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May 4, 2022

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UW-Madison chancellor finalist Jennifer Mnookin’s pitch: Make Wisconsin idea a national model

Wisconsin State Journal

Mnookin, who is one of five finalists vying to become the next UW-Madison chancellor, said she donated a kidney to her father in late 2020. The organ made its way from Los Angeles, where Mnookin leads the University of California Los Angeles law school, to her dad in Boston thanks to a solution developed at UW-Madison that extends the time that an organ can be safely stored outside of a body

Higher Education/System

Campus life

1,000+ people rally in Downtown Madison to protest seemingly-imminent overturn of Roe v. Wade

Wisconsin State Journal

A crowd that started as a few hundred around 7 p.m. swelled to more than 1,000 within the first hour, easily filling two city blocks as they marched from the top of State Street to the UW-Madison Library Mall. Some protesters held coat hangers while others hoisted up signs that read “never again,” “we won’t go back” and “keep abortion safe and legal.”

Divine Nine Garden Plaza to be unveiled Saturday

Madison365

The University of Wisconsin Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life in Student Affairs and the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) will unveil the Divine Nine Garden Plaze on the East Campus Mall in an invitation-only ceremony Saturday.

Crime and safety

Community

Health

Wisconsin abortion ban might lead to Illinois border clinic, ‘clandestine’ action, provider says

Wisconsin State Journal

Wisconsin’s 1849 law also could make it difficult for UW School of Medicine and Public Health gynecology residents to get abortion training as they do now at Planned Parenthood in Madison, Laube said. UW might need to send residents to the Chicago area for such training, he said. UW Health spokesperson Emily Kumlien said the medical school will “work to ensure continuity of the robust training opportunities we provide.”

Opinion

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FACT FOCUS: Gaping holes in the claim of 2K ballot ‘mules’

AP

Absentee ballots are also verified by signature and tracked closely, often with an option for voters themselves to see where their ballot is at any given time. That process safeguards against anyone who tries to illegally cast extra ballots, according to Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Project.“It seems impossible in that system for a nefarious actor to dump lots of ballots that were never requested by voters and were never issued by election officials,” Burden said.

UW-Madison Related

America is exterminating its wolves. When will this stop?

The Guardian

Autumn 1909. A few months out of Yale Forest School, 22-year-old Aldo Leopold sits eating his lunch on a rimrock in Apache National Forest, Arizona Territory, when he and a fellow Forest Service employee spot an animal far below, crossing a river. A deer? No – not a deer. When the animal reaches the riverbank and shakes itself dry, several pups bound out from golden willows to greet her, their tails high.