70 students are awarded a $7,000 scholarship after the UW System completed its “Vax Up! 70 for 70″ campaign.
UW System awards scholarships for “70 for 70″ campaign
NBC-15
November 17, 2021
Higher Education/System
70 UW System students win $7,000 scholarships for getting COVID-19 vaccine
Wisconsin State Journal
Interim System President Tommy Thompson set a goal this summer for campuses to reach a 70% student vaccination rate. Universities that met the threshold by Oct. 31 unlocked a number of $7,000 scholarships for students based on their enrollment.
Campus life
Q&A: Juliana Bennett speaks on affordable housing, Chamberlain rock backlash and student engagement
Daily Cardinal
“I had people calling me, texting me on my personal phone number and emailing me on my city account. All of my social media received messages, some of which, I had to call the authorities about because they were physical threats and acts of violence.”
Student Leadership Program presents 2023 financial proposal to SSFC
Badger Herald
Student Leadership Program is looking to invest in more in-person resources.
State news
A jury is weighing the Kyle Rittenhouse case, but a mistrial motion is still pending. What happens now?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Keith Findley, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, called the lack of decision “odd.”
“The only reason I can think of for waiting is perhaps he wants to give the jury a chance to acquit so he doesn’t have to, but that’s speculation on my part,” Findley, co-founder of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, said in an interview.
Crime and safety
UW Police looking for man who allegedly stole wallet from golf bag
WISC-TV 3
UW Police are searching for a man they say stole a wallet from a golf bag at University Ridge Golf Course.
UW police release photos of golf course wallet thief
Wisconsin State Journal
Photos have been released of a man authorities said stole a wallet from University Ridge Golf Course and made purchases with a stolen credit card, UW-Madison police said.
Opinion
Honorlock invades students’ privacy, too expensive to justify
Badger Herald
Alternative testing methods provide less expensive, less invasive option to deter cheating.
UW Experts in the News
UW Health’s Dr. Jeff Pothof discusses Pfizer’s request to consider COVID-19 boosters for all adults
WISC-TV 3
UW Health’s Dr. Jeff Pothof discusses Pfizer’s request to consider COVID-19 boosters for all adults on News 3 Now Live at Four.
How Leather Seats in Luxury SUVs Fuel Amazon Deforestation
The New York Times
Holly Gibbs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison geographer who has been researching agribusiness in the Amazon for a decade, said that though legitimate middlemen often buy and sell cattle on the same day, the fact that the transactions aren’t closely tracked “is a huge loophole.”
Kyle Rittenhouse trial verdict
The Washington Post
The high-profile supporters, the nearly $3 million raised and the fervent public support from the right make Rittenhouse “an unusual criminal defendant,” said Keith Findley, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
How the Rittenhouse jury was narrowed
AP
There’s no prohibition on having the defendant draw the numbers of alternate jurors, but the general practice is to have the clerk of courts do it, said Ion Meyn, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
The Rittenhouse trial is all about race
POLITICO
“So much of the prosecution’s argument is rooted in the idea that the jury needs to stop vigilantism,” Steven Wright, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School told The Recast.
Kyle Rittenhouse trial: Who is Judge Bruce Schroeder?
NPR
“This is a case that brings to the fore a lot of matters of public concern – gun rights, the use of force by police officers – and it makes sense that people are paying attention, then, to what’s happening in the courtroom and the manner in which conversations are occurring,” said Cecelia Klingele, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
‘Piece of theater’: Legal experts weigh in on Kyle Rittenhouse’s seating jurors deciding his fate by lottery
NBC News
John P. Gross, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Public Defender Project, said he has seen only judges do the picking, but he didn’t object to Rittenhouse’s having the heavy hand of selection.
“It’s completely random, and whoever is picking is picking,” Gross said. “It was an interesting piece of theater having the judge inviting the defendant to make the draw.”
Let’s plan for human ingenuity in our fight against climate change
The Hill
Solar has had a six-fold decrease in costs since 2010, “below where even the most optimistic experts expected they would be in 2030,” according to Greg Nemet of University of Wisconsin. The cost of batteries for electric vehicles have fallen 88 percent in 10 years, below what 37 separate estimates put it in 2020, 2030 or even 2050.
Video shows deer break window, jump into church on opening day of Michigan’s hunting season
Washington Post
Roman Catholic leaders believed a consecrated church was “protected space,” Karl Shoemaker, a professor of history and law at the University of Wisconsin and author of “Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500,” told History.com in 2019. “It would be inappropriate in the extreme to carry weapons into the church or to arrest someone or to exercise force within the church.”
Kyle Rittenhouse jury deliberations continue as trial nears verdict
USA Today
Schroeder said he has allowed defendants to perform such a move for the last 20 years. While not illegal or unethical, the task is usually reserved for the clerk of courts, said Ion Meyn, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Obituaries
Broekema, Victor Jon
Wisconsin State Journal
Vic was a professor at UW-Madison for seven years and then chief psychologist at Central State Hospital, then Wisconsin Resource Center, a maximum security mental health facility that was part of Winnebago Mental Health Hospital, where he developed the program for the facility and was liked and respected by staff as well as by residents. He remained lifelong friends with several Ph.D. graduate students who were actively supportive of him, especially in his final years.
UW-Madison Related
Why the minichurch is the latest trend in American religion
Religion News Service
The Millers, who met at a Maranatha campus ministry while students at the University of Wisconsin, pastored a church in Madison for years before starting Cornerstone. They moved about an hour west to Spring Green, a small town that’s home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin estate, after feeling God’s call to plant a new congregation. They hoped to build a church that had close ties to the community.