-Madison’s 45,500 students have contracted COVID-19 since late July. Some of them gathered in large groups without a mask, desperate to make friends in a new place or reconnect with old ones after months away. Others came into contact with the virus through their roommate or fraternity brother or some other seemingly unavoidable way. There’s also students like Post, who tested positive despite all of their efforts to dodge it.

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UW System Approves $212M Plan To Standardize Campus Administrative Functions By 2026 | Wisconsin Public Radio

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WPR

A $212 million plan to standardize administrative functions across University of Wisconsin System campuses has been given the green light by the UW Board of Regents. The project aims to standardize things like payroll, purchasing and human resources by replacing more than 700 different systems with centralized, cloud-based software by 2026.

UW System President Tommy Thompson hires familiar faces from past GOP administrations

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Wisconsin State Journal

Shortly after Thompson took office July 1, he hired a new chief of staff and filled a vice president position that had been occupied on an interim basis for more than two years. More recently, he elevated a current System employee to a new, more prominent title. All three have ties to former Republican Gov. Scott Walker or worked with Thompson when he served as Republican governor from 1987 to 2001.

Campus life

12 fall movie inspired trips

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Washington Post

Back to School – To embody Rodney Dangerfield this autumn, you’ll need to get in a car and drive through Wisconsin’s stunning changing foliage. End up at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (called “Grand Lake University” in the 1986 film) to see the lakeside college dressed in fall colors. Bonus points if you take this trip wearing a cardigan or find time to drink champagne in a hot tub.

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Trump and Biden need to win Wisconsin. The swing state could be 2020 election ‘tipping point’

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“I think that’s probably (Trump’s) biggest challenge,” said political scientist Katherine Cramer, who wrote an influential book about the shifting rural vote in Wisconsin called “The Politics of Resentment.” “Hillary Clinton was so unpopular with these voters … They just could not stand her,” said Cramer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “(Joe) Biden is not as unpopular.”

Obituaries

Luening, Dorothy Ellen Hodgskiss “Dottie”

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Wisconsin State Journal

She moved to Madison in the early 1960s to work in the state Extension office and to complete a master’s degree in Home Economics Cooperative Extension. She is named on the “100 Women Wall” in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, honored for her outreach to Wisconsin communities through her work with University Extension.

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