The program announced Tuesday it canceled this Saturday’s game against Purdue, marking its second straight cancellation after last week’s game at Nebraska also was wiped out due to the outbreak.
Dreamers of UW-Madison apply for GSSF eligibility for first time.
UW students, seasoned poll workers alike brave COVID-19 to help voters.
A “Dreamer” currently protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the 22-year-old recent University of Wisconsin-Madison grad is authorized to work but can’t vote.
Four years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Kathy Cramer, along with her daughter, dressed up in red, white and blue to cast her vote in the 2016 presidential election. Cramer has always “celebrated the act of voting.” But this year, she is checking in on polling sites on a much emptier campus and hoping people who have voted early stay home.
Ellen Abad Santos will be working printers Tuesday evening at the Chazen Art Museum, a new feature at all five on-campus polling locations this year. As Associated Students of Madison’s vote coordinator, Abad Santos has spent fall semester gearing up for Election Day, shifting in-person events online to make sure students have accurate information about voter IDs and polling locations.
On UW-Madison’s campus, temperatures in the mid-60s made the job of volunteers encouraging students to vote easier. Eight poll workers stood outside Memorial Union just before 1 p.m. asking everyone who walked by whether they’d voted.
Aly Orvis, a 20-year-old UW-Madison student who was a first-time poll worker on campus, said she heard there was a shortage of poll workers and decided to step up to help so older people who are vulnerable to COVID-19 didn’t have to.
Public Health Madison and Dane Co. officials are working with the Madison Police Dept. and the City Attorney’s Office to deliver summons and complaints to the houses, the City explained. The agency is also reportedly working with UW-Madison officials to determine if disciplinary action is needed there as well.
The University of Wisconsin has canceled its home game against the Purdue Boilermakers this game because of recent COVID-19 infections.
The Badgers are No. 1 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine preseason poll released Tuesday, making it the sixth time coach Mark Johnson’s team has started a season in the top spot.
As the search continues for what started the COVID-19 outbreak inside the University of Wisconsin football program, athletic director Barry Alvarez and others are trying to learn from the situation to prevent from it happening again.
Former UW-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala narrowly lost her bid for re-election Tuesday evening in a Florida U.S. House upset race for Democrats.
